Well, here it is, my Lovelies, chapter 6 of TATT: Mostly, it consists of explanations and Dragon talking. Sorry, I know it's kind of boring, but it's 100% necessary to the plot. Also, I feel like after this chapter, you guys will be very aware of my personal opinion on Edward, but even if not, I'll explain it at the end, because I wouldn't be me without the super long ANs.
ForgetEverything,I'mOnARoleTonight!
Still Renesmee's POV...
"Well, let's be honest, you guys have probably more than realised by now that we're not human." Dragon stated from the ground as she nibbled on her cookie.
"Thank you captain obvious." Mizu muttered sarcastically.
"We had an idea." Edward murmered, "We just don't know what exactly the two of you are."
"Right to the point then, eh? We'll here goes. Have any of you ever read the book 'Angels and Demons'?" All across the room eyes widened, and my own definitely mirrored them. Next to me, Mizu put a hand over her eyes, muttering "Oh dear God" under her breath. No one moved, except for Dragon, who continued to nibble at her cookie for a few seconds until she apparently realised that no one was going to reply.
"No, seriously, have any of you ever read that book?" She asked again. All of them slowly nodded except for Emmett.
"Well, good for you guys, because I haven't. And yeah, it's exactly what you're thinking." She grinned at the room, waiting for someone to get over the shock.
"Wait, so you're... a demon? And she's an angel?" Carlisle was the first one to recover in any amount.
"Ha, I like how you automatically assume that I'm the demon and she's the angel. If you weren't, er... partially right, I would be completely offended!" She didn't look offended one tiny bit. Actually, she looked more amused at our lack of action than anything else.
"So, I guess since you're twins, you must be, what, half of each..?" Jasper tried. Dragon smirked ans 'tsk'ed at him.
"Just as close, but no cigar." Emmett, went to say something, but Dragon held up a hand before he could even open his mouth. "Do you really want to sit here and guess until someone figures it out, or do you want me to just explain it to you. I'll take that as a yes." She didn't let any speak before... Wait, she'll take that as a yes? It wasn't a yes or no question, it was a... multiple choice, I guess.
"That doesn't make sense, Dragon." Mizu informed her sister, one arm still over her eyes, to which her twin replied, "Your Mom doesn't make sense.", "She's your mother too.", "Can you just let me finish my story before someone's head explodes?", "Whatever." And then the story continued.
"Okay, so our dad was an angel and out mom was a demon. But, she wasn't, you know, and evil demon, at least not anymore. If you're familiar with the Christian Bible, she's basically the opposite of Lucifer. He fell down from Heaven, she fell... Up out of Hell. They met, fell in love, even though some of his brothers and sisters weren't so happy about it, and eventually they got married and, as tends to happen in marriage, she wound up pregnant.
Well, they were pretty happy about that. They got their small, quaint little house on earth ready for a baby, set up a nursery, you know, things like that. Until, one day, they went to a doctor, and found out that it was not going to be just one baby, but two! Being the awesome, loving, wonderful people that they were, they were super excited and started making the preparations for two babies, instead of just one. However, trouble was brewing somewhere about their heads, figuratively. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, or, meanwhile, back in heaven, some of his much less understanding siblings had heard the news, and, after doing some research, were overjoyed at the news too, but for totally different reasons.
You see, with only one baby, there was nothing they could do. It would be a halfling, and since it would be half angel, as well as half demon, they couldn't harm it until it was grown. The second one changed everything. Apparently, there is a ritual that some of the older angels know. The ritual, or spell, whatever you want to call it, is basically made for this specifical situation. What the spell does, is it kind of... transfers half of the babies DNAs to the other one. Basically, if the spell had worked completely, It would have taken all of the angel out of me and all the demon out of her and put it in the other. She would have been a full angel, and I would have been a full demon. There's no law against killing demon babies, and they would have another full blooded angel, so their "foolish little brother" wouldn't have further poluted the angel gene pool, or whatever.
Problem for them is, they had to have both my mother and several hours alone with her to do the ritual. They did manage to kidnap my mother, right out of the nursery that she and my father had worked so hard to make for us, but their problem was they didn't hide very well, so, halfway through the ritual, my father bursts through the door, fiery angel swords blazing, with a few trusted allies of course, and he puts a stop to it immediately.
