The Vampire Diaries: A New Era

Chapter 17: The witch/originator

Bonnie's P.O.V

The spell is slowly taking its effect, I'm getting tired but Grams and I aren't finished yet.

"Stay strong Bonnie."

Blood is leaving my nostrils, I open my eyes and breathe in deep. I keep going, this is our only hope.

"Grams, I..."

"Bonnie!"

What happened? I thought I was worn out, I'm not on the ground an arm is supporting me, keeping me still but it's not Grans.

When I open my eyes I see a black hooded figure, is she the witch?

"Thank you Bonnie."

"Are you the witch that Grams told me about?"

"I am. I apologise for the harm the spell had upon you, but you did it."

"Grams!?"

"She's still here, you don't have to worry."

Her voice sounds distinctly familiar, or maybe I'm not one hundred percent recovered after the spell.

"Could you maybe remove your hood? its a little creepy."

She does what I ask and removes her hood; only to reveal a face that I have seen many times before when my life entered the supernatural world:

The face of a Petrova doppelgänger.

"I know, it's a huge shock but I'm afraid there's no time to explain."

She seems a little older than the other doppelgängers, but she is still the spitting image.

"Who, who are you?"

"My name is Anja."

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"But I thought that Amara was the originator of the Petrova doppelgängers."

"Well she was, but when I gave birth to her and Cassia I cast a spell, so that there would be a shadow of myself when I died to carry on my legacy."

"Amara and a Cassia were your daughters?"

"Yes. When I was alive, I was the first ever witch that lived in the world. I kept the balance of nature in place, but I had to produce a child to carry on for me, when I cast the spell it succeeded in making a shadow of myself but it didn't pass on the witch gene to her, so only Cassia had the power of a witch and Amara was just an ordinary human."

Her backstory is fascinating but why would her own daughter be trying to use her power to eliminate supernatural beings?

"Then why is Cassia trying to kill me and my friends, actually all supernatural beings?"

"A few years after they were born I died, my powers were wilting away and taking me with them, luckily I had given birth to a new witch. Only I feared that Cassia, who wasn't a shadow part of me would use her powers wrong, so I passed on part of my power to two children that were born around the same time as my daughters: Silas and Qetsiyah, in the hopes that together they would restore balance, but I was wrong."

"When Cassia had begun looking into the darkness of immortality my fears were true, the magic that she created eventually led to people taking the spells that she created, the spells were then used by other witches that came after to create creatures such as werewolves and eventually a spell to create the demons of the night."

"Vampires." I say.

"Yes. Like the original family."

What she says explains a lot but there's still one thing she's not telling me.

"If what you said is true then why do you want to stop your daughter from completing her ritual?" Grams asks.

"I have to stop her because Cassia doesn't know the full effects of this ritual."

"What full effects?" I ask.

She looks back at us as though she can't say as it will startle us.

"What is it?!" I ask again quite serious.

"Cassia is using every Petrova doppelgänger to complete this ritual. If she manages to use their blood curse every supernatural being in existence, then the curse will transfer to every normal human being from their family bloodline. Cassia will end all of life as we know it."

Grams and I can't think of anything else but every living persons life ending right now, Cassia must be stopped at all costs.

"What do we do?" I ask anxiously

"I can stop Cassia Bonnie, however if I am to end the curse and put everything back to the way it was, I need that necklace, the one that your friend Elena was wearing, with it I'll be able to use all of my power and then I'll be stronger than any witch: living and dead."

This is our only chance at restoring balance and putting an end to what Cassia is planning.

"We will help you." I say to Anja.

"Let's put an end to this. "Anja says.