CHAPTER 1

In the mid-1400's, Tanya, Kate, and Irina's mother was turned into a vampire.

Eve is her name. She is in her mid-twenties and has straight blonde hair. Her husband died of alcohol poisoning when their children were infants. As she was out at night bringing water in from the well, a monstrous man attacked Eve and pierced her throat with his teeth. Three nights she was taken to a dark place and was in fire. She worried about her children and was happy they were left with her maid. At least they will be in safe hands after she is dead. But she didn't die, she became a monster as the one who has done this to her. She never saw the man after she recovered from the pain. And she found her way home, but on the way killed and sucked the blood from four random people in the streets of the night. She had no control over the burn in her throat and the muscles that reacted spontaneously. But she felt so much better and the itch in my throat eased.

She was a newborn with 3 beautiful children. The children were around the age of six and Eve is a single parent. So when she is thirsty, she had to leave the children with their maid, Mary. Nobody knew that she was a vampire, nobody but herself and of course, her victims. After years of practice, she could be with her children and not be tempted to kill them.

By that time, Tanya, Kate, and Irina were eighteen and finally women.

Tanya grew to be beautiful and intelligent, and knew how to get all of the boys. Her soft, strawberry blonde hair was medium length and hung in curls. Kate became another beautiful woman. With long, straight corn silk, blonde hair. She was sweet, but if you said thing that would anger her, she would snap at you, so fiercely that it would shock you in surprise. Irina is the youngest, yet she has a set mind, and could be a very hard to crack. It takes her a lot to persuade her. She too, has blonde hair, but was paler than her older sisters and the shortest that was cut a little above her chin. They started to notice that their mother was different from their old maid, Mary and the rest of the women in town. They noticed her cold, icy and pale skin, her bright red eyes, and the way she never went into the sunlight. They wanted to know the reason behind her unnatural features and qualities.

Eve felt it was time that her own biological daughters knew her truthfully. Eve sent Mary home for the night, and brought all three girls down into the cellar—underground the house, where no sound can escape from. It was cold and damp. The walls and floors are stone; there are no windows since its underground. Eve brought her clueless daughters down her for a reason.

The three human girls stood there, looking around curiously, and watched their mother shut the large wooden door and placed a long and thick piece of lumber across the door to lock them all in the cellar.

"What's going on, mother?" Tanya, the oldest asked.

Eve slowly turned around to face her daughters, going through how to start with her explaining. She never had to explain her horrible truth. So, she flat out said, "I'm a vampire."

"What?" Irina asked behind Kate, "What is a vampire?" Her ice blue, eyes tight.

"A vampire is a monster…that feeds only on human blood." Eve answered slowly continuing forward toward the girls.

"That's not possible. You don't look like a monster. You're the most beautiful woman in all of Russia." Kate imposed.

Eve got arm length to the first daughter, Tanya, "That's what a vampire is…a beautiful creature that attracts their prey." She reached out for Tanya's hand.

Tanya cringed away from Eve's touch.

Eve's frozen heart shattered. "I wanted you to know that…I would never hurt you three. I love you all dearly."

"So why did you bring us down here, in the old cellar, that's underground…?" Kate began to ask, but her voice faltered at the end because she already realized the answer to her obvious question. She just found out that her mother is a blood sucking monster, and all noises are sealed down here.

The other two caught on as well. "No!" Tanya screamed.

"It's no use to scream, children. No one can hear you outside." Eve explained quietly as the girls continued to scream.

Eve tried to think this through. She just wanted to tell them, but now they're afraid of her. They'd never want to see her ever again and want Eve dead. Maybe if they were vampires, they'd see her point of view. But she was scared that she would kill her own daughters. Eve thought this for five seconds, and during that time, Tanya had snuck past Eve and tried to lift the lumber from the door.

Eve ran too quickly for human eyes and grabbed Tanya by her torso and sank her white, sharp teeth into Tanya's shoulder.

Tanya screamed in pain and shock. Her sisters clutched each other near the back of the room and screamed Tanya's name in horror. The scream rang of betrayal at their mother.

Eve made sure her venom was in Tanya's system and regretfully pulled away from her daughter. The blood and venom dripped from Eve's mouth and teeth as she turned her bloodlust, red eyes on Kate and Irina. Like a cobra strike, Eve was across the cellar and had both of the girls in her powerful arms.

Irina struggled and tried her best to get free of the demon that once was her mother. But her mind was cleared and filled with pain and anger when there was a sharp incision in the back of her neck. Her neck was on fire and suddenly she was on the cement ground. Irina screamed and writhed, trying to put the flames out.

Kate was bitten under her jaw in her neck too.

Eve had to get out of the cellar with the blood being gushed out of her young daughters, now. She ran back across the cellar, holding her breath, to hop over Tanya's twitching body in front of the door. When Eve was out the door, she locked the wooden door and locked it from the outside so Tanya, Irina and Kate couldn't get out. If they could.

