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Chapter 4-Say What!

"Isa, as you know our family are healers, what you don't know is that we protect this world from all the supernatural beings out there" Dora started

"Okay, so besides us what creatures could you possibly be talking about?" I asked.

For sure she didn't know about vampires I mean no one was supposed to know about em.

"Ah lassie, I believe you already know some" she winked and I paled

"Now calm down dear. Did ya really think that I wouldn't know about em lass?" she asked and I was thankful she didn't say the name; I wouldn't have been able to handle it.

"I'm so sorry lass but I promise everything will work out. Now I was sayin, we protect this realm from all things supernatural. Once upon time these creatures tortured mortals, they used em for the most heinous of acts and we as a group decided to put a stop to it. Now keep in mind lass that they were very dangerous and until ye knows more promise me that you will never go after them yerself" she stated and I nodded

Not that it mattered, I wasn't gonna see em again anyways, as much as I wanted to.

"So yer great, great, great, great gran, Danu rest and bless her soul, her name was Elizabeth by the way, Lizzie for short; cast a spell that banished all those who wished to do harm away. It worked for a while until a couple of silly vampires named Sedrick and Henkel let power go to their heads and slaughtered humans by the hundreds. Once we got wind of it we put a stop to it"

"Aunt Dora, you can't... I mean... well they're strong, fast and they can't be killed" I stuttered.

"Oh lass, ye remembers what yer cousin said right?" she laughed and I nodded not really understanding.

"Well lass it wasn't hard to frighten them when you can make fire in the palm of yer hand. Stupid idiots took one look at yer great gran and figured she'd be the evening meal. Boyo were they wrong. She made a fire ball and sent it flying just a few feet short of them. The two vampires stopped immediately and according to the stories, the fire encircled them and trapped them in. They begged to be set free, imagine two of the most supposed powerful beings on earth begging what they thought was a mortal woman to be set free. It's hilarious. Yer gran told them that she would set them free as long as they promised to never slaughter again. They of course argued about how it was their nature to need blood and yer gran couldn't argue seeing as humans needed to hunt animals so she told em they could live and only take what was needed but we would be watching. So now more than 500 years later we watch, and it's just not vampires lass; we take care of em all, be they human, vampire, witch, warlock, werewolf even though they are pretty much extinct or any other mythical being; we watch and take care of it"

She ended her tale there and my mouth hung open in shock.

"But I thought the Volturi took care of the vampire world" I shrieked and clamped my hand over my mouth. Clearly I said too much and the memory of that night started to push through causing the hole in my chest to rip some more and I tried with everything in me to push the crushing loneliness away.

My aunt didn't seem to notice my internal struggle, chuckled and stroked my hair with the brush again saying "Hmm, Aye lass, they do but when someone gets completely out of control or if those blackened devils get out of hand then it's up to us and Isa that's what you have been brought here for"

"Huh?" was all I could reply with. I was utterly and completely confused.

"Isa, you know vampires better than anyone" she replied softly.

I flinched again, my heart was constricting at the mention of my vampires and I brought my hands around my middle to try and hold myself together.

"Isa, sweetheart I'm sorry lass but it's true, I promise it will all work out in the end"

"Lass, this coven needs you, our family needs you. There will come a time when you will have to face those blackened devils yerself and I need you to be ready. One day lass you might need to lead our family and ye needs to be ready" she ended there effectively making me go into shock.

I shook my head. She couldn't be serious.

"Aunt Dora, you can't be serious. I mean I don't know anything about magic and I certainly wouldn't be able to lead people. I'm…I can't… there has to be someone else. What about Adrian? He is your son" I said slightly hysterical.

"Aye he is, but our coven is led by women as sexist as it sounds but the women of our family have always been the strongest and lass ye showed magic from the moment yer wee face came into the world. Isa, I'm not saying that you will be a leader; I'm just saying it could happen. I plan to stay here till the great Danu sees fit to take me back to her. Isa, you don't see yerself clearly dear" I flinched at the familiar saying.

"Ye have yer great, great gran's soul lass, it'll come to ya I swear it. Now lass it's time for bed, ye had more than enough excitement for one day. Get some sleep Isa and I'll see ya in the morn" my aunt cooed and tucked me in.

Sure I felt like I was five years old again and it might have been slightly childish to have to be tucked in but I fell asleep almost instantly although I dreaded what my dreams would bring.

That night my dreams changed, instead of that faithful day in the forest, I dreamt of swirling colors, fire balls, snarling creatures with fur, red eyes, gold eyes, pale skin. There was no solid picture to the dream; just images and then a woman who looked somewhat like me rose up out of the mythical and vanished into a big bright light.

I woke up with a start to find this little waif of a girl sitting on my bed. I blinked my eyes thinking I was dreaming but the little girl was still there.

"Umm…Hello" I said with a voice still thick with sleep.

"Bella" the little screamed as she jumped on the bed into my lap. I just barley caught her and the fright she gave me as she sprung into the air definitely woke me up.

