Insanity

That's A lot Of Travellers, Must Be A Pretty Big Spell

Hearing a faint whistling, Kai stood and left the room. As soon as he left the crypt, Damon sped him into a nearby tree roughly.

"Cemetery? Really?"

Jogging out, Jerome shot Damon in the chest with his shotgun, tiny wooden pellets imbedding into him causing him to groan and fall back over the anti-magic border, his skin burning and blistering.

"Oh, whoops! Looks like you found the anti-magic border." Jerome giggled as he watched Kai get up and cross the line.

"I drew a line in the dirt for everyone's convenience, see? Yeah, you're welcome." He sighed before Alaric suddenly grabbed Kai, placing a gun to his head.

"Thank you. Kill him." Damon spoke as he pulled the wood pellets out of his chest, groaning as he healed.

Jerome stepped forward about to shoot Alaric, but instead dropped to the ground as his head erupted in flaring pain. Crying out, gripping his fiery locks, he fell to his knees.

"Alaric, don't!" Jo ran out, her hand pointed at a groaning Jerome on the ground, keeping him incapacitated with her restored magic.

"What are you talking about?" Alaric asked confused, holding Kai tighter.

"She's light headed and confused. I'll give her some of my blood, okay? Kill him." Damon smiled at Alaric, glaring daggers at Kai.

"No! You can't! If Kai dies, Liv and Luke have to do the merge. It's not fair to them." She ran forward, still keeping Jerome on the ground in pain.

"Who cares? Kill him."

"Ric, don't." She pleaded as Alaric cocked his gun.

"I can win. I can beat Kai. I just need a little time to get stronger." She desperately said causing Jerome to release a strained laugh muttering the word 'doubtful'.

Turning and raising her hand higher, Jo started to mutter a spell to kill Jerome but Damon sped in front of her, stopping her spell. Hands held out, he blocked her view of Jerome.

"Ah no, sorry! Can't kill him. He's Elena's brother." He chuckled awkwardly as Jo raised her eyebrows in disbelief before turning back to Alaric.

"We're moved, truly. Kill him now." Damon demanded, his attention now also on Alaric again.

"I'll figure out a way to win. Please. You have to trust me, keep him alive." Jo begged, returning her attention to Kai, who was enjoying the strife he was creating.

"Ric." Damon warned, Alaric ignoring him before knocking Kai out with the butt of his gun.

Growling annoyed, Damon turned and walked up to Jerome, kicking his head and effectively knocking him out as well.

When Jerome woke up with a massive headache, he was chained to a tree, Kai chained to a grave stone on the other side of the border. Damon was throwing rocks at the grave stone Kai was chained to, glaring as he saw Jerome was awake.

"Hey! That's no way to treat your future brother in law!" Jerome growled as Damon threw a small rock at him, barely missing his head.

"We will never be-" Kai cut Damon off before he could continue his angry rant.

"So this whole anti-magic thing, is it like a dome or a bubble? Like, say you were in a 747 flying over Mystic Falls, would you die?" Kai asked as Damon continued hurling rocks at him.

"That could be dangerous." Jerome agreed as he cracked his neck, it sore from having been knocked out so violently. He could feel blood dribbling down from his nose.

"Like if you're headed to New York, your pilot reroutes for weather." Kai trailed off in thought.

"How's this? I kill you and when you're in hell, you can ask a bar full of dead Travellers who cast the damn spell."

"That's a lot of Travellers. Must be a pretty big spell. Like a really big spell. So big, it covers every inch of an entire town." Kai muttered the last part as he dug his hands deep into the dirt ground, focusing on the magic running through the town.

Damon launched another rock at Kai just as Alaric's dingy truck pulled up.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Alaric shouted as he glared at Damon, exiting his truck.

"I'm working on my knuckleball." Damon laughed sarcastically.

"We're are keeping him alive, Damon!" Alaric yelled, walking closer and closer to Damon.

"Yes Day-Day. Little Josey wants him alive." Jerome sang as he leaned back into the tree, the bark digging into his back, the ground dirtying his suit.

"Can I ask why we continuously compromise logic for some girl you just met?" Damon snarled as he threw a rock at Jerome, hitting him in the stomach and causing his to release a half groan half laugh.

"You know, I don't know how I went so long without saying this, but you're a real dick."

"Bonnie's stuck over there because of him. Because of them. I can't take my anger out on crazy over there, so Kai will do. She's over there and I'm over here, and I hate myself for it!" Damon snarled, ignoring Jerome's murderous stare.

"Yeah, and killing him will make YOU feel better. So, let's just stop pretending for a second that this is about anyone else but YOU!" Alaric yelled angrily, poking Damon's chest.

Furious, Damon hurls a rock into his tire, popping it, "You should probably go change that tire."

"Woo what a shot!" Jerome laughed as Kai remained suspiciously silent, alerting Jerome to the fact he was up to something. He was never that quiet.

The ground under Kai's hands starting to glow red, he snapped his eyes open and smirked darkly.

As Damon sat on a stone, Jerome's eyes brightened as he saw Kai. Kai's hands planted firmly on the ground, the wind swirling around him.

"Hey, where are you? I can't hear you. What? Hey. Elena." Damon shouted down the phone, the line failing as the wind ripped around him violently.

"Oh! Say hi to Elena from me!" Jerome shouted enthusiastically, the shout falling onto deaf ears as Damon failed to hear him over the wind.

"Wha-" Damon sighed, pulling the phone away from his ear, the call cutting out. Looking around suspiciously at the steadily increasing wind.

"He stopped talking. He never stops talking." Damon stood up, walking towards Alaric as they both stared at the grave stone where Kai sat alarmed.

"You only just realised?" Jerome chuckled as he waited for something to happen.

"What happened to his chains?" Damon asked confused as he saw the chains melted around Kai's wrist, a pool of silvery metal.

"Is he chanting?" Alaric asked at the same time, just as Kai stood u from his spot on the ground and smirked at them.

"You little magic sucker. You sucked up all that magic from the Traveller spell." In response to Damon, Kai lifted Alaric and threw him against a tree with his stolen magic.

Jerome grinned darkly as he felt his chains melting, his body being released from the tree.

"A lot of magic."

Damon vampire sped Kai into a tree, going to punch him, Kai disappearing at the very last second causing Damon's fist to go into the tree. Little bits of wood flying about like debris.

"I really, really hate that move." Damon muttered before turning to Alaric who was grunting in pain.

"Ric. Hey, come on. Take my damn hand, Ric. Come on." Damon said as he reached to help Alaric up off the ground, Alaric hesitating to grab his hand.

"How are you not dead?" Alaric asked as he noticed that Damon was over the border.

"Better question, where is Jerome?!" Damon asked panicked as he noticed the ginger maniac no where in sight.

The clearing void of either of the psychopaths.