The Wind Forest
The characters belong to Stephanie Meyer. The story is mine. Blah, blah, blah I don't intend to sell this blah, blah, blah.
Chapter 1: A Little Detour
E Pov
"This is just perfect, absolutely perfect." Tanya complained for what seemed like the hundredth time. My response came quickly and harsh. "God, Tanya! Just shut the fuck up for five minutes!" She huffed and turned her attention to the endless dark green wall all around us. I felt claustrophobic going down this road, in the middle of no where. I knew why Tanya was upset. I just didn't have the stomach for her whiney ass prevalently.
We were supposed to be on the highway towards my parents' house. This would have been the first time they met my girlfriend. However, because the universe is a bitch, there was a car wreck in front of us and without thinking I turned strait into an exit that apparently had been closed off. Tanya's shrieking distracted me and we ran right through the closed off sign. The street was too narrow to make a u turn, and that's the amazing story on how we got on this fucking road.
"Hey" She said, "since we're already lost out here we might as well have some fun." Her face grew devilish and suddenly I felt a manicured hand directly on my crotch. It grew hard at her touch and I slowed the car down so I wouldn't fucking crash it. That shit already happened once when she gave me head while I was driving. It turned me on at first but my arousal made a complete one-eighty when I saw the cop lights behind me. They informed me that I had passed three stop signs and almost ran over a dog.
The car stopped and I glanced over at her face. Her eyes were glassy and she was rubbing me through my jeans, but the only thing I could think of was that I needed to pee. "Sorry babe." I removed her hand "Got to take a piss." Tanya rolled her eyes and let me get out of the car. "Wait, what if there's some freak in the woods waiting until you leave me alone?" I ignored her and took the keys with me. I was probably being an asshole, but I didn't give a shit. The forest was dark as hell and I tripped over many branches and shrubs. The trees made an endless dark labyrinth for me to get lost in so I turned on the headlights from my keychain remote thingy. Once I got far enough into the woods, I unzipped my pants. It's not like Tanya hasn't seen me naked before, but for some reason I liked to pee by myself.
I turned around to walk back to the car. The car wasn't there. At least I couldn't see it. All that was in front of me was a shadowy maze of tree trunks and mossy logs. Fuck my life. Had I walked farther than I thought? Had I passed out or some shit? All I knew was that the road or my car were nowhere in sight. "Shit" I hissed. I shouted out Tanya's name and my only reply was the living sound of the forest. I couldn't believe this. She was going to be as pissed as a fucking bull. I had no idea which direction to start walking. It looked the same every where I turned. There was a rustling behind me and as I turned, something rough and fast as lighting scraped across my shoulder. I clutched it immediately only to feel warm sticky liquid running down my elbow.
The thud against a tree came from what ever hit me and I spun around to see an arrow sticking into the trunk, its tail still rocking back and forth from the impact. A fucking arrow! What happened next was a natural thing for me to do with my impetuous, fucked up way of dealing with a bad situation. I bolted for it. For what? I didn't know and I didn't care as I ran blindly in one direction, still clutching my wounded arm. I tripped, of coarse and landed face first in the wet, musky ground. I groaned and rolled over, trying to be quiet just incase the bat-shit crazy fucker was still trying to shoot me. I laid still and closed my eyes, controlling my breath. Suddenly, there was another sound; someone else's breathing, smooth and labored, right above my face. Oh my God. I am seriously going to die. The bat-shit crazy fucker's hand grasped my shirt collar and pulled me up so I was leaning against a tree. I gasped and opened my eyes about to beg for my life like the little pussy I felt like. The person who met my frightened eye was nothing like I expected a bat-shit crazy fucker to look like.
Her eyes were a rich brown, deep and vibrant, like the forest trunks. Even in the dark, her eyes glowed like a fire and I could spot little green freckles in the chocolate depths. Her eyes truly were the forest, like someone took the purest essence of Mother Nature and converted that into this woman's soul. Her face was wild and dangerous and gentle and otherworldly all at the same time. She looked at me like I trespassed on her property or some shit, like I was small and insignificant and bothersome. Which is exactly how I felt. Small and fragile to this girl's stare and if she really was the bat-shit crazy fucker who had shot my arm, than she could have killed me and I would have been the happiest man on earth, just to have the privilege of drowning my self in her fiery eyes in my last few seconds.
