A/N: Here i am again, trying to make my fanfic worth your while. :) though it sadden me that there are no reviews in my previews chapter, I don't know if it suck or not. But I'm still happy that i know some of you read it. ^w^ So here's another chapter. Hope ya guys would enjoy it.
Still doesn't own Twilight... *sigh*
Chapter III: What are you?
When Bella got home, she saw three well-built men standing by the living area with Charlie sitting on his recliner with a serious look on his face. Bella scrunched her nose a bit after smelling the scent of the living area. "Not to be rude or at least to be sounding rude, you men smell off like a wet dog. No pun intended Jake." Bella said, pinching her nose a bit and wriggled it to try and adapt with the closed up smell.
Jake laughed and winked at Bella. "Well you don't smell like fresh roses too Bells. That is before I'm this awesome that is." He joked, flexing his muscles. But he stopped his jokes when the teen was halted when one of his companions cleared his throat and glared at him. He tried to glare back and only got a silent commanding stare from him. He sighed deeply and tried to calm his nerves. "Bells, this is Sam Uley and Paul Lahote." Jake introduced his two companions.
The man named Sam stood with pride as he was introduced by Jake while Paul looked at Bella and sneered at her. Bella shrugged it off and looked at the three overly-grown natives then at Charlie. "Would someone start talking aside from Jake? I may be the patient one, but my patience can't be long if you three continue to look at me like I'm a freak." Bella told them, making the two out of the three she was talking to snap from their curious stares and face her. Charlie on the other hand coughed and asked all of them to sit.
When all of them are sitting on the couch, with Bella sitting on a single sofa and Jake sitting on the armrest of it, it was Charlie who broke the eerie silence. "So! Now you three know each other, mind you tell us what you came here for Sam?" He asks the older of the two. Sam was mature looking, adapting to his well-toned body and native features.
"We are here because Jake said that your daughter is here." Sam said roughly. His voice sounded harsh and sharp looking eyes turned to Charlie. "We want to discuss her living behavior with you, knowing your relationship with their kind." He added.
Charlie raised a brow and scrunched his nose. He was keen that only a few people knew of his connections. Mostly it was Jacob's dad, Billy, who knew it since they are childhood friends. "I assure you that Bella is safe. She won't harm anyone under my watch, or more importantly, if she is in her calm state. I can't be sure if the other one can tolerate it though." Charlie explained. He leaned back to his chair and looked at Sam seriously.
Sam pinched the bridge of his nose and glared at Charlie. The police chief may be older than him, but his ego is telling him that he is stronger. "Look here. We already have the Cullens roaming around in Forks and this new comer can be a threat if we sum up what he heard from Jake's memories." Sam said, pointing his thumb over Jake who was sitting at the armrest of Bella's seat.
The teen in topic raised his hands like a criminal caught red handed and gave Sam an annoyed look. "I knew her even before I was a shifter and when I shifted; you guys just waltzed in my head like it's a damn mall." When he first phased when the Cullens arrived, he suddenly heard voices in his head and learned that it was Sam and the other Quileute folks. And there they knew that Jake was friends with Bella, a kind they didn't know how to act with at all. "We came here to make sure Bella will not be a threat to the townspeople. She was here before any of us even shifted, why do we even need to check again?" He questions.
"Jake is right. Bella stayed here a few years back for summer vacation and nothing bad happen." Charlie backed up Jake's words, looking at Sam who was in deep thought and Paul who was staring daggers at Bella.
The smallest of the three Quileute natives stood up and snarled at Jake menacingly. "Her kind is not welcome here! Her blood is tainted!" he said in a deep voice, her hands now formed in tight knuckles as both Jake and Charlie was backing up Bella.
'Young blood. Never did have nice tempers. If you go against their anger, you're just lighting a short fused bomb. And that small guy's fuse must be a thumb long. Say bellisima, annoy him further, I want to play with the puppy.' Bella's wilder persona said with a cherry tone, making her body vibrate in excitement. But being the calm one that's out and facing the males in the house, she had to avoid any means of fighting.
