Reborn as a Gilbert

I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT MY IDEAS AND EVERYTHING I WRITE IS FICTION

Summary: Riley Collins was a normal sixteen-year-old foster kid from Harlem. One night her curiosity got the better of her and it cost her her life, or that is what she thought. One moment she lays on the ground in the middle on Central Park where her life was being drained from her and then the next she is being reborn into a world where Vampires were real and her family has a legacy of vampire hunting. This is her journey.

Chapter 4: Pilot Riley POV

The next day Riley had just come in from her run and was getting water from the fridge when her aunt came into the room and like always didn't even pay attention to her youngest niece. As Jenna got some papers together for her meeting, Riley went upstairs to take a shower and get ready for a long day of misery and torture. Unfortunately, she passed BHB (Brown Hair Bimbo) on the stairs, and like always BHB couldn't keep her mouth shut.

"You know you stink right. You smell like the guy's locker room."

"Well, at least I don't smell like shit. I mean I know you are nose blind to it but since you talk out of your ass all day it was bound to happen." Riley replied before continuing on her way.

Speechless to Riley's comeback Elena stomps down the stairs like she is a five-year-old child who just got told she couldn't have a cookie. Riley ignores Jeremy as he falls to the ground laughing his ass off but on the inside, she is grinning like a canary.

By the time she returns to the kitchen everyone else is gone, leaving Riley by herself to find a way to school, by skateboard. Yay! Bike ride it is. It doesn't take long for her to eat breakfast and she gets to school just as the first warning sounds. Luckily the school had mailed her schedule to Uncle John.

First Period - English - Mrs. Thompson

Second Period - Biology - Mr. Brown

Third Period - History - Mr. Tanner

Fourth Period - Algebra - Mrs. Henderson

Lunch

Fifth Period - Spanish - Mr. Cortez

Sixth Period - Athletics - Coach Ryan

Seventh Period - Athletics - Coach Ryan

It seemed like forever before the lunch bell rang and by that time Riley wanted to scream. Ever since she had completed her mind-scape and organizing her mind, school was a breeze due to her now perfect recall and photographic memory.

FLASHBACK START

See around last Christmas Riley had watched the movie Inception and wondered if it was possible to create a world like that in her mind. So she did what she did best when it came to the unknown, she experimented. At first, she tried to recreate the events in the show by going to sleep and trying but that didn't end well. Her second idea bore fruit though, she decided to try while she mediated and it worked.

Riley started her meditation normally but instead of just picturing her power core she pictured herself standing next to it. It took about a week before she had any progress but she finally had a breakthrough and when she opened her eyes she wasn't in her room, instead, Riley was standing in front of her power core. Well more like floating in open space, which she wasn't as pleased with so, she took her time to create a replica of earth. When Riley was finally on solid ground again she let herself have a happy dance that she will totally deny that she ever did. Riley played around with her new talent by seeing the limits of it, which she couldn't find. Riley theorized that since it wasn't the real world but her mind the possibilities were endless.

The first thing she did was protect her power core by placing her core deep underground in a secret cavern that could only be accessed by her or someone who could enter her mind and demolish all the safeguards that she would have in place. Even then they would have to locate her core which was impossible unless Riley gave its exact location.

Her core itself had changed over the years. The first time she saw her core it was just a bright white ball of light. Now it was still a bright white but looked more like the sun, constantly moving and having solar flares at random times. Also, each of her powers was now represented in her core. Her shield power was represented by an invisible field around her core just like her shield does for her although at times you can see it ripple. Her telekinesis is represented by dark blue veins that run throughout the entire core. Her fire aspect is what gave her core the sun look with the occasional color changing solar flare. The last but not least, there were green miniature versions of her animal forms roaming freely inside her core.

The next thing she built was her idea of a perfect estate, mansion and grounds included. When she was done she had a three-story mansion with two attic levels and a cool underground base. She might have based the mansion on the one in the x-men movies. Her back yard contained a pool, tennis court, basketball court, volleyball court, soccer field, skate park, gymnasium, garage, stables, personal lake equipped with jet skies, and a forest with animals. All of this was protected by a six-foot-high brick wall. Past the wall held a moat surrounding the estate that was 100 ft deep and filled with piranhas with no bridge. After the moat came a desert that was filled with quicksand instead of regular sand. After the desert came a thick jungle that held tigers, snakes, panthers, wolves, bears, alligators in the waters, and maybe a few hundred traps of her own making. After the jungle came a giant valley and mountain range that was home to the dragons, griffins, and nundus. Also through all of that, she randomly placed monsters so she didn't even know what was truly protecting her estate. So if someone wanted to invade her mind they would have a hell of a time trying.

The mansion itself had many wonders as well. There were the usual rooms, master bedrooms, family bedrooms, guest bedrooms, her private study, a huge kitchen, a formal dining room, a private dining room, and more normal rooms. She then had the fun rooms, inside pool, bowling alley, skate rink, home theater, gaming room, arcade room, and gym. Even after putting all of that into the mansion she still had over half of the building to decorate but the main room she spent most of her time in was the library. The library is where her photographic memory and perfect recall come from.