Outside the house, no sound was heard in the night. But inside the house upstairs, their screams of pain are heard faintly. Mary cannot come back in our house for the next couple of weeks, maybe months. The girls will be too dangerous, and Eve would not let anything happen to the innocent Mary.

The third day came, and Eve fluttered down the stairs with a lit candle and unlocked the cellar door. Eve creaked open the wooden door and peaked into the dark room. Her eyes worked in the shadows and dark areas, so she noticed immediately the three figures leaning against the far wall.

A hiss broke out and two joined with the first one.

Eve walked in and shut the door behind her. Her candle flame lit the dark little room. The flame danced and flickered on the three beautiful women across from her. All three of them stood as goddesses looking like triplets, matching with blonde hair, white skin, and brilliant bright red eyes, staring back at Eve.

The transformation was complete and was a success.

But they look angry—beyond angry—the goddesses are pissed. The worst part of it is that they are pissed at me, Eve thought to herself.

"What have you done?!" Kate yelled in a more gorgeous voice than three days ago when she was human.

"You didn't believe that I would hurt you. I wanted you three to know my perspective. But this is perfect now! Don't you see? We all can live happily ever after, forever and ever as a family." Eve started, smiling warmly, still happy that her daughters lived.

Irina shook her head, her short, pale and silvery hair shaking with it. "We're monsters."

"No you're not."

"I can feel it, Eve." Tanya added, "My throat hurts, I think I'm…thirsty."

Eve flinched. That was the first time Tanya called her by her name, and not "mother".

"It's too late to hate what we are." Kate said calmer than before, and she turned her new eyes on Eve, "What do we do?"

Eve licked her lips, "We hunt."

Eve showed the three newborn vampires how to hunt for their prey, the humans. The girls caught five humans to themselves. Eve was impressed by their skills.

They settled inside now in the living room of their small home. All three girls on the couch and Eve on the wooden chair.

"I was thinking what you said earlier, mother. You know, about how this could work out and we could be a happy family again, as if nothing happened?" Tanya started.

Eve brightened at the sound of Tanya calling her "mother" again. "Yes, what about it?"

"I think I could deal with this. But it would take some getting used to. It's not like a person could start eating people over night."

Eve smiled, "It's been three days."

All four girls laughed together.

Eve sobered, "Do you all know your new qualities? The extra strength, the speed, the hard and cold skin, your eye color, and most importantly stay out of the sunlight when you're around humans."

"Why?" Irina asked.

"We sparkle. When the sun touches our skin, it's like diamonds, and it attracts your prey. But it's not smart. Because the humans would think you're a witch or something and try to kill you. I know it seems unlikely that a human could kill you, but just keep it a secret. We cannot let humans know what we are. Understand?" Eve pointed to Irina.

All three nodded.

Tanya, Kate and Irina learned quickly. They were able to control their actions around humans. So Mary could come back to help around the house. When Mary did come around, Eve noticed the tightening muscles in her daughter's bodies. But Mary seems different. Eve could smell the difference in her blood stream. Eventually, they found out that Mary has the flu, a dangerous and deathly one. Eve sent her home.

A few weeks passed and Eve walked over to Mary's cottage during the night, right after the sun was gone. Mary was worse, and already looked dead. Mary's son was two years old and walked around the small cottage. He had black hair like Mary and had big green eyes. Eve adored the little boy. While visiting with Mary, Eve was unaware of Mary's quietness.

Eve turned to Mary's still body and touched her throat where a large vein pulsed. Well, where it used to.

Mary is dead.

Eve cannot be here, she would be blamed. It wouldn't be surprising; Eve was already killing more innocent people around this town. As she was about to run out into the night, she remembered Mary's son, Lucas. Eve snatched up the toddler in her cold hands and ran faster than ever. She clutched the child to her chest with one hand, while the other hand held up her long dress as she ran.

Inside her own home, she was safe for now. She set the little boy down and locked the door. It's quiet throughout the house. Kate, Irina and Tanya are out for a while, maybe a couple of days.

The little boy, Lucas begins to cry. He wants his momma. Now that Eve has the child in her possession, she realized that she would have to watch over Luke and raise him. That was easy, but the difficult part is providing food for him and making sure he's safe from her.

Eve has heard of the immortal children on another part of the world. Maybe that is what would make this easier for Eve and the child. That way, he could eat the like the rest of us and we wouldn't have to worry. Plus, he would forever be a toddler and I could adopt him and he could be my child.

Eve was over by Luke in a second and picked him up. She took him downstairs to the cellar like she did with her daughters. As soon as Eve shut the door, she bit his neck without hesitation.

The boy's scream was heartbreaking, but she had to do it. She wanted this for herself and for Luke. Eve was pretty sure Mary would want this too, only in a different way.

