Bella ain't what she looks like, she moves to Fork's after receiving acceptance to the Olympic research institute or so she says. Edward is her assistant, and is hell bent on cracking her walls…

The girl who trusted no one, the boy who hated everyone…will sparks fly?

Everyone this is my first attempt at writing… so please no flames, but all kinds of suggestions and constructive criticism are welcome.

Starting afresh…

BPOV Italics for thoughts

If I'd ever felt panic in my life before, it was safe as kittens next to this. With ice I my heart I watched him approach us, only his menacing fangs visible from underneath his jet black cloak.

Some analytical part of my brain knew that it was just a dream, but I couldn't help but be terrified.

Towing a bleeding Crystal along, I further backed up into the dangerously empty woods. And then something changed — I turned on Crystal, grabbing her by the shoulders ready to bite into her. All I heard was an earsplitting scream.

"It's okay, everything's fine," someone told me and I tried believing that. I tried to force my eyes open and shake off the nightmare, but this dream did not want to be shoved away into the vault of dreams that I refused to revisit. And then something jostled me awake.

It took me a second to realize that the scream was mine and that Crystal was safe beside me at my head-side trying to lull me to safety.

"Bells, are you well?" she asked with a deep furrow between her eyebrows. "You had it again, didn't you?" It wasn't a question, just plain fact. She eyed me carefully as if afraid I might start screaming again. Oh ofcourse you know, I'm so sorry, I mean it becomes your nightmare too doesn't it? She merely nodded.

"Oh! Crystal" I cried and threw my arms around her neck. She let out an exasperated sigh and pulled me closer.

It's not like I haven't dreamt this one before; infact far from it. I've had the exactly same dream for as long as my memory goes. But it never fails to terrorize me all the same. I mean the level of horror and anxiety that can be induced by the mere thought of drinking from someone- leave alone your best friend- in a vampire hunter is parallel to telling a drug addict, "There are no more drugs left in the world."

Crystal and I have known each other since kindergarten, joining the Drake Academy for Vampire hunters together had only strengthened our bond. We were both thirteen when we had joined the DA and had been extremely terrified that first day. Today we were starting another year and frankly, were equally terrified.

Did I mention, I'm really glad this is our last year?

But atleast I was sharing my room with Crystal this year, it was only in the senior year that they let us chose our room-mates or else they are always trying to pair you up with your ultimate mortal enemy so that you learn how to adjust. Well not that we haven't shared the same room for almost as long as I can remember, but this is the first time that it is official.

Being a Noel, has earned me one of the highest reputations in the academy, that coupled with me working my ass off in order to please Grandpa has surely paid off. You see starting off with training early and then joining the Academy at a young age only so he could prove that Noel blood is strong made me complete my entire training in the first two years. Since then I've been acing my classes with a few troubles with the Headmaster- Aro.

"Gee, what am I gonna do with you?" she asked pulling me from my reverie.

"It's not like I—" just then the morning hour bell of the dorm rang, saving me from providing a response.

"Wait, is it morning already?" I croaked, my voice still thick with sleep, but the dream was now forgotten.

"Yes sleeping beauty and now if you've had your beauty sleep I'd very much like you to stay away from my nail polish" she threatened but her voice heavy with the implication of a smile. "I agree that I've missed you terribly these vacations, but that does not give you the right to mess with my nail polish."

"Whatever Captain! And by the way I had a perfectly joyous vacation without you," I said grinning.

"Oh! Please you are just chicken to admit that you were bored as a snail without me. But atleast I need you to be truthful to me. I took you to dinner didn't I?"

"We went to the caf for mac and cheese, honey. Plus you're not my type."

"Please, you should be so lucky."

I hoped of the bed and went over to the dressing shelf to grab my bag of bathroom necessities. I turned back to find her eyeing my cargos with such distaste, as if she believed her glare alone would be enough to burn them.

"I hate those cargos. How do you even wear those while not at a drill?"

"Not everyone can be Lady Lohana and roam about fully dressed all the time."

