Twilight at Midnight
Chapter Fourteen:
More Vampires and a Human Annoyance
Mike Newton stalked towards Bella's house; he was finally going to have it out with Malik Ishtar. Mike had been out of the hospital for two days now, and the whole the school seemed very worried about him, and make no mistake Mike loved the attention he was getting.
Especially as everyone thought that he had stopped robbers from stealing from the outfitters store and all the girls seemed to think that he was now some great hero. But Mike knew that Ishtar, Mouto and Bakura had something to do with his amnesia and the attack and he was going to prove it!
His uncle and the other agents admitted that they had talked to the students but they only just remembered what had happened. As if they had the same amnesia as he did though it was more concentrated- wiping only one memory rather than all of them. Mike jabbed at the doorbell and waited for someone to answer while he planned what he was going to say.
Chief Swan answered the door looking blearily at Mike, 'oh hey there, son. What can I do for you?' he asked, snapping awake in an instant. This threw Mike off his game as he was expecting the Chief to be at work and Bella answering the door.
'Ah…I-I was l-l-looking for B-Bella, sir.' Mike managed to stutter out as the chief continued to stare down at him. It wasn't that the chief was trying to be scary but it sure was working on Mike, then again Mike tried to reason with himself, he had only just got out of the hospital two days ago.
'Sorry son.' Chief Swan muttered not moving out of the doorway. 'She and Malik went to see the Cullen's. It's nice that the Cullen kids have made such good friends with the exchange students. At first I wasn't so sure you see, seeing how they looked and dressed but those three are excellent young men.'
Mike wanted to snort and tell the chief the truth. Those three wonderful excellent young men were complete psychos and had attacked him and somehow they had taken away all his memories until his uncle had walked through the hospital door. His uncle had told him to find the exchange students and then contact him and the other two agents immediately after.
'Oh…right. Thank you, sir.' Mike said trying to look innocent. Chief Swan didn't seem to notice that Mike looked more devious than innocent. Instead his just ruffled the teen's hair and shut the door on his face.
Mike whipped out his mobile phone and pressed speed dial. 'Hey, Uncle Harry? It's me…yes I know where they are…at the Cullens house…right okay. Bye.' Mike quickly hung up and walked away whistling. The Cullen's were finally going to get what they deserved.
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Alice's eyebrows puckered when their future suddenly disappeared, it wasn't that it had shocked her or she wasn't worried. In fact she had completely forgotten about the werewolves and their treaty when she got the last vision of the Volturi. And seeing as she was searching the immediate future it meant the wolves were coming soon.
She groaned and said clearly, 'the Wolves are coming now. They'll be here in about ten minutes.' She glanced around the room; Edward had taken Bella up to his room in hopes of getting her to sleep some but when the future had gone they were now coming down.
The only change in exchange students' expression was Yami rising as single eyebrow. The "spirits" were the ones in control as in the words of the tomb robber Bakura, 'if some hopped up rat faced bastards think they can mess with our Lights without us doing anything to stop it they're just plain stupid. We will not let anything harm our Other Halves.'
Carlisle sighed, it was a deep heavy suffering sound; Alice had phoned him and Esme after she had the vision of the Volturi and had told them to come home as soon as possible. They then had the exchange students explain again what they were and about the Millennium Items and Carlisle and Esme explained about their pasts.
He turned to the exchange students and explained quickly. 'There are werewolves, they hate vampires, we have a treaty because our family don't hunt or harm humans and now they are coming to talk with us because they think we have something to do with the attack on Mike Newton.'
'Oh.' Was all Yami had to say as Bakura and Malik suddenly fell about laughing very hard it was as if they had just heard the funniest joke ever told. They stopped just as suddenly when Yami completed his sentence. 'Then we will explain to them that we are responsible for his condition.'
'WHAT!' Malik and Bakura roared as one. Malik started talking very fast between clenched teeth while his white haired friend seethed silently. 'That ignorant little idiot had it coming and you know it Pharaoh! He told the FBI all about us and we needed to find out how much he told them.'
'That is true. But remember that the Cullen's had nothing to do with it. It would be dishonourable to allow them to take the blame for our doing.' Yami countered, his voice rang with authority.
Bakura snapped out of his small cold bout of anger to snarl at the tri-haired Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, 'and you know all about honour, don't you oh mighty one.' His voice was cold and unforgiving. Yami glanced at him with red eyes filled with sympathy but didn't say anything.
The uncomfortable and tense silence ended when the there was a loud knock on the door. Carlisle opened it and held a whispered conversation with whoever was outside. Finally he gestured for everyone to follow him and everyone but Alice filed out of the house.
The visitor turned out to be a tall young man who Carlisle introduced as Sam. His copper toned skin reflected the same glow as Malik's against the alabaster white of the vampires and Bakura and the peach colour of Yami's.
The man stopped just beside a river before turning to Carlisle, Bakura, Malik and Yami knew that five wolves hide just beyond the tree-line in case anything was to go south. Sam spoke in a calm voice but it held contempt and anger under the surface. 'What happened to the Newton boy?' he demanded.
'The Cullen's had nothing to do with the boy's unfortunate adventure.' Yami said, his own voice was calm and collected but in the ring of power lay just underneath and Sam actually took two steps away from him without thinking. 'If you allow us time to explain you will understand.' Yami concluded.
'Explain then.' Sam snapped he hated to appear weak in front of these leeches and these three; he wasn't sure what they were. They didn't smell like vampires but they didn't smell human either. In fact they didn't smell at all.
