My name is Niklaus Mikaelson and I am a vampire-werewolf hybrid. My mother and father were Mikael and Esther Mikaelson. My siblings were Elijah, Kol, Finn, Henrik, Trevor, and Rebekah. We were once five, but became three. How did I become who and what I am? How did we lose Trevor, Finn, Henrik, and Kol? Let me start at the beginning before my family almost fell apart.
In 1242 in Virginia, we lived in a little village. Elijah, Kol, Trevor, Finn, Henrik, and I were gentlemen and Rebekah was a sophisticated lady to everyone around us. Our mother was a very powerful witch. In our village there were werewolves. My mother had an affair with one and that's how I was born.
One night, Henrik and I went to watch the werewolves phase during the full moon. The rules stated only to watch, but it turned ugly and Henrik was killed. I layed his body down by our house and my family came out. I told them everything and we all grieved. And then my siblings and I lived upon the words “now and forever.” We kept these sacred words close. They were a promise that no matter what, we will stay together.
A few years later, Tatiana was an exquisite, beautiful lady. Every man wanted to be her suitor; husband. Elijah and I loved her too and our mother saw our shared love for her. She thought it would destroy the family so she killed her. She then did a spell and made us drink wine mixed with Tatiana's blood. We found out that Tatiana was the very first Petrova doppelganger. Her blood had made us all vampires. That's when we became the Original vampire-werewolf hybrid family.
Over the centuries, we fought and quarreled. We even slaughtered others. Elijah fought to keep his humanity. Finn, Kol, and I were the most ruthless of all. I killed my parents by daggering them, and then put them in separate coffins. I did the same to my siblings after a feud. It sounds horrible, I know, but I did it to keep my family together. No matter what it was though, we always solved our arguments and forgave one another.
In Bulgaria in 1492 during the sixteenth century, Elijah and Trevor met a Petrova doppelganger named Katerina Petrova. I and my other siblings were introduced to her by Trevor in England during a ball. She didn't have a place to stay, so I brought her home with us.
In England in 1492, I wanted to break the Moon curse and found that I needed Katerina. I had to drink from and kill a doppelganger during a ritual under a full moon. A hybrid, werewolf, vampire, and witch needed sacrificed. After that, I figured I'd phase and my curse would be broken; lifted.
One day in the same year, I made plans to do it that night. She was smart, though. She learned of what exists, what we are, and my plan. So she ran off through the woods and Trevor helped her escape. I was enraged and slaughtered her entire village, including her family.
For centuries, I searched for her, but she was always one step ahead of me. She even moved to America and changed her name to Katherine Pierce.
In 2009, Elijah killed Trevor for helping Katerina all those years ago, but gave Rose her freedom back. They had been running from us to stay alive. And in that same year, I came to Mystic Falls after I heard that there was a doppelganger there. I found Katherine there before I found Elena Gilbert, the doppelganger, but Katerina had been sired by Rose so she was useless to me.
Later that year, I succeeded in breaking the curse.
In 2012, my father was awakened by Katerina and sided with Damon and Stefan Salvatore, and Katerina to try and kill me. In the end, I killed my father and they lost.
In the same year, my mother was undaggered. She tried to kill us all; her own children. She did a spell to bind us together as one. The Salvatores and Petrovas knew we were bound together and Stefan killed Finn permanently. Troy and Sage followed after because they were in Finn's bloodline.
Earlier this year, which is 2013, Elena whom is a new vampire and Jeremy Gilbert, Elena's younger brother, killed Kol before I could get to their place to deal with him myself.
Before Elena and her friends graduated this year, I received a note from Katerina. She said that she heard about some witches conspiring against me. So I came to New Orleans only to find that Marcel, my childe that I sired 100 years ago, took over my town.
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