Unexpected Child

Chapter 11: Knowledge

Amira decided to ditch her next class and wandered into the woods, alone for once. She took in all the familiar moss covered plants and trees, suddenly, a tiny little demon ran past her. She didn't even hesitate in grabbing it this time, slammed it on the ground and stepped on it until it uttered its last cry and died.

"Ditching, huh?" She turned to see the scowl of Collette, her arms folded across her chest.

"What do you want?" Mimi asked, her tone having the usual bored ring to it. Collette's eyebrow rose.

"I know what you are," She hissed, stepping closer.

"Oh?" The vampiress murmured, not amused.

"You and your freak family …" Collette pointed an accusatory finger at the girl. "Always missing school when it's sunny, your freakishly pale skin, the weird color of your eyes, how all of you are so god damned gorgeous."

"Vampires." She concluded, a bit frightened. The blank expression darkened and Amira took a step forward.

"I … I'll tell everyone." She threatened, the girl beginning to frighten her. "You'll have to run for it, like the crazy blood-suckers all of you are." The small vampire took another silent step forward.

"Do we have to run?" She repeated, giggling sinisterly. "You're a perceptive little human, aren't you?" Collette flew back and slammed against the trunk of a tree. Mimi darted forward and grabbed her throat.

"Do you know how easily I could kill you?" The vampiress whispered, her expression never changing. The human shivered against the tree.

"You've decided to pick on me at a wrong time," True fear was beginning to show in Collette. "Because, right now, I really don't care if your blood stains my face." She squeezed tighter but froze, seeing the disappointed faces of her family. She tried channeling them out, no use. She didn't want those terrified stares pointed toward her again, a monster to her own family, the only people who could ever understand what she felt. No, she can't terrify them again.

"I won't kill you on condition," She finally concluded. "You tell no one of your theories. I'm serious. Forget you even stumbled upon us, live out your life completely ignoring us, like we usually do to you. If you don't, I'll personally come after you and make you suffer to a point of which you'll be begging for death." She let go of the human's throat and watched how she scrambled desperately to her feet and ran away as fast as her skinny legs could possibly run. She had to control the desire to destroy that but it took self-control. Something that came with age and experience, but she lacked those certain features.

She slammed her fist against the tree, denting it severely. With a sigh, she wandered off again, ignoring all the seething pain shooting through her system, finding the tallest tree possible and climbed to the top, which added on to the pain immensely. Sitting there for what seemed like hours, she heard the bell for school to end soon enough and carefully climbed down, making – limping - her way over to Edward's car just in time. They didn't need to know what had just happened, but she assumed Collette was going insane about it, so Edward must've found out. Her small legs, even if they were ever powerful now, finally decided to give out five feet from the car. Alice came out from the building, her eyes widened, and she ran over to help her fallen niece.

"I'm very proud of you." Alice whispered poking the tip of the girl's nose, lifting Amira onto her back. Edward found out and told, obviously. When they got to the car, Emmett was the first to audibly express how proud he was. He grinned from ear to ear and grabbed Mimi from Alice's back and threw her in the air.

"Woo! Kid you're a chip off the ol' block! Scared that girl silly, yep, she definitely takes after me." He gave her a powerful Emmett bear hug, attempting to squeeze the life out of her.

"Don't squeeze her to death, Em." Jasper commented, chuckling. Her teeth quietly clenched together – her self control was wavering – and she felt like hunting down that … she dismissed the monster's ambitions and let her family express their happiness.

For the next two weeks, Emmett was now insanely determined to make his niece smile, like he used to be able to do so easily. Rosalie always laughed at his attempts, because none of them were working. Wavering from playing stupidly with an agitated bear to accidentally completely totaling Edward's Volvo. She almost laughed at Edward's acute annoyance, though.

"Emmett, was destroying my car really necessary?" Edward growled.

"Hey, hey. It was an accident, don't bite my head off about something that you could always just buy again." Emmett glared at his still blank-faced niece, not giving up.

"One of these days," The big vampire hissed, pointing a finger at her. "I'll catch you off guard and make you laugh so hard it might even make your tiny little body explode." They all laughed at this threat.

"Hmm," Emmett mused. "Now what do I try?" He asked himself, pondering. He sighed, not thinking of anything.

"It used to be so much easier when I could just tickle the kid." He groaned, trying to think of something.

"You're never going to give up on this are you, Emmett?" Jasper guessed, still happy that he was trying.

"He isn't." Alice replied, shaking her head and laughing. Emmett grinned stubbornly. Bored, she went up to her room. The infuriating scent entered her nostrils, setting the blood thirsty monster dwelling inside her on a frenzy. She snarled and tried to jump out of the window when two strong arms held her back.

"Don't you dare." Jasper growled, holding the thrashing girl back with all his might. He wasn't about to let her run off again.

"Demons, I have to!" She snarled, snapping her jaws at the window. He didn't blame her for this, the child's heart was overflowing with hatred, he could feel that. Edward! Jasper mentally shouted. Get Emmett and come to Mimi's room, she's caught the scent of demons. They were there in a flash, Emmett stopping the thrashing much more easily.

"Easy, kid." He said in a surprisingly soft voice. "You're not going, you know that very well." Edward began humming the lullaby he wrote for Bella gently, Jasper sent her calm waves, and her struggling stopped. She slumped against Emmett's steel grip and grew silent.

