My adrenaline rushed through my vains as I looked around for an escape. The church's tinted windows of the building beckoned to me as I ripped my hand from his. A growl ripped through his throat but I didn't hesitate as my long legs drove themselves into the dusty tiles, making their way to the window. My airways tightened while I braced myself. Crash!

I thew my body against the window and felt the gravity driving my body to certain death. Even though I was sure this was the end, I kept my trained features stoic as one of the devil's minions stared at me from the broken window. My hate and disgust for this creature bubbled furiously in chest, and I knew that I was going to give one last try. I pulled my special gun from behind my back, aimed it at him, and shot. The whistle from my gun's bullet screeched in the desolate cemetary, but before it even reached him, he disappeared.

Crap. I flipped my body to face the ground and two golden eyes looked up at me, a laughter in them. I held my finger on the trigger of my gun, letting my round empty on this demon, but he disappeared once again. My air was suddenly knocked out of my lungs as a fierce pressure came up to meet me, and I was dazed for a second before those golden eyes were only an inch from mine, the demon's arms wrapped around my arms, leaving me immobile. He dragged me to the ground, landing more graceful than the most talented ballerina on this earth.

"You know, it's hard to save you when a million bullets are coming at me. Haven't I already shown you that they don't work on me, or any of my kind?" the demon, who insists his name is Edward, said with a humorous tone. I struggled in his strong grip, but I didn't budge very much which made him laugh.

"Let go of me you demon!" I hissed as I looked up into his evil eyes that mocked every effort I made.

"I'm not a demon. I am a vampire. Vampire, not demon. I don't have those little horns." he said in disgust as he easily kept a strong arm around me while he ran his long fingers through his unruly hair.

"Let me go!!" I shrieked as I looked around for another escape, something to help me get out of his hold.

"Why would I let such a pretty thing like you go when all your going to do is annoy me with those little thumb tacks you insist on shooting at me? Hm?" he whispered in my ear. I was getting desperate as I looked around for something to help my status.

"Look, demon, I will blast your guts out if you do not let me go!" I screamed, my energy building up. My power was not controlled, and if I were to unleash it, I wouldn't know how it would react. I took a deep breath to keep my temper under control.

"My name is Edward, not demon." he said in an exhausted tone.

"Demons don't have names." I stated, shaking with enough energy to power a factory.

"How many times must I tell you, my lady? I am not a demon. Try calling me Edward, since that is my name. And I will call you Bella, for that is how you have introduced yourself when you made your grand entrance in this vicinity." he said in a proper tone as I finally got to an even mood.

I took a final deep breath and looked down at the demon's chest, knowing that I couldn't get out of his hold. Damn, I knew that I was still too fresh to go out demon hunting. They warned me, oh, they warned me. But I went out anyways, my anger fueling my determination to kill the evil ones and burning their doubts about my capability to do what I was breeded for. But, now here I am. One flick of the demon's hand and my head will be flying across the cemetary. Unleashing my uncontrolled power was out of the question, knowing that it could do anything from turning a tree into a car to causing the same amount of devastation a nuclear bomb would cause.

"Now, I will let you go if you promise to leave me alone for eternity." he said to me as he glared into my eyes that were hungry for his death,

"I can't make any promises." I hissed back at him, and he smiled evilly.

".....I thought so," he said under his breath with a little chuckle that held no humor.

"So, do you plan to kill me now?" I asked honestly, giving up my productive-less struggle. I couldn't win this battle. Someone else with a controlled power could have easily took out this demon.

"No, I'm going to release you......soon. Alive, of course, but in exchange for another chance at this lifestyle you chose, you are going to spend some time with me and my family." he said with a serious tone as he looked deep into my eyes. My chest tightened at his statement and I found myself struggling again in his hold.

"Just kill me now!! I refuse to spend time with you and the other demons!" I screamed as I began shaking with my power again. My sight began to brighten with my power surfacing, my senses enhancing in a hazardous condition. My airways began to tighten with the energy submerging from the box I've been taught to restrain them to. In a second, all I could see was a bright translucent blue light.

