Chapter Two: Unsuspecting
"Bella, take care of the newbies will you darling?" Maria asked smiling winningly at the small girl.
"Bella," she called when she got no response. Suddenly all she could think of was the pain. She had always known it could happen but hoped that her lovely little fighting machine wouldn't turn on her.
"Goodbye Maria," Bella said before ripping her creators head off with the flick of her wrist.
Dismembering Maria was simple she didn't put up a fight. There was no point to try fighting off Bella. She had powers like no other before her. Bella was small but mighty; they had changed ten year old boys that were bigger than her but didn't stand a chance in a fight with her even if she had her eyes closed. While Maria was hunting Bella had stayed back and watched the troops. It had been easy enough to get rid of them. All of them knew that if she wanted them dead they were dead. They just lined up and waited for her to destroy them, not once did they flinch or even think of making a run for it. In the beginning they had tried to thwart her but too many times had she come out on top. Their fellow soldiers had fallen continuously when they defied her and they had come to learn it meant nothing to plead, beg or run. That would only make her mad and that would not end well for them.
When she was sure the entire army was gone Bella left not looking back. She knew where she had to go and what she needed to do. Maria had told her of a vampire named Jasper. He too had been put in charge of Maria's troops because of his fighting skills and natural control over others. But he had left and so Maria had gone underground for several decades until she had seen Bella's potential and taken her in. Now Bella was getting the freedom that she wanted and needed.
Maria had told her of a major she had met decades ago when she was first starting out with her army. His name was Jasper Whitlock and she had seen his potential like she had seen mine. He was only nineteen years old andhadbeen a verytalented devastatedhercause when he left and she had gone underground searching for anew second since his departure. That was howshe had found Bella. Jasper like Bella had beenan extraordinary fighterbut on top of that he could also control the feelings of those around him.
Bella knew that she was going to look for Jasper. But first she neededto see her dad, Police Chief Swan for the small town of Forks, Washington. Charlie would have everybody and their uncleout looking for her and she needed to be able to search freely. She would have to sit through a year of High School and wait until graduation to start her search.
Without a look back Bella took off faster than one would think she could. She was small and therefore very aerodynamic she flew past people with such speed that it didn't even ruffle their hair. She makes the week long journey in a little over a day. The last rays of sunlight were just sinking down under the horizon when she came to a stop infront of Charlie's house.
Without hesitation Bella reached up and knocked lightly on the door. Charlie would be shocked to say the least when he saw his long lost daughter standing before him her eyes shining bright red.
"Bella, Bella is that really you?" Charlie exclaimed after a moment of shocked silence.
"Yeah dad it's me," Bella assured smiling slightly.
"Oh Bella, I thought you were dead, everyone thought you were dead! It's just that your mom and Phil then you werejust missing!"
"I know dad, I was being kept by somebody. I don't know who it was and they never talked or let me see them. I was kept in a room that was always dark. When the chance arose I made a run for it and managed catch a bus up here." Bella lied easily as Charlie led her into the house.
"Oh Bella, I should take you to the hospitalwhoknows what kindof injuries you might have!"
"No dad I'm fine." Bella said, hastily adding, "I'll go to school tomorrow and if I feel bad after that then you can take me to the doctor."
"Alright if your sure Bells, I bet your tired why don't you head up to bed and I'll call and leave a message at the school."
"Thanks dad, goodnight I love you," Bella said as she headed towards the stairs.
"I love you too Bells,"Charlie said throwing her a weak smile.
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"Hi I'm Isabella Swan," Bella said as she stood in front of the attendance desk at Forks High School
"Of course, let me just get your schedule for you!" The woman said scurrying to get a map and schedule out for Bella.
"Thank you so much," Bella said calmly turning and leaving the office before she could be asked any questions.
"Fresh meat guys," a boy with spiky dirty blonde hair whispered to his friends as they started making their way towards Bella."Can I help you boys?" Bella asked sweetly as they surrounded her.
"How about you favor us to a little fun on Friday Night?" The blonde kid said trying to smirk seductively and utterly failing.
"No thanks, but it was a good effort maybe if you're less of a scumbag next time." Bella said calmly as she tried to keep walking only to have them block her in.
"Take that back you snippy little bitch," one of Blondie's cronies said glaring at her trying to seem menacing.
"No," Bella said calmly glaring at him with ten times the heat of his own.
"This is our town bitch so you better back down. I don't care if you think you look scary with your stupid red contacts." the third boy said closing in on her.
"I think you should back away before you regret ever coming near me." Bella growled at them.
"Is there a problem here?" An extra-large boy with golden eyes and dark brown hair asked walking up to them.