"I'm sorry." She whispered, the expressionless face returning. Her hands clenched into tight fists, shoving herself out of Emmett's grip roughly, she stalked off into the next room.

"I'll be in the front yard," She muttered, knowing everyone had heard. Alice stared after her, knowing what was going to happen, but this would test her niece's self control so she didn't say nor think anything about it. The child wandered outside, into the woods near her house. Shockingly, there stood a shivering Collette with a knife in her hand. The vampiress' eyebrow rose at this sight.

"Y … You freak." Collette hissed weakly. "I'll show you, I'll make you go crazy!" She sliced her arm with the knife, blood oozing out. Amira's nostrils flared, her senses going wild.

"That's right, freak." Her shaken voice said, sounding triumphant. Mimi snarled ferociously, and she tried pouncing on the human when she heard an acute noise.

"NO!" Edward roared, smelling the blood as well. Mimi blinked furiously, trying to think coherently. The scent was driving her insane. Her throat burned like white fire, her legs were starting to move forward. Just in time, Carlisle restrained her small body. She sighed, relieved, and let her body thrash in her grandfather's grip. Rosalie came froward, glaring intently at the meddling human girl, ignoring the scent of the blood all she could.

"You've annoyed my sister long enough." She hissed menacingly, grabbing the human's throat and throwing her against a tree.

"Calm down, Amira." Carlisle tried stopping the thrashing. "Hold your breath, it'll help."

"Rosalie … don't let Rosalie kill Collette." Mimi said quietly, Rosalie turned her head incredulously.

"What?" She hissed, her eyes furious. Collette slumped against the tree, unconscious.

"She's right." Carlisle agreed sternly, starting to loosen his restrain on the child. "After this experience, she won't tell a soul." Rosalie snarled, but let it go.

"Thank you, Rosalie." Amira's blank face returned, but Rosalie still smiled and nodded her head.

As Amira sat in her room, she heard her family discussing something crucial. Something that she knew must happen, but from the bottom of her still heart, wanted to prevent.

"So, we're going to call Eleazar's coven for assistance?" Jasper clarified, probably with Alice.

"Yes. It'll be a great help, I can see that."

"Who's gonna take … him?" Emmett asked, growling.

"I will." Jasper snarled, he wanted to put an end to the vile thing who robbed Amira of all her happiness, robbed her of the ar .

"Edward … we can't just kill him." Bella whispered. "Even if she doesn't admit it, Mimi loves him. I can see that, with her whole soul, she loves him." He gazed into her eyes, worried.

"Bella," Jasper directly disagreed. "If we don't, he'll kill everyone and the world will become dark, bloody, and full of pain."

"Isn't there some way we could fix this without having to kill him?" Bella asked, frowning intensely. Jasper shook his head sadly, looking up at the ceiling.

"Wait," Rosalie interjected, sounding confused. "If half-demons can come into our world as they please, how come they haven't attacked?"

"They can only go if sent by their masters with a certain purpose." Edward clarified for her. "Half-demons aren't fully powerful enough to cause havoc by themselves, anyway." Suddenly, Amira appeared at the bottom of the stairs, staring straight at them.

"Don't kill Kenji." She said quietly, turning to go back to her room. "Because, I need to kill him myself." With that said, she disappeared. Her family frowned, knowing this was tearing her apart. Jasper cringed, his teeth clenching together, he didn't want her to feel like this. He could feel so many emotions coming off of her, agony, pain, hatred, fury, sadness were some of the main. He frowned and tried sending her calming waves.

"The poor child was only thirteen when she changed," Esme reminded them, sighing. "Handling all of these problems must be extraordinarily tough for her, considering she didn't have time to emotionally mature." They all nodded grimly.

Amira sat in her room, staring out the window. Wind gusted past her face, the wind was soft, almost like he was whispering to her. She didn't want to admit it, but she yearned for his touch, his gentle nature, the beautiful way he spoke to her, she longed for everything about him. Amira couldn't even understand why she was feeling like this, why she felt like she needed him more than blood itself. But, she can't be selfish, if Kenji is destined to be the demon prince, then she'll have to kill him. She knows that and yet … she can't even fathom the horrible concept of Kenji dying by her hands. She just couldn't. But, to protect her family, she needed to do this, slowly she let her still heart turn black and encase itself in an ice prison.

A/N: The big battle's coming up pretty soon, ok I lied, this next chapter will probably be bloody and violent. But it's a battle! XDD Thank you for your support all my lovely reviewers, and because you're so awesome, all of you get a cookie. And not one of those pussy small ones either, you all get a cookie the size of a pizza covered in marshmallows and chocolate. -gives- :D

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And to answer one my lovely reviewers suggestions, Katya;

The thing is, with like three boys after her she'd seem like a bit of a Mary-Sue/Hoe to me and I don't want my OC ending up like that. Not that I don't adore all of your suggestions, it's just, she's not a seductress to a point of which it's insanity. Thank you for your suggestion though, and I hope you keep reading my story. Keep the suggestions coming people! O:

Oh and I've noticed that, in 3 out of 4 of my stories, one reviewer always shows up and gives me positive feedback, which I enjoy extremely. ^^ So I thank you, xcrescentxmoonx, for making my day with your reviews. You've been there since I first posted Love Fangs (My Vampire Knight story) and you get a second cookie, for making me smile with your kind words every chapter. :'D -gives-

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