Hey all. This is a fanfic that came to mind when I imagined someone with superpowers strong enough to contend with a Cullen intervening at Bella's disastrous birthday party in New Moon. It's my first long fanfic that I'm putting online. Anyway, its a bit of a mix between Twilight characters and story with Avatar: The Last Airbender powers.

Disclaimer: Twilight and Avatar: The Last Airbender don't belong to me, but the character Ivy does.

Rated T just in case for language.

Hope you like.

(Chapter One)

I found myself in a godforsaken forest and it was all thanks to that damned soothsayer. I mean, how could it be so cold?! I felt like each blast of wind was ripping the skin off my face. And, not to be braggy, but it's a nice face and I'd rather it stay right where it was.

Plus there was no snow. If that wasn't adding insult to injury, then I don't know what was… no literally, I don't know what was. I'm not sure if I've ever used that phrase correctly… Oh well.

I tugged my bulbous north face coat closer to my chin and trekked on through the creepy woods. Everything was green and mossy with a surprising lack of brown despite the trunks that sprang up from the earth every step. Lichen was on everything!

"Damn soothsayers. Why can't they give a clear address for once!" My breath puffed out of my lungs in thick clouds of condensation. My warm, southern inclinations were so over this cold. I missed the comforting heat of my South Carolina beach. But, oh no. 'Your destiny lies beyond the Olympic forest. In a place where the road forks, there will you find him.'

Remember when I said I had a nice face? Well I do and, again not to be braggy, but I don't do terribly in the dating department. I've been out with a new guy a few times every month. They're good for a few kisses and movie nights, but I had to admit to myself that I was beginning to feel the slightest measure of despair fill me when I knew I couldn't trust any of them with my secret.

Recently, I had longed to find a companion who I could be myself with. Completely.

And that's where the soothsayer just had to come in… And I just had to listen.

So here I am, after months of pouring over maps and atlases, I found a small hole-in-the-wall town called Forks that just so happened to be near the Olympic National Forest. Vague much?

'Once you find it, three days will you have to change everything. Or else, history will follow the course it has been put on.' Well, thanks to my current lack of funds it had taken me two days to get here and most of the third to actually get into the woods.

I spread my arms out and yelled at the starry sky. "I'm here! It's been two and a half freaking days! What the hell do I do now?" I didn't actually expect an answer, so seeing a large, practically perfect doe scamper from the woods and stare intently at me with its big, soulful eyes gave me more than a little pause. "Um… Hi?" I said, waving at the creature and feeling like a total idiot.

The doe nodded its head. I mean, literally nodded its head at me. My jaw dropped open and it started skipping through the woods, pausing to look back at me as if I was meant to follow her. "Alrighty then." I muttered, scrambling over uneven terrain and pulling at my hat as it was nearly buffeted off when I walked against the blowing wind.

I was numb from the cold and completely exhausted, but I followed the doe for a good twenty minutes until she stopped at the edge of a clearing and then scampered off as fast as she could. "H-h-hey!" I tried to yell, but my teeth were chattering so hard, it only came out as a choked stutter. It was then that I noticed the lovely house nestled in the woods, far off the main road. There were lights and soft music coming from inside and expensive cars parked in the large, detached garage. I approached cautiously. Not sure where I was or who in their right minds would live this far away from civilization in a house this nice.

I circled the dwelling, feeling like a total creeper and my eyes went as big as the moon when I noticed practically half of the house was completely made of glass. 'Whoa! These people must be totally loaded…'

From my safe spot in the shadows, I saw a cluster of people gathered inside what looked like a living room. I scuttled a bit closer and was completely terrified and baffled all at once.

For one thing, the seven people inside weren't people at all. They were clearly vampires. The carnivorous beauty, the incredibly fast movements, the eerie instinct of nearby predators gave them away at once. And just to prove my correct assumption, one small girl with a helmet of black hair moved from one side of the room to the other in the blink of an eye.

Yep, vampires all right.

Now, that was the terrifying part, but the baffling part was why a bunch of immortals were celebrating a birthday party? They didn't age so what's the point in balloons and cake? Then, to answer my question, a teenager who was a few years older than me walked into the room, her brown eyes and blushing face gave her away as a human immediately.

