PART 1

Emmett poked his head out of his tent. He thought he had heard a noise; it had woken him from his nightmare-filled dream.

It had been strange; it still made the hairs on the back of his neck stand as he recalled it. It was two women . . . two beautiful women. . . . But something had been wrong, sort of off, about them. It had not been their beauty or their melodic voices that set him on edge; it had been their large, predatory, red eyes.

Emmett shook his head as if to get the unnatural image out of his head. . . Because that's what it had been: unnatural. Surely, no one had crimson eyes. He'd heard of those rare purple eyes, but no one was actually born with eyes the color of fresh blood. Right? Emmett drew himself out of his thoughts. After all, it had only been just a dream. Just a dream… And he repeated that to himself many times, waiting for it to sink in.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Emmett nearly jumped out of his own skin, his heart was beating erratically. He drew up his gun and flashed his flashlight everywhere: at the trees, bushes, and whatnot, even though he knew the terrifying scream he had heard seemed to be far away.

He repeated his chant over and over in his head. It felt too spooky now not to. Over and over he flashed his flashlight at different spots in front of his tent, as if there was something there about to jump out at him. He took several deep breaths and after some several minutes of silence concluded that whatever it was that screamed bloody murder was either gone or dead. He gulped at the image his mind produced at the latter.

He made to move back into his tent, the only thing that provided him protection beside his gun, when he heard something rustle. He froze in his spot, his head outside the tent while his lower half was inside the tent. He didn't dare flash the flashlight anymore, but he did lodge it into the waistband of his pants just in case.

More silence stretched on, but he knew there was something out there and against his better judgment, he slipped fully of his tent and stood, brandishing his gun blindly everywhere. Then he heard a nasty cackle, an evil sort of laugh.

"Oh look Rosie! He's got a gun! How cute is that?" A woman said, another cackle followed this proclamation.

"Shut up, Bella! Now is not the time!" The other woman said, the cackle stopped abruptly at the scathing retort.

"W-who's there?" Emmett stammered. His heart was beating so fast he would have been afraid of a heart attack if he hadn't been so full of fear at the moment. "C-come out!" He immediately regretted saying that the moment the words left his mouth.

Two pairs of legs moved out from behind a huge oak tree and stood still there. Emmett scrambled for his flashlight and brandished it upon the two bodies. His eyes followed the legs up and trailed over the upper body of two women before settling on their faces. He took in a sharp gasp and willed himself not to scream.

It wasn't the two women he had seen in his dream, but they looked just as beautiful and frightening. Although their eyes were not red, they were somewhere in the middle between red and brown, their gaze still made the hairs on the back of his neck stand. From what he had heard them from saying so far, they even had the same melodic voices. He swallowed and stuttered, "Wha- who are you?"

It seemed rude to ask what they were so he settled for whom even though niceties were the least of his worries.

"Never you mind," the woman who had cackled said nonchalantly. She had long, wavy, brunette hair and a heart-shaped face.

"No need to be rude, Bellsie, the nice man was just asking a simple question," the other woman said, though they still contained that same amount of venom as the other woman's words. She had long blonde hair and was a little taller than the brunette. "My name is Rose and this is my sister, Bella."

The brunette shot him a sort of half grimace while the blonde practically grinned smiled at him. The huge smile did not do anything to calm him, it actually made him more alert. He was still waving the gun at them threateningly even though it was obvious by now they were not deterred by it.

"What do you want from me?"

"Certainly your choice of weapon," the brunette whose name escaped him smirked at the gun in his clenched hands.

"We don't want anything from you. We just want to know what you're doing here," the blonde, Rose, he thought, inquired.

"W-what am I doing here? Camping," he replied as if they were idiots, waving one arm at the tent behind him.

The brunette glared at him and grabbed her sister's arm. "Come on Rosie, I'm hungry. We don't even have to tell Carlisle-"

"No, Bella! How many times have I told you? NO!" Rose yelled at Bella as if she was a resilient child. Bella flinched back from her sister, standing a little away from her with her arms crossed with a clear look of annoyance about her.

"-didn't bother killing when it was Royce, but now it's all just…" Bella mumble under her breath, eliciting a glare from her sister.

Rose turned her glare back upon him. "Camping, huh? This is private property!"

"P-private property? I- I thought this was public woods," Emmett stammered, wondering why he was even explaining himself to these two strangers.

"Can't you read?" She hissed at him. "There are sign everywhere saying 'Do Not Trespass' and whatnot. And put that darned gun down before we report you to the authorities or worse…" She trailed off with a knowing smirk

"Oh," Emmett said lamely and dropped the gun. But truth be told, he had not seen any signs saying those things. Someone had even suggested the place to him. He gulped loudly. "So, I should just leave now, right?"

It was Rose's turn to cackle. "Ooh, no, no, no. You're not going anywhere."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, we can't just let you leave. What if you tell someone you saw us here?" Bella said, coming out of her reverie.

"I – I won't tell anyone! I promise!" Emmett hastened, wanting more so than ever to not be there. "Please, just let me go."

The girls looked at each other, as if considering. Before they could reply however, a long drawn growl shook the tent Emmett was leaning on now. All three of them turned to look behind Emmett where a great giant bear stood on its hind legs growling loudly and swiping at the air before charging at Emmett.