Chapter 2: What am I?

EPOV

Monday.

We were sitting in the living room, Bella in an armchair with her dog at her feet, waiting for Carlisle to arrive home. I was nervous of the dog, he was huge. He was eyeing Emmett, who was bouncing up and down in his seat, with what looked like amusement. Bella looked utterly relaxed, gazing around the room. Her eyes landed on the painting of the Volturi that we had moved down to the living room days ago. She glared at the painting for a moment before sighing. Shadow looked up at her and she shrugged.

We heard Carlisle's car pulling into the driveway. Bella smiled slightly and I was instantly calmed. Edward, what is up with you?-Jasper. I shrugged seeing as I honestly didn't know. Bella and Shadow snorted and looked at Emmett. He shifted uncomfortably under their gaze. "We can Emmett." Bella smirked. I tried to dive into Emmett's head only to hear nothing. Carlisle, thankfully, walked in then. "What's going on, all Alice would say is-" he stopped abruptly upon seeing Bella. She stood "Sorry for any inconvenience Dr Cullen, but you see, I have a story to tell and it involves your family." Carlisle looked at her then at Shadow and then back to her again. "Oh, sorry. This is Album Ignis Umbra, or Shadow. He's a big part of the story." Carlisle nodded and sat beside Esme. Everyone was looking up at Bella. "Right, before we start, I just need to say that I'm not human. I'm not mortal and I'm a hell of a lot more dangerous than all of you put together." At this Emmett snorted. "Um, Bella? If you're not human, what are you?" Jasper asked timidly. Bella smiled sadly. "What am I?"

BPOV

"What am I? In all honesty, I don't know completely. I mean, I know roughly what I am. I just have to explain and then you'll understand." Shadow huffed and flopped himself down, gazing at me.

"Do you know the Norse god, Thor?" they all nodded "Well, he's technically my father. He-" "Wait, what do you mean technically?" Esme asked. I sighed, scratching the back of my neck "He's not my father by blood. I don't have parents." "Bells, everyone has parents. How else were you born?" Emmett explained to me slowly. I smiled slightly but it didn't reach my eyes. "Not me Em. I was created out of blood from the stars and tears from the moon. Add in some god blood and-baddabing-baddaboom-you get me." Alice blinked "Star blood and moon tears? Which god gave you blood?" I smiled properly this time. "Yep stars bleed and the moon cries. Loki and Odin both gave me blood, since Loki is only half god, having all of Odin's magic but at the same time being as sneaky as Loki." Emmett and Jasper grinned wickedly at each other. "I have hundreds of powers, like Edwards, and I am a master at magic. I don't have any internal organs or bones, just a load of silvery mush." They all looked at me open-mouthed. "Bella how is it that you can stand and walk without any bones?" Carlisle, probably the world's only vampire doctor, asked me "It's a god thing, if I want I can tie myself into knots." I demonstrated, tying my torso into a knot. "It helps sometimes if I need to hide. I untied myself and sniggered at their expressions. "I can also-ahem-growmylimbsback." Alice choked on non-existent spit "Did you just say…?" "I can grow my limbs back if they were injured or I wanted to watch it grow back, it's really cool."

Shadow stood and Alice gasped, looking at me wide-eyed. I quickly covered her mind, Edward was more than curious. "Don't worry, Ali-cat. It'll grow back." I held my right arm out and Shadow leapt for it, efficiently tearing it off. The next thing I knew, Shadow was airborne and flying through the wall of windows, Edward growling like a good thing.*

EPOV

Bella held her right arm out and her dog jumped, latching onto it. With a vigorous shake of his massive head, Bella's arm was ripped from the socket with a sickening pop. I acted on instinct, knocking the behemoth of a dog away from Bella. It went through the window and landed in a pile of sharp shard of glass. I growled at it and it growled back. Bella let out an exasperated sigh. "Edward, seriously, I'm fine. Shadow, stop that, it's rude." She placed her hand on my tense shoulder and I instantly relaxed in the free flowing electrical current that ebbed from her body into my un-dead heart. I looked into her sparkling blue eyes as she motioned for me to sit down. I noticed that she was holding her right arm under her left arm, and had to repress a shudder.

