Royal Sacrifices

Black Of Night

Everyone loves fairytales- stories full of magical creatures, beautiful princesses, far off kingdoms, and charming princes, we were all told these stories as children and they always ended with those magical three words happily ever after. There was evil witches to hate and brave heroes to root for, but sometimes those lines can blur, afterall most of your favorite fairytales were altered before being told to you. They were made happy and bright;watery graves became beautiful wedding gowns, impregnating rape became slaying a dragon and an eye opening kiss, blind and abandoned in a dessert became a simple haircut. All of these stories have been watered down from their original versions to be made inoffensive to tiny ears, but I refuse to do that. Believe whatever happy delusion you would like about the life of Ariel, Aurora, or Rapunzel, but there is a princess who's story you haven't heard because I can assure you, there is very little happy about it. This story has magical creatures but not the kind any Disney artist would animate, it has a beautiful princess at its heart but not one who merely counts on love or a man to save her when her life falls apart, the kingdom is certainly far off but I guarantee you will find no happy fairies flying around it, and of course there is a prince and he is very handsome and very charming, but that just might be what makes him so dangerous.

Caroline Forbes is a princess who defies tradition and so her story must be told in a way that does her justice. This is not a traditional fairy tale. The princess' best friend is not a colorful fish, she is a powerful witch; and as for the hero? Well you may need to broaden your definition of the word. Power, love, blood.

We begin of course how all fairy tales do: Once upon a time...

there was a magical kingdom cursed by many dark forces but equally blessed with prosperity and magical gifts. Many things happened there that could not be explained. Since its founding the Mikaelson family had sat on the throne of the Mystic Kingdom, but a time came about two generations ago when the king was found to be unable to produce children. Though he went through as many wives as England's own King Henry, no heir could be conceived and when the king fell ill the kingdom was weak. In this time of weakness a new family rose up, swiftly claiming the throne for themselves and thus began the reign of the Forbes. For nearly a hundred years now the kingdom has been at peace under the rule of this new royal family.

But there is a piece of this country's history that no book will tell you. What nobody knew was that the final Mikaelson king had not been born sterile but rather became that way as the result of a vengeful witch's spell. In the days of his youth the foolish king impregnated a village girl named Ayana and left her to be disgraced with the illegitimate child, a baby boy whom she named Mikael so that he would never forget that though he was destined to grow up poor, he was a royal. The child's mother cast a spell upon the king decreeing that until he accepted this child he should bear no more. And so he didn't.

Mikael grew up very poor and angry, resenting the king who he knew to be his father and that he could not take his rightful place as ruler. The only one who could keep his rage under control it had seemed was a beautiful village girl by the name of Esther. The two married and had 6 beautiful children- Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. Their poverty and low standing in society forced Finn to leave home very young in search of work and he never returned.,Henrik died in his infancy as a result of malnourishment and Mikael made a decision because of this that would change his kingdom and the world forever.

His pride overtook him and he refused to allow his children to feel the weakness that he did so he went to his mother, begging her to join her powers with his wife and make his children strong enough that they could take back what rightfully belonged to their family. After some convincing both women agreed and performed the dark spell. The magic transformed the children but was too strong and exhausted Ayana and Esther to an early grave. Overcome by grief Mikael took his own life, leaving his children to avenge their family.