New Beginning

Prologue

I didn't know how long but I heard the screaming and disgusted sounds of people and my focus returned and I looked up. I saw across the field a group of 7 vampires and one human. I turned and looked at Fred who was in a protective stance. "Fred! Take your shield down now!" I looked up and saw it was affecting Diego as well and looked at Fred who frowned and looked at me as if asking my permission. "Go ahead but if needed put it back up." He nodded to me and lowered his shield and like me remained in his crouched and protective position.

"Carlisle...look..." I heard a sweet voice speak. I quickly found the woman it belonged to. Her brunette hair was pulled back into a loose ponytail but she seemed very motherly. "Diego!" I heard a higher pitched sing song voice say. The same one giggled. I found her face and she reminded me of a pixie. Her hair was in the style of a pixie as well. Before I knew it I saw Diego meeting them but neither Fred nor I moved from our defensive stance. I looked next to the pixie and noticed a scared man who was hovering protectively next to her. He seemed to have a warning yet protective stance. I wondered why but could only come with the sign that he was the pixie's mate. He was hissing at me. I glared remaining in my position.

"Don't worry. They wont hurt us. And we wont hurt them." The pixie spoke these words. I still held my position. "They're my friends. The ones I told you about. Bree and her friend Fred. They are my friends. They wont hurt you." Diego spoke this and I stared curiously. My eyes trailed from the blonde man to the brunette, to the pixie and her mate, to a beautiful blonde female and then to a dark haired man that reminded me vaguely of a bear, then to the...I froze as a statue when I smelled her. She was next to the boy with the bronze hair. My eyes grew smelling her but I didn't move from my place. I couldn't be sure but I had frozen myself in place. Why couldn't I move? I wanted her blood. It 'sang' to me. It was the scent that was on the red shirt Riley had passed around. Suddenly and without warning everyone seemed to hover around the human girl and that's what broke my attention.

Diego was before me in a second and forced me and Fred to look at him. "Do not harm her. She is not their pet as Riley had said. She is the mind reader or Edward's mate. Her name is Bella Swan and she is very sweet." Knowing this made me see her as a person. All the other people we had killed, we hadn't known their names. But now to know Bella's name forced me to see her as a person. She had a family though more then likely better then mine had been. My head snapped up hearing someone else approach and I felt the urge of Fred's repulse shield wanting to go up but he didn't as the brunette and the pixie came closer. "You wont hurt us." the pixie told us and we stared at her with confusion. "You are but children....how vile of them to do this to children so young. Especially you sweet girl. You must not be much older then 16." The brunette spoke and it caused me to look down and away feeling ashamed. "I started my transformation on my 16th birthday..." I spoke soft but even the human would have heard the audible gasp.

"Just barely sixteen. How very sad..." I looked up seeing the brunette looked saddened by this news but soon the blonde man was at her side saying something about going to take care of someone named Jacob. She nodded and told him to be well and that she loved him before a simple kiss. I remained crouched and confused. I had never seen such affections except perhaps before Steve and Shelly had disappeared. That's when I remembered. "Yes. They are all dead. Riley and the woman he was working for, her name was Victoria. They are both dead as well. You are safe now. Nothing will hurt you." I looked up surprised by this and stared at the bronze haired boy lost. But soon realized he must be the mind reader like Diego had said. He nodded in response. I nodded back to acknowledge what he said. "Thank you." They all nodded back in response.

Being grateful to them I rose out of my crouched position and Fred soon followed. Slowly they came closer and we met in the middle. The blonde man who was named Carlisle, as the brunette lady had called him introduced us to everyone. Esme was his wife and the brunette lady next to him. The pixie was named Alice and the scared man was her husband and his name was Jasper. The beautiful blonde was introduced as Rosalie which I believe suited her perfectly followed by the bear man who was her husband named Emmett. Diego had mentioned the human's name was Bella and her mate was Edward. They all looked and reminded me of a family. Of course I had never really seen a family. My father hadn't been the best person to be around as he had abused me and more. The mind reader...Edward was frowning I could only assume because he heard my thoughts. I glanced at the ground then shook my head and looked up. As soon as I did Carlisle excused himself to check on the boy named Jacob previously mentioned.