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Half Moon

By

Aster Day Astar Prelog

I watched from the edge of the forest as the fire consumed my home. It was more than my home and my place of my birth. It was my prison. It was the place where I was a lab rat for a man who called himself my father.

Jonathan, my half-brother, had returned after running away two years ago. He had only been here a few days, and then, tonight, Jonathan killed our father, Dr. Green, and Kim, the only women who I had ever had a close connection too.

Dr. Green, whom Kim and I believed had been going mad over the last two years, had become more distanced. He would rant and rave at Kim about me. Because of this Kim started looking though Dr. Green's personal journals. She was trying to find out who was my real father. She and I had planned to find my real father. Then Jonathan, the prodigal son, had returned.

I heard Jonathan slip out of the darken forest behind me. He started talking to me as he got closer.

"Sister, Isabella, Izzy, it had to be done. Let me explain before you judge me. When I left here two years ago, I came across others that were like us. They were interested what I was. They were vampires. Over time they decided that I am only a half-vampire."

He waited for a response from me. When I didn't respond to him, he reached for me to stroke my hair like he used to do when I was younger. I was sure he thought I might be in shock. "There are laws that govern them. The most important one is that humans are not to know about them. They told me that vampires are not supposed to be able to have children. So they sent me to investigate were the sperm came from and to discover how it was done. Then I was to destroy all evidence of the experiment."

My mind was running fast. Jonathan was more than a cold blooded killer now. Not only did he kill Dr. Green but he also killed Kim who was hired to help raise me after he left, without hesitation.

"In the vampire world that law must be obeyed by all vampires or they will be hunted down by those who enforce the laws, the Vulturi. So you see they had to die."

I had become angry, if he had discussed this with me before killing Kim and Dr. Green I would help him with some of his questions. It was two weeks ago that Kim had discovered a Journal that DR. Green was keeping over the experiment that he was running on me. Kim never like what he did to me. She had made copies of it and gave it to me to read. In it I discovered who the sperm was stolen from. When Dr. Green discovered that she had seen the journal he moved it so that only he knew where the hiding place was. He never knew I had copies.

Jonathan had killed them before finding the secret of where the semen had come from. He also didn't know my secret. I had ability of compulsion.

"James wants me to get you, Izzy, and bring you back to his coven. He is set on turning us both to full vampires. Therefore we would be no threat to the Vulturi."

"Jonathan. You and I are evidence that this experiment happened."

"Izzy," He turn me to look to my eyes, "I will not let anyone hurt you. James only thinks that he should change us into full vampires. That is all."

"He wants to change us. Are you sure he does not want to kill us?"

He smiled. "NO."

"So the last two years you have been with these others vampires. Doing vampire things?"

"It took some time for me to learn to trust them. I have full trust in them now and they support me in every way."

I sighed. "When you left Jonathan, I blamed myself. I thought you hated me, because Dr. Green tried again for a child. So I believed you hated me." I put my hands on each side of his face. My eyes started tingling when his eyes caught mine. I knew I had him. "Tell me the truth now." I began using my gift of compulsion. Jonathan eyes glassed over then he began to speak.

"I was angry because he created you, that I was not enough for him. He was greedy for his experiment. When I decided to flee from here, I was discovered by others like us. With them I learn what we are. What we really are. We are vampires, or at least half-vampires. But being vampires comes with rules. The biggest one is not to let humans know about us. James is the leader of the group I'm with. He going to turned me to full vampire."

"Do the others know about me?"

"Yes, I told them all about you."

"So you're planning on changing me to be full vampire like you?"

"I was ordered to bring you back to them after the evidence was destroyed."

"Why did you kill Kim? She knew nothing about what we are?"

"I didn't kill the woman. Dr. Green had killed her before I arrived in the room. I had heard them arguing over my return and you. She didn't trust me and he discovered that she was going to take you away. When I got to the room, the blood from her death overcame my senses and I killed Dr. Green."

I did not like what I heard. I was not a cold-blooded killer. Although I did require blood transfusion in order to live.

The tingling in my eyes intensified. "You will tell the other vampires that I resisted you and ran back into the burning building. You never saw me come back out. You're sure that I died when the evidence was destroyed. Now turn around and leave. Do not look back." Jonathan turn around and in a flash was gone.

I ran to the boat dock and got in the boat that I had waiting for me. I had been lying so that I could disappear. I had to make sure that I didn't leave my scent or any evidence that I had survive. The fire would consume the boat dock, so my escape should work. I push the boat thought the night. Near dawn, I steered to the shore of the river and found a place to sink the boat. When morning came I pulled out my copy of journal that was stolen form Dr. Green.

I found the name of the person who Dr. Green had stolen the sperm from, Dr. Carlisle Cullen. Kim contacts in the medical committee and found Dr. Carlisle Cullen working in a Hospital in Forkes, Washington. Carlisle Cullen is my real biological father. This was confusing me. Why was a vampire working in a Hospital? What kind of vampire was he?