The Muse attacked and I popped out another chapter sooner than I thought. Enjoy!
mscullen1325: Do not fret; I have something planned for that. Though the only family member of the Cruor's (Bennett I should say) who is immortal is Allina and maybe Loretta…at the moment. One never knows with my stories. I write stories to make me happy but I love reviewer input and have never minded going along with their ideas if it fits in my whole grand scheme. I still don't like to give things away too early so we shall see what happens.
NotSoSlightlyCrazy: I completely agree; if I had a friend who told me they weren't human I would be totally ecstatic…though I agree with the green skin. That might freak me out for a bit. I'd actually be more concerned the fact they managed to keep the green skin from me for so long ha-ha.
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This chapter is sort of for my amusement. I was hyper when I wrote it and I really wanted to show Cruor's and Bella just having a good time together. There is also two important parts I wanted to get across. The Cullens will appear in the next chapter for sure! This story is already a little longer than I planned; who knew it would take eight chapters just to introduce the Cullens back into the story…oh well I'm enjoying it. I think the readers are as well.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or the idea of Cosmic Troublemakers. I do own OC's; that's right Nikel's mine! (But I share). For this chapter only I also do not own My Little Pony…you'll see…
Chapter 7: I'm calling
These city walls ain't got no love for me
I'm on the ledge of the eighteenth story
And oh I scream for you
Come please I'm callin'
"Who invented the white crayon? Why is it here? What does it want from us?" Zach asked as he contemplated the crayon in his hand. It was Tuesday after school and we were seating at the Cruor's kitchen table –we being Zach, Nikel, Allina and me- and Zach had decided to color.
It's been about three days since Nikel told me their secret and if anything they've been acting more strange. I also learned Nikel and Allina love playing pranks almost as much as Loretta. Each had their own style.
Loretta did pranks most children did only she had better means to do them. She colored her siblings hair, threw balloons full of random liquids and other such child things.
Nikel loved messing with his siblings cars, Gabriel's engine actually fell out while he was planning to go to the store. He also loved making things fall. A glass plate fell and shattered on Zach's head. Good thing, as I learned, Shifters have very rapid healing ability.
Allina's pranks –like Nikel once told me- were romantic/sexual. At first I didn't understand what Nikel meant, now I do. Once she was told me to go into their bathroom to get her brush. She knew Nikel would be in there half dressed. That was the hardest I've ever blushed…so far. It was terrible.
I still haven't seen any of the others do any of their shifting power, but I knew I eventually would.
"Use the Black paper Zach, then you'll understand the white crayon." Nikel muttered, as he finished coloring in his 'my little pony' picture. The only coloring book in the house just had to be Loretta's.
While Zach went to find some Black paper, Allina leaned over to look at Nikel's picture, "Nikel I don't think it's suppose to be an Orange pony with Pink and Purple hair."
"Allina, I'll have you know this is Scootaloo, you can tell from the butterfly on her side and Scootaloo is Orange." He looked at Allina's picture, "You were suppose to be doing Cheerilee, Scootaloo's sister, who is dark Pink with dark and light pink hair as well as purple. Instead you made her brown. What is wrong with you?"
Allina raised an eyebrow, "I made the horse brown because some horses are brown. I picked this one, because it was holding a hairbrush. You're the one who knows their names and colors. What is wrong with you?"
"Yeah, I agree with Allina I'm a bit concerned right now." I added, looking at my boyfriend.
He rolled his eyes, "It's not my fault I'm the one who always gets stuck watching that stupid show with Loretta."
Zach walked back in with Black paper and set to work coloring with the stupid white crayon.
I looked down at my still blank pony picture, "What color is mine supposed to be? I don't want to get scolded."
"You have Sweetie Belle ironically, you can tell because she's a unicorn. She's white with purple and pink hair."
I saw white crayon suddenly shoved in my face, "Want to borrow mine?" Zach asked.
"No I think I'm good." I told him. Shrugging he went back to work.
Allina sighed and shoved away from the table, "Okay I'm bored, let's do something else."
"I just found some black paper for my white crayon." Zach whined, pouting at his random blob of 'color'.
"Shut up Zach, we're going outside."
I looked out the window and frowned. It was mid February and it was snowing. I hate snow.
"Do we have to? I hate wet." I moaned, cringing at the window.
Allina gave me a stern look, "Get your coat on Bella. I'd hate to drag you out there without it."
Sometimes she really reminded me of Alice, and that scared me. Grumbling the entire time I followed the siblings to get our winter gear on and then head outside. Surprisingly, Jamie, Sam and Gabriel were already out there.
"We should have a snowball fight!" Zach yelled.
I took a couple of steps back, "No, no we shouldn't."
He smiled innocently at me as he moved closer, "Okay, then we'll give Bella a white wash!"
Oh shit! I turned and began to run away, "Nikel if you even remotely like me you'll save your girlfriend from your insane brother!"
