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The entire school was in chaos, it had been since Alyssa trapped the Saltzmans in the prison world, but now with the full moon approaching Hope could finally save them. She’d been inconsolable all month, refusing to leave her spellbooks, searching religiously for a way to save them. And she found it just in time. It would take an insane amount of power, but power was always one of Hope’s specialties, plus she had an entire school full of witches backing her, together they could do it.
They had ten minutes till the full moon crested, the wolves were downstairs locked in the transition spaces ready to turn, the witches were outside preparing the spell and the vampires were running around the school doing god knows what and making way too much noise. Hope felt like she was the only adult in the school these days.
That was about to change, however, because Mayor Donavan and Sheriff Mac walked through the front doors with Ethan and Maya not far behind. She didn’t have time for this, the mayor isn’t her biggest fan and she couldn’t deal with him right now, she had a spell to do and Saltzmans to save.
“Where’s Alaric, we need to speak to him,” the mayor’s eyes didn't meet Hope’s while he spoke to her, so she looked past him. Sherif Mac was scanning the entire school, Maya clung to her brother like she was holding him up and Ethan just looked terrified.
“Sorry he’s not here right now and we’re all kinda busy so it might be best if you left,” Hope tried to keep her words polite but the mayor had to be insane bringing townies here on a full moon, the screams would start any minute and they definitely don’t need to hear that. How could she explain to them that Dr. Saltzman and his daughters are trapped in a prison world with the twins' crazy relative and right now that was her priority, not whatever politics they came to talk about.
The mayor seemed to realize that Hope was his best option right now,” Look Ethan here triggered his werewolf curse this month and we need your help.”
“What?” Hope tried her best not to scream. If she was capable of getting a migraine she would have one right now.
Before she had the chance to say anything else Raphael and a man Hope had never seen before burst through the doors nearly taking out Ethan and a group of vampires that happened to be walking past. His eyes landed on Hope and light up,” Hey long time no see Mikaelson. We were kind of worried we weren’t going to make it before the crest of the moon, but it looks like we’re just in time.”
“Raph I am so glad to see you,” Hope grabbed his arm and pulled,” This is Ethan a baby wolf, I need you to take him to the cellar with you and talk him through it.” with that she turned to Ethan, trying her best to be caring as she placed a hand on his arm and lowered her voice,” Ethan I wish I could be there to help you with this but I can’t so all I can say is that this is gonna hurt like hell but don’t fight it, that will only make it worse. “ his eyes went wide and he paled slightly. Hope didn’t have time to wonder what exactly happened when he triggered his curse but she made a note to ask him about it later.
Raphael was already leading Ethan down the hall when Maya interjected,” Wait, I want to go with him, he shouldn’t be alone.”
Mayor Donovan spoke up before Hope could,” Absolutely not!” he screamed positioning himself between the two siblings. She knew that the two were close but the look in Maya’s eyes when he did that was one that a Mikaelson could relate with.
Sheriff Mac was oddly quiet through the whole thing, maybe she’s still in shock about the whole supernatural community, which meant Hope had to handle this herself. “He won’t be alone Maya, there are dozens of wolves down there all of whom have been through exactly what Ethan is going through right now. He’ll be ok.”
Hope wished she could do something to ease the worries the family was going through but Mg appeared behind her using vamp speed to enter the room unnoticed.
“Witches are ready with the spell Hope,” he announced before he read the room and as soon as he did his eyes went wide and he was gone again, hopefully, headed toward the woods where the witches were waiting with the spell.
“What spell?” the Mayor growled. It was no shock to anyone that he hated supernaturals and to him, Hope was the worst of the worst. If he found out Dr. Saltzman wasn’t here who knew what would happen to the school. It was Hope’s place to protect it and all its students. That’s why she turned away from him and walked out the front door to the woods with her head held high. She knew he would follow her but at least she was getting him away from the school. The witches in the woods could defend themselves.
The moon was high overhead as they made their way swiftly through the woods. She was doing her best to block out the Mayor’s voice behind her throwing accusations, but it was even harder to ignore Maya’s eyes on her as they moved. Hope was used to people not trusting her it came with her name, but what she hated was being the center of attention. It’s been happening more and more now that she’s taken over the role of school hero but that didn’t mean she was getting used to it.
They entered the clearing and everyone fell quiet. Twenty-five witches stood in a circle of salt and flame. Kaleb, Mg, and Landon stood to the side with Alyssa Chang who was tied to a tree, Hope had taken extra care to make sure she couldn’t do magic and interrupt the spell. All eyes were on them and she could practically feel the mayor shrink beneath them.
They stopped moving as Hope continued forward. The circle parted for her and Hope linked hands with them. She started the spell, muttering under her breath and the others followed suit. She’d given them the incantation two days ago to memorize while they waited for the full moon. The magic flowed between them, she’d forgotten what it was like to have a coven sometimes, not that she was ever truly accepted by the French quarter witches but she’d done her fair share of magic with her family and she hated to admit how much she missed it. This school was a family, always had been, they fought for each other and there was nothing that would stop her from getting the Saltzmans back.
There was a flash of light. Just like when they disappeared from the cry pile in the twins' room a month ago. Hope squinted against it but still could see nothing. And then they were there, the twins were holding each other up while Dr. Saltzman stood in front of them with a crossbow aimed at a fourth figure.
Hope wanted to cry with relief, seeing her friends alive and safe, but she couldn’t just yet. They’d gotten one more Gemini witch then they’d bargained for. Hope knew the stories, he murdered his family and tried to kill the twins before they were born. Hope didn’t know what his master plan was but she was sure he had one and Hope was going to stop him before he had the chance to put it to action.