Author's note: One of the most excitement-filled chapters in the York Coven. Review and enjoy! Sorry for the wait.
Chapter 11
Motorcycle ChaseEdwards sees Leo around the corner of the hotel parking lot, smoking a cigarette, unaware of the horrendous danger he and his siblings are in.
Edward approaches Leo, taking small careful steps. As soon as Edward had stepped one foot towards Leo, Leo recognizes the smell that hits his nose.
He pretends to smoke some more and when Edward is a foot from him, he spins around and yells, " Oh no you didn't?!? You didn't just try to sneak up on me? Did ya? Cause it was pretty obvious!"
Leo leaps backwards a whole three yards. " Catch me if you can! Well…if you could!"
A snarl rips from Edwards throat and he flits after Leo, ignoring the gaping humans getting out of their cars.
Edward bounds over the tall green hedge. Leo runs, doing cartwheels and backhand springs, taunting Edward. Edward pushes himself towards the flexible one even more.
Leo continues to insult Edward. " Slowpoke!" " Hey, my grandma can run faster than you!" " Vampire? More like vampire bat!" " You want some of this? Cause you sure don't seem like you're asking for it!" " Edward Shmedward!" " Catch me if you can, I'm the damn gingerbread man!"
Edward pushes through curious crowds on the street. They pass multiple buildings until Edward stops. How is he to catch this annoying blonde? Just how?
He then spots a nerd riding a one of those ridiculously small motorcycles.
Edward runs out in front of the nerd's path and bellows, " Stop!!!"
The motorcycle screeches to a halt and the nerd stares, eyes wide.
Edward pushes him off and throws a few thousand dollars from his coat onto the ground. " I'm sorry! No explanations!"
Edward pounds on the delicate gas pedal and the motorcycle gives a frail roar. Bzzzz! Bzzzz!
Edward rides around, now on the street and tries to find Leo once again. He spots him jumping back over the hedge to the hotel.
" Hell no," mutters Edward, the speedometer reaching a hundred on the tiny thing.
He does a full turn around, the motorcycle almost breaks right at that point of extremeness. Gray smoke fills the air from the exhaust and drivers from behind beep their horns.
Leo now had disappeared into the backyard of the grand hotel, specifically the pool area.
Edward waits in anticipation as the hedge looms near. What is he going to do? Jump over the hedge with the bike? And break his only chance of catching the damn creature? Hell no.
Edward closes his eyes and the bike screams as it goes right through the hedge, leaving a big hole.
Now he is in the large backyard, filled with a hundred people or so, all socializing, wealthy world leaders debating over the poker tables.
Edward zips with his bike toward a crowd of women, hand waving frantically. " Get your ass out of the freakin way!"
The crowd gives girlish squeals and fall out of the way.
Everyone's eyes are on him, now and then random people giving screams as he continues to blunder by people.
A group of male models sit by the pool, sunbathing. Edward zooms right past them and regrets doing so. The young man sitting up in his straw chair falls back by the force of the wind caused by the bike as it whips past him. The table they're playing cards on teeters on one side and all the men jump up, some falling down.
" Sorry!"
Damn. This little thing has some power after all.
Edward yells at the top of his gorgeous voice, " Get the hell out of my way, fools!"
His confidence mounts and he spots Leo jumping from table to table, groups bawling in annoyance as table cards fly away.
Leo whispers, " Shit!"
Edward continues down the long trail, people sweeping out of the way. Leo jumps to the ground and runs inside of the Mediterranean hotel, his little legs bounding swiftly up the stairs.
Edward zooms ahead and does a wheelie, shaking like an earthquake as he races up the stairs.
" Leo, its payback." Bzzzzz!
Leo goes straight through the crowd in the front office, waiting in the elevator and rapidly pressing the close button.
A man in a gray suit comes up to the elevator. " Young man, can I come up with you?"
Leo stares horrorstruck as he sees Edward cross the entrance of the hotel, his golden eyes on Leo.
" No!!! You may not!!!!" Leo continues to rapidly press the close button but the elevator won't budge.
" No!!! Don't' do this to me!!!" Leo pounds on the walls and wonders if he should have taken the stairs.
Edward meanwhile observes Leo looking rather flustered in the elevator.
A waiter pushing a cart, yells as Edward whizzes by like a rocket. The cart falls and crashes, the man with it.
" I'm sorry!" Edward's brow furrows. The hotel staff scream and jump out of the way, some jumping over the front desk.
An elderly man turns like a turtle to see what's the commotion.
Edward whishes with his hand. " DUDE! Get out of the way!!!"
The man just stands there.
Edward curses and drives to the left wall and the people leaning leap out of the way. He takes a breath and shoots the bike on the wall. He hears gasps as the bike races along the wall for ten full seconds. Bzzzzz! The bike collapses back to the ground and Edward goes to the elevator.
Leo starts taking deep breaths. For the first time in his life, he actually begins to feel…nervous.
The elevator door closes, much to Leo's relief, and he hears a beautiful, " No!!!" as the final inch clears.
Edward is outside the elevator, glaring at it. No one in the lobby says anything. They just stare at the madman.
The elevator next door opens with a bunch of curious tourists. Edward, without thinking, automatically jumps on the gas and drives inside the elevator. The tourists yell in shock and Edward says, " Fifth floor. Go."
No one makes a move to get out. A little girl pushes the fifth button. The doors close.
The elevator music starts playing.
Edward realizes that everyone in the elevator staring at him. He starts to feel embarrassed, wiping his hands on his jeans.
He realizes how funny this scene would be if viewed from the outside. Vampire on one of those tiny moped/motorcycles, in an elevator filled with creeped out humans.
The door opens slowly. Edward waits with impatience. When the door is twelve inches wide, he squeezes through and races down the hall, zooming. Once again, staff and tourists jump out of the way. He ignores the screams and shouts. Whatever.
He spots Leo by the door to his room, talking to a tall, model-like blonde. Her cold blue eyes direct on Edward's angry face.
" Leo," Candice says as smoothly as ice. " You've got company."
Leo routinely runs down the hall.
Edward steps on the gas.
Leo is running fast, slipping past humans, something stabbing at his heart. Fear? He quickly rolls that thought away. Fear?!? From him? Nooo…A York? Yorks weren't suppose to fear. Others were.
He approaches a dead end but with his mind fast as lightning, breaks back window open with his elbow and soars out. His arms outstretched and eyes closed, he falls like an angel. He lands gently in the back yard of the hotel, the people recovering from Edward's rude motorcycle awakening now back to screaming.
He leaps over the hedge, covering his smell. That would teach the vamp a lesson.
Edward on the other hand, heart throbs as he sees Leo disappear outside the window like a magician.
An idea come to Edward. Leo's idea.
The bike races ahead and it bolts out the window, it continuing to scream in agony.
Bzzzzzz!!!
Edward, in the slow seconds, takes a look around. Where is he? Leo? His yellow head is nowhere to be seen.
Edward looks down, preparing for his landing. But alarm takes over.
Right below him is the pool.
" NO!"
But it is too late. The wheezing motorcycle crashes into the pool, it's engine sounds drowned out. Large splashes of water splatter on sunbathers. Shrieks sound from all over.
Great. Just great.
Wet all over and losing. What could be a better combination?
It's was time for the wolves to make their stand.