BLACK IS MY SUN
I own nothing that has to do with Twilight; the characters in this story belong to Stephanie Meyer.
A/N: Beta: SassYNoles
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
THE DEMI-FAE'S LAIR
What the hell is going on? I thought to myself. When I got to the house, Jake and the pack still weren't there. I listened once again still nothing. I sighed and then let out a howl to call to the pack. I stood there waiting for the pack to come, but they never did.
"What the hell?" I said agajn, wondering what was going on…Think Bella…what happened, I asked myself as I went over my actions from the time I went into my meditation.
The mountain lion, the field, the open crater, the stairs, the realization of the noise… The noise! I thought to myself. I looked around again and listened…it was the same here as it was in the clearing. There wasn't any noise; in fact it was so quiet I could hear my own heartbeat. It was then that it dawned on me.
Am I still in meditation? I thought to myself, I concentrated and cleared my mind, the light flashed once again. I let it come as I thought of being back in the bedroom alone, I opened my eyes and sure enough I was back in our bedroom. I swung my legs off of the bed and ran to the front lawn, where I found Jake and the pack hanging out. Well, that was different, I thought to myself.
Bells…are you alright?" Jake asked. I looked at him and thought about telling him what had just happened, but instead I remembered the crater and wondered if it was there.
"Jake…you and the pack need to come with me," I told him.
"Okay, what's this about, Bells?" he asked, looking a little worried.
"Did something happen?" he asked, Jake knew me so well, he could tell with just a look at me that something had happened.
"I'm not sure yet, but you guys need to follow me, I have to check something out and I think I will need the packs help," I told him.
"Okay…let's go," he said, as they followed me into the woods. We phased and ran to the field where the battle will take place.
After arriving we all phased back to human form, and walked to the center of the field. As we came closer to the center sure enough the crater did exist. I walked around it shaking my head.
"What the hell is this?" Jake asked surprised at what he was looking at as the pack was as well. He looked at me, "What is this Bella?" he asked.
"I'm not sure Jake, I seen this as I meditated awhile ago," I told him.
"So…do you know what's down there?" he asked. I shook my head.
"No Jake…I don't, that's why I wanted you and the pack with me. We need to find out what is down there and why it appeared now, before the battle," I told him.
"Well…let's go," he said, as he began to enter the crater.
"Jake, let me go first and we have to proceed with caution," I told him.
"We don't know what's down there," I continued.
"Okay, so come on," he said.
Jake was taking this way to easily, this wasn't right I could feel it, and the warning in my heart told me the same thing. I had the same warning that I've recently learned to pay attention to.
We descended the stairs slowly, the closer we got to the bottom, which took forever I might add, the denser the air became. The walls had turned from dirt to rock; smoothed out like someone had etched it out by hand or machine. We were deep within the ground and still hadn't reached the bottom, but at least now we could see the bottom unlike I could before.
As we reach the floor of the crater the pack gathered behind me as Jake stood by my side. There carved into the side of the crater was a huge double door, it had markings on it that I had never seen before, the writing look old and in a different language, even I couldn't read it, and I was pretty sure I could decipher any language seeing what I was.
"Should we go in?" Jake asked looking at me for an answer, I stood there thinking, letting my heart decide whether it was safe or not safe? Since when were we ever safe? I thought.
"Yes, but with caution," I told him.
He walked towards the door and pushed, but the door didn't budge.
"Damn," Jake said, it's either heavier than it looks or it's locked," he said.
Jake told the pack to line up in front of the door and told them on three to push as hard as they can. Jake began to count.
"One,
"Two,
"Three!" he grunted as they pushed with all their strength, but still the door didn't budge. They backed up cursing.
"It has to be locked," I told them.
If the strength of ten Were-wolves couldn't open it had to be locked, right? I looked around to see if I could find some of switch or something that would release the door, but couldn't find anything. I walked the walls pushing on the stones, I even looked behind the stair casing but still nothing, the guys seen what I was doing and followed suit, but we still couldn't find a thing. I stared at the door, the markings…maybe they were the secret behind unlocking the door. I stood there staring at it, hoping that in doing so the marking would move in my mind and become clear to me.
The wolves were pushing each other around and cutting up, making light of the situation. I looked at them and was going to say something about their behavior when Paul pushed Jake and he fell over his own feet and hit the wall.
A square of stone on the wall moved where Jake had fell against it. Paul was laughing at Jake.
