A/N: Hello my dearest readers! I hope that all of you had a wonderful day, because I most certainly had! Some of you guys *sniff* followed my request and reviewed *breaks out in happy tears* ( I wish I could say all of you guys, but sadly it ain't so.) I was like totally dancing on my kitchen table ( I don't even have a kitchen table) and was singing 'World's greatest' ( that really did happen). So after I got eight hours of sleep, my roommate dragged me out of my room to go shopping ( I know sounds a bit like Alice). But even though I was highly occupied (sleeping, shopping, breathing and eating) I managed to update in less than 24 hours *moon walking through the room* And to amaze you even more, I also managed to start reading a new FF (please tell me I rock). I was asked to read it and when I did, I put my hand on my heart, looked up in the sky and said:"God, you created so many great writers, why didn't you created just as many reviewers?" Nah, I'm joking what I actually said was:"God you created so many great writers, why didn't you give everybody in the world the ability to read?"...yes, I really did that!...okay, no I didn't but I would if I would have thought of it then! Anyway to get back to the point... The story is called: If You Only Knew and was written by born2bmyself (Don't you just love the name?) So here's nice summary that the writer send me:
Who is the mysterious kid that Bella shows up with? She says she adopted the child; Acting as the kid's fake dad to make things less awkward, Edward tries to find out the truth too. What will happen during this new parental arrangement? All Human(note that this isn't the average "Bella is pregnant with Edward's baby and keeps it a secret from him" story! it's different!)
At first I was a little confused by the summary ( I get easily confused), but it sounded interesting enough and bada-bing-bada-bong.. I was enchanted (not an easy thing to do) I really recommend this story and I hope that you guy will check it out and send as many reviews as you can. Anything more I wanna say? Hmmmm... No not yet. Enjoy the chapter!
Disclaimer: I've been wondering, how many people actually read the disclaimer?
Bella's PoV
"Umm, Alice? Are we not supposed to go to class.", I asked her, when she and the others walked past the school building.
"We are, specialized magic is in the elemental room.", she answered.
"And was is the elemental room?", Chris asked in an annoyed tone.
Instead of Alice, Jasper answered."It's somehow similar to a gym, but it's charmed. The hall is specially made for us to train our abilities in there. It's called elemental room, because it's not really affected by the elements. In a way it's you for instance, start a fire in there, the room's safety charm would quench it, before any damage can be done to the persons in there. It's the safest place for pushing our powers over the edge."
We came to halt in front of a rather large and white building. "How big is this room?", I asked.
"Just like any average gym. The building contains more suitable rooms for certain groups. Yesterday Carlisle already mentioned the Pyro Room. It's one of them. Then there's of course a Hydro Room. Then there is the Gym, which is also used for those with physical gifts and Psych Room, for those with mental gifts. And there is the Tech-Room, for those with technical powers. The last room is called the 'other room' because the students that are taught in there have gifts that don't have a clear classification.", Rose explained and held the front door open for us. We stood in a white hall, there was nothing special in there. Rose led us to one of the nine doors and we really stood in a Gym. It didn't look much different from one, except that there was no sport equipment. There was a collection of benches on one side and some of my classmates already sat there.
We sat down in the front row, except for Chris, she sat on the floor leaning on my legs. "You know this skirt is much too short, for me to sit comfortably. I thought school uniforms were supposed to be appropriate.", She complained.
"Since when do you complain about short skirts? You always wore them at home."
"So? I can still complain about it, if I want to." I just shook my head at her. Sometimes she just didn't make sense. Gradually, the other students shuffled in as well, I noticed that this were by far more than earlier. I was about to asked when Jasper already answered."All sophomores have this class together. It's not only our class but also our parallel classes." Right after he finished Mr. Decour entered the Room. I really don't think that the term 'Room' was adequate.
Mr. Decour looked different form earlier today. When we had him in french he had his dread locks in a ponytail and looked much like he had when he came to dinner at our place. But now, he looked more casual. His locks weren't in a pony tail and he simply wore baggy jeans and a T-shirt. The shirt clung to him like a second skin and for the first time I noticed how muscular he was. He had several tattoos on his arms which I couldn't make out.
As soon as he entered all the students started to quiet down. Mr. Decour's gaze swept the whole class, but he stopped at Chris narrowing his eyes at her.
"Ms. Swan, why are you not sitting on the bench like everybody else?", he asked calmly. Everyone moved to look at Chris. She just shrugged.
"Well, then could you please, move to sit on the bench?" Chris shook her head. I heard that some people started to whisper. Mr. Decour simply sighed and turned his attention back to the whole class. "Chris, why can't you just once behave?", I hissed at her. She turned to smile brilliantly at me, which caused me to roll my eyes at her. Some twin sister.