'What are you doing? Get out of there!' I screamed inwardly at her. What was a coven doing with a live human playing birthday party?

I was torn between fight or flight. As an elemental, I had a few tricks up my sleeve against vamps. Anyone in the magical community had to have some sort of defense in order to survive against the dark creatures. Their advantages were completely unfair, so soothsayers, elementals like me, werewolves, and witches had to fight dirty. Really dirty.

Against my better, self-preserving judgement, I decided to stay and keep an eye on the stupid chick.

"I hate soothsayers." I murmured for the millionth time.

The party began and I was so sure that this was all some kind of sick ritual the coven was playing on the poor girl because she looked completely miserable as they offered her a pile of gifts wrapped in silver paper. She gave a few lopsided smiles that seemed forced to me even from this far away. I don't know what the first present was, but as she opened it and stared blankly at the box in her hands, the largest vampire (a hulking monster that was truly the stuff of nightmares) ran outside and ducked into a rusty, red truck for a few minutes, laughing loudly for absolutely no reason which made my hair stand up on end.

These vamps were obviously deranged.

The youngest vampire boy, strikingly handsome (of course) with light brown hair, put his arms around the human briefly and she melted into his arms. 'Ew. Just cause he's hot doesn't mean he's not a murderer, honey.'

I shook my head. The vampire advantage was so not cool.

The pixie-cut chick handed her another present and I was sickened by how normal everything looked for the briefest second. Everyone was laughing or smiling, except for the human who looked at her vamp-toy in annoyance before roughly ripping open the package.

The energy in the room changed in an instant. It looked like invisible iron rods were jammed down the spines of every vampire in the room; especially the vamp-toy. They looked at her hungrily all of the sudden. I was bewildered to say in the least. 'What the hell just happened?'

Then, a blond, especially deadly looking vampire male, broke away from the group and made a mad rush for the human.

I crept closer knowing they were too distracted to notice me. I was in the perfect vantage point to see the other vampires try to stop the blond boy—probably wanting to prolong the charade before they dug in themselves—but he deftly eluded them. A natural fighter from crown to heel.

He was inches from the human. The vamp-toy pushed the girl back much too hard in a, frankly, terrible effort to protect her from the warrior.

She flipped over a side table like a rag doll and fell into a puddle of roses, water, and shattered glass. She was dazed for a moment before she stumbled to her feet. Blood was pulsing earnestly from her left forearm onto the dark hardwood floor.

The vamps were still as stone. Almost in shock for a brief moment at how much blood was pouring from her frail body.

"Dammit." I muttered. I had to act now, while they were momentarily stunned.

I unzipped my coat and threw it off so I could move my arms easier and eyed the dozen other glass bowls around the room full of delicious, sluicing water. I gathered my courage. It was now or never.

"Oh, no you don't!" I bellowed from outside, drawing all the eyes in the aquarium-like room. Oddly, none were red like I expected, but varied shades of gold.

'Whatever.' I used my thick boots to kick through the window. It fell apart with a significant amount of pain to my right foot, but I pushed into the room and reached out with my hand. At once, all the vases in the room burst apart, ever drop of water in the room rushed towards me at my command.

"Back up!" I ordered, willing the water into seven deadly spikes that would hurt even their tough skin. The razor-sharp weapons hovered menacingly in the air, ready to fulfill any command sent from me by the slightest nudge. I aimed one at each unearthly creature.

Gosh, I loved being a water elemental.

"What the hell?" The burly one yelled, his face crumpled in confusion as he backed up from one of my spikes that bumped into his chest, forcing the beautiful killers into a tight circle. They were more confused than worried. Which worked to my advantage. I couldn't wait to see the looks on their faces when I showed them what I could really do with these spikes.

"Me and my fellow human are just gonna scoot on out of here, go back to your party, alright?" I said, grabbing the less bloody hand of the human girl.

From the cluster of vampires before me, the vamp-toy hissed loudly. "Bella!" He growled, baring his teeth and taking a step forward.

I shot the closet spike right at him and he barely avoided it. The thing went completely through the wall into the other room. Now the vamps were really paying attention. I liked the spark wariness in their eyes. For once, they weren't the biggest players in the room.

