Chapter Seventy: The Five Returns

Hayley's POV: After Nik and Elijah explained everything they left and the only thing I could think about is how the hell I was going to keep Matt and Jenny safe from all this, from the monsters and people who want to hurt me by hurting them. I needed to keep them safe from, from me! I needed a place for them, a safe house, to keep out the vampires so that they can't get inside, even me. And in order to keep the vampires out I'd put the house in Jenny's name and tell her and Matt about vampires. It's the only way, but I'm going to wait until tomorrow because right now we had a Clarissa problem that needed to be dealt with...

Elijah's POV: Hayley came over to our house, even though we just left hers, with a fierce and demanding look! I asked her what was wrong, she said that we needed to find Clarissa now, but not not to capture her, to talk to her! So I got Niklaus and Kaylee and we all went to the ghost town where Clarissa was...

Hayley's POV: We got to the town and Elijah immediately knew where she was, he said that she always had a high maintenance policy even while she was human and that made it obvious when we saw a huge abandoned mansion. Well was abandoned, there were people running all over the place, probably working for Clarissa. We all got to the doors easily, Clarissa must've wanted us there otherwise she probably would've had better security staff. We walked in and that's when I saw her, the original doppelgänger! She looked exactly like me, but with a little more fire. She wore dark makeup and clothing and her dark black hair, exactly the color of mine, was worn in tight curls. She was even more beautiful than I thought, no wonder Elijah and Nik were attracted to me, anybody who looked like her was just beautiful and now I realize that. Apparently Nik and Elijah both loved her equally, and she loved them equally too. But only Elijah got a shot with her, not Nik, I think that's why he was so worried about me being around Elijah. Anyway, we walked back to where she sat awaiting us. She started talking, saying that she's here to protect me, protect me from someone named Syran. She said that Syran wants any, and all vampires dead! Clarissa then showed us all a book, it was a book about a special kind of person called a Hunter, a vampire hunter! Someone who will stop at nothing until the vampire species was extinct for good, but you are chosen to be a Hunter, and once you are, it's an instinct to kill vampires. They mostly look for the vampire doppelgänger, and that's why Clarissa is here, Syran is coming for both of us since we're both vampires! And we need to protect each other until he's dead if we both want to stay alive. But this didn't seem shocking to Elijah or Nik, they knew something...

Elijah's POV: Hayley looked at Niklaus and I, she knew we knew something. She asked us and told us not to lie, we'd never want her to know the horrors that lie within a Hunter, but now we didn't have a choice but to tell her now that there was one coming to Saint Falls looking for all of our heads! I told her all about Hunters, how they won't stop until their supernatural destiny is completed! Hunters are indeed supernatural because when you are chosen you get a special mark, the Hunters mark, and it makes you stronger and faster, not as much as a vampire, but very close! The mark looks of a birthmark, but it's got a circle with a special carving of five swords, originally given to the brotherhood of the Five which Katerina, Niklaus, Tatia and I faced over 400 years ago. The part of our past that Hayley didn't know. Anyway, the Five was the original group of Hunters, but once one of them dies, their legacy is reborn into a different person of their choice. And once the person that is chosen dies their legacy carries on and so fourth. I mentioned the Hunters curse, when a vampire kills a Hunter, they have a curse of hallucination of the one they killed haunting them until the new Hunter of that deceased takes on his first vampire, then the curse is gone. This, however, is the first Hunter any of us have come across in since we killed the original brotherhood over four centuries ago! I told Hayley, Clarissa and Kaylee that. They were all shocked, but now it was time to stop with the stories and go home, along with Clarissa...