I'm going to mention something from my other story in here. YAY
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or Maximum Ride (why can I never spell Maximum right on my first try?) but I do own something that was made by me!
So she's a Ghost?
"Nudge, just type her name in already!" Max snapped at the talkative girl who gave her a hurt look. She had gone through all the different websites they could go to for looking people up (though she hadn't tried a single one), talked about how pretty the computer looked (she had covered it in sparkly stickers and anything that was bright colored the second she got her's) and done just about everything but tried to look up Bella Swan.
Right now she was debating hot pink nail polish and pastel pink nail polish.
"You are so mean." Nudge sniffed, but she turned back to the computer and began to type away, her finger's flying over the keys faster and Max or Angel could have managed.
Isabella Swan
"Nudge, her name is Bella, not Isabella." Max was trying to be patient with the younger girl, but it wasn't easy. Nudge gave her a patronizing look in return and Max scowled.
"Bella is short for Isabella. We'll get more results this way."
Max looked at what came up and she had to admit that Nudge was right.
Some female politician in Italy who had gone missing recently (they didn't even click on the link, that would be a waste of time)
Some girl who looked too young to be Bella that had been kidnapped a while ago, was listed on a news website.
Some female singer who was too old (and had blonde hair) so she couldn't be Bella.
"The last one." Angel commented, looking down at the bottom of the page. Without looking at it, Nudge pressed the link. It was one of those find a grave websites that showed you where people had died and a little biography on them. There was a picture of a girl who was undeniably Bella, but she looked different, her eyes were a darker color, her skin looked a shade darker, and she looked just … different, but still the same. Her face was more round than the sharper features of the Bella they had met.
"Say's here she died a year or two ago in some town called Forks after being attacked by a bear in the woods." Nudge muttered. Max looked confused.
"Do you think it's a relative of her's?"
"No, it's definitely her. Unless, you know, it's a clone that died, or the one with us is a clone of the girl trying to kill us." Angel commented, shrugging slightly.
"That might be why you couldn't read her mine." Max pointed out a Nudge shook her head, frowning at the older girl.
"I don't think she's a clone, it just doesn't seem right. I mean, I know she's not normal, but still, why would they make a clone of this girl? She sounds pretty normal, and nothing mentions that she was a part of evil companies." Nudge said slowly.
"Of course, because that just looks soooo good on a grave 'was a great evil scientist', or 'could have ruled the world'. That looks totally normal." Max said sarcastically, her patience just about gone with both of the younger girls.
"Okay, fine. But I'm positive that she is not a clone! Maybe she has a clone somewhere in the world, but the Bella we met is not a clone!" Nudge snapped her mood just about the same as Max's. Max almost took a step back in surprise. Why was Nudge getting all upset because she called someone they just met, who was possibly the enemy, a clone?
"You guys, we didn't come here to debate if she is a clone or not. We came to find more information on her." Angle said calmly, moving Nudge aside and typing the date of her birth and death (supposedly) on the search bar.
A few new things popped up, a few Facebook and MySpace sights that had pictures of her on them, and a couple things about her, like online obituaries.
"So, she's dead basically? That's a pretty depressing truth." Nudge commented, wilting slightly in her seat.
"Nudge! She is not dead; we just met her like, two hours ago!" Max snapped. She was staring to get a headache and the younger bird mutants were not helping. God she was starting to miss Fang … and of course she missed the others, it wasn't like she missed Fang more than the others, they were all a family but …
"That means she's a ghost! OMG, that is soooo cool! Come on, we have to go tell her she's a ghost!" Before Max could stop her, Nudge had run from the library, and was running down the hall as fast as her bird legs could carry her.
"Nudge, she isn't a ghost! And if she was, she'd already know!" Angel wailed, running after her, her arms failing in distress. Nudge hadn't made it far before colliding with Bella, and when she hit the older girl, Nudge fell backwards in a way similar that Max had earlier. Bella looked torn between worry and anger.
"Nudge, if I were a ghost, you wouldn't have fallen, you would have run straight threw me." She had settled on being a little bit of both as she helped Nudge to her feet.
"But Bella, I think you're a ghost! You're cold and pale!"
"But I'm solid and I don't float. Besides, you're being a little bit stereotypical. How do you know that ghost's are cold and pale? For all you know, ghost could be blue and hotter than the sun." Bella's voice was laced with patience and venom.
