°SERENDIPITY°

•CHAPTER 1•

Henrik found himself standing in the middle of nowhere with trees surrounding him making it difficult for the moon to cast it's light on the ground of the supposed forest. The blanket of sudden darkness made it difficult for Henrik to navigate the path. He formed a ball of light moving one hand over the other and enhancing his hearing to hear any sort of movement.

After some walking and running, he finally heard the sounds of many people talking more like shouting. 'Maybe some fight is going on,' thought Henrik. He slowed down his breathing and heartbeat and made his way towards the most possible fight thinking he would be able to get some knowledge of where he is in this universe and the way to get out of the forest.

When he got there, he saw some people with fangs most likely vampires surrounding someone with three people standing a few feet away chanting, witches. Somebody is getting cornered. Moving closer to see if he could help the cornered person, he got the shocked of his life seeing something or rather someone in front of him after so many years.

At that moment, he forgot his promise to Qetsiyah about hiding his identity, the probability of him considered as an imposter, or the possible unknown danger in the future by the revelation of his identity. Everything left his mind and the only thing in his mind is to hug the person in front of him tightly and get one in return like he used to get when he get a nightmare and seek comfort from the said person or like he used to give when father used to harm the said person and whispered 'Everything is going to be okay' repeatedly.

But before he could reach him, he felt like someone grabbed his arm and released him in a matter of second which for a normal person, it would be considered as an imagination but for him, he knew something is wrong. And it confirmed when he saw everything went still. For example he can't hear the constant movement coming from the animal in the forest or when he looked towards the person and the people surrounding him, he saw them standing like statues in their fighting stance.

'What just happened?' that's the question which was running in his mind as he unconsciously formed a protective shield around him and after some thinking, he decided not to form one around the person not wanting the attacker to know the relationship between them.

"What Henrik Mikaelson! Not going to form one protective shield around your brother, Niklaus Mikaelson?" asked a feminine voice with some teasing. Her voice seemed to echo everywhere making it difficult to locate it.

Henrik didn't show any sign of how surprised and terrified he was feeling since his werewolf hearing didn't pick any movement and the knowledge attacker has about him and his brother who was now few feet away from him.

Instead the fireballs he formed in his two hands grow larger and he tried again to locate his female attacker but came up with nothing.

'Maybe I am an untriggered werewolf that's why I am not able to locate her. But Edward said an untriggered Ancient werewolf has all the characteristics of a triggered werewolf excluding the automatic change which they have to go through every full moon,' thought Henrik.

"What happened Rik? Oh! Can I call you Rik? Ofcourse I can. Hope you don't mind. I like to give nicknames you see," said the feminine attacker with same teasing tone coming from everywhere.

Before Henrik could object and ask question, he is cut off "As I was saying before your name distracted me," he rolled his eyes at that "Aren't you able to locate me with your Ancient werewolf hearing?"

At this, Henrik is not able to hide his startled expression. 'She is dangerous for me' that's the conclusion he came up with. A dangerous glint formed in his eyes before he expands his protective shield speedily not wanting the attacker given the advantage of time. And hearing the collision coming from his right, he knew he was successful. Without wasting any time, he lunged towards her wrapping his fingers around her neck and holding her against a tree.

"Who.Are.You?" Henrik asked coldly with a chilling glint in his eyes. 'Too bad it didn't faze me' thought the feminine attacker.

"Well well Rik, I thought you were a gentleman. It's not the way you should treat a beautiful lady like me," said the attacker getting a scoff from Henrik. Only this time her teasing was fake. If she wasn't in the shadow, Henrik would have seen the growing coldness in her green eyes. When she saw, Henrik made no movement of removing his hand instead the grip tightened, she quickly kicked him where the sun doesn't shine. Even in pain, Henrik didn't remove his grip but both know that it has loosened, and that's what the attacker wanted.

Quickly grabbing his arm, she swung it around so it was painfully pushed against his back, and then kicked his knee back making him fall on the ground. "Don't take anything personal. You see, I hate being a loser. So all this was my counter-attack. After all it's not only about my reputation but also my teacher who taught me all this," said the attacker in a soft voice in contrast to her taunting words.

In reply, Henrik head butted her making her to lose the grip and hold her bleeding nose. Standing smoothly and dusting his shoulder, he replied "Oh I didn't know someone can't tolerate the pain making them to lose their grip. Don't take personally. You see, I like to always have the last word. And now I don't care who you are because I am going to kill you."

Saying this he was going to make his final blow when she said one word. One word that made him stops. It's not just any One word. It's the reason behind Henrik being here. Qetsiyah.