A/N: Pictures of Jessica and Alexis McCarthy links are on profile.
He gave me a soft smile before he began.
"I was born in Tennessee back in 1915."
He must have heard my slight intake of breath for he smiled wryly at me.
"Immortal, remember? Anyways, I was born in 1915 along with my twin brother Emmett. We used to have an ongoing battle who was born first since they didn't keep track of those things back then.
Leslie was born I'm 1912 and Jason in 1910. In 1918, Jessica was born and in late 1920 so was Alexis.
We learned early on to respect our sisters and mother especially, but really any girl.
We often suffered from playing tea with the girls but, though we would never admit it, we had fun.
As each of the boys grew older, we started to help our dad out on the railroad.
The girls learned to cook as they grew up.
Shortly after Emmett and I had turned 20, em went hunting with a friend.
He never came back. There was a bear with a lot of blood and pieces of a shirt in its claws and teeth. But there was no Emmett and the bear was dead. The neck was snapped to the side.
Knowing what I do now, we think he was saved and then turned into a vampire. We as in the rest of my family.
I waited for 6 months before I planned to set out on my own.
I never got the chance.
I had gotten a house down a couple blocks from my parents.
I was out gathering wood, about a week before I planned to go looking, when some animal attacked me. I still don't know what it was.
But it drew the attention of a nearby vampire. I believe its original intention was to feed but a four element knocked it off of me.
A newborn vampire is usually wild and blood crazy. So when I came out of the transformation in complete control we immediately knew it was a gift.
We as in my creator and I.
I didn't let them see me, but I kept watch over my family. Not close enough though, because when I came back from hunting once, both Jason and Leslie were half way through transformation.
I took them in and taught them everything.
I kept them under control during their newborn years.
Being a Vampire, I knew that humans were fairly weak. I also knew, that vampires were the most powerful creatures on the planet.
What I didn't know was that I had yet to see what real power looked like.
It was about 4 years later that I had my first experience with real power.
One of the four elements had come with us to check back up on our family. It had been a couple years since we had been back in Tennessee.
Tasha was there. She had an army of elemental followers. They believed my family held the next powerful elemental.
At first, there was just a lot of arguing and taunting.
Tasha finally snapped and ordered her army forward. Some of her army were very powerful. Some were weak.
Leslie, Jason, and myself dealt with the weaker ones while the four elementals dealt with the powerful ones.
They were wrong about the elemental, but a big fight still broke out resulting in the death of half of her followers."
"What happened to Tasha?" I asked.
He did something between a smile and a frown. "She's still out there. Probably getting more powerful too. But she has a gift. When she hides, she usually isn't found. She hasn't poised a threat as of yet, but we need to find her soon. Anyways, back to the 'story.'
During the battle, Jessica and Alexis were bitten.
Three days later, all of the my siblings were vampires.
We didn't have to deal with familial guilt because my father had died on the railroad and my mother of a heart attack.
We stayed together for a while, but eventually separated.
As time went on, more and more of our family joined vampirism. Cousins that continued to join us from down the line. We don't know why all of us have been changed but we have. It's actually kinda nice sometimes. Knowing that we're not alone. That we still have a web of family to go to.
We have one of, if not thee biggest family in history."
He stopped for a pause. I knew there was more, but that was his main story…kinda.
"So, all those people in the black and white photos…they're still here?" I asked hesitantly.
He nodded and then opened the album. He slowly got down on his knees and moved towards me slowly.
I didn't object.
"Yes." He flipped to the back section of the album and pointed at an older teen.
"This is Jason. He was turned at 25. When he stays with us, depending on the town, sometimes he can pass as a senior in High School or he just goes to college. Depending on what he wants to do." He turned back a couple pages to a picture of his sister.
"Obviously, you know Leslie. She was turned at 22. She can still pass as a high school student although she usually chooses not too.
Like myself, Leslie has a gift. Although her gift is directly related to family. She gets this extra sense, I suppose, that warns her when family members are in danger. When she concentrates on the sense, she can see whom it is and sometimes when it is going to happen."
