Authors Note: So I don't own anything of Twilight. If I did ill be one rich Hispanic Lol. So everyone I hope you enjoy this story and please leave a review at the end of your reading ill greatly appreciate it. Thank You!
Laughter filled the air as children entering their teens continued to play the classroom game called "Flyswatter". The room was futuristic with the walls metallic, the children's chairs were made of metal but were very comfortable due to the blue cushions attached, and the desk attached to said chairs were made of glass with very small electrical components inside that popped up worksheets for them. These were made so that paper was not needed anymore, small pens with a rubber cushion would suffice. One side of the room was filled with girls the other boys, they cheered their teammates on as they scribbled the pens against one glass area in the wall, the writing coming out as light blue text glowing against the darkened room. The girl quickly rechecked her answer then swiveled around to look across the room at the glass wall in front of the class. It was covered with answers, ranging from decimals to fractions, to whole numbers all over in random areas. When she found what she was looking for she raced forward down the empty aisle that was made for the opponents, grabbed a plastic clear flyswatter and swatted at the answer. Her teammates cheered as the boys groaned in disappointment.
"Now hold on a minute boys." A woman walked forward from a corner in the room. "Remember I must see if the answer is correct." Dark green eyes stared at the girls work, her caramel colored hair went down to her shoulders, and she was wore a simple red blouse and black jeans.
"Mrs. Cullen we know it's correct, Rosalie always gets it right." A boy from one of the seats groaned out.
Rosalie stuck her nose up in the air, her long blonde hair falling off of her shoulders to go down past them as those piercing blue eyes glared at the boy. "Well I study and at least do the homework unlike some immature boys who would rather stay up and play those stupid video games." The girls giggled while the boys voiced their disagreement on the games.
"Now Rosalie just because you have an A in my class doesn't mean you have the right to pick on others. In any case Rosalie is correct and that gives the final score of 20 to 15, ladies at the end of class you may come up and choose you candy. Class if you may put the chairs back to where they belong we can start on history today." Mrs. Cullen walked to the front of her desk and leaned back against it as she plucked up a glass board from her metal desk filled with lights showing her worksheet files, grades, tests, and quizzes. She pulled out her pen and wiped it across her board, in turn to her command the glass wall behind her and in front of her was wiped clean and the glass wall in front was shut off, its light dimming from the inside. The students quickly pulled the chairs in their original spots and sat down.
"Mrs. Cullen do we need our history file today?"
"No Thomas, in fact leave you desks off for now." Mrs. Cullen pulled up her seating chart and selected the word random, a neon green light started to flash all around the boxes that signify the students; it finally stopped after a few seconds. "Charlie, can you tell me what day it is today?"
"May 10, 2172."
"Correct, do you know why I asked?"The boy with black short hair shook his head as he turned to his friends who merely shrugged as an answer to him.
"I asked because May 10 is a very important day to remember children. It is when the Shifters finally admitted defeat and in turn for breaking a treaty they were made to be last in society, outcasts let's say." She shrugged as Rosalie raised her hand. "Yes Rosalie?"
"What treaty did they break?"
"Ah the Treaty of Peace, you see children us Humans back then didn't realize that the supernatural existed. We were oblivious to their world; we believed they were just stories, myths created to scare children just like you way back then so they wouldn't wander in the dark. They hid among us, Shifters looking like bodybuilders, Vampires as models."
"What does a Shifter mean?"
"Do Vampires drink human blood?"
"Do they eat children?"
Mrs. Cullen raised her hands, "Children, let me explain the history first. Now, where too begin?" She tapped her chin, "Well let me start by explaining what a Shifter and a Vampire are. Vampires are immortal, meaning that they can live for as long as they like until someone kills them by their only weakness which is fire. They have skin as strong as diamonds, incredibly fast, strong, and can hold up information 1000x better than any human. We don't know how vampires came to be but many believe it was supposed to be human's next evolution. You can only be turned into a vampire if you are bitten by another, which then starts the three day process of you physically dying, it's a gruesome and most painful experience and many vampires explain it as your inside being lit on fire. During the beginning of their time they feasted on humans and you could tell which the human drinkers were by their eye color. Red meant human blood, Gold animal blood." Mrs. Cullen looked around the room to make sure her class was paying attention
"Shifters need a bit more explaining. Now Shifters can only be born, not made. The reason being is that it's literally in their bloodline to shift or change into any animal." She quickly raised her hand, "Now I'm not saying that the Shifters have the choice of being any animal they want at any time. What I'm trying to say is that it depends on what blood of the animal is in a certain family tribe."