CHAPTER 2

Tanya and Kate were running, scavenging for human scent along shadows of towns and villages. Once the human was near, they would snatch them up and carry them into darkness with them. Killing and sucking the life from them.

After a few bodies were drained, Tanya felt full, yet disgusted. "I hate this!"

Kate looked up from the lifeless body she finished up, "What?"

"I don't like to kill these people; they have families, futures, goals, lives!" Tanya ranted on. "I wish there was some way to survive, and still leave humans alone, you know?"

"Ha! That's impossible! We can't starve ourselves, we'll die from weakness." Kate said wiping the blood off her perfect mouth. "We have to live on these humans. It's how we were created."

"No, that how we were brought up from mother." Tanya began to walk back in the direction to home. "There could be an alternative."

"Okay, sure, what would that be? Huh?" Kate taunted.

Irina was close by, Tanya and Kate can hear her quiet footsteps yards away. And then she was right beside Kate in a moment. "Hi. Did you get enough?"

Tanya understood right away, "Yes. I'm practically full."

Irina looked distantly forward in a haze of her thoughts. "I heard what you were saying about how you wanted another way to hunt."

"Yes, I think it would be suitable. Why do you bring it up? Do you have a suggestion?" Tanya asked eagerly.

Irina looked unsure, "Well yes, but it tastes different, nasty. Very bland compared to the humans."

"Try me." Tanya stared at Irina undoubtedly.

Irina bit her lower lip, "Animals."

"Gross!" Kate protested.

Tanya's eyes scrunched at Kate, "How can you judge, when you haven't even tried the blood of animals?"

"Irina just said that it was bland compared to the sweet taste of humans. I don't like bland, tasteless things."

The three continued to walk slowly through the forests quietly. All three of them, thinking this through as the black night swallowed them.

Tanya was all for it and wanted to give this a try. Maybe there was hope for them to leave the humans alone. Maybe they could survive and not be monsters. I mean humans eat animals too, just not their blood.

Kate felt it was disgusting. She absolutely did not want to do this and wanted to stick to their human blood. She was content. But she did like how Tanya wanted their life style to be. No longer being monsters and living like a regular person.

Irina still wasn't sure yet. But whatever her older sisters want, she'll have to go with it. Irina wanted both choices. She wants to feed on humans, but she also wanted to be normal and no a creature.

"I'm trying the animals. I don't care what you guys want, I'm doing what I want." Tanya said sternly to her sisters. She began to run in a direction from the other two.

"Tanya, wait!" Irina called and ran to catch up. "I want to too. I will try to do this with you." She stopped Tanya.

Tanya's eyebrow went up and she stared silently.

"I don't want you to grow distant from us. We need to stay as a family." Irina grabbed Tanya's hands in hers.

Tanya looked down to their hands and then back up to Irina's red eyes. "But what about Kate? She doesn't want to do this."

Irina looked back to Kate, who was standing where they left her. "Please, Kate?" Irina let go of Tanya's hands and ran back over to Kate, "Please? Just try, that's all I ask. Please!?"

Kate tried to ignore her little sister's pleas, but she cracked, "Fine! I'll try it! Let's go, then." She started walking towards Tanya.

Irina and Tanya smiled to Kate.

All three spotted a clan of tigers. Drinking the blood of this large cat wasn't bland like Irina had said, Tanya thought as she sucked on the tiger's neck, it just tastes different.

After they were finished, Tanya looked to her sisters. "Well, can you deal with this, because I can?" She watched the grimaces on their beautiful faces.

Kate stared down at the dead tiger at her feet, "I don't know yet. But if you do it, then I have no choice." She mumbled her expression in a frown.

"I guess I could live with it. You're the oldest Tanya, you should know best." Irina insisted.

Tanya nodded.

CHAPTER 3

Lucas is a full vampire and he is thirsty.

Eve takes him out, holding onto his little hand in hers. They walked through the night and Lucas kept hissing because of the burn in his throat. Most newborn vampires are always impatient with their thirst, but Lucas is a toddler, and it is much worse.

Eve had to hurry and catch a human in their own home while they slept and killed him for Lucas to drink; to put out his pain in his throat. Eve had to bring him to another village to feed on more humans. If she didn't, Lucas would have a hissy fit and go berserk! And Eve didn't want a strong newborn—even as a child—go wild on her.

After Lucas was full, Eve brought him home to rest and simmer down. She expected the girls to return home tonight and she didn't want them to see Lucas yet. So, Eve had him stay down in the cellar. She provided a few toys and a candle that lit the room faintly on the wall.

Just as Eve suspected, Tanya, Kate, and Irina can home that night before the sun shown over the horizon.

"Mother, we have good news!" Tanya announced as she entered through the front door.

Irina and Kate followed after.

Eve set down her book, "Oh, what's that?"

Tanya sat down next to Eve with a smile, "We are going to try a new type of blood for our diet."

Eve's eyebrows furrowed, "What do you mean, a new type of blood?"

