Niklaus was beginning to wonder what being an Elemental entailed. Did each one have different powers? How did they gain control over them? Was there some sort of ceremony to unlock their full potential?
This made his thoughts zero in on Aella again...
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I parked the motorcycle gently and hopped off, my converse clad feet hitting the gravel softly. I walked around the unkept front yard and up the few stairs to the front door, lifting my knuckles to knock. I raised an eyebrow when the door simply fell open from my touch. Whoever's here must have been in a rush to forget to even properly close the entrance. Noob move.
I walked, fast paced, up the stairs and to Stefan's room, where energy had manifested itself and voices got gradually louder.
"Why did Mikael start hunting Klaus?" I could hear Elena ask. Seems pretty rhetorical if you ask me.
"When Nik made his first human kill, it triggered his werewolf gene." Rebekah explained, "With that, he became my father's greatest shame."
You would think his greatest shame would be killing his children but alas... can't win them all.
We aren't all Ash Ketchum after all.
Been hanging on to that joke for ages.
"Yeah." Elena nodded, "Elijah told me this part of the story. Your mother had had an affair with one of the werewolf villagers. Klaus wasn't his son."
Ah. So she was just checking if the story was legit?
"Sorry to break it to you, hun. But this story is the truth." I pipe up, walking into the room. Both the brunette and the blonde turn to look at me, "Niklaus told me."
Rebekah nodded, "She tried to make it right, my mother. She put the hybrid curse on Nik to suppress his werewolf side, and then she turned her back on him." I scoff at that, but let her continue. "But Mikael's greatest weakness as a human was his pride. As a vampire, that was magnified. He went on a rampage and killed half the village. Then he came home and killed her."
This part of the story was new to me. It was quite unsettling how a man so controlling and obsessed with his wife would want to end her or come to the conclusion that it would be best she died. Whether it was a crime of passion, or a thought out plan... why?
Stunned, Elena whispered, "Mikael killed your mother?"
She must be doubting asking him for help, then.
Rebekah was nonchalant, although if you knew her, you'd hear the slight break in her voice, "He said she broke his heart so he would break hers. He tore it from her chest as Nik watched." I gulped. This feels like one of those things that Niklaus would have shown me.
Why didn't he?
Rebekah continued, "Afterwards, my father took off in a rage, and the rest of my family scattered. Nik stayed, so he could help me bury her. He knew I had to say goodbye to my mother."
I looked over at Bekah and our eyes locked, pushing me into the memory she was relating to us.
Rebekah and Niklaus were standing side by side, peering down a fresh grave. Their clothes were muddled and they looked restless.
