Title: Cut the Ropes
Author: LazyWerewolf
DISCLAIMER: See chapter 2
A/N: This is where the M rating comes in. Emmett and Rosalie have been kind and gracious enough not to burst through a wall though. Don't worry, I can't write smut… But I can write loud noises :D lol. Are you ready for the most disturbing sight evarrr? No, not Em and Rose getting it on. Carnivores! Hooray for meat eaters! There isn't really much here, save for one key event. Sorry for the lack of action, but this fic needs a cool down moment. As for the beta thing, I think you should be able to hold out. What matters is the content, but if grammar really bothers you that much then I don't see why you can't just stop reading... I mean, come on. There's 167 pages of fics, I think you can probably find one with perfect grammar. But I'll be damned if you find another fic like mine. No, seriously. Go look for one, and if you find one tell me, cause I want to know. Really.
One more thing. Today you'll get to meet the mysterious ultraviolet aura. Two chapters in one day. You should be proud of me. See you at teh bahtom.
Not the Face
After being bitten, I found that I grew nocturnal. I started falling asleep at around five in the afternoon and waking up twelve or fourteen hours later. My life was turning upside down slowly, and pretty soon I was spending the day sleeping and the night playing video games with Emmett and Embry.
I walked into my room to go to sleep, wearing street clothes. The covers settled around me and I laid on my stomach to pass out on the bed. But some rumbling from the wall caught my attention. The wall was shaking, and I really thought it was an earthquake. Then the painting on the wall above my head fell. I shook it off and jumped out of the covers and into the hallway. Embry was there too, wiping the sleep from his eyes.
"What the hell's happening?"
"I don't know…" I trailed off as escalating moans escaped the door of Emmett and Rosalie's room. We both heard a thud, and then the shaking stopped. It shortly continued, shaking the floor now. It finally dawned on me what was happening.
"Aw, EEEEEEWWW!" Embry and I simultaneously screamed. We both sprinted for the door at the same time, grabbed our shoes and ran straight out of the apartment. I could still hear and feel the shaking.
"Damnit, they're disgusting…" I said as I leaned against the apartment railing and put a pair of black converse on.
"I know, right?" Embry was wearing a pair of grey basketball shorts and a green Billabong tee shirt. He was putting on a pair of pretty sleazy looking Nikes.
"You know what? Let's just go," I started walking down the open hallway, grazing my hand against the railing. "I've heard a whole mess of horror stories about the things they do to houses while they're trying to make babies."
Embry followed, and we both made our way down the stairs, walking toward the London streets.
"Hey, you know I was watching a movie," Embry said as we finally reached ground level of the apartment.
"Oh really?" I stated. The average London clouds covered up the sun. The city didn't look much different from others, save for the historical monuments.
"Yeah, wanna know what it was called?" Embry followed my down the side walk. I had no idea where I was going, but I had a right mind to explore this place. It was, I guess, my new home.
"Shoot, wolf-boy," I said.
"An American werewolf in London," he cracked up then as we continued walking. Come to think of it, it was pretty ironic.
I chuckled. "Wow. Someone's mature," I stated sarcastically.
"Hey, don't mock my sense of humor," He said through laughs. We had reached a crossroad but were on the wrong side to cross.
I shoved him to the side. "Left sidewalk, moron. It's London, everything's backwards, remember?"
He ruffled his hair as we ran quickly to the other side of the road. "Damn Brits," he said. Everyone waiting for the light to flash green turned in his direction. He shuffled uncomfortably.
"I know. I hate grits too," I said, trying to save him from further embarrassment. People turned away, and Embry murmured quiet thanks as we walked down the street.
The two of us were surrounded by small shops and quaint restaurants. But we didn't need those. We needed a huge, cheap all you can eat buffet because the two of us were starving. With Embry's raging appetite and my new need for food we both were starving just ten minutes after leaving the house.
The two of us walked around, hoping to find some sort of magical food source when we came upon a moderately large restaurant, sure enough with the "All you can Eat" sign over it. When we entered we found that it was a relatively quiet restaurant, still buzzing with activity, but not as loud as it looked from the outside. The food however, was everywhere. It was a mutual thought that this would suffice.
