I own nothing Twilight; I just like playing with the characters. They are so much fun! Any other mentions of movies, music, art, literature, etc… that wonderful stuff are owned by their respective creators, they just add to my dark purpose!

Bands to read by:

"Glass" by Bat for Lashes
"Trophy" by Bat for Lashes
"Hang Him Higher" by Wumpscut
"Temple of Love" by Sisters of Mercy

Previously….

"Beware the Jabberwocky, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jujube bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch…." And with that he walked into the house, still smiling and still confusing me.

What power? What other beings?

BPOV

I had called Rose and told her the good news. In two short days my best friend would be here spending a week and helping me create havoc. Dad agreed to clean up the kitchen and take the trash out while I went and took a shower and got ready to finish my homework. The more I thought about our talk, the happier I was with the way that it went. I know that a discussion like this would have never taken place with my mother. She flipped when she found out that my love for the Goth subculture was more than a phase. In fact, she tried to hide my copies of Gothic Beauty Magazine when they started coming to the house. She would throw them away, but Phil would find them and secretly give them to me later on. It was nice to have a place to read about people who have similar tastes that I did. I would end up taking them over to Rose's house as her parents didn't really care what she did as long as she stayed out of their way. They were rich and overly busy with their own little worlds that they just gave her things and thought that would be enough.

But it didn't matter, because she would be here and I couldn't wait! I called Edward and he seemed pleased that she was coming. He had talked to his family and they agreed with Emmett and Ro there that they would act "human". Edward was going to talk to Emmett tomorrow and tell him about us girls being there. Then the girls were having a slumber party in Alice's room. I couldn't wait! I needed the red highlights in my hair renewed something terrible and Alice said she could do it! So Rose was going to bring my favorite hair product from Phoenix. Yes, my world seems to be coming together nicely. It wouldn't be long till I was ruling the Goth scene here with my other-worldly man and eventually I would join him for eternity.

Then I sat there looking at the swirls of grey and black on my ceiling, I let the music, "Glass" by Bat for Lashes, lull me into a sleep. But it was an odd sleep, not like the usual pull. Usually, I ended up in the forest, at my lake sitting on the log next to the water, waiting for Edward. Instead this time I was in the stone hallway of what appeared to be a castle. It was dark outside and evidently very windy as the sheer red curtains blew towards the opposing wall. Wall sconces were lit showing the paintings that were hanging between them. I looked at each one as I walked past. There was a picture of a woman, her red eyes staring back at me. She had wild curly red hair that looked like she never could tame. But what scared me was the smile on her face, like she was watching me and was going to eat me. I walked a little quicker to the next picture.

It was of a man, he was wearing a deep purple jacket that was open and he wasn't wearing a shirt. He was a beautiful chocolate brown color and his hair had thick braids framing his face. He too had blood red eyes, but he did not smile, he just looked at me with a determined look. He held a cane in his hands that had a silver snake head on it that had glowing green jewel eyes. The next person was also a man, but he had blonde hair that almost looked white, but was gathered in a pony tail at the base of his next. The weird thing is he looked like James; with his red eyes and the smile he gives me in class all the time. In the picture I looked like he was reaching out to touch me. I knew it was a painting, but I really seemed like James was coming for me and I was afraid, so I began to run.

Then I heard laughter, malicious laughter, coming from behind me. I turned to look and there was the shadow man with glowing eyes. He was here and he was after me again. I looked towards the portraits and realized that the people were starting to come out of the painting, turning towards me and walking in my direction. I ran. Surely, if I ran then they would not be able to catch me, but for all the effort I was putting into running I was getting nowhere. They were gaining on me just by walking and that crazy ass shadow man was still laughing and watching.

I turned to see James, so close, almost able to touch me and he spoke, "Come, Bella. It will only hurt for a moment."

Just as I thought he was going to touch me I was falling. I screamed and opened my eyes. I was back in my room. "Trophy" was playing on my Bat for Lashes compilation that Rose had made me. That was not what shocked me, as I looked around I saw swirls of electric blue mist swirling around me and a voice calling to me.

"It is only a dream, love. There is no one who is going to hurt you."

I recognized the voice, but I could not find the person to whom it belonged. "Where are you?"

My father came and sat on my bed. The electric blue mist still floated around me, but extended around him. "Dad?"

