Origins of Magic

Chapter 21 - Better the Bitch you know

"I would waste time pretending that I am shocked to see you on their side but honestly Annabella you were never one with loyalty oh sure you would preach it enough, but you were always a backstabbing bitch! I mean look at you, Rebekah is supposed to be your one epic love and you're currently carrying an antichrist baby courtesy of bedding her ex-boyfriend." Rose snapped at her elder sister Bella furiously as she found herself behind bars within the dungeon located underneath the Mikaelson family's compound, her sister standing in front of the cage door heavily pregnant and far from happy to be there. "I may be a lot of things but I would never play nice with our brother's murderers."
"Oh, please do you suddenly not recalling killing our brother Magnus?" Bella was quick to reply, refusing to allow Rose to claim she was loyal to anyone.
"Only you ever classed that troll to be a brother, I never really liked him not. Kayne was more family to me than any of you and as far as I'm concerned from the moment you did not join me to avenge his death is the very moment you became nothing more than somebody else on my hitlist." Rose warned her, making it clear she no longer saw her as a family only as another enemy.
"Just tell me where they are or at least where Rebekah is?" Bella pleaded with the scheming witch, desperate to find Rebekah and make sure she was okay.
"I'll tell you where Freya is," Rose responded with a cruel and taunting laugh. "Ashes to ashes and all that."
"If you do not tell me where they are Primrose then I will have no choice but to force the truth out of you." Bella threatened her younger sister, making sure Rose knew she was willing to go to any length to ensure Rebekah's safety.
"I'd like to see you try!" Rose replied, not backing down from her sister's threats, knowing she could endure any form of torture Bella had planned for her, knowing they could not kill her without getting the answers that only she had.
Rose had taken down Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah, hiding their bodies shortly afterward and after literally burning the eldest Mikaelson sibling Freya to death, she set her sights on Klaus' daughter Hope but much to the scorned woman's dismay she found herself overpowered by Hope, her wife Josie, and Josie's twin sister Lizzie, who together managed to hold Rose long enough to reach into Rose's chest and pull back out the bone blade that was making her even more powerful than she normally was.
And so there she was, imprisoned but not defeated, knowing that those responsible for her brother Kayne's death were suffering greatly over the loss of Freya, and Rose was determined to make sure that they would never find Klaus, Elijah, or Rebekah no matter what they did to her because one day she would escape sooner or later she always escaped and this time she was driven by an extreme sense of vengeance.

Elsewhere, in a realm which was not quite within our world while at the same time not being outside of it, Kayne awakened on a cold harsh ground to find Magnus stood over him before Magnus reached out his hand and helped Kayne to his feet which is when Kayne took a good look around his new location only to find nothing but debris, a place completely devoid of any life other than him and his brother with a darkened sky that had no stars or moon to be seen.
"Where the hell am I? and why the hell are you here too?" Kayne questioned his brother, wondering what trouble Magnus had now got him into.
"The place of our birth otherwise known as the demonic realm," Magnus revealed to him. "I figured I'd help you out before one of those things decided to rip you to shreds."
"One of what things?" Kayne wondered as he continued to look around at his surroundings, attempting to work out how he wound up in the demonic realm.
"Demons, our brothers and sisters I guess, or maybe ancestors I am still sort of catching up on all that." Magnus continued with the shocking revelations. "We're the only ones around here to have actual bodies which makes them super jealous and extra violent considering apparently we were supposed to unleash them back among the living where they could all get hosts."
"Yeah, I sort of remember the story, there is a lot of memories in one mind and things are kind of blurry when you just wake up after being murdered by someone you once loved," Kayne replied, attempting to keep up with Magnus' information.
"I know that better than anyone else but luckily for you, I want to get the hell out of there and I reckon I'll need your help to do just that," Magnus admitted to his brother, making it clear he was not intending to help Kayne out of the kindness of his heart.
"We're not gods or demons or whatever the hell we were before we wound up here, I mean I would even place a bet we're not even witches in this sordid little prison world!" Kayne told his brother, reluctant to trust him considering their complicated history.
"It is a demonic realm, and you know that! So, how about you stop whining over the fact the man you once loved killed you and help me get back to making our family royalty once more while putting those undead creatures back in the dirt where they belong." Magnus stated, making his intentions clear.
"Niklaus may have killed me, but I still trust him more than I trust your hell at this point I would likely trust Annabella more than you," Kayne admitted to his brother, making it clear he was not foolish enough to trust him. "However, I sure do not want to hang around here for much longer, so I'll play along for now and if you get out of line well it is not like we have not killed each other before."
"I will take that as a yes," Magnus said with a sinister sense of enthusiasm.