Chapter Three

Then I hear coughing in the other room "who else is here? With how many are you exactly?" I ask them. I start to panic a bit. "Maybe we should go to the living room so we can tell you our story and you can meet the other two that live here. I see Bella frown a bit at that statement and I wonder what she's so worried about. She catches me looking at her and her frown disappears and is replaced by a kind smile. But that doesn't mean I didn't notice that. "Okay, I guess. As long as everybody is okay with that?" and I look at Bella for confirmation. "It's okay, I mean there is just one of you and plenty of us, so it should be okay." I raise my eyebrows and reply "You have no idea what I'm capable of, if that's what you are basing this on, than you should really think again."

Bella looks at me in shock and just as she is about to say something I hold up my finger and continue "however, I can promise you that as long as you do not try to hurt me or force me to do anything I do not like, I will not use any of my powers in this house unless to demonstrate. You have my word on that." I say to her as I look her straight in the eyes. She looks at me for another second and then just nods her head and smiles at me.

The next thing I know I'm sitting in a couch across two people, I mean real people. I can hear there heartbeats, it's something I thought myself so I never mistook one of them for a human. Edward cleared his throat and I look at him waiting. "Well, do you want to go first to tell me your story or do you want me to start?" I ask him as the silence keeps on going. "Since you are so willing to trust us, I'll start with our story if that's okay with everybody" Edward looks around for everyone's approval. And soon after starts with an amazing story about how they all became Vampires, how he met Bella, how Jacob, I think that's his name, is a shape shifter aka werewolf, how Bella got pregnant and gave birth to Renesme (of course you can understand my astonishment at that statement and my loads of question following that, but that's beside the point here), how they had a stand off with the Volturi and how they ended up where they are now.

I just sit there for a while just staring and trying to process everything I have heard in the few hours it has taken him to explain me everything. "Are you okay?" Carlisle asks me while gently patting my arm. I just nod my head and say "Just a lot to take in, that's all. So did you kick some Volturi ass?" I ask them. Emmet growled slightly and shake's his head "No, unfortunately not. I would have loved to get some good swipes at them." "You and me both" I tell him. "You know about the Volturi?" Jasper asks me "Nobody besides our kind knows about them." He says as a matter of fact. "I bumped into them once and lets just say that Aro is not that happy about that little encounter." They all look at me dumbfounded. "Maybe I should tell you my story up until now, that will help you understand." And so I start my life story.

It all starts 50 years ago. I was eighteen and almost leaving my home to go to college. I was so exited, I can't even remember now why I was exited. My mom came home one night and called to me to come meet someone and when I came down, there was this guy standing next to her. He was gorgeous to say the least. But then I looked into his eyes, I was so shocked, I mean they where glowing red. I backed off a bit and I asked my mom if I could have a little word with her in private. I know now of course that he must have heard every word of our conversation. I told her I was getting a bad vibe from him and that she shouldn't be dating him. She just looked at me and scolded me about how inconsiderate I was being. How he had an illness and that he couldn't help the way that changed his appearance. But I didn't buy it, there was just something about him, I couldn't put my finger on it.

She just walked back to the living room and right before she left she turned around and told me to be nice and that I shouldn't spoil this for her since I was leaving her in a weeks time. I just sighed and followed her out. As I came around the corner I saw that guy looking at my mother with lust and craving in his eyes. I didn't know what to think about that at the time, all I knew was that he didn't love her and that she was gonna get her heart broken.

We talked a little and I found out his name was James and that he was coming over for dinner the next night. So the next night he came and he sat with us at the table, but I noticed he wasn't eating much and I called him on it but of course all I got from my mother was a glaring look telling me to quit it. So I ate my food and told them I was tired and was going to bed. I woke up in the middle of the night, at first I didn't know the reason why I woke up, but then I could faintly hear whimpering and crying. I opened my door silently and looked down the stairs but saw nothing but the light in the living room. I was just planning on going back in my room when I heard a muffled cry. I turned back around and I could hear James saying that she needed to be quiet because if I woke up he was gonna do the same to me as what he was doing to her.