"Animal blood." Irina answered before Tanya could.

Eve grimaced, "Animal blood? Are you serious?" She looked to all of the girls.

Kate nodded with her arms folded, still ignorant about it.

Eve listened to their plan on doing this to not be monsters. But Eve couldn't picture herself surviving on animals. It seemed ridiculous to her. But she didn't interrupt or say anything negative to her enthusiastic oldest daughter, who really believed that they could do it, and still be more conspicuous.

But to humor her children, she tried it. And she hated it. Behind Tanya's back Eve and Lucas would cheat on their diet and hunt for humans when the girls were gone hunting for animals.

Two centuries passed, and Eve still hasn't spoken about Lucas as one of them. The girls and Lucas moved more south in Russia. The populations for both humans and animals were dropping and they needed to find a fresh supply. In the new area they relocated, they met another vampire. They became friends and Eve found a new place to hide Lucas from the girls.

But when Eve brought Lucas over to their new friend, Richard's home, he freaked out. Richard began speaking in Russian about the devil child and ran away for a long time.

Eve, still puzzled about Richard's unusual behavior, she had to hide Lucas in their extra room and have it locked all the time.

More days passed, and there was a pounding on Eve's door. Eve, Tanya, Kate, and Irina were sitting in the front room. They all looked at each other confused. Who would be at their door? Only Richard would come, but he had been gone for days. Before any of them could move, the door was bashed down and four people in dark robes with their hoods up rushed in and surrounded them in the small house.

Then three other black robes drifted in right after. They blocked the door, the only exit.

These figures were unfamiliar to the four of them. And yet, they seemed very powerful. They had to be vampires, because no human could be that fast or graceful.

The black figure in the middle pulled down his hood to reveal his identity, his eyes bright and red, his skin white and ashen, and his expression in a grim. Only three words he spoke:

"Where's the child?"

Those three words made Eve run to the back of the house and to the last locked door.

Eve left her three daughters with the black figures surrounding them. Tanya, Kate and Irina crouched in a defensive position guarding each other's back in a triangle, facing the black, robed vampires.

The middle vampire that had his hood down—who seemed to be the leader—spoke quietly, "Get her and the child."

The command was soft, but the reaction was a killing. Two of the four dark figures disappeared down the hall Eve left to. The two that left seemed to be the largest. The other two that were left were less than half the size of one of the girls. Kate felt that she could take them.

There were screams in the distance. Not just one scream the girls expected to be their mother's, but a young scream too.

Tanya, Kate and Irina both watched the hall as the screams became louder. The two dark figures appeared around the corner with Eve in one set of hands and a small person in the others.

Tanya, Kate and Irina gasped in shock. They've never seen this little boy, and yet he was living with them for a while. Who was he and why is he a vampire?

The two larger dark figures threw Eve and the infant vampire on the ground in front of the girls and the three darkest figures.

Eve clutched Lucas to her chest and stared up at the leader with frightful eyes. "Who are you people?" Eve's voice trembled.

The ashen man simply smiled, "I am Aro. These are my brothers, Marcus and Caius." He gestured to the hooded men behind him. "That is my guard, Jane, Alec, Felix, and Demetri." He gestured to the dark figures that surrounded all of them. "We are the Volturi, and we hail from Volterra, Italy. We are the kings of our kind, the ones that you obey. We are the ones who make the laws and make sure you follow them."

Eve made no sound.

"What is your name?" The leader, Aro asked Eve.

"Eve."

"What a beautiful name, doesn't it mean to breathe or to live?" Aro asked.

Eve didn't know what Aro was speaking about, she was afraid of this man, and he's talking to her as if she were his old friend. "Yes."

Aro smiled darkly, "It's too bad that we're going to give you and your illegal and immortal child the exact opposite."

Tanya could believe what is happening. She is beyond shocked to find that there were rulers of her kind and still baffled that her own mother kept this secret for her and her sisters. But she was angry that they were going to kill her for this.

"No! Please!" Eve cried out.

Aro looked to the smallest dark figure on the wall to the left of him, "Jane."

The small one, Jane, took off her hood and revealed her cute and perfect features of a young person around the age of nine or eight. She had light brown hair and white skin, finished with red eyes. She bored her eyes on Eve with an angelic smile.

Eve and the infant in her arms were screaming and withering on the ground.

Tanya, Kate and Irina could do nothing but stare at the two in pain. They were terrified of the rest of the guard to attack them if they tried to help their mother. They had no feelings for the child.

"Stop." Aro commanded, and Jane looked away from Eve to him.

Eve stopped moving and sat up.

Aro nodded to the other small figure to the right of his.

Eve was now looking around as if she was in the dark and couldn't see. Her hands in front of her, "What's going on?" She demanded.

Aro tilted his head at Eve, "We took your seeing sense away from you. That way we could take the child away from you."

Eve made a grab for the child near her, but the largest figure already snatched it up and was in his grasp.

