"You shouldn't have just wandered off," Max and Sam yelled at me at the same time. We were hanging out deep in the forest, I was sitting up really high in a tree, while the two boys lectured me from down below. I had taken out my cell phone, and wanted to call someone so that I would have an excuse to leave the two, but due to the fact that I didn't know any one I was just sitting there staring at the phone. I felt a breeze and the phone was gone, I knew that it was Sam, he was the fastest runner of the three of us, but then looking down I was that neither Max nor Sam had moved. I let my legs fall on either side of the branch and leaned over one side of it. "Are you finally listening to us," Sam asked. I could tell that I looked very confused, but I was also prepared for anything that was about to happen.
"Hello Isabella," a voice said from behind me. AS a first reflex I created an ice cycle in a split second and jumped so that I almost hit the man on the side of his head if he hadn't moved over. "Wow," he said looking at the ice cycle that almost hit his head, "you are really fast Isabella. And you also seem to have the power to control ice," he flicked the ice cycle and I then recognized who he was.
"I'm sorry," I said as I pulled the ice cycle from the tree. "You're the man that had left the Cullen's house earlier, with that guy I just meet earlier. You're – um – Mr. Cullen, aren't you?" I jumped off the branch and landed on my feet at the foot of the tree. "I'm sorry. You scared me, and that was how I was taught how to first react."
The man came down and looked at me, more so looking me over I guess, "I'm sorry I startled you Isabella; that was surely not my intention." After that he looked up through the trees, "we should get inside, after today we all need some rest. By the way, I'm Carlisle, I'm sorry I had to rush out on you all earlier." With that he turned and headed in the direction of the house. The boys followed him, and I really had no choice to follow.
Is this guy for real? I mean, he acts as a dad, just like Aro has acted toward me, but to five teen aged vampires? That's not a good Idea, but it's his house, not mine. I was thinking this as I walked back to the house behind the three, just getting lost in my thoughts. AS we got closer to the house I felt like going another way, it was around midnight, and it was quite dark, but I still just felt something pull me away from the group. I just stood for a moment when we were outside the house, and watched them go in, when I saw them almost up to the door I started to run down the drive way. As I found my way to the main road I stopped, hiding not far in the woods, and I just started to run on instinct to where ever I felt like I needed to go. I soon found myself at the edge of the wood across the street from a house. It looked cozy, but why did I come here, I had let what my little memory take over; my memory of where to go. There were two cars, one seemed to be a blue truck, the other was another truck, but this one was older and was a red-orange. I couldn't remember where I had seen this truck before, but it seemed so familiar, so I walked across the street and put my hand on it, I took notice of the one light in one the upstairs rooms of the house, but no one would see me from up there. I felt someone's eyes on me, but as I continued to look at the truck I didn't pay attention to that, until they spoke up.
"You shouldn't be here," the voice said.
I turned to find that Alice had followed me here, "if I shouldn't, then are you here to take me back?" I didn't turn around; I kept my eyes on the house or the car.
"No," she said with a sigh. "I'm not here to force you back, but you shouldn't be here. Ever since Bella disappeared those werewolves have been watching this place the most, just don't want you to get hurt." She was walking across the street, and she came next to me and put her hand on my shoulder, "actually, you really shouldn't have even come here, if someone sees you we will all be in trouble."
I was clueless with what she just said, and instead I just dashed in a direction that I could remember going at some time, so I was just going to explore. I eventually found my way to a school; it was the Forks High School. I started to walk around the school yard, and just looked around, I still felt Alice following me, but I said nothing. "Do you go here, Alice?"
"Yeah, have you ever been in Forks before Isabella?"
"I don't know. I might have. In my human life, but I don't remember anything from that. This place does seem really familiar though."
"I would suggest that you don't tell Aro that." When I looked at her she seemed sad, but in a different way than everyone else, like there was something that I was just missing. She sounded like she sobbed, and I went over to her, and looking at her I found her hands covering most of her face, and she was sobbing, but there were no tears shed, because vampires couldn't cry. I gave her a hug and let her sob on my shoulder, even though she wouldn't cry, we stayed there for a long while. "Well, I lost that bet. Now I owe Edward twenty bucks." She pushed me away and took a step back. "Do you hunt," she asked me.
"Hunt? What do you mean by that?" I had just barely finished my sentence when Sam came running over, once again telling me not to run away. All I could do was nod, with so many questions running through my head. Why did she sob? What is going on that I shouldn't really be here? Why won't anyone answer the many questions that I am wondering right now?
