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[align=center] PRAYER OF THE REFUGEE ( BROKEN WINDOWS AND ASHES ARE GUIDING OUR WAY )[/align] [align=center]-----------------------------------------
[size0]SO LET ME GET ONE THING STRAIGHT IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL IN FORKS?
[size0]HOT DAMN, IT’S A FUCKING MIRACLE! -----------------------------------------[/align]-
[size0]Ever since the Volturi made their exit after the almost-showdown on that dark and stormy winter day, the Cullens found themselves without any further confrontation. The large assembly they had worked so hard to bring to their feeble defense for the life of a halfbreed child took their leave into the dark forest and back to their previous lives with few visits. Of course there was the Denali coven who would often visit simply because they were like family, and maybe the drop-in here or there from one of the many other vampires … but there was never anything substantial. So that left them to settle into fairly normal lives considering their circumstances were anything but normal. Carlisle kept his job at the local hospital (though he thinks that it shall soon be time to drop the job considering he hasn’t been aging like his colleges), and his adopted children – Alice, Edward, Emmett, Jasper, and Rosalie … as well as Bella the tagalong – were ‘off at college’ studying, never showing their faces in Forks if they could help … it to keep up that image. Were they at college? Well some went, but they mostly hung around.
One of the family members that definitely did not attend university was young Bella, always looking after her baby girl. Well, Renesmee was quickly growing through her toddler stages before the young mother could even turn around. But as Edward and Carlisle’s measurements showed, the halfbreed child’s growth was slowing … and slowing even more as the years passed. But even then, they all knew the child wasn’t normal with her vast intelligence, strange abilities, and the company she managed to attract. Jacob Black was constantly by her side at all time he could spare for his imprintee, which was quite a lot because his pack had no danger to protect the regular humans from – except for the ‘potentilly dangerous’ Cullens. Despite the strangeness mixed within their fairly normal lives, Bella could not imagine having anything any other way. After all she was an advanced newborn who did not have to deal with the pains of her newborn years, she was with the love of her life and his family that was as much hers as it was his, together they had a beautiful extra-special daughter, and she was still able to see her best friend.
If she were human, you might have been able to say that it could have passed her mind. But as a vampire, Bella could see that day clear as day. She remembered what Edward had said to her about the Volturi, about how he implied that the broken vampire royalty would one day return, though their intentions on that day could not even be fathomed. But that didn’t stop Bella from worrying, concocting her own ideas of the Volturi’s next visit. Would it be another extravagant affair? Or would they just send their guard to track each of them down one by one and destroy them as ruthless as they had done to Irina? Or did they plan to enslave those they found useful and make them watch the rest of their family be ripped to shreds and burned? As the years passed, she was dying to know, contemplating whether or not she should ask Alice if she saw anything coming. But she did not. Bella just wanted to believe that she was finally living her perfect little life she had always dreamed of having since she fell in love with Edward Cullen.
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[size0]OKAY, NOW YOU'RE DEFINITELY PULLING MY LEG THERE'S PEOPLE MORE DIVINE THAN THE CULLENS?
[size0]THEY'VE GOTTA BE LIKE ... GODS OR SOMETHING -----------------------------------------[/align]-
[size0]Let me take you back about 5000 years. The human race as we knew it today was just beginning to settle in to their place in the world. But it was not perfect, not how the Creator envisioned the world to be. The people of the earth were flawed and needed guidance in order to stray away from the path of corruption: greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, and dishonesty. That was when the Creator started manifesting power within a few mortals that began proclaiming His word to the masses, giving them the direction that was needed in order for them to live as perfectly as He had envisioned. There were people like Moses, Jesus and his disciples, Muhammad, Buddha – the list just goes on and on for these miracle workers – but even they could not put the people on the ‘right’ path. These people were prosecuted and harmed by those who did not believe, those who did not wish to follow the path of a ‘good life’ and continued to do the wrong, and often selfish, thing.
