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A/N: Sorry for the long update -I'm in another country right now and my laptop doesn't provide Microsoft, so I can't finish chapter 3... But I can start chapter 4! Sorry if there's a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes -no spell check! Any way, enjoy and please review!
Jasper and Emmett told their family and friends about the unicorn as soon as they arrived back into the town.
"A Unicorn?" Carlisle repeated, mystified, "I think you should stay away from them, if you ever see one again. The animals could possibly be mutated... I saw a very strange looking man in the Three Broomsticks today..."
"aw, c'mon!" Emmett protested.
"I can't force you to do anything, Emmett. But I strongly advise..."
Everyone in the Cullen clan obeyed what Carlisle said, for it was both reasonable and wise. But Jasper was secretly thinking about another trip into the Forbidden Forest; although Emmett hadn't tasted the Unicorn's blood, he had, and he wanted more...soon.
Edward heard what Jasper had thought and Alice had a vision of Jasper returning to the forest. They both looked at Jasper and he hastily turned away.
Renesmee pressed her hand excitedly to Jacob's cheek; can I see a the unicorn?
"Of course you can," Jacob said immediately, but Bella caught his eye and he added, "But later, Okay? Not today..."
"Jasper," Alice said, finding him wandering near the forest later that day, "Don't go back there to find another one."
Jasper did not say anything, continuing to gaze around at his surroundings.
Alice made a frustrated sound and said, "Did it honestly taste so good that you'll not listen to Carlisle?" she asked, "It was an herbivore, after all."
"Yes. It did taste good." Jasper said finally, excess venom filling his mouth with the thought of such a taste.
"I see you going back in tomorrow." Alice said, talking about the forest, "You should be full, so, it just points out that there's something REALLY wrong with that horse's blood. Don't go... Please?"
Jasper made a mistake of looking at her. Her head was cocked ever so slightly and her bottom lip jutted out a little in a small pout, "Please?" she asked again.
"Oh, fine." he agreed finally, if very much reluctantly.
"Thank you!" Alice said, smiling suddenly and kissing him lightly, "Let's go; Bella's taking Renesmee to the Shrieking Shack again..."
The next days past and Jasper thought less and less of the Unicorn, but there was still the idea of going back into the Forbidden Forest lingering in the back of his mind.
It was one night, about a week later that he decided to go. He had kept thinking different things to do later to keep Alice confused and kept his thought focused on other things around Edward.
Just as twilight was falling, Jasper slipped into the woods and searched around for another Unicorn. None were found -it was as if they were hiding -and just as he was turning to return to the village... he caught scent of two humans.
And they were unnaturally close. He hadn't realized their presence, having been so focused on the scent of the Unicorn. This was a first, he mused.
"What was that?" he heard two voices say as he moved away. One was sharp and the other rather dreamy.
So he had failed that night. But he would go back the next and the next if he had to. Jasper wanted to taste that silver blood on his tongue again. The thick, sweet taste that was so unlike a human's and then so like... well, it was hard to explain.
Jasper returned to his and Alice's room and found her sitting on the bed, giving him an I'm-very-disappointed look.
"I couldn't help it Alice!" Jasper blurted, wanting to defend himself.
"I believe you can. You just aren't trying Jasper! You want to 'not help yourself'. You want that mutated horse's blood again."
"It's not a mutated horse, Alice." Jasper said impatiently, "It's a Unicorn."
"Don't be silly-"
"Well we exist, don't we? And werewolves? And… the pack in La Push?"
"Yes, but Jazz, that's not… these are exceptions… it's not possible that all myths exist!" she said, becoming frustrated at her lack of explanation.
Jasper sat down next to Alice on the edge of the bed, "It could be." He said.
"But it's so-!" Alice stopped and shook her head, "Yes… it's possible, I guess." She looked into Jasper's eyes and sighed, seeing his determination set there.
"So you'll be going again tomorrow night?" Alice asked, seeing this in a vision.
"Yes."
"Take Renesmee." She suggested, smiling suddenly, "She'll love it."
The next night, Jasper, Renesmee, and, of course, Jacob traveled into the quiet of the forest to search for a unicorn.
Renesmee ran ahead with Jacob, looking around and sniffing daintily at the air. This night was luckier than the last; they found a smaller, silver horse with the same scent as the big white one Jasper had found before and Jacob quickly took it down for Renesmee, making a bit of a mess.
Although finding another unicorn was what Jasper had been wanting, he couldn't bring himself to drink the silver blood with Renesmee. In fact, he found that he didn't want it at all anymore, and that he was feeling odd. Not in the human-getting-sick-way, but sort of the way he knew Alice had felt when she was around Bella when she was pregnant with Renesmee… a sort of dimly buzzing head ache, except worse.
"Nessie! Don't drink it!" he said suddenly.
Renesmee looked up in surprise. She was torn between wanting to drink the rest of the silver substance and obeying Uncle Jasper.
