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CHAPTER ELEVEN ━━ ghosted

A red headed walked through the hallways of Beacon Hills High. Ophelia walked towards her locker punching in her locker combination, unlocking the door only to reveal empty shelves. She furrowed her brows in confusion. "The hell?" She muttered. The tribrid glanced up reading, 1075.

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

𝐇𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭.

Ophelia glanced around the halls, she followed the voices that echoed through the hallway; of whom she only guessed was of witches. She didn't want to question why witches were helping her of all people, a Mikaelson. Choosing on not to dwell on the question she followed the voices down the hall.

Ophelia stopped in front of the staircase, lifting her heeled foot onto the first step. The lights of the school blew out. "Seriously?" She whispered in anger. Walking up the stairs onto the second level of the high school. She glanced around seeing that she was the only one in the halls. "If Jackson pops out from the ceiling again-" She began, only to come to a halt hearing a door creak. Ophelia looked to her left seeing a classroom door open slowly.

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

"What's here?" She asked quietly. Receiving no answer. She continued down the hall hurriedly stopping in front of the Physics class. She scrunched up her nose in confusion and walked further into the classroom only for the door to slam shut behind her. Ophelia jumped in her spot. "Was that really necessary?" She hissed to no one in particular.

She narrowed her eyes to the desk in front of her, the red head walked behind the desk eyeing the drawers. She held her hand out pulling the drawers out on her right seeing nothing. Just empty drawers. Reaching to her left she pulled on the bottom left drawer. With a tug, the door sprung open revealing a circle-metal object. "You sly bastard." She whispered.

Clambering was heard from the back of the classroom, Ophelia looked down seeing the object gone. She scrunched up her nose eyeing the door in the back of the classroom once again. Standing to her feet she slowly walked to the back of the classroom to the supply closet. Ophelia raised her hand to the door knob, the red head glanced up meeting blood red eyes.

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OPHELIA jolted awake, her throat burned from the tribrid's screams. Ophelia held her throat panting, looking around her room she gulped. The Original stood up frantically rushing to her restroom she threw on a charcoal sweater dress, paired with her black ankle boots, and her leather jacket. She quickly brushed her teeth and brushed through her long locks.

Ophelia rushed out of the room down her long staircase unlocking her front door only to come to a halt; a shriek escaped her throat for what felt like the millionth time that morning.

Bonnie stood wide eyed and amused. "Hey, there." She nodded with an amused smile.

"Hi, red!" A body revealed itself from the side of the tribrid's home. The Original was met with bright blue eyes, that belonged to none other then Malachai Parker.

"Sorry, we're a little late." Bonnie smiled to her good friend apologetically.

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"JESUS!" She shrieked. Ophelia placed her hand over her heart glaring at the couple. "You could have given me a bloody heart attack."

"Oh, relax. You'd come back." Kai shrugged with his infamous smile, walking into her home engulfing the red head into a hug.

"I said I needed you." Ophelia pointedly looked to the Bennett witch. Who shrugged smiling at the two friends, Ophelia pulled away from the heretic.

Kai walked into the house eyeing the expensive objects blowing air out from his plump lips. "We're the three musketeers now!" He chuckled smiling widely to his best friend then to Bonnie. The two girls raised their brows at the man. "What, we all have witchy powers now, well, siphoner but still a witch."

Bonnie shook her head at the blue eyed man, then looked to the tribrid. "We brought grimoires, candles, maps, herbs, everything we need to track down this ascendent." Bonnie nodded to her friend.

"And pork rinds. Can't forget those." Kai sang out, walking back to the two girls. "So, when do we start?" He rubbed his hands together in excitement.

Ophelia shook her head at her good friend, "I have to go see Malia, Scott and Lydia-"

"Cute ditzy brunette, puppy eyed wolf, and the female scream." Kai piped up clapping his hands together in excitement. "I'll drive." He announced walking out of the mansion's doors.

"I forgot how much energy he had." Ophelia whispered to the green eyed witch.

"Yeah." She breathed out a chuckle, smiling at the man who waved at the two girls from the car.

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"YOU saw a carousel." Ophelia raised a brow to her best friend.

"And a big sign that said Canaan. And people disappearing into clouds of smoke." Lydia nodded to the Original.

"You sure she's not just crazy?" Kai whispered to the two girls. Lydia and Malia glared to the heretic.

"Who is he again?" Malia whispered to her red headed best friend.

"Um-" She began.

"Her bestest friend in the whole wide world of course. And this one's one true love." Kai smiled widely to the brunette, looking from the red head to the green eyed witch.

Malia gaped at the man's words, then glared to her best friend. Ophelia's eyes widened and looked to the strawberry blonde with pleading eyes.

"We need to go to Canaan." Lydia announced.

"It would be helpful if we knew anything about the place. I keep calling the number for City Hall, and no one answers. The only map I can find was in Ophelia's library and it's 30 years old." Malia explained showing the map to the four, she pointed to the blood red circle which marked the map. "So far, the only thing we can find about Canaan is where it is."

"Then that's all you guys need." Bonnie nodded to the coyote and banshee.

"Wait, you guys aren't coming?" Malia asked the three.

