Rath POV
As soon as we pulled up in front of a grove of trees Bella was out of the car, and into the woods. I gave a lazy smirk as I slowly crawled out of the car onto my preferred spot of lying down on the hood. I looked up at the sky and gave a smile, Bella always told me that you could never see the stars in Forks; the cloud cover was too thick. But now- no matter where you looked- it was like you were on the dark side of the moon, thanks to my own little weather bug back at home.
My family considered me a little… odd, and that's putting it nicely, because hell I consider myself a freak of nature. And not just because of the whole "I'm the undead" thing, even by vampire standers I'm a freak. I was never one for speed, while the rest of my family loved to go all -
-Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes-
- Ricky-Bobby, I preferred to sit back and watch life pass me by. The one thing about me that could pass as somewhat normal in average vampire society sets me even farther apart from my family. Because the rest of my family can drink animal blood with out puking it up-
-Here she lies No one knew her worth-
- an hour latter, go into a start of mind where you have no idea what your doing and end up killing a dozen or so people, and for the next three weeks have the ability to almost actually die.
-The late great daughter of Mother Earth On these nights when we celebr-
Pulling my self out of my thoughts long enough to flip open my phone and give a half assed "Yeah?" I couldn't help but jump when I got a reply of, "Rath," from a voice I had never herd before, but sounded strangely like Rayne's, but more high pitched… like wind chimes. I pulled the phone away from my ear to check the caller ID but didn't recognize the number.
"Hello?" I asked skeptically.
"I assume Bella has already left for her hunt?"
"Who the hell is this, how did you get this number?!"
"Cullen… Alice Cullen, an-" I cut her off there.
"Who?"
"Oh come on Rath, I know Bella told you about me… and my less then devoted know nothing brother."
"No." this could not be happening. Oh I knew about Alice, but she wasn't the one I was concerned about, not by a long shot. I was the only person in our family that knew about Isby's past, and that was only because I knew any persons worst fear. When I had first met her - it had been eight years since her change only five years since my own - I was skeptical, at the time I had never met anyone who had realized their worst fear. When I concentrated on her, there was no dark looming figure standing behind her, so I had just assumed she was using her power to block my own. So when she and I had gone hunting together for the first time I asked her if she would remove her shield for a moment because I wanted to try an experiment, she had reluctantly agreed.
So she lowered her safeguard and I tried once more to see her fears, but again I was unable to. I asked if she might have any incite on this and at this she told me of her past, and how that might be the reason why my power had no affect on her. She told me about how she had first moved to forks when she was seventeen so that her mother could move around with her new husband. How she met Edward, and how not long after she found out that he and his family where vampires. When James had hunted her down and tricked her into coming to him just so that he could try to kill her, and how Edward and his family had come just in time to save her and slaughter James. How she had nearly turned into a vampire because James had bitten the palm of her hand, but Edward had uncertainly drank the venom back out. But by biting Isby James had forever left his mark on her in the form of a nearly invisible crescent scar. I had often caught her looking at the scar with a forlorn look of longing on her face.
She continued to tell me about how on her eighteenth birthday she had gotten a paper cut from opening one of her presents causing Jasper to attack her. After that everything went down hill. A few days after the incident Edward took Isby out into the woods jus outside of her house, and told her that he was leaving her, because she wasn't right for him. She got a reluctant look on her face before whispering, "I- I can't remember what happened after that, the next thing I new it was months later and Charlie was telling me he was sending me to live with Renee. I got mad and told him he couldn't do that to me, that if I had to I would bye an apartment. Finally we came to an agreement if I went out and socialized, he would get off my back. So that night I went out with Jessica, and we went to see a movie that was about zombies that… hit a little too close to home, so I ran out half way through, later saying that I was scared. After the movie we went out to eat and on the way I saw these guys inside a bar that reminded me of the bastards from the last time I had come to port angelus with Jessica that would have… you know, before Edward saved me."
