Actually this story is based on a dream I had like…5 or 6 years ago, and it's based around my family, of course I have elaborated upon the dream quite a bit but Noah is my twin brother, Shiloh is my oldest, then Kaleb then Jason and Josh who are twins then Noah and I… though my name's not Lily:) I already told you I was nuts, what more do you want? Anyway Windy, hope you enjoy this chapter though it is graphic!

Chapter 4

The Beginning

Lily stared at her brother in obvious shock and horror.

"Shiloh, I can't do that," she whispered. Shiloh stopped drinking the mans blood and turned to her.

"You don't have to kill him Lily, in fact we prefer not to, but if you don't drink his blood you'll never get your powers," Shiloh said.

After the family meeting they had taken a vote, Shiloh had ended up being picked to take Lily out for her first hunt while Kaleb would take Noah.

"But I don't even have teeth like you," she whispered.

"You will," he said, holding out the sleeping man for her to see. Two drops of blood stained his throat where Shiloh had punctured. Lily watched in avid facination and horror at the sight. She had never thought of drinking blood, never even conceived of the idea. As Shiloh brought the man closer she felt her body begin to react at the thought of blood, at the sight of it, and at the smell.

"Let go," Shiloh said. Lily let go of her ideals, she let them fall around her in pieces as the man was laid in her arms.

Without conscious thought she struck, aiming for the two tiny puncture wounds Shiloh had already made. She hit her mark. Blood flowed into her and as she drank she felt like she had been dehydrated for a month and was finally drinking a cool, clean glass of water. It didn't taste like blood, not coppery or bitter, it tasted of life.

Lily had an odd sense of strength flowing into her with the mans blood, the sense that she could run up a mountain or even fly.

"That's enough," she heard Shiloh say from what seemed like a far off place. She ignored him, she needed more, she wanted to be filled. "Enough Lily, you don't want to kill him." She felt hands pulling her away and was jarred awake at her brothers words. She pulled her mouth away and dropped the man on the pavement in front of her.

"I don't want to kill," she whispered looking at Shiloh.

"Can you run? Let's run home." Shiloh took her hand and began to pull her along. Without knowing how she let her legs go and they began to run faster than she had ever run before, she passed streetlights and trees at an incredible pace, barely being able to see them as she flew past them. She beat Shiloh home by a full minute.

"Did you see how fast I ran?" She asked as they burst in the door laughing and almost bumping straight into Adam.

"Careful," Adam said, catching her before she could fall.

"Adam," she said in shock. She hadn't thought of him since that morning when she had found out, seeing him in her new world was a shock that jolted her system. "What are you doing here?" She asked in bewilderment, not so much that he was in her house, but that he was in her new world where her mind told her he should not be.

"I came to see if you wanted to go to a movie or something, your mom let me in," he said, looking just as bewildered by her confusion.

"Oh, I can't Shiloh and I had some plans tonight," she told him, not wanting to stop learning the extent of her new powers.

"Okay, well then maybe tomorrow?" He asked.

"Sure I'll give you a call later," she said with a smile. She gave him a small hug then walked him to the door.

"Is everything okay?" He asked as she opened the door.

"Fine, why?"

"I don't know, you just look… never mind I'll talk to you later," he said and left. Lily watched him leave for a moment before closing the door and turning back to Shiloh.

"So what else can I do besides run fast?" She asked excitedly.

"Why don't we wait till Noah gets home," he said with a laugh. She nodded glumly and sat to wait, luckily it was only a few minutes later that Kaleb and him walked in the door.

"How do you feel?" She asked excitedly.

"I feel great," he said.

"Good, so what else can we do?" She asked again as she turned back to Shiloh.

"Well you can read minds, talk with telepathy, erase memories, you're stronger than a normal human, even stronger than you were. You can do quite a bit I'm sure, but Kaleb and I aren't shapeshifters so we don't know all the details. Josh and Jason could tell you more about that."

"It's going to take some time to learn your new talents. Mother can teach you what you need to know to be a witch, father will teach you of shapeshifting, and we can take the vampire aspect. Jason is very good at turning into a werewolf, though you need to know if you want to turn into one then it takes more than blood to do it, you have to actually eat internal organs," Kaleb said.

"Of humans?" She asked in horror.

"No, you would only need to eat animals," Shiloh answered quickly.

"What can I turn into?" Lily asked, still thinking of the shapeshifter.

"Only one, though you may choose the shape. Once you take a shape though you're stuck with it so choose wisely," Kaleb said.

"Only one? That's dumb," Noah muttered.

"Well there are tales of shapshifters that were once able to shift into any animal but no one has been able to do that in thousands of years, if it was even possible to begin with," Shiloh said with a laugh.

"How's everything going?" Their mom asked as she entered the room.

"It's going alright," Lily said. "So what animal is dad?"

"He's a tiger," her mom said with a smirk.

"What color?" Noah asked.

"Well gold and white, his hair is gold," their mother said matter of factly.

"So the animal takes on our characteristics?" Lily asked intrigued.

"Most shapeshifters don't get to choose what animal they are, only the house Drache can the others are born with it. So it ends up being more like the human aspect takes on the animal characteristics. But with you both I suppose whatever animal you chose would have either silvery or dark brown fur or feathers."

"That's cool," Noah said. Lily was happy to see him interested in something other than video games for once.

"I'm glad to see you doing something other than drinking," Noah smirked as if she had spoken out loud.

Their mother, Shiloh and Kaleb burst out laughing at her look of shock.

"You are telepathic, though you both always knew the others mind, you are projecting your thoughts Lily, you need to learn to screen them," her mom said.

"How?" They both asked simply.

"Imagine a brick wall in between us and your thoughts, it should stay there unconsciously as you speak." Lily nodded and tried the technique out. When her family burst out laughing she knew she still had a long way to go, and a lot to learn.

Okay you know the drill, review review review! I know I'm pumping this one out faster than my Sparrow fic but I must admit this is the one in my head at this moment, not that I'll stop writing Sparrow or anything… Well Thanks again Winy for the review, and if you have any questions let me know Windy, I'm trying to write it so you'll understand it, but I may not be doing that as well as I'd hoped, let me know!