I laughed when Zach suddenly tripped over air. I ran back over to Nikel and threw my arms around him, laughing, "Aww my big hero!" Nikel pulled back only far enough so he could kiss me. It was really sweet until I felt something cold and wet slide down the back of my head. Pulling away from him I turned around to see Loretta standing behind me with her balloon launcher only this time she was using it for snow. I didn't even see her come out.
"How come you told me no to a snowball fight but let Loretta start one?" Zach pouted, jogging back over to us. His face covered in snow from where he face planted.
"Let her?"
Sam lazily walked over to us only to have Zach throw snow right in his face. He casually wiped it off before giving Zach a look of pure hell.
"You better run catman before I eat you."
"Let's see you try dog breath!"
Then the chase was on. They disappeared around the house and I looked at Nikel curiously.
"Wait for it…" He whispered. The next thing I knew I had a pretty Silver American Shorthair cat run between my legs to hide behind me. He was soon followed by a Beagle dog.
Frowning, I looked down at the cat, "Zach?"
The cat purred rubbing up against my leg before letting out a soft meow. I looked at Nikel for confirmation which he nodded to. I then looked at the Beagle, "And that's Sam."
"Yep!" Allina laughed, going over to pet the dog. He snuggled up against her, yipping happily at her attention.
"Can they understand us?" I whispered, bending down to pick Zach up. I cuddled his against my chest.
"Yeah, they keep all their human recognition. They're their human selves only in an animal's body." I scratched under Zach's chin and he started purring loudly, Nikel smiled, "They also have some of their animal instincts. Its fun because when Sam turns into any sort of hunting dog his instincts pretty much demand he plays fetch with us even if he doesn't want to."
I smiled as I gazed into Zach greenish-yellow eyes. He was a really pretty silver and Black cat.
"This is Zach's most common cat form. If he chooses a domestic cat this is what he'll be." Nikel explained. I smiled, petting his soft fur. Then the real Zach made his appearance in this cat form; both his paws stretched out to land on my chest. Zach the perverted kitty made has appeared.
Nikel growled and picked him up the scruff, "Touch my girlfriend like that again, Zach, and I swear I'll rip you to shreds."
"It's kind of amusing to see you yelling at a cat like that." I told him giggling.
He rolled his eyes, and dropped Zach. Like any real cat he landed lightly in the snow on his feet. He moved a couple feet away from us and turned back into his human form, luckily with all his clothes on. I don't think I could handle it if he was naked; I'd be blinded for life.
"What's wrong, Nikel? Mad the little kitty got more action out of her than you have." Zach teased.
Nikel's eyes narrowed at his brother. He glanced up and smirked. The next thing anybody knew a pile of snow fell from one of the tree's and landed directly on Zach. The poor pervert was covered.
And that started a snowball fight. Running, Allina, Loretta and I managed to get out of it. We decided to make snow angels and watch the boys pummel each other. I knew the snow wouldn't last much longer. It was February in Washington. It would rain and wash it away soon enough.
Nikel and Jamie were on a team facing Gabriel and Sam. Zach was on his own team and ran around going after everyone. It was surprisingly fun to watch the siblings razz each other and trade insults. Frowning, I began to wonder what would happen to Nikel once his siblings were gone. Nikel had said shifters were mortal; what would he do when they all died?
"Allina, you're immortal right? What's going to happen to Sam, Nikel said Shifters were mortal." I asked, quietly. I didn't want to upset her.
"I have two options. Either I give up my immortality and become mortal myself or Sam and I share life-forces and we both become immortal." She replied, her eyes on Sam, "Did Nikel tell you our mother is now mortal?"
I nodded, "Yeah, why didn't Jonathon just become immortal?"
She smiled sadly, "He couldn't. Jonathon's first mate was mortal. Though only immortals do the life-force sharing, all natural supernatural's –that means people born not turned- mate with their love. If it's two mortal supernatural's they're forever stuck as mortal. If it's an immortal they have the option to combine life-forces. Since Jonathon first mated Lana, he can no longer become immortal. Jonathon can no longer split Mom's life-force; it can only be done with a first mate. So since Mom loves him she became mortal for him. She decided she didn't want too long live without him.
"Mom never shared her life-force with my dad either. I'm glad she didn't. They were both immortal so to do it would only show everyone that they believed they were meant for each other. I don't know why they didn't share life-forces, but if they had when Dad died, Mom wouldn't have any choice but to follow him. The pull is impossible to ignore." Allina explained, "I will share my life-force with Sam when that time comes. Since we normally stop aging around twenty-five, that's when I'll share with him so he'll stop aging as well."
"What about the rest of your 'siblings'?" I questioned, wondering if they were just going to let them die.
"Mom adopted them. It's a ritual of the Immortals that will allow mortal children of their mate to become Immortal if they choose. Zach, Gabriel and Jamie all will do the ritual so they'll stop aging when a Cosmic would, but they can't do the ritual until they're eighteen, so Gabriel's the only one who has done it so far. Due to Immortal law Sam could not be adopted by Mom anyways. To be adopted by her would make him like a blood sibling and I would be unable to take him as a mate. So, Sam is to stay the only mortal of the children until I take him as a mate."
