"Renesme right?" I asked Renesme.
"oh. Nessie." She replied.
"Oh, good, cause Renesme is a little bit too long for me to say on a daily basis." I joked and we laughed.
"How's it like being a princess?" She asked, I knew we would get along.
"Princess? Me? I don't even act like one." I said and we laughed.
"What's it like having a werewolf for a lover?" I asked.
"HARD." She nudged Jacob as she said the word.
"HEY! I'm more warm."Jacob acted to be offended, sarcastic.
"And what? Fuzzy and cuddly?" I said as I laughed.
"nice comeback!" Nessie said, high-fiving me, we laughed and the others joined in.
"I like your comeback!" Alice, the pixie haired girl, said.
"I have tons—" I said , "ehmagash! You and him, you're like underworld. Except the fact that your families are mad at each other, and is at war. What if someonw bites a werewolf, not knowing it's a werewolf, what kind of mutated monster can that produce?" I started.
"Kali, please watch. You told us you'd be watching" Demetri said while his stick and Deo's collided.
"I'll show you!" Did I mention Demetri always wanted attention when he was teaching, not that, that was wrong, "You. Matthew right?"
"Matt." He had a nickname.
"Stand up." With confusion he stood up, "Demetri, this is what you did." I got my stick from the floor and started to fake hit Matt, I didn't even hit him.
"You can hit me, you know." Matt prompted.
"If you say so. I hit hard." I did, that's what they said, "Ready? One. Two. Three." I hit him hard once, twice and three times and the 4rth time, I couldn't, then my arm started to move on its own. What was happening???? The question ran into my head. Panic took my face.
"Ok. That was enough" Matt said, he looked totally calm, he actually looked amused, he even chuckled. I wasn't, why couldn't I move. Something or Someone was controlling me.
"Demetri, I can't move." He was by my side instantaneously, as was Jane, and Alec and Deo and Shaun.
"That's my power, I'm the puppet master." Matt was confused, he seemed as if I was just new to the whole thing—kind of amused.
"I'm immune to the powers of….everyone." I was scared, how could he do that?
"Everyone except me then, why is it such a big deal?" Matt was clueless.
"Get Aro." Jane said to Shaun
"Ok—"
"No need, I am already here." Aro entered the room with Marcus, Caius, Edward, Bella and Carlisle, "it is also the end of your War training(that's what he calls it ;))) And we're starting" He smiled at me, "I advise you to stay." That wasn't an advise, that was an order. I understood that, so did everyone.
"Maybe he's immune to me?" I had a theory
"Order him to do something" Aro offered, I smiled. I loved using that power, it made me feel powerful, ok, I know. Wrong.
I smiled, mischievously, "SIT" one word, and he sat down on the floor
"How are you? –are you like me?"He said, dumb founded.
"No. we're different. Now, please, STOP TALKING, it's pretty annoying." Then for an instant he didn't talk. I was giggling, I felt good.
"That can be useful." Alice laughed, Matt had a ha-ha-ha-very-funny face on.
"Stop playing with the boy Kali." Aro said, everyone was amused.
"Sorry." I snapped, and he was back. I knew he was gonna use his puppet master skill on me so I turned on my so called shield where nobody can use his power around me.
"Now, why cant I—"
"Shield. Once your in a perimeter, You cannot use your power." I gloated, ok I'm a little boastful.
"What else?!?" Matt said, it was a rhetorical question.
"She can move things with her mind and she can control the 5 elements." Demetri said, gloating with me.
"Your daughter is very talented." Carlisle said to Aro.
"And obnoxious." Matt muttered.
"You're just jealous." I taunted, why am I acting like this? I do not usually act this way. What the heck am I feeling! Or am I just like this to new people…that actually know I'm alive. Maybe that's it, I hope that's it.
"Now, stop teasing the boy Kali. Lets get to work" Aro said, as he gestured me to the center of the circle. We usually went outside, but now we couldn't.
"Yah, You can throw whatever at me, I don't get hurt easily" he scowled the last 5 words as if he were saying it to Matt, "Unlike some people" he was saying it to matt. Well, he did get hurt after one hit from me.