I sat reluctantly and Shadow stood, shaking out his fur. "Now as I was saying," Bella continued as if I hadn't just thrown her dog through a window, "I can grow my limbs back or reattach them. I'll grow this one back." she looked down at her wound and I saw not blood, but silver not-liquid-but-not-solid-stuff glowing on her arm. It shimmered and shined and slowly, at first, started merging together, re-growing Bella's arm in less than forty seconds. It even had her tattoos. The old arm had shrunk until it fit it the palm of Bella's hand, and then it crumbled into a silver metallic dust. Bella smiled and held up her arms "Ta da!" she said, twirling around, arms still in the air.

"It's great in battle, if you lose a limb, it grows back. It's faster depending on where it is. My hand only takes seven seconds to regrow and a finger takes two." She started sniggering and Emmett looked uncomfortable. "No way Em, you're saying that out loud." Emmett coughed and shuffled on the seat beside Rose. Once again, his mind was silent, and I guessed that Bella could block minds as well as read them. I can block mind, now, though, I'm telepathically talking to you and you alone. That is seriously cool. I know, right?

Emmett coughed again and seemed to struggle forming the words "Cause…you know…you have-ahem-lady parts…" Rose groaned and smacked him upside the head. "Can you have kids?" Rose stopped glaring at Emmett and looked down to her lap. "Yep. It's a long process though. It takes five years, dea dust-the dust from amputated limbs and a poem from Odin." Rose stood and glared daggers at Bella. She snarled "Oh, because everyone else but me can have babies but I'm stuck in a never changing body. Great, just fantastic!" Bella looked surprised and took a step back from the fuming Rose. "Rose, vampires can have children."

RPOV (Rose)

Wait, what?

EMPOV

Can she give my Rosie a baby?

JPOV

Shock, surprise, disbelief, hope, more shock, overwhelming happiness.

APOV (Alice)

Ooh, I knew Bella would be great for the family!

ESPOV (Esme)

If Rose could have a baby, maybe she could be happy…

CPOV (Carlisle)

I thought it was physically impossible for vampires to have children, but maybe, since Bella is part god, she could do something about it…hmm, I'll have to ask her…or do some research.

EPOV

I watched Bella watch Rose, shock and disbelief clouding on her face. Bella was smiling slightly at the shell-shocked Rose and Alice was bouncing so fast in her seat, she looked like she was vibrating. "Rose, I can make you have a baby, if you want." Bella said softly to the wide eyed Rose. Rose nodded slowly, then furiously. Bella smiled and motioned for her to sit on the ground. Bella sat across from her, cross-legged. She did complex hand movements and whispered "Lumen Othinus." Immediately, the room darkened, and a circle of green light on the ground surrounded Bella and Rose. Bella held Roses arms, with Roses palms facing up and Bella's hands under them. Rose closed her eyes on Bella's command and Bella went into a trance. Her eyes glowed and rolled back slightly into…well, she didn't have a skull…but you get the picture. Bella started chanting, so low and fast even I couldn't hear it. It got slower and louder the longer she went on, the light circle shining brighter every word that passed her cherry coloured lips. She was chanting:

Non fluxa ad semper mutans,

infecundum ad signifer multos filios,

infans in utero loco di,

profecerit et in bello,

custodem patriae domi,

munus deorum, sicut tibi.

It was Latin, I think, but I wasn't able to translate as I was captivated by the thing of beauty in front of me. She continued chanting, until Rose started glowing then Bella stopped and smiled. "Emmett come here and do the same as Rose did." Emmett sat across from Bella, closed his eyes and held out his hands. Bella repeated the hand gestures and once again said "Lumen Othinus." Before a circle of red light surrounded Bella and Emmett. She grabbed his hands and once again started chanting. She was saying:

Esse elit filiorum,

in dator felicitatis,

saepe pater filium et filiam,

Quod in mundo vocem noctis

Amorem tui solum verum deum donari,

et datum est ponere in utero.

