Chapter 35: The Three Factions
Davina was saddened by the sudden departure of her dear friend and mentor but she had learnt a lot from her already and after seeing what happened to Hayley and her baby it is understandable that she would choose the safety of her children as oppose to the man who is obviously reluctant to part with his siblings.
But she has managed to bounce back with an even older more charming mentor. It helps that he shares the same scorn for the Mikaelson family even as he shares blood with them.
Time went by quickly and she found herself falling deeply for the charming youngest Mikaelson sibling which got her involved in the Mikaelson family drama more times than she can count.
Hayley got married and moved into the new pack house with Jackson, her family and pack. Elijah started a new project training new vampires with Marcel and got involved with a beautiful artist. In the mist of it all, Dahlia and Freya woke up and the tensions rose high.
The Mikaelson siblings had to work together against a common foe. Dahlia proved to be a formidable enemy even to a violent creature like Mikael.
When they discovered the ingredients to making a weapon that will work against Dahlia, Klaus did not hesitate to kill Mikael leaving them with only part of their overall strength.
Freya is understandably devastated but Klaus didn't care. It was enough joy to take Mikael's life just as he was about to spent time with the daughter he had loved and longed for.
Klaus was jealous of his willingness to fight for Freya who he hasn't seen in a millennial after how horrible of a father he has been to him. Finn also hated what Nick had done and asked Freya to leave this family with him and Kol when they finished taking care of Dahlia.
Klaus heard their conversation and spiraled out of control especially when he found out that Hayley is planning on take Hope and running with her pack. He lost it and decided to kill Dahlia his own way.
Although his actions were successful in getting rid of Dahlia, it completely shattered their rocky foundation they have been steadily building ever since coming to New Orleans.
Rebekah ame back and they rised Ester who made a sacrifice to save her children at last. When I was done, Elijah decided to leave wit Rebekah. Finn left with Kol who took Davina and they aske Freya to come but she wanted to stay around in this place for a while. It was a home she had once dreamed to live in with her family.
Elijah promised to come back at some point he just meeds air. He didn't tell her that he made a mistake with his wife and needs to go and apologize to her.
In the pack territory, Katherine has contributed by inscribing small formations on several locations around the resort, it enriches the fields where the resort food is grown.
She introduced the strong alcohol with rich qi inside. Entering this place makes the body feel rejuvenated and healthy. The air is rich in qi making those who live inside healthier.
Katherine sells her special wine and other strong beverages at a high price. The resort has been getting even more visitors as of late and the money is pilling up.
The vampire faction is not excluded from the success because they run a world class hotel, their business makes even more money because of their convenient location.
It has been peaceful for the past few months but Katherine began to have a bad feeling as of late. She told all the leaders to be alert through Rose.
Her people in leadership positions are very strong compared to the originals but there is no such things as absolution. She made a few more purple colored elixirs for both the vampire and werewolves so both sides will have an equal amount of strong leaders.
Just as she is feeling uneasy, she saw a black cloud covering the entirety of the resort. It seems her senses have not retired.
The resort has an underground tunnel that leads to a safe house. The wolves have been trained on how to handle evacuation procedures at times like these.
A few mintes later the humans in the base have been led through an underground passageway to the nearest exit area where they are driven to the nearest city.
The children and the unable are taken to a safe a good distance away. However, Katherine found out that most children had gone to school and have not come back yet.
Tony volunteered to send a few clones to bring the children to the safe quickly. Rose agreed to this suggestion seeing as they need all capable people for the fight.
The trained warriors lined up with Katherine in the front of the line holding her long knife. They saw her and got excited. Their invisible clan leader is here. Katherine sent out orders, Paige teleported some of the nine tails to the vampire faction to ensure they are safe.
These people must have researched their clan if they know that the vampires are only a faction. A few moments later a massive army of vampires wearing exquisitely designed suites stood outside the gate. More of them kept coming filling in the back of the army.
