Necromancy in the Fifth

Disclaimer: I am not Stephanie Meyer and therefore I do not own anything that has to do with her characters. I just enjoy perverting the hell out of them.

AN: The vast majority of this story will be told in first person through the eyes of Bella, but the preface is in third for necessary purposes. I will say, this story is a first for me, I have never before written anything like this. Unlike the vast majority of my stories, this one has a more human premise to it. But, it is far from all-human, in fact depending on your opinion, the main characters of this story may not be human at all. Now with all that being said, the big warning is it does technically deal in incest. Again it's how you look at the story though. This story will have an HEA for Bella and Edward, now whether or not you believe it's right... I'm going to leave that completely with you.

Preface

In the little sleepy town of Forks, Washington almost the entire community was one hundred percent human. In fact there was only one blaring exception to it. That singular exception was the Swans. Charlie and Renee were fourth generation Necromancers.

Some people knew, of course, that Charlie and Renee were brother and sister – as Marie and Geoffrey had been before them, Helen and Beaufort before them, and Mercedes and Brooker in the first generation. The thing was, the sleepy town turned a blind eye to it. After all, Brooker, Beaufort, Geoffrey, and Charlie had all been chief of police at one point, while every one of the women were respectable and well loved.

And the fact was, no one could ignore that the children with every generation were normal. It was as if the fear of inbreeding which most people had, didn't exist for them.

Brooker and Mecedes had already been married when they first settled into Forks in 1879 – in fact, some claimed they were the original founders of Forks – and they had a total of nine girls and one boy over the course of the next fifteen years. Of their ten children, only their oldest daughter, born in 1881, and their son, born in 1894, were gifted with the extremely rare magic of necromancy.

The eight normal human children went on to live normal lives, some got married to people while others moved away, and at least one went on to be a hermit. Helen and Beaufort though, married each other in the year of 1912, already having had two children together before they even got married. They continued on to have another four children over the course of the next seven years. Their only son, born in 1917, and their youngest daughter, born in 1919, were the only two that were passed on the gift.

Marie and Geoffrey were perhaps the most unwilling to continue the tradition as they only had a mere two children, though it was also possible that they did have some sort of genetic defect and that was why they only had two. Their children were Charlie and Renee, born in 1964 and in 1968, respectively..

Charlie and Renee, on the other hand, were much more happy and in love. They got married the same day that Renee graduated from high school. Nine month later, in the early spring of 1987, they gave birth to their oldest daughter, Rosalie. Angela was born in 1989, Victoria in 1991, and the twins, Edward and Bella, on September 13th,1992. Then, unplanned and unexpected, Renee had a fifth daughter exactly one year after the twins by the name of Alice.

Edward and his twin sister were the ones gifted with necromancy. Not only were they gifted in necromancy though, but their talents were far stronger than any of their ancestors. In fact, Edward made contact with his first spirit when he was a barely a month old – not that he remembered it later.

As Edward grew into a young boy, he quickly rebelled against the tag-a-long twin that he was meant to spend the rest of his life with. When he was three, he broke her nose just because he could, and when he was four, he pushed her out of tree – also, just because he could. The tradition of him harming her continued in that way for the next three years.

Edward, loved all of his sisters, including his far too annoying twin, but he often felt surrounded and overwhelmed by all the girls in his life. What he didn't understand – couldn't because he was far too young – was it was his powers which made him so volatile.

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Today, it was Edward and Bella's eighth birthday – Alice's seventh – and Edward already knew most of the gifts would be girly and the cake would be decorated with pink frosting. On top of that, there would frilly lace and streamers hung between the trees in the back yard. He absolutely hated it.

"Bell, I have a surprise to show you," he exclaimed when he saw his twin come out of the room she shared with Alice.

"What?" she asked, her voice immediately wary. Frankly, she didn't trust him, not after all the times he'd harmed her.

"Come on, you'll love it," he said in sing-song voice as he turned and walked away. He knew she'd follow because she wouldn't be able to resist. She never was able to once she became curious.

He headed out the back door, ignoring all the streamers – in bright pink – that had already been hung. It took a minute, but he finally heard Bella following him.

Edward walked deep into the forest, heading off path as he did so, hearing his twin swear 'dang' and 'crap' every few feet as she continued to struggle in following him. He almost felt sorry for his twin and her inability to not trip, but for the most part, he didn't care... he was simply too irritated.

Finally he reached what he was looking for. Directly in front of him was a giant ravine in the forest, almost thirty feet deep, but he didn't care about that. What he cared about was the bees' nest hanging from the tree close to the edge. He wanted that bees' nest because Bella was allergic to them.

Once she was only a few feet away, he knelt down and picked up a rock, throwing it at the nest.

She saw what he was doing and immediately raised her hands in the air, a black glow coming from them. He couldn't even blink before dozens of what appeared to be little black missiles hit the nest and sent it careening down into the ravine. It wasn't until the little missiles stopped and slowly blinked out as they returned to their eternal rest that he realized they were actually birds.

"What have I ever done to you, brother!" Bella shouted angrily, tears running down her face as she stormed toward him.

"My life will never be normal because of you!"

"Your life? What about mine!" Bella demanded before slamming her hands into his chest – her hands still coated in the blackness of her necromancy.

The added strength from her powers sent him flying backwards and falling off the edge. Rolling down the ravine to the bottom and hitting his head on a rock so hard it killed him instantly. It was probably a better death than what would have happened without the rocks. As the bees – now extremely angry – were also down in that ravine.

AN: First chapter will be set thirteen years after this. So 2013, making Bella 21. As I have many other projects, chapters will be slow