A Thousand Years, Stefan Salvatore

145. THIS IS THE HUNT

Chapter one hundred and forty five

"This is the hunt."

The next morning, Athena was standing in the doorway of the living room watching Jace and Annabeth train together, Jace tried to kick Annabeth's sword out of her hand as she flipped back, landing on her own two feet, she swung at him, as Jace blocked her hit, Athena's phone then started to ring as she pulled it out of her pocket, noticing it was Matt calling, she furrowed her brows as she walked away from them and answered it "hello?" she asked "Athena.." Matt told her sounding upset "Matt what happened?" Athena asked "Damon..Damon killed Tyler." Matt shared.

And when he did, he started crying on the other end, as Athena stopped walking and stood there in shock, Stefan came walking out of the kitchen "hey, I, um.." he was saying but stopped when he noticed her in shock "Athena?" he asked, running up to her, he heard Matt crying on the phone as he took the phone from her "what happened?" he asked.

Where Matt soon had made it to there house, and they brought the casket in, where Jace and Annabeth were sitting on the couch, Athena sat next to Matt as she put her arms around him, Matt leaned his head on her shoulder while Stefan stood by Tyler's casket, looking at his dead body and the awful bite mark that was on his neck from Damon.

When Matt had left, everyone was dealing with grief in their own way as they waited to bury Tyler and Athena was doing it in the way she knew how by fighting as her, Annabeth and Jace were in the backyard swinging their swords at each other, Stefan watched them from the door knowing that if someone died, Athena wasn't just one to sit down and do nothing, the only difference was that unlike before, she was no longer talking to him so he had no idea what the plan was.

Having changed for the funeral, Matt, Stefan, Alaric and Caroline carried Tyler's casket, while Athena, Annabeth and Jace walked behind them, as they soon made it to where they were going to bury him, the casket was put down but as it was, they all noticed the seven graves dug in front of them, Jace turned around along with Annabeth and Athena as they saw Damon standing there, Damon smirked at them "hello again." he told them, as the others turned around "body's probably starting to smell a little bit. Tried to keep it as intact as I could." Damon shared, as Stefan grabbed the shovel "but I gotta admit, I got a little carried away about the whole ripping the throat out thing. My apologies to Donovan. I'm sure you cleaned him up real nice." Damon shared.

As Athena reached her hand down to her boot "let me guess? You have a knife?" Damon asked her, as Stefan snapped the shovel in half and stepped in front of Athena "ooh, look at that Stefan protects his girl by staking me. Go ahead, try it. But first.." Damon shared, motioning out "take your pick. Cause I'm gonna bury every one of you." he shared, as Stefan stepped toward's him "easy. Underestimating me is what got Tyler killed." Damon shared, as Matt pulled out a gun, Damon sped toward's him and grabbed him by the neck as they all turned to him.

"Matt Donovan. The only living boy in mystic falls." Damon said, as Stefan walked toward's him "you know, it's shocking you managed to stay human this long. Maybe I should fix that." Damon shared "is that why you came home, Damon? To make empty threats?" Stefan asked "not empty, brother." Damon shared, biting into his wrist and force feeding Matt his blood, everyone's eyes went wide "don't move or I'll snap his neck. Give Matt here a non transferable invitation to our supernatural breakfast club." Damon shared "Damon, enough." Caroline told him.

As Damon let go of Matt "sweet Caroline. How many innocent people did you kill on your no humanity bender, hmm?" he asked, speeding up behind Athena and Annabeth, he grabbed them both "we got two of those contenders right here." he added on, as they all glared at him "doesn't matter what you say or don't. The devil knows what you did." Damon shared "what's happened to you?" Alaric asked "what's so surprising about this? I'm who I've always been." Damon shared "no. No, you're different." Alaric shared.