I sighed as I looked out the window. Forks was such a bleak town, even to someone who's been stuck in an academy almost all her life. As the bus passed tree after tree after tree(after tree after tree...) I let myself daydream a bit. As always, I tended to think about how horribly my life turned out.
I definitely am not your average-anything. I'm a dhampir, half a Moroi vampire and half a human. Moroi are mortal vampires, as compared to the immortal vampires(the Strigoi), our mortal enemies. That means we live on human blood and can die a lot more easily. Moroi can turn into Strigoi when they are bitten by one, or when they kill, which is what happened to my mother. After giving birth to me, she was weak and hungry, and my human father offered his blood to help sustain her and well, she drank a little bit too much.
When my mother turned Strigoi, she was banished from the Moroi community, and I was left to be raised in the Vampire Academy. This is the school for Moroi vampires where they learn how to harness their magical ability. Each Moroi specialises in one element: fire, earth, air or water. Each Moroi also has one dhampir guardian (being mortal and weak). Dhampirs are beautiful creatures (being descendents of ethereal vampires) with super strength and speed that can match any Strigoi. Essentially though, they're just super fast humans.
Even as a dhampir, I was most definitely not average. I wasn't fast, I wasn't strong, I wasn't mindblowingly beautiful. On a scale of 1 to 10 for all of the qualities, I was ranging around a 4, potentially a 3. I never joined the dhampir classes, I only sat in when they were learning the basic stuff, like Geography or Math. I was pretty much an outcast.
I do however, have a Moroi gift. I have control over one element: spirit. This is rare even for a Moroi, and especially for a dhampir. No one knows about it, but I've been doing research. I supposedly can heal things, but I haven't been able to test it out properly on anything other than bugs. So basically that power is moot.
Which is why I want to look for my mother. She must be able to give me the answers I need. Someone at the Academy told me to look for the 'friendlier' Strigoi located in Forks. Some...people(?) named the Cullens.