"I can't hear her." The vamp-toy said almost panicked.

"Don't harm her, Edward. She's just trying to help Bella. She doesn't understand." The oldest vampire male said in a soothing voice. I hated that parent-talking-to-his-child tone.

"But I can't hear her." He argued.

"Well if you can't understand my accent, maybe you'll pick up on some of my more subtle signals." I bit angrily, my heart racing with fear and the need to distance myself from these deadly creatures. Without further ado, I pulled all the spikes together and made a wall of water, so quickly, even I could barely calculate the transformation, and trapped them all in a small, square room of water.

Now, you might wonder why a simple thing like a bubble of water would stop them, but it's what I did with the water that makes it awesome.

I froze it.

So? You might ask yourself.

Well, stop questioning me and I'll explain.

Vamp skin is as strong as diamonds and you know the only thing that can cut a diamond is another diamond, right?

Right!

It took months in the heart of Alaska to perfect, but I finally managed to create ice as hard as a diamond. And as a weapons-such as spikes or another tool I dubbed 'ice knives'-it can rip vampires apart. Which I've had to do on one or two occasions.

It also works as a barrier to buy time for a quick escape. Enough time to run with this idiot and find another, hopefully larger, source of water and get away. After I heal her, of course. (Yeah, I can do that too. Did I mention that I love being a water elemental?)

"Run!" I yelled frantically, dragging the clumsy girl to the front door.

"Edward!" She called over her shoulder and I could hear her vamp-toy roar furiously and beat against the ice shield with a sound like thunder.

"Are you, stupid!? I said run!" I tugged her harder, noting the significant change in her energy level. She was losing too much blood.

I pulled her into the woods and closed my eyes, felt the air and ground, looking for water. There! I could feel a weak signal of energy leading me to water just ahead. It was small, probably just a stream, but it would do.

"This way." I tugged.

"You don't understand…" The girl slurred, barely keeping up with my pace.

Ugh! Neither of us had coats and it was totally freezing outside with little flurries of snow. What the hell were we going to do? I sighed with the imagined exhaustion to come. It looked like I was going to have to kill all of these vampires. They weren't going to let her go, ever. Once a vampire caught onto a scent, they could never leave well enough alone. And her blood was all over that room. They wouldn't rest until they had a taste. Directly from the source.

The woods were lovely, dark, and deep, but I had promises to… wait. That's a poem. Never mind.

The woods were dense and scary as crap, especially when I knew a vampire could be around the next turn, lunging for my jugular like a toddler dives for a piece of piñata candy. The ditzy brunette I dragged along with me kept mumbling under her breath, but it was too windy for me to understand her.

Run, run, run! Every instinct yelled. Finally we reached the creek. I sank onto my knees in the cold water and heated it slightly so the girl wouldn't get hypothermia. When it was nice and steamy, like bathwater, I turned to her. "Bella, isn't it?" I asked, grabbing her cut arm. She nodded, her head lolling to the side, her face very pale. Damn. "Hang on." I put my hand into the warm flow of water and pulled it around my hand like a clear, liquid glove. I concentrated, connecting my energy with the water's to infuse it with healing power. When I made the connection the water began to glow a lovely, soft blue.

"Don't worry." I said, noticing Bella's eyes were wide with fright. "This won't hurt." I laid my water-covered palm over her arm and she cringed trying to pull away, then relaxed. Beneath my hand, her skin was knitting back together. Veins closing, flesh reforming until it was smooth and unblemished once more. The color immediately returned to her face.

"Holy crow!" She ran her bloody hand over the healed skin. "How did you do that?"

I shrugged and stood, pulling her to her feet. "It's a gift." I answered, tracing the water with my mind to its source: a large waterfall. Perfect.

"Who are you? And why were you outside the Cullen's house on my birthday?" She demanded rather rudely, apparently over her initial awe at my skills.

I mean, I just saved her life for goodness sake. A thank you wouldn't kill her, would it?

"Ivy." I answered in my southern lilt. "A soothsayer sent me on a quest and I just saved your life, so you might want to be a little nicer to me. Especially considering the fact that I could easily suck out every drop of blood from your body in the blink of an eye." I added, meanly.