She told me about how she herd Edwards voice in her head when she started walking toward the men in the bar. After that night she found out she could hear his voice only when she did something stupid and dangerous. And that's how she reconnected with Jacob. She had found some busted up old bikes and got him to agree to fix them and they ended up hanging out a lot even after the bikes were fixed. Soon it was almost like Edward never existed. One day they went to the movies with Mike, and got sick. Not long after Jacob stopped talking to her, and Bella started to revert to how she was before Jacob came back into her life. She tried to figure out what could have happened to make him act as such, but couldn't really think of anything. Trying to get hr mind off of the subject – and also in hopes of hearing Edwards voice – Bella ventured to the meadow. But she didn't find what she was looking for, but she did find a murderous vampire called Laurent. After he tried to kill Isby he quickly ran off into the woods only to be followed and slaughtered by some freakishly huge ass wolves.
Still a little freaked about the whole giant wolves/ Laurent incident Isby finally just decided to go to Jacob's house and wait outside until Jacob came out to talk to her. When he did come out, they took a walk so that they could speak some what privately; needless to say the conversation was not a pleasant one- you know with Jacob basically telling Isby to back the fuck off. Isby was heart broken, and cried herself to sleep. And it just so happened Jacob was having a hard time sleeping, so he decided to limb the tree out side Isby's window to pay her a visit, and halfway explain to her why he was avoiding her. Isby was confused to say the least, but eventually she figured out- thanks to a dream she had that night- that he had turned into a werewolf and that there were more of them over on the reservation.
After that Jacob explained to her about that bitch Victoria, and she explained to him that she was after her. So for a while the pack kept watch over Isby. One day when Jacob was supposed to take her cliff diving, but instead had to go with the pack because they caught Victoria's sent, Isby got board and thought that if she still when cliff diving she might hear Edward's voice. She did, but she still jumped. After jumping off the cliff she nearly drowned causing Jacob to save her and drive her home, when they were almost there Jacob smelled a vamp and started to turn the truck around, but Isby saw Carlisle's car and told him to stop, that she knew the vampire. When she got the house Jacob started to turn the truck around, but Isby screamed stop claming she knew the vamp inside. The vamp in question turned out to be Alice.
She told Isby about how she probably didn't see Jacob save her form browning because Jacobs's werewolf sense thingy's messed with her ability. She left after a few days, promising to keep in touch no matter what Edward told her. After that Jacob and Isby dated for a while but he got sick of how he was always in second place next to Edward and finally dumped her, stopping all communications all together. The cliff dive was the last time his voice talked to Bella, that is, until she tried to commit suicide for the second time.
"Yup, now ya got it. Anyway, since Bella is obviously gone, I have something to tell you."
"…And that would be…?
"Oh right, well since you hate my brother for what he did to Bella, and he has no idea she's still alive I thought we could play a small… prank on him. And to make sure it works right, I'm going to called Agana and have her tell the rest of your family. So all you'll have to do is…"
When Isby got back she seemed a little distant, slightly pissed off, a teeny tiny bit …murderess. I tried to keep my distance even after my own hunt but then… she almost ran over a couple on our way home.
So I ask- while still keeping a safe distance I might add- , "Isby I know vamps are all about the speed, believe me I do, but don't you think 800mph is pushing the envelope a little too much?"
"No, not really," she grumbled through clenched teeth, pushing even harder on the gas pedal.
"A-are you sure, because you barley missed that couple back there." God I hoped she didn't hear that stutter, if she knew how freaked out I was about her driving right now it might push her over the edge.
"The bastards had it coming, they should know better than to walk across a street at night."
"Yeah especially when the light was red, how stupid can you get," I mentally slapped my self when I realized what I had just said.
