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Chapter 14: Masquerade of Memories

Seth

"A dance?" I said. Jake laughed.

"That's what Ed said."

"In the hotel?"

"Apparently its some Italian holiday today and the hotel hosts a giant masquerade ball."

"Masquerade?"

"You know, we dress up, wear masks, dance the night away?"

"Sounds…interesting." I mumbled. He smiled and kissed me.

"I even got us masks already." He switched the shower off and left while I dried myself off. He came back with two masks. His was gold and covered the whole top of his face; it also had silver streaks running through it. Mine was exactly the same, except black with white streaks running over it, and mine had a very small black flower on the side.

"Cool." I said with a smile. He grinned.

"Glad you like it." I yawned and he frowned.

"Tired?"

"Ya…what time does the dance thing start?"

"I think Ed said 6:30."

"Ok I think I'm gonna take a nap then." He nodded.

"Alright." He kissed me and I smiled. It was still…hard…to love him but, I think in time…I could finally come to terms and forgive him. The love making the night before had…well, it had given me time to think it over while he had slept. I was so horrified yet; I couldn't help but think of how…close I had felt to him. It was something I had never felt with another person, when I looked at him, I no longer saw evil Jake who had killed my father, I saw good Jake who was so sweet and charming and only cared for my safety. A piece of that dream I had had finally made since in a way.

I had seen two Jacobs fighting from that sheet of glass, a white shirted Jake and a black shirted one. The black t shirt one was evil while the white one was the good Jake. His two personalities had been fighting it out…and I guess his good side had won.

Still haven't figured out the rest of the dream yet, but I had a bad feeling I would…but maybe it was all a metaphor, I wouldn't really…stab Jake….even thinking about it made me shudder. I snapped out of my thoughts and walked over to the bed and laid down and quickly dozed off.

That was when the dreams started

I was in a forest, everything was black and gray but my vision was clear as day.

"Hello?" I called. No answer, the leaves and grass were as black as ink, and when I looked down at my skin it was a dark grey.

"Who are you?" A voice asked curiously. I turned; a tall beautiful girl was standing just a few feet away. Her hair was as black as the ink colored leaves and her skin as grey as mine. Her eyes were the only thing that showed color…they were ruby red.

"Seth." I said.She smiled.

"So you're Seth." She took a step and suddenly it was like the world was bending around her. She was in front of me in a single step, even though it should have taken numerous steps.

"What are you doing here Seth?"

"I…don't know. I…was in my room, but then I fell asleep…and now…"

"Ah, dream visions." She said. She held out her hand, as if she wanted to shake hands.

"I'm Benedetta, Benedetta Shepherd. But don't call me Benedetta please; call me Dot, or just Shepherd."

"Alright…Shepherd." I said. I shook her hand; I was shocked that I could actually feel the cold steel that was her flesh.

"You…"

"Aren't human?" she grinned and suddenly squeezed my hand. I cringed as she squeezed. I tried to fight her off but I found I couldn't.

"In my world, I'm god." She said with a smile. She suddenly let me go and grinned.

"Just fucking with you Seth! Don't worry, I'm a friend." I tried to speed away but found my powers of speed were gone, and strength too apparently.

"W-what do you mean your world?"

"THIS!" She cried in glee. The entire world seemed to react to her voices, everything seemed to stretch, expand, becoming enormous, and just as quickly she lowered her arms and the world was back to normal.

"I can do anything…god I've never really gotten to test this out…" she looked like she was suddenly lost in thought.

"Anything…I could do this." The world suddenly shifted and we were standing in the middle of the ocean on a sheet of glass. I stared at her and stood on shaky legs.

"Y-you…how do you…"

"I can't quite read your mind…more see memories…this was a recent one, a recent dream I mean…this is vivid." She curiously looked the glass at Jacob and Jacob fighting.

"Wow he's hotter than they said." she mumbled.

"Why they fighting?"

"It's a dream." I said. Suddenly the golden goddess appeared and she got wide eyed.

"Woah."

