Sorry it took so long to update but here it is Chapter 4
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Chapter 4
The medieval castle was cold in every sense of the word. Maybe it was just me but the castle seemed like the old haunted mansions that I had seen in the old horror films Emmett let me watch when my parents were hunting. My parents didn't really know about the horror movies that I had seen and if they did they would have a cow and probably murder Emmett. I mean come on letting a seven-year-old watch horror movies is not the brightest idea.
Anyway back to the story, I started to shiver violently from the cold and because of the aura of pure evil that seemed to hang in the air. We walked into a brightly lit lobby and we saw what seemed to be a small child, no more that ten.
"Ah! Jane! Its so nice to see you." Edward said as politely as he could manage although his thoughts had a different attitude.
"I swear, if Jane uses her power on MY daughter, I will not be able to control myself!!" apparently Jane had power that you did not want to mess with. I involuntarily shivered once again. Bella, my wonderful, usually calm and sweet mother, had a look on her face that made me think of the phrase if looks could kill.
"Edward, Bella, it is so wonderful to see you. Ah! And this must be Elizabeth-"
"Beth!" I interrupted Jane's greeting.
"Excuse me! What did you say!" Jane sneered almost dropping her sweet and innocent façade.
"I said my name is Beth. Everyone has always called me Beth, not Elizabeth."
"Beth!" my mother chided me. I simply grinned a little and said that I was sorry to Jane.
"It's quite alright Elizabeth, anyway follow me." She turned around and lead us down a hallway.
When we reached the end of the hallway, we walked into a stone chamber. The chamber was filled with about fifteen or twenty vampires. Again a scene straight out of a horror movie. All their thoughts had the same malicious undertone. All except one.
There was a man or should I say boy, since he looked no older than seventeen, the same age as my father. He was leaning against the wall. His black bangs were angled to where his right eye was completely hidden. The eye that I could see was a vibrant red like everyone else's in the room. No matter how much he looked like the others in this room, his thoughts were sweet and kind.
"Oh! So those are some of the members of the infamous Cullen family. The little girl, what was her name? Beth! She looks scared out of her mind, poor thing. I would be terrified if I was seven and living in this place. Heck! I'm seventeen, well really nineteen and I'm scared of this place and I've been here for nearly 3 years. You think I wouldn't be terrified anymore!
He noticed that I was staring at him. He gave me a warm, encouraging smile and a small wave. He seemed so sweet. I returned his wave and smile. I was relieved that someone here was actually nice.
Then an ancient looking man with long black hair came up to my family.
"Edward! Bella! It's such a pleasure to see you again! And Bella, you look so lovely now that you are immortal. How long has it been since your transformation?"
"Six years now. Edward changed me year after Beth's birth." My mother replied and smiled at me.
"Ah yes! Beth! My you look just like your father. You both have the same strange bronze colored hair but you have Bella's nose, and where do the Bright green eyes come from? I distinctly remember Bella having brown eyes."
"I had the same green eyes when I was human." My father said curtly. He did not like this place anymore than I did.
"Anyway, before we begin discussing the reasons behind your visit let us move a less crowded area so we can talk in private. Follow me if you please." We then left the room to follow the man that I had heard was named Aro. He led us into a smaller office type room, but our "private" talk was not so private. Besides Edward, Bella, and myself, there were also two other ancient looking vampires whose names were Marcus and Caius, the woman named Jane, and the mysterious black haired boy who had waved at me.
"Before we begin," Aro said, "I would like to introduce the newest member of our family, Chace." He gestured to the black-haired boy. "He has only been a vampire for 3 years, yet his control is absolutely amazing." My father was getting aggravated but he didn't show it, much. However, Chace's thoughts were humble.
"I hate it when Aro goes on and on about me. It is so annoying. I thought the Cullens were here to figure out what is happening to their daughter. Ugh! There Aro goes again, doesn't he know when to stop. I guess not. Man, Edward looks mad."
I started laughing because apparently I was not the only person who noticed that my dad was getting very angry and the only reason I knew was because he was screaming at Aro in his thoughts. However, Chace noticed.
When I started to laugh, Aro gave me an odd look. He was thinking-
"What is so funny nothing I said was remotely funny. I'm so confused. Maybe laughing for no apparent reason is just something little kids do. Who knows?" then he finally addressed me.
"Beth, my dear, what is so funny?"
"Oh, nothing really. It's just that Chace's thoughts were just really funny."
"Oh, I see. Wait, did you just say his thoughts? Do you mean you can read minds from a distance like your father?"
"Uh huh, and I can block other people's thoughts from coming to me and, as Emmett calls me I'm a human lie detector." I was bragging just like Aro had about Chace. My father laughed at me because he read in my thoughts exactly what I was doing.
"Interesting!" Aro replied "You have powers just like a vampire and according to your father, two days ago you got really angry with him and transformed into a vampire. He also said once you calmed down, with the help of Jasper, you changed back into a human. Is that correct?" I nodded my head. "Well please explain what happened. Start from the very beginning."
"Okay, well…" then I went off on this long-winded, melodramatic explanation and ended it with "By the way, Daddy, you never gave me the ice cream you promised me." My father just laughed.
Aro was shocked "So this whole ordeal started because Edward wouldn't give you ice cream for breakfast?"
"That's right. I sure do love ice cream." I saw Chace cringe a bit when I said that, but then I remembered that human food was mildly repulsive to vampires.
Aro soon continued. "So it seems as if you can phase between vampire and human when you lose control of you emotions particularly when you become extremely angry. However we may have to run some tests see the full extent of your powers."
At the mention of tests, I got this feeling that these tests weren't like the written tests I had taken in school. I had the image of a science lab with all these people in this room poking me and prodding me with sharp objects just like in the sci-fi movies that I watched with Jasper and Carlisle. My parents didn't know that I had watched those movies either. Then my dad directed his thoughts to me.
"Don't worry love, it's not those kinds of tests, I promise. Oh, and you really need to stop watching all those horror and sci-fi movies with Emmett, Jasper, and Carlisle, when your mother and I are not around." Dang! I had been discovered. I started to giggle. My dad had his own unique way of making me feel better. Then I thought
"You knew about that?"
"Not until you started thinking about the fact that you do watch those movie when we're not home."
"Oh!" then I started to giggle some more.
Aro then interrupted my fathers attempt to ease my overly-imaginative mind.
"So why don't we get started, shall we. However, I ask that Edward and Bella stay with me, because Edward may not approve of same of our methods but it is the only way to find out. Edward glared at Aro and then snarled
"FINE! But no harm better come to her!" with that he stared at Jane.
"Not to worry Edward no lasting harm will be inflicted upon Elizabeth." Jane replied with a devilish grin. My eyes widened in fear. What did Jane mean by lasting?
My father set me down on my own two feet and I immediately hugged his leg. I was afraid to let him go.
"Beth, dear, just follow Jane and Chace and they will help you." my mother said. I hugged Edward's leg even tighter. The Edward kneeled down to where we were the same height and looked me straight in the eyes , his gold eyes piercing my emerald green ones, and he said
"Beth, it's okay. Just go. It's okay. Nothing is going to happen. Don't be afraid." His reassurance did not work completely but I hugged him and Bella and turned to follow Jane and Chace.
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