I mean, I could do that, but I wouldn't. She didn't need to know that though.

Bella gasped and tried to pull her arm from my grasp, but despite her taller frame, I was stronger. I looked her up and down. Where she was night, I was day. She was a brunette, I was a blonde. She was tall, I was short. She was willowy, I was curvy. She had brown eyes, I had blue. She was annoying, I was awesome. (The only exception being our skin tones. I was a lovely shade of gold from sunlight and she was as pale as nerd stuck in her basement playing Call of Duty all day)

"So it's really your birthday, huh? You could have fooled me with that enthusiastic attitude back there." I quipped.

"I'm just not in a good mood." She said hollowly.

"Yeah, your imminent death at the hands of those vamps would put a damper on any party, I suppose."

"They weren't going to kill me." She argued, as if the idea of vampires killing humans was absurd.

I snorted. "Yeah. Riiiight. I'm sure they're the nicest folks around."

"They are! They don't hunt humans and they only drink animal blood. Edward is my boyfriend, I've been with him for a year and he hasn't so much as nicked me with his teeth."

I stopped in my tracks and turned to her. "You're telling me you willingly walked into the home of a vampire coven? What is wrong with you?"

"I told you - " She began, but was cut off when a savage growl rend the night air mere inches from us.

It looked like the captives had escaped.

"Hurry!" Fear spiked my adrenaline levels and I rushed us to the fork in the creek, hearing the comforting rush of tons upon tons of water crashing onto the ground.

But we wouldn't make it. There, blocking the way, was that Edward vamp Bella wouldn't shut up about.

"Let her go!" He yelled, his eyes landing on me with deadly intent.

Not knowing what else to do, I crossed my arms over my head, creating a small ball of diamond hard ice all around Bella and myself.

It was pitch black, so I sent a little energy through the glassy surface to combat my claustrophobia.

"What? How-?" Bella asked, touching the glass in confusion. "Edward!" She screamed, beating against the ice. And if that wasn't annoying enough, I could feel the vampire standing over us, bashing is fists into the orb over and over to try and break it apart. His immense strength causing physical pain to surge through my body.

"Ah!" I screamed as pain licked up my arms. I pressed back, trying to strengthen the ice further.

"Bella!" The vampire's muffled voice called through the ice. "Bella! I'm going to get you out!"

"Like. Hell." I spit through gritted teeth. I flicked one finger out and sent a small spike of ice shooting out, directly into his shoulder. He was flung back with a satisfying cry of surprise and pain.

"Don't hurt him!" Bella cried.

"Me hurt him?!" I yelled. "You've got to be joking! They are going to kill us!"

"No!" She tugged at my arm, making me weaker by the second. Now I could feel all seven vampires digging their claws into the ice. The orb wasn't going to last long. And neither was I. "They're good. They're peaceful. I swear! Carlisle is a doctor for crying out loud!"

I huffed angrily, knowing I was completely out of options. "Alright!" I bellowed. Bella cringed and so did I when my voice pierced my eardrums at my loud pitch. "I'll drop the shield. But if you hurt me, I swear to the sea and sky that I will kill every last one of you, including the human. Understand?" Bella looked at me with fear again and I could hear her boyfriend's trademark growl, but I didn't drop my arms. "I said, do you understand?"

"Of course." The older vampire said again. I recognized his gratingly calm voice. "We mean you no harm. Let Bella free so we can tend to her wounds."

"Fine." I said, mostly to myself. This was crazy, but if the girl really wanted to stay with them, I would get away with less injury than if I tried to escape with her.

I dropped the shield, turning it into liquid again and spun to my feet, keeping a continuous flow of slightly glowing water circling around me. If they attacked, I was ready.

The seven vampires stood before me in the ankle deep creek. They were paired off. The beauty and the brawn, the pixie and the warrior, the father figure and the mother figure (who looked like a Disney princess), and the vamp-toy who stared intently at Bella.

I stood alone. Adding a few floating spikes to my armory. Seven pair of golden eyes watched them carefully. "Well, go on." I said, nodding to Bella who darted forward and fell dramatically into Edward's arms as if I had been torturing her or something. He held her with only one arm since my small spike was still buried in his marble flesh. I bit back a smug smile.