"You sure? What if I threw Deo at you?"
"Sure, I'm sure. Unless Deo's not up to it."
"Flying? And a chance to crush Di!" Deo said by my side, looking as ready as ever.
I instantly sent him floating, but before I could send him flying—
"Stop acting like a couple children!" Caius said, more of scolding.
"Oh sure, Cause you don't act like I'm one." Sarcasm was known for my language, "Not that I'm that mature, I'm really child-like."
"Not now, later. Caius and I have decided to switch schedules for today." Aro said, a sudden change of mind.
"Oh." Aro pressed a button and chairs, couches, tables and more. Computers and a big plasma television, wall moved and got replaced into a huge shelf of books, and a board was also at the wall.
"Can I start with the question as to what the monster that attacked me was?" I wanted to ask, it should have a name.
"It's a fenrir." Aro said as a matter of factly
"Fenrir Greyback? Like harry potter, isn't he a werewolf? And a very evil powerful werewolf." I like Harry Potter, I'm a Harry Potter Nerd.
"No, It's a creature of Norse Myth, A big wolf monster, It has been said that he stronger than all the gods." Caius said as he took a seat at one of the couches, everyone was seated, so I seated at the now carpeted floor.
"So your saying, Greek Myths are real?" I've had only a couple of lessons about them, I mean, I knew what they were but not thoroughly.
"Some." Caius said, "Get the big book of Mythology on the 10th shelf." I got to work, got it, it was big and really really big.
"Look closely." Caius said, I stood up and looked at what he was doing, there were
"It's a book." I pointed out.
"Give me the necklace that Aro, Marcus and I have given you." I quickly got the necklace with a jewel, the Aquamarine. And I noticed the book had the 12 birth stones, except the 3rd one, March, the year I have been born. Caius placed my necklace onto the missing stone and the book opened. It had some sort of hologram, of a map.
"WOW! That is soooo totally awesome!" I said, gaping at the hologram.
"That is air, East." He pointed out the land of the 1st element, air, "That one in the south, is fire." He pointed it out with his index finger the 2nd element, fire. "In the west, is Water" The 3rd Element, "And to the north is Earth" The 4rth Element, "And your Element, is Spirit, the one at the middle, it is the one that binds all four elements."
"Wow. I'm guessing each of them has a little twist." It usually was.
"Let's look at air" He touched/pressed the eastern land, Air, and the page moved, and a picture of a form of land, floating n the skies. "Air, floats up in the skies. It is ruled by one of your uncle—"
"Wait. I thought I had an uncle…evil? And Only One." I'm just saying what they told me.
"No. Your not really related but your kind of related by heart, by mind and soul. Except that now, your real uncle slash brother of your father has isolated the spirit element. Spirit has been transformed into evil." Caius explained.
"Why didn't you just tell me, you hid it from me for about the whole time I've been here with you. I could've made things easier, helped them. I could've fought evil, now you tell me because of that Fenrir of a monster, will you even fight because you want to go back to the land, our land, I understand how you want to keep me safe, but I need to save the elements, I feel like I'm born to do this, I would feel utterly bad if I just let evil take over." Aro started clapping his hands which was totally out of the moment.
"So much like your father." Aro said, I looked at him, he beamed. Marcus was nodding with him.
"What was he like?" Aro looked at me, calming comforting eyes, "my father? What was he like?" I repeated the question.
"Much like you. Passionate, a good leader, very intelligent, full wisdom. Everyone seeks his opinion." He smiled at me, "Your mother, she was beautiful, Like you. Caring and loving" I smiled at him, "Both of them loved you dearly, don't forget that, We all love you, and care for you. We just want you to be safe." He said to me, he was by my side.
"Ok, papa, I get it, I'll put it this way, I get kidnapped, Wont you do anything to get me back?" he nodded. "Then, I'll do anything to get back what was rightfully given to me, My mother and father died trying to save not only me but the elements, and I am willing to die, I am just finishing what they started." I said.
"Yet another trait from your parents, you are stubborn" Aro had his arms crossed.
"I don't think their the only one's I got it from, Aro." I smiled smugly to him. We jlaughed.
