Chapter 32

Chapter 32

An Attack

I was meeting with the tomb vampires. Over the past few days, they adapted quickly to the modern world. Though they still had a far way to go, a few had even started finding properties in the area to live in though most still remained in the large house that Anna acquired. I was there to deliver the first batch of daylight rings, only five of them at the moment. I could have made more, but I wanted to see what those who got them would do.

"So Pearl, now you have the first daylight rings, I would recommend you slowly start moving your vampires in. Though you still should be careful, the towns' vervain may have been destroyed, but we both know that is not the only way to hunt us," I said. Pearl and the other ancient vampires had met with me to discuss my future plans and I was quite glad she thought to include the other older vampires.

"We will do, a few of our number have adapted to the modern world exceptionally and we plan to send them in first. I have also instructed to try to fit in, getting jobs and trying to blend in for now" she responded in her regal accent.

"Good, then onto the next few things that need doing. First, I would recommend that you have your vampires train their combat skills, their speed and their strength. As unknown to a lot of our species, we do get stronger the more we use our abilities, and it would be a good idea for your group to get as strong as possible," I said, explaining what I had discovered.

"I admit that I did not know that we could get stronger through training, but now I do, I will definitely have my subordinates start training", she responded. "Well now onto the second thing, the Lockwood family can not be compelled, as they are werewolves. You and those with you are old enough to know that they are quite the threat. So I would recommend staying away from them" I said, not mentioning that most of the Lockwoods have not triggered the curse as of yet. "I will make sure that we stay away from them, werewolf bites could be a problem, one we don't need to deal with," Pearl agreed.

"Good, the last thing is to do with Elena Gilbert, Caroline Forbes and Bonnie Bennet, they and there families are under my protection. Any vampire that even looks at them the wrong way will die by my hand, make sure yours know this above all else," I said, making sure that Pearl knew just how serious I was. "I had assumed you were protecting them, and I have already told my vampires not too go near them. Elena though she is a doppelganger, right?" she asked. "Yes, she is", I answered without going further into it. "Now that all that is done, I must leave. I have other things to attend to. Have a good day", I said before leaving.

I walked through town heading back home, a slight chill was in the air as darkness had started to fall upon the town. It seemed as though most of the tomb vampires would be loyal which I was glad about. The last thing I needed was to have to fight a war for Mystic Falls, I would win, of course, but the damage that they could inflict could be catastrophic.

The next thing to do now is to remove the mayor, having any werewolves around is not something I wanted, even inactive ones. But for now, I would leave the rest of the Lockwoods alone, but the mayor was a threat mainly because he was in the founding family's vampire-hunting group.

The town was busy, more than usual, as the town was throwing a party for the founders' day. Apparently, they throw every year on the anniversary of the town's founding. So the town was completely alive, the main square completely packed with families enjoying the

[party.

At

](http://party.At) the centre of the square lay a large stage, where mayor Lockwood would make a speech about the town and it's history. This was where I would make my strike, with just a small amount of magic, I would kill the mayor with a single painless action. The only problem and the only reason I had to do this in public was that I needed to be able to see my target.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the familiar face of Rose walking towards me. "This is quite nice, small compared to some of the parties we have been to, but it's nice," she said while coming to lean on my side. "It is, they do this every year, to show pride in the towns history. They even have a museum at the town hall, it shows artefacts from the towns past", I responded, wrapping my arm around her.

"We should go see what they have there, perhaps we could learn something" she said while looking over at the gathering crowds. "Definitely, I want to at the least see of any of those artefacts are of the magical variety, the town has had alot of witches inhabit it over the years. If they do have any, then they may find them lost," I whispered into her ear, gaining a small laugh from her.

"We should go now, then, we still have a few hours until the mayor gives his speech, so we have plenty of time", she said, starting to lead us away. We walked to the town hall, the giant building looming in the main street, standing as a monument to the town's history.

