Once again I need more people for the contest. I at least need a seven, two six and a five year old girl. Remember I'm not going to update for that chapter until I get all of the characters also the deadline will not be until April 11 now.
By the way Happy Easter!
Chapter 11
I didn't know what I was doing or where I was. The only thing I knew was that I should run. Run as fast as my legs could carry me and pray that I made it out okay.
It scared me that my body was so freaked out and that my brain was not able to detect yet.
I tried yet again to identify my surroundings but everything was so pitch black that I couldn't even see the hands in front of my face let alone anything else so how was I even suppose to run?
And this was no average darkness for even my golden eye, that possibly was part of my vampire genes because of its superior sight, couldn't see anymore than my brown eye.
I then realized that I never actually tried to move yet, it was like I was frozen in fear. When I realized this the image of a deer caught in the middle of the road with an oncoming car heading straight at it, and I for one did not want to be caught in the headlights.
I carefully put my foot at in front of me, feeling around first to make sure I wasn't standing near a cliff (hey, you never know) and after I was pretty sure that I wasn't about to fall off something really steep I put my other foot next to the left one.
I probably taken only five steps when my left foot hit a solid surface that I could only guess from the pain was a tree… a really big, strong tree. After a few minutes and a large amount of cursing in my mind I noticed that when my foot collided with the tree it became less like a dark abyss and more like a dark night.
This gave me an idea and I placed both of my hands onto the tree and sure enough light started to filter into my surrounding area, identifying it as a forest.
It was different than the average forest, for one thing everything was green and I mean GREEN. Not only the grass or the leaves but also the tree trunks, branches and the ground itself were covered with what I could only guess was moss.
Yet there was something vaguely familiar about this place but I just couldn't put my finger on it.
I took a couple of steps away from the tree as I tried to figure out how I even got here when my foot got stuck in something.
Stupid moss! I thought bitterly as I reluctantly tried to get my foot out of whatever my foot landed in.
But the task was much more difficult then I thought because every time I tried to pull my foot out it would only sink in deeper and soon the murk had taken my foot into its capture and it had taken my left leg all the way to the knee.
Now I was starting to panic. It was like quicksand only deadlier. I tried to release the bind it had over me but it was no use. I was only sinking in deeper and soon my whole leg was engulfed by the strange murk.
I then realized that it was getting darker again. Bewildered I looked around and found the entire forest glowing with an ominous red color.
The exact color of blood.
I was scared now. Something was definitely wrong and the whole forest seemed to be howling in agony "Get out while you can."
I tried yet again to release my entire leg but it was not only a fruitless task but I fell into the whole thing this time. It was then that I found out what the murk really was and I screamed out loud.
It was blood!
There were even human bones floating around the bottom of it, bones of those who were unlucky and were dragged to the bottom were they will be trapped forever.
And it seemed that I was the marsh's next victim.
I snapped then. I didn't want to die! I began thrashing about and I tried desperately to get out of the murky substance of blood. I somehow managed to get half of my body out of it but then something grabbed the back of my legs and starting to drag me back under.
"I told you, you couldn't get away from me." She hissed in her evil voice.
"Let me go!" I cried and tried to shake Dark Amber off but to no avail since she only seemed to dig in deeper into my legs with her lethal like claws.
"No! I'm showing you what it feels like to be locked away forever!"
Then with a mighty tug she sent me tumbling back into the marsh dragging me to the bottom.
I tried fighting her. I kicked, I scratched, I punched and hit and I even bit her (which wasn't really a good idea because I got a lot of blood in my mouth) but she only smiled and grabbed me more roughly as she continued dragging us to the bottom.
I then panic even more as I saw what look some sort of vortex at the bottom and I immediately knew were that would lead me. Right into the prison room Dark Amber was stored in were I would stay for at least five years while she wrecked havoc with my life.
She saw the panic looked in my eyes and only smiled wider enjoying every minute of my fruitless attempt of escaping.
I felt sick to my stomach because I knew I failed and that she was finally going to succeed in my capture. It would just be better if I gave up, but it wasn't my nature to give up a fight.
Wait a sec!
Dark Amber was still part of me so of course she knew that I would struggle and that I would never give in to her, so the only way for me to escape her clenches was to do something that she would never expect from me. Stop fighting.