"No, don't!" Eve stood up, "Give me my sight back!" She demanded. Finally she looked around and stopped on Aro, her eyes back. "Don't hurt him."

"I'm sorry, Eve. But the law is set. You and the immortal child are now our prisoners. You have been ever since our witness told us about you." Aro informed them all.

"Who is your witness?" Eve challenged.

"Richard, will you come forward?" Aro said as if he were next to him.

Richard stepped from behind the other two at the door and stood next to Aro.

Eve's eyes turned ravenous on the betraying friend of hers. He ran to the Volturi right after Lucas was shown to him. He back stabbed Eve for the smallest reason. He was not a true friend. "How could you, Richard?" Eve whispered.

"That child is dangerous. And it should not be immortal." Richard explained plainly.

"Richard is right. Immortal children cannot be allowed to exist. They cannot be taught anything more, they will never learn to keep our secret." Aro stated.

"Enough of this talking, let's take care of this and go." One of the brothers of Aro hissed.

Aro nodded morosely, and then snapped his fingers.

That one snap made the two largest figures to pick up Eve and the immortal child from the floor and drag them outside in the darkness. There was a fire that was created by the others outside waiting.

Tanya, Kate and Irina began to follow after their screaming mother, but the two smallest guard of the Volturi stepped into their paths. Tanya was about to swipe then out of her way, when she remembered what they could do with just their minds, and she rocked back on her heels. The three walked to their front window and peered out to the fire.

Aro grabbed the immortal child that hissed and snarled in his hands, and then with a flick of his hands, snapped the child's neck. Eve screamed for the child as Aro simply tossed the dead vampire child in the flames.

Next, Aro sauntered toward Eve.

Eve moaned in pain, "No, no, no. Please, I didn't know!" She screamed again as Aro picked her body up and stared her into the eyes. Eve turned to the girls in the window with hopeless eyes as a goodbye.

"I'm sorry, Eve, but the rules are rules." That was the last thing Aro said to Eve before he threw her into the fire with her illegal creation.

"NO!" Tanya screamed in agony.

All three girls ran for the door and slipped past Jane and the other outside.

With hisses and snarls in their mouths, they approached Aro and the rest. But before they could say anything they were on the ground in pain and screaming. Jane had all of them under her power.

"STOP!" Kate had gotten out of her clenched teeth.

"Jane, please." Aro said.

The girls relaxed on the ground. The fire's smoke was a dark purple that smelled horrifying.

Tanya stood up with her sisters and glared at the Volturi.

"You're next." Aro informed the three sisters.

"What?! We didn't even know about this!" Irina protested.

"Liars!" The same brother shouted.

"No we're not! We've never seen that boy in our whole lives." Kate shouted back.

It's true; Tanya, Kate and Irina were completely oblivious the entire time. How long had the immortal child been living with them?

"One of you, touch the palm of my hand. I have the power to see every thought you have ever thought n your whole life. That will be the evidence of your telling."

Tanya stepped forward confidently and touched Aro's hand as she was told. Seconds passed by, and Aro finally stepped back.

Aro turned to the rest of his guard and brothers, "We leave, they're innocent."

The entire guard continued forward, but that one arrogant brother, "No, I want them to burn! They deserve to die! They're guilty by association!"

Aro turned back and put a hand on his brother's shoulder, "I feel like being merciful today. Just leave them be, Caius. If they start another immortal child, we'll find out, and then we can kill them." Aro looked to the girls, "Goodbye, ladies. I hope to meet you three beautiful women in the future."

The Volturi guard dissolved into the dark forests.

CHAPTER 4

Tanya, Kate and Irina had traveled the east of Russia. Mourning and depressed from their mother's death that occurred centuries ago. The girls are forever orphans. They kept to their diet of animal blood and discovered their reflection in a river that their eye color changed from bright, crimson red to a gold tint. Tanya trained her sisters to keep things conspicuous and try to blend in as humans. Their new eye color helped.

The girls became curious and crossed the body of water between Russia and the continent called North America. Swimming through the water was simple; showing up was the difficult part. The land they arrived on was called Alaska. There was very little civilization, so the girls stayed in this area that way local people would suspect why they don't age very often. The city is called Denali, and that is the place they will reside.

The wildlife that Denali provided was great, full of wolves, polar bears, grizzly bears, foxes, and moose.

The house they lived in was a large and wooden cabin, made of logs of trees. The inside is two levels of floors. Down stairs is the living room, and kitchen. Upstairs is the girls bedrooms for privacy. In the living room had a large fire place, they kept a fire going most of the time when they're home. They didn't need the fire, although it was below zero degrees of weather outside. They couldn't feel the cold anyway. It was just another human charade.

"I'm going out." Tanya announced putting her green parka around her shoulders.

Kate looked up from the couch where she read a paper of the local news, "Where to? We just fed a few days ago. You can't be hungry again."

