A soft thud occurred as I landed on the snow kissed meadow in forks Washington; I looked around surveying the area when my eyes narrowed onto a group of people standing several meters away. A ray of sunlight reflected of their pale faces and I realized they were vampires, in total there were seven of them ... 4 males and the others females. My perfect eyes took in that one of them still had red eyes... newborn. I slipped into a protective crouch and growled under my breath. Suddenly I felt a prick in my head, somebody was trying to read my mind ... I scanned the coven and my eyes landed on a handsome man whose eyes were piercing amber just like my fathers and his eyebrows were scrunched together in concentration. I closed my eyes and felt my power slide over me, my eyes snapped open as I heard someone swear.
"I can't hear her , for a moment I saw a blur of faces and she was thinking how my eyes looked like her late fathers and then blank , I can't hear her now , Jasper can u feel her emotions. " the fairly handsome man said as he turned to face a man whose name was Jasper . His amber eyes locked on me as if I was dangerous, he simply shook his head.
"Maybe that her power, her power might be similar to Bella's." said a voice from the back and as I saw the source of the voice I gasped, this man resembled my father , my late father. I fell to my knees and doubled in pain. It all flashed in front of my eyes the car crash, the fire, my mother and father's shrieks as I succumbed to the ground and a wave of shock took over me.
As I regained consciousness I realized I was in a house and sleeping on a couch. I soon opened my eyes and saw a head looming over me. I sprang up on my feet and dashed to a corner and growled.
"Alice, stop startling her, my dear." a very young woman who had a motherly grace to herself said to me. "We won't hurt you, Darling, What's your name, Mine is Esmé Cullen and this is my family"
"Cora Smith," I said slowly "I'm an orphan, my parents , they died in a car crash a year ago " I said almost chokingly .
"Cora, I'm Edward Cullen and I'm your cousin," I looked at him and smiled slightly; he had read my mind and realized.
"Edward, care to explain" said a tiny pixie like vampire, Alice, Esmé had mentioned her earlier, she looked almost breakable. "Alice, in her thoughts I saw that her father is Charles Smith, Carlisle you brother, I'm so sorry but he passed away."Edward said with a pained expression.
"I'm so sorry Carlisle" said Esmé , Carlisle nodded slowly as he approached me saying,
"You have his blue eyes you know," I nodded biting my lower lip and trying to fight back the tears that appeared in my eyes seeing this man who resembled my father so much . I let out a sound that was between a moan and a wail and fell into Carlisle arms as if they were my fathers. Both of us mourned and suddenly all the coven put their hands around us and hugged.
" I believe I need to introduce you to all of us Cora " Carlisle told me after we had recovered I smiled and nodded. "This is Esmé my wife and these are our sons , Edward, " he gestured to the man who had the ability to read minds "Jasper," was the man who could read my emotions , when I looked at him my eyes narrowed onto those bite marks on his hand , I edged a bit away from him " and lastly Emmett, " Carlisle waved to a huge man who had a sparkle in his eyes , he eyed me and said,
"He-ey beautiful." I blushed as another vampire came to Emmet's side and put her hand obsessively around his waist "Hello Cora I'm Rosalie, Emmet's wife."
"Hi" I mumbled a bit abashed and intimidated by Rosalie's innate beauty.
"Oh Rosalie don't scare her, I see that you and I are going to have a lot of fun in the near future, you can make up for the lost shopping time with Bella." Alice trilled playfully nudging another woman who was more beautiful than all of them put together, her chestnut hair flowed around her back and her smile was enchanting. Edward turned to me and smiled I realized that by the way they stood they were mates.
My thoughts were interrupted by a loud crash in the background and tinkling laughter. A huge man came in with russet skin and just shorts on, he was carry another girl but she was younger than the other vampires, more human like me.
"Ohhh, Jacob let me down I want to meet her ", he set her down and she looked like me and smile a crooked smile which was similar to Edwards.
"Hello, I'm Renessme Cullen, Edward and Bella's daughter. Don't mind me asking but are a half human - half vampire," I looked at her in amusement.
"Yes , of course I am , my mother conceived me when she was human and she turned vamp after I was born."
"Vamp huh, I think I'll take into liking this new hybrid, hey, Cora right " the huge man looked at me and smiled a cynical smile "Yes Cora and what are you supposed to be, a hybrid between a human and a dog, cause you totally smell like one " I said crinkling my nose in disgust due to his revolting smell. When I said these words Rosalie started laughing and everyone else had an amused expression on their face, even Jacob.
"You are lucky, because your guess is 100 % correct."
He smiled and suddenly he started shaking, I raised my eyebrow at him.
"I wouldn't Jacob," warned Edward in a playful tone.
