Abductor's Torment
Chapter 7: The Denali Coven
Welcome to Alaska.
Where the hell are we? For some reason, this place looked... familiar.
"So... How old are you?" Bella asked, wanting to break the silence and learn more about her little cr- companion.
...
"Come on!" Bella was now begging. They were already in Alaska, but the Denali preserve was still an hour away.
"Silence." Jane didn't even grace her with a look.
"Do you really want me to jump you?" Yes, Bella realized her double entendre and it seemed like the vampire did too as a quick myriad of emotion was shown on her face. It was kind of funny that Jane thought she had a good reign on her emotions when it was the exact opposite. Everyone else was usually already writhing in excruciating pain at this time though.
Bella could see the vampire trying to process if she would try to jump her again. Bella would.
"Over one thousand two hundred years old."
Well, shit. That was over ten times Edward's age and four times Carlisle's. Bella had to bite her tongue to hold any old or grandma jokes.
"Any... hobbies?" Okay, maybe Bella could have asked a better question, but whatever. It was either that or a spontaneous grandma joke that was on the tip of her tongue.
Jane gave her another deadpanned look. "Torture. Pain. Burning vampires."
Well. There goes any possible similarities. The small vampire was Ancient and Bella knew it would be a hard task getting to know her more, but she wasn't going to give up. At least, she was getting answers now.
Bella was just about to ask another random question when the blonde opened her mouth.
"How does it feel to have a sparkling vampire for a boyfriend?" Jane's question made Bella's eyebrow hitch up.
"All vampires sparkle." What was the petite vampire saying? Didn't all vampires sparkle under the sun?
"How many vampires have you seen sparkle?" Jane looked at her straight in the eye with an eyebrow lifted.
"Well, one." Bella's brow furrowed as she was trying to recall any other vampire that she actually saw sparkled. She had always been in Forks and was used to the cloudy weather covering the sun and the Cullens were always on their hiking trips when the sun was out. Could it be true?
"The fairy lied to you. We were out in the sun yesterday and my hood was off. I don't sparkle." Jane said and left Bella speechless. "I've read from Volturi documents that he was cursed by a fairy."
Cursed by a fucking fairy? To sparkle? What the fuck.
The revelation caught Bella off guard and caused her thought process to kind of shut down.
Jane on the other hand had a small smile at achieving silence. There was still the small feeling of missing the brunette's voice, but she just chose to ignore it and focus on driving.
What the hell did he do to get cursed by a fairy?!
It was around half an hour until Bella realized that she had absolutely no idea where the Denali's lived even though they were already in Denali, Alaska. The brunette had no one to ask and the time before Jane figured out where they were was almost up.
It was obvious that the Denali Coven would be hidden from most of the populace to have their privacy and less chances of regular humans coming within range of them. The problem was that Bella had no idea where in this whole area they could be. It was possible that there wouldn't be any road leading to their hideaway. Even the Cullens' house back in Forks was hard to find if you didn't know where to turn.
The car took a complete stop and Bella could feel the vampire's eyes piercing her side with a glare.
"We are in Alaska." Jane's teeth was now showing with a snarl.
Shit! Bella could see more signs that indicated that they were in Alaska.
"Why are we in Alaska?" Jane said in a deathly cold voice. Bella could easily tell that the vampire was less than pleased judging by the black orbs staring straight at her. The hand inching towards her neck wasn't calming either.
Think, Bella!
"We have no money!" Thank God! Bella realized that it was a legitimate claim. They actually didn't have any money aside from what she had saved up.
"The money that I brought isn't enough for both of us to have a full trip to Italy! So, I decided to go to Alaska! Where we can get some!" Bella continued and was relieved to see the red start to bleed back into her eyes.
"Explain." Bella was cheering inside as the plan easily came to her.
"I know some Vampires here. If we find them, we can ask for some cash to get the plane tickets to Italy." Bella would also get any information that she could on the Cullens. Maybe even a cellphone number if they're lucky. Crisis averted. Jane already took a bite out of her hand, she didn't want to provoke the vampire, for a few hours more at least... or maybe till the two puncture marks on her hand healed.