"Well excuse me Mr. I'm- too- good- for- Isby's- driving- just- because- she- almost- almost- ran- over- some- stupid- couple," shit what did I get my self into, I mean seriously Alice even warned me about not pissing Isby off, "One that will probably never last because the guy will turn out to be a vampire and will end up leaving the girl just because of a little mishap at her birthday party and because he doesn't lover anymore because of it, breaking her heart, making her go insane to the point where she tries to commit suicide! But in the middle of it is suddenly stopped by a vampire more insane than she is, and said vamp bites her because she thinks it's a good revenge, for the girl's ex- boyfriend killing her mate!
"Then BOOM it's a hundred years latter the girl is still a little screwed in the head, the guy couldn't care less because he thinks she died a century ago but even if he didn't think that he still wouldn't give a damn! And it's just the girls luck that when one of her coven members chooses to go back to the girls hometown so that she could face her fears and get on with her life, the first time she goes hunting in her old home town she smells the guy vamps scent that makes her want to cry her little undead heart out but sing with joy at the same damn fucking time!" by now she had some foam seeping from the corner of her mouth, I was going to tell her, but I decided not to… and not because I was scared. Vampire men don't get scared… most of the time… ok maybe kinda sorta sometimes, but not really, well maybe a little, except for always… I think she made me shit a fucking brick.
So to try and take the attention off my ball-less self I said, "No, I think the guy's a normal human." She turned to look at me mouth agape, eyes wide in the perfect WTF? look. I gave her a small smile before asking in a tender, but bleak tone, "So their here."
"Yeah."
"When do we meet them?" I'm not going to tell her that I already knew they were here; she'd trap me in one of her bubble things and treat me like a hamster.
"Oh in about… now." she pulled into the school parking lot and parked my car next to her bike. I saw her looking out of the window at our family standing in front of Sunny's car, looking at who I assumed to be the Cullen's. She stared at them her eyes large, looking like a deer in the headlights. Her breathing was shallow as she looked over at me with a shaky smile; I gently took her small trembling hand in my own and gave it a small encouraging squeeze before giving her a quick peck on the cheek, "don't worry," I murmured, " you'll be fine." I slowly stepped out of the car only to take my place behind Rayne putting my arms around her while resting my head on her shoulder.
Agana POV
We said are goodbyes and good lucks to Isby and Rath as they were leaving for their hunting trip. I never understood why we had never come to Forks before, honestly its one of the few places that we could actually live. Our entire coven knew that Isby used to live here when she was human, but we knew nothing of her past life, or why she acquired the power that she had.
When I had come into the family Bella had explained to me that I might obtain an ability of sorts, and she continued to explain that along her travels, before she joined this coven, that she had come across a vampire that had a theory about how some of our kind acquired these powers. The theory being that in some cases our strongest characteristic from when we were human is amplified, much like our physical qualities. From that theory we, for the most part, understood why the members of our family got powers had.
Kathrin, when she was human, aspired to be an amazing actress. She could imitate most anyone or anything. It was quite eerie at the time, really. When we had moved to Chicago, on the first day at our new school, Kathrin just so happened to be board that day at lunch and out of no where got up on one of the long tables started singing "Take me or Leave me" from "Rent", while acting out the scene as both Maureen and Joanne, and you could swear that that you were watching the play with how amazing she preformed it. And even more surprisingly none of the students made fun of her, and none of the teachers tried to get her off of the table, in fact they all started clapping, including a certain blond brother of mine. We soon leaned why no one had tried to stop her that day; she was one of those people that you found it completely impossible to hate. Months after we moved there it wasn't hard to see that Sunny was infatuated with her, and by the blush she carried whenever Sunny got near her it was quite obvious that she had developed a crush on him as well. Three weeks latter… Kathrin was in an accident, her car had been hit by a drunk driver on her way home from work. She was taken to the hospital and was deemed to not make it through the week. Sunny was devastated, so of course in the middle of the night, we cut off the power in her bedroom and stole her away to be bitten, and join our family.