I don't know how much food we both ate, or how many plates were cleared from the table. We were going to get our last plate of food when a man in a black dress shirt and pants approached our table very shyly.
"Um…Excuse me, miss? Mister?" He said in a British drawl. "I'm afraid you've both exceeded the limit for food… You two are going to have to leave…"
Embry sat up, looking outraged. "This is an all you can eat restaurant! You can't kick us out because we're eating too much!" The manager flinched back. You had to give the kid props for being so scary.
"I'm afraid I'll have to call security if you don't leave," The man said. Embry looked ready to say something else, but I cut him off.
"I'm sorry sir, we'll go, right Embry?" Embry looked my way, but I stood up and started to leave. As I reached the door of the restaurant, Embry caught up.
"We could have taken him," He said in a mocking voice. I rolled my eyes.
Suddenly a voice from behind us spoke up.
"Hell yeah, you could've. Puny human plus balls equals werewolf. You could've totally taken him," Emmett appeared instantly in front of us.
"Oh, so you two are finally done. That's great. Now, do we have anything to do or do we just…" I trailed off.
"Naw, we just moved here! We're not here on like, diplomatic terms or anything, we're just here to get away from the giant wolf thing and the coven of vampires, is all," Emmett chuckled.
"Shut up. So, what'd you guys planned?" I looked back at Emmett.
"…Nothing."
"Seriously dude?" Embry spoke up from behind me.
"Hey it's not like I plan these things out in advance! I just do it. Like Nike."
Rosalie appeared in front of us as well. She crossed her arms across her chest in a frustrated gesture. Her purple flame flickered. "We're gonna have to find some way to pass the time. And I've actually never visited London, for fear of the Volturi," She explained.
Emmett shrugged. "I think we should go exploring! That would be awesome!" He said. Embry seemed to get exited too. His green halo spun rapidly and grew.
"Yeah, cool! I've never been outside the Rez before. Everything's so cool," Embry said. We all stared at him like he was crazy.
"Seriously? Man that would suck, having to live in one place all the time," Emmett stated. We all started walking down the sidewalk of a London street, headed toward Big Ben.
"It did suck," Embry continued walking. "The elders never let us leave. The only exception was Jake, 'cause old man Black was his dad."
I wanted information. "What made Jake phase in the dance?" The Palace of Westminister was only four lights straight ahead.
Embry laughed. "Jake was having his first phase. The pack was worried, especially because Jacob was supposed to be the first to phase." I raised an eyebrow.
He continued elaborating. "Jacob is the descendant of Ephraim Black. Ephraim Black was a direct descendant of Taha Aki, along with Levi Uley and Quil Ateara the first."
Emmett snorted as we came to a stop on the red light. "I remember those bastards. Stuck up and stupid. All of them."
Embry rolled his eyes. He didn't seem to care much. "Well, anyway, the Blacks are supposed to be the alphas of the pack. But since Sam changed first, he became the alpha even though he's a Uley."
"Sounds like a bad soap opera."
Embry nodded. "Yeah. Terrible stuff. Sam was always paranoid Jacob would take his alpha-ness from him. It was pretty sad."
Emmett interrupted, putting his arms around me and Embry's shoulders. "Sure it was! Well, let's go, I want to see the British people."
We had walked all the way from the restaurant to the front of the Westminister Palace. Emmett looked overjoyed, his blue tower aura spinning rapidly.
London was a place for vampires, not werewolves. The perpetual fog made it easy to hide the glow a vampire's skin had. The streets had plenty of homeless people nobody would miss. The only problem with London was that our vampires weren't carnivores. We had vegetarian vampires, so no matter how many homeless people roamed the street, Emmett and Rosalie would always have to travel for miles to find a decent forest. London was particularly historic, though we had yet to see a vampire. The Westminister palace was the perfect place for a vampire, seeing as it had plenty of holes to hide in, and had plenty of room for not just one, but a coven of vampires. Not that there were any in there, I thought.