"Yeah," he said rubbing the back of his neck. "It seems that we have some talking to do. There is a lot you need to know."

I sat up against my backboard, reaching out and touching the mist. It changed from blue to purple at my touch. It reminded me a lot of one of those fiber optic flowers my mom had. I looked at Charlie and he smiled at me, I sighed and motioned for him to speak. "No time like the present."

"The real reason you were sent to live with me had nothing to do with you being Goth," he started, looking down at his hand. "It has everything to do with you coming of age."

I looked at him in confusion. "Mom sent me to live with you because I would be eighteen soon? She is weirder then I thought!"

Charlie chuckled, shook his head, and then he looked up at me. "No, my dear one, I am not talking about your birth date…well maybe in a way I am." He got up and went to my vent window, looked out into our yard. "Bella, you are special. More than you realize."

He turned and looked at me then, hands motioning to the mist still in the air. "You are more than this amazing girl sitting in front of me."

Charlie stared at me then, his eyes starting to glow, but I still wasn't afraid. His eyes were not like the Shadow man's, they weren't red and sinister. These were yellow and I noticed that the mist was turning a yellow color as well. There was a heat radiating from the mist and it was comforting.

"How are you doing this?" I asked, watching as his eyes returned to normal and the mist disappeared.

Charlie sighed and came to sit on my bed again. "We can do this because we are Yodita."

I began laughing. "We are from a race of little Star Wars men? Am I going to get pointy ears and start talking backwards too?" Charlie gave me a cross expression and a stare that told me to cut it out. So I quickly muttered, "Sorry."

He nodded his head and continued. "Yodita have been around since time began. We were actually one of the first beings on the Earth. Our species hasn't really flourished well because women are rarely born into our kind. When we do have a woman born she goes on to produce only men." Charlie stood up again and walked back to my vent window. "Around the time of the beginning of the Roman Empire, our kind found that we could reproduce with human women. This produced more men and women and the women could produce women as well. All was going well because we thought we found a way to further our species. The truth of the matter is we polluted our species.

"We became vulnerable to their diseases to the point where a lot of the different things would become worse or downright fatal. I learned about this when I turned eighteen from my father. He noticed that I had an overwhelming need to be with Renee. Not that those feelings weren't normal for a teenage boy, but honestly, Bella, it was like I needed her to breathe. My father told me that I couldn't see her and it tore me up to think I was going to be without her. One night I asked her to run away with me and she agreed. We got to the Port, found a room for the night, made love, and made plans for the future. We were dragged back to Forks by our parents the next morning when they found out where we were."

Charlie shook his head. "Grandpa Mike ran the plates of your mom's car and found us. Damn they were so pissed at us. About a month later your mom was getting sick and your Grandpa Mark demanded I make an honest woman of Renee. So we were married, which was fine with us at the time because we were in love." He came and sat on the bed again.

"Is that when your Grandpa Mike told you what we were? When did you tell Mom?" This was an awesome story, so other worldly, so very unusual, and dare I say romantic?

Charlie looked at me. "He told me the night we found out Renee was pregnant and what it might mean for her being pregnant with a Yodita. Turns out that about halfway through your mother's pregnancy she started emitting the mist, which is not part of humans being pregnant with Yodita."

I furrowed my brows and looked at him. "What are they, the symptoms?"

He smiled at me. "Well, according to Dad, your mom's stomach would turn a light blue color and she would grow a third nipple in her chest…."

"OK…right there…EWWW! Are you saying that if I get pregnant I am going to grow a third nipple?" I THINK NOT! I was in no way getting pregnant if that is the case. How the HELL do you explain that to your doctor?

Charlie was laughing and smiling at me. "Will you just listen?" I nodded my head and he continued. "As I was saying, she would be hungry for turnips and Brussels sprouts, but she wouldn't have any morning sickness."

"I don't know which is worse then, the nipple or the food affliction." I laughed and gave a shiver. Who the hell really likes Brussels sprouts?

"So as you can see," Charlie laughed, "mist was not a part of the symptoms. And what was even odder was that it was a pink mist."

"Why is that odd…it's not an extra nipple," I pointed out. Because really, pink mist would be cool…not an extra nipple. I am NOT letting that go!

