Nero
My room was silent. Everywhere was silent. We'd all heard the revelation of our master's plans. Who were the Cullen's? I looked over at Mei. She was staring wide eyed at me. Her beautiful blue eyes glistened with the moisture of tears. I rubbed one finger over her tears and wiped them away. I kissed under her eyes. "It's going to be okay, Mei." I kissed down her jaw, just glad to have her with me, and be allowed to touch her, to kiss her. She wrapped her hands around my face and hugged me closer to her. "We weren't created to be loved, Nero, we were created to a distraction. While we fight these other vampires the rest of the guard will take them down. We could die, Nero." She moved my face so that she could see it my eyes. I lent into her and kissed her lips. She pulled away shocked. "Don't you care?" She gasped. I shuck my head and kissed the corner of her mouth. "Why should I care about something in the future, when I have you in my arms now? As long as we are together, everything will be okay, Mei. I promise. I won't let anyone hurt you." Mei's eyes lingered on my face.
Her hands wound in my hair. Her lips were urgent against mine. She pushed me back onto my bed. My hand travelled up her silk like thigh. Her black dress clung to her skin. She kissed down my jaw and started unbuttoning my dark grey shirt. Our breathing quickened as we became more passionate. "Are you sure?" I asked her, as I came up for air. Her light brown hair tickled my face. "I've never been more sure about anything in my life. I love you Nero." Her eyes lingered on my face. I stared up at her, awed by the woman I had known since I was just four days old. I flipped her over at such a quick speed that she gasped. My lips became urgent against hers once again. "I love you too." I breathed as I pulled off her dress.
We fell to sleep afterwards. My dreams were peaceful with my love in my arms. Her skin was like a comfort blanket to me. I became aware of the sunlight protruding from the curtains. The warmth of it made my skin feel like it was on fire. It was a pleasant feeling. Mei moved in my arms, she turned into me. I felt her lips against mine. I sighed contentedly. I opened one eye. She was lent up, with one hand doodling on my bare chest, staring at me. Her face lit up into a smile as she saw me awaken. Her skin with luminous in the sunlight. Perfection. "Good morning, sleepy head." She chuckled, placing another quick kiss on my lips. I smiled. But I knew, we couldn't stay like this forever. We had fight training. Again. I slid up and hugged her in both of my arms. "We have to go." I sighed. She nodded and we both stood up. I pulled my grey trousers and shirt on. I reached into the closet and pulled my long dark grey robes out. I turned around to face Mei. She was fully dressed now. "I need to go get my robes and do my hair, I'll meet you down there." She fluttered over to me and kissed my cheek. In a flash she was gone.
My arms, and my room, felt empty now. Mei couldn't know how much she had changed me in such a short space of time. I walked over to my window and opened the blood red curtains. I stared out of my window. Below us, the humans were going about their every day business. They were unaware of what lurked in their home town. I felt guilty for taken their lives to stop the burn. I wished there was an alternative, but father had never mentioned it. "Where's Nero?" I heard Felix say, a few levels down. I was late. I flew out of the door and down two flights of stairs. Felix smiled when he saw me. It was odd how he always did that. Mei chuckled as I came to stand next to her. Her mousey brown hair was up in a bun, highlighting the features on her face. Anthony glanced down at our entwined hands. "I guess a lot of things can change in twenty-four hours." He mumbled.
We were lined up into our usual bands. I was separated from Mei's touch. I was with my two brothers and my two sister. We all knew we were siblings, but we were unsure why. None of us knew our parentage. Claude elbowed me and took his tongue in his cheek. "Someone got some last night then." Mei turned around from her line and glared at him. She was simply beautiful. "Shut it, Claude." I muttered. Felix turned on us. "You all know why we are here now, so I recommend you stop teasing each other and listen and learn. Claude I'd button your mouth if I was you." Claude looked to the floor. Evie leaned forward and smiled at me. My second to youngest sister resembled me in no way. We had similar eye colouring but that was it. Her hair was the whitest of blondes and she was very dainty. I pitied Mei for being the only female in her family.
