A/N: I know it's been a while since I updated and I'm sorry. The a/n about my computer in the last update has been replaced with a chapter entry, just in case none of you know. and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Cassie POV
Its been one month since we've moved here and finally we are going somewhere. Katya has agreed to watch the children while Cooper and I go find the group of hybrid kids that people have reported seeing. We have to go all the way to New Zealand though. Some people told us that they have seen one of them in unites states before and another in Europe. How they ended up in New Zealand is beyond me.
Cooper and I boarded the red eye plane to New Zealand and immediately fell asleep. if we're going to searching for these kids in East Harbour Park which connect to many other forests and regional parks. I closed my eyes and rested my head on Cooper's. We don't know how long this will take us, but we figure a week to go through the entire park.
"Excuse me Sir, Mam, the plane has landed," I heard someone say. I opened my eyes and looked outside. It's freaking bright. I shook Cooper and he woke up. We thanked the lady and slowly got up. We both stretched and then walked off the plane. We went to the luggage belt and grabbed our backpacks. Mine was smaller than Cooper's. Both are hiking backpacks, different brands, different size, and mine was carrying the sleeping bag.
We walked out of the airport and took a cab to the city. In the city we bought the simple things, granola bars, cliff bars, snicker's almond, reeces, bread, peanut butter, canned soup, canned chili, Spaghetti O's, Chef Boyardee Ravioli, Canned Corn, and water. Everything except for the bread went in Cooper's backpack. It was actually a lot, but we'd only be eating twice a day and I have the backpack with camel back. We went to the closest McDonalds and ate. we then hailed a taxi which took us to one of the entrance's of the park. At the park we took a map and started our hike.
By seven o'clock, I had my jacket on and the flashlight head thing that Cooper said I needed. We looked around carefully. We were basically running across to one end and then back to the other. However once at one end we'd run north east for a mile and then run across again. Since we've finished growing as Hybrids, we still have our heart beat, but if we keep silent we can hear farther distances and see farther if we focus.
Two Days Later
I woke up to the smell of something that I didn't want. I turned my head and opened my eyes. I looked at Cooper and he had a deer with him. Seriously you can just find them about anywhere in the world. I looked at Cooper. He was taking its blood.
"It's a red deer," Cooper said.
"Well look at you…it's a good thing you were a boy scout," I laughed and he looked at me seriously.
"For like a summer," he stated and I laughed. I heard boiling and looked at the pot on the manmade fire.
"Smells wonderful dear…get it deer," I said and he chuckled. We both drank some blood and then shared the cinnamon oatmeal. I hate oatmeal now more than ever.
"I think I lost all the pregnancy fat in these past two days," I said standing up. I jumped and I felt my hiking shorts drop a bit. I tightened them and Cooper hugged me.
"You never had pregnancy fat…you swim it off once you give birth," he said and I nodded. We finished eating and cleaning. We packed up and left. We were running when I stopped. I heard a cough. I looked around and Cooper stopped about a hundred yards in front of me. I closed my eyes and listened closely. I heard the cough and it came from the left. I shot off and ran. I followed where the sound had come from. I stopped once I saw a shack in the forest. it blended in really well. it was old and I could hear coughing. I hod behind a tree and looked at Cooper. He nodded and we started to walk together towards it. we then heard rushing. Before I knew it I was attacked from the side. I looked up and saw a girl. I held my hand up and heard Cooper grunt in pain. I turned around.
"Cooper," I stated and I was hit behind the head. I closed my eyes and that was the last I saw of the light outside.
"You didn't have to knock her out," I hear someone say.
"Sorry," I heard a girl say.
"We just needed them to be in a haze for a bit so we can tie them up," a boy said. I opened my eyes and turned my head.
"Coop," I mumbled out.
"Cassie! Cassie, oh thank god," I heard Cooper say. I opened my eyes and sat up. I looked around and saw three kids. One boy around Adrian's age, a girl around Adrian's age and then another girl around Peter's age. The girl around Adrian's age had brown hair, brown eyes, and light brown skin. She took a step forward and I stood up. I made my hands turn into water. She stopped and they gasped. My hands turned back to normal after.
"I'm Cassie Davenport, I'm a hybrid," I stated. I made a sharp piece of Ice and through it to cooper who was tied up. It cut the rope and Cooper got up. He started to use his power and a little tree sprouted in front of them.
