THIS IS A NEW CHAPTER OF MY STORY. I REALLY WANT SOME FEEDBACK AND REVIEWS FROM THE FANS. I CHANGED THE PAIRING AND AN EXPLANATION WILL BE GIVEN IF I GET A REVIEW. THE TWILIGHT FRANCHISE DOES NOT BELONG TO ME OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE MADE IT MORE SIMILAR TO LIFE AND DEATH.
Chapter 3: Human?
Bella's POV
Laying against the cold pillar, I stared blankly at the fire that was still burning from the suicide explosion by a person I didn't even know. I must have hit my head when I was hit by James because I couldn't stand up or think coherently.
"Almost ready my sweet beauty," James' sickly sweet voice rang thru my head as if he had a scarf around his mouth.
"I decided that because you won't fight I will make a little present for Eddy boy to discover over your dead body. It will be so tragic, so very delicious."
He placed the camera on a stool that he brought over to my prone form. He pressed the record button and began talking,
"Hello Eddy boy. I will be presenting you will the one of a kind film of the death of Isabella Swan. I think of it as a romantic tragedy, I kill her and you swear vengeance I love it."
After he said this, he grabbed my face and pressed his sharp nails into my cheek cutting and letting pearls of blood drip slowly down my pale cheeks. I flinched but didn't give him the pleasure of hearing my cry. James' face tightened and he pressed a palm against my leg and then my world exploded into agony with the fracturing of my femur.
I could barely think of anything and I hear a voice that I think I recognized,
"- avenge her Edward as she cries out your name and I drain her of-" I didn't understand much else then my vision cleared enough to see James' face in my field of view. He lifted my hand and bit deeply into the exposed underside of my forearm.
"I am-" what he was going to saw was stopped by Edward ripping James off of me and throwing him against the far wall.
When Edward glanced at the fire that was still blazing brightly, his eyes dropped in sadness then his visage turned into a snarl as he grabbed James' throat.
"I will never forgive you for this," his usually gentle and silky voice was filled with anger.
"You are alone," he gasped out, "You are the fastest of your cloven but not the strongest." He mocked.
"Strong enough to tear you apart," Edward then was pushed off by James.
Suddenly the fire on the other side of the room extinguished and a hulking shape leaped out of it, I heard a ground shaking bellow of rage and Duel emerged from the fire.
My mind must not have been operating properly form the pain of a broken leg because what I saw was not possible. Duel's tattered shirt was nearly completely burned off of his body and his pants had patches that were on fire.
His bald head was blistering and red, but his eyes were the most terrifying thing. They were entirely black.
He released another bellow and charged at James and then my vision went dark as I tried to withstand the pain of my leg and the burning in my hand before I fell into a dark area.
Edward's POV
I was angry and it was hard to concentrate but I knew that what I was seeing rush out of the flames was not normal. It resembled the human that had left with Bella but he was injured and on fire.
He didn't even notice the fire but his outstretched hand grabbed the throat of James and then slammed him against the hardwood floor.
"Well it looks like the amusing human survived," James laughed before his throat was squeezed tighter
I noticed that the hand that he was holding the tracker down was his previously uninjured right hand. The hand was charred black and was leaking blood.
Before my very eyes, I saw the the blackened skin started to peel off in large patches. Instead of blood flowing out, I saw a healthy layer of pink skin with blood layered on it.
"What are you," James gasped out in shock.
Duel said nothing but growl and tighten his grip. I was still in shock from the fact that he made me back up in slight fear when he charged at James the first time.
"Døden til alle blodetere," was the rough and unnatural voice that came from the bald figure.
Deciding not to get in that thing's way, I blurred over to the side of my unconscious lover. Her pale skin was a sickly green and her leg underneath her was clearly broken at an odd angle. I turned back just in time to see Duel swing James overhead and throw him into a far wall.
"You shouldn't even be alive you monster," James cried out in fear as the still smoldering human walked in a uncoordinated gait.
"What is going on here," Carlisle asked me hovering protectively over Bella.
"I don't know I got here and I thought that Duel was dead but then he turned into that," I said pointing at the raging form that was beating James into the ground.
"It shouldn't be possible for him to move that way. He had torn muscles all over his body and from what I am seeing he has second and third degree burns on his body," Carlisle deducted looking at the raging human.
