MOONS.
027. | ❛ hybrids don't vomit. ❜

Luna is in the bell tower of the cathedral, where she has set up a large map on the table surrounded by candles. Above the map is a spindle handing on a wire. Luna bends over and leans against the table as she prepares herself.

"Let's see if you could do it this time." Luna says to the witch she's compelled.

The witch rubs her hands together before grabbing the spindle and spinning it. She watches it sway back and forth upon the map before she steps backward, raises her arms to her sides, and begins the spell.

Suddenly, the map bursts into flames and turns to ash, and Luna drops her arms and sighs in annoyance when she realizes the spell didn't work.

"Leave, you're annoying me," Luna compelled the witch as she looked at the map.

After a moment, the spindle is yanked off the wire by an invisible force and flies across the room, embedding itself in the far wall where Luna has pinned a "Greetings from New Orleans" postcard. Luna slowly walks over to it and stares at the spindle for a moment as she processes what this means. Suddenly, Aurora appears in the doorway, looking bored.

"Are you looking for me?"

Luna spins around and is shocked to see Aurora standing in front of her. When Aurora smirks in amusement, Luna glares at her coldly.
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"Can I assume Luna is safe?"

Elijah is looking around the now-empty bell tower, where furniture has been strewn around the room.

"From the look of things... I would say that the lunatic ex found Luna."

"Well, then, we'll procure Freya to track her."

Elijah walks over to the table where Luna was working on her spell, where a letter, a sprig of lavender, and an ancient-looking bronze pendant that appears to be a compass on a chain are sitting on top of her burned map.

"There's no need. I got something."

Klaus has just met Elijah in the bell tower so he can see Aurora's message for himself, and he reads it aloud in a mocking voice.

"A forest of pine, and a box made so fine. Come quickly. If not, then darling Luna will rot, bleeding out for all time."

Klaus slams the letter down on the table while Elijah watches him from across the room.

"The woman is insane."

"Does she have to punish us with the world's most unfortunate limerick?"

Elijah starts to pace around the room while Klaus scowls angrily.

"Is it not enough that we're forced to play her wretched games?"

"Aurora will do everything in her power to bring about this miserable prophecy."

"Let's go stop her, shall we?"

Klaus grabs the compass off of the table and prepares to leave with Elijah.
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Luna awakens on the couch of the carpenter's shop where Aurora had the white-oak bullets. She looks groggy and weak, and her vision is blurry, though she's able to see that Aurora is standing in front of her with her arms crossed over her chest. Luna shakily sits up and glares at her.

"What did you do to me?"

"I used the same concoction on you the first time we met...It's rather effective, wouldn't you say?"

Luna stands, wobbling on her feet, standing she pukes onto the floor a little.

Aurora giggles in amusement at her suffering,"Oh... Poor dear. I would take a look at that. Last time I recall vampires, and hybrids especially don't vomit."

Luna once again stands to her feet and glares at Aurora furiously, but she's not in much condition to fight.

"Klaus and Elijah will come for me. They also do."

"That's good. 'Cause that's precisely what I'm counting on."

She walks over to the table and picks up a shiny silver revolver pistol and aims it at Luna.

"The only question is... Will you still be alive when they get here?"

Luna scowls at Aurora, who pulls the trigger and shoots her in the stomach, and Luna gasps in pain and shock as she collapses. Aurora smiles in satisfaction.
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Elijah is holding the compass in his hand as he and Klaus make their way through the woods of the bayou. Klaus is using his hybrid super-senses to track Luna by scent. They come upon the carpenter's cabin where Aurora and Luna just were and Elijah stops to turn back toward Klaus to see what is going on.

"Luna's not in there. She was-- I can smell her blood-- but the stronger scent is due west."

Elijah pauses to consider this for a moment before he replies,"You track the scent. I'll take the cabin."

The two split up and start walking in two different directions, but after a moment, Elijah stops and turns back to his brother.

"Niklaus... Whatever happens, you promise me..."

Klaus nods in understanding,"Aurora dies today."

Klaus turns and continues to walk west, and after a moment, Elijah heads toward the cabin.

Meanwhile, Klaus continues to walk through the woods of the bayou, which is slightly foggy in the morning air. He stops walking and stares in horror when he approaches what looks like a freshly dug grave in front of him. In the recently dug-up earth are several fresh lavender plants.

Inside Luna's grave somewhere in the woods, Luna gasps awake as she tries to figure out where she is. She's been buried in a wooden coffin, and her black tank top has ridden up her stomach to reveal the bleeding gunshot wound Aurora inflicted on her earlier. She touches her wound and whimpers in pain when she pulls her hand away and sees that it's covered in blood.