We were walking along the outer hallways of the Westminister Palace. Rosalie was flicking the wall as she walked, creating small indents in the stone. Emmett took note of this and stepped over to the female vampire.
"Rose, baby, don't destroy historical monuments. You know what happened last time."
This caught Embry's attention. "What happened last time?"
Rosalie turned to face him. "Have you ever heard of the Winged Victory of Samothrace?" I nodded, but Embry shook his head no.
"Yeah. I happened."
I grimaced. "Jesus, Rosalie. Temper, temper."
She smirked. "Well, it was ugly anyway."
The rest of the walk was in silence. We stepped through the huge outdoor hallway, nearing the entrance. There was a long line to get tickets. Tickets to what, I had no idea. But then again, we had nothing better to do, so Emmett, Rosalie and I waited while Embry got tickets. If anyone but Embry were to go buy tickets, it would probably arouse suspicion. After all, if I were to pick the most normal out of a group of two incredibly beautiful vampires, a yellow-eyed werewolf and a half-human, I would pick the human.
Embry approached the ticket counter almost thirty minutes after he got in line. He said some barely audible things to the cashier behind the glass. I was surprised that I could hear him, seeing as how I was at least one hundred feet away and looking at him past a crowded street. He looked like he waved thanks to the cashier, and he held up four tickets and waved to us.
"You guys!" Embry was waving the tickets in the air furiously.
Rosalie and Emmett started walking toward him. "Okay, okay wolf boy. Don't talk so loud." Rosalie blurred past the row of cars, and for a second I felt like I was flying. I regained my balance on my feet and turned to look at a smiling Emmett rubbing the back of his head.
"Saves time. Let's go," Emmett took my hand and walked to where Embry was giving Rosalie her ticket. Embry handed Emmett and I our respective tickets, and we now waited at the line to get in. I believed it was ten forty at night by the time we reached the actual entrance. Rosalie turned to glare at the boy manning the entrance. He audibly gulped, and started sweating at the brow.
"I'm sorry, miss, but the exhibit is closed after ten thirty," the boy said. He was sweating like crazy in less than thirty seconds. It was probably due to Rosalie's glare. I mean, seriously, if looks could kill... Her nostrils were flaring. "You can come back...tommorrow...?" The statement came out like a question, due to Rosalie's death glare.
Emmett tapped an invisible watch on his wrist. "Yeah, ten thirty. Rose, we gotta be getting home soon," Emmett stated, in an attempt to get Rosalie to leave the poor boy alone. Rosalie reluctantly forced her gaze on some poor parking meter. She sped off, Emmett running after her.
"I'm going hunting!" She screamed. Even from this far away, you could hear Emmett shushing her, trying to get her to stop walking at such an inhuman speed. This left me and Embry.
"Come on," I said. "We have to get back to the apartment soon. It would be just weird if humans were out after eleven."
Embry scoffed. "What're you talking about? There are plenty of humans out during midnight! The night is still young, Bella!" He pleaded to stay.
I sighed, and ran my hand through my hair. Old habits die hard, I guess. "What I meant by that is that underage humans wouldn't be out past eleven."
His shoulders slumped dramatically in defeat, but he perked up. "I'm not going to bed, though. How 'bout a few rounds of COD?"
Walking off in the direction of the apartment, I tugged him along with me. "Sure." I laughed inwardly. What's the harm in a few rounds? Not like anything's gonna happen...
~0o0~
Nothing did happen, however the next time I looked up from the screen and at a clock it was two in the morning. Embry yawned.
"One more, one more... I'll beat the shit out of you this time..."
I shook my head and wrenched the controller from his hands. "Nuh-uh. You're tired. Speaking of which, so am I. Bed. Rest neede..." My last word was cut off by a yawn.
Embry laughed drowsily. "Yeah...Probably right... I call bathroom..." He went into the bathroom to wash up. I shut down all of the game stations and the TV and waited on the couch. Before long, Embry had finished.
"Night, Bella!" He called out from his room before shutting the door.
