Kol Mikaelson – Journey To The Multiverse - Chapter 28

“Alchemy is the mystic art of manipulating and altering matter.”, Kol explained to the class.

Then he moved towards the teacher’s table, and continued, “Now watch carefully.”.

“Snap!”, he snapped his fingers, and his hand was suddenly engulfed in blue lightning that appeared out of nowhere.

Then, “Slap!”, he slammed it down at the table.

This caused the whole table to be engulfed in blue lightning.

And starting from where his hand was touching it, “Click!Click!Click!Click!”, it started to turn into Gold, from top to bottom.

In a matter of seconds, the entire wooden table turned into a table of pure Gold.

At this point, the students were so surprised that most of them still had their mouths open so wide that one could fit an egg in there.

Kol gave them a few minutes to register what just happened and to regain their bearings.

Then the whole class erupted in enthusiasm.

All the students had their hands raised as they started asking questions. Many had even stood up from their seats.

It wasn’t their fault. This was their first time seeing this kind of Alchemy. They hadn’t even heard of something like this before.

“SILENCE!!”, One voice from Kol quietened them down.

Then he continued, “All your doubts will be cleared by the end of this lecture. If not, then you can ask questions then.”.

Then he pointed at the golden table and spoke, “This process is called Transmutation.”.

And continued, “It is further divided into three steps. Namely, Comprehension, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction.”.

“First you have to comprehend the structure of the matter you are converting and the one you are converting it into. Then Deconstruct the matter you want to convert, and Reconstruct it into whatever you want to convert it into.”.

And like this, the class continued.

As days passed, Kol found himself getting more and more bored with this world.

He had nothing much to do here and there were not many people who knew him here.

So he decided to teach Alchemy to the young witches and warlocks of Salvatore boarding school.

Teaching children was something he had never done before, so this was a new experience for him.

After the lecture, “Alright this is it today. Any questions about the lesson?”, he asked.

Many children raised hands, but there was one in particular who got Kol’s attention.

“Yes, Kaleb?”, Kol spoke while pointing at the kid sitting in the front row.

Kaleb spoke while hesitating, “Professor Mikaelson, I’m a vampire. “.

“Yes. What’s your question Kaleb?”, Kol spoke encouragingly.

“Why did you drag me here to this class?”, Kaleb asked, in an accusing tone.

“Why! Don’t sell yourself short Kaleb. You’re a very talented student.”, Kol replied in a tone that emanated kindness.

At this point, the other students were looking at Kaleb with jealousy.

Everyone else in this class was either a witch or a warlock. Anyone here could easily vanquish the poor Kaleb who as a vampire was not even able to perform any magic.

Yet for some reason he was very talented?

What did that say about them?

Kaleb looked straight ahead, trying his hardest to ignore the gazes full of envy, jealousy, and hate directed at him from the other students in the class, and asked desperately, “But Professor, you teach Alchemy, which is magic, and I can’t do any magic. So why!?”.

“Don’t worry about the small stuff. You’re here because I have high hopes for you. There are a great many things that only you can do Kaleb.”, Kol spoke in an encouraging tone.

Kaleb asked, “High Hopes! What do you mean? What is it that only I can do?”, with confusion.

Hearing this, the ears of other students also perked up. They had been dying to know the answer to this question for a while now.

“Like carrying my stuff for me, clean teacher’s chair, wiping the blackboard, washing my car…”, Kol explained.

“So you just want me to do odd jobs for you?”, Kaleb asked in an annoyed and disappointed tone.

But Kol replied with an encouraging tone, “Yes. Because, I BELIEVE IN YOU SON!”, like he was not doing odd jobs but was about to go on a mission to save the world.

Kaleb was speechless. He didn’t know what to say anymore.

Other students in the class were also dumbfounded. Now they no longer felt like being the favorite student was any good thing.

After a while, Kaleb had regained his bearings and wanted to argue, but Kol interrupted him, “Kaleb, sit down and shut up. Other students in the class have actual questions. One more interruption from you and that’s detention.”, then he turned his attention to other students.

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Days passed and seasons changed, and now it was time for spring break.

Most students would go home to their families, but some who had none would stay.

Among them were Landon, Rafael, and MG, a.k.a Milton Greasley.

Landon and Rafael were orphans and MG’s parents kicked him out when he became a vampire.