"I know. I'm going to a local bar or somewhere with people. I have to meet more people other than you two! Maybe find a boy that is handsome to spend the night with." Tanya thought about leaving with the powerless man that is under her spell to receive pleasure from him.

Kate stood up, "What?" She stood in front of the door, and added in a whisper, "Can you do that?"

Tanya shrugged, "I don't really care, and I haven't made love in my entire life. Maybe I should try tonight." She tried prying Kate off the door.

"Are you going to drink his blood?"

"No!" Tanya tugged harder on her sister's arm.

"What if you kill him during your pleasure seeking mission?" Kate asked skeptically.

Tanya let go of Kate's arm and shrugged carelessly, "Whoops."

Kate folded her arms across her chest. "We just found this fantastic place and you want to ruin it by killing more humans for a different reason than sucking their blood?"

Tanya sighed, "Do you want to come along, Kate?"

"I'll grab my coat." Kate ran for the coat rack by the hall.

Tanya shook her head and giggled. She called for Irina and asked if she wanted to come out with them too. But Irina refused.

So Tanya and Kate found a small tavern down by the town square. It was filled with men from in their thirties to their sixties years of age, all of them husky men that belonged as hunters and alcoholics. They eyed the girls up and down as they sauntered in as models and sat at a table by the wall.

Most of the drunken men staggered over to Tanya and Kate and offered them a drink. The girls refused politely and watched the men curiously with delight. When the closing hours came around and the men were really hammered, Tanya picked of the youngest men in their thirties, and walked him out to his horse.

The man, even though he was intoxicated, dazed at the beautiful women on his arm. She had flawless, pale skin in the moonlight. Her blonde hair bounced in curls around her face. The glorious smile that she flashed at him was breath taking. The man was astounded that she wanted him. He took her back to his home, not far from the tavern, on his horse. She held him around his waist from behind.

Once they were inside, his small house, Tanya began to kiss his soft, warm lips that were slow because of the liquor. She guided him to the back of his house to his bedroom. She already knew where it was, it wasn't hard to find since there was only two parts of the cramped house. Tanya pushed him lightly on the bed and stripped him naked. She too, took off her clothes and took advantage of the intoxicated man.

Tanya didn't want to kill him, just receive the pleasure that she wanted. The man's body was so warm to Tanya's cold touch. And a lot softer than her own skin and body too. She tried to let the man do all the work, because if she did, she might end up killing him. Her feelings and actions were stronger than human's.

Suddenly the man grew tired and fell asleep while still on top of Tanya. She had to push him off and leave before sunrise. Tanya got dressed and ran home at full speed.

Kate wasn't home yet, but Irina was upstairs in her room.

Tanya took advantage of her time to be proud of herself. Last night she made love to a random man and didn't kill or suck his blood. The feeling of it was exciting, he felt so warm and soft against her stone hard and ice cold body. And the taste of his mouth was mouthwatering. Tanya didn't know how, but she was able to free herself from that man.

There was a loud slam behind her from where she sat on the chair in the living room.

Tanya turned to find her sister throwing her black jacket on her coat rack. Kate's expression was worried and shock.

"What's the matter?" Tanya stood up.

Kate put her hands out in front of her as she observed them, turning them over and back. "I think I killed the man I left with last night." Her voice was low and morose.

"What do you mean, 'you think' you killed the man?" Tanya walked quickly over to Kate and looked at her perfect hands with her.

Kate slowly shook her head, still staring at her own hands, "I don't know. We were kissing and when I took off his coat, I shoved him on the cot. But when my hands touched him, he looked like he convulsed and fell back on the bed like a dead body. As if a lightning bolt went through him. He didn't move after that. I got scared and ran away from there."

Tanya didn't know what to say to that. How can that happen by just touching a human. Tanya touched that soft man last night and he didn't get hurt.

"What's happening?" Kate asked desperately.

Tanya hugged Kate tightly, and spoke honestly, "I have no idea."

Tanya's routine continued with the human men. She went out at night every other week searching for her obsessive pleasure toys. Tanya never gave out her name, so she was always a mysterious beauty stalking the nights. The men were more willing than she could imagine, so her hunting was easy.

Kate didn't go out after the first unusual time. She was too terrified for herself.

One day as the girls relaxed in front of the fire and talked to one another about recent activities around Denali. Mostly dead as they prefer.

There was a soft knock at the front door.

The girls looked at each other, all of them sensing the déjà vu from centuries ago. It made the hairs on the back of their necks raise. Tanya stood up and shakily walked to the door. Before opening the door, she asked, "Who's there?"

"Dr. Carlisle Cullen, may my family and I come inside your home?" A soft and beautiful voice answered from outside. Tanya heard the beautiful voice through the strong winds.

Tanya opened the door to the stranger who sounded too gracious to be human.

The four people who stood behind her front door were vampires for sure. Two men, and two women, all of them looked absolutely breathtaking in the blizzard of white. Tanya held the door open for them to come inside.

