Title: Lost In Bella and Edward
Author & Avalonia Creator: Arc Morpheus ~
Beta: The Beautiful & Talented Lady that is TexasBella Divine...
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of its characters. No copyright infringement is intended. I only own my dreams and imagination...well most of the time.
Rating: NC17 ~ for sexy moments and well...
A/N- I would like to take a moment and say a personal thank you to a very special lady, and that is TexasBella Divine. She is a true Sentinel of the New Author and Newbie FF Virgins...for without her kindness and strength many of us would simply cease to exist in this realm and not be...
Chapter 25
Master's Displeasure...
Alexandrei POV...
"RUN!" I shouted at Aurelia hoping that the warning within my tone would make her move, she flinched at my words making my heart stutter, and I smiled, our smile, knowing that she would understand its message.
As she held my gaze one last time I knew she would do as I commanded. I watched as she ran and grabbed the girl and made off with her towards the trees, the other vampire female carrying the body of her mate.
I turned my full attention back to the lone caste member left standing on the battle field. I could sense its decision to rashly attack the young warriors and Bella beginning to falter in its mind, the annoyance at his minion creatures being destroyed before his very eyes, as they adhered to his orders was infuriating it more and more. He knew the Master would hold him responsible for their failure. It's contempt and rage towards me was building and before I could react it launched itself at me with all the fury and hatred it could project…after all, we had just killed it's pets.
As the caste member began flying towards me, I turned and crouched to the ground making it fly over my head. I reached up and my fingers gouged a burning white light into its scaly flesh deeply across its chest and I knew I had mortally wounded it. It screamed and writhed in agony but before I could finish it off, I sensed a change in the atmosphere. The air temperature was plummeting and the darkness of night was fully upon us. He was coming, he was coming to this dimension, I could feel it in my soul, but I could not risk being caught here without the others.
I left the caste member's body writhing on the ground and rushed over to where the young male vampire was still lying at the edge of the forest. I surveyed his wounds, they were healing but very, very slowly; I needed to get him away from here rapidly. I scooped my arms under his legs and around his back and tucked him close to myself, luckily he was still unconscious and would not feel the force of which I could move through the trees. Even his immortal vampiric speed was nothing compared to that of our kind. With his body securely in my arms, I pondered the fact that he weighed nothing more than a slither of silk and with one last momentary look around this scene of destruction I tore off through the forest at an incalculable speed, following the trail my Aurelia had left for me.
The Master
The air was beginning to crackle under the electricity of the changing atmosphere, the rain from the storm was pounding and thrashing around the clearing and it was turning slowly to sleet with the sudden drop in air temperature. All of a sudden upon the field dark shadows fell then became solidified as they began to take their true forms. More and more caste minion creatures arrived, they scoured the field but only the dust of their destroyed kin together with the mortally wounded body was left behind as the sole survivor of this encounter.
They all turned and bowed their heads as amongst them appeared their leader. His manifestation seemed to be that of an apparition you could see and sense him but at the same time you knew he was not made of flesh and bone like the minions around him. He looked around the scene unfolding before his eyes and made his way over to the wounded creature. From a distance anyone witnessing this would have thought they had arrived to aid the creature in its final moments on this earth, but not the Master. He uttered a few hushed words and then appeared to be distressed by what he heard from the creature. His demeanour changed as he merely sneers and strikes the fatal deadly blow himself to end the creature's life. Instead of golden light flowing from the creature's eyes, a darkness erupted in them and the beast screamed a blood chilling scream, of somethings soul being ripped from them and then dissipated into black dust.
It was the way of the Master to kill castes for failure and weakness, there was no other option in his realm. He surveyed the field and could feel that they had been here and that they were no longer alone. With a voice so cold and dark he refers to Alexandrei and Aurelia's arrival in this dimension with a mere statement.
"So, they have returned."
Charlie's House, Forks...
BPOV
Before I knew it we were through the forest and out the other side of the Olympic peninsula and close to the back of my house. Aurelia slowed slightly as the house came into sight and came to a stop at the edge of the trees.
She turned to me and her sapphire eyes were swirling with a depth of awe that drew me in, almost charming me into a state of calm. Only Edward's touch could normally affect me like this. As soon as I thought of his name, I saw the emotions of concern flit across her face and her gaze moved from me to the forest we had just travelled all the way through.