"Mrs. Cullen? What exactly do you mean by the blood of an animal being inside a certain tribe?"
"What I mean is this; the Kickapoo's very first tribal chief made a deal with the Eagles spirit, the deal being this, if the Eagle spirit gave his tribe the same strength and abilities as his then he, in return, would protect all Eagles and would honor his spirit. So from then on only people who have Kickapoo blood in their system can change into very large Eagles."
"What if a Kickapoo tribe member had a baby with another tribe member? Would that child be able to change into two animals?"
"No, in all of Shifter history there hasn't been a child who can shift into two different animals. It depends on the child's strongest bloodline. For example, if the Eagle blood and Bear blood were to fight for dominance, who would you think would win?"
"So even in blood it all depends on who's the strongest in nature?"
"Yes, that's why most tribe members like to have spouses who do not have a spirit in them so that their spirit could live on and not die off in the food chain so to speak. Now moving on, Shifters can only be immortal if they continually shift into their animal form, if they suddenly stopped shifting for number of years their spirit in them would die off from not being used and they turn back into being a mortal. So in a sense Shifters are mortals and immortals. Shifters like I said look like bodybuilders because they have to hold that spirit that's in their body, they must eat twice as much as a regular person to feed their inner animal."
Mrs. Cullen wrote on her board and the glass wall behind her copied whatever she wrote. She wrote "2017". "This year is the year us humans found out about the myth world. We discovered the Vampires and the Shifters fighting each other and in the mist of their battle we were dragged in to protect ourselves." The children watched the board as a line appeared below the year and a new one came on "2030". "This is when we came together to make what is known today as the Treaty of Peace. It consisted of all the beings to be able to live amongst ourselves. The rules were this; Vampires are to never harm or suck human blood or harm a Shifter, if they sucked human blood the penalty would be death. Shifters are to never harm a Vampire or a Human. The same rule applies for humans; we may not harm a Vampire or a Shifter. After the treaty a society was built." Everything on the board was erased and was replaced with the word Vampires.
"Vampires are at the top of society because one, they had a lot of money they accumulated over the years, two, their memory allowed them to get the best jobs which consisted being a Laywer, Teacher, Doctor, Etc." A line came down from Vampire and the word Shifter was written beneath. "Shifters are second because they still have far better abilities than humans, they can still get the jobs at the top so can humans but it'll take a bit more work." Another line was formed and Humans were written. "Humans were at the bottom because we lived short lives and have the least physical abilities than our supernatural brother and sisters. Some Shifters got the slum jobs like us but that still didn't deter us from getting much better jobs, I'd say we were middleclass despite us being last in society."
"Then why did the Shifters breach the treaty if everyone was happy the way it was? I mean, yes humans are at the bottom but that's only because we aren't as strong as the supernatural." A girl exclaimed from the front row pushing her glasses up her nose a bit more.
"Angela it's a bit wrong don't you think?" The girl turned around to face her friend Jessica. "Yeah we are weak according to Mrs. Cullen's explanation but that doesn't give the vampires the right to take over society."
"Jessica brings up a good point." Everyone turned to their teacher as she walked to the two girls, "That's why the Shifters retaliated, they hated that their enemy was at the top and wished for everyone to be equal but of course law is law children and they broke that law when they killed a group of vampires in the middle of the street causing the second Great War. Everyone was divided, like Angela there were humans who loved the way things turned out and only wanted the war to end, so some humans sided with the Vampires. Others like Jessica wished for more equality and fought with the Shifters."
Her pen moved swiftly over her board as she pulled up a video file. The children watched in horror and fascination. "There are many videos that show the second Great War thanks to technology these days. This is only one of the many taken by a civilian."
The screen was moving side by side indicating that the person was running; screaming was heard as the man panted. Suddenly he stopped the camera pointed down at his black worn out sneakers and dark jeans. With a swift movement the camera was pointed forwards towards the scene; a tall, dark tanned man stood with only a pair of shredded shorts, behind him other men fought. Bullets flew everywhere, men falling off of buildings and others taking out swords if their enemy got too close. Five more men like the first came to join him on the top all wearing the same thing, tattered shorts. The enemy came at them swords raised but they just merely pushed them aside while 4 very pale figures came into view. One of them pointed towards the 6 his mouth moving but no words can be heard over the commotion. Then it happened, all of the men suddenly jumped, literally, out of their skin and in their place were very large animals. They could've been higher than a horse. One was a lion, the other a lynx, a coyote, a wolf, tiger, and a gorilla.
