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Disclaimer:Any and all characters belong to Stephanie Meyer. I'm just borrowing them to play in a world were Alice and Bella are soulmates... :)
Heritage
In the previous episode...
"Bella offered Alice her blood, after we found out that the extensiveness of Alice's injuries could make her lose her arm if she didn't drink any blood in the next few minutes" Esme explained to Rosalie with a grateful voice.
I started to feel dizzy when I heard Carlisle speak, "Alice that's enough", and just like that the pain on my neck was gone, and the hand caressing my shoulder stopped it's movements only to clutch tightly to my fur. I opened my eyes and looked around; Esme was looking at me like I just told her I had the cure for cancer and could bring peace to the world while Carlisle and Rosalie looked at me with awe in their eyes. I turned my head to see how Alice was doing but she had a frown on her face, seemed to be holding her breath, and her eyes were closed. Just as the hand on my shoulder released it's tight hold on my fur Alice opened her eyes and I was met with the most beautiful ocean green eyes I've ever seen and a soft smile before I closed my eyes and passed out.
You know how when you are really tired and wake up before you're fully rested you are aware of what is happening around you but you can't seem to be able to open your eyes no matter how hard you try? Well that's exactly how I felt. I could feel myself being lifted into a pair of bulky arms before I felt the wind ruffle my fur. I could hear six pairs of footsteps, aside from the ones from the person carrying me, surround us. 'Aaaaaah the wind feels so good... I have to remember to buy a fan.'
"We'll go get one as soon as you feel better Bella" a sweet voice answered me. 'Aaaah I love that voice... I could listen to it for hours... Is like... A unicorn took me on a magical ride... To the land of blueberries... I love blueberries...' I could hear that same voice giggling before saying, "I'll keep that in mind"
Suddenly I felt like I was flying and then I felt myself being jostled in the arms that were carrying me. 'Aaaahhh! Mother fuuu...! My neck hurts like a bitch!' I thought with a little whine.
"Emmett! Be gentle! She just saved your sister's life!" A mother-like voice said.
"Sorry Mom. I'll be more careful" Emmett said with a child like voice.
Waaaay too soon for my liking the wind whipping around my face stopped and I was being lowered to a big soft and comfy surface, and the throbbing around my neck came back with a vengeance.
Somehow the pain made me think clearer, and I remembered everything that happened, exploding into a giant tiger, finding out that Alice is a vampire, running away from her, Alice being in trouble with those stinky wolves, some thing appearing above my head, fighting Rosalie, Alice's injuries, giving her my blood, the most beautiful ocean green eyes... Beautiful ocean green eyes... Alice.
"Carlisle what is that?" I heard Rosalie's voice say from somewhere in front of me.
"It's... her... blood?" Carlisle stated although it sounded more like question. 'What kind of doctor doesn't know what blood looks like?'
"Bella your blood it's... well, it's not like regular blood" Alice said. 'What do you mean by regular? How many kinds of blood are there?' I thought, knowing that Alice would hear me. "Chemically there are a few different kinds of blood, but yours is different physically, your blood is... like molten gold" Alice finished explaining.
'Great! Even my blood decided to be a freak.' I thought sullenly
"Stop Bella! You are not a freak. And if it wasn't for your blood I would probably be really dead by now. So shut up and let us take care of you" Alice said sternly. I simply covered my eyes with my paws and let out a little whine. "Carlisle?" she continued although now she sounded a little more... smug?
"I need to close the wound. It seems the bleeding has slowed down but i need to clean and close it before she loses anymore blood or she'll have to go to a hospital which I believe will not allow a giant snow white tiger in it's premises." Carlisle said, ever the doctor. "I'll go get the everything that I need." he finished before I heard him run off.
After about a minute of awkward silence where no one seemed to know how to react, except for Alice who took a seat by my head lifting it gently and putting it in her lap before beginning to stroke my fur gently mindful of my wound, Carlisle came back and I opened my eyes for the first time since arriving at the Cullen residence.
I was lying on a sofa on the Cullen's living room, which I had only had a peek of before I exploded, literally; it was really big and expensive looking with floor to ceiling windows on three sides which overlooked the forest, it must have been around four in the afternoon although it might as well have been seven, the endless clouds covering Forks making it hard to guess the time of day; and a wall that connected to what I assumed was the hallway that led to the staircase and the kitchen. Carlisle was kneeling in front of me with an old fashion looking doctor bag, while the rest of the Cullen's seemed to be extremely fascinated with my neck except for Esme, who somehow managed to look concerned and extremely grateful at the same time, and Alice, who was looking at me with something I couldn't quite put my finger on with those beautiful sea green eyes.
"Ok I'm going to clean the wound first with some water before putting an antiseptic, and bandaging it. It doesn't look like it'll need stitches."
'Well that's good. Finally things are starting to look up.' I thought with a sigh.
"I'm sorry Bella" Alice said, suddenly sounding very sad. I looked up at her and nudged her gently with my nose, not really caring that it hurt like a bitch, to let her know that it wasn't her fault.
