Bella|2
Everyone looked at each other in confusion. Our enhanced sense of sight and smell would surely spot someone following us, watching us. I gazed out in the green, mossy forest trying to detect any hints of another being hiding amongst the tall trees and overgrown grasses, but I could see nothing, just the dawn breaking through the peaks of the trees, casting an eerie glow of sparkles reflecting off of our skin.
I looked back to Carlisle, his expression of absolute misperception made my nerves grow tenfold. The head of the Cullen Clan was always calm and collected, even during war and hardship.
"No, it's impossible for someone to be watching us. We would've known, Carlisle. Alice could have seen him coming. Edward could read his thoughts. I don't believe it." I said stubbornly, not truly understanding what was happening.
This is the most confusing, and admittedly horrifying, thing that has happened to my family. Our family's abilities, combined, made up an almost impenetrable force, and knowing that someone could possibly be watching us made my ice cold skin tingle in fear. I once believed that the fairytales were wrong, but my imMy thoughts were broken when Edward's voice sounded like an echo in my ears.
"Why would someone want to watch us Carlisle?" Edward asked skeptically; trying to make sense of this.
"I don't know, it could be the Volturi, but we would have known, but it could be...No, I haven't seen him in centuries." Carlisle's brow furrowed.
"Who is it?" Edward asked.
"Vincent, an old acquaintance during the time I spent in Volterra, about 250 years ago. Eleazar introduced us."
"No offense Carlisle, but what does this man have anything to do with the books? All of these books came directly from my thoughts, and I thought no one could read my mind, unless I let my shield down." I stated, shooting an obvious look to Edward. He still couldn't read my mind, my shield made sure of that.
"Well, Vincent is a special exception to our kind; he has very strong gifts that could probably destroy the vampire world." Carlisle explained while I listened in awe.
"What's his gift?" Jasper asked speculatively; plans and strategies already forming in his war strengthened mind.
"Gifts, Jasper," He corrected. "He has a gift of pain illusion, sense deprivation, telepathy, and precognition, and those are just some of the gifts I am aware of. Eleazar warned me of him although I knew him to be a kindred spirit, knowing the full extent of his power, but not revealing it all to me." Carlisle clarified.
"That's sick!" Emmett proved that theory wrong. And now, another thing was becoming a reality; a force stronger than a coven of vampires.
"Yes, Emmett, it's sick, but puts our family at a great disadvantage. We could be destroyed." He said gravely.
"Wait, Carlisle, how come you never told us about him?" Alice asked.
"He's made himself invisible for centuries. Conflict with the Volturi during the Plague of the Immortal Children sent him into hiding."
"What happened?" I asked.
I was met with silence as everyone looked at Carlisle expectantly. I'm afraid that this man could hurt us, even after Carlisle's assurances of his 'friendliness.' A man with infinite power, immortality, and time sounded like a ticking time bomb to me.
It was a matter of time before he would reveal himself to us; a matter of time before the destruction of the Cullen Coven would just be a whisper of history.
History written in the pages of a book taken from the almost impassable depths of my mind; Bella Swan.
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