Hey guys, this is my first fic! Please read, enjoy, and REVIEW! :) Lucinda/Luce
Summary: Victoria found Bella in the forest after Edward left, same old right? But there was something about her that Bella or any of the Cullens didn't know about, and it effects Bella after she is changed... now it's 57 YEARS LATER and Bella is the leader of her own coven of 5/world wide famous band, going by the name Isobel. They unexpectidly find out that the Cullens are another famous band that are sceduled to go on tour with them. She knows that her family will fight to protect her and her secret, but how long will it stand before Edward and the rest of them actually find out what she's hiding? Also, how will Bella deal will the fact that Edward and his family are back... with another human girl? Read to find out...
"Bella we're going to meet the band were touring with in a couple minutes!" Scarlett exclaimed excitedly and I rolled my eyes at her eagerness. I had changed my name to Isobel Swan a few years ago so people wouldn't be suspicious of a girl like me who looked exactly like another girl named Bella Swan who supposedly died half a century ago. But my family called me Bella when we weren't surrounded by our fans or the public.
Our band is called 'Heaven's Rejects'. We chose that name because of the way our fates were set. I might have wanted this life before, but that was when I had someone to stay for. My life, my reason… But I guess It just wasn't meant to be, no matter how badly I wanted it then. Now I'm damned to stay here for eternity with nothing…
Scarlett was really crazy about meeting our tour partners. She enjoyed meeting new people and making new friends. She also loved shopping and anything related to makeovers, so I guess you could say she's like another Alice… but I really don't want to go there yet. Scarlett is my back singer.
"Scarlett, you're really insane you know that?" Ivy teased as she walked by with her guitar in one hand and a polisher in the other. She faked an offended expression and said, "I'm offended people! You absolutely show no interest in meeting them! For all you know, we might really like them."
"Or not" I muttered.
Honestly, I really wasn't eager to know who we were touring with. After the Cullens left, I lost interest in a lot of things. I was pretty much destroyed after it and I lost hope for everything.
Well, let me just start at the beginning. And read closely because my story is very different than others. Edward left 57 years ago. So that makes me 75 years old right now. Anyway, Victoria found me that same day. She laughed at the sight of seeing me on the forest floor, heartbroken and confused. I knew she'd come to avenge James' death but I just stayed down, unmoving.
I was completely shocked when she pulled me to my feet, roughly though and said, "I'm not going to kill you because that would be giving you an escape. Now I want you to know something, so listen up and listen carefully." She swatted me across the face like it was a giant fly and I tumbled to the ground again. She hissed, irritated. "So pathetic and weak you stupid humans are! Whatever, so before I became a vampire, my mother and I used to practice witchcraft together." She shot me a look when I raised an eyebrow at her but continued anyway.
"My mother knew spells that were especially effective on vampires. Because my father was a vampire, and he murdered my little brother Louis" Her eyes flashed with anger and loss. "My mother hated him for it and a day later he fled from the area, to who knows where. Mother wanted to kill him for it and soon was no longer sane over the subject. I tried to fix her but she was far beyond anything I could do.
She began traveling around a large area of the world, searching for a way to get back at my father. And after months of looking, she finally found it. She met an elderly woman in England who introduced herself as a 'witch' and agreed to help my mother. Together they created a potion that would affect a vampire's protection against the sunlight. Just like myths and stories. Vampire skin naturally has an invisible, translucent shield-like cover over their skin that protects them from the sun, letting only a minor amount of light through it that the skin can easily deflect. That's what causes it to 'sparkle'." My mouth was hanging wide open as she explained this to me. So it is possible for vampires to burn in the sun…
"Most vampire's believe that the sun causes no harm against them, and they are mostly true, as long as this rare formula doesn't enter their systems. It's pretty much impossible to do so, unless they drink the potion themselves or if they are bitten by another vampire who is already infected by it. Believe it or not though, most all vampires traditionally bite and feed from each other. It's one way they connect themselves through a bond. It only happens between two vampire mates and no one else." She said, getting infatuated by her own speech, not realizing that we had been here for almost an hour and she started again.
