Katherine Pierce's Sister

Chapter 1: Turned

(Year 1543)

My name is Crystal Pierce, formerly Crystal Petrova before dad kicked us out because Katherine had a child out of wedlock.

I have the same wavy brown hair as Katherine I also have the same height as her, but I had emerald green eyes and lighter skin, although if you're far you would think I'm Katherine. I am currently 16 years old, a year younger than Katherine.

I was waiting in the woods on our usual meeting place and was waiting patiently, Katherine suddenly appeared in front of me and I screamed but when I saw who it was I said "Katherine will you please stop doing that to me."

She just smirked and said "But it's fun, I like scaring you."

I sighed and said "What do you want big sister?"

She smiled and adoringly held my face with both her hands and she said "I want you to be with me forever dear, Crystal. I'm a vampire and you are my sister so I would like to share my world with you, so I will turn you."

I stuttered "Y-you're a vampire!" She held her finger on front of my lips, which meant I need to be quiet, I nodded and lowered my voice, saying "Are you really going to turn me?"

She nodded and said "Is it alright with you?"

I thought about it for a moment and said in my head 'A gentle, sweet and kind person like me becoming a vampire? Is this really what I want? If this is my sister's world, I have to accept it and share it with her. I've been with her on her darkest hours so I will for all eternity. I will agree with her!'

I nodded at her and she bit her wrist and said gently "Drink up, honey."

I did what I was told, the truth is I liked the taste of her blood and actually sucked it enjoyingly. After a few seconds, she pulled away and I wiped my mouth, she smiled at me and said "Say goodbye to your old self, little sister. Will you kill yourself or would you rather let me do it?"

I smiled a bit and said "Kill me," she suddenly said "This will hurt a bit go close your eyes."

I closed my eyes tightly and I felt her grasp my neck and she snapped it to the side. I woke up in a dark room, I couldn't breath and someone said "She can't breath, welcome her in."

Someone, a woman too said "Come in, Crystal."

I suddenly gasped for air, I turned to the direction of the voice and I saw two women and Katherine.

They were smiling and I said "Thank you." The woman with dark wavy hair who looked 16 too smiled and said "I'm Anna and that woman with tanned skin and straight dark brown hair is my mother Pearl."

I shook her hand, Katherine came to me and she said "You've been in transition for two hours, Crystal." I nodded and said "Is it normal to feel my throat dry and I feel hungry?"

She smiled and said "Come on, let's go get you some blood." I let her pull me to a road and we waited a bit and suddenly I heard footsteps coming our way.

We hid in the bushes and waited until the man got in front of the bush, still walking confidently, when he got to the front of us Katherine pounced on him and bit him. I looked worriedly at Katherine and she said, "Go on, we need to feed to survive, you can do it. I know you, you're strong. Turn off your emotions and think of it as a way of surviving."

I suddenly felt no worry when I concentrated on having no emotions, I felt my eyes become red and my fangs grew out with the smell of blood and we both drained him. Katherine smiled and said "I told you, you can do it."

I laughed and she pulled me back to Pearl's house and she said to Anna "Your mother and I are going back to the castle, take care of my sister and help her control herself, you know she's a new born so be careful."

Anna nodded and said "I always am careful, Katherine. Goodbye, mother." Katherine and Pearl smiled and Pearl hugged Anna and I was hugged by my sister, after pulling away they ran off.

The day went well and Anna was telling me stories on how her mother got turned when she was 10 in the year 1730 and she decided to turn her when she aged 16. Anna was reading a book and I was walking to the kitchen to get a drink when I heard a very high pitched sound and I dropped to the floor clutching my head and so did Anna.

The door was kicked open and a bunch of men dressed in black carried me and Anna to a carriage and made me drink something. I weakened because of the drink exactly when the noise died down, in the carriage I noticed a lot of unconcious vampires with Anna by my side, there were 26 in there excluding me and Anna but at the back I saw two unconcious figures, Katherine and Pearl.

"Oh no! We're all caught." I thought to myself, I was still limp and weak because of the drink, when the carriage stopped, the men hauled all of us into a burning house, but I looked around and recognized the place.

This was Fell's Church and it was being burned. I was carefully gaining strength as well as Katherine, she stood up and ran to me, she pulled me to my feet and I carried Anna while Katherine carried Pearl.

I whistled for my horse, it's a good thing that I left her and Katherine's horse in the fenced fields to graze. My horse came faster than Katherine's and I carefully climbed and placed Anna's limp body behind me with her arms hanging over my shoulders and her head on my back.

I saw Katherine's black horse, Midnight came over and stopped in front of his owner and Katherine put Pearl on him and she climbed up, but it's obvious she's still weak like me but I managed to control the weakening and hunger. We gallopped to the woods and I saw Katherine's friend, Louis.

I tied the horse to a tree and Katherine did also, I smirked at her and she knew what I was thinking. Katherine wiped her blood all over her clothes and body and waited for Louis to come across her.

When Louis saw Katherine on the ground, he rushed over to her and said "Katherine, are you okay? Please wake up!"

Katherine groaned a bit and said weakly "I'm fine, I just need blood."

Louis stumbled backward and said "B-b-blood?" Katherine smirked and rose to her feet, she then ran vampire speed to Louis and bit him which sent blood gushing out, Katherine motioned for me to join her and I did.

I took a cup from my horse, Snow's saddle bag and filled it halfway with blood and Katherine took another cup and filled it too. We rushed to Anna and Pearl and I raised the rim over Pearl's slightly open mouth and a drop went down her throat, her eyes snapped open and black veins surrounded her eyes which became red, she took took the cup and drank the contents greedily.

I saw Anna did the same. "Crystal, do you know a place we can stay in?" Katherine asked me and I answered "Dad, gave me a place when he banished us, he said after we leave, we can stay there but I just kept it as a safe house, since it's a bit far from the city and it's a mansion anyways."

"Where is it?" they asked eagerly, "On the far outskirts of this town to the east near a lake. It's a bit farther from here, we'll reach it tomorrow noon if we're humans and walking but only about 5 minutes if we ran vampire speed."

I answered and they waved me onward and I ran, after exactly 5 minutes we reached it and I didn't know it was that marvelous, father just told me about it but I knew the coordinates so I was able to find it also because I'm a great navigator and tracker.

We entered and I quickly got a room out of hundreds, actually it was already marked with my name so I entered. Katherine took a room at the north wing and Anna and Pearl got the room in front of mine.

I explored it and got myself into a library with, by the looks of it had thousands if not millions of books. It had a fireplace, 2 armchairs, a sofa and a table with 8 chairs in the middle of the room. I left the library and found a kitchen, it was filled with utensils already, I found a bathroom for each bedroom, I also found a secret room in the northern hallway when I pulled an awkward looking statue, and hundreds of other rooms I will fail to enumerate in a day.

I found a stable and I already saw 8 horses there which looked new so I whistled for Snow and Midnight and shut them in two stalls. I explored and I found a farm with all kinds of farm animals, well-fed which means father sends people to take care of the house.

I also found a large meadow with fences and three tracks for horses divided by fences, the first track had nothing and was for plain races, the second had hurdles and the third had running water, hurdles and lots of obstacles, 'Good' I thought to myself, I had a training field for horses.

I also saw two carriages without horses in a barn-like place and a field for growing crops. The next day, I posted posters around the city looking for hand-maidens, cooks, farmers, house-help, horse tamers and soldiers for the mansion, lot's of people arrived knocking at the gate to ask for work, most of the experienced ones, I accepted as well as some newbies. One of the handmaids caught my attention, her name was Emily Bennett and she was a witch. I was asked by Katherine to hand her over to her and I agreed.