Jacob the wolf suddenly gave a low growl. Everyone's attention focused on a sound a little bit away, of snapping twigs on the ground. They all backed up slowly –away from the small unicorn's body. Even with their excellent eyesight, they could see nothing except for three, strange, floating lights.
Jasper sniffed the air and smelled a mixture of human blood… and something else that he couldn't identify.
Suddenly they heard a young woman's voice, "There's nothing out here, Harry. I told you. Let's go ba- Argh!" she suddenly gasped, stepping into a little puddle of silver unicorn blood on the forest floor.
What?" a man's voice exclaimed, and one of the lights began waving around.
"Just something sticky-" the girl gasped and then said, "On the ground! Unicorn blood!"
Jasper unconsciously took Renesmee's hand and started moving farther back. So whoever these three lights were knew of Unicorns?
The three lights swooped down and Jasper heard a small thud of two heads colliding. The lights stayed near the ground, reflecting against the silver blood. The light that belonged to the man who had spoken moved around a bit and Jasper knew that the voice's owner had spotted the silver carcass of the Unicorn.
"Look!" the same man said. Suddenly, a man with messy dark hair and glasses appeared, "quick –we've got to tell somebody!" he said in an excited voice. He was holding a lighted stick at the Unicorn.
"How will we find this same place again?" another man's voice wondered from the man's left, a light pointing at him.
The third light was higher up, showing that the woman was no longer squatting down but had turned and… Jasper heard with horror as one of three heart beats quickened. He followed the light's path and saw Jacob slipping back into the dark. The invisible woman had seen him.
As the dark-haired young man started a suggestion of what they could do, the woman's voice squeaked, "um, guys? Sorry to sound so un-Gryffindor-like, but can we… get out of here?"
Yes, please do, Jasper thought, a small part of his mind wondering what a griffin-door was.
"Wha-? Why?" the man that was not visible said in worried and bewildered tones.
"I think I… saw something." The young woman's voice said.
The man with the glasses frowned, suggesting this was not her usual behavior.
"What was it?" the other boy said as Jasper heard them start to leave.
"A wolf, I think. But it was as big as a horse!" the woman replied as they hurried away, their footsteps becoming more distant.
Jasper let out a breath of relief and looked down at Renesmee who was still eyeing the silver unicorn lying on the forest ground. She looked at Jasper and he shook his head.
"That was close, Jacob." He told the wolf as they headed back to the village.
They were met outside the Three Broomsticks by all the others –Alice had seen a vision of the three floating lights.
Jasper could feel their worry and hastened to explain what had happened.
Edward frowned as the story progressed, both from what Jasper said and from the sick feeling he could 'hear' in Jasper's thoughts.
"Wait –they weren't human?" Bella asked as Jasper described how they smelled.
"Yes, I mean, they were," Jasper said impatiently, "but there was also this other smell. It's hard to describe. Something sort of like the horse's blood."
Carlisle, Edward, and Rosalie began to talk, and Seth looked to Jacob, who was changed back into human form, wearing shorts and a t-shirt. "So… they really saw you?" he wondered.
"Only the girl-voice." Jacob answered gruffly.
"Only the girl-voice." Seth repeated, raising his eyebrows
"Like Jasper said –they were invisible." Jacob said.
"You know," Bella said thoughtfully (having been listening in), "Is it possible it was a Unicorn? We exist, don't we?" she asked, waving at everyone
"The man we could see was holding a stick with a light near the tip, remember?" Renesmee said to Jacob, only speaking because she was just approaching them. She looked up at Jacob, waiting for an answer.
"Yeah…" he said slowly, "and the stick wasn't burning or anything."
Renesmee nodded excitedly, "it was magic!" she declared.
Seth eyed her wearily, about to say it didn't exist when Bella nodded and said, "Edward? Couldn't we ask any of the locals if they know anyone who matches the description?"
"I'll do it." Jacob said immediately, "We could go in a few hours once the shops open again for the morning."
"Tall, sort of skinny with black hair?" Jacob asked the Three Broomsticks bartender, Madame Rosmerta, "with glasses and a scar on his forehead? Probably lives up in the castle?"
"Why tha's Harry!" a really big man with bushy hair and a beard sitting at the counter said.
"Harry? Harry who?" Renesmee asked (she was with Jacob of course) him.
"Harry Potter!" the man said with a chuckle, "defeated You-Know-Who!"
"But I don't know who." Renesmee replied blankly.
The man laughed a little bit more and said, "Harry's stayin' fer his las' year at Hogwarts, of course."
"Um… Last year of what?" Jacob said.
Madame Rosmerta and the man looked at Jacob and Renesmee with an odd expression, "His last year of school." Madame Rosmerta explained.
"School for what? Is Hogwarts a boarding school?" Jacob asked politely.
"No, it's a school for Witchcraft and Wizardry –shouldn't you know that?"
A/N: Soooo sorry for the really big space between the update. And I didn't even write a lot! Anyway, that's the end of Ch. 4! If you people wanna see more of Harry Potter and Twilight combined, you're gonna have to give me motivation… in the form of REVIEWS! Moo hee hee!
