Origins of Magic

Chapter 22 - And so it begins...

Kayne Black's recent return from the grave was as shocking as his previous comeback but the thing that baffled him this time around was his visit to the demonic realm and the questions that it had left him with about the place he and his siblings were supposed to have come from like did they have parents over there or creators or if these demons did not have bodies why did they and if he and his family were the strongest creatures among the living were those that reside within the demonic realm even more powerful than him?
As he found his way out of the woods within Mystic Falls and found a nearby road, Kayne was surprised to see a sports car speeding down the road rather fast before coming to a sudden stop right in front of him as he realized whoever was in the car had just found exactly what they were looking for him.
The driver's door slowly opened, and afoot appeared out of the car wearing black stiletto six-inch heels before Katherine Pierce climbed out of the car with a wicked smile on her face before she walked over to greet the powerful witch.
"Since your family messed up pretty big time bringing the Mikaelsons back from the dead crashing open all kinds of realms I thought it was only a matter of time before it came back to bite use...so to speak," Katherine said to him as she now stood in front of the male witch. "I get wanting to help out Elijah, but you really should have kept Klaus in the ground."
"Are you just here to taunt me for my decisions or has your presence got some meaning behind it? In which I mean you better be here to help and not hinder me because I am okay with sending you back to the hell in which you slithered out from." Kayne warned the ruthless vampire making it clear he had no time for any games she wanted to play.
"Tough talk coming for Kayne Black I guess the little witch boy may finally be growing up!" Katherine scoffed showing no fear over his threats. "You guys did me a solid by making a loophole so I could reclaim my former life and I owe your sister Annabella a favor or two, so I figured I'd pick you up and drop you off at New Orleans or rather a safe distance outside of it because I do not want Klaus getting news of my whereabouts."
"And what makes you so damn sure I even want to be anywhere near New Orleans?" Kayne quizzed the vampire, suspicious of her motives.
"Because one hell of a war is coming sexy, and your siblings are right in the middle of it with the Mikaelson's, so it benefits me greatly if you guys don't wind up dead!" Katherine revealed to him. "And with you and Magnus now alive again and Freya long-dead it's starting to look like you guys stand a chance."
"Freya's dead?" Kayne asked in disbelief by the revelation that the eldest Mikaelson sibling was now among the dead.

