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Chapter 6
We walked to the front doors where Jasper, Alice, Esme, Carlisle and Rosalie were waiting. When Tristan saw Aurora he smiled and opened his arms for her. She smiled and ran over to him and jumped in them. I, on the other hand had stopped and was looking at Edward's inviting arms with a sick feeling in my stomach. Oh no, I knew what was going to happen now. There was only one quick way to get to the clearing, and I could tell Emmett wanted to play really bad, so we would have to go the quick way.
"Come on Bella, it won't be that terrible." He soothed, holding his arms out to me.
"Do I have to go to the clearing?" I asked, knowing I wanted to.
"Well, I guess not, if you don't want to watch Tristan and I kick Emmett and Jasper's butts…" He smiled at his brothers.
"Yeah right," Emmett smirked.
"Come on Bella, it will be really fun. I haven't seen Tristan use his strength against anyone and I really want to see it, but if you want to stay, I will too." Her beautiful voice said as she climbed down from Tristan's arms. He looked shocked at her.
"No, no. I want to go." I said quickly stumbling forward and when I got into Edward's arms I groaned.
He smiled at me. "Come on Bella, just close your eyes like always and you won't even notice."
I laughed shakily at this. I was sure I would notice. And I did. We had started running and I felt the wind whipping my hair. I heard Aurora's laughter float back to us on the wind. I'm glad someone was enjoying themselves.
I barely noticed when we had stopped and his cool arms loosened their hold. I opened my eyes and I saw the beautiful, sunny Olympic clearing.
Aurora's beautiful laughter reached us again. I looked around us as my beautiful Edward led me to the rock at the edge of the field. I saw Aurora kissing the spinning Tristan. They were very happy and I looked at Edward, who was smiling at me.
"I like to see you happy." He whispered running his lips slowly along my jaw. I stayed as still as possible with the trembling I was doing. He pulled away and smiled, looking pleased with himself.
"I love you." he breathed.
"I love you to." I said before pulling him closer to me. Then I heard a scream. Edward and I whipped around startled.
I saw Tristan with a big smile on, looking up at the sky, but no Aurora. I followed Tristan's gaze wondering where she could have gone, but when I saw her I gasped, my hand flying to my throat in fear.
Aurora was thirty feet up in the air and falling, Tristan was right under her laughing still. When he caught her, he kissed her and tossed her back up. I heard her laughter again as she reached 50 feet and started to come back down again. The scary thing is Tristan was probably barely throwing her.
My mouth was hanging open and I was glad that wasn't me being flung up in the air.
Edward laughed at me and said, "You next!"
"Yeah right," I said to him, my eyes still on Aurora's falling frame.
He grabbed me and tossed me up in the air. I was to terrified to even scream. When I fell back into his arms I was shaking.
"Bella, are you alright?" he asked but he was laughing. "You look a little pale."
"You…" my voice shook. "-big trouble." That's all I could manage.
"Sorry sweetheart, I didn't mean to scare you that bad. Wasn't it fun at all?" said his irresistible voice.
"NO!" I yelled eyes wide.
"Come on boys!" called Emmett's deep voice. "Let's play! Are you two ready to lose?"
Edward glared over my head. "Yeah right! You forgot that I am faster than both of you and Tristan is THE Tristan. …and I can read thoughts to know what you're going to do." He whispered the last part so only I could hear it.
I laughed at how competitive this was getting. "Have fun." I said.
"I will." He smiled at me. "Be safe okay? I want to see you at all times."
"Okay." I agreed to anything he wanted. Aurora was now walking over to us. Her beautiful light blonde hair glistening in the sunlight, and she was smiling as she reached us.
"Don't like flying, Bella?" she laughed.
"No," I mumbled.
"Well, it is pretty scary the first time." She comforted.
"Thanks," I was glad she said it.
"Are you ready to watch some vampire football?" she asked me.
"Yeah," and finding out all about you.
"Play hard Edward." She said.
He leaned in and kissed my forehead. "I will. Bye Bella."
And he was gone; he and Tristan were facing Jasper and Emmett in the middle of the field, they were trying to razz each other.
"Cocky…" Aurora said under her breath, looking at them.
"What?" I asked.
"It's Tristan… he's not even intimidated by Emmett, and Emmett is the closest to his match in existence I think." She explained, not taking her eyes off them.
I laughed. "Emmett doesn't seem that intimidated either. Maybe it's because they've never faced a vampire their size before, and have only taken on smaller vampires." I said.
"I don't think that's it." She whispered, though I wasn't sure she was still talking to me.