"Carlisle." He said in shock, pulling her to the older vamp. "Her arm."

"Right, of course." Carlisle, the fatherly doctor said, taking her arm methodically, but his eyebrows bunched together when he saw blood and no wound.

"You're welcome." I couldn't help saying. I wanted recognition, damn it. Even if it was from a bunch of bloodsuckers. I kept my eyes on the warrior, whose dead-eyed stare sent shivers down my spine.

"You have the power to heal?" Carlisle asked me in awe.

"Yes." I said, not offering more information, but happy someone was giving my abilities the proper respect.

"Why are you here, child?" The Snow White look-alike asked.

"A quest from a soothsayer. Very vague. You know how they can be." I said, backing away slowly. They all shifted forward. "Hey, back off!" I yelled, filling the empty space between us with water that I quickly made boil large bubbles and spurt steam. "I'm out of here. You have your human—in better condition than I found her, I might add." My words made Edward cringe, "Don't follow me."

Annoyingly, a shudder ran through my body with enough force to make my knees quiver. Damn human reactions. I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to shut out the cold.

"You're freezing!" The doctor said looking to the girl at his side. "Bella too. Please, I am very interested in speaking to an elemental. I thought you had died out centuries ago. Come to our home, we can give you clothing and a ride back into town."

"Nice try, but I don't trust you. Gold eyes, red eyes; you vampires are all the same." I snarked, moving away slowly, the water still circling me. "Don't think because I'm sixteen that I can't or won't hurt you. I have the power and I've killed your kind before. Singlehandedly." I added.

They all looked shocked, then turned to Edward for some reason. "Don't ask me. I said I couldn't hear her." He said.

"Please." The pixie said sweetly. She was even smaller than me, but had ancient eyes, I couldn't begin to guess her age. "I have visions of the future. I can help you sort out what the soothsayer told you. I can even meditate and try to see your future for you." She insisted.

Temptation curled along my spine like my namesake (Ivy, in case you forgot). I really wanted to find the 'him' the soothsayer spoke about, but trusting vampires went against every instinct my body possessed. Then again, I was cold. And hungry. And there was cake at their house…

Oddly enough, no one was looking at me or Bella like food. And their gold eyes were so strange, but not red. Not even red flecks. Whatever they were drinking, none of it was human. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe these vamps were different. They certainly weren't wild and shifty like other vampires I had come across. They stood very still and did their best to move at a slower pace when they were around humans.

My stomach gurgled and I gave in.

"I keep my water with me at all times. If anyone so much as looks at me wrong, I'll end you." I said in a hard tone, letting the boiling water cool and spikes circling me drop to the ground. But I kept the fluid circle, turing it into a coil of icy bracelets that circled my arms from wrist to elbow. Thankfully, being a water elemental meant burning or freezing water didn't harm me on bare skin contact if I was personally manipulating it in some way.

If I happened to meet another water elemental in battle and they shot jets of scalding water at my face… well, that would be a different story entirely.

The vamps relaxed and I was more than a little amused to see that this coven was genuinely frightened of me. I bet they had never been so taken by surprise before. If it had led to an all out fight, I'm not sure I would have survived so many at once, but I knew I would have taken a few down with me.

The vampires gracefully climbed from the deep creek bed. Bella climbed onto Edward's back and with one great leap, he cleared the edge.

They all looked down at me standing alone at the bottom.

"Need any help?" The largest vampire asked.

I smiled mischievously and gathered the water at my feet into a column, making it grow taller and taller beneath me. And like an elevator, I stepped off at the top of the deep crevice, not a speck of dirt on me.

They all gaped at me. I smiled smugly, brushed invisible dust off my shoulders, and trudged through the woods, leading the way back to the house confidently. It took them a moment to catch up.

My muscles loosened with relief when we entered their warm house. Everything was light and airy. I couldn't help but be charmed by the decor.

When I turned in the foyer and saw them all bunched in a circle, staring at me. "Do you all travel in packs or something?"

If they could have blushed, they would have as they ducked their heads bashfully. "This way…?" Carlisle began, fishing for a name.

