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Seeing is Believing

She had been sitting on the ground next to the park bench that her mom and friends were sitting on when she first her. Bella had made sure that her mother and friends had eaten their lunches before sitting down to eat hers with her new book. They had been at the park for an hour and only she seemed to see the beautiful lady that was sitting under a tree and feeding the animals. Bella figured out the adults couldn't see her easily enough since her mother and friends were complaining about the large amount of strays in the park that day but were not complaining about the woman that was feeding them. Bella had also noticed the woman was not eating any of the food herself she was giving all of it to the strays. Looking at her almost empty lunch box that was holding her apple slices and lemon bar she had made the night before. Making a decision Bella nodded to herself before standing up with her book and walking over to the tree. She only looked behind her once her mother never noticed she even moved before she walked over and sat down in front of the woman. Bella gave her a smile before holding out her lunch box before speaking to the woman who was even more beautiful up close.

"Do you want some I would give some to the animals too but I can never get any of them to come to me." The pretty woman smiled at the seven year old girl before holding out her hand and nodding her head to Bella's question.

Queen Mab was impressed by the young girl who was brave enough to approach her and enter the fairy circle. Mab had been in the park all morning on the insistence of her son, Oberon, claiming that she would want to be the first to see something that had not occurred in over two thousand years. The fae had been all but forgotten except for in the legions even the supernatural creatures of the world had forgotten them. She had been watching the little girl all morning and she now remembered why the fae had a reputation for stealing children once upon a time. The young girl had been taking care of the adults the whole time and had only just started on her own lunch. What was more astonishing to the queen other than the bravery the young girl had shown was the fact that she was seeing through the queen's allusion as if it wasn't there. The queen's curiosity only grew as the time past and the food was eaten and the girl still sat with her after a while she even started reading the book she brought with her out loud. The girl kept an eye on her own mother while she read, as if expecting her to walk away without checking to remember her own daughter, when the mother did in fact stand to leave the girl stood quickly before waving goodbye to the queen. The queen sat there until the girl was out of view before she seemed to vanish into thin air making her way back to her realm and the Unseelie court no doubt she would be getting a visit from her son and the Seelie court on what they would be doing about this new development. The only thing to show that the queen had been there that day was the fairy ring under the tree where she had sat.

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Bella could feel her heart going numb as Edward vanished from her view his parting words echo in her ears disorientating her even more than she already was as she tried to look around and see anything that looked remotely like the trail back to her house. Walking in the direction that she thought was the correct way she stumbled through the forest trying not to focus on the fact that her ex boyfriend ended things two days after her eighteenth birthday. After hours of tripping Bella was soaked to the bone her jacket not being able to handle the rain once it started to poor and freezing from the cold when she caught a root that was above ground because she could no longer see in the pitch black of the forest at night. As she fell to the ground she hit her head sharply on her way down she was shivering and only curled into herself this time instead of trying to get up her thoughts drifting back to the past year in forks before she started to lose conscience.

The first thing that had convinced Bella to try and open her eyes was the fact that she could no longer feel her head injury or the cold. She then noticed she had light shining through her eyelids and could hear a water fall close to her. Opening he eyes Bella had to let them adjust before she could take in that she seemed to no longer be in forks. The beauty of the water fall and the clearing were over shadowed by the beauty of the creatures that were standing in a circle around her. Looking at the faces of the men and women some of which did not look human resembling the creatures now only considered fantasy. She immediately recognized two faces that were standing in the back of the crowd. Sitting up she gave a watery smile as tears began to fill her eyes at the sight of the two companions she had over the years with her mother. When the male she recognized as Oberon stepped forward he knelt down beside the young girl he and his mother had been tutoring in the ways of the fae since their first meeting. Oberon sighed since the events of the past year he had not seen for the girl who would soon be one of them before he spoke the others in the crowd and his mother coming to sit around the girl in a circle his mother on the other side of Bella.

"We have held this day off as long as we could so you could spend a little longer as human with your father but I promise it will only be a year of training to the human world and twelve years here which will pass by quickly and you can go back." Just as he finished speaking Bella felt a jolt run through her body before looking at the others in confusion since this had never happened the other times she had visited.

"It would seem that though you made it to a fairy circle by accident since we were going to visit with you this weekend your body was removed from the circle without our permission so we will be unable to bring you here fully. Meaning your mind and soul is with us but your body is still in the human realm if you choose to go through with your transition now then you will appear to be in a coma there until you go back we cannot send you back untrained that would be too dangerous for you." Ella nodded her head at his words before whispering her reply.

"I was injured and hypothermic and received a concussion when I fell into the circle if I go back I might not make it as a human. Charlie will make sure my body gets healed properly and you can send who you were going to use to pose as me to simply watch over my body while it heals."She watched as the man she considered her father when Charlie could not be there considered her words before snapping his fingers at someone in the circle who smiled widely before vanishing.

"Just relax this will be a painless process and when you open your eyes again be prepared to see the world in a whole new light." Bella smiled as she was pushed to lie down again her head resting in the lap of Queen Mab.

