Bella of Volterra
Chapter 1. Story by Sabrina and Nancy (Aka: Megamatchmaker)
Disclaimer: We do not own Twilight.
Bella's point of view.
The tall, pale man led the tour group down an ancient looking tunnel. We walked for a very long time in darkness, with the occasional flash of a camera that momentarily brightened the tunnel revealing the stone sides.
We must have reached the end because the Man turned around and smiled at us. Renee looked at me and smiled too.
"Welcome dear friends!" People around us snapped pictures and looked around eagerly. "Welcome to Marcus Castle " The doors behind him opened up, leading to a reception area. This was strange, the tour was supposed to be of an authentic 3,500 year old castle. I shook that thought out of my mind. Just enjoy the tour. I thought to myself.
We took an elevator to the 4th floor, it was tight because of all the people, then finally the elevator opened and we were lead down a hall up to 2 big doors. The man turned around and smiled, the Main chamber he said, and he opened the doors and walked into the room.
My instincts where kicking up. There were many people already in the room. They were all the same pale skinned, and they had menacing burgundy eyes and they all had perfect features.
Then a small girl stepped out of the crowd. "Nice catch Aro." Then she grinned like a child at the candy store. By this time, all the flashes from the cameras had stopped and everybody looked slightly worried. What did she mean by catch?
I looked at my mother Renee; she was looking around the room confused just like everybody else. Then a man stepped out of the group and looked at us hungrily.
"Ladies first Felix," she said, and she pounced on somebody in the first row. Then the crown scattered. Screams pierced the silence. This was defiantly not right. Renee and I ran for the door with a small group of remaining people.
I was the first to reach the door. I tugged hard on the handle.
"Shit! It's locked!" I screamed as I kept uselessly tugging on the metal handle. I turned
around looking for any other possible escape. Then the one named Felix spotted us. He ran and jumped on to the girl next to me she screamed he crashed against her, the impact breaking the door behind me. Renee and I ran out the door and down the hall, I could tell someone was following us, even though they were being extremely quiet. I heard a thud, than Renee screamed. I turned around; Felix had Renee in his arms, his mouth at her neck.
"What the Hell are you doing you sick freak!" I ran towards him and kicked him in the back, he was hard as marble. "Let her go!" I screamed and cried at the same time. I was on my knees sobbing now, I didn't care what happens, and I just wanted my mom to be alright. He lifted his head up, "Jane, come here, there's another one."
The girl with short hair walked up to me and smiled, she looked like she was concentrating very hard on something, then her smile changed to a frown.
"Aro!" She called, "Why isn't it working!?"
The man who led the tour walked in and put his hand on my shoulder, I slapped it away. His skin was ice cold, and hard like a rock.
"Hmm, It seems as though she is immune to my gift as well, very interesting." He looked down at me questioningly.
"What the fuck is wrong with you people!? You are messed up!" They all just laughed at me.
Aro looked like he was thinking very hard about something. "I wonder how she would turn out." He looked at the other two, and then two others came walking down the hall, one with snow white hair, and another with dark hair.
"Why is she still alive?" Asked the one with the white hair.
"She seems to be unaffected by all our gifts, what do you think we should do with her?" They were talking like psychos, what do they mean how I will turn out? What were these people, cannibals? I would refused to eat other people.
"Jane, take her to a room while I think." Aro said to the girl. She grabbed my arm a little harder than necessary and dragged me to the elevators. I wasn't paying much attention to what we were doing, I honestly didn't care. I would rather jump out a window then do anything these freaks asked me to do.
We arrived at the designated floor and Jane dragged me down a hallway, I was still sobbing. She opened a door and threw me into the room. The walls where plain, there was a bed in the corner, and I door that most likely lead to the bathroom.
I walked into it and looked at my reflection in the mirror. My shirt was splattered with blood from the girl who Felix had killed in the hall.
I leaned over the toilet and threw up thinking of all those people who had been in the hall too. Whatever those people are they had some interest in me. They were probably just a bunch of whacks in some secret cult.
I heard a knock on the bathroom door. "Bella, are you in there?"
"No." I responded. I knew it was stupid but I didn't want to see any of their faces ever again.
"Open the door or I am just going to knock it down!" I heard someone yell, it sounded like Felix.
I flushed the toilet before I responded. "Fine, I don't care, it's not my door." Then there was a crash and the door broke open. Felix stepped over the ruble and grabbed my arm. I tried to jerk it out of his grasp but it was useless.
"Let go of me you Freak!" He just smiled and pulled me into the room .where Aro was standing.