Chương 3: 2nd Rebirth (Edited)

(Erik POV)

I woke up to the morning sun rising over the Eastern horizon, peeking through the trees. Surrounding the clearing that Tatia and I found, it is surrounded by different types of flowers. Growing like a hidden meadow, inside the forest, surrounding our village.

I look over at Tatia and see her wavy dark brown hair and her heart-shaped face. She looked even more beautiful than the actress Nina did. Tatia had an hourglass figure, that was well toned and the body of a runner, but flexibility like a gymnast. I run my fingers over her shoulder, as I whisper in her ear.

"Wake up my love, it is about time we return, or we will surely be missed."

With a fluttering of her eyes, Tatia looked at me with her doe-like brown eyes, as she spoke.

"Good morning, my love.'"

Slithering her arm to the back of my neck, then kissing me. After we break apart, and we can breathe I tell her.

"We must leave my love. We can't worry everyone, about us, while losing ourselves in our activities."

She snorted and slapped my well-defined chest as she said.

"What can I say, my love? There is only so much a girl can take from a mighty Mikaelson."

I snort, helping her dress back into her blue dress and a fur coat that she made from a huge wolf I hunted. While I dress in boiled leather, armor dyed black, with engraved magical runes of deflection and durability. Using the same concept of siphoner witches, I remade my runes from regular runes of magic. My armor is constantly being charged by the magic of the world. What is in the air and earth, is constantly charging up my runes. On both my left and right hips are 2 bastard swords that are engraved to have the same durability runes, with sharpness runes.

Finished dressing, we walked through the forest talking and laughing about our lives. We enter the village and see more Viking warriors, shield maidens, and native tribesmen all trading goods with each other in the village's market. As we pass them, we see Ayana, checking out some injured tribesmen and Vikings who were severely hurt, or dying. She looks up at us, she smiles while nodding. Tatia and I do the same. When we came to her hovel, that was right next to my family's. I can see Finn and Elijah, talking in the corner inside the family hovel. While Kol was practicing magic, with Mother out back. Rebekah was looking through mother's magical objects. I could see Mikael training with his sword in the training circle, to the far left of our hovels. Just then Klaus comes running carrying Henrik's dead body screaming. I froze while Rebekah and Kol were in tears. Finn and Elijah were comforting them. Mother was checking over Henrik's body, while Mikael came over without saying anything. Mikael starts to beat Klaus, who still wears the necklace mother gave him, making him too weak to defend himself. Tatia shakes my body as she whispers.

"My love, you must stop him, please. Your brother doesn't deserve this."

Jolting me from my thoughts, I push through my siblings, grabbing Mikael's fist just as he is about to bring it back down on Klaus. With my other hand holding his opposite shoulder, I say in a deadly calm voice.

"That's enough. He isn't at fault here, the wolves are. Stop hitting Klaus and help me set up a pyre for... Henrik. Finn and Elijah, could you both help us?"

They both nod sadly. I then look at Kol and Rebekah as I say.

"Can you two take Klaus, clean him up, while Mother will prepare Henrik, with Ayana, helping her."

They all nod, going about their tasks. I look at Tatia and say.

"I'm sorry my love, but my family has need of me. I will come get you from our home when the funeral pyre is prepared."

She hugged me while she kissed my lips lightly then whispered.

"I will wait for you Erik, always."

Hours later the pyre is built and Henrik's body is a top it. Mikael and Finn, being the two oldest males, were in charge of lighting it on fire. The rest of us were in a half circle, surrounding the pyre, with Tatia right next to me.

As it was lit up we watched it burn. After I gathered his ashes and stored them away. Then later, we were sitting around a table inside my family's hovel. Except for Tatia who was feeling dizzy after helping Mother prepare our dinner tonight. I know what she really did, was gave Esther her blood. To mix with my own for mother's dark spell, to turn us into the original vampires. As we are all eating Mother brings out the fateful laced wine that is spelled. We all fill a cup, one at a time. When it gets to me, I fill one of our wooden carved cups, then I put enough for another person, inside a water skin. While I do that, my siblings look at me like I am crazy. But Esther and Mikael seem to know what I plan on doing they both nod at me. I down my cup in one drink, with my siblings following my example. I nod at them and say.

"I love you, my siblings, never forget that."

I stand up facing Mikael and speak.

"You'll have to go for the neck 'Father', make it quick."

As I raised my arms to the side, Mikael grabbed the back of my head, as he said.

"You my son, are my greatest creation. I have taught you all I know, only Finn has learned as much from me. See you soon my son."

He then stabbed me, through the throat with his dagger. The tip was sticking out of the back of my neck. Severing my spine. Last thing I hear is my siblings screaming, but it is Klaus who is the loudest. Thanks to us being twins, he felt a phantom pain, of what I am experiencing. As I dropped to the ground, I saw only darkness.

Hours later, I shoot into a sitting position and breathe in and out loudly gasping for air. I look around seeing Rebekah, who was in a corner dead looking like she was trying to hide herself. While Kol looked like he tried to run. Finn and Elijah look like they went out trying to fight Mikael. Klaus was a little in-between where I was and where Rebekah was. It was like he was protecting her until he was downed then he tried dragging himself to my side. The next one to gasp awake is Kol, so he must have been killed right after me, trying to run around Mikael. With him checking his left side, right under his armpit, that must be how he died.

"Kol you'll be okay. Just breathe brother."

I try to comfort him, and he looks over at me then whispers.

"I can't feel it, Erik... My magic I-it's gone... Nothing is left I'm hollow."

Just then Finn and Elijah both gasp awake, checking their chests, right where their hearts are. Finn just checked right where his heart is, on the front and back, suggesting he was stabbed. While Elijah checked over from his hip to shoulder, he was slashed through the chest.

"Brothers, breathe... Calm your thoughts."

They both look at me, then at Kol, with surprise as Elijah, asks.

"Are we dead? Is this the afterlife?"

I replied in a solemn voice.

"No brothers. We aren't in the afterlife yet, but I don't think we can be considered living anymore."

Looking around sadly until I feel the most intense hunger and gasp in pain. Just then Klaus and Rebekah awaken. Klaus looks horrified, checking over his face, before his chest. then turned to Rebekah seeing her checking the right side of her chest, where her lung would be.

Mikael kicked the door open. At that moment, with three people who all looked to be in a magical daze. He shoved one woman at Klaus, while the other was thrown to me, and the male was thrown to Kol.

"Drink... Quickly... Drink."

Mikael told us in a demanding voice.

I do feed after hearing her heartbeat and smelling the blood pumping through this woman's veins. I sink my teeth in her neck feeling an orgasmic rush of power flowing through me. Before I know it, I was drinking heavily. Then I felt pain in my head, like no other. Looking up, I see Esther using an aneurysm spell on me and Kol. While Mikael threw Klaus off of the other woman. Then Finn, Elijah, and Rebekah Feed, killing the two females, and one male.