Find Hope | The Originals

Chapter 8

I'm in my room painting when a loud crash comes from downstairs and I hear my mom scream in pain, "mom!" I yell running downstairs.

"Hope get back upstairs now!" my dad shouts at me, not angrily but worried.

"What's going on?" I panic when I see Marcel in the courtyard and my mom getting up off a broken table.

"Klaus, once my mentor, my saviour, my sire and now worth nothing but filth to me" he yells.

"What do you want Marcellus?" Elijah scoffs and Marcels eyes land on me.

My Mom, Dad, Elijah and Rebekah stand in front of me preventing Marcel from getting any closer.

"Get Hope out of here now" Freya tells Kol before beginning what looks like a spell to take the vampire down.

Kol grabs my arm and tries to vamp speed out of the compound but an invisible barrier stops us, someone used a barrier spell. Then an unfamiliar woman enters the courtyard chanting a spell I've never heard before.

"Go hide and don't come out until I come find you" Kol urges.

"But you-"

"Go!" he yells before attacking the witch but with a flick of her wrist Kol is thrown towards me.

I turn to run but watch in horror as Marcel throws Freya against the wall causing her to hit her head, leaving her unconscious. He snaps my mom's and Rebekah's neck before staking Elijah.

"Run!" Kol yells interrupting my thoughts as he grabs my arm and pulls me away from the witch.

Using her magic the witch stops me and pulls me towards her on my knees. I can't get up or stop her. I don't know what's wrong but I can't use my magic.

Kol vamp speeds towards her but she throws his body against the wall and uses a spell to paralyse his body.

"Hope listen to me you're okay" he tries to calm me down, "I know you're scared but you can stop this"

"I-I can't, my magic won't work" I choke as the witch grabs my chin and forces me to look at her. She places her hands on my cheeks and stares into my eyes as she chants her spell.

"Phasmatos salves nas ex malon" she yells and I can feel the powerful spell take control of my body.

"Stop it!" Kol shouts at the witch but she ignores him.

Marcel then appears beside the witch.

The pain coursing through my body is excruciating. Blood starts to pour out of my eyes and ears as the spell continues. I scream as the pain becomes unbearable.

"Make it s-stop Marcel please!" I beg.

"You're family killed Davina, they need to know how it feels to lose the only light in your life" he defends his actions.

"Hope is innocent in all of this, her only sin is being apart of this bloody family!" Kol yells, "this won't bring Davina back, she wouldn't want this!" he adds.

The witch looks at Marcel wondering if she should stop but he tells her to continue.

My dad bites into the witches neck taking her by surprise and for a moment the pain stops but then returns within a spilt second. Marcel pulls my dad off the witch and holds him back until the spell is over.