I followed her gaze and saw a blindingly exquisite vision of golden flames approaching, her whole body relaxed and I could feel the senses of relief flowing from her to me. She just nodded at me as if acknowledging my thoughts; it was like I had spoken them out loud to her.
"That I can young one..." Aurelia spoke but without breaking her gaze from the approaching Alexandrei, her mate.
As I followed her eyes I could see Edward's body in his arms, my heart actually stuttered and then sped up to the point of dread.
"Edward...oh no...Edward...Edward." I could hear myself getting more and more out of control as he didn't move or react to my voice. He always responded to me, even his thoughts where quiet as if he wasn't here.
Alexandrei came to a halt in front of me. He was still holding Edward's body as if it were nothing. I reached out and touched Edward's face and he stirred a little but did not regain consciousness, this gave me a small shred of hope that he could at least sense me near him.
"Is that your home?" Alexandrei spoke to me in a slow and composed voice, nodding his head to the wooden house across the meadow.
"Yes...bu..."
He cut me off before I could continue.
"Aurelia, the venom is spreading through their bodies at great velocity. We need to treat their wounds, before it's too late." Alexandrei's voice was without any feeling.
Alexandrei and Aurelia locked gazes on each other for a split second and then broke their bond or unspoken conversation, and we all started in the direction of the house.
Once inside I directed Alexandrei to place Edward in my room and Alice took Jasper into Charlie's old room as Aurelia followed behind her.
Jake and Billy where seated in the lounge but sprang to their feet as we all came crashing through the front door and started up the stairs with Jasper and Edward.
"What the hell happened to them? And who the hell are these people, Bella?" Jacob's voice was edged with alarm and concern.
"It's okay Jacob, we were attacked back at the Cemetery and these...ummm...persons helped us, so please calm down a little Jacob, please!" My voice was beginning to splinter under the strain.
Billy stepped in front of Jacob almost as if to try and disperse his temper as he was looking very clammy and poorly himself.
"It's alright Jacob, these old ones mean us no harm, completely the opposite in fact, so let them continue to help Edward and Jasper." Billy's voice was filled with comprehension as he took Jacob by the arm and led him into the kitchen. Billy looked at Alexandrei and Aurelia and smiled…a smile of relief more than one of friendship.
I began to mentally draw together in my mind what supplies and medical equipment we would need before I could even start nursing their injuries.
But Alexandrei spoke before I could again speak or act.
"No need, I have this!" His voice was like a calming breeze in the heat of the day, yet I sensed a lack of sympathy behind his words.
Alexandrei laid Edward down onto the bed. He used his free arm to stop me coming closer and began moving, almost floating, his other hand over Edward's chest, over the deep bite marks and then to the cracks on his stomach as he started chanting so inaudibly that I could barely make out the dialect or words he was using.
As he chanted, his hands started shimmering and a blinding white light seeped out and into Edward's body and as I watched I could see the wounds and bites heal from the inside out. All that was left on Edward's marbled skin was an iridescent slither of a scar and even that was hard to clearly see. Edward's eyes began to flicker and move and eventually they fully opened and adjusted to where he was. He bolted upright and looked around the room.
"Bella...how did I get here...are you alright, my love?" Edward's voice faded away and he looked at the face of the man kneeling beside him.
"Who and what are you?" Edward guardedly inquired of the unfamiliar person at his side as he took in his scent and found it to be very recognizable to that of his Bella's.
"I am Alexandrei Zalesskii, and you, Edward Cullen, were a fool to stand against them!" Again his words held no emotion, just cold facts.
Aurelia stepped into the room and moved to stand next to me as she spoke to us both, whilst the entire time maintaining eye contact with Alexandrei.
"Don't mind his tongue, it is as sharp as his instincts. But do heed his words, you were foolish Edward, but we all do many foolish things when faced with danger to our loved ones. There are many things you need to understand, but first I need your help with Jasper," she said as she nodded to the other room.
Alexandrei and Aurelia stepped out and went to join Alice in Charlie's room.
As soon as they were out of the room, I melted into Edward's embrace and just held on as strong as I could. I had been so close to losing him and it was in that moment I knew he was a part of my body and soul and that I could not exist without him in my life.
"Easy there Bella, you don't want to crush me, my love!" Edward winced slightly as I snuggled closer to his chest.
What on earth did Edward mean 'crush him'? I was not strong enough to hurt an immortal vampire...was I?
