The Family
I'd always known the transition into a vampire would be painful. I just never imagined it would look so painful. Obviously it was going to be like that but it still shocked me so much to see Nina in so much pain. So much so that she had the raging power to throw a fit and start throwing everything that came into her hands. It had been barely a day when she had broken three windows, ten vases, shattered two books (on the wall) and caused damage to herself as well. I found it hard to believe that she was strong enough to do that. Janet assured me she wasn't, she was just endangering her health and making the transformation that much harder for her.
I also found it hard to believe they hadn't heard her break two of the three windows, ten vases and two books. They were out hunting apparently. I couldn't keep track of them in this big house. I'd met their 'parents' on the first day we were here. It was the morning of the third day.
Isadora Leslie Raze. She was a beauty. She had lovely midnight black hair and piercing golden eyes with a rim of blue on the edges of them. She was a very childish mother always zipping around the place see to it that everyone was taken care of. But when she found out Shin had bitten a human she set of like a ticking bomb. She was yelling and lecturing but at the end she comforted her son. It turned out that they were actually related in that way. Isadora looked like she was in her late twenties but still very beautiful. She had been transformed and chose to have her children with her forever. Shin and Janet were siblings. Rino was adopted.
Christopher Raze was the father of the family. He was in his early thirties late twenties at the earliest. He was the ideal father figure. Looking after his family and loving his wife. He was the first to be changed back in the medieval times. He was some sort of knight and was changed in a battle. He was so weak but he was found by his wife. She chose to stay by him for eternity. Their children were still young so they waited till they grew and made the decision of whether to stay human or turn vampire. They decided to become a family. Chris had the same shade of hair as Shin a little more on the purple side but still the same. His eyes where rimmed with a shade of light ocean blue.
I'd also become acquainted with Nina's little siblings.
Denzil, the oldest next to Nina was thirteen. He was a quiet boy with red mixed with brown hair and brilliant green eyes to go with it. He was very intelligent in fact hit took him three clues to find out they were all vampires. He said he'd seen one before but with red eyes at the supermarket. He scared him and confessed to what he was but Denzil ran before he could actually prove it to him. He said his mother was as I had already suspected was a whore. He as well as the others, except for Sam, did not know who his father was but cared deeply about Nina.
Sam was the next in line at the age of seven. He had platinum blond hair and lovely clear blue eyes. He was a hyper boy just like Isadora. Once he was assured Nina would be alright she was just going through some changes he was talking to everybody nonstop asking them what they ate and all that jazz that one would want to know from real vampires. He said his father was supposed to be some billionaire typhoon that had a one night stand with his mom and shut her up with a million dollars about him. But of course like always the money didn't last. He said he didn't much care as long as he was still with Nina. He was the only one that knew who his father was. He had a picture of him at his forties still looking in his early thirties like Brad Pitt. He did indeed look like him, his father I mean.
Anahi and Maite were two cute little angels at the age of five going everywhere together, holding hands afraid to let go. They both had dirty blond hair with hazel eyes to match, their facial structures all were similar to that of Nina including Denzil and Sam and the baby to that they inherited from their mother I guess. I couldn't lie and say she was not pretty but if she could get past the wearing make up habit then she would be a respectable woman. They were polite and etiquette like little princesses. They had the same scary temper as Nina and that I was warned by Denzil with a big fat purple bruise on his leg to match. They were a lethal combination and very intelligent together seeing were one flawed and made their current at the moment plan even better.
Miguel was the small three month baby that always seemed to be asleep. I'd noticed how he wasn't still until he was in Denzil's arms. But he was starting to warm up to me. He had reddish hair with a golden tint in the sun, strange but there are stranger. His eyes were a stunning shade of violet. He was indeed a handsome baby.
They all constantly worried over Nina and so did I. I couldn't help the sidetracked thoughts of this is what I had wanted not so long ago. I still wanted more than anything I hated to admit. I was under the constant hope that maybe they would change me and I could go look for him. But I wasn't going to let it get to me. I'd doubt they'd change just anyone. By the fit Isadora had thrown when she found out what her son had done.
"Bella, Isadora has made us dinner." Denzil came to me breaking me away from my thoughts. I smiled at him. Naturally I was surprised how I could still smile at all. Ever since the incident in the woods I'd been able to see things in a clearer perspective. Less dazed and the numbness was gone. I now felt the pain stronger than anything I had ever imagined, I tried many ways to get the numb feeling back but I knew it was gone. The only thing that could keep my mind off it was the children. They were so pure and full of light that I couldn't help but laugh and smile along with them as if nothing had happened to me, as if there were no Cullen's and no departure to cause me harm. Even their names burned me alive.
