Worlds Colliding (The Originals, Book One)

Chapter 1 - Always and Forever

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Flashback - 300 Years Ago

Night - Mississippi River

After dark, at sea, with a dark and gloomy mist, a canopy boat sailed smoothly.

Elijah: (voice over) "Over the course of my long life, I have come to believe we are bound forever to those with whom we share blood. And while we may not choose our family, that bond can be our greatest strength or our deepest regret. This unfortunate truth has haunted me for as long as I can recall."

Two men were talking about the boat.

"What do you make of that?" Man 1 asked.

"No banner; no flag," Man 2 told him. "Floated in out of nowhere. A miracle ship."

"Why is it just sitting out there?" Man 1 asked.

"Suppose we ought to find out," Man 2 told him.

The men and their crew entered the ship, below deck. They walked down the ladder one by one, holding lanterns for light.

"Where in hell is everyone?" Man 2 asked.

"Deserted," Man 1 told him. "Which makes everything in the hold legally forfeit. Take what suits you." He looked at three coffins. "What do you make of that? Open it up."

Man 2 hesitated slightly, but soon opened the coffin, to reveal a daggered Kassandra Mikaelson, desiccated, temporarily dead. "What the hell?"

A door was opened.

Men started to get attacked and disappear.

Man 2 was the last one left. He held his lantern to see who was taking his men.

"Hello," Rebekah Mikaelson told them. Man 2 turned around with his lantern up to face Rebekah. Rebekah was transformed, blood on her lips, using a handkerchief to wipe it away. "Lovely to see such a handsome face after a long journey. Can I eat him, brother?"

"I'd rather you didn't," Elijah Mikaelson told her, stepping out of a dark corner, smiling slightly at Man 2. "There's no need to be afraid." He compelled the man. "And do exactly as I say. You will remember nothing."

"I will remember nothing," the man repeated.

Evan Mikaelson walked into view. "We've had a very long journey, wherein which, unfortunately, we lost all of our crew. Therefore, I will ask you kindly to transport our belongings to the shore."

Klaus, Ingrid and Keon Mikaelson walked closer, also having been feeding.

"What kind of hell demons are you?" the man asked.

"We're vampires, darling," Ingrid told him. "The Original vampires. I'm Ingrid." She pointed to each family member. "My son Keon. Niklaus, Rebekah, Elijah, Evan, our sister Kassandra, our brothers Kol and Finn, may they rest in peace."

"Are you forgetting some?" Cristian Hunter asked.

"And Cristian, Charlotte and Jack Hunter, the current and former lovers of Aunt Kassandra, Uncle Evan, and my mother," Keon finished. "They're family as well. Have been for 200 years now."

Cristian stood above them, holding the first man's dead body in his arms, transformed, having blood on his lips, laughing lightly, pushing the dead body to the ground.

Charlotte and Jack walked closer.

Charlotte used a handcloth to wipe blood from her lips. "Jack has quite the time trying to get Cristian and I under control, don't you, dear brother?"