Moonbeams Don't Make You Sparkle
Chapter 1: New In Town
A girl with bright orange hair and dark green eyes stood at the edge of a forest. She looked toward the gloomy town of Forks.
"Hey, Luna..." A boy climbed out of the brush behind her. He had spiky black hair and whitish blue eyes. "Is that the place?"
Luna nodded.
"I didn't expect it to be so..."
"Bright?"
"Yeah..."
"Don't worry, Frank... It can't be all bad..."
"You sound like such an optimist, sister. Uncommon for you..."
"I don't know how to deal with that..."
"Would you stop with that? We have to get to work."
"Yes, brother." They wandered into town, finding a seemingly unused motel, and checked in.
"Too bad we don't really sleep." Frank muttered upon entering the room. He sniffed the air and grimaced. Luna sneezed.
"Mold..." She rubbed her nose. "Bare with it. We must appear to be normal humans. You know what will happen if we don't."
Frank smirked. Luna turned on the complimentary computer.
"No one will accept two teenagers walking around during the day."
"You mean, you're going to register us for school?" Frank smirked
"Don't sound so excited, brother."
"You know I have a hard time resisting the draw of youth..."
"In any case, control yourself."
"Oh I will. I can smell a coven of blood drinkers from here..."
"Really?" Luna turned to him curiously.
"The mold must be hindering your sense of smell, sister. You usually pick up on these things right after me."
"Mold always has been a hindrance for me." Luna turned back to the computer and sighed. "I could do this much easier if I could only..."
"But with them that close, it could trigger something."
"I know... I suppose we will have to do this the hard way."
"The human way."
"I don't know how to deal with that..."
The next morning, Luna and Frank walked from their motel room to their new high school.
"Sister, do you smell them, now?" Frank asked as they neared the school.
"Yes. How could I not? They are overpoweringly strong... They must all be in young bodies."
"Of course, superficial narcissists."
"But they don't smell like human blood." Luna sniffed the air.
"A faint scent of..." Frank started.
"Wolves," they muttered in unison.
"Hello!" Alice greeted them joyfully, appearing in front of them, smiling.
"Heh," Frank smirked. Luna didn't say anything.
"How are you?" Alice asked, tilting her head slightly. Frank and Luna exchanged curious glances.
"We're new," Frank said finally. Then his eyes narrowed seriously and his mouth twisted into a smirk. "Vamp."
Alice blinked blankly at the two. Luna shot her brother a look, and he just smirked in reassurance. Alice laughed.
"Is that what you think?"
"No. It's what we know." Frank kept his smirk, but his eyes were totally serious and focused.
"And what makes you claim that?" Alice's eyes also became serious.
"We can smell you."
"Are you werewolves? Is that why I can't see your futures?"
"Wolves? No. Can't you smell us either? Then it's better than we thought. We're not your concern."
"What are you, then?"
"He's Frank, and I'm Luna." Luna said, also staring seriously at Alice.
"Alice," Bella and Edward came up behind her. Edward put a hand in front of Bella, concentrating on Luna, who locked eyes with him.
"What's going on?" Bella demanded.
"Be quiet, human." Frank muttered. Bella glared indignantly.
"Edward." But he just put his hand up again.
"Alice... I can't..."
"Me either..."
"Pitiful," Luna and Frank muttered, both smirking, neither breaking eye contact.
"What?" Bella asked. "What can't you do? Who are you?"
"I'm Frank, this is my sister, Luna. If you leave us alone, well..."
"Maybe we'll leave the humans alone," Luna finished.
"What are you talking about? Who are you?"
"Frank."
"Luna." They smirked and linked arms, folding their other two hands together. "We're new students. And we're going to be late for class."
They released their pose and walked between Alice and Edward, who pulled Bella to his side as they passed. Luna glanced back at Bella, smirking and winking. Bella shivered.
"Who were they?" Bella demanded.
"Don't worry about them." Edward said.
"But you couldn't read their minds, could you? And Alice couldn't see their futures, could you?"
"She's right," Alice sighed. "They claimed that they weren't wolves. And they couldn't have been. They didn't smell."
"What did they smell like?"
"Nothing," Edward explained. "They didn't have a scent at all. That could only mean one thing."
"They aren't humans, werewolves, or vampires," Alice said seriously. "And with a pose like that... They have to be..."
"Twin Soul Witches."