Twilight saga Eclipse Fanfiction

Transitionals: Eclipse

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of the other books in the Saga, they belong to Stephenie Meyer. I do use some phrases dialogue and some descriptions from the book though, they all belong to her.

This will be the final chapter of the scavenger hunt, for the things Toby left Bella. We are going to have some fun in this chapter. Also I'm going to warn you, you won't like the end of this chapter. I'm sorry about that, it just cannot be helped.

I really hope you all like this chapter and will eventually forgive me about the way I am going to end it.

This chapter is dedicated to my sister, I would not be the writer I am today without her help.

Chapter 3

I didn't remember arriving at Toby's cabin. I didn't remember making a bed and then climbing into it to sleep. I didn't even remember the drive to the cabin. Did I remember landing at the airport?

"I know you're awake Love." Edward brushed my hair away from my face.

A sigh escaped me when he touched me. I loved the electricity that buzzed between us. When I opened my eyes I found him smiling down at me.

The door opened with a crash and I sat up with a start. Anna stomped into the room dragging a large bag behind her. It was no doubt too heavy for her but she continued to try dragging it over to our bed.

"What do you got there Anna?"

She groaned as she struggled with the bag. She pulled and yanked on the handles until she finally dropped them, giving up.

I got out of bed and knelt beside her. A quick inspection showed me that the bag was filled with paper.

Anna smiled up at me. "We found this for you."

I glanced from her to the bag. "This is all the stuff your dad left for me here?"

Anna's curls bobbed as she nodded. "You were sleeping, so we found it for you. We also found grandma's keys for her store."

I ruffled her hair. "Thank you that was so sweet."

She grinned. "Uncle Emmett said I couldn't carry all this upstairs by myself."

"She didn't carry it, she dragged it." I heard Emmett yell. "It took her a half an hour to get it to Bella's room."

I was shocked as I turned my attention back to Anna. She was still grinning proudly.

Shaking my head, I chuckled at their antics.

I quickly got ready for the day, taking a fast shower and changing in record time. I joined Edward and the others downstairs, where Esme had some food waiting for me.

"Here sweetheart, eat up and then we can go head to the store."

I smiled a thanks to her and started eating.

"There was a letter for you with the stack of papers," Carlisle let me know. "I put that With Toby's briefcase."

"Thank you." I wasn't sure what it was, but I had a feeling that the letter was important. I wasn't looking forward to reading it. The information inside could be anything from what the Undermining was planning, to the answers I was looking for about my family. I would dread reading the letter and most likely put it off as long as I could.

Edward seemed to know what I was thinking. "You don't have to worry about it till later. Let's head to a bookstore."

I couldn't help laughing at his attempts to change the subject. My love for books was well known, but we wouldn't be buying any today.

We grabbed a few things and headed for the store, thankful for the clouded day. None of us needed to sparkle today, we didn't have time for it to be just me and the girls searching. There was also a chance I might not be able to be out in the sunlight. That wouldn't have been good. We needed to get whatever Toby left for me as soon as possible and leave.

The bookstore looked abandoned. No one had been in it though for over a year. I unlocked the door and we all headed for the children's section. It took a moment but we were able to find the books.

In the far corner of the children's section was a small series of books. They were one of kinds, and I recognized them immediately. Tessa's Mom had written them. They were the little stories she had told Anna, the life lessons that helped her explain the world.

I reached for the first book, flipping through the first set of stories trying to find whatever had been left in them.

The others had grabbed their own books to search through.

After triple checking that there was nothing in the book I was holding I set it down on the small table the little kids had set at to look at their picture books.

We scoured through each book but all we found were stories about life lessons, tales about how to make your life and the lives of the people around you happy. The littles sayings that Anna would every once in a while say that had far too much truth in them. All of the lessons that had helped make Anna so much smarter and wiser than many humans.

"What exactly are we supposed to look for?" Emmett asked setting another book down on the little table.

I shook my head. "I don't know Emmett."

"Maybe Toby wanted Cissy to have these story books," Esme suggested them. "Anna's heard all of them and knows the stories, maybe he wanted Cissy to be able to have them too."

That was the only explanation I could find. There was nothing else in the books or on the books that could possibly be a clue or hidden message as I had assumed there would be.

"I read." Cissy stood beside the table and reached for a book. Her fingers grabbed the top one on the stack closure to her.

The lights in the store went out suddenly.

"Well that's weird." I couldn't help agreeing with Emmett.

"There must be something wrong with the generator. I'll go check," I offered.

The lights turned back on though before I could leave. They flickered then went out again.

Now I was really getting nervous. "Anna, what do you sense nearby?"

Anna shrugged. "There's nothing nearby."

"There's no one else here but us," Edward added.

Jasper checked the area too. "I only feel our group. There's no one else close by."

The lights came back on and I had to admit I was afraid. I scooted closer to Edward.

Anna hurriedly climbed into Rose's arms.

Cissy pushed the book away and rubbed her eyes, blinking tiredly. She toddled over to Esme and asked to be picked up.

My thoughts were going a mile per minute. Cissy was now over a year old, naps were going to become a thing of the past quickly. Possibly one every few days. Cissy had slept most of the day before so she shouldn't be tired now, especially after sleeping all night.

