𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓭 𝓞𝓷𝓮 [𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 1]

Chapter 113

"No word from Kol and Hayley." I said pulling the phone from ears. "Try again." Elijah said. "What is the bloody point..." I started. "Niklaus, try again!" Elijah yelled. Hayley walked into the study. "Where have you been?" I asked her. "Doesn't matter. Vincent told me everything. Is this really happening?" She asked looking around at us. "Assuming our other immortal brother answers the damn phone." Rebekah told her. "We still need to go get Hope. Vincent said the Hollow is gathering a congregation at the church." She said. "Then let's go get her." I said going to leave. "She's possessed, Klaus, surrounded by followers. We can't just go running in there." She told me. "Hayley, we have a plan." Rebekah told her. "It's actually a rather good one." She added. "Wait...where's Stiles?" Hayley asked. "Doing what he does best, love. Protecting his family." I said with a smirk.

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I stood inside St. Anne's Church in the shadows, unnoticed. "Quite the party." Marcel said walking into the church accompanied by Sofya. "Marcel Gerard, king of New Orleans." Dominic said as Marcel and Sofya reached a magic barrier. "Accompanied by his top advisor. Well, I trust you've come to grovel and bow before the power of the Hollow." Dominic continued. I rolled my eyes in annoyance. "Actually, we came to make a truce. The way I see it, we both have the same enemy: the Mikaelsons. Now, you help me get them out of this city, and maybe there's a world in which we all live happily ever after." Marcel said. "Diplomacy. A wise choice." Dominic stated before looking down a possessed Hope. She nodded her small head and Dominic brought the barrier down. Marcel and Sofya walked towards to the two witches and stood before them. "I want the king to kneel before me." Hope said. Marcel hesitated for a second before kneeling before her. "Behold, covens of New Orleans, even the great Marcel Gerard is nothing in the face of the Hollow." Dominic said before Marcel blew dust into Hope's face and she fell unconscious into his arms and he sped away. 

Sofya killed Dominic as I exited the shadows above as a plume of black smoke. I landed behind the gathered witches. "Well...this is quite the predicament you've gotten yourself into...isn't it?" I said leaning against a wooden post. They turned and looked at me in fear. "What's wrong? Never met the Void One before?" I asked as a black smoky aura enveloped me in the shape of a nine-tailed fox. The Nogitsune's void aura. A smirk grew upon my face. "No? Well then. Now's your chance." I said as Klaus walked in. "Hear ye, hear ye all disciples and acolytes of the evil Hollow. Now that your master has been subdued, the power she promised you has been revoked, rendering you helpless, and bringing this pitiful coup to a rather abrupt end. This dark object has the astounding ability to seal you in the room." Klaus rambled before he slammed the dark object into the floor. "Which is very inconvenient indeed." Elijah said from above. "I don't know what you possibly mean, Brother. Can you be so kind as to explain why?" I asked playfully as I encircled the trapped group of witches. Nine auratic black tails swished behind me grazing the invisible barrier creating sparks. "Of course. Particularly when one considers the architectural composition of the structure. And so, with very little effort...this place becomes an inferno." Elijah explained before tossing a lit molotov into the group. They screamed as they went up in flames. I watched with a smirk before the aura receded back into my body. I looked around at the others. "I say that went rather well." I stated.