Dragon's Keeper

Chapter 25

~Previously on Dragon's Keeper~

"And what lesson will you be taught, Niklaus, if he retaliates by harming MayBeth?" Elijah states. "If he so much as harms one hair on her body--" Klaus starts, getting angry at the thought of MayBeth getting hurt. "Niklaus, so help me..." Elijah says. "Enough. I'll kill Tyler Lockwood myself." Klaus vamp-runs away to find Tyler.

DAVINA'S ATTIC ROOM

Marcel enters the attic with a large canvas bag thrown over his shoulder. "Marcel, something is happening. There is a witch doing magic in the Quarter." Davina says. "Oh, no worries, that one is Marcel-approved! Besides..." He drops the large sack on the floor. "Got something else for you to handle!" Marcel opens the bag to reveal Josh inside. Josh gets his bearings, and when he sees Davina, he gets scared. "Oh, no. Y-you're the super witch." Josh says. "Say hi to Josh." Marcel says. "Why would you bring him here?" Davina asks. "Josh has a problem. Klaus compelled him to spy on me." Marcel forces Josh to sit in a chair. "Agh!" Josh yelps. "I can't have that. So I thought: "I'll just kill Josh..." Marcel says. "Marcel, please! It's not my fault!" Josh pleads. "...then I thought: "Killing a vampire, that would be breaking my own rule." Smart thing to do is to flip Josh, that way, he can tell Klaus whatever I want. He could even spy for me. All we gotta do is wipe away that compulsion. So, what do you think?" Marcel says. "I can make him forget what Klaus told him. But, the more Klaus said, the more it is gonna hurt." Davina says. "Hm, probably gonna hurt a lot. Josh?" Marcel says. "I-I'll do it, anything, yes. How much pain are we talking?" Josh questions. Davina holds up a hand and starts to remove Josh's compulsion. His vision starts to blur, and he begins to shout out in agony.

THE BAYOU - DWAYNE'S SHACK

Maybeth is alone in the shack, zip tied to a fire stove, when Tyler walks in and joins her. "Tyler, there's been a wolf watching me lately. Protecting me, like it instinctively knows that I'm part of it's pack. You're a hybrid, you can turn into a wolf whenever you want. Was it you?" MayBeth asks. "No, but you're right, only hybrids can control when they change. And I'm the only one left, besides Klaus. Which is why we're here." Tyler says confused. "Whatever you think you're doing, you know that whole Original family has made a pact to keep mine and Nik's baby safe. So, if you hurt me, they'll kill you." MayBeth says. "What makes you think I'm afraid to die?" Tyler says. Dwayne walks into the shack and joins them. Tyler turns to Dwayne. "You ready for this?" He asks. "Let's do it." Dwayne says. Tyler digs in a bag and draws out a large syringe. "What are you doing?" MayBeth asks. Dwayne walks over and holds Maybeth down. Tyler crouches down in front of her. "Tyler, please, NO, Tyler!" MayBeth cries. "Klaus destroyed everything good in my life! So, I'm gonna take away the thing he wants most!" Tyler says. "NO, PLEASE, TYLER, PLEASE!" MayBeth continues to cry. Tyler jams the syringe into Maybeth's stomach and draws out a measure of her blood. Maybeth screams in pain. One he removes the syringe from her body, he jams it into Dwayne's neck, injects the blood into him, and snaps his neck as MayBeth watches in horror

ST. ANNE'S CATHOLIC CHURCH

Marcel is walking out from dropping of Josh in Davina's room, and is about to leave when he notices someone's presence and stops. "I thought you were leaving town! Couldn't stay away, huh?" Marcel asks. Rebekah comes out of nowhere and slams him onto the floor as she holds her stiletto-heel-clad foot against his neck. "I was half past Louisiana when I found out you invaded our home. What have you done with Maybeth?" Rebekah says. "You're so hot when you're angry." Rebekah lifts Marcel up and throws him against the nearby wall. He bounces off and falls into a heap on the floor. "Ahh." Marcel grunts. "You used me!" Rebekah says. "I'm pretty sure that was mutual." Marcel says. "Beguiled by your charms, I slept with you, like a fool, led you to our home, and then you took Maybeth?" Rebekah suspects. "Whoa, I didn't take anybody! Alright? I already sorted this out with your brothers. But, it begs the question: Why'd you come back?" Marcel says. "If Klaus learns it's MY fault you found your way to the plantation--" Rebekah says. Marcel interrupts her. "You really think I'd rat you out? Come on!" Marcel caresses her face. "If you think that I'd ever, in a thousand years, do ANYTHING to hurt you, you've got me confused with Klaus." He says. "All your charms and flirtations simply prove that you're every bit the liar and manipulator that Klaus is." Rebekah says. "Is that what you really think?" Marcel says slightly hurt. "By all means, prove me wrong." Rebekah says. "Fine. Come on, there's something that you need to see." Marcel turns to leave, and Rebekah reluctantly follows him.