"Grandpa Mike was a prophet to some of the remaining Yodita. There is a prophecy about a girl being born to the species that would be powerful because she would be born of two Yodita."

He looked at me like this should make sense to me. "Yodita women only have men, how would a woman be born of them?"

"Remember I said we polluted our system?" I nodded. "Yodita women produce mist when they are pregnant…pink mist. It turns out that your mother was part Yodita. Grandma Elizabeth was Yodita and didn't know it. So when your mom woke up and saw the mist, she freaked!" He laughed then, remembering it like it was yesterday.

"We called our parents, we sat down, and that is when the truth came out. Renee flipped! I am sorry to say her first response was to have an abortion. She cried after that, she loved you so much already that she quickly changed her mind and asked what it meant to be one of us and pregnant. Yodita woman have it so wonderful…."

"WAIT!" I was trying to process this. She didn't even want me then! "So, she has never wanted me?"

Charlie grabbed and looked me in the eye. "Your mother loves you. Do you want to know why you are here?" I looked at him through eyes that were about to overflow with tears. "You are the prophecy."

I looked at him for a moment; mouth opened in shock, and then slowly shook my head. "Charlie, you have got to be kidding me. Prophecy?"

"The female born of two Yodita will have the power to rule the world. Her mate will be strong and their alliance will forge a coming of change in the earth. Your energy will awaken the sleeping earth and changes will immediately start to happen." He looked at me, but all I can do is look down at my hands. "Bella, I tell you this because you come into your power on your birthday and every being out there is going to be vying for your power. Every wolf, vampire, shape shifter, changeling, Yodita, elf…you name it, if they exist they are going to want you."

"V-v-vampire?" I stutter at him. EDWARD!

Charlie smiles at me, "You think I don't know what he is? It was one of his kind that attacked me when I was on the force." I looked at him with wide eyes. "Yeah, the accident I was in on the force, it was a vampire come to tell me they know about you and that you were going to be theirs when you came of age. That is when I knew. I needed to do something where if I needed to come and protect you I could without drawing too much suspicion. A teacher can take a sabbatical, a police officer can't."

"What about Mom? Why did she send me to live with you? Why didn't she tell me what was going on, can't she protect me?" I asked.

"No, actually, normal Yodita women are not as powerful as the men. She has the mist, but she doesn't have the telekinetic power the men possess," Charlie explained. "You see, Renee didn't believe in the prophecy, she didn't believe she was enough Yodita for anything to come into effect. When she took you it was under the belief that being around me would feed into the truth of the prophecy and lead you to do things that would be fatal. When she came in and you were sleeping, you were moving things around your room in your sleep."

He laughed and played with an invisible string on my comforter. "Yeah, she called me immediately and that is the first time she believed. She said that she loved you too much to let you go unprotected. If these other being came there and tried to claim you, she would be powerless. I, on the other hand, could train you how to use your gifts and how to help protect you from them until you choose."

"Charlie, how do I choose? I mean, I such strong feelings for Edward and I think he might for me too. What if they are all because of the Yodita?"

"Can I tell you a secret?" I laughed because this was already the biggest secret, what more could he tell me. "This vampire already liked you before you both knew what you are, correct?"

"Wait, doesn't he know? Alice can see the future, wouldn't she know?"

Charlie smiled at me and shook his head. "You are off the radar for those beings that have no idea what a Yodita is. The person who attacked me had been following the prophecy. He knew what we were and that you were coming soon. My theory is he has been watching a lot of Yodita families and doing some detective work. When you turn eighteen you will emit a strong telekinetic energy that will alert everyone of your existence, except for humans. Their sensory is not as well equipped; it has died down since they became the dominant species."

He stood up and looked at me. "You have to keep with who you are. You are a dark, mysterious, phenomenal person. Being Goth has actually prepared you well for what is to come. You can wade through all the bullshit that is to come and accept the out of the ordinary that will become your new life!"

Charlie took my hand and gave it a little squeeze. "You are so much more than the Queen of the Goths, my daughter. You are queen of the world!"

A/N: I am loving your responses! I had someone tell me they thought that Charlie was a "Dark Jedi"…I LOVE IT! Ok, so I have been really sick and appreciate the patience everyone has for me! Huge thanks to my beta, Nikkipattinson!