She was the cutest little thing I had ever seen. She had a heart shaped face, piercing green eyes adorned with long eye lashes, pale skin with the cutest little freckles that ran in a thin line from one cheek, across her nose and then the other cheek. Her hair was a lighter shade of brown than mine and I know mine had reddish tints before he left but this little girl had vibrant red throughout her whole head. She was beautiful and exactly what I pictured my daughter to look like if I ever had the mind to want one. Of course there was only one person I would consider having one with…No Bella, stop it.

"Rebecca O'Quinn leave your cousin alone lassie" My cousin Adrian bellowed as he waltzed in my room.

For a second I was upset that he would just waltz in and invade my privacy but seeing as he might have been looking for the little girl name Rebecca who was bouncing in my arms I let it go.

"I'm sorry lass, she heard you were here and couldn't wait till ye woke up" Adrian explained.

"It's okay" I said meekly and he smiled at me.

"Becky, ye got all the time in the world to play with Bella, no away wit ya and go get some breakfast before yer ma has a fit and a boot up me arse" Adrian scolded and Becky pouted and whined that she wanted to stay with me.

I smiled at that the thought that someone actually wanted to stay with me unlike a certain vampire whose name shall not be mentioned. I also felt kinda guilty since it was my fault she wouldn't listen so I tickled her causing the most delightful giggle and told her to go on and I'll be there soon.

She giggled again and then skipped out my door. Adrian turned around to face me again shaking his head he said

"I'm sorry lass, little Becky is just like her ma, she's as cute as a button but sly as a fox. She's also as stubborn as a horse's arse, well what O'Quinn isn't right?" he joked and I blushed.

"She's a beautiful little girl" I said

"Aye, I'm one proud papa" he laughed and my jaw dropped.

He was a father! He only looked like he was my age, I mean I know my aunt mentioned him being like 150 but seriously, this was too much.

"You alright dere lass?" he asked

"Yeah I'm good; you just caught me off guard. I'm sorry Adrian but you don't look like you're old enough to have kids" I said softly and wished the ground could swallow me up.

Adrian laughed saying "Don't I know it, took me years to get her ma to even say yes to a date, let alone play in her orchard if ye get my drift. Good thing we lives a long time eh?"

I only nodded and tried to mentally flame away the red that I knew must have been showing on my face causing my cousin to laugh saying

"Oh tis great to know that I ain't the only one that blushes in this family. I was starting to think it be a curse. Now lass, get dressed and down for breakfast, we got big plans for ya today" he said while walking out my door.

As soon as he left, I made my way to the bathroom and took care of my morning ritual.

I was on my way downstairs or at least I think that was where I was headed, honestly there was so many damn twists and turns to this place that I had no clue where I was headed.

I looked to my left to see where I was, when I caught my reflection in a mirror and I must have been looking for a solid minute before it dawned on me that this was a picture. How could that be possible? I hated getting my picture taken.

The woman in the picture looked like me, but she seemed to exude power and wisdom, and her clothes were from a different time, like something out of the renaissance. I didn't remember getting a picture taken like that; I mean this couldn't be me, could it?

I was so engrossed in this picture that I jumped about ten feet in the air as I heard a throat clear.

"Sorry Isa, when you didn't come down I got worried and came to look for ya. Beautiful painting isn't it?" my aunt Dora asked

"That's a painting, it looks so real, I thought for sure it was my reflection at first but then I realized it was a picture of me" I gasped with my jaw on the floor.

"Aye, lass, tis a painting, well a bewitched one anyways, makes em look a little more realistic" my aunt explained and I nodded still wondering how they got this picture of me.

"Scary isn't it?" she asked

"I'm sorry, what" I said

"The painting, lass, you look so much like your great, great gran don't ya think?" she replied softly.

I whipped my head back to the painting.

"That was my great grandmother?" I gasped "I thought it was me somehow"

"Yes, yer ma and I couldn't believe our eyes when you were born; the resemblance was unreal and only grew as you got older my dear. From the first time you held my finger I knew you would be powerful. I saw it" she explained

"Don't tell me you're physic" I snorted and my heart clenched at the idea, remembering the one physic I did know, the little pixie, she should have been my sister, Alice.

"Sort of, it's more of a feeling I get, and I have yet to be wrong" Dora said

"Now lass, enough yaking, let's get some food into ya, I hates seeing those bones on ya" she laughed and starting pulling me down a hallway.

I looked over shoulder, my eyes stuck to the woman in the painting, she seemed so strong, so wise, there was no way I could be anything like her. This woman, my grandmother, was strong, beautiful and powerful. I was weak, plain and not interesting at all. I'm not sure what my aunt was thinking that I could take over for her. It was one thing to step foot in the shadow of my aunt but knowing that this legend on the wall was my great grandmother, and that I had to live up to her legend was a whole other story and just slightly scary. This was not happening!

Okay so how was that? Love it? Like it? Hate it? Sorry about the accent, it's really hard to write an Irish accent. Alright well I thought I had more chapters but there's only one more that is done and then I have to write more. Might be a bit before I get chapter 6 done, I want to try to get Born of Heart EPOV done first but I will try to update this one in between, this one is kinda screaming to get done too.

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