The Clan
Story written from a dream that was had after re-reading the Twilight series, so that would mean this story has many thanks to the author of that certain series, Stephenie Meyer. As this work was pretty much written off of The Twilight series, I therefore do not own any of the characters from that story or Stephenie herself. This would be my disclaimer and I do not own anything about that story, but I do own this story line and all the characters within my little box of people. That would include, all of the characters that are not in the series. Thank you for reading this small rant of a disclaimer and I do hope you all enjoy this story that I very much love, at least while it was a dream. All characters below named and more will be included within this story at one point or another or throughout the entire story. Either way it goes, I just wanted the names to be known, so that no will be looking for say Bella's father or anything like that. Their names may be mentioned, but they will not be included into the story, as in showing up in person, because they did not do so in my dream. Thank you for listening to yet another rant of mine
- Main Characters -
Janine Dread
(Narrator)
Echo Matthews
Kyla Jones
Maria Rent
Alysha Star
Stephanie Moon
- Twilight Characters -
Carlisle Cullen
Esme Cullen
Edward Cullen
Isabella Cullen
Jasper Cullen
Alice Cullen
Rosalie Cullen
Emmett Cullen
Renesemee Cullen
Jacob Black
Seth Clearwater
Leah Clearwater
Aro
Sulpicia
Marcus
Didyme
Caius
Athenodora
Jane
Alec
Demetri
Chelsea
Renata
None of the above characters under 'Twilight characters' do I own, obviously, and as such am making yet a another disclaimer towards stopping any confusion about me possibly making a claim on something that doesn't belong to me. In short, none of the twilight characters are mine. Alright, now that I have all the main disclaimers and all the main information for the story here besides the actual story, that will be all for this chapter. Just kidding! Here is the first, rather short, chapter. Sorry for the joke, I was seriously just kidding so don't anyone go ranting about how this chapter isn't a chapter or anything like that, okay?
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Chapter 1
Graduation Party?
Graduation.
A time of new beginnings, of new tomorrows, and a time to make new memories for forever so one can look back on that time when their old.
It's strange though, how easily age can change ones view of that time, but also how quickly humans tend to let things change them completely without realizing it. Even weird still is the fact humans views on a special even such as a graduation can be so completely altered into a mere myth.
My own graduation had passed when I came back to my original home and came for me close friend's graduation. I hadn't planned for any of my world to change, no, I had it just the way I wanted it going, but my world, my way of living, thinking, and just being was all completely changed. Everything had been changed about me and just so unbelievably so that even I couldn't believe it for a spell. I'm getting ahead of myself, and, I suppose, I should start from where this crazy story begins…
Janine Dread, is my name, and I had moved from my very small hometown of Paoli, Indiana, to Ashville, North Carolina, the summer before my senior year. No, this story doesn't begin that far back, all began happening when I returned to Paoli for my four close friend's graduation and, also, so I could meet up with my other best friend for the party afterwards. Echo Matthews is my closest friend's name, she's a year older than I, shorter, longer dark brown hair with a bit of red, and just an all around great person, once one gives the time to get to know her. After her would be, Kyla Jones one of my four graduating friends, same age as I, a few inches shorter, shorter dark brown hair, and very much takes pleasure in having someone to shower her in affection, like a boyfriend. Then there is, Maria Rent, also the same age as Kyla, a few inches taller than I, long pretty light brown hair, and just one of those people who bask in attention given to her without reason or need. Alysha Star, very much taller than I, long multi natural colored hair, and one of the girls one can talk to for hours about small things. Lastly there is Stephanie Moon, a bit shorter than Alysha, long blond hair, and just one of those happy-go-lucky type of girls who are happy to just be there for their friends, no matter what.
I came back to my small town for those five people who mean a lot to me, but I really had no idea what awaited me.
