"It's pretty good, it's a nice setting, I like it," I said to Hope as I walked into the room and looked at it.
"Earlier, there were much more residents in this house, but after that...you probably know yourself, some rooms have been converted for guests," the girl finished crumpled.
"Yeah, I see," I said awkwardly.
There was an awkward silence in the room. M-yes.
"Listen...I... would like to...thank you again for saving my mom," the girl finally decided to say, which she had been thinking about for a very long time.
"It's not worth it, really. Consider it something like fate, Lady luck has turned to face you," I answered simply, trying to reduce the degree of tension that was hovering here.
"Okay, thanks... She breathed a sigh of relief."
After that, we exchanged a few more phrases and, saying goodbye, Hope flew off to her parents.
If something like this happened to my mother, then most likely I would also hang around her to spend more time together.
Well, as long as I'm left alone with myself, then I can do meditation.
By the way, it is not particularly important for her to take any poses, the main thing is to focus and dive into the depths of her consciousness.
After I closed my eyes and inhaled several times, I was already inside myself, yes, no matter how strange it may sound.
The bookcases filled with books greeted me with the same atmosphere.
But there was also something new in this setting, a new bookshelf appeared.
Well, let's get started...
***
Since I didn't really remember the name of the ritual after which Elijah's memory returned. Then all this fell on Freya's fragile female shoulders.
In this difficult task, she was helped by Hope and Rebecca, who arrived relatively recently and looked at me strangely, did she like it ...?
Heh heh. I hope not, even though she looks pretty cute on her face and figure, but what's going on in one of the Original Vampires' head is a mystery even to me.
While everyone was preparing to catch Elijah and set him on the right path, I wondered how my family was doing there, whether everything was all right there...?
***
"Get up...Come on, get up." Emma stirred up the girls, and they pretended to be asleep, although they themselves had not seen dreams for a long time.
"We don't want to..." they mumbled. For Emma, their appearance was more than depressing.
"Ay...! What are you doing?!" unable to stand such a look, Alex's mother charged Tanya's soft spot with her palm, without having time to really open her eyes and be properly indignant, the same exclamations followed from Irina and Kate.
"You're acting like children...If Alex said he would be back soon, then so be it...my son would not lie, and you yourself know that he will do everything possible and impossible for this." Emma smiled, putting her hands on her hips and standing in a proud pose, lifting her nose.
"We know..." the girls' downcast look was replaced by smiles, and they themselves froze as if remembering something for themselves, which made the smiles only more beautiful.
After a few minutes, the girls finally came to their senses, and each had their own thoughts on this, but there was still a common one, as soon as the guy returned, they would visit the poor guy, so Alex did not yet know what he had to go through on his return home.
Now the women of the Denali family were sitting in the living room and drinking tea....blood, of course, animal blood.
"So what did you want to tell us when you tried to lift us up in such a vulgar way?" Tanya asked calmly.
"Carlisle called..." not only Tanya, but Kate and Irina were also surprised. And the surprise was not because Carlisle called, but because they didn't even hear his call, that's how much they were immersed in themselves that they stopped noticing their surroundings.
"And what did he call about?" Tanya was the first among them to wake up, as the oldest of the sisters.
- He invited me to his place to celebrate the fact that his "kids" had gone to school, and suggested that we celebrate by hunting animals together in the woods. - Emma replied mundanely.
- Ha-ha, what's the hundredth time his "kids" have gone to high school? - Irina laughed, and her sister picked up on it, and Emma only raised the corners of her lips.
"I think it's not that important, and yes, I have already agreed, so we are already expected to visit, well, it will be useful for you to unwind. - "Like i me," Emma thought to herself.
"Mm-hmm okay, okay, when do we move out?" Kate chimed in.
"Preferably... right now." Emma said.
The girls creaked, but agreed, and before they went, they decided to dress up a little...
"Well, since everyone is ready, then we can go. " Emma said with a sigh, as she did not expect at all that "dressing up" would take so long, a couple of hours.
"Interesting...how would my son react to this ..." Alex's mom thought for a couple of seconds.
