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The Old Ones: What Could've Been

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What would've happened if the originals never ran from Mikael? What would've happened if they instead spent 1000 years building their empire and cementing themselves as the most powerful and fearsome creatures in the entire world? What if they were as cruel and bloodthirsty as they were dramatized to be?
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Chapter 1 - Prologue

1001 A.D.

Hunger...

Thats all I feel as I woke.

What have my parents done to me?

I remember as father drove a sword through my heart, yet here I am... perfectly fine.

I look and see my sister with blood all over her, seemingly thinking about something else.

Does she feel this hunger too?

Suddenly the door swings open and his father comes marching in with a girl.

"What are you doing?" I question my father as he throws the woman on the ground.

"We must finish what we started, you have to drink if you want to live." He says as he pulls a knife and cuts the girl with it.

There it is again...

That unspeakable hunger

I stare at her seemingly in a trance and before I knew what was happening my sister is already drinking the girls blood...

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Pain...

Thats all I feel as my bones are breaking

Every single one

"FATHER, WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME" I scream out, as I fall to the ground as I feel every part of me rearranging.

My father... he always hated me, always looked at me as if I were lesser compared to my other siblings. As a look at him now I see pure rage and hatred.

Why?

What did I do for you to treat me this way?

All I ever wanted was for you to care for me

Yet no matter what I was never good enough

I will never be good enough...

Suddenly I am filled with an intense rage towards the man I call father

I'll never be good enough to you

So why should I keep trying?

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Betrayal...

That's all I feel as I look towards my brother who is holding me down alongside Mikael

'I will never forget this brother' I think as I am trying to free myself from their grasps

It seems my mother laid with another and from that I was conceived

I'm nothing but a bastard...

I am a beast, the same kind that killed my innocent brother Henrik

I am a beast, that drinks blood

I am an abomination

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Nothing...

That's all I feel as I tore the heart of my mother

The woman who cursed me for her mistakes

I can't feel my other side...

It's there but it's just mute

How can I live like this?

There's a piece of me that's missing and I can feel that emptiness

I hate it

"I killed our mother" I say quietly to my siblings who are gathered around me

As expected the first to attack is Finn

Always a mother's boy that one

He punches me in the face as I go flying back

"Why Niklaus?!" He roars, "She loved us, all of us!"

I can't take it anymore

Why can't anyone understand

My siblings apart from kol glare at me with hatred

"She took a part of me" I yell in return as I pull myself up from the ground

"I can feel my other half right at the surface yet I can't access it" My voice breaks down

"It's torture" I say quietly

"It doesn't ma-" Finn was yelling again until he is interrupted by kol

"Niklaus, if you didn't I would've gladly killed Esther" Kol declares

Everyone stops to stare at him

Even I am confused as to why he is defending me

"I can't feel it" Kol says through clenched teeth in pure frustration

Of couse...

I wasn't the only one who lost

"My connection to the earth, my magic" Kol says calming down, but now he just looks defeated... empty

"There's nothing there... only an emptiness" He says in an unusually blank face. As if he's been defeated

I decide to speak up again

"It wasn't just me she cursed, kol lost everything too."

"For what? To appease mikael" I practically snarl

"We are stuck as beasts who could never die. She took away all our choices yet she thinks she can walk away?" My frustration is bubbling up

We never asked for this

Finn looks taken a back as even he sees what our mother has cursed us to.

An eternity...

Elijah and Rebekah were both quiet

Rebekah was crying mourning the loss of our mother, while Elijah just seems to be thinking

'He doesn't seem too mad about me killing our mother' I thought

Again I decided to speak

"We are all we have now, mother cursed us. We will never lead normal lives" I say as they take in my words

They seem to understand

"We are all we have, so must stick together as one... Always and Forever" I declare to all my siblings

Rebekah and Finn seem reluctant after my confession but even they understand that we are all we have left

"Always and Forever" They all repeat back to me

Suddenly, Rebekah gets a panicked look on her face, she begins speaking frantically, "We must flee, father will be back soon. He will be after you Niklaus"

Mikael...

The name instills a rage in me

Flee?

There are 5 of us

There is only one of him

Run from him?

Be scared of him?

Never again.

So with all my rage I confidently look at Rebekah and say the word that changes everything.

"Why?"

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Hi

This is my first time writing pretty much anything so I just hoped you could all give me some pointers on things I can improve on.

This idea came to mind as I was watching the vampire diaries and I was wondering what the heck happened to the originals?

They were hyping up the originals to be monsters that would kill you just because you annoyed them

While this may be true in some cases it never happened in the vampire diaries

They killed 2 of their brothers and absolutely nothing happened to them.

So I got the idea to actually make the first family

These are truly what they were stated to be. The rulers of the supernatural world with no patience towards disloyalty.

There will be absolutely no plot armor against them