Klaus, Hayley, and Jackson have returned with Hope back to the Compound and all hell broke lose. Dahlia had found them and took over Jackson's body. Jackson left to pull himself together so it was just me, Nik, Freya, and Rebekah in the dining room.

"Isn't that the point of a fortress? It does a better job of protecting you when you stay within the walls." Klaus said as he scolds Hayley for her actions.

"Okay, we get it. Let's just figure out what the hell we're going to do." Hayley said having enough of his ranting.

"What I would like to do is take a strong leash—"

"Children, please. Niklaus, your ire is justified, however Hayley is quite right." Elijah said as he walks in and cuts Nik off. "We need to find a new strategy. Freya, if you please."

Freya let's a sigh escape her lips as she explains what Dahlia had just done. "This spell you described. Dahlia calls it "Kennings." Using proxies to watch her enemies from afar. But I've never seen it done on quite this scale."

"So that leaves every mortal and immortal being that graces this town at her beck and call." I said as she puts tea in the center of the table.

"The good news is I know a little bit about her magic works. This tonic will at least prevent her from using any of us." Freya said.

"Don't mind if I do." I said and quickly took a sip of it. I would like to not be possessed by someone who is much older than me.

"Well, come on." Rebekah encourage and Elijah went to take a cup as well. He held it up towards Nik who was standing away from the table.

"Niklaus, is there something you wish to contribute." Elijah said with a very disappointed face right now. And it was still obvious that Nik still didn't trust his sister Freya.

Like the girl helped saved Rebekah from being taken over and she is willing to help us stop Dahlia from taking Hope. What more can Freya even do at this point.

"I prefer biscuits with my tea." Klaus said and I immediately roll my eyes. Honestly the most difficult person I have ever seen.

"Of course." Elijah comments and place the cup on the table.

"Besides, our minds are far too strong to be invaded by kenning spells. No, what we experienced was a test. Dahlia's watching to see how we respond to aggression. She's preparing for battle. My guess is sooner rather than later." Klaus said.

"Well, if she was watching us she'd know we have our own army." Hayley said.

"She also knows where we are. Given the immense nature of her power, we simply have no idea what to expect from her. What we need is to create a new stronghold, something that Dahlia knows nothing about. A sanctuary from any witchcraft." Elijah said.

"That's a fine strategy. I offer another. We can use Jackson to trace her magic back to its source. Find out exactly where she is." Freya said and I look at Hayley seeing as if we agree to Freya's plan then she would have to convince her Husband to do this.

"Fine. Do it." Hayley said getting uncomfortable with all the stairs but it didn't show on her face.

"Good, then it's settled. Off you pop to your respective tasks. Me, I've been of the opinion that a best defense is a good offense. So I'm going to find a way to murder that godforsaken witch." Klaus said. I mean he ain't wrong. What good is a defense if you can't fight back.

~~~

Jackson laid on the table as I drew black ink on his torso. I'm highly uncomfortable right now but I won't let it show. "By doing this, we should be able to trace Dahlia's signature all the way back to the source of her power. But I'll need to dig deep." Freya said before looking at me and Rebekah. "Rebekah, Phoenix, if I may channel you?" She asked us and we nodded our heads.

"Are you sure you're okay with this?" Hayley asked Jackson.

"Piece of cake." He said and put his head back down on the table.

Me, Freya, and Rebekah held each other hands forming some sort of triangle over Jackson's body then we start to chant in sync. Jackson groans out in pain but we continue to ignore it as we had our eyes closed.

I see a image of this woman in black clothing and brown hair standing behind Freya with a hand on her shoulder. She was staring straight at me with a blank face.

Me and Rebekah pull away and gasp for air. "Phoenix, Rebekah. We need to continue." Freya said.

My hybrid face came out as I stare evilly at Freya. She took a step back but I vamp speed to her and held her up against a wall behind her. "You bloody snake." I sneered at her as she struggles to get my hand off her.

Hayley came up next to me and pulled me off of Freya. "What is it?" She asked me as I stare menacingly at Freya.

"The only reason Dahlia is so bloody powerful is because of you." I said and Hayley looked at Freya. "She's channeling you."

Freya glanced down acting in pure shock like she didn't know. "This whole time you've been helping her." Hayley said her voice threatening.

"I had no idea. She must have found me." Freya excuses as she breathes heavily and shakily. "She wants to turn you against me."

"Get away from my husband." Hayley said and pushed Freya away from Jackson.

"Stop." Rebekah said and pulled Hayley away from Freya.

"I think it be best if you leave before I change my mind." I said.

"No, please. You have to believe me, I'm on your side." Freya begs.

"You said it yourself. You are bonded to Dahlia. I won't believe anymore lies you tell. So I'll say it again. Leave while you still have your life to think about." I said.

Freya stares at me with glossy eyes before leaving the Compound entirely.

