The Hollow Within✔

8.

Stella's Pov:

I looked down, staring at Elijah as he rested in his coffin. His skin was grey. I hated seeing him like this but I needed the space from him after what I witnessed from him. I started to hear a crackling noise. I looked to my right, walking up to candles. The necklace that Elijah was trapped in looked cracked. I grabbed it and picked it up. It was still cracking. I quickly walked out of the room to find Freya.

"Freya, somethings wrong."

"What is it?"

I handed Freya the necklace and she looked down at it.

"Despite the spell I cast, the very integrity of the pendant is growing unstable. It won't be able to hold Elijah's soul much longer. We need to find a way to resurrect him tonight, or we could lose him forever."

Niklaus walked in.

"To do that we'll need more power."

"Let me guess, a grand sacrifice."

"I say we kill our enemy and sacrifice her, then I can channel the power from the Hollow's death, raise Elijah's body, and place him back where he belongs."

Freya makes it sound easy. I'm starting to question if it's even possible to kill the Hollow.

"We've tried everything."

"And we've come close. Labonair blood is her Achilles' heel. Stella, your blood weakened her, but you've technically been dead for years. So it won't be strong enough to kill her. If we forge a blade using the blood of the last living Labonair..."

"We don't want the girls involved."

"They're already involved. These girls have been obsessed with the symbol that follows the Hollow: the Serpent consuming itself, specially Hope."

Freya showed us a drawing of a serpent swallowing itself.

"Now I believe this is showing us the key, the only means to which she can be destroyed, her own blood. The Hollow's one end of the Labonair bloodline. Hope is the other. We need to close that loop."

"What about Winter?"

"They both may have been born the same day but Hope was born second. Which makes her maybe even a little stronger than her sister. Now, the best way to close that loop is for Stella to weild a weapon forged with both of the girls blood. Using both of their blood might make the blade strong enough to kill the Hollow. When she stabs her, it's only then the Hollow can be obliterated completely."

I quickly stood up.

"Then we make it work. I'll talk to the girls."

I quickly walked out of the room.

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Freya and I walked through a gate to an abandoned home.

"I sealed these with Hope and Winter's blood. One for each of us."

Freya handed me a blade.

"Once the totem is destroyed, we can sacrifice the Hollow."

Freya stopped in her tracks so I stopped walking and turned around to look at her.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah." Freya chuckled softly while looking down. "I never thought twice about fighting or dying for family before. But now, with Keelin...."

"Now you have someone you're afraid you're not gonna make it home to."

Freya silently nodded.

"You will make it home, Freya. I got your back, I always will no matter what."