Chapter two

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A/N: before you start; they are going to enter the maze and some of you might get confused about it so let me explain. It is a very old maze so trees are growing in it as well as flowers and moss, etc. This maze neutralises all vampire powers and speed/strength. m'kay?

"You're back!" Cried Rosalie gratefully; her onyx eyes spoke for themselves.

"You look worried." noted Bella to Alice.

"We smelt something odd back in the forest. Something I haven't smelt before." quivered Alice. She was afraid of the unknown, she had never told anyone that was her greatest fear, but now it was taking over.

"I'm really s-scared." She stuttered, Jasper hugged her and told her everything was going to be alright.

"I'm not a particular fan of this place either." said Bella. "It has a weird feeling about it."

"This is silly." shouted Emmett in despair. "Maybe, if everyone is so worried about this place, we should just go and check it out." He shrugged. Everyone nodded in approval.

So, one by one, they walked cautiously into the green foliage of the forest, abandoning the safety of the clearing and, like a child, naively blundering into the unknown.

After some time, they came to yet another apple tree. "Look at that." whispered Alice. The others looked at the tree in curiosity.

"What?" frowned Rose.

"That." She repeated, pointing to the bark.

"There's nothing there Alice." Esme said, gently.

"But I can see writing." Alice insisted. She was looking at the inscription on the bark that appeared plain as day to her.

"Well, what does it say?" asked Jasper, playing her game.

"In our beds did we sleep
While in our broken lands did mothers sleep
The chaos and the pain
Blood pouring everywhere like rain
Common for a sister became rape
The child born free of sin
Rewarded with gun rattle
Piercing through fathers head
Unaware he is dead
Until girl is taken from her mothers' hand
And she had now become sand
And this is from those
claiming to be humane
and it's driving me insane." She read.

Emmett snorted, "That's sick Alice, there's nothing there."

Alice resisted the urge to say, "Your right, I made it up." because she could see the soft arcs of the letters in the elegant handwriting. She leaned forward to touch the wood and a vision sucked her in.

She, Bella and Rose were franticly running. Running from what she did not know, but she could hear children's laughter and she smelt that smell in the forest; like blood, cream and death. They stop at a fountain, with a statue of a gargoyle spouting the clean water.

But then, all of a sudden, the water turned a blood red...

"Alice? Are you okay honey?" She heard Rose's familiar voice break through to her.

"You were screaming." said a worried Bella and the rest just looked on
in the hope she might return to reality. Alice gingerly sat up and Jasper cuddled her tiny body. "It's over now." He soothed.

"What did you see?" asked Edward anxiously.

Alice quickly re-encountered the horrific vision that she had seen. Emmett and Jasper wore a mask of calmness before the storm, Rose and Bella looked incredibly scared and stayed completely still, despite the strong wind.

"I think we should leave." murmured Jasper, rubbing Alice's hand.

"I agree." said Emmett. The group moved slowly, a human pace, until they came to smell that odd scent again and Alice stiffened up.

"Is that it?" spoke Edward quietly and Jasper nodded. Everyone had to admit that the place was beautiful. It was almost as if they had stumbled upon an orchard or public garden. Fruit trees bend in the torrent of air, the grass was an emerald green, but the sky gave it away; it was a purple-black in colour and thunder was heard over head.

It seemed that there was nothing bad or indifferent about this grove. It almost appeared innocent. So they trekked on at a humane pace through, shrubbery, trees and wildflowers until they come to a hedge.

Yes, a hedge. Two hedges to be exact.

"What the-"Emmett began, but was quickly cut off by Alice.

"I think we should go down that path." she said, eagerly and skipped off down the narrow trail between the two, tall hedges. The rest looked at one another strangely and took off down the conduit after little Alice.

"Alice, Wait up!" called Rose and they all began to run at vampire speed to catch up with her and Jasper got in front of her

"Alice! Stop this, do you hear me?" he cried in desperation. Her golden eyes stared straight back at him, as if she hadn't heard a word, so Jasper continued.

"We all agree this place is a little strange, but there's no reason to act like everything is perfectly alright." but Mary Alice Brandon-Cullen looked past him onto the trail ahead.

"Damn it, listen to me!" Jasper yelled, but she still looked on adamantly, unwilling to meet his gaze.

"What can you see Alice?" asked Bella.

"Can't you see them?" she questioned with quiet monotone.

"See who? For God's sake, this is sick!" shouted Emmett and Rose put a hand on his shoulder to calm him.

"We should follow them." said Alice, cheerily, as if their conversation had never occurred and began once more skipping down the grassy path. Emmett made a motion to grab her but Jasper caught his hand. "You touch her and it's the last thing you ever do." he hissed.

They followed her tiny frame, through many trails until she stopped at a stone wall and none of them realized that they had become lost in the maze's dark labyrinth. She stopped and slumped against the cold stone and began crying uncontrollably.

"Oh Christ, what's wrong sweetheart?" Jasper asked her.

"They're gone." she sobbed.

"Who are gone?" enquired Rose.

"Cynthia and Mom." She wailed. Edward looked at Bella, knowing that her sister and mother had died a long, long time ago. The Cullen's talked in low, hushed voices.

"Look, I don't know what's going on, but I do know that we are now lost." Edward said quietly. The rest looked round to find that three walls encircled them and instead of a forth wall, a path lead off in another direction.

"So what do we do?" asked Rosalie, who tossed her blonde hair out of her eyes.

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting out of here!" cried Emmett, charging down the path.