However, sadly for us and for our parents, it's not an all or nothing type deal, but rather, it's more of a however much percentage of time you spend on the spell, that's basically how much gets transfered. Now, we're not 100% on the actual percentages, hehe, it was a joke, feel free to laugh, but we've kind of figured out that the ritual was about halfway through. So, we're about halfway between half and half. Because I was "younger" one, out of the two of us, and in general life hates me, I was the one that they were going to make a full demon and then kill, and Mizu was going to be the full angel, which should explain to you all why I am a thousand times more than Miss Plays-By-The-Rules back there, and- Mmf!" And Dragon's story was abruptly ended my the hand covering her mouth.
"Alright, they get it, that's enough out of you." Mizu abruptly jerked her hand away, "Ew, don't lick me."
"Don't put your hand near my mouth and it won't be a problem.
"... That was a long story, but it didn't exactly explain what happened this morning." I didn't realise that I had actually said that out loud until the two, as one, turned to look at me.
"She has a point there, Dragon." Mizu said, suddenly nervous.
"Well, I was getting there, except someone decided to interupt me. But that's probably for the best, after all, you can probably explain it better than I can." Dragon replied with a sickening amount of sweetness.
"Thanks a lot.", "I know, you're lucky to have me." Mizu just sighed, turning back to me.
"Well, okay, here's the thing. So, Angels sort of have this things, where... Basically, it's the human concept of a "one true soul-mate", except it's a lot more tangible.
"What?" My dad's voice interupted, except he was ignored.
"So, basically, the second we met, that connection was made, and now, we're kind of bound together for life no matter what we do. If we develop it, eventually our bond will be like my bond with Dragon, except it will be stronger." Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... What? Mates? Connections? Bonds? Do I even have a choice in this? I don't... I just don't even know...
"So you're basically telling me that my daughter no longer has any sort of choice in who she falls in love with." My father's voice was cold and dangerous in way that I hadn't heard since I was much younger, when the Volturi had come. It was impossible to ignore.
"Not... exactly...?" Mizu stumbled over her words, obviously thrown off by the assumption, and I wasn't sure if it was because she hadn't thought of that, or because she had. My father's glare intensified by a hundred, which really said something, and I was a little worried that he was about to jump up and do something that I could never forgive him for. Luckily, Dragon intervened.
"In theory, she does. If she really wanted too, she could tell Mizu to get the hell away from her and she would have to leave. We would go, and we would be gone forever, and you could go back to your normal lives, in theory. However, if that has ever happened before, and this is something that has happened literally millions of times or more since humans were created, and there has never been a recorded incident of that happening. As I said, it's a much more literal version of Soul Mates. While Renesmee could, and has every right right to, just tell us to get the hell out of Forks, neither your daughter nor my sister would ever be the same. It may not be a physical connection, but it's about as good as one. She'll hurt without Mizu here, and even if she tries to deny it, she'll wish with every fiber of her being that she was here, and Mizu will be a hundred times worse off than her, though I suppose that doesn't mean much to you? So, in theory, she could reject my sister and try to go on with her life, but, let's be honest, it wouldn't be much of a life, constantly being miserable because she chose to deny herself what she wanted most. So, really, if she wants to be truly happy again, no, she doesn't have much of a choice, and it's exactly the same for Mizu. It's stupid and takes away the right to pick your own lover that everyone should have. It sucks, but that's how it is." Dragon finished bitterly, eyes trained on my father, assessing his reaction.
It was then that I suddenly realised that, hey, wait, they were talking about me. This was my future that they were talking about. I was Mizu's... Soul mate..? The thought made me turn to look at her, at the very moment that she turned to look at me. Our eyes locked and that same feeling that I had first experienced this morning, and all throughout the day, the feeling that I could look at her, just look into her eyes, forever and not get bored. The instant connection, it was more than just attraction, it was something much deeper than that, something that I had no control of. I guess I should have been angry at the fact that I basically had no choice now, it was her or nothing, but, honestly, I wasn't. I know that less than a day is really too early to judge, but I knew, I just knew that, to spend the rest of my life with her, I would be the luckiest girl alive. No one else could compare to her now, and I understood why Dragon had used the term "in theory" rather than an absolute yes. I couldn't even begin to imagine why anyone would think this a bad thing.
I was so completely focused on her that I completely forgot about everyone else in the room. All I could see were her gorgeous purple eyes and her hand, which was slowly inching it's way towards my own. I went to just grab her hesitant hand, when reality, also known as my father, came crashing back down on us.