"Okay, as you already know this is 'specialized magic'. Last year we concentrated on learning, how to control your gifts and keep them in check. This year we are actually going to work with them. And I know that some of you already use their gifts quite well, but we want to expand you limits. At the end of High school all of you should be able, to fully use your abilities and know it's weaknesses. If you don't, you basically failed." Wow, he was kinda strict. His voice didn't hold to many emotions all I heard was authority and the way he walked up and down was a bit intimidating. At the same time, he didn't seem really scary. He was just someone a sane person wouldn't mess with. Which leads to the conclusion that my sister was insane, but I reckoned that already. Mr. Decour stopped pacing and clapped his hands. "Okay, today we'll start off simple. I call your name and you will come to the front and show us what you can do. This is not to humiliate anyone, but to get to know your powers. As many of you know, I have the ability to sense other gifts and rate them. It actually goes a bit deeper than that, I'm able to analyze the power and I can tell how much more there is for you to learn. As soon as you use it, I can tell what it is what you are doing, where you boundaries are, the current weaknesses and if there is any potential. So this exercise is for me to write down your current state, so I can tell if you make any progress or not." He then made his way to a door at the side and unlocked it. "If there's any equipment that you need, come and get it now." Several students got up and stood in line. Mr. Decour handed them whatever they needed.
I turned with a panicked expression to Alice, who sat beside me. "Chill Bella. You'll be fine. You just have to concentrate. Besides you shouldn't be worried, you're not the one who stood there naked yesterday.", Alice chuckled.
"That is not funny.", Chris snapped."Bella how did you do it?", she added in a much softer voice.
"I don't know. Maybe you just burned your clothes because it happened so quickly and you were angry."
"It doesn't matter anyway, your uniform is incombustible so there's no need to worry.", Jasper soothed her. The expression on Chris' face showed that she hadn't thought about that. "What is your power, Rose?", I asked, realizing for the first time that it never came up.
"Pheromones.", she simply stated.
Chris and I looked at her in confusion. "Pheromones?"
"Oh you'll see.", Alice giggled, while Jasper only shook his head.
"You know what? I think Bella and Chris actually have one of the coolest powers here.", Rose said a few minutes later.
"What makes you think that?", Chris asked. She was gazing at Dean, who was playing around with his lighter. Rosalie followed her gaze and grinned.
"Your gift is nothing like his, which is why it's so cool. Nobody can create fire or water in this school. All of the elemental witches are only manipulating. It's very far from what they could do hundreds of years ago. I've never seen anything like you. It's not really creating it's...", Rose seemed to be at loss of words. Hmmm, I hadn't really thought much of that. Although I knew that I was not creating water. It was more like a part of me. In a way you could say, that I am water but I'm not. It's a part of me though.
While we were talking, the students, who needed equipment settled down and Mr. Decour stood in front with a clipboard in his hand.
"Alright, I think we can start now. First up is Melanie Adams."
Melanie Adams was a tiny girl, who didn't really stand out. She hid her face behind her bangs and some people chuckled when she walked to the front. I felt sorry for her. She was probably not very comfortable with attention, which I understood just too well. She stood in front and did nothing for a few seconds. Then she started turning see through, not invisible but see through. I could still see the shape of her and her clothes didn't turn as well, but it was impressive all the same.
Laurent quickly scribbled something down and nodded at her. She turned normal again and went to sit.
"Next is Nathan Adrian." Nathan held a bottle of water and simply iced it. Mr. Decour took notes and then took the bottle. He threw it on the floor and it smashed, leaving a wet spot. So apparently Nathan's ice wasn't really that frozen.
Lots of students were called and I was amazed at their abilities. It seemed that some people had quite similar talents so it happened that we saw the same thing more than once. There were for example two more 'Ice guys' , but none of them really created strong ice. A few people were able to float and it was rather funny seeing some of them falling down. Then there were three fire manipulators. One was Dean, who was able to direct the fire with hand motions. The other guy simply set fire with his mind and also tried to control it that way. When the flame became to big, though it simply went out. I guess that was the protection charm. And the other was a girl, who took a small flame and made a small fire ball with it. Chris was watching them in amazement. There was also a water manipulator, who moved the wet spot on the floor to a the other side of the room. Then there were quite few telekinesis users, some needed a hand motion others stared at the object and some simply thought of it. There also was one mind reader and a hypnotist ( I didn't know that that was magic). Next was Alice, who skipped to the front happily. She announced the outcome of some baseball game tonight and I heard few guys groan while others cheered. And then she predicted that someone was going to sneeze and a second later there was indeed someone sneezing.
