Chapter 1: Friend
Over the last few days, me and Leila had become good friends. Aro would only ask me to train her, since Leila showed pure hatered for everyone else, especially Jane. I was the only one she trusted. I told her about the night I was changed, when I was 19. She told be about her sister.
"Back then, we were taught many languages." Leila laughs at the memory. "Learned most of them in less than a day, used to speak them whenever we got board... me and my sister were like best friends, since the very beginning. She trained me before I came here." she's silent for a moment. "She was smart though, knew where to draw the line, and she made friends with everyone she met..."
"Leila, if you don't mind answering, how did you and all the children Aro's captured have a latent ability so strong, like a vampires," Leila didn't answer at first.
"It's... complicated. You could say that we're a small super-human race, human being the important word. There are about a hundred out there right now, but you'd never even know. We're in this catagory called Forces, and there're different ways of how they could have become one. Me along with most of the others here in volterra were born with the talent, just naturally born with it... Unlike them, I was born with it because of my background, you know, my parents..." I nod and she continues, "they were just born lucky, that's why I'm more focused than them, have a better Idea of what's happening." It also explains why she speaks like she's in collage.
"What do you mean most?" I hadn't missed that.
"Others were in some seriously unfortunate event that caused their ability to unlock from their subconsious," she explains. "Or they could just get lucky one day and wake up with a latent talent at their disposal," She chuckles. "For some reason all Forces turn out with 3 main characteristics, only the first has a loophole:
1.) Forces stop aging at the age 18, growing at a normal pace.
Loophole: If their talent isn't awaken by 18yrs. old, if they're not born with it of course, and it does turn out to awaken, they'll stop aging immediately.
2.) Forces are immune to all affects of vampire venom(in other words, can't be changed into a vampire)
3.) Forces have a gift as strong as a vampires would be...
None of them aply to ones that have not been awaken."
Wow, so much hasn't beem told, it's stupid.
"The only thing I'm worried about is what Aro has planned..." she says.
"What do you mean?" I might have missed something.
"He saw what my sister is like, knows she's a threat to the Voltori's power... he's planning on waiting until she's full grown, and then pulling off a full-scale ambush attack, threatening to kill us, if she didn't join... He thinks because of her young age, her gift will be raw, unstable, and weak, and thinks Chelsea will be able to crack her... but he doesn't realize, she's had the gift since she was born, and the closer she gets to being full grown, the stronger her gift will get, and the more unstoppable she'll be... all but one weakness, and they wouldn't ever realize..."
"She has a weakness?" I wonder. I didn't think it was possible, she looked practically fearless.
"Just one... two if you count fire, but don't, with her gift, it can't even touch her... it's vampire venom ironically... all the halfies have a weakness against it,"
"But didn't you say she was venomous?" confused.
"Yeah, one in every 3 halfies are... she has a weakness against vamp. venom that's not her own..."
"That made sense," it so didn't. So not fair, fire was completely inaffectual?!
"You know, I can hear your thoughts," I theoretically blushed. "But don't count fire out... Because of her shield, she generated an entirely different gift from it... she can feel emotions of people around her... and the default emotion was pain," I knew what that meant... it means she felt it when her parents burn.
"Exactly," she answered my thought, "Because of that day, she can't stand it when people burn, she's at her most volnerable... the bright side is, the pain she feels from others, she doesn't have to feel her own... it's only for pain though." NOT FAIR! "She doubts herself too much though... and I don't understand why, ever since last year when our parents died, she doesn't believe she's as strong as she is anymore, thinks she causes problems, more than fixes them, I guess she blames herself for their death, thinking she could have saved all of us, instead of being a 'coward,' as she said, but she's not. But who knows." her knowlege as a child was extraordinary, a two year old at that! She's worried about her sister though, and I felt sorry that any human had to got through this. I also knew that in 5 years, there will be a great danger...
Five years Later...
Me and Leila were like sisters... She had grown unbelievably, but still looked to be , at the same time, which she was. We've all been training her to master her gift and have been successful. She is already stronger and just as fast as any of us, more secrets are unrealing about her, but I know the toll it's taking her... constantly being threatened, that they'll kill her if she didn't cooperate. I have to find a way to communicate with her sister...