The four were inside in a millisecond and Tanya closed out the winds with the door. Tanya, Kate, and Irina noticed that they too have the same tint of gold eyes. The first male, the blond one, seemed to be their little coven's leader by the way he stood with them. He was very handsome. The woman next to him was beautiful as well. She has caramel colored hair and a heart shaped face with a lovely smile.

A little behind those two, was a blonde goddess. She was gorgeous as a model, her body was perfect and her face looked as if she were a china doll, flawless and sculpted, with volume and shiny gold hair that flared around her face. Next to her was…

The most beautiful creature in the whole world. He has a sculpted face as well, his features were perfect and smooth. His hair was bronze and tousled on top of his head. His body was slender, but built. He knocked all the air out of Tanya and made her want to cry, if she could. Was he the goddess' mate? If not, then he would be Tanya's mate.

Never in her whole life had she wanted to be anyone's mate, except now. He was what she wanted, and she wanted him for herself, for all eternity.

The male leader stepped forward with a outstretched hand, "My name is Carlisle Cullen. This is my wife, Esme. And these are our children, Rosalie and Edward."

Edward.

And he's only the goddess' sister!

Tanya took his hand and gripped it to shake it. "Hi, I'm Tanya. This is Kate, and Irina." She pointed to the corn silk straight, and long haired blonde, and then to the short, pale haired blonde next to Kate.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Tanya. We were hunting around here, when we passed your scent. We wanted to befriend you newcomers. Are you new? We are from Ashland, Wisconsin. We now notice that the accustoms you follow are the same as ours. Obviously, you're not nomads, by the look of your lovely home here. And you are on the animal blood diet?"

"Yes, of course. We started centuries ago. Around the late fourteen hundreds, was it?" Tanya looked to Kate and Irina.

Irina nodded. Her eyes saddened after she thought about it.

Tanya wondered why, until she remembered that that was close to the century their mother was killed by the Volturi.

"You know the Volturi?" A velvety voice asked tensely.

Tanya looked up and behind the caramel colored haired vampire to the beautiful angel, "Yes, but how did you know…?"

"I am a mind reader." Edward answered softly.

"Oh." Tanya stared at Edward for a while in amazement. This time it wasn't just for his looks, but in curiosity. Is that possible for a vampire?

"Yes, it is possible. When you become a vampire, you always bring something in this world stronger than when you were human." Edward answered Tanya's thoughts. "For example, I was thoughtful about the thoughts around me, so now I read minds. Carlisle was a great man and cared a lot about people and things. He brings compassion to his new life. Esme is a loving person, she brought her love. And Rosalie was very…attractive as a human, now she's blindingly gorgeous." Edward concluded.

Tanya thought this through. If a human has a quality that is special, and if they happen to turn into a vampire by some reason, then she and her sisters should have brought something to their new lives as well. But she didn't acknowledge it yet.

"How do you know the Volturi?" Carlisle asked.

The four new vampires stood near the fire place still. Tanya felt that her explaining this story will take a while.

Tanya gestured to the couch facing where Kate and Irina sat on the other couch, "Please, sit and make yourself at home." Tanya herself sat down on the soft chair.

Carlisle and his mate, Esme sat between Rosalie and Edward on the couch. Sadly, Edward sat farthest from Tanya.

Tanya now realized that Edward is a mind reader, and he must've heard what Tanya had been thinking about him earlier. Well at least now Tanya wouldn't have to tell him in person. But why didn't he want to be more nearer to Tanya? She dropped the thought as she started the story. "We met the Volturi back in the late sixteen hundreds, the only visit to our second home in western Russia. I wouldn't call it a visit since they ambushed us and our mother." Tanya's voice broke at the end of her sentence.

Kate looked to her sister and finished for her, "We didn't know anything about our mother's doings. Behind our backs, she created an immortal child—"

"Your mother, was one of the creators of the immortal children?" Carlisle asked in a disbelieving voice.

Kate and Tanya exchanged a glance of embarrassment. Obviously, their lost of a mother has been spread around the world. The girls still felt slightly angry about Eve's stupid actions and got in deep trouble. I guess every vampire knows about the powerful group of lethal vampires that are called the Volturi.

The girls felt blind by this statement from Carlisle. It seemed as though as everybody else knew about the immortal children except them. Tanya wanted to know more about it and the Volturi.

Kate turned her head back to Carlisle, "Yes, our mother was one of them, I suppose. How do you know about the immortal children? Was it a huge problem?"

Carlisle looked as if he choked on something and it was stuck in his throat. "The immortal children weren't just a problem; they created a plague just by existing…"

Carlisle continued on with his story. He told Tanya, Kate, and Irina about how the dead, extremely gorgeous toddlers were disastrous in just a tantrum. They could destroy a whole city or village in less than in an hour. He also explained the Volturi more, and how he stayed with them in the beginning of his new life as a vampire. The Volturi are thousands of years old, and one of the first vampires. They were as powerful as Tanya suspected.