"We have to find the ascendent and I think I'm real close to finding it." Ophelia explained. "I saw glimpses of it in my dream, yanno after I saw red eyes to which ended in me screaming myself awake as usual." She nodded, to the four, "Gotta love witch dreams." Ophelia sarcastically joked.

"Do you guys ever have nice dreams?" Malia asked the banshee then to the tribrid who pursed their lips.

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OPHELIA, Kai, and Bonnie sat in the Original's living room. Ophelia had explained how she didn't remember her dream entirely. Thanks to Bonnie and Freya it's a lot more then before when she couldn't remember any of her dreams or visions; and for that she is grateful. The trio sat with one another trying to get the Original to remember more then she could.

Ophelia flipped through her grimoires as did the duo. "Uh, how about this one?" Kai showed the red head a drawing of a star like ascendent. Ophelia shook her head at the brunette man. "Red, there's gotta be over a dozen of em. We don't even know whose prison world it is. If it even is one."

"Kai, just keep looking." Bonnie shook her head not wanting to make the red head anymore anxious then she already was. Not to mention the Mikaelson family was taken, including her best friend.

"Where's the wolf whose obsessed with you?" Kai asked with a raised brow. He looked over to Bonnie and whispered, "Wait wasn't there three?" Bonnie widened her eyes and discreetly shook her head at the heretic.

"He was taken. Along with his sister." Ophelia mumbled. "One was a traitor and died." She said monotonously ignoring the ache she felt in her chest. "And the other is off in Canaan as you know." She flipped through her pages hurriedly.

"Okay..." Kai nodded in understanding.

Ophelia stood up walking into her library to grab more grimoires only for her to stumble into her bookcase. The red head fell to the floor, with a shriek.

Kai and Bonnie looked to one another in worry, "Ophelia?" The two shouted running into the office seeing the red head on the floor clutching her head in pain, screaming blood dripped from her nose down to her lips.

The two ran to the floor holding the red head up, as she shrieked. "O!" Kai yelled shaking the red headed Original awake. Bonnie gritted her teeth, placing her hands on the tribrid's head trying to seize whatever it was happening to her, she could only assume it were a vision.

Flashes of the the ascendent flashed before her eyes. Ophelia groaned, seeing a classroom. Red eyes.

A roar was heard, breaking Ophelia's trance. Bonnie and Kai were thrown back by the red heads magic. Her eyes sprung open, black covered her irises. Ophelia gasped, blinking rapidly her eyes turning her normal doe eyed colour. The Original widened her eyes and looked up, not believing her ears.

Bonnie and Kai looked to the Original with worried eyes, "Ophelia." Bonnie softly called out, Kai held the brunette's shoulders gently pulling her into him, as he eyed his best friend warily.

Ophelia stood carefully on her shaky legs, "I-It's at the school. In a drawer? I-I saw it. Red eyes. Someone's controlling it." She whispered.

Bonnie looked down to her phone seeing a text from Lydia. "They're back." She nodded to the red head, Kai and Bonnie stood up and walked over to the tribrid. She showed the text to the Original, "She said to meet them at Scott's. They have something." She nodded to the two.

"I'll drive!" Kai exclaimed to the two, who shook their heads smiling at the heretic.

Ophelia wiped her nose on the back of her hand. She couldn't believe what she heard nor did she want to. It was only a matter of time for her to face it.

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"KAI, no. I am not letting you borrow my car." Ophelia rolled her eyes at the heretic's constant pleas; she entered the McCall household, Bonnie following in toe. Kai mumbled incoherent curses to his best friend, he walked into the invisible barricade. He groaned like a child.

Scott rushed to the front door worry evident in his doe eyes seeing the smiling red head. His heart ached, knowing that smile would disappear shortly. He parted his lips at the blue eyed man who rested his arms against the door frame with a cheeky smile. Scott looked to Bonnie who smiled kindly, then to Ophelia who nodded to the man behind her. Scott sighed, "Uh, you can come in." He nodded to the heretic.

"Why thank you. Wolfie." He sang out, skipping into the house to the living room. He came to a halt spotting the banshee, the coyote, the beta with anger issues, his Chimera girlfriend. And the traitor who betrayed his best friend's trust. They all looked to the heretic warily. "You, little weasel." His hissed, the heretic's veins shown as his fangs pierced the air. He sped over choking the Chimera who widened his eyes clawing at the unknown man's hands.

Ophelia, Scott and Bonnie rushed into Scott's living room seeing the heretic choking someone. Ophelia widened her eyes and held her hand up giving the man an aneurysm. "Yanno, I'd say this is kinky. But there are children present." He hissed in pain, dropping the Chimera to the floor. He walked away from the boy, standing next to his girlfriend with a pout. Who worriedly looked to the red head along with the pack.

Theo looked up with parted lips meeting the doe eyes that he desperately missed. Ophelia parted her lips, colour drained from her face as she looked to the face she thought she would never see again. The face she spent months using herbs to see. The face she had fallen for. The face of a liar.

Ophelia hissed, "I WANT HIM OUT OF HERE!" She shrieked, her canines piercing the air, her eyes ambient black as she glared at the Chimera who backed away in fear. The chairs from Scott's dinning table flew back in heap crashing to the ground.

Theo backed into the corner in fear, he gaped at the girl he had fallen for with wide eyes. "Well, that's new." Theo whispered in fear.

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