"Vampires? In Alaska?" Jane queried with one eyebrow up in a haughty look, as if what Bella was saying wasn't credible. It looks like Jane didn't know the vampires in Alaska after all. Oh well, didn't really matter, the only problem would have been if they were on bad terms.
"Yeah. Denali, Alaska."
Jane's eyes widened, but not enough for Bella to see. At first, she was about to go into a rage when she heard the name of the Coven that the girl knew about.
Denali...
The Denali Coven.
Jane remembered. It was around one thousand years prior when the Volturi had last paid a visit to the Denali Coven to enact out punishments. She could remember the Coven Leader of the Denali's during that time, their mother, Sasha, guilty for creating an Immortal Child, a child that would never grow and only desire to feed.
She remembered seeing the little blond child with blood around his mouth and bodies of the villagers strewn around him. She remembered smiling and picking him up while Sasha writhe in pain as she looked down.
She remembered watching as the Denali Coven Leader's three 'daughters' cried as Marcus, Felix and Demetri tore her apart in pieces and threw her into the flames.
Jane remembered throwing the Immortal Child into the fire, destroying and saving the child from its own pitiful existence.
The blonde's first instinct was to lash out at Bella for bringing her back here, for being devious at concealing their destination...
..., but Jane knew she was at fault as well for not being more direct with the girl. Jane also knew that the girl did not know of the catastrophe about to happen.
Jane hid her expression. The girl had given her the surprise of bringing her to Denali, well then, Jane would give the girl a surprise as well. Jane kept up the silence for a few more seconds before clarifying, just so that the girl would have no idea what was about to happen.
Well, Jane didn't really know where the Denali's were in this area anyway. The last time Jane was here, houses were made out of sticks. Only regular reports to the Volturi confirmed the fact that the Denali Coven was still within the confines of Alaska.
"Where?" Jane was now actually a bit interested at seeing the three Denali vampires that turned into bunny munchers. Maybe she could even tear one apart if the opportunity arose?
One less squirrel-sucker, more wildlife saved.
"You're not mad?" Bella asked since she had expected Jane to blow up for not being direct in their destination. Had her pitiful explanation of not having enough money worked against the stubborn vampire?
"Where are they located?"
"Somewhere in or around the preserve... I think." Bella chose not to push the issue. She did not know the vampire enough to account for all her moods, yet.
The blonde was muttering under her breath, probably annoyed that Bella didn't have the exact coordinates on where the coven was located. Bella really didn't know. All she did was type in 'Denali' and 'Alaska' and let Google do the work. They had the general area at the very least.
A few minutes later, the car was parked in an area close to the Preserve. It would obviously not be ideal to search with a car since the place might not even have access to a road, who knows.
Bella suddenly realized what was about to happen and couldn't help the small grin from appearing and the feeling of giddiness.
"Get on."
Fuck yeah, piggyback ride!
Jane ran at her top vampiric speed with the girl attached behind her. She was actually hoping for the girl to cry, get scared and beg her to slow down, but the girl actually had the gall to urge her to go faster.
Crazy idiotic human.
Thankfully, the brunette actually kept her hands around her neck and not mindlessly groping her. It was understandable since if the girl loosened her grip, she might fall off and die. However, Jane was still pretty sure that the girl was trying to smell her hair or something. Instead of being annoyed, the act actually made her feel fluttery, but she shoved it away and focused on searching for the Denali's.
Jane moved her thoughts on the inevitable clash that was coming . She had a large grin on her face that the brunette couldn't see. She knew there was absolutely no way this was going to end peacefully.
It was actually slightly enjoyable to hear the gasps and squeaks of the girl when a branch almost lopped her head off. Jane was purposefully making them all close calls, serves the girl right for annoying her.
It was only around ten minutes into the search and she already could smell the traces of vampires. Covens that weren't nomads, usually set up a perimeter using their venom to saturate the area so other vampires would know that they were in another Coven's territory.
Wasting no time, Jane dashed towards where the smell was the strongest. Several minutes later and both Bella and Jane were faced with a large estate.
