Haha it is now time to continue the journey of butt kicking awesomeness that is our story!
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EPOV
Well I was screwed, Alice knows but I pray that she would let me tell the others instead of opening her big mouth. I looked forward at Colbie and Jayden's backs, both had tense rigid postures along with Colbie bouncing her leg and constantly looking at the clock while Jayden had one hand clenched in a fist and the other was fingering something around her neck. I to looked at the clock 12:23 only seven more minutes till lunch, I felt Bella squeeze my hand, I turned just to be greeted by the worried look on her face.
"Are you ok Edward?" I smiled crookedly.
"Of course love, why wouldn't I be?" she just shrugged and looked back at the teacher while I turned my head back to the clock, only three more minutes to go.
"Mr. Cullen what is the answer to the equation on the board" Mrs. Low asked me, I sifted through her mind before answering.
"y= 2x + 3/7%" I answered, she was too shocked to answer at first. (I totally made that up I don't even know if that can even be an answer to calculus XD)
"That's correct" she muttered, just as she was going to find her next victim the bell rang, the twins were up before anyone could move. I stared after them for a second before once again picking up Bella's bag.
"Edward!" my love groaned, I just smiled before grabbing her hand and pulling her along after me towards the cafeteria. When we walked through the doors we, well more like me was met with a furious glare from Alice, she stomped over, grabbed Bella's other hand and yanked us both to the table.
"Alice be careful!" I said getting angry, but she turned on me growling lowly.
"Don't you patronize me Edward Manson" I was about to retort back but the I saw something in her mind, just as she said my name the twins were walking into and they froze with a dazed look on their faces. Colbie was the first to recover, she gently grabbed Jayden's wrist and pulled her towards the lunch line.
"So Alice said you needed to tell us something Eddie" Emmett stated.
"Don't call me Eddie" I growled sitting next to Bella "And yes I do have something to tell you"
"Well get on with it" Rosalie said looking at her nails not even trying to hide the fact that she wasn't interested.
"First off the new twins know that we're not human and that we're vampires" Bella gasped, everyone else was looking at me intently even Rose stopped looking at her nails and was now giving me her full attention "But I don't think it matters…" Rose was about to cut me off but I quickly continued "because I don't think that they are human either" again everyone was silent.
"What do you think they are?" Jasper questioned.
"All I know is that they are not human, vampire, or werewolf" I answered, Alice scoffed.
"That's not all Edward and you know it"
"I was getting to that Alice" I sighed, Bella put her hand on top of mine oh my sweet Bella I don't know how I survived without her for so long. "I know they're not human because they were alive when I was human. They were my best friends growing up"
"Are you sure?" my love asked, I nodded.
"Back in Chicago my family was really close with the Griffin family, David and Calista were great friends with my parents and their two twin daughters Jayden and Colbie became really good friends of mine, we were always together. In fact my parents were set on me marrying one of them but David and Calista thought that it was best to let me find love on my own. They were there for us when my father died but they somehow disappeared when my mother and I got sick"
"Why do you think that the new girls are your friends from Chicago?" Bella asked.
"Everything about them reminds me of my old friends! Their looks, their personality, hell even their scent is the same"
"Oh Edward should we tell them about the sketch book?" before I had a chance to answer there was a loud bang from the other side of the room. I turned around and saw that Colbie dropped her lunch tray on the ground, Jessica and her gang started laughing until Jayden sent them a glare that made Rose's glare look like she was smiling at you. Colbie looked at us, our eyes connected and her eyes were the same violet color, I glanced at Jayden who was now glaring at us. Bella shrank into my side under the intensity of her endless midnight blue eyes. Colbie took a step forward with a smile on her face but Jayden quickly grabbed her shoulder and dragged her out of the cafeteria. Damn it! After seeing the color of their eyes I was positive that they were my best friends! Never in my 109 years have I ever seen anyone with the same color eyes as them.
"What was that about a sketch book you were talking about?" Rose asked, but I was still staring after my old friends so Bella answered.
"Yeah, we found it on the floor in the hallway, when we opened it there was a picture of all of us in the baseball field and it had the exact date it happened"
"Do you have any idea who it belongs to?" Emmett wondered.
"It belongs to the new girls" I said and the bell rang signalling it was time for history "Come on love, time for class" I helped Bella put her coat on and threw her leftover lunch away before leading her out door. We had to go passed the parking lot to get to our next class, we were about halfway there when we were stopped by none other than the twins.