"Hush." Bella whispered softly, hoping her other persona would not cause anything that would end up someone badly hurt. But her soft spoken warning was mistaken by Paul as directed to him.
"What did you say?! You dare to quiet me?!" Paul said in anger, thinking Bella was shutting him up. He stood up and puffed his chest, showing Bella that he is not to be messed with. He was beginning to shake.
The only female in the room raised a questioning brow at Paul. She tried to recall on why he was antagonizing her and realized that it must be when she reprimanded her other persona. "I apologize. You must've heard me wrongly. It was not for you that I said it." Bella apologized, voice sounding flat and serious at the same time. She wanted to avoid any conflict.
"Paul calm down! We all know that Bella tends to talk to herself and why she does it." Sam commanded to Paul who deflated his puffed up chest and slumped back down.
"Yeah. I forgot that woman is a loon." He commented, making circular motions with his left ndex figer beside his left temple.
The term and notion was not ignored by Bella but she stayed quiet. Instead, Charlie and Jake glared at Paul, with the latter standing up and looked at Paul angrily. "What did you say Paul?! Show some respect to the woman!" He said to the smallest Quileute.
But Paul found it as a hole in their situation. If he provokes Jake who was not affected much by Sam's commands, he can eliminate the threat that they have as of the moment. Isabella Marie. "I respect women, but to her kind-" He looked at Bella and sneered at her. Showing his disgust over her. "She doesn't need respect. The woman talks to herself! She deserves to be in the asylum if she talks to herself like that! She is a crazy bitch!"
"PAUL ENOUGH!" Sam commanded harder, trying hard not to be affected with the thick grudge atmosphere.
'Oh F**king A**! Bellisima! Don't!'
Paul immediately followed but was too late. He found himself face to face with Bella. Eyes that were once calm chocolate brown, was now steely gold. His breathing started to hasten, quickly loosing oxygen. He quickly looked at the source of his loss of oxygen and saw a hand was clamped up on his throat. Only a whimper was the sound he produces after summing up the situation.
Bella was holding him down on his seat within the second Sam ordered him to stop speaking.
"Bella!" Both Jake and Charlie shouted as soon as they saw Bella's seat empty and Paul whimpering in fear.
"I have patience little boy. But I have limits. I may take NORMAL people saying I am not of the right mind but to the likes of you I cannot forgive it." Bella's words were calm but cold. It's like every word she spoke was coated with venom and icicles stabbing the hearts of those she spoke to. "You are just a puppy who cannot control your anger. If you are here to make sure I am not a threat then I offer you my word that no harm in the humans would be done by me." She said, looking at Paul's eyes that shows fear.
Jake tried to pull Bella away from Paul who was now prying himself from Bella's grasp. He noticed the small trail of blood oozing from the ends of Bella's fingers. "Bella, calm down. He didn't mean what he said." He tried to soothe her, hoping she could release Paul. Sam too tried his luck and talked to Bella in releasing Paul.
'Bellisima… Calm down. Breathe!' Bella's other persona tried to calm her but the rage within the body was like roaring fire. 'Bellisima! Remember who you are! He is not worth it!'
Still Bella didn't listen to her persona. She stared at Paul's now sweating face and hard breathing."You find it hard to breathe little boy?"
"Bella let him go!" Sam pleaded.
'I have no choice bellisima. We're switching!'
But Bella didn't budge until the mental click echoed in her mind. With that, Bella's enraged features were replaced with an annoyed look and her hard grasp at Paul's neck was released. Her golden colored irises turned back to chocolate brown and she let out a lungful of sigh. "You young shifters are so easily angered." She said in a laze manner. Turning to Sam who was surprised to the sudden turn of events, she offered a hand to him. "Bella. Well the other Bella I you may. To think your pack mate has the guts to irk my calm persona up to boiling point. Be thankful she held back and I jumped in." she told Sam who took the offered hand and silently nodded his head. "Good! Then next time, never call us like what he said. I may have stopped my calmer persona but I won't hesitate to jump in again and finish what she started. That pup wouldn't just get scratches on his neck."
