I want to apologize for the last fight scene in chap 9 as I felt I could have done better now that I reread it. Hopefully, this chap will make up for it and the horror undertones are begining to show 3 Please read and review!

Bella ran inside, almost tripping over herself in the process. "Hello?" she called, looking both ways before she crossed the empty hallway. Splat. Bella skidded to a stop, her heart pounding as she listened for that strange sound again.

Splat.

To the left! In the nurse's station! Bella tried her best to walk as quietly as she could, hands shaking as she pressed herself against the wall. The door to the nurse's station was slightly ajar: she could hear more sounds, squishing and thunking sounds that made her stomach twist as she remembered what had occurred earlier. The image of the Paradigm solider lying motionless on the ground in front of her house, limbs bent in awkward angles. She swallowed back bile and peeked in through the crack, gripping the door handle so tight her knuckles were white.

What remained of the school's nurse face she couldn't see and for that Bella was grateful. The Black Paradigm solider- a young woman with short black hair cut in a bob, her back to Bella. The way the light played off her hair gave her an almost red halo, due to the slight undertones in her hair. The nurse's legs were splayed wide as the young woman (more like a girl, Bella thought as she noted how thin and petite she was) kneeled before her, dragging something across. The woman's arms had been chopped off; the weapon a cleaver lodged firmly into the wall.

The girl stood up and the thought of her being a child was only further proved: at most she couldn't be more then fourteen. Bella could see the girl's hands covered in crimson, in blood. "I know you're there," she whispered and turned around to stare at Bella from the fragile safety of her door. The black cloak tied around her neck was pinned with an orange butterfly brooch inlaid with green and silver. She reached up to touch it, taking a step towards Bella. The dress she wore was maroon, trimmed in white lace and it struck Bella then that the girl could pass for an Asian version of Alice as a child more than anything else.

"I won't let you kill my sister," the girl whispered raising her hand. Bella took a step backwards, notching her eyes: they were so dilated that she could barely see any iris. The girl had taken one of those pills.

"I-I-I don't want too," Bella stuttered out, backing away, towards the corner where she could hopefully make a run for it. The girl followed her one slow, deliberate step at a time, hand outstretched.

"I won't let you hurt Kaedae," she whispered. "I won't let you."

Bella saw a spark of blue appear in the palm of her hand and on instinct dropped to the ground as the tiny spark exploded. A pillar of flame: orange tinged with blue and mixed with yellow shot where Bella's chest had once been. Bella could feel the searing heat and tried to run, diving around the corner just as another blast of flame rippled past her. Someone was screaming now: more than one person, a crescendo. Oh God it must be lunch time!

"I won't let you hurt my sister!" the little girl screamed. "Not Kaedae! I won't let you!"

"I don't want too," Bella gasped, scrambling backwards.

"I won't let you! I won't let you! I won't let! Iwon'tletyou! Iwon'tletyou!Iwon'tletyou!iletyou!Iiwon'tlet you!"

Her chanting voice was a near hysterical scream as more flame conjured around her hands, spiraling around her wrists, flowing up her arms and around her entire body. She was engulfed in flame, her voice chanting those same four words with a near hysteria. The color of the flames caught the highlights in her hair, giving her a red aura of sorts: she looked like a demonic angel. Bella's back brushed up against the wall and for one moment time seemed to freeze. She was captivated by this girl: the near hysteria in her voice, the fear clearly written in her eyes. In this very moment Bella realized that this girl was just as afraid of Bella as Bella was afraid of this girl.

"Bella!" Mike Newton called out though she was unable to tear her eyes away from the horrid, beautiful sight. "Bella run!"

The girl stopped merely inches away from Bella's own feet, hands trembling as she clutched together one tiny fireball. Bella watched as it began to build its strength: going from marble sized to overflowing her cupped hands. "Ah," Bella hissed as she clutched her right hand close to her chest; it had been licked by one of the overflowing flames. The wall was unrelenting as Bella pushed herself against it in an attempt to crawl away from the flames. She glanced over in the direction of Mike's voice: he had bad looking cut on his cheek and had skidded to a stop at least ten feet away, his face pale. "S-She has powers," Mike stuttered. "Oh shit."

"Leave her alone Sister."

Bella had been so caught up in the moment that she hadn't even noticed the girl walking towards them, her near spitting image. Twins! Bella thought as she moved an inch towards Mike. The sister of the Flame Girl- Kaedae Bella remembered, the girl called her sister Kaedae- had the faintest of blue highlights in her own bobbed hair and was dressed in camo slacks and combat boots, quite the opposite of the more femine looking twin. But what got Bella's attention was the two large black feathered wings protruding from her back; the reason for the girl wearing a black tank top perhaps? Kaedae's sister shook her head.

"They're going to kill us," she whispered. "They're going to separate us."

Kaedae shook her head and reached out, fingertips mere inches from her sister's protective flames. The flames moved away from Kaedae as if touching her sister was forbidden and Kaedae intertwined their fingers. "Rei," she whispered with a soft smile. "They can never separate us."

Kaedae's blue eyes settled on Bella and the older woman gasped. Kaedae's eyes were normal! "You didn't take the pill," Bella breathed.

"Just because I didn't swallow the Bloodlust," Kaedae whispered, tightening her grip on her sister's hand, "does not mean I will not kill you if you try to harm my sister. We are here to kill the vampires. Nothing less and nothing more unless a new threat arises."

Bella could say nothing; La Push would be found out soon enough. A silence fell over them before the twin girls backed away, facing both Bella and Mike. Rei's flames vanished as she threw her arms around her sister's neck and Kaedae's wings expanded to their full length: her wings were so large they could almost touch either wall in the middle of the hallway where she stood. With one powerful pump of her wings the two girls rose and shot away in a single motion, leaving a dumbstruck Bella and Mike.

"Oh fuck," Mike whispered as he walked to Bella. She looked up at him and watched as he slid down next to her. Bella could see the beginnings of a brush the shape of a handprint forming around his neck. She could see a few faint specks of puke on his chin and lips. "Oh fuck this day."

"Wha-" Bella started, hoping what he was going to say wouldn't be true.

"First this massacre and now…" Mike trailed off and looked at Bella, his face pale. "The Cullens Bella. Did you know about this? We're surrounded by fucking monsters."