Six months later Denali Alaska Bella had spent the morning with Carmen and Eleazar, for the last six months much to Tanya's exasperation, and Tanya decided it was time to confront her mate!
With a semi disapproving look Tanya asks, "Not that you should not spend time with Carmen and Eleazar but why every morning for six months, with a nod from the couple in question Bella states, "You really want to know!"
Taking her hand and spinning Tanya into hold Bella waggled her brows at her mate saying, "I heard a rumor you like to dance!"
Tanya looks at Bella as Bella said, "A little birdy told me your 2 favorite dances are Argentine Tango, and Paso Doble!"
Bella stats moving through The Argentine Tango right there in the front yard in the middle of the snow despite the biting cold wind!
"You learned this for me!" Tanya said softly.
"My birthday is in a week" Bella said, "Mom has a villa in Argentina!"
"You wanted to dance with me in Argentina?" Tanya asked.
Bella just nods, saying, "I asked Carmen and Eleazar to teach me!"
"Bella?" Carmen asks, "Why is your skin turning Grayish black!"
Giving Bella a kiss Tanya softly said, "Go we will catch up!"
Bella quickly stripped down, even removing her lingerie, and ran off, tucking Bella's clothes under her arm Tanya, says, "Coming!"
Both Carmen and Eleazar look on with curiosity as Bella strips down to the point of not wearing any clothes at all, closing her eyes Bella focuses on letting the change take over her skin starts to darken.
By the time they catch up to Bella, she has scouted a 11-foot-tall Grizzly weighting 1,500 pounds and started jumping from Shadow-to-shadow stalking it and closing in on the bear itself then when she was within 50 feet Bella downed it drinking it dry!
Sniffing the air Bella found the closest Alaskan Athabaskans village. Hefting the bear on her shoulders Bella fallowed the scent trail to the village itself and moments later stopping just at the boarder Bella called out to a Villager, "May I speak to the chief!"
100 yards away
Worriedly Carmen and Eleazar prepare to intervene when Tanta said, "Wait and watch!"
Back at the boarder
From the village boarder Bella calls, "Thank you Môj Milovaný!"
As the village elder approaches Bella, she says, "With respect, I have taken what I need from the bear, could one of your village use the meat!"
Carmen and Eleazar look at each other than at Tanya, Eleazar watched on muttering, "Curiouser and curiouser.
Back at the boarder
Raising his brow, the elder pointed to Bella and said "Sanguis Drinker!"
Bella Nodded saying, "Leaving this out in the snow would be… wasteful, and I know Winter is coming!"
The Elder was taken aback by the gesture as Bella asked, "May I come into your village, I can carry this!"
Meanwhile 100 yards away by a snow drift not far from the village boarder, Carmen and Eleazar looked to Tanya for clarification on what just happened.
Tanya said, "After Lilly disbanded The Volturi, we were staying in her Villa in Volterra, Italy."
"Disbanded… The Volturi!" Eleazar said stunned by the revelation as Tanya just nodded in confirmation saying, "I wouldn't want them as enemies."
Tanya continued her story saying, "It was a practice Lilly taught her, we don't use the meat and it's not like we inject our venom… when we were teaching her how to hunt!" Tanya explained, "I like the practice, so we adopted it!"
45 minutes later Bella reappeared at the border with the elder, when he asked, "What's your name stranger!"
With a smile Bella said, "Bella, Bella Denali!"
"Thank you for your gift Bella Denali, it will feed a great many people!" With that Bella walked back to her mate Tanya.
"My Pleasure!" Bella said closing the distance between the boundary and Tanya and giving her a kiss.
Looking at Eleazar Bella said, "Mom can give you a better explanation then I can!"
"So, it's a natural Camouflage?" Carman asks looking at Bella.
"Yes, but I get the sense there's more to it." Bella said softly.
"It's the first stage of you vampire form!" Looking at her mate Tanya said, "While you were turning in the temple Lilly showed me the full form… its different!"
Reading the question on her sister face Tanya said, "Lilly adopted her."
Through the sire bond Bella heard Lilly say, you may want to come back, one of your wife's sisters found her mate!
From the boarder, the elder said, "A Family of our Village is missing, a storm is coming!"
Closing her eyes, Bella focused. In her mind she started seeing through the eyes of every animal in a 50-mile radius.
"SHIT" Bella mutters using infrasonic speech Bella said, "Mom… Lilly, can you read my thoughts!"
In her mind Bella hears, we will take care of it.
Back at The Denali House, a 6'6" tall red-haired Vampire with a muscular build walked out of the shadows catching Irina attention. With his hair blowing in the wind, he approached saying, " Napominayet mne step' vesnoy."
"Reminds me of The Steppe, in springtime."
"Kate would you st…." Irina said locking eyes with the newcomer forgetting what she was saying.
"Krasivyy" The man said looking at Irina.
"You think… I'm beautiful?" Irina said looking at him in wonder.
"Nikodim!" Lilly called noticing the dear in the headlights look on the 7th century vampire!
Taking her hand and kissing it, with a slight Russian accent Nikodim said, "I was born on The Russian Steppe in the year 601 BCE.
Back on the middle of nowhere by the village boarder
"Môj Milovaný" Bella said, "We need to get back, is seems you've lost the record!"
Tanya looked at Bella with a speculative raised eyebrow as Bella said, "It seems like Irina's mate was born on The Russian Steppe in the year 601 B.C.E."
5 miles from the village proper Drake and Lilly find the child cornered by not one, not two, but three polar bears each fighting over who would claim the meal.
While she races into the circle in a blur Lilly grabs the child and gets her out of the middle of the feuding bears and harm's way.
The air is filled with the sounds of bones popping and reforming.
