Value In Beliefs

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So now Jalen and Tiffany have reunited after so long in an unexpected way. Let's see what happens now to everyone. Enjoy! :)


Chapter 7 – A Different Perspective

Bella's POV

"Man, I don't like the l-l-lu-lu-l-looks of this place. It really gives me the ch-chu-chu-ch-chills." Cameron said with a shudder while stuttering.

We are all walking in the city searching for Tiffany. We would have tried calling her but our phones were either smashed from the fight with Zoran's coven or the battery was drained out. Mordecai and his coven looked a bit uncomfortable being here. It was like they'd rather be anywhere but this city, or anywhere public to be precise.

Everywhere we go, I caught some of them glaring at some humans who were walking by happily. If you thought that was odd, you should've seen Mordecai's reaction when we told him how we spare humans by living off of animals. To say he was against our philosophy of living was an understatement. When we told him that we live with humans like humans, I don't know how to describe it other than disgust or disbelief. I wonder what set him off.

"Me neither." Mordecai said and then stopped. "I think we should head back. There are just too many people around here."

"But Mordecai, we haven't found Tiffany yet. We can't just leave her." Eden said to Mordecai and I noticed that she is holding Cameron's hand. They haven't let go of each other since we left the alley.

"Yeah, I'm not going anywhere without my best friend." Lucas said as he pulled Lucina close to him to comfort her. She has been very worried about her mother.

"Yeah well I'm not gonna have my whole crew out in this city looking for a vampire." Mordecai said.

"And what about Jalen?" Ariana asked sadly. "He's out there as well."

"Shouldn't Jalen have found Tiffany by now?" Jasper asked. Yeah, trackers shouldn't have a problem finding their target. I wonder how his tracking skills differ from others I've known.

"Maybe, but then again, he does have a small limit to his gift." Mordecai said.

"What small limit?" I asked.

"Jalen's tracking skills works better if he's familiar with the person's mind. The more he's familiar with that mind, the more access he'll get to anticipate where they are and will go." Sophia explained.

"Jalen can find the person once he picks up their mind on the first encounter and also know if they're heading his way. With his tracking senses, no one can outrun him! He's unstoppable!" William said. So Jalen's tracking abilities are a combination of James, Alistair and Demetri's. If the Volturi ever heard about him that would make them even more powerful.

"But right now Jalen isn't familiar with Tiffany so he's gonna be chasing her for awhile." Ariana said. "Poor Jalen, I'm worry about him." She sighed. Does she really believe that she and Jalen are a couple? What's wrong with her?

There was a gasp behind us and we turned to her but it wasn't Alice who gasped, it was Sophia who just turned behind and then looked at us.

"Guys, it's them! Hide!" She said. Huh?

"Eden, mask our scent!" Mordecai said to her. "Guys, grab everyone and hide!" My family and I were confused as we soon started running where William and Ariana took Emmett, Jasper, Rosalie and Alice inside a dinner while Sophia took Jacob and Nessie down some stone stairway until they were hidden and Eden and Cameron took Lucas, Krystal and Lucina and separated them as they sat down at some tables and grabbed some newspapers to cover themselves.

"Guys, over here!" Mordecai said leading Carlisle, Esme, Edward and I behind a light blue van parked on the streets and that's when I felt something hazy floating around me until it disappeared and I looked to see Eden putting down her hands.

"Oh man, I knew we shouldn't have come here!" I heard William said before he went inside. At that moment from the corner of the streets comes a black van driving by slowly. I saw through the windows of the car we were hiding behind to see two men in their late forties in the vehicles. One was driving while the other one was looking around with a cigar in his mouth. I felt Edward tense up and I saw his face in shock. What's going on?

"Man, I hate this. Hiding around like some… dog." Mordecai said.

"Hey, I heard that!" Jacob hissed.

"Dude that was c-cu-cl-cl-clu-close." Cameron said not moving an inch.

"What's going on? Why are we hiding? Who were those guys?" Carlisle asked as the black van drove past us.

"They want us." Mordecai answered to us. "You see, the guy with the cigar Steve, he knows about the existence of vampires, just not fully, but knows that we're real."

"How?" I asked in shock.

"When Steve was young probably in his late twenties or something, he was in the woods on a sunny day when he stumbled across a group of vampires attacking some hunters." Mordecai explained. "Lucky for Steve, the vampires didn't catch him and since then, it's been his obsession to catch vampires and exposed us to the world. He's mad I tell ya."

