A/N: Just to clarify things a little…
The reason why the Volturi was in Forks at first is that they heard of Bella and her relationship with Edward and wanted to kill her as she knew their secret.
I think I forgot to say this in my other chapters.
I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT, NEW MOON, OR ECLIPSE.
Sniff I never will too. So there, I've said it. U can't sue me anymore!!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. (OK, went a bit nuts there.)
Any way, please continue reading now that we've cleared this junk up.
And also, to those people who don't like the unicorn in my story.
DON'T READ IT IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT!
Oh and I got this story's inspiration from the movie 'Stardust'! It's a really nice movie, you should really watch it!
To Music ADD; I know! I couldn't help adding about a unicorn, I figured since vampires and werewolves exist, why not unicorns?
Chapter Eight
I leaned forward, holding on to Haine's mane as she galloped out of the castle and into the surrounding woods.
I sighed in exhilaration. I could never get use to Haine's speed, which was twice as fast as any normal vampire.
It's almost time.
I nodded my head in acknowledgement.
Slowly, Haine lowered herself so that I had an easier time getting off her back.
"Thank you." I whispered to her.
She neighed in response.
You see, hunting was just an excuse to get out of other vampires' sights.
I didn't hunt animals, in fact, I didn't hunt at all.
I took out my pale white dress that I wore for these occasions.
I changed into it quickly, and then leaned against Haine, whom had lain down and waited for twilight to come.
As I waited, my thoughts couldn't help but drift towards the Cullens, but most importantly, him.
I couldn't help it! It always seemed that at times like this, I would think about him.
The memories I had with him. The time I had spent with him. The time I had once had with him.
I loved him. And yet I hated him.
I was nuts. Hating and loving the same person. Definitely nuts. And whacked too.
You see, the reason why I have violet eyes is that…
I'm not human.
Or a vampire.
You're thinking, how can that be?
Well, I am a vampire, in a way.
But not a real one.
I'm a star.
I only regained all my memories as a star a few days after Aro bit me. You could say that the bite triggered it.
The full story:
I was a star. The ones you see in the sky. Except what people didn't know is that stars are actually spirits too.
They have bodies and everything.
We're pretty, even prettier than vampires, which I found ironic, since we didn't even need the beauty for anything.
The Sun was our God.
The Sun was called Goddess of stjärnor, which meant Goddess of stars.
And her name was Lys. It meant Light.
But most importantly, she was my mother.
Stars cannot have children, because all stars are women. No men at all. Sexist, I know.
But anyway, it was a rare case when stars had children, because stars are created when giant gas clouds start to clump together and collapse in upon themselves.
Haine was sent by my mother, you probably wouldn't know it, but stars are very important.
Without stars, there will not be any heat and/or light.
You will be living in darkness. You probably wouldn't even exist to begin with.
Anyway, back to the story.
When the goddess of stars had a daughter, it created an uproar.
Stars everywhere talked about it, gossiping like old human women.
BTW, we can change our forms to fit in anywhere.
But mostly, we stayed in the skies, where we shone brightly at night, giving out light and heat along with Lys.
When stars are created, they are given a hollow rock by Lys. It becomes their home and they can decorate it any way they want.
And the amount of light a star gives out varies, as it depends on how happy the stars are. Usually, we stars are contented, and shine brightly.
We don't eat; we survive by just being happy.
Since I regained my memories, I would change into my star form and go up to the skies and just be a star.
Lys, she wanted me to call her that, wanted me to stay with her, but I felt too much attached to Aro, Marcus and Caius to leave them now.
So, I made a deal. Every fortnight, I will change into a star and go back and live with them.
How I landed on earth, you ask.
Just to get the record straight, stars are given the choice of what age we want to remain the rest of our lives as when we reach the age of eighteen.
We can still be hurt, but only if we are on Earth. But, we never fall sick.
Well, I had been lounging in my home, when a meteor had hit me, sending me barrelling towards earth.
There was no chance that I would survive, so, she let me be reborned as a human.
Cliché.
I know.
The only thing I had decided to keep in my vampire form from my star form was my violet eyes.
Suddenly, something nudged me out of my thoughts.