The werewolves did a double take at the numbers. On the sides of the enemy army there are a group of powerful black magic practicing witches wearing beautiful but battle appropriate attire. The overall picture is both intimidating and alluring.
Katherine waited, they are not done shocking her. Indeed, four people stood at the head of the army. A beautiful woman with long deep red hair, a man she remembered referring to himself as a servant, the man she had killed personally and the woman she has been itching to get her hands on. Aya.
The strix came after two years of preparing for her, she would be hard pressed today. The black fog of foul black magic in the air is sticking to the barrier around the resort as if a thick black blanket swallowing most of the light in the world. Or at last the light in the werewolf territory.
"We want Katherine Pierce. We mean you no harm unless you wish to shield our enemies." A strong voice sounded from Aya while she eyes the werewolves as one would prey. She seems strong, and that obvious confidence combined with the thick battle intent coming out of her in waves can only be horned on a thousand battles.
"Hehe.." Katherine's playful chuckle sounded and the two sides heard her nice and clear.
She used space and appeared next to the gorgeous man with piercing blue eyes. A shift happened in the battle field as their enemy appeared out of thin air. Her power became very happy with the otherwise suffocating air of black magic. Tristan only stiffened lightly when he felt her sudden presence. He turned to look straight into her playful brown eyes.
"How was hell?" She asked him as if making small talk. She eyed him with a bit of iinterest
"Cold and underwhelming, you would fit right in. Perhaps a trip is in order?" He said with a suggestive tone.
"You're Katherine? How disappointing." The red haired said scorn.
She walked towards the goddess of war who has suddenly become vigilant with every fiber of her body. "Aya, we meet again." Katherine spoke to the woman.
"Are you here to surrender?" Aya took a stance. Katherine walked and stood in front of her looking straight into those large eyes.
"Even though you hurt my people and I do want to torture you, I prefer for them to deal with their own demons. Victor, come and have your pound of flash. don't worry about all these people." Katherine spoke and a well dressed Victor appeared in front of Aya whose eyes bulged at seeing the man she left for dead in the hotel at that time.
"We meet again." Victor is what we call 'A man of few words' and he proves it by attacking right of the bat with a ruthless slap to the face. Seeing blood coming out of her mouth with a few teeth, Vic mused "The devil bleeds."
Aya had reacted but she did not expect him to have improved by great lengths in such a short time.
Vic is not just strong, he is as powerful as an original because he took a watered down version of Katherine's elixir.
Currently, he is the most powerful vampire in their second faction excluding Rose and Nadia who is still in seclusion for an upgrade.
Aya had been surprised but as a warrior she quickly adjusted her initial distain for her opponent and returned a fierce attack with a long scary looking knive.
No matter how one looked at it, this is a black object. Luckily the artifacts can absort some of the magic in the knife. However, for it to get to that, Vic would have to have been subdued.
Aya is not a normal vampire she is one of the oldest most powerful vampires in the world. Vic will have to bring his A game on this fight.
Speed is his ally in this fight. Aya can not touch him. In a few seconds they have already exchanged several moves. This fight made Katherine raise her eyebrow at Vic's polished skills. To be able to fight Aya to a disadvantage, he must have serious skills.
She had invited the vampires to practice with the pack but Vic has never come. It must be because he is very confident in his own skills.
The fight dragged on. Vic is slammed on the ground hard and before he can get up he is attacked by someone from the Strix with a wooden stake but his hand got severed just as the stake would pierce Victor's chest.
Everyone turned to see Katherine who had been watching the fight had not made any move. The man had thought he is sneaky enough but Katherine was one step ahead.
The space power as one of her tails abilities is at her command. She had used a space blade to cut the man's hand. His screams sounded but is promptly removed from the battlefield by his comrades.
The people looked at Katherine in suspicion but the lady didn't even glance at them. She is watching the on going fight as it seems to be nearing the end.