"I'm Cooper Davenport, I'm also a hybrid," he said. The boy who was standing had a smile on his face. He had black hair, and blue eyes.
"Cool, you orphans too," he asked. He had an American accent, but his voice is turning into a New Zealand voice.
"No, my mom was bitten and he was adopted by my mom," I said and they nodded. I heard the cough again and I went to it. There was a little boy, he was about eight or nine. I put my hand on his head.
"How long has he been like this?' I asked.
"Three days," the little girl with light brown hair, hazel eyes, and lightly tanned skin said.
"Cooper in my backpack, there's the robitussin cold and flu medicine," I stated. I looked at cooper right as he through it to me. I caught it and lifted the boys head. I got some of the medicine.
"It taste's bad but it'll get you better, I promise," I said. He looked at me, his eyes a striking light brown, almost golden brown. I put the medicine to his lips and he drank it. "Coop make a fire." I looked at all the kid, skinny is what they all were.
"When was the last time you all ate?" Cooper asked.
"About two days ago," the little girl said.
"Bianca, shut up," the older girl said. Cooper got the pan out and I looked at the food. I gave him three cans of chili. I grabbed the water bottles. I handed one to each of them. "Who are you? I mean we know your names, but you obviously came looking for us."
"We have a house for hybrid children, and only hybrid children… we've been looking for children whose parents don't seem to be in the picture. We were told about you four…one of you is from the United States and another from Europe, am I right?" I asked and they nodded.
"What do you want from us?" the older boy asked defensively.
"We want you to come with us. It's safer; you'll have a roof over your heads, a warm bed, food, an education. And if you want you can leave once you're eighteen. I know you might not believe me but its going to get harder and harder, its going to get colder, you'll get sick and you wont have the medicine to help yourselves. You're going to starve here," I said.
"At one point you'll be found, you can't hide here forever," Cooper said.
"How do we know we can trust you," the older girl stated. I grabbed my wallet from the backpack and took a picture out of the kids. I handed it to her.
"Those are our children. the oldest girl is Adrian she's going to be fourteen, then the boy is peter, he's eleven, then Mason, he's going to be five, and then the baby is Lily, she's two," I said and they looked at us.
"But you look like your eighteen," the oldest girl stated. I nodded.
"Yeah, hybrids stop ageing at the age there youngest parent did," I said.
"or died," cooper said, "My mom died when she gave birth to me at twenty three so yeah." The kids nodded. the food was done shortly and we took the bowls out and served them. we gave them bread. After I cleaned it I made soup and gave it to the little boy.
"So what are your names?" Cooper asked.
"I'm Bianca," the girl said. "I'm from Europe." Cooper smiled and nodded.
"Jesse Marx," the older boy said, we nodded and he looked at the girl.
"I'm Maxine Vinson…that's Sheldon Kontas and Bianca's last name is Gabriels," she said and we nodded.
"Well it's nice to meet you Maxine, Jesse, Bianca and Sheldon," I said, the kids nodded and ate. Cooper and I watched them I grabbed a jacket and put it on top of Sheldon. He grabbed it and shivered from the warmth.
Cooper and I spoke with the kids for a while. We then walked out of the shack and spoke with our own children. We spoke to each of them for five minutes. We then spoke to Katya and she told us they were behaving well and weren't getting in any trouble. When we were done we walked back into the shack and spoke more to the kids. We told them about our lives growing up and about the Volturi. We didn't tell them a lot only that we were family and we didn't see them a lot.
When it was night time we gave each of the kids a long sleeve shirt and an extra pair of pants. We placed Sheldon into the mummy sleeping bag and gave him more medicine. We gave then gave the kids a survival blanket. Cooper unrolled the sleeping bag he had made for the both of us out of survival blankets because he didn't want to buy another one. Cooper started a fire that was in the middle of all of us. We watched the kids fall asleep.
"We'll go with you," I turned my head and saw Jesse, "We'll go with you." Cooper and I looked at each other and nodded to him. We stayed awake until all of them were asleep before going asleep ourselves.
Cooper POV
To say I was happy to be out of the forest would be an understatement. Jesse knew a shortcut to civilization and we took it. We got a hotel room with three rooms. Two rooms had two beds and the other room had one. We bought the kids clothes and had them take showers. When they came out they were all a lot cleaner than before. Cassie gave Sheldon more medicine and then we looked at the kids. We needed to ask the question.