His mother was one of the leaders of Triad industries and his father was a religious sort, so they refused to accept him when he turned into a vampire.

However, MG was always a very optimistic person.

Which was why, against his better judgment, he let Landon talk him into visiting his family this spring break.

Of course, Landon was empathizing his situation with MG.

But for MG, suffice to say, it ended very badly.

His mother didn’t even let him through the door and his father called him a monster, a demon.

So being a teenage vampire who was new to everything that came with being a vampire, MG lost control of his heightened emotions and ended up accidentally killing Landon.

However, it was a night of the full moon, plus the trauma of Landon’s death, Rafael transformed into a wolf and bit MG.

This incident would have still happened if Kol wasn’t around, but in this case, because Kol was around, Landon was no longer a Phoenix, so he never came back to life.

On the other hand, if Kol wasn’t here, then Alaric, Josie, Lizzie, Kaleb, Emma, Dorian, and Hope would have gone to search for the Urn, which Alaric would have thrown in the river due to being influenced by a mind-controlling slug which would have entered the school grounds by hitching a ride on a unicorn, using it as the carrier.

However, now due to Kol’s interference, the slugs were dead and the unicorn was happily chewing on hay in the stables.

On the other hand, Kaleb and Hope were busy helping Kol with something, Dorian and Emma had gone on a date, and Alaric was busy dealing with Josie and Lizzie, leaving time for Landon, Rafael, and MG to go on their little adventure.

Of course, Alaric and others later found out about it, but it was already too late by then.

Landon was dead, but Hope used her blood to cure MG of Rafael’s werewolf bite before it was too late.

This time, due to Kol’s interference, Hope and Landon were not that close, so Hope wasn’t overly sad about Landon’s death.

His death was nobody’s fault. The whole thing was nothing but an accident, if anyone was to be blamed for this, it was Landon himself, so this incident became too taboo to discuss.

And like this, the time passed and life went on.

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It was a quiet, dark night.

Moon in the clear sky was the only source of light.

There were no other cars on the dirt road.

Only a few miles in, and Veronica Greasley was already regretting taking this route.

This rocky terrain gave her a foreboding feeling, and the lack of any human activity in the area made her feel alone.

The sound of the car’s engine in this silence was quite thrilling.

At this point, she just wanted to get home as soon as possible.

So she started speeding above the speed limit.

And after a while.

“Boom!Creech!”, the hood of her car suddenly blew back, she stepped on the breaks in surprise, and then the car stopped after rubbing against the road for a few meters.

Veronica took out her handgun from the glove compartment and got out of the car to check what happened.

Veronica Greasley was one of the leaders of Triad industries, and her grandfather was one of the founders.

She had seen a lot of weird stuff in her life, so she was always prepared for anything.

When she got out and checked what happened, she found a bullet hole going through the hood of the car and right into the engine cover.

Judging by the diameter, it must have been a high-caliber rifle.

After judging the situation, Veronica didn’t linger around any longer.

She immediately ran for the car, intending to lock herself inside and call for backup.

However, “Boom!”, another bullet pierced through the door handle right as her hand was about to touch it.

So Veronica stopped.

Judging by the accuracy of that last bullet, her only chance was through close encounter and judging by the fact that she was still alive until now, whoever it was needed her alive.

And Veronica was right. Her chance came soon.

The only problem was that she was too surprised to fight when it did.

A man dressed in standard military uniform walked towards her.

But since he was not carrying any sniper rifle, Veronica figured that he was not alone.

When he reached her, he took off his helmet and showed his face.

“Burr! You… what is the meaning of this?”, Veronica exclaimed in surprise and anger.

But Burr didn’t reply. He just coldly looked at Veronica, and raised his rifle.

Veronica tried to prevent him, “WAIT! Hold on. Whatever this is, I’m sure we can come to an arrangement…”, but she was interrupted when Burr tried to smash her in the head with the b.u.t.t of hir rifle.

However, Veronica was military trained, so she dodged.

Then she backed off two steps and spoke, “Burr, why are you doing this? This is some misunderstanding, you need to calm down and explain…”, but she was again interrupted.

But this time Burr just raised his gun, and, “Boom!”, fired a shot in her gut, then he advanced two steps and smashed her in the head with the b.u.t.t of hir rifle.

Veronica wasn’t dead yet, so Burr holstered his weapon, picked up her unconscious body, and then walked off into the distance.