"Alright." I answered rising from my position in the gloriously furnished living room. It looked like a palace inside despite the exterior appearance. Everything was in a soft caramel color trimmed with gold. They had a plasma TV, guys and their expensive gadgetry vampire or not, with surround sound.
I was gazing past the living room to the stair cases, two of them on each side of the entrance with an opening in the middle to go to the rooms on the ground floor. I looked up to the balcony where the two stairs met and saw the two twins planning to drop something onto Denzil.
"Umm…D-"I was going to warn him until he cut me short.
"Don't even think about it, you'll be so dead if you so even try to throw that at me." Denzil hadn't even taken a single glance up but he still caught the little pranksters.
"Aw, Denzil how come you always do that to us!" they whined in unison.
"Because I'm your big brother now come down and eat, Isadora made us dinner." He said walking at the same pace he had been walking at not even taking a single glance up.
"Ooo, Dinner, yummy!" Maite cooed.
"Yes, Yes, very yummy!" Anahi cried.
They raced down the stairs one on each side each meeting me at the bottom. They were quite nice and could lift anyone's spirits. Very kind actually.
"Come, come Bella!"
"Let's eat!"
"Alright already don't pull my arm off!" I chuckled humorously as they glanced at each other and let go of my arm apologizing. I assured them I was alright I was just joking and they seemed glad to know I was not mad at them. As we traveled under the archway mad by the two staircases we heard a shrill loud scream echoing off the walls. The twins snapped their heads up with solemn expressions on their faces I wondered if they were truly just children. Denzil was glaring at the ground his fist clenched. I recalled the morning we got here clearly
"WHY!!! Why didn't you save her couldn't you have just sucked out her blood like a rattlesnake." After a long explanation about all that was happening Denzil broke into a furious fit.
"Denzil you must understand, before I got there to help Shin come to his senses he had already drained her of a quarter of her blood. If he had sucked on her poisoned blood anymore he would have drained her whole and she would be dead. The venom had spread too far." Janet tried to console Denzil as much a she could. He was furious and he had little control on his temper. He had stormed on Shin as soon as he found out but found it painful as Shin was rock hard.
"But still she……Look at me I'm being ungrateful. Actually you saved her, you saved us. Nina would have died anyways if It weren't for you……………she has a chronic terminal heart disease and it gets worse and worse everyday. Especially when mother beats her." Denzil admitted. I'd never realized Nina was sick sure I'd noticed sometimes she was coughing too much but I'd always thought it was just a cold. I'd always thought it was allergies or something. I felt terrible now. I'd acted like a total self absorbed whining little baby when Nina really needed help.
"But all this stress should have killed her by now." Isadora mumbled.
"She's strong willed. She's struggled to long to let something like this to bring her down. I bet she's still worrying about us. That's probably the reason she's still alive. Because she can't leave us alone like this." Denzil explained.
"She sure is something." Chris sighed. Thrashes and breaking sounds echoed through the house as well as a fit of screams that followed after.
"S-she broke a window!" Rino gasped as Shin was already at her side by now.
"She still is fighting." Janet sighed.
"Come everyone we must calm her down or her heart won't last the transformation." Isadora ran with the twins in her arms and Chris picked up Denzil and Sam. Janet carried me and Rino stayed with the baby.
We were in the room in less than a second. Nina was up against the wall with a vase in her hands. Just as we were all set down she flung it at Shin.
"STAY AWAY!!!!" she screamed in pain or anger I couldn't tell.
"Nina, calm down!!! You're heart can't take it." Shin growled in aggravation.
"What do you care about my condition!!!" she growled back. Just as she growled she gasped and hit the floor with a thud on her hands and knees.
"NINA!!" we all yelled in unison. She snapped her head up so fast it could have given her a whiplash.
"D-Denzil, S-Sam….." she panted breathing harsher than usual.
"Nina stop it and let them help you." Sam scolded her or tried to in his younger form.
"You're safe with them. They freed us from mom." Denzil told her she looked at them in wonder.
"You……" she flinched in pain and started to breathe normal, "Thank you." Just before she passed out she gave Shin a hug, a gesture of gratitude I assumed. He lifted her off the ground and said something in rapid speed before disappearing in a flash.
"Where'd he take her?!" Denzil demanded.
"Somewhere where she can't break anything or well not as much as she already has." Janet answered.
"Come now you must be hungry." Isadora smiled.
I was snapped out of the memory by Isadora who set down a plate of Italian cooking. The stench of it filled my nostrils of garlic, tomato sauce and mushrooms, many more smell that I couldn't identify filled the room but these were the strongest.