"Wait! Are you infected?" I asked suddenly. She nodded. "Yes"
"Doesn't that mean you should be burning right now?" I looked up to see the rare sun peeking through the tree tops, shining upon us. She shook her head and laughed wickedly. "Nice try little girl but I have something else that protects me" She raised her hand, exposing a ring on her middle finger. It was a very plain but beautiful ring. It had a thin silver band with one large oval shaped stone.
"What type of ring is it?" I asked, my eyes fascinated by the dark golden colored rock.
"The stone is rutilated quartz. It's power protects you from any type of radiation forms. Mostly the sun. But if you take it off… you will die in the sun." She approached me where I was sitting and squatted down so we were both eye level and spoke, "I'm going to turn you instead so you can live with the pain and fear for the rest of eternity like I have to, including the fact that I murdered your poor father. Charlie is it? It's only fair." She smiled when my face twisted into a mixture of pain, hatred, heartbreak, and anger.
She then reached into the pocket of her thick wool coat and pulled out what looked like another ring and tossed it on the ground in front of me. I didn't dare look down at it as she moved closer, her dark eyes holding my gaze
"That ring is for you after you've finished the transformation. After all, I wouldn't want you to die so soon!" A fake worried expression crossed her face then she grinned. "Have fun living without guidance. I'd love to see how you will handle a human scent when you wake up!"
She leaned dangerously close to my exposed neck and whispered, "Don't worry little girl, I'll only make it painful for you." Then she sunk her fangs into my neck, cutting through the skin and tissue. I felt the familiar excruciating burn of venom in my veins, but I also felt another strange feeling that was like a thick cold substance. Sort of like a cream that began to numb my entire body. An odd tingling sensation ran directly under my sensitive flesh, then began to burn as cold as a frost bite…
So I was turned into a vampire, and just like she wanted, I live with the pain every single day, although I have a awesome band that are closely tied together like family.
The ring Victoria left was still there when I had awoken four days later. I wanted to see if what Victoria told me was the truth, and the only way to do that was to expose a part of myself to the sun, without the ring.
I crawled over to the nearest patch of sunlight that broke through to the forest floor and hesitantly moved my hand closer to it. Before my full hand was even in the sun, the ends of my pale fingers caught fire instantly, and the sun began to dismantle them rapidly.
I screamed in both blistering pain and horror and yanked my hand back into the shade. I looked down at my ruined hand. The skin was so red and crusted that you could see the bone underneath it. Venom ran freely from the wound. The tip of my middle finger was completely fried off and was nothing but a tiny pile of dark gray ash that smelled terribly like a rotting corpse.
I noticed as new skin began to seal the wound slowly. That's when I realized that I could self-heal. Before I even counted a minute, all evidence of what had ever happened to my hand a moment earlier were gone. The only remaining piece was the leftover ash that already sank between the decaying leaves. I quickly grabbed the ring and slid it swiftly onto the pointer finger of my right hand where it stayed securely there ever since that day…
And after 57 years of living this way, I have never taken it off and never will take it off. Of course thought after that incident happened so long ago, I was always frightened to even go anywhere near the sunlight, but after a couple of years, I finally managed to get over that fear.
I didn't mind not taking it off either. After all, It was a very beautiful ring and also similar to Victoria's. It had a unique silver band that securely wrapped around a long golden oval rutilated quartz with two small white diamonds at the ends for design.
No one knew about the ring, well, maybe some noticed it before but they didn't know the importance it had or the protection it offered me to actually be able to be out during the daylight and still survive.
My family were the only ones who knew. They promised to keep it a secret just between us and I knew I could trust them with it.
One plus side to it is I am very beautiful now though. My used to be wavy mahogany colored hair is now almost waist long and dark brown with a reddish tint. My cheekbones were more defined, making my face loose it roundness. My lashes were darker and fuller, framing my deep golden eyes, and lips fuller and rosy.
My body also gained a beautiful curvy form, and my breasts were slightly larger and rounder. I was a few inches taller than before too. My skin was about 2 shade paler, making my appearance seem angelic.