Then I recognized the strange bathroom girl that we had met two days ago. Her name was Tanya Denali and she could duplicate herself. About four other people could also do that. Then there was Lauren, who turned a little mouse into stone. Or at least she tried. The mouse was back to normal about five seconds later, simply shaking and running away. After that was Jaspers turn. He stood casually in front and concentrated on some girl in the class. She started crying suddenly and her friends started to comfort her right away. Then she was laughing hysterically, she didn't stop for a few minutes. I looked at Jasper and he seemed to be concentrating very hard. Apparently he had some trouble with calming her down again. Eventually she was quiet though and Jasper went to sit again. Rosalie got up gracefully and I saw the eyes of most of the boys following her. Rosalie stood in front and simply didn't do anything. Then after a while I looked at her and realized that she was the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen. She flipped her hair and it almost made my heart stop. I started to get up, just to be closer to her, when I suddenly lost that feeling. Everyone in the class had been about to jump on her and now they all looked at each other in confusion. Rosalie smiled sweetly and made a few girls faint. Yes, girls. So that were pheromones. A very dangerous weapon.
Then there was this Jessica, who could turn into other persons. There were other people who also did that and she was no good at all. She tried to turn into Mr. Decour, but all she managed was the skin color and one tattoo. I tried very hard not to laugh, meanwhile Chris laughed out loud. She wasn't the only one, but Jessica decided to glare at her. After dear Jessica Stanley it was my turn. As soon as I heard my name, I froze. "Isabella Swan.", Mr. Decour said again not looking up from his notes yet.
"Bella, don't worry. You're great. Just don't think about any person sitting here and concentrate. You can look at me if it helps.", Chris whispered to me. Mr. Decour looked up and saw Chris kneeling in front of me whispering encouraging things. The rest of the class started whispering as well, which didn't help the matter.
"Bella, would you like someone else to go before you?", Mr. Decour asked kindly. I looked around and shook my head. If I had to present myself in front of the whole class I might as well do it now. Mr. Decour was by my side in a second. "Just breath in and out and set your mind to it. I know that you can do it, so there's no need to be nervous.", he told me. I nodded and took a deep breath. I tried to remember how I did it yesterday. I knew that I had in me, but were. In my mind I tried to recount yesterdays event. Try to listen, I heard Chris' voice. At first I didn't get it, but then I understood. I shut all the noise out. I ignored all the annoying whispering that had gotten louder now, that I wasn't even doing anything. Every noise was gone. The I tried to listen to something inside me. At first all I heard was my heartbeat. I concentrated on that. It became louder and louder and then there was a new sound. The whisper of the water. I felt a smile tugging on my lips. The melody of the water was so beautiful that it made me smile. My ears were now filled with it's sound and I embraced it mentally. As soon as I did that, I felt how my body changed. Everything was flowing and I felt like I was loosing unnecessary chains. My senses changed. I opened my eyes and saw everything a lot clearer than normal. My hearing wasn't exactly better but different. Everyone had started talking loudly, all of them shocked at what they saw. Normally this would be very annoying and confusing to hear, but now it was only like a little noise that was drifting through the room. I was able to concentrate on other things. I heard Rosalie, Alice, Jasper and Chris talking. They were all happy that I had gained this much control already. I felt content and calm, but it was gone too soon. My old body returned just like that and the water disappeared. I wasn't too happy about that. I could still heart it and it was still there, but it was inside of me again. Maybe I could do something else. Just when I thought that, heard little waves from behind me. I turned and saw the puddle that one guy had moved earlier. It was coming toward me in small waves and eventually I stood in it. Instead of getting wet feet, I simply absorbed the water. It was a rather strange feeling. I felt it enter my body and it didn't feel like it belonged there. It wasn't like the rest, after a few moments though it calmed and I felt exactly like before only a bit fuller as if I had eaten too much or something like that. I looked at Mr. Decour asking if I could leave he nodded and called Chris. When I passed her I stroke her arm lightly to encourage her a little. But as soon as I touched her, a strange feeling went through me. It was as if my mind was being shaken. I frowned and also noticed that my hand, which I used to touch her was stinging a little. What was that?
Chris seemed to have felt the same thing, because she stood in front, looked at me in wonder and rubbed her arm. I just shrugged at her. I noticed Jasper looking back and forth between us. With this guy around, there was really no privacy.
"You did really well, Bella. I'm so proud of you.", Alice said hugging me. I smiled gratefully at he an then turned to look at what Chris was doing. She was looking at the floor and tapped her foot to some unheard beat. Was that her way of concentration? I guessed it was, because when I reached through the bond for her emotions all I felt was concentration.
Several minutes later, she was on fire. It was fascinating to watch. I heard the gasps of surprise around us and I couldn't help the smug smile on my face. Chris stood there and put her hands on her hips, looking around. I sensed a little amount of boredom. I sighed and shook my head at her. Chris turned suddenly and held her hand out. I didn't get what she was doing, but I felt that she was being reckless and then I got a glimpse in her mind. She wanted to throw flames the far wall. Why did she have to do something so stupid? A giant flame shot from her hand straight to the wall and everyone gasped in shock. The flame was so big, that Chris actually heated the room. Luckily the protection charm kicked in once again and quenched the flame, seconds later. Chris also turned back to her normal state, she smiled sweetly at Mr. Decour and went back to sit down. She didn't sit in front of me again, this time she leaned against Rosalie, who sat next to me. Rosalie ruffled her hair and told her how cool that just had been. I also congratulated her and so did Jasper and Alice. We sat through the rest of class watching people move things around creating whirlwinds, make flowers blossom, absorbing electrical energie and so on. One of the boys from breakfast, Damon, had a technical gift. He had control over computers or something. He had a laptop which he never once touched. He turned it on went to Facebook and updated his profile only to turn his laptop off again. And there was also that Dario, who crumbled a diamond in his hand. Why in the world did this school have diamonds and why did they let students destroy it?