When Carmen, Eleazar Tanya, and Bella catch up Drake's final transformation is in its true form, his skin is reddish grey with several bone hones sticking out of his head, he has spikes sticking out of his shoulders and forearms and has claws for hands.
Removing her land Lilly said, "Keep your eyes closed young one!"
"Well Dam" Bella said watching the scene play out, Lilly's skin starts turning grey/black and spikes start growing out of her forearms, and while her voice it still human she said, "Keep her eyes covered!"
Reaching her final transformation Lilly like Drake, Lilly had bone hones sticking out of her head, she has spikes sticking out of his shoulders and forearms and has claws for hands.
A dual and inhuman "AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" filled the air, as the couple fought the three bears, the white snow was quickly turned various shades of pink to deep crimson, as blood spatter from the bears went everywhere.
30 minutes later having shifted back to human form Lilly reached into the chest cavity of one of the bears and riped out the heart.
"Bring the child!" Drake said softly but firmly.
Looking at the child Lilly said, "This is your first hunt, yes!"
The girl nodded, as Lilly held out the heart saying, "Eat… You don't need to eat all of it, just as much as you can!"
Drake said, "We will take care of the bears, make sure the bodies get back to their families, tell them their clan has been avenged."
"What you saw Bella is my demonic form, Lilly said, "Minus my wings…" Grinning Lilly said, "Where do you think stories about gargoyles came from!"
Wrapping the body's in the cloth meant for the game they were hunting Carman picked up the body of the girl's mother, while Eleazar carried her father.
Tanya lifted the girl, who looked at her asking, "Do you need furs, your cold!"
"No little one I do not need furs but thank you for the offer. Tanya told her carful not to reveal too much.
Slowly Bella walked to the boarder and called, "Amaruq!"
Noticing the girls blood-stained face, he looked at the girl worriedly in Yupik Tanya said, "She ate the bears heart, all of it!"
Amaruq nodded in understanding.
"Going by the wounds they died defending her!" Lilly said looking at the little girl asleep in Tanya's arms.
Looking at them Amaruq said, "Thank you for the life of my granddaughter."
Amaruq looked at the condition of the three Polar Bears with a raised eyebrow, only to have Lilly say, "Were stronger than we look."
"So, it Seems!" Amaruq commented.
Answering the unspoken question Lilly told him, "They have been avenged!"
The Village Elder looked at her with a speculative brow.
Later that night at the Denali house Lilly said, "Tanya ever since we met in forks you have been wondering how old I was."
"Eleazar" Lilly said, "I will answer all your questions, but are you ready for the answers?"
That caused Eleazar to look at her speculatively thinking about the search for the girl earlier that day. Pausing for just a moment to consider her statement Eleazar asks, "You left here mere seconds before we did, yet you were well into saving the girl."
"I was wondering when that would come up!" Lilly said lightly, "Did you want a general description, or a M.P.H breakdown Eleazar."
Smiling Lilly said, "All of you can run between 100 and 200 miles per hour!"
There were collective nods in the room as Lilly appraisal them she said, "Drake and I can run between 25,000 mph to 160,000 miles per hours."
Gauging their reaction by the silence in the room Lilly said, "To put that in perspective that's the speed of a shooting star!"
"You said you were not made, yet you are clearly vampire." Eleazar said looking for answers.
Looking at them Lilly says, "Drake and I are the children of Shadow, and Night. Born out of Chaos."
One of the many degrees Kate had was in classical studies looking at them she says, "Your mother was Nyx, and your father was Erebus?"
"Katrina!" Lilly said, "We think of ourselves as Elder Gods, however the most common title for what we are is Titans!"
12 sets of eyes snap to look at Lilly, as the women in question, as Lilly lazily gazed back asking, "What?"
Moments later Reading Tanya's thoughts Lilly said, "I used to hunt Smilodon fatalis."
"Lilly" Bella asked, "How did I!"
"It's called Animal Sight, it allows you to see through the eyes of a given animal, Like a wolf or a bat."
That Night they arrive at a bar and Bella frowns looking at her Lilly said, "Bella, Bella, Bella, imagine yourself at 21, the rest will take care of itself."
All the sudden Bella's face ages by 4 years, and Lilly said, "Now think of yourself at 18 again!"
Bella when you want to return to your actual age imagine yourself as 18 and your face will de-age back to 18 again!
"Verry soon you will need to start training your senses!" Lilly said, gently.
The following morning, Lilly and Bella are outside, and Tanya is watching, when Lilly said, "I'm going to take away your human sight."
Both Tanya and Lilly tensed at hearing that, when Lilly said, "I need you to become aware of a second type of sight!"
Looking at Bella, Lilly pupils dilated and then contracted, saying, "You cannot use human sight."
"Bella!" Lilly said, "Close your eyes."
"Now!" Lilly said, "Open them, if you look to your right you should see a heard of elk about 1000 yards away!"
"I see Yellows, and Orange colors!" Bella gasps
"Now, Look at Tanya and me!"
"Your Blue!" Bella muttered.
minutes later.
Looking at Bella, Lilly pupils dilated and then contracted, saying, "You can see!"
Drake steps forward saying, "Bella, think about seeing in the dark!"
Bella's thermal vision kicked in as Drake said, "Now, listen to the wind!"
Bella nods when she can hear it and Drake said, "Now listen to what's behind the wind!"
Bella can hear a heard of dear off in the distance and can even hear her mate walking over to Lilly.
"To be totally ruthless in battle takes more discipline than you think!" Drake told her as he stood in-front of Bella.
"Bella, defend yourself." Drake said, calmly.
"Bella" Drake said, "I'm going to try and kill you!"
Tanya was about to run forward and defend her mate when Lilly's hand-held her in place saying, "He knows what he is doing, he also knows you can't train her like this!"