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AN: Yay, I'm getting this one up fast & the next one. Don't worry, be happy now. I love that singing fish. Like damn. But I won't bother you with a huge author's note like last time that most of you ignore. Soo, without further adue…
Chapter 10 – I've failed You Edward
The girl made a feeble attempt to get out of my grasp. Even if she did, I could easily catch her again. I slowly let her go and held her there with my mind. She was going nowhere.
She wasn't answering so I reminded her of the consequences. "Tell me where the Cullens are or I will kill you." I wasn't sure I actually would but I had to make her believe I would or she'd never tell me.
She looked at me in fear, trembling, having believed my fierce façade. I had a feeling that she usually wasn't on this end of the stick. She was scared, but she wouldn't disobey her master for just a threat. I didn't want to hurt her but she was leaving me no choice; I had to get to the Cullens as soon as possible. I quickly grabbed her right leg and snapped it up, breaking her knee. She screamed in agony as her knee cracked and dug into the bone. It pained me just to watch, with her knee now the wrong way in the air, it was sickening.
"Tell me where the Cullens are." I demanded again. Her face was contorted into pain but she still remained silent.
Slowly I brought the other leg up. "No!" She cried, now sounding like a child. "No, please, I'll tell you where they are."
I smiled a little in triumph, though I still felt guilty about hurting her, and let her other leg free from my grasp.
She sighed in relief and defeat then looked up, pleadingly into my eyes.
"Tell me," I prompted and slowly took a hold of her left leg again.
"Okay, okay!" She pointed down to the alley she came out of. "Go down there. At the end is a grate, go down and follow the tunnel until you find a door. Go through it and you're in." She said in a rush.
"And the Cullens?" I said aggravated by her avoidance of them.
"I don't know." She said faintly.
I took her leg again. "I really don't! All I was told that I was to guard the entrance." She pleaded.
I nodded roughly and released her. She crumpled to the ground with another scream of agony. Oops. Well, atleast it will be healed in a few hours.
I ran back to Alice who had a smile on. "Bout time she got a taste of her own medicine." She said sternly. I frowned, even if she was cruel, no one deserved that.
"We have to go through the alley and a tunnel. Once we're inside I should be able to hear them." I said, pointing to the alley that the girl had come from.
"Right," Alice nodded and started for the alley. I went after her and picked her up with my mind. We could travel faster this way and we just may be racing against the clock. She didn't protest because she knew the urgency and that speed was a big factor.
I sped down the alley and saw the grate within seconds. I quickly put Alice on my back to I could focus my mind to lift the grate up. I tossed it aside and it made a rough noise as it hit the cement of the alley ground. Without slowing or stopping I slid in the opening and landed in a crouch on the wet tunnel floor. It was black with very little light but just enough that I could see the shine bouncing off the damp walls.
I sprung up and darted down the black tunnel, my feet splashing in the damp puddles and eyes closely watching walls to make sure they didn't jump out at us. Soon I saw a light up ahead and a then a metal gate. Its bars were as thick as my arm and had a door made of thinner, entwined bars. I stepped up to open it but when I tried it jerked against my pull. Damn, it's locked. You were expecting anything else? My own sarcastic voice ran in my head.
Well, I'm not going to let some rusty metal stop me. I firmly gripped the top with one hand and put my other along the edge to make the sound softer. Alice put her hands on a side to muffle the sound a bit. She nodded at me to go and I slowly started to pull back on the bars. It wasn't hard to remove; but rather the noise that I was worried about. It started to moan and creak as I pulled it towards me. I decided it would be better to do it quickly and have time to run that to do it slowly and be caught before we even got in.
I yanked it off so quickly that Alice's fingers were still attached and she went flying down the tunnel. She landed a few meters away, only because she righted herself in the air and stopped before going the full distance. I smiled sheepishly at her and she let out a giggle. I had to admit, it was funny. But we had no time for that, I reminded myself and listened to see if anyone had heard the commotion.
-Demetri will definitely get them to change me, it's what I've always…
-I wonder what that noise was, probably just Demetri picking a fight again.
-What the hell was that? Oh well, Jane will take care of it. She's on duty.
-Ugh, I should probably go fix whatever Demetri broke this time. God knows he won't.
