Chapter One

I woke up to my iPhone ringing loudly on my nightstand. I groaned and rolled over to look at it. The caller ID was flashing 'UNKNOWN' on the screen. Curious to see who it was I answered.

"Hello?"

"Forks, Washington." The person on the other end said, and then hung up.

One word- one name- rang in my head, as soon as I heard the voice. Anakin. I hadn't seen my sister since that night so long ago. She had kept her word and stayed in touch by calling me every so often, when she could find my location or my number, giving me an update of where she was at the time, but I had not really talked to her. The more I thought about it the more I realized how much I had missed my sister.

I sat up and looked at my alarm clock. 10:30 a.m. I decided to get up and walked down stairs to my kitchen where I sat at the bar, my thoughts drifting. I thought about Ana before my thoughts moved to our parents. I missed them as much as I missed her. As I was thinking, my hand found its way to the small oval charm on my necklace, which then made me think about the day that our mother gave it to me.

~1864~

"Now you must not take these off." Mom said to both Ana and me. Both necklaces had a delicate chain with an oval charm. Ana's was dark blue with a woman facing the right where my necklace had a light, sky blue charm with a woman facing the left.

"Why mustn't we take them off, Mother?" I asked

"Because, Analynn, if anything was to happen to you, of Anakin, while they were off, you would die. These are immortality necklaces." She said "The charms are what have the spell on them so as time goes on you make rings or necklaces or even bracelets, but if you are to take them off after your time would have normally been over, you will die. "

"They are beautiful. Thank you, Mother." Ana said.

"Mother?" I asked

"Yes?"

"Will you show me the spell?"

"When your powers are strong enough, yes."

I sighed. We had left about two weeks after that. I had my powers but Ana hadn't gotten the family gene. It was to recessive in her blood. I arose from my bar stool and grabbed a bowl from the cabinet. I made a bowl of Fruity Pebbles cereal and sat down to eat.

When I had finished, I washed the bowl and spoon I had used then walked back up the stairs to my room. I made my way to my walk-in closet where I grabbed a turquoise tank top off the hanger and my blue jean shorts off the shelf. I changed out of my sleep shorts and t-shirt and wondered around my room before deciding to practice spells.

The room I used for my spells and rituals practice was three doors down from my bedroom. I made my way down the hall before opening the door and going in, walking to the bookshelf on the far wall I started thinking about what I was going to work on. I grabbed the old three-inch wide book off the shelf that had pages beyond pages of writing in it. I opened the book carefully, not wanting to stress the frail binding any more than it already was.

Still unsure of what I wanted to do I looked at the page I had turned to. Protection? No.

Fire? I looked around the small room with light blue walls that looked almost white. The only furniture in the room was the waist high bookshelf that sat under the window directly in front of the door. The wooden floor had small black burn spots in a few places from spells that didn't work out just the way I had planned. Maybe later. I decided. Water?

I continued thinking about what area of spells I wanted to practice and after about half an hour, I decided to just call an elemental circle and go from there.

I took my five candles from the top of the bookshelf and carried them to the center of the room. Red, blue, green, yellow, and purple. Directly in the middle of the room I sat the purple candle, which represented spirit, in the floor. Yellow, air, went a foot away on the east side, then red on the north for fire, blue for water on the west, and green for earth on the south. I put my hand over the yellow candle and said "Air, I call you to my circle."

The wick burst into flame and a slight breeze blew playfully through my long brown hair. From there I moved to the red one and did the same by saying "Fire, I call you to my circle."

The candle burned brightly and the flame danced excitedly on the wick. The room was warmer now, and had the homey sound of a crackling chimney fire in the background. Between the two candles, a silver line formed connecting the candles. It looked almost like a piece of thread but if looked at closely enough could be seen through.

"Water, I call you to this circle." The wick, like the others, burned and the sound of soft calm waves flooded into the room while the silver thread connected the blue candle to the red.

"Earth, please join us." The sweet scent of hay filled my senses and I closed my eyes for a moment and breathed it in deeply. Every time I called on earth, it reminded me of home. As I walked over to the purple candle the silver thread connected earth to the blue and yellow candle.

"Spirit, I call you to this circle." The room became brighter and the silver thread connected each candle to the purple one. I sat in the floor and relaxed. Elemental circle had a way of calming and relaxing me. It was like coming home to a nice warm bed after a cold stressful day. The thought was just comforting.

I had been sitting there for a while when, I heard someone knock. As soon as my attention left the circle, the candle flames went out. I stood up and walked to the front door. Once there, I unlocked the deadbolt and opened the heavy wooden door to see someone I least expected.