The room we were training in was large enough for us not to break everything. Felix paced around as Anthony decided on his tactics. "Right, I want us to go outside. Nero!" I turned my attention back to Anthony, for I was staring goo-goo eyed at Mei. "Yes, sir?" I asked politely. Anthony smiled, "Nero, I want you to practice your gift. We'll go into the forest near a brook. Use the weather as well please, we need to know how extreme you can go." Urgh. I hated practicing my gift. It felt like the only reason I was strongly liked was because of my ability to affect the weather, water and air. "Rocco, we are going to hide something and you are going to seek it out." Anthony walked to stand in front of Claude. He glanced up and down his form. "You can surprise us, Claude. But not until we get into the forest please. Everyone else, practice hand to hand combat. Remember no easy kills, don't go for the obvious." Anthony instructed.
Anthony and Felix led the way out. We followed pretty close, but held back enough for us to speak with each other. Mei was laughing with her brother, Joshua. "So then how're you this morning then, Nero?" Odette asked me. I knew Claude had put her up to getting details out of me. I rolled my eyes. "I'm perfectly fine, little sister. How're you?" She flicked her mahogany curls over her shoulder. "I'm great. Mei seems like she's in a good mood. I wonder why." She hinted. Just as I was about to tell her where to go Evie came and stood between us. "Claude wants you." Evie's voice was monotone. Odette smiled and skipped off to stand with her favourite brother. "Thanks." I muttered sincerely. We were closing in on the patch of forest where we would be practicing now. "No problem. She annoys me. Sister or not that girl needs some help. So does Claude." Evie made a disgusted face. I chuckled. I looked around us to make sure no one had their attention on just us two. "You and Bart are my favourites anyways." I whispered. Evie chuckled. I looked over at Bart, who had clearly heard us. He smiled and winked.
I couldn't take my eyes from Mei's face as we practiced. She looked like a delicate flower until she fought. She didn't leave any of her brothers standing. I pulled the clouds over us as Anthony watched. "Can you make it rain?" He asked. I closed my eyes and imagined it raining. Right on cue, I felt the drops of rain begin to fall on us. Odette complained that her hair would get wet. I looked at Evie who rolled her eyes. "Make it snow." Felix ordered. Again I visualised the weather outcome. The rain drops turned into flakes of ice, a rarity for the Italian town. Felix laughed, "Brilliant! They'll have no idea what we can do." The afternoon carried on in a similar fashion. Claude and Rocco showed them what they could do. I felt a little bad for Evie. Her talents meant that Felix and father didn't appreciate her much. She could always tell when she was being lied to, and she didn't like the fact that whenever she spoke with Felix or Demetri they would always be lying about something, but she couldn't put her finger on what exactly they were lying about. Only time would tell.
We all ran back home at different paces. I hung back to talk with Mei. She smiled and blushed a little when the previous night was mentioned. Her hands seemed to complete mine. The gaps my fingers left seemed perfectly designed for her hands. It was like she was my other half, the better half of me. She made me feel whole. "I'm moving all my things into your room, if that's okay?" She said, bringing me out of my Mei appreciation group. "Of course it's okay. Its better than okay." I breathed against her eye. I kissed her lobe. She squeezed my hand and we began to run faster. The trees streaked faster past us. We really pushed ourselves. By the time we got home we were both laughing. We didn't notice Aro staring at us.
His face was stiff. Blank. "Father?" I asked. I stepped forward, subconsciously putting myself between Mei and Aro. "Nero, I believe you heard the little performance last night. I'd like to know what you think?" Aro pressed his hand to my face. "I'm glad you're as protective of our little family here as I am. I'm glad to have you as a son." He stared at Mei for awhile and then turned his back. "Oh and congratulations Mei. I'm glad you found your mate." He called over his shoulder. Mei looked up at me, fear crossing her face. Something was wrong here, and Mei knew it.
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