Jayden's POV
After hearing that little munchkin of a vampire yell Edward's real name confirmed our suspicion about him being the same boy from our past, Colbie was ecstatic about re-meeting our old friend and was about to go talk to him when I grabbed her shoulder and all but picked her up and carried her out of the lunchroom.
"What was that for? Its Edward remember our best friend that we haven't seen in over a century!" she yelled in my head.
"Oh I remember but he is a vampire now! Its way to dangerous for us to get to close" I responded.
"But its Edward! He wouldn't hurt us!" she argued.
"Things change, he isn't the same boy from when we knew him. It's his nature to hunt us even more then it is to hunt humans and that makes him dangerous" I reasoned, she sighed and I knew that I had won.
"He found the sketchbook" she stated, I nodded.
"Which means we have to get it back before things get even more screwed up" she motioned her head toward the sidewalk I was greeted by the sight of the topic of our conversation and his afternoon snack.
"Lets go and let me do the talking" I thought as I stepped in front of him, he stared at me while the human just looked at me curiously.
"I believe you have something that belongs to us" I stated keeping my face carefully blank and my voice neutral.
"No I don't believe I remember acquiring anything of yours" he stated copying my tone of voice, cocky bastard.
"Cut the crap! The sketchbook I know you have it so hand it over" I snapped fixing my most menacing glare on him, he tried not to look effected but the little blood-bank next to him didn't bother hiding her fear I could smell it coming off of her. I looked over the both of them carefully then my eyes narrowed in on the book in the toys pale hands.
"Hand it over!" I growled, I felt something probing in my thoughts well trying to probe 'He's a mind reader huh? Good luck finding anything.'
"Since it contains things of my family I believe you lost all right to claim it" he countered meeting my glare, I could feel my claws itching to come out, but if he doesn't know what we are then there is no way in hell I'm gonna give him any information.
"You know there is this thing called stealing, you can get arrested for it" I hissed taking a step forward.
"You can also get arrested for stalking, or would you prefer the term 'finders keepers, losers weepers'" he growled placing the human behind him, I'm not going to even try to learn the snacks name.
"This isn't up for discussion! Give me the book if you want your pet to keep her hands" I stepped toward the girl with my hand out "If you want to live you will give it to me" Edward jumped in and snapped at my hand there was a sharp pain as one of his teeth grazed the palm of my hand but I ignored it and wiped it on the corner of my shirt as it started to bleed.
"You won't touch Bella" hmm I guess that's an appropriate name Italian for beautiful which she was for a human with her long mahogany hair, chocolate brown eyes, and clear but pale complexion. I can see why he hasn't eaten her yet.
"You can always get another pet and as I said before hand it over if you want her to live" he growled again.
"And as I said before you will not touch Bella as long as I am alive" I smirked.
"Well then we are going to have to change that now won't we" I was about to jump him when Colbie firmly grasped my shoulder and pulled me back.
"The others are coming we have to go" she whispered in my ear, I flared my nostrals and took a deep breath, sure enough there was the distinct scent of four more vampires coming our way.
"What about the book?" I whispered back not taking my eyes of the two before me.
"Its not worth it" she replied with even more edge to her voice and I could see why, just over on the other side of the parking lot was the rest of his blood coven.
"Edward" the little vamp called and stupid Eddie made the mistake of turning his head and leaving his little toy without any protection. 'Nows my chance' I quickly lunged and grabbed the book from her hands just as Edward turned and grabbed at me, he managed to grab a corner of my shirt and it tore. We ran to the car and drove off in a hurry successfully skipping the rest of the day.
"That has to be one of the stupidest things you've ever done!" Colbie yelled at me from the passenger seat, I just rolled my eyes and threw the sketchbook on her lap.
"That doesnt matter, what matters is that we left them with no evidence of what we are" I replied smugly, licking the palm of my hand letting the saliva knit my skin back together.
"Oh yeah because of your stupid impulse they now have a sample of our blood" she growled, I tilted my head before looking at the part of my shirt that was ripped, it was the same part that I had whipped to blood on. Oh shit now we were screwed.
EPOV
The others had gotten to us just in time to watch the twins flee in their car, I held the bloody ripped piece of Jayden's shirt in one hand while holding Bella tightly in the other.
"Are you alright love" I asked worried turning to face her, she smiled shakily and I leaned down and kissed her forehead.
"What was that about?" Alice asked coming up and hugging Bella's other side, I just shrugged.
"We need answers now!" Jasper growled.