That was when the Creator sent his trusted guardian angels to the earth: to protect those good people from the evils that their fallen brother Lucifer had bestowed upon the people. These beautiful people wandered the earth and protected not only the prophets, but the regular mortal people. They did not age, they did not die, they had strength that could not be matched by any mortal, they could fly, they had invincible weapons of great power from the Creator, and they were rumored to have control over the brilliant and pure powers of light: the ultimate divine magic. Their numbers were many, their power invincible, you’d think that all the evil in the world would have been gone. In certain sections assigned to certain guardians it was. But in others, there was just too much evil for them to possibly protect everyone and stop every little conflict from happening. And others, still, who were meant to be protecting found themselves preoccupied.
You see, the Creator found that the longer his guardians stayed on the earth, the more human they became in their tendencies. They still had the mindset of a divine creature from Heaven and were therefore immune to the corruption around them, but they grew to have deep emotions: friendship, kindness, hate, sadness, etc. The biggest emotion however was love. There were a few instances where His guardians were falling in love with regular humans and wishing to give up their guardian powers in order to live a normal life: to grow old and die with the one they loved. Of course the first few times He granted the wishes of his faithful guardians, but after a while he could no longer accept it. For those that wished to give into these deeper emotions over their duty, he created the magic attraction between a male and female guardian. Each pairing was pre-ordained, but it was up to the guardians themselves to find their match if they wished to seek it. Most did not and continued eradicating the evil from the world as best as they could muster.
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[size0]ALRIGHT, ENOUGH WITH THIS HISTORY CRAPOLA WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH RIGHT NOW?
[size0]HOLD YOUR HORSES AND I'LL TELL YOU. SHEESH. -----------------------------------------[/align]-
[size0]Remember how I said that most of the guardians didn’t bother finding their partner? Well some of them happened to stumble upon their partners during their travels around the world over the years. For many it started off as a slight attraction masked by strong willpower. They became friends and travelling partners. But strange things started happening, things so far out of their ordinary lives that it alarmed them. The longer they stayed around one another, the closer they became (physically and emotionally), their powers would no longer function. Some found this out the hard way with their lives when they were fighting dark creatures. Others were more fortunate to only experience small wounds from prosecutions by non believers and those that were afraid of the rumors that began to circulate about the guardian angels of the Creator. It was a strange situation to say the least – how the Creator had pre-ordained these pairings to come together, but all other outside circumstances forced them to be apart. What circumstances? Their duties as guardians, their lives … do I really need to go on?
But that attraction, so strong and undeniable, kept many of the pairings together throughout the years. And as those single years turned into decades, those guardians who had made their choice settled down and had families with their partner. They also lost their magic, their weapons, their immortality, and everything else that made them what they were to become human. They raised their normal human children like any normal family would in whatever time period it happened to be in, they became grandparents within a few decades after their children found the love of their lives and settled down, and a few decades after that they would find themselves within their last breaths of life before they died, sometimes simultaneously, and were buried side by side, six feet under in some cemetery. Then they would rejoin the Creator in Heaven. It sounded like a good life, and many thought it better than to wander the earth for eternity as the divine police force.
And when I say many, I mean it. About ninety percent of the original guardians are now dead, or have been for the past hundred years. There are only a dozen left to carry out the mission given to them eons ago, each having their own story to tell. Some have abstained from giving into the temptation offered by the pre-ordained partnerships, some have not found their partner yet or simply do not care to, and others have had large fallouts with their partner and therefore are nowhere near one another. Regardless of the story surrounding their survival through the centuries, they all have one thing in common. They have a mission and god damn it they are going to fulfill their duty and destroy the evils that have been running rampant around the earth in the portions that had once belonged to their now deceased brothers and sisters. Its overhaul time, and the twelve guardians are on a crusade to destroy all the supernatural threats that they believe were created by their fallen brother Lucifer to cause chaos in what is supposed to be the Creator’s perfect world.