Sniffing the air subtly Bella realized that he was a vampire, strange how were his eyes golden and not red? She couldn't understand why his eyes would be so different from her own but she hoped she would be able to find out.
"These boys were just going to leave me alone weren't you? And you aren't going to bother me with your petty wishes about taking me out of Friday are you?" Bella growled as the boy stepped slightly in front of her.
"Now, now no need to be so unfriendly. We just wanted to show you around town a little bit, yeah and how would you like for me to tell my father some nice boys were propositioning me today at school? I wonder how the Chief of Police would take that hmm. Still hoping that I'll let you use me on Friday? Sorry to let you down Blondie but I have standards and I'm not about to lower them for the sake of a scumbag like you." Bella said haughtily.
"You're Isabella Swan," The vampire in front of her asked.
"The one and only, and you are?"
"Emmett Cullen, my father's the head surgeon up at the Hospital. Come on Swan, you're pretty cool, you can hand with me and my siblings." Emmett said putting a guiding and between her shoulders and taking her schedule out of her hands to see what classes she had.
"Great, we have our morning classes together, I'll show you the way and then you can sit with us at lunch." Emmett said smiling brightly at her, but it didn't quite reach his eyes.
"Don't worry Cullen I won't bite," Bella said smiling mischievously at him so it would look like they were screwing around to everyone but the significance was not lost on the large boy.
"I'm glad, so why the red eyes, trying to look meaner than your physically capable of?"
"Gotta be tough where I've been, lots of wanna bee's that come after you if you don't look mean." She said looking up at him a hard glint in her eyes.
"Yeah, my brother was like that when he first came to us, used to live down south."
"I'd like to meet him see if our experiences are at all alike. From the sounds of it they were pretty similar."
"Well here's our first class, I usually sit towards the back. Not many people do but that suits me pretty well."
"Sounds good, Cullen; what are we working on?" Bella asked after the teacher had signed off on her sheet and she was seated beside the humongous teen.
"Poetry, most of its pretty good but some of it's boring as hell," Emmett complained as he sat back the two of them only half listening to what the teacher had to say.
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"Who's this Emmett," a blonde girl asked smiling widely but her irritation slipped through at the sight of Emmett and Bella walking arm and arm.
"Oh, you must be Rosalie! It's great to meet you; Emmett's of course told me every detail he admires about you. You're practically all he's talked about all morning and my options were either listen to him list every good quality about you he could think of or actually pay attention to some loser teacher drone on and on." Bella said smiling brightly at the girl.
"Really," Rosalie said surprise replacing the irritation in her voice as she sent Bella a skeptical look.
"Yep, it's true. I can only hope that you are as awesome as he's made you out to be but it's hard to believe anyone could be that perfect but you know how boys tend to exaggerate our good qualities so that it seems to others we don't have any flaws at all," Bella said winking at the other girl.
"Do you have a boyfriend here with you?" Rosalie asked seeming to finally realize that Bella was a vampire and was obviously wondering why the town was still intact.
"Nope, tied up all my loose ends while I was still in Mexico, you know I never did enjoy all the little punk in that area any way. Not that there are many interesting people here aside from you lot, but that may suit me just fine I could use some relaxation for once."
"Who's this?" A boy with dirty blond hair asked as he and a raven haired girl, slightly taller than Bella, approached.
"This is Bella Swan…" Emmett said after a moment of silence in which Bella stared at Jasper in shock, wondering why she was acting so oddly. The two of them had talked all morning and she wasn't easily shocked or shy in the slightest.
"Jasper Whitlock?" Bella breathed finally finding her voice after what seemed like forever.
"How do you know that name," Jasper hissed so that only the vampires could hear him.
"Maria told me, she told me all about you. I think she was hoping I would get jealous of how close the two of you were and work hard to be as disciplined as you were before you left. She didn't expect me to be so skilled just after waking up and was very pleased when I could control everyone so effectively. It was a hard life though; I didn't want to spend my life fighting for blood that newbies drank so fast we had to find a new town within a week without giving me a chance to grab a bite to eat. They were always so hungry and I could go much longer than them without food so they took priority and I finally got tired of it so I took them down, all of them including her." Bella said quietly looking straight at Jasper.
"Maria's gone? I take it she was weak and didn't have as many newborns as she used to?" Jasper asked in surprise.
