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Chapter 12!!
Jasper POV
It had been nearly twenty minutes of silence coming from Bella. It was making me anxious, and I knew that anxiousness was rubbing off on Emmett and Edward due to my gift. Emmett kept assuring the two of us that she had to be fine just reading a "freaking book," as he put it.
"Damn it, Jasper, you're being no fun. It's no fun beating you if you aren't even trying. The same for you, Edward!" Emmett tore through my thoughts.
"Shut up, Em--"
Suddenly, Alice's voice cut through the air, "JASPER! EDWARD!"
In a flash, we were up and in front of her; Edward's emotions were terrified. "Are you certain Alice?!"
"What is it?! What happened, Alice?" I took her by her shoulders and looked into her eyes. Her emotions were going haywire.
It only took one word to both floor me and send a fire raging through my body:
"Bella," she whispered, her eyes seeking Edward's.
"What about her? She's upstairs still, isn't she?" Emmett had walked into the room.
"Where is she, Alice? What happened?"
"She, oh God. Oh, no no no no no!"
"She disappeared? Alice? How? Why? When?"
"She left!" Alice shrieked, "I saw her running, hunting, alone, and then her future disappeared! Oh God, I don't know how this could've happened! We have to find her! Oh this is all my fault! How could I have missed this?!"
Edward shoved me away, grabbing my wife by her shoulders, "Which way?"
She must've answered him via her thoughts because he was instantly outside running towards the trees, myself and the rest of my family (who had heard the commotion and came to watch) following close behind.
How could this have happened?! We were watching her! Something terrible could be happening, or already happened, to my sister! What sort of brother was I? I prayed to whatever God or Gods were listening that she would be okay, but even I can't let go of my gut feelings. I pushed myself harder, glancing to Alice to see the fury on her face at what I assumed to be towards herself for this incident.
"I hope we're there in time, wherever we're going," I heard Esme whisper from behind me as we flew through the trees.
I swear to God that if anything has befallen my sister, she wouldn't be able to lift a finger without someone watching.
No, that would happen even if nothing has happened to her. I was going to kill her for sneaking out.
Bella's POV
The moment I leapt from my perch in the tree towards the buck, my eyes only for my meal, a feeling of dread slipped over me.
The dread lasted for all of a millisecond, for I was immediately taken down by a large, dirty, disgusting smelling, fur-ball with claws; claws that, to my great surprise, were able to dig into my normally rock-hard skin.
I cried out as the fanged beast threw me to the ground, snarling and tearing at my clothing and my body. I had no time to think before I reflexively jumped back to my feet nearly twenty yards from the creature. I did a quick once-over and was struck by how massive the russet-colored mongrel was.
It growled at me once more as it began to advance towards me, and I crouched, snarling. I could see this wolf creature had companions from the corners of my eyes. I was surrounded.
Why, in the name of all that is Holy, did no one tell me that Forks and the surrounding area was infested by enormous, terrible smelling, dogs that had the apparent ability to kill vampires?! If I survived this, I was going to kill someone in my family.
The russet-colored, sharp fanged and sharp-clawed beast leapt at me just as I leapt at it and we collided mid-air. I screamed out in pain as its jaw's clamped down on my shoulder.
What in the hell is this animal?
"ARGH! Get OFF!" I cried as I lifted a fist and felt it collide with its enormous head. It yelped as it fell back only to be replaced by two more of its companions as it shook its disgusting head of the pain I'm sure was still rattling its brains.
I couldn't spend any more time thinking of the beast I just threw from me as the two others jumped at me, one from behind and the other from my left. One bit the right side of my torso and I found my legs were no longer below me as I flew through the air and destroyed a tree upon impact. The tree did me no damage, but the bite I sustained sure did. I clutched at my side in pain as what I assumed was a type of venom combined with my own that flowed through my body and caused me a blinding pain.
I quickly stood, bracing myself with one hand against the tree as I looked around me for a means of escape. I now knew that I had to get out of this situation or I would surely die. Fear gripped me as I jumped at one of the wolf-like creatures and began pounding and kicking my way through their barricade.
They seemed to be laughing, laughing at my tries for escape. They bit at me and tore my clothes and skin; one still hasn't let go of my left arm.
I fell to the ground, crying out in fear and pain, as two more jumped into the fray to tear me apart. The russet one bit my already nearly shredded torso, the dark brown one bit down harder on my left shoulder and arm, and the tan colored one bit my left thigh. I screamed at the top of my lungs, hoping beyond hope that someone, anyone from my family would hear and come to my aide. I was going to die.
"BELLA!"
"BELLS, HOLD ON!"
"WE'RE COMING!"
I vaguely heard the voices of what I recognized to be my family as I cried out again as my left arm was partly torn from my body by the dark brown one, and the massive jaws of the tan wolf crushed my thigh.
"JASPER! EDWARD!" I screamed one last time before twisting within the jaws of the beasts. I balled my right hand into a fist and punched the tan one in between its eyes, "Get off!"
"BELLA!" I heard Edward's musical voice just before I saw him leap through the air and begin tearing at the beasts that were holding me down and tearing me apart.
I looked over and saw Alice viciously swiping at one of the wolves, "ALICE!" I cried out, "WATCH OUT!" But it was too late; she was tackled by another wolf.
