Place: Italy. Date: 1376

I was currently at a party, which sounds like a brilliant thing. Unless, of course, you're at a party that is swarming with humans and you're cherished blood thirsty children were eyeing them off like appetisers. The story behind how I came to be at such an awful event is a long one. It all started in Greece.

A human lifetime or so before that terrible party I was situated in Greece. I was trying to come up with this magnificent creature, my favourite by far. The locals had this silly legend about a creature that looks human but has red eyes and drank blood. I thought it was so clever, and their silly stories were only there to keep children from playing in the forest and getting lost. Naturally they didn't even suspect that the nice young woman who lived in the estate out of town was secretly trying to create their worst nightmare. Despite my love for the legend the creature I was creating wasn't holding up. My first try just screamed, continuously, about some fire. It was like his insides were burning, because when I performed my autopsy I found that his organs were ash. After that I started to tweak, take this away from the legend, and stuff there. I took away the fangs; I even took away their weakness of sunshine and silver. They kept dying.

It was my last attempt that drove to me move; find another piece of a different legend or idea to fit in because I was drawing blanks. The last one, at least he got through the transformation. It was three days of screaming. Just noise. Then he opened his eyes and showed me these . . . animalistic eyes, red as fresh blood. I tried to talk to him, but he only growled at me, shaking his head like an animal. It took me only a moment to realise that he had no rational mind. That something must have broken inside that man because he was no longer human. I thought he was do dangerous, to . . . wrong. I had to kill him, send him to my mother. After that I had almost given up. But something told me, go to Italy. That something waited for me there. I trusted my instincts. So I rode to Italy.

I liked living outside of town. It made hiding bodies much easier when you didn't have neighbours. A lot of the time I'd like to have properties with a river of stream running through it, for pure convenience. I had chosen a reasonable two-story estate. It had a few farms around it, but it was still secluded. I made sure to establish myself in town, get known and go to dinners with hopeful parents of a moderately good-looking son. Naturally whenever I spoke that I didn't have a dowry to speak of it was off with me, on with the next one. I didn't take it personally, humans held money over all other things. Family, loyalty. I believe the only thing humans hold more closely than money is the need for revenge. It could start out as easily as a fight about some land, a murder of passion and one man out for revenge for things to escalate to generations of people dead. They believe that was true loyalty.

Humans.

I was walking along the dirt road through some farms. It was in the direction of town, but I wasn't aiming to get anywhere. I just felt that as if I needed to go for a walk, to clear my head. It felt nice to relax, I had been ankle deep in the insides of local man the night before and it took a while to clean up. I was listening to the chirp of birds in the tree when I heard it. The most softest sound. A little boy, crying. I tilted my head and I listened before I turned around and headed towards the sound. I saw a little boy with black hair sobbing into his hands on the ground. I was next to him in a burst of supernatural speed. He looked up and me, and I was stunned. His brilliant blue eyes stared up at me, tears streaking the dirt on his face and his hair falling in his eyes. I crouched down next to him.

"Hello," I murmured softly, a friendly smile tugged at my lips. "What's your name?" I asked.

"Aro," He sniffled,

"Hello Aro, my name is Isabella. What happened?" I smiled and smoothed out his hair.

"The boys from the other farm beat me up." He used his hand to wipe his nose and I smiled a motherly smile as I ran my hand against his forehead.

"I'm sure next time they'll be crying," I said as I stood up and helped him stand. "You should be getting home now, young Aro."

"Of course, Miss Isabella." He nodded seriously as he wiped his eyes before jogging off over a hill. When he was out of sight I started my way back home.

It was foolish of me. That much I was more than willing to admit. But if I could do it again, I would. I wouldn't change a single action. But it was foolish. To give Aro that little extra strength at such a young age; I knew that it would go to his head. But I couldn't do nothing, one look into those baby blues and I was gone. The animal inside of me screamed at me to protect that boy. And it purred happily when I gave him that gift.

I kept a close eye on Aro. I stayed with him for a few years before I left again for Greece. I thought maybe the locals had made up anything else to the legend. There was no such luck, but I did gain a valuable ally. I met a man that dealt in jewels, for a little extra money I helped him for a while and in return he gave me gold and a beautiful gold and diamond bracelet. The old Greek man was a brilliant man, even though he only let me sweep the floor and make him tea.

By the time I had made it back to Italy, my young Aro was already a teenager. He was more independent and rather popular with the girls of the town. But he was always getting into trouble with those girls' brothers and fathers. I think the only reason he did what he did was because he could. He knew he was better than everyone else, even if was just by a little bit. Now I don't like humans in general. I'll find a few that if I had to, I'd kill last, and more quickly. But Aro, he believed everyone, everything was beneath him, that he was some brilliant puppet master and everything was a game. There was only one exception to his rule: Me. Whenever I would ride into town he'd drop everything and run straight to me. He idolised me, I was there for him in a moment of pain and humiliation. And I had made it so that it would never happen again. It was when he was in his late 20's and I knew he'd have to be wed soon. Meaning more trouble if he got caught messing around with another woman. I truly believed that I was going to meet Aro in town so he could introduce me to a young woman with a nice family and a generous dowry.

