Ok, here's the second chapter! sorry it took a bit for me to update. will be better about it in the future! Any and all criticism is greatly appreciated. Also, I generally write in third person so advice as to bettering my first person writing is super helpful. Standard disclaimer of i don't own twilight blabla, now on with ze chapter! P.s. please review after reading!
It was only a few days trip to get to Washington-one of the few perks of not needing to sleep- and once the sun set I left a secluded building in the shadows to search for any signs of the vampires Liz told me about. I searched through most of the city through the night with no luck everywhere I went.
"How the hell am I supposed to find these bastards?" My voice sounded rough after the lack of use since leaving with Liz. Around dawn, I found the scent of another vampire and followed it to a condemned house on the outskirts of the city. The faded white paint on the building was chipped and peeling from age. The roof was partially caved in, and all the windows were shattered and boarded up. To call it a dump would've been an insult to dumps around the world. The back door was open, leading into ominous black kitchen. The floor creaked under my tattered shoes and I felt the hot breath and sharp grasp of someone behind me.
"What are you doing here?" A voice hissed. The woman was poised to kill, another woman nearby and a man next to her both crouched low. I moved my arms, encasing the three of them in a paralyzing energy field.
"Easy. I'm just searching for a coven that doesn't hunt humans; I heard they live somewhere around here." I said after slipping away from the woman. The white energy disappeared from around the group when I let them go. If they moved to attack again I'd just paralyze them again.
"Cullens? Why would you be looking for them?" The man spoke this time. His voice had a southern drawl to it, but left me feeling as if he saw himself as a superior being.
"It's personal. If you would tell me where to find them I'll be out of here."
"They live around Forks. Good luck getting past their guard dogs kid." The woman who had snuck up on me shrugged after what seemed like a very long silence.
"Thanks." With that I was out the door into the growing grey light of day.
After leaving Seattle I headed straight for Forks, though I stopped to look at a map at a gas station for the town's location shortly afterwards. I watched the trees as I ran. They were large and green and overgrown; bright and vibrant and nothing like the spaced out pines back home. In the distance I heard the howl of wolves.
Wolves are in Washington? You learn something new every day. I broke into a clearing to see a pair of wolves jump out of the forest to my sides, one black and the other silver. I stopped midway through the clearing and spun around to face them.
"Wolves shouldn't be that big…" the very large animals were snarling, teeth bared. The black one lunged for my right side as the silver lunged for my left. They moved too fast for normal animals. To fast that dodging them wasn't an option, so I locked them in place.
"Wolves, meet energy fields. Energy fields, keep the giant wolves in place while I-"my slightly insane words were cut short by five more snarls from behind me. I turned to see them (all smaller thankfully) standing there, seemingly unsure if they should attack or not.
"Easy there! He's ok! We'll take it from here." A bubbly voice called out from behind the wolves. Stepping out of the trees came a pair of men not much older looking than myself, one covered in bite scars and the other had bronze hair that seemed very deep in thought. In front of them already was a small girl who I could only describe a spritely with a cheery smile on her face, and behind the two vampires stepped out a very upset looking dark skinned man who towered over everyone else. The three other vampires appeared very well dressed in designer clothes. I probably looked horrible in comparison with my tattered and torn jeans and dirty hoodie.
"They say they won't back off until he lets go of Paul and Sam." One of them said.
"Are you the Cullens?" I asked. Guess these wolves were what the others meant by guard dogs.
"Some of them. I'm Alice, that's Jasper and Edward. Can you let them go so they can leave please?" The girl indicated the two men besides her.
"Sure, as long as they don't attack me again." Against my better instincts I relinquished my hold around the wolves. With my energy no longer holding them up mid lunge and their muscles no longer working to follow through with the attack, the wolves collapsed to the ground in an odd display. The man by Alice's side, Jasper, snickered at the display. The wolves picked themselves up with a huff and then the pack ran off into the forest. With the wolves gone and my attention not being spent keeping a pair of giant wolves from eating me I was able to pay attention to the Cullens. They all seemed like normal vampires, except for the golden eyes.
"We hunt animals instead of humans. So our eyes aren't the normal read." Edward explained, as if he could read my thoughts.
"I can."
Oh god. Mind reader. Think of colors. Red blue green yellow red blue green yellow red blue green yellow. Edward snickered and the others looked at him expectantly.
"He started repeating colors to keep his thoughts private." He explained then added, "Don't worry. I do a good job keeping private thoughts a secret. And usually I tune it out."
"Sorry you had to get greeted by the pack! We weren't expecting you for another few days. You getting directions from that group in Seattle wasn't supposed to turn out that way. They were supposed to send you off to the other side of the state. I hate it when people change their minds." Alice said. I couldn't help wondering just how she knew that.
"She's a psychic." Edward explained. That was going to get old very quickly.
"Let's get back before the others start worrying. And so we can get you into something more presentable."
"You're just going to take him back to the house!? Nessie's there!" The tall man growled. That's when I noticed the hammering of his heart and the overwhelming smell of wet dog coming from him. It was so strong it made me gag.
"He won't hurt Nessie Jacob, I've already seen that."
"Nessie's been around plenty of other vampires and none of them have had even the slightest urge to hurt her, with the standard exceptions. But he doesn't belong with them so she's fine." Edward sighed. I couldn't help but wonder who this Nessie was and why the big guy thought I would be a danger for her.
"He's just very protective of her." Now I understood why the alien fanatics wore tinfoil hats. I wondered if that really worked.
"We've never tried it. Might be funny to find out."
"Do you do that to everyone to see how long it takes to push them to madness?" I asked as Alice started to lead us into the trees.
"If anything it'll be Alice who drives you there." Edward laughed at the dirty look she gave him and then ran off ahead to what I only assumed was the rest of their coven.