"Hell yeah we do!" Emmett agreed.
"Lets go to Carlisle" gently leading my angel to the Volvo, Alice got in first, then Bella, followed closely by Jasper. I got in the drivers and quickly pulled out of the parking lot driving towards the house, Emmett and Rose were going to make up and excuse then meet us at the house. I pulled out my phone and dialed Carlisle's number I looked in the back seat to see that Alice was holding a shaking Bella while Jasper was running a comforting hand threw her hand. 'My poor Bella must be scared to death' I was brought out of my thoughts by the sound of Carlisle's voice.
"What can I do for you son?"
"Carlisle we have a situation can you meet us at home as soon as possible?"
"Of course, whats the problem?"
"It would be better if I told you in person"
"Very well I will see you in a few minutes"
"Bye Carlisle"
"Goodbye" and with that we hung up.
Esme was waiting for us when we pulled up the driveway, she flitted over to the car and opened the door before lifting Bella out of the car and hugging her to death. 'Must have been the look on her face' I thought.
"Whats going on Rosalie called and said that something happened at school" she asked rather worried.
"I will explain when everyone else gets here" she nodded and I took Bella from her and walked into the house and into the living room. Both Emmett and Rosalie along with Carlisle arrived a few minutes later and I waited for everyone to sit down before explaining to Carlisle and Esme what I had told the others at lunch.
"What does this smell like to you Carlisle?" I asked throwing Carlisle the piece of fabric, he caught it and took a deep breath. He froze and took another deep breath.
"Well that's something I haven't smelled in a long time"
"Carlisle what other mortal enemies do vampires have besides wolves?" I asked the question that had been burning in my mind since I heard the twins first talk about it. I was deep in thought before he ran upstairs into his study and came back a few seconds later with a huge old book in hand.
"There are only two enemies that we have one you know are Lupe Garu's or in other words Werewolves, the other is something that hasn't been seen in a long while" he said opening to a page in the book "The other is called Opinicus or as they are commonly called Griffins" he said showing us a picture of a creature with with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. "The griffins ruled over our mythical world seeing as the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle was the king of the birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature, so naturally they took it upon themselves to makes sure there was order between our three kinds" Rosalie growled.
"So what they were these all powerful rulers"
"Calm down Rose, they didn't rule using fear like the Volturi do. They were very respectful and they believed in second chances, from what older vampires have written they were fiercely loyal to family and friends, most had powers much like we can have but it was actually uncommon for a griffin not to have a power." Carlisle explained.
"So how come there aren't any around anymore" Emmett asked.
"Understand that we were not always enemies for years there was a council for each of our kind, for the werewolves it was the pack of fifty under the rule of Lochan and his mate Kalidasa, for the vampires it was the Romanians, and for the griffins it was Morrow and his mate Marleen. Everything was peaceful until there was an uprising, a group of vampires overthrew the Romanians and raged war on the werewolves"
"The Volturi" Jasper stated and Carlisle nodded, we all knew of Caius's hate towards the wolves.
"The Morrow and Marleen led the griffins to try and restore balance and peace but then they were killed by Aro and the Volturi. Upon their murder was a new discovery" he paused taking in our reactions before continuing "Drinking the blood of a griffin gives you more power than you can imagine! For vampires who already had powers it would increase the effect of it"
"So the Volturi hunted them to exstinction?" Bella asked speaking for the first time since we got here.
"Not really, with this new found information the Volturi used it to wipe out the wolves but the wolves to realized that the same thing would happen if you ate the flesh of a griffin, their strength and speed would be increased so each group killed off the griffins in order to out do the other until the wolves lost and the Volturi took over" Carlisle finished, I looked around the room. Esme looked heart broken, Alice and Emmett looked furious, Rosalie and Jasper looked disgusted, and Bella looked terrified.
"Its alright love" I soothed pulling her closer, while my mind went into overdrive.
"It all makes sense now" I stated everyone looked at me "Why they called us there mortal enemies, why their scent smells more appealing to us than even Bella's scent is to me, and also why they acted differently from the way they did when I first met them" I explained.
"What do you mean they act different" Esme asked.
"When I met them I was human so I wasn't a threat but now that I am a vampire I am a threat to their safety and any family they have" the others nodded in agreement, 'Don't worry guys I will get you to trust me if it's the last thing I do!'
And there you have it. The tragic history of the downfall of the griffins and also a piece of why the twins hate the Cullens well at least part of why Jayden hates the Cullens. Please review!
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