"I'm sorry for his behavior. It's just you are somewhat we can't tell how to deal with. Just give us your pact that you will not hurt any humans and we'll be on our way." Sam said, eying Paul's slow healing neck. This stuck him as odd since shifters like them tend to heal faster.
"I promise! Scouts honor!" Bella joked, holding up three fingers in salute.
With Bella breaking the rough tension with her joke, Charlie convinced Sam further that he and Jake would be responsible if ever Bella was to break their pact. Jake agreed and put an arm around Bella in proof that she is harmless.
"Harmless if needed. Besides, in terms of our eating habits, father already told me I can try another diet. Though I think it irks him to the core." Bella said, going back to her seat. With everyone now calm, even Paul who kept quiet, she looked at Charlie with a steel look. "Now tell me. Why are there Vampiri in the area? And such a large number too for a coven. And they are posing as a family and attending highschool. So mind telling me?"
Sam cleared his throat and explained all about the treaty between the shifters ancestors and the cold ones as they call it. He told her that they feed on animal blood and acquired the strength to be near humans and still not suck them dry. "If they do even take a sip of human blood in the area or turn one, the treaty will be considered broken and we'll hunt them down." Sam ended.
Bella was fascinated at how the Cullens are trying to act humans. "Well kudos for their will power. Since that is clear, I have a phone call to make. So I'm leaving you men with all your boy talk." She announced and walked upstairs to her room.
"Charlie… is she?" Sam looked at Charlie who finally breathe out loudly.
"She's more unique than me. Mind you, this is just between us. So don't allow the Cullens read anything about her." Charlie said to them.
[Upstairs, Bella's room.]
"Well, now or never." Bella said, unlocking her phone and pressing the speed dial 1. With a few rings, the call was picked up and the sound of an elegant male voice. Hearing the voice made Bella smile happily and greet him. "Hey daddy!"
[Cullen residence, living area]
Everyone under the Cullen household was in the living area. They all decide to have a family meeting with regards to the new student. Among the Cullen teens was two adults. One was a woman with a heart-shaped face and a motherly aura emitting from her and the other is a man with a suave looking hairstyle and a gentleman's look. The Cullens are known to be the Vegetarian Vampires, as the other vamps joked about them. Though a happy family they portray, their family or coven as any vampire could call, have unique abilities.
Edward has the ability to read minds.
Alice can see a subjective future, usually in what the person has already decided.
Jasper is an empath, able to control the emotions of anyone.
Katalina has the ability of ice creation or manipulation.
Emmet has advance vampiric strength and his mate Rosalie has enhance beauty capable of seducing vampires.
Carlisle has compassion beyond any vampire while Esme has motherly love beyond anyone.
"I told you Carlisle, my powers don't work on her. Nor does Jazz or Alice." Edward told the male adult named Carlisle. They were discussing on Bella's unique ability to block them.
"Well to be fair, I can still see her a bit. But three out of then occasions. It's like she doesn't think much of choices or changes what she wanted." Alice added with a disappointed tone.
"Maybe it's because she said she has split personality thingy that you psychics can't make a move on her." The Spanish looking woman said with a bit of teasing in her voice.
"Katalina please don't taunt them." Said Jasper. He wanted to avoid another set of bickering of his siblings by sending out calming waves to them.
Emmet laughed loudly and agreed with Katalina's opinion on Bella nulling the abilities of his siblings. But he was hit by Rosalie at the back of his head with a rolled-up magazine.
Carlisle looked at his family who are a bit disoriented with the whole 'Bella' situation. "This is fairly an odd instance. Did you notice any change when you say she switches personality?" he inquired.
