Have A Purpose

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This is a sequel to Value In Beliefs taking place a few months after and the final sequel of the After Breaking Dawn series.

Previously in the story, the Cullens returned home from a crazy adventure in Detroit and Jalen Long a founder and former member of the Detroit coven has joined the Olympic coven and has become Tiffany's mate. Consider this story part two like the Breaking Dawn book. Enjoy this story. I hope you like it! Note: There's just gonna be a lot of drama so not much action involve but there will be a future for the Cullens along with new vampires, maybe. ;)

If you haven't read its previous stories; A New Life, The Other Half, A Reason To Smile, Happily Ever After, Full Of Surprises, Forever Together and Value In Beliefs, I highly suggest you read those first to catch up.

Have fun! :)

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Preface

I can't believe I let this happen. This is all my fault. I screwed up big. Because of me, my family and I are in big trouble.

The guards were everywhere as they grabbed me and my family and we can't do a thing to escape without exposing ourselves in front of the humans who are confused at why we're being arrested. The guy I loathed so much, who's been calling the shots, had a smirk on his face since he's getting the pleasure after me ruining his night with my step daughter who doesn't deserve to be with him. He just had to suspect something's different with my family which he is now telling everyone about it.

I saw some of the guards pulling out their taser since my werewolf friend is being difficult as I tried to get out of the guys' grasp as they restrained me and had their handcuffs ready for me. It looks like my years as being most wanted has finally caught up to me.

Chapter 1 – Introduction

Time out!

Okay if you're wondering about what's happening over there, allow me to explain things. Let's start with introductions.

What up, I'm Jalen Kaiser Long. I may look like I'm twenty years old over there but I'm actually twenty nine. How is that possible you ask? Simple, I'm a vampire and we don't age physically. How did that happen you ask? Let me explain from the beginning.

I was born in Seattle, Washington raised by my father Atticus and my mother Brenda both of whom are proud owners of this famous gaming company Long Corporation. They're the best employers the company ever had but they are also the best parents I ever had and I love them so much as they do to me as well.

My life was perfect until one night when I was four the company was having a banquet to promote a new gaming system. After the event, my parents and I were leaving the banquet late when two guys came out of nowhere and mugged us. My dad was told to hand over his car keys and wallet which he did but he did so while trying to protect me and mom. They were pissed and without warning, one of them shot my dad. Mom and I ran away from them but they caught up to us so mom told me to go get help. Obviously I wasn't gonna leave her like we left dad but she told me to do so and that's what I did, regrettably.

As soon as I came back with the police and some of my parent's co-workers, we came in just to see the muggers beating my mother while raping her. After those two were arrested, we got mom to the hospital… but she died a few hours later. I was hurt and upset to have lost my parents. I still had nightmares from that night when I was young. Because I have no other family member except my aunt who wants nothing to do with me, I was placed in a foster home. That place was nothing but hell.

You could imagine it like I was Harry Potter living with his non-magic family but much worse. No, I wasn't a slave. It's just that no one in that foster home cares about me. My foster mom was strict. She would always beat us as punishments or for no reason at all. My foster dad is an alcoholic and would sometimes join my foster mom in the beating. Even my foster siblings never liked me. They would tease me, treat me like dirt and mostly I end up getting in fights with them. Basically, everyone at the foster home gives me a hard time there and nobody likes me… except for one, Elena.

Elena Margaret was my foster sister and is three years younger than me. Her mother left her husband when she was pregnant since he was abusive and then she died after giving birth to Elena. Like me, she gets picked on by others and been treated badly by our foster parents. I however loved and cared about her as she does to me. Elena always stays by my side like glue. She looks up to me like a big brother as I treat her like a sister. We even promised each other that neither of us will go with a family until we find one that will adopt the both of us. We would've if it weren't for that night.

I was seven when I came home late where everyone was asleep, or so I thought. I heard Elena crying. I came to her room when I saw her door cracked open and the light on. I saw Elena on her bed without any clothes on with my foster dad on top of her. I didn't even think he would do something to a child and there was no way I'd let that happen.