Three that I could hear had heard, but the human seemed oblivious. Why was there a human here in the first place? Wait, one of them was coming to fix it; we have to get out of here.
I grabbed Alice with my mind and hopped to the other side of the opening, bring her with me. Then I squashed the metal straight again and set it in place, hoping it didn't tip over and that no one would notice it was broken at all. It made another loud noise and I internally cringed.
"Gawh, I feel like a rag doll today," Alice whispered to me.
"Sorry," I apologized; just low enough for her to catch two feet away form me.
I looked around the long room which was grey and damp, just like the tunnel, but was lighter. At the opposite side of it was a wooden door, the rest was just brick.
I ran to it, praying for it to be unlocked; knowing that I couldn't put the splintered pieces of wood back together. I could hear Alice's footsteps behind me as they lightly padded on the stone. The door thankfully opened as I turned the knob and pushed.
I peeked my head into the bright hallway. The walls were an odd-white, the floor was carpeted in grey and fluorescent lights hung form the ceiling. I looked forward and saw a room with an elevator. I could hear thoughts from the human coming from the room but there was a wall blocking us form view and she had no hope of hearing us. The vampire guard now coming down the elevator was a different story.
I made a follow me motion with my hand to Alice and stepped out into the hallway. The vampire was only a few floors away from us so I quietly shut the door with my foot and quickly chose a direction; left.
I started at a normal pace so Alice could keep up but it was too risky to be seen. I turned around and gave a pre-apologetic smile. She nodded in understanding and I once again picked her up with my mind. I sped off again, Alice in tow, keeping my mind open for the Cullens whereabouts.
The hallway was long and had many wooden doors along it. I was scanning thought for the Cullens. When I finally found someone I stopped because I would have run into them if I hadn't; he was going slow, human pace.
-Ha, let's see how these veggies like some real blood. None of that animal nonsense. In a week or so they'll have no willpower left and will be overcome with thirst.
I held back my anger and slowly started following the human and vampire. I heard a frustrated sigh then a painful gasp and they were moving vampire speed again. I followed behind, moving behind door frames and other hallways incase he looked back, Alice doing the same.
He came up to a metal door and lightly pushed on it then glided through, limp body in his arms. I ran up and grabbed the door before it close. I walked in to see a grey room with a pure white door opposite of me. Alice stepped in and closed and locked the door behind her.
The guard's head snapped up to the clicking noise of the door. His eyes widened as he recognized me. I smiled wickedly to add to the effect, even though I hated to kill him; he was only following master's orders.
I got a hold of him with my mind so he couldn't run away and clamped his mouth shut so he couldn't scream and alert others of my arrival. I gathered up all my shock from all the past few days and let it boil to the top. My hair separated from the static electricity and the air surrounding me crackled. I let it lash out at the poor defenseless vampire and watched as it zapped a hole through his body. Even I was amazed by this. I knew I had to do this quickly and making him into Swiss-cheese wasn't going to help. I let the electricity build up under my skin then released it and let it consume him. The flash was blinding but I couldn't look away; something about it was connecting to my eyes. One moment it was surrounding him and the next there was nothing recognizable left. There were a few scattered ashes on the floor but that was it.
Well, now there's two ways to kill a vampire: ripping him apart and burning the remains and…me.
I felt dirty, like I had a huge weight upon me. I had just murdered someone. Alice shook me to get me thinking straight and I realized that it had to be done. She stepped around me and opened the white door. The light blinded me for a moment and I shielded my eyes with my forearms. I dropped them after they adjusted and I saw the most wonderful sight in the world; The Cullens.
Alice was already in Jasper's arms and I scanned the room for Edward. A huge smile grew across my face as I spotted and ran to him. I jumped on him and the force from my speed knocked him backwards. We landed on the floor, hugging each other fiercely. He chuckled at my exuberance and I could faintly hear the others laughing in the background; but at the moment all I could focus on was Edward, my Edward. I just smirked and removed my head from the crook of his neck. His lips seemed to be calling mine and soon we were locked in a passionate kiss. Normally I would have been embarrassed but I was so happy to see him safe that when I did start to remember the Cullens, I didn't care.
