A/N: Hii and thank you for taking your time to read this story :)

The story is partly AU, so I won't be following the storyline completely, but just so you know when all of this is taking place, then it starts in season 1 around episodes "The Turning Point" and "Bloodlines"

Btw, this story is rated M for lime scenes ;D

Disclaimer: (Sadly) I do not own the Vampire Diaries or any of its characters, but I do own those that aren't in the books or show ;)

Enjoy!

xoxo Ascha

Vampire Diaries - Nagual

Chapter 1:

The cold breeze sent a shiver through the lone white wolf's body as it calmly paced through the snow covered woods. It kept it ears and eyes open for anything human in the area and caught a strange smell in the air that made it stop abruptly and raise its nose up in the cold wind. It inhaled the strange smell and knew precisely what it was. It was a human, yes, but not an ordinary human being.

Calmly, it began pacing towards it and listened carefully for any movements from the abnormal human that was in the woods in the middle of the night as well. And as it came nearer to the other being, it began slowing down and made sure that the other being didn't notice its smell or movements. It carefully stuck its head out from behind the bushes and watched as the strange human was burying something in the cold ground.

The being had midnight black hair that went to just below his earlobes, a perfect masculine jaw, sky-blue eyes, and was very fit. The wolf watched the being that continued burying, what it could smell was now a dead and normal human being, and was fascinated by the sight. It had seen many strange things and persons the last many years, but this creature was unlike anything it had ever seen.

Suddenly, an owl took off from a branch just above the wolf and that made the being look towards the wolf's direction. The wolf quietly took a step back and hid behind the bushes, blending in with all the thick layers of snow around and under it.

The being moved his gaze back to the hole he was filling up and when he finished his job, he swiftly disappeared as if he had never been there. The wolf came out from its hiding spot and walked slowly up the grave that had been planted on unholy ground. It sniffed the dark ground and caught the scent of the being mixed with some sort of beverage and something that was very much familiar to the hungry, white wolf.

Human blood.

Alone the smell made its sharp teeth become wet with saliva and it chose not to wait for any longer with finding something to eat. It continued pacing through the street, until it caught the smell of something else in the air. It was an animal.

Normally, it would only prey on animals whenever there were no humans around and this was one of those times. It began walking slowly towards the large male deer with snow covered antlers in front of it and when the deer heard a twig snap under the wolf's paw, it immediately looked towards it with malicious eyes.

The wolf grinned and leaped from the ground quicker than the deer could react, aiming solely for the deer's throat. Its sharp teeth sunk into the deer's neck even though the deer tried hard to shake the wolf off and was eventually knocked down on the ground, bleeding heavily from the wound on its throat. It didn't let go of the wound yet, though, but waited until the deer bled out before it started feasting on the juicy meat and drank its blood fervently.

As dawn finally appeared to the blood soaked wolf, it finally let go of the deer and started walking towards the nearest lake as it watched the sun rise slowly. The sky had been covered with strokes of soft colors at first, but as the sun rose the colors became more and more intense, until the sun was finally shining beautifully in the sky and lighting up the quiet town known as Mystic Falls.

The white wolf jumped into the icy cold water and washed the blood off its thick fur and when it walked up the banks of the lake again, it shook its whole body until most of the water was gone. It then began walking towards the town and as it left the woods, it transformed into a human-like girl with long, white-blond hair, hazel eyes, and full lips.

The girl grabbed the clothes she had left in her old pickup truck and pulled a clean lumberjack shirt and a pair of worn dark jeans up from her equal worn duffle bag after drying her naked body with a towel. She wetted her cold lips as she tied her damp hair in two loosely bound pigtails and then at last put her sneakers on before stepping inside the old truck.

The long drive into town took almost half an hour, but while she was driving she had the chance to enjoy some music for a little while. She turned on the car stereo and tried tuning in on the right channel. She stopped tuning in on the channel she was looking for when she heard a man talking about a local woman, who disappeared from the town last night at a party.

The man also talked about strange animal attacks that had been going on lately in the town, which immediately caught her interest. She turned the volume up and listened to the man's words as he told about how people had been disappearing mostly at night and then been found dead mostly in the woods, drained for blood and with a nasty bite mark in their throat.

Although, this could very much be her works, then she had only just arrived at this town last night and according to the man the animal attacks had been going on for a couple of months now. She sighed and wondered if the fascinating human-like being she had seen in the woods was the one who was behind the animal attacks and if the being was like her. She had not met anyone like her for a very long time, so of course she missed having someone to talk with her natural instincts about.

When she finally arrived in town it was almost 9:00 AM, so she went to the nearest open place and that place was named the 'Mystic Grill', which was a cozy local restaurant where teens might like to hang out and get a drink. She walked inside the quiet restaurant and sat down at one of the many available tables. She looked around in the restaurant and could tell by how little people there were here that all the teenagers were in school right now.

