Chapter 11: Earth, Air, Fire, Water
I walked slowly into their house, all of my instincts telling me to run. They all walked in ahead of me, and were seated by the time I made it to the living room. They had left all doorways open, which made me feel safer. Hmmm. Maybe they weren't so bad after all. I remained standing in the doorway, leaning against it, trying to be casual. Carlisle seemed to accept that though. I tried to wait patiently while he gathered his thoughts. Their house was beautiful on the inside, but the overpowering stench of vampire made me twitchy.
"Ok Alexa…how old are you? How long have you been immortal?"
I mulled it over. Time flies when you're having fun. I thought sarcastically. I thought I saw Edward flinch. "Um, I'm fourteen…. But I think I've been immortal for about 5 years?" I guessed. Esme gasped.
"Do you mean that you have been with them for most of your immortal life? For 5 years?" she asked, furious.
"Uh, yeah. But I have been on the run for about a week." I said defensively. She got up and began to pace. Rosalie and Emmett exchanged loaded looks. Alice sighed sadly. I didn't understand. "What else do you want to know?" I asked. Hopefully they would drop the subject. And they did. "What is that pouch around your neck?" asked Jasper.
"Oh this?" I asked, pointing at it, and then sliding it off. "This is the bag that holds my power/soul. With out it, I go like crazy. I lose complete control." I swallowed hard. "Each one represents a power. But some I don't know what they do. They don't have a power 'assigned' to it yet." I almost laughed at the looks on their faces.
"Um," said Carlisle, dazed. He looked at everybody. "Can you show us them and explain?" I tensed, but then relaxed. They couldn't touch them anyway. I removed one out of my pouch. I looked at everyone.
"Whatever you do…DON'T touch it. Jane tried." I smiled unexpectedly. "It just about burned off her hand," Emmett pulled his hand back. I laughed a little, but it was bitter. I lowered my hand so they could look at it closer. "This is my 'fire' stone. It stores that power in it, and in my 'soul'. Basically it's this ache feeling that I get under my heart, but whatever."
"Can you demonstrate?" Bella asked, looking curious.
I laughed. "But you saw it already." I winced. "But if you want…" I snapped my fingers, and a flame appeared, dancing on my finger tip. I closed my hand around it, and opened it to show that it had grown to a fireball. Everyone oohed and aahed. Then I closed my hand, extinguishing it.
"Aww, man! It was so pretty!" Emmett said. Everyone groaned.
"Um, water's next then." I said into the awkward silence. I reached back into the pouch, dropping the fire stone and removing the water stone. I let them all get a good look, then picked a cup up off the table, and made the water in it disappear, then filled it with ice cold water from my finger tip, then handed it to Bella. After a look at Carlisle, she sipped it sighed she looked at me while she kept drinking on into the silence, and I looked down and away.
"Why are your eyes green?" She asked randomly, and I raised an eyebrow. She caught on to the whole 'power assigned by color' deal. I plucked out the Earth stone. It almost sang to me, this was the one power I was strongest at. I made flowers grow out of nowhere, and then changed into a butterfly, the stone falling to the floor. They all jumped at once. I flitted over to Emmett, looking at him from eye level. He twitched nervously.
"Hi Emmett." I said, my voice coming out high and squeaky. He blinked, and then roared with laughter. Alice was enchanted, and stuck out her finger. I floated over and rested on it.
Then I jumped off of her finger and changed into a lynx, making everyone in the room jump again. I picked up the earth stone with my paw, and went back to human form. As I was putting it back into the pouch, Carlisle asked, "Does that weaken you in anyway, strength wise?"
"Nope." I replied, taking out the next stone. I saw him raise an eyebrow and sit back, looking impressed. That put me on edge. If he thought for one second that I would stick around for them, he was crazy. The next stone was air, and was a glittering crystal. I let them admire it, and then I lifted the couch with a snap of my fingers and with a whoosh of air, sent it across the room, in a circle, then back where it belonged. "Those are my 'main four', which I use the most often. I have only figured out one other out of all of these," I said, lifting them all out, and pointing to a honey colored one. "Is anyone hurt at all? Scar you want to remove? Paper cut?" Jasper slowly stuck out his arm, and rolled up his sleeve to reveal thousands of vampire bites.
I blinked, but said nothing, thinking. What the hell happened to him? With a shaking hand, I rested my fingertips on top of his hand. (I was actually scared to touch a vampire, last time I did, I had gotten whipped for it) We both flinched, mine stronger than his. I took a deep breath, then traced up his arm to his shoulder. Scars vanished under my fingertips like they never existed. Jasper gasped when he saw his arm.
"How is that even possible?" he asked, his voice a whisper.
"I can heal." Was my understatement of an answer.
"I'll say." Said Alice softly, looking oddly emotional for a vampire.