Bakura was the next to do the talking, he didn't bother to conceal the anger or distrust he felt at the werewolf. 'We- me, Yami and Malik- have an ancient power called the Shadows. Many people want to use this power- people who don't understand it or have the energy or talent to wield it.'
Malik spoke next, his voice was the same as Bakura's but it had a slight false politeness to it. As if he was making fun of Sam. 'Newton called the FBI on us when he realised that we could have this power. We had to find out just how much he knew about us.' He said the last part as if it was nothing big.
'So you put him in a coma for three days?' Sam demanded, his voice was openly hostile now.
'Yes.' The three exchange students together. Even Yami didn't seem that concerned about Sam's furious voice but he finished the sentence, 'the coma did not harm him. It was only to make sure he forgot what he knew about us and the Shadows.'
'He lost all of his memories! He didn't even remember his own name!' Sam snarled. He was shaking so badly it was like he was vibrating.
'We had nothing to do with that. It was from shock rather than our power.' Bakura shrugged. 'You can't blame us if the boy has a pathetically weak and fragile mind.' He added sounding as if he didn't care-which he didn't in the slightest.
'How do we know you will not use this gift against the humans in this town or our families?' Sam hissed.
Yami spoke flatly. 'If we wanted to harm Forks or anyone in it we would have done so already. We have no quarrel with you or the inhabitants so we have no reason to harm you.' He stressed the word "anyone" as he had not missed the use of "humans" from Sam and he didn't like that the wolf cared nothing for the vampires.
Malik's smirk was about the same temperature as the Arctic Circle and his voice was brittle and freezing as ice. 'And even if we did, what do you think you could do to stop us? Know this; you protect your secret and your families and friends. We protect ours. The lost of one insignificant worm of a child's memories is a low price to pay to keep the world safe.'
Malik, Yami and Bakura didn't give them time to respond before turning on their heels and striding away, each looking every inch of royalty, (even Bakura but everyone was smart enough not to say it to his face.) and they left Carlisle, Edward, Emmett, Jasper, Rosalie and Sam there to talk it out among themselves.
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When the exchange students returned, Alice was talking very quickly down the phone so her lips were a mere fluttering movement and her voice was a constant hum. They caught some words and phrases such as "find out" and "help" but they weren't very interested in it.
She hung up shortly after and turned to the exchange students that were now sitting on the floor by the loveseat and talking to themselves in a language she recognised as Ancient Egyptian. Sadly she could not speak it and so she didn't know what they were saying.
She didn't have long to wait until the rest of her family filed through the door, looking tired but Carlisle was smiling slightly although there was a small sign of strain in his golden butterscotch eyes. 'What is it? What happened?' Alice demanded. She hated not being able to see the future and know what was coming.
'The wolves have agreed that we are not responsible for what happened to Mike Newton but they no longer want the exchange students on the reservation. Did you manage to talk to Tanya and her family?' Carlisle asked sounding tired.
'Yes. They are coming down in a couple of hours. Have you told the pack?' Alice whispered, for the first time since they had met her, the exchange students heard Alice Cullen sound scared. It was a rather unsettling tone coming from someone who could see the future.
'I mentioned that some more of our kind may be coming. I explained that Tanya and her family were also vegetarians but Sam still didn't want them anywhere near the border and they wanted us to keep an eye on them. Any slips and we are held responsible.' Edward muttered looking as tired as Carlisle.
'Who are Tanya and her family?' Yami asked from where he was sitting with his back leaning against the settee. Bakura and Malik sat opposite him, both looking cautious and defensive about this new player in a dangerous game.
In Ancient Egyptian they had been discussing that too many people knew about them now. They needed to do damage control; Bakura and a reluctant Ryou agreed that they needed the werewolves to forget, Malik wanted to confront the Volturi and stop them in their tracks and Yugi and Yami both agreed that they needed to resolve things fast.
Carlisle turned and explained to them about their "cousins" Tanya, Kate, Irina, Carmen and Carmen's mate Eleazar. The three Millennium Item Holders grudgingly agreed to allow Carlisle to tell them about the Items and the spirits if they were there to truly help them.
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Mike Newton went home after going to Bella's house. He had wanted to go straight to the Cullen's but his uncle had convinced him that his work was done and that he needed to allow the FBI do their work now. He was a national hero; his uncle had told him so.
So instead he wandered off towards Jessica's house. Maybe she'd be up for a date to the movies or something. It was a pity Bella was so stubborn, but when the Cullen's move away again maybe she'll come round and see that she loved him as much as he loved her. He knew it, she was just playing hard to get.
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Special Agents Newton, Tomes and Samuels walked slowly up the road that led to the Cullens house. It was further than they expected and even Newton was huffing and out of breath when they finally got to the point where they could actually see the house.
It looked normal enough, in the growing dark there were several lights on and they could see a few figures moving around and casting silhouettes against curtains the colour of freshly fallen snow, but they couldn't make any of them out enough to see who they could be.
They had agreed before coming here that they would knock on the door and tell the exchange students that they just wanted some follow-up questions but it would have been much easier if they still had the tape recorders with the last interview on them. But somehow they lost it all.
The three agents walked briskly up to the front door after they took a few minutes to catch their breath as they didn't want the Cullens to see three top FBI agents out of breathe as if they had just run a marathon. It wouldn't look good for their image. Newton knocked on the door in his best business-like way and waited it to open.
Carlisle swung the door open to see the three agents standing there, their expressions ranged from emotionless to cold to weary. He raised a single gold eyebrow before asking; 'can I help you?'
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A/N: Chapter fourteen out! Review please!