Kol knew he needed to deal with Triad industries, but he couldn’t be bothered to do it himself.

So instead, he used telepathy to turn all the military personnel working for Triad industries into mindless puppets, who would first kidnap all the members, bring them to one secure location, and then massacre them.

After they were done with that, they would then commit suicide.

This way, Kol could go see how the job was done whenever he had time.

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“Ding-dong!”, Kol rang the doorbell of a suburban house located not far from the Salvatore boarding school.

“Coming.”, came a voice from inside before someone opened the door.

After opening the door, “You.. ah… Stref…”, Elena froze.

A moment later, “De… Damon!”, she registered the situation and called for Damon.

In the meantime, “Hi Elena.”, Kol spoke to Elena.

But she stayed frozen and stared at him like staring at a ghost.

On the other hand, “Elena, who is…”, Damon was coming down from the stairs when he saw Kol and paused for a moment.

Before regaining his bearings, much quicker than Elena, and continuing to climb down the stairs.

“Hello brother. It’s me, Stefan. I’m back from the dead.”, Kol spoke to Damon.

By this point, both Elena and Damon were standing right in front of him.

“You… You are?”, Elena asked hesitatingly.

At the same time, “Awesome! It’s just so like us to beat even death. As expected of our brotherly bond. Welcome back, we missed you brother.”, Damon spoke sarcastically.

But Elena turned her head at Damon in shock.

This wasn’t something he would usually say in this situation unless he already knew something about it.

“Damon?”, Elena inquired silently.

But Damon just gave her a reassuring look that said, ‘I will explain later.’

Then Kol spoke, “Yes. It’s so like us. Ha! Ha! Ha! You know I missed you guys a lot.”, sarcastically.

“Oh did you? What was it like up there? It’s been so long, don’t tell me you finally got over your brooding personality and got busy with an Angel or two?”, Damon asked in mocking sarcasm.

“No, nothing like that… Actually, it was guilt that kept me from coming back.”, Kol replied.

“Guilt! For what, for being a douche? Don’t worry about it we forgave you a long time ago.”, Damon spoke.

“No, not for that, but these feelings. These feelings that I still have for Elena kept me from coming back.”, Kol spoke sadly.

Hearing this, Elena froze, and Damon just stared at him.

Then Kol continued, “Feelings for my brother’s girl. Sigh! It’s such a sin.”.

Then continued, “So much so that I was about to be kicked out of heaven.”, sarcastically.

Then continued, “And that’s when I came to a realization. I could not spend the eternity in such misery. I needed to man up, stop jerking off in front of Elena’s picture and…”, but he was interrupted.

Damon spoke, “Ok! Ok! That’s enough. We already know you’re not Stefan. Alaric tells me everything about anything… So stop desecrating my dead brother’s memories and tell us why you’re really here.”.

Hearing this, Elena looked at Damon with a questioning look but didn’t say anything. Being married and starting a family had changed her a lot.

“You do?”, Kol asked again.

“Yep!”, Damon replied with a nod.

Then Kol spoke, “Oh… Well then at least invite me in.”.

But Damon replied, “Nope! Hell no. You think we were dropped on our heads as babies?”.

“No huh?”, Kol asked with disappointment.

Then continued, “Well good thing I’m not a vampire.”, in an enthusiastic tone.

Then he raised his leg in a showy manner and landed it inside their property, followed by the other leg.

And now he was inside their house.

“Therefore I can enter without being invited in. No witchy barrier for the rescue.”, Kol continued.

At this point, Damon was still looking at Kol’s legs in wonder, while Elena still had no idea what was going on, but she still understood a few things by their conversation so far and one of them being that the Stefan look-alike in front of her was supposed to be a vampire. However, him entering their home uninvited proved that clearly wasn’t the case.

“Amazing right?”, Kol asked again.

At this point, Damon had regained his wits, “It’s good… This is amazing. You know I was only kidding. I was going to invite you in anyway. Ha! Ha! Ha!”, then he laughed awkwardly.

“Really?”, Kol asked again.

Damon replied, “Yes. Yes. I would never be as rude to keep you at the door…”, but he was interrupted.

Kol spoke before he could continue, “Quit it Damon. Your heartbeats have given you away. I haven’t seen someone fear me THIS much in quite some time.”.

“Well let me tell you, it’s completely unnecessary. I’m not here to hurt you guys.”, Kol comforted calmly.

