Chapter 11: Fire With Fire

Disclaimer: I only own the mortals and plot. All of the other characters and stories belong to Rick and the CW. Quick AN, I changed the last chapter a little. I made it so that the demigods don't know that Elijah is a Mikaelson or that he knows anything about the dagger.

Rebekah tapped the invisible barrier impatiently. She and Klaus had arrived at the strawberry farm that was supposedly harboring the dagger a few hours ago, but there was a barrier keeping them out. It was like they hadn't been invited into the property, but that's not how invitations work; the house is the thing that requires an invitation, not the surrounding land. She and Klaus spent about an hour and a half walking around the circumference of the truly giant farm looking for a gap in the defense, but there was none. She looked up at the sky. It was beginning to get dark and she was getting really hungry. There were no humans to be seen and the lack of food and Klaus's incessant pacing was making her cranky. Her brother was on the phone with the witch that did the locator spell, but she had no suggestions as to how to get in. Klaus was tightly clutching the phone in his hand, and Rebekah was pretty sure he was about to crush it in frustration.

As Rebekah looked out beyond the border, her phone rang.

Klaus stopped his pacing and looked expectantly at Rebekah. "Well? Aren't you going to answer it?"

Rebekah rolled her eyes at him, but picked up her phone all the same. "Hello?"

It was Elijah's voice that answered her. "I believe I have located the dagger that Niklaus was looking for."

"Really? Where did you find it?" asked Rebekah.

"Well, a more accurate way to put it would be that it found me. Someone used it on me, but that is not the strangest thing that has happened to me since we last spoke."

"Really? Where even are you?"

"A farm in New York called Delphi Strawberry Service."

"That's where Klaus and I are. We located the dagger here, but there is something blocking us from entering."

"That's strange. I am in here with no trouble. Where are you? I'll come find you two."

As Rebekah spoke with Elijah, Klaus continued to obsessively probe the border. The border was like nothing he had ever felt before. Usually with boundary spells and houses he hadn't been invited into, it was like there was a invisible wall keeping him from entering, but this boundary had a little give like if he pushed a little harder on it he could break through it. By the time Klaus returned his attention to his sister's conversation, she had already hung up.

Rebekah shot her brother a confused look. "What are you doing? The boundary isn't just going to go away if you push on it."

Before Klaus could respond, there was a whooshing sound and Elijah appeared before his siblings. Elijah had somehow managed to change his bloodstained shirt and had gotten a little bit of blood from the infirmary to clear up his skin.

After the three siblings embraced, Elijah got right down to business. "I have discovered something unbelievable." He paused for effect before continuing. "The people who undaggered me are, strange, to say the least." He paused once again.

Klaus, who was already annoyed by the border said impatiently, "Stop being dramatic and tell us already!"

Elijah sighed at his brother's lack of patience, but obliged him anyway. "They are demigods."

Klaus burst out laughing. "You really expect me to believe that gods and demigods exist?" Despite his upbringing, Klaus did not believe in any religion except for the one he was part of. "What else is there? Unicorns? Elves?"

"I am speaking truthfully. These people really were demigods," Elijah insisted holding fast in his opinion despite his brother's mockery.

Rebekah had been lightly chuckling with Klaus, but she now looked at Elijah with concern. "How can you be sure? Did they tell you this?" She was quicker to believe than her brother because of her natural optimism and trust in Elijah, but she was still having trouble believing in the existence of demigods of all things. She had been alive for a thousand years. Wouldn't she have run into demigods by now?

While Elijah told his siblings about his meeting with the demigods, Chiron summoned all of the head counselors back to the Big House. Chiron was standing next to the ping pong table examining the dagger as everyone filed in.

"I'm sorry to call you back here again, but I wanted to talk to all of you without Elijah here," Chiron explained. "I have never seen anything like this in all of my years on this earth. It is truly disturbing."

"You have never seen anything like it? Ever?" asked Percy in disbelief. It seemed impossible that Chiron would not have the slightest clue as to what was going on. He always knew everything.

"Maybe it is just part of another mythology, like the Egyptians or the Norse," suggested Annabeth. She was sitting next to Percy on the couch and he was leaning against her. "That would explain why you've never run into something like it before."

Will looked thoughtfully at the dagger. "What mythology would it be from?" He looked around the room as he spoke, but everyone shrugged in response.

"Maybe it's from Chinese mythology," Frank proposed. "My grandmother told me that there were Chinese gods and goddesses still around just like the Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Norse gods and goddesses. There was never anything about magical daggers in the stories my grandmother used to tell me, but Chinese mythology is huge and there have been a lot of different religions in China."

Hazel had been sitting quietly lost in thought while everyone spoke. Something about the image of Elijah with the dagger in his chest seemed familiar. It wasn't 'till Frank mentioned heritage that she figured out why. "I think I've seen something like this before," she said.

"Where? When?" Nico asked. He turned toward his sister as he spoke and furrowed his eyebrows in concern. Losing Bianca had made him a little overprotective to say the least, and he didn't want any unknown entities coming after Hazel even though he knew that she could handle herself.

"In New Orleans, there was a man in an alleyway of the Quarter. He had grey veins all over his skin, and his skin was grey as well, but there wasn't anything sticking out of his chest. I only saw him for a moment before my mother pulled me away, but I'm pretty sure he was dead. He was lying down and not moving. I had forgotten about that day until I saw Elijah today," Hazel said quickly like she was worried someone would stop her from talking.

All of the demigods looked at one another in surprise. What did that to the man and Elijah? What exactly were they up against?

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Klaus was in full blown paranoia mode once Elijah finally managed to convince his siblings that these people were indeed demigods. "Tell me again, what makes so sure that they were not the ones that attacked you?" He spoke in an accusatory tone as if he suspected the demigods of not only attacking his brother, but then also turning Elijah against him.

