~~~~October 1998. Bella is 11~~~

It was a warm October day when I first met them.

I had been up in my room going over my Spanish book when I heard a knock on the door-which surprised me.

Ever since Tasha, I hadn't relaxed on my air sense in the least bit. Aaron had gotten me brown contacts so that I could reach out with the air more strongly and no one would be able to see my eyes turn clear.

It had been overwhelming at first, but now it was almost natural.

Things very rarely escaped my notice, and when they did it scared me.

I hadn't thought that I had needed to work on my air sense, but since Tasha I did anyways. She had elementals on her side. Obviously they weren't fours, but they were still elementals and still powerful.

My mom didn't bother calling for me to answer the door-I always did that now too. Just in case she decided to pop by for a visit or send one of her flunkies.

I hopped over to the door while testing the air.

It was off just a bit so I cautiously opened the door.

They were fraternal twins, one a girl and the other a boy.

I could tell just in the way they stood that they were supernatural, but they still waited for me to say something and didn't attack.

"Bella? Who is it?" My mom said coming around the corner from the kitchen in our new home in Cambridge.

"Oh!" She exclaimed as she pushed me aside to grab both of them up in a hug, which they returned just as enthusiastically.

"Bella," she scolded as she pulled them into the house. "Why didn't you let them in?"

"Um, cause I don't know who they are?"

"Sure you do. I told you about them last week remember?"

I shook my head. "No, you started to tell me something and then the doorbell rang and you forgot."

She slapped her forehead. "That's right. Bella, this is Isabella and Jesse. They're Aunt Penny's kids."

Aunt Penny had been dead for several years now so the story worked perfectly for them.

The girl spoke. "I go by Isa though, versus Bella. It's nice to finally meet my cousin. Especially the one with the same name as me."

I smiled at her the best that I could. After all, she was still a supernatural stranger in my house pretending to be my cousin. Doesn't exactly make you feel at ease.

She had to be a vampire. There was nothing else that she could be. But her eyes were brown. As brown as mine usually were almost. And then she said, "Aunt Renee why don't you finish dinner while we catch up with Bella?"

My mom nodded and ushered us off to my room.

I didn't like turning my back to them but I had to act normal if nothing else.

They seemed to get this and back off a little, which made me relax.

They didn't seem threatening at least.

Heat radiated off of the guy like he had just walked out of an inferno, he wasn't even quite touching me when he opened my door for me-which was strange in itself-and I could feel the heat radiating off of him.

We shut the door and I twisted my desk chair around to sit on it backward while they took the bed.

I made sure my mom really was downstairs before I turned to them.

"Who the hell are you?"

Isa smiled at me. "We really are your cousins…. just a bit farther up than Penny. We're quite a bit up the line. We are both 200 years old and we are in fact fraternal twins."

"So what? We're cousins 100 times removed?"

They both laughed. "Pretty much."

"So what are you exactly? Cause you look vampire but your eyes are almost as brown as mine and heat radiates off every pore of his so…what are you?"

"Well, I am vampire. I'm just an earth element causing my eyes to be brown. Much more convincing that I'm related to you than if you can see the golden eyes. We actually came to teach you a few new tricks with earth bending now that you've met up with Tasha. And to provide a safe place for you family when she sends her flunkies after you."

My face scrunched. "How did you know about Tasha?"

Jesse spoke up. "She makes it her personal duty to come gloat when she's bested us at something. Of course, we're good at hiding from her so when she catches up to us half of the things she came to gloat about we already knew."

I nodded. "Are you a vampire too then?"

"No, actually and I'm kind of glad I'm not. I'm actually a werewolf. Isa here would have been too but she was bitten before the gene was activated. The heat is a werewolf thing. We heal really fast and we always run at about 108-body temperature. Hence the no shirt thing. Also, don't ever let anyone convince you werewolf, vampire, or otherwise, that werewolves and vampires are natural born enemies. The enemy thing comes from the ones before them and tells them stories whether they are true or not. I mean, Isa and I didn't hear the stories until about 10 years after we had both been changed and as a result we both still love each other and are at each others throats the normal amount a brother and sister would. It's just a prejudice thing that we think is really stupid."

"Thank you!" I said throwing my hands out and lifting my head upwards in a quick movement. "I mean they're both supernatural right? I don't see why they can't get along. I mean the vampires that go murdering anyone and everyone on the street I totally get but the other ones I don't."

"We totally get you."

"Bella, Isa, Jesse! Dinner's ready!"

"Ready to throw down some disgusting food?" I said smiling.

Isa glared at me and Jesse laughed as we went down to eat my mom's spaghetti.

After dinner, Isa invited me over to their apartment and my mom agreed. She said, "Its wonderful you're getting out and seeing someone besides Aaron, Bella." And then basically kicked me out the door.

Once we got in the car, they turned to me.

"Who's Aaron?"

"The vampire that has been teaching me how to control the elements."

The shared a glance. "Think he'll mind if we go there instead?"

I smiled. "If he does, I'll kick his butt."

They laughed and we headed off to Aaron's.

They let me go in first to explain the situation to Aaron.

He welcomed them with open arms, even Jesse which surprised us all.

"What?" he asked when he saw our looks. "I just don't like the werewolves that try to kill me and my family. The ones who are friendly I don't have a problem with."

