Always and Forever

Chapter Four: A New Rise

Everyone gasped when Mikael said,
"You are going to be a vampire."
They got panicked and freaked out and so, Finn asked their parents,
"What is a vampire?"

Mikael started walking while answering,
"A vampire is a creature that has the ability of speed, enough intelligence for eternity, and beauty but above all, it gives you immortality." Everyone was shocked to hear that last word. Immortality? Was that even a real thing? To never leave this earth and live forever till eternity?

"But father, how can one become a vampire?" Elijah asked.

"By performing a ritual, of course!"

"How do you know about that father?" Rebekah asked.

Esther and Mikael looked at each other and then Esther replied, "Because your dad is a vampire too."

Everyone scratched their heads at this. They have learned that their father is not human and something else only. It was like their whole world has been changed.
"When I was 8 years old i.e. in 936 A.D your grandfather and grandmother decided to turn your uncle Ulrich and me into a vampire because we were dead and so, they got a witch to perform a ritual at late night on me and your uncle Ulrich and when the sun rose we rose as a vampire with it."

"Dad, you were dead?" Niklaus asked horrified.

"Yes. And you all have to die too." He spoke.

Esther sat down and placed the white candles left and right from the red candle. She lighted the red candle and then the two white from left to right. She set the paper aflame and chanted,

"Ut vivat anima mea Me dolor meus, relinqueret, Turn ut ad te pulvis, Meum est enim omne malum. Relinquo vobis, ut in praeteritum, Relinquo vobis ex meam et laborem. Uror ut eorum proicientur _Davian_ mihi. Memoria deleatur mentis Angustia temporis non tenetur. Accipio quod manifestatur, et ita factum est."

She then let the paper burn out in a *safe* container and blow away the ashes in a safe manner away. The spell was done and esther blew the candle and thanked the ancestors.

"Davian is erased from everyone's mind now."

Niklaus felt guilty and sad; regretful because Davian was their friend. And they had just erased him. How will he face the mother when she will ask him about Davian or his little brother who is dysfunctional?

"After some time I will perform the immortality but now I'll prepare lunch."
Usually, whenever Esther would prepare something, everyone would step outside. And so they all went outside. Henrik, Kol, and Rebekah were playing with each other. Niklaus sat down on the ground near his house by taking support of a huge rock. Elijah was about to go accompany him but Finn advised not to and so they both went somewhere else.

Niklaus remembers the time when they made Rebekah as a bride and Davian as a groom and performed a wedding ceremony just for fun. Rebekah was so happy and blushing and Davian was just having a great time. At an instant, Niklaus's mind shifted from Davian's laugh to his grave and this drove him so angry upon himself.

Suddenly he felt that someone is watching him. He sees here and there but no one was there. He nudged it off but when he heard a branch getting snapped, Niklaus says,
"Who is there? Henrik is that you?"
He started walking and walking but he saw no one.

All of them entered their home when Esther called and Elijah looks at Klaus' concerned face and asks,
"What happened brother, is something bothering you?"

Niklaus answered,
"Yes I sensed someone was peeping into our house, but when I checked, there was no one."

"It's them!", Mikael says terrified.