Dragon's Keeper

Chapter 38

~Previously on Dragon's Keeper~

"You ok?" MayBeth asks. "I'm better now. How was your day Beth?" Elijah asks back. "Killer. What's with the artwork?" Maybeth questions. "Davina's sketches. I wonder if they represent some kind of premonition. They seem to suggest something is coming. Something sinister." Elijah points out. "Oh, my god. Isn't that..." MayBeth starts.

CELESTE'S GRAVE

"Hello, Celeste." Sophie says.

THE ABATTOIR

MayBeth tries to call Sophie. "Come on, Sophie. Pick up. Pick up."

"The Italians call them strega. The Yoruba of West Africa call them aje, meaning mother. Where my mother was from, they called them hexa, and here we call them witch. Over the centuries, vampires have fought them and fought beside them, bedded them and burned them. Whether adversary or ally, they have been a force to be reckoned with. Their ancestral magic anchors this city. There's never been one all-powerful witch until Davina." Elijah says. "Who is now tucked in safe and sound down the hall under my protection. Your Celeste was quite beautiful and a portent of evil according to our volatile artist in residence." Klaus says. "Yes. Perhaps Davina's mistaken what she calls evil for power. Celeste was certainly very powerful in her day, but she's been dead for over 200 years. I don't understand. Why all these sketches now?" Elijah asks. "Why does any witch do anything?" Klaus questions back.

DAVINA'S ROOM

"Go away!" Davina says and makes Marcel fly against the wall. "Come on. You got to be starving. You haven't eaten since--" Marcel gets cut off. "Since your best friend killed my best friend?" Davina says. "Davina, I'm sorry about what happened to this kid Tim." Marcel says. "I'm sorry you don't hate Klaus for what he did or want to make him pay." Davina said. "He'll pay for what he did one way or the other, but right now, I just want to make peace with you." Marcel says. "Why? So we can be one big happy Frankenstein family?" Davina asked.

ANOTHER ROOM

"Well, that's going well." Klaus says. "If you were trying to win the girl's trust, perhaps poisoning her one true love was not the most splendid idea." Elijah says. "Oh. Are there any more inopportune deaths you'd like to wave in my face?" Klaus asks. "Give me a month. I'll get you list." Elijah sassed. Klaus smiled. "Young, old, dead, or alive, witches are a pain in the ass." He says.

DAVINA'S ROOM

Davina starts vomiting dirt. "Davina, Davina!" Marcel says, concerned. Klaus enters. "What's with all the racket? Bloody hell." Klaus says.

ANOTHER ROOM

"Elijah? There's something you need to know."MayBeth starts. The house begins to shake, like there's an earthquake. MayBeth and Elijah go to the balcony and see Rebekah. "What the hell is going on?" Rebekah says. "Davina." Klaus says.

DAVINA'S ROOM

"Hey. What kind of game do you think you're playing? I said disrupt the household, not destroy the whole city." Rebekah says. "I didn't do it. Not on purpose. I--I don't know what's wrong with me." Davina says.

ANOTHER ROOM

"This is madness. How can a 16-year-old girl shake the entire French quarter?" Klaus says. "I've seen her rock the church, but I've never seen anything like this." Marcel states. "How did you control her when she was in the attic?" Klaus asks. "I didn't have to, but then again, I never killed her boyfriend." Marcel sassed. "Yes, yes. We've been over this part already. The point is in her present state she's useless as a tool against the witches." Klaus says. "She's not a tool." Marcel says, getting defensive. "Something's wrong with her." Klaus says. "She has too much power that she cannot control. That much we already knew. But why is it manifesting itself in such an aggressive manner?" Elijah says. "Where are you going?" Klaus questions. "This is witch business. Let's ask a witch." Elijah meets MayBeth outside the room. "You're going to see Sophie." MayBeth asks. "You don't have to eavesdrop. I keep nothing from you." Elijah says. "Yeah. Well, I don't want to keep anything from you either, and if you're going out to see Sophie, then there's something that you should know. She called me and asked me for a favor. She promised me that she would help break the curse that Marcel put on my people in exchange for some information. And I didn't think anything of it, but then Davina started doing those pictures of Celeste--" MayBeth says. "Whatever this is, you have to tell me." Elijah interrupts. "Sophie wanted to find Celeste's remains, so I went through your journals, and I found out where you buried her, and then I told her. I know it was stupid and it was snoopy, And I--I should have just asked you. Please say something. Please Lijah." MayBeth says. "She wanted to be left in peace. When a witch's remains are consecrated, that power fuels the rest of their community. Celeste did not want her remains to be found. She made me promise to bury her where she would not be found. You not only violated my privacy, You have broken my promise to her." Elijah says, upset. "I thought they were just bones, Elijah." MayBeth says. "If you truly believed that, why didn't you ask me where to find her?" Elijah asks.