Twilight does not belong to me, except for my OC.
Carlisle had a daughter who had the ability to heal. When she was eighteen, about ten years after Carlisle disappeared, she was also bitten by a vampire a few years after Carlisle himself. But the thing is, her ability is rejecting the vampire venom in her system, but the venom is too strong for her ability to heal and after a few weeks into her painful transition, her ability to heal merged with the venom and now she has become a hybrid; part-human, part-vampire, not unlike those who were born hybrids.
Chapter 1:
Althea POV
"Father, where are you going?" I ask my father, who is the son of an Anglican Pastor. My father is supposed to step into my grandfather's role one day, and as such he is to go on supernatural hunts more often.
I know my father wishes to help others, he has told me so often enough. And he knows that many innocent people get hurt because of these hunts. During this time period many people died, not only because of religion but because of the Civil war that has happened.
"I am going out on a hunt for your grandfather. I want you to stay here Althea. Please do not follow me. I do not wish for the town to think you are a witch" My father tells me. I nod at him but I was going to follow him anyway. All I could think was, 'What if those vampires, witches and werewolves come hurt my father?'
Later that evening my father led a hunt for vampires by the London sewers. 'He actually found them' I think in disbelief. I watch as the vampires flee faster than what the eye could see.
A man and a woman, both with red eyes stop by one of the sewer entrances, they look frantic and so beautiful at the same time, 'Well, as frantic as dark creatures can look I suppose'.
They speak so fast, I can barely even make out what they are saying. They were speaking about where they were going to hide now. Both of them scattered.
I was hidden behind a few trees close to the entrance. No one noticed me, luckily.
A white blur came running past where I was hiding, I see my father chasing it. He trips over a brick, falls down with the torch in his hand. I want to run to my father, the blur stops, and I see a man, a monster turn around and attack my father in a matter of seconds. And then it left.
My father was laying there, barely moving, whimpering in pain. I run to him. "Father!"
"No…no, it's not safe here Althea, you must leave. I am dying" My father says.
"No, I am not leaving you. You can't go. What can I do to help you?" I ask him desperately.
"I am burning up" He whimpers. "My father cannot find me like this. Help me hide daughter" He tells me.
And I did, I helped him. My eight year old self helped my father to a potato cellar. And after he begged me to leave him, I eventually did. My grandfather raised me, until I became a young independent woman…just kidding, independence did not exist back then for a woman. I was promised to the son of one of the city officials.
I resented the idea of having a family. Of becoming a wife and a mother. I was twelve at the time when I discovered that I was betrothed to another boy. I was frightened and my grandfather had resented me since my father married my mother at a young age. My mother and father were both fifteen at the time, madly in love. They married in secret. And you see, my mother was born in London but her family came from Greece. My mother died when I was a toddler from the plague and my father had to take raise me until the unfortunate vampire incident.
My mother, the little I remember of her, she was beautiful and had brown hair with green eyes. My father had blonde hair and blue eyes. I look mostly like my mum, I had her face shape, high cheek bones, and eye colour, while I had my father's blond hair, his smile and eye shape.
I was born in 1655, in 1663 my father disappeared. At the age of eleven, a tragedy struck London and thousands of people lost their lives and homes in 1666 as the Great Fire ravaged the city. But I survived through a miracle, I discovered at this age that I healed incredibly fast. I thought it was witchcraft and a curse was placed upon me, or was it a blessing? I kept this secret in fear of my own family. My grandfather's church burned down, and I was inside cleaning the pews as it happened. One of the beams fell on my arm and it broke. I cried out in pain, and it reminded me of that very night my father was attacked. The fire spread quickly and I tried to escape but the fire was everywhere. I burned that day. I died.
And I healed. All of my injuries healed, I left without a scar on my body.
After this ordeal I noticed that no matter what, I still healed, over and over. Cuts, scrapes and bruises were in moments.
In 1673 I was turned into a vampire. I was eighteen, about to be married off to a man I clearly disliked. And it was my own fault. I searched for those vampires. I searched for my father. He was the only one who could stop this marriage from happening.
I remembered those two vampires, the man and woman, they spoke about where to go. It's still in London, and I have a vague idea of where they might be living. I searched for them for months. And I found them, well…they spotted me spying on them.
"What do we have here?" the familiar vampire woman asks with a sneer on her face.
I gulp.
"Look, my love, she is frightened" The man says to the woman.
"Please don't kill me…I…I am only looking for my father" I tell them, stuttering in fright.
"And what makes you think that you will find him here child?" She asks. Her voice sounds so melodic and threatening at the same time.
"He was attacked, many years ago by a vampire. I witnessed it. I saw you and that man" I say, pointing to the male vampire, "talking about a safe place, you moved so fast and in less than a moment you were gone. But my father was chasing another vampire and he attacked my father. My…my father survived the attack. I am looking for him" I tell them quickly.
"This is a surprising turn of events, wouldn't you say so my love?" The man says to the woman.
"Indeed it is. Girl, how sure are you that your father is still alive?" she asks me.
"I am certain miss" I tell her.
"What is his name?"
"Carlisle, Carlisle Cullen.
"And what is your name?" She asks.
"Althea Cullen"
What shall we do sweetheart? Rules are rules" she says thoughtfully to that man.