Alice piped in, knowing she talked to Bella the most. "Well, she becomes more laid back if she switches to her outgoing personality or act all olden like she's in the 1700s. She did tell Angela she can speak a few more languages like Spanish, Japanese, French and Italian. Though her Italian accent is very fluent!" She told their father figure in an animated manner. All the time he was telling them about Bella, her smile never faded and she was eager to tell them about her.
"Didn't she speak Romanian too? But I'm not sure what it meant." Edward added, still with an annoyed expression in his face. "And her blood is more alluring than anyone else's. Jazz had a hard time with her during their class and Alice had to run and feed during lunch just because her mind thinks her blood is like cocaine!"
"Amazing. Well if she has multiple personality disorder then there is no known cure for this. Usually the families of the people who have this MPD are supportive and understanding. Knowing chief Swan's daughter to have this, he is a father figure alright. And to be immune to your abilities, she's simply fascinating." Carlisle said as he cupped his chin and tried to understand what his adopted children had told him.
"Atleast the girl has privacy rights. Unlike some unfortunate family that deals with a snoop every time." It was Rosalie who spoke with sarcasm in her tone. She glared at Edward who glared back at her for the sarcastic remarks.
"I can't help it Rose! You all know I can't stop this gift" And the two was about to start arguing until Jasper sent out calm waves to stop their bickering.
"Thank you Jasper." Esme said with a warm smile.
Emmet placed an arm around his lover and gave her a childish smile. "Easy babe! Eddie-boy here is just insulted that a woman finally beat his mind-reading cheat code! Talk about someone in par with him." he boomed.
And what Emmet said made Edward look at him for a minute and came to realize what he said. "Ofcourse! That's why I can't read her! She's my soulmate! The only person who can be my equal." he concluded, eyes shining with discovery and fascination. His mind ran on the possibilities that Bella is the one he has been longing for. But everyone looked at him like he grew another head. Aside Alice that is. Her face winced when Edward declared his new found discovery and this was noticed by no one aside from Katalina. "Don't you see it guys? We are meant to be together!"
Katalina rolled her eyes and leaned closer to Jasper. "Uh earth to Eddie! Even Jazz can't control her emotions nor can Alice see much about her from her vision. What's the difference then?" She questioned.
"Well because I'm a guy. Jazz already has you and Bella can't probably be Alice's mate." Edward scoffed off. Of all the Cullen siblings, Edward is considered as the 'golden child' since he is the first to be turned by Carlisle. He took it at heart and often feels like he is superior of all. And since he is treated as such by Carlisle, what he usually wants, he gets.
"What's that supposed to mean Eddie? Can't the little Ali-cat have a mate as awesome as Bella?" Emmet asked with a confused expression. "If it's Alice it would be so hot! OW BABE!" He whined when Rose hit him again with a magazine. "Don't fantasize about Alice and her potential mate dumdum!" Rose chided her childish mate.
Edward frowned and crossed his arms. "Bella can't be Alice's mate because she's a woman." He told them which earned her a dead silence from everyone. After a few minutes of silence, Katalina stood up and pulled Alice's arms. "Ah the sayings of a man from your age. C'mon Alice, I want you to join me in hunting." Katalina said and then looked at Jasper who was smiling softly. "Be right back cowboy."
"I'll be waitin' ma'am." Jasper answered with a wink. And with that, Katalina and Alice took off.
"Edward Anthony Masen Cullen! You should be ashamed in what you just said!" Esme scolded Edward who was baffled in response.
"Dude that was low. Even for you." Emmet commented while shaking his head in dismay.
"What?! What did I say?" Edward was still confused to why his family suddenly reacted like that. He turned to Carlisle who was frowning a bit at him. He read their minds and frowned as well. "There is no possibility that Alice can be Bella's mate! She's mine!"
Rosalie stood up and rolled her eyes in Edward's reaction. "Suck it up Edward! Besides, shouldn't we need Bella to have a say in this? To think I have a brother who can read mind and also close minded." She mumbled as she moved in a vampiric speed to hers and Emmet's room.
