Full Sum: There is a prophecy that claims that a child of a human and a cold one will posses so many powers that it will cause uproar with mythical creatures. Most of those creatures want one thing; power and they'll stop at nothing to get it. But the Cullen's are unaware of that prophecy and when a pregnant Renee shows up at their home, asking them to take her child, they agree.

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Edward

With what little information we had on Bella, we tried to get in contact with Zafrina but we soon found ourselves sidetracked by another issue.

Bella grew at an alarming rate.

When she was first born, and the days following, she acted and looked like a newborn baby but now, nearly a week later, she was starting to grow at a rate that normal children would not.

Pushing aside our search for Zafrina, we all watched Bella. It was easy for vampire eyes to know just how much she was changing in one day but to a human it was a little more subtle.

Just this morning, we measured her and she was only twenty-five inches tall. After lunch, we measured her again and she grew about two more inches in a span of four hours.

Instead of looking like a week old baby, she resembled a three month old.

"It's slowing down." Carlisle said.

"But it'll speed back up tomorrow," I said, worried.

"This is strange," Carlisle frowned.

"But it's good, right?" Emmett asked. "I mean, she's growing and changing. An immortal child couldn't do that."

"Yes, in a way it's good," Carlisle said.

In his thoughts, he worried about how fast she was going. He wondered if that meant she would die faster because she was growing up faster.

I held Bella a little closer and looked down at her. She's only been with us a week and already I was attached to her. I don't get attached to people easily, either.

Being a vampire, the only friends I have are my family and some passing vampires. I never friend humans because what's the point? I'll live forever and they'll die eventually so I save myself the sadness and just close off from them.

Bella, however, had me wrapped around her finger the moment I held her. She had us all like that. Even Carmen, who was scared of her at first, grew to like her and often comes over to sit with Bella and play with her.

"How is it bad?" Esme asked.

"He thinks her life might end sooner because she's growing faster," I stated aloud.

"She's half vampire, she's immortal," Rose said. "She'll live forever. If anything it'll just get her to adulthood faster."

"She could've taken more after Renee, Rose," Carlisle sighed. "She could have a human lifespan and if she speeds through them all, she could have only a couple years until she's an elder."

"Years? At the rate she grows every day, she'll have weeks!" Rose hissed.

"It could slow down," Carlisle said. "We just have to take it day by day."

"Can't we just change her when she's old enough?" Emmett asked, placing a calming hand on his wife. "Or when she looks old enough?"

"We don't know how the venom would react in her system," Carlisle said.

"She's half vampire for crying out loud," Rose growled. "She should be fine. It'll just change her."

"Everyone reacts differently," Carlisle said as Jasper sent a wave of calm out. "Even humans have bad reactions to venom not to mention it can kill wolves..."

Rose's hand curled around the armchair and ripped the arm off.

Bella let out a giggle at that.

Not even Rose could continue being mad when Bella was laughing.

"She has an adorable laugh," Alice said, smiling.

I nodded.

"I say Emmett and I go down to South America and look for Zafrina," Rose said, still smiling at Bella. "We need to know."

"I want us all to go," Carlisle said. "But not yet."

"You're going to let them meet Bella?" I asked, surprised.

"They're friends, almost family." Esme said. "If the time were to come that we needed help, we need people who already know about her and who have accepted it and want to protect her just as much as we do."

"We can't tell too many people," Jasper said. "Even if we do trust them and they're like family to us. You never know who will spill just to keep their head."

"I agree." Rose said. "The less that no the better,"

The next day, we measured Bella even though the change was very apparent. Her hair was now longer. It fell past her shoulders in soft ringlets, her face had lost a bit of the chubbiness, and she grew at least three inches since she went to bed.

Now she resembled a four or five month old instead of the three month old we put to bed last night.

"It's fast again," Rose said as she took Bella from Carlisle.

Carlisle nodded and continued to jot down notes in his journal.

After Rose fed her, Rose placed Bella down on the baby mat and Alice took nearly a hundred pictures of her. Alice and Esme have been documenting Bella like crazy since she was born but even more now that she grows nearly every hour.