A few minutes later, in the forest, four blurry spots could be seen rushing across it.
***
A whole day passed and the capture plan was ready, and by the way, not only that, the clever witch Freya found one interesting ritual in the family Gremoire, which should stabilize my process of transformation, otherwise I would not like to turn into a mindless monster later, there are so many of them in this world.
And yes, transformation will require not only this ritual, but also another special spell that will have to act as a catalyst and start the transformation process.
"Well, are you ready?" Freya asked me when I was standing in a magic circle surrounded by candles.
"Yes....but a kiss on the cheek would give me confidence." I winked at her, oh, how I miss the company of my ladies here.
"In...Have you seen it?" Yes, that's right, I've just been sent.
Well, it doesn't matter.
"Okay, then let's get started." I nodded to her.
Soon the witch's voice was heard, firm and precise, reading out the spell, the girl seemed to enter a trance state.
And in the circle in which I was standing in the center, candles began to burn brightly, showing that the spell was beginning to take effect.
"Come on! Drink the blood soon!" Freya, who had recovered from her trance, shouted to me.
Well, with God. I open the bottle, immediately feel a pleasant aroma reaching me through my nose, empty the glass bottle in one gulp.
At the same time, the witch was busy with the main part of the ritual, and I, in turn, began to notice small changes in myself.
It seems...everything works.
"Hmm... and I thought it would hurt more, at least in movies it's always like that, so I knew I shouldn't trust them..." - I didn't have time to finish my own thoughts, as my body cramped.
"Nngh." a strangled moan of pain escaped me.
Thank you all not only for the power stones, but also for continuing to read me! My pleasure! But it would be even nicer if you wrote a good review *wink-wink-wink*...
After my body went into a cramp, which was quite unusual for vampires, I fell on my knees.
"Arrgh!!!" - suddenly a wave of heat spread through my body, as if all my organs were on fire, causing me unbearable pain.
***
At this moment, Alex's body was undergoing tremendous changes. The very structure of the cells was breaking down and rebuilding itself, becoming better than its former self.
The process was happening so frighteningly fast that even a vampire's eye would have difficulty catching the initial changes, and yes, this was just the beginning.
The boy, on the other hand, cringed in pain as he felt the changes take place, and when the wave of heat went around his entire body, he thought it was over.
But suddenly, Alex's chest began to heave furiously, as if something was trying very hard to get out.
Only a few moments later, his heart started beating again, beginning to pump blood throughout his body, but the change didn't think it would end there.
"Kha-ha-ha-ha." - The boy coughed in his throat, he had forgotten what it was like to breathe again.
That seemed to be the end of the fundamental change, but Destiny had other plans.
Just as Alex wanted to get up and change the disconcerting position he was in, he sprawled in the circle again.
The bones began to break distinctly, making audible crunches. The spine twisted unnaturally and broke, too. The boy's whole body was self-destructing, but that only seemed so at first glance.
With each crunch of broken bone, it was noticeable how Alex's body became much more massive than it had been before.
Not only did his mass stand out, but his entire body began to be covered in black fur, his eyes changed color to blood-red, his arms grew long claws, and so did his legs.
His clothes did not survive the metamorphosis and were torn to shreds.
If it hadn't been for the intense, searing pain running through his body, Alex would have been on his feet a long time ago. And everyone would have been able to see that the transformation was not complete.
Now he was in an intermediate state between the human and wolf sides.
Instead of a face, there was also a wolf's face, with a mouth with sharp rows of teeth clearly visible.
"Rrrr..!!!" - clutching the claws of his hands on the tile, Alex growled, and after his transformation continued, and now a young two-meter wolf appeared in front of the witch at the withers.
His gaze of bright blood-red eyes was terrifying. But Freya easily moved away from the shocked state.
And of course, for security reasons, the chains that were brought from the basement of the house, just in case, chained him. Although the chains were old, one might even say ancient, but they had a spell of general weakening on them.
***
"It's all over. Are you all right?" - I asked Alex, who at the moment was in the guise of a wolf.