I went straight into the bathroom. The first thing I did was relieve myself, and then I went to brush my teeth. Opening the tap, I was about to run the brush under the water when something caught my attention.
The color of my eyes was no longer bright yellow, as they were earlier in the day. They were dulled to a dark yellow. I opened my teeth to start brushing, but then I noticed something strange again. The sharp canines that were present earlier in the day had receded, no longer looking animalistic. My whole face looked almost normal. What's happening...
I decided that it was too late at night to care. My small problem—Scratch that, huge problem, would still be there in the morning. No matter how much I wanted it to be gone. I finished up in the bathroom, but I didn't go into my room. Instead, I settled for the couch facing the wide window-wall.
Lying down on the couch, I was about to throw the covers over my head and call it a night, but then a flash of color caught my attention. It was the strange ultraviolet aura. And it was much closer to where I was than it was yesterday. In fact, it was so close that it covered everything else. It looked like it was here in the city.
I got up abruptly, and ran toward the window. I looked out to see that my suspicions had been correct. The aura was in the city! I need to see it! NOW!
I reverted back to my "problem solution" thinking.
Window. Open. Get out. Now.
I pulled a chair over to the wall. Near the top of the window-wall were vents leading to outside. I slowly pried it open with my fingers, delighting in finding the cool London air hitting my fingertips. Grabbing onto the small ledge, I pulled myself up in a remarkable feat of strength (at least for me. I had never done a pull-up in my life.), reveling in the cool breeze hitting my face. I looked to see the aura closer than ever. Then, my instincts took over.
I had no idea what was driving me to go nearer to it. I released the ledge of the window, jumping onto a rooftop and landing on my feet. Where the fuck did that come from? I ran across the roof, stepping on the ledge and jumping on to yet another rooftop.
I felt instincts beginning to override my thoughts. My nails were growing, but I couldn't feel pain. I also felt my canines lengthen again, and my vision became clearer. I could see the orange glow of the London lights from a mile away.
The rooftop dash continued, with me jumping onto each consecutive roof, one time almost falling due to the distance. My new thoughts gave me grace and agility. I pegged it to be a side effect of the werewolf venom. Flying past the rooftops was a liberating feeling. I remember seeing videos of freerunners running on roofs and chimneys, but I had always thought that if I attempted it I would probably fall and die. And here I was, running at full blast at a pace far faster than human speed, jumping across rooftops and landing surely on my feet.
I had almost forgotten why I was running until I caught sight of the strange aura again. I growled. You're not getting away from me again, I thought. I increased my pace to far beyond human speed until I caught sight of where the aura actually was.
It originated from a roof about a dozen rooftops away. This would be easy. I crossed several rooftops in a matter of seconds. One...two...three...four... I quickly sped past rooftops. The aura was almost in my grasp.
Ten...Eleven...Twelve! I slowed down when I reached the last rooftop. Sitting on the ledge was a short girl with a spiky haircut. Something rung a bell about her. She was hunched over on the ledge with her feet hanging over the rooftop. The aura danced around her slowly. I didn't know whether or not she was aware of my presence, but either way she was very calm.
I allowed my voice to break the silence. "...What're you doing so late out?" I spoke slowly and calmly, but either way her aura flickered.
"I was going to ask the same of you."
The mystery girl turned around, revealing a small, angelic face. The most striking feature she held was her eyes. Her eyes were a bright crimson, which widened upon examining me. Her voice lost all traces of the calmness she held before.
"B...Bella?" The girl lifted herself up with ease. I looked at her, trying to remember where I had seen her before. After a few seconds, it finally dawned on me who she was.
"...Alice..." I breathed. She zoomed over to me, grabbing my face in her hands. She gingerly touched my cheek before she wrapped her arms around my shoulders. I hugged her back, my arms finding her waist. Her delightful aura wrapped around me as well, creating the strangest sensation I had ever felt. I was overcome by an urge to never let her go. The aura curled around us both, holding us in a cocoon of whatever color it was. She released a small noise, much like a cross between a sigh and a sob.
