Summary: Kol is bored, and when Kol is bored, he needs entertainment. Elijah and Rebekah are not pleased with what he comes up with.

Elijah and the Penguins

Chapter One:

Elijah raised an eyebrow, looking at the strange sight before him. In all the years of his existence he had never met such disrespectful, such arrogant creatures (although Damon Salvatore had come close on certain occasions). Did they not realize what he was? He stared hard at his opponents, as if the force of his glare alone could make them back down.

The penguins gave him a flat stare in return, before waggling past him slowly. Elijah watched them leave, unsure of how he should react to such behavior. Before he could formulate a plan, the penguins had already disappeared around the corner, and he knew that the chances of finding them again were slim. Niklaus had been thorough in designing their new home and there were more secret passages than Elijah had cared to find out. One could walk for days through the hidden hallways and never run into someone.

The thought that they were penguins, and therefore inferior bird-like creatures with no real intelligence didn't even occur to him. If they were truly stupid, they would not have survived so long in the mansion. That only left the question of how they had gotten in without being noticed, because if he were honest with himself (and Elijah always tried to be whenever possible) the penguins were quite hard to miss. They couldn't have gotten in without being seen by anyone, so that must mean that someone had let them in.

The answer was so obvious that for a moment he feared that his age had somehow caught up with him and made him forgetful. The next moment he was walking through the hallways at a brisk pace. Within a minute he arrived at the basement of the mansion and threw open the wide doors.

What he found was shocking, but on the other hand completely unsurprising. The basement, that had been a sparsely furnished (fifth) sitting room only three days ago, had been transformed into a high-tech laboratory, with machines purring away on the right side, and several cages on the left.

Several open cages.

Near the machines and monitors stood his youngest (undead) living brother, looking at the – were those security cameras? When had Kol managed to install those? And how had he not noticed them?

Absently Elijah wondered who was paying the electricity bills for this house, cause it sure as hell wasn't going to be him.

At that moment his brother looked up, a slightly worried look passing over his face before he replaced it with a quick smile.

"Brother! I didn't expect to see you down here," Kol said walking towards him.

Elijah frowned, annoyed.

"I was not planning on coming here, but I just had an -" He paused, looking for the right word, "unfortunate run-in with several birds, and I thought you might know something about that."

Kol's grin only seemed to become bigger.

"You saw them? Aren't they great?" He turned back to the monitors, his grin replaced by a slightly confused face as he continued. "I can't find them anywhere though. They seem to have escaped their cages. Quite an achievement for creatures with no proper hands."

Elijah was not impressed.

"Yes, but what -"

He was interrupted when the doors suddenly flew open and their sister stormed in, dragging one of the penguins by its wing.

"What. Are. These?" she ground out at Kol, emphasizing each word. Elijah noticed that Rebekah's hair was out of its normal shape, and that her clothing looked slightly ruffled, as if she had been in a fight. The penguin was knocked out cold, but then Elijah had expected nothing less of his sister. Rebekah had always hated being ignored, and if the penguins had acted the same as with him, he could imagine what had happened.

Kol's smile widened as he took in Rebekah's ruffled appearance.

"Had a little tussle with the pets, sister? I thought you had at least some standards."

Elijah winced as Kol once again managed to take his teasing too far. Rebekah looked about to explode in anger, so of course Kol had felt the need to antagonize her even more.

"Shut up, Kol!" she hissed at him, throwing the penguin she was still holding on the floor in front of her brother. She had yet to acknowledge Elijah's presence, which was fine by him, as he did not wish to be on the receiving end of her temper unless necessary.

"What are these birds doing in our house? I know you must have something to do with it, Kol, you always do. Well, answer me?" she added when Kol kept his mouth shut, eyes twinkling with uncontrolled mirth.

"You told me to shut up," he helpfully reminded her, seemingly fighting a smile.

Elijah suppressed a sigh. He had over the years managed to forget how terribly childish his younger brother could be. Trying to put a stop to the argument that was about to happen, he spoke up.

"Kol, why are there penguins walking around in our house? And don't," he added sternly when Kol opened his mouth, "say 'because they escaped their cages'."

Kol closed his mouth.

"Why are they in this house? What were you doing with them in here?"

A/N: As you may have realised, there is no real point to this story, it's just some random, weird idea that I came up with. The only reason why I'm even publishing it is because a friend of mine wanted to know how the story continues. To be honest, so do I. I already have something planned out in my head, I just need to get myself to write it.

So yes, this story will be continued. I don't know when, but probably sometime soon.

If you liked it (or if you didn't like it) please review, I love to get some feedback, even if it is on story about Penguins. Also if you see any grammar mistakes, please tell me, English is not my first language and although I like to think of myself as quite good at it, I know I still make some silly mistakes.