"Wait!" Felix exclaims as he stares at me "you want to introduce me to your god family?"

Nodding my head "Also my uncle he doesn't know I existed so it might be a bit tense...my vampire family might try to rip you apart since they might think you brain washed me"

"Protection spell noted" he nods his head as I use the silver key with a green vine to open a door between worlds, when I do we go through and land in Jen's workshop. Looking around the place, I try to sense Jen "where are we?"

"My cousin Jen's workshop" turning around, my eyes land on my Uncle Ken who looks between us. He's a dirty blonde with facial hair, warm beige skin and blue eyes. He is wearing a suit which I didn't think he'd wear "hello, your grace" I curtsy awkwardly in the outfit I'm wearing. It's a spaghetti strap black bodysuit with a black leather skirt, black leather jacket and black ankle boots. My hair is up in a ponytail while I have some Smokey eye and red lipstick.

Felix bows to him "Who are you?" My uncle demands

"My name is Olivia, most people call me Liv" introducing myself "this is my mate Felix...I'm Malia's daughter" my uncle stares at me "your sister Malia"

"Your Malia's daughter?" He asks, holding out his hand "I need a drop of your blood to"

"Liv!" Looking over, we see Jen and she smiles coming over to hug me "Aunt Mal told me you found your mate, congratulations" looking at her dad "father she speaks the truth, I was there the day she was born. She is indeed Aunt Malia's daughter"

"I also" he looks back at me "want to be very clear that I'm not more powerful than you and unlike my cousin I don't want to challenge you or anything"

"Who" he demands "is your cousin?"

"Hope...Mikaelson" his face darkens at the mention of her name.

"The Tribrid" he growls, Felix places his body between us "I will not harm her...whose side are you on niece?"

"No one's" getting between my mate and my uncle even though Felix wants to be before me, protecting me "I'm only here to visit family, not get in the middle of any drama. I heard you were released and have always wished to meet you and"

"Be nice Ken!" Looking over we see mom waltz into the workshop "Liv isn't a threat or a traitor!"

"Malia" uncle greets as the two hug "so she is in fact your daughter?" Between the two, Jen told me my mom is more powerful. She was supposed to be the queen of gods but she didn't want the throne.

Nodding her head "And you must be my son in law" mom hugs Felix who stiffens then hugs her back awkwardly "Oh! Your terrified of me! Good!" Uncle Ken shakes his head smiling amused "also I want to be very clear, grand babies. I expect the minimum of twenty"

I choke on a cough as Felix rubs my back "Twenty?!" I knew mom always wanted grandkids but that many? "Uh, not for a few years mom" I've got the implant so it's good for a few years.

"Liv?" We look over to see Hope, she's here. Wow "Your siding with him! Them! Their evil!"

"You do know" I demand "that I'm part goddess right?"

"So your a traitor to our family?" Crossing her arms looking at me then to Felix "and you! You poisoned her mind didn't you?"

"Watch your tongue" Mom warns her "Felix is her soulmate"

Nope bursts out laughing "There are no such thing as soulmates! What poison have these people been filling you with?"

"Nothing" snarling at her "I spent a year free from all this drama you throw my way, a year where I got to live my life and find out who I am. Someone who wasn't in your shadow! I found my soulmate and you can't be happy for me?"

"They kidnapped you and brainwashed you!" She exclaims

"Go away Hope" shaking my head at her "it is clear you aren't here to be supportive, I came to introduce you" beginning to cry "to someone I love and instead of being happy for me you decide to make it about you"

"That is not what I'm doing!" She yells "I came to challenge this idiot" pointing her finger at Uncle Ken "to a duel and here I find you siding with them! Gods are evil!"

"Pot calling the kettle black" snarling at her "you know what? I came to introduce Felix to our family because even though I haven't known him for long I'm in love with him, he fills me"

"What with his cock?" She demands

"Watch it" Felix snarls at her "I don't care who you think you are, I will end you if you dare speak one more bad thing to my mate"

She scoffs looking at Ken "What did you do to my cousin!"

"I did nothing" shaking his head at her "your poisoning yourself against her all on your own and I will accept your challenge"

Mom throws a dagger made of ice at her, she looks at Uncle Ken "Be prepared to fight not only Hope but her friends"

"Please don't hurt my friends" I ask of Ken, he looks at me "my friends always are brought into everything by Hope. They don't know any better, Hope is like this. Challenging people who don't need to be challenged, she can't handle someone stronger then her"

"Congratulations on your mate hood niece" he offers me "as a gift from I will offer your friends and family their lives, I have delved into your memories" he did? When? I thought I had a shield up? "Your powers are still growing young one, it'll be a while before a much more powerful shield shall keep me out—even though you love your cousin, I will end her"

"I won't stop you" holding onto Felix "not will I help her. Though might I ask a question?"

"Of course"

"If Hope had bent the knee to you"  I ask "would she have lived?"

He thinks about it "Yes...if she had sworn not to be the most powerful, her life would have been spared. Along with her not challenging me at first"

|Salvatore School|

"Don't any of you" everyone looks at me including my family the Mikaelsons, I've decided to astral project myself here "have the sense not to challenge a god?" Looking at Ben "hey cuz"

"Cousin" Ben greets

"Wait" Lizzie demands looking at me "you two are cousins? Liv? Your part goddess?"

Shaking my head at them, of course they focus on that "What are you doing here?" Hope demands crossing her arms

"I talked with my Uncle Ken, you know the guy you all" motioning to everyone "decided to help challenge along with Hope. He said as long as you all stay out of the battle between him and Hope, your lives will be spared. He promised in a blood oath—he just wants Hope dead"

"And not Hope?" Aunt Freya demands "Hope is your cousin, Always and Forever"

"She challenged him Aunt Freya" I say "my uncle told me that if Hope when they met promised to bend the knee and claim she wasn't the strongest and would never challenge him, he would have spared her"

"Gods are liars" Uncle Marcel growls "and young lady where have you been?  We have been searching everywhere for you"

"I was finding myself" shaking my head at them "wanted to know who I was outside of Hope's younger cousin and I did. I even found my soulmate"

Damon Salvatore scoffs "Like you'd have a soulmate" my family glared at him.

"Damon" his wife Elena, the bitch warns "don't"

"This girl" Damon waves to me "just waltzes in here after being gone for a year and so happens to tell us that her uncle that we are challenging promised to spare our lives? You can't be that naive"

"Think what you will" I tell him "but when my uncle goes and makes your daughter Stephanie and orphan, I'll let her know that her parents were too stubborn to accept the deal of not fighting him"

"See what I mean" Hope exclaims "that soulmate of yours" she mocks my mate "has you choosing not to help your family!"

"You did the exact same thing" reminding her "with Landon or was he not that important to you?" the room becomes much more quiet.

"Landon was my everything" she snarls

"Felix is mine" glaring at her "and if any of you were smart, you'd leave Hope to stupid compulsive nature to challenging people she doesn't need to challenge!"