Once again the chant was in Latin. Bella kept it up until Emmett too started glowing. She stood and smiled at the glowing couple. "Now what do we do?" Emmett asked in a loud whisper. Bella chuckled and whispered back "Now go make a baby." Emmett grinned and Rose squealed in an Alice like fashion. "OH, but do it somewhere that we can't hear your, kay?" Bella giggled. Emmett and Rose nodded and flew outside, and seconds later I heard Roses M3 BMW start up. The room gradually lightened and Bella turned to Esme and Alice. "Do either of you want children?" Alice shook her head "I'm happy that you made Rose happy…and that I'll get to be an auntie!" Esme smiled softly at Bella "No thank you dear, we've only known you for a few hours and you've already made this family so happy." Bella shifted uncomfortably "Well, the truth is…I've kinda known your family since I was two hundred." Esme gasped and Carlisle furrowed his eyebrows. "Bella, how old are you?" Bella scrunched up her nose in thought "its 2012, right?" we all nodded. "Then I'm 42,309." Jasper let out a shaky laugh "Well, you look great for your age, that for sure." The tense atmosphere in the room instantly evaporated as Bella laughed.

"So Bella…you said you did magic, can you show us some?" Alice asked timidly. Bella grinned and grabbed Alice's hand. She pulled Alice out the smashed window and motioned for us to follow her. We go around the back of the house, onto the grass that just borders the trees. Bella dropped Alice's hand and smiled at us. "Do NOT, whatever you do, try to interrupt me, okay?" We all nodded solemnly. Bella took a deep breath, rubbed her hands together, and closed her eyes. What I saw next was equally breath-taking and terrifying.

BPOV

In my hands I held Odin's fire or its proper name Othinus Ignis. It was blue and orange dancing together in a beautiful waltz. I made the blue flames go to my right hand and the red flames in my left. The blue flames morphed into a blue dragon while the red made a phoenix. They flew around each other before crashing together, creating a burst of purple flames. "Harmless now, you have to be, but don't forget to listen to me." I whispered into the flames. I looked into Edward golden eyes and motioned to him with my head to come to my side.

He was wary of the flames, but he trusted me. I pushed the flames to one hand and grabbed his hand with the other. Trust me Edward. He nodded and I placed the purple flames in his hand. I heard several gasps as Edward held the flame. It went from purple to blue to red to green. Once they stopped on green they started morphing into a long green snake and it wound itself around Edwards's hand. It coiled and sprang, changing into a bird mid-air. I caught it and smiled at Edward. "That wasn't so bad, now was it?" I clapped my hands together extinguishing the flame. Alice squealed and did a happy dance. I jolted in surprise, I had completely forgotten about the rest of them.

"Umbrata sustinete hic, et ostendam eis umbram tuam in daemon. Im 'captus Edwardi et annunciantes ei de salit, rei." Shadow nodded once and turned to the curios family. I had said it so fast even vampires couldn't hear. "Shadow is going to show you some of his magic now. I need to steal Edward for a while." They nodded and Alice winked at me, as I sent her a message of what I was doing and told her to tell the family once we were out of hearing range.

EPOV

Bella and I climbed into her McLaren. She handed me the keys and told me to go somewhere private. I was taking her to my meadow. She was the first person that I was bringing there but I felt some strange connection with her, and I couldn't explain it. "What were you thinking during Odin's fire? I can't read the users mind." Bella asked me. I turned to smile at her. "At first I was scared out of my mind, but when it changed colour I was entranced by it. The snake was a little creepy though." She chuckled as I pulled up to the edge of the forest in which my meadow was. I would do anything to hear her laugh.

She slid out of the car and came up to me. She hesitantly locked her fingers though mine and said "Led the way." I wondered if Bella could run as fast as a vampire. Faster. I smirked and immediately set of at my fastest. Bella had no trouble keeping up. The entire time her eyes held mine.

We entered the meadow and Bella pulled me down, so we were sitting side by side. As I looked into her eyes I felt something stirring deep inside me, something I thought I would never feel.