I had a hunch. I grabbed a book off the table and reached for Cissy. Esme handed her to me and I settled her on my hip. "Would you hold the book for me Cissy?"

Cissy laid her head on my shoulder but took the book in her little hands.

I couldn't help the small shriek when my feet lifted off the ground. Esme and Carlisle both reached out to catch us. Cissy dropped the book and my feet landed on the ground.

Words were lost to me. Esme and Carlisle were still holding onto me, which I was glad. I didn't feel stable, I was too shocked.

"What just happened?" My words shock.

"Well obviously either you or Cissy learned how to fly." Emmett tried to joke about it, but his voice was worried.

Once I was sure that I wouldn't fall flat on my face if I took a step I grabbed the book Cissy had dropped and set it with the rest of the books on the table. "There's magic on these books."

All seven of the Cullens looked at me like I was crazy. I knew they were just surprised. This was definitely one of the more stranger things they had seen.

I set the book I had given Cissy down. "Levitation magic. Electrical magic," I said as I picked up the book Cissy had grabbed first. Taking another one off the stack I handed it to Anna. "Can you sense whose magic this is?"

Anna nodded, taking the book from me. We all waited for her to figure it out, none of us speaking.

Anna set the book down. "That's Melissa's."

"Bella what's happening, I don't understand." Rose handed Anna off to Emmett and took Cissy from me. "What is all this?"

My grin spread from ear to ear. I was astonished, amazed, and completely bewildered. "Toby knew what Cissy's powers were going to be. He left these here for her, to train her." I turned to face all of my family. "Each book has a power left by a member of my family so Cissy can connect to it. Toby left us a way to teach Cissy how to use and control her powers."

Understanding appeared rapidly in all of the eyes. We had all been struggling with helping Cissy with her powers. Our attempts weren't affective, but these would be.

Rose kissed Cissy's cheek. Thrilled to finally have a way to help her with her powers. "How does it work?"

I glanced at the books. "If I understand it right, Cissy can connect to the books and practice using the other powers. That's the real problem. She needs to learn how to control the power she is connecting to, because connecting to the power is natural."

"Especially right now since she has no control of what she connects to." Carlisle added. He grabbed one of the books and studied it. "Toby was extremely careful of how he left these for Cissy. It was hidden in plain sight, and it won't look out of place amongst Cissy's things."

I smiled at Toby's hard work. "Toby likes hiding important information in book form."

"Was he an avid reader like you?" Esme asked.

I nodded. Toby was the person who pushed reading books and early reading in our family.

Edward wrapped and arm around my waist. "Come on, let's get back to the cabin and get ready to head back home."

I nodded. I headed for the back of the store to find some boxes that we could use to carry the books.

The back room was trashed which surprised me.

"This room always so messy," Emmett asked.

I glanced back, surprised that he was the only one who had followed me. I turned back to the mess. "Tessa's mom never would have let this room get like this."

Emmett reached down and picked up a box, the remaining papers inside of it fell out. "It looks as bad as the basement in your cousin's place."

That's exactly what this place looked like.

"Why would someone ransack this place though?"

I didn't have an answer for him. I knelt down and pulled a stack of papers off the ground. They were just bills and inventory check lists, a few receipts, nothing worth searching through. Certainly not worth trashing the place.

Pulling my phone from my pocket I dialed Grandpa Ray. If someone was going through Tessa's mother's place then I wanted to know why.

"What's wrong?" He answered after the appropriate amount of rings.

"Someone decided to wreck the bookstore." He would know which one I was talking about. "Could you have someone check it out and figure out what they were doing?"

"I'll send someone down there as soon as possible," he assured me.

I was about to hang up when he stopped me.

"Bella, I need a favor while you're in California."

I was surprised. Grandpa Ray hardly ever asked for favors. He was always careful about what he did so he liked to do it himself.

He chuckled. "It's not anything too important. I have a friend who is going to be staying in my cabin. He should be there in the next three hours and I was wondering if you could go light the fire for him."

"Sure we can head there on our way back to Toby's cabin."

Grandpa Ray's voice changed over the phone. "The less people who know where my cabin is, the better. If you leave after packing up Toby's place you can stop by and get mine set up for my company. Don't leave anything behind." The phone call ended with that.

I knew immediately that Grandpa Ray had a reason to get me alone. His last four words before he hung up said it all. "Don't leave anything behind." Toby's dad, my uncle used those words whenever he left a message for someone. The message was to be destroyed immediately after being read.

The letter. I was now insanely curious about what I would read later today.

"I thought Grandpa Ray trusted us." Emmett sighed and grabbed a few boxes off the floor that were empty.

I rested my hand on his shoulder. "He does trust you guys. It's just," I paused knowing it wasn't my secret to tell. I knew who was going to be staying at Grandpa Ray's cabin. There was only one person who he let stay there when he wasn't there.

"It's a safety thing Emmett. The more people who know, the easier it is for the secret to slip out."

He nodded but I could see that he was still wishing he could come with me.

