I'm standing in front of this weird tomb trying to figure it out I can feel the power radiating from it and it feels familiar but I can't place it. I sigh when I hear footsteps enter the room I left Hope and Lizzie together and I know Lizzie can't kill Hope but Hope could kill Lizzie so I'm relieved when I hear another set of footsteps.
"I thought you wanted to find Aurora?"
"Well we also need deal with this Aurora will probably pop up again like the cockroach she is"
I roll my eyes at Hopes comment and turn around coming face to face with Hope "What do you plan on doing with it?"
"None of your business"
I nod my head gently and walk closer to Hope as I look around the room "Thats where your wrong because the only thing that's stopping me from snapping your neck and taking you back to the Salvatore school is the fact something is obviously going on with that coffin and you look like you know who to take it too so I'll drive and you can carry it to the car"
I pat Hope on the shoulder and walk out to my car I got to admit I was a bit sceptical at first with cars but the machine are an amazing way to get a part from teleportation.
After a couple of minutes, the car door opens and I smirk as the coffin is put into the back of the car and Hope gets into the front seat
"Don't look so smug you won't be getting naive Hope back anytime soon"
"You mean loving and nice Hope"
"No, I mean naive Hope"
I sigh and look back to see if I can see Lizzie walk out of the building "Where is Lizzie?"
"Driving my car can we go?"
I look over to her with narrowed eyes "Say please and ill consider it"
She scoffs "Not gonna happen"
I shrug and lean back in my seat as she fiddles with the main console in the car "I guess we can stay here then...and talk"
"Please can you drive? Now would be better"
I don't budge and close my eyes I can feel Hopes glare on the side of my face but I ignore her "Say it nicer"
"You can't be serious right now"
"As a heart attack"
Hope chuckles lightly but I can hear the condescending tone to it "seems you been reading up on other present language books"
"I have actually I had a bunch of time while waiting for you to bring me back to the land of the living" I say in sarcastic tone and I open an eye to see some sort of emotion pass through her eyes
"Please can you drive" she says in a nicer tone to her previous one
I smile and sit back up and start the engine and look over to her with a smirk "I like it when you beg"
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We arrive at Hopes destination to the office to someone named professor vardemus I'm guessing Lizzie got here earlier than us but at the moment the professor is examining the coffin while Hope and I watch and Lizzie isn't here.
"This is astounding"
"Does that mean you know what it is?" Hope asks the man and he looks at it for a second more before looking back to Hope
"Not exactly but certain elements...Uh, this writing, for example not visible to the naked eye, but scrawled in blood in multiple languages, speaking of the gods but the gods of a dozen different cultures...Maybe more"
Hope sighs as I look closer and he's right there is different symbols some that I recognize from the books in the schools library and some from my mother's teachings
"Look, I know you're supposed to be the expert, but... gods don't exist," Hope tells the man and I look at her
"Yes they do actually"
"Who told you that your psychotic mother or your abusive fake father?"
I feel my eyes flash amber at Hopes words and I quickly look away back to the tomb I was hoping she wouldn't mention any of those two people but yet she did.
I continue to study the tomb and see that's is kinda a mix of Greek and roman Greek I know from my mother and roman I've seen in books.
"Hope. What's happened to you?"
"You're supposed to be so brilliant you tell me" The man says I continue to study the tomb
"I didn't realize becoming the Tribrid would make you cruel" I'm guessing Hope showed him her tribrid face because I can sense the fear in his voice
"She has her humanity off and don't worry I won't let her kill you" I stand from my crouching position and look back at the two
"Where were you?"
He asks me and I shrug "Dead" he looks confused but I don't think much of it I nod my head towards the tomb and give him a smile "It's greek and roman symbols I can translate the greek but not roman so if you could do it now that would be great"
"It seems you forgot to mention you could read it"
Hope tells me as Vardemus goes over to the coffin "I didn't look at it properly I was focused on the magic that was radiating from it"
Hope about to open her mouth but we her Vardemus speak "Extraordinary someone's inside and miraculously, they're alive"
My eyes narrow on Hope and she smirks "Hope where is Lizzie?"
I ask even though I have a keen suspicion I know where she is already she shrugs "she needed a bit more of punishment for trying to kill me"
I shake my head and walk over to tomb and do a spell and it opens to show Lizzie is dead in the tomb I let out a breath and look back to Vardemus "Do you have a way to destroy it?"
"Pentelic marble should do the trick if I'm right about the origins of the artifact you've brought, the marble may be able to absorb its powers. come with me with me and we can go and collect it"
I look over to Hope and raise an eyebrow "You can go with him I'm pretty sure if I leave you here you will find the job"
She rolls her eyes and follows professor Vardemus out the room I look back to Lizzie she's probably been dead for about a hour so she should be coming back soon.
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After 10 minutes a girl walks in im guessing a student of the professor stand in front the coffin and look at her she has a confused look on her face.
"I'm looking for professor Vardemus"
"He's not here"
"Obviously not"
My eyes narrow why are children so annoying "Well come back later I'm sure he will be back then"
She goes to reply but Vardemus walks through the door without Hope "Where's Hope?"
"She'll be back soon"
"Im sure she will but where did she go?"
Vardemus stops and looks to the girl "Who are you and what did you want?"
