Chapter One: Monsters by Matchbook Romance
"We are the shaken,
We are the monsters underneath your bed"
Disclaimer: Obviously, I do not own Twilight.
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"You're really…beautiful, you know?" Bella smiled against the drunk human who thought he was going to get lucky tonight. Maybe he would have if it weren't for the fact that Bella hadn't fed in weeks and she was already having trouble controlling the bloodlust she felt at that moment.
"I know," Bella replied with a smirk. Of course she knew. All vampires were beautiful. Bella especially enjoyed teasing her prey before she drained them of their life. She found a sense of pleasure in it – playing cat and mouse with them, the humans.
The deeply intoxicated male had her up against the wall in an alleyway, as if he was stronger than she, but that was not the case and he had only managed to make himself more vulnerable by not having any witnesses around. But Bella liked to let them think that they could overpower her.
"You smell delicious," Bella whispered into his ear. She smiled as she slowly placed light kisses from his ear to his jaw line. Bella felt him shiver from pleasure and her tinkling laugh rang out knowing that she had been the one to have done that.
Without thinking about it she bit into the drunk, and ignored his cries of anguish and confusion, as she drained the blood, and life, from him.
His feeble attempts to fight and pull himself away from her grasp were useless, so much so that she hadn't even felt when he pounded her with his fists as a way to make her let go. And in seconds his lifeless body was strewn across the pavement in front of her.
Bella stared down at the pathetic lifeless human without a trace of guilt in her body. Her cold blood red eyes showed no emotion at what she had just done.
This was what it had come down too. This was who Isabella Swan now was. She was a vampire, sure, but a human drinking vampire, a normal vampire in her mind.
"Let's go," Bella ordered, seemingly to the dark, but out of the darkness stepped two children – vampires also. Both of the children looked no older than twelve. One of them was a boy with black hair and a lean body. His youth showed in his features. The other one was a girl who was obviously very young. She had brown hair and her face showed innocence. Anyone who knew her knew that she was anything but. In her arms she cradled a worn brown teddy bear.
"Head home," Bella commanded both of them. All three of them took off running into the dark, letting the shadows eat them up. They skillfully slinked past the few remaining people who were out, lucky people, and melted into the surrounding forest.
All three of them stayed quiet while they ran home. The children knew that disrupting Bella while she was thinking would result in painful consequences. And she was deep in thought then for she knew something would have to be done soon.
She knew that it was time for them to move again. How she hated moving.
Bella was the first to run through the doors of their recent house. The house was deadly silent as she entered with the two children following her. Bella ignored everything she passed and made her way to her room.
No one disturbed her as she packed what she wanted to take with her. It was an unspoken rule in the house to not disturb Bella – unless you wanted to be put in extreme pain.
Bella stood there, in her room, glancing around, trying to decide what she found necessary to take with her. She didn't have many valuable possessions and if she ever needed new clothes she would just break into a store.
Bella's eyes quickly landed on a picture of her dad, Charlie. Next to it was a picture of her mom, Renee, and her step dad, Phil. How Bella wished she could be as happy and carefree as they were in the photos. But Bella knew that those days were over and would never come back.
Without another thought Bella grabbed the photos and decided that that was all she wanted to take with her. She would just start over at their next place. Bella didn't mind stealing, lying, or killing anymore. She had done each of them plenty of times ever since she had become what she was. If she wanted something she used whatever means necessary, even if those means were illegal.
As Bella ran down the stairs a few minutes later from her room she was met with the sight of her children standing by the entryway lined up according to height just like they were taught.
"We are ready to leave, Bella." One of them said. He was the tallest of the group and was with Bella earlier in the alleyway.
"Perfect. Thank You, Max." replied Bella. She knew that she could always count on her children to be ready at a moment's notice. Bella stood there before them, surveying and studying them to see which of them was perfect for what she wanted done.
"Max, Ava and Sophie," Bella decided, "go scout out the area ahead of us. Max don't forget, keep us in touch." All three of the children gave her a brief nod before they took off running out of the house once they got their orders.
Bella stood there, immobile, looking into the dark until she was sure that the first group was far enough. She spun around to face the rest of the children.
"The rest of you – listen for any opposing danger," Bella smirked, "although I highly doubt that there would be any that we couldn't handle." All four of the children smiled at Bella.
Bella had trained each and every one of her children to fight. Not to mention that each of the children had their own special talents. Not once had they lost a fight, yet and as far as Bella was concerned they never would.
It wasn't her intention to build an army, of sorts, of gifted children. Gradually it just happened but Bella couldn't help the tiny feeling of happiness she felt whenever her children were with her. She gave them a family and a home when they had none.
And in return the children were fiercely loyal to her.
Bella and her children were leaving the boring town that they were currently situated in. None of the plain children located here had anything special about them. Bella would know as she has Lucy. Lucy is able to tell if a person will have a special power when they become a vampire.
Bella ran through the woods, with the soft footsteps of the remaining children running around her, and skirted around the town as they passed. Bella knew where their next destination would be. And it was one place she despised ever since she was abandoned there by her so called second family.
Forks, Washington.
Even if she couldn't stand the place, she had to admit to herself that it was a good place for vampires to lay low. Though she had butted heads with the Volturi family often even she wouldn't let the exposure of vampires happen.
Bella had a feeling that she would find something when she went back there. She had worked so hard to repress those vivid memories from her mind. The pain was no longer a pain, but an intense hate.
It was a hate that was burning to be let out. And Bella didn't want to keep it in anymore.
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