Ofcourse she wasn't wearing her regulation cargos, I was. But that's only because Grandpa dropped me at the campus at three in the morning. He is all about tradition and regulations and really big on Noel pride. The Noel's have been known to be one of the most ancient and skilled vampire hunter families, one of the Originals. The Originals on both sides, vampiric and non-vampiric are families which were the first to exist and form the rules which rule our worlds. As such they entail many more powers. Grandpa, Alister Noel, is known to have taken down 17 Lycan nests, 6 all by himself— and mind you that is the highest record recorded.

He is my complete family. After the death of my parents in a Lycan attack, he has taken care of me since I was 5. He has also been training me and Leo ever since. Leo Whitlock is the son of Drake Academy's head Jasper Whitlock and like an elder brother to me. Though Grandpa has all intents to hook us up, and if we ever showed the slightest inclination towards each-other, he would marry us off that very moment. I would be ready to give up a lot for the Academy, but who I date is not one of those things.

I returned back to the mainland from my fantasy world only to notice Crystal blowing on a new coat of silver shine on her purple toes.

"By the way, why are you all dressed up?"

"I just arrived about have an hour ago and you know there'll be new hot guys at both the school and the academy, so I'm just preparing myself."

"Like you need to. You are so fragile and sweet." I stated with a smirk.

"Ofcourse I need to. And for the record, I'm everything but fragile. I'm kick-ass."

"I'm sure your cute elfin face, crazy curls and your finesse would capture the toughest guy's heart." I said tying my hair into a pony. So, it was going to be a bad hair day?

"Look who's speaking. I roam with you, pretty, sporty, brunette goddess, smart…and why am I friends with you again?"

"Because you know that none of what you said is true."

She snorted as a way of response. "Only you could pull off something like those hideous cargos."

"Oh you know it's just because of Grandpa. Plus, I don't really mind it." I said shrugging.

"Puh-leeze, I've seen what little clothes you have and they are all pretty and lacey."

Just then a knock interrupted us and Ben poked his head in. You could easily see that his long dread had become even more white, no doubt due to all the surfing under the son. Seriously you could see that his mother's hobbies had been passed down, well apart from his own.

"Oh my God what a summer! Howdy!" he said leaning back on my bed.

"Hello to you too Ben." I said.

"What she said." was Crystal's response.

"Hey! Um… what are you wearing around your neck Bells?"he said intently staring.

"Stop staring at my boobs you perv, it's…" just then Crystal cut me off. "Hey what did I just hear about you breaking up with Jenna?" Did you anything about it, Bells? If I come to know you did and didn't tell me I swear I'm gonna… she began. Oh chill! As if you wouldn't have drilled it out of me already.

"You know we're just on a break, the guys thought it'll be a nice change." he waved a hand around the room.

"Yeah, ofcourse! The guys thought that it'll be a nice change. Go on burping and bum scratching with the guys… the guys wouldn't have been able to put in a good word for you with Megan last year." I replied a bit peeved at him for listening to everyone.

"Please… she broke my heart!" was his brilliant reply.

"She broke your heart… far as I remember…" he chipped in. "What it's not my fault that I only have place in my heart for you two buffoons."

I maturely hit him with a pillow. "And the necklace is something I got at the Blood Moon last week."

"Yeah and it has a LMS on it with the old medallion…wait did you just say you went to Blood Moon? How the hell did you get in?" LMS or Lycan-Moroi-Shamanka Medallion is the sign of the treaty formed between witches, vampires and us hunters.

I simply nodded, so he went on "Oh my God! Is it like they say it is? And the ways of the shamankas and the hounds? Can you tell about the Blood Moon ritual, I'm sure that I have it here somewhere…" he started getting up. Ben was in the Mystic Arts department, and the best that there was. He studied and worked on the arts that were originally only the witches' or the shamankas' as they were known in our world.

"Please cut the studies for a second? Tell me are the guard as yummy as everyone says?"

"Totally! It was like being in a room- field- full of Johnny Depps." Then she started fantasizing about making out with him, as soon as her imaginations crossed over to TMI I yelled at her to stop. Ben just rolled his eyes at us and left the room to get ready for the day.