I descended the stairs as quietly as I could. I think he was having to much fun at what he was doing to notice anything else around him, because I managed to just stand there baffled at the scene before me and he didn't even know I was there. My mom was tied to a chair and she had cuts all over her body and she was pressing her lips together to keep from screaming. But then he did something that just shocked me even more he bent over her arm and he licked the fresh cut he gave her. I almost threw up on the spot, the thoughts that were going trough my mind where psycho, cannibal,… But never once vampire. I mean they just don't exist, right. When he came back up my mother stared right at me and her eyes bulged out, her eyes moved towards the staircase and I knew what she was asking me to do. To go back upstairs and just leave her there. But I couldn't do that so I shook my head at her and I saw tears streaming down her cheeks. Her eyes pleaded with me, but I just couldn't leave her there.

And that's when James noticed my mothers stare and he turned around to face me and he gave me this smile that just chilled me and rooted me to the spot. He called me a little snack and before I knew it he was standing behind me and sniffing my neck. He told me how wonderful I smelled, how he only ever smelled something this delicious once before and how he was gonna enjoy my blood as long as he could. I just stood there and waited. My mom was struggling against her ropes but I knew it was of no use, she whimpered and James sighed. He told her he had enough of her and the next second he was back by her side biting into her neck and that's when I thought of a vampire.

It all happened so fast after that, there was this rage inside me, I didn't know where it was coming from. But I found the courage to tell him to leave her alone, he smiled and he looked at me. But as soon as his eyes found me his expression changed from amused to afraid. I didn't get it, because well there was no question that he was strong and fast, so why was he afraid of me. That's when I looked at my body and I was engulfed in flames. I mean all over my body, it didn't hurt I just kept looking at them and then James asked me what I was and my head snapped back up to him and he backed off a bit. I started to feel my legs giving in on me, probably because I was using so much energy and I grabbed the table in the hall and it just burst into flames and of course then it didn't take long before the rest of the house was in flames. And the next thing I knew James was gone and my flames disappeared.

I ran to my mom and I got her out of there but I knew that I was to late, James killed her and I just held her and cried, a lot. The police came and I just told them the truth, well almost. I didn't tell them about me combusting and I didn't use the word vampire, I mean they would put me in a mental institution. Two days later I started my search, I read tons of books to know more about vampires, not many of them accurate if I just may point out. I mean I knew vampires were fast, strong, that they didn't have canines, that they could come outdoors in the daytime, and that there eyes were red . But that was just about it, I didn't know how to kill them, what there weaknesses where. Of course that's not the only thing I was researching, I was also doing research on myself and trying my hardest to harness these powers, I guess I should call them that. But to be honest I wasn't getting very far. That's until I started reading up on my legends, the cold ones, the strigoi, … .

So I travelled to Brazil and found a tribe there the Caetés (Kaeté). It's a small tribe there that most people think of as extinct. It wasn't an easy time and I'm not getting in to that story cause we will be here all night if I did. The gist of it is that I found a woman there, Devika, meaning little goddess. I was led before her two weeks after my arrival and she basically saved my life and thought me everything I needed to know and more. She named me Amrita, which I found out much later means immortality. She didn't tell me what I was at first, she said that I wasn't ready to know and that my time would come. I was there for ten years when a vampire invaded our territory. Devika thought me well and as he came strolling in our village I knew what he was, no heartbeat, pale skin and of course the red eyes. I felt my anger rising in that moment and Devika stepped out of her hut and told me to stay put. I listened to her and she walked up to him, telling him to leave and she cast a protective shield in front of him. But what she didn't count on was his mate coming in behind her. I screamed her name, but it was too late. That's when all hell broke loose, my powers unleashed and I killed both of them. It wasn't without difficulty and my injuries where severe, my energy was drained but I did it . At the end of the battle I crawled over to Devika, her breaths were shallow and the last thing she said to me was 'My Grigori' and then she was gone.