AN- I do NOT own any of the Characters (apart from George, Daniella, Antony and Alicia), they are owned by Stephenie Meyer. I would appreciate constructive criticism so I could make this better. If anybody notices any grammatical errors or spelling errors, notify me, so I can correct them. Enjoy!
Chapter 5: The Cullens
"Come on." I hesitantly spoke, from the looks on their face, they were not pleased to encounter us, so naturally, and I was slightly frightened. "They know we are here, so let's step out and greet them." Dany and George nodded in pressured agreement. There were ten of them now. The bronze haired man took up a possessive stance in front of a beautiful brunette woman. The blonde man crouched protectively in front of a small black haired women, she reminded me of a pixie. The blonde-gold man was standing next to a heart faced, caramel haired woman. There were two other pairs. A woman, blonde, heart-breaking beautiful, scowling at us. She was next to a very muscular (steroids probably) man with short curly hair. The last couple, had heartbeats. A woman who resembled Mr Bronzy and his mate. She was standing behind a protective man, who had a darker skin tone to us vampires, Human? But they both smelt off. The woman smelt like a human, but not in an appealing way, whereas the man smelt like a wet dog that hadn't been cleaned in months. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw George scrunch his nose up, and I took notice of Mr Bronzy trying to stifle a laugh.
"Carlisle Cullen?" Dany asked.
"I am Carlisle Cullen." Said Mr Blonde-Gold. "This is my family; Esme, Bella, Edward, Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, Emmet, Renesmee, and finally, Jacob." He gestured to each couple.
"I am Daniella, this is my mate George, and our close friend, and coven leader Antony. We like to think of ourselves as a family of three." She too gestured, but to us.
"May we ask why you are here?" Esme enquired.
"We heard about your lifestyle, and your mental capacity to refrain from hurting humans, even integrating into their society." I explained simply, "As you can see, we too share your diet." Using my gift, I felt the tenor of the empathy. Tapping into the empathy, Jasper's gift, I could feel distrust, hate, ire and disgust (from Jacob). I couldn't bare the negative effects of Jasper's power, so I sent a calming veil over the Cullen family, Jasper looked dumbstruck, while everyone's eyes were on him. George and Dany slightly looked my way and the corners of their mouths tugged upwards a fraction.
Jasper noticed their stares and said sheepishly, "That…That wasn't me… That was one of them."
"How?"
"What?"
"How can this happen?"
"No two powers are alike… May I ask who did that?" With satisfaction and confidence, I raised my arm skyward, their eyes were a whirlpool of emotions. Fear. More anger. Curiosity. Astonishment.
"Can we discuss this somewhere else please?" George asked, stepping forward, receiving growls from the male members, apart from Carlisle and Jacob, who was visibly trembling. Renesmee touched his shoulder, and surprisingly, his tremors washed away quickly.
"Let them come in granddad." Renesmee somewhat ordered Carlisle. Granddad? Carlisle nodded.
"Okay then, follow me please." Carlisle calmly offered. We followed him, while everyone was still hesitant. As we entered the house, or would mansion suffice? Dany George and I gasped. Edward smirked at our amazement, yeah, smirk it up mind-reader I thought, his smirk transformed into a mask of no emotion, a statue. Using Jasper's gift again, I could clearly sense that he was shocked, curious, and most of all, aware of his families safety.
It was my turn to smirk, you can't hide anything from me mind-reader. I clarified, I started to laugh as his shock broke through his mask. Everyone looked at me, I told Dany and George that I would tell them later.
We walked into their lounge, it was magnificent! white walls surrounded us, bookshelves neatly lined against the walls, A cross held on one of the walls, ironic, there was the obviously large TV, with a couple of sofas and loveseats. It was simple, yet contrastingly beautiful. Vampires living in style I see, huh Mr mind-reader? I saw a bewildered nod from him.
"Please sit" Esme politely offered.
"Thank you Esme, it is good that we found you and your family, it is a pleasure to meet you." George told Esme with politeness.
"Yes, we have a lot to learn from you and your family, especially how you can commune with humans." I added as we sat down on one of the black leather sofas. They sat down too, well, the more comfortable ones, the others; Jasper, Rosalie, Edward and Jacob, remained standing in the lounge.
"Why thank you for your kind words." Carlisle spoke up from his silence, "What else do you know about us, if you don't mind my asking?" Carlisle asked, why did he ask permission to hear what else we knew? Anyway, I complied.
"You have a mind-reader, that scared him a bit, didn't it Edward?" He nodded, still cautious, "There is the obvious empathy, Jasper, and you saw my little, lovely display outside earlier. There happens to be a clairvoyant, they can see events that haven't happened yet, events of the future. A thought projector, and… and something else." I continued.
Alice seemed… on edge, raising her hand, saying, "I am the one that can see the future, the subjective future that is."
Renesmee raised her hand and said with no fear what-so-ever, "I can project my thoughts through touch."
Bella was the last to speak, shyly admitting, "I am the thing that is the 'something', I am a mental shield."
"Before we go any further, why did you want to meet us?" Alice asked, her tone was… happier that when she spoke just a few moments ago.
"Looks like we will have to explain ourselves, we should tell them, everything, from the beginning, of the three of us, our story." George explained.
"Yeah, and you'll probably get me to tell our story." I mumbled
Alice and Bella laughed at my reluctance and annoyance, a chorus of chiming bells.
"Well…" I began, using my best story-telling voice, "It goes like this…"