The Hybrid

*AGE CHANGE FROM 12 to 14; Birthday no longer on Founder's Day*

Emma walked silently behind Klaus and Stefan as they ventured through the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. Stefan had Ray's body slumped over his shoulders, the werewolf still covered in dried blood. She couldn't look at Stefan without being reminded of the haunting news report she saw earlier that morning.

"Whether suicide or a tragic accident, WKPW News has lost one of its shining stars. Daily reporter and weekend anchor Andie Star was discovered dead this morning by local sheriff deputies..."

She knew, without a doubt, that it was Stefan that killed Andie the night before. She didn't think he would go this far. Yeah, he said he had to make sure Damon stayed away, but to kill Andie, who was innocent, was too far.

"You okay? Is Ray getting heavy?" Klaus teased, looking over at Stefan with an amused face.

"I'm fine." Stefan breathed out.

Klaus tilted his head back. "And what about you, love? We've been walking for quite some time now."

Emma glared up at Klaus. "Peachy." Though, she had to admit she was getting tired and the sun beating down on her was not making it comfortable.

"You sure? If you need some water or a little sit-down-"

"Stop acting like you care, Klaus." Emma pointed out, stepping over a small fallen tree trunk. She huffed and looked up at towards the sky. "Are we almost done searching for werewolves? We've been looking for them all summer and only found one."

"Thanks to our pal Ray, we found ourselves a pack." Klaus said, just as the trio, plus Ray, came across a large group of people in a camp site.

Emma hesitantly followed Stefan and Klaus into the camp. The werewolves in the camp eyed the intruders suspiciously. Stefan advanced ahead of the other two and set Ray's body down on the leaf covered ground. A brunette with short hair shot forward.

"Ray! Oh, my god." She knelt next to Ray's body. "What is happening?" she asked, looking up at Stefan.

"The more important question is who I am." Klaus announced, gaining everyone's attention. "Please for give the intrusion. My name is Klaus."

A guy from the pack came up to the girl and helped her up.

"You're the hybrid." the girl said.

Klaus smirked. "You've heard of me. Fantastic." He walked forward, to a log, and sat down, gazing down at Ray. As he got closer, the other werewolves backed up. "It's fascinating, actually," Klaus began, as Emma and Stefan sat down with him. "A werewolf who isn't beholden to the moon, a vampire who doesn't burn in the sun. A true hybrid."

All of a sudden, Ray sat up with a gasp, making Emma jump a little in surprise. He took in his surroundings and turned to see Klaus smiling down at him.

"Excellent timing, Ray." Klaus said. "Very dramatic."

"What's happening to me?" Ray asked, breathing unevenly. Emma guessed he was in transition.

Klaus looked over at the other vampire. "Stefan."

Stefan nodded and got up from the log. "Is anyone here human? Your friend here needs human blood to complete his transition to vampire."

Emma shifted uncomfortably as Ray's eyes landed on her. Ray inched towards her, only to be stopped by a firm hand.

Stefan knelt next to Ray. "Off limits."

"Doesn't take much, just a sample." Klaus pushed. He got up from the log as well to look at all the werewolves. "Anyone? A boyfriend, a girlfriend along for the ride?"

Emma noticed the girl's eyes from before flicker to the guy who helped her up. And sadly, Klaus had picked up on it.

"You." he said to the guy. He vamped forward and bit down on the guy's arm, his screams filling the air.

Klaus pushed the guy to the ground for Stefan to pin him down. The girl's eyes changed to gold and tried to get to him, but Klaus was quick to stop her.

Stefan held the guy's arm out to Ray. "If you don't drink it, I will. Problem is I don't know how to stop."

Klaus smiled down at the girl. "It's the new order, sweetheart. You join us, or you die."

The girl glared at the original vampire. "I'd rather die than be a vampire."

"Wrong choice." Klaus whispered, veins forming around his eyes. He bit down on his wrist and forced the poor girl to drink his blood, just as Ray drank from the guy's arm. Klaus patted the girl's head after she was done. "She'll thank me for that later." he said, snapping her head.

Klaus licked his fingertips. "Okay, who's next?"

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Emma stood hunched over behind a tree, gagging from the awful smell of the dead werewolves. After Ray drank the human guy's blood, Klaus proceeded to force the other werewolves to drink his blood and then killed them. She would usually leave when it came to the killing part, but she had no where to go since they have finally found a werewolf pack. What made things worse, the smell wasn't contained in a building and it was overwhelmingly hot outside. It was truly unbearable for the girl.