I walked through with Rose at my side, examining the many historical displays, art depicting the first of the town's buildings, the first settlers and many other things. They were not truly of interest to me, though; no, it was the physical artefacts that interested me. There were many of them, several rings, necklaces and other such jewellery filled many tables, making the quiet voice in my head that I gained when I killed the dragon call out to me to take them and hoard them. On other tools used in the building of the town's first homes, one of which had a tinge of magic staining it, a large mallet-like hammer, what the magic on it did, I had no idea, though I would soon enough.

I moved onto the second-to-last display, an entire display of weapons, all of which caught my interest. Many flintlock rifles sat in a row, most in poor condition, except one that was near perfect, probably never used. Out of all the weapons that were there, the ones that drew my interest were a set of five ornate flintlock pistols and a set of daggers. Each of those weapons had inscribed in Latin '**** to all beasts', with the daggers being made of silver and a leather pouch of silver bullets. I assumed they were made for hunting werewolves. As my attention focused on the silver bullets I could smell the strong scent of wolfsbane on them, even centuries after they were no doubt made.

Although I doubted that any of them had spilt the blood of werewolves since Silber does not harm them. In fact, it does the opposite, triggering the wolf's healing factor, the myth that they would cause harm being spread by the wolves themselves. Quite smart really spreading a rumour that one of the things that helps you would harm you.

Perhaps, though, they were made for other 'weres' as I had heard rumour of their existence over the years. Though I had searched, I could never confirm any of those rumours, so they were probably made up by werewolves.

I was interrupted from my thoughts by the familiar voice of Elena, "Mr Mikaelson, I did not think you would be here" she said, drawing my attention. Turning, I saw Elena, Caroline and Jenna walking over to me and Rose. "Yes, we wanted to get out of the house. How are you all?" I responded, matching Elena's cheery tone.

"We are good, thanks", they answered as one. "Jenna, I would like you to meet Rose, my girlfriend" I introduced both of them, both knew of each other and my relationship with each of them. Though I still noticed the slight dirty looks they gave each other. "Nice to meet you," Rose answered, shaking her hand.

"Well, how are you enjoying the party? I helped plan some of it," Caroline asked, breaking the awkward air that had started to build. Thank god for Caroline and her need to have assurance that everything she did was done well. "It's great, Caroline, I had no doubt something this good had your input in it", I said, making sure to compliment the young blonde's work.

"Elena, don't you have a friend called Stefan with a brother called Damon?" Jenna asked while looking at a list of founding family members. "Yes, I do", she said with a slightly panicked tone. "They are the original Salvatore brothers, probably the modern-day ones got their names from", I said, answering any unasked questions.

"We should probably head back outside now, the fireworks display will start soon", Caroline once again spoke up. We all agreed, then started to leave, quickly finding a not-too-crowded place to watch the display.

The fireworks started not too long after and it was actually extremely good. But not long after it started, a pain erupted inside my head. Looking to the side, I noticed Rose was in far more pain than I was. I put my hand on her shoulder to steady her before talking to Elena, Caroline and Jenna "Rose is not feeling too great. We are going to go. I hope you enjoy the rest of the show" I managed to get out through the pain.

I was already moving before they had responded, moving both myself and the near-**** Rose to a quieter area. I did not get far before the pain hit even worse causing me to fall to the ground. Within a couple of moments, a couple of deputies were in front of us, guns drawn, pointed at our hearts. Realising they were not planning to shoot yet, I closed my eyes, pretending to be ****, while carefully wrapping my magic around the gun pointed at Rose's heart. If they tried to shoot, their guns would jam, and it would only take a single action to obliterate them both with magic.

They pulled us up, chucking us into a cop car and driving us towards a building. When we arrived they dragged us out and to the basement of a shop, inside lay many other vampires in a similar condition. No doubt incapacitated in the same way as we had been.

The Gilbert device had to be; in the show, it was used to launch an attack against all the supernaturals in Mystic Falls. Though I doubted that it would be used here as it requires a witch to activate it, Bonnie is the one to activate it in the show. But I doubted she activated it here due to my training her and the loyalty I gained from her for saving her grandmother. That meant another witch had been used by the founding families, one that would not get the chance to cast another spell if I had anything to say about it. That also meant one of the most hated characters in the show had returned and was probably plotting to take over the founding family's vampire-hunting group.