I felt love.

I took a deep breath, looking down, it wasn't every day that you declare your undying love for someone you just met "Bella, I apologize if this is too forward, but ever since today in Biology, I felt a connection with you, and now, I am only realising that I love you." I refused to meet her eyes, preferring to study my lap. Bella didn't say anything and I suspected the worst. "Shit, Bella, I'm sorry, I di-" the rest of my sentence was cut off though.

Bella crashed her lips to mine, efficiently shutting me up. Her tongue slid across my bottom lip, begging for entrance. I, being the gentleman, of course complied with the lady's wishes. Our tongues battled for dominance and I, eventually, won. I flipped us over so Bella was lying on the grass and I was hovering above her. She moaned against my lips and ran her hands through my hair. "Edward, I've loved you since I was two hundred." I pulled back and stared with confusion at the beautiful creature in front of me. "That's what I was talking about earlier. On my 200th birthday I went to see a physic to see who my soul mate was 'cause that's tradition. He had seen that you were my mate but you weren't created just yet. Thor forbade me from going to Earth so I figured I would be alone for life. We had to make eye contact to seal the deal. That's why you felt like the rest of the world didn't matter anymore in biology today." Bella stopped and glanced up at me. I smiled at her "So, we're stuck with each other forever aren't we?" Bella let out a melodious peal of laugher out before smacking my arm. "'Fraid so, Mista Cullen." Bella stiffened and stared at me wide-eyed. "There are shape shifters from the rez about 12 miles away and they're coming in fast." "Damn."

I stood and pulled her up and she turned north-east as I slowly honed in on the heartbeat and thoughts of four individual wolves. Minutes past and four wolves burst into the clearing. Sam, Jacob, Quil and Seth.

(Jacob..Sam..Quil..Seth..)

Man, I told you she was a leech!

Funny, she doesn't smell like one…

Jacob, just because she hangs around with the Cullens doesn't automatically make her a vampire.

Should we phase and talk to them…this is kinda rude.

Seth and I will phase, you two stay as wolves.

The black and the sandy coloured wolves turned and went back into the forest. Seconds later, Sam and Seth walked out. "Edward, who is your friend?" Sam asked. Bella smirked at him "Bella Swan. No I'm not a vampire and I thought we already sorted this out?" Seth smirked "We did Sam, remember the day on the beach?" Sam nodded slowly. Seth turned to Bella "Where's Shadow? I liked him." Bella smiled "He's back at Edwards." Seth nodded and smiled. Jacob growled behind Sam and I rolled my eyes. I don't think anyone anticipated what happened next.

Jacob crouched and lunged for Bella. Immediately her hands were outstretched in front of her and Jacob stopped mid-air. "Jacob, why did you do that?!" Sam yelled at the stationary mutt. "Sam he can't help it, he's a daemones dimidium-a demons half. He's a child from a demon and human. We're natural enemies." Bell went on to tell her story and the treaty was strengthened. Jacob was no longer allowed in Forks. We bid them farewell and Sam and Seth phased. Only after Sam placed an alpha command on Jacob did Bella remove whatever she had thrown. We watched them go in silence before Bella turned to me "Well, I think that went rather well, don't you?"

Here are the translations for the chants.

Roses spell.

Never changing to ever changing

infertile to bearer of many sons

may the gods place a child in thy womb,

and may he grow to be a warrior,

protector of thy land and home,

gift of the gods, just for you.

Emmett's Spell.

Be the supplier of children,

the bringer of happiness,

the father to many a son and daughter,

the voice of reason in a world of darkness,

the gods bestow a gift on thy one true love,

and you must place the gift in her womb.

What Bella told Shadow at the Cullens

Shadow stay here and show them your shadow demon. I'm taking Edward and telling him about the mates thing.

I've also taking back what I said before-a weekly update is really hard. My dad is leaving for Everest in two days and my mom won't let stay in my room for longer than ten minutes at a time. I'm just going to have to update when I can. Sorry,

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