Okay so that got a bit confusing there. You see, being an original you are given a guardian from the Academy itself, and Crystal was my assigned guardian. Though between the two of us, in a fight I would be the one protecting her; don't get me wrong she's the best of the best, but it just comes naturally to me, she's the more tech-savvy one. There was another thing between us, we had a bond. Not just the oh-you-are-my-best-y-and-I-know-you thing, we could read each others minds and feel each-others feelings. It got creepy when one would slip into the other's body/mind. But we totally looked like twins, about the same height and built, brown hair- mine slightly mahogany and her's dark brown, brown eyes-mine chocolate-y and her's murky; so that is how we get pass with our 'bond' outside, we called it a twin thing.

"Seriously girl! Take a break from your life's narration and get ready you don't wanna be late for the briefing." Chloe all but whined.

The briefing was the same as every year, Serve, Protect and Don't Screw Up!

We were now at the gym, as usual grounding anyone who came up against us. It was then that a sophomore came up to us, walking timidly and looking scared. It was an acceptable behavior, we- Crystal and I- were nicknamed the Termination Twins, we were the killing machines.

You can tell she's trying to muster up enough courage, twinny, is this is their new form of punishment? I thought to Crystal. "Umm… Miss Isabella, you have been summoned by Headmaster Aro." And then she scurried away. Miss Isabella! Seriously! I thought.

What would you prefer? Your Highness? was her brilliant silent reply.

"Ugh! Let's just go."

"May we enter Aro?" I asked knocking on his door and entered on hearing permission. He raised his eyebrows at Crystal, referring to the fact that only I was summoned, but he, I and everybody else knew that we were a package deal.

"There is a new…situation that has developed in the Olympic Range. Why don't you two sit down so we can discuss the case better?" We hesitantly nodded and then sat.

Wow! Aro nervous, there really is a first to everything. I saw her grimace.

What do you think it is connected to? She thought. I merely shrugged.

After what seemed like a lot of consideration Aro continued. "You see, Angela Cromwell…"

"The Shamanka's Heiress?" Crystal cut in.

"Yes, you see being the only Cromwell left, she is to be the next Maiden Shamanka, the leader of the witches, and ofcourse vampires are after her life. So obviously, we being the Morois have been called upon. So, I want you to go down to Forks and handle this situation." He finally said.

Well atleast that makes sense, the vampires would gain an uncontrollable amount of power and reign over the world; the Shamankas made sure that this scenario doesn't come true, and we hunters made sure that the Shamankas and the people were safe. I thought still skeptical.

Yeah but why us? I mean we're still just seniors. Crystal thought to me.

Hmm… good question…I wonder…

"Do you know, even after all these years, it is still creepy, those eye talks you have. Well you must be thinking why you…" Aro broke our communication.

Well I didn't know that Aro could read our minds. Crystal smirked my way.

"It's actually pretty simple, Angela Webber" ofcourse a Shamanka wouldn't use her original family name "is a senior in high school and so it will be easier for someone of your age group and everyone knows that you are the very best."

That is when Leo came in. "Hey! How are my girls doing?"

"We're good Daddy!" we replied in unison, it now came naturally to us. We've always teased Leo for being so over protective of us.

He just rolled his eyes at us. "Well here are the details of your cover story. Meet Ben at the mess hall's entrance after your packing up your bags in five. Your flight leaves at 11 am." He came forward to hug us. "All the best and I'll meet you there soon. Go on now."

Aro too congratulated us and waved us ahead.

We quickly packed our bags, well I packed mine and then helped Crystal and we left for the mess hall; after having called Dr. Cullen to tell him we were coming. According to our cover story, I was going to work at the Olympic Research Institute for which some of my Academy research had been given to Aro to Carlisle, all by Leo hacking into my files.

The children parted like the red sea, as we passed and met Ben at the gates.

Oh I simply love the scared faces of the masses, as if we'd just massacre them all for no reason at all. Crystal thought, flipping her hair over her shoulder.

Well we could, but they don't know that. I think I saw her grimace.

Crystal and I were special in more ways than just the bond. I can create a physical and mental shield around myself and whomsoever I wished, teleport whomsoever-whatsoever, make things invisible, while Crystal could detect powers and handle the elements. Together we can read minds and also induce thoughts in them. Together, we were an invincible force of nature.