"Stop it! Go to another dream!" I cried. I started banging my fists into the glass.

"Wake me up!"

"Ok!" She said. The glass cracked and we both stared. We fell into black and landed in the white plain with the glorious sun. Reliving my dream was uncomfortable, in fact I hated it.

"It's beautiful." She said, staring at it.

"Why do you want to end it? I mean…" we were suddenly back on the sheet of glass.

"This part is why." I whimpered. I stood on shaky legs; Jacob was there, shirtless, bloody, but smiling at the sight of me. I shakily raised my sword and pressed the tip against his chest. He didn't even seem to notice the cold gold steel pressed against his chest. I was shaking, before it had been so easy but being faced with it again I felt like I would rather kill myself. Suddenly her hand was on my hand.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"This is how this dream ends, it's inevitable." I whimpered, tears streaking down my face.

"So?" She snapped.

"You are in control right now, nothing is inevitable!" She calmly lowered the sword.

"If you love him, then simply don't betray him like that." She said with a peppy smile.

"What if it's not that simple?"

"What if it's not that simple?" she repeated, doing a very bad deep voiced impression of my voice. I just raised an eyebrow at her.

"How can you take this so…calmly?"

"I'm a peppy person." She said amused.

"Who are you? Really?" I said. She smiled.

"I already told you kitten." I raised an eyebrow.

"I'm a wolf, not a kitten." She laughed.

"You forget this is my world, you're whatever I want you to be…now." She suddenly raised the sword.

"WAKE UP." She rammed the sword through my chest and I woke with a start. I was back in the hotel room.

"Hey perfect timing." Jacob said sweetly, kissing my lips.

"We should start getting ready for the dance."

"Uh…" I was a little taken aback…that really all was just a dream? But that girl…I was so confused. I just shook my head and he smiled. We were soon both in tuxes, our masks over our faces.

"Perfect fit." He chuckled, adjusting the mask a little. He grinned.

"And, I can still do this." He kissed my lips and I smiled, his lips tasted so good.

"Let's go then." He turned and we started to walk out when I stopped.

"Oh, wait I got to pee…you can just head down I'll be there in a sec ok?" He just smiled.

"Alright, but don't be too long, I want to grind a little to the quick songs." I laughed and kissed him, then he was gone and I quickly relieved myself. I flushed, washed my hands (as everyone should), and soon was downstairs. The party was taking place in the giant restaurant from before, except everything was decked in elegant golden tables, golden dishes…it was like being transported to a time all the way back in the 17 hundreds. The women wore elegant, gorgeous dresses that ranged from the darkest ruby red to the brightest sky blue. The men all wore tuxes but some wore three pieces, while others (like me) wore 2. The masks, oh the masks! Sunshine orange masks, masks like golden flames, others as purple as violets and some even diamond encrusted. Some represented animals, others nothing in particular. I had never felt like such a poor person.

One girl stuck out to me though. She had a black mask that covered the upper part of her face, nothing more but nothing else was needed. She had a gorgeous diamond necklace covering her neck, and a body celebrities would kill for. She wore a black knee length dress that was skin tight, and showed her curves perfectly. Her white skin was flawless, her black hair was done up in an elaborate bun that I honestly couldn't comprehend, and her eyes were the color of rubies.

And she was staring at me.

She walked slowly over to me; I couldn't hear her jet black stiletto heels click against the sound of the classical music playing in the background. I found I couldn't move, something about her was preventing that. She was in front of me, and my blood went cold.

"Hello kitten." Benedetta Shepherd said with a small grin.

"Care to dance?" I was at a loss for words.

"I…umm…"

"Course you will, you can slow dance can't you?" she grabbed my hand gently but this time I wasn't so powerless. I grabbed her and stared at her.

"What the hell."

"Oh calm down, I'll explain while we dance alright?" I frowned, she sounded different.

"What happened to your voice? You sound…English, like James Bond British." She laughed.

"I'm from Britain kitten…and we were in my world, I sound however I want. If I wanted to sound like Morgan Freeman I would have."

