Chapter 3

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THE BAYOU
Hayley: We're not here to hurt you.
Lara: You can't hurt me any more than I've already hurt myself. I didn't know this was gonna happen. I didn't know they were gonna bring children into it.
Hayley: It's okay. Just tell us who "they" are.
Lara: Those that serve the Hollow. Followers of the blue light. I thought we were doing something good. Trying to take back our city.
Hayley: Back from what?
Lara: From him. [She raises a knife towards Marcel.] From the vampires. For five years we kept quiet. Watching you lord over this city like it was yours.
"So Nik didn't try to take the city back? Future you is surprising me more and more." Said Marcel to Klaus.
Marcel: Hey, I spent the last five years keeping the peace...
Lara: It is not your city to rule! New Orleans belongs to all of us. And the Hollow offered us the power we needed. So long as we pledged our allegiance.
"So you beileve witch will give power to wolves?" Said Kol.
Hayley: But Lara, you're a Crescent. You have the pack, you don't need this cult.
Lara: You chose the Original Family over your own kind. Don't you see? Our pack means nothing. You mean nothing!
Hayley: I have a daughter now. And, Lara, she's one of the kids. She's one of the kids that's in danger. So, please, help us help them.
Lara: [laughs] You can't help them. The Hollow wants power. The kind that only comes from sacrifice. Those kids will die so it can get stronger. And it will feed. And it will rise. And we will all bow before it. The great beast. Even you. My only mercy is I won't be here to see it. [Lara takes the knife and stabs it into her throat.]
"I don't like this hollow thing. I have a very bad feeling." Said Bella.
ST. JAMES INFIRMARY
[Vincent is casting a spell over Will.]
Vincent: Briser le bouclier. Briser le bouclier. Briser le bouclier. Briser le bouclier.
Elijah: Time's up.
Vincent: Hold on, Elijah!
Elijah: Why do you insist?
Vincent: Because he's my friend. And because a witch told me that I'm the one that gave this thing breath. Now I don't know what I did to let it into this world, but I know I ain't just gonna let it take him out.
Freya looks at him worried.
Bella: I can help. [Vincent looked at her surprised, but didn't argue.]
Vincent&Bella: Marquer nom sa à. Marquer nom sa à. [Will continues to scream in pain from Vincent and Bella's spell, though he breaks free of his bindings. He pulls forth the talisman of the Hollow and uses it on Bella and Elijah, throwing them backwards with telekinesis.]
Will: There's no going back, Vince.
[He throws Vincent back and he leaves.]
Elijah: Any other wonderful ideas?
Vincent: I tagged him with magic, so now we can trace him. Right back to the kids.
"Smart." Said Layla.
Bella: Let's go.
THE BAYOU
Vincent: Yeah. Assume you told everybody to be on their best behavior?
Elijah: Oh, I told them. Now whether or not they'll be obedient is another thing altogether. [Klaus approaches.]
Bella: Where's Hope?
Klaus: Freya, Kol and Davina are with children now. Hope's fighting it. Whatever it is.
Vincent: The kids are attached to that spell: if we save the kids, we save your little girl.
"Then what are you waiting for?!" Said worried Hayley.
Klaus: Tactless savages holding a ghost-raising rave. Best make short work of them. I say we... [Hayley and Marcel come.]
Marcel: We split up.
[Vincent, Elijah and Hayley]
Elijah: So you knew this Crescent girl?
Hayley: I did. But whatever that was today, that wasn't her. She said something about blue light.
Vincent: Yeah, that's the "Fifolet". New Orleans legend says that a spirit might present itself in a bright blue ball of light.
Elijah: Wonderful. How do we kill it?
Vincent: We'll find out soon enough.
THE BAYOU
Acolyte: Now that you've returned, brother, you may join us as we claim our power. Our rightful place. And lay waste to all who would deny our master. Are you prepared to prove your loyalty to the Hollow?
Will: I know what I have to do. I'm not afraid.
"When we get out of here. We need to destroy this cult." Said Bella. Everyone agreed.
Acolyte: We should begin. Klaus Enough with this circus of sadists. [Klaus breaks off a tree branch and throws it at the Acolyte Leader, killing him.]
Bella: Hey, Get the kids! [Marcel and Klaus go to get the kids. Will raises the Hollow's talisman and begins the ritual. Bella sees Vincent and gives him apologic look.]