"What are The Vampire Battles?" I asked before thinking.
Her head snapped to me, her face, uncharacteristically serious. She stared at me for a minute before either of us spoke again. I was taking in her astounding face and she was looking in my eyes.
"I don't know." Spoke the bell-like voice barely above a whisper. "He won't tell me. … I was hoping Edward had told you so I could find out."
"Edward said you would tell me… when he told you. He's planning on it so don't worry." I assured.
"You don't understand. I've been with him since I was sixteen, on the night of my birthday in Paris." She shivered. "And he has always told me things I asked, I have purposely avoided topics, like the night we met. I just don't know what was so bad about whatever The Vampire Battles are, that he wouldn't tell me. And how does Edward know Tristan plans to tell me?"
At the last question her eyes snapped up to mine, they looked sad and slightly suspicious.
"Edward can hear thoughts, vampires bring certain traits of there past lives with them and they are enhanced in their next one. Edward was prone to peoples thoughts as a human… so he can hear them now." I explained watching her face and surprisingly little of this knowledge surprised her, only when I talked about the gift being enhance from your mortal state to your immortal life made her blue eyes widen.
"Tristan has a gift as well." She announced. That sure called my curiosity.
"Really?" you could hear the excitement in my voice.
"Yes, he has the ability to see auras. You know the light of life that surrounds everyone? He can see what feelings you're having by the colors and it tells him what kind of a person you are… I guess he must have been a good judge of character when he was human." She ended, I thought, pondering the thought of Tristan as a human.
"Wow," I said, that sounded useful.
"That's why he saved me you know?" she offered unexpectedly, her eyebrows drawn together.
There was a yell and we looked up to see Tristan tackling Emmett, who had the ball.
"You met in Paris?" I tried to bring up the topic again. Her eyes snapped to mine and I saw her pain through her cold gray-blue irises, which looked strangely too old for her young ivory face.
"Yes," her beautiful voice was low. "I belonged to a private preparatory school. I am fluent in French. My school took a group of kids who could afford it to France. I and all of my friends could… so we went." She swallowed and looked away. "It was my 16th birthday and 6 of my friends and I snuck out of our hotel room at midnight to go to some clubs or something and celebrate." she shook her head and closed her eyes. She looked back up at me. "I've never told anyone this."
"You can trust me you know." I said.
She smiled slightly. "Thanks, Bella."
We watched the boys playing some more and watched the other family members cheer them on. Edward was the quarterback and Tristan was enjoying himself by effortlessly holding back Emmett and Jasper from tackling Edward. Then Tristan suddenly let go and Emmett fell on his face and Jasper swayed. Tristan was already in the end zone waiting for Edward to throw him the ball. Edward threw a perfect spiral all the way across the field and they scored. Aurora turned back to me smiling slightly.
"I love him so much Bella. If anyone can understand that, it's you." she said in a voice that would break my heart had I not met Edward. It was so honest and true to every word that without feeling that love myself, I would have felt incomplete.
I glanced at Edward and then back at her, "I do understand."
"That's why you'll understand how I can love him." She sighed looking off in the distance.
"What happened?" I encouraged quietly, feeling for her.
She looked at me and I wondered if I had pushed on the subject to intently. "We made it into the clubs. The guards liked the way I looked." She rolled her eyes angrily. "When we left two of my friends were tipsy but they could walk straight. None of us could remember where our hotel was. We were lost. We walked to this café in the old part of the city and sat down outside. It was probably one in the morning and the streets were deserted. Then six gorgeous guys came strolling by." She shivered again. "They sat down with us and I asked them if they knew where our hotel was. They said they would take us to it." She shook and wrapped her arms around her chest and breathed slowly. She was obviously having some terrifying memories, and I could do nothing to help. I wanted to comfort her but had no idea what she was going through. It must have been terrible to remember you were in the presence of 6 blood thirsty vampires who all wanted to kill you.
"They led us back to a beautiful mansion. I knew it was definitely not our hotel and I didn't want to follow them anymore, but my friends were in a complete trance. They were following without question, and I couldn't leave them with these beautiful strangers."
"When we got inside the house they led us to a room full of chairs and a fire place. Inside they room was Tristan, he was sitting on a large chair and he was undoubtedly the most gorgeous. My friends were still in the strange sort of trance and they all gathered and sat on the floor around him, looking up at him with awe. I didn't walk over to him. I couldn't even if I had wanted to. The other six swarmed around me and I talked with them, no longer as terrified as I had been. They all seemed nice, and were beautiful. … Then things started to change, they started getting closer to me and I heard their conversations. 'I want her' 'she is so tempting, have you ever seen a human like this'. I still had no idea they were vampires, just kidnappers and rapists were on my mind. Before I had even reacted I heard a terrible snarl, and then his voice called to them. I was immediately in love with his voice, deep and smooth. 'I get the prize of the evening boys'."