"Aro, You transform into a different man when your with Kali." Carlisle said laughing.
"Off course he is, he loves me…." I thought "Or….he's just using me and he's just acting like that." I joked. Aro looked hurt. "Oh c'mon Papa, I was kidding! You know I love you! I would've left by now if I didn't!" I said, putting my arm around him, I was kidding, off course, that's my nature but sometimes I go too far, like always.
"Ok, ok, ok let's continue. Air, they are symbolized by colors." Aro said, he continued the lecture with Caius, "The 12 colors of the wind."
"A little Pocahontas much?" It sounds like the song from Pocahontas doesn't it.
"Kali, please, no interruptions." Aro scolded, but he scolds nicely, it didn't even sound like a scold, "ok, so Air is mostly described as the 12 colors of the wind, yellow for joy, white for purity, red for courage, blue for integrity, violet for faith, orange for strength, green for selflessness, indigo for sincerity, gold for wisdom, dark blue for modesty, silver for intelligence and pink for love" the last one was funny, it was too funny, I laughed, "why are you laughing, Kali."
"You just said pink." I said in between breaths of laughter.
"Kali, c'mon!" Caius said, now
he could scold, "Listen. Now lets look at Fire" He said, as the
page flipped "Fire, has animals, the 12 animals of heat.
Tiger
for strength, Mouse for courage, Dragon for wisdom, Ox for modesty,
Monkey for joy, Pig for love, Rabbit for intelligence, Dog for faith,
Snake for sincerity, Sheep for purity, Rooster for integrity, Goat
for selflessness" Caius said.
"Isn't that the Chinese calendar or something???" I said, it was the years….
"The Water has the 12 sons and daughters of the sea, which are Winifred for joy, Lily for purity, Devlin for courage, Fargo for integrity, Clemence for faith, Bryant for strength, Simon for selflessness, Sencere for sincerity, Ethan for wisdom, Rebecca for modesty, Eleanor for intelligence and Adonis for love." Caius said.
"Adonis? A guys name? why wont it be a girls, love….that's a girl thing, love."I'm not being gender thing but….I've always figured love as a girl thing.
"Shakespeare is a man" A voice from the back, uhggg…it's that boy again, Matt.
"Unfortunately he was rumoured to be gay." That was true, I read an article about it.
"It's just a rumor and he's still a man." He argued, he was technically right.
"Oh just shut up!" I glared at him for a moment, he was smiling, smugly off course ,but still! The nerve! "Please continue" I looked back to Caius and Aro.
"The earth has the beautiful flowers of the land, 12. We have the Carnation for joy, Violet for sincerity, Daffodil for courage, Daisy for purity, lily of the valley for Love, Rose for strength, Larkspur for integrity, Gladiolus for selflessness, Aster for faith, Calendula for wisdom, Chrysanthemum for intelligence, Poinsettia for modesty. "
"My flower's a Daffodil." I blurted out, I loved flowers, especially daffodil, it's pretty and yellow.
"Yet you look like an orchid" Demetri said. I thought we were friends again, nothing more or less. Uhg. I rolled my eyes at him. Since the others came it's been like that, even though the Olympiads have been here for like a few hours. But it's been annoying.
"Then what's a weed like you flirting with a orchid?" I snapped. I know that was bad, but I warned him that I would be harsh.
"Maybe if the orchid would kiss the weed, it'll become a handsome rose." Oh good lord, annoying. I turned away from him, took some calming breathes.
"Do you really want to replay what happened the last time you ticked me off." I stood up, rage and anger in my eyes.
"What happened?" He teased, I got pissed. I pinned him to the wall. Not only with my own strength which he could've fought off easily. Off coarse she used her magic powers on him.(magic powers, that sounded funny heehee)
"Bugger off!" I spat at him, "stop showing off to the guest, I bet they already know you're that annoying. Or you'll be getting it from me. Please, don't do this again if you want to at least be my friend, you better straighten your self up." I warned, well…I was pissed. Who wouldn't be.
"Anger issues." Matt whispered to the big one, Emmett.
"You don't want to mess with me, Right now!" I was enraged….too enraged. I noticed that books were starting to fly around me.
