A bodyguard. A stinking bodyguard. I don't understand why I needed one I can protect myself just fine. My name is Julie Nightshade and I am 17 years old. Your probably wondering about the whole bodyguard at the beginning right? Well let me explain. My father Ray Nightshade is a vampire shocking I know right?
And not just any vampire but the first ever vampire.. Well not the very first that will be my many great grandfather Vladimir. My mother Marissa is also one. We are part of an ancient secret vampire race which my father is the ruler. Our enemies are the witches who sought our kind to kill or use our powers for their own gain like personal lap dogs. One witch in peculiar had a target on her back.
A spell she had used was to bring back our dead. Stolen from our own vast treasure among them was a book of spells from my many great grandfather. No he wasn't a witch turned vampire no. Each vampire born like myself have unique powers among them being magic. But now it was mainly just power over the elements. My many great grandfather Vladimir was the last vampire to wield such power and his book was the last we had of him.
Since our break of security my father came to be paranoid. Not only was our book to bring back our dead was gone but a new vampire coven was born out of said book from the witch who stolen it. Hence the whole me having a bodyguard. The witches name was Esther and she manged to turn her family into vampires.
She called them the originals little did her family know that they weren't so original. You probably have a lot of questions but they will be sure to be answered. But we will have to start years later to where I finally met my bodyguard .
"Daddy I don't need a bodyguard mom tell him I can protect myself!" I pleaded to my mother but she only sighed before dad yelled.
"ENOUGH Juliette!" He shouted over his shoulder. My dad was a muscular man over a thousand millennias old and only looked to be in his late forties with black ruffled hair and tuxedo. His pale highcheek bones made many swoon over him. He gave off a wave of power and intimation that also gave fear and respect to his name. His dark black eyes dilated to the whites in his eyes.
Leaving no trace of white a clear sign he was angry and losing his patience with me. I immediately shut my mouth closed holding much anger in. "There has been attacks over the course of a year. All of which seemed to be werewolves" my father exclaimed.
My eyes narrowed in confusion. Werewolves happen to be our allys and friends another shocker huh? They helped to bring down Esther and her husband but their seven kids where nowhere to be seen.
"Who would be stupid enough to attack the wolfs? Their bites are fatal not only to our kind but witches and humans alike" mother asked worry clear in her eyes her only give away. Mother was a thing of beauty with long white blond hair and blue eyes. Her black dress hugged tight to her curves she gave off radiance and warmth.
But when angered those around her could feel the air being sucked from whatever room she was in and as cold as the arctic but she was loved by our people for she was kind and sweet a perfect match to my father and together they were both feared and loved. A balance.
I got my long black hair from my father and my mothers blue eyes. When angered only the blue ring of my irises showed while everything turned black much like my fathers. A common feature all vampires have.
"It appears that it was a wolf who is doing the attacks on the wolves." Father continued we were in a small study dad rarely uses it's dark curtains blowing softly in the light breeze from an open window. A sliver carpet in the middle and a black desk with over big chairs my mother and I currently sat in.
"But why would a wolf attack his own it doesn't make sense Ray" mother told him her blue eyes darkened some more her ability to see in the future and past was her gift.
"I can't see anything its like someone or the person themselves is cloaking them." Mother's eyes returned to their lighter color of blue dad just grunted and faced the window.
"That's because love the wolf isn't just a wolf"
"What do you mean dad if Hes not a wolf then he is a human he surly can't be a vampire or a created one by one of the seven" i asked him. The seven is what we called Esther's children we don't know their names we just knew how many there were.
"That is why you are to have a bodyguard Julie he is both vampire and wolf."
"Esther laid with a wolf" mother gasped I stood quite nothing like this has ever happened before a creature of both vampire and wolf was unheard of. Though many vampires have had affairs with wolfs none have ever reproduced. It wasn't possible sure they could get pregnant but the mother died during the six month mark in their pregnancy.
Along with the unborn child in their womb. That didn't stop them trying however our best researchers could never get around the problem leaving many to grieve for the loss of a wife and child. Yes wolfs and vampires have come to wed each other but not without being careful one bite and they can end their other half.
"It appears so. He is incredibly dangerous he has the power to make our kind to half wolfs as well."
"That's his gift isn't it? To make others like himself?" I stated rather than asked. Dad shook his head in conformation.
"That's not all along with that gift a bond is formed between him and the one he turned making the other to bend to his will no question asked"
"A sire bond? But that hasn't happened in centuries dad it was an old spell grandfather Vladimir had used to take over an human estate." I explained though unnecessary everyone knew how grandfather Vladimir in his last days took over Europe.