She stopped breathing and I heard the football game continue in the background. I was worried, was this story affecting her so much that she had forgotten to breathe? Then she started again, her voice quieter, just above a whisper. "He was obviously the leader from the way the others had acted. They left then and he walked up to me. My first thought was of his beautiful face. Then I noticed his size. He had looked large sitting but when he stood I was terrified, though I showed none of it. He stopped about two feet from me and we stood, just staring at each other, for what seemed like hours. … Then I heard Victoria scream- I looked around him to see the six men at each of their necks."
She stopped talking and I watched a single tear make its mournful path down her pale cheek.
She didn't bother to wipe it away, and didn't say anything for a long time. She just gazed at the trees in the distance with her gray-blue eyes. I waited for the rest, unable to speak.
When she had started speaking again, she did not take her eyes off the trees. "I knew what they were then… movies and books had told me. … I watched all 6 of my closest friends die… and not once did he touch me. He just gazed into my eyes and I looked back at him. … I wasn't scared of death now. Everyone who had ever really cared about me was dead in that room." She took a deep breath before continuing.
"I grabbed his right wrist and put it on my waist, and then I grabbed his left wrist and put it on the right side of my neck and moved my hair away from the left side. Then I tilted my head to the right, and waited. … I waited for something that would never come. I looked in his face and he was staring at me in wonder. The other vampires were finished now and one yelled 'finish her, or I will'. Tristan roared in rage and picked me up and placed me in a different room and shut the door. … I heard the most terrifying noises then, and they still haunt me. Then suddenly all the noises stopped. … When he came back he was covered in blood, I suppose it was technically all of my friends' blood. It had been in the bodies of the other vampires. … He had killed his entire coven that night… to save me." she trailed off sadly and looked at me.
"And you've been together ever since?" I asked, my voice was weak and I cleared my throat. She nodded slowly.
"We were in love almost instantly, I can't explain it… but it was some how meant to be." She smiled, but it was forced.
We stared at each other for a short time.
I heard the loudest whoop yet and Tristan ran over to us and picked up Aurora and hugged her tightly to him, spinning around.
"We won!" he yelled. "Babe we won!"
She smiled at him and laughed at his happiness. "I know baby, I know." She said to him, her voice was back to the happy voice I had known.
She looked at me then, and her smile faded slightly and then it returned and after a few moments she looked back at his face.
I knew then that the story of their meeting was between her and I … and we wouldn't discuss it again. To see her and Tristan together now had a deeper meaning than before, they had overcome many trials to get here and would overcome any in front of them to be together. There was a deeper beauty to their relationship than can be expressed by me, or even by them. That's what love was, I thought. As I was watching them laugh looking at each other, not even hearing their laughter, just watching their happiness.
Next thing I knew Edward had picked me up and we were spinning too.
"Emmett is going to be mad at Tristan and me for a year. We barely beat them, last second touchdown! It was AMAZING! I love football!" he yelled completely thrilled, and kissed me passionately.
Then he stiffened, and looked around him, he looked scarred.
"Tristan!" he said, backing up from the trees, searching them with his eyes.
Tristan was searching the woods with his eyes as well, still holding Aurora and backing up too.
"What's happening?" I asked alarmed.
"Quiet," Aurora said.
Instantly, silently, about 20 vampires walked out from the forest in front of us. They were all dressed in black with some strange small red symbol on their chests, and they looked savage and terrifying. They advanced out of the forest more and all of their eyes were blood red. I clutched Edward tighter to me.
"Oh my god," I gasped.
"Well, well, well. We came to find this family but I never expected quite as good of a treat as this!" said the man that appeared to be the leader. "It's been awhile Tristan."
Edward and I turned to look at Tristan and Aurora. Aurora was glaring at the leader and running her hand over Tristan's back, I suppose it was to calm him.
"Hello Darret, -leave," said Tristan stiffly.
"We thought you were dead!" he growled. "You abandoned us! You abandoned the Master!"
"He wasn't Master when I left! He doesn't deserve to be Master!" he roared.
Darret snarled furiously in response. "We came here to enlist this family under Master Victor! If you refuse, we will kill you! Who is the leader of this coven?"