"Ah." I said. I twirled her around and we continued our dance.

"Why are you here?" I said confused. She smiled.

"Ah Kitten…you see I'm here for you."

"What? Why?"

"Well…I should say…I'm supposed to be here for you." She had a nice smile, her teeth were pearly white.

"I'll give you the quick version kitten; I come from a little island in Britain you've never heard of. My father was a carpenter and my mother is already dead. I have a best friend named Cole, whose life is in danger." I stayed silent as she talked.

"I was abducted a couple weeks ago and taken to Italy to hear a…proposition. Maybe I should start over…my family is…gifted. My mother's mother's mother's mother, and all the way down to me, has for our entire lives…been able to see the dead. I know this sounds very sixth sense but hear me out…we have been able to conjure up dead people just by honing in on the place where they died and bringing about an image of them…in a way, it's like I can watch a tape of every single dead persons last moments on Earth…this power interested this guy, Aro, who's the leader of this freaky ass cult called the Volturi."

"Anyway, I was taken to the Volturi, and they…forced me to join. I resisted at first when I didn't like what I was hearing. They threatened me but I didn't care…until they threatened my father and Cole. I agreed, I would serve Aro if they kept far away from father and Cole, Aro agreed, and I was bitten right there. For three days I wanted to die, and when I woke up I was vampire. See as a new born I shouldn't be able to resist all these people but Aro tried a new disciplinary act on me…they put a human in a room with me alone and everytime I tried to go for her, Jane would torture me…until soon it became so hardwired in my brain, not to kill humans..."

"I don't understand if you can see dead people how you can make that whole…dream world thing."

"I was just about to get to that." She said.

"After…training me. They started to work on my gifts. Aro, or Caius, or one of them, apparently saw some sort of other ability along with the seeing dead things, and they wanted to utilize it. First they worked on my dead people thing. I used to be the only one who could see the dead people and animals…but now I can let others see what I see. And the memory thing…at first they battered me with tests, trying to get it all to work out but to no avail…they beat me. But I soon found out about my dream world. The first night, I had been sitting in my room, bored and tired and a bit broken, so I tried to sleep before I realized I couldn't sleep. But suddenly I was in someone's dream, watching it. I was in the human secretaries' mind, Heidi or something, watching her very…erotic dream. It was like I myself was dreaming! I thought those first few days dreaming was going to be impossible now but seeing a dream, even if it wasn't mine, it was…intoxicating."

"She didn't notice me that first night so all I could do is watch as she…well it was very erotic but that's not important." The next night, as she slept, I tried again and found it was like there was a bright light over her head, all I had to do was touch it and I was in her dream. It's a little bit tougher when there are a lot of people dreaming, but being the only human there who wasn't eaten or killed made it easier. That night, I tried messing with things, and found I could actually mess with not only her dreams, but memories. I actually convinced her that Aro and she were lovers and they had just gotten into a particularly nasty argument. When she woke up, she stormed into the main chamber and started yelling at him for cheating! It was incredibly funny and everyone was confused…until they noticed me laughing and realized what had happened. They figured out I could only manipulate people's memories when they slept, which they decided to use against something else that interested them…you."

I shook my head, I had been so enthralled in her story I hadn't realized we were sitting at a table.

"Me?"

"Yup, they really want you…probably because, you know, you are a total killing machine and such."

"But you…didn't mess with my memories, you actually helped me…you didn't mess with any memories did you?"

"Nope, but of course even if I did you wouldn't realize it." She said with a sly smile.

"But I didn't no worries."

"I don't understand why you want to help me though."

"It's not obvious?" she said amused.

"I'm here because the Volturi knows you are here and I'm here to join you to our cause, serve under Aro and such…but I'm not going to do that, you are going to do something else, even if I have to manipulate you."

"What?" I said, confused.

"You are going to destroy the Volturi for me, or I'll make you do it." She said with a smile. Suddenly her eyes flicked to the windows, so did mine, I smelled them.

Two smoke grenades flew through the windows and the room was filled with smoke.

