10th Century

My name is Emma Elizabeth Swan. My life is well... complicated. And I'm as many will call unique and others will call weird. My father, Jonathan Swan, fell in love with my mother Athena; therefore I'm a demigod, meaning half mortal half god. But what we didn't know was that my father was also a demigod, he is a son of Hecate. She is the goddess of magic and crossroads, so I can do magic also but not as powerful as my dad could. I was born in London, England and lived with my dad, my step mother and my half brother, Matthew, until I was 4 years old. That was when my father decided to travel with the Vikings around the world and he took me, his only daughter.

We arrived at night in a full moon, while we were looking for a safe place to sleep, we were attacked by an animal it looked a lot like a wolf but its bright yellow eyes looked somehow human. It attacked my dad first, I got so scared I was only 4 years old , I didn't have a mother, and I didn't have any siblings if I lost my dad I would be on my own and in a island that I didn't knew. My dad told me to run and not to stop until I get to the ship, right after he finished the sentence the "wolf" ripped his head out. I started to scream and cry. I was in shock and I didn't want to leave him there, but I had to get away from the animal.

I run for about 30 minutes with still a good distance from the animal, but then I fell into a hole, it wasn't really a hole it was more like a tunnel. I took the tunnel into my advantage and started to run in it until I found a family, the father, the mother, 5 children. The mother saw me all scared and crying and she tried to help, she asked me my name, how did I get there and what had happen, she was really nice and loving. The family accepted me in with open arms and in no time it was like we were really siblings, they helped me move on from my father's death and made me feel loved and part of the family.

I found out that the oldest child was named, Elijah, then came Finn, then Niklaus (nickname: Nik, Klaus), next Kol. There was only one girl called Rebekah and she was the same age as I was, as the years went by Henrik was born. I grew a very close relationship with Elijah, Nik, Kol and Rebekah, or as I called it, "a special bond" with them! Rebekah and I were more than sisters, we were best friends.

I found out that the animal that killed my dad were the lycanthropes or werewolves and they were our neighbors, I was heartbroken for I few years but my new family helped me move on, all of them except the father "Mikeal" I never really called him father, the mother was called Esther but she told me to call her mom and so I did. She was the original witch. When I2 years old I started doing magical stuff, that I couldn't explain, Esther thought that I was a witch but she was wrong. We later on of discovered that my powers were caused because my father was son Hecate, the goddess of magic.

Every full moon we hid in the tunnels so that we couldn't have any problems with the werewolves but one full moon, when I was 18 years old, Nik and Henrik sneaked out to see the men turn into wolves but something terrible happened, Henrik got killed by a lycanthrope. Nik brought his death body in the morning. We were all saddened but mom and Mikeal were devastated, so that night they both had a meeting with the witch, Ayana. Rebekah heard the whole conversation and she told me what they talked about, she told me that Ayana refused to help them ,create a spell to make us immortal, in fear of upsetting the balance of nature, that they wanted something that would heighten and oppose the werewolves' own abilities. Strength, agility, and speed. Esther drew magic on mystic symbols to create the spell. She used the Sun as the symbol for life and the white oak tree, one of nature's few eternal objects, as the source for our immortality. In order to complete the ritual, Mikael had us drink wine mixed with blood of Tatia, the doublegängler and then he slashed his sword through our chests. We awoke in transition, and as our father ordered, drank human blood, completing our transformation into the originals vampires.

Nature, however fought back, and for every strength we had there was a weakness. The sun that gave us life burned us, our thirst was uncontrollable, and our neighbors could close their homes to us. Vervain flowers that grew at the white oak tree burned us and protected against our compulsion. The white oak tree, which gave us immortality, could also destroy us. In the end, we decided to burn the tree, so that we could truly live forever. When Klaus made his first kill he activated his werewolf side, and since I also was a hybrid part vampire, part demigod and part sorceress, I was also dangerous. My powers brought really bad weather and powerful storms when I got mad. So our mother made a curse that blinded our special abilities. Klaus got really mad at mother that went to ripped her heart out, I saw it all and when he saw I had been there all the time he told me to not say a thing, to say that Mikeal had killed her. I had never seen Klaus like that, but I blamed it on our heightened emotions. When I became a vampire all my personality was heightened, some in a good way other in a bad way. That night we buried are mother's body and we made a promise that we will stay together always and forever. I really hoped that could we true, but that promised was broken short after we made it.