"What is going on here," Emmet asked standing over us.
Before I could repeat my story, Bella started to thrash and her eyes shot open. She started to cry and beg for the burning to stop. In the shock of what had happened to Duel, I had foolishly forgotten that she had been bitten.
"He bite too deeply into her Ulnar artery, she is bleeding out too quickly. The venom however is spreading slowly through her system." He paused and looked at me.
"You have a choose, suck out the venom and possibly lose her or you can keep pressure and let her change fully."
"You know that I don't want her to endure a life like ours," I responded as I bent over to suck out the venom.
As I started the painful, for both me and her, process of getting the venom out of her system I heard Duel bellowing something that sounded like Do. I saw Alice, Emmett, and Rosalie inching slowly towards the hunched over form of Duel and James. The sweet and tangy taste of Bella's blood was overwhelming my senses.
Finally getting pulled off of Bella's limp figure by Carlisle, I saw that James was no longer moving and Duel was breathing heavily. I heard James groan and I realized what Duel had done, he had injured James, with his bare hands, to the point were he could barely remain awake while regenerating.
"Hey bud are you ok," Emmett foolishly asked.
Snapping his head to our group, I felt a flash of fear from his intensely wrathful gaze. Unlike our eyes, which only the pupil turned black, when we are hungry, his were entirely black; pupil, iris, and sclera.
"Emmett I don't think you should have done that," Alice said curling her hand into a fist.
Duel, at first, seemed to be moving based on the sound of our voices but now he was staring directly at Alice and his uneven gait was stopped.
"Min," he growled out.
"Do you understand what he is saying," Alice asked Carlisle.
"No, it sounds Northern European though," he whispered back trying not to draw Duel's attention to himself.
It worked because Duel just stared at Alice and it seemed as though he had finally calmed down. His eyes were drooping and his arms were loose against his shirtless side.
Alice took this as a sign to approach and took a extremely cautious step forward. Suddenly his hands clenched and his eyes sharpened. I leap in front of Alice to shield her but Duel didn't lunge at her but rather spun around to shove his hand into James' open mouth.
While we were focused on Duel and not making him attack, James must have recovered enough to stand and make one last attempt to kill his prey. He was a proud hunter (in his mind) and he had been beaten down by his prey. It was humiliating on many levels so he refused to flee.
Biting down on the hand that was shoved into his mouth, Duel released a yell of pain and rage, but he used his other hand to grab the lower jaw of James and pulled down.
Witnessing what we thought was impossible, we simply stood and watched in horrific fascination as Duel ripped James' jaw completely off and proceeded to smash his bleeding fists into the cracking face of James.
"I think that we need to start a fire for when he exhausts himself," Jasper said watching the display of brutality loosely.
"Yes that is a good idea," Carlisle then ordered use to use the wood flooring to make a fire.
"What is his emotional state right now Jas," Alice asked not taking her eyes off Duel.
"I closed off my senses to him because his raw emotions would effect me on a deep level. More importantly, Alice how are you holding up with the amount of blood that he is losing in front of you," he asked her.
"I don't even notice the sweet scent over the brutality," despite that she couldn't take her eyes off of him.
I saw that Emmett, Rosalie, and Esme had started a tall blazing inferno and were waiting for Duel to finish.
Finally it seemed that Duel was exhausted because he collapsed in a shivering heap next to the deformed body of James.
"Do you think he will be ok," I asked Carlisle feeling slightly guilty.
"He should be fine if he remains still and doesn't make his wounds worse," he said then gasped.
"What is he doing," Alice yelled as she saw Duel prop himself up on his arms and dragged himself over to the blazing fire.
Esme tried to walk over to him but Rosalie held her back and shook her head. Esme blinked away tears and turned her back to the human. He flopped down and rolled onto his back.
Noticing his eyes were still black, I mentally told Alice to be careful as she approached him. She flicked her fingers in annoyance and gingerly took another step forward until she stood over him.
"Hey are you ok you big grump," she whispered softly.
"Engel," he growled out before gripping his mangled hand.
"What can I do for you," she said still standing but leaning ever so slightly over him.
He growled and then gripped the limp, mangled left hand and pulled with considerable strength. The still slightly pink appendage pulled free in one massive heave. The little blood that did squirt from the now useless limb landed on Alice's shocked face.