She used her arm to wipe her mouth and she had to close her eyes to keep herself from throwing up again. Emma looked back at the middle of the camp to see Klaus standing over the human guy, more like human blood bag. She would be lying if she didn't think Klaus would use her to feed Ray and the others. He could easily keep her alive by just feeding her his blood to help her heal and regain the blood she lost like he was doing with the guy.

Emma turned away and walked over to another tree to sit down. She hated this. She hated being responsible for these innocent people to lose their lives. Before the trio had ventured out to the middle of the woods, Klaus had Emma use her powers to find where their camp was. It was her fault.

Suddenly, Klaus had vamped in front of Emma, grabbing her by the neck, standing her up, and slamming her back against the tree trunk.

"Why didn't you see it?" he growled, his eyes narrowed at the young girl.

Emma tried to pull his hands off her neck, but he wouldn't let go. "W-hat?" Emma managed to say.

Klaus growled and vamped them over to where Stefan was with Ray sitting on the log. He shoved her down to the dirt ground and pointed at Ray. "Why didn't you get a vision about that?!" he yelled.

Emma followed the direction of his finger to see Ray shaking as if it was cold out with blood flowing out of his eyes like tears. She gasped as she picked herself up, ignoring the broken pieces of dried leaves on her palms.

"What's happening to him?" she asked, turning her gaze toward Stefan.

"I don't know, Emma." Klaus said. "How about you tell m-"

"Whoa, whoa." Emma turned and glared at the original. "Don't pin this problem on me. I didn't do this."

Klaus vamped right in front of Emma and glowered down at her, making her shrink back inwardly. "I brought you along because I believed you were going to be an asset to me. You are useless to me if you can't use your powers right."

"It doesn't work like that!" Emma exclaimed, backing away from him. "When you wanted me to find this place, all I needed to do was focus on a location, not what was going to happen when we got here. And some of the visions I get are random, I don't know when they're going to happen. So, don't. Pin this. On. Me." she declared, her fists clenched at her sides.

Klaus didn't say anything and moved to stand next to Ray. It was either because he couldn't think of anything to counter her argument and believed what she had said or he was too angry and frustrated to keep talking. Silence fell over them as they watched Ray continue to shake violently.

"You said it was going to feel better." Ray said moments later. "Why doesn't it feel better?" He looked up at Klaus for an answer, but the original shifted his gaze away.

"Some master race." Stefan joked, leaning against a tall thin tree. He earned a glare from Klaus.

Just then, the girl from earlier woke up with a gasp. She looked around, confused.

"Derek, come feed your girlfriend." Klaus ordered, the human blood bag standing up. Klaus was about to bite down on the guy's arm when Ray growled and sped away from the camp. "Go get him." Klaus said to Stefan, still holding Derek.

Stefan hesitated for a moment before going after the newly born hybrid. Emma watched as Klaus dragged Derek over to his girlfriend and forced her to drink his blood. He let her drink for a little bit and pushed her back.

"Emma, watch them while I go check on Stefan." he said, dragging Derek away from the girl and disappearing from sight.

Emma stood with her arms crossed, watching the girl hug her kneels on the floor. She wanted to say something, to try to comfort the girl, but she couldn't think of anything. What exactly do you say to someone who was forced to become a hybrid and on top of that have to drink the blood from your boyfriend to stay alive? The weather?

The poor girl started to shake and Emma was shocked to see her eyes start to bleed just like Ray. And to make matters worse, all the other werewolves Klaus killed were starting to wake up. Emma looked around at all of them, seeing them hold their heads or groan from the sunlight. She heard footsteps and turned to see Klaus return to the camp, with a satisfied look on his face upon seeing his creations come to life. Though, he failed to notice the girl have the same symptoms like Ray.

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The sun had finally set and Klaus made Emma start a fire. It wasn't difficult, thankfully, but she was annoyed he made her do it. Like he did with Ray and the other girl, Klaus made Derek go around the camp and had all the hybrids feed off of the guy's blood. Emma wished she could help him somehow, but he was under compulsion and Klaus would kill her. When Derek was done feeding everyone, minus Emma of course, Klaus ordered him to come back to the original.

"Bad news, my friend." Klaus began, patting Derek's shoulder. Keeping his hand on his shoulder, Klaus turned Derek around to face him. "End of the road for you." He bit down on Derek's neck and drank the rest of his blood.

"You didn't need to kill him." Emma commented as Derek's body hit the ground. "You could've compelled him to forget everything he knew about the supernatural and send him on his way."

Klaus chuckled. "Where's the fun in that?" he said, earning a disgusted look from Emma. He saw the hybrid girl limp over in his direction, her face covered in blood. "Careful, love. There's only one alpha here."

She didn't say anything, only standing still with an absent look in her eyes. It seemed to Emma that Klaus finally took notice to all the hybrids bleeding from their eyes.