"Hello and welcome to the Mystic Grill," a young waitress at the age of 20 said, taking her attention away from the rest of the restaurant. "What would you like to order, miss?"

"A piece of strawberry pie and a cup of cappuccino," she said kindly and instinctively licked her lips hungrily by the scent of the waitress's smell. If she had not just eaten a whole deer she would have jumped on the young woman and gotten herself in trouble. "I think I want a chocolate muffin too."

The waitress nodded and went to get her costumer's lunch, while she waited at the table and took in her new environment. She sat still for a moment and merely stared at the hem of her shirt, but then she suddenly picked up a familiar scent in the air and saw the young man from last night, walking towards her. He briefly looked at her and met her eyes, but he continued walking towards another table nearby and sat with his back towards her.

"Here you go, miss," the waitress said, handing the girl her piece of pie, cappuccino, and her muffin. "Enjoy!"

The girl nodded and took a sip of her cappuccino to warm her cold body. She first ate the pie in silence, but when she began parting the muffin in smaller pieces and ate the pieces, she couldn't resist the temptation to look at the man became simply too much for her and she looked up from her plate at him. He was drinking a cup of black coffee and enjoying the quiet morning just as she was.

How do I find out who he is? Or should I say 'what' he is? She thought wonderingly and rested her chin on her hand. Even if he's not like me, then it's great to know who else lives in this quiet town…

Her cell phone suddenly started vibrating in her pocket, so she took her eyes off him and looked at the caller ID. It was a friend of hers, who was almost like her, but they were still two completely different creatures. They just had some of the same habits like preying on innocent humans at night and drinking their blood to survive.

"Hello, my old friend," she said softly, smiling weakly. "You are wondering if I arrived safely, yes?"

"Yes," her friend said with his usual British accent. "I hope that cold weather has not been too cruel on you."

"It has not, but thank you for your concern, Elijah. I will call you back once I have located her."

"Thank you, Cosette… I must go now, but I wish you good luck."

Cosette thanked her friend and they said their goodbyes. She looked towards the table where the young man had been, but he was now gone and at his table was now an older couple. She finished eating her muffin, paid for her lunch, and left the warm restaurant once again. She scanned the streets around her and noticed that she was being watched by a lone crow that sat up in a tree nearby and tried keeping itself warm.

With a low whistle, she made the crow fly down to her and gently stroked its snow covered dark wings, listening to its complaint of how cold it was outside and how little food it could find. She walked with it to her truck and took out a piece of bread from her duffle bag that it gladly ate.

"There is something I need you to do for me now," Cosette said softly, stroking its head gently. "I need you to keep an eye on the young man in the leather jacket. Do you understand?"

The crow understood and it flew away towards the direction the man had driven, while Cosette continued her search for a certain someone, whom her friend had been looking for for years. She too had looked for the person and still remembered how she looked even after all those years. She therefore knew where she had to look first and went to the only public high school in the town.

The school was filled with young teenagers and they were walking from classroom to classroom when she arrived and entered the front entrance.

Cosette held her eyes and ears open for the person she was looking for as she walked towards the principal's office to enroll herself at the school. She looked about twenty years old, so she discretely made herself a few years younger to fit in and no one seemed to know that she was in reality much older than twenty.

It didn't take long for her to make the principal give her a schedule and let her enroll the school just like that, but that was mostly because she had used her powers on him. She then swiftly went to the school library to fetch her books, just before her first period began and the teacher arrived. She easily found herself a seat in the classroom and noticed that all the students were staring at her, because they hadn't heard that a new student would start in the school today. Not even the teacher did.

"Well… I see that we have a new student here," the History teacher Mr. Alaric Saltzman said. "I am Alaric Saltzman and we have just begun on a new topic today. Would you like to tell something about yourself before we begin?"

Cosette nodded and as she rose from her seat she noticed someone highly familiar sitting nearby. She smiled at the sight of the young girl with the dark brown hair and dark brown eyes, and wondered if she had truly found the person she was looking for that easily.

"My name is Cosette Wolfe," she said, grinning a bit of the irony of her choice of surname this time. "I just moved here from Cannes in France with my family."

Mr. Saltzman nodded and she heard a couple of greetings from her new classmates. She sat down again and looked one more time at the dark haired girl, who sat next to another strange being who slightly reminded her of the one she saw in the woods and at the restaurant. She wondered if he was like her too and if he knew the other strange being.

She smells human, looks human, and acts nothing like the one I'm looking for, but I cannot deny that they look completely alike, Cosette thought and frowned slightly. She moved her gaze back to the blackboard and wanted to groan when she saw what today's topic was. I really do not understand why teachers want to teach the younger generation of something they do not need to know. I would know since I lived through it.

"Okay, class," Mr. Saltzman said half-heartedly. "Let me hear what you all know about the 6-day war..."

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