"Edward!" a man's voice called and I heard a clank of metal somewhere around me. The demon's arms shook around me as I heard a large crunch and rip.

"Lock it around her neck!!" the man's voice called again. My body went stiff when I heard a click, and all of my senses were brought back to normal. A large chunk of air made its way into my chest, making me cough it back out. I found myself falling in mid air once again, and looking around, the large trees in the cemetary were uprooted and laying on their side. I fell in someone's arm again. Something sharp punctured my arm and everything got black.

~*~

This is so inhumane, Edward. a soft, girl voice said.

Well, that's perfectly fine when you completely register the fact that she's not a human, Alice. a different man's voice said.

It's the only thing we can hold her down with, Alice. If there was another....more polite way, then it would surely be that, but she is too unpredictable and unstable to be released freely. This is not even gentlemen like. I don't like seeing this anymore than you do. Edward's voice said.

My heavy eyelids slowly opened to find all of the demon's staring down at me. My airways tightened to find the clan that I had been trying to kill in front of me. I knew all of their cover-up human names. Rosalie, Jasper, Emmett, Alice, Edward, and the head of their clan, Carlisle with his mate, Esme. This was perfect. They were all surrounding me. I could just take my gun an-

"Where's my gun!?" I shrieked in disbelief as I patted the emtpy space on my back. My gun, "Rebecca", was missing. It was huge, so it couldn't have been misplaced. It was three-quarters of my height. I am 5'7"! It's a dark, almost rusty blue with gold trim. It a little smaller than my width as well with thin, long, sharp, golden spikes at the end. So I know that I couldn't have lost it.

"Do you honestly think we would've left your gun with you?" the demon who calls herself Rosalie hissed down at me. Well, honestly, no.

"Don't worry. It's in a safe place and we have not harmed it. We just couldn't leave it with you or else you would try to harm us." the demon leader, Carlisle said.

"Of course your "silver" bullets wouldn't penetrate our "demonic" skin." Emmett said in a mocking voice. His brother, Jasper, smirked while Alice smacked his arm.

I felt something cold around my neck and I felt my hand going up to feel what it was. I touched a thick, cold, rusty ring around my neck. As my fingers wrapped around it, I stopped breathing as I caught my reflection in their china cabinet.

"Why the hell is there a collar around my neck!!" I screamed as I my hands fumbled around it to find a latch. The collar had a chain attached to the wall. I began getting hysterical trying to get the damned thing off me.

"It won't hurt you. Well, it could, but we won't make it. This is the only collar in the world to keep your powers from working at all. We can't have you using them, and seeing that your just newly.......breeded, it's a hazard to let you roam around out there." Carlisle explained in a sympathetic, calm voice. He looked so guilty as he said this, and it made me wonder why he felt bad for locking up his enemy in a collar.

"What am I? A dog?!" I screeched as I tried to control my breathing. The collar was a little heavy and it was making it hard to breathe.

"No. We are very sorry that it had to be like this, but you are very dangerous. We will not harm you, at all. We promise," Carlisle said as he eyed the rest of the demons. I caught their small growls as Carlisle looked back at me, " For the meanwhile, you will be staying with us until we figure out what to do with you."

Something in my mind clicked as my head went back to the teaching at my special school. I watched in my mind as my teacher drew the same collar on the board and remembered the eerie atmosphere in the room, anger filling the empty spaces.

"This is a Witch Collar........" I said lowly in realization of the evil tool.

"No shit, Sherlock." Emmett said with a snicker, but I began hyperventilating and getting hysterical again.

Flashback

"This is a Witch Collar. Only three of these were ever created. One is held here, at out own private institution under high secruity. The other was destroyed by a seperate clan of people like us, witches. And the other collar's status is.....unknown. Hopefully it has been destroyed like the other. This collar.......is the most hideous thing made. It can deprive us of our power, mutilate our every moral code, control what little freedom we have. Getting a collar around your neck is equal to being....owned."

"Each collar had its own......characteristics. The one that it out there, still roaming in front of the naked eye, has the most hideous power ever...."

End of Flashback

Damn, whenever it came to the important stuff in bookwork, I always forget. Hm, at least I know it's really dangerous. I need to calm down, find a way to escape. Everything magical has a hole in it....I just have to find it....

