If We Had Met First

Chapter Thirty One

            “So what exactly do I have to do with the curse of the sun and the moon?” Elena asked.

            They were sitting just around the back of the school, Elijah had wanted to go somewhere more private but Elena refused to go anywhere farther than this. She didn’t trust the well dressed man with the mysterious accent and she certainly wouldn’t let him take her somewhere isolated.

            “It has everything to do with you, in fact it was created to make finding you easier.” Elijah said.

            “That doesn’t make any sense, why would a curse that makes sun lethal to vampires and binds werewolves to the moon be created centuries ago because of me?” Elena asked, thanks to Mason she knew the basics of what the curse entailed.

            Elijah chuckled like she had just told a joke, “it surprised even me how the werewolves and vampires immediately believed the legend. They actually believed that the reason for the sun burning vampires and the moon controlling the wolves was because of the Aztecs.”

            “So that’s not the reason?”

            “Of course not, the Aztecs didn’t even know about werewolves or vampires.” Elijah replied smirking slightly.

            Elena narrowed her eyes, “can you stop talking like I’m supposed to know exactly what you are talking about and just tell me what I need to know already?”

            “During the middle ages a witch was in danger of losing her family, they lived in a village full of natives that transformed into wolves every full moon. One morning after the full moon she discovered that while out of the safety of their home her youngest son had been killed by one of the beasts. This enraged her family and they wanted to avenge his death but the natives were stronger than they were. While trying to find a way to protect her family she came across a spell that would make them stronger, faster and deadlier than the natives as well as grant them immortality. Fueled by grief she performed the spell on her husband and children and used the blood of a woman two of her sons had been pursuing. Her name was Tatia, and was the first of the Petrova doppelgangers.

            When the children awoke with their new powers they used it to take revenge on the natives who had killed their brother. This ignited a feud between the werewolves and vampires. However the next full moon the third eldest son named Niklaus went through the transformation that plagued the natives that they hadn’t yet killed. The curse was triggered after he took his first life and exposed what his mother had done. Before he had been born she had an affair with one of the villagers who had passed the werewolf gene to his son. In an effort to right this wrong she placed a curse on her son that made his werewolf side dormant. She performed this spell using what blood she had left from Tatia.

            Enraged when he discovered her betrayal her husband first killed the villager that was Niklaus’s father and then moved on to kill his wife. However before he could move on to kill Niklaus he fled with his siblings. Once they were well hidden he began to try and discover a way to undo the spell his mother had cast. A witch told him and his siblings who stayed loyal to him that in order to break the curse, he needed a witch to perform the ceremony, the moonstone that was used to bind the curse, a werewolf to sacrifice, a vampire to sacrifice and then to drain the blood of the Petrova doppelganger to the point of her death. It would not be difficult to procure a witch, werewolf and a vampire but the moonstone had been lost as was Tatia’s bloodline.

            It would take too long and be near impossible for them to find both by searching the world on their own so the eldest brother devised a plan. Together they created the sun and the moon as well as many other curses which they planted throughout the world. They stated that in order for werewolves to be able to transform freely and vampires to walk in the sun, the moonstone and Petrova doppelganger were needed.”