"Bella," Aro called from the steps of the library. That is where I spent most of my time these days. It kept me sane, and reminded me of the human life I once had many years ago.

Aro was very close to me. He looked at me as though I was his daughter, yet I was only one of his guards, nothing more and nothing less.

I looked up from my book with my red eyes aglow.

"Yes Aro?" I asked, I didn't like being bothered or interrupted while I was reading, but he was the head of everything and whenever he spoke to someone, he normally demanded that they responded.

"I need you to find Jane and Alec and join me in the main hall, there is a very important mission that I have for you three. I will explain," Aro exited the room as I slowly closed my book that I was reading.

I was reading about the America's. That's where I was born and raised for 18 years. My story starts back in Washington state, in a little town called Forks. That's where I grew up with my mother and father. They were great, treated me like any family should. I was happy living there. All my 18 years I was just a normal girl going to school every day and giving my parents hugs, but that one fateful night I made a mistake of going out with some friends way to late.

There were these guys. I shuddered at the memory that was so long ago. The harassed my friends and I. One of my friends died that night and I was on the brink of death. I could picture it clearly in my mind.

Blood dripping from my thighs spilling onto the asphalt, body trembling, vision lost from blood pouring from a cut in my head. I couldn't move. Either I didn't want to move, or I wasn't physically capable of doing so.

There was a dark shadowy figure about five feet from where I lay. My mind was telling me to get up and run away before I ended up dead, but I was fare to weak to do so.

They stepped closer and I realized that it was a man, very pale and deathly looking. He ran a finger over my cheek looking deeply into my eyes. I took note that his eyes were red and that he didn't seem like a threat.

My body relaxed, but the trembling never eased up. I let out a large gasp as he picked me up in his arms. He was freezing.

"Wh-o are you?" I muttered. It was a struggle to keep my mind focused on what was going on. I didn't know what to do. Should I fight back, let him take me to wherever he was going, or listen to what he had to say to me.

"I'm here to save you, it might burn a little bit, but I'm going to make you all better, you have such potential Bella," His hair was long and black and lay flat on his shoulders. He didn't look like he was from this time period.

He looked much older and wiser. "Who are you? I managed to mumble.

"My name is Aro and I'm going to make you into something great, you will thank me for this when you wake," Without giving me time to respond. Something cool and hard was piercing the flesh at my neck. My mouth fell ajar as my neck began to burn, like fire was being put directly into my blood stream. That's when it hit me that this man was biting me. Why was he biting me? I asked myself. I was dying and here he was biting me with his fangs? That didn't make any sense. Humans didn't have fangs, not that I was aware of. Maybe he wasn't a human. His name was Aro and here I lay in his arms limp and being bitten.

"What are you doing?" I asked. It became hard to think straight as the fire was ripping through my body.

He pulled his mouth away, blood dripping down the sides of his lips. My stomach lurched. That was my blood.

"You will thank me when you wake,"

I was taken into the depth's of the fire.

I shook those old thoughts away. He saved me that night, but it wasn't easy for Charlie and Renee to handle, seeing me supposedly dead in the coffin. It broke their hearts and that wasn't what I wanted. I lived and that wasn't fair to put them through my death, at such a young age.

Aro had taken me back with him to the land where he lived. In Volterra, Italy. This is where I remained and this is where I was to stay.

I stood from my laying down position and went to find Jane and Alec. They were their waiting outside the doors of the library.

"We were wondering when you would emerge from your chambers in the library," She cracked a small smile. If she ever did smile it was because something cruel was going on, or when she spoke to me.

We walked in silence to Aro.

"Welcome, now this is going to be a long and somewhat difficult mission that I want you three to go on. Bella, it will be most challenging for you," Aro looked into my eyes. I slowly nodded my head understanding that this was serious business, but I knew I could handle it, I was strong enough. I had enough training."You three are to go to America in the state of Washington," Aro's eyes flickered toward me. He knew what was running through my mind without even needing to touch me.

"There you will find the small town of Forks, I have been informed that there is a coven taking residency there, they go by the name Cullen. There are 7 of them. Now this isn't the kind of mission that you will be expecting, we are just taking in some information on them. I would like you three to go there and watch them, see what they do, what they are like and if they may be a threat to us." Aro was about to turn away, but something else caught his mind. "Oh and if any of them happen to have a special power, please don't hesitate to ask them to join us, that's something we need more of, now this will take over a period of a few months, can you do this for me?" I knew he was asking all three of us , but he was mainly asking me.

We all nodded or heads. "You two are dismissed, Bella come with me, Jane, you and Alec should feed, I don't know what the feeding conditions will be like there," Aro ushered them and brought me to his side with his arm around my shoulder.

"Bella, please tell me if this is going to be to difficult for you, I can send someone else," He looked into my eyes with gentle eyes.

"It will be of no difficulty to me, those years are long gone and I think I should be fine, you have nothing to worry about," He patted me on the shoulders and pulled me into a hug. It was cold and hard like always, but it was loving. I knew he loved me. "Your like a daughter to me Bella, I don't want to cause you pain," He whispered. I nodded my head slowly pulling away from the hug.

"I will be fine, I'll come back immediately if something were to go wrong, I will not fail you father," I often found myself calling him that. He was like a father figure to me, but he could never replace my real parents.

"Good, now flee my child, you need to feed before you take off, I don't want you getting hungry when you are there," I smiled as he let me go. I could do this. "Oh and Bella one more thing," I turned back to him as he called me back with his words as he had forgotten to tell me something.

"Don't get attached, whatever you do, I want you to come back the same Bella," That wouldn't be a problem would it.

A/N: So what did you think of the prologue. I just thought of this not to long ago. Tell me what you think and if I should continue with it. Thanks again.