When I arrived, however, I found Aro laying bloody on the ally ground as three men beat into him viciously. The animal inside of me roared loudly and I answered with my own. The three men looked towards me and laughed. I was in front of them in a heartbeat and they stumbled back in shock. "Leave before I change my mind and kill you all." I growled out as my inner beast screamed at me to slit their throats. "GO! Now!" I yelled. They stumbled before running as fast as they could away. I spun around and the light of the moon caught on my diamond bracelet. I crouched down and looked over Aro's wounds. He was beaten up and broken, and had many stab wounds that no medical man could fix. Another growl left my lips as I bent down to his bloodied shoulder and bit down. He gasped and started to scream; I picked him up and ran as fast as I could back to my house.

I laid him down in an upstairs bedroom. My inner monster was still growling and pacing angrily, wanting to go back and kill those men. I had to stay with Aro though. The need to comfort him over rode the one to kill. I sat as his bed side all day. I stopped him from scratching at his chest, at pulling at his hair. I whispered comforting things in his ear. I was looking out the window when the screaming stopped. I looked at him and he was lying perfectly still. At first I thought he had died. I couldn't hear his heartbeat, or his breath. I went over to check over him when his eyes snapped open. They were blood red; he snarled and sat up at an amazing speed. I stepped back, waiting to see if I had reduced my Aro to an animal. Then he looked at me and I saw recognition in his eyes.

"Isabella?" He whispered, and then tilted his head to the side as he listened to his own voice.

"Aro, listen to me." I whispered shakily.

"I can . . . hear the horses. Their blood." He hummed, taking a deep breath.

"You listen to me." I demanded more forcefully. "You may want to . . . drink blood right now. That's perfectly normal. Aro, you're different now."

"I've always been different" he scoffed

"Even more so now, Aro, you are a vampire." I smiled,

"Vampire." He hummed the word, making it curl around his tongue. He smiled at me and I smiled encouragingly.

"That burn, in the back of your throat is a thirst for blood. Come with me now and we shall hunt." I smiled and offered my hand, he took it, his hand was as cold and hard as diamond, and we jumped into the late afternoon sun. When we landed on the ground I bit my lip to stifle a gasp when I saw Aro, where the sun hit his skin sparkled like jewels were covering his skin. He stared at his hand for a moment before I whispered "Come quickly now. Into the forest." We ran into the forest and quickly found a small hut. I could hear two heartbeats inside. "Go" I whispered, he crouched down and slowly stalked forward, I followed behind like a proud mother lion. He opened the door quickly and stalked in and bit the back of the man's neck, the woman started screaming and in a second the man was drained and the woman was twitching in Aro's arms as he drank her.

"Aro," I said, he looked up and smiled as he wiped the blood from his lips, "You mustn't let any humans know what you are, unless you're going to make them like you." I warned,

"Yes," He nodded,

"You are the first of your kind, now go." I hugged him lightly before he jumped out the open window.

This brings us back to that awful party on the year of 1376. Aro had done well for himself. He had created two other vampires that he considered brothers, two nice boys Caius and Marcus. It was interesting to note that Aro had a side effect to the turning. He could hear peoples thoughts when he touches their skin. And Marcus could see the bonds between people. A few other vampires also held special powers, none of which worked on me.

Aro had thought it would be beneficial to infiltrate human affairs. I thought it to be silly business, but I couldn't say no when Aro asked me to come to a party.

I was sitting a table, a glass of wine in my hands. I slowly swirled my wine as I surveyed the room. It was easy to see who was human and who were vampires. The vampires held whispered conversations as to which human they think would taste better. It seemed all normal. But I noticed that the vampires heavily outnumbered the humans. I knew that it wasn't just this party. There were far too many vampires. I noticed Aro stand and start to move forward, they were about to kill every person in the room.

I sighed and sipped my wine and put it back on the table before standing up and tackling a man to the ground and pushed him to the corner at the same time Aro took down his first victim. I held the young man to the ground and we watched as Aro and his kin slaughtered everyone. When they finished they looked at me, I held behind me the last human in the room.

"Stop," I growled, "You must stop this right now. You can't keep killing like this, soon there will be more of you then there are of them." I warned. "This man lives, and you uphold the law. Aro, you and your brothers must make sure everyone upholds the law," I commanded, Aro nodded grimily. I turned to the young man behind me and I pulled him up "Move," I muttered as I pulled him outside.

"W-what was that!" He yelled, I turned around and stared into his eyes.

"Tonight you have witnessed the supernatural. And you must fight it." I said,

"Me?" He asked,

"Yes, you are gifted with the strength and the knowledge," I said, and placed a hand on his shoulder, "You must teach your first born, whether they are a girl or a boy. Teach them what you know, keep the bloodline." I talked in hushed tones; he hung on my every word.

"Yes, yes I will." He nodded,

"I must go, I'm sure we'll meet again." I nodded, he nodded too and we went in different directions.