A Death Wish; Chapter 2

When I woke up I was laying on a very cold, cement floor. It was very dark and it smelt horrible. To make matters worse, my head was killing me; it ached so much that I could barely lift it without crying out load.

Edward.

"NO!" I screamed, I sat up ignoring my head and froze when the memories came flooding in.

The last thing I remembered was Edward's screams of my name before I was knocked out! It was the most horrible sound I had ever heard in my entire life. It was full of pain, of torture and of complete hopelessness and helplessness. I desperatly wanted to be near him, to be with him! Was he alive? Was I alive? Where was I? Who had taken me? Why had Edward given up?

All these questions poured into my mind and my headache continued to get worse and worse.

I laid back down onto my side and sobbed; not caring if I was being really loud. Nothing mattered anymore.

I didn't know where I was, or who captured me but right now I cared about nothing except seeing Edward again, comforting him, helping him.

All of a sudden I felt a cold hand on my shoulder. I jumped and turned over quickly, not expecting at all who it was that startled me.

"Bella! Sh!" Alice said soothingly. She picked me up and gave me a hug, I was completely unresponsive. The only thing going through my mind was Edward. I needed Edward. I had to be with him!

"Bella?" I heard Esme's voice nearby, but I didn't evil blink as if I heard her. She brushed the hair out of my face.

"What's wrong with her? Has she gone dumb?" Rosalie said doubtfully, I could feel her eyes on my face. If I was paying any attention I would of been annoyed at her sarcastic comment but it didn't affect me at all.

"Bella! Bella honey! Please, say something." Alice begged, from my peripheral vision I could see that her face was full of worry and misery. I wanted to ask her what was wrong, and what was happening but the thoughts of Edward kept me quiet. My mind was shutting down, I could barely breathe. I didn't have enough strength to anymore. This pain was far worse than when Edward had left me. Now, I was being forced to stay away from him.

Alice laid me down on my stomach.

"What are you doing Alice?" Esme asked, I felt my hair being moved to one side of my head. I kept crying, but not as loudly. I listened to Alice.

"I'm checking to see if there's something wrong with her head injury. I've watched Carlisle manytimes, I know what to do." Alice said. "She's not responsive!"

"Why don't you slap her?" Rosalie suggested.

"No!" Esme snapped.

The floor was very cold, I started shivering. I didn't know what to do. I wanted to die.

"They have already captured Alice and Esme..." Edward's sentence ran through my head. Suddenly my head cleared and my mouth opened and out came, "Alice?"

"Yes?" She replied, lifting me up into a sitting position. I could see three sets of eyes looking at me, two full of concern, one full of annoyance.

"Where is he?" I asked, my voice sounding dead.

I heard Rosalie sigh, Esme grabbed my hand and gave it a squeeze and then Alice said, "Bella! He's alive! He's alive! They didn't take Edward, Jasper, Emmett, or Carlisle." I looked up at her puzzled. Why didn't they take them? Why did they take us? Although I thought those questions I was so relieved thatEdward was alive, and not captured but free that I took a deep breath and smiled, tears running down my face once more.

"They took us instead, and we are still trying to figure out the reason behind all of this." Alice continued. She and Esme eyed me cautiously.

"Who are they?" I gave out another question but before Alice could even open her mouth, which is very fast, four red-cloaked figures appeared behind us. Their faces were covered by the large hoods. All I could see at first glance was their mouths.

"Good Evening Bella. How is your head doing? I really didn't want to cause you so much pain already, but it was necessary. You were obviously not going to leave Edwards side without a fight, one that you would of lost immediately, but one that I had no motivation to waste the effort. Your poor Edward couldn't stand up, let alone fight against the powers of my warriors, so the fight would of been a waste of everyone's times and you my dear could of gotten killed, or worse, transformed into a vampire." The same voice said again, from the phone and last night, he took a step forward and removed his hood. He pushed Alice and Esme out of the way and knelt right in front of me. His eyes were know the same level as mine.

I gasped as I took his appearance in; his skin was a bland gray, it had no colour in it whatsoever. There were blue veins looked that looked like they were above the skin, they were so visible it was hard to believe my eyes. He had no body hair and his eyes were black. He was the most terrifying creature I had ever seen. Was he a vampire? What was he? He can't be human!?

He slowly extended his arm towards my face, I turned it away and leaned back. I didn't want to be close to this, this thing! I felt strong, ice-cold fingers on my chin and my face was slowly turned back towards the monster. I closed my eyes; I didn't want to look into his empty face or his dark eyes.