The second part of the question was answered a little later, when a girl repaired it with her gift.
When everyone had presented his or her gift Mr. Decour talked to the whole class again."I'm really pleased with your work today and I hope you will make progress in this class. Once week we have theory class and that will be on Mondays. Also, you will take part in the Classification classes. They are three times a month and the date will always be displayed on the school's black board. For those of you who don't know. Classification classes is basically the same thing as specialized magic. The only difference is that you will work only with people from your classification group. Every gift has some kind of classification, so you will learn with people who have similar gifts to yours which can be very useful for you. As you know, this is more of a project class, which means that you will be working on something with that group and you will present it at the school events. On Monday I'll tell you exactly what your classification is and we'll learn more about it. Class dismissed." The bell rang in exact that moment. "Finally.", Rose yawned."I was almost falling asleep." Alice and Jasper nodded in agreement.
"What are you talking about? This was soo interesting and exciting.", I said.
"Nah, only you and Chris were interesting, the rest is just...the rest.", Alice replied.
Jasper added."We've already seen all of their gifts in specialization class last year and we grew up with this kind of stuff, so for us it was just plainly boring."
We made our way out of the room, but unfortunately so did everybody else. I was pushed against Chris and I already feared this strange feeling again, but this time nothing happened. Chris seemed surprised as well, but shrugged it off.
"Yo, Chris and Bella. Why didn't you tell us that you had gifts this cool.", Dean appeared behind us and put his arm around my shoulder. Damon was right beside him. I shrugged, both to answer his question and to get rid of his arm. "You know you guys are kinda cool, are you sitting with us at dinner again?", Damon asked.
"Maybe.", Chris answered with a small shrug and turned away.
"How do you know the D's already?", Rose asked curiously, when they were out of hearing range.
"The D's?", I asked not really caring.
"Oh come on, you must have noticed that all of their names start with D. They usually keep more to themselves. They're not bad or anything, but they just do their own thing."
"They are in our house and we sat at their table this morning.", Chris explained quickly.
"Damon likes you.", Jasper said. All of us looked at him.
"Who?", I asked.
"Chris and Dean kinda likes you."
"Are you always blurting other people's emotions out like that?", Chris asked and punched him lightly on the arm.
"No, not really. I just thought you might wanna know. Normally I wouldn't tell, but you would have figure it out soon enough anyway and since they are good friends of mine, they actually asked me earlier today to talk to you and make them look good." Jasper didn't even look like he cared too much.
"Isn't that something that kids do in kindergarten?", Rose snickered. Chris joined in and Jasper simply shrugged. I didn't really know what to do with this information. I didn't dislike Dean and his friends, but I also didn't care too much. Also, were Dean's eyes a bit unsettling. He would look so much better with green eyes. Oh well, we'll see how all of this turns out.
English had always been a subject that I hated. I mean, I didn't like calculus really either, but at least you had to use your brain in calculus. In English it just felt like listening to an endless speech with no real meaning. To make it worse, we had two lessons of English. I was not really paying attention, barely enough to know what she was talking about, but not what she was saying. Chemistry was not much better either. Mr. Banner started talking some crap about noble gases and I didn't really care. I already knew this stuff and it was not the least bit interesting. After what seemed like forever the bell rang and we were finally free to go. As much as I enjoyed school, I hated it at least twice as much. I felt worn out and demotivated. We walked out of the school building all of us taking a deep breath once we got outside.
"You know what? I think we should go should go shopping now.", Alice screamed, jumping up and down.
"I thought you wanted to visit mermaids?", I asked. Alice was so hyperactive, how could someone like Jasper be with her?
"Yes, but we have to buy wands too. We should do it now, most people will first go and change, so we should go now, because I want the best. After that we buy gumboots and then we visit the mermaids."
"Alice we already have gumboots.", Jasper reminded her carefully.
"Oh I know, but Bella and Chris don't. We should get them some." I sighed, hoping that this wouldn't be as awful as it had been yesterday.
"Where do we get wands?", Chris asked excitedly, almost as hyperactive as Alice.
"At Miracle's.", Alice cheered. I didn't even bother asking and simply rose an eyebrow.