"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER!" I immediately knew that it was my father, though I had never heard him shout in that manner before, to anyone. My head jerked around to face him, and I saw that he was standing up, his stance obviously threatening, snarling more viciously than I had ever thought possible at Mizu. Dragon reacted immediately, jumping up and placing herself directly between my mate and my father. My father redirected his attention to the standing twin.
"Edward, don't do this." Dragon started slowly after seeing that all of the other were in too much shock to actually do anything right now. "You'll only hurt Renesmee. If one mate is hurt, the other feels-" It was definitely the wrong thing to say.
"STOP CALLING THEM MATES!" My father roared, and I knew that he would have lunged at her, attacked, had his cell phone not rung at that exact second. The entire room froze at the sound... Though I suppose that "the entire room" that froze right then consisted of my father and Dragon, because everyone else was already motionless.
There were really only two people who weren't in the house currently that ever call any of us. My mother, or Alice. Judging by the timing, it was probably Alice. The phone rang for several seconds before my father slowly straightened up from his previously coiled position, and slid the vibrating device out of his pocket. Dragon, followed his movements, stiffly, but she still relaxed. That, more than anything brought me out of my shock, and I sagged against the couch, the gravity of what he intended to do finally hitting me.
He was going to hurt her. He was going to hurt, maybe even kill, my mate.
"...Hello..?" He mumbled into the phone. There was a small silence on the other end, before the soft, melodical voice of Alice drifted out of the phone, audible to the entire room.
"Edward... Nothing you have ever done or will ever do could ever compare to the regret and the remorse you would feel if you had gone through with it." She gave no explanation to her cryptic message, nor did she wait for him to reply. The beeping of an ended call echoed throughout the silent room. My dad slowly flipped the phone closed, and without a word, stormed out through the front door and took off into the woods. As soon as he was out of the room, Dragon slumped over slightly, before sliding to the floor in a slow but easy motion.
"Sorry." The two girls said at the same time, Dragon staring blankly down at the white carpet. Mizu, however, turned and gazed directly at me as she spoke.
"Don't... don't worry about it. It's not like you chose for it to happen and... I think my dad is a lot more upset about it than I am." I replied.
"Yeah, no kidding." Dragon muttered to herself under her breath. Mizu rolled her eyes and reached forward, flicking the back of her sister's head, rather than the usual smack. Dragon reacted exactly the same though.
"OW!" She yelped dramatically, shooting up and holding the back of her head like she needed to stop the bleeding from a gaping wound. She turned to my family, "Do you see how she treats me? Did anyone else see that?" She whined to my family. I physically felt the tension leave the room through the still open front door. Of course, it wasn't totally gone, but between my dear sweet uncle Emmett and my mate's sister, it wouldn't last much longer.
"Nope, sorry small fry, didn't see a thing." Emmett teased.
But- B-Bu- But" She stared wide eyed at Emmett, making her lips tremble in an obvious manner. When he, and then everyone else that she gazed around to room at, begging for pity, only raised an eyebrow, she slumped and walked like a zombie to the closest corner of the room that wasn't made of glass and stared at the wall for a minute before she dramatically collapsed onto her knees and hunched over, letting out sniffling sounds every few seconds. I let myself be the first to laugh, but I wasn't the last. Even Dragon's shoulders were shaking from her laughing, though she was trying very hard to hide it. Of course, after the laughter died down, no one knew what to say for several minutes.
"This... Is awkward." Dragon broke the silence bluntly. I agreed.
"Well..." I guess this is something that you two need to talk about. Alone." Esme nodded to my couch partner and I. Dragon quickly turned around in her corner, though she stayed seated. She and her twin made eye contact for a few seconds, before Dragon slowly nodded.
"Yeah... I suppose they do." She agreed hesitantly. "But then, where can they go here to have legitimate privacy?" Good point...
"We could take a walk in the woods or something." I offered, though I noticed that Dragon tensed visibly for a second when I suggested it before she forcibly relaxed.
"Works for me." Mizu shrugged, standing up from the couch. I followed her lead.
"Aaaaaaaaand I guess this means I'll go wait awkwardly in the car." Dragon rose off of the floor and stretched.
"*Antisocial*." Mizu coughed obviously. Dragon faked a cough, said clearly and loudly, "You're so subtle." And then faked another weak cough.
"Nonsense! You can come sit in the kitchen with me and help me cook dinner. I can never tell if it's burnt or not."