"How do you know them?!" She spat, her features angry and sudden. "Wha…" Was my genius response. "The Souls! Are you working for them?!"
"What? No! I don't even know what the hell is going on! Who shot me?!" She didn't seem to hear me, but without warning her chest was against mine, her arms on either side of me. She was looking at something far away. "Don't make a sound." She whispered warningly. She smelled how I thought her eyes looked; like the forest. Like musk and pine. Like herbs and dirt. My torso felt tingly where her body was guarding me and we stayed like that for what seemed like an eternity. I could feel her breasts rise and fall as she fought to control her breathing. She must have been running for God knows how long. What felt like a very long time was only maybe ten seconds, the happiest ten seconds of my life but all too soon something went wrong. Of coarse it did. Like I said, the universe is a bitch. I heard the familiar sound of an arrow hitting a tree, our tree, right above my fucking head. Her head shot up immediately and looked strait into my eyes. She seemed to be thinking over something in her head and in my opinion she was taking her sweet ass time about it considering that we had just been shot at.
The next thing that I could comprehend is that we were both standing strait, the action of doing the latter, I did not notice, and then she took off running dragging me behind by my wrist. Her firm grip was twice as strong as I imagined it to be. My wrist actually hurt from her grasp. We were running fast. Not just fast, but inhumanly fast. The trees were flying past us in a shadowy blur. How my legs could keep up with hers was beyond me. I left all train of thought back with Tanya. Tanya. What is she thinking now? Probably pissed as hell, but what if she came looking for me? What if whatever that was that shot at us, The Souls, attacked her? All those thoughts were put on hold as I saw the girl puling me through the forest take out from a bag that I just now noticed a bright yellow disc. It looked like some sort of neon glass. "What the hell?" She didn't even look back at me as she threw it in front of us. The disc expanded into a large circle that seemed to be full of water in mid air. "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" I shouted, scared out of my mind and confused as hell. We jumped strait toward the water. I closed my eyes and braced myself for whatever came next.
What I didn't expect was what I probably should have as soon as I saw the water. Big surprise, we were now in water. Cool and crisp. It was the clearest water I'd ever been in. I could open my eyes and see perfectly which you can't even do with pure water you buy at a store. Her hand was still secured around my wrist as we emerged, our heads bobbing up to the top, and on the surface something out of a fucking story book greeted us. Everything from the diamond lake we were in to the uncontaminated air left me breathless. There were no cars or cities or factories that I had known growing up. It was villages and the sounds of people and animals. There were more trees than I could ever count and creatures I'd never seen before roaming the dirt roads right beside the villagers, and they were beautiful. It looked primitive but at the same time colorful and lively and peaceful. There were children running around in simple clothes and playing with the creatures. When I was growing up, I played with my fucking game boy. And there behind the trees and houses was a giant ornate building, like a castle, perched on a hill happily. It was a dream, a fairy tale. It was this girl's home.
No one noticed us until we slowly made our way to the land. Then a few individuals turned to stare at us and the girl who was dragging me along ducked her head like she didn't want anyone to recognize her. We stepped out of the water and she led me through the streets, obviously heading for some place specific. All I could do was stare, but I didn't have enough eyes or time. I tried to see everything. It was all so fucking out of this world. She sped up her pace as we got to the more lonely parts of the village, all the while not saying a single word and it was pissing me off. She practically carried me out of my home and said you're going where ever I want you to go and you better not complain about it. Well she had another thing coming. I stopped abruptly, her almost falling from the sudden change. She looked back with a menacing glare.