They were making a baby book for her and they didn't want it to look like days. They wanted it to look like it spanned out over months.

"I think that's enough pictures Alice," Jasper laughed.

"In this outfit, yes," Alice said. "We need to do another outfit change."

I smiled and shook my head. Bella goes through numerous outfits a day, and it wasn't just because she was out growing them so fast.

"You can change her in a little while," Esme said. "Let her play."

Bella had since rolled onto her back and was trying to reach the toys that dangled above her head while she sucked on her other fist. When she finally got her hand wrapped around one of the toys she yanked and ripped it right off.

"She's got strength," Emmett chuckled.

Bella then proceeded to rip all of the dangling toys off until she had them all surrounding her.

She then started giggling as she played with them.

"I never thought watching a baby would be this amusing but it is," Emmett commented.

When Bella got bored of those toys she rolled back onto her stomach and looked around.

What she did next amazed us all. She lifted herself so she was in crawling position and crawled across the floor, at vampire speed, to the toy box.

"She's got speed," I said, very surprised.

Carlisle wrote all this down.

"She's crawling! I can't believe we missed getting that on video! Ugh, if only my visions were working," Alice pouted and raced into the kitchen to get her video camera. "Let's make her do it again. Bella, come here, sweetie,"

Bella looked up at Alice before smiling and crawling over to her.

"Yay, good girl!" Alice set the camera down and picked Bella up. "You are so smart."

"She's listening," Carlisle said. "That's a good sign. I think we can rule out that she's not one of the immortal children. They would've completely ignored Alice's command and gone about their business."

I nodded my agreement.

The next day went by in the same fashion. We measured her again in the morning and she had only grow two more inches. Her hair only grew half an inch. She didn't have any major milestones accomplished that day. Meaning she didn't walk or talk or anything like that.

The day after that, we measured her again in the morning and she grew another two inches but her hair didn't grow at all. It was strange but it gave us a hopeful outlook.

It was a possibility that all hybrid children just have a growth spurt during their first few weeks of living. However, until we talked to Zafrina, we wouldn't know. We just had to go off what we learned from Bella.

Now the day after that, we all got another surprise. Bella started walking for the first time.

We had just finished measurements and we placed her near her toys so that she could play. I offered to get her bottle and so I rushed toward the kitchen.

I heard Bella start to cry before I heard little feet hobbling toward me.

I turned to see Bella. She had tears trailing down her cheeks and her arms extended toward me.

"Holy sh..."

"Emmett," Rose hissed.

"She walked!"

I picked Bella up and her cries stopped.

"What's wrong?" I asked her as I wiped her tears away.

"She just wanted you," Alice said, smiling. "I think Bella has a little crush on Edward."

I rolled my eyes as Bella snuggled her face in my neck.

It was true what they said about how once a baby starts walking, they never want to sit still. Now that Bella figured out how to walk, she was always running around the house.

We could barely keep her still for measurements anymore.

And to make matters worse was that she was fast, almost as fast as I was. The others had a hard time catching her, even in the house but I didn't.

"Measurement time," Carlisle announced.

Bella pouted, "I don't want to."

I was stunned. This was the first time she had talked. She usually sits in silence and runs around giggling but she's never said any words.

"I know," Carlisle said, recovering first. "But we have to monitor how much you grow each day."

"I grow a lot, Daddy," She said.

"It'll be over before you know it," he said, his eyes beaming.

Bella sighed and walked over to Carlisle and I. We were quick about measuring her.

"It's slowing down," Carlisle said, happy.

"Is this another false hope?" Esme asked.

"No, I don't think so," Carlisle said. "Yesterday she grew one inch, the day before she grew two, and now she's only grown half an inch. It usually picks back up after not growing that much over a two days span."

"Does that mean I'm becoming normal?" Bella asked.

"You'll never be normal, kiddo," Jasper said. "But we like you that way."

Bella beamed at him, "I like being unique too."

Days turned into weeks and weeks into months and everyday was a new adventure. For one, Bella's growth had stopped completely. At three months, she looked like she was three years old but her mind had developed way beyond that.