"Miracle is one of the most famous Wand Shops in our world. They are all over the country and everybody knows it. A lot of people buy their wands there, but it's not the only shop. It's pretty modern, do they mostly have young customers. Every Shop has it's own Wand Master, someone who makes the wands. In the traditional Shops the Wand Master makes a Wand and sells them, at Miracle's the wand master makes the wands sends them to the Headquarters. There the wands will be send the factory and they get decorated. The wands are sorted into different categories and every catergorie has it's own designs. Then they send the wands back to the Maker and they sell them.", Rosalie explained with a bright smile on her face.
"So what you are basically telling me is that we are getting some fancy, fashion accessory wands and not the good old wood stick?"
"Yes.", Rose and Alice cheered together.
"Why don't you already have a wand?", Chris asked Jasper. He was obviously the only normal person here.
"We weren't allowed to use those. When we worked with wands it was the beginners wands that the school provided for us, but we didn't use them much. A wand is a very personal tool and it's only for experienced witches. Every wand is different even if just a little bit. So every person picks the wand that suits him and his abilities the best. It used to be rather hard to find a wand back in the day, because you had to try out every single one until you found the one. The traditional shops still work like that and it's quite effective, but at Miracle's and few other shops they use magical scanners. It scans your magical ability and your possible potential, your mentality and stuff like that, then it calculates which wands in the shop could be suitable for you. So you have to try a lot less wands. The traditional wands, though are a bit more unique and sometimes they get wands send back after a person dies. Wands can get more powerful over time, so they have pretty good wands as well. In the end all that matters is to find the right wand."
We came to halt in front of a very bright, white shop with the word Miracle's written above the entrance. The display windows, displayed a few wand lying on cushions. They looked nice, even though some of them looked like toys. Inside it looked kind of like a modern shoe store. The cupboards were filled with pretty black boxes. Everything in the shop was white, the chairs and benches, the cupboards and the counter were the register was.
"Good Afternoon. How may I help you?" A middle aged woman same to us with a professional smile on her face. She looked exactly how an employee in a shop like this should look. Sophisticated and cleaned up. "We need wands.", Alice almost squealed. Oh really? Why else would you go into a Wand Shop?
"Is this your first time buying one?", she asked. All of us nodded. "Okay just wait here for a second." She left the room quickly only to come back with a small device in her hand and a second woman at her side. The second woman went to the computer and waited for the other one to start. The device she held looked like a metal detector and it seemed to be working like one as well, she was waving it around Alice right now. It had a little screen, which showed numbers. The woman read those to hear assistant, who typed it into the computer and printed it. Next was Rose than Jasper. All the same process. After that it was Chris turn and apparently there were some difficulties, because the woman frowned and started scanning Chris again. She read a few numbers to her assistant again, but she also used the word unknown quite a few times. "How should we work with that?", the woman on the computer asked. The other one shrugged."I don't know. Try to work with what we have. Do you know why some of your sectors are unknown, sweetie?", she asked Chris. Chris just shrugged.
"Maybe it's because they are regular born.", Jasper suggested. Now he'd done it. Both of the woman stared at Chris in awe.
"Oh you are one of the regulars, that is so exciting. I hoped to be selling your first wand to you and your sister, but we can't gather enough information, so you'll have to try more wands than everyone else. So where's your sister?"
"I'm here.", I answered slightly annoyed. We didn't look that different from each other. The sales woman looked at me then at Chris and seemed to realize this as well, because she was now smiling brightly at me as well.
"I'm sorry, Alana. But apparently we have now wands in this store that would be suitable for her. You could try her sister, but I doubt she'll be different.
Alana turned to me and scanned me now as well. Just as the other one predicted, there was also no wand for me in here. Alana's smile turned into a pout and she apologized a million times to me and Chris about not being able to sell us a wand.
Eventually she turned her attention to the other three and led each off them to another section of the store. She held the sheets with the information and picked out a few boxes for each of them. Then she led all of us into a separate room, that looked like a playroom.
"You can test the wands here. You'll know which one the right one is, when you don't destroy anything with it.", she explained and handed each of them a wand. All three wielded the wands in there hands and there was nothing but destruction going on. Jasper blew up a teddy bear, Alice broke a glass and Rose set a little fire. The sale woman quickly pulled her wand out wielded it shortly as well, while mumbling something and fixed the mess.
The second round was a slight bit better. Jasper seemed to have found the right one already, because the Teddy that he blew up before was now floating. Meanwhile Alice broke a table and Rose killed a flower." Well, I guess the young man has found his already. Wield it again please.", Alana instructed kindly
Jasper did and the flower that Rose had killed blossomed now beautifully. "Perfect. It needs some time to get used to it, but you'll eventually master your wand." She put it back in it's box and handed it to Jasper. He went to pay for it right away and Chris and I followed him.
"I wanna see it.", Chris whined right after Jasper bought it. He took it out of the box and gave it to her. It was maybe about 10 inches long. It was blue although the ends were silver, it was simple not like some of the toys I had seen in here and it suited Jasper.