"Now eat up!" she chirped singing along to the radio that was on at the moment. Some pop/rock song was on in a language I couldn't understand I assumed it was Spanish. I caught a few obvious words in there.
Another shrill scream radiated through the mansion and I saw even Isadora was solemn.
"Just a few more hours." Denzil mumbled to himself. They all missed their big sister dearly. Sam called her mommy occasionally and I could see they all saw her as that their mothers figure.
We all ate in silence hearing as another window was broken. Isadora looked pissed as her beautiful house was being destroyed. But she wasn't holding Nina responsible that was for sure.
"My, my that girl sure is troublesome." She sighed making small talk. I wasn't sure what to say so I just remained quiet.
When we were done we waiting impatiently the rest of the day watching Disney channel for the kids, they weren't obviously watching but they tried. They were all anxious to see Nina.
As the time approached for Nina to 'awaken' we all grew fidgety and Janet kept telling us to calm down. I hadn't realized I'd fallen asleep but I was jolted awake by a voice telling me to wake. I was glad the nightmare I had was always the same. He was in it as usual and I was sure I would have screamed if it went on any longer.
When I opened my eyes I saw Shin looking at me with that same look he gave me in the car. He knew. I hadn't told him anything but for some reason I knew he knew everything.
"She's waking up now." He said simply and I had noticed everyone was waiting for me. I blushed having attracted all their attention.
"Okay." I replied getting up. We were carried the same way as before into a white room with a canopy bead with white everything. It was all white. Even the books and the chairs, it was like heaven.
"Alright everyone, you will not be allowed to get anywhere near her. Not until she controls her thirst and that might take a while." Chris explained.
"Yes, it's already a danger you being in here. Just a quick explanation and that's it." Janet stated with an air of authority that I noticed in doctors. She was one in fact, she was supposedly taking classed for it now but I knew over the decades she must be a professional by now. Shin walked over to the bed and I heard moaning coming from it. He set the sheets aside and Nina was there lying down. I supposed Isadora or Janet changed her clothes for she had those girl boxer pj shorts and a tank top which were a little wet from the furious fit she threw which made her sweat.
Her eyes were still closed but she was shifting around. Shin lifted her off the bed and sat down at the edge of the bed holding her locked in place in case her hunger was to take over.
She already looked so different from when I last saw her three days ago. Her usually lightly tanned skin was pale like snow white herself. He lips were more defined and poutier I guess. Her face still held that childish aura at which she always presented herself in but her face was more goddess like now, big surprise there I wondered if all vampires looked like gods or only the nice ones. She held more curves in her figure she was like a mix of pixie like and goddess like. She too could put Rosalie to shame. Her hair looked shinier and bouncier like she was one of those herbal essences commercial. Apperently the twins thought so too.
"Ooo, Nina you look like a herbal essences model!" Anahi admired.
"Yes! Yes or one of those Victoria secrets model!" Maite chimed.
"I do not those herbal essences people can go to hell for all I care! Them and their shiny fake hair! And those stupid snobby Victoria secrets models can follow soon after!" Nina grumbled gaining consciousness. I heard Shin chuckle followed by gasps from his family. I wondered why it was so strange.
"Well, well Mr. Darkness himself laughed mum, I think the world is coming to an end." Janet joked. Mr. Darkness himself, what did she mean by that, as I said that I noticed the darkened mood that hovered over us.
"Shin stop that." Chris said and I heard shin mumble a fine.
"Ow stop yelling!" Nina grumbled again finally waking up and looking around at us.
"We're not yelling Nina." Denzil said in a calmed voice and she found it weird that it sounded so loud in her sensitive hearing.
"I'm hungry." Nina said bluntly.
"Well actually I'm thirsty." She corrected and scrunched up her face before saying.
"Do have some waffles?" she questioned.
"Tomato juice?" she added.
"Well now that I think about it I'm not hungry for that I'm-"she rambled talking to herself forgetting all about us. I couldn't take it anymore and interrupted her.
"Thirsty for blood." I said simply. She looked at me with a shocked expression, one of anger and probably revelation.
"What the hell Bella?! I'm not a freaking chupacabra! Well not that I know of I'm a-"she continued and then Shin cut in.
"Vampire." She whipped her head around to face him which surprised her at how closed they were. She raised her fist out of reflex and punched him square on the cheek. It sounded like a landslide and she widened her eyes in astonishment. Everyone got on the defense trying to protect us from her raw thirst. Supposedly.
She did let out one of her ear piercing screams when they went to tackle her down before she could harm anyone. In flash they were all gone only to reappear at the door. The sound of a humungous landslide echoed through the mansion and the children and I whipped our heads around to see them all toppled over Nina. Each grabbing a limb and Shin straddling her back.