He flipped to the back part of the album again. A girl with curly wavy blonde-I knew cause it was really light- hair stood smiling at the camera.
"This is Alexis. She was turned at 18. She also has a gift for control although mine is much stronger than hers." He flipped the page again. The girl had short dark hair-I presumed black.
"This is Jessica. She was 20 when she was turned. She often attends high school."
He took a deep breath before he began again.
"That was the story on my family. This next part is on vampires and other mythical creatures.
Vampires are, as you have seen, extremely fast and strong. For those that feed off of humans, our appearance also draws our prey in.
We are also venomous. Once we bite and if the venom is left to spread, the transformation from human is. A very painful three days.
Our kind has a certain kind of royalty. We only have one law that can be broken many ways. The consequence is death.
The law is to not expose ourselves to the humans.
Confirming this right now is breaking the law. The volturi are our royalty.
They have the most skilled and powerful fighters. They are in charge...unless you know better.
Who really is in charge are the four elements.
If they tell the volturi to go dance on their heads, they do it with very little to no questions asked.
While the volturi are very powerful, the four are more so. Most gifts can only inflict on one person or vampire at a time. Those that can do multiple, take a while to take affect.
So, by the time the gift reaches the four, everyone-including the bearer of the certain gift-is dead."
"What makes the volturi different from the rest of the vampires?" I asked. I didn't like the sound of them.
"Well, the leaders-Aro, Caius, and Marcus-are very old and the most respected. Their word is law to the rest of us. Their guard has very powerful mind gifts. They can track, inflict pain, or cut off all feelings based on illusions they create on your mind. Those that don't have gifts are very powerful. What they don't have in gifts, they make up in numbers. Most never leave the city except Heidi. She's the bait, I suppose." His jaw clenched in anger. "They have no regard for human life. Heidi goes out to bring in tourists and such in. Humans to feed from. It's horrible and something I hope to never witness. If you ever see it, I will kill them myself or die trying."
He took a deep breath and shook his head; trying to get rid of some images I suppose.
"But vampire aren't the only mythical thing out there.
There are werewolves. Unless you see them up close, they look like bears. To a human anyways. They are enormous and dangerous to the vampire species."
"Why?" I couldn't imagine anything strong enough to hurt a vampire.
"Because their sole purpose for existing is to destroy any vampire that is in the area. They do not understand that there are good vampires. Ones that don't feed off of humans.
It doesn't matter to them. A vampire is a vampire.
And a vampire is evil-no matter what color of eyes that they have."
"But…but that's wrong. Humans have good and bad; why wouldn't vampires and even…werewolves?" It was hard to wrap my head around so much supernatural.
"They don't think so. We're unnatural and we shouldn't exist."
I snorted. What a load of crap. "Neither should they."
He smiled. "Yeah, well, we never hang around long enough to have an argument on that subject.
But anyways, their teeth and claws are made for ripping apart vampires. They usually are in packs of three or more.
From what I've heard, they start their lives out completely normal. Then I vampire moves into or through town and the gene of werewolf is triggered.
They also have this thing called imprinting.
Imprinting is almost like love at first sight. But more so, it's like gravity moves. Its her-or him-that keeps you on this earth. Nothing matters except that one person. And you'll be whatever they want you to be. Whether that be a brother, friend, or lover. It's quite something to watch actually."
He smiled softly before returning to his story.
"There are also wolf leaders. They never get into fights with the four because they know they would lose. Sometimes they team up though, when something is to big from them to handle on their own.
There are also four of them. They are also chosen by chance.
I believe their leader is currently a guy named Jay.
I think that's pretty much all there is to my mythical world. Any questions, Bella."
Not really, just one important one.
"Just one."
He nodded, waiting.
"Will you hurt me?"
A/N: So, college has started back up again so it's not my fault if I'm slow on updating but I will try to do at least one every couple weeks. No promises.
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