Kol Mikaelson – Journey To The Multiverse - Chapter 7

=PART-1

Two years had passed since Kol left the Mikaelson family.

He spent the first few months, training and learning to use his abilities.

The easiest to learn was his mental abilities. First, he asked Astrid to compel him and instinctively reacted to block her compulsion with his own mental abilities. This way, he figured out how to trigger his own mental abilities. The rest was easy as all he had to do was, find a suitable meditation technique that would be helpful to him.

Then came the omega beams and erosion blasts. All he had to do, was control and release his energy in certain ways. He already had that experience from being a sorcerer.

Then came the flying. In order to fly, he had to use his own energy to break free of earth’s gravitational pull. It was relatively more difficult, but he managed to do it in the end.

Afterward, all the other abilities came easy, so he just focused on controlling his strength and learned how to use his abilities effectively in battle, and how to better hide them if necessary.

After Kol was satisfied enough, he and Astrid started their journey. They went to many villages and saw many things. They traveled from deserts to oceans, from mountains to plains and saw many cultures and landscapes, met many different kinds of people.

They learned a lot about each other as well. Like Kol discovered that Astrid had quite the adventurous spirit. She just loved to travel and see new things. She was kindhearted as he could always find a little guilt in her eyes every time she had to drink blood. That would take some time to get used to. At the same time, she was cheerful most of the time and tried to find fun in even the most mundane things.

As Kol learned more and more about Astrid, she began to remind him of another character of The Vampire Diaries, named Lexi. Her full name was Alexia Branson. Astrid was just as cheerful as her and knew how to enjoy life and have fun.

Unfortunately unlike Lexi, who loved being a vampire, Astrid had not yet accepted her vampire nature. Her personality was to live in the present, yet she was haunted by the prospect of what she could do if she let go.

Kol knew that he had to find a way to get her to accept her true nature, otherwise if she kept holding back, all this pressure and stress would eventually break her.

With the speeds of an ‘original’ and a ‘new god’, they traveled quite quickly. Sometimes Kol would even open magic portals without a set destination and it could open anywhere on earth.

In the end, Kol went into deep contemplation. He started thinking about his future. He did not want to waste his eternity in debauchery as his siblings would.

Kol wanted a purpose in life. A reason to exist. A reason to get stronger, other than just survival, and other than just to protect the people he cared about.

After all, even a bacteria exists just to survive, so how would Kol be any different? Even the animals fight to protect their own, so how would Kol be any different?

Now he was already strong enough but, what would be the meaning of his existence if he did not have a set goal?!.

If he could have anything since he had all the time in the world, then why would he not want the whole world instead?!

And so, Kol finally had a goal. He had decided to conquer the world, but he did not want to conquer it like hundreds before he had tried. That was not his style. He did not want to become so popular that people would bother him whenever he went. That kind of glory and sense of pride would eventually become meaningless and boring.

Kol wanted to conquer the world but from the shadows. He did not want to interfere with the workings of the world. That would only hinder its development. This was not what Kol wanted.

He could conquer the supernatural side of the world, and then let his loyal subordinates control the human leaders from the shadows.

The humans would think that they possessed free will and lived in a democratic society, which would mostly be true, except for the fact that Kol would be the one to make most of the major decisions. Especially, concerning the supernatural side of the world.

For Kol, the history and his future knowledge were proof that humans did nothing but either showed meaningless aggression that provoked unnecessary wars or cowered in fear when it comes to the things that they could not understand.

They fear what they do not understand and try to destroy it.

No such insanity would be tolerated in Kol’s rule.

=PART-2

They were sleeping in a tent, inside a small settlement. There were many such tents here.

The people in this settlement ranged from newly turned vampires to werewolves, to even normal human beings. Everyone here had sworn allegiance to Kol.

All the vampires in this settlement were wearing modified daylight rings that not only helped vampires walk in the sun, but also planted a hint in their subconscious to always act in Kol’s best interests.

A few months ago, Kol and his vampire followers went to negotiate with a small werewolf village.

Kol told them about the threat that the two new races would pose to the werewolves and offered protection if they swore allegiance to him in return.

Kol had just started on his journey then and he did not have much experience in negotiation, so the werewolf alpha got angry and decided to end both the new races right there.

Apparently, the werewolf alpha had thought that since Kol and Astrid were the first of their kind, then killing them would mean, ending the new races before they could prosper.

Such impulsive behavior inevitably resulted in the slaughter of all the werewolves in that village. Werewolves could not turn into wolves when there was no full moon. Kol did not even need to move. The werewolves did not know about the vampire’s weaknesses at that point in time. Astrid and the vampires that she had turned, were more than enough for those impulsive men and women who were just stronger than normal human beings, but a far cry for the vampires.

This kind of thing was quite normal in this time period. Entire villages got slaughtered for pettiest of reasons. Compared to them, Kol was merciful. He spared all the children and all those who did not fight him and in return, they would leave their village and become his followers instead.

