Unknown POV, Unknown Time
The exact balance of good and evil was tilting. Good or Evil? Impossible to tell.
Yet all of us know. That's why the ten of us were sent. Five sent from good, and five sent from evil. And we were here to help those we were assigned to. Only one knows, yet they are not to tell the others until they feels it so.
"Celestine?" I turned to see the beautiful creature with brown eyes and hair, approach me from behind. "Is it soon?" Aria said.
"I feel it is." I looked around at my companions. Levin, Levana, and Valerian.
Levin with his blonde hair and green eyes, and his twin Levana, nodded and smiled at me in union, knowing they were ready also.
Valerian would have the hardest task helping his assigned, as he will be the last to meet his, and in the process it would be difficult.
Aria, she was going to know her assignment from a younger age, yet I wouldn't meet mine till at least 100 years after my mortal birth.
None of us will know that we are guardians till we die. Yet there is a long journey till then, and let's hope we do not die too late.
Eleazar POV
"What have they done to you?" He said in a low voice, restraining his anger, which wasn't directed at her. Whereas she just laughed humourlessly in his face.
"Oh my, that story is certainly a long one, and to me very repetitive." Her ruby eyes glinted at the last word, almost as it she was enjoying her parent's horror. She turned in her chair to face me, and locked her eyes with mine. "All of you sit. I have a much more interesting story to tell you all. It is about five fallen angels."
Why did I have the feeling that this wasn't going to end well?
"Why, it must merely be a tale, not a story... surely." Carmen piped up, whereas Esme was still baffled about her daughter's surprise visit, and Carlisle's eyes brightened at the mention of angels. But I noticed something far more interesting as I studied my adopted cousin, at the mention of 'angels', her eyes flashed very briefly from red to violet then back again. Yet it seemed I was the only one to have noticed.
"Well, you can decide that for yourself, but I assure you that by the end of it, out of the four of you, at least one will believe it with all their soul." She smirked slightly, then sat up straighter and placed her arms on the table with her hands clasped. "Now, to the good stuff."
"Before the beginning of what we know today as Earth, there was what mortals call 'Paradise'. It was a very beautiful place, and many were happy there, and when I say many I mean the 'celestial beings'." She made quotation marks with her fingers.
"Anyway, long story short, five of these Angels, committed a crime against the Lord and were banished much like Adam and Eve." Again at the mention of crime, her eyes flashed the bizarre violet colour, and her teeth gritted slightly in concentration, then she relaxed again.
"So the once majestic beings were confined to a long life on earth. One has actually a large part in all of your history, as he created the race of vampires, and still exists in the world today and always has.
"Now the other's stories are rather interesting. One you have merely heard of. One you know well, yet only in the past few years, and is officially family. The third, you have met many times, and two of you have lived with them. The last you have known for many years, and see them as family.
"Technically they have all existed since the beginning, but they all found love," her face turned into a grimace at 'love', "and rested in peace. Sort of. Well to be correct since their first death, they have re-incarnated every time. Yet one of the angels story's is... shameful." She shook her head, stood up and walked around the table to stand next to Carmen.
"Yes they found their true love. Yet after a while, one grew tired with theirs, and I suppose you could say... 'went rogue' or 'turned to the dark side', and killed her. Many times. Yet other forces were at work, and she couldn't simply rest in peace like she desperately wanted to. He kept coming back with every life of hers. As there was something he didn't know. The concept of an angels true love, is a bit like that of the Shifter's imprint, they belong to their imprint. So every time he killed her in a way he killed himself." She shook her head in sorrow, but put a slight smirk on her face.
"None of this ringing any bells then? No?" She looked around at the four of us, and for a couple of seconds her body tensed and her eyes went violet again, then once again returned to red. Yet her grip on the table increased till it turned into a fine powder, and she kept breathing deeply in concentration, and she was hunched in on herself.
"You're not Isabella Swan are you?" Suddenly she straightened to look at me, eyes violet and pleading.