"What Jake…Bella lost her clumsiness just for you to find it?" he asked as the wolves laughed.
"Quiet!" I yelled.
"You might think that this is some sort of game, but I assure you it isn't, so stop playing around and get in pack mode before you get us all killed," I told them.
"Sorry Bells, Jake said, as did the rest of the pack. Leah smacked Paul up side his head after he rolled his eyes.
"Jake, you hit a switch or something," I whispered.
"I did?" he said in surprise as he looked around behind him. I walked to where he stood and looked behind him. I seen one of the stones slightly pushed in.
"There," I said pointing at the stone.
"Jake pushed it in a little more," I told him, and as he did and I heard something on the door click.
We looked at one another not sure what to do next. We needed to go in to see what this place was, but we had to be careful.
"Shall we, Bells?" he asked.
I paused for a second and then finally nodded my head. The wolves lined up once again and moved the door enough so we could squeeze through. They started to go in.
"Stop! I said, as ten pair of eyes turned to look at me.
"I need to go first," I told them. They nodded as I took the lead.
We entered into a long hallway. It was carved out of the same stone that made the crater and it was smooth to the touch. My chest rose with the nervousness of the unknown in this subterranean vault not knowing what we would find between these damp walls. We stayed against the wall so as not to be seen as we moved closer to the end of the hallway. There were tunnels veering off to places that lead to other parts of the dank dungeon.
We heard footsteps and not just one but many. I looked around to see where we could take cover, but it was to late, the pack phased and took stance as I did, but stayed in human form, ready to fight for our life's as the barrage of vampire's ran towards us. The pack began growling and the sound reverberated off the damp walls, but instead of attacking us they ran right past us, they never even acknowledging our presents. They continued down the hall and disappeared through the door at the end.
The pack phased back and looked at me for answers.
"What the hell Bella, what is going on here?" Jake asked.
"Jake you know just as much as I do," I told him and it was true.
I didn't know what was going on yet, it was evident that we were invisible to these creatures, but how was that possible? I thought to myself.
"Should we go on?" Jake asked. I looked at him in thought.
"Yes, if we are invisible to those vampire's maybe we are invisible to the rest of the creatures down here as well, maybe we can find out what's going on," I told him. He nodded his head in acknowledgement as we continued on.
"We decided to look down one of the tunnels, first before going to the room at the end of the hall. As we entered the tunnel we noticed another large room, it was also dark and dank, and the shadows of vampire's throughout were like phantoms within the cavern. Another vampire came into the room shortly after us, he was different somehow, more in the know, the in charge type, he yells at the others to follow him. The group obeyed him and followed; so did we. We arrived at the same door we were headed for in the first place. Upon entering the darkened room, we immediately were saturated in sweat, the smell of damp rotten earth, and the sweet sticky smell of the vampire's enveloped our noses, we could feel the smothering heat throughout the room, it felt as though we had entered Hell itself.
I looked over the multitude of strange vampires to see two beautiful women standing on a platform. I realize immediately who these women were. The vampire's were summoned by the underworld lord's daughters. We witnessed the vampire's fall to their knees in submission to their masters, trembling violently in fear as I heard the unsettling laughter that emulated from the creatures known as Brea and Bryne, their hearts black and full of hate enjoying themselves as they tortured the creatures that knelt before them in their shadowed domain.
We heard them speak to one another, a nightmarish laughter boomed off the walls of the Demi-Fae's lair. We witnessed the amusement on the lips of the girl creatures who thought and spoke to one another of how I was no match for their powers, they believe me inferior. Oh how the dark lord of the underworld lie's to get what he wants. I thought to myself. They have no clue, what they face, what doom lies before them.
"Should we take them down now?" Jake asked. I thought for a moment, as a million things crept into my mind.
"It isn't time yet…were not all together," I told him.
"Why, because the Cullen's aren't with us, you're kidding right? We don't need them Bells, we can handle this by ourselves," he tempted.
As he spoke, it dawned on me what was going on, the earthquake, the crater, and the creature that couldn't see us. I smiled, and then I looked at him with a smirk…
"Go ahead Jake, you and the pack take them out," I told him.
"Now you're talking, but aren't you going to help us, Bells?" he asked, looking at me puzzled.
"I'm not needed for this fight," I told him, as he looked at me with a furrowed brow in confusion and then shrugged his shoulders.
The packs phased into wolves, as Jake lead the way. They growled long and deep, as they pounced on their prey.