And their targets? The vampires, the shape-shifters, and the super-humans … or what people today might refer to as witches and warlocks.
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[size0]LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS, OH MY! NO IT'S WOLVES, HORSES, AND BEARS, DUMBASS.
[size0]DON'T FORGET VAMPS AND FREAKS TOO! -----------------------------------------[/align]-
[size0]The guardians wasted no time in their preparations for war. Within days they began their sweep of Asia. They destroyed clan after clan of blood-sucking vampires, shape-shifter scum, and super-human freaks in battles of mass carnage and smoldering piles of ash. Those that managed to escape the destruction that was coming on their heels fled westward, telling those of their kind about the twelve beautiful people that had no compassion when it came to anything but the regular human race. Many did not believe such stories, dismissing them as some sort of ploy of the refugees to gain territory. But days later, the havoc and destruction would be on their doorsteps and they would try to flee on the heels of the refugees, wishing that they believed the first victims after all. Many nomads of all three races died, and those that survived were left to carry on their memory and warn the rest of their kinds as they fled for their own lives.
As the guardians marched west, the body count rose to at least one hundred for each race as their feet touched down on the shores of the eastern United States. Notable deaths of the vampires are a few nameless Volturi followers from an attack on Volterra, and Stefan and Vladimir – the last survivors of the Romanian clan and before they reached the Midwest, they would also tack on Peter and Charlotte. On a side trip to Canada before they swept the entire US and what they hoped to be the rest of the vampires that had slipped through their fingertips everywhere else, they came across a strange sight in upstate New York on an Seneca Native American reservation named Allegany: human that could turn into bears? At first they let the creatures be, but the bear people thought the incredibly beautiful people to be a breed of vampire and so attacked because it was their duty. They lost three veteran members of their pack in the attack, the rest severely wounded. They were driven out of their home by the guardians, thus condemning the rest of the shape-shifters to death just like the vampires and the super-human freaks.
And when they came across a pack of Sioux Native Americans in South Dakota that could transform into horses, they also attacked. This time, the casualties were the alpha mustang and his imprint that were caught in the crossfire. These horse people were also driven from their homelands and pushed west. Other stories like these have also unfolded for the superhumans, but with less death because of their larger numbers and their physical abilities of manipulation. All of these clans from all the races: the nomad vampires and superhumans, the Volturi coven, the horse pack, the bear pack, the Solange ‘witches’, and the Hathorne ‘witches’ are all being pushed west across the United States, fleeing for their lives for the west coast. It’s all that’s safe from the merciless angel guardians ready to slaughter them all.
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[size0]WELCOME ONE AND ALL TO FORKS, WASHINGTON IT'S THE FREAKS MELTING POT OF THE WORLD!
[size0]OR IS THAT THE CIRCUS? EITHER WAY ITS CHAOTIC. -----------------------------------------[/align]-
[size0]Now here we are, back in Bella Cullen’s little corner of paradise. All of the Cullens happened to be home on this fine September day to celebrate her birthday … or maybe it was just because Alice really felt the need to throw a party just because she’s like that sometimes. They were all gathered in the Cullen’s home with the additions of Charlie (who pretends to be blissfully unaware of the life his daughter has chosen), Jacob, and a few of the other wolves who have begun to accept that now the wolf pack and the Cullens are now connected in a sort of ‘family’ because of Jacob’s imprinting on Nessie. They were all having a grand old time: laughing and joking, dancing to the soft music playing in the background when suddenly, Alice’s eyes glazed over in that all-too-well-known manner that everyone in the household dreaded as she clutched onto a worried Jasper’s arm for support. “Alice, what is it?” Her mate asked as she was still in her stupor. “They’re coming.” Is all the little pixie muttered before she snapped back to reality, her family surrounding her. Everyone knew without saying what it was she spoke of.