Rayne and Sunny were born to some high off their ass parents. How they got changed is they were at a concert and a local vamp came to gorge off of the "to high to notice" soon to be victims. Well Rayne and Sunny just happened to be two of those victims. The only difference is that they had enough sense to run back to their car and try to hide. Not long after that our old coven leader found them and took them in. a couple of decades latter they went up to Alaska and meat up with this coven that had a similar taste in blood, after that they found Rath and a year or too after that Isby. As for their powers… yeah they are the only people in our family we have absolutely no theory for how they got their powers. Because honestly how could something from their human life relate to them controlling the weather.
-I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut-
Vladimir, well… he was a bit of a pyromaniac. He was a sweet heart beyond all reason, he just had the uncontrollable need to set things on fire. During their last year in Oregon, Rayne was paired up with Vlad in chemistry as lab partners. Needless to say he was in awe at her knowledge of explosive and flammable substances, and she was inspired by his enthusiasm to co-create with Sunny, what is now know as Holy-Hell-Water. One day while working on an experiment with Rayne, Vlad accidentally added too much of the wrong ingredient causing a small explosion to occur. He got third degree burns, along with mutable glass shards lodged
-My weakness is that I care too much-
throughout is body. Rayne freaked out from fear of lousing a good friend, so she through him over her shoulder- it was quit a funny sight is what I'm told, with him being much taller than her, she accidentally hit his head on the ground every once in a while, causing Rayne to squeak out a petrified sorry every few seconds- and run to the car to take him back to the house to change him.
Rath, was an incredible magician when he was alive. Better than Criss Angel, David Copperfield, Houdini, and Siegfried and Roy all put together. Add that with the fact that he had a natural instinct for picking out a person's worst fear and you had the perfect formula for the ultimate prankster. Rath was naturally a lazy ass genius, but that didn't mean he didn't love to pull pranks on the teachers of the school, he never bothered trying to pull one on any of the students, always saying "hey their not the ones trying to shove work down my throat." We're not sure why he is unable to drink animal blood with out getting sick, but we do know that he had a similar problem when he was alive. When ever he ate anything that was not in his usual diet his initial reaction is to become uncontrollably ill, our only philosophy is that maybe this hitch in his anatomy had been enhanced much like everything else. I'm not sure what Rath's connection to my family was before he was changed. All I know is one day he was working on his senior prank, his Pièce de résistance if you will, but unfortunately took a terrible fall. I don't know whether it was Sunny or Rayne that had found him, all I know is that not to long after one of them found him he was changed.
Magnus, well we don't really know much about his past. He stayed away from civilization after he was changed. So not having to explain his story to anyone just caused him to forget. The few things he could remember were from his childhood and -
-And my scars remind me that the past is real-
- consisted of him living on a giant ship with a French flag.
Me, well my human life was actually pretty damn normal for the most part. I was your average some what preppy book worm. I grew up in the south, and ended up moving up north for collage, I was studying to be a surgeon, even though I was more suited to be a physiatrist. I was one of those people that always fixed the really screwed up relationships in my school. When I was changed I guess the venom just improved upon that in a weird way, now I can heal any physical wound but I can't do shit about an emotional one. Lord knows if I could I would make Isby and chipper as a cheerleader. The reason I was changed… is a scary one. It was the middle of the night, and I was walking to my dorm from a night class. Out of no where someone grabbed me and drug me behind a building. It was one of the guys from the class I had just left, at first I thought he was just messing around, but then he started to tear off my clothes. Every time I tried to scream, or started to struggle he would punch me, or slam my head up against the wall of the building, after a while my head started to bleed heavily and I begane to drift in and out of consciousness from blood loss. All of a sudden he started to push his pants off, his hand slipped off of my mouth long enough for me to give a strangled cry. Then I saw her, shrouded by the shadows Isby was a dark avenger of the night- like batman, or Harry potter, or something less geeky… basically anyone but superman… 'cause he's a flamer- coming to my rescue. At first I was worried for one of my best friend's safety, my attacker finding her no really threat let go of his hold on me, causing me to fall to the ground in a slump. Isby took one swift look at my crumpled form and in a flash she had lifted the guy by the collar and slammed him against the brick wall, making the guy choke out an, "Oh shit." Before Isby gave a wicked grin hissing out, "yeah, that about sums it up." after that I blacked out, and the next thing I knew I was looking into the faces of my new family.
