In the seconds that follow its chaos Embry is in front of Paul trying to get him to calm down, Jamie is blocking Arabelle from everyone's view and Sam and the rest of the pack are trying to figure out how something like this could happen.
The spirits matched you with someone who not only was supposedly your perfect match your- soul mate but also with the best chance of carrying on the wolf gene to the next generation, Arabelle is a Vampire they can't have children.
Once Paul stopped shaking he stood stock still his mind racing a hundred miles per hour he obviously figured out that he had imprinted but from what he had seen in his pack mates minds when you imprint you see your future with that person, he seemed to see a thousand years into the past.
He saw flashes.
two babies being born a boy and a girl, in the Viking age their names utter out loud, Arabelle, Niklaus.
A little girl in a wool dress her strawberry blonde hair in tangles whipping around her baby face, dirt smudged on her flushed cheeks, her human heart pounding in her chest while she ran laughter spilling from her mouth.
A girl who looked about fifteen who's strawberry blonde hair was braided neatly all the way down her back, her worn blue dress matching her eyes alight with mischief. She held a sword proudly in her dainty hands the blade crossed with that of an older gentleman his long hair was dark he smirked back at her.
The same girl now looking to be in her yearly to mid twenties aged beautifully the dress she wore then was white the bottom black with dirt as she ran through the forest calling back behind her "Come on nik!"
A scream. A little boy covered in blood. A pair of shaking hands reaching for him, the same white dress covered in blood. "HENRIK"
A stronger hand reaching out to strike the cheek of the young women.
And finally a curse.
He came back to reality to her voice, "I want to know what the hell just happened!" She demanded.
Sam stepped up to her toe to toe and while he stood at almost seven feet tall she still managed to seem bigger.
"After you tell us your story, the gangs all here remember?" He sneered nodding his head toward each of them.
"Paul, Embry. This is Arabelle. Now that we're all acquainted." He motioned with his large hand back over to the bonfire. She pulled her lips back in a snarl a low growl sounding from her throat but she didn't argue dropping harshly onto the large log in front of the fire.
Once everyone was seated and starting at her intently she took a deep breath and started her story, her eyes seemed to glaze over as she recalled the memories.
"The First members of our family were a man named Mikael and his wife Esther. Esther longed for a family, thought, after over a year of marriage, she found herself barren. She went to her sister Dahlia, and begged her to use her magic to grant Esther the ability to have children."
"Dahlia granted this request but made it clear that the magic had a price, and it was a price that Esther was forced to pay years later – her payment to her sister would be her first-born child, and the first-born of her children's children, and their children's children, for as long as Esther's line shall live. She then ordered Esther to pretend her first-born, my eldest sister Freya, had died of a plague, so that Mikael would never know what truly had happened to his daughter when he returned from battle."
Afterward, Esther and Mikael heard from a witch called Ayana, Esther's best friend and mentor, that there was a land where everyone was healthy and strong, a land that ended up being, what is now modern-day Mystic Falls. Mikael and Esther along with my eldest brother Finn, and recently born Elijah traveled to this paradise with Ayana, where they settled into a village full of the healthy people they had learned about. Werewolves. They lived peacefully for years.
"In the years to follow, Esther bore five more children: Myself and my twin brother Niklaus, Kol, my only other sister Rebekah, and our youngest brother Henrik. Mikael often clashed with Niklaus and I, we had an antagonistic and abusive relationship, which only became worse when Klaus Henrik and I snuck out to watch the werewolves transform one night, Henrik was accidentally mauled and killed."
"Grief-stricken, Mikael decided to search for a way to protect our family from the werewolves. Though our family friend Ayana refused to help him in fear of upsetting the balance of nature, Mikael soon found another witch who would help him- my mother, Esther. Somehow, they were able to find the immortality spell created by Qetsiyah a thousand years previously, and adapted the spell in order to give us abilities of superhuman strength, speed. Agility, and healing. Even stronger then those of the werewolves."
"Esther drew mystic symbols in order to fuel her spell; she called upon the Sun for life, and the white oak tree, long known for being one of earth's eternal objects, for immortality, so that she and Mikael would never again have to suffer the grief of losing a child. In order to complete the ritual, Mikael had us drink wine laced with the blood of Tatia, a petrova oppelganger and distant descendant of the worlds first immortal women, Amara before Mikael thrust his sword through our chests. We awoke in transition, and then on our fathers orders, drank human blood from a village girl in order to complete the transformation into the Original vampires. "
"Unfortunately, there were consequences for our transformation, and nature sought to try to restore the balance we upset by giving us a weakness for every strength we had gained. The sun that gave us life now burned us, our thirst for human blood was insatiable, our neighbors could close their homes to us by not inviting us inside. Vervain flowers, which grew at the base of the white oak tree, burned us and protected against compulsion. Finally the white oak tree that gave us our immortality, was the only substance of earth that could actually kill us."
"We burned it to the ground."
"But when Niklaus and I killed for the first time it triggered something, our werewolf gene. Which ultimately revealed the truth of our parentage to our family- Klaus and I were not Mikael's children, but instead the children of the chief of our village's werewolf clan, with whom our mother had an affair. Once Mikael learned of our mother infidelity and realized that her lover's pack – our Fathers pack were the werewolves who had killed Henrik, Mikael hunted down and killed our father and his entire family, igniting a war between Vampires and Werewolves that still exists to this day."
"Soon after Mikael forced out mother to curse Niklaus and I in order to make our werewolf side dorment so that we would not upset nature further by possessing so much power. We felt betrayed and in retaliation, we killed her. You have to understand that in the beginning we had no control over ourselves, we didn't think we needed any. We're the most power beings on earth, our Parents saw us as monsters and vowed to destroy what they had created. They hunted us for years."
"Niklaus and I broke the curse binding our werewolf side and became the worlds original hybrids, all vampires were created from us."
Their faces showed various shades of shock, horror and interest, Embry cleared his throat glancing at Paul out of the corner of his eye as he spoke, "So does being a hybrid mean you can shift into a wolf?"
"Yes," She said with a grimace, "It's a part of my bloodline and I feel the urge to shift often, though I try to refrain from it if I can, it's extraordinarily painful."
"How many of your family are still alive?" Leah asked bluntly.
Arabelle titled her head to the side thinking of the best way to answer that, knowing that Kol was daggered in a box somewhere and deciding to leave him out of the list for now, "These days it's just Elijah, Rebekah, Niklaus and I."
"How come we've never heard of you or your family before?" Jacob asked suspiciously.
"Because to the people who have never had the absolute pleasure of meeting us, we don't exist, to them we're just a legend a ghost story to tell around the camp fire, something you told your kids to keep them in the house after dark. Niklaus and I get around more them our other siblings, we have a more outgoing personality." She said with amusement dancing in her eyes a smirk on her pretty lips.
"What do you mean by that?" Paul asked uttering the first word's he had said since they sat down. Her eyes narrowed in on him scanning him from head to toe, she could hear his blood rushing through his veins and feel the heat radiating from him from where she sat and her heart picked up in excitement.
"Everything you are as a human is amplified as a vampire, Nilkaus and I were rebellious, reckless, impulsive, charming-" She smirked, "wild. We're the type of storm that blows through towns quickly and suddenly, we're damaged and we leave damage in our wake." She said tensely.
"One last question," Seth smirked eyeing Paul from across the fire, "Do you believe in love at first sight?"
Arabelle chuckled surprised at the question, she shook her head, "It has been said that all love beings and ends with she who gave us life. A thousand years ago, my mother turned us into monsters, yet still she claimed to love us even as she vowed to destroy us."
"I don't have much faith in love little wolf."