[Deep forest]
Katalina was jumping from tree to tree with Alice following her with a deep thought. Ice bridges were created and Katalina was skating on them gracefully. "So Ali-cat, mind telling me what that dimwit brother of ours has shunned?" Katalina asks while still skating on her self-made ice coaster.
Alice was sitting on a higher branch with her legs swinging back and forth. "I don't know Katy. When we were at the cafeteria, just smelling her immediately made me feel thirsty. And when we talked during P.E, I felt so light." Alice said, thinking about her encounter with Bella. She didn't feel anything like flying on cloud nine or electricity over their physical contact. Just the smell of her blood drove her inner beast into frenzy.
Katalina did a jump and 360 spin while a spinning tower of ice followed her feet. A spiraled cone tower was created and Katalina stood at the very tip of it, towering the height of six feet. The heught was now the sam as Alice's spot. Making the tip of the ice into a flat surface, Katalina sat on it and looked at Alice with a sweet smile. "Ali-cat. I can't say if Bella is your mate or not. We all have different ways on how we found our loveones. Carlisle and Esme found out that they are mated after ten years since their first meeting. Rose and Emmet was a brief moment. Jazz and I took a whole southern war before we realized we are mated. If you feel that Bella is meant for you, try for it. Never hurts to try Ali-cat." She patted Alice's inky black hair as she ended her speech.
A frown graced Alice's beautiful face and she swatted the offensive gesture away from her head. The thought of Bella and Katalina's speech with mating burned on her mind. Then Edward's declaration before wormed in. "But Edward already laid eyes on her." She sighed. Knowing her brother, he wouldn't stop until he gets what he wanted.
Katalina smirked and winked at Alice. "Then fight. If you feel any pull for this Bella, then never give up. Besides, it's Bella's call in the end." She told her, jumping off the iced platform and sitting beside Alice. She hugged her sister and cooed relaxing hum on her ears.
"Thanks Kat. I'll try." Both of them stayed hugging each other until they heard a flock of birds flying away. And it was about a mile away from them. "What was that?"
"Want to find out?" Katalina asks in excitement. With silent nods, both of them ran on the source of the disturbance in the quiet night.
[Swan residence, Bella's room. Bella POV]
"Great, now those smelly shape shifters are away I can now play." I said to my reflection. I stretched my arms and grinned at my reflection. "You still not talking to me?" I asked my calmer persona. She still wasn't talking like usual and it's becoming a bit annoying to me. "Look bellisima, I know I have been jumping in your time without your consent but we don't want his blood in our hands. Well your hands that is." I said to my reflection. But still no response. I can only sigh and look at the alarm clock that's in my desk and I knew once of the reason why she was not even speaking to me.
'Feed… me…' My persona moaned as if she's in pain.
"Ah finally she speaks! Alright, time to eat dinner anyway." I smiled at my reflection and changed my clothing into dark stretchable jumpsuit with no sleeves and goes all down to her mid-thighs, she donned it with a white armored padded shirt that goes down to her waist and hugged it tightly. Her forelegs are donned with metallic shin guards and her fore arms are covered with armslength metallic armguards.
"Well no need for the shoes or gloves for now. Man this suit does look nice." She whistled to herself, admiring her somewhat primal attire. She was about to admire herself some more when her stomach growled loudly and her throat began to throb.
'Food now. Please…' my other persona pleaded.
I raised my arms in defeat and looked at the open window. "Okay okay. Feeding time! Just this time, don't overdo it." She said and she jumped out of the window and landed perfectly to the tree infornt of it. Scanning the area, her chocolate brown eyes flashed in gold and she smirked proudly. "Well better get this over with and finish our assignments later." I started to jump from tree branch to another as we felt the wind in our face. the forest breeze is indeed relaxing.
"Speaking of relaxing, what's your opinion on the Cullens? Especially il più piccolo"|trans: the smallest one|
A/N: So how was it? i showed a few of Bella's uniqueness here and added the insight of the Cullen family about her. I do hope to know your thoughts :) thank you for reading and i hope this story is up to your interest or expectations. :)
