Chapter 2: The Lake

Emmett's POV

"Are you kidding me? It could be really dangerous, I wouldn't want any of us to get hurt!" said Esme, her usual, caring, boring self.

"That doesn't sound like such a bad idea, I mean, the 'visions' were all in the lake." Well said Jasper, but I want to go mostly because it would be kick ass if there was any danger.

"That's what I'm saying! And I volunteer." because you know, I'm willing to take this for us. And because I'd be sooo cool.

"Fine. But there's no way you are going alone!" Well at least she loosened up a little.

"OK, I propose we go in a group, but I would appreciate if you didn't go, Bella, I wouldn't want you to get hurt." That was Edward, alright, always looking out for his precious little Bella. She's happy with him, even though he's not letting her have any fun. Of course, maybe she doesn't like danger. In that case she's a boring person.

"I say the dog goes, and doesn't come back!" And that's my Rosalie. Always trying to get rid of Jake.

"Very funny Rosalie, I'd be happy to go, but I'd also be happy to come back. And by the way, if I throw a makeup kit inside the lake, you'll be the one playing fetch to go get it!" I love Rosalie, but that was funny! I start laughing, until she gives me that death stare I love so much.

"I have a better way to solve this, everyone who wants to go, raise you're hands." I bet you could tell that was Carlisle by the way he proposed a compromise that would 'keep both sides happy', as usual.

I raise my hands immediately after he says this. Followed by Edward, Alice, Jasper and Jacob.

"I don't know Jacob, we don't have to breathe, but you do and that lake is pretty deep..." It's nice that Esme cares so much, but it gets annoying. Really annoying.

"Its fine, I can hold my breath longer than a normal human, the longest I've gone was like, 15 minutes." he says, defensively. I've always liked him because he likes the action, like me.

"I thought you were a dog, not a mermaid! Well I guess that makes more sense now, with all your girlish features..." My sweetheart is so funny. Not to mention hot.

"See, that's the type of things only a merman would confuse, no wonder you always seem so puzzled." These two are hilarious!

I wonder what would happen if you locked only the two of them in a room. Which would come out alive?

"Will you two STOP?" Bella, always wanting to enforce the peace. And it worked. "So that would mean, Alice, Jasper, Jake, Emmett and Edward are going?" she smiled a little when she said Edward. The girl was really in love. Or she hoped he wouldn't come back. Knowing her and her "deep, helpless love" for him, I'd say it was the first.

"Yes, but if we are not back in an hour, another group should go see what's up" Jasper of course, as he said that, I felt calmer. His gift, no doubt. Damn it was annoying too. I want to feel pumped!

"Very good point Jasper, I think it should be Esme, Rosalie, and I." said Carlisle

"I agree." said Rosalie

"Me too." said Esme

"Bella, you and Renesmee shouldn't go near the lake." said Edward. Gosh, these people all get annoying. Except Rosalie and Jake, they're just funny.

"Thanks for wanting to protect me, but if none of you are back, after say, 2 hours, I think I'll take my chances." she's finally wanting a piece of the action!

"Me too, Mommy." Awww, even as a small little baby, she already craves action! I love that Renesmee.

Zoey's POV

"The Cullens? Who the poop are they?" I asked, this was sooo freaky!

"Who the poop? Do you ever cuss properly?" She was back to her normal self alright.

"No she doesn't." Stevie Rae answered for me.

"Can we stop the 'Zoey is too innocent talk' now? Now seriously who the... eff.... are the Cullens?"

"Eff?" I give her the death stare. "Fine, they're like these Vampires, but they're different." she says.

"Big deal! I'm different" says Stevie Rae.

"No, like.... OK, first you should know that Nyx sent them here" I wonder why Nyx would do that, if they're this different, it can't be a good idea.

"Why the fuck is she sending them here?" That was Stevie Rae, I wouldn't say fuck, not with that accent anyway. Or at all.

"Well, apparently she thinks she's doing them a favor. See, they're from a universe where vampires have to live in secret. Not like us. They have communities too, but this particular family wants to live along humans, so she thinks that sending them here is the best solution."

"Well how different could they be, I mean, we already have red vamps, I think we can take whatever these people are."