We joined the others and found that Anna and Cissy had done some shopping while we were away. The table was not only covered with the ones for Cissy, but also ones they had picked out while they waited.

I laughed. Their grandmother wouldn't have minded.

We packed up the books and headed back to Toby's cabin. It didn't take us long to gather our belongings there.

I grabbed my list I had made while watching the videos, double checking I had everything I was supposed to.

The papers from Toby's cabin. Check.

The books for Cissy. Check.

Anna's pendant. I glanced back at Anna and was surprised she wasn't wearing it. "Anna?"

She stopped playing with Cissy and glanced at me. "Yes Auntie Bella?"

"Why aren't you wearing your pendant?" I asked her.

Her hand dropped to her chest as if she just realized she wasn't wearing it. She hurried off the floor and ran to Rose. "Where's my pendant Auntie Rose?"

Rose went and grabbed it out of her bag. She knelt in front of Anna and opened the jewelry box. "Here you go."

Anna tentatively grabbed the necklace from her mother's jewelry box. She smiled but it looked so sad. She slipped it on and I got to watch the fun.

Jasper and Edward stiffened before glancing from Anna to me. "What was that?" They asked together.

I tried to stifle my laughter, hiding it behind a cough. "That ah," I cleared my throat. "That was Anna's powers reacting to the added powers of her dad's that are in the pendant. A bit startling wasn't it."

They nodded.

I had felt it before. The sensation was weighted. I had been holding Anna one time when her dad had decided to clean the pendant. When he put it back on Anna, it felt like someone had put a crate full of bricks on my chest. Toby had known what would happen and helped steady me before I could fall over.

Anna of course had found that incredibly funny. Anna though had never had any problems with the added weight, she didn't even notice it.

Jasper grimaced. "Will this go away?" He was still feeling the weight, Edward had gotten out of his mind so he wouldn't feel it.

I nodded. "Once Anna's powers settle it'll vanish."

Jasper crossed the room and lifted Anna into his arms. "How do you deal with this?"

She grinned up at him cheekily and told him her secret. "I've built my power up so it doesn't bother me anymore."

He ruffled her curls and laughed with her.

I smiled at the two of them before going back to my checklist, checking off Anna's pendant.

Toby's briefcase. Check.

The phone like device Toby had made, along with the stuff the hunters were using. We had already had the stuff the hunters had, but the phone was gone. Most likely it was in the hands of Carlos or even the Undermining.

I tried not to think about that and continued with my checklist.

Finding Toby's secret workshop which we found out was under the rug in Tessa's office. Check.

All the stuff that was behind the door with the star on. Check. I still had no idea what was so important about all that stuff but I was glad we had found it.

We got everything minus the phone like device. Despite that though we were done, we could go back to Forks.

The Cullens had the cars all packed up with our stuff. The Letter they had found while I was asleep was in my purse. I took one of the three cars while they took the other two.

I knew Edward wasn't thrilled I was going off on my own, but he didn't say anything. He didn't try to get me to go with him, and he didn't ask to come. I was thankful for that.

The drive to Grandpa Ray's place wasn't long, only ten minutes. It was a miracle I still remembered how to get there, since I had only been there once.

It looked exactly the same. It was only one story and was quite a bit smaller than Toby's cabin, but that was fine for Grandpa Ray. The cabin was simple and if you ever looked up the word rustic in the dictionary, you'd find a picture of Grandpa Ray's house.

I opened the door after finding the key under the mat. What could I say, it wasn't like anyone but a few people even knew about this place, and it wasn't more than just a hiding hole for Grandpa Ray. There was nothing he valued in it.

As instructed my only job was to light the fireplace, and read the letter. I quickly set about to do my tasks. I grabbed firewood and kindling so I could start the fire. I was eager to be able to read the letter, and my eagerness made my shaky. It took a few times for me to get the fire to start.

Once I had enough light in the small cabin I took the letter out of my purse. It was addressed to me, but my name was the only thing on the envelope. There was no information about who sent it.

I tore open the envelope and pulled the letter out. It wasn't very long, there was only one page. My gaze soared over ever letter, every word. My brain didn't want to take in anything it was reading. So I read it again then again, slowly getting my mind to understand.

I stared down not seeing the note I had just read multiple times to be sure. I crumbled the paper and tossed it into the fireplace. I had my answer.

Author's Note.

Please don't hurt me. I'm sorry but the chapter had to end there. It just had to. I know you all are probably so curious to know what was in the letter and probably mad that you didn't get to know, and I'm sorry for that. It had to be done. I really hope you all can understand that.

Onto the questions. Let's start with the obvious one. What do you think was in the letter? Who do you think wrote it and who do you think left it for her? Does Grandpa Ray know what was in the letter or just that it was left for Bella?

Another question this one might seem random but there is a point to it. Who do you think is the only person Grandpa Ray let's stay in his cabin when he isn't there? Would you like to meet this person? Do you think that person is who is going to be staying there?

Now that Bella has everything she has, what do you think she's going to be doing? Speaking of the things that were left for her to find, what are your thoughts on the strange phone like device Toby made? Where is it? Who has it? Will Bella ever find it? Did Toby actually make it or did someone else?

Thank you all so much for reading,

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