"I only have a few minutes, I have him at bay for now, but they will be here soon." She looked around and quickly smiled at her in-law's, then returned her attention to me. "Now you must listen to me Eleazar. I'm sorry to do this, but I'm afraid that if you don't know, none of you will survive. You need to tell Aroram and Didyma too." She took a deep breath as if bracing herself for something then came to grab my arm. "Get everyone out of here. Run to Volterra straight from here, and search for Edward. I know he doesn't remember me because I made it so, but I feel I might be forced to hurt him or his companions somehow. Stop me in any way, apart from death, all of us will be needed at the end." She wasn't making any sense. What was it she wanted? What end?
"Listen!" She shook my arm. "We all have guardians, yet I don't know who they are. Yours will come to you when you most need him. Hamranel's is on their way. I feel mine is coming soon. Didyma's is just waiting for her return. Now run, Elehazaem. Make haste." She pushed me out the door, with me looking at her in awe, with my memories now fully restored.
"Arabella! Who is it holding you captive?" I asked as my mate dragged me through the door, hoping the note was a coincidence.
"My brother, for reasons he is lying about, and I fear are more terrifying than we all thought." Came her low voice.
We quickly made our escape, we did encounter a rather large vampire wearing a dark violet cloak, who grabbed Carlisle, but I quickly decapitated him. Now having good fighting skills, as no-one could beat the angels at fighting, only the demons could match. Thankfully though, we didn't encounter anyone on our trip to Italy, and we were in the outskirts of Volterra before we knew it.
"We ought to say here for now. The others should pass through this way soon." I stated as I disposed of my Ibex, and turned to look at the others.
"Your eyes are Violet." Carlisle spoke curiously.
"Why of course. You don't think we would have the same eye colour as everyone else did you?" I smiled at them.
"Everyone else?" Came Esme's timid reply.
"Why humans and vampires." I said dismissively.
"So what Bella said was true?" Carlisle asked, mouth agape.
"The part about fallen angels was. Not about the Angel who killed his love."
"You are an angel?" My wife asked.
"I was." I said sadly, and walked over to a little creek, and looked into the reflection of myself. It has been a while.
My... beauty had been magnified somewhat, yet it wasn't as magnificent as it once was, but the tell-tale violet eyes that I had not seen in many thousands of years were back. I sighed and stood, turned to where my three companions were stood looking at me.
"I was once known as Elehazaem, Angel of Aid, my job was to help any being on their journey whether it was a physical or mental one. I was also an angel with Aroram, Angel of Acceptance, who saw a being's pasts and their present, and what it would have been like if they didn't make the decisions they did. He was to help them find acceptance in what ever they did, no matter what if was. There was also Didyma, Angel of Love, who was the sister of Aroram. She had the ability to help others find the one they loved or were destined to be with, and she could bless them so they could have an infinite time together. There was Hamranel, Angel of Temperance. His other name was the Angel of Tears. He basically is the one who helps the Angel of Forgiveness, but he truly washes away the guilt. He is also known as the brother of Arabella. Arabella, the Angel of Loyalty. Alice was right to trust her with your secret you know. She would never have told anyone. She may not have remembered her true roots, but it runs in personality. You can guess her job. Also I am guessing you know at least who four of us are." I said quirking an eyebrow at them.
"Well Aroram... cannot truly be Aro?" Carlisle asked disbelievingly.
"Didyma is Marcus' dead wife?" My own wife asked.
"Oh my goodness. Bella is an angel?" Esme gasped.
"Yes, technically no, and yes. Didyma is not dead. She has re-incarnated." I knew she had, I could feel she was alive somewhere. It was some kind of calling we all had, as we were strongest together, but the downside was that we could never locate the other's location. "Talking of her being re-incarnated, I need to get you all to Volterra, restore Aroram of his memories, then find her before the others do."
"Others?"
"Yes, others. Now is not the time, and it's only a topic for Aroram, Didyma, Arabella, Hamranel and myself. Now I think Edward will come from the north. So we need to patrol that area. We'll split into two's. Only do something if I am there. I am the only one who can help Arabella if she is not... herself." I told them, and ran north.