Vic suddenly got inspired and his previous speed that Aya had gotten used to suddenly doubled. Cold sweat trickled down her face but there is no other way to see it, she has fallen into a trap.
Katherine's elixir improves the vampires natural talents by many folds. Speed, strength compulsion. All of Aya's vampire gifts are amplified in Victor. She stood no chance.
Vic was always faster than the initial speed, he had only been letting her get complacent in having the upper hand on the strength and technique. Just as she was to go in for the inevitable win, he chocked her and pulled out her beating heart.
Screams of outrage rang in the air but the corpse is quickly pulled away by the black magic witches. With so much black magic on their side it won't be surprising if they are all under a protection spell.
"That was something." Tristan said to Katherine without any grief on his expression. Turning her head she looked at Tristan in the eyes.
"Why are you here with all these well dressed peasants?" She sounded almost bored. The witches stopped releasing the black magic when theys saw it not affecting Katherine.
The only reason they were able to bring her down last time was because of excessive black magic in the weapons they used at the time. Today they were hoping to weaken her before the fight even began.
"To pay you in kind." He took a step and unbuttoned his suit outer jacket as if preparing for a fight.
"Rose, meet Tristan. First vampire turned from Elijah's blood. Would you like to have the honors?" She tilted her head.
"Kat, he is all mine." Mikel said coming out of the barrier. He stood next to Katherine and looked at Tristan with deep blue eyes.
"Are you sure? He is 900 years old." Katherine frowned.
"Enough with these shenanigans we didn't come here to exchange notes we came here to crush them Tristan!" The red haird shouted pointing at Katherine.
"How dare you ignore my brother's obvious challenge?"
"He is too weak to challenge me."
"I would say you are scared. Look at how you will be humiliated in front of all these filthy animals you surround yourself with." The woman blinked her large eyes.
Katherine is a devine beast and she is being challenged in her own territory. She looked at the woman with a loud mouth and looked at Mikel. She gave him a mental command.
"Take Vic and go back."
Mikel went back without asking any questions but he has cold sweat on his back. When clan leader said this instruction it sounded like a demon in the debth of the abyss.
She released the constant shackles she keeps on her fox beast aura. The moment she did, all those on the outside the pack territory's barrier got attacked by the fox beast psychic power. She felt good releasing her enegy that she has caged since coming into this world.
Their minds became blank, pupils dilated and their hearts became possessed with a single unshakable desire for Katherine. She chuckled and they all swooned.
"Am I pretty?" She asked cutely and everyone of the soldiers on the battlefield nodded with vigour. Her own pack is protected by the barrier.
"But these other people you came here with are bullying me." She blinked. With one voice they all said "Kill!"
"Hehe..Okay. Just kill them for me okay?" She blinked again as they all nodded foolishely.
"Alright. You can begin. I won't be happy unless everyone of you people are all dead." As if a gun went off on a race track, they all attacked and started killing each other. Her entire pack is shocked and also in awe of their clan leader's power. Had it been another time, they might have felt fear at her display of dominance but the enemy numbers had really frightened and worried them deep down.
The black magic witches, the old vampires even the trained warriorsbegan to fight like they are swon enemies. There is only one person who is not all that much affected by all this, Tristan. He pulled his sister who is trying to kill him on the side, far away from the fighting.
He is not completely unaffected but he can fight it. Firstly he closed his ears when she first spoke with that siren like voice. When it didn't stop him from wanting to blend his body with that of the woman he knew he needed to act fast. He took out a knife and stabbed it on his thigh.
The pain woke him up but he is still struggling. This power, it is slowly corroding his resolve to remain sane. It is a maddening seduction.
Katherine felt her soul power dwindle at a rapid pace as the brutal fight went on. This is not the heavenly realm and she is no longer the heavenly princess. She saw the remaining number of people are more or less equal to the number of pack wolves.