"Bloody hell." he said frustratedly.

They all walked around like zombies, slow and in no direction. One of the hybrids near Emma was walking in her direction. She moved out of the way to let them go by, but she saw that he was following her. Fear instantly filled her body as the hybrid's eyes changed color and he bared his teeth at her. She yelped when the hybrid pounced on her, making her fall to the ground with him on top of her. He didn't have time to cause her any harm, thanks to Klaus vamping over and snapping the guy's neck.

Emma was breathing heavily as she looked at the hybrid's limp body on the floor. It took her by surprise when she saw a hand in front of her face, realizing it was Klaus'. She looked up to see him staring at her, waiting for her to take his hand. Reaching up, she took it and Klaus lifted her up to her feet.

"Thanks." she muttered, brushing dirt off of her legs.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a hybrid fall to the ground, followed by two more hybrids. Her eyebrows furrowed in confusion as a few more fell as well. She heard multiple sounds of growls and hissing coming all around the two of them. She feared that they might attack like the other hybrid. Klaus thought the same thing and vamped to every single one of them, either snapping their necks or ripping their hearts out.

Emma sat on the log in front of the fire pit and covered her ears, keeping her gaze on the small patch of grass next to her hiking shoes. She didn't have enough time to search for her headphones. Thankfully, she didn't need to stay like that for long because Klaus was sitting next to her in a matter of seconds.

She slowly uncovered her ears and looked up. It saddened her to see all of the hybrids dead and it made her angrier towards Klaus. He did this to these innocent people, forcing them to be in his hybrid army to what? Strike fear in people? People are already scared of him, so he's already done a good job for 1,000 years.

Her attention turned to just ahead of her where she saw Stefan join them with Ray on his back. He set Ray down with a grunt and then looked around the camp, shocked.

"They went rabid." Klaus said, taking one of the beer bottles. "Some of them, I killed. The others just. . . bled out." He got up from the log, walking forward a couple steps. "In the end, they're all dead." Klaus let out a yell, throwing the bottle against a tree stump near by.

Emma flinched at the sound of the glass breaking. Some of the beer got on her arm, but she made no move to wipe it off. She was worried he might kill her just from lifting a finger.

"I did everything I was told!" Klaus shouted, frustration evident in his voice. "I should be able to turn them. I broke the curse. I killed a werewolf. I killed a vampire. I killed the doppelganger."

What he said made Emma and Stefan glance at each other. Klaus was silent for too long, and she feared he might come to the conclusion that Elena never died. Klaus looked at Emma and then at Stefan.

"You look like hell." Klaus commented about Stefan's appearance.

Emma looked over at the vampire and saw that he was out of breath and sweating a lot. It was then she saw the werewolf bit on his left arm. "Did Ray bite you?!" Emma asked, getting up from the log and grabbing Stefan's arm to examine the wound.

"Yeah. I had to take him out." Stefan said, looking down at Ray's body. "I didn't have a choice. I failed you."

Emma looked up at Stefan, not sure if he meant what he said or just saying it to change the subject so that Klaus wouldn't think more about the hybrid problem.

"I'm sorry." Stefan continued, tearing his arm out of Emma's grip and standing in front of Klaus. "Do what you have to do."

Emma's eyes widened. Was Stefan asking for a death wish?

"It should have worked." Klaus said, still angry.

He walked back to the log and grabbed an empty beer bottle, staring at Stefan. A wave of relief washed over Emma when Klaus bit down on his hand and let his blood drip down in the bottle. He held the bottle out to Stefan.

"Bottoms up." he said, Stefan taking the bottle somewhat skeptically. "We're leaving." Klaus began to walk away, but he stopped mid-step. He looked at all the lifeless bodies on the ground. "It seems you're the only comrades I have left." he said before walking off.

Emma stared after him. For some odd reason, she felt sorry for the guy. Now, it wasn't that she felt this way because his master plan to create a hybrid army and take over the world went wrong. It was that he was all along. He had no one besides Stefan and herself, even though they were with him because he threatened the lives of everyone they love. He also had really bad trust issues. All of his family members were stored away in coffins, impaled with daggers in their chests. All because they most likely disagreed with Klaus. 

Stefan chugged the blood that Klaus put in the beer bottle and tossed it on the ground. He looked over to where Klaus disappeared before turning to face Emma. He opened his mouth but hesitated.

He sighed and nodded his head towards Klaus' direction. "Let's go." he said, walking off.

She could tell he was holding something back from her. If only he would tell her.

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Things. Are. Heating. Up. I'm excited to write more chapters because I am on spring break for 2 weeks so be prepared.

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