The drive to Paoli hadn't been at all eventful, I actually wasn't even all awake while I did the driving, but that's not important. When I did arrive, it was the day of their graduation, I was super excited and I couldn't wait to see my friends again. I changed quickly into a dress, my aunt Linda had gotten me back in North Carolina, but didn't wait around to even find an apartment or anything, just went straight to the high school. There is when I met up with all five of them, do not let me delude you, all my friends didn't like one another, the four graduating were good friends, but Kyla and Maria didn't like Echo at all. It always, always bothered me how they couldn't get along, even for me, and even on their graduation they wouldn't include Echo in their conversations. Nevertheless, with a happy grin I stepped out of my blue mini van (Not much for car names) and waved to them as they all five came over.
"Jan! You made it just in time," Kyla and Maria yelled over the other three who merely said greetings to me, but I didn't care as I hugged them all five in a sort of group hug. The four of them all giggled excitedly about their graduation, but I just turned with a smirk to Echo who grinned back.
"Well, let's get this party started! No use standing around outside, we will see you two after for our party," Kyla yelled dragging the other three inside with her without further ado and I just laughed at Kyla's still very pushy nature, loving her anyway. We said nothing, Echo and I, as we walked happily back into the high school we both once went to, but the silence wouldn't last long. I was a bit busy for those silent moments looking at all that had changed and walking through the new halls to the new auditorium, where the graduation would take place. It was amazingly beautiful, but at that moment I didn't care.
"So..," we both said at the same time turning towards one another, but just laughed before I let Echo speak first because it felt silly for us to be this way. "How is college down there?," she asked smiling curiously in her on manner and even then it made me grin, even though it wasn't meant to. It was easy for my close friends to make me smile, but it was obvious they just never saw that.
"It's alright, I guess, kinda boring with all the people, but it has it's fun moments too. Like when they wanted me to try helping a patient of some guy, I think I did that guy some good," I explained with a grin, but didn't explain further, psychologist policy, though she didn't ask me to either. We both just smiled, it was much like we'd never been apart, but in some ways we hadn't because even after I moved, we still text a lot, emailed, and talked when we wanted to. Just not in person! We didn't even have to say anything, we were just good friends like that and we went in taking a seat without a word to anyone else. In silence the graduation began, but still we said nothing about anything, just watched the people we don't like much graduate. It was then we both noticed the weird guy sitting a few seats behind us, just staring at us, and we tried not to make it obvious that we knew he was there. It was so creepy it was hard for us to focus on the actual graduation, but we did our best while we watched the guy slowly creep to be sitting right behind us.
"Could I trouble you two in asking the time for the end of this?," he asked curiously, but it got me to turn, against my will as I always look to whom I'm speaking with just usually not at their eyes, which I did with this guy. It wasn't really the fact he looked like he could be my older brother and sounded like my grandfather, it was the fact I could see through his contacts to the fact he had red eyes, that freaked the shit out of me. I quickly glanced towards Echo with a slight look of alarm in my eyes, but turned back calmly to the guy making sure to keep my face and voice in check.
"It should be over within a couple of hours, but you don't have to stay for all of it," I explained with a small frown like I was disappointed in him, but just quickly turned back around keep my face turned to Echo slightly so I could see his expression through my hair, it was hidden from Echo though as she kept her gaze on the people before us. She missed the look of pure hunger on his face like that of a starving man before I buffet, and I couldn't figure for the life of me why he looked like that. There was no food around us or even in the room, but still he looked as if the greatest feast was sitting right before him, me. Did he want to eat me? Was he some kind of monster? Vampire? I was never a very small minded person, I always guessed the impossible, but that was common knowledge to my small group of friends. My imagination was the biggest of all I'd ever met and still seemed to grow with time, amazingly to my annoyance. Though at that moment, fear didn't run down my spine and I didn't break into a cold sweat. No, I got a chill of excitement, but nothing else, it was as if I wanted it to be a vampire, which is how it was. I'd always had a small fantasy about a vampire coming to sweep me off my feet, like in the, Twilight Series, that I'd read during my junior year of high school, and I figured if a vampire came like that with that look of hunger maybe he would treat me as Edward did to Bella. Weird, I knew, but it was a fantasy of fantasies.