"I like it.", both Chris and I said and smiled brightly at Jasper. He looked a little startled at our synchronicity, but laughed a second later.
"Jazzy, I got mine too.", Alice screamed and jumped on him out of nowhere. Rosalie appeared to with a box and smiled in satisfaction.
Rosalie's wand was about 8 inches long and it was red. One tip was golden and it had a some kind of flowery pattern on it. It was beautiful as well, although I liked Jasper's better. I realized that Rosalie's wand seemed to have a clear mark where the front was ( the golden tip) while Jasper's didn't. I wanted to ask about it, but I was distracted by Alice, almost shoving me her wand in the nose.
"Isn't it pretty? It so cool. It's perfect for me don't you think?", she was jumping up and down waving with her wand. Chris snatched out of her hand to look at it. The actual wand looked similar to Jasper's, it had the same shade of blue, but it was surrounded by glass and was filled with water and glitter. It looked like these glitter wands with which I used to play when I was a kid only was this not as thick. The glitter was silver and Alice was right, it suited her perfectly.
"So now we have to get you guys a wand. I think we should go to Alistair.", Alice seemed to have calmed down a little. Since I didn't know what she was talking about I simply nodded and followed her. The whole way Rose and Alice were holding their wands, careful not to wield it. Jasper explained that they were not allowed yet to use the wands outside of class until they knew how to work with them.
Five minutes later we stood in front of a shop that looked like an old bookstore. When we entered, there was a bell chiming.
Inside it looked a lot like that shop in the Harry Potter Movie. What was it called again?
"Is this some kind of joke? It looks like Ollivander's in here.", Chris complained. I nodded in agreement although it was more cleaned up in here. A man who seemed to be in his mid fifties stepped out. "Oh hello little Alice, are you her to buy your first wand? I don't think that there is anything suited for you in here.", he said with a small smile on his lips when he spotted Alice. "No I have mine already, but my friends here need one too." She gestured toward us.
"Ahh the regular borns, I knew that you would have come here. Extraordinary witches need extraordinary wands. Everyone who has bought one of my wands has made it very far.", he said while he looked at me and Chris.
"Edward bought his wand here too.", Alice piped in.
"Oh yes, Edward is a quite talented young man. I hope I'll find something fitting for the two of you." He walked out of the room quickly.
"Edward, had his wand special made. A lot of people do that in the traditional shops, it's a bit tricky, because you have to give the wand Master a bit of your magic, but in the end you have a very special wand.", Alice explained.
"It's nice to know, that you listened to me, Alice. She's right you know and all of these boxes you see here are either wands that took me years to create or wands that were sent back to me after the witch died.", the man was back and carried a few boxes and set them down the counter. These are wands that belonged to regular borns once.", he explained pointing at the boxes. Before I knew it, he shoved a wand into my hand. It was kinda thick and heavy, but I wielded it anyway. Nothing happened. He took it from me and handed it Chris, but there was also nothing. The next five wands weren't any better. Absolutely nothing happened.
"Alistair, is it normal that nothing happens? I thought that they would at least destroy something.", Rose asked."We did."
"Well, if the choice is too far off nothing happens. The more suitable a wand is the more will happen and when you find the right one you'll actually perform magic with it."
"So that means, that the wands of regular borns are absuloutely not suitable for the two of them?" Alistair nodded and hurried away. He was looking through his shelves and started asking questions. "Can you tell me what abilities you have?"
"It's a bit complicated to explain...", I started.
"Bella manipulates water and Chris fire.", Alice interrupted. That seemed to give Alistair a clue and he came back with two wands.
"Maybe this group of wands is right." He handed one to me and one to Chris. Again, nothing. Alistair frowned. "Usually this works with Pyros and Hydros.", he mumbled.
"You see, we don't really manipulate fire and water.", Chris started.
"Of course you do.", Alice said.
"No.", Chris and I answered. I continued."It's more like being water. I feel like it's a part of my body and it is, but it's not just manipulating it's more than that."
"We can hear it. The fire and the water.", Chris added. That made Alistair think, but his eyes glowed when he heard what we said.
"Real elemental witches. That is a very rare gift." he pulled out a few more boxes and let us try all of the wands and when none of them worked he looked for more. I was kind of enjoying this, it had some kind of mystical feeling and I felt a little giddy. But the whole peaceful atmosphere was destroyed when Alice's phone rang. All of us looked at her in annoyance and she quickly answered it. She talked quickly and then got up.
"Where are you going?", all of us asked her.
"Rose and I will get your gumboots for tomorrow, obviously this will take a bit more time. Apparently Edward is done with his shopping spree, so he and Emmett are coming to join you soon." She kissed Jasper quickly good bye and took Rose with her. Jasper just looked after them and then he took two stools that stood there and put them where we stood, telling us to sit. Alistair came back with a few more boxes, but again none of them worked.
"Do you know what animal spirit you are?", Alistair asked us.