She had a photographic memory, just like the rest of us. I taught her piano based on that. She was sitting next to me on the bench one day, watching my hands fly over the keys as I played the lullaby I wrote for her and when I finished, she wanted to try.

I let her and you can imagine how stunned I was when she played the song back to me, perfectly.

And I wasn't the only one teaching her new things. We all were, even the Denali's.

By the time, she was three months and two weeks old, she knew how to speak several languages fluently, she knew how to play three different instruments, she knew how to read and how to write at college levels, and she knew the basics of fixing up a car.

Rose and Emmett were very proud of that last accomplishment.

She had a brilliant mind and I knew that it would only get better as the years passed.

"I'm going hunting," Emmett said from the doorway. "Who'd like to go?"

"Me!" Bella shouted. "Please! Please, Please."

"Bella, honey, you can't," Esme said, softly.

We've tried to switch Bella over to animal blood but her body rejected it. She'd drink some and then have a violent coughing fit until she threw it up. The same went for human food. The only thing that she can successfully keep down was human blood and so that's what we keep giving her.

"Why, momma?" Bella asked, pouting.

"You can't drink it yet."

"But I can kill it for someone else," she said. "Puh-lease. I want to go so badly."

Esme looked at Carlisle.

"We can take her out this time," he said.

"Yes!" Bella squealed. "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!"

Bella did a little happy dance and it caused us all to laugh.

"Let's get you changed," Alice said, holding out her hand.

"Okay," Bella readily agreed.

Bella and Alice dashed upstairs to her bedroom to do a quick change while the rest of us waited downstairs.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Esme asked, worried.

"She'll be fine," Carlisle said. "She's already proven to be as strong and as fast as we are."

Esme bit her lip and nodded.

"Who else is tagging along?"

"I will," Jasper said.

"I'm good," Rose said. "Just make sure you take care of Bells."

"Of course," Emmett promised. "What about you, Mama C?"

"I'll stay behind," she said. "I fear I might become too overbearing if I hunt with you all."

"And I'm staying behind as well," Alice said, setting a newly changed Bella beside me.

Alice still likes to change Bella's outfit at least three times a day. Even now that she's stopped growing but that's due to the fact that we have more clothes than we know what to do with. The only way Bella would be able to wear all the little girly outfits before she outgrew them was to change her multiple times a day.

"I'm ready," Bella said. "Let's go hunt!"

Bella groaned onto my hand and yanked me toward the front door. I laughed at her eagerness.

We ran through the woods and just like always, I felt myself relax. I loved running and as I glanced at Bella's face. I could see that she loved it too.

"I think we're far enough," Carlisle said.

"So, what do I do?" Bella asked.

"Close your eyes," I told her.

She did.

"What do you smell?"

"I smell the trees, grass, and..."

"And what else?"

Bella didn't respond. Instead she darted deeper into the forest. I sniffed the air as I chased after her, thinking that a human was close by but instead I smelled a bear.

"Bella, don't," I yelled.

The bear was much too big for her and they loved to put up a fight. Now, I know she's fast and she's strong but we haven't tested how durable her skin is.

Bella didn't listen to me. Instead she lunged for the black bear and they both went tumbling.

I watched in horror as the black bear's claws slammed into Bella and connected with her neck. The smell of blood filled the area as we rushed forward.

Emmett dealt with the bear while I grabbed an unconscious Bella.

The wounds that she suffered ran deep. The gashes went from her neck to her elbow and she was bleeding badly.

"Shit,"

"We have to get her back to the house." Carlisle said as he tried to stop the bleeding.

Esme had been right. This was a bad idea. Had we known her skin could still be penetrated like it was, we would've never taken her out.

"Wait," Jasper said, stopping me from lifting her. "Look."

I watched as the wounds on her neck slowly started to close and fade from her skin before her eyes fluttered open.

"Whoa," Bella said, smiling. "What a rush."

I laughed in relief as I pulled her into my arms and hugged her.

"Thank God," Emmett said, letting out a breath.

"Can I do that again?" she asked.

"No," We all said.

"Do you feel any pain?" Carlisle asked as I set Bella on her feet.

"Not anymore," she said, dusting the dirt off herself. She grimaced as she saw her shredded and bloodstained clothing. "Alice is going to be sooo mad..."