The class leaned over their desks, the boys smiling a bit at the thought of a fight, the girls covering their mouths, not sure to either be repulsed or fascinated. Before anyone could blink the animals charged forward the gorilla shifter quickly being taken over by two of the vampires. After that it was all a blur, the camera was being zigged zagged back and forth between the bodies trying to catch a glimpse of the fighters. Suddenly the class screamed and backed away when the lynx shifter was suddenly thrown towards the camera man who fell back to avoid being crushed by the oversized cat. The camera rolled off towards the side before cutting off at the face of the pained lynx.
"As you can see children, the war was gruesome and brutal. As I said the Shifters admitted defeat when they were suddenly overrun on an ambush attack at their main base. With that on this day May 10, 2075, the Shifters were made last in society."
"Why? I mean they were only trying to help us." Thomas spoke up playing with his shirt. The class stared as if torn from feeling pity to disgust for the Shifters. Mrs. Cullen sighed.
"It was of course not an overnight decision Thomas. It took weeks of discussion and heated debate on what could be done."
"So they decided slavery was the best!" Rosalie yelled slamming her hand on her desk as she abruptly stood up her face flushed.
"I think it was the best choice." Everyone turned to stare at Charlie. "I mean they did break the treaty, everyone was happy the way the world turned out. It was the Shifters fault for trying to change things." Silence was met. Rosalie glared at Charlie her hands turning into fists.
Mrs. Cullen shook her head as she wrote Humans and Vampires side by side, draws a line and writes Shifters at the bottom. "Everyone has their own opinion on this subject, Rosalie please sit down." She did so reluctantly breathing out a sigh. "This is the society chart that everyone knows today," she quickly drew three lines separating from the Shifters. "Now because of them being at the bottom Shifters have three different roles in society. One is the typical workers," she quickly wrote that word in. "They do construction, keep our generators going, makes sure our cities are clean, provide electricity and heat." She wrote Guards on the next separated line. "Here only selected families are Guards. That is because important people area target in the upper world so they buy whole families of Shifters to protect them and from then on each generation is committed and bound by law to protect that family. Lastly are the," She wrote Entrants. "Entrants, or as more commonly known in the media world, athletes, slaves. They are known for their sports; they are bought and sold as if they were racehorses."
"Now that I approve of, my family and I are huge RacerWolf fans. People say the champion of 10 years Sam will be beaten by Paul a new rookie who came from the bottom to the top in such a short amount of time!" Thomas gushed excitedly, "I'm gonna be a WolfRider when I grow up!" He pointed to his chest proudly.
"That's great Thomas but let's not get off topic." Mrs. Cullen smiled softly as the girls huffed annoyingly at the boys who continued to whisper about the upcoming races and battles of the Shifters. "Now children that's all for today's history lesson, tomorrow you will have a quiz on what you learned today." With that the bell rung and all the students rushed out of class except for the girls who stopped by their teachers' desk to get their reward for winning the game earlier. Three stayed behind though, Rosalie, Angela and Jessica. "What is it girls?"
"We were wondering what your views on the Shifters were." Jessica asked
"Ladies it's impolite of me to tell you my views."
"Yes but we must know, I have to know that not everybody believes Shifters should be treated this way." Rosalie looked down.
Mrs. Cullen looked at the girls before she sighed and rubbed her neck, she stood up and wiped her board clean. Without looking up she said, "My view is this, Shifters wanted us to be equal with them, in return they paid the ultimate priceā¦their freedom." She held the board down to her side motioning the girls to the door. "So my view is that I respect them for trying to make life easier on us and that they should be let free." All the girls smiled at her and ran off with their bags over their shoulders. Mrs. Cullen smiled softly as she locked the door to her room and started heading home. What she couldn't have heard though was the scream of a woman down in the lower pits of the city.
"Come on Renee, your almost there just a little more!"
So that's the end of the prologue Chapter. What did you guys think? Good? Bad? Has potential? Leave a review and let me know :)Also if you have questions feel free to ask. Ill answer them.