"Have you guys ever hunted?" I asked and they looked at me.
"Yeah how do you think we eat," Jesse said.
"No we mean have you ever drank blood," Cassie said and they looked at us.
"No, why?" Maxine asked.
"Because your hybrids. Half vampire half human. Blood makes you stronger, more immune, it's harder to get sick with it in your system," Cassie said. She took two blood bags and poured the blood into six cups. The kids all looked at her. "I'm serious. I use to get sick all the time. my sibling were stronger than me more vampire than me. I was born with more human traits so I could hold the need to not drink any blood for longer, but the longer I would hold the need the easier it would be for me to get sick. Trust us." she grabbed a cup and handed it to me, she than grabbed one for herself. She looked at the kids and they each grabbed one. They looked at it. They looked at us and Cassie and I drank the blood with ease. When we were done we put our cups down and they looked in our cups.
I saw Sheldon shrug and started to drink it. I could see him start looking better immediately. It was like life sprung in him. The kids looked at him. He stopped drinking and looked at them.
"Its good," he said and kept drinking his. Jesse looked at Sheldon and then drank his, Maxine followed and lastly Bianca did. They all seemed surprised at how their body was accepting it. when they were done they looked at us.
"Wow, I feel- I feel like I'm stronger," Maxine said, Bianca nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, that's what it does. You are stronger than humans but not strong like a vampire. you can still get hurt and all. You have to be careful around humans," Cassie said.
"Was that human?" Jesse asked.
"No, it was deer," I said and they nodded.
We washed the dishes and made sure there wasn't any blood. We took the kids out to eat and then brushed our teeth. We had bought the kids utensils as well. during the night Katya told us that she had them all in the database now, so that when they went to the us they would have a social security card and number, and identification.
Twelve hours later
I thanked the pilot of our plane and we got off. we exited the airport and we got into the car. on our drive all four kids were looking out the window. I could tell the older ones weren't as excited as the younger ones.
"Don't worry, were surrounded by nature where we live," I said and they nodded. the drive was long but it was good. When we got to the house we grabbed the bags. We were walking to the door when it opened.
"Mommy!" Lily yelled. She ran out of the house and Cassie grabbed her.
"Hey baby,' Cassie said and kissed her head. Lily kissed Cassie back and then rested her head in the crook of Cassie's neck. Cassie stuck her tongue out at me, "One point for me.."
"Yeah, sure I bet the next kid coming out of that door will run to me," I said. Jesse laughed and Maxine shook her head.
"Mom and dad are home!" I heard Masen yell. he ran out and I looked at Cassie. "Mom!" Masen hugged her and Cassie looked at me.
"You were saying," she said.
"Hey dad, hey mom," Peter hugged her and than hugged me. Adrian smiled and looked at me.
"Are you two betting again?" she asked.
"No," Cassie and I said at the same time.
"Hey sis, whats up?" Rickon said and hugged Cassie.
"My own brother, are you serious,' I said and all the kids were laughing including Maxine, Jesse, Bianca, and Sheldon.
"Dude, Manners," Rickon said.
"Oh, Oh ho, ho… Manner's see manners Cassie," I said.
"Whatever helps you sleep at night," she said. Adrian pushed Cassie next to me and then hugged us.
"Now you can't tell who I hugged first,' she said.
"You touched me first though," Cassie said.
"Whatever helps you sleep at night mom," Adrian said while introducing herself to the kids.
"Ahh hahahaha," I said and looked at Cassie. She didn't look to happy.
After introductions we walked inside and Katya showed each of the kids there rooms. When they were done we made lunch and we all ate together. It wasn't as loud as we expected it too. We showed the kids around the house and Sheldon seemed to love the play room. By the time it was time to go to sleep all the kids were tired.
"So what do you say we have another?" I asked Cassie while we got in bed.
"Huh, yeah right," she said and I laughed.
"How about we wait until Lily's five," I said.
"We were suppose to wait until Masen was five remember," she stated and I nodded.
"Yeah." I held her close to me and we didn't fall asleep at all until we were sure all th kids were asleep.
When I finally closed my eyes, I closed them and fell to sleep because I knew Cassie had fallen asleep as well.