"Ivy." I supplied.

"Let's retire to the den, Ivy. Esme will prepare you some food." He said leading the way.

"How did you know I was hungry?" I asked suspiciously.

He smiled kindly. "I can hear your stomach growling."

I didn't blush, but I was embarrassed by that tidbit of information.

It was not a relaxing scene - the vampires and humans sitting together in the den. There was glass and blood everywhere and the large window was now a gaping hole thanks to me. But with a few taps on a key pad from Esme, big steel panels slid down from who-knows-where covered the hole, stopping the bitter flow of wind.

I didn't apologize for the mess. I didn't feel bad for trying to save a human from a vampire. It was more than anyone had ever done for me.

"Ivy, allow me to make the introductions." Carlisle said. "Alice and Jasper." He said pointing to the seer and warrior. "Esme, my wife." Snow White waved politely as she scraped up glass and bleached the heck out of a blood stain. "Rosalie and Emmett." I inclined my head to beauty and the brawn. "And, of course, Edward and Bella."

"Hey." I said to everyone then turned my attention to Edward. "Why can't you hear me?" I asked in a loud voice.

The room erupted in laughter. Have I mentioned that I don't like to be laughed at? I crossed my arms and let a thread of light flash through the ice around my wrists. The laughter stopped.

"I'm a telepath." Edward explained quickly. "That means someone who can-"

"Read thoughts." I finished for him, growing angrier by the second. "Just because I talk slow, doesn't mean I'm stupid." (A big thanks to Sweet Home Alabama for that classic line.)

Edward sat back in the chair he occupied and winced when his shoulder hit the fabric. I smiled pointedly and he looked uncomfortable for a moment. "Well, anyway, I can't read your mind or Bella's. You're the only two on earth I can't read."

I sat back and chucked with new understanding. "And you never will read my thoughts thanks to a witch who owed me a favor. I never thought her odd 'blessing' would be good for anything, though. I guess I was wrong."

'Thank you, Lydia, wherever you are!'

"Witches?" Bella asked sitting up in surprise when no one protested their existence. "I'm used to the whole vampire thing, but now I'm hearing about elementals and witches. What else is out there?"

"Vampires, witches, elementals, werewolves, soothsayers, ghosts, and I swear this one time I saw a unicorn." I listed without pause. Edward hugged Bella closer as if to shield her from my words and looked at me angrily. "What?" I challenged. "She's not a baby. She deserves to know what really goes bump in the night. Especially if she's dating a vampire. Aka: the most hated creature in the magical community."

Gah, who does Edward think he is? Her dad? They were such an odd couple.

"Are you new in town, Ivy?" Esme asked, handing me a slice of cake. I ate eagerly, but delicately. Not a crumb was spilled and I didn't talk with my mouth full. I remembered that much from the eight years I got to spend with my mother.

"I am, but I don't plan on staying long." I said, taking another careful bite of cake.

"And what soothsayer prophecy brought you here?" Alice asks.

"Well, according to the old woman, I had three days to change everything and meet him. Her incredibly vague directions let me here just in time to see Bella nearly bleed to death in a room full of vamps. I figured saving her was the least I could do." I said openly.

"We weren't going to hurt her." Emmett said defensively.

"Really? Jasper could've fooled me." I said, giving the blonde a steady look that he returned coldly.

"I was taken by surprise." He said in a slight southern accent that was music to my ears.

"Hey! Another southerner!" I smiled leaning closer to him. "Where are you from?"

"Texas. 1844." He said crisply. The option for further discussion was clearly closed by his icy tone.

"Well, I guess you haven't been in the homeland in a while because we're normally much more polite." I said with a glare.

"And threatening the lives of my family is so genteel?" He shot back.

I bit back a smile, liking the challenge from him, but his girlfriend didn't need to look so possessive. As if I'd be interested in a vampire. Ha! The idea was outrageous - no, hysterical.

"Well, excuse me, but I have to look after myself. Remember when I said vampires were the most hated creatures in the magical community? That wasn't an exaggeration. Everyone hates you."

"Including you?" Rosalie asked, a dangerous note in her smooth voice.

