Cold Hearted | Damon Salvatore

twenty two

22. Gods And Monsters

"What do you mean Ari got away?" a confused Klaus asked, driving his car with the twins sleeping in the back and Caroline in the passenger seat, on a three way call with Damon and Kol.

"I went to the boarding house to check on her and turns out she bursted the cellar door and got away meaning she's now huntressing in the wild" Damon stated, carrying a gas cylinder down to the armory's front door.

"Do we have any idea where she is right now?" a worried Klaus asked.

"Most likely on her way to kill one of us" Kol replied from his side, "And tell something, why aren't you two on a plane yet?".

"If your dumbasses checked the weather then you will realise a storm is coming, our flights got cancelled because of it" Klaus informed, "Where the bloody hell are you two?".

"I'm in solution land, baby" Damon replied, "There's a preserved body at the armory called the final everlasting, all we have to do is destroy that, and Ria is a monster no more".

"But if you kill the everlasting, Aria dies" Caroline reminded, "And so do we, for that matter".

"That's not what I've been told" Kol said.

"By who, someone that wants you dead?" Caroline asked.

"No, a descendant of the people who created Rayna Cruz" Kol retorted.

"Yeah, the people who hate us" Caroline retorted back.

"Well, we have no other option Caroline, this is the only option we have to save Ri's life" Kol snapped.

"Look, best case scenario, we destroy it and everything goes back to normal" Damon said, turning the gas cylinder's on, "Worst case scenario", Damon bent down and grabbed the kerosene can and started spreading it down the front walkway of the armory, "We all die and Klaus lives to tell the tale of our demise to our children".

"Are you forgetting about the other problem that's in there?" Caroline asked.

"Oh you must mean the ambiguously terrifying monster that Ri released from the vault" Kol said, "Don't worry about that, I'm already on it".

"You idiots, none of this matters, we can't get into the armory because Ari's has sealed it shut and none of us can fight her magic, meaning we can't get in" Klaus reminded.

"Don't tell me what I can't do" Damon stated, sitting on the stairs and then throwing his lighter into the kerosene trail, once the gas cylinder's exploded, Damon looked at the front door and realised Klaus was right, even a explosion couldn't break Aria's spell, "I can't get in" he informed the others, "Plan B, someone call Valerie or Kai, one of them can siphon the seal".

"We can't call Valerie, we don't have her number or know where to find her" Klaus said.

"And Kai is currently on a cruise ship where there is absolutely no network to contact him" Caroline added.

"Which means we are out of options" a frustrated Kol realised.

"Actually that's not true" Klaus said, "We do know another siphoner".