Chapter 14
Through Cassie's eyes
After giving the Cullen's the basics of what a bender could do, they didn't seem to think I could take down one of their kind. We moved to the kitchen for further explanation.
"Cassie, did you mention specialties? What's a bender's specialty?" Edward asked. I grinned, this was the question I couldn't wait to answer.
"Each element has a specialty. Not everyone is capable of this. Most people only accomplish one, two if they're lucky, in their life time." I told them.
"So there are four?" Emmet asked. I nodded, "Correct. Four official specialties."
"How many do you have, Cassie?" Bella asked.
"Seven." I smiled. Alice raised her eyebrow, as if I were making this up.
"Seven? You said there was only four." Esme asked.
"Four official specialties." I clarified. "My mother made up two, and I made up one as well. It's why we're considered to be so dangerous to our kind. Why do you think we're living among humans?"
"Huh, I never really thought about why you had moved in with us." Bella told me. Apparently, Bella didn't think about a lot of things, dating a vampire, for instance.
"The four specialties are as followed: The gift of sense. This one is the earth. It allows me to feel everything by the vibrations of the earth, and in this case, the hardwood flooring. The water specialty is a bit more graphic. It's called the gift of blood bending. It was my first specialty, which I learned at the age of six. Blood bending is bending the water and blood on the inside of a person's body, therefore, bending the body." Truth was, I couldn't control the vampires much with this one, unless they were fresh from a hunt, like the Cullen's were now.
"Fire's specialty is rather interesting. At first, my ancestors weren't sure if the specialty was really meant for fire. They decided that because of the high temperature, the gift of lighting belonged with fire." I remembered my first time trying to redirect lightning, for it had been shot at me before. My mother decided I needed to know what to do when it came. I didn't really count that as a specialty, especially since I had a large scar on my back. I smiled. "If you thought playing with fire is dangerous, you should try lightning sometime."
"Air's specialty is pretty awesome." I told them. "The gift of flight involves a tool used by my people. A glider is like a kite." I said, trying my best to describe it. "One piece of cloth, you know, the stuff a parachute is made out of, is behind… Well, you'd really have to see it." I decided I would get it to them when I could. I was pretty happy that I could go flying again.
"What about the specialties your mother made?" Carlisle asked. I smiled, very proud of my mother for thinking these up.
"Metal bending, a form of earth, is pretty self explanatory. It usually helps when escaping prison. Plus, since she invented it, no one knows we are capable of it. If they were to but us behind bars, bam, we're free!" I said, remembering the time that was actually necessary.
"She also invented healing. It's a form of water bending were you can heal wounds, bones, nerves, anything really. Although, I'm not too great with wounds, but bones are a piece of cake!"
"What about the one you invented?" Alice asked.
"I call it the death hold, but my mother prefers a different term. The death hold is pretty much long distance strangling. It's a form of air bending. I prevent air from entering the lungs and in a few minutes, they're dead." I shrugged. Esme gasped.
"It sounds so horrible!" Esme said. I shrugged, "You do what you got to do to live." I told them.
"You've had to kill someone to live?" Edward asked. I was about to come back with something witty about vampires when I felt a car winding down the dirt path.
"Party time!" Alice squealed.
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