She then stoodand sucked the surrounding black qi like a votex in the midst of battle cries, blood and gore absorbing all the black magic released by the witches. Her shadow and necromancy fox tails abilities improved.
She then sent a mental note to her own people with the mental power.
"Defend your home!"
As if being brought back from a dream, they realized their leader was helping them lessen the numbers and now that the enemy has been spiritually affected by the act of killing their own people, it shouldn't be a problem to finish them off.
However, Katherine knew better. These vampires have been training for centuries, the moment she took off her fox beast hypnotic power, they will be ready for combat. She is proven right. Some wolves started falling but they are very tuff creatures.
The fight is just as brutal as the one before be it more advanced since they are not being controlled by psychic power. She watched the battle and noted that her pack still needs a lot of training. So many died because of avoidable mistakes. No matter, since they will just be summoned to the stone chambers, she will intensify their training.
"Katherine!" Someone shouted her name. Turning, she saw Tony with a gleaming blade placed on his neck by non other than Aya looking like she will kill Tony at any moment now.
Katherine tilted her head while she called Victor to pay attention to Tristan and his sister. Vic appeared next to her, she instructed him to kill them if the did something.
"Are we playing the threatening game?" She seems leisurely considering the raging battle just a small distance away.
Aya threw her a couple of ancient looking chain cufs. They fell in front of Katherine with a clanking sound. The power that radiates from the cufs raised all the hairs on her body. Her fox does not like this magic artifact.
"Put on those cuffs and come with me if you don't want your precious pack member to experience the black object in her hand. You remember how painful it was..." A man said coming out of the side of an off road vehicle.
Katherine didn't waste time diving into Aya's mind to find out where they wants to take her. But what she found out was a deep hiddeden group of people caing themselves the three original factions. Then finding out there is a place that can erase monsters from the world intrigued her.
However, she is not stupid enough to gamble with her life when it is obvious there is more at play here. The man saw Katherine not moving, he frowned and a group came out from one of these vehicles with young children, it is obvious they are being held captive. The ages differ from those who go to kindergarten to the kids that attend the local school here.
"I thought an old soul like you may not be moved by the death of a grown man but what of these little kids whom we snatched from their way home from school?" The man with curly hair smiled when he saw a shift in Katherine's eyes.
The fight has stopped at this point because Katherine informed the nine tails to take everyone inside. Something is not right. All of a sudden the wolves left the battlefield and ran towards the resort in full speed.
The nine tails wanted to come aid her but she told them these people are carrying bullets that can harm them. She will need them to look after the pack now. Especially the kids. Although dhse had ensured her children's future, was secured, she is still uneasy about this whole thing.
"You are suposed to be a leader here, how will it look if you let tens of children die just because you are greedy for life?" He said and Katherine can feel the unease in the werewolves.
"You must be confused. We are here for you. You are something that shouldn't be allowed to live amongst humans. We will do anything in our power to bring you in, including killing innocents. What's the death of just few people compared to saving the world right?" The way he conducts himself it is obvious this is not the first time he did something like this.
These people call themselves the guardians of the world. Hunting monsters and erasing them from the world unsupervised. The group seems determined as they raise their guns pointing them at Katherine.
Aya paled when she saw the gun pointed at her as well. In the information she gathered from Aya's head, the guns has a very lethal type of bullets that can work against vampires, werewolves and witches as if they have been poisoned. There is no known cure for it.
"Katherine, we heard how you are not a witch, which brings questions about how you are able to perform magic. We heard how you are no longer a vampire because Klaus shoved a cure down your throat." The man opened a file and spoke calmly while glancing at it.
"You were not born from a warewolf bloodline yet you have a beast. Then, you must be some sort of monster that complex powers which you masquerade as magic." His eyes laced with indifference bore into her own as he continued to speak.
"Miss Pierce or whoever you are, this world doesn't take kindly to unknown creatures, me and these guys are the people responsible for hunting and eliminating monsters of unknown origin like you." His words sharp and threatening.
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