Chapter 3

(Destiny's POV)

As we stepped back into the wetness outside, I smelled them again. There were other vampires here, maybe not at that moment, but there were at least six vampires for sure. Their scent was all over the place. Of course, Zoey and Shawn wouldn't have been able to smell it, they were still fairly young, whereas I'd had many years to become framiliar with the scent vampires left wherever they went. Then there was that horrible smell, it smelled like dirty, wet dog. It was absolutely horrid, which could only mean one thing. There were werewolfs around. I could only smell the one that had been around here, but there's never just one werewolf, there had to be others somewhere. Thinking about werewolfs reminded me of how much they hated vampires. This one had obviously been with the vampires that I could smell, so it must not mind them, but it would probably mind us. I had to have Zoey cover our sents, Zo, cover our scents too. I think there are other vampires here. No, I don't think, I know. There's at least six of them, but I'm also getting another vague smell. There's also at least one werewolf. You need to cover our scent, hid everything you can. I knew it was asking a bit much of her to hid our scents too, but I believed in her and I knew she could do it. I sent a simalar message to Shawn, then I heard both their replys in my mind as we were walking into the main school building. Dez, if there's werewolfs here, we shouldn't be. Of course, the ever so practical Shawn. Destiny, the werewolf must not mind vampires too much, otherwise it would have gotten rid of the ones that are already here. Zoey would be the one trying to make friends with the wolfs. I sent them both the same replys, Both of you, leave it alone. Ignore both the werewolf and vampires if you see them. Do not talk to them unless it's absolutely don't know anything about any of them. Just drop it. I don't know if the vampire's have any gifts like we do, that'd why I asked you to sheild our minds, and I don't want any of them picking up on our scents if we can help it. Just get to class. We all need to. While we had walked to the main building and put our stuff in the lockers we'd been assigned, the school had become populated and the warning bell had just rung. Shawn headed off to his first hour, as did Zoey and I.

I had only one class with Zoey and that was gym, the very last class of the day. So we parted ways, and I headed toward trig for first hour. As I walked in, the class was nearly empty, I headed up to the teacher and had him sign the paper that stated I'd come to class, and he then sent me to a desk in the center of the back row. While I sat there, the room slowly started to fill. Each and every one of the guys were mentally undressing me, so I quickly withdrew from their minds and went into the girls' minds. Every single one of them were thinking around the same thing, She looks just like the Cullens. What are they, like extended family? and some of the more shallow girls were thinking about how I'd just moved here and all the guys were staring already. Huh, the Cullens must be the other vampire coven I smelt. I'd have to look into that. But for now, I had to turn my attention back to the teacher as he started to drone about mathematics. I already knew this stuff and more, so I let my mind wander, literally. I randomly went through minds of students, most of them were focused on 'The New Students' but some were focused on their lesson. Those of the students that had seen us were either drooling over us, or thinking about how much we looked like the Cullens. The more I heard about the Cullens, the more curious I became. Then I came across a solid wall. Not a visible wall, but a solid wall blocking off eight minds. I couldn't get through it, and it flaired my curiousity even more. These must be the other vampires, and perhaps the wolf, or shape shifter as these ones were called. Did that mean they had a sheild as well? Apparently, but with Zoey, that would mean they could smell us or use any of their mental gifts on us, so I still felt rather safe. I wondered if I could project my thoughts passed the wall, just because I can't read their minds, doesn't mean I absolutely can't project to them. Well, here goes nothing, I'll pick a random on the eight that I can feel there, then try to project to them. As I picked one of the eight, I half hoped it worked and half hoped it didn't. If you can hear me, take down your sheild, I doubted even if they could hear me the would do it, but it was worth a shot anyway. I was startled when I felt a probing at the sheild that Zoey had over my mind, it shocked me to no end, but I knew they couldn't get past the sheild for it quickly withdrew. I followed it back to one of the blocked minds and I tried again to read what the vampire was thinking, but it was no use. So I tried to project to that mind, and it still didn't work. This was all starting to hurt my head, so I withdrew my thoughts and was startled to hear the bell ringing already.

