Ace Of Runes

Chapter 7: Dances, Rejections and Awkward Explanations.

She knew nothing of what time of the day it was. Rhea had slept like the dead.

Getting up, she checked the time to see that it was fifteen minutes past four. She got dressed in all-black clothes, put her phone and stele in her jacket's pocket and headed out of the house silently, so as to not wake Charlie up.

She walked on and on. She didn't know what she was doing or where she was going. Rhea abruptly stopped, when she heard the noise of the crunching of twigs and dried leaves. She looked around her. There were no dried leaves on the road, infact, the snow had covered the whole road making it a white colour.

The noise continued. She blindly followed the trail of the sound, as she suddenly found herself in front of the forest. She shrugged, not seeing anything that could go wrong. She imagined Alec's reaction to her decision and chuckled softly. With quick and silent steps, she entered, putting on the hood of her jacket and pullet it down to cover her eyes and nose.

Rhea tilted her head up at the sounds. She looked carefully ahead of her, and saw rapid flashes of movement. The movements were too quick for mundane eyes. Her eyes narrowed in suspicion. She searched for the tallest tree around her. As she found the tree, she rolled her sleeves up and removed her stele from her pocket and drew a flying rune on her wrist.

She stood up carefully on the branch of the tree, then, and gazed fondly at the golden ring on her left hand's middle finger. The bridge of the ring had a small golden plate on it, whose edges were coiled with thin gold wires making it look like a mini well. Inside the 'well' was a small sanguine colored stone. On top of the stone was a stick that looked like a diameter for the circle. The hallmark on the ring was a six-sided star.

The ring was quite ancient and was given to her by her father. Not Charlie. It was given by Valentine. As a weapon and also a family heirloom.

The plate was actually a disc. It could cut through any thing, according to what she knew. And the wire that was coiled around it was actually her electrum-lined whip. It was the same as her Parabatai's, only difference was that, while Isabelle's whip was a silvery-white color, Rhea's was golden colored.

The small stick on top of the center stone was her seraph blade, namely Sanvi. Before Sanvi she had had Cassiel. But since it got broken, she didn't remember how, she replaced it with Sanvi. Rhea normally fought with the seraph blade, as it was much easier to do so. The Sanguine stone was a detector. It could detect any demonic presence or activities at a nine-mile radius.

She stroked the coiled wire gently, and the next second her whip was in her hand. She jumped onto another tree that was infront of her, and peered down on the ground.

There were dead animals everywhere. Torn apart from the middle area. Rhea scrunched up her nose in disgust. Then she saw the culprit of the scene she was witnessing.

Edward Cullen.

And his siblings.

Rhea stood there, staring at them as they moved around, talked, laughed and drank blood. She rolled her eyes and jumped down on the ground. All the Cullens turned their eyes to her. Without a word she began to walk away, only to be stopped by Emmett.

"Who are you?" Emmett growled. She moved to the side to walk around him but got stopped again, but by Alice.

"I believe my brother asked you a question, stranger." Said Jasper from somewhere behind Rhea. She turned around facing the siblings and keeping her head down.

"I apologise for trespassing on your grounds, but you must forgive me for I was not aware that it belonged to you. However, I will leave right now itself, and keep my mouth shut to anything related to this incident." She said in a low voice.