So I grabbed a desk lamp from my room and attacked my foster dad by surprise knocking him out cold before he got what he wanted. Unfortunately for me, my foster mom came in when she heard the commotion. All the evidence was pointed to me from her eyes and you guess it, I got in trouble. Actually, worse than that; she called the police on me and I got arrested. She told the cops that I raped Elena and beat up my foster dad to keep him quiet and they believed her over me. I didn't know what happened to Elena back there but I know that she was unable to help me which means I'm all alone.

I was so fed up with how they took my foster mom's side over mine without even giving me a chance. Well, I lost all respect from people since my parents passed away so what did I expect. I don't know what but I do know that I don't want to end up in jail. So by some miracle, I was able to escape the cops and made a run for it and I've been on my own since then.

I've spent my life living off the streets with nothing but the clothes on my back. I did get a part time job posting flyers earning me some decent money. I was also able to know the streets at the palm of my hands as well as the people around me which helps me if I need to sneak in as well as avoiding the cops.

Sometimes I help those in need of help such as pushing someone out of the way before they got ran over, breaking the car window so that a child could get out from dying from the heat, fight off guys picking on others etc. All of that, I just come and go not getting any appreciation but it doesn't matter. I don't think they ever care about what I did. I continue doing what I did until it was time for me to leave Washington. I've been around places doing the same thing as I got older.

By the time I was twenty, I've been living in Detroit, Michigan for awhile. During that time, I stumble across a group of men ganging up on a girl. Being me, I jumped in, fought them off and saved the girl who just ran. I guess it was because of me or them. Just as she disappeared, one of the guys pulled a dirty trick and knocked me out and the next thing that happened was that I was dangling by the wrist like a punching bag. I paid the price for saving the girl and that was being tasered to death. Just when I was about to be finished, someone swooped in and killed all three of the guys and saved me… for only a few moments.

The guy who saved me was Mordecai Coleman. I was grateful of him for saving me but I know for sure it's too late. He did however want to save me from dying by an offer if I wanted to start over a new life, a life where I don't have to worry about anyone bothering me. I didn't how he could pull a thing like that but if I want to live a better life, than that's what I did when I accepted Mordecai's offer. What I wasn't expecting was Mordecai biting my neck where I was burning from the inside. I thought I was going to hell but it turns out, I was turning into a vampire. Yeah, I didn't think vampires really exist.

Anyway, once Mordecai told me what he did and what I've become, I didn't really mind it since it means that no one will bother me and if they do, I have ways to know if they come near me and Mordecai.

You see I discover my gift to track people once I first catch their essence of their minds. Once I do, I can locate where they are no matter how far they go. I can even anticipate where they are and will go if I'm more familiar with their minds giving me more access on them. I can also act before they even can react as well with sensing their approach. So Mordecai and I have been traveling together since and that's when we started recruiting others who have been mistreated and were close to death.

First there's Eden Love. When she was in high school, Eden was a bit of a loner; always spends her time burying her nose in a book and not get involved with others around her yet people at school bully her. I never understood why they would do this to her. She's a sweet, kind and beautiful girl but she can be painfully shy except to those she's comfortable with.

One night, the students took it too far when they elect her on Homecoming court… as a joke. She was so humiliated that she wanted to end her life. I found Eden that night when she was near in completion to hanging herself to death until I saved her not before she had minutes to live. Feeling bad for how she ended up, I changed her. We soon discover her gift which is to transform into purple haze when she runs very fast and can also use them to mask our scent and block other vampire's gift.

Next, we ran into Sophia Faye. She's a tomboy but she also has a girly side when she doesn't go kicking ass. She always gets into trouble with the law but she has ways to escape. People would put Sophia down since she never knew her dad and her mom is… a bit of a mess.

We ran into Sophia where she was fighting three muggers. One of them stabbed Sophia with a knife and Mordecai changed her after we killed the muggers. After she woke up from her transformation, Sophia discovered her gift to identify any danger around her that's coming. She always wishes that her gift could also find a way out of it.