Then a few seconds later after listening to Damon’s heartbeats, Kol continued, “Seriously! Your heartbeats have quickened again, instead of calming down.”.

Then he continued while rubbing his chin in a thoughtful manner, “Though now that I think about it, that’s exactly what I would have said had I come to do you harm.”.

Then noticing that Damon’s and Elena’s heartbeats quickened yet again, Kol shook his head and took a step forward towards Elena.

Then he extended his hand for a handshake and spoke, “Hello Elena. I’m Kol Mikaelson.”.

Elena shook his hand awkwardly and asked, “Kol Mikaelson? Then why do you look like Stefan, Kol?”.

“I came from a parallel world. Few things are different there.”, Kol replied.

Then noticing Elena’s disbelieving look, he continued, “No seriously. It’s true. Parallel worlds are a real thing. I’m Kol, yet not like the Kol you know.”.

Then Elena asked skeptically, “Ok, then prove it. You must have some way to prove it right?”.

“No I don’t… How do you expect me to prove that I came from a parallel universe? Plus that’s not even why I came here.”, Kol replied with rhetoric sarcasm.

“About that, why ARE you here? I’m dying to know.”, Damon asked sarcastically.

Kol replied, “Let’s go inside first.”, and walked inside like he owned the place.

Damon and Elena soon followed.

Kol purposefully walked slowly to add to the suspense, and behind him, he could hear their muffled discussion.

It was mostly just Elena confirming whether it was all true, and Damon replying with a nod of affirmation and explaining what he knew.

Soon they reached the living room and sat down.

At this point, Elena was looking at Kol in surprise, Damon looked calm from the outside, but his quickening heartbeats told a different story, while Kol had leaned back into the couch, completely relaxed.

“You know, I’m not the only one whose looks are different in my world.”, Kol broke the silence.

Elena inquired curiously, “Really? Who else? Tell us more about your world. Do you travel to different worlds often? It must be pretty amazing.”.

“There’s a version of Damon and Elena in my world, but they look different from you, and they’re quite popular too.”, Kol replied.

“Popular! How?”, Elena asked enthusiastically.

So Kol replied, “Elena there looks like Melissa McCarthy and Damon looks like Simon Helberg. One of their favorite things is public s.e.x. In the park, in the middle of the Highway, in front of the White House, in the middle of the Bull’s game. You name it and they’ve done it there.”.

Hearing this, Elena had her head down in shame.

Seeing her taking the bait, Kol continued while looking at Damon, “Damon even has a world record for how many times his bones broke. You know, just being in love doesn’t mean he’s suddenly able to handle her. That’s physically impossible. Love cannon bend the…”, but he was interrupted.

Damon spoke impatiently, “Ok. That’s it. This.. we’ve had enough. There’s still the fifteenth century in your world so we don’t even exist there yet.”.

“Alaric told you that too? Dammit… It seems I was too hasty in revealing my identity to him.”, Kol replied irritatingly.

“Kol, these jokes are fine and all but I think you should tell us why you’re here now.”, Elena asked in a fed-up tone.

She really DID believe everything that Kol said just now.

“Yeah.”, Damon too agreed.

So Kol replied, “I already told you. I’m here for Elena.”.

“For me?”, Elena asked in surprise.

“You know we’re happily married right? I mean, we even have kids now!”, Damon exclaimed in annoyance.

But Kol clarified, “Oh don’t misunderstand. I didn’t mean THAT! Of course not. Maybe ten years ago, sure. But look at her now. These saggy b.o.o.b.s and all. I’m not into that.”.

Noticing her lowering her head in shame, and Damon’s offended expression, Kol continued, “I just want some of her doppelganger blood for a spell. That’s it.”.

“That’s it?”, Damon asked in relief. His heartbeats finally calmed down a notch.

But Elena asked with a serious face, “My blood? From what we know, the kinds of spells that need doppelganger blood are all very powerful. So what spell are you doing?”.

“Yeah. And why do you need her blood? Last time I checked, you were also a doppelganger.”, Damon asked as well.

So Kol explained to them how he wasn’t just a doppelganger anymore and therefore couldn’t use his own blood.

Then after some back and forth discussion, after clarifying his purpose, Elena finally agreed.

All in all, Kol had a pretty fun time at Damon and Elena’s and got what he went there for.

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