I also found that I had a gift. I had the talent to compel people to do whatever I wanted them to do. You could say it's a pretty powerful gift to have, but I only use it when I have to. Whenever I compel someone, it's sort of like a process. First off, I would have to get the person to look into my eyes. Then I have to give an order or a command to follow or act upon while concentrating on the person.
But sometimes it would be difficult depending on how much will power that person has. If they are strong enough, which I've never met anyone who was, the compulsion would break and it wouldn't work. But the thing is, the longer it takes to fully compel them, the more power it drains from me. Trying to compel someone will only last about 5-8 minutes before it begins to weaken me. But I very rarely use it anyway.
Another thing is, even though it's not really a gift, I do have fangs. Any vampire would just laugh in my face if I told them that, but it's very true. Just like in a movie or a legend right? (Humorless chuckle) Yeah so they aren't always there. They lengthen to about an inch long and then contracts accordingly depending on how I feel at the moment. I can usually control it when I want to but if I'm angry, frustrated, or upset, it just happens automatically and then I can't control it until I calm down. And again, only my family knew about it.
"Can I get you anything Ms. Isobel before I go on my dinner break?" Jack, our personal guard asked, thoughtful as always. Not that we really needed one to protect us, but hey, he was a nice friend to have around. "Um, I don't think so. Thanks though, but have fun anyway" He nodded and quickly reminded, "I'll be back in an hour to drive you guys to the interview/performance session with the other tour group, okay?" I nodded and he left, taking the black Ferrari we bought for him on his birthday.
Suddenly the trailer door opened, and Kelly's head poked in, her expression bright and in a unusually happy mood. "Guys, the other band is outside. They're here to meet us" Kelly said. Kelly was the drummer of the band, and also the fighter of our coven. She was especially protective of me after I had told them my story. Of course she's never met Edward, but she knows all about him.
"I'm almost done!" Luce called from the bathroom. We all laughed as we heard her scramble around in there, looking for her lip gloss. Luce was the care free one of the group. She was a cheerful young vampire that never took crap from anyone. "Not even me" I chuckled inwardly. The part I loved most about her was that she never lets anyone get her down. And she has a free spirit. Luce is also the pianist for the band, although I did play too sometimes.
"I'm ready!" She rushed out and stood beside me with a thumbs up. I chuckled and said, "Alright then, let's go." I walked over to the door with my band/ coven following eagerly behind me and opened it, stepping out into the cool night.
The first thing that hit me was the scent. Many scents actually but one was different from the others. It was human. My head snapped to the side immediately when I heard the shifting of movement and the short gasps from the people I had seen last 57 years ago, and still as a human.
My look of shock contorted into an expression filled with confusion, anger, but most of all, hurt when I saw a human girl standing next to Edward. She looked about seventeen years and had straight cherry blonde hair that fell slightly below her spray-on-tanned shoulders. The girl with stale blue eyes had obviously had done surgery on her breasts to make them unnaturally bigger and a nose job that practically screwed up her entire face. My entire first impression of her was… cheap, whore-ish, and fake. There was nothing real about her.
Apparently my entire coven had noticed my reaction and Kelly stepped forward of course. "Iz is everything okay?" She whispered in my ear, but used my stage name since she knew they could hear.
Before I could say anything Alice said, "Bella is that you?" She looked shocked and I shook my head at her in hurt and betrayal.
"It's Isobel!" Kelly snapped at her instantly and she flinched and Jasper growled back, wrapping his arms around her protectively.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa guys! Isn't this our band meeting? We are supposed to be getting along here" Scarlett said, putting herself between our coven and theirs as if to separate us. Then she turned to the Cullens with a pleasant expression on her face.
She held out her hand to Alice in a friendly gesture as Jasper followed it cautiously and said, "Hello, my name is Scarlett Swan and this is my family, Isobel, Kelly, Ivy, and Lucinda. It's wonderful to finally meet our tour group buddies!" My family made faces at the word 'Buddies' but stayed quiet anyway.
