Author's Note: This story starts quite a bit after Esther created The Original Vampires. They will feature heavily in this story later on but first I have to get past Bria, Cote & Blanche's background story and let them find their way. They will be in Mystic Falls eventually too and they'll cause all sorts of drama and mayhem there and don't forget New Orleans! I will let them go with the Originals to New Orleans but they'll have a few road bumps before they get there! I might incorporate them into story lines in ways you won't expect. Don't worry, no story line will be taken away from a main character of course.

Also: I appreciate any reviews I get, good or bad. This is my second fanfiction and reviews help me feel motivated and also help me learn! So please criticize anything you think is wrong or simply don't agree with. Oh and incase anyone has spotted this story here before, well it was one of the first ones I wrote but I got embarassed and took it down but now I felt like putting it back up again except I did change a few names, that's it though :) Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own The Vampire Diaries or The Originals. Just my OC's; Bria, Blanche and Cote.

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Chapter 1 - "Ordinary Life"

"Bria, he's just a boy. Please! Take your leave and do him no harm."

"...Bria?"

Life wasn't always this way, I was a girl once but that was a long time ago. Yes indeed it surprises most that this monster had a life before this one. A life that I had traded for another. A life that consisted of no more then an ordinary village and a very ordinary little family. That life seemed a long way away from this one afterall it was like I said it was a very long time ago in a very dull little village that I used to call home. That we called home. The village where this all started, where I could have been stopped. That village I remember...

A fountain stood tall and majestic in the middle of our village. It's cobblestone base and walls glistening with beauty and stature. The marketplace east of the low-roofed houses with layers of straw laid before their doors. We had just had a massive wash-out, floods they called it. God's anger the farmers preached at the entrance to the market as we had allowed the witches to live among us and witches these days were not well thought of. I never did understand why, whenever I saw them they mostly gave me a quick smile and then just kept to themselves. But then again in those days we all kept to ourselves as dark times we were having; there was talk of beasts in the west which was never good. These beasts weren't your typical kind either, they were werewolves!

Yes, I said it, werewolves. When the moon hides behind the sky the wolves come out and play. They'll eat you for supper which will paint the walls red and then come morning they'll be just bones left in your bed. This is what my father would tell me and my siblings every night after dinner to keep us in check which then my mother would scowl at him and remind him of our age. But to him age was not a factor as we had already lost our uncle to them, the wolves. It had drove my father mad, he scoured every map and every cave looking for the feral beasts that had taken his brother but he always ended up coming home with just bumps and bruises and a more determined face then ever before.

You're probably wondering about my family aren't you? Well there was 5 of us, Me, Cote, Blanche, and father and mother. My mother's name was Marlena and my father's was Felix. We lived in a little house in the middle of a row of houses exactly alike.

2 years after the floods had come and gone the village was doing well. The water had revitalized a lot of the farmlands that the people thought were no longer fertile so things were looking up. My father had not given up on the hunt for the wolves that killed his brother but he did leave the village less often which kept my mother and siblings happy. I too had learned to be happy, I had made the acquaintance of a boy my age. His name was Tobias, his father was a stonemason and had actually helped build the very foundations of the fountain the village had been built around. I was impressed to say the least.

Tobias had also told me that his father was helping with the building of more houses so that the people from the west could come and live here in peace. I liked the idea of more people in the village afterall more people meant the village would prosper and who knows? If father's stock sells well enough maybe we could have three meals instead of two!

However, the dreams of a 12 year old girl rarely come true.

One night after Tobias had walked me home from the market a horde of men from our village ran through our street. I opened the door and stood there watching in confusion and wonder. Where were they all going? and why so urgently? All of a sudden I was yanked inside, it was father.

He only whispered

"They're here, Bria."

He then told me to take Cote and Blanche to our room and hide under our beds which he then followed by instructing me to not come out until he came for us.

I proceeded to follow his instructions but then I wondered...

"Where is mother?" I asked

"I am going to look for her. I need you to be brave Bria. Be a brave girl for me. Look after your sisters."

"Father!" I cried as I held onto his arm as tight as I could

"Bria!" He threw me off his arm and onto the floor.

I nodded in understanding and wiped my tears away with the sleeve of my shirt.

"I shall return for you all. Be safe."

That was the last time I saw him.

I grabbed Cote and took Blanche's hand and we hid under our beds just like father told us to and we waited.

A few hours I had guessed had gone by since we had taken refuge under the beds, I could see lights outside and we could hear the horrific sounds of men drawing their last breath.

I told my siblings that I thought I had heard father come back and I wanted to take a look. They pleaded with me not to go but I stayed strong and told them that I would be back in a second.

They seemed somewhat satisfied with that so I made my way into the other room.

I could still hear men outside, I jumped with every sound trying my best to be as quiet as possible, checking the windows to see if I could make any sense out of what was going on.

That was when I saw them.

The Vampires.

Author's Note: Tell me what you guys thought? Is it any good? Should I continue? I will post the next chapter tomorrow regardless just to see what people think or if their opinions change. Thanks for reading!