Chapter 6

BPOV:

He wanted me to show him, to prove to him that the Earth Mother is real, that she can indeed do her job. Well, I will show him, I will show all of them. I cant wait to see the looks on their faces. The only one that has seen magic before is Carlisle, the rest act to excited, it is obvious that they have never seen true magic. I turned towards to Cullen house and began to run. I looked back and sure enough he was following closely behind me. Once we came to the clearing of the Cullen house I called out, " come out to the back yard, Edward asked me to prove my magic, I will prove to all of you that this is real." I waited for ten seconds before each and every Cullen was out of the back door and looking at me, waiting.

" Attack me," I said crouching in a defensive position. " What," Edward asked like he didn't hear me correctly.

" You want the proof that the protection of the Earth Mother is real, attack me," I said still waiting in my crouched position.

" Oh you want to wrestle," Emmet said with excitement, "this should be fun," he smirked. And with that Emmet lunged at me, trying to use his impressive speed to catch me off guard, but, I was waiting for that. I threw my hands up calling on the Earth Mother for her protection, she answered. Her voice filled my head telling me that everything was going to be alright. The air around me tightened, I could feel her power start to grow at the pit of my stomach and race its way up my spine and out of the palms of my out stretched hands. Her power shot out in a hot white pain that slowly ebbed away until it was just warm. In the air I could see a formation, a kind of bubble that quickly surrounded me and hardened almost instantly. This all happened in seconds and Emmet ended up hitting that invisible force and it sent him sprawling across the clearing and into a near by tree. I smirked and stood straight. The power was still surrounding me, running through me, the air around me started to glow with it. I turned to the Cullen's and took in their shocked faces, they had their proof now, maybe it would be enough for them to believe that this was all very real.

" Man that was awesome," Emmet said finally when he made his way back to us.

" Glad you liked the show, however, nothing about this is awesome, its dangerous. I don't want any of you hurt during this so I made each of you an amulet for protection and strength, now that you have witnessed the power of the Earth Mother maybe you will trust when I say that this will keep you safe," I said handing out the amulets I made. They all nodded their heads in a silent 'thank you'. " Now, before anything happens we need to make a plan, we need to know what we are going to do. I need to start practicing my defense and attack magic and you all need to strategize ways to defend yourselves. This could get bad really fast and I don't want anyone to go unprepared," I told them.

They all agreed and decided to go back to what they were doing before I called them out of the house. I was the only one to stay outside in the backyard. I needed to think, and I always think better outside, surrounded by nature. I walked into the woods, losing myself in the sensations of nature. I walked for a while with no destination, walking for the soul purpose of getting lost. My head was swimming with possibilities, I couldn't help but think of all the things that could go wrong. Carlisle wanted a family so badly for so very long, and I just walk back into his life after a century and a half and request that he and his family risk their lives in order to help people they don't even know. How selfish is that? What would I do if they all died? Would I be able to look Carlisle in the eye and tell him that his family died to save me? Nope, I wouldn't be able to do that. I cant do it alone, I am not stupid, and walking into Aro's home with all of his soldiers at hand without help would be the most stupid thing anyone has ever done in the history of stupid things. No, I could not do it alone, I did need their help. If it came to me living and them dieing or me dieing and them living I would have to choose the later of the two. I have no one special in my life, no one that really loves me other then my parents. If I died it would not be so hard for people to go on without me, but, if one of the Cullen's were to die their whole family would die with them. Believe me, I don't want to die either, so I have to try my hardest to keep everyone safe. I found a little clearing under an evergreen tree and I sat down, leaning my head against the rough bark of the trunk. This could all go so very wrong.

" Moon Goddess and Earth Mother hear me, give me guidance, give me hope, show me which way to go," I said quietly looking up at the now darkened sky. The air around me hummed with power and two figures stepped out of thin air right in front of me. One was tall and slender cloaked in a cape that was silver and seemed to glow and the other was still tall but a little shorter then the other, five-eight maybe and slender but was cloaked in a cape the color of moss, a deep, rich green. I stood, and looked into the hoods of the capes, I couldn't make out any defining features, the hoods on the capes left nothing but shadows visible. I didn't feel any fear, I felt safe, a little uncertain, but safe. The one in the silver cape spoke, " You called to us child, yet you do not know who we are." My mouth opened in shock. All I could think about was that they were here, the Moon Goddess and Earth Mother are here, standing in front of me. I finally came to my senses and threw myself onto the forest floor groveling at their feet.

" My apologies, I did not realize who you were, forgive me," I rushed all in one breath.

" Isabella, stand up, we have not come to punish you, we have come to aid you in your time of need. We understand that this is a very difficult position for you to be in and we want you to understand why we have let this come to pass," the one in the silver cape, Rhiannon, the Moon Goddess said.

I stood and took a deep, cleansing breath, exhaling slowly. Once I gathered my thoughts I looked up at them. " You are special, Isabella, you are the chosen one," the Earth Mother said. "Chosen one, what am I chosen for?" I asked.

" You were chosen to bring the two kinds together. You are neither vampire, nor sidhe, but both. You are the one who will bring both of your worlds together, to live together in peace." Rhiannon said.

" I think you mistake me, I do not have the ability to access such power, and I do not know when I will get the ability," I explained.

" We do not make mistakes Isabella, you are the chosen one. You will have the ability soon, the piece of you that is missing is right in front of you. If you would only open your eyes and see, open yourself up Isabella, we know you feel it," the Earth Mother said. I was so confused. What are they talking about? But, I knew better then to question the Goddesses twice. I nodded my head in understanding. The Earth Mother spoke again, " Before we leave, we have a gift for you, a gift that will help you in your up coming battle." With that they both walked up to me and put both of their hands on my arms, their hands brought warmth, the warmth grew and grew until it was a burning pain. I closed my eyes and bit my tongue to keep myself from screaming. After a what felt like hours, but, was really only seconds the burning stopped, leaving my arms sore. They took their hands away and turned to leave. Slowly they began to fade and before I could find my voice they were gone.

I looked down at my arms and understood why I felt branded, because I was branded. There on my forearms sat four symbols. The symbols for fire and water were on my left arm, and the symbols for air and earth where on my left. They had given me power over the elements. I sat staring at my arms for a while longer and finally decided to go back to the Cullen house.