Jane let Bella down on the floor and as Bella looked up, she could already see five vampires that were already in front of the mansion. There were five.
Weren't there only supposed to be three? Someone needs to give her better fucking information.
Calling up her courage, Bella began to move forward to talk to the vampires when she met their eyes. It was more like she met where their eyes were directed to instead. Well, at the very least, they all had amber colored eyes.
Three beautiful blondes, too old for her tastes though, were all glaring at Jane who was just a step behind her. There were two other vampires, one male and one female, both with dark brown hair color that were on the sidelines as well, but their expressions were more passive.
Uh. Did she miss something?
Hissing and growls started, but surprisingly it wasn't from the petite vampire behind her. Bella glanced behind her only to see Jane sporting an evil smirk that made her look lovely and at the same time absolutely demented.
"You are not welcome here, Volturi." One of the blondes spoke up in a sneering tone, it was probably the leader.
"Why so hostile? Your family hasn't broken any rules recently, right, Tanya? There should be nothing to be afraid of." Jane goaded. It was obvious to Bella that these vampires knew each other. And, it really didn't seem as if they were the best of friends. She could see the blonde bristle in anger. Damn, she needed to intervene before shit was blown out of proportion.
"You litt-" It looked like the blonde Coven Leader was just about to charge Jane when the male vampire quickly intervened and put a hand to the blonde Coven Leader's shoulder.
"Tanya, please. We have a guest." The male vampire softly spoke while indicating that Bella did exist. It seems as if the three blondes didn't even notice she was there since all their attention was focused on Jane.
No wonder Jane didn't say anything or get mad! She knew this clusterfuck was going to happen!
"Eleazar. I had hoped the rumors weren't true, but by the look in your eyes, it seems as my hopes were useless after all." Jane acknowledged the male vampire with a small nod. Jane could see that the ex-Volturi's eyes were now a bright shade of amber, just like the rest of the bunny munchers. She was there when Eleazar asked Aro permission to leave after finding his mate, but she did not think that he would join the squirrel sucker team.
"Jane." Eleazar gave a deeper bow. "Sometimes, change is necessary. Why have you come and who have you brought with you?" Eleazar was curious as to why Jane of all vampires would appear here, alone for that matter along with a human. He knew of Jane's aptitude with direction and tolerance of humans, this did not add up.
Bella was about to introduce herself when the blonde with straight hair suddenly spoke up.
"Hey. Isn't that Bella?"
"Err, you know me?" Bella finally had a say! She was just about to pick a branch up and stab her own hand and maybe flick some blood around since everyone was ignoring her.
"Hell yeah! It would be impossible not to when Alice kept shoving her phone in our faces with pictures of you with her." The blonde that was speaking quickly zoomed to Bella causing Jane to immediately snarl. The vampire only gave a side glance towards Jane and held out a hand towards Bella. "I'm Kate." Bella was caught off guard by the sudden carefree smile and shook Kate's hand without hesitation.
Bella could see Kate concentrate slightly while holding her hand. She could also hear the growling from Jane increase.
"She really is immune!" Kate said out loud and immediately after, Kate was writhing on the ground screaming in pain.
It only took a second and all the vampires burst into action. God damn, everything was going to shit and Bella didn't even know why it was all going to shit!
Looks like I might really need to stab myself!
AN: Sorry about the delay in the updates. The temperature here has been spiking over 100F and I can't relax enough to write in the heat. Thankfully, the heat looks like it'll be dying down in a week or two.
Chapter is a bit more on the serious side... I think? Sorry I cut it off there.
And, yes. Edward was cursed by a Fae to sparkle. (I really don't remember any other vampire sparkling aside from him.)
Warning: Vampires here don't sparkle, except Edward. I realized that some Twilight fans may like sparkling vampires and therefore I will let one vampire have a special skin tone. All types of supernatural creatures exist in this story, many may not be mentioned, but assume they all exist somewhere.
I have a decent premise and first chapter for my SwanQueen story, I might post it soon just to get some feedback if it looks okay and if I should continue it.
Thank you for all the feedback! I do love reading your thoughts on the story. :)
Update: 06/25/17 Cleaned up~ And refreshed~