~~~

Freya came back after meeting Dahlia out in the streets and told us she was going after Klaus and Mikael at St. Anne's Church. Mikael I could care less of but I won't let Nik get hurt while she is around. So me, Elijah, and Freya went to the church to stop her.

Freya walked out to altar. "Enough." She said making Dahlia look over her shoulder and stop using her magic to torture Mikael who, and Klaus, was very grey in the skin with veins.

"My Freya. You do realize that this so-called family of yours is simply using you for your power." Dahlia said.

"No. You are the one who used me. For a thousand years. No more." Freya said as she walks closer to Dahlia.

Dahlia thrusts her hand out to Freya. "So be it." She yelled out as Freya starts to choke.

"No!" Mikael screams and rushed over to Dahlia with a broken wooden stake in his hand. Mikael stabs her making her distracted from choking Freya out and she trips over the steps bringing Mikael down with her. "Stay away from my daughter."

I quickly speed over to Nik who was still temporarily dead. I bit into my wrist and held it to Nik's mouth and he immediately bites into it. Heat rose to my face as Nik drunk my blood and he gently let go of my wrist while staring up at my face looking at how red my cheeks were getting but I looked away.

I help him up to his feet as I watch Dahlia pull the stake out from her abdomen. "Don't you know... I'm too powerful to kill?" She said as she gets up and then throws the stake away from her.

Elijah rushed to her but Dahlia immediately sent him back.

I look at her just as she looks at me. I let out a shaky breath before I start to use my power to take her down and she does the same. The air between us became thick as she tries to hurt me. Lights popped out from inside the church and the wind blew through from out of no where.

Blood started to leak from our nose as no one went to take a knee, but I finally got her to go down but she quickly stood up.

I hear a battle scream from behind me and see Klaus jump into the air and is about to land on Dahlia with the knife that's supposed to kill her for good. Just as he was about to reach her she quickly disappears and Nik lands on top of the wooden table that was behind her.

(I have no clue what a witch fight is like)

I let a out a big puff of air as I can now stop using my powers. I drop to the floor on my knees as everything was getting dizzy. I fall onto my shoulder and just as I wanted to go to sleep I feel someone lift my upper body up and put a bloody wrist into my mouth. I gently bit into it and slowly drunk from their wrist. My dizziness went away but that doesn't mean that I'm not tired. I looked up to see Nik behind me and was feeding me his blood. He laid my head on his lap. Dahlia almost pushed me over my limit.

I pull away from Nik's wrist and he helps me stand back on my feet with me leaning against him for a bit.

"We all have weaknesses." I turn around to see Dahlia standing exactly where she was earlier. Dried blood on her mouth but she pretended she was fine. "You came here, united, hoping to exploit mine." Dahlia teleports behind us. "And in doing so, you lost the one thing that you could have used against me." Dahlia holds up the knife that was meant to kill her. "The weapon you created. Now rendered useless." She drops the knife into a stone bowl next to her and it went up in flames.

"No!" Freya yells out as she tries to stop it but knew it was too late.