"I think you should explain exactly how different." I could tell Stevie Rae was getting worried.

"Fine, but you and the rest of the nerd herd are not gonna like this." Uh-oh, here comes the bomb "They're dead, but not dead-dead, when someone is dying a vampire (with an 'i') can bite them. That injects them with venom. After a few days, which the bite-ee (A/N: this is the person who is bitten) spends in agony, the bite-ee wakes up as a vampire. There is no fledglings, no marks, nothing, just this weird venom thingy. And they don't die. At all. And.... They're super-fast, super-strong and they don't need to breathe. They feed on animal blood, even though they can feed on human blood too. They can't even sleep. Oh, but like us, they're beautiful. Some of them have affinities, but not like ours. Theirs are based on traits they had as humans. Like one of them who is coming can read minds because as a human, he could guess what everyone was thinking. One can make you feel calmer (or more agitated), one can shield her mind from the mind-reader, one can see the future, but not like me, the lucky bitch can just see it like I used to. The others, instead of having abilities just get one of their human traits intensified. They usually can't have kids either, but they have one!"

"What the hell??!! They're basically the effing stereotype of vampire damn it!" This is freaking pissing me off! How can there be such a vampyre? Ugh, I mean vampire.

"Oh, I'm not even fucking done! One of these people got pregnant with one of the vampires when she was still human, so when she gave birth, they had to bite her immediately. Her kid is even weirder! It's like a fucking cross between a human and a vampire and a human. She can show you what's on her mind, kind of like the opposite of her parents. And she grows until she's like ten, and then becomes a regular vampire." She was pissed too.

"What?? I really hope this is one of your jokes Aphrodite! I mean sure, they're probably nice and all, but, I mean our world could barely welcome us, now they expect two other kinds of vampyres?" Stevie Rae was reading my mind here, that's exactly what I was thinking .

"I hope there's not a third type coming" I say, kind of to myself more than to anyone else.

"No, but get this: They're coming with a werewolf!" OH. MY. GOD.

"This had better be a joke" I said.

"Does this look like my joke face?" she asked me.

"Where and when can we expect them?" asked Stevie Rae.

"In the gardens. Tomorrow, at like 6:30 AM. They'll all be in a trace-like state" she said in a nervous voice.

Not that I wasn't nervous, trust me, I am. I could really use that calm guy now.

Emmett's POV

We were heading towards the lake, running full-speed, with Jake as a wolf, of course. When we finally got there, we plunged into the freezing water, even though it didn't feel cold to us. Even Jacob didn't feel the cold to its fullest. When I looked down, I saw a woman's body. I called everyone else up. They were all already up.

"Did you guys see that corpse?" asked Alice.

"Yes, but it's not dead." I said "I saw a heartbeat, we can save her."

"Really? I didn't see that." said Jasper.

"Well, you didn't go deep enough to see it!" I was losing my fucking patience. "We have to do something!"

"Fine! Let's all go down and check it out." said Jacob.

"Good plan." said Edward.

So we went down. When we were close enough, we reached down to feel her pulse. The moment I touched her skin, it felt like.... nothing. The second all of our fingers were on her, she started to shine, a bright white light. I tried removing my finger, but it was "glued", I just couldn't move. I looked at Alice with a "What the hell is going on here?" look.

But before she could respond, everything went black. Then all of a sudden, I wasn't underwater anymore. I was.... I really don't know. But I could tell that I was away from my physical self. Cool! Wherever I was, it was all white and Alice, Edward, Jasper and Jake were all with me.

We could've been there for days, for years, for centuries. I couldn't tell.

"What is going on here?" asked Edward "I can't read any minds here!" he was puzzled

Well, no wonder I was feeling so nervous; Jasper's power probably wasn't working either so he couldn't calm us.

Then all of a sudden, Esme, Carlisle and Rosalie were here.

"What the hell happened?" asked Rose.

"I haven't the slightest idea!" said Carlisle.

"We don't know either." said Edward.

Then Bella and Renesmee appeared.

"Huh?" she was as confused as the rest of us.

Not. Cool. Anymore.

Then a woman walked in.

"I am goddess Nyx, and I will help you"