Captured By Kai - Malachai Parker - The Vampire Diaries [TVD]

Chapter 4

As soon as those words were spoken, they looked to the entrance of the metal building to find a figure stood there. Margo nervously clenched her teeth at the sight of a tall lean boy smiling at them.

"I'm not usually one to crash parties." he announced. "But when someone tries to locate me, I assume I'm meant to be invited."

"You're Malachai?" Stefan asked voicing everyone's confusion.

"The one and only." he simpered.

"But you're just a kid."

"Congratulations, you have eyes."

He began to approach them but as soon as he took a few steps into the warehouse, Jeremy and Matt aimed their weapons at him. He stopped his pace and raised his arms.

"Oh no! Don't shoot! Please, don't shoot!" he urged in worry. Not to Margo's surprise, he began to laugh right after.

"You're all so naive." he said maliciously and dropped his hands back down again. "I bet this isn't the first time you've tried to do this. Tell me, did anyone get injured trying to locate me by any chance?"

Nobody said a thing, yet they all knew how badly hurt Bonnie got while trying to find him.

"You see, I'm powerless. I have no abilities. In fact I literally repel magic." Malachai explained, eyeing each of them.

"So, that's why one of you probably almost got killed doing a locator spell the other day. Was it you? You, the guy with the hero hair." he said, nodding at Stefan.

"Wasn't these two eggheads. If they were witches they wouldn't be pointing their weapons-what even is that? A harpoon? You know what, I don't need to know." he said overlapping his own sentence.

"What are you getting at?" Margo sighed at him, scrunching her face to appear slightly more fierce. Her regular exterior was anything but intimidating. Margo reckons she couldn't frighten a deer even if she tried.

"Well, hello there." Malachai said in an undertone. He began leering up and down Margo, which made her regret ever making herself noticed.

"Couldn't have been you, could it? What a gorgeous girl you are. You wouldn't try to hurt me, would you?" he smiled as Margo looked away.

"It was me." Bonnie spoke with a steady voice.

He took one step towards Bonnie, which made Jeremy and Matt load their weapons. Malachai laughed once more and shook his head.

"You people don't get it." his voice echoed in the wide space.

"I said I literally repel magic. But that's only when I'm lacking my abilities. The only time I don't repel magic-is when I actually have it."

He waited for an answer, and Margo pieced together what he was trying to explain.

"Oh my god." she mumbled. "Bonnie, the locator spell worked today. That means-"

"He has his magic!" before Bonnie could complete her sentence, Malachai pushed his arms in Jeremy and Matt's direction, causing their weapons to swing to their heads and knock them out.

Elena and Caroline rushed towards him with their vampire speed but at the lift of his hands, they both went falling to the ground, suffocating and choking.

Stefan growled at him and his eyes turned bloodshot before his fangs began to show. He raced to the back of the warlock to grip his neck in a death lock. Malachai only needed to utter a single word for Stefan to begin coughing out blood in huge splatters while falling to the ground to join Caroline and Elena.

Malachai then pushed his arm to the air in Bonnie's direction, making her crash backwards into the furthest wall of the building.

Margo was the only one left standing. She was horrified to see what one boy had done to all her friends in no more than a minute. Malachai smiled at her maniacally, but she managed to enchant him with a spell that made his windpipe slowly tighten. His face began to change colour, but he was still standing. To Margo's aversion, he began to drag his feet in her direction.

He appeared in front of her in a flash and groped his hands around her neck. She felt as if there were a ball of fire forcing its way up her throat. Her vision grew darker and blurrier. Malachai was no longer suffocating, but Margo definitely was.

Bonnie made her way back to the scene, which made Malachai force Margo into a neck hold.

"Take one step, and I'll kill her." he threatened.

"Bonnie. G-get him." Margo tried to utter out in desperation between forced breaths.

Malachai brought her arm up with his, and Margo's skin began turning into a light red glow. She felt an enormous amount of heat gather in her arm which made her screech in pain.

"He's t-taking her m-agic." Stefan stuttered from the floor while dragging himself in the puddles of blood he'd coughed out.

"Do something, Bonnie." Malachai mocked in worry, grinning at her. It was as though he had no remorse. Hearing Margo in his arms yelling in terror, two humans unconscious on the ground, two vampires choking for air and another one with blood pouring out his mouth.

"Stop, stop, please stop, please!" Bonnie begged close to tears. She couldn't do anything that could save all her friends.

Margo's head was spinning. Her ears were filled with the sound of her friends groaning and suffocating at her feet, Bonnie yelling things at Malachai, and above all, a gnawing repetitive wave of loud rings in her head from what she believed was her magic leaving her body.

From all the pressure and enormous amounts of adrenaline, Margo passed out in Malachai's arms.

31 hours later

"Why don't I remember what happened after meeting Stefan and Caroline?"

"It's nothing. I literally forced out a part of your spirit from your body. Something in your brain had to mess up." he answered after helping Margo piece up her broken memories from the past day.

"Why do you look like a kid? I thought you were supposed to be at least twice my age."

"That's another story for another time. But all you need to know for now is that I'm a never-grow-up kind of guy." he joked and laughed by himself.

"Your turn to finally answer me. Why are you and your friends trying to kill me?"

"We weren't trying to kill you. Torture maybe, but not kill." Margo explained. "We want our friend, Damon Salvatore back."

"Oh god, you're the friends Damon always used to talk about?"

"So you do know him!"

Margo felt so relieved. All the searching and researching that she and her friends had done the past few months were leading up to this moment. To find out exactly where Kai had placed Damon, and to finally get him home.

"Know him?" Kai scoffed "Please, I more than know him. I killed him."