"Heya Girls! ready to go? Let's just get there already, I'm sleepy as hell." Ben asked picking up his bags.

Soon we were taking off the runway, towards a new adventure, new surroundings and to prove ourselves, and Ben was already asleep. I couldn't help but shake of the feeling that something was coming our way, something big and that it was going to change our perspective.

Gee! I didn't know that you were a psychic too Bells. Please tone down the dramatics twinny, you're making me mellow.

"Whatever Chris! Let us get to work and check the case files." I said handing her half the files.

"Gee! I feel like the FBI, don't you?" she asked flipping through the file. "You know looking through peoples' profiles, vigilance and Eep..!" she suddenly squealed. What happened now? Cute guy?

What I'm not always excited about guys. she went for a scowl but was too hyper to hold off her grin.

"It is that I just realized that we are the youngest hunters to be ever sent on a mission." she continued.

"You just realized that Chrisabella?" I teased raising an eyebrow at her.

"Planet to Bells! Hello honey, but my name is Crystal." She said enunciating every word as if she was talking to someone who was mentally incompetent.

"Planet to Chris! Hello honey, but according to our undercover story, you are Chrisabella and I'm Isabella Swan, we're twins and the three of us are adopted siblings; whose mom being an interior decorator and dad being a lawyer are still in Phoenix, Arizona settling last moment matters, we're filthy rich and get a mansion to live in which is already infused with DA style security, but I would still feel better if we upgraded it." I looked up to find a totally oblivious Chris.

"Do you think he'll be interested in dating?"Chris finally asked.

"Did you really not hear anything I said?"When she didn't look up I took the subject files that we were given for the mission from her. The picture was of a really cute looking guy- Mason Webber, brother of Angela Webber. I was about to rebuke her for being distracted but the longing expression she had made me stop. Wow! I thought, this is not just oh-that's-a-yummy-guy thing; gone for good- I hope.

"Well now stop ogling and move further down the file" I finally said.

"What don't look at me as if I'm an alien, I for sure as hell think you are. It's normal for teenage girls to be drooling over guys" And ofcourse you are gonna find a yum-for-you-guy soon, mark my words twinny! she added as an afterthought.

"Whatever…well this just isn't fair, all you have to do is hang out at school while I have to work my ass off at the institute." I grumbled.

"This is what you get for being such a smart ass at the academy, going about performing all too advanced researches. Seriously chika, even the DA researches don't understand half of your technological jargon." She said rolling her eyes.

"Well from the looks of it, Dr. Carlisle does." Then I wasn't left capable of forming coherent thoughts. Oh for the love of all that is holy! Umm..ah! I was vaguely aware of Chris snatching the files from me and shaking me up. But all I could see was the face that was printed in my mind- Edward Cullen. Gorgeous butterscotch golden eyes, real pale skin, slightly pointed well-defined features; all together a very edible one…

"What's going on in that pretty head of your's? A little crush there twinny?" just about then I snapped out of it.

"Nothing's going on. Belt up we're gonna be landing in 5."I said sternly.

"Sure nothings on. Aren't the Cullens picking us up?" I just glared at her and then called out loud. "Wake up sleepy head!" I shook Ben, just as we hit the runway.

As soon as we got down I was being stared at by every freaking person who came across us.

What the hell Chris? I told you not to dress me up! You know I don't like being the centre of attention. I told you!

Did you know I told you has a brother? His name is Shut the heck up! One jeans and top are not dressy and two you should get over this stupid aversion of yours.

Just around this time we reached the conveyer belts for luggage and I spotted him. Before I could totally freeze, I turned about.

Chris am I loosing it?

No way sweetie, it is normal. What is not normal is that I can sense at least three powers with the Cullens. Mind reading Edward, psychic Alice and Empath Jasper.

Think they're like us?

Only time will tell.

Yippie! A new side project! Let's go.

You okay? She thought wiggling her eyebrows.

"Oh let's just go already" The three of us marched forward to a new life, a new horizon.

Sheesh cut the melodrama chika! Chris smirked my way and I smirked back.

Okay I'm starting out slow. Aro is not a vampire. Any queries, suggestions, etc. just review and ask. I'll try to execute them to my best ability.