The rest of my classes up until lunch passes mostly the same, the teacher droning on, me trying to break the sheild in those eight blocked minds, not having any luck and just making my head hurt all over again. Then it was time for lunch, for the humans at least. The bell rang and I searched through the minds of students to find Zoey and Shawn, as soon as I found them I rushed, at a human pace, towards them and caught up to them before they reached the lunch room. We walked up towards the line to buy the food that we wouldn't eat, just to keep up appearences. Once we each had a tray of food and had payed at the register, we went to the back corner of the very large room and sat our trays down around the circular table and took our seats. Just staring off into space, I sent my thoughts to Shawn and Zoey at the same time, Guys, they have a sheild to, there are eight of them total and I can't project to them or get a read. Zo, take the sheild off our scent. With that, I could immediatly smell Shawn and Zoey sitting beside me, and as I kept and open mind, I could hear everyone thinking to themselfs, They're sitting at the Cullen table, who do they think they are? So, apparently we were at their table. We'd just have to wait and see what would happen. Zo, Shawn, don't look up from what your doing, here they come, this is their table, but don't move. Just go along with me. I firmly projected to Shawn and Zoey as I heard eight pairs of feet quietly glide toward the table we were sitting at. As they stopped in front of us, I looked up. There were defintely eight of them, but only seven vampires. There was a very tall indian boy with short black hair that I assumed was the werewolf, a tall blonde boy with lots of battle scars, a big muscular boy with dark, curly brown hair, a boy with messy bronze hair who had his arm around a short girl, about Zoey's size, that had long wavy brown hair that fell to the center of her back. The only blonde girl, was tall with a figure that you'd usually only see in a magazine, she had beautiful, wavey, golden blonde hair that went just barely past the center of her back, and the boy with dark curly hair had his arm around her. There was also a very short girl with tiny features, she was a bit shorter than Zoey, but had inky black hair that was cropped short and spiked in every direction, whose hand was entwined with the blonde boy's. The last girl, whose features looked even more girl-ish and young than Zoey's, looked as if her father and mother could have been the boy with messy bronze hair and the short girl with wavey brown hair, for she had very long, curly bronze hair and the same features as the women.

"May we sit down?" Asked the bronze haired boy in a very velvet like voice. I looked him in the eye, they were golden, I realized with a start. "Of course, we don't mind company." I said in a perfectly polite manner, I noticed they all had trays of untouched food as well. As they sat down I noticed they were all paired up, even the indian boy was sitting next to the girl with the bronze curls.

"Take down your sheild, we mean no harm," I whispered so fast, barely moving my lips, if they had not been vampire they would not have heard me. They all looked quite taken aback, except for the indian boy who merely looked confused, of course, I'd spoken too fast for him to have understood. The blonde boy with the scars spoke up and I looked towards him, "How can we know that we can trust you? If was Edward-" Here he gestured toward the bronze haired boy,"-says is true, you also have a sheild protecting you. So, go ahead, which of you is a sheild? If you take down yours, we will graciously do the same," He had stopped talking and there was a very brief pause, I looked toward Zoey and Shawn, then I sent my thoughts to them, Go ahead Zo, take it down when I say so, but keep your minds blank just think of random things, they have a mind reading it seems, I felt him probing my mind in class earlier. When I was finished, I looked toward the blonde boy again and spoke, "Oh course, we shall take our sheild down, if you do the same. But first, I am Destiny. This is Zoey, our wonderful sheild-" I gestured toward Zoey and she beamed as I complimented her, "And this is Shawn, might we know your names also?" I looked around at them all and was startled to see that the girl with the curly bronze hair had chocolate brown eyes, but that was immpossible, vampires only have black or red eyes, unless they are like us, and have golden. I then seen the indian boy eating his food as if he was starving. The bronze haired boy speaking brought me back to the conversation at hand, "I am Edward, this is my wife Bella,-" he gestured toward the short brown haired girl, "That is Alice and Jasper-" He pointed toward the short girl with black hair and the blonde boy with the scars, "Here is Emmett and Rosalie-" The pretty blonde girl and the burly dark brown, curly haired boy, "And that there is Bella and my daughter Renesmee and her husband Jacob." When he pointed toward the indian boy I thought I detected some kind of coolness, and then I processed the information all the way. "Wait, your daughter? Thats impossible!" I said as I looked at the girl, although it didn't look all that impossible. "That story will wait for another time. For now, let's resolve the sheild issue." Edward spoke again pulling my attention back to the issue indeed. Go ahead Zo, on three, I told her through my thoughts. "Okay, on three then. One, Two, Three." As soon as I said three, I plunged into Edwards mind, only to find that it was a jumbled mess. Seems he reads minds, only he doesn't have a choice, all the thoughts just come to him. I moved onto the girl called Bella, and I came up blank, I still couldn't read her mind. So I moved onto Alice, she was thinking about how she loved my hair, that was weird. I moved throught their group and quickly discovered that Jasper was very protective, Alice was very energetic, Edward was protective too, Renesmee was nice and thinking about Jacob, Jacob was thinking about Edward, Bella, and Renesmee and he was really funny and cool, Rosalie was thinking abour her nails and the 'mutt' that kept annoying her still, and Emmett was thinking about engaging in a full out wrestling game with Jasper. I also figured out Emmett and Jasper were complete pranksters. "So, your a mind reader?" I spoke to Edward, but Bella answered me, "Yes, he is." She was smiling like she knew a secret.

"This is all going to have to wait till after school. The bell is about to ring, follow us to our house after school, and we'll all talk. Just meet us in the parking lot." The words were just barely out of Edwards mouth as the bell rang signaling the end of lunch.

The rest of the passed rather quickly, I didn't dare project any thoughts to anyone, I would tell them about my powers when we got to their house. Gym was annoying because I couldn't really do any of the physical stuff without having to control myself. So me and Zoey partnered up and did what we were told.

Finally, the bell rang and everyone gushed out of the gym and school. Zoey and I found Shawn, then walked to my Nissan, only to find a silver Volvo and a yellow Porsche Turbo.