I stopped my struggling and flattened my body in defeat. Dark Amber feeling the change stiffened in bewilderment and locked her cruel gaze into mine trying to decipher what the heck I was doing.
She of course didn't know what was happening so as she tried to decipher my new strange movement she accidentally loosened her hold on me like I prayed she would and with her slightly off guard I manage to aim a great kick in her stomach that sent her reeling in pain and mostly shock.
I knew that it would do no good to celebrate now so while Dark Amber was still in shock I managed to flail my legs in what was suppose to be swimming and took off to reach the surface of this blood marsh and hopefully get out of this nightmare of a place.
My hands shot out of the water and touched a gritty like surface. Sand. Ecstatic I forced my body out of the marsh and managed to pull myself out onto the surface.
After taking in some deep breathes of air I realized that I recognized this place. It was the beach in La Push that Quil, Claire and I had passed countless of times while driving.
Thinking about Quil and Claire gave me a sick feeling to my stomach. They were both probably worried about me. At least I hoped they were because that meant that they cared about me and knew I was missing.
I sighed and picked myself up and tried to find a path that would lead me back to town. After walking for a couple of minutes I realized that something was not right. It was too quiet even though I was real close to town.
Something was wrong. In all my time in being in La Push I realized that things were never quiet during the day since everyone was usually out and having fun outside.
I began to quicken my pace which soon turned into a jog and then a run and before I knew it I was pushing my speed to the limit.
I reached town and sighed with relief when I noticed the back outline of Quil.
"Thank goodness you're alright. I thought for the minute something horrible happened to La Push." I said and laughed at myself for being silly.
Quil didn't say anything and didn't even bother to turn around and face me.
"I mean there's no noise or anything. I thought something bad happened to you guys so I rushed over here."
He was still quiet and still had his back on me. Annoyed I searched his mind for thoughts but I gasped in surprise. It was silent and eerie… Just like La Push itself.
Scared I timidly placed my hand on Quil's shoulder and gave him a gentle yet firm shove expecting him to turn around in anger, but to my horror the shove knocked him to the ground.
"Sorry!" I apologized to him and got down on my hands and knees, but once I got down there I screamed in horror.
Quil was dead! There were two incisions in his neck that looked exactly like fang marks. I drew back in alarm thoughts acing through my mind.
He was bitten! I thought almost hysterically. Bitten by a vampire!
"No!" A ghastly voice replied to my thoughts. "He was bitten by YOU!"
"NO!" I shouted even more hysterically nearly crossing the line of insanity. "It wasn't me! I didn't do it… I'm not a monster!"
"But you're not human either." The voice belonging to the person stepped out of the shadows revealing herself as Dark Amber.
I felt my body freeze in fear. She was still after me.
"Besides you don't need to be the one that bite them to kill them. Just by being around them every day puts them in danger of IT finding you." She continued.
"IT?" I asked in confusion.
"Yes IT as those who wish you harm. I don't know who they are or what they want with you, but I do know that whatever they are they are vampires and that they will tear apart anyone you care about just to get a hold of you!"
And to prove her point she lifted some of the shadows that surrounded us revealing hundreds of dead bodies that were torn to pieces all over the ground.
I stared in shock as I recognized some of the mangled faces as those from La Push. Sick to my stomach I fell to the ground and pulled my knees into my chest rocking back and forth and breathing deeply.
"I don't believe you." I whispered not believing that any of this could ever happen.
"What! Honestly you can't be so blind! You search for the answers of your path yet they are right in front of you! " Dark Amber screamed vehemently. "Do you think that fire you experience when you were eleven was normal? Or how Elli died? NO! It was IT, the vampires."
I stared at her in bewilderment and she only growled in anger. "Fine! You don't believe me so I'm just going to have to show you!"
She grabbed me roughly around my wrist forcing me to face her and then with a mighty kick sent me soaring into the air.
Any air that was left in my lungs was knocked out of me the minute we made contact with each other and I was soon gasping for air once again.
Finally after awhile I was able to breathe again and I recognized were I was with a jolt. I was back in the orphanage where I grew up with Elli.