Edward had to push my head back with his hands to get my tongue out of his mouth. "As mush as I would love to, we should get out of here," he explained to my questioning gaze.
"Sorry, getting out here will be the last thing you do," sneered a familiar voice from behind us.
I whipped my head around to see Aro smiling evilly from the door. I was up on my feet and in a crouching stance within a millisecond.
"Now, now Isabella, none of that." He said arrogantly.
I wanted to rip his face off so I wouldn't have to look at it anymore; wipe the look of power off. I didn't even think I'd feel sorry for killing him. I lunged but ran into a white door instead. It actually hurt.
No way was I going to let him go that easily. I backed up slightly and rammed my shoulder into the door…Oww.
It didn't even budge. I tried again. I backed up to the other side of the room and charged. When I hit it I was thrown back by my own force and smacked up against the opposite wall. Ugh, this door was not going to move. Wait a minute, I'll just fry it. If I can zap a vampire surely I can zap mere metal. I stoop up determinedly and brought my still raging shock out. I couldn't feel it like I had last time running through my body. I tried to send it out but nothing came.
"It seems that none of us can use our powers here," Carlisle offered.
I let out a frustrated growl and sank to my knees, then my butt. Edward came to sit beside me and wrapped a comforting arm around my waist.
"It's not your fault. You tried your best. Aro is a tricky, deceiving, vile man." He said, guessing my thoughts.
I sighed. It was my fault though.
We all sat in couples, holding each other for support and comfort. Not much was said, the occasional joke from Emmett when he tried to lighten p the mood. Oh, here he goes again:
"Why did the turkey cross the road?" He voiced.
"I don't know Emmett. Why did the turkey cross the road?" We all chorused in unison.
"Because he thought he was a chicken."
He got the routine slap in the head form Rosalie and the rest of us just shook our heads. I thought he did have somewhat the right idea though; we needed to stay in good humor.
"So three guys were stranded on an island," I started and looked around at the shocked faces, all except Emmett who looked eager, so I continued even if it was only for him. "They met a tribe and knew it was their only chance of survival. The chief told them to go collect three pieces on one kind of fruit and they were off to search for fruit. The first guy came back with three apples. The chief said, "Our initiation is that you must stick your three fruits up your bum and you will be one of us. You may not twitch or make any sound or you will be sent to hell." The man thought this was insane but decided that he might as well try, or he'd die anyway." I stopped for a moment to see faces ranging from excitement (Emmett), to disgust (Rosalie). I continued, atleast Emmett was enjoying it, "The first man tried to but he twitched and was sent to hell. The second man came back with grapes. As he was putting in the second grape he made an odd sound and was sent to hell. In hell the first man saw him and asked, "Why are you down here? You had grapes!" The second man shivered and said, "I saw the other guy coming with watermelons."
Emmett's booming laughter filled our brightly lit cell and the others laughed lightly. Rosalie tried to hide her laugh, but she couldn't help but smile a little. We lapsed back into silence when another joke I saw on ComedyNow! Went though my mind.
"A guy has a black cat named Frank and lives in the gay part of downtown Toronto. One morning Frank runs out the window while the guy is still in his robe. He chases the cat yelling, "Frank!" A gay guy waling past comes up to him and says, "Don't worry about him, you can do better." The guy says, "No, no, he's black and this big."" I made a size with my hands apart and continued, "The gay guy screams down the street, "FRANK! Come back!"
Everyone burst out laughing and I smiled, knowing I helped get rid of some of the tension and bad atmosphere. Just then the door burst open and two men stepped in. One was Aro, but I'd never seen the other one before.
"This is hardly the time to be laughing," he snapped coolly. He gestured forward with his hand and the other men stepped forward.
I jumped up to attack and I heard the Cullens yell my name but I was already mid-leap. I was ready to tear him to bits along with Aro but as soon as I touched him everything went black. In the second it took for me to lose consciousness I felt my limps go limp, the feeling of anger leave me, everything leave me accept one feeling and thought; guilt and I've failed you Edward.
AN: There's chapter 10. le gasp. More coming soon. I've already got 5 pages written of chapter 11 already and I usually do 10 or more so it will be soon. Yay for you. Review please and tell me any grammar or spelling mistakes that word didn't pick up. I need a Beta or something. xl