"Where am I?" That was pretty straight forward and a question I thought she could answer easily. She sighed and closed her eyes, biting her lip. It was probably the cutest fucking thing I'd ever seen. She opened them again and said "We are in The Wind Forest, a village not far from the great castle of Ouran. This world, in your language, would be called The In Between. In our language it is Etuaete" (pronounced e-doo-ate) What? We were in a different world? Well I kind of figured something along those lines but having it confirmed that we weren't anywhere close to Chicago anymore was scary as shit. "How the fuck are we in another world?" She contemplated her answer, cocking her head to the side and biting her lip. Once again I felt the need to tell her how undeniably cute she was. "Let's see. The best I can explain it is that Etuaete is where the horizon of heaven and the horizon of earth meet at a balancing point in the interconnected web of existence." I stared at her like she had grown two heads, my jaw open. I snapped it back shut before rambling like a school girl.
"What the hell? That's the best you can explain it? I didn't understand a word you just said and what's with the bipolar attitude Ms. I'm-gonna-eat-your-head-off-while-acting-extremely-cute-at-the-same-fucking-time!" Before the words had registered in my brain, they were out in midair, being swallowed by the girl who could very well have the power to kill me with her thumb. Now she was the one who was looking at me like I had grown a second head. There was an uncomfortable silence and I swear I could see her cheeks redden. She looked up into the sky thoughtfully. "I must get you some place safe. I'm sorry I brought you hear but the fact that you can see Souls is something I can't ignore. And you did something to make them mad." There was a hint of a smile there that she tried to fight. "You urinated on their elder's grave stone." She couldn't keep her giggle in then.
I was embarrassed to say the least. Not only had I pissed on someone's grandfather, but she had obviously seen me pee. I was the one blushing and I had no idea why. I've heard girls talk about me before, and in a good way. I knew I was big and I was actually fucking proud of it, but for some reason the fact that she saw it made me self conscious.
"But don't worry." She began, "Even though, normally humans aren't allowed here I— "What?!" I screamed "Humans?" She nodded, looking bewildered by my outburst. I tried to calm down by taking deep breaths but she was so close to me, it wasn't helping. "Ok" I said a bit calmer, "so you're not human?" She shook her head no. "Well not completely. My mother was human, so I guess I'm half." I asked her what her father was, since he obviously wasn't human. "There is no word for it in your language. I suppose we could be associated with wood nymphs." Where had I heard that before? That's right. In Biology. We were studying moths and butterflies. Wood nymphs were brown moths that lived in forests with creeks or lakes. But I couldn't figure out why I would associate her with a moth. They weren't exactly the prettiest of bugs and this girl was definitely easy on the eyes.
She saw my confused expression and explained that they were like the mythical creature, wood nymph, a graceful species of the forest; the guardians of the forest. But we weren't in the forest. We weren't even on earth so I remained confused. She sighed looking quite annoyed by my slow ass brain. "We are not wood nymphs. I said we closely associate with wood nymphs. They do exist on earth but we just have many similarities, like the ears." She pulled back her long brown hair and on her ear was a very small point, unnoticeable at first glance, "and the heart." She took my hand and placed it gingerly just above her left breast. I stilled my movements to feel that her heart was beating quite fast. "We also have long limbs and fingers, but all these traits aren't dominant because I'm a hybrid." I think I understood, although there were a thousand questions that I wanted to ask, I wouldn't because of her strange and unpredictable nature. I was afraid of her getting angry. She removed my hand from her chest which I wasn't happy about and she began moving again, but this time without my hand. I suppose she expected me to follow like a puppy and I did. I was such a pussy.
If Emmett saw me he would think of a dozen names to call me, each one stating that I was a lovesick puppet willing to do anything for this girl. Of coarse I wasn't in love except for Tanya. But I'm not sure I even loved her yet. What was she doing now? It had at least been an hour since I left the car. She didn't even have the keys, since I brought them with me. I patted my pockets and couldn't feel them. I must have dropped them in the forest. Not that it mattered now, but I couldn't help but wonder if Tanya was ok. She has her cell phone so I'm sure she could call for someone to find her. However, that thing that shot at me was probably still in those woods. I didn't have any idea if they knew where she was. All I knew is that they were angry at me. I couldn't tell what that meant for Tanya.
We walked for a while and something came to my mind that I was surprised didn't come earlier. "What's your name?" I asked. She didn't turn around and I thought she wasn't going to answer but then in the silence came her reply. "Bella" She whispered, "daughter of King Aro and Queen Jane." I stopped and stared at the back of her head. The princess's fucking head.