THE BAYOU--DWAYNE'S SHACK

Tyler lifts Dwayne's dead body up off the floor and drags him over to the other side of the room. "Don't get all judgy! Dwayne knew what he was getting into. He volunteered!" Tyler says. "For you to kill him?" MayBeth says. "Dwayne is a werewolf who died with YOUR blood in his system. The same blood you share with your hybrid baby." Tyler states. Maybeth realizes what he's doing. "You're trying to turn him into a hybrid! That's impossible!" Maybeth says. "I've been running with wolf packs all over the country. One of them was tight with a witch. She had nightmare visions about your baby and how Klaus could use it's blood to make an army of hybrid slaves." Tyler says. "Nik would never think about doing anything to our baby. It's just a baby!" Maybeth says. "Maybe. Maybe not. That's where Dwayne comes in. You see, he was happy to be the test case. If you haven't noticed, these people don't have much to live for! They'd ALL welcome the chance to become the superior species. Trouble is, all hybrids are sired to Klaus. They follow his every move." Tyler says and grabs knife from his bag and sets it on the table. "No way I let that happen." He continues. "How can you be so sure Nik knows what our baby's blood will do?" Maybeth asks. "What do you think? Klaus Mikaelson, killer of men, women and puppies, all of a sudden wants to be a daddy? Or, he's got an ulterior motive. Hybrids can walk in the sun, their bite is lethal to vampires. They'll take over New Orleans by the end of the week. And you know what's going to stop Klaus then? Nothing." Tyler says. Dwayne awakens with a gasp and starts freaking out. Tyler looks at MayBeth, but talks to Dwayne. "You're gonna have to feed on her." Tyler picks up the knife and walks toward her to cut her neck. "What? No! Ahhhhh!" MayBeth yelps. "Do it." Tyler demands. Dwayne walks over to MayBeth and feeds on her, despite her cries. After a moment, Dwayne stops feeding, and falls to the floor in pain. Tyler pushes him outside and leaves to tend to him. MayBeth notices the knife on the ground and strains to reach for it. When she can't reach it, she grabs a broken chair leg from the floor. Outside, Dwayne convulses. "Look at me! Look at me!" Tyler says. Dwayne starts to calm down, and eventually lies still. "You're okay!" Tyler says. Dwayne's hybrid eyes emerge, and he smiles. "I'm better than okay." Dwayne says.

DAVINA'S ATTIC

Josh continues to lay in the fetal position while Davina works on wiping Josh's mind of Klaus' compulsion. Davina rolls her eyes and stops for a moment. "I'm sorry, but it's just gonna get worse. Klaus' compulsion runs deep." She says and kneels down and helps Josh back into the chair. "You need to think of something else. Take your mind off it. Do you like music?" Davina asks. Josh, still panting from the pain. "What? I can't think of music right now." Josh says. Davina sighs. "Why? I dunno, maybe because you're giving me a Voodoo lobotomy!" Josh states. Davina shrugs in agreement. "Do you like jazz?" Davina questions. Josh sighs in frustration. "So, what then?" She continues. "Club stuff. House, trance. You know, "uhnse uhnse uhnse uhnse?" Josh demonstrates. "I'm a witch, I'm not Amish! It's just, I'm only sixteen, I don't go to clubs." Davina says. "When I was sixteen, I'd been to, like, a hundred clubs. God, that was only four years ago. It feels like another life. All I wanted to do is meet boys. Things are so much more complicated. Now, all I want to do is meet boys, feed on people's blood, get one of those daylight rings so I don't burn in the sunlight." Josh says sarcastically. "All perfectly normal things." He says. As Davina listens to him talk, she walks over to her table, where Tim's violin is still resting from when Elijah fixed it. "I like the classics. Puccini, Bach, Mozart. I took piano, not that it matters, while I'm stuck here." Davina says. "Why not?" Josh asks. "Marcel's worried that someone could hear. It's not his fault, he just wants to keep me safe." Davina says. "Safe from what?" Josh says confused. "Basically, a coven of psycho witches wants to sacrifice me in a blood ritual." Davina says. Josh laughs dryly. "Oh! Wow, okay, uhhh...I'm sorry?" He says. "Don't be. I'm going to destroy them all. And once they're gone, everything will go back to normal. I'll have my old life back!" Davina smiles. Josh smiles sadly at her.