=PART-3

In the beginning, it was very difficult for Astrid to accept being a vampire. She was filled with remorse when she first gave into her vampire urges and killed someone. She even blamed Kol and his family for turning her into a ‘monster’.

When people face difficult situations such as this, many choose to blame others instead of facing the situation in front of them and making a hard decision.

What kind of trauma would it take for someone who was always cheerful and loved life, to go into depression and call herself a ‘monster’!? At that moment, Kol knew that Astrid was at the breaking point and he had to be patient with her. This was the turning point in her life. Either she would accept her vampire nature, or she would turn insane. Kol chose to comfort her as much as he could.

Astrid tried to do many desperate things in order to vent her grief and anguish. She tried to run away and even tried to kill herself. In the end, she even tried to turn off her humanity, so that she would not feel any emotion anymore, but she was stopped by Kol every time.

After becoming a vampire, all the emotions would be heightened, but vampires could turn off their humanity. Like a switch. In this state, they would not feel any emotion. They would then only live on their instincts to kill, feed and survive. In this state, they would become true monsters.

With Kol’s mental abilities, it was easy for him to stop Astrid from ever turning off her humanity.

In the end, Astrid started to slowly accept her situation and when she learned of what would have happened had she turned off her humanity, she did not blame Kol as much. As he cared for her and showed her affection even when she shunned him, she stopped blaming him altogether.

As days passed, they traveled to many different villages and interacted a lot with each other. With his strength, Kol could have any woman, but he only ever showed affection to Astrid and always acted gentlemanly, so she felt regret for ever blaming him. After all, it was his father who took her, not him. Kol had saved her life instead.

Now Astrid was free of all the guilt and discovered all the good things about being a vampire. She began to enjoy life just like she used to. She found, that as she accepted herself, she began to love being a vampire. Now her character was much the same as Lexi’s, yet there were differences since Astrid was more impulsive.

=PART-4

It had been more than half a century since Kol left the Mikaelson family.

Currently, he was in the study of a big mansion, reading a book. There were many shelves here, filled with books. In fact, it was more like a library, rather than a sturdy.

————Scene -The Serum.

As Kol was reading a book with full concentration, suddenly someone hugged his neck from behind and kissed him on the cheek.

He looked up from the book as he said, “Astrid! Did we not talk about not disturbing me when I am studying!?”

Astrid rolled her eyes as she replied, “You mean the whole, ‘personal life, professional life’, conversation! Yeah! About that. The serum has been distributed to everyone in town who has the werewolf bloodline. It is time for you to go and negotiate with the largest werewolf pack in the area.”

Kol asked with joy, “Is it already done? Finally, some good news! Have they all taken the serum? Did you check?”

The ‘serum’ was the result of Kol’s study of werewolf blood samples that were extracted from several different werewolves with different traits. He had already started studying the werewolves more than half a century ago. That was when he had first encountered werewolves, at the beginning of his journey.

The ‘serum’ was created for the werewolves. It modified the werewolf genes and added two new traits to any werewolf who took it.

The first trait allowed the werewolves who took the serum to control their own transformation. They could transform whenever they wanted or even partially transform without the need for the full moon.

The second trait modified their sire bond in a way that whoever took the serum would always obey Kol. Normally, the sire bond would work the best if both the Alpha and the wolf were in close proximity, but after the modification, an idea to always obey Kol and act in his best interests would be planted in their very subconscious, irrespective of the distance between them.

The traits could be passed down to their offspring, along with the werewolf bloodlines. They would carry them for generations.

Astrid replied, “What do you mean, ‘finally some good news’, we have only been receiving good news lately.”

After a short silence, she continued, “The serum has already been distributed and all the wolves were more than desperate for it. I mean, who wouldn’t! Even if some of them do find something wrong, they do not pose any threat, as their numbers should be pitiful. Eventually, all the wolves will take the serum and the situation will be even better than before. At least we will not have to watch our backs during every full moon. Not to mention the enormous improvement in our military strength.”

A few years ago, Kol encountered an assassination attempt on his life during a night of the full moon. He and Astrid were asleep when suddenly twenty or so werewolves jumped in the bedroom through the windows.

The werewolves were in their wolf form but they were no match for Astrid, the original and Kol, the ‘new god’. They were inevitably put down, but they managed to bite Astrid before their complete demise.

Any normal vampire would have died from even a little werewolf venom, but Astrid only suffered hallucinations and unbearable pain. The venom could not kill an original.

After the incident, Kol started putting a lot more effort into finishing up his, then incomplete ‘serum’ and managed to complete it just a month ago.

At this point, Kol got up from the chair, turned around and hugged Astrid by the waist, affectionately.

He looked in her eyes as he said, “Yes! Lately, I have received much good news and now I am happy, but there is still something missing.”.

Astrid replied suggestively, “And what would that be?!”

Kol then kissed her affectionately and only separated after a minute.

He then replied, “You!.”, and then his hands started rubbing against her body in an indecent manner.

It could be imagined what happened afterword.

In recent days, Astrid had been busy with the serum and she and Kol had not spent much time together. So, now they could make up for that lost time.

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