"When it first hit her, it was agonizing," Jasper shuttered.

"Does this mean I can't hunt anymore?" Bella asked.

"Yes, it does," I said.

There was no way in hell we'd do this again.

"But I liked it." Bella pouted.

"You can get hurt, Bella," Carlisle said. "We'll have to keep feeding you the donation blood."

Bella sighed.

To say the others were livid about what happened would be an understatement. We didn't try to hide what happened from them because it was all too obvious with the way Bella looked.

"What happened?" Rosalie demanded.

"She went after a bear," I explained. "I tried to stop her but it already took a swipe at her."

"Are you hurt honey?" Esme asked.

"No, momma."

"Her skin heals itself," Carlisle said. "It's astonishing. She had deep gashes on her neck all the way to her arm but within seconds they closed up and her skin returned to its unmarred state."

"I can't believe we let her go hunting," Rose said, ignoring the fact that she had healed herself. "Never again."

"But..."

"No buts," Esme said, sternly. "Alice, will you take her upstairs to get changed?"

"Come on, Bell," Alice scooped Bella up and ran her up the stairs.

"How could you be so careless?" Rose demanded, her hands on her hips.

"You all know she's fast. It's a miracle even Edward caught her," Carlisle said, calmly. "She was just too excited and when she smelled an animal she darted."

"It's not like we knew her skin could be ripped apart like that." Emmett continued. "We wouldn't have taken her if we knew."

"Yeah, well, you aren't taking her again," Rose said. "We're sticking with the donation blood."

"I agree," Carlisle said. "We don't need another incident like this."

"I'm fine," Bella sighed from the stairs. "It only hurt me a little bit but I'm all healed now. I don't see why I can't go hunting."

"You're skin isn't like ours, sweetie," Alice said. "We don't want you to get hurt."

"It's just...I never get to do anything," Bella said. "I'm stuck in this house and I don't get to go to school like everyone else does. It gets so boring. Hunting every once in a while is like vacation for me."

Bella has wanted to go to school for a while now but since she was growing way to fast, we decided against it. The last thing we needed to do was explain to a teacher why Bella looked three on Monday and six on Friday.

"How about this," Esme said, suddenly. "If you continued to grow at a normal rate, we'll sign you up for school."

Bella's eyes lit up, "Really?"

"Really," Esme promised.

"Do you really think that's a good idea?" Jasper asked. "She hasn't been around humans yet. We don't know how she'll react."

"I know not to bite humans," Bella said.

"I know you do but when vampires smell blood, you don't think about what you can and can't do. You just act."

"If she continues to show a normal growth rate, we'll slowly get her use to humans before sending her off to school." Carlisle said.

"Yes! This is so exciting. I can't wait to make friends and have play dates and sleepovers! Aunt Alice, you could help me throw a super awesome party so that everyone likes me."

Alice laughed, "I'll throw you the best sleepover any little girls ever had."

For the rest of the evening all Bella could talk about was the fact that she would be going to school and how she couldn't wait to do all the fun stuff normal kids her age did.

"Well, not three month olds because they're boring but three year olds because that's how old I look, right?"

"I'd say you'd pass for four or five," Alice said. "A short five year old."

"That means I can start kindergarten, right?"

"You do know school will be boring for you because you know everything already, right?"

"Yeah but that's okay. I mean, you guys go to school tons of times so I better get use to learning things I already know, right?"

"Right,"

Another month passed and Bella only grew a couple inches. She grew two inches that whole month and Bella was happy to find out that when got back from our trip to South America, she'd be able to start Kindergarten.

Yes, we've finally decided to head down to South America. We've been putting it off for so long because of her growth issue but now that it's slowed down a lot, we're going in search of more answers.

I was anxious to get down there and find what we're looking for because I didn't like not knowing. Alice has always been our link to the future and without her visions, we were in the dark.

Someone could be after us and we wouldn't know it until they showed up on our door.

And while I knew Zafrina couldn't do anything about Alice's visions disappearing, she could help us answer the many questions we had about hybrids and maybe if we were lucky enough, she'd know where some of them reside.


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