Chapter One

AN: I do not own twilight or vampire diaries this is my first story enjoy and tell me what you think. This is a rewritten chapter thanks to a Beta writer PheonixFalls.

Not many people know that the connection between Greece and the supernatural world was different from what some of the myths suggested. Three thousand years ago nature interfered with an event that would change the supernatural world as we know it. Up in a mountain in Greece, a six year old girl was trapped in an expression circle, watching as other sacrifices were being prepared outside of it. The girl had been wondering the streets looking for food when she was didn't know why this man took her and being an orphan, she knew that no one would be looking for her. The man who took her, stood tall as he walked forward with a knife in hand. Chanting in Latin he held the girl in place as he started carving symbols into her skin. When he finished carving, he stepped out of the circle and it caught on fire. His chanting grew louder as his magic reacted and began to drain the life and magic from the young, untrained witch.

He was confident that it would work, but just as the ritual reached its peak, something went wrong. The red fire turned green, and the girl began to heal. The carvings on her skin began to heal, changing into tattoos. Suddenly, the man fell to his knees, clawing at his throat, trying to catch his breathe. It was as if he was choking on magic. The ritual he was attempting was meant to drain the life out of the sacrifice and extend his, but magic did not agree. Instead of draining the life from the girl, the life was draining from him. The last thing he ever saw was the small figure of the girl standing up and staring at him with her once brown eyes turned emerald green.

The girl stood there, trying to recalibrate. She remembered being in so much pain that she passed out. She was scared, but she also recalled hearing a soothing voice speak to her. The voice was asking her to help fix the mistakes that their servants were going to make in the future. She remembers saying yes without a question before she woke up. She feared the pain that she would feel by trying to stand, but when she did, she felt none what so ever. She looked up in time to see the cause of her pain fall to the ground, clutching his throat.

When the fire died out, she stumbled pasted his dead body searching for a place to hide so that she could process everything that occurred. Soon she came upon a temple and watched as a young woman stood in front of the alter. The longer she watched, the more she felt the need to enter it. Deciding to do so, she stepped in and the feeling that overcame her was amazing. She hadn't felt so safe in a long while and allowed herself to sink to the floor. Hearing the something behind her, the woman at the alter turned around in surprise. She thought that was alone. Her eyes came upon the person and was shocked to see a six year old child. She quickly rushed over and picked up the child, carrying her deeper into the temple, wondering what had happened to her. An older woman who was also in the temple, gathered her supplies to help care for the injured child.

The women bathed her, and after making sure that all her injuries were taken care of, they gave her something to eat. They tried to ask the child some questions, but she remained silent, refusing to speak, and they knew that she wasn't going to answer anything.

Once the women were satisfied that the child was fed and healthy they took her to a small room for her to sleep in that night, promising that in the morning if she wished to stay, she could. Though the girl didn't speak to them, she observed them. They seemed like nice people and as she drifted off to sleep, she couldn't help but hope that she had finally found a place to call her home. That night, she dreamed that she was in a field that seemed never ending. As she looked around, she heard the soothing voice as it greeted her. The voice explained that she was the conscience of life or what her servants referred to as mother nature. As the human population began to grow she found that she needed help to keep the balance, so she granted her servants magic in order to help her. Things went well for a while, but over time her servants stopped listening to her and began to listen to the voices of their vengeful ancestors and other servants that had already passed on. In doing so, they began to tip the balance back and forth, based on what they wanted to occur and not what was needed for the survival of all. Nature decided that she needed to interfere now, so that in the future things could change. That was why the girl was chosen. Nature went on to explain that the girl would be reincarnated in the future, and would need to get used to her gifts from now, so that she would be able to use them easily when she is needed. She also went on to say that by using her gifts now and helping her city prosper, she would be rewarded in her next life with her soul mate.

When the girl woke up in the morning, she knew that she had to help her city, but did not wish to have the attention it would bring to her. Before she got up for the day, she took a moment to think and decided that she would have someone else be her face.

As she thought this her eyes once again turned green and she saw the older woman that helped her being her face and voice to the people that came for help.

With a small smile she set out to do what was asked of her. When she greeted the women in the temple, they asked for her name. She had to explain that she did not have a name so they named her Delphi, after the city she found herself in. From then on, she worked hard every day, gaining the trust easily given by the women of the temple. She became close to the older woman that would be her voice, and learned that her name was Dasha, meaning gift from God. Delphi found it ironic, after telling the older woman so, she went on to explain the gift that was given to her and told of her wish for the woman to be her face and voice. Dasha could tell that the child was speaking the truth and agreed to her wish.

Delphi knew that a group would come to her at for help at some point, so she and Dasha planned what it is that they would need to do. A year had passed before she saw the group from her vision enter the temple. Delphi sat behind Dasha with her face covered, and as the group described their troubles, she whispered the answers that would help them succeed, Dasha in turn relaying the answers to them as though they come from her. When the group left, word spread of an older woman who could have visions of the future and was correct in what was needed to be done. Years passed with people coming from all over to speak to the Oracle of Delphi, a woman who was a gift from their gods.

Dasha was the oracle of Delphi for many years, with Delphi remaining the woman behind the visions. When she was of age, a marriage was arranged with a wealthy young man named Bemus. Though they were married and they shared children, then never fell in love, only becoming close friends. As Delphi looked at her children, she knew that each female from her blooding would receive a small talent, until she was eventually reincarnated. Centuries came and went with the family growing larger and larger with the females from every generation carrying a clairvoyant trait that they used to help their family whenever they could. Eventually, a descendant of Delphi married a man named Charles Swan and they had a son. Unfortunately, Charles passed on just after his sons first birthday. Having been named after his father, the boy was called Charlie in order to differentiate between the two. When he was two years old, his mother remarried and gave him two younger sisters one named Miranda and the other Jenna. At the time, he thought it strange that their last names were Sommers but his name was Swan but eventually decided that it did not matter. They were family. Growing up in Mystic Falls, he took the role of big brother very seriously, watching over his sisters until he was offered a job with the police force in Forks, Washington.

Though he moved away, he kept in touch with his family and visited when Miranda married the Gilbert boy he remembered from school and when Jenna went off to college. He after falling for Renee Higginbotham, began a family of his own, having a child shortly after marrying. Isabella was a beautiful baby that seemed to take after the Greek in Charlie's family more than even his grandmother.

Two years after Isabella was born Miranda called letting him know that he had a niece they adopted named Elena and a year later a nephew named Jeremy. All was not well between Charlie and Renee and soon they divorced. Deciding that Bella should know her family, he took her to see her cousins and aunts every summer from then on. The older she got, Bella and her cousin Elena began to dislike each other. They were total opposites, with Elena being a very optimistic and open person while Bella was quiet and reserved. Elena couldn't understand why Bella wasn't the she wanted her to be and Bella easily annoyed with Elena, found that she had more of a liking to Jeremy, who she would sit with for hours reading while he drew whatever came to mind.

When Bella turned 17 her mother remarried a man named Phil Dwyer. Not wanting to be around the newlyweds much longer, Bella called her father about completing her last year of school in Forks with him. Shortly before her move to forks she got the phone call about her Aunt and Uncles passing she headed to Mystic falls to be with her cousins and Aunt Jenna. She and Charlie spent the summer with them grieving and helping them adjust to the changes. With the summer coming to a close they packed up and headed back to Washington so that Bella could get ready for her senior year of high school. As Bella slept soundly in her bed, she had no idea the changes that the year would bring or of the gift she would receive that year.