Dragon's Keeper

Chapter 42

~Previously on Dragon's Keeper~

Rebekah speed vamps toward him to try to kill him, but Papa Tunde simply reaches out and grabs her by the throat. "Symbole du masque et de l'ombre, embrace-toi. Embrace-toi. Symbole du masque et de l'ombre, embrace-toi. Embrace-toi. Symbole du masque et de l'ombre, embrace-toi. Embrace-toi. Symbole du masque et de l'ombre, embrace-toi." Papa Tunde starts chanting. Rebekah starts to desiccate, and thick gray veins pop up all over her face and neck. Terrified, Thierry speed vamps and disappears out of the warehouse.

COMPOUND COURTYARD

Klaus, Elijah, Diego, and many of the other vampires are congregating in the courtyard, discussing their current situation. "Ah! Someone will die for this." Klaus says. "Remarkably, I don't disagree. However, I would like to know where they learned such dark magic." Elijah says. "I had hoped never to see that symbol again. I recall it is the signature of a fool who once stood against us." Klaus says, thinking of MayBeth and their baby. "Clearly, some upstart witch is salvaging old tricks." Elijah states. "I'll do for him as I did the other." Klaus turns to Diego. "Diego, when night falls, I want you to gather every vampire in the Quarter. Get me the head of whoever did this and put it on a stick." Klaus says. "Yeah. That's gonna be a problem. Everyone is freaked out, man. We haven't had witches killing vampires in a long time. Marcel made sure of that." Diego says. "Marcel has run off like a scared child. You lot are left with me. Now, who of you will fight to defend our home?" Klaus looks around to see that no one comes forward. "Not a single one of you will stand with me, so afraid are you of this new threat? You should know better. I'll handle this myself." Klaus storms off.

ROUSSEAU'S

"Sophie, the restaurant is an epic disaster again. Do you think maybe you could come in today and..." Cami, on the phone with Sophie, says. The voicemail interrupts: "User's mailbox is full." "Good-bye." Cami says annoyed. "Looks like I should've been here last night." Marcel says. Cami, startled, looks for anything she can find to use as a weapon, finally settling on an empty liquor bottle. "Before you try anything, I'm on vervain." She says. "Yeah, Klaus mentioned you broke free of his compulsion. Good for you. Sophie around?" Marcel says and asks. "No. Why?" Cami questioned. "Got a witch problem. Thought she might have answers." Marcel says and sits down. "Mind if I wait?" Marcel says and grabs a bottle off the bar and pours himself a drink. "It's a little early for day drinking. Let me guess, Klaus problems. I thought you'd be on top of the world now that you have Davina back." Cami says. "Davina is gone." Marcel states. "Was it Klaus? I told him, if he hurt her I'd tell MayBeth..." Cami says, angrily. "It wasn't like that. The power that she had was too much. We tried to fix her with this crazy-ass ritual, and something went wrong. Now she's...I don't know, floating in limbo, or waiting on her ancestors." Marcel says. "Marcel, I'm sorry." Cami states. "Yeah, me, too." Marcel says.

THE ABBATOIR--DAVINA'S OLD ROOM

Elijah walks into the room to find MayBeth looking at Davina's old sketches. "There you are." Elijah says. "Here I am." MayBeth says. Elijah gestures to the sketches. "Davina's drawings." He states. "Yeah. Morbid, I know. I was just thinking, we never figured out why she drew those pictures of Celeste. Anyway, I'm just killing time, now that I'm on vampire lockdown." MayBeth says. "Whoever did this, we will deal with them. It won't be long." Elijah says. "I'm not worried. Just think it's kind of funny that it took some big, supernatural threat for you to even come into the same room as me. I said I was sorry multiple times Lijah." MayBeth says looking at him. "I do apologize if you feel neglected. I have been occupied. My siblings are in some quarrel. Niklaus remains agitated. You'll recall that even our slightest interactions seem to infuriate him." Elijah says. "So Nik is being a dick, and you want to be a good big brother. So we can't hang out. That sum it up? I get it, Elijah." MayBeth says.