Chapter 10
Bon AppetiteEmmet walks along the third floor, down the fancy hallway, burden with laundry and trolleys.
Hotel guests stare at him and his muscular figure, intimidated as he walks by.
Emmet meanwhile tries to find a York to fight. He smells a sickly sweet fragrance and follows it downstairs to the grand entrance of the hotel.
There he sees Candice beside a marble statue, sniffing about, apparently having smelled the Cullens. He sees Jacob standing next to the manager in the front desk, looking scruffy and dizzy. He catches bits of their conversation about "stairs" and a "trolley". Emmet ignores this, tip toes down the short velvet lined stairs to Candice and taps her on the back.
In the next fraction of a second Candice spins around. Her blue eyes narrow as she sees Emmet. She crouches and gives out a long animal-like snarl.
" Ooh, scary," mocks Emmet, crouching.
What Candice does worries him next. She runs up the wall, halfway across the ceiling and does a triple flip in the air, then lands on her hands, finishing with a back hand spring.
She laughs heartily.
" Show off," mutters Emmet as he shoots himself towards her.
" Bring it asshole," scorns Candice, blue eye flashing an electric current.
Emmet lands and then crouches. He pulls himself towards her forcibly and Candice ducks, him crashing into the wall, the whole wall breaking into dust. This attracts the hotel staff and guests. They run away yelling, witnessing the two strong vampires battling. Before long, the whole first floor is in chaos.
Emmet punches his fist into Candice but Candice, along with her swinging strawberry blond hair, moves like light. She dodges and Emmet's fist pounds into the statue behind her, it now portions of rock on the ground.
Emmet lets out a loud yowl. Candice snickers and runs up the small stairs, through some prosperous wooden doors near the front desk, the doors scattering into the screaming and running torrent of humans.
Emmet puts his fist in his shirt, muttering, " Damn it!", cooling the shattering pain running down his bones, and chases after Candice, pushing a few humans gently out of the way.
He goes through the open doorway.
In front of him is a vast fancy restaurant. The carved domes above him stretch out to the maroon wallpaper. Wealthy people in formal wear, seated at elaborate tables, take their gaze off Candice running through the aisle, to Emmet, standing dumbstruck.
Emmet realizes that Candice wants him to fight, if he dares, in a room full of humans. Emmet decided against this but after seeing Candice poke here pink tongue at him, giving him the stink eye also, he charges and jumps onto a young couples table.
The rooms gives several gasps and some people bound from their seats.
Emmet dives from table to table, utensils and food crashing onto the floor. People scream and begin to evacuate, realizing the danger.
Emmet goes through ten tables like this, jumping like a kangaroo from each one. He stops on the last table and stares at Candice, insults flowing from her mouth. He then leaps from the edge of the table and pushes Candice to the floor. They wrestle, arms and legs entwine. Candice snarls fiercely and bites Emmet on the cheek. Emmet howls and leaps off, stinging on his left cheek.
Candice avoids his blows, one by one. A brave waiter comes to break them up. Emmet hastily takes the metal dome cover for the chicken and bangs Candice's head with it.
Candice stands there, slightly dazed. Emmet take his chance and runs to the wall next to them. Like the matrix, he goes up the whole thirty foot wall and pushes off it, fist extended towards Candice. Candice recovers in the second it takes Emmet to do all this and she karate kicks his hand.
By now the entire rooms has evacuated.
Emmet falls to the ground hardly and lays there in defeat. " Bitch," he mumbles.
Candice gives a tinkling laugh. " I wouldn't be calling that to a chick who just whooped your ass."
Emmet feels embarrassment taint his heart. He had been beaten by a girl.