The library spans all three main floors and she might have had to expand the room a few times. The first floor was filled with every book she had ever read. This happened by Riley imaging holding a copy of whatever book she was thinking about. With all the books sorted and placed on the shelf, she learned that she could perfectly recall each and every one of them. She made file cabinets for documents and multiple magazine-stands. The second floor was the same as the first except it was filled with DVDs.

The third floor that was sealed and only she could access it, was home to her memories. That floor took the longest because in order to put a memory into a book Riley had to relive that memory. She started with her past life but created a room hidden behind a bookcase for those memories. After her first life was done she started on this life but had to stop to create another room. This room would hold her power memories and vampire memories. Anything to do with her power or vampires were placed in that room. Every night before she went to sleep Riley would mediate and sort through that day's worth of memories.

Now creating all of this and sorting through two lives worth of memories should have taken longer than four months most would say. That is another thing while inside her world time would move differently. On the outside, in the real world, an hour would pass but inside 3 months passed. So in reality it took her about over 30 years inside her mind to accomplish all of this and she was still perfecting and adding to her mind-scape every day. Good thing that she didn't age while inside her mind.

FLASHBACK END

Back to reality, Riley thought as she walked outside with her lunch and headed over to her tree. All around her people were talking about the new kid, Stefan Salvatore. (Having German Shepherd hearing was a blessing and a curse.) Stefan was born in Mystic Falls but moved away young. Military family. Parents recently died so he came to live with his uncle Zack. Weird because Riley knew for a fact that Zack had no remaining living relatives but he did have some vampire ones. Before Riley could think anymore into it Jeremy sat down.

"Hey sorry for bailing on you this morning, but Elena was bugging me about my feelings so I had to get out of there."

"No worries Jer. I rode my bike and I completely understand about wanting to avoid Elena."

"I also want to apologize again, for the way I have acted over the years toward you. When mom and dad died it was like a bombshell going off and the fog had finally been lifted from my eyes. I was disgusted with myself for treating my baby sister the way that I did and I realized how disappointed mom and dad would be in me. I have always followed Elena around and wanted to be just like her but this past summer has shown me that being like Elena isn't all that great and that I am my person. I should have told you this as soon as you got home instead of waiting."

Before Jeremy could talk anymore Riley hugged him and hid her face in the crook of his neck in the last-ditch effort to hide her tears. All her fears of Jeremy stabbing her in the back disappeared and Riley got to feel what it was like to have an older sibling that she knew she could count on.

The rest of the day passed in a blur until finally, the last bell rang. Sweet freedom. As Riley passed the park she saw Sheriff Forbes sitting on a bench and before she could look away the Sheriff saw her and waved her over and motioned for her to sit.

"Mayor Lockwood and Zack Salvatore filled the rest of the council in on your summer activities. After a very long discussion, it was decided that I would be the go-between, between you and the council. This is because while we called John and confirmed that you have experience in this matter, you are still a child. So right now all we will do is give you information but the entire council has agreed that you need to enjoy being a kid and that won't happen if we have you chasing down the bad guys. As of right now there have been many attacks and they have been confirmed to be vampires but we don't know if they are just passing through or not. Until we get more info we can't act."

Sheriff Forbes, or Liz as she wanted to be called, went on to explain about the meeting and everything else that was discussed in it but there wasn't much more. Not even twenty minutes after Riley sat down she stood up again and continued on her way home. This was good Riley thought. The council will keep me updated and with them not keeping me on call I will be able to move around freely without the need for their approval.

Riley arrived home shortly before her aunt, the latter found the younger one in her room playing her x-box.

"Hey Riley, how was school?"

"Same old same old."

"Where's Jeremy and Elena?"

"Jeremy is at the grill but I don't keep tabs on Bimbo."

"You know you need to be nicer to your sister."

"Or what Aunt Jenna," Riley said while pausing her game and standing up to face her aunt.

"Or I will ground you," Jenna said after some hesitation.

"Ground me then. It's not like I'm going to listen to you anyway. I only listen to adults that have earned my respect and trust or ones that I would get detention if I disobeyed. You aunt Jenna are none of the above." With that Riley shut and locked her bedroom door in her aunt's face before resuming her game.

The next day was a repeat of the last until it was time for the back to school party at the falls. Riley and Jeremy got a ride out there with some kid who regularly buys from Jeremy and as soon as they arrived Jeremy took off to stalk Vicki. Which left Riley to hang out and drink by herself. It didn't take long until some of the younger students started to feel the alcohol which leads them to act like complete idiots, giving Riley some entertainment. It was around three hours later when Riley sensed a small surge of power come from Bonnie. It didn't feel like her power, if felt more wild and free, meaning magic. Wow she didn't see that one coming, Bonnie's a witch and by how uncontrolled that surge was she must just be coming into her power. This could be good for Riley, if that small surge was anything to go by Bonnie was powerful and that power would only continue to grow as Bonnie did, and hey having a witch on your side was always a good thing. Riley decided to observe the young witch for a few days until she could be sure Bonnie would take her seriously and not just blow her off.

Riley decided to head home but before she could start the trek home Jeremy came running out of the woods with Vicki in his arms, both of them had blood on them that was coming from Vicki's neck. Guess that answered the question if the Vampire was here to stay. This year just got a bit more exciting, maybe it was time for Jeremy to find out about the family secret.

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