"Bella." His voice commanding. I tightened my eyes even more. After a few seconds I could smell something but I didn't know what it was, "Bella." he said again and I could feel the air from what he said hit my face. Oh! The smell must be his.

"Look at me." He spat. I moaned as something wet landed on my cheeks. "If that is how you want to do this Bella, then I'll play the same game."

Oh no! What was happening? Why did I ignore him? I opened my eyes immediately and I looked straight into his. As I stared into his eyes, I could see nothing behind them. Not like Edward's. They were horrible. It was as though all my nightmares as a kid of monsters had come true a few years later.

"Romad, Kerrel." he stated and two of the three red cloaked figure walked forward. "Bring Bella to my office, and get her prepared."

Before I heard his last word he had disappeared and the two figures were suddenly around me. They lifted me up and I was carried out of the room. As I was leaving Alice, Rosalie, and Esme all cried out load and started yelling my name.

"Bella! Don't do anything he tells you to do! Ignore him! Don't listen to anything!" Alice yelled, but she couldn't say anything more because the red cloaked guy who wasn't instructed to do anything slapped Alice across the face and she fell over.

"NO!" I screamed, they just hurt Alice! They can't do that. The figure who had hurt Alice turned his face towards me and than disappeared with her.

What was this place? How could they do this to Alice? She was so strong, how could they slap her like that? What was happening? I wanted to look back and see Esme but I was suddenly let go and then I was falling! I started screaming for help. It was pitch black and I was falling a huge distance. Is this how they kill weak, pathetic humans like me?

"PLEASE!" I begged, "PLEASE HELP ME!" I screamed over and over again as I fell.

But all of a sudden I was standing and the two red cloaked guys were holding my arms tightly. I looked around, we were in a completely different place it seemed. I looked up but there was only ceilings. What the hell just happened? I was just falling for my death and now I'm being dragged down this bright hall way. My mind spun.

As I became less confused, I paid more attention the scenery around me. The walls were covered with exquisite paintings and the floor was a blood-red carpet. It looked like a hotel hallway. There were several doors on each side equally apart with numbers on them. 501...503...505...507...509...and we stopped. The door swung open by itself and we were suddenly inside a beautiful office. The first thing I noticed was the desk, it was made of dark wood and it was very large. It looked custom made and it was very beautiful. I looked up and the same monster was sitting on a large leather chair with his hands crossed on the desk. There were several documents piled neatly on one corner of the desk.

Before I even realized what was happening, I was sitting on a chair in the middle of the desk facing the creature. The two others were now on each side of the guy in the middle.

"Bella Swan. #1234221. Lets see if I can find your folder." he said calmly, as though this was a business deal. He flipped through a pile of files and picked one out. My face was in the middle of the folder. "Ah, here it is. This is a good photo of you Miss Swan." he showed me briefly before placing it in front of him and then he opened it and there were many sheets of paper, pictures, and little plastic bags full of things that I had no idea what they were.

"Why am I here?" I asked, my voice cracked. I hadn't spoken for a while, and my throat hurt from me screaming earlier.

He glanced up from reading something, and put down the piece of paper and intertwined his hands.

He opened his mouth and said, "You are here because we have an assignment for you. Well, its more of a proposal."

I asked him what proposal and he snorted.

"Bella, Bella, Bella." he shaked his head, "We do not simply state what we want from you. You will know in time, and if not then well, it won't happen, you will know." he said.

"But what if I don't want to do anything for you." I questioned, my voice rude.

"Then we will make you, and if you still don't cooperate we will target the ones dearest to you. Let me see your files," he glanced down and picked up another piece of paper. "Charlie, Renee, Edward, Jacob, Alice..." he looked up at me before continuing.

"No! You can't! Don't touch them!" I yelled! I stood up, my anger taking control of my mind.

"Sit down Bella." he demanded, his face full of annoyance now. "I can do any damn thing I want to. Now that I think about it, Edward and Carlisle would be an great addition to my warriors. Romad, write down their contact information."

"Please! I'll do whatever you want! Don't hurt Edward, please! Please!" I begged, tears running down my face. I took a step towards the desk.

"Good girl. Now sit down, and grab a Kleenex. We don't want you to be crying all over our furniture." he through a box of Kleenex at me and I catched it without even looking up.