"So what are you?" Nudge asked now that she had regained her footing.
"I'm sure that you would like to be researching Itex during your free time, not me."
"What does that mean?" Nudge asked, clueless. Bella sighed slightly and Angel rolled her eyes. Max shook her head.
"I mean, I think that you have better things to do than look me up on the internet. You're not going to find anything interesting."
"But you didn't answer my question of what you are!"
"That's the point." Bella sighed, shaking her head. Nudge still looked confused but she let it go for once.
"Let's go to Nudge's room to look up Itex. I'm sure some librarian will come up and ask what we're doing, and one of you three is not very good at telling lies." Bella smiled slightly, looking down at Nudge who blushed.
"You heard us coming and what we were saying in the library." Max said frowning at the other girl who looked back at her peacefully.
"Maybe I'm just good at guessing?" Bella suggested lightly, still smiling.
"You're not human." Bella's smiled faded slightly and a dark look passed over her face before clearing with ease.
"Maybe not, but you're not one to be pointing fingers." Her voice had a sharper edge and she finished her words pointedly.
"You know what we are; it's only fair that we know what you are," Bella's frown was back, but this time it stayed. Before she had to say anything, they were at Nudge's room and the conversation was officially over.
"Isn't my room so cool?" Nudge asked. Bella's lips twitched slightly at the sight of her room.
It looked like Nudge hadn't fully unpacked her clothes; some of them were still strewn across the floor. She had put a giant mirror on her desk. There was a lack of books on the desk; it was covered with makeup and nail polish.
Over her bed (which was covered with a leopard skin comforter) was a poster for some super hero called the Pink Bunny (YAY) Bella smiled wider when she say that. So that's where the girl got her personality from!
"Nice poster. Move the stuff off the desk so we can use your … laptop." Max rolled her eyes at Bella's words. She wouldn't describe Nudge's over bedazzled, game filled, and virus infected piece of machine as a laptop. Bella took one look at the bright gems, hot pink wall paper, and endless number of pictures on her desktop and fought the urge to laugh.
"Umm, nice." She mumbled as she brought up the home page. … no surprise. Bella typed Itex – current into a search bar.
"Just hit the first one." Angel advised, sitting next to Bella who frowned at her. That bird smell was really getting to her.
"There's not much, it just mentions Itex in one chapter. Says that it's a worldwide corporation, has a few locations in America, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, and Mexico. Nothing that sinister or mutant sounding." Bella commented, pressing the back button.
"Try that one." Angel insisted. Bella rolled her eyes and brought it up. It was a short paragraph about around the world business things. Bella's eyes locked onto one of the words. Volturi (I know that it's probably spelled wrong but that doesn't matter, its close enough and you would know what it is. Unless you want me typing 'Place of evil vampires in Italy that is really really bad' every time it's mentioned, deal with it).
"'Recently, a top global business company 'Itex' announced its plans to work in partnership with a large tourist site located in Volturi. Itex spokeswoman, Anne Walker, a member of the US Itex branch, refused to comment in detail about the collaboration, only commenting that it is 'helpful for both companies to meet their goals set'…" Bella looked up from the laptop to see three pale bird kids looking at her. Bella pursed her lips to keep from laughing at their frozen faces.
"So, you three wanna go on a really quick trip?"
"To Italy? I think that would qualify as 'leaving campus', don't you thing?" Max asked, recovering the fastest.
"Let me get my car and I'll drive us to the airport. I'm sure we'll have no trouble sneaking out of here." Bella was already going to the closest airports website to find the earliest time she could get to Italy. She could run from the airport in Italy, but she couldn't run over the ocean and she didn't feel like explaining how she was able to swim across the ocean.
"We can fly there faster than most planes can take us."
"Sure, but what would you do when you get there? Run around all of Italy looking for a bunch of evil scientist talking to vamp… Italian people?" Bella corrected herself to fast for the other's to understand what she had been about to say.
"You would never be able to keep up," Max folded her arms and Bella stood up.
"Once we're in Italy, I shouldn't have any trouble. Now, come on, I'm driving." Bella said, walking from Nudge's room.
"We can fly-" Max began but Bella silenced her with a cold look.
"I can drive faster than you can fly on your best day. Trust me." With an end of conversation tone, Bella stalked out of the room, Nudge running after her like a puppy. Max and Angel followed slowly.