"Kali, calm down…." Aro said, from the side, "focus, breathe. Demetri will not do that anymore…..will you?" He glanced at Demetri, who looked fumbled.
"No. I wont." His voice was soothing. Never thought that his voice could be kind. How can he speak like that. It was attractive—Why am I speaking like this, this is wrong. I don't like Demetri, I think he's annoying and obnoxious.
"Kali, I'm your friend, nothing more nothing less." Was Demetri under a spell? But I do miss When we were friends. Like Brother and Sister. I waved my hand and the books went back to its place in the shelf.
"That is why you don't want to piss me off." I directed what I said to Matt. I'm gonna call him Matthew by now, it might be long…but I guess….were not…like…friends or such…nor were we enemies…..frenemies. that's a good word.
"Ok, Kali. One more element, your element." Aro started.
"They have the stones. Like my necklace. " it was in the book, the front page at least.
"Very good. The 12 spirit stones. Garnet for joy, Amethyst for sincerity, Aquamarine for courage, Crystal for purity, Emerald for love, Pearl for strength, Ruby for integrity, Peridot for selflessness, Sapphire for faith, Opal for wisdom, Topaz for intelligence, Turquoise for modesty." Aro said. The other normal stuff was explained to me the past few days. This was I think…..I hope the last thing.
"Aro, can I ask you something?" I was really curious about something. Aro nodded, "Evil. Spirit. The element Spirit now, there are more evils about it. What are the different evils? Demons? Monsters? Other than Fenrir." Aro took a breathe. He smiled, not the normal smile, a painful smile. He didn't want me to know, or rather to tell me about this subject.
"Your uncle, that's for sure. Oh and your cousins, 3 of them. The Gorgons as known to human ears. Stheno, Euryale and Medusa."
"Aren't they daughters of the sea god and sister slash wife Ceto." I remembered that from one of my study sessions.
"Ceto deceived her brother and went to your uncle." Aro said. "And that's how Water got mad at Spirit."
"so……are they part of daughter and sons of the sea or they're different. Different mother or something. Not a relative I hope. Speaking of… don't the 3 Gorgons have 3 sisters…..uhmmm…the Graeae…Enyo, Pehphredo and Deino." I felt smart. [heehee]. Caius smiled at me. At least he wont nag about me not listening.
"Very good. Those three, are your real cousins. The daughter of your uncle and Ceto." Aro explained, he seemed to also be pretty amazed at what I know. Gosh, I'm not stupid.
"I'm starting to think that my father is Zeus and my uncle is Hades. And I'm suppose to be Hercules. I'd rather be the girl Hercules' saves. Oh! Is there a Pegasus?" I loved Pegasus and the whole flying horse concept.
"Yes. But those creatures are managed by air." Caius said.
It was pretty much boring, just teaching stuff. And it surfaced late night. And we were in the middle of a break(waiting for the mentors). Nessie and I were getting along pretty well, actually the only one who I wasn't getting along with was Matt, and he was one of the people who was staying. What a luck! On one side were my Olympiad friends(except Bella, Carlisle, Edward, Esme, Rosalie)(the others were talking and watching tv, in the lounge[the better lounge] with TV and everything, Jasper and Emmett were at the xbox.) on the other my Volturi friends, There was as if an invisible line. I was smack right in the middle, on the couch. Jacob and Nessie beside me on one side and Jane and Alex beside me on the other. Alice was watching Jasper and Emmett on the love seat, and so was Matt seated on the rug right infront of the table, which was infront of the couch. Nate and Violette were by the corner snuggling. And leaning on the couch was Demetri. Amadeus and Shaun were sitting beside Demetri and Chelsea was leaning against the wall.
"So, what's it like drinking human blood?" Jacob asked.
"Jake, what color is her eyes?" Nessie asked with an as-a-matter-of-fact tone.
"Gold—but I don't see the relation—"
"Jake, vampires who eat human blood have red eyes, and vampires who don't have golden" Alice said, she said as if he were stupid, but that was a stupid question maybe, for a vampire but for a werewolf…maybe it was hard.
