Eternal ➳ N. Mikaelson [COMPLETED]

➳ 16: down the rabbit hole

TYLER Lockwood stormed furiously into the Gilbert house and glared at Klaus furiously. "Where is it?"

"What ever do you mean?" Klaus questioned smugly, having no idea what he was referring to but pretending that he was playing his former hyrbid servant.

"The sword." Tyler sneered harshly and took a step closer toward his sire. "Where. Is. It?"

"Oh, you mean this sword?" Ingrid questioned curiously as she held it up with a mischevious smirk. "You see, Tyler, you and your friends are not as clever as you think you are. If my calculations are correct... your group has broken into my house a total of four times now. And well... it begins to become predictable." She glanced at him with a fake sympathetic expression then laughed mockingly. "Besides, you aren't exactly quiet about it. Be very careful of what you discuss in private, you never know is lurking in the shadows." She remarked with a suggestion tone of voice.

"Give it." The Lockwood demanded sternly and sped toward her with an angry glare.

She glanced at him with an unimpressed expression then took a deep breath and closed her eyes. When she reopened them, she plastered a bitter and condescending smile on her face. "Mind your tone." Ingrid snarled though gritted teeth then pointed the blade at him menacingly. "I will kill you where you stand. And trust me, it will be of little effort. Just count yourself lucky that Niklaus has dibs."

Caroline walked into the house and stood inbetween them, pushing Tyler away from the Original. She turned to Ingrid with a blank expression and pointed to the sword. "We want the sword because it does this." She explained before turning the crytex in the handle.

"I'm well aware of what I does and why it's important." Ingrid replied in irritation and turned it away from her grasp. "Never assume you have more knowledge than me."

Klaus looked at the blonde, amused. "And what do you think 'this' is?"

She rolled her blue eyes and turned to face him. "It's called a cryptex." She replied and Tyler looked at her in surprise. She scoffed and looked at him in offense. "I've seen The da Vinci Code. You turn the different sides to the different symbols to get the translation on the other side. And with the magic of the internet, Elena sent over these." She held up print-outs of Jeremy's tattoo. "So now all we have to do is cryptex away." She said while walking across the room and sitting down in one of the chairs. "If you happened to want to help, we wouldn't stop you."

"Right. Well, might I suggest using the magic of the internet to purchase an Aramaic-to-English dictionary from your nearest retailer." Klaus remarked with a wide smirk and Ingrid laughed loudly.

Tyler ignored them and turned to Caroline in confusion. "What's Aramaic?"

"It's a dead language. It hasn't been used since, like, biblical times." Caroline explained with furrowed eyebrows.

"Qetsiyah's native tongue, I'm guessing. You know, even if you had the best dictionary in the world, it could take days to translate." Klaus teased and sat down on the floor. "Perhaps weeks. "In bas so-teen-too ara-ma-eet." He said in Aramaic causing the vampires to glance at him in confusion.

"What does that mean?" Caroline questioned, clueless.

Ingrid glanced at Klaus, grinning, then looked at her condescendingly. "If only you spoke Aramaic."