"What is an animal spirit?"
"Never mind. So since none of the Pyro and Hydro wands work we can move on to the wands of the elemental witches. I'll have to look for them first." And he started searching again. Meanwhile Emmett and Edward joined us looking curious.
"So, have you found anything yet?", Edward asked.
"No. None of them works." I let out a frustrated sigh.
"How come it still looks so clean in here then?", Emmett asked.
"Because nothing happens.", Chris answered. Edward and Emmett looked surprised.
"Seriously guys, not even the dust moved.", Jasper said.
"Wow."
"Okay, how about this one. It belonged to an air witch. It might work for one of you." Alistair came back with a new box.
Chris tried it first and it was the same result as before and it wasn't much different when I took it. Alistair vanished again.
"Jasper how long are we already sitting her?", I asked desperately.
"About two hours.", he answered
"Oh man, I don't want a wand anymore.", Chris whined.
"Don't say that my dear, We'll find the right one for you." Alistair was back again with a new box."This one belonged to a fire witch. I'm pretty conifdent that this one will work." Chris took it. Nothing. She passed t over to me and of course it didn't work.
"Next.", Chris cried. Alistair was already on his way. He came back with new wands about four more times and then he stood there and looked a little discouraged.
"You are the toughest customers I ever had. Maybe you should tell me more about your abilities."
"I can shoot giant flames from my hand.", Chris replied lamely.
"I absorb water.", I said in the same tone. There wasn't much to tell, when we didn't know it ourselves. But then I hit my forehead. How could we have forgotten that?"We're bonded.", I added quickly. Alistair's face lit up.
"You mean a natural bond?" Both of us nodded.
"That's it." And with these words he jumped up and ran up a flight of stairs somewhere at the side. He came back with two wooden boxes. He carefully placed them in font of us and opened them. There placed on a cushion each were two beautiful wooden wands. Both of them looked like little horns as a matter of fact, after classes today, I could say they looked like unicorn horns, but much thinner and shorter than I would have thought.
"These are my most treasured wands. It has been in my family for generations and before that it has been in the Avalon-Clan for hundreds of years. Unfortunately the Avalon-Clan doesn't exist anymore today. It is a common belief that the Avalon-Clan..."
"Were the decedents of Heaven and Hell. You don't really believe that stuff, do you? It's just a story and nobody knows if it's true.", Edward interrupted. He had gotten up to stand behind me and I couldn't help the little jump that my heart made.
"Oh no, my dear boy. It's not just a story. The version that you are being taught in school is only a story, but there is some truth behind it."
"Yes, I know. But this whole crap about the power of life and death? It's just ridiculous. And what about them creating us? I don't think it's true. Obviously there had been someone who was the first of our kind and the demons, but this whole story is just ridiculous.", Edward argued.
"Yes, I don't disagree with you. But I'm not talking about heaven and hell. I'm talking about Melantha and Amarantha. They had been the real model of Heaven and Hell. The story is a bit more complicated and I don't want to disturb you with it now, but there really has been a power that sealed away and there really had been a war. These two wands belonged to Melantha and Amarantha. Two very young unicorns gave them their horns and do you know why?" Chris and I shook our heads.
It was Edward who answered."Because unicorns trust virgins."
"Yes, that's right and also did those unicorns fall in love with their purity."
"I thought unicorns couldn't fall in love. It's a human emotion.", Emmett barged in.
"Oh unicorns are able to fall in love, but only with something, that is even purer than themselves. Unicorns are very vain creatures and since they are the purest thing out there, they wouldn't fall in love. It is said that Melantha and Amarantha shared a bond and that their love to each other was so strong and pure, that two young and naive unicorns fell in love with them and gave the their horns. Melantha and Amarantha made wands used them as their wands and with every spell they performed, it changed a little. Now it's not a pure unicorn horn anymore, because it has changed a lot, it was passed on to many people and only few could make these wands work for them. A unicorns horn is usually silver, but these two changed colors and look like ordinary wands now. Well, in a way. They are still special., because no wand is winded like that." The wands really were beautiful. One was black, but I could see a little silver hint in the windings and the other was ivory white and also showed little hints of silver. The tips were a little pointy, but not so bad that it could actually hurt someone. I started to feel the need to take the wand in front of me. I didn't realized that I was moving my hand until Alistair encouraged me to take it. "No need to be so hesitant, young girl. You should try it."
I took the black wand and as soon as I touched it, I felt a strange force of energy go through me. I heard the whispers of the water and then I heard more, I wasn't aware of anything happening around me I only heard so many voices. I couldn't make out what they were saying, the only word I heard was 'wield'. I did and when I did a fountain of clear water came out of the wand. It sparkled and looked kind of silverish. It was glowing strangely but it looked beautiful. The fountain stopped and normally, everything should have been wet but it wasn't. Alistair beamed at me. "The Melantha's wand is now yours. You are one of the chosen witches." I looked around the room and saw that Alice and Rosalie were back and had Dylan with them. Everyone was looking at me in awe and I quickly looked at the floor, blushing. "What was that?", Chris broke the silence. I shrugged. I couldn't place the emotions that came through the bond only one, which was excitement.