"Okay Bella, I'm going to need you to lay back down" Carlisle said gently and I laid back down. Carlisle grabbed a cotton ball and dipped it lightly in a bowl filled with water before gently dabbing my neck with it; the water was refreshing and I felt tons better immediately I let out a long sigh and snuggled further into Alice's lap before I heard seven gasps. 'Aawwww not again... Now what?' I thought sullenly.
"Bella... the... your... your wound just... healed. As soon as your skin touched the water it closed; as if nothing had happened to you in the first place." Alice said with awe in her voice.
"Dude! That's badass! I wonder if you can heal broken bones with just water.." Emmett said, sounding like he wanted to try his theory sooner rather than later.
"Emmett don't you dare!" Rosalie thankfully saved me from being Emmett's experiment. "We don't even know WHAT she is!" Rosalie continued, and I forgot everything about being thankful to her.
Before anyone else could say anything else there was a knock on the door. My eyes snapped open and I saw seven vampires frozen to their spots.
"It's Chief Swan." Edward said while he furrowed his eyebrows.
"What does he want?" I heard Rosalie say.
"I... don't know. I can't hear anything from him. It's almost like he's not even there. If it wasn't for his scent I'd say there was nobody there." Edward continued with a baffled look.
"It doesn't matter what he wants! He can't come in here! Not while Bella is a giant cat!" Alice said with panic lacing her voice. As soon as she finished saying that Esme walked towards the door with Carlisle on her side.
Everyone on the room froze again as we heard them take the final steps towards the door, and the faint rush of air that came into the house as soon as the door was open.
"Hello Chief Swan! How may we help you this lovely evening?" Esme said with such a calm voice that if I didn't know any better I would have assumed that she had just been watching a romantic comedy.
"Hello Mrs. Cullen. I'm here to see Bella. I need to talk to her." Charlie said with a polite voice but there was something else under that, almost like he already knew what had happened, but that was impossible.
"Call me Esme please, Mrs. Cullen makes me feel incredibly old. And I'm afraid that Bella is not here anymore. She went home quite some time ago." Esme said managing to sound incredibly truthful.
"I'm sorry Esme but I know that she's here, so please step aside before this gets out of hand." Charlie said respectfully and... menacingly?
"I would appreciate it if you didn't talk to my wife like that again Chief Swan, and I'm afraid that I will not let you into my house after such an action" Carlisle said, somehow managing Charlie's attitude in our favor.
"And I'm afraid to tell you that I warned you and that I didn't want this to happen; however, I must talk to Bella." Charlie said, sounding slightly resigned, before we heard two gasps and a loud crashing sound.
At the sound of a pair of single footsteps approaching everyone turned to look at the entrance that connected the hallway to the living room. Everyone was expecting the same thing, Charlie walking through the entryway in his police uniform and maybe even his gun out, but what we saw was nowhere near that.
Standing before us was a man wearing an armor. He wore golden sandals, what seemed to be some kind of shin protection, and a golden back and breastplate held together by two leather straps on each side, and one on each shoulder; the front of his armor was one of those that have the muscles marked, and leather straps dangling from it forming some sort of skirt, and I seriously hoped that he was wearing some underwear because I really did not want to see his private parts. At his hips he had a leather belt that held what looked like a scabbard, and I was sure it held a deathly sword. The man had big defined muscles but they didn't look disgusting like a body builder's, it was more like someone had sculpted them, and he seemed to be... glowing? When I looked at his face I couldn't hold in the gasp that left my mouth. There standing in front of me was what looked like a very young and handsome Charlie. There was no blemish in his skin and he looked to be in his late twenties or early thirties, his prime years. His sea green eyes, almost the same shade as Alice's, looked concerned when he looked at me, narrowed slightly when he shifted his gaze towards Alice, and finally softened when he looked back towards me.
He kept walking towards me and that seemed to break the Cullen's out of their trance because Rosalie, Japer, and Emmett lunged at him while Edward took a defensive stance in front of Alice and I, and Alice turned so her body managed to be in between mine and... Charlie's?... while still managing to hold my head in her lap; however, before any of the Cullen's could reach him he lifted his right hand and they froze in their places, although you could still see and hear them struggling to free themselves of whatever was holding them in place. With another move of his hand Edward was on the other side of the room frozen like the others. Alice let out a warning growl but he never stopped approaching, although he didn't seem to want to do anything to Alice.
"Calm down child. I do not wish to remove you like I did the others." Charlie said, and his voice sounded different than usual. It was clearer and smoother, it sounded authoritative but gentle, it made my senses go crazy but it also soothed me. Alice seemed to calm down and leaned back allowing him a clear path towards me. 'What. The. Fuck? Is that Charlie?' was the only thing that I seemed capable of thinking.
