I don't own any characters even though i wish i owned edward :(

Chapter 4
Turning eighteen is a big deal for most teenagers. You are finally able to gamble, smoke, play the lottery and you do not have a curfew anymore because technically you are an adult. For me, unfortunately, it meant that if everything that letter said was true my mother was alive. I should probably be happier than a dog with a bone but at this point I am just shocked and numb.

Edward ignoring me has actually damaged me. There's a gaping hole in the middle of my chest. It kills me that I sound like an infatuated child! Ive only talked to the guy like four times and I seriously feel like he physically belongs to me. If I could beat up my body I would. Two days ago I was sitting in the cafeteria and Jessica went up to Edward to flaunt her twins in his face. Granted that Edward actually looked disgusted but I couldn't help the growl that came out of my mouth. A freaken GROWL! I think I may be turning into a wolf. Jake would be so jealous.

When I went downstairs, trying to act like less of a freak than usual, Rene had made a huge breakfast with candles on the pancakes.

"What are your plans for today bells?" Charlie asked from the sofa.

"I was thinking of hanging out with a couple of friends up in Seattle." I lied. If I told them I was actually going to go into the damn forest to talk to some trees that apparently work as phones for my biological mother, even Charlie would get worried.

"That sounds nice sweetheart! Just make sure you get home by eleven. You may be an adult in the states eyes but you're still my child." Rene gave me the I'm watching you look and left to get ready for work.

After both Rene and Charlie left to work I changed into some hiking boots and a hoodie and went hunting for some trees.

When I was sure I was far deep enough where no one would be hiking by and see me talk to a stupid tree, I sat in front one of the big ones and stared at it. What the hell do you even say to a tree. Do I have to be polite and start with pleasantries or do I just get straight to the point. I wonder if its mad that I am sitting here staring at it.

I let go of a deep breath I didn't even realize I was holding and tried to calm my nerves.

"Excuse me mister tree…umm sir? I was told to come and ask to see my mom here? Her name is Clary. I actually don't know where she lives because she never told me in the letter and she actually didn't tell me WHAT tree to talk to. I live in a state where my back yard is a damn forest and the lady doesn't even specify what tree. Geez, thanks biological mother…I mean she.." my ramblings were interrupted by a woman's giggle. I froze in place and wondered if I could just run away. I suddenly didn't want to know the truth.

"Isabella."

I turned around and almost turned back around because what I was looking at was impossible!

My mother stood there looking exactly like the picture from my second birthday party. She hadn't aged a day!

"Why are you not old?" I blurted out.

Clary started laughing. "You thought I was dead for the past 16 years and that's the first thing you are thinking of?"

"I'm sorry but I am just a little floored that you look my age." I said, a little annoyed.

"Oh Isabella I am so sorry. I will explain everything I promise." She gave me a motherly smile which freaked me out since she looked 19.

"Well why don't you start now? I may be 18 but I still have a curfew and this seems like an awfully long story.

"Yes, yes well I guess I should start from the beginning. But," she paused and I could see she was starting to tear up, "would you let me give you a hug? I've been waiting for this day for too long."

What the hell was I supposed to say to that?!

"Um sure?" I squeaked.

After Clary let me go and wiped a couple of thousand tears off her face she sat down on a tree stump and cleared her throat.

"Okay well first of all you are not human." she paused to look over at me and when I didn't faint she continued on.

"We are called Furies, protectors of earth in a way. Our job is to punish sinners either here on Earth or down below. You are actually half furie and half shape shifter. Your dad is a ware panther. When I met your father I wasn't aware of what I was. I knew I had the gift of foresight but since I was adopted I never knew why. When I met your dad I figured there was something different with him. After he revealed to me what he was he told me that he could sense that I wasn't human."

Clary looked directly at me. Maybe she was waiting for me to go into shock or something but I just nodded my head for her to continue. I wasn't sure if I was more angry that my father and her were actually alive and they never so much as sent me a birthday card or floored that there was actual mythical creatures roaming the earth. Don't even get me started on the fact that I was one of those creatures. Maybe Jake wasn't as crazy as I thought…

Clary sighed and continued "I always knew that I was different, I felt different. I could sense when someone was going to do something bad or if someone I bumped into the street did something horrible in his life. And that's exactly what we do. We punish people who need punishment. Now, you're only half fury so I don't know to what extent your powers will emerge. You wont turn into a full fury unless you accept the power into your soul but the half ware panther part of you will always be there."

She reached for my arm but at the sight of my reaction she put her arm back down.

"I know you must hate me Isabella and I cant blame you. I left you all alone but I promise you, I did it to protect you!"

