MOONS.
007. | ❛ you'll see him soon enough. ❜

Marcel guessed correctly about who took his daylight ring. Mohinder silently holds up Marcel's daylight ring, and when Tristan sees it, he looks pleased by Marcel's deductions.

"Well done! Of course, as you know, that was only half the challenge."

Tristan walks past Marcel and claps him on the shoulder affectionately as Aya follows behind him. When Aya joins Tristan on the other side of the room, making space for Mohinder and Marcel to fight, Tristan leans over to whisper in her ear.

"Let's see how he does. "

Meanwhile, Mohinder and Marcel are in the middle of unbuttoning their suit jackets in preparation for Marcel to fight to get his ring back.

"There's no shame in dying at the hands of one's superior."

"There's not much glory in it, either."

Mohinder strips off his jacket, and Marcel bounces on his heels for a moment to psych himself up before throwing two consecutive punches, each of which hits Mohinder in the face. However, when Marcel kicks him in the stomach, Mohinder grabs him by the leg and throws him across the room, where he lands on a table and smashes it into pieces.

"Agh!"

Luna, looking alarmed, pushes her way to the front of the crowd as though she wants to intervene, but she stops at the last moment. Elijah follows her, and the two stand next to Tristan and Aya. Meanwhile, Marcel has just thrown off all of the broken table that landed on him, and turns to find Mohinder standing above him, looking mildly pleased by his quick victory.

Marcel vamp-speeds to his feet, grabs one of the broken table legs, and backhands Mohinder in the face with it, grunting from the exertion

"UGH!"

Mohinder grabs Marcel in a choke-hold, and Marcel, alarmed, desperately punches at Mohinder's chest in an attempt to get free. Mohinder then grips Marcel by the shoulders and head-butts him before throwing him through the brick wall behind them, causing him to land on the floor of the next room.

"Ughhhh..."

Mohinder climbs throw the hole in the wall and lunges for Marcel, who continues to punch him, only to be shoved face-first into a large shelf full of dishes. When Mohinder grabs Marcel to spin him around so they're facing each other, Marcel grabs a martini shaker and smashes it against Mohinder's head several times. Mohinder once again grabs Marcel in a choke-hold and pins him against the shelf, so Marcel, desperate, grabs an ice scoop and smashes it against Mohinder as well. While he's distracted, Marcel grabs a frying pan with his free hand and uses both to hit Mohinder multiple times across the face.

Unfortunately, Mohinder grabs him by the wrists and snaps his arms, causing Marcel to roar in pain before he is thrown against the shelf so hard that he smashes it into a pile of broken wood. Mohinder sees a broken piece of wood that would make a good stake and grabs it before pulling the groaning Marcel to his feet in a choke-hold. However, before he can stake him, Marcel musters up all the strength he has and tackles Mohinder so hard that they once again break through the wall and back into the room, where they land at an entertained Tristan and Aya's feet. Marcel sees that Mohinder dropped the stake and crawls across the broken bricks and wood to grab it, but Mohinder sees him and kicks him so hard he rolls sideways away from the stake. Marcel kicks Mohinder to get him the time necessary to stand on his feet and begins punching Mohinder hard in the face over and over again until Mohinder throws Marcel into a nearby table and smashes it as well.

Finally, Mohinder pulls the weakened Marcel up to his feet, vamps-out, and sinks his fangs into Marcel's neck, feeding deeply. Elijah looks extremely concerned and is about to intervene when Hayley stops him. Elijah looks at Hayley in confusion, but she just subtly shakes her head as though she knows something he doesn't. Mohinder feeds on Marcel for a long moment before he pulls away and vamp-speeds Marcel against the wall, pinning him by the throat and holding up the stake in preparation to kill him.

"You fought with honor. Embrace the nobility of this end."

" I will if you will. Or do you still not know?"

Tristan and Aya look at them curiously, intrigued by where Marcel is going with this.

"You must have tasted it in my blood."

Just then, Mohinder begins to look uncomfortable and groans slightly as he wobbles on his feet

"Oh, now you're starting to feel it, aren't you? That burning sensation in your gut? Wolf's venom. A going-away gift from me. I may not have beaten you, but you lost all the same." Mohinder continues to squirm uncomfortably, gagging slightly from the venom

"I suggest you make your peace. We're both dead men walking."
Mohinder becomes furious at this news.

"A desperate ploy! A lie!"

Marcel lifts up the sleeve of his left arm and holds it up so he can see the weeping bite wound on his arm, which stuns Mohinder as Marcel laughs weakly in amusement.

Marcel is still laughing at Mohinder when he spins them so Mohinder is the one pinned against the wall. Marcel aims the stake at Mohinder's own heart before addressing him and the rest of the room.

"I don't know why they want you dead, but clearly they do."

Marcel finally lets go of Mohinder and turns to Aya and Tristan.

"Why else tell me all about his little feeding habits, or give me a taste of his technique when you came into my gym the other day? All I had to do was be observant."

"But, I'm done picking up your bread crumbs. You want him dead? You're gonna have to do it yourself. As far as I can see, the only thing he's done to deserve it is picking his friends poorly."

Marcel, getting even weaker from his injuries, which aren't healing as a result of his hybrid bite, stumbles and is caught by Luna, who puts his arm around her shoulder to help keep him upright. Marcel coughs as Tristan and Aya share a significant smile. Tristan starts to walk over to Mohinder, who is also getting weak from the werewolf venom and looks horrified by this revelation. Mohinder starts to spit up blood as Tristan cups his face with his right hand and looks at him sympathetically before patting him on the shoulder and walking past him. Mohinder looks as though he might be spared when suddenly, Tristan rips out his heart from behind, causing him to fall dead to the floor. Tristan drops the heart onto the floor with a splat, and Marcel and Luna look alarmed. Tristan appears to be unhappy at first until he finally smiles

"You chose well! Now, I assure you, he did deserve it. He's been plotting unspeakable crimes against his sworn brothers and sisters. Of course, you couldn't have known. Beating such a worthy opponent is proof of your strength and courage, but your restraint, your refusal to kill without cause, demonstrates a rare integrity. You see, Marcel Gerard... This was the test."

Tristan bends over to pluck Marcel's daylight ring out of Mohinder's pocket and hands it to him.

"Welcome to The Strix." Tristan takes notice of Marcel's increasingly weakened state as he hangs on Luna's shoulders, and Aya smiles at him proudly.

"Provided, of course, you survive your own gambit."

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Luna with the help of Elijah and Hayley bring Marcel back to the Mikaelson compound. Marcel getting weaker by the bite lies down as he sweats. Klaus comes in and asks for some alone time with him.

Luna goes upstairs to her respected room and starts undressing from the unusual and eventful night. In the middle of changing she hears a whoosh sound indicating someone was in her room. She's suddenly covered with a bunch of kisses from her lover, who was still abuzz from earlier that night.

"Klaus, your still a bit drunk" she whines as she enjoys the feeling of his lips on her bare skin.

"Love, you know that I would never get so hammered in my life." He slurs his words. She lightly pushes him off of her and tries leading him to the door.

"Come back when you don't reek of alcohol." She said pinching her nose trying to block out the heavy scent. Klaus makes a small frown not before Luna pulls him back for a short kiss.

"Now, you could leave." She smiles at him. She locks the door and turns around to go the balcony, she once again hears the same whoosh sound as before.

"Klaus, I told you not to-" Luna stops mid sentence before her neck is broken by a mysterious red hair girl.

"Don't worry, you'll see Klaus soon enough" she whispers in her ear