"Stop taking everything seriously Ed." Jacob joked and then he turns to face me. He locked his jaw, growled and then exploded into a huge ball of fur. My heart stopped for a second and he snorted. Standing before me was now a huge russet wolf, I started laughing. "That was amazing, what is he?" I turned to Edward.
"He's a shape shifter, he can turn into any native Red Indian animal but he prefers wolf."
"That is convenient," I say grinning and then I turn to Jacob and say "You mind if I try?" He looks like I have lost my head and then rolls his baseball sized eyes . " What do you mean Cora?" Carlisle asks. " well you see my power is that I can take the opponents power and then adapt it and use it against them, I discovered this when I was three , like with Edward , he can read minds if I look at him I can block him and if I concentrate I can actually read his mind only his mind . " I finish and everyone I staring at me with their mouths agape. The first one to recover from the shock is Esmé "so can you adapt to two or three powers at one time?" I thought for some time "uhh maybe if I concentrate a lot "I suggested "I don't know I haven't tried it yet ". Then there was pin drop silence and I shifted uncomfortably" So you think you can phase into a wolf "Jacob asked in his deep voice." Yes I think I can "I said" well let's see you try ii "Jacob challenged me with a smirk. I returned it and I closed my eyes and imagine how he started vibrating, I imagined a heat and as if it was spreading all throughout my body turning each part feral, and now involuntarily I was shaking and sudden like a blast I exploded and when I opened my eyes I was as tall a Jacob, who standing before me with utter shock in his eyes, I felt the same and as I tried to move I realize I was on all fours now. I DID IT , and I yelped with joy but as my eyes landed on the remnants of my clothes I growled slowly " Wait Cora , I'll phase let's see if you can hear me kay ?" he asked and I a flash even he phased in front of my eyes . "Yes" hissed Edward" he can hear her" and just as he said that I hear Jacob
sup , Cora all well : yeah ,umm just try not to read my mind : try , I steer clear from all minds , not like Edward ya'know :
"He-ey" says Edward with mock annoyance. "Cora here are your clothes you can go out – okay, umm yeah can go out and run and change in the forest, just be careful, yeah bye "and just as he said that I bound out of the house
I felt free and alive, but my ears perked up as I heard some thudding sound. I focused on my human self and felt the air shimmer around me; I quickly slipped into the yellow sundress and put on the nude gladiators. The thudding sound slowed down as I approached the song, I held my breath in anticipation and so a majestic wolf came out of the woods, it was sandy-grey colored. It cocked its head to the side and growled and snapped his teeth. I looked into his eyes and suddenly warmth flooded through my body. We approached each other and his head ducked as I patted his nose in synchronization. The feel of his fur under my fingers was soothing and as I shifted more close to him I took in a deep breath. The rich honey oak tree scent filled my senses intoxicating me ... he growled, a growl from deep within his chest and my breath sped up. But just as I blinked he backed away and bounded away from me, I just gaped in shock ... What just happened?
I returned to the Cullen mansion thinking of this but quickly blocked my mind. What happened a few minutes ago felt very intimate for me to share. Just as I was about to open the door Alice flung it open and dragged me with her to my temporary room. "Wait, what are you," she cut me off mid sentence "Stuff it, there is a Christmas party over at the reservation, everyone is looking forward to meet you, so you need to look good." She said this very fast as she opened my cupboard (which she had filled) to choose a dress for me to wear. The only few words that I caught on were 'Charlie' and 'reservation'. "Okay, hold it! Who's Charlie and what's the reservation" I asked. "My father, but he knows all about us and the Jacob's pack" said Bella as she made way into my room. "I came here to help you from Alice's frenzy" she smiled sweetly. "Thanks a lot, I didn't know you had a father, is he human? I asked bluntly. "Yes, but since he got married to Sue Clearwater he's in on our secret." Okay that made sense I thought. Bella and Alice left the room to give me some privacy to dress, my thought still dwelled on the sandy-haired wolf as I mechanically slipped on a brown dress and gold gladiators. I just finished zipping up the gladiators when Alice opened the door, "Oi, I haven't finished yet." I replied as I spun around to face Alice.
"Doesn't matter, the family is waiting for you; we have to take a picture." She said jumping up and down as she took hold of my hand and dragged me to the living room.
"Alice leave the poor lass alone; look at her she's already terrified by your bubbly nature." Jasper said in his southern drawl. I grinned at him in gratitude and he smiled a small smile.
The corners of my eyes crinkled up as I saw Alice making a face at jasper and then pulling me all the way to the lawn in super vampire speed. And as I sat on a chair next to Renesmee as Carlisle fixed the camera to take the picture and finally I felt at home.