When we got back Sam showed me to the room that the two boys and I had to share and told me to stay there, while he talked with Carlisle about something. He took my phone and left, leaving me alone with only a few books to read. I was only in there for a short time when I heard a howl, and opening window I heard the howl again. It seemed to be a wild howl, one that was uncontrolled. There was another howl, the second was tame and knew what it was doing. I swung my legs over the window sill, and jumped down to the ground below, then took off running toward the wild howl. When I found the wolf responsible it was surrounded by two other wolves, and I forced ice to engulf its leg so that it couldn't move, the wolves back off and let me in. The wolf was thrashing its self trying to break free, and then I raised my hand and formed an ice cycle, which I plunged into its heart, killing it so that it wouldn't kill anyone else. I heard many howls around the woods, and then they all stopped and the woods were silent.
"Are they dead," one of the wolves asked.
"There isn't any way of telling," I said off in my own thoughts as I remembered something that Aro told me while he helped me pack, "That could have been the 'father' werewolf; the one that was biting everyone, and building his clan." I started to walk deeper into the forest with my hands in my pockets, I didn't know if they were following or not, I just started to walk. I heard wolves running toward the dead wolf, and I stood my ground and took my hands out of my pockets and formed ice cycles in my hands. As the first wolf came at me I killed it, and then no other wolves came, but they were close; and I could tell that there were around twelve forming a circle around me. Now that their leader was dead, they needed a new one, but who would get that horrible title? I just started to walk back to the house, still with the ice cycles in my hands. I needed help for this last push. "We need all your help," I told the two werewolves behind me. "Get your whole group together and meet me back here in two hours." I walked back to the house, and then asked Carlisle to call his whole family together. I told him what had just happened, and I could tell that the two boys were quiet mad at me, but still they asked what I was going to do now. I told them my plan, they all thought that it was crazy, but still most of the Cullen's looked at one another and eventually decided that this idea would work.
Two hours later Carlisle and Esme were telling the werewolves the plan, while the rest of us stood in the background and waited. I could tell that one of them was missing, but I also knew that it was the one that was in charge of all of them, but why wouldn't he come? They all agreed, and our plan was set for the next night when the werewolves would be out.
The sun was rising when we all got back to the Cullen's house. Everyone seemed to rush around getting ready for something. Soon enough everyone was in the kitchen packing what looked like a backpack, or for Carlisle a briefcase. In only a half hour the only people left in the house was Esme, the guy that I ran into in the woods, Max, Sam, and I. The two boys and I were in the living room, I was reading a book that I had picked up before leaving Italy, and the two boys were playing a card game. Esme walked in and asked if we all needed anything, but we asked where she was going. "I'm just going to town, and Alice said that she wanted me to take all of you shopping for new cloths. If you don't need anything, then I'll leave you to Edward to watch." With that she left, and soon Edward was at the door asking if any of us wanted to go hunting.
"What is hunting," I wondered out loud and earned myself a few strange faces, "I
mean what do you mean by going hunting."
"The Cullen family was the first to think of hunting animals, instead of humans,"
Max said, "They call it hunting, like how we hunt humans."
That made sense, and also seemed like something that would be fun to try, but from the looks that were being exchanged between Sam and Max I thought that I would say no this time. I did want to go outside though, so taking my book I walked to the sliding door and jumped to the ground below. It was a nice day out, so I quickly found a tree and sat there reading for a while. When I had been out for a while I just walked back to the house and sat in there to read for a while, while the boys played another card game I eventually just sat and started to watch TV, and soon Esme came back and asked where Edward was.
"Who knows," said Max. Esme let out a sigh, and then she started to watch TV with me, until around one when Edward came home. Then the two went off to another room and started to talk. I started to play another card game with the boys, who ganged up on me and won, and then I decided not to play another card game with them ever again. After a while of watching them I asked if we could go outside and spar for a while, and the two welcomed this idea openly.
When the sun had set the Cullen family, the boys, and I were all standing outside of the house. Looking around I saw everyone was in a sweater, jeans, and had a weapon of some sort. Carlisle had a long sword, Esme had a shorter sword, Edward had a dagger, Emmet had a gun along with Rosalina, Alice and Jasper both had very old fashion looking guns, Max had his element of fire, Sam had his ability to control how blood flows in a body allowing him to kill instantly), and I had my element of ice to protect me. The werewolves soon came; they were in human form. I handed them all a large necklace with a large medallion on it; these would help us identify which werewolves were on our side, and which were to die.
