Memories → Elijah Mikaelson ✔

Chapter Twenty | Stories of the Past

"So the Lockwoods really have no idea that these tunnels are underneath their property?" Elena asks as Alaric leads her and Laura into the tunnels underneath the Lockwood property.

Alaric walks into the area with Laura, her eyes scan across the walls, looking at the drawings on the walls and the words written in another language. Elena walks up beside her, shining her flashlight onto the walls.

"What is all this?".

"Well as far as I can tell, it's a story. In simple, archaeological terms it's a really, really old story" Ric points at a part of he wall "That right there, is the moon cycle" He points to another "A man, a wolf".

"A werewolf" Elena mumbles. "I don't understand. I thought the Lockwoods came here with the Original Founders in the 1860s".

"I don't know. Maybe the Lockwoods did, but according to this wall, these werewolves have been here a lot longer than that".

"How long?",

"Long. It gets better. Show them Ric"

"Names. They're not native. They're written in Runic, a Viking script"

"Vikings?".

"This name here, I translated it and it reads Niklaus".

"Klaus" Elena says, looking at the name as Alaric points to the next name.

"Elijah" Laura says softly, her eyes following every line of the writing.

"And Rebekah".

"These are the names of the Original Family?".

"Carved into a cave that's been here since way before the founding of Mystic Falls. Or even the entire New World, for that matter".

"Okay, this has gotta be one of Klaus's fakes".

"That's what I said",

"That could be true, except the last name up here made us think otherwise".

"What's the name?".

"Mikael".

"Mikael...Mikael as in the vampire hunter who knows how to kill Klaus?".

"Yep. I now like to call him Papa Original".

Alaric holds his camera up, taking pictures of the different drawings and symbols. They head back to his appartment, Laura and Ric looking at the photographs, trying to work out what they mean, while Damon is helping Elena train.

"These images tell a story, to learn the story, you have to decipher these images".

Damon quickly takes the stake from Elena who was trying to fight him "Sloppy!".

Elena pouts, taking the stake back "Shut up! I'm new at this".

"Ghost of Christmas Past, Mason Lockwood set up the cave and led us to a weapon that can kill Klaus".

"Yeah but doesn't Mikael have a weapon?"

"Yes. Which probably means the wall will lead us to Mikael, who we have already found, and lost".  The Salvatore defends himself as Elena tries to fight him but she ends up being overtaken and he holds her, jokingly nibbling on her neck.

"These images at the very least might tell us what that weapon is".

"Then all we have to do is find out what they mean".