Chapter 3

A New Life

Lily looked up from the book she was currently reading as she heard her parents pull into the driveway. She didn't realize that this was odd, her knowing they were home with the windows closed and her being on the opposite side of the house; it was something she had always been able to do, know when her parents were home.

Closing her book she stood and went downstairs to greet them. Her parents weren't big on much in their family, but they always demanded their children be waiting to welcome them home as they entered the door. As she stood in front of the door her brothers appeared beside her. The door was opened to a chorus of, "welcome home mom and dad," said by her and her five brothers.

"Thank you all for taking the time out of your day to be here," her mother said giving them all a kiss one by one. Her father followed behind her shaking her brothers hands until he came to her, he gave her a light kiss on the head and ruffled her hair. Lily noticed her mother take Shiloh aside and whisper a few things to him. She became agitated as his eyes grew big and he began speaking earnestly back. Their words were almost too soft to hear, she caught a few words from Shiloh though.

"Now? When did they-" Her mother cut him off with a soft remark, then turned and smiled at her children.

"Everyone please sit, there are some things we wish to speak with you all about," she said, indicating the sofa's. Her father looked at her mother with a tired look.

"Kathy, isn't it a little soon? I haven't even showered yet." Her father said.

"No, the sooner the better Thomas," her mother said with a sigh. Lily looked bewilderedly at her parents as she sat down on the large sofa in their living room next to her brothers. They all sat at attention, their backs straight as if they were expecting something unpleasant, all except Noah who looked bored and ready to flee.

Noah was her twin brother but the two were nothing alike. While she had long, straight, silver blond hair, he had short, curling, dark brown hair. Her eyes were a light almost silver color, his were so dark they looked black. He was tall and brawny, she was short and supple. They were as opposite as night from day, but just then they wore identical expressions of confusion as their mother began to speak.

"You four know this already of course," she started, looking at her brothers Shiloh, Kaleb, Jason and Josh.

Shiloh and Kaleb had a different father from the rest of them that had gifted them both with black hair and olive skin. Jason and Josh were another set of twins and were Lily's full brothers. The four nodded their heads as they waited for their mother to continue.

"This will be, I'm sure, incredibly shocking for the two of you to hear," their mother said, turning to Noah and her.

"What is it mom?" Noah asked, the bored expression leaving his face and worry taking over it. He thought she was sick. The thought popped into Lily's head of its own volition.

"There is something your father and I never told you about yourselves, something we have tried to keep hidden for seventeen years now. It's not that we didn't want to tell you but we were ordered to keep it a secret from you."

"Mother don't," Jason said, standing and walking in front of her.

"I have to, Thierry told us if we didn't he would," their father said, placing a hand on Jason's shoulder.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Lily burst out. "Who the hell is Thierry, and who ordered you not to tell us about ourselves?"

Jason sighed and moved to his former position on the couch, laying his head in his hands.

"Thierry is the oldest living made vampire in the world. He was at the head of the Night World Council, along with various others. We were told not to tell you your heritage in the hopes that you would never be needed, but you are," their mother said. Lily burst out laughing.

"Ha ha, very funny. Good joke guys," Lily said, but as she looked from face to face the thought that her family was insane crossed her mind.

"You are not solely human, only a small part is. Inside your veins runs the blood of shapeshifter, witch, vampire, werewolf, and human. Thousands of years ago a witch decreed a prophesy of a time when two children would be needed to save the world, two children with the powers of all to save us. You are those children. Soon after this prophesy was given the Night World was formed, and once they were formed they began gathering the greatest houses of night people to give birth to children that would be acceptable heirs to this prophesy," their mother stopped and looked from her to Noah.

"The Night World has been waiting for this day and planning in secrecy. You are of house Drace of the shapeshifters, the kings of the shapeshifters. You are Harmen, the most powerful and oldest line of the witch's. You are Redfern, the oldest and most powerful of the Vampire's, and you are Lupine the most powerful werewolf family. You are also Pillato, a once royal family of Italy," their father finished after picking up where their mother had left off.

"That's not funny," Noah whispered.

"If we were vampires how could we grow, and why don't we drink blood?" Lily asked, angry suddenly.

"You are Lamia, vampires that can be born, grow, and have children. You do not need blood because of your human blood, as long as you don't drink blood none of your powers may be used though," Kaleb said.

"You're insane, all of you are insane," Noah blurted. Their father looked between their mother and brothers, they all stood up and moved in front of Lily and Noah.

Without warning, and as each lined up in front of the two frightened teenagers, their teeth began to grow and elongate into sharp, long canine teeth. Each was about an inch and a half long and milky white, almost translucent. Their eyes changed as they did this, turning into jewel bright tones, depending on the eyes, and gaining cat like pupils that opened wide in the dimly lit room. Her mother's eyes which were normally sky blue turned into bright silver, their father's green turned into bright emerald. It went this way with each of her brothers as well.

Lily began to hyperventilate. Their teeth shrank as they all saw this and suddenly they looked normal, like her family.

"Oh God," Lily whispered.

"Why us?" Noah asked from beside her, Lily tried to catch her breath to no avail.

"Put your head between your legs and breath before you pass out," Shiloh said, reaching out to help her.

"Don't touch me," she shrieked and jumped away from him.

"Why us?" Noah asked again, "Why not Josh and Jason?"

"Because of Lily, the prophet saw a male and a female in her vision," their father said.

Lily began to sob as her family continued to speak, but she couldn't listen to them, it wasn't true. Her mind suddenly jumped to her dream two nights ago, the one of Lane biting her, and then the one of Lane and Patty calling her a monster and pushing her off a cliff.

"So you've been hiding this from us for seventeen years?" She cried suddenly, her breathing still not under control.

"We were ordered to from your birth. If you weren't going to be needed we need never have told you. The Council didn't want you to know of your powers because they have such awe inspiring potential, but a time is coming when we will need you. There are others that will help, four wild powers that will stand with you, but in the end it will be the both of you that fullfill the prophesy, they can only help," their mother said.

"What is the Night World?" Noah asked.

"It it an organization for witch's, shapeshifters, Lamia, made vampires, and werewolf's. It is how we have stayed alive and unknown for countless millenia. With the coming of the end however the Night World has split and turned into two different factions, the old Night World that looks forward to the coming of darkness, they don't want to stop it, and Circle Daybreak that opposes the old ways and is trying to bring humans and the Night World together to stop the coming darkness," their mother said.

"We belong to Circle Daybreak, as does Thierry and many others. Acording to the old ways a human and a Night World citizen could never fall in love, never marry. A human would be killed simply for knowing the Night World existed. That is why we needed to keep you, us, a secret. We could be killed for being part human. Most of Circle Daybreak doesn't even know you exist, only a certain few. If the Night World knew they would do everything in their power to kill you," their father said.

Lily had finally gotten her breathing under control, her old world was gone and in its place was something different, something she had never even dreamed of.

"What do we have to do?" She whispered, sitting down next to Noah.

Okay, review review review, please? I'm becoming discouraged that my story is no good or something cause only Windy is reading it.

So to my one reviewer out there, I know you haven't read the books and if any of this is confusing to you let me know and I'll try to clarify in my next update, same with anyone reading this of course.

And for any Smith fans, I don't know the name of the werewolf house so I made it up, if you do know, which I don't think you could cause I don't believe she has made one up herself, do tell me and I'll fix it.