I cried out in pain as my attention was brought back to my own body as the russet wolf clamped down harder upon my torso. I couldn't bring in any more air, as it was crushing my chest now, but I still struggled to get away.
I watched as Edward grabbed it by its jaws and pried them apart and away from me before tossing it against a tree. I screamed out again as my love dropped to his knees beside me, "Oh, God, Bella. Oh, no no no."
I glanced down and if I were human, I would've passed out cold. My left thigh didn't even resemble a thigh as most of it was missing and laying a foot or two away, my left shoulder and arm were also in pieces and my torso, oh, my torso was in shambles.
And every bit of it hurt terribly.
Esme dropped to her knees next to my head and held either side of my face, "Edward," she said, "Help the others! Carlisle is speaking with Sam. I'll stay with her, help them!"
He opened his mouth to argue but I choked out to him, "Go!" and he did.
I held one of Esme's hands as she smoothed my hair back, "Oh Bella, oh look at you." She gasped, "Alice! Oh no! JASPER!"
I turned my head to watch as a wolf jumped and bit my sister, lifting her into the air and tossing her like a rag-doll to another one who proceeded to literally chomp away at her tiny body, I cried out as I heard her cries.
"JASPER!" I screamed, "ALICE!" I couldn't move any more, but I watched as Jasper and Rosalie tore Alice from the beast and Rosalie threw it away from us.
"She can't have known, Sam! Bella doesn't hunt humans, she's one of us!" I heard Carlisle plead with a black colored wolf, Edward right beside him, "Call them off, Sam! Call them off, now!"
The wolf huffed and suddenly, all of the wolves around us came to a stop.
I breathed a sigh of relief and stopped paying attention as I allowed the pain to overcome me. I didn't have to fight anymore.
I felt Esme leave my side as Edward fell next to me. "Oh, Bella, my love, how bad is it?"
I whimpered; I felt so weak. I felt awful.
"Bella!" I heard my brother call out.
I shook my head, "Go to Alice, Jazz. She's hurt, too."
"I've got her, Jasper, go to Alice." I heard Edward tell him from above me. I saw him nod weakly before tending to his wife, Esme and Emmett helping.
"Bella, here, let's put you back together." Rosalie said from my left as she began to patch me up and smooth the pieces with Edward's help. I cried out and twisted in pain as each piece was reattached. "Oh, Bella, I'm so sorry. I don't mean to hurt you." She said.
I merely shook my head and tried to focus on Carlisle speaking.
"She doesn't hunt humans, I assure you." "She didn't know anything about the treaty." "She didn't know the boundary-line, we expected to be with her every time she hunted."
I let his voice drown out and allowed myself to zone out as Rosalie and Edward did their best to 'fix' me until Carlisle could properly care for Alice and myself, as we were the only two with extensive damage.
"Edward," I whispered as he lifted me into his arms, "I'm sorry, I didn't know."
"It's okay, love. Just rest. We're going home."
I nodded and closed my eyes, trying to keep the still-blinding pain from entering my mind. I whimpered again as I opened them one last time to glance at Alice who was being cradled in Jasper's arms as our family made their way back to the house.
I felt my face screw up as my lips trembled and my body shook in tearless sobs. My body hurt so badly, I had lost the ability to move on my own due to all of the bits that were torn from me that were still trying to re-thread themselves together again.
"Bella? Bella, can you answer me? Carlisle," I heard Edward speak from above me, "You really need to look them over, she isn't responding anymore."
Since I know that vampires can't lose consciousness, I did the next best thing, I retreated from my body into my mind, so I could get away from the pain. I've never been torn apart before and this was beyond excruciating. I desperately hoped that Alice wasn't in nearly the shape I was. I felt my head loll back and distantly heard as my family sped up towards home.
"You're going to be okay, just deal with the pain for a bit longer, love." I heard my angel say above me. I didn't acknowledge him other than to say, "It hurts so bad."
"I know, love, I know."
The next thing I knew, I was laying on our bed with Carlisle running his fingers over my shoulder, with Edward holding my right hand. I bit back a groan, but screwed up my face in a grimace.
He looked at me, "You have a lot of healing to do, Bella, I'm not going to lie to you. Your injuries are extensive. You're lucky that you weren't entirely pulled apart."
"I think they were playing with me," I whispered. "I feel so weak."
"That would be because of the venom from the wolves. I imagine you're still in a great amount of pain."
"Is that normal from being pulled apart?" I asked him gently.
He shook his head, "No, if it were only a vampire to have done this, sure, you'd be slightly sore, as I know you recall from the newborns, but the venom from the wolves make it much worse."
I nodded, "How is Alice?"
Edward answered for me, "Not nearly as bad as you. She's in pain, and is down for the count right now, but she'll be fine long before you are. She wasn't pulled nearly apart like you, love."
"Did anyone else get hurt?"
"No. Rest, love. We'll talk later. Jasper wants to see you."
I merely nodded and tried, once again, to lose myself in my thoughts.
A/N: Well, what did you think?! Most of you were absolutely correct when you guessed the wolves! ;o) I'm impressed! But, I think that the 'wet dog smell' from last chapter gave it away. HAHA Oh well.
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