The festivities had ended for the night with the new information that the Volturi would be arriving within a week or so. As to why they were coming, she could not say for sure, but they all figured that it had something to do with either herself, Edward, Bella, or Nessie, or maybe even a combination of all four. That kept the Cullens and the wolves on high alert as they surrounded the area and kept watch. Alice kept receiving visions for what was like every other day for a good few weeks of images she could not explain: familiar faces burning, others alive and well, packs of humans with strange abilities fleeing through what appeared to be cities, people that were like the wolves in fuzzy images she couldn’t decipher as well as the others. All appeared like the first Volturi image: they were running from something, and they had no place else to run but here. And soon they did arrive at their doorstep, just like the little pixie had predicted, terrified in their formations and different colored robes. Aro, Caius, and Marcus claimed they had come in peace, to warn their friend Carlisle of the danger that has bee stalking them across the world. He spoke of these guardian angels, of the destruction they could wreak, and begged the Cullens to forgive the conflict of years past between them all. Carlisle agreed and that the Volturi could stay nearby for as long as needed, but nothing else because he could not make anything for certain of what Aro showed him.
Soon after the Volturi settled into the forest, the congregation that had been held seven years earlier was back at their doorstep, telling stories similar to that of the Volturi: guardian angels sent to kill them all. Carlisle agreed to also let them stay – I mean ho could he not, they were all his friends – while he wondered if reason would save them. By the looks of things, it was not going to be that simple. He did not need Alice to tell him that a battle would be coming, though she had warned them many times that something was undoubtedly coming. Jacob came back with stories from LaPush that there were other shape-shifter clans being prosecuted by the vampire-killing guardian angels: ones that could turn into horses, and others that could turn into bears. And though they did not come forward like the vampires and the shape-shifter packs did, they all knew that there were others present in their woods. Alice claimed that they came at the same time as the others, but did not trust them and so kept to themselves. These were the ‘witch’ clans and super-human nomads. And here they all were: sitting ducks, waiting to be slaughtered.
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[size0]SO HERE WE ARE WAKING UP AT THE START OF THE END OF THE WORLD
[size0]ARE YOU READY? -----------------------------------------[/align]-
[size0]They would be coming soon, that was for certain, but Alice could not give them a definite time frame. So many of the vampires and shape shifters took watch in the area that surrounded LaPush and Forks, waiting for these twelve mystery people. On this particular evening, those that were out from the Cullen house were Emmett, Edward, and Jasper who accompanied Kate, Kachiri, and Eleazar. It was nothing new to have so many people in the house, sitting around and waiting for those that were gone to return. Alice, Bella, and Renesmee had taken to reassuring a distraught Carmen that her mate would undoubtedly return when Alice’s eyes glazed over again. And her face was not as vacant as it normally was, fear creeping into her usually bright and cheery features. The congregation at the house that night pleaded to know what she saw, but when she came to, she looked directly to Bella in horror. “It’s Jasper.”
Expecting the worst –secretly that Edward was not involved in the same fate as his brother – Bella followed Carlisle, Jacob, and Alice through the forest, figuring she might be able to do something to give Jasper a fighting chance. It did not take them long to find him based off of Alice’s vision, a crumpled mass in the forest brush with his two brothers hovering over him. He was wounded badly, something even a vampire could barely walk away from, and Alice would never forgive herself for putting him in that much harm’s way, for being so blind. And since Jasper was brough back to the Cullen house on the back of the large wolf, she has rarely left his side. They believe now, a few weeks later, that the attack on Jasper was not meant to kill him, but simply to warn them all of the danger they now faced, that there was no other option. There was going to be a fight, a big one, and it’s no surprise that many were going to die. The guardians believe, as they wait for the opportune moment to attack, that they will come out victorious, and that they will leave all their smoldering bodies in one large grave in this middle of nowhere place.
It’s the last stand for all of the supernatural beings, right here in Forks, Washington. Which side are you going to choose? Well you better choose fast because the battle is just over the horizon.
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