9 Chapter Nine- Broken
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/Mystic Falls/summer/1001/
"Hello everyone...it's good to be back"
Immediately Henrik said that, he was submerged in a group hug from Rebekah, Elijah, kol, and Finn. He really did miss them but he couldn't help but feel choked up because of their enhanced strength
"Ok, bloody hel! Are you all trying to send me back from whence I came?! I can't breathe!"
Although he knew he was stronger than they where, from the knowledge he had gotten about his physique, still he was only just recovering.
After that intense hug, they gave in chuckling over his remark. He was finally given a chance to see his mother, who stood silently behind them at the door, her eyes moist with tears. Finally, her child had awakened.
'but what must have happened to him'
She thought during the whole time, until she finally saw her son just an arm's length away from her. She could no longer hold the tears from spilling
"Henrik...you finally came to....I thought we lost you"
"I thought so too. But here I am"
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After everyone had settled their emotions from the awaited recovery of their brother and son, they finally came to their senses and they finally gave Henrik the time he deserved to rest, of which he relinquished stating that he wanted to be brought to date after the long term 'sleep' he had.
"How long was I asleep?"
"It had been 14 days since the turning, Henrik..after stabilizing you, during that time, I did the same thing for your siblings and father....we found out they became nightwalkers"
That brought a frown to his face, he never expected that one of his other side would have such description. Seeing the expression on his face, Finn decided to step in " It means we have difficulty in moving under the sun, Henrik, we get burned."
'that's not good. But wait...'
"You guys where outside when I heard your footsteps coming to meet me. It's daylight, so why were you not burnt?" This time, Esther decided to continue
"That's because I countered the weakness with a ring. I called it daylight ring. I had made yours even while you slept, hoping you would wake when the time came." She had stood up while explaining, for her to bring his daylight ring.
Moments later, she returns with a little box. She opens it, exposing a dark emerald jade ring, and giving it for him to wear.
He places the beautiful ring on his left middle finger. It fitted perfectly. He loved it.
" Thank you , mother"
Eager to test it, he stood up and headed towards the front door. Pausing briefly and hoping it worked , he took his first step, and the second and the third.
Nothing happened, he remained complete. Arms spread and head raised, he basked himself in the sun, feeling the rays warming his body.
They watched him silently as he took his time to enjoy himself. Whatever he must have gone through must have been difficult, of which they decided not to ask yet, now that there was enough time, they would wait.
A little longer, they saw the figure of Mikael from afar. Ever since the incident with Henrik, he had become distant from the family.
When Henrik saw him, he wanted to move towards him, but he paused seeing the expression of loss on his face...
"Father?"
Realizing he had been lost in thoughts, again, Mikael reacted towards the voice. He was shocked enough to had stopped moving. Not expecting that the day Henrik would come back so soon. It was a good news entirely.
"Henrik?..it really is you!"
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Few days had passed since Henrik woke up. He had come to accept his reality.
On one fateful morning, he woke up to find out that he had tattoos of weird design around his arms, shoulders, and torso. It was a tattoo of an ancient language drawn as a line.
They were runes
(A/N: just imagine sukuna from jujutsu kaisen except for the tattoo on his face)
He immediately knew what they were. After all, he saw it when he touched the bark of the world tree. He had already planned on understanding what he had glimpsed from the world tree. Luckily for him, it was a good form of magic and he absolved as much as he could. Of all the kinds of magic he saw, runes where what he focused on.
It may not have been more than a few minutes between when he placed his hands on the world tree to when he was pushed out of the plane, but the things he absorbed felt like a century had passed to him. This was one of the reasons he believed had made him mature.
Right now, he felt he was a century old in mind and spirit than his physical body, he had hope that this would not affect him for a while now and seeing this runes etched on his body, he became relief as it had finally help in the perfect harmonization of his being. He felt reborn.
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Another two days had passed, something drastic had happened.
Elijah had come home with his lover, dead. He found out that Esther was around and hoping that she would help but she later confirmed that Tatia had been dead before he came home.
Hearing this, Elijah felt devastated and seeing him like that Esther promised to help him with the situation.
She made him forget, forget that he had killed his own lover, unknown to them this had created a mind space which became a place where all the horrible actions Elijah will commit to be hidden there.
The red door.
Meanwhile, Esther had collected the blood of Tatia, who can be described as the first doppelganger of one of the first immortals unknown to the others.
More problem came up, when Mikael found out that Klaus, whom he had called his son, was not his son, after realizing what he had done to four villagers. Esther had confessed that he was the son of the village chief and head of the werewolves pack, Ansel.
In his rage, Mikael went into the village on rampage killing everyone he saw. When Henrik who was there witnessing his father's action he tried to stop him and in the process one of the werewolves stabbed him with a blade. Remembering the night of his 'death' caused by one of the members of pack, he lost his control and achieved his first kill. In his bloodlust, he killed enough by draining them of their blood but because of strong will over the cause of his purgatory he was able to restrain himself but it was already too late.
His father had killed so many and looking through the field he found his lover too, Gwendolyn, lifeless. Angered by the loss, he turned to his father from rage but Mikael proved himself a viking hunter so Henrik was overpowered. After their little bout, Mikael decided to pursue Ansel who had slipped during the chaos.
Still in loss and depression, Henrik returned home only to be met with another devastating news. Esther, his mother had died.
According to Klaus, his father had done it. Remembering what he had seen earlier, he believed. Wanting to see his mother one last time, he went to where she laid lifeless. In grief, he had transformed into his phantom form for the first time. Trying as much as he could to contain his flames he had scotched the area where she was, her body had turned to ash.
At that time, his siblings had watched him transform, worried, they had rushed towards him, save Klaus, who felt jealousy and anger in his heart, for the witch had sealed his other half while his brother was free.
Soon they had all concluded to flee from their father, Mikael. While they prepared moving, Henrik had taken most of his mother's belongings (especially a newly sealed jar of which he had no idea but he knew it was important), something to make him feel closer to her, because with everything that had happened on this day....
He felt broken.
