1 The life of the Unknown

My name is James White and for as long as I can remember I've hidden my true self. I've learned from my past and now know not to trust anyone with my secret. But after years of hiding, I've been given no choice but to show the truth about me. This small town in Maine is about to have a hybrid on its doorstep...

I was born July 5th,1830 I triggered my werewolf curse in 1851 on my 21st birthday and that was the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life. But a lot of things happened in my life that led up to that moment.

So why don't I just start from the beginning? As a kid, I heard stories about monsters like vampires, werewolves, Crocottas, Kitsunes, and sirens.

I never believed the stories I thought parents just used the stories of those things to scare their kids into doing what they thought was the right thing.

As a kid, there was one story that caught my attention. It was the story of werewolves and how they originated.

But the story never scared me, every time I heard the story it made me feel like I had some type of connection to these creatures, and soon enough I found out what that connection was.

When I was ten years old my mom died, the cops ruled it an animal attack but I have never seen an animal drain all the blood from someone's body with one bite to the neck so I'm going to find out the truth about how my mother died even if that means I have to secretly investigate her murder myself.

I didn't see my mom that often before she died since she was always working, whenever I asked her about her job she would say that she was a professional hunter but when I asked what she hunted she never answered me. My older brother told me that my mother would tell me more about her job when she felt like I was old enough.

I haven't talked to my brother since that day, that was over 100 years ago so there's no way he's still alive.

For the first time in my long life, I will be leaving Maine and visiting the place my mom visited for work the most, Mystic Falls.

I'm in Mystic Falls now and I plan to go to the sheriff's office and ask to see my mother's death file.

On my way to the sheriff's office, people were staring at me from every direction and whispering to each other, I walked up to one person and asked: "Do you know why everyone keeps looking at me?" She just looked and pointed at the sheriff's office so I went that way and when I walked in I saw a deputy at the desk so I walked up to him and said "Hello deputy" "Call me Deputy D" he said.

"Well okay, Deputy D is there any way I can talk to the sheriff?", "sure his office is down the hall to the right," said the deputy.

He? I thought to myself, I thought the sheriff was a woman.

Once I got to the sheriff's office I realized that there was no one in there so I decided to sit at the desk and wait.

After sitting there waiting for about ten minutes a man wearing black shoes, black jeans, and a black sweater with a hoodie over his head walked in, "Who are you?" I said. He took his hoodie off and I couldn't believe what I saw, "Derek!??" He looked at me and said "Hello Brother".

"I thought you were dead", he replied, "lots of people did little brother, lots of people did." "But due to unfortunate circumstances, I ended up dying but I came back to life not too long afterward so all is good"

"Why don't you tell me how you managed to stay alive and don't look like you aged a day from when I last saw you which was over 100 years ago?"

"I do look older Derek, I have facial hair now."

"The little bit of facial hair you have now doesn't make you look much older you still have a babyface."

"Okay, well while you were on this vacation or whatever you want to call it did you figure out anything about Mom's death?"

"Yes, yes I did figure something out about Mom's death and it's a lot to take in."

"What happened Derek, who killed Mom?"

"Not who brother."

"The question is what killed our mother?"

The brothers just stared at each other for a while not saying a word or moving a muscle. Then finally James charged at Derek screaming at him saying," You knew what happened, you knew what happened to Mom this whole time and never even tried to tell me"

He punched his brother repeatedly

once in the face, once in the chest, once in the gut, and finally he grabbed him by the throat and threw him into the wall on the other side of the room.

Derek didn't fight back, he didn't even try he just took the beating and said to his brother, "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry I didn't let you know that I figured out what happened to Mom but in my defense, I thought you were dead."

"How long after you left from home did you figure out what happened?"

"How long?" He screamed.

"Two years", Derek replied

"I should have told you."

"Yeah you're right you should have but I don't like to hold grudges so now that we are here together, tell me what you know."

"James we don't need to worry about that right now, mom died over one hundred years ago."

"The thing that killed mom is still alive and running around this town, I plan on catching it, to torture it for what it did to mom and then ripping its heart out its chest."

"Do you have a name or know what type of creature this is?"

"No I don't know a name but I do know it was either a vampire or werewolf I just hope it's not both."

"Also does the phrase "Always and Forever mean anything to you?"

"No, it doesn't why?"

"That phrase was written in blood next to mom's body."

The brothers stared at each other one with a terrifying look on his face and the other looked confused.

Finally, Derek said, "It's time to go to war with the unknown little brother, you ready?"