"Ok. No need to make me seem stupid or anything" Jake said, he seemed hurt. I was about to say something when
"Awe! Jakey have booboo……Nessie will kiss and make better!" Nessie said, as they kissed.
"Aww! You guys are so cute!" I said, at the same as when Matt said, "you guys are so gross" We looked at each other, more like glared.
"You're just heartless!" I flickered my eyes away, from his, before I strangle him, "What his problem anyway?" I asked Nessie. Nessie just shrugged.
"Because I am a realist, now you you're stuck in your fantasy. How can you ever rule when you're like that! You can't rule with your fantasies! That's just plain stupid!" He said—he called me stupid. I don't think anyone has ever called me that. Everyone had stopped what they were doing. What happened next was expected, Demetri stood up, and his muscles were tense. I stood up with him, stopping him, having a firm grip on his arm.
"Demetri, calm down, He's not worth it. Don't do this. He's not worth it." I whispered, I looked around, Matt had stood up, Emmett and Jasper was watching seeing if the tension. I thought Jasper can make things calm, maybe he was surprised. I saw the Voturi's side, they were watching as to what would happened next. But they seemed hurt. It was that if you call one stupid, you call the rest thing.
A coven thing, they clearly didn't like Matt doing what he was doing.
"NOT WORTH IT?!?!?! I'm the most worthy guy here! I know you want to! I can control every part of her body, you don't want me to do that, don't you?" Matt was actually taunting Demetri…The next thing I know Demetri was lunging for Matt's throat, Alex and the others had him down next. Jasper had worked his thing because I saw everyone calmer.
The old mahogany door of the lounge room of the court/dungeon opened, "what is happening here?!?" Marcus said, his voice raised, angry. The scene he saw was Alex and Amadeus and Shaun trying to hold Demetri down. Emmett and Jacob and Nate holding Matt down, everyone was on their feet. And I guess I was pretty much in the middle.
"There shall be no fighting in this household" Aro had voiced out, he was in the middle, he was walking—no gliding to me, the power of his voice, the authority was enough to make everyone stand.
"That jerk called Kali, your Kali, our Kali," your Kali, our Kali I never would've felt more accepted when he said that, my family. And I being the little girl, the youngest, everyone seemed to mistake me for a fragile girl, easily hurt, spoiled(I have to agree with that), and the most caring, loving and understanding, "he called her stupid"
"Demetri, I am stupid" Everyone looked at me, surprise taken over their faces, "I must admit I am, everyone has a little stupid in them, for a fact I know that your stupid because you let him make you one." I put my hand in his shoulder tapping it some times. I went to Matt, who was standing, "and I know you're stupid because you think everyone around you more stupid than you. I can tell you Einstein's theory of relativity, I can tell you the whole numbers of pie, I tell you the periodic table but I can't tell you how get your life straight and start treating people with more respect, because my life isn't straight, your right I do live in my fantasy but it broadens my mind to more possibilities. You just have your mind closed maybe that's why you're such a scrooge." I smiled and went back to my original position.
"Dayum! She told you!" laughter broke from the Olympiad's side, Emmett was laughing. But it died soon enough.
"Settle down, the mentors are to come in 30 minutes." Aro lastly said, and he left with Marcus, Caius and Carlisle. Esme, Edward and Bella and Rosalie stayed. Everyone had relaxed. Alice began to giggle. We looked at her; she and Edward were having some weird conversation. Edward looked amused too.
"Di. Why don't you go to the wii and release your energy at boxing Deo of the ring." I offered, Demetri stood up and so did Deo and they head to the other game station, the wii station.
"I swear these two are stressing. What's the matter with them!?" I said as I sat in between Nessie and Jane.
"Maybe he's just jealous" both of them said at surprisingly the same time. They looked at each other and giggled. Matt and Demetri were looking at each, glaring. Demetri was mad; Deo was getting crushed at the wii.
"Funny, girls, very funny." I shook my head in disagreement.
"So, what do you guys do here?" Nessie asked, she looked bored.
"Uhmmm…." I sighed, "You know, this and that, I usually bug everyone…but I cant…everyone has something to do..so..yeah…"