Rebekah rolled her eyes at her brother's lack of sanity. "Honestly Nik. Just because you found out about them does not mean they are out to get you. I hate to break it to you, but you're not that special."

Klaus sneered at his sister. "If I were to trust anyone's judgement about who was out to get me, it most certainly would not be you. You, sister, are a horrible judge of character." He the resumed his agitated pacing as his brother and sister watched him. The former watched with a mixture of concern and exasperation while the latter watched with anger.

"Oh, and you're much better?" his Rebekah retorted. She tossed her long blonde hair in frustration. "Besides, Elijah didn't even tell them anything about us." She turned to Elijah and he nodded to confirm her statement. "You said that they seemed just as confused when they pulled the dagger out of you. Do you really believe that a group of teenagers that large could all lie flawlessly to one of us, Nik? If they were out to get you, they would have made a move during the thousand years that we have been vampires."

Rebekah's logic began to overcome Klaus's paranoia. Despite what he said earlier, he held her judgement in high esteem. He still did not trust that they were not going to come after him, however. "Elijah, you should stay here. Report back to us. Find out more about these demigods and see if they really are a threat to us. Also, get the dagger back as soon as possible," Klaus commanded. "Rebekah, inform Kol about these demigods and see if he can get a witch to help us through this bloody 'anti-monster' boundary. That is, if your school work allows you time to do so," he added mockingly. He, like Kol, found it ridiculous that Rebekah had gone back to school. Her excuse of hunters keeping her from attending graduation in Mystic Falls did not seem like reason enough to go back to school, but he never did understand her fascination with playing human aka pulling a Stefan.

Elijah raised his eyebrows. "You've gone back to school?" he asked somewhat surprised that Rebekah would attempt high school again after all of the trial and tribulations of Mystic Falls High School.

"Yes, I have," replied Rebekah.

"Oh, It's a wonderful school,brother, really a first class establishment. Great, smart teachers, good kids. It's even got a fun name, Goode High," Klaus chimed in while smiling patronisingly at his little sister.

Rebekah made a face at Klaus, but did not indulge him by giving a verbal response. Klaus just continued smiling in the same cold sarcastic way.

"That's an odd coincidence," muttered Elijah, ignoring the behavior of his younger siblings. What were the chances that this was the school some of the demigods were talking about?

"What are you talking about, Elijah?" Rebekah asked turning and breaking her one sided glaring contest Klaus. As she spoke, she unconsciously fiddled with her hair in a way similar to the way Klaus was pacing earlier.

"Some of the demigods were talking about a school called Goode High, but they probably weren't talking about the school you attend. The chances that they would go to the same school as you are extremely slim," Elijah said.

"Did you happen to catch the names of the people who were saying this?" inquired Rebekah. She knew Elijah was most likely right, but she had to make sure.

"Percy Jackson and Will something. Will was the one who 'treated' me after they took the dagger out, but he never said his last name. He did say that he was a son of Apollo, though."

"Those are the names of two of my classmates and friends at Goode!" Rebekah exclaimed shocked. They were demigods? That did explain some of their odd behaviors and conversations, but still, that was hard to believe.

"I live next to the Jackson-Blofis family. Percy Jackson is my neighbor. His mother, Sally Jackson, is quite the writer. She showed me some of her work the other day-" Klaus paused when he saw both Elijah and Rebekah raising their eyebrows at him. "What?"

"You like her. You always did have a thing for the artist," Rebekah mused teasingly. She fluttered her eyelashes and twirled her hair as if she were Sally flirting with Klaus.

"I don't like her like that. She is just a good friend. That's all. I enjoy spending time with both her and her husband, Paul. They are both quite clever and interesting people," Klaus explained, but Rebekah ignored his words and continued her mocking display. "Is it really that hard to believe that I would just like having them as friends?" Klaus demanded.

Rebekah laughed. "Yes!" Her cheeks were rosy with mirth and her smile was so big it crinkled her eyes.

Elijah shook his head and lightly chuckled at the antics of the two. They were acting like they used to as children. When they were young, Rebekah and Klaus had always been like this, teasing one another mercilessly, but still thick as thieves. He hated to disrupt what was transpiring before him, but he needed to get back to the infirmary. Despite the size of the camp, too long of an absence would be hard to explain. "Rebekah, Niklaus, if you are so close with some of these demigods, then you can also watch them. Makes sure they are not a threat to our family, and if they are, you can eliminate them before they make any moves against us." Klaus smirked in agreement, but Rebekah just nodded in response to Elijah's command. "I need to get back before I have been gone too long, but be careful, both of you. We have no idea what these demigods are capable of." As soon as he finished speaking, Elijah zoomed back to the camp.

Rebekah turned to Klaus. "Well, we best be getting back home them." Both of the siblings ran to Klaus's car and drove back to the city.

Later that night, as Rebekah lay in bed she could not stop thinking about all of the odd things that the demigods had done. After being confused by them for so long, she finally understood what they were and what was going on. It gave her a feeling a satisfaction. She liked having the jump on this possible new threat, and though she would never admit it, she was a little excited to be investigating them.

Sorry I took so long to update, but it is summer now, so expect a lot of chapters. I wanted to make this clear, Klaus will not have any sort of romantic relationship with Sally. She and him will just be good friends. Also If you were confused about why Elijah said he didn't know anything about the dagger, reread chapter ten because I edited it. Thank you to OphiuchusIXII and Rhysrhi for reviewing, and thank you to Zanhum379 for adding this to your reading list and voting. As always constructive criticism is loved and appreciated, so please review.

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