"Ow! You know that really hurts!" She protested but couldn't move.
"Nina calm down and think rationally." Isadora yelled over the sound of grinding boulders that sounded when she struggled.
"I am rational!" she protested.
"Fight against the urge for blood, the urge to kill." Chris shouted.
"I don't want to kill anyone and I'm not a freaking Vampire!!!" she snapped.
"What?!" they gasped in unison.
"I'm telling you I don't want to kill anyone I just want a sandwich or something cause my stomach freaking hurts." She whined her head on the ground in defeat. She looked like a little girl on the floor after a temper tantrum.
"Well actually maybe just some water, my throat burns." She added again getting lost in the conversation with herself.
"We'll let you go but you have to promise not to punch me or my family anymore." Shin said. She huffed thinking about that for a moment.
"Alright, I won't punch you, for now anyways" she added the last part when they finally got off of her. He openly glared at her and the room was again shrouded in a dark aura.
"SHIN!" his family scolded. He glared at them too but the aura disappeared as soon as it came. Was this his power?
"Nina!" Sam who had remained quiet for the whole scene spoke up and rushed to her. The others noticed it far too fast Nina had already started to run up to him and would most likely reach him. I saw her disappear and the shocked faces of the Raze family. I instantly feared for Sam's life.
"I was so worried about you Nina." I heard Sam say. I turned and saw Nina knelt down to Sam her arms around him and he was seated in her lap.
"Whatever for? Are you ok? Did mom hurt you at all?" she asked and examined him thoroughly. It looked like she was a normal human waking up from a 10 minute nap.
"Nope, we told you we're free from mother." Sam beamed at her.
"Yeah." She then fell silent and well all watched her intently. The Raze family was in total shock that was for sure. It reminded me of how they reacted when she would get to close to me.
"Hey! You!" I was snapped out of my pondering when Nina called out Shin.
"What the hell did you do to me? I hurt like hell!" She growled placing a hand over where he bit her.
"I think it's pretty obvious that I bit you, stupid." He replied. She glared fiercely.
"What the hell did you call me?!" she snarled.
"I called you stupid, have you lost you hearing already!" he retorted.
"Ass!" she growled.
"Moron." He replied
"Idiot!" she snarled.
"Childish fu-"he started but alas he did not get to finish.
"Enough, I swear you act like little children." Janet yelled in annoyance.
"He started it." Nina grumbled.
"I started it?! You started it the moment you punched me!" he defended.
"No you started it the moment you touched me!" she had won the battle that was apparent.
"She's got ya there bro." Rino laughed.
"RINO NOT HELPING!" Shin and Janet yelled.
"Will someone just explain who you are and why I'm here?" Nina yelled tapping her foot impatiently on the ground. I looked at Nina and her eyes were pitched black now from obvious hunger but like this weird family her eyes were rimmed blue. I also noticed she was like a tom boy and just like guys she was crabbier when she was hungry.
"Nina calm down and let them explain!" I interrupted.
"Bella you're supposed to be on my side." She whined I smiled at her and assured her I was.
"Oh I am but I really just need you to be cooperative right now, then you can eat." I told her. Then I turned my attention to the family, "She's crabby when she's hungry so make it quick before she goes on a rage fit, I've seen them and they're not pretty." I explained. It was true we got lost on one of out first meditation trips and she was so hungry by the time night fell she destroyed a tree and she was still human. It was the first time I actually feared for my life, well almost did back then, now I do fear, I fear a lot.
"Oh and you couldn't tell us this sooner because?" Shin was being sarcastic I was sure of it.
"It was kind of the farthest thing from my mind at the time Shin!" I retorted back mad that he was taking it out on me.
"Hey don't you talk to her that way!" yes lovely, Nina had snapped. She punched him in the gut this time and it was loud by then we(human group)had the sense to cover our ears and block out the numerous words not fit for children and the sound of boulder smashing. When it all stopped I was Janet was restraining Nina and Rino was restraining Shin.
"Wait till I get my hands on you!" threatened Nina.
"I'd like to see you try!" Shin growled glaring. That's when I noticed the ominous dark aura again.
"For the love of- Shin control your emotions!" Isadora shouted. I felt depression like nothing I've ever felt before it was so overpowering and suffocating. I knew I screamed as the sadness and fears submerged me like a giant wave.
And then everything went black.
Well there it is the next chapter sorry about the long wait it's just I'm kind of having a writer block now. My internet wasn't working for about two weeks and blah blah blah. Im now officially 15 it was awesome I went to Disneyland for my b day with my two best buddies in the whole wide world!!!!!!!! It was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! If anyone wants to know ask I love to tell stories.
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