"Do you hear that?" Emmett asked Jasper. They were walking along the edge of the beach, looking for anything that could make a signal. No such luck so far.

"It sounds like a heart beat. Do you think there are any animals on the island?" Jasper asked hopefully. He didn't want to be stuck on an island with Bella with no way to quench his thirst. He especially didn't want a repeat of her birthday.

"I don't know, but we're about to find out." Emmett went in between the trees so whatever it was wouldn't be able to see him. Jasper followed after him.

They followed the sound of the heart beat, and in no time they started to hear voices as well. "Hopefully with Elena." Jasper and Emmett stopped and looked at each other, thinking the same thing. Other people were on the island with them.

They slowly snuck closer, staying hidden behind the bushes, until they could see the other people. "Alaric, how are you holding up?" A tall, lean guy with short brown hair asked the guy sitting on a tree stump.

"My head hurts but I'll live." He pulled the shirt he was holding away from his head, and the scent immediately hit Jasper.

Jasper jumped up and ran at the guy on the stump before Emmett even realized what was happening. There was more people then he had anticipated, but that didn't stop him from going after his target. Emmett was about to run after him, but suddenly Jasper was thrown against the tree to his side by an invisible force. Emmett didn't know what had happened but he quickly went to Jasper before he attacked the wounded guy again.

He crouched down beside Jasper and pulled him to his feet. Jasper held his breath before he went into a frenzy again and looked at the people surrounding him. The one closes to him was the lean guy that had spoken before. He was standing protectively in front of the guy that use to be on the stump, who was now about ten feet away from Emmett and him.

There was a blonde girl helping a muscular guy off the ground, but was looking at the two unknown people with curiosity. Then there was another girl, who was the completely opposite of the first, who had her hand out, pointed in Emmett's and Jasper's direction, who was standing over another guy that was unconscious.

Emmett did the first thing that he could think of. Edward, he yelled in his head.

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Edward heard his name called and immediately looked up. "What?" He turned around and realized that it hadn't been said aloud.

Carlisle looked at Edward. "What is it?"

"I don't know." Her turned to Alice who was wringing her clothes out as best as she could without wrinkling them, which was impossible. "Did you see anything?"

"About what?" Alice asked, getting frustrated about her clothes and just gave up.

"Never mind." He turned back to face Bella. "I'll be back." He got up and started walking the way Emmett and Jasper did a few minutes ago. "Emmett needs something." He answered an unvoiced thought from Carlisle.

He followed their scents and soon came to where they went into the trees. He sighed and hoped that they weren't just messing with him. He continued to follow their scent but stopped when he finally realized that something was wrong. He was hearing more thoughts other than just Emmett's and Jasper's.

He immediately ran to his brothers, without thinking about how he would affect the situation or even listening to their thoughts to see what was going on. He stopped in front of his brothers, looking at the strangers.

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"Alaric, how are you holding up?" Stefan asked.

"My head hurts but I'll live." Alaric pulled the damp shirt from his forehead. It didn't have much blood on it, which was a good thing. It meant that it was nothing serious.

Stefan looked behind Alaric and before he himself could turn and see what he was looking at, Stefan quickly grabbed his arm, pulling him off the tree stump, and pushed Alaric behind him, getting in a protective stance in front of him. Before Alaric could understand what was going on, he felt of whoosh of air fly past him and then heard a thump follow quickly after.

Alaric looked to Bonnie to see that she had her hand up toward where he'd been sitting just a moment ago, and that she had created the wind. He turned back around to see a pale blond guy and a giant, curly haired, muscular guy standing my the tree a few feet away from the tree stump.

Caroline helped Tyler off the ground and they both went to stand by Stefan, while Alaric backed up to stand over Jeremy with Bonnie.

"Who are you?" Stefan asked, looking between the two.

"We didn't mean any harm." the muscular guy said, not bothering to answer Stefan.

"No harm. You attacked Alaric." Stefan took a step toward them. He suppressed the urge for his teeth to grow but he quietly hissed at them.

"He didn't mean it, he just lost control." They blond guy looked down at his feet and from the looks of it, he was holding his breath.

"What do you mean he lost control?" Stefan asked. He was trying hard not to show his true form, but the crash had weakened him and he needed blood, soon.

Caroline went to Stefan's side before either of them could answer, even thought neither of them looked like they were going to. "Maybe they're like us." she whispered to Stefan, not realizing that the others could hear them.

Stefan thought it over. He should have been able to hear them come up on their group, but he hadn't. And how the blond guy attacked Alaric, the speed he had ran at him, and the look on his face. He knew that look. It was bloodlust.

Before Stefan could question the two strangers, the trees moved and suddenly there was a third guy standing in front of the other two.

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They are like us, was the first thought Edward heard when he appeared in front of everyone. He immediately regretted reacting without thinking first, it wasn't like him at all, but then the thought he heard finally registered in his mind.

Edward looked into every single one of their minds, trying to see what they knew. The one he had first heard was doing an entire replay of everything that he had misses, trying to piece together what the trio were. Edward looked to Jasper, somewhat ashamed of how he had behaved but also understanding. It was still hard on him sometimes when there was fresh human blood in the open, but not nearly as hard as it was for Jasper.

He looked back to the strangers and noticed their appearance. Their clothes were damp and ripped, just like his family's were. They must have crashed also.