"What do you mean you 'have souls'?" asked Bella.
"It means that we're vampires, but we're not here to harm you." said Angel, "We're here to keep you safe."
Edward moved in front of Bella and looked straight at the two individuals. "Protecting Bella is my duty." he said, "And I'll not allow you two creatures to take her from me."
Bella moved herself to his side and saw that his eyes changed from black to the deep orange she had seen before. She remembered that whenever Edward's emotions got the best of him his eyes would change color and he'd become very strained to keep himself from turning violent. "OOH! SCARY!" said Spike, "But not as scary as this."
Spike jutted his head forward and Bella noticed that his entire face changed., his eyebrows disappeared and his forehead seemed to wrinkle up creating a menacing furrow above his eyes. His upper lip curled and she noticed that his teeth changed from flat to dagger-like points. His dark eyes turned a sickening yellow tint. "Oh my god!" Bella whispered under her breath.
She moved closer to Edward and clasped his arm as tight as she could. "This is a true vampire's face." Spike said. "Not that namby pamby little eye color change you lot pull."
"Edward hissed at Spike as he talked. Spike responded with a loud growl that resembled that of a large cat or dog. "Spike, quit scaring the kids." said Angel.
"What? It's fun." Spike responded.
"Spike!"
"Fine."
He stood up and his face changed back to it's original form.
"You're not vampires." said Bella," You're something else."
"No, we are vampires. It's the rest of you that are different." said Angel
"We are not what you are." said Alice, "You're more horrid than us."
Bella looked at Edward. She saw him concentrating on the other two. "Edward," she whispered " what are you doing?"
"I'm trying to read them" he responded, " It's difficult, I see the evil inside them, What they once were, but I also see a spark of something inside them. Like another personality keep the evil contained. I also see heart-break and love."
"Alright, look." said Angel, " This is getting ridiculous. Let the girl go and we'll be on our way."
"I don't want to leave them, they're harmless. They only eat animals." said Bella.
Spike and Angel looked at each other questioningly. I don't sense a soul on them do you? Spike asked Angel.
"No, I don't." he replied.
"Who's Buffy?" Edward interjected.
Spike and Angel shot him a look of shock. " How do you know that name?" Spike asked through his gritted teeth.
"It's on both of your minds right now" said Edward. "When you looked at Bella holding my arm that name jumped into both of your minds."
"Wait, you're in our heads?" said Angel. "That's impossible."
"It's his gift" said Bella. "Because he's a vampire, he has the ability to read minds."
"There is no sodding way that little bastard is a vampire!" shouted Spike. "Reading minds? Please! I'm a vampire and I can barely decipher teen-age hormones. How can he be a vampire and read minds?"
"It's true." said Edward, "And right now you have someone named 'Buffy' and 'Dawn' on your mind."
Spike looked at Edward furiously. "Those names have no meaning to you. Don't you dare pull my private thoughts into this!"
"And you Angel" said Edward, "You have 'Buffy' and 'Cordelia' on your mind."
Angel shot Edward the same look as his partner did. "Get out of my head!"
"Edward, stop." said Bella
"Run as fast as you can Bella." Said Alice "This is going to be bad"
Bella looked over at Angel and Spike. She saw Spike's face change into the horrible, demonic, façade he showed off to them earlier, she also noticed that Angel's face had done the same. The Cullens stood shoulder to shoulder in front of her and braced them selves. Ready for Spike and Angle to charge at them. Bella turned and ran back toward the school. She looked over her shoulder just in time to see the Cullens leap toward the strangers and start fighting. "Edward" she thought, "Be careful, Those two are nothing like James and Victoria, I have to believe their something worse."