Isby (aka Bella, aka Izzy, aka bells), yeah I basically know shit about her human life. All I know is that she moved from living with her mom to living with her dad in For-
-I tear my heart open just to fee-
I gave a grown as I opened my phone, "hello?!"
Now for reviews-
obessedwithTwilight09, thanks that's really nice.
OneWIshMakeItCount, for you I will so make Edward describe exactly what he thinks of HHW in the next chapter. and don't apologize for not spelling everything perfectly, I cant spell worth a damn myself. (ie. I misspelled something in my own yearbook, and didn't notice it until one of my friends told me so) and just to tell you the only reason I wrote something in my yearbook is because every year I dedicate one page to all the inside jokes me and my friends had that year.
BellaBoo31793, I updated… after a really long time. But I updated, and now you know what partway happened.
DawnOfDays, so what do you think of the love interest? And I'll try to update as soon as I can. And there is someone else involved.
917brat, that was really sweet of you to say.
iloveTwilight-kk, thanks.
GrlWithoutAName, well your wish did come true. Its just I chose to go the other way.
CobhGirl3, thank you, and I'll try.
Twilight3fanatic, OMG! Do you like Jacob, too? Honestly, I'm a Jacob fan. No I don't want him to end up with Bella I just like him 'cause he's sweet/ reckless/ totally smoking hot.
NC girl, your friends started to gag? Lol, now that's priceless. I mean I can make my friends snort like crazy but I can only ever get them to gag if their drinking a soda.
vampgirl12, well you found out more about Agana… I just don't think it's what you were expecting.
tay5, thanks that's thoughtful, I hope you like the new chapter.
TheFutureIsNear08, I know right?
GrlWithoutAName, AiEdogawaIsaBellaCullen, kim53456, you all said you didn't understand something in the whole one, two, three thing from chapter so I'm going to explain it right quick.
that wasn't his Volvo… he's not in New York. He can't be.- as I said in this most resent of chapters, Rayne and sunny had spent some time up north in Denali… you know what I'm not going to explain this one its coming up pretty soon in the story so until then I want y'all to try and figure it out.
he's not really there in the mirror; it's just my mind playing tricks on me again.- in two words the voice. Much like everything else when she became a vampire her halusinations advanced as well. causing her to see Edward when ever she became doubt full about herself. Because, she still thinks Edward never thought she was good enough for him, and for that reason she thinks what ever makes herself weaker in her own eyes will make him hate her all the more. (or something like that it's a little hard to explain)
he's gone; forever... he's never coming back.- at the time she never thought she would see him again. (ps this corresponds with the first one)
push the pain to the side. Don't even think of him. - She just wants to forget about him (obviously)
you have a new family, a new life without him.- this one is self explainitory
take a deep breath, let it out slowly, loudly, and calmly, send the tension and pain with it to be cleansed and forgotten.- once again she just wants to forget him
The next chapter will consist of –
1) The continuation of Agana's POV
2) Edward's pov of chap. 7
3) The new Cullen girl and boy (aka the characters who I have no idea will look like. So I need some suggestions on those please.)
4) and the song- "If You're Not The One" by Daniel Bedingfield (no this will NOT be a song fic chapter, but the reason for this specific song is that its really, really sad and makes me cry every time I hear it, and will go perfectly with the next chapter)
PS- sorry for all the misspelled words and what not, I was trying to update before I leave.
PSS- I leave for Turkey tomorrow but I hope some of y'all will have left a review for me by then
PSSS- I will be working on the story while on my plane rides
I go from my home town to Atlanta, to New York, to Paris, to Istanbul, So yeah long plain ride like over 16 hours. So that means long chapter… hopefully.
So yeah when I get back I want like a ton of reviews from y'all.
G'night (because you know its like midnight where I live),
S.D