Will: Vinculum mond sa. Vinculum mond sa.
Bella: (to Vincent) I'm sorry. [Bella breaks Will's neck with magic.]
Vincent: No! Oh, man, we got this all wrong. They wanted us here.
Elijah: Why?
Vincent: They want to channel your power, and anchor the Hollow to the living world. [Vincent inspects the children.]
"This is bad." Said Freya.
Vincent: Okay, they're alive. These kids are linked to that ritual.
Bella: (horrified) We can't free Nik and Marcel unless we break the spell.
Elijah: How do we stop this?
Vincent: I don't know! It's a sacrificial ritual. I can't break it unless I kill one of the kids.
"No, we aren't killing kids!" Said Marcel.
Hayley: No, no. There has to be another way.
THE HOLLOW'S DIMENTION AND THE BAYOU
Marcel: Where are we?
Klaus: Don't look into the blue light.
THE BAYOU
Bella: I'll siphon it.
Vincent: No, it's too dangerous. If hollow corrupts you, we are all gonna die.
"He's right. You are the Original heretic. We can't risk it." Said Freya.
Hayley: Then what we should do?
Vincent: Yeah, um so these kids are powering that ritual. But there might be a loophole, if I link it to you.
Elijah: Are you suggesting we take my life?
Bella: I think he's suggesting we kill you temporarily with normal wood and hope that would be enough to break the spell. [Vincent nodded.]
THE HOLLOW'S DIMENTION
Marcel: What is this?
Klaus: No, shut your eyes.
THE BAYOU
[Vincent and Bella start the spell.]
Vincent&Bella: Mare. Mare leurs. Mare leurs esprits. Mare leurs esprits! Mare leurs esprits! Mare leurs esprits! Mare leurs esprits!
"Come on! Come on!" Said Bella.
THE HOLLOW'S DIMENTION
Klaus: Look away!
THE BAYOU
Vincent: Hayley, do it now!
Heyley: Did it work?
Bella: Yeah.
"Thanks god." Said Hayley.
"No, thanks me and Vincent." Said Bella.
THE ABBATOIR
Freya: Hope.
Hope: We're not cold anymore.
"Children safetly reunited with their families." Said Emma.
THE ABBATOIR
Elijah: Here's to a wretched day.
Klaus&Bella: A wretched day indeed.
Heyley: Hey. I want to ask you something. In the woods, if Vincent hadn't found that loophole what would you have done to those kids?
Elijah: Whatever I had to do.
Everyone was clearly against it. Children is red line, even for them.
Hayley: We have got to stop making it a habit of putting our family lives ahead of others. I don't want that for myself, I don't want that for Hope. We have to do better.
Bella: But our life isn't that easy, is it? if it come down to Hope and hundreds of strangers are you telling me you would choose them? [Hayley can't answer.]
Everyone knew they would choose their family, but didn't want to admit.
Hayley: Hope doesn't deserve this.
Klaus: No, she doesn't and we will protect her. She won't have to make choices like that. [Everyone agreed.]
ST. JAMES INFIRMARY AND THE ABATTOIR
[Vincent is drinking alone and Freya shows up and hugs him from behind.]
Freya: I know today was rough for you. (Kisses Vincent's neck) At least, we put an end to it.
Vincent: Kinney's dead. But the thing they idolized the Hollow it must have wanted us there. It wanted to come into our world by anchoring itself to one of us. So that makes me wonder did we end it? Or is it just getting started?
Freya: You think it's gonna come after Klaus and Marcel?
Everyone looked at Klaus and Marcel.
[Hope is dreaming, walking through the compound.]
Vincent: I wonder if it hasn't already got to them. Do you know what they saw when they were in the circle?
Freya: Nothing. Not a thing.
Vincent: I hope you're right. That's the funny thing about our city, though. Nothing ever stays buried.
"It's not the end, is it?" Saighed Hayley.
[A mirror of the Infirmary begins to shatter into the shape of the Hollow's sigil. Hope finds Klaus. As he turns, his eyes glow bright blue, the color of the Hollow's spirit. Hope Screams and wakes from her dream.]
Hope: No, no, no. It's here. The Hollow, it's here.
Everyone looks at Hope sadly.
"She shouldn't be going throught this." Said Klaus sadly.

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