"Rrrr!!!" - I heard back. Couldn't something have gone wrong after all? No, it's impossible everything was done correctly. Or is it all the fault of the semi-form in which he appeared a minute ago? Too little data...
While the witch was diligently thinking about the reason for this behavior, Alex in the guise of a wolf, straining, increased the force of pressure on the chain, and soon she could no longer restrain him.
*Punk~ Pank~*
The chain cracked in several places and fell apart, falling to the floor.
Without a second's hesitation, he lifted his hind legs off the floor and caught up with Freya in a leap. She clearly did not expect this.
"Kya!!!!" - shouted the girl who was already pressed against the wooden tile by the wolf's powerful front paws.
"Not....can not be." - confused and even somehow quietly she said, waiting for what presented itself in her head.
Here the Black Wolf let out a growl again, sharply bringing his muzzle closer, and when she opened her mouth....then licked her face a couple of times.
"And ...?" - the girl was taken aback, this was definitely not in her thoughts.
"What's going on?!" - all those who were in the house flew in anxiously.
"I don't like... being tied up." - Turning to the four at the door, Alex said with a smile.
"Oh, my God...you're naked!!!" - Hope exclaimed, and covered her pretty eyes and her face, reddened by the view, with her hands.
***
"Oh, right!" - I nodded gratefully, although I noticed such an oversight myself.
"Here, put it on yourself..." - Haley said calmly to me, but her rosy cheeks gave her away.
"Thank you!" - having taken some kind of dressing gown taken from nowhere....m-yes, everything is more wonderful and more wonderful.
"Freya, are you all right?" - Klaus asked the witch, who was still in shock and lying on the spot.
"Freya?!" - once again, Niklaus repeated for authenticity.
"A...It's all right." - finally she noticed that someone was calling her.
"I, perhaps, will not embarrass you and take my leave, I still need to test new abilities." - I mumbled the second part of the sentence under my breath.
I scrolled through the options in my head where it can be arranged and stopped at the simplest.
That desolate area and that dilapidated house are what you need to test superpowers. And as soon as I think about how nice it would be to be there now, I instantly disappear from my former place in the Michaelson family home.
***
The four vampires briskly swept past the road sign "Welcome to Forks" and turned into the woods, so it would be much closer and more inconspicuous to get to the Cullens' house.
A few minutes later they were already in place, a large two-story mansion appeared to their view, which was very often glazed. While they were inspecting the mansions of their friends, they came out to meet them.
"Glad to see you all! It's good that you could come!" - Esme came out of the house and greeted the guests good-naturedly.
Everyone in the Cullen family already knew that Alex would be temporarily absent even when talking to Emma.
"Well, don't stand on the street, come into the house!" - the woman beckoned the vampires into the house and they nodded and followed her.
"Yes...it's been a long time since we've been here." - when everyone was settled in the spacious living room on the sofa, Tanya drawled.
"Yes, you have a very nice house." - Emma added.
"Haha, thank you." - Esme replied with a little laugh.
"So what should we do before everyone gets home?" - Irina asked, to which Kate agreed nodded, thereby showing interest.
"Maybe...let's go hunting, a purely female team?" - Tatiana suddenly suggested an option.
Still, they had been on the road for a couple of days, so they were already a little hungry, so no one was against a snack.
As the hostess of the house, Esme also supported this proposal.
***
"Yes, I was right, this place would be perfect to test my abilities." - Once I was in front of the house where it all began, I spoke.
First of all, thanks to the stabilization spell, I didn't just change my race, I evolved into a new one, so I wasn't worried about my teleportation ability, and it was much better than before.
In the past the energy drain was very high, after a few, let's say about five approaches and that was it, I was empty, after that I wanted to eat a lot, and a vampire in the Twilight world can only eat blood, so in such situations I emptied half of the fridge...
I was not able to do that when I was completely empty and I didn't have enough energy for the next time, but if I left a little, then in the future it would recover quickly, literally a day and a half and it's done.
Plot holes, oh plot holes...how beautiful they are!
That's what separates great authors...from me), well, and a lot more, in general, I have something to strive for! 0)