I stared at her for a minute, "Well my head hurts."
She laughed, "I know, I had to go to special classes after normal school to learn about the ways of the immortals. It was truly ridiculous. I think Nikel slept through most of it."
"I could see him doing that." I looked out for my boyfriend only to find the 'battlefield' empty. I turned back to Allina to see her looking around as well. I couldn't help but notice Loretta was gone as well. What was going on?
We heard a roar of an engine and Allina groaned, "They pulled out the snowmobiles." She grumbled under her breath.
Snowmobiles?
Zach shot past first followed by Jamie, then Gabriel who had Loretta on his sled, Nikel and Sam pulled up the rear. Both stopped to let us on.
"Should we have helmets," I asked, before remembering Nikel was immortal, "I mean shouldn't I have a helmet."
"I won't let you fall off or anything."
"Hm, I believe the last time I trusted you on something like this I fell through some ice." I felt bad when the smile fell from his face. Trying to make it up to him, I got on the snowmobile and gave him a kiss on the cheek, "I was joking."
He shrugged, "It's true, and I do tend to forget just how mortal you are. You bleed way more than any of my mortal siblings."
I rolled my eyes. It wasn't my fault they healed freakishly fast while I just had a slow human pace. I really needed to start hanging out with humans, but yet, the Cruor's were pretty much human. They just did stupid dangerous things.
"So what would happen if we crashed?" I asked as he started to glide through the snow. Sam and Allina took off way ahead of us.
"Depends on the crash, I suppose. Crashes that could kill a human like you would leave me comatose for a little bit I suppose. If it went completely up in flames and I was trapped inside, I could teleport myself out unless I was unconscious then I could die. Though I have to focus to teleport and if I was in too much pain I don't think I could. Hmm…I broke my arm once when I was 10, healed in three days. Cuts heal instantly, breaks take a few days. I don't think I could die from mortal like injuries. I've only heard Cosmic's dying from age or magic. Why do you ask?"
"Just wondering the chances of you crashing this thing, what would happen?"
He laughed, "I won't crash. Part of being a Cosmic is I have excellent reflexes."
"I've heard that before." I grumbled, thinking of Edward. It was strange, I could now think of him, of them, and not want to cave within myself. I was beginning to be able to breathe again, to heal. And it was thanks to Nikel and his family. I owed them more than they'd know.
I was jarred out of my thoughts by Nikel almost running into Gabriel and Loretta. I screamed as Nikel just laughed. Sometimes I believed he was trying to kill me I don't care what he says. I smacked him in the back of the head telling him I didn't appreciate the scare. He grabbed my glove covered hand and brought it to his lips, whispering sorry against my hand. Darn him, I could never stay mad at him for long.
After awhile Zach called us to a stop, "Come on everyone I demand Hot Chocolate and Cookies!"
We all laughed, but followed his lead. Life with the Cruor's was fun, easy and carefree. They did what they wanted, and enjoyed life. I was beginning to do the same.
Who knew that easy going lifestyle was about to become a lot more complicated.
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We were sitting at our usual lunch table on Wednesday a week later. After how much fun we've been having lately; we decided today would be more relaxing…yeah right.
"Zach stop trying to make a circus tent out of your mashed potatoes, it looks stupid and nothing like it should." Allina grumbled, grabbing his fork.
"Who are you, my mother?"
"Do I look like a druggy?" She snapped back, crossing her arms. I looked between the occupants of the table wondering how her comment would be taken.
"Do you want my honest opinion or a comment to make you feel better?" He asked, tilting his head, smiling innocently, "And I'll have you know as far as I know its alleged druggy, she's just a drunk for sure." Okay, apparently, their mother was not a touchy subject.
Our conversation was cut short by Jessica running to our table, which happened to be next to hers lately. She looked at me and was practically jumping up and down, "Oh my god, Bella, I was just in the office and I overheard the receptionist talking to someone on the phone. You'll never believe who! Come on guess."
"Her therapist," Sam spoke up, looking at her bored. Sam always looked bored it was just him but I could tell he was actually bored with her conversation.
"No, Dr. Cullen." I felt my heart stop and my eyes widened, Jessica smiled, "I know right? Insane. I guess they're moving back here or like they already did. They start school again tomorrow or something. Since you're dating Nikel, can I, like, have Edward?"
I stared at her for a minute, unable to form words; finally I managed to get a single word out, "Sure."
She smiled and skipped over to her spot at her own table. I just looked at the Cruor's shocked. I felt Nikel's fingers weave around mine to hold my hand and squeeze it.
"It'll be okay, Bella. I'm not afraid of some ex-boyfriend."
Yeah, except for this particular boyfriend wasn't human, I thought. It didn't matter anyhow, he didn't want me anymore.
When Edward left me I called and called for him and he never showed. I'm not calling for him anymore. I didn't need him. I didn't want him. I had Nikel and that's all that mattered.
No just because it was mentioned at the school doesn't mean they'll meet up at the school. I said they start tomorrow "or something" depending on how the votes go they might not come. So don't forget to vote and review!