He knew he was dying and refused to accept it. We vampires die not from old age and it takes much to kill us without direct sunlight. A rogue wolf who believed to better than all vampires tried to take over taking a big bite off from dear old Vladimir.
A werewolf bite is like poison to us with no cure but as of recent a husband and wife. The wife being a wolf and her husband a vampire are working endlessly to make one. Vladimir went crazy from hallucinations and blood lust killing many innocent vampires wolfs and even humans in his dying wake.
It was his own son who had brought him down. My other many great grandfather Nathaniel who looked around my dad's age but much older. A sire bond was made when Vladimir needed someone to do his worst dirty work right before he died the sired person couldn't refuse as they worshiped the ground he walked on.
They killed and brought back the dead bodies of the fallen and Vladimir will suck their blood dry no matter if he was only gonna to throw up after. Whatever it took to try and live longer.
"It seems some of the spell Esther used had some side effects that only seemed to affect one out of the seven they all can compel as we do on their created as well but not us. As we are from the old." Dad added finally turning from the window and back at his desk did he sit down facing us.
"How do you know all this dad?" He had more Intel on the matter then I thought he would. Dad nodded his head and the door to the study opened reviling an auburn hair male with tan skin and looked ready to murder something has darken his aura leaving a shell of the man he once was.
"This is Stefan Salvatore he was an once involved with the trouble at hand. He seeks revenge and in order to make sure he gets it I made him your bodyguard. The bodies have been getting closer and closer to home so with that alone you will be going to a place called mystic falls to be hidden in plain sight." Dad finished I looked away from the newcomer and back to my dad in surprise.
"You expect me to leave my home?!" I asked outraged mother had stayed quite up till now.
"How is sending our daughter away helping Raymond?!" Mother hissed eyes blackening in anger. Father slammed his hands down on his desk a ranging bang echoing in the shallow walls .
"He is looking for something Marissa! No not something he's looking for her" he hissed back. I never seen my parents hiss at each other in my 500 years and seeing it now only made me terrified. I could see that my father was scared and that in itself made chills run down my cold body.
"Why me?" I whispered dad didn't answer but my new bodyguard did.
"He thinks your the key to taking over what your fathers rules" his bored smooth voice spoke as if it was clear as the night sky.
"Wha?... I don't see.."
'' Your his mate daughter"
"Dad come on that's all bedtime stories" I told him nervously. Dad only looked at me in the eyes before continuing .
"What do you know of your grandfather Nathaniel and his wife Skylar?" He asked me I stayed quite thinking back to all my lessons as a child and the many stories my teachers told me of our history.
"He and Skylar were the reason we came to peace with the wolfs in the first place. After grandfather killed Vladimir he met Skylar among the many families that were slaughtered to help repair the damage he caused."
"And they were mated not long after. Every wolf has a mate sweetheart Nathaniel is Skylar's mate and her family and the other wolfs knew better then to fight a bond of a soulmate. So your grandfather promised protection from the witches and lives far better then they lived currently and we've been at peace ever since."
"So it's all true soul mates and the like? Why tell me it was a bedtime story why tell me all this now" I asked getting ready to break something. Mother just reached over to take hold of my hand.
"Finding one's mate is rather rare sweetie. Some wolfs go their entire lives without finding their mate having to have children with another to continue their lines." Mother explained to me. "Which is why we explained it as bedtime stories"
''If there so hard to find how do we know for sure I'm this wolfs mate?" I asked them feeling rather smug thinking they couldn't answer it but it was Stefan who cut my smug feeling down a notch.
"He has several witches to find out for him. He threatened their lives of there loved ones to get them to do what they other wise wouldn't do" Stefan finished the conversation there I knew better to question if he was lying or not dad had a gift among others to tell if someone lied to him or not.
And if this Stefan was lying dad would have had his head rolling on the floor without even blinking. Father turned to me getting up from behind his desk.
"You will pack and leave at daylight" his word was final not giving mother to say other wise. Getting up with out looking at them I turned to walk out to start packing my things. We could walk in the sunlight but not without a daylight ring or some sort of jewelry to put a spell on it to help us walk in the sun without burning to death.
Mine were earrings. A dark blue moon shaped earrings that blended in well with whatever I wore. Packing things away in a suitcase I thought back to what happened in dads study. The man Stefan was void of his human emotions something that was very clear to all three of them so how did dad trust him?
Old vampires like us didn't have the ability to turn off the part that made us human. It wasn't like we wanted to anyway feeling anything like love or love for family and whats right made us stronger so we believed that emotions made us stronger.
The created just turned it off at will to become more ruthless it was a bit sad. Looking at my things that are now packed. I knew I had to get some sleep it was gonna be a long day come first sunlight and many days that are sure to follow.