Tanya, Kate, and Irina kept silent.

"I'm very sorry about the loss of your mother." Carlisle's mate, Esme spoke through the quiet. "I understand your pain. I was a mother that lost my child. I was still a little depressed about it, but now I have Carlisle and my new adoptive children. They're the greatest substitute."

"I don't think we can have a substitute for our mom. We only have each other." Irina mumbled honestly.

CHAPTER 5

Kate showed the rest of the house to the Cullen coven. Tanya walked closely to Edward and ever so slightly brushed up against his body.

Edward however, showed none of his attention to Tanya, and kept it on the tour of the wooden and large house in Kate's words of explaining.

Tanya watched Edward's every move and every facial expression. She concluded that he was just bored. How could he be bored around me, Tanya though to herself?

Tanya was tired of this. She grabbed Edward hand and stopped him from following the rest of the group in the kitchen they never used.

Edward turned to look Tanya into her eyes, no surprise in his bright golden eyes.

Tanya stared into his eyes and whispered, "Let's go outside." She felt the back of his hand. It was smooth and hard with muscles. Tanya liked the feel of it in her smaller and perfect hands.

Edward looked back to his family and back to Tanya, and then nodded.

Tanya smiled gleefully and turned to the door. She didn't let go of his hand.

Once they were outside in the blizzard weather, both without a jacket, they kept walking hand in hand in the snow. The wind blew at Tanya's curls and pushed them back from her face.

Edward's tousled bronze hair moved like tall grass with breeze as well. He constantly looked forward or on the ground where his Italian shoes sank in the snow.

"So…where did you come from, I mean, where were you born?" Tanya asked moving closer to Edward's arm.

Edward blandly glanced over at Tanya or a millisecond and back to the snow, "Chicago, Illinois, in 1901." The corner of his mouth twitched down.

"Oh, well my sisters and I were born in Russia. In the mid 1400's, I'm not sure of the exact date." Tanya smiled at Edward.

Edward didn't see the smile.

Tanya felt insecure with herself, and her smile faded. "I remembered you said that all vampires bring something into this new life. But how do you know what thing is?"

"I guess it's something that you had as a human, but when you turned into a vampire, it strengthened to a power." Edward shrugged. "What made you special as a human?"

"Uh, my mom told me that I was smart and beautiful. And I did have a lot of male friends." Tanya stopped walking.

Edward stopped next to her. "You're mother didn't lie, you are all of those things."

Tanya beamed.

"And you have mind reading?"

Edward nodded.

"That's embarrassing." Tanya grimaced.

Edward threw his head back and laughed loudly as if she told a hilarious joke. "I'm sorry. I can't control it or turn it off. I do try to ignore the thoughts though."

"I guess that's a little better. You know my thoughts about you. Do you think the same about me?" Tanya looked down to their hands twined together.

Tanya doubted that he would refuse her. No man has ever rejected her before. Why should she worry about the answer of the man that she cared for? Was this her power? Getting all the men that she wanted? She is a beautiful goddess for men that she herself knew that she was smart enough to just get what she wanted from them.

Confusion and frustration washed over Edward's face before he answered Tanya. He took a deep breath and grabbed both of Tanya's hands in his. "I'm sorry, but you're wasting your time on me. I don't think you would want me. I'm so boring and I'm not looking for a mate right at the moment."

"You don't want me? Why?" Tanya asked bewildered.

"I told you, I'm not looking for a mate right now." Edward gazed down into Tanya's torn expression. "Don't get me wrong, you are an attractive woman. A man would be stupid not to want you. I'm sorry."

"When will you be looking for a mate?" Tanya asked lightly, her throat tight with anger and embarrassment.

Edward smiled a crooked smile and chuckled lightly, "I honestly don't know. But it's not anytime soon. And I hope that we could be friends in the mean time." One of his sculpted eyebrows rose.

Tanya smiled a closed lip smile and nodded, making her curls bounce around her face.

Edward leaned in with his long, slender arms out stretched and embraced Tanya around her shoulders.

Tanya wrapped her own arms around his torso and buried her face in Edward's cotton sweater on his shoulder. The smell that came off of him was like a beautiful musk that no cologne could match. This was his scent, and it was amazingly intoxicating.

Regretfully, Tanya had to let go.

Edward chuckled at Tanya's expression. He grabbed her face in his hands and brought it close to his, and kissed her on her cheek. Her cold cheek tingled. Tanya expected another kiss from Edward, and for it to be on her lips.

But, Edward let go of her face and put an arm around her shoulders. He guided them both back to the house with the windows glowing with light from the fireplace and kerosene lamps. "Maybe we should get back to the others. Wouldn't want to think we're trying to run away together."

"Yeah…wouldn't want that." Tanya grumbled miserably.