There's someone coming! Hurry change and go up!
I looked around. My keen sense of smell detected a few vampires coming my way.
And I also detected a familiarly sweet smell.
No, it couldn't be. My mind was just playing tricks on me again, I was sure.
I hurriedly changed into my clothes and left my other clothes hidden behind a fern. I sincerely hoped no caterpillar would get to it before I did.
Then, I changed into my star form.
It was very risky, I knew, changing myself into a star with people near, but if I didn't hurry, I knew they were bound to find me, and then I wouldn't be able to do anything then.
Why was it risky, you ask? The answer is because changing into a star included me shining very bright. And my definition of bright is really much, much more brighter than yours will ever be.
The vampire smells were growing stronger by the second, meaning only one thing, they were coming, and fast.
Fortunately, I summoned my power and I changed before anyone could get a glimpse of Bella Volturi changing into a bright light.
If the vampire was close enough, he probably would have just seen a bright light, and be blinded with it.
That person would see nothing.
Edward's POV
We had stopped to hunt on our way to Volterra.
We spotted a forest near the castle where we thought was a suitable place to hunt and had decided to hunt there for the time being.
That was when I smelt it.
At first I only smelt it vaguely, thinking it was just some other vampire hunting, but as it got stronger, I instantly recognised it.
The smell of flowers. Freesias. And lilies.
Bella's scent.
I couldn't believe my nose.
I thought I was imagining things and when I heard the thoughts of the others too, I only believed it.
Dude, do you smell that?
Bella?
Wait, isn't this smell Bella's?
The smell! Its Bella's for sure.
Oh god! It's her!
I ran towards the smell. And was quickly followed by my four brothers and sisters and my parents.
I let my instincts take over me.
Running swiftly like the wind, I realised that the scent was coming from a nearby clearing, and oddly, there was a bright light shining.
Then, just as I stepped into the clearing, a blinding white light appeared in front of me.
Then, as quick as it came, it disappeared too.
I could hear the thoughts of the others. They were all confused.
When I could see again, I glanced at my surroundings.
In a way, it resembled our meadow, the meadow where we shared our memories.
It reminded me of those times.
There was a white mare standing in the middle of the meadow.
When I went closer, it suddenly neighed and took off into the forest.
I sighed, and then I smelt it
Bella's scent. Again.
It was coming from behind a fern, was she hiding there?
But no, I quickly realised that it was just her clothes.
What were her clothes doing here?
Alice looked confused.
"Didn't she die in the car accident?"
Carlisle nodded, and beside him, Esme actually looked disappointed and sad.
I understood, it seemed as though she had been right there, with the way her scent was.
"We'd better get back to the hunt now Edward." Carlisle told me.
I nodded.
It took awhile before the fact kicked in.
If her clothes were here, it meant that she wasn't dead yet!
She was alive and well! But what was that blinding white light that we had just witnessed just now then?
Never mind, if there was a chance that Bella was still alive, I wouldn't give up hope just yet.
I would find her if it meant travelling to the ends of the world.
"So Edward, I heard there's going to be the annual horse race tomorrow at Volterra. Wanna go? I heard that it's quite a big deal." Emmett asked, after he decided to dismiss the fact that Bella was still alive.
Apparently, he was feeling confused and didn't want to think about it for the time being.
But by the look on everyone's faces, I didn't need Jasper to know that every last one of us was feeling hope.
Then, I remembered Emmett's question.
Sure, why not. After all, if it was a big deal, there was a chance that I would see Bella there, if she was alive.
We hunted for awhile before we retired to a nearby hotel, I know we could've just stayed with the Volturi, but it just didn't feel right.
Just before the sun rose, I was staring out of the window, looking at the small clearing and reminiscing about last night's events, when I swore I saw the blinding bright light appear again.
With my keen sense of sight, I saw a dark-haired girl whom looked no older than eighteen, appear and reach behind the ferns for something, was she searching for the clothes, I wondered?
If she was, she wasn't going to find it since I had brought it home and it was lying beside me right now.
She looked around for awhile, before giving up.
I think she really was looking for the pile of clothes.
Why? I wondered, why would she want the clothes that had Bella's scent on it?
Was she Bella?