So they caught up while I went to sleep up in Aaron's bed.

We had a lot of training to do in the morning.

How they could teach me tricks that was out of their element-literally-I had no idea but if it worked, it didn't really matter.

I woke up rested the next day and went through my routine of having eggs with bacon and an apple with some milk then lifted some weights before we went out into the living room so I could learn my new 'tricks.'

Jesse and Isa were sitting on the couch with her empty glass of blood and his empty plate of food on the table in front of them.

It was almost disconcerting how little her drinking blood bothered me now.

"You ready?" Isa asked me as I slipped down into the rocking chair with Aaron beside me on the ground. He decided I needed to have more room to move than I had on his lap.

And I had a sneaking suspicion that he thought I was getting too old to sit on his lap.

Anyways.

I focused on Isa.

"First, we're going to teach you about traveling through air. Yes, I realize you've already done but Aaron told us about your thought process and you'll never be able to go very far with that.

When you think of going through the air, you're currently thinking about being there, wherever the place is thatyou want to be.

The trick though is, to think that you want to be air and then that you want that air to go wherever you want to go. It's a longer thought process, but once you get it down you can stay air for a much longer time and you can travel farther distances. We've known a vampire that can travel half way across the world by doing this. And of course breathing is no problem because you are air. You want to master becoming air before you think about traveling though. We'll leave you to work on that one.

Second, the same way you can become air, you can become air you can become water.

You have to become the water and then you can move and you are less traceable especially if you ever move up to Washington."

She produced a cup of water from the side of the couch and held it out to me.

"Wanna try? Aaron can always call Aly Water if you can't solidify again." She sat the cup down on the table.

I put one finger in the water and closed my eyes.

I thought of being the water, liquefying, of being one with the water…

And then suddenly, I was.

It's an experience that is really hard to explain.

There was no longer a difference from what used to be my body and the water that used to be in the cup.

We were one-and yet I could still distinguish what my body would be.

Nothing looked smaller, it was just as if I was looking through a film that was blue but I could still see their colors.

Apparently, I took too long for suddenly Aly was there.

She laughed. "She's not stuck. She's just having fun and experimenting. See if you can come out of the cup Bella."

I could feel every particle of water and coming out of the cup with ease and forming a simple 'hi' was like walking on the ground.

I went back into the cup, and with a simple thought of solidifying, I was out of the cup and back in the chair.

Completely dry, might I add.

"See?" Aly said, resting a hand on my shoulder. "She's a natural. Just like I said she would be." She shot a meaningful look at Aaron.

He rolled his eyes.

"While I'm here, do you want to try becoming air?"

I shrugged and we went outside to a grove of trees not far from Aaron's house.

"Basically," Aly said. "You're doing the exact same thing. You have to have a firmer grip on yourself because the wind can blow you away and then you have to bring you back."

It was even weirder than the water.

What seemed like a perfectly still day was actually full of counteracting winds they could blow you every which way.

When I had complete control of myself, with a simple push I flew back to the house.

I felt them following.

They had left the door shut but I slipped under the doorway and went and floated in the living room.

"Okay, okay," Aly said coming in and laughing. "Time to solidify so you don't give these three panic attacks."

And then I was solid. It was really as simple as that.

After Aly left, we sat in original spots again.

"Okay so another thing is transportation through the earth. It comes in handy if you want to transport your family. Simply find something that is made out of wood and you can make a portal by picturing the place you want to go and looking at the while picturing. At first, it might take a couple minutes but the more often you do it the quicker you'll get. We'll save that for later though.

Something important we need to teach you about is possessing."

I glanced at Aaron. He shrugged.

"Possessing?"

They nodded. "It's one of Tasha's most commonly used tactics. Unless you know what to look for, it's completely hidden if someone is possessed. There is a glint in the possessed person's eyes that signals there is someone else in control. The trick is catching it. Sometimes you can tell someone is possessed simply by how they act. The key, though, is to get them out of the person before you start wailing on them. How you do that, is you combine fire and air but keep it in your hand. Try it."

I held my hand up and tried to do what she said.

At first, it was just fire, and then just air, and they started battling.

"Focus on making them one." Jesse said.

I did, and the flames and wind calmed down and retracted and my hand started to glow this light pale yellow color.

"Exactly." Isa said. "What you do, is when your hand is like that, you slam your hand into their midsection and make a fist like you are grabbing onto something inside of them and pull outwards. They will scream and it will sounds like the person who is possessed. But the scream is good and so is resistance. It means there is actually someone in there. They won't scream unless they are possessed. Because in actuality, it's the possessor that is screaming and resisting.

You can also possess someone by leaving your own body. You do the same thing you did with your hand and push out with your mind and into another mind. If you don't want to control their mind, then just push towards the body and not the mind."

They left a few days later after practicing getting 'possessed' people out and making portals through the earth.

Isa usually ended up possessing one of the other two and I had to get them out. We did it until I could punch their midsection without pulling back suddenly.

It was weird cause it was like my hand didn't even touch their skin until I hit Isa inside of them. It was way strange.

But I felt more ready and powerful than I had in a long time as Aaron and I saw them off.

What an idiot.

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