The Dark Ember

Chambre de Chasse Pt 1

Hope made a Chambre De Chasse with help from Freya, she stuck all of us Mikaelson's inside dad said "Who's there? Show yourself!" I walked out with aunt Bex and Uncle Kol, aunt Bex said "Oh, Nik. Always so dramatic." I said "Hey dad." dad said "Rebekah. Ember?" Kol said "Bloody hell. My least favorite recurring nightmare." aunt Bex said "I was in Corsica, drowning my sorrows about Hayley, and I suddenly dropped. What I wouldn't give to spend just a decade without being dragged into a godforsaken Chambre de Chasse." aunt Bex hugged me as dad said, "Suppose you were in a board meeting." Kol said "I was waiting for my wife to come home from work. Once again, ripped from complete contentment for... this. Suppose I'll ask the obvious: piss off any witches lately? Hey Emmy." he pulled me into his arms away from his sister.

Dad said, "Actually, my current enemies are a group of hatemongers who see myself and my daughters as abominations to the vampire race." Bex said "The bigoted undead. That's new. They must have a witch-for-hire." Kol said "A witch that's spent enough time here to replicate every detail. This is Elijah's prized Cheval Blanc." Freya showed up and hugged me as she said "The culprit may be closer to home. A witch who knows the compound well and who doesn't trust you to stay away from Elijah. Someone who would risk everything to save New Orleans from plagues." dad said "Vincent." Freya said "On the bright side, he'd never harm Hope or Ember. You, on the other hand, I expect he'll be shipping your bodies to the four corners of the world." Bex said "All of our bodies? He isn't here, is he?" Elijah walked up and said "He is. I think I might have just found a way out of here." I said "Good. The faster I can get away from you the better." 

I turned to walk away and he said "I don't blame you for hating me, but you have to understand my girlfriend's brother was inside there and I didn't want him hurt." I turned to face him making Freya restrain me as I said "Oh no I get it crystal clear, you had to save your hoe's little brother at the expense of your only two nieces and the only decent girl you ever loved and has ever loved you. But don't worry cause you killed her and your nieces want nothing to do with you so your little hoe can have you." Freya covered my mouth and everyone was too stunned to move or speak. Finally, my dad got his bearings and said "Emberlyn Rebekah Mikaelson. As mad as you are you don't get to call your uncle's love interest a hoe. You can be mad at him because I sure am but you can't do that. Your mother wouldn't let you either and you know it." I said, "Who cares what mom would let me do, he killed her, she is gone, and I can't get her back, and all I want to do is go back in time so Hope and I were never born!" 

I ran to the courtyard to get away from everyone, but luck was not in my favor. Dad grabbed my arm turning me around he kneeled in front of me, grabbed my hands, and said "I get that you and your sister are upset but between you saying you wish you were never born and Hope telling me to let her die... I need you both to understand I can't do that. I can't let either of you die or wish you were never born because from the moment I held you both in my arms, your mother smiling over at you girls... I couldn't imagine my life without you two in it, you both saying you wished you didn't exist or wish you died breaks my heart because you and your sister are the two greatest things in my life." I said "But imagine being us for a moment, mom is gone, you are never around until recently we haven't heard from you since we were 9 years old. Aunt Bex and Uncle Kol can't come anywhere near us, or you, or each other. Aunt Freya gives up her life and Keelin for us because mom couldn't raise us alone. We feel guilty because if we were never born then none of this would have happened." 

He said "Don't feel guilty, this is hard to say but even if you girls were never... Nope, can't say it, but even if that were the case this lot would still be fighting some battle because I caught enough problems for the whole family and have for 1000 years." Elijah said "Sorry to interrupt but this wasn't here before. What is it?" Kol said "It's representational magic. I expect there are keys, one for each of us, hidden somewhere meaningful. Somewhere connected to who we are." Elijah said "And for those of us who don't remember who we are?" dad said, "I'll give Antoinette your regards." Freya said "The door won't open unless all six locks are released. The only way out is together." Kol said "Elijah, if we're to get through this without bloodshed, I recommend that you go to the corner of the house furthest from Nik and his adorable mini-me. Come on. Follow me." dad said "Split up. We need to turn this place upside down. I only just promised my grieving daughters I wouldn't abandon them again. I can't be stuck here without one of them."

Kol took Elijah away and dad started to destroy the crest, once it was completely destroyed Bex said "Nik, it's done." Freya said "I think we've established that there's no key in the crest." dad said, "The thing was a relic anyway." Bex said, "Marcel." who just appeared I ran to hug him I said, "She caught you too huh?" Marcel said "Hey Emmy, Damn it! I got to go now." dad said "Hey! What game is Vincent playing?" I said, "It's not Vincent dad." Marcel said "She is right, this has nothing to do with Vincent. We got to get out of here. The city is about to wash away. She's out of her damn mind." dad said "Who, Marcel?! Who put you here?!" Marcel said "It was Hope. Hope is responsible for all of this. Ivy was telling Vincent and me all about the latest prophecy when a hurricane showed up off the coast out of nowhere." 

Freya said, "A monsoon from the water is the final curse before the firstborns die." Marcel said "I went to go find you guys. Hope was at St. Anne's. She had Klaus, Emmy, and Elijah's bodies laid out on the floor. She's gathering up all of you to take back the power that's been split up inside of you." dad said "She can't do that. It'll destroy her. That was the whole point. Wait... Emberlyn you knew it was her didn't you?" I said "Yes." dad said, "What were you two thinking? This will destroy you both." I said "Not as much as living past 15 years old with no parents to love you, to care for you, to yell at you, to comfort you. We need you dad, your all we have left." Marcel said "She threw me in here when I tried to stop her. I can't leave until you guys find your keys. Regardless of why the girls did it, we need to stop it." 

Bex said "Well, she can't find my body. It's halfway across the world." I said "Actually..." Dad said "She has help. I created hybrids with both girl's blood, they each have a set sired to them. They'll do anything she asks. She'll take the power back. She'll end the curses, she'll keep the firstborns safe, and then my daughter as we know her will be forever lost to darkness." I said "And I know it doesn't help, in fact, it's the opposite of help. I may have told mine to help Hope no matter the cost." dad groaned "Of bloody course you did."