I inspected her more closely, it couldn't be, I noticed that the girl had black hair, not brown like Bella's, and for some weird reason, I actually felt disappointment.
It was then I noticed that the white mare I had seen last night was standing right next to her. And if I saw correctly, it seemed as though the mare was speaking to her.
Suddenly, she looked directly ahead, at me.
Could she see me? Impossible, I shook my head, even if she did, she would only think that I was some stranger looking out of my window.
But then, after she looked at me, she hurriedly climbed onto the horse's back, and disappeared.
Well, normal humans would have think she just disappeared into thin air, but I knew better then to think that, it was obvious that she was not human, and by the speed the mare had moved, I think that the horse was no normal thing too.
But there was only one thing that could outrun vampires, and that was a unicorn.
In my whole 100 years of living, I have never seen a unicorn before.
I needed more information, and fast, somehow, I felt as if I knew the dark-haired girl from somewhere.
I quickly ran out of my room, knocked on Carlisle and Esme's room door, borrowed one of the encyclopaedias on mythical creatures that was written by a vampire (not that any human knew).
I looked at its contents.
Vampires……Page 1-50
Fairies……….Page 51-100
Imps…………Page 101-150
Elves………..Pages 151-200
Pixies……..Pages 201-250
Witches…..Page 251-300
Warlocks…Page 301-350
Unicorns…Page 351-356
Stars……...Page 357-368
I was surprised, stars?
I knew about stars, but I didn't know that stars were like us.
I was also surprised by the number of pages it had. It was then I realized that unicorns also had a few pages only.
I knocked myself on the head, I was checking about unicorns. Not stars.
I flipped to page 351. There were many things about unicorns.
Unicorns are mythical creatures that are very rare. Unicorns only appear to their master or mistress. It is said that unicorns were created by the stars.
There it was again. Stars.
Unicorns are faster than any other living creature, even stars.
Were stars that important? I didn't even hear of it before this.
Legends say that the first unicorn appeared when Jesus Christ was alive, the unicorn helped him in many ways, but it took on the appearance of a normal horse. A master or mistress of a unicorn is a very important person. The last unicorn sighted was in the late thirties.
Now that was a really long time ago.
Unicorns are sent by Lys, the creator of all living things. Also know as goddess of stars.
Lys?
Legends say that Lys is the sun we see at night and day. To whom she deems as important, that person will be given a unicorn, to guide them, to protect them, and also be their companion.
If what this book said was true, then that dark-haired girl I spotted just now must have been very important to get a unicorn.
Unicorns have horns which are rumoured to be able to cure any sickness or illness, with just a touch of their horns. A unicorn can disguise itself as anything; so long it is in the form of a horse. A unicorn will obey its master or mistress, no matter what its master or mistress asks it to do. A unicorn is powerful in many ways, it has very good senses, even stronger than vampires, whose senses are considered very good already. A unicorn can also read the mind of others. Its way of communication with its master or mistress is that it can pass the message by sending the message to the master or mistress's brain. When it wants to communicate to others, the method of communication will be the same. It has been tested and proven that other horses that are not unicorns will obey the unicorn and its chosen one.
Just then, Carlisle came in. I quickly slammed the book shut and looked up.
"We have to head to see the Volturi now if you want to catch the annual horse race later. Esme and I will stay at the castle while you guys go watch the race, okay?" he said.
I nodded.
Bella's POV
When I came back, I couldn't find my clothes.
Which if you thought about it, was very odd.
Why would the vampires who came last night take my clothes?
I had been hunting around, looking for my clothes just in case they just flew away or something, when Haine nudged me.
Look West at the nearby hotel. There's someone staring.
I immediately looked west, and lo and behold, I spotted familiar topaz eyes. They were too familiar and brought back a feeling of nostalgia.
I shook my head, clearing all my thoughts, what if he had seen me come back?
No, he couldn't have, right? Somehow, I managed to convince myself that it was just some vampire looking out of a window, no big deal.
I hurriedly climbed onto the back of Haine and galloped back.
My fathers would want to get me ready for the competition.
But yet somehow in my heart, something was stirred, as if something big was going to happen.
The thing was, what thing?