"B-Bella..." Her vampiric strength would have crushed me, were it not for my newfound powers. She pressed her nose into my neck, breathing in deeply as she entangled her fingers in my hair. I allowed myself to do the same, my right arm clutching her waist tightly and my left arm trailing up her back before my hand settled in her hair. She started shaking, and I heard small, choked sobs coming from her body.
"I'm sorry...I'm so, so sorry..." I kept my hold on the vampire's body.
"Sorry for what? You didn't do anything wrong," I mumbled into her hair.
"I left you... I should have never left... You meant so much to me..." She trailed off and moved her arms from my shoulders to my neck. I had to hunch slightly down to keep hold of her.
"Ssh... You never did anything wrong, Alice, it's not your fault," I pleaded. It was a bit inarticulate, but that was because I was trying to breathe in as much of her scent as possible.
Alice leaned back and looked at me. Her crimson eyes were watering, but no tears were falling. "Bella, I did everything wrong," She said, her voice cracking. "I could have stayed. But I didn't. Bella you're not even human anymore! I can smell it..."
I didn't like seeing her this way. It caused me pain and stirred my heart. "Yeah. Bella Swan is now a werewolf. What of it?" She loosened her hold on my neck even further, until we were hugging from arms length.
"A...Werewolf? So that's what you are? But... They're supposed to be extinct!" She didn't seem as surprised as I thought she would be. I examined her from arms length. She hadn't changed at all. Her skin was a little bit paler, her hold on me stronger than it should have been. Her irises were a bright crimson. It never dawned on me how beautiful she was. But, then again I never had a good look at her until now.
I smiled. "Well, obviously, they're not. Can't you notice anything different about me?" I widened my eyes for emphasis. I tried to make the bright yellow irises as visible as possible to the small vampire, which wasn't hard to do. I also bared my teeth, showcasing the long canines.
She gasped quietly, and put one hand over her mouth. Alice slowly backed away from me, looking hurt. I couldn't possibly understand why, though. Her aura was all over the place, whipping furiously around her. It was careful to steer clear of me, though. My heart ached from the loss of contact.
"I'm a monster now. I didn't get prettier, or stronger, or faster. I'm just a stupid werewolf. But what I want to ask is," I took a step toward her as her aura twirled around even more violently. "What do you think of me?"
The small vampire seemed to contemplate what to do. Her aura was still acting maniacally, knocking through several buildings and disrupting the auras of some unsuspecting humans below.
Suddenly, a blonde male leaped over the ledge of the rooftops, walking swiftly toward Alice. Alice's aura didn't faze, but her eyes widened. The blonde male reached her, and wrapped his arms around her waist. She leaned into his chest.
"I'm very glad to see you again, Bella," Jasper said. "It's been a while, hasn't it?"
Nother A/N: Oh no he didn't! lol. There we are. This is where the fun begins. We'll be meeting the black pyramid were next chapter. And just to add more drama and pain for Bella, I threw Jasper into the mix. Yes, Jasper is still with Alice. I hate to take the easy way out of things and say "oh we divorced, just cause". It bothers me when authors take the easy way out. This fic will be as difficult as possible. You may have noticed that their eyes are red. Yes, yes I totally just turned Alice into a carnivore. And to answer one reviewer named Phoenix, yes, yes we will find out. But that's in a whole nother arc. This is the beginning of the Europe arc. We'll be travelling places. Next, we hit Africa, then we go back to America. Then, and only then will the forks dilemma be solved. Well actually it will be solved much before then, but the America arc is where we get to see the rest of the Olympic coven as well. You know what? I think maybe I'll leave Mr. Black Pyramid out until two chapters from now. Mr. Black Pyramid meeting Bella is the beginning of the Africa arc, you know? And also I'm spewing out way too many spoilers. Wow. LazyWerewolf stupid.
You know what? I'm making this a thing. Song for today is Be My Escape by Relient K. Fic for today is My Beloved Monster and Me by The Romantic Manifesto.
I've updated every single effing day. For six days in a row. I demand a break. LazyWere out.
Cheers,
The Lazy Werewolf
P.S. Phoenix, your profile picture thoroughly amuses me.