Charlie's Room
Readers POV
Alexandrei entered Charlie's room, where he was met with the screams coming from the young warrior known as Jasper. We could hear and feel Jasper's cries coming through the walls together with Alice's dry sobs as she watched Aurelia clean and close the copious amount of wounds on Jasper's battered and broken body. She had never seen him hurt like this before, she knew in his past he had fought many battles and fights to survive, and that that was gruesome enough, but these wounds where a whole different kind of horror story.
Alexandrei and Aurelia stood on either side of Jasper. They locked eyes and started to chant the same words they had used over Edward's wounds, then they both placed their hands on Jasper's chest and arms, the blinding light was stronger this time and it seem to distribute over Jasper's body like a mist. As it spread, you could hear Jasper's cries becoming fewer and less until, in time, he stopped and was peaceful and closed his eyes, even though he didn't need to.
"It is done, the venom has been destroyed. You should feel no more pain, your bones are reset and should be as they were before." Aurelia's large sapphire eyes where boring into Jasper's, almost holding him hypnotized like a rabbit in the headlights of a truck.
Jasper licked his lips slowly and gazed back at the beautiful creature bowing over him. He had never in his existence felt the torture he had just gone through, this was far worse than any of the Southern wars he had been caught up in during his past 250 years as a vampire. Yet these creatures merely treated those beasts as if they where flies around a honey pot and swatted them away without any exertion or force on their parts.
"Thank you ma'am that was mighty...kind of you. Alice, where are you darlin'?" Jasper's eyes flicked to the small frame of his beloved standing at the foot of the bed.
"I'm right here Jasper, where else would I be, silly?" Alice's voice was straining to add humour to the situation they found themselves in only an hour before.
Alice sat on the bed and just stared into Jasper's eyes. Their comprehension, love and bond for each other ran deeper than any ever seen, well that was until today and the arrival of Alexandrei and Aurelia.
Bella's POV
We all returned to the lower level and never was there ever a stranger bunch of people gathered in my little lounge. I was the last to come into the room, with Edward by my side.
Everyone turned to look at me as if they were waiting for me to talk or tell them what happens next. It was a weird and wonderful feeling, but inside me, deep down, I knew that that was exactly as it should be.
I looked up at Edward's face and saw that he too was waiting for me to speak. I gripped his hand more firmly and spoke. "Well, I think the time for formal introductions has kind of passed so, I know all of you have many many questions about what has happened today, but before we can assess that, we need to make sure that whatever it was back there that attacked doesn't get that opportunity again."
All the eyes in the room were turned to me; none of them had ever heard me speak so assertively and confident before. They seemed a little taken aback by my words.
Well, I say all eyes, except those of Alexandrei and Aurelia who were looking at me in a whole diverse way, their eyes reflected comprehension and significant understanding.
Billy broke the stillness first and addressed everyone. "May I suggest something? The safest place for us all at this time would be La Push, those creatures cannot step onto our lands, and we will all be able to discuss our questions more in depth."
Billy looked at all our faces in turn; we all nodded and murmured our approval in one way or another.
Alexandrei stepped forward. "If you all can trust me just a little further, can you all join hands with me and Aurelia?"
I could hear everyones thoughts in the room and when I looked at Edward he just smiled and nodded his acceptance of Alexandrei's request. Then the weirdest thing ever happened, the moment we had all made a complete circle of hands, Alexandrei and Aurelia locked eyes and chanted. We were all suddenly surrounded and consumed by golden unearthly flames and before I could even take in the breath to scream out, the flames were gone and we were all standing outside Billy's house in La Push.
We all stared incredulously at the two of them. None of us, apart from them, had let go of each other's hands, and we must have looked like a group of school kids on a day out at the reservation.
Jacob was the first to break the hush. "Remind me never, ever to upset those two. But damn, what a way to travel!" he joked as he walked over to Alexandrei and slapped his shoulder in a brotherly fashion and walked into the house, shaking his head in disbelief.
Alexandrei looked at him strangely then let out a full belly laugh and followed Jacob towards the house with his arm around Aurelia.
The rest of us quickly released our hands and started after them, this was turning out to be a very, very unusual day. Anything after today would be a walk in the park.
Or so I hoped...
A/N: - Well what are you thinking, would love to know? This was kind of a transition chapter where they all get to meet and the fun and frolics can start anew...or can it? Tell me your thoughts...where do you think I am taking them on this journey...Where do you think this could all end...tell me and I might give you a sneaky preview of what's to come...Thank you, Arc Morpheus.