I turned around and faced Dark Amber. "Why did you take me here!?" I screamed angrily.
"You need to see for yourself what we're up against." She said with a shrug.
I was going to ask what that meant when I noticed someone approaching the staircase and I nearly fainted after I saw who it was. It was Elli.
She was alone at first but then out of literally nowhere a woman appeared before her. The woman was breathtakingly gorgeous. She had long black hair with elegant curls that fit perfectly against her back, a beautiful face that had to be carved out of stone to be so perfect yet her face was angry and cruel and she had bloodthirsty red eyes.
She moved in such fluid grace that greatly surpassed mine yet there was also something lethal in her movement that made you feel like you were being hunted. And she was heading straight out Elli.
She stopped in front of her and gave a cruel replica of smile at Elli which made her flinch and recoil slightly in horror yet some how poor Elli managed to stand her ground.
"You, witch, where is the twilight?" She asked with such a beautiful voice that was poisoned by anger and hatred.
I looked at the woman with curiosity even though she couldn't see me. She was looking for me.
Elli spoke in a surprisingly commanding tone that didn't sound a bit like a seventeen year old orphan. "I do not know and even if I knew, which I don't, I wouldn't tell it to the likes of you, vampire!"
The vampire only smiled wider. "You know who I am and still you won't tell me. Well if you truly don't know than I guess you could always introduce us." She hinted slyly which sounded a lot like a threat with her tone.
"No! I want have any of YOUR kind going within a hundred feet of her while I'm still alive!" Elli said with such fierceness that even the vampire twitched at her tone.
"Oh well. Looks like I'm just going to have to kill you then!" And with lightning fast reflexes the vampire grabbed hold of Elli by her neck and with just the twist of her wrist she broke her neck and then threw the body down a flight of stars mangling the corpse even more.
"Elli!" I screamed in horror as my worst nightmare replayed all over again. I rushed to the bottom of the stairs but before I hit the last stair someone grabbed hold of me.
"Don't even bother. She's dead anyway." Dark Amber said without a single ounce of feeling let alone sympathy.
I was so sick and tried of Dark Amber that before I even knew what was happening I punched her with so much force that it even surprised me and sent her flying through a couple of walls.
This did not make her happy one bit and within a minute she came back and grabbed me by the neck and pushed me roughly against the wall while squeezing my throat real roughly that I was sure it would break like Elli's did.
"You shouldn't have done that!" She sneered venomously.
"Go… to… Hell!" I croaked.
Outrage Dark Amber drew back her free fist and prepared to punch me in the gut.
THUMP!
I woke up with a jolt and found myself in the middle of my room in Quil and Clair's house with both of them hovering nervously around my bed.
"I think the CPR worked, Quil. She's finally awake."
"What happened?" I asked after I was able to regain my breath.
"I don't know. One minute we were walking and talking and then next you started screaming and passed out." Quil said.
"You've been asleep for two days now and all of a sudden you stopped breathing and Quil had to do CPR on you and then you finally woke up." Claire added.
"It was just a nightmare then." I whispered, still in disbelief.
"What happened?" Quil asked, clearly still worried.
"Dark Amber came back." Was all I could say leaving both Quil and Claire even more bewildered than before.
I'm really sorry for being late… yet again but I've only been home for three days since Easter break so I didn't really have time to write.
Hope it was scary enough though I think I did go off a bit on the whole nightmare. I swear when I'm writing it feels like my hands get carried away with the typing and I put in something I never intentionally planned.
By the way I really really need more people to enter this contest and I can't update that chapter until I get all the kids.
And guess what! I FINALLY figured out how to make a profile so you guys can check that out if you want.
RoseMoonHarvestSky: It's okay for giving me flames, though I personally am not looking forward to it and it's not going "superman" for Twilight to save all the kids because she more guides them out than pulls each one out at a time. By the way I am not revealing anymore of the chapter to YOU even if you are a great flatter.
Queen of the Fairytales: Yeah! New reviewer! Glad you like it and I hope you'll continue reading this story.
Arykianna Cullen: Yeah! You said I'm the awesomeest person ever, I'm really flattered:) By the way Dark Amber scares me a little too but that just means that I did a good job in creating her.