Queen Mab rested her hands on the side of Bella head as her son rested one above her heart the members of their courts focusing their magic with their rulers. Bella's eyes once again drifting shut as the powers of the two fae and their subjects flowed through her soothing the pain of the recent abandonment and the old wounds from her mother as her body began to change as it accepted the heritage she was receiving. She slept even after the group and their rulers had removed their magic letting her own magic develop and finish the changes. Once she was awake again Bella spent the majority of her first few days there with her eyes closed until she could be taught to control her first power that came with her transition. This was fine with her since her store of magic was still growing and she could use the time to talk with Oberon and his mother about her recently broken heart. When the week was up Oberon told Bella that it was time to begin her training before sending her off to a member of the Unseelie court to learn to control her powers.

She was sent to Queen Mab's court because like his mother and her subjects Bella was a dark fae though that did not mean she was bad or evil it was just the fairies way of saying that they were not seers of visions but in fact seers of auras. It was the only power that the fae light or dark had no control over it was always on which meant it was always the first thing to be taught. Being a dark fae Bella was being taught to see beyond the auras around her since she like the others could see the aura of everything around them. She learned that the auras were circles around the plant, animal or person and the auras of plants were only ever in one color which was green though depending on how dark the aura was depended on how much longer the plant had to live if it was black or close to black then there was little chance of it surviving. Animals had two rings in their aura the center ring was either white or black giving the fairy he indication if the animal was light (white) or dark (black). The outer ring was purple and it indicated the health of the animal one again the darker or almost black in color indicated sickness or death the darker it became. Humans and other human like creatures had three rings to their auras the center much like the animals was either white(light) or dark(black) this helped tell them what court they would be in if they were fae or natural inclination was it did not mean they were good or evil. The second ring color depended on which element in nature they were and the darker or lighter was the indication of their health. Orange was for their control or connection to fire if they were not fae, blue was for water, yellow was for air and green was for earth. The third ring showed the most prominent emotion they were feeling at the time.

Once she was use to this and her magic had leveled out Bella was able to focus the auras she saw in the heart of the animal, human, or creature she was seeing and lower the light coming off the plants so not to blind herself allowing her to see what others would normally see if the auras were ignored. She was then allowed to learn to control her elemental powers which after viewing her own aura she found to be earth or more towards the control of plants. She had the best time with this and other lessons such as the knowledge of the plants and what they could be used for like medicine or cooking wise. She was also taught illusions from the Seelie court and Oberon once she had mastered her element. Being reminded that the fairies were a peaceful race unless they were provoked and they were provoked easily since one of their biggest rules was to be kind and respectful. Fae were known to become vengeful if they felt slighted or wronged in anyway. Bella learned that Queen Mab gave the best example of this when Bella's mother would often find herself in trouble after the queen or her son would visit when Bella was younger for what the fae considered malice treatment towards a child. Since children were sacred among fae since they were often times the only ones to see them anymore.

After nine months in the real world and nine years in the fae realm she found herself being immerged in the fae culture more and more the hurt and sadness form her childhood long forgotten as she learned their ways. Lying on the ground in the meadow after her lessons in illusions that day Bella felt a weird taste of metal on her tongue causing her to sit up quickly catching Oberon's attention. The fae that had been sent to her world appearing minutes later, quickly sitting down he was panting hard as if he had come as quickly as he could before speaking to his king and Bella.

"Her father has decided to take his sister up on her offer of moving his daughter to a better hospital. She was transported to a hospital in Mystic Falls, Virginia. She was seen by a doctor there and Her Aunt Carol and uncle before the three adults agreed it would be worth a try to give her vampire blood. It seemed to have healed her body of any lingering side effects of the hyperthermia and concussion they also claim she managed to catch pneumonia as well so that was cleared by the blood as well. The doctor says that it is all up to her to wake up now and she was being visited by her cousin Tyler before I left to come and inform you I had to travel to the nearest portal which was in Georgia before I could get here." The man spoke in a rush of words out Bella smiled as she was reminded of her family in Mystic Falls.

Looking at Oberon, who sighed before dismissing the other fae for a small break before sending him back and turned towards Bella to speak.

"I will work on opening a portal in the Mystic Falls area but for now we still have two more months to prefect your training before you go back to that world to show them that though we may have been forgotten we are still here." Bella grinned before giving him a hug and flying off on the wings that she would only have on this side o the portal having just recently developed the translucent butterfly like wings.

Those two months/years went by quickly as Bella was filled with a renewed determination to see her family again and to bring pride back to the long forgotten race she had become a part of. In the last month/year she had finally come into her maturity in her magic allowing her to finally connect and receive her familiar which was a magpie. She could see this with her new found fascination with things she found to be pretty or shiny. With her maturity came the immortality that all fae had and Bella knew that the only way she would be able to find love again would be with someone immortal like she was not being able to put someone through what Edward tried to put her through. Standing in front of the two courts Bella aced the two people she would miss the most until they would be able to come and check on her in a year. Knowing a thank you would not be received since it was seen as forgetting the deeds done by the fae and herself she waved before stepping into the circle and vanishing from their sight. Fighting to open her eyes she was greeted with the sight of white walls and the steady beeping of the heart monitor before her eyes closed once more knowing her journey was just starting.