"I've had my run-ins with your kind." I shrugged noncommittally. I would never admit it out loud, but I was growing to appreciate these tame vampires. I always thought the idea of vampires was cool, if they weren't such savages. I wasn't going to let my guard down though. Not a chance.

"Well, in all my centuries, I've never met an elemental. Especially a water elemental which I believed to be the most rare." Carlisle said, trying to ease the tension.

I smiled despite the awkwardness permeating the room. "I was four when I made the rain stop pouring over my sandbox so I could keep playing. Mom freaked out." I laughed to mask the pain of missing her. "She thought I was demon possessed."

The room chuckled with me. (Did I mention that I don't mind being laughed with?)

"I must say, it is an honor to meet you, Ivy. Are there many more elementals in the world today?" Carlisle asked, his head tilted to the side slightly as he took in my words.

I tapped my chin. "I've met two, but she was earth and the other boy was air and as far as they knew, we were the only ones." I said sadly. "There is a prophecy though."

"A prophecy?" Alice asked.

"Yeah, they say there's a powerful elemental who has command of water, earth, air, and even fire. But some speculate about the fire part. Either way, he's supposed to be able to sense the ability of other elementals and unlock their power to rebuild the elemental class."

"Amazing." Carlisle said. "What an era that would be…"

I nodded, my eyes feeling heavy all of the sudden. I was exhausted. I stood. "Well, it's late. I'd better start the trek back to town. Thanks for the cake." I said with a quick wave, the intention of falling into my motel bed and passing out immediately was at the forefront of my mind. It's a shame it was such a long walk back to town…

"Let me give you a ride back." Alice said, rising to her feet. "We could talk more about your quest."

I hesitated. But one look at the trees thrashing about in the cold wind made up my mind for me. "Alright, a ride would be much appreciated." I agreed. "Thanks."

"Alice, I don't think…" Jasper began, but she silenced him with a look. They stared intently at each other for a moment before he nodded, jaw tight.

"And listen, I didn't mean to burst in here so rudely. I just saw a bleeding girl and a bunch of vampires and reacted." I shrugged. There, universe, you happy? I apologized. Sort of… Whatever, that's all they were going to get.

"It's probably for the best. With Bella's blood practically being my kryptonite, who knows what would have happened? And I would rather kill myself than hurt her." Edward said, kissing the top of Bella's head.

"Oh!" I said with new understanding. "She's your singer. That makes more and less sense all at the same time." How in the world is she still alive? She bled in front of him!

"A singer? What?" Bella asked, blushing. Did she have a death wish or something? Honestly!

"Not an actual singing singer. It's a legend of a rare, but perfect blend of scent and blood type that is pure, sinful temptation to a vampire. When they come across it, it's impossible to stop from tasting. Your blood literally sings to him." I was impressed that the teen hadn't taken a sip yet. Supposedly it was unheard of to resist, much less spend regular amounts of time around their singer.

"How do you know this?" Edward asked, mildly irritated that he couldn't pluck the information from my mind, or so I assumed.

"When I was fourteen, a vampire came across me." I revealed. "I was his singer. He's dead now."

Silence. Silence and disbelieving looks.

"If you don't mind my asking, how did you, a human, kill a vampire?" Jasper asked. "And at fourteen?"

"I had never seen a vampire before." I admitted reluctantly. "I always had a plan of escape or attack in the back of my mind for when I came across one, but I probably wouldn't have survived if he hadn't come across me when I was swimming in the ocean one night."

I remembered the feel of the moon on my skin as I played in the water in a cove so no one could see me practice my craft. Then out of nowhere, a cold feeling swam down my spine, igniting my intuition of nearby danger.

The man was in his forties and handsome beyond belief. He stared at me with blood red eyes, inhaling deeply from a few feet away.

I knew I was in deep shit.

He took a running leap and landed in the water next to me, hissing like a snake. I flung out my arm and froze him where he stood, burring my head under the waves and kicking powerfully, making the water funnel around me like a jet engine to get further out into the depths.

I sank to the bottom and caught my breath, (Did I mention that I can breath underwater? One of the perks of being a water elemental. No big.)

I thought I was going to be safe down there, that he would assume I had died, but the psycho followed me to the bottom of the ocean and before I knew it, I was being dragged from the water and literally thrown onto the beach on a pile of seaweed and sand.