The day-dreaming was cut short by the ending of the graduation, which I'd missed all of, and I was quick to follow Echo down where our four friends were waiting happily chatting with one another. Our party was to be a few hours from now when all had left the school and it was dark, we had a bon fire out in the back field of the high school. The time flew by as we all went to separate stores to get gifts, wood, food, and whatever else we wanted for the party. By nine at night we all returned to our spot in the field, but no matter what I did when we all arrived laughing, I couldn't let go of the strange feeling in the pit of my stomach. Where had that strange guy gone? Why didn't I feel like we were the only five here?
The others began roasting marshmallows, but I just couldn't join into their merrymaking as my mind quickly wandered to the strange man, though it appeared my silence didn't bother the others. Echo noticed, only she left me to my thoughts as it was best to do sometimes, and my wild mind went on for what must have been hours of me purely thinking. What was that man? Where did he come from? Who was he after? Why did he look at the people as if he were about to eat them? Would he come back or attack someone here? What could his plan be? Did he have a plan at all? Would he possibly attack at random? These questions and many more like them flew through my mind at an alarmingly fast rate that I could come up with no answers to them in the time given between them. It seemed like only second later that I heard Stephanie (Steph) scream a rather strangled scream, but it was obvious why when we all looked towards her, I being angry about what had cut me off from my thoughts before that chill of excitement returned at what was happening before me. There sitting on her little chair, Steph was being bitten by the man from earlier on the neck and I knew without looking further what the man was. It was so obvious I just wanted to jump, but I could move an inch, I was too shocked. Vampires were real!
Without a second notice he had Maria just like he had had Steph, but while the other two ran away, both Echo and I stood shocked in our spot at the sight before us. I like to think at times that we were both thinking the same thing and at the same time it was obviously fear that was keeping her in place, not excitement of knowing something mythical was actually real like with me. The man didn't pause to give us a second glance just went after the other two, but within a few seconds he returned with the other two whimpering in pure agony laying them on the ground a ways away from the fire. Turning to us he just smiled at us and that got Echo moving, though I just sat there tilting my head focusing fully on his face. I didn't ever want to forget this, even if this was my death, and it was more because I didn't want to forget his rather beautiful face even in the afterlife. I paid no mind to Echo who was quickly captured by the man, but just returned to her seat where he squatted down before us wiping his mouth of blood.
"You both must realize, as I can see it in your eyes, what I am and that I'm turning the lot of you. The difference is, I'm not just changing you into the eternally damned, no. I'm turning you into a completely new race of vampires, ones who can reproduce and such. Remember that through the change," he offered as if that would help dull the pain later on, but at that moment I didn't care, he wasn't killing us. The man was turning us into vampires, even better was he was turning us into a completely new race, and I just couldn't wait to see what it would be like. I watching him curiously this time as he leaned into Echo biting her soundlessly on the neck causing her to clench her eyes shut, but then I was surprised to see him inject her with quite a few little needles of some kind of medication. Then, he turned to me, and I knew he what he was going to do as I closed my eyes tilting my head for him to bite me. I must've shocked him with this action because it took him a few moments to actually do as I knew he would, but the pain was so mind-blowing I could only gasp at the severity of it. Within moments he layed me down by the others in random places in the area, and then, he injected me with what felt like many little needles, though I couldn't be for sure how many it was. Within seconds, or what felt like hours, he was done with me, but merely whispered an apology to us for the pain before, I think, he ran. Then, the change began on us and all the five of us could do is accept the pain in our own ways, while hoping for the pain to end soon. While the others held to their false hopes that this was merely a dream, Echo and I knew it wasn't, and we also knew that it would be a good three days before we could move without screaming in pure agony. Would we survive that long?
The End
Or is it?
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This would only be the first chapter and as such, it is most likely not the best out there, but I'm trying so, yeah. Thank you for reading if you did so and thank you even more if you review or flame!
Next Chapter - Horrible mistake? (Tilte may be changed)
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