Carlisle stepped forward, away from everyone who was now behind us. Edward slowly backed up behind his family and set me down behind him. Tristan came to stand beside him and set Aurora next to me, behind him as well.
"How do you know him?" Edward asked him, rushed.
"He was a member of a partner coven from The Vampire Battles, and if what he says has really happened, then we're in trouble. I know Victor, he is evil to the core, and he feeds at least 3 times a night. He enjoys murder and blood… his ultimate goal is to turn humans to vampires. He wants to populate the world with them. If Darret is seeking out families like this, our world is in trouble…" he let the sentence hang there. The full meaning of his words was sinking in now, and I started to shake. Edward rubbed his hand up and down my back.
"Calm down Bella." He said but his voice was strained. I was starting to hyperventilate.
Darret was yelling again, so I assumed Carlisle had turned him down. Then suddenly Darret had pounced on Carlisle and the other vampires wearing black jumped in. Edward and Tristan yelled at us to run and jumped in to help the rest of the Cullens who were outnumbered.
I was absolutely frozen with terror at what was happening right before my eyes. Aurora grabbed my wrist and pulled me.
"Come on, Bella!" she screamed.
I snapped out of my numb state and turned around. She placed her arm roughly around my waist and I hurried to put my arm over her shoulders. And we started to run as fast as I could go with the cast. We tripped twice and we kept turning around at the terrible noises we were hearing. When we reached the edge of the forest, we walked behind a large tree and peered around it anxiously to watch the fight. Alice, Rosalie and Esme were fighting one each. Carlisle, Jasper and Edward were fighting two each. Emmett was fighting 4 and Tristan was fighting 8. I looked over and saw the fear in Aurora's eyes as she watched her angel viciously fighting 8 vampires, and he was winning. I had once thought that Tristan's face was too beautiful to look sinister. I was wrong, he looked terrifying. He was using all of his strength and he looked less human than anything I could imagine, he had turned into a killing monster, just as he said he was.
I only focused on them for a second though before I started watching Edward again. I was terrified for him. He was fighting two vampires, both wanting to kill him. I was crying.
"It's going to be alright Bella." She said to me, but I could tell she didn't believe it.
I looked over at Tristan again; scattered body parts of 7 vampires lay around him and the eighth vampire was trying to get away from him. He was trying to get to us. I looked around at all the family members and each was struggling to keep their separate opponents from getting to our "hiding" place. They must have seen us and known we weren't vampires.
"Oh no, Bella!" she gasped.
Tristan had killed his last opponent and moved on to take one of Emmett's remaining three. He quickly killed him, and took over one of Edward's. Tristan had just killed him as I heard Rosalie's scream.
All the Cullens faltered looking her way and the invaders ran off, but not before Darret shouted a warning.
"We've seen your pets! You have broken the only law now. We'll be back, and next time you will not live through it, and neither will they. You should not have refused the author." He left then.
Aurora's body was frozen next to mine. I had been watching Darret but she had her eyes on Tristan, who was crumpled on the ground. She stood up and started walking towards him. She broke into a run halfway there, leaving me. All of the Cullens were gathered around something; Edward ran up to me and picked me up.
I saw Tristan holding Aurora to him and he was shaking in tearless sobs, as she rubbed his back, comforting him.
What were the Cullens gathered around? When we reached them I saw what had happened. Rosalie was lying on the ground and Emmett was crying, tearless, holding her hand.
"Rosie, please honey, be okay." He moaned.
Rosalie was cut right across the throat, but it wasn't extremely deep. Thick gold liquid was slowly coming out of the wound, and Rosalie's eyes were getting darker.
Carlisle was issuing orders. "Edward-get Bella away from her, Jasper-find something Rosalie can feed on. Emmett? Emmett! You need to carry Rosalie back to the house." He said. "Everyone meet at the house."
Edward picked me up and we ran back to the house and for the first time I noticed a 2006 black Mustang convertible right in front of the house, it must have been Tristan and Aurora's.
Emmett was right behind us, carrying Rosalie; he carried her up the stairs and disappeared into their room with Carlisle and everyone else following, Jasper carrying a coyote. Edward set my down outside the door. He hugged me and I breathed in his scent shaking from fear.
Carlisle walked out of the bedroom to find Edward and me.
Edward asked. "How is she?"
"Once she had fed it started healing. She'll be fine in a couple of days. Edward, call Tristan and Aurora, we need to talk. … Now." He said.
PLEASE review. It motivates me into writing the next chapter quicker, also… what do you think of the plot? It gets WAY more intense and is not much like the Twilight james thing at all.
