Knowledge, it was by far the most coveted thing that all living beings craved for. It was what helped living creatures evolve. It teaches them to adapt and survive. It was in the instincts to learn what one must to survive. But even then, there were some knowledge that was deemed too much for a mind to comprehend. And that knowledge in the wrong hands could lead to devastating results. So they were guarded by the higher ups, away from prying eyes. But sometimes, even such things in powers relented and let slivers of such knowledge trickle to the mortal realm. Give them the opportunity to resolve worse matters before they posed a threat. There were also times when pure mortal emotions wished for something so bad that those in power relented. Only to ease their minds.

It was a simple thing, a simple wish that brought them all in one place. All they wanted to know was that the future would be safe. Not for them. But for what they would leave behind. Their children for some and for others, family that they had died to protect.

A group of wishers found themselves in a wide and long white corridor, a singular door at the farthest end painted in the darkest shade of black. Like the door itself was a pit that would swallow anyone who got too close.

"Where are we?" the voice of Elena Gilbert broke the silence that had built up in this unknown long corridor place. Beside her Damon stirred, his head swimming with the dizziness that sudden teleportation had brought along.

"It would seem that we're not alone here" Kol spoke up nest, looking from his sisters to Marcel to Elena, Damon, Caroline, Alaric before finally resting on his wife Davina who stood right beside him.

"Indeed we are not" Alaric muttered, turning to look at the door on the far end. "But we might know where we are if we cross that door and see what's on the other side" he pointed out, pointing towards that lone door.

"You think it's safe to open random doors in a place we have no idea about?" Elena questioned her guardian figure, looking at him curiously.

"We have like four vampires and two extremely powerful witches. The worst that can happen is us dying" he motioned to the very mortal Elena and himself. "Damon here is safe thanks to his cure or whatever" he added after.

"I don't think the cure to immortality is going to keep me immortal" Damon said with a roll of his eyes. But he too started to move towards the door, Elena in his arms and Alaric on his other side while the vampires stood at the very front and the witches in between the vampires and the humans.

The door, they found had an odd handle on it. It was put in place in between the open mouth of a wolves head carved on the door. "Well if I do die here" Rebekah spoke in an all too chipper tone, "just know that I love you all. I tolerate you Elena and Alaric. And Damon you're just a prick" she added, much to the amusement of those gathered. A hand on the handle and suddenly all those gathered vanished into thin air.

They all reappeared in a dark room. No windows, no doors. The only source of light came from the smooth dark floor that occasionally pulsed with an eerie red light, vein like formations going over the surface. And those pulsing lights, they only saw small outlines at best. And in front of them stood someone so tall, most of them had to look up to talk to him.

He could easily have been above seven and a half feet tall and that was in the least spectrum. At most a bit taller than eight. And from the outline, they could tell that he was well built.

"Well friends" the figure spoke, his voice oddly human and not as grave as most have thought.

"Who are you and why are we here?" the voice of Alaric demanded, eyes hard yet heart racing out of fear. Yes he feared this man? Thing? He wasn't sure what to call it.

"Fear no" the thing held a hand up. "I will not harm you here. For I am here to fulfil your wishes"

"What wish?" Elena probed, now curious as to what the man meant. He had surely brought them all here for sure so he was no human. And the way he spoke, it was like he had known them all his lives. Yet none of them knew him.

"A wish you all have thought of" the thing spoke. "The wish to know what would happen in the future. To your children, to your family. To what you have and would left behind"

"Why would you want to show us that? And why do you have such knowledge?" Freya cut in sharply. With her time with Dahlia, she had learned of anything and everything magical in the world. And in those studies, she had read of something not human. If this was that thing, then why would it want to show them the future, their future? Such a thing was not often heard of. The only ones who could see only fragments or riddles of the coming future were oracles. And she was sure none of those gathered here were one.

"And while you're at it, why not reveal your face! Unless of course you're afraid to" Rebekah baited. But the sudden grabbing of her hand had her look back at Freya with a frown. The oldest Mikaelson just shook her head.

"I guess that would be fair" the figure said. The dimly pulsing red veins turned to white bright veins which were constant and no longer pulsing. It was bright enough to enlighten the whole room.

The room itself was black, the floor and the walls and the ceiling. There were no doors nor were there any windows. And the figure that stood in front of them was by far the most beautiful yet the most terrifying thing they ever saw.

Sure enough he looked like a man. With nothing on top, they could see his well-toned abs, the bulging muscles. Like they were hand crafted by the most talented sculptor in existence. He had extremely blue eyes so bright that they almost looked white. Hair was a bright gold tied in a braid that well down his back and ended right above the waist of his white loose trousers that looked to be held by a belt made of golden rope. But the most stunning thing about him were the wings. Tucked so neatly behind him, they would probably be twice his height and magnificent to look at.

"Now that you have seen me" the thing snapped them all out of their respective trances, he continued "I have brought you all here became of what you wished. It was no selfish desire. You wanted to know your future not for yourself. You wanted to know what would happen to your future generation, the legacies you each left behind. And I was in a generous mood to allow such a thing" the wings seemed to shake slightly at his words. "So here you stand, before the keeper of the book of fate and about to watch what the future brings you"

It was when he mentioned the book, did they all noticed an open book of snow white cover just hovering in front of them. It was as if the book just appeared out of thin air.

"But it would only be fair that I grant the wishes of everyone who asked for this and not to those who are alive" he spoke and his wings spread wide, a warmth spreading from the wings itself as did a bright flash of light that forced the group to close their eyes. When they reopened them, they all felt the earth under their feet get pulled away.

"Nik? Elijah? Finn?" Rebekah's voice broke the silence that followed soon after and she was already on all three of her brothers, crushing them into a breathing stopping hug. Caroline had done the very same for Stefan and Alaric for Jo. Slowly the living family went to their dead ones, all of them holding the other so close that it seemed like if they let go, the other would vanish. But it wasn't only blood that were brought back. Hayley Marshall and Camille O'Connell were there as well and they too were being crushed with hugs from their friends and pseudo families.

"It only seemed fair that they too saw it" the figure spoke. "Please be seated on those chairs behind you" he motioned to the chairs that were not there a moment before. The book floated over the entity's body and slowly melded into the wall behind him. And on that wall appeared a screen so wide that it covered the entirety of the surface.

Watching the groups take their seats, The Mikaelsons seated together at one side while The Salvatores and The Saltzman seated together on the other, the entity burst into bright white glitter that vanished into thin air. Before anyone could comment on it, the white light from the floor dimmed out slowly and the screen came to life.