"No, she didn't fight me, none of them ever did. Every time they would try I won, after a while they quit trying and just let me kill them. I took care of Maria first, she always feared that one day I would decide that I didn't like the life I had and would revolt against her. She knew that I couldn't feel the pain of others like you and would have no qualms with killing her off before I left. She feared for the day that I decided that she had ruined my life and I wouldn't take it anymore. It came on Saturday, she was getting ready to attack a new town so I stopped her and got rid of the newbies so I could come looking for you actually. I wanted to know how you made it without someone by your side. But as I can see you do have someone, several someone's that care about you very much. I'm glad that you didn't let her ruin your eternity." Bella explained a small smile flitting across her face.
"Don't you have a companion you brought along with you, someone that you got along with in the troops?" Jasper asked quietly.
"No, don't you understand? I wasn't like you; I couldn't influence how they felt like you can. I'm much different than you instead of being able to ease their fears I have unimaginable powers that stop them from hurting me, stop anyone from hurting me. I am literally indestructible, not to mention my natural fighting abilities. My size draws larger people, especially men, towards me it meant that she could build a stronger army that's what she liked about me. I haven't had friends since she killed my parents and took me to Mexico. The troops lived afraid of me and learned not to try and fight me because of my power; I couldn't have made friends with them if I wanted to."
"You can stay with us," Rosalie said decisively, as if she said it to people all the time.
"I'd love to but there's no way Charlie's letting me go so soon, I needed to come see him so that he'd call off all the dogs searching for me. I could have stayed hidden until he died but this was easier and as much as I didn't really get along with him while I was alive I'm being selfish and spending at least a little bit of time with him before he kicks the bucket. Otherwise I would have just one in and turned myself in to a police station and been done with it told them I was eighteen and they could notify him I was alive but I was going off to start a new life without any of my past pain, but for some reason I couldn't do it. I was drawn to this place and I couldn't very well come to Forks without him figuring out that I was here after a while."
"But how will you be able to live with a human, you feed off of them!" The black haired girl said in surprise looking at Bella with confusion and a little bit of resentment.
"Can't you tell what will happen? Can't you see if she will hurt him?" Jasper asked looking down at her.
"No, she's blocking me; I can't see anything to do with her Jasper!"
"Who's this," a bronze haired boy asked finally dropping down at the table.
"Like you need us to tell you," Emmett said snorting as he looked at the other teen.
"Actually I do, she's got a huge shield covering all of you and herself. She's not going to massacre the town is she Alice?"
"You're guess is as good as mine Edward. She's blocking me as well can't see a thing I feel so ordinary!" Alice said in horror.
"And why are we just sitting here waiting for her to get hungry enough to snap?" The bronze haired boy asked glaring at the others.
"I'm not going to kill the town, thanks for asking and all; I would have felt really terrible if you had talked about me as if I wasn't here. Oh yeah I'm Bella by the way, sorry I was so rude and didn't introduce myself when you told me your name." Bella said irritably as she stood and stormed out of the cafeteria.
"Bella wait! Come back, don't pay them any mind." Emmett called after her.
"Go on Emmett, she's most likely to trust you as you've bonded all morning." Rosalie said nudging her husband.
"Alright, I catch you later," he said pressing a quick kiss to her temple before taking off after Bella. "Bella! Hey Bella, wait up!"
"What did I do?" Edward asked in surprise as Rosalie turned to glare at him.
"You were almost as bad as Alice," Jasper growled as he too stood and took off after Bella.
"What's he going on about?" Alice asked confused as she watched him storm away looking more surly than usual.
"Alice you heard her story, she trusted us enough to tell us everything she thought was important and then you treated her like crap. I don't think she even realized she had a shield up. She's a darling girl that's been through a lot of terrible things, or haven't you heard about what happened to Chief Swan's ex-wife and her husband?" Rosalie said sneering at them.
"Um, no, I don't listen to things like that. I'm usually too busy trying to make sure I see when visitors are here and that nothing out of the ordinary is coming our way to worry about gossip." Alice said with a shrug.
"When Chief Swan and his wife split up she got full custody of their daughter and got remarried a few years ago. Then one night two years ago someone broke into their house in Phoenix, Arizona and the Chiefs ex and her husband were brutally murdered and his daughter went missing. As far as I know this is the first she's been since her mom and step dad were killed two years ago, in which time she was forced to take part in the vampire wars! You should be ashamed of yourselves for at the very least not talking directly to her instead of pretending she wasn't here." Rosalie said glaring at the pair.
"Um, in my defense I didn't know about any of that…" Edward said hopefully.
"And you didn't take the time to learn any of it from her, you jumped strait to the conclusion that she was going to kill us all." Rosalie said grabbing her things and storming off to class.
"Oops, I think we made all of them mad…" Alice said looking towards the door their sister had just left from.
"Do you? Wow you must be physic," Edward said sarcastically as they stood up and headed off to class.
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