Prologue

Bella POV

It's been 200 years since Edward left me and a lot has happened. After I finally snapped out of what I had dubbed my zombie period I realized that what Edward and I had wasn't healthy. Frankly it was sick. We never really loved each other. He loved me for my blood and the fact he couldn't read my mind and I loved the feeling that I finally felt like I belonged for once instead of an outsider or a freak. I never fit in with the human world and even in the supernatural I never felt like I fit in but with the Cullen's I felt at least a fraction of normalcy which is weird since they are a family of vampires that is the opposite of normal but there it is.

When Edward left and took his family with him he took away my family and it wasn't until three years later that I realized how true that was. A year after they left I was finally getting over their departure and since hanging out with Jacob Black my best friend things had been getting better until he tried to leave me behind and started treating me like shit until I figured out why I had been on the verge of snapping when thanks to my dreams and a hint from Jacob I figured out he was a wolf shape shifter. They tried to convince me they were werewolves but after pointing out that they didn't need a full moon and telling them about the children of the moon I had read about at the Cullen's they finally believed me.

Since finding out that Vampires and Shape shifters exist I realized that maybe there are truths into the legends and stories of fairytales and myth. So I took it upon myself to learn of every creature and monster out there from angels and demons to witches and the Fae.

Since the Cullen's left and weren't coming back I used to sneak into their house and read from Carlisle's library and once that was done I read from the others and learned I was right in my theory there were more. The more I learned about the supernatural world the more I felt normal like I wasn't just reading about what could be out in the world but what was out in my world.

Besides researching the supernatural world, hanging out with wolves and my human friends I graduated high school and went to college at Dartmouth majoring in Philosophy and myth/culture. Once I graduated I bought a house on the Rez and became a supernatural librarian of sorts. I research creatures of the supernatural and record facts on them.

A year later on my 20th birthday my dreams which have always been premonition like began coming more frequent and my senses became sharper. I could hear conversations from a mile away, my sense of smell became more sharp and I could smell the shifters but unlike what the Cullen's described to me they had a musky earth scent. Then my taste buds went haywire. I became more testy and territorial of my stuff, of my house especially if someone came near my house without my permission I would be pissed off and growl!

When I had a fever and pains like Jake had before he phased I knew I needed to tell someone but when I told the pack they had no idea what was going on with me or how it was possible I mean I had no Quileute blood in me or so we thought and there were no vampires since the wolves took care of Laurent and Victoria hadn't been around she was presumed dead or had given up which I doubt was the case.

When I went to Charlie and he didn't have a clue(we told him about the supernatural world when he married Sue Clearwater) I decided to look into my family tree where I found some shocking news. It turns out I am related to all the Cullen's sans Edward in some way. I am related to Alice, Esme and Emmett on my mother's side and Carlisle, Jasper and Rosalie on my father's side. Alice's sister Cynthia is my great, great grandmother, Esme's brother Ethan is my great, great, great Uncle and Emmet's sister is my great aunt. Carlisle is my 10x's great grandfather and Jasper is my great, great uncle, and Rosalie is my great aunt thanks to her little sister. I am also related to the three kings of Volterra (from a human before they found their mates) and the witch twins( their little sister after their death), as well as Ephraim Black. Apparently Ephraim had a little sister and I am her direct descendent she married man from a tribe of cat shifters who was exiled from his tribe because they didn't approve.

So in total I am a witch(from being related to the witch twins,) dhampir ( from the kings of vampires. Caius son married Marcus daughter and Aro's daughter they were both his mates)a wolf shifter-cat-shifter hybrid (from Ephraim's sister and her husband.) So in total I am a supernatural freak.

When I shifted for the first time I became a pure white wolf with ice blue eyes and was the biggest wolf in the tribe. I was also the Alpha female to Jacobs Alpha male but we were like brother and sisters not to mention we are related besides he has his imprint Leah Clearwater my stepsister and I am happy for them.

When I shift in my cat form I found out I can shift into any cat no matter how big or small or what type as long as it is feline I can shift into it.

For my witch side I am what is called an Elemental and a Mind Mistress. As a Mind Mistress I have total power over the mind, be it telepathy, mind control, telekinesis, illusions or shielding. That is the reason Edwards power or any powers of the mind don't work on me. The mind is my domain and I am its mistress no one can enter my mind unless I allow it.

As an Elemental I can also control and manipulate the elements be it air, water, earth, or fire in all its forms, I control them all but my favorite element is fire.

From my dhampir side I need blood only every other week, I have super speed, strength and senses. But because I am also a shifter I don't have diamond hard skin or cold temperature but my skin is stronger than the average shifter and hotter. I am also immune to fire thanks to my elemental abilities. I am truly immortal, unlike vamps who don't age they can die by fire or the shifters who only age if they stop phasing I don't know if I can be killed.

It has been 200 years and I still look the same as the day Edward and my family left me, apparently when I turned 18 I stopped aging and James's bite activated my dhampir genes whether the venom remained or not it would not have mattered by my 18th birthday my dhampir side was awakened and stopped my aging.

Once my shifter and witch heritage was activated I needed to feed more sadly I can only have human blood and my eye color is the same it only turns black when I am angry, aroused or hungry. Also unlike the Cullen's since I am a descendant of a Dhampir I can't turn someone so my bite has no venom to humans and I can feed without killing or turning them.

So for the last 200 years after my 'supernatural awakening' as I called it I traveled the world visiting and learning from Shape shifter clans of all kinds, I visited Volterra and found the Kings and the witch twins and got to know them we are all really close now and they were pissed at the Cullen's and wanted to rip them limb from limb for what they did to me but were surprised when they learned I was related to all of them except Edward so they decided to 'spare them their wrath'.

Unfortunately Edward was free game to them but then again I don't love him anymore and pretty much hate his guts for taking my family away. Also it would never work out, since I would have more than one mate to satisfy my beast's as I have affectionately called my shifter and dhampir side since that is pretty much what they are.

I have to juggle three different set of instincts it took me 150 years to balance my beasts. I learned to not control my beasts cause that makes them worse to handle so I settled for a compromise I drink blood every other week, spend time in my cat form as my main beast and when around my pack brothers I'll spend time as a wolf and patrol with them or when needed for my Alpha duties as my secondary beast.

It's been 150 years since I have been home sure I shift and perform my Alpha duties through the pack mind but it isn't the same and I miss my friends and family. So I decided it is time to go home, back to forks and back to the place where it all began.