"NNNNOOOOOO," Alice cried as she ignored the blood and tried to stop Duel from hurting himself any further.
He ducked from her attempt and lashed out his arm to the fire. The smell of charred flesh filled all of our noses and we gagged on the powerful scent. I immediately stopped breathing to try in an effort to control myself.
Alice had none of that luck because she had been right in front of the blood and he was her singer. She started to twitch and Emmett got behind her and then pressed the back of her neck.
"She was about to lose control," he said even though we all knew why he had done it.
"Let's get both of them to a hospital. I think Bella will be ok in a local hospital, if any of you want to stay just in case of anything," Carlisle then lifted the now unconscious Duel onto shoulder and then said.
"I feel like he will be needing more intense care that I will need all of my tools and concentration to help save. He has lost nearly two liters of blood I think, received second and third degree burns to his arms and upper body, and finally he has lost his entire left hand with not hope of reattachment."
When he listed off all of those injuries I felt horrible because I had asked this human, whom was not even supposed to be involved, to protect Bella with everything he had. I could only watch as he was taken away to be healed by Carlisle.
~Time skip~
Carlisle POV
After six intense hours of operating I had stabilized Duel to the level where he was no longer in danger of dying immediately. I had wrapped bandages around his entire body in an attempt to stop the burns from becoming infected.
His injuries were far worse than I had expected: a concussion, broken ulna, several broken ribs, patches of second degree burns to his right arm and chest, cuts and other scratches all over his body, ripped muscles in his back and arm, and finally his torn off limb.
I was shocked to see that he was even breathing after taking a punishment like that. A normal human's body would have shut down by now from those injuries but he stubbornly clung to life.
"You are either a super human or extremely lucky," I said to the comatose boy hooked up to a myriad of different machines.
"I feel as though it may have been a mercy to have let you die. Because what is coming is going to very well break that indomitable will of yours," I said before turning and walking out of the room.
After I finished his surgery I had taken multiple blood samples to see what was going on with his body. I had to wait for a few minutes for the results so I calmly walked down the hall and into my office where the blood was safely stored.
"What? Is this even possible," I asked out loud when I saw the results of his blood work.
He had massive amounts of oxygen and adrenaline present in his system. His iron count was about 40% higher than a normal persons levels and finally the most shocking of all was fact that he had ten times the amount of stem cells in his system than a child were it at its highest.
"You could be classed as a medical miracle for this,"I said standing up from a microscope with a few drops of his blood to confirm the lab results.
A knock on my door shook me out of my stupor, I said it was fine to come in after putting away all of Duel's results. It was Esme's concerned visage that greeted my exhausted form.
"How are you doing," she asked me in her kind voice.
"I am shocked and surprised that he even survived long enough for me to give him a transfusion," I said to her displeasure.
"I knew he would be fine," see my surprise she walked up and took me in her arms softly. "After all he has the best doctor in the world taking personal care of him."
Nodding my head to her kind words, I simple began to wrap my arms tightly around her form. Murmuring in the comfort of her warm, kind aura, I just began to release all of the results of his body and blood testing.
"His regenerative ability is super human, honey."
"He makes enough hemoglobin for three people and twice as fast."
I just let her realize the possibility of that. And when I had held her for long enough I let her go and told her his room number. She rushed off at Olympic athlete speed to get to his room. And I only watched her rush before turning back to the samples and holding that I could uncover another secret.
Esme POV
Seeing the human boy wrapped in bandages and a cast on his right arm. I was saddened and couldn't stop myself from crying a little. He will power was so bright before this but now it was comparable to the smoldering coals of a dying fire.
"N-ev-er," he murmured.
Looking at his heart monitor, I saw that it had spiked and I quickly pressed the morphine button that was on the rail of his gulley.
His heart beat calmed and I saw his body relax to a comfortable sleep. I felt protective of this young man because my maternal instincts were going into overdrive from his vulnerable state.
"Don't worry. I will protect you until you die," I promised and I knew that I would do anything to insure that it was kept.
AND THAT IS A WRAP ON AN EMOTIONAL SCENE WITH ESME. I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED HER CHARACTER. I AM GOING TO BE CONTINUING WITH THE STORY DIRECTION UNTIL I AM GET A REVIEW.
Død til alle blodetere-Death to all blood eaters
Dø-Die
Min-Mine
Engel-Angel
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