Dahlia waved her hand and the fire went out. "Now that we're dispensed with that little trinket, perhaps we can focus on the issue at hand. After all, I seek only that which is owed to me, nothing more. Give me the child, and you all may live. Deny me, and, well... you've had a taste of my power. I can't imagine you hunger for more." She said then she teleports away.

~~~

We came back to the Conpund in defeat as we have failed in killing Dahlia. Me and Nik sat at the bar here and he poured me a glass of his blood so I could feel better and it was magically working. I am starting to feel like myself again but I think a good night rest is in need for my me and my mentality.

"Well, that sounds like a bloody fiasco. Where's Dahlia now?" Rebekah asked us as she and Elijah walk in the room with the rest of us.

"She could be anywhere," Elijah said as he stares down his father who was standing by Freya's side. "Wasn't a trace of her at the church."

"She's done with us for the night. No doubt she wants us to take some time to wallow in our defeat." Freya said.

I'm all for letting Freya help us again to kill Dahlia but she is still being channeled by her and it just doesn't sit well with me.

"Defeat? I disagree." Nik said as he gulps down the last of his drink and walks towards the Father Daughter duo. "We saw her face, we took her measure. If that's the best she's got, quite frankly, I'm unimpressed."

"Her aim was not to impress us. She wanted us to reveal our sole weapon. And like fools, we did." Mikael said as he stares straight at Nik.

"Am I hearing things, or did Nik just exchange words with our father?" Rebekah said from Elijah's side. This honestly makes me smile because it really is a cold day in hell if these two are actually talking to each other without threatening one another.

"Rebekah. I'd know that wicked tongue anywhere. What mischief have you gotten yourself into now? No doubt the bastard's doing." Mikael said as he stares at the body Rebekah inhabits.

"Enough. My patience, like this farce of a reunion, is at an end." Klaus said as he walks back to my side.

"Agreed." Elijah said and walked up to his father. "There really is only one question here. What exactly are we doing?"

"This was not my plan. You rushed it and made but a single weapon. Of course she took it from you. And now we've lost what advantage we had and used up the very materials we needed to kill her." Freya said.

"Go blame someone else around here, and you have no room to talk since you are still being channeled by Dahlia. She's too powerful to get inside that psycho's head of hers. And please, we can still get the resource we need to kill her. Not everything have disappeared a thousand years ago." I said shutting her up. She acts so powerful when she stands next to her father but once he is gone she is like a crying little bitch.

"Let's take stock, shall we? First thing first, your blood, which we can easily get." I let my hybrid face come out for a bit before turning back to normal. "Norwegian soil I can easily obtain from my fellow witches out in the world. And I think I'm missing something here, oh yes, the ashes of Dahlia's Viking oppressors." I said looking at Mikael for the last one.

"Only priceless relics gotten with great difficulty at a museum. Lost due to your worthless strategies." Mikael yells out.

Klaus speeds over to him and push him up against a wall behind him with a white oak barely an inch inside his chest. "No." Freya said as she is about to stop Klaus from killing her father but me and Elijah hold her back.

"If I feel even the faintest touch of your magic, Freya, I will end him with a flick of my wrist." Klaus threatens her before looking back at Mikael. "You don't seem surprised."

"Betrayal is in your nature, boy." Mikael said with a voice full of hate.

"No. I wasn't born like this. Her, you fight for. Lovely Freya, the daughter you barely know. Yet there was a time when you knew me... as your son. A time before all the disappointments, the revelations of betrayal. There were moments when all you had to do was be my father. And even then, you despised me, didn't you?" Klaus said his voice raising a bit after every sentence. "I want to know why." Nik asked him his voice cracking.

I can't see his face but I can hear the sadness as he speaks and I unconsciously let go of Freya. "I don't know." Mikael said as he stares back at Nik with a blank face. His was getting glossy. "I just did."

This is sad. Mikael had no absolute reason for putting Klaus in pain all his life and practically hunt him down for the next thousand years. "Are those your final words?" Nik asked him once he pulls himself together but I know he is extremely heartbroken by Mikael's answer.

I see Mikael look behind Nik to stare at Freya. "Freya... I'm so sorry. I love—" Nik pushes the stake all the way in Mikael's heart cutting him off. "No!" Freya screams out. Mikael groans out and lift his hand up in the air as he falls down on his knees, his skin growing grey with the obvious veins showing up letting us know he is dead. Mikael's body went up in flames since he was an Original.

Klaus turns back towards his family. "Viking ash is indeed rare. But all you really need is a burning Viking corpse." He said and walks past a crying Freya.

Freya got up from the floor and went to attack Klaus but Elijah held her back. Klaus grabbed my hand and pulled us up into our room.

The room was quiet and I immediately started to worry, but then I remember that Hayley was supposed to be going to the new place that is magic free. I wonder if she took my kids with her as well.

I called her phone and she picked up after two rings. "Hello?" Hayley said through the phone.

"Hayley did you take my kids with you to that magic free place?" I asked her.

"Yeah."

"Why? I can protect them here."

"I know but I figured that you would be busy trying to help Klaus and Elijah kill Dahlia."

"Oh, well okay then. Make sure you don't leave their side. Oh, and make sure you watch Nicholas and Hunter. Nicholas likes to throw hissy fits when he don't get his way and Hunter likes to sneak away when no one is looking." I told her.

"Thanks. I'll talk to you soon." Hayley quickly hung up before I get to say goodbye.

She sounded jumpy but I'm not gonna push it.