Then there's Cameron Parker. He was born with a speech disorder and he gets picked on a lot for it and people would take advantage of that. Around that time, he met Eden outside of school and those two fell in love.

Then one day, two students caused a high school shooting. They've been bullied worst than Cameron. We heard about the shooting at Cameron's school and killed the two shooters not before they shot Cameron and wounded him. Eden was a mess fearing that she might lose Cameron that we agreed to changed him.

We took Cameron away from his school and Mordecai changed him since Eden wasn't sure if she could control herself if she changes him. Soon Cameron was transformed and he and Eden became a couple since then. His stuttering however became worst and most of the time annoying after his transformation. I don't think Eden mind it at all.

After that, we ran into Ariana Vega. She was once a popular girl at her school where she's all mean, rich, 'dumb' and self-centered. What happened there you ask? Well it turns out she's an undercover nerd with the glasses and is super smart causing her status to go down and everyone started making fun of her.

Then one night after a football game, she got gang raped and brutally beaten until we came in and killed those assholes and I changed Ariana. Ariana's okay with it, although I always feel like I regretted changing her since she always tries to flirt with me nonstop. It's annoying but I still care about her.

Because of her high intelligence, it was enhanced allowing her to receive the answer to any question especially in combat, helpful whenever we're stuck in a situation which helps Sophia's gift. Those two do make a good team where Sophia receives the problem and Ariana has the solution.

Last of all is William Heart, the youngest member of our coven. His parents left him near a dumpster when he was an infant. William was an orphan but was looked after by a nun and kept him well behaved even though he can still be childish.

One day William and the nun were in the church where she was tending William's injuries from a fight he got in when a group of thugs entered, telling the nun that their boss has bought the church and that they must leave. William was about to tell them to beat it and was about to fight them but the nun, smiling, grabs his wrist and shakes her head, telling him not to.

That night, a fire started at the church caused by those thugs with William and the nun in it. William was able to get the nun out of the burning building but not before the nun died due from the lack of oxygen. William was about to die too and was gonna get killed by the thugs who saw them come out until we came in and killed them and saved William since he's so young and deserves to have a life still.

So that's what I did when I changed him. We found out about his ability which is to imitate anything as long as he has heard the voice/sound at least once since he's good at mimicking the noise for fun as a human.

We protect others who were being mistreated and killed only those who deserve to die. We never changed them unless they were dying caused by their perpetrator and if they wanted to. So far no one was on the verge of dying after William. Because of how we ended up, we all believed that humans are nothing to be respected from since they never do to others except for those that do matter. That's why we avoid any human contact. It's been like that as we live in Detroit for years. Everything changed when they came.

One day, Sophia's gift detected trouble in an abandoned alleyway by Zoran and his coven. They always cause trouble. When Sophia told us that Zoran and his coven were fighting with another group of vampires, we all thought it was nothing but when Sophia added that the group of vampires is with a wolf and humans, we were all confuse at what vampires would be doing with humans if not for food. Not wanting the humans in the hands of Zoran, we all came in to stopped Zoran's coven and saved these people who are the Cullens. Among them was someone I haven't seen in such a long time; Tiffany Stewart. She's my best friend during my life in the foster home. I haven't seen her since I ran away that night. I didn't expect to see her again, as a vampire, let alone having a half-human half-vampire hybrid child. I didn't think it was possible.

During my time with Tiffany, she taught me how not all humans are that bad as me and my coven think they are. There was also the time where I started having this strange feeling for Tiffany. Whatever it was, I didn't think it was gonna work out between me and Tiffany after the danger she almost got herself in from Steve, who thought he knew about the existence of our kind. There's also the fact that Tiffany and I are just different from two worlds. When I told her about it, Tiffany didn't take it so well and ran off, crying. That was when I felt something torn inside me. It was then I realize that I am in love with Tiffany Renae Stewart.

After thinking things through, I made the decision to leave my coven and join the Cullens as well as confessing my love to Tiffany who happily returns her feelings towards me. I've started adjusting their diet of drinking animal blood instead of human and I've been living with the Cullens since then.

Now if you're still wondering what's going on back there, I think it's best if I start over from the beginning.

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