"You sound like you know him very well." Esme said.

"That's because he killed my creator, Witney." Mordecai said gritting his teeth. "We thought we heard some sort of trouble at an abandon warehouse, only to be a trap caused by Steve. Just when Steve had us, there was an accident where the warehouse caught fire and Steve escaped to save himself. Unfortunately for us, we were trapped until Witney found a way out, only enough time to save me and soon she got burned when the warehouse collapsed and exploded just when I was out. I never forgave him for that."

This Steve guy's motives to discovering our kind was way different the way I wanted to know about Edward. Clearly, Steve isn't aware of the outcome of discovering us whether to be killed or changed. And poor Mordecai. He lost the person who changed his life and it sounds to me that he really cares about her.

"We're safe guys." Sophia called as she, Nessie and Jacob climbed up the stairs.

"C-C-Cu-Cu-C- Awesome!" Cameron said as everyone got out of their hiding spots and we all gathered back together.

"Mordecai, you seemed to know a lot about this city. We need to find the airport so that we can go home back to Forks. Do you know where that is?" Carlisle asked him.

"Yeah I know where it is, but I ain't going near that place." Mordecai said. "You see the airport is where the humans are and, well, we just don't get along with the humans."

"Can you at least tell us where that is?" Carlisle asked.

"Why, so you can go back to living with the humans? Isn't it bad enough that you have those two?" Mordecai said pointing at Nessie and Lucina.

"Watch what you're saying about Nessie!" Jacob snapped stepping over to him in rage the same with, Rosalie, Lucas, Krystal, Alice, Emmett and I.

"You take that back what you said about my daughter!" I said angrily.

"I dare you to say that again about Nessie and Lucina!" Rosalie snapped.

"Say that again about the girls and I swear that you'll regret it!" Lucas snarled. I then felt a hand around my arm and I looked to my surprise that it was my husband who is not at all upset, but with pain and, was that pity?

"Forget it guys. Let's go." Carlisle said calmly and we all backed away from Mordecai who did not flinched or back down from our anger and instead he just glared at us all. The rest of his coven just stood there and watched. "Thanks for everything Mordecai."

"Yeah, thanks for nothing." Rosalie sneered sarcastically as we all started walking away.

"Going back to live with the humans? That's just sad." Mordecai said shaking his head.

"Later, human-lovers!" William called us out. We kept on walking for awhile when we turned a corner and was out of sight from them and when we were a distance away from earshot, we went on an outburst as we continued walking.

"Mordecai was no help at all!" I said angrily.

"What the hell is that guy's problem?!" Rosalie asked.

"How dare he say those things to Nessie and Lucina!" Alice said.

"Ugh, I should've gone back there and killed that guy!" Jacob said as his body started shaking.

"Jake, its okay." Nessie said trying to calm him down.

"NO ITS NOT! 'Isn't it bad enough that you have those two?' How dare he talk that way to you girls!" Jacob yelled angrily.

"Is it too late now to turn back and rip him apart?" Emmett asked cracking his knuckles.

"He's gonna get a face full of aura spheres that he won't have time to count them all if he has a chance." Lucas said fisting his hands.

"I can definitely make him feel fear that he'll be begging for mercy, not that we will give him any." Jasper said gritting his teeth.

"Why would Mordecai say those things? Is it because of how we survive off of animal blood and live with humans?" Lucina asked.

"It sounded like it. What does he have against humans so badly?" Krystal asked.

"I'm surprised that he still feeds off of them." Lucas said. "I'm even more surprised that you didn't do a thing back there Edward. I mean that guy was insulting your daughter." Edward stopped walking and soon we all did as he closed his eyes and sighed.

"Believe me Lucas, I wanna kill that guy so much for insulting my family," Edward said as he opened his eyes and looked at us with a sad look in his eyes. "But the last thing Mordecai needs is his last words to be insults before I rip his head off after what he's been through."

"Did you see something in Mordecai's mind?" Esme asked Edward.

"There's a reason why Mordecai resents humans." Edward said.

"And what's that?" Carlisle asked. Edward looked around to see a bench nearby and we followed him as Edward sat down with me next to him as everyone else gathered around us.

"Let's just say that Mordecai never had a… pleasant life as a human." Edward said and began telling us what he read in Mordecai's mind.


What happened in Mordecai's human life? Why does he hate them so much? Stay tune. Please review.