"She's an annoying child who won't leave now tell me where Hope is"
He looks back to me and let's put a shaky breath "I promise she is safe"
I don't here any lie in his voice or heartbeat and he said she will be back soon so I'm hoping with Hope gone he can get this done quicker since every second when Hope was in the room he was looking over to her to see if she would suddenly kill him.
"So can we take the magic from it so we can destroy it?"
He looks back to the girl and she seems confused "If knowledge of the supernatural world is what you seek, but I must warn you Jenifer what's in this coffin will-"
"Wait you about to tell her about this you can't be serious"
He doesn't get to answer because we hear Lizzie gasp she jumps out the coffin and latches onto Vardemus I vamp speed over and pull her off.
"Stop killing people Lizzie!"
"I wouldn't have been so hungry if your evil tribrid girlfriend wouldn't have killed me"
Vardemus drops to the ground and I let out a breath "You basically killed him you save him"
"Dude, Ugh that is so gross"
I look over to the girl and walk over to her "leave and forget you were ever here"
"Whatever you say dude" the girl leaves and I look back to Lizzie who bites into her wrist and groans
"Most vampires make that seem a lot less painful"
I chuckle lightly as she puts her wrist to Vardmus's mouth and his wound begins heal and he wakes up he backs away from Lizzie "Thank you"
"But I'm guessing there is a reason you saved my life?"
"Yes take us to Hope"
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"Hey love" Hope is standing looking at a bunch of keys I'm guessing that's the way out.
Hope turns around and gives me a fake smile "What took you so long?"
"So now you want my help?"
"If you came here to annoy me then just leave"
I walk closer to her and examine the keys and see one with the name Diego on it I take it off and look around it has my mother's name and Ryker's and Hope's I'm guessing mine is Diego's
"To get out you need to find the root of your problems"
I dangle digeos key in front of her "Daddy issues how fun"
"I know your humanity is off so I won't take offence but if you carry mentioning him then we are ending this little adventure"
I vamp speed over to the door and try the key and it doesn't work I huff and vamp speed over back over to the keys "Guess he isn't a problem since he's dead"
I take my mothers and Rykers key and vamp speed back over I try Ryker's and it doesn't work I throw it over my shoulder and try my mothers and it does work I look over to Hope and she still examining the keys.
"Try Alaric"
She looks over at me for a second then back to the keys and I walk through my door and I'm back in the storage room.
"What happened?"
"She'll be back soon"
I walk around and look at the items in the room there is a lot of stuff some with lots of magic and some not I'm drawn to a sword it's golden and maroon I grab it and walk back over to the duo I hold up the knife
"What's this?"
"I'm not exactly sure I believe it's a recreation of the phoenix stone I'm still studying it"
I look at it I can definitely feel drawn to it but I've heard about the phoenix stone and this isn't it I look back at him "I'm keeping it"
"Umm I'm sorry but-" I look at him with a raised eyebrow and he stops talking
"Oh miss Mikaelson"
"I'm surprised you escaped you usually suck at games 'cause they're fun"
I look at Hope and she seems to be glaring at Vardemus "Okay no more hostile actions or feelings Lizzie is awake she can take the magic from the artifact and then we can destroy it and leave"
"Who put you in charge?"
I look at Hope with a smile "Since I'm the only sensible person here"
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Turns out my compulsion didn't work on the 'stoner chick' is what Lizzie called her so we are outside after Hope followed her scent and she putting the artifact in her truck.
"You mind telling us why you're stealing that thing? Or better yet, why our locator spell didn't work on you we had to follow your scent even though I did all the work" she directs all the last of the sentence to me and I roll my eyes
The girl jumps down from the truck "Um, It's a long story man"
"Well, I'm immortal so.."
"Immortality is a bitch huh?"
"I mean, not really but I am so start answering my questions or I'm gonna rip your arms off and beat you to death with them" well I'm guessing Hopes got this so I stand off on the side as I watch this interaction
"Well, I'm a pacifist so I don't really want to hurt you" she throws the artifact at Hope and it shatters and pins Hope against a car I wince the girl walk a bit closer
"This isn't looking good Hope" she looks over for second and rolls her eyes
"Sorry, tiny angry dude, but... you don't want to know the things that you think you do"
The girl says I definitely want to know "First of all, ow second of all now I really need to know"
The girl picks up a bit of the artifact is this time for me to intervene "Then for what it's worth, I really wish you didn't"
She goes to stab Hope but I vamp speed over and grab her arm and snap it and push her to the ground I look over to Hope
"I think you lost your touch love"
"Okay, whatever you two are, I want no part of it" the girl flies up into the air I watch her go with wide eyes
"What supernatural flies?"
"None"
I look at Hope and she seems shocked too at the sudden escape of the girl "For someone so smart you sure are dumb sometimes"
"Sorry we can't all be smart and amazing as you," Hope says in a mocking tone and I smile
"I'll take that as a compliment...She is a God Hope why else would she steal the artefact it obviously belonged to her or some other god and I haven't seen any vampire witch or werewolf fly before...and she nearly killed you so she has to be powerful"
"She didn't nearly kill me"
I tilt my head to the side and give her a 'really' look and she looks away past my shoulder I look over my shoulder to see Lizzie
"Time to go visit this Aurora"
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A/n: I just wanted to take the time to thank everyone for the support on this book I only started this book because I was bored and definitely in love with Hope so it's shocking to see some many people read and vote so I just wanted to say thank you ð
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