"It was difficult." I finally said. "He had the upper hand, but I managed to wrap enough ice around him to stop him. He kept screaming that my blood was calling him - that he couldn't stop until he'd tasted me." I wrinkled my nose. "He started breaking through the ice. I had no choice. I ripped him into ten pieces and lit him on fire." I finished, not mentioning how I cried and vomited on the beach as I lit his body on fire again and again until all traces of him were gone.

I felt so guilty for killing someone.

My second kill was much cleaner and there was no remorse in her death.

"Incredible." Carlisle said. "The ice is so cold and hard that it pulled him apart? Almost like a vampire attacking a vampire." He said to himself, deep in thought.

"So, Alice, about that ride?" I yawned, my eyes growing more tired by the second.

"Of course." She said rubbing her porcelain forehead absentmindedly.

"Happy birthday Bella." I said with a nod.

"Thanks." She said, "You know, for healing me."

I smiled. "Sorry again, Esme." I glanced around the room and reached out with my hand and gathered all the blood, glass, and puddles of water in a icy ball and sent it hurtling through the open front door, deep into the woods.

"It's no problem, sweetie." She said, wrapping me in a cold hug that made my skin tingle. "If you ever need a place to stay, please consider this a safe haven for you."

I nodded, slightly taken aback. I had destroyed their home, called them murderers, and threatened their lives multiple times, and she was offering me a place to stay?

Strange people.

"I will." I made the empty promise, then remembered the spike of ice still buried in Edward's shoulder. "Oh, almost forgot." I put my arm over the wound and pulled out the oversized thorn, crushing it in my hands until it was icy dust.

He relaxed visibly and licked his thumb before placing it over the puncture wound. I had heard that vampire venom was almost like superglue to the immortal, but I hadn't believed it until now. "Thanks."

"Not used to pain, are you?" I asked.

He shook his head and smiled just a bit. "No. Nothing hurts a vampire except a vampire. And you, apparently."

"And don't you forget it." I said, flashing a good-natured smile. "Okay, I'm really leaving this time." I waved and followed Alice out of the front door. She disappeared briefly and reappeared with my icy jacket in her hands. I took it from her, but didn't put it on. I'm not that desperate for warmth. "Thanks." I said. She smiled and led me to a black Lexus in the garage. I slid into the front seat, not feeling comfortable enough to confine myself with a seatbelt.

"Where to?" Alice asked, starting up the engine that purred like a panther. She drove very fast. There were no bumps as we went down the midnight road, but the trees were flying by fast enough to make my heart race.

I wished I could drive, but you had to have a parent or guardian with you in order to get a license and since I had neither…

"I'm staying at the Oak-view Motel." I answered with a yawn and keeping a careful eye on the road. "Thanks for the ride."

"No problem." She paused. "So, who's this 'him' the soothsayer spoke of?" She asked.

"I don't know. Maybe I'm not supposed to find a 'him' at all. Maybe I was supposed to find a her. I mean, I followed the soothsayer's directions as best as I could and it led me right to Bella's birthday party. What else could it have—?" Alice suddenly swerved the car dangerously off a few feet of the beaten path, cutting off my sentence.

"Whoa! Alice, watch the road!" I yelled when she nearly hit a huge pine tree with the car. She clenched the steering wheel with fists tight enough to make it creak, her eyes were staring ahead, but not seeing. "Alice! Snap out of it!" I screamed.

I felt sick with panic as a sharp turn loomed ahead. I punched her in the face to try and get her to snap out of it, but she didn't react, my hand really hurt though. "Wake up Alice!" I screamed. The steering wheel broke under her hands. "No!" I screeched, trying to open the door, but it was locked and there wasn't enough time to click the button on the controls.

We hit the pine trees head on.

Everything went black.

I think I died.

Wow. That was a really long chapter. My apologies. I probably should have split it into two, but I didn't and I'm not going back to change it now.

I really hope you liked it and if you didn't, well, thanks for taking the time to ready anyway. I'm sure it riddled with grammatical errors. I may have a decent vocabulary, but I'm not great with remembering all the rules.

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