"Yes Bella it is me. Or at least that is how you know me. Come Bella; we have many things to discuss and here is not the place." Charlie said, extending her hand towards me. "Forgive me child but you will not be able to go where we are going this time. This is something Bella needs to do alone." he told Alice, and surprisingly she seemed okay with letting me go, which was a little confusing if her previous attitude was anything to go by, slipping out from under me and going to stand besides the couch with a sort of glazed expression. I stood up in some sort of trance and leaned my head towards his hand; as soon as his hand touched my head I had this tingling sensation al over my body while a brilliant light surrounded us. As the light faded away I had two thoughts; first was: 'YES! I'm human again!', second was: 'What the fuck am I wearing?' I was wearing what seemed to be a white cotton tunic that barely reached my knees with leather sandals and a leather belt around my waist. 'Whatever... At least I'm not naked' That would have been awkward for everyone in this room.
"Come my child it is time for you to meet your family." Charlie said, again extending his hand towards me. I took his hand and the room around us faded away and a massive white rectangular room materialized around us. Well it wasn't exactly a room since it had no walls; the roof, which looked to me made out of pure marble, sloped slightly from the longer sides towards the center and was held by enormous columns, made of the same white marble, with very intricate designs at the top. In the room there were twelve thrones arranged in a semicircle around a hearth. Every throne had a different symbol engraved at the head rest; there was one with a lightning bolt that made me think of Harry Potter, there was one with what looked like a massive fork, and the rest of them had what looked like different kinds of animals with a few exceptions. Outside of the 'room' there were what looked like to be endless gardens with the greenest of grasses and the most beautiful and rare flowers, birds were flocking around, a couple of different animals grazing on the luscious grass or drinking water from the beautiful crystal clear river that led to a pond, and the sun shining brightly
Charlie and I were the only people in the room so I turned towards him to ask him what the hell were we doing in this weird albeit beautiful room, when a flash of light appeared in front of both of us. A man in a similar outfit to Charlie's, except his was more... golden?... It had more of a yellow quality to it than what Charlie was wearing, almost like the color difference between gold and bronze. He looked around the same age as Charlie and similarly built but he had piercing blue eyes and shoulder length wavy blonde hair.
"I see you've finally brought her to us brother" he said in a very deep and authoritative voice, almost like the voice of an army general.
"You know that we had to wait for the right moment brother, but then again patience has never been your forte" Charlie said, sounding slightly annoyed.
"Then you should stop testing it brother" the other guy said more annoyed than Charlie was.
"Okay I don't mean to break up your brother's quarrel, no wait! I actually do, so can you please tell me what the fuck is going on? Where the hell am I? And who the fuck are you?" I asked slightly exasperated that these two were bickering while my life turned completely upside down in a matter of hours.
"Have you not taught your daughter any respect brother?" mean-guy said, completely ignoring what I said, continuing to bitch and moan.
"At least I've taught her something BROTHER!" Charlie exclaimed, and I guess that that was a sore subject for him.
"You know that I could not be a part of her life! I have responsibilities! Took care of yours too! Just so you could keep her safe! You think I didn't wish I could spend at least a moment with her? To meet the child of MY child?" the other guy snapped, and the sky outside turned gray before bits of lightning cut through the sky.
"It does not matter now Zeus. What is done is done. Let us teach her everything she needs." Charlie said obviously trying to calm Zeus down... 'Wait a second... Did he just say...?'
"Wait! Did you just say the child of YOUR child? But that would make you my grandfather! And you are certainly not old enough for that." I told this Zeus guy. 'Wait a second...' "Wait! Did you just call him Zeus? As in Greek god Zeus? And he's your brother? But that would make you either Poseidon or Hades, but judging by your looks and attitude my guess is that you are Poseidon" I said while turning to look at Charlie/Poseidon, who smiled confirming my previous statement. "And you are my father?" a nod was my answer this time. "But... but then that would make me... a... demigod?"
"It seems like you HAVE taught her something after all" Zeus said, looking slightly surprised that I knew the correct name of the offspring of a mortal and a god... yeah... so I'm a geek for Greek mythology, sue me! "And your assumptions are close but not entirely right. As I think you may have already made the connection that I am the father of your mother, I may not have been in this form at the time but it was me nonetheless, you know that your mother was a demigod. Now I hope that your biology is good because you are going to need it. Hopefully you know that each child draws genes from their parents, half from the mother and half from the father to be precise." At this statement my eyes widened with what I thought he was implying, I was, after all, taking AP bio.
"I took the god genes from my father since that is all that he is, but I also took the god half of my mother didn't I?" I asked already knowing the answer.
Zeus smiled a little before answering, "Yes, the god gene is dominant; therefore, you had no other choice but to receive it" 'Oh my... Gods?'
"But the that would make me... that would make me... a-a..." I couldn't even finish the sentence.
"That would make you a God not a demigod" Zeus said proudly.
And for the nth time in as many days everything turned black.
'Please, PLEASE let this be a dream... or a nightmare.' was my last thought before I embraced the darkness.
YAY! so I hope you guys enjoyed this ch! you know what to do!... if you still like me... *pout*
Special mentions!
Guerilla Warfare: LOL. you called it! We'll learn more about Bella's powers in the next few chapters but I'm guessing you are starting to know where they come from ;) can you be the #1 two times in a row? Let's see!
Crazy heart 101: Thanks for supporting this story so much as to PM to get me writing! I appreciate it! I hope you liked the ch! :)