Hope Mikaelson decided that although she loved her father very much she did not want to follow in his footsteps and therefore she concluded that she had no other choice but to keep the promise she made to Rose Black and help her bring her power back to life in order to free Klaus, Rebekah, and Elijah from a prison world of Rose's making but little did the young Mikaelson Tribrid know that Kayne Black was already back among the living as hell itself was about to descend on the city of New Orleans...
"If I let you free then I am going to need to know you are not just going to try killing me the first chance you get," Hope told Rose as she stood outside of Rose's prison cell located beneath the Mikaelson compound.
"Unlike my bitch sister Bella and my bastard brother Magnus I tend to keep to my word so as long as you bring my brother back, I'll give you your family," Rose responded making it clear to Hope that she had no intention of killing her unless she gave her a reason that is but before Hope had a chance to reply she soundly fell to the ground unconscious as Magnus appeared from out of the shadows.
"Well, is this not a case of dejavu little sister? It is good to see you are as spiteful as ever especially because we have a family to massacre. May as well start with this one." Magnus greeted his sister before pulling out a blade from his jacket pocket and putting it to Hope's neck fully ready to kill the youngest member of the Mikaelson family.
"She gets to live she maybe half Mikaelson but clearly her mother's half got the better of that one," Rose told her brother who reluctantly pulled his knife away from Hope's throat, hid it back in his jacket before waving his hand to counter the spell keeping the cage door shut, the door swinging open immediately afterward.
"Not like you to tell someone not to kill," Magnus replied to his sister. "But Kayne and I need the whole family back together so I will grant your wishes for now."
"Kayne's alive?" Rose asked with a genuine smile, truly relieved to hear the brother she loved more than anything was now amongst the living. "Where is he?"
"I wish I had an ounce of the loyalty you always gave him," Magnus confessed to her before going on to say. "A mutual friend is bringing him to the city as we speak now where is the Mikaelson trio? I heard you put them away somewhere safe ready for the killing."
Magnus as always had murder on his mind, and he knew out of all his siblings only Rose could match that bloodlust, and even though he had salvaged her rage by bringing Kayne back to life he knew her vengeance was far from fed allowing him to use that vengeance to take out the only other family in the world who could be a threat to his own.
Despite their constant bickering and bashing of the eldest Black sibling, Bella was perhaps the one who had fought the hardest for their family for the longest time choosing to sacrifice whom they believed to be their mother for her siblings and then taking out her brother Magnus for what she believed to be the greater good for Rose and Kayne, only to later learn they'd grow to despise her for her actions and so eventually she decided to give up on that family.
After a brief one night stand with Marcel Gerard, Bella was now expecting her first child with a man who had quickly become a close friend during hard times and although neither planned to rekindle their romance, Bella was glad to have a platonic partner to raise a child with him in New Orleans as she fought for peace with the Mikaelson family even if it pitted her against her old family, it was her new family, her unborn child that mattered most to her now.
So, the cleverest of the Black family decided she had no choice but to plot against her own sister Rose, as she looked for a way to unearth the magic her youngest sister had used to capture Klaus, Rebekah, and Elijah, hoping to find the spells Rose used in her devious plans so she could find a way of undoing her magic, freeing the three Mikaelsons and finding some way to try and broker peace so her child was not born into a war.
"I hate to say it sister, but you have really let yourself go as of late!" Kayne stated as he walked into Lafayette Cemetery to meet with his unsuspecting sister who was investigating the scene of the crime in which their sister Rose killed Freya.
"Kayne?" Bella said in disbelief as she saw the brother, she thought dead now standing in front of her, appeased to know she had not lost him forever as she had once thought. "How are you here right now?"
"Magnus believe it or not I am beginning to think that maybe just maybe he really does want the old family to reform. I mean he owed me nothing and I'm back demonic apocalypse pending of course but still, I'm alive so the hell cares." Kayne replied with a sinister sense of humor. "As for how I got here Katherina Petrova provided me with transport...you never quite gave me the full details about your history with her by the way."
"I am so glad to see you!" Bella gushed as she rushed over and hug her little brother, tears forming in her eyes. "I really thought that this time you were gone forever!"
"Magnus is planning some attack on the Mikaelsons, and he's got Katherine convinced we may actually win plus with Rose being held captive by that family something tells me she'll soon be on board too," Kayne informed his sister. "I want to say I am telling you to help me stop them but I'm not sure we should stop this war, in fact, called me biased because of being recently killed by one of them but I think I'm ready to take back this world that was once ours."
"Kayne please not you too! What Klaus did was unforgivable but..." Bella began to plead with him only to be cut off quickly.
"I understand why he killed me he wanted to ensure his family's safety it was not personal it was all about survival and that's why I want every last one of them dead too," Kayne revealed to her, showing a coldness he rarely showed, especially towards people he once cared for deeply. "Besides the sooner we get rid of the vampires the sooner we can focus on those bloody demons I may have helped bring to this world."
"I am not wagering war against a family that my child will one day be part of I am sorry Kayne, but I will not join this war. If you need help with these so-called demons, then I will help you, but I've already sacrificed for you and Rose too many times its time I put my own child first now!" Bella told her brother making it clear to him she would not be an ally in a war against the original family of vampires.
"I am sorry to hear that Annabella, but I am glad you are finally being more honest with me!" Kayne responded to his sister clearly disappointed by her stance but understanding why she did not want to go to war at the same time. "Take care, Annabella, stay safe, and for the love of god make sure you do not wind up being someone's pawn in this impending war...have your own back because I doubt anyone else will."
Before Bella could say anything more to her brother or ask any more questions about the revelations, he had just laid upon her, Kayne was gone within the blink of an eye leaving her alone with her guilt over not having her family's back while also feeling guilty for the Mikaelson family as she realized Kayne was right, she had to make it so neither side could try and force her hand.

Klaus, Rebekah, and Elijah found themselves stood outside of their family home that had in the real world long since deteriorated over a thousand years but somehow in this prison world remained perfectly built, as if it was just built that day, and normally to anyone else their childhood home would be a blessing to see again after all this time but to them it just served to bring back memories they wished they'd forget, knowing that is exactly why Rose had trapped them there to torture them with their past.
"Speaking of someone whose been in a prison world or two there's always some way out of it and judging by Rose's rather psychotic ways my guess would be there will be some answers as to get out of here within the family home," Klaus told his siblings trying to think like the woman who had put them in this prison world.
"Well, I doubt there is going to be any Bennet blood handy in a time when there were no hospitals so that squashes the Bennet connection as for getting out of here," Rebekah responded, as she too tried to think of a way out of their current situation. "Then again Ayana is a Bennet witch, and she did use to keep vials of her blood within her home...and I'd much rather go snooping around in her past than our own."
"We do not know if this world is an exact replica of our home back when we were just mere mortals or if there are just parts of this world designed to look that way so I suggest Rebekah goes to where Ayana's home should be and myself and Niklaus should visit the old family home," Elijah advised his younger siblings. "However, we do not know if we are necessarily alone here so be careful, be smart, and for the love of god do not talk to strangers."
Klaus, Rebekah, and Elijah did not know much about this prison world, but they knew that they soon would learn everything they possibly could about it in order to find some kind of way out of believing due to Rose's connection to the magic that the same rules may not apply in this prison world that had applied to previous ones created by the alliance of the Bennet and Parker families. All they did know was that the longer they were gone the more mess they would have to clean up once they got back to the land of the living...