"Yeah, there's an idea Esme, or we can trust Bella and Jessica to have not been lying when they both said that you were a great cook and she can come play DOA with me and not die of bordom." Emmett offered.
"DOA? That wouldn't by any chance be the fifth one, would it?" Dragon perked up.
"You know it is small fry! Come on, I've been getting bored with beating Jasper all the time, I wanna see how many times I can kick your ass before those two get back from their little nature walk!" Emmett boomed, and rushed for the TV, trying to get the XBox to turn on faster.
"Emmett, language!" Esme chided in exasperation and she turned around and glided into the kitchen.
"Oh man, it is so freaking on!" Dragon exclaimed. "Alright well, what are you two waiting for, get out of here so I can see how much they screwed up the controls and still beat the crap out of that lug. Go on!" She shoo'ed us out the door before seeming to completely lose interest in everything that didn't have a control or ninjas.
"That's my sister." Dragon laughed sheepishly, "Honestly, I really hope she wins, I don't want to have to listen to her go on and on about what a "cheater" he was all night."
"Oh, it's the exact same thing for me, but I think Emmett is worse. Besides... er, do you guys sleep."
"Yes, yes we do."
"Good, well then, at least she has to sleep tonight. Imagine having to listen to it literally 24/7." She smirked.
"You know, while that does seem bad, I think that you might be underestimating Dragon. If people got paid for professional whining, she would be a world famous billionare."
Meanwhile,BackAtTheCullen'sHouse
"Oh my god, I forgot how much I love this game!"
"And how long has it been since you last played that?
"Um, about two years. I think... That's right Emmett, feel the shame, bask in it. Get used to it."
AndBackToTheSeriousness
"So... do you actually want to try it?" Mizu suddenly asked.
"Try what."
"You know... this. This whole mates thing. Do you actually want to try it?" I smiled, a little bit bitterly.
"Do I really have choice?" I rushed onwards when she winced and looked away, "I don't really think that it's a bad thing. I mean, there's no romance in my life to speak of already, you're really not messing anything up. I actually think that the biggest problem might be my dad, I don't really mind. I'm not mad at you either, you had no more choice I did. And besides, I was kind of getting to that point in my life where I was starting to hope someone would come along, so who better than my actual soul mate, right?" I gave her a cheesy grin, which she returned.
I didn't hesitate to reach over and take her hand as we continued walking, and I was glad when she didn't move away in the slightest.
AndAfterTheirSweetLittleWood landWalk,ThisIsWhatTheyCameBackTo
"Fucking cheater! You are not allowed to use Jann Lee anymore!"
"What?! You've literally used Ayane this entire time!"
"Yeah, but I've lost with Ayane! You have gone twelve matches with Jann Lee and not lost one,so you're caught up now, thus you are no longer allowed to use him, so there! Tell him Jasper!.
"Em, I think she's right. No more playing as Jann Lee."
"What?! But Jasper, you're supposed to be one my side. Fuck, no one likes me anymore!
"Both of you, watch you're language. I swear if I have to say it one more time, I will come up there and wash both of your mouthes out with soap, and don't think I won't just because you aren't my child Dragon!"
"Sorry Esme..."
"Sorry Esme..."
"... Haha, you got in trouble."
"So did you!"
"...Good point."
IReallyJustWantedToPutThatPo intlessDialogueInHereCuzIWas Bored
Well, there you go my lovelies. The reason I used DOA is because my sister just got DOA5 from gamefly and since she recently got the red ring of death, I'm now the only one in the house with a working XBox, so I spent a few hours today beating it. It was pretty short, and I honestly wasn't as happy with it as some of the earlier ones, but it was still a good game. Basically, same situation as Assassin's Creed 3- good game by itself, but nothing compared to AC2.
So, I've never really thought that Edward was quite, er... stable. Could you tell? Lol, anyway, I'll won't Edward bash, since I'm already avoiding Bella bashing, but he's basically going to be a mix of how I see him and how SM probably wants us to see him.
Not sure when this is actually going to get posted. Also not sure what I'm going to do for the next chapter. So, it took me six chapters to go through just one day. Don't expect that to happen frequently, if it ever happens again. At the very least, the next week is going to be a blur, b/c I still want Alice/Dragon to be the main paring, so I don't want to spend too terribly much time on them, so until Alice and Bella come back from their "trip" the chapters will probably be one day per chapter, or it might be one or two days per chapter, just depends. Anyways, hope you enjoyed it, my lovelies, and I'll see you in the chapter of whatever you go and read next.