"Take the wand Chris.", I sighed at her and looked at the one in my hand. It really was beautiful. I saw Chris taking the other wand and for a moment nothing happened. I shifted nervously, but everybody else looked at her in anticipation. And Chris also didn't seem to notice that nothing happened. Maybe she was experiencing these strange whispers as well. The she wielded the wand and a blue fame came out of it. It was the same as the blue fire that she set on this one desk. It was only a bit more blue and it seemed more powerful. When it stopped it was exactly the same like my water fountain, nothing was burned. Chris turned to smile at me and I smiled back. Not only had we discovered that we had very rare abilities, but we also got very rare wands. Everything happened so fast and normally my head would have started spinning by now, but all of this felt so natural that I didn't think much of it. I felt the happiness streaming from Chris and I shared that feeling. Alistair seemed to feel the same way because he was beaming at us and his eyes started watering. "You are now the master of Amarantha's wand, you also are one of the chosen witches." I didn't really get why he was so excited about all this, but I didn't care right now. I was feeling almost as hyper as Alice.
"So, how much do you want for these wands?", Chris asked dampening my good mood a little. Rare pieces like this must cost a fortune and we didn't have that.
"Oh, they are invalueable. No money in the world could buy these wands. Knowing that the wands are now in the hands of their rightful owners is payment enough for me.", he answered.
"No. You can't just give them to us. You must want something. We could work for it or something, anything.", I immediately protested.
"No, I insist that you accept this gift. It would make me very happy, if you did." I couldn't argue with that. Alistairs bright expression turned dark all of the sudden. He looked worried. "Is something wrong?", Chris and I asked at the same time. His face lightened up again and he started to push all of us out.
"No, everything is perfect. You should go now. Enjoy the rest of your day and enjoy your life. You're young, you should live as long as you can, before your lives turn miserable and complicated." And with these words he pushed us out and closed the door. We all looked at each other in confusion, but then we shrugged it off.
"We can go and visit the mermaids now.", Alice cried.
"Can't we go and change first.", Chris whined.
"Yes, of course. We shall make our way back to the houses." All of us followed, shaking our heads and asking Jasper how he managed to survive. As we walked down the street, I felt like someone was watching us. I turned and saw that Alistair was watching us through the window. Weird. I shrugged it off and ran after the others, who didn't notice that I had stopped walking.
Alistair's PoV
I looked after them. They were both still so young and naive. They should enjoy the time with their friends as much as they could, because soon their world was going to be turned upside down. I sighed. I had been so happy to be able to meet them. I didn't believe that they would still appear in my life time. But now I wished that they had never been dragged into this world. "So they really are the chosen ones, huh?", the voice that came from behind me, startled me. I turned and saw Laurent stepping out of the shadows. "You really need to stop doing that all the time. How did you get in here anyway?", I scolded him. Laurent walked over to a couch and slumped himself on it.
"I had classes with Dylan Cullen today.", he explained. I nodded in understanding.
"So, the wands worked?"
"Yes, better than I would have thought. I didn't think that they would already be this powerful. That's not necessarily a good thing.", I answered.
"Yes, I know. But we can't change that, so we should teach them how to work with their powers. I don't want them to get hurt."
"Well, that is your job." I sat down next to him.
"Oh, I know and it's the hardest job I ever had to do. Christabel is really stubborn, I'm not sure if I can get everything out of her in time. On the other hand she seems to learn very fast. Isabella is quite the contrary, she's shy and I don't think that she always trusts herself."
"So basically, you have one that doesn't really take interest in learning and the other one who's doubting herself."
He nodded. "It's actually both that doubt themselves, they just have different ways of expressing it." The expression on Laurent's face was thoughtful.
"Well, good luck with that." He would need it. All of us would.
A/N: Bet you are all curious now how this story continues muhahaha. The next chapter will probably not give you any information, about what the two of them are talking. You can guess though and I might tell you who the closest is.
You know, I'm starting to understand how J. and Stephenie Meyer felt like when they wrote their amazing books. If you create a whole new world there are so many things that you should think of. Lucky me that I'm not really creating a whole new world, or am I? Huh, I don't know, but what I do know is that I have still sooo much in mind. I'm starting to wonder if all of that fits into one FF. I mean I could always write a fic with about 100 chapters, but I think it might be a bit intimidating, don't you. Well, maybe I'm just exaggerating and all of my ideas will fit into this one FF, who knows. What would you think about a sequel (then I really know how Joanne and Stephenie felt like) I'm actually thinking about three parts (has a special reason that I can't tell you yet) well, we'll see...
Anything else to add? Oh, yeah...REEEEEVIEEEEWS! Please?:D