Alice took her hand and shook it politely. "You as well. I'm Alice Cullen, and this is my husband Jasper" She made a small gesture towards him and then her expression turned apologetic. "I'm very sorry for what just happened. I didn't mean to upset any of you" Scarlett waved it off and muttered, "No worries! My sisters are just on edge a little. No biggie" Alice smiled and I saw her eyes flicker towards my face but covered it up quickly.
"Who are they?" Kelly asked.
"They're the Cullens" I said, my face blank and emotionless.
Realization crossed her face in a second. "You mean that's-"
"Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, Carlisle, Esme and-" I sucked in a sharp unneeded breath and finished with, "Edward" I felt Kelly tense up beside me and a loud vicious snarl ripped through the air. Before she could do anything rash, I grabbed her arm in a restraining manner and told her, "No" quietly but forcefully. She gave me an irritated look but nodded and stepped back.
"Bella, honey we missed you so much! You look great." Esme said with Carlisle's arms wrapped around her lovingly. I rolled my eyes and muttered under my breath, "Why don't you go telling that to someone who buys it" She let out a small sad sigh, and her eyes filled with light venom tears
I glanced up at Edward and saw his as-usual gorgeous face. It was mostly blank but I could see the shock in the depth of his black eyes as he stared back.
"Hello guys! Am I like invisible or what? You haven't even introduced me yet!" The annoying human asked Edward and the rest oft them while they were busy taking in my entire coven and myself.
Edward shook his head dazed for a moment and muttered, "Right, um, this is Lynne. She's uhh…"
" His girlfriend!" Lynne finished with a high pitched, weird, strange, squeaky voice that made me narrow my eyes in disgust.
My family scowled at this and she stepped forward at Ivy with pure arrogance and stupidity saying, "You got a problem with that, you weird vamp girl?" Oh my god, they told her too! Traitors! I shot a glare at them and they had a look of regret on their faces.
Ivy smirked at her pathetic attempt for a confrontation. "Yeah I do have a problem, and that would be you. So why don't you take your disgusting fake face and your big ego back over there to your pet owners you dim-witted human" My family began laughing hysterically and the girl stomped her foot like a spoiled brat that just couldn't take no for an answer.
The Cullens shifted around uncomfortably, except for Rosalie of course who seemed kind of irritated.
"Whatever, you're all losers anyway!"
I heard Luce mutter, "Who's the loser, really? She's the whorish human who probably sleeps around with any guy she finds. AIDS or not. Married or not when Edward probably isn't around…"
Rosalie shouted, "Bella, tell your stupid coven to shut up already! Just because your jealous of her, doesn't mean you have a right to pick on her" I growled and this time my coven had to calm me down. I had been nothing but nice to her as a human, but now I'm so fed up with her shit. "YOU KNOW WHAT ROSALIE? I'VE BEEN NOTHING BUT NICE TO YOU AS A HUMAN AND ALL YOU DID WAS TREAT ME LIKE SHIT! I'M FINISHED WITH TRYING ALREADY SO JUST DO ME AND YOURSELF A HUGE FAVOR AND SHUT THE HELL UP BEFORE I REALLY DO SOMETHING STUPID!" I screeched, feeling the familiar sensitivity in my teeth and before I could even think, my canines lengthened into long, venom coated fangs.
"Shit!" The Cullens gasped and Kelly sprang in front of me, blocking my entire body. I clamped a hand over my mouth and squeezed my eyes shut, mentally cursing at myself for letting this happen. The rest of my family formed a circle around me.
"What the hell was that?" Emmett bawled. I noticed they were trying to see around us.
Calm. Calm. Calm. I chanted in my head and finally my body relaxed and my fangs contracted back to their normal razor sizes.
I whispered them "Thanks" And the circle loosened away. They were staring at my mouth, disbelieving and I smiled awkwardly, revealing a pair of normal vampire razor teeth. I knew they wanted an explanation. "Um-"
"Ms Isobel, we are ready to leave for the interview!" I sighed in relief as Jack switched cars and came around with the black limo, holding the door open for us.
"Bella!" The Cullens and their irritating human friend followed us into the limo.
Kelly hissed. "It's Isobel!"
This would be a very interesting day…
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