"Are you hungry? Is there anything we can get you?" Carlisle asked slightly uncomfortably. Am I hungry? Is there something they can get me? Why? So they can fatten me up and eat me.

"Not unless I'm on the menu for tonight's dinner." I spat up at him. He winced a little and his mate rubbed his back comfortingly.

"We don't drink.....people blood. And even if we did, we couldn't drink yours." Edward said with a chuckle. Oh, that's right. I'm a witch, and my blood is like poison to them.

"Ah, in that case, now that I do remember after being chained to the...living room wall, please, allow me to be your dinner. I don't mind dying if I take seven demons along with me." I hissed and they glared down at me. That made me smile, but I could feel my temper bubbling again, and it ached inside to not feel that comforting box of power waiting to be unleashed.

The short one, Alice, took hold of her mate's hand and led him out of the room. Emmett wrapped his arm around Rosalie's waist and brought her to the couch where they stared at the T.V.. Carlisle looked down ashamedly and walked away with his mate as well. Now it was just me and the demon I was hunting. We glared at eachother for a while before he crouched down to be eye level with me on the floor.

"Look, I suggest you stay on your best behavior and you'll start getting some privaleges. If not-" he reached in his back pocket and took out a black box with a rusted button on it, " I will be sure that your are punished for it. I will not tolerate you acting rude to my family, is that understood?"

My breath caught in my throat at the sight of the remote. Oh, crap. That did something bad...that does....crap, why didn't I pay attention in class?? Oh, that's right, I was staring at the back of Henry Piazza's head. My, oh my, was he a beauty....

"I understand." I said passively as I glanced at the large window to my left that took up the whole wall. I could feel his golden eyes burning into the side of my face.

"What are you thinking of?" he asked me curiously as his eyes kept locked on my face.

"....and I should tell you, why? Plus, it shouldn't be too hard to guess." I said matter-of factly as I pointed at the collar. A smile crawled onto his lips before he stood back up again.

"So, I know there are two basics diets for witches. One eats regular, human food. The other diet is the same as our family's. Which one do you take?" he asked as he sat up on the bar stool to their nook. This is unbelievable. Why does he care what I eat?

"Why do you care? Do you plan to feed me or something? Just let me die. That's what I would do if I captured one of you." I said up to him and Emmett laughed from the couch.

"Yeah, let's go hang you in the backyard, witch." Emmett mocked with a little chuckle. Edward sighed.

"You don't understand. We are not ruthless killers like you think we are. We are not going to kill you. Get that through your stubborn skull." he said in an exasperated tone.

I stayed quiet for a while and looked up at him.

"....I eat both. Human food satisfies me the most because it's more.....uhm....less messy to eat. And also I kind of like the variety. But....raw animal meat will be fine....too, I guess." I hate animal meat. But something in the demon's soft expression and caring statement, in its bitter tone, made something flutter in my stomache. But I'm ignoring it....for the most part.

"....Hm...." Edward said thoughtfully before he exited the room. I shrugged and stared out the window, considering my options. Glancing at the pair on the couch, I smiled to see that they were occupied before I slipped my hand behind my back and grabbed the chain. It was so extremely thick and heavy, my long, slender fingers couldn't even wrap around half of it. But I still took a deep breath, concentrated, and gave the hardest, and silent, pull I could. It made a loud clank sound, but I only pulled an extra link out of the wall.

The pair, Emmett and Rosalie, were in front of me by the time I looked up. Edward was beside them in less than a second.

"Trying to escape? I don't think so. I picked out that chain myself." Rosalie hissed in my face, but my hand was still behind my back, on the link that I pulled out. I kept my face emotionless as I felt the lock on it. The arched bar was thick, but I was built up enough to snap it.

"Ah....I see that that won't be a way out then." I retorted and she chuckled. They stood there for a while, and I knew they had no intent on leaving. Crap, this plan is going to have to wait until later. Pulling my hand from behind my back, I settled them on my lap and stared into the demon's golden eyes for what seemed like eternity before I fell into a dark, dreamless sleep.