"I might as well introduce myself. I am Jortuel Ramtpi. Leader of the Putrue pack of vampires, and werewolves. We are the oldest surviving vampire and werewolf clan ever. I was the first vampire, and my partner was the first werewolf. Together we brought up a powerful army. Now we have over 450 vampires, and 300 werewolves. The Volturi claim to be the oldest but they are greatly confused. Aro, he is my fifth son's son. He was born a human and once Narktil changed him, Aro was cast away into Italy and started his own clan, after several hundred years he forgot about us. And we never spoke with him again."

"My partner died only 150 years ago," he paused, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, then he continued, "by a member of the Quilette pack. She died defending me, even though I didn't need defending. After I buried my love, my highest priority was getting revenge on my beloved. I then spent 130 years trying to find the werewolf but he was no where to be found."

"Rumours grew of group of Vampires from varies places in the United States grouping together. They were known as the Cullen's. A powerful group they were, and at first they were a concern but I didn't contact them. I decided it was best to leave them alone, because they were vampires, brothers and sisters of the same race. I was quite interested in the women of the group; Alice, Esme, and Rosalie but I didn't act on my impulses. I could not kill them unless they imposed a threat. A few decades later, rumours started again with the Cullen's that one member, Edward, had found a beautiful human with the sweetest blood. I decided to check this out, and especially to make sure that Edward was going to change the girl because under no circumstance can any human know about our race. I sent agents of mine out to see if the rumours of this human was true, and they were."

"This human, Isabella Marie Swan, was in fact a beautiful human with the sweetest blood I had ever come across in the millions of years I have been living. When I first saw her, my heart seemed to beat again. She looked identical to my beautiful Areal; my first thought was that she was re-incarnated into a human body. I became very jealous, very fast of Edward Cullen. I could sense the love between them, it was similar to the feelings I had with my Areal. It was so beautiful. I decided for the pain I had been feeling within my heart, to contact Bella, I needed to hear her voice."

"So, I sent several of my men and women to find her and report where she was which was with Edward at a cafe. I knew of Edward's power so I selected a distinct group of vampires who were powerful enough to oppose his powers. I called the cafe and asked for Bella, and after a few moments, she said hello and I couldn't believe my ears. It was the same sound as Areal. This had to be her. So I started out saying it was nice to hear her voice again. She ignored me, and pretended as though I was a telemarketer. I was enraged. Horrified that she, a mere human, could be so brave as to ignore my commands. I decided to take her in and analyze her mind. If this was Areal, I needed to know why."

"As we got closer to Forks, Alice saw us coming and immediately warned everyone. At that time we weren't planning on taking anyone but Bella. Once we arrived however, that was a different matter. Edward had Bella in his arms and was running out the door. We captured Esme, Alice, and then Rosalie. It took some time but the ladies convinced their lovers to let them go. And the men listened. It took some time stopping Emmett, but we did not kill him or Carlisle and Jasper.

We immediately started tracking Edward and it was very easy. When we started surrounding him, my leading commander sent waves of pain through Edward and he stopped abruptly. I could see through his mind, and I knew he wasn't going to let you go. I didn't want to kill him, but made sure he suffered enough to make him forget momentarily about Bella. I asked her to come with me but again she didn't want to and she stayed close to Edward. She begged us to stop hurting him, but I was angry and increased the level of torment. I walked towards Bella and smacked her head against the wall, not very hard but enough to knock her out, she collapsed into my arms. Edward screamed Bella's name all night. We left him there, he was of no interest to us. And now, here she sits before me."

He finally finished his tale and I experienced several different feelings and emotions through his entire speech. He was over millions of years old? How? Rumours? What rumours? I was so overwhelmed that I nearly fainted right in my seat. I shaked my head, trying to come back into consciousness. They had tortured Edward, Emmett, Jasper, and Carlisle? How? Why? Poor Edward! He had screamed my name all night? My eyes rolled back and as I started falling over someone was picking me up, and I heard "Sleep my Areal, sleep." Then I was gone, blackness over took me. I had much to think about, and my body couldn't take it all in. I was finished.

Author's Note: Hey Everyone! Thanks for all the reviews. Just to clarify the chapter, it is a bit confusing and long! If you have any problems understanding it, please contact me and I'll sum it up for you! If you remember, Alice dissappeared with the third red cloaked guy. That will be in the next chapter which I'll start typing as soon as I post this on here. Please review and tell me whats good, whats bad, and what I need to work on.

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