"Protect me of WHAT?!" I yelled back. "What could have been so damn dangerous that you had to fake your own deaths and made everyone that loved you think you were dead? I grew up thinking I was a FREAK!" I couldn't help the tears that flowed out. All the pent up emotions I had always held back about losing the parents I never even knew poured out through every pour and I couldn't seem to control them.

"Shh, its okay my dear." Clary had managed a way to come hold me. "When your dad told me that I was in fact not human, I got curious. I spent every waking moment investigating in hopes that once I got my answers of WHAT I was I would find my parents. Daniel and I were so young and we had no idea what a mess we were creating when we started digging up answers. As it turned out, my parents were part of the royal Furies court and during the time of my birth an evil demon had risen to abolish all the furies race. You see, we were actually put here by the ancient gods and we act like a wall that holds the demons down below. We also punish the demons that roam the earth or bring the really evil souls back down to hades."

"Sort of like a demon hunter?" I asked a little confused.

Clary chuckled. "I guess you can say that."

We stayed quiet for a long time. I had so many questions I didn't even know where to start.

"So what happens to me now?" I asked. I was getting a little nervous.

"The reason I came to you wasn't because of the Furie part of you Isabella. I have always watched over you. I have been in the shadows next to you all your life. This past month I noticed a difference in you, something I had seen before…in your father. The ware panther side in you is aching to arrive because you found your mate."

"My WHAT?! Um…if what you said was true and you were in fact keeping tabs on me, you would know that I have never had a boyfriend! E.V.E.R. I've never even been on a date before!" At this time I was hyperventilating. One thing is to learn your some sort of freaky half breed but it is a completely different thing to know that you already met your future husband! Oh my baby cactus! What if it's Mike? Ware panthers can divorce right? I used to have these hamsters once that had babies and I don't know what the fellow hamster did to the Mrs. but she freaken ate him. I was so sickened out that I gave her away with her pups but that's sort of like hamster divorce right? Maybe I'll have to eat Mike to get away from him! GROSSSSS!

"Bella are you okay!?" Clary looked like she was about to give me CPR.

"Um I think so." I managed to squeak out.

"Honey I am so sorry I had to unload all this information on you but it's not safe for me to be here with you for so long. Demons are clever nasty things and if they found out I had a daughter they would surely come after you, that's why I need to keep as much distance as I can from you until you either turn into a full Furie or choose to become a ware panther."

"Can't I just stay human?" I asked, knowing that with my luck I wouldn't like the answer.

"Oh Bella, you were never really human my dear. I'm sorry." Clary looked like she was about to cry so I swallowed the huge lump in my throat and decided to toughen up, as much as I could anyways.

"Okay. Do you know who my 'mate' is? And what exactly does it mean that I have found him?" I cant believe I'm having this conversation with my supposedly dead mother."

"I do, and you've met him already. Your body will react automatically to him. You two were made for each other…regardless of what you both are." She looked at me with a look that said 'I know something you don't but I am not telling you" and looked up into the sky. "You need to keep an open mind about everything honey. Follow your heart and trust your instincts. If you chose to decline your fury path no one will blame you. It is a lonely existence but someone has to do the job. I chose the fury path because I was forced into it. After I had you, all the investigating Daniel and I had done left a crumb trail some demons sniffed out. It wasn't long before they came knocking on my door. I didn't want to tell your dad because it was all my fault. If I just had left everything alone we would of still been all together happy. After a couple of weeks of my strange behavior he called Rene over to see if maybe she would snap me out of it. I knew I had to do something to protect you so I made Rene promise to watch over you if anything happened to me. After that night I sat Daniel down and told him everything. We both decided it was best to fake our deaths and run as far away from you as possible. Daniel talked to his father, who's the leader of the ware panther community in the west coast and offered to help us out. It took some time but I finally reunited with your grandparents and they helped me convert myself fully into a fury. They taught me all the basic training and for once after a long time I felt that I could fix everything." I felt bad for all the things my mother had to go through but I wasn't quite ready to forgive her just yet.

"Your father wanted to come today but I told him to give you time. One ghost parent is overwhelming enough for a day." her chuckle was like a bunch of little bells in the wind.

"It's getting late Isabella. You need to go back. I know you have many questions but I promise I will answer all of them. Just promise me you will listen to your instincts. They will never fail you. Don't be scared of the unknown either. You are surrounded by the supernatural." And with that she winked and shimmered into the air.

"Well I am not sleeping at all tonight that's for sure."

Just to kinda clear somethings up for you guys, i LOVE Greek mythology so that's where i got the Fury thing from. They are actually beautiful female creatures who were basically created to punish sinners on earth who committed murder or they lived in the underworld tormenting the souls that sinned. There are actually a lot of different variety of stories about them and in some they are actually seen as evil creatures. I like to see them in a good light so just go along with my imagination for this stories sake. Besides, Vampires have gone a long way from their Dracula days right? ;)