"I know love, rules are rules. But maybe we should give her a chance to find her father? Or maybe we should just end her? The Cullens have hunted us for decades, maybe it's time for a little revenge" He replies sadistically.
I know I have that healing power but this is frightening. Maybe I won't survive because it would be a supernatural creature attacking me.
"I am thirsty" The woman replies. "Sorry darling, this is nothing personal towards you. I would love to help you, but you see, a human knowing about us puts our lives at risk from the kings. But don't worry, it'll be a quick death for you" she tells me.
She drained me that day. She thought I died. I did, but my healing kicked in and I was brought back to life, but her venom was in my body.
No one POV
The vampires drained Althea together, she died quickly.
The vampire woman, Belinda and her mate, Johnathan looked down at the body of the young girl they just killed. The woman feeling slightly guilty for the death she caused, the life she took, but this is how things were.
"We must get rid of her body soon" her mate tells her.
"I agree, we will do it tomorrow evening as soon as the sun sets" she replies.
All of a sudden the dead girl jerks and inhales a deep breath of air. And as she exhales she gives an ungodly scream that comes with the transition of vampirism.
Belinda and Johnathan looks at her in shock. "This is not possible" Belinda states and her mate agreed with her.
Johnathan then snapped Althea's neck and the screaming stopped. There was no heart beat present. They stare at the girl's body for a few seconds more. And then Althea wakes up again with the same air inhalation, followed with screaming.
"This is not normal" Johnathan says disturbed.
They snapped her neck again and again, and every time she came back to life.
"STOP!" Althea yells out.
"Please! Stop killing me. It will never work!" She yells out, crying in pain. She tries to control her breathing, and in turn to subdue her voice, so that she would no longer be screaming out after every breath taken.
"Why won't it work? Why won't you die?" Belinda asks.
Althea takes a deep breath in, and out, "Because I've been cursed. I can never die. I can only heal. No matter what, I always heal"
"How is this possible, at such a young age, as a human? It must be a special gift?" Johnathan asks.
"Yes. I wonder what will happen with her ability as when she turns into a vampire. She cannot heal from this"
"Girl…Althea, you are in transition, you will become a vampire within the next three days. We do not know how your healing ability will affect you as a vampire. But we will help you, show you our way of life and teach you the rules. Then you will leave us be and find your father".
Three weeks later her change was complete. She did not look like the average vampire. Her skin was not as pale as that of a vampire's, it was as hard as that of the average vampire but it did not feel like it to the touch and neither did it look it. Her skin did not look like thousands of diamonds scattered all over her body, instead she looked like she had a healthy glow to it, unnoticeable by humans. Her eyes were still green but with red specks in them. They discovered that she was not as strong or as fast as the average vampire but she could still win in a fight if she eventually learned how to defend herself.
Johnathan and Belinda unwittingly became her guardians, her parents for over two decades. Belinda had the experience she always wanted-motherhood. Unexpected motherhood. They did not expect Althea's change to be so long, and different. They did not expect Althea to become a hybrid. What they expected that they would teach her about vampirism and the laws and leave her to her own mercies. But fate had a different plan and Belinda and Johnathan did not care what it was, they experienced something that they didn't know they needed. The bond of family.
Althea was noticeably upset when she finally changed. But she barely felt any different. She was still herself. She was not the monster she thought she would become.
She was a hybrid. She could eat human food and drink vampire blood. She did have terrible cravings in the beginning but the venom in her body absorbed her own blood and was always sated because of the healing factor.
Althea could still sleep, but rarely did she do so. She had no need for sleep. She had no need to eat even if she had cravings. She had no need to stay in the dark like the other vampires around her.
All three of them became inseparable for the first few years of Althea's new life. Johnathan taught her how to not only defend herself but to win in a fight. He said that he was a knight from the 13th century era, he too was turned by accident from a roaming vampire on the battle field.
A few years later he met Belinda and at first glance, they were taken with each other.
Belinda went to Althea one evening and told her about her father. There was word that he was in Italy, studying there, and living with the kings of the Vampire world.
Althea knew that she must not get involved with them yet, even though she wishes dearly to see her father. She has waited two decades so far, and she can wait many years more before she sees him again. At the moment she was content with where she was and enjoyed Belinda's company.
Time passed different for her as a vampire as it did when she was fully human. It felt that in the blink of an eye a year passed. And another and another. It frustrated her that she lost time. She expressed her desire to leave and explore the world before finding her father. Belinda and Johnathan were sad and reluctant to let her go but let her be.
Althea explored the world. She left for India. She snuck on board a ship heading for India. No one knew she was there. She explored India, learned one of the many languages that they had in the South. She then left for Thailand, Burma and the Philippines. And then returned to visit Belinda and Johnathan after her visit in the Scandinavian countries.
She left a few months after that to go to Spain. She travelled so much during these decades and discovered not only vampires, Vampire hybrids, and werewolves, she came across wendigoes in Thailand, she stumbled into a community of shape-shifting Tigers in India. In the Philippines she came across mermaids as there are thousands of islands, and one island practically houses the mermaids, they could live above land and in water, true hybrids of their own right. And her few discoveries were just the beginning.
Althea did not make mention of any of these creatures to Belinda or Johnathan after her visit in Spain. They received word from Alistair, a sort-of friend of my father who is a Vampire Hermit, and an old friend of Johnathan, that my father is heading out to the new world.