"Shit!" she said.

"They know, hurry!" she grabbed my arm and we started to run…only to be stopped by three very large, very angry looking vampires.

"Hello you little traitorous bitch." One of them said.

"Demetri." She said, moving behind me.

"I suggest you move kid or otherwise..." I rushed forward and ripped the head off the one next to him, then the other, and then I was back right where I was standing before, all in a matter of a second.

"You were saying?" he looked visibly frightened.

"Shit…" he turned to run but was stopped by a grinning Jacob.

"Oh dear, am I in your way?" His hand went right through Demetri, then he shoved his other hand through and split Demetri right down the middle like a piece of paper.

"You alright?" he said quickly checking my body.

"You know I am." I said with a smile. He looked over my shoulder curiously.

"Who the hell is that?" I turned; Shepherd was nonchalantly checking her nails.

"Oh, just the reason these guys are attacking." She said.

"We got to help her Jake." I said quickly.

"Fine…we can talk about this after I'm done saving innocent people, take her back to the room." He said, handing me his key.

"But Jake…"

"Don't worry, I got this." He said with a smile. I nodded and he kissed me.

"I love you…now go!" I grabbed Shepherd by the hand and we ran upstairs at lightening speeds. Later, I would regret this moment, because I didn't say I love you back. We got in the room and I closed and did all of the locks.

"You realize they can get right through that right?"

"Ya but it makes me feel better." I said, nervously sitting on the bed.

"Don't worry…they wanted Jacob more than you actually."

"Really? No, I shouldn't be surprised; he is a lot tougher than me…"

"Of course they did want you first…"

"Oh?"

"Because they knew if they got you they could use you to control him…he wouldn't risk harming you." I laughed.

"You don't know Jacob." A knock on the door.

I cautiously looked out the little peep hole in the door, it was Edward. I opened it and was very shocked by what I saw. His chest and pants were covered in blood…and he didn't bleed.

"Edward?" I said, shocked. He walked into the door and sat on the bed. Dot was cautiously watching him.

"Edward what happened?" He stared at me.

"They…took…Bella…and…Jacob." I stared at him, that couldn't be right.

"That's not possible."

"I thought so too but…they had Jane and her brother Alec. They both had to use their powers, but while Jane caused him pain, Alec immobilized him. He couldn't move…and Bella tried to help him but they captured her, I couldn't do anything."

"Why was Bella…?"

"She's a vampire now…I changed her 3 days ago."

"Well, it's a good thing Jacob sent you up here or they would have both of you."

"But what…"

"They left after they got Bella and Jacob…they tried to get him to get up and walk but the second they let him go he ripped some lackeys head off, so they have to carry him but in a matter of hours they'll be in Aro's hands."

"We have to do something!" Dot said.

"This is all my fault, if they hadn't figured out why I was here…"

"Who are you?" Edward said.

"I'm…" The door suddenly exploded inward. It flew right into Edward and sent him flying out the window outside. Before I knew what was happening, a vampire tried to knock me into the wall. I grabbed his arm and twisted it off.

"Seth!" I turned, and watched a vampire shove his hand through Dots chest.

"NO!" I roared. I ripped both of the vampires heads off and tossed them out the giant hole in window. I ran to Dot and she coughed.

"Ah fuck that hurts…" She coughed.

"They must have…left some behind to…find you…" the hole in her chest was getting bigger.

"This…can't be it…" she was talking to herself.

"I'm not…done…yet…"

"Dot." I said, my voice quivered.

"NO!" She sobbed.

"I…refuse…to die…" she grabbed my wrist and bore her eyes into mine.

"I refuse…" suddenly it was like electricity was coursing through my body, she seemed just as stunned as I was.

"What the …" suddenly her body dissolved into dust…that was traveling up my arm. It surged up my nose, my mouth and I felt it course through my body. My head felt like it was on fire. I screamed and I felt blood dribble down my nose. Suddenly the pain was gone.

"fuck!" a voice said in my head. I fell down into unconsciousness.

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