BPOV
I was running faster then I would have thought possible. My feet felt like they were barely touching the pavement. They had Cory… I tripped over uneven sidewalk and scraped my hands a little. Quickly I got back up and kept running until I was finally at the doors of the Ballet studio Cory and I used to go to. Mom put us in it. I never had the grace to be a Ballerina, and Cory, well lets just say when we were 7 she dyed her tutu black and then for her recital, moshed around the stage.
I took a deep breath and through open the doors making my way down the desolate halls to the room Alice had seen. Once I entered I took in the appearance, just as Alice described. I stepped in when the TV suddenly turned on and I gasped. Cory and I were by the poolside. I was in my bathing suit and she was fully clothed. It was nighttime, but the pool was lit up with lights.
"Please... please don't do this." Cory begged as I came at her with a bucket of water
"Bella? Bella. Bella! Don't!" she was cut off by a scream; as she slipped into the shallow end of the pool.
My mind flashed to the phone call the day before.
"No hold on she's right here Cory." Alice handed me the phone. I took it quickly and hastily put it up to my ear. It hadn't been long since I last saw her.
"Cory?" I asked a weak grin coming across my face as I waited to hear her voice, but the smile soon faded.
"Don't do anything but what I tell you or your sister will die. Say Cory I'm fine really. Are you all right? I miss you. And then exit into the next room." The deep voice whispered through the receiver. I closed my eyes and did as I was told. Once I closed the door I heard Cory in the background,
"Please... please don't do this."
"Shut up!" the masculine voice roared loudly. I heard a bang and I started to cry.
"Do you see the position I'm in Bella? I had to resort to harming your sister. Now if you obey me, I will spare her. if understood, say 'I can't wait till this is over.'"
"I-I can't wait until this is over." My voice quavered as tears leaked through my eyes. I dropped down onto the bed while he spoke again.
"Come now Bella, you wouldn't want to give me away would you? Cheer up; all will be all right if you do as your told. Now I want you to go to your home. By the phone there will be a number. Call it and I will give you instructions on where to meet me next. Say be safe Cory, I love you if you agree…"
"Bella. Bella! Don't!" Cory's voice rang through the receiver followed by a terrified shriek.
"Come alone, if I so much as smell any of those Cullen's, the next time you see your sister will be in ten different caskets do I make myself clear? Say bye Bella…"
"Bye…"
"Excellent, see you soon."
I stared at the TV astonished. They got that video from the house.
With that the TV turned off and the lights on.
"Well, well, well. Quick aren't you?" I saw James in the mirror. As he circled me till he got to the T.V. setting a camcorder on top.
"Great dramatics this room has huh?" James laughed
"You could say that." I said my voice void of emotion.
"Very Clever, going where you said you were going… very smart. Fortunately for me, that blonde beauty talk's loud." He laughed loudly and his smile was genuine, Genuinely insane. "Now Isabella, I can't promise you that this will be quick. I will enjoy this too much. Especially when Edward sees this." He waved a hand at the camcorder. I shuddered as I saw the red light blink.
I knew the plan now; his game in his evil little mind. I was just a perk to the game. The real challenge came with fighting Edward. He was smart though, for a sadistic vampire. Edward would come. He would come to avenge me.
James was in my face long before I knew he was there, an amused expression on his face.
"Fascinating. In the face of death, you daydream instead of run."
"Running would do me no good." A grin crossed his face.
"I guess not. Well let's get on with this shall we?" He was right in front of me now, and I was staring up at him with a blank expression. He went to stroke my cheek but I slapped his hand away. His hand moved willingly before fury flashed over his features. His one hand wrapped around the back of my neck and with his other hand he punctured the skin right under my earlobe. I took a sharp intake of breath, not really feeling the pain; the shock that I was about to die was suddenly kicking in.
"Scream for me," he dragged his nail down my neck to my collarbone, creating cut. I whimpered, "Scream for him."
The mention of Edward stopped any feeling whatsoever. I set my jaw and looked straight into his eyes.
"No." a snarl ripped through the room and I was air born cracking my head against the glass I could already feel the nausea coming over me as blood oozed from my head.
"So Edward. How do you like this? Too bad you couldn't protect her now! I guess Avengement is your only option."
"No, No Edward don-AHHHHH" James crushed both my legs by hopping up and landing on them with a sickening crunch. I felt the darkness start to overcome me.
"Ah, how about this Edward? Her changing, all of that pain, poor thing. That's okay, after she's over the worst of it, I will put her out of her misery!" his laughter filled the room as he took my wrists.
Surprisingly I watched him with curiosity. He didn't have the guts or the ability to taste me and then leave me until he thought I endured enough. I smiled reassuringly at the fact that this would end quicker. With that he bit me. I winced at the pain, but relaxed when I saw the hunger, the red of his eyes turn coal. He drank. I felt myself fading into the darkness. Glad it was almost over.
I closed my eyes and allowed myself to see Edward. The crooked smile that I loved, his hair falling into his eyes, his beautiful golden eyes.
A large bang ripped me from his angelic face, sending me to reality, to see them.
EPOV
"Bella, everything will be fine I promise! Carslie can't we do anything to stop it?" I held Bella's thrashing body in my arms tightly. She was screaming in utter agony.
"If we go here sooner we could have sucked out the venom, but she's too far gone now…" I picked Bella up and my family and I ran to the hotel room we had rented and I laid Bella down on the bed. her thrashing and screaming slowed to a twitchy whimper
"W-walk…" I turned abruptly at the sound of Bella's raw voice.
"Bella? Bella I'm here." I rushed to her side taking her hand in mine and I kissed her fingertips gently.
"W-walk- W-walker…" I looked at her confused for a second but realizeation struck me like a bus. I growled as I recognized the name.
"W-walker… James."
"Shhh, Bella, rest." I cooed gently Bella's eyes slowly fluttered unwillingly closed, but I was glad, this would probably be the most rest she was going to get in the next few days.
Once I was sure Bella was in a peaceful slumber I joined my family downstairs.
"I just don't get it."
"I know Alice; it doesn't make sense…"
My mind flashed to the sight that I had seen not long ago.
As soon as I landed Alice told me Bella escaped. She saw Bella in the mirrored room shortly after. We were quick but not quick enough. We all tore into the room ready for a fight, but when we got there, Bella was unconscious and James was nothing more then a flaming pile of ash.
"Walker…" I said as I sulked into the room glancing as the stairs as I heard Bella stir…
"What?" Carslie asked
"Remember the vampires with James; the young ones? Bella kept saying his name. I think he killed James."
"I don't understand though… Why would he kill one of his coven?" Emmett mumbled to himself. Jasper's head perked up as I felt a wave of guilt.
You know something… I looked Jasper in the eyes as the room lulled to a quiet murmur as my family grew awkwardly aware of our silent conversation.
You need to tell them, Edward."Edward, are you aware of something we aren't?" Carslie's voice was steady, but you could hear the slight edge to his voice.
"Cory… was taken the night this all started… Dustin's been out looking for her. I think she was willing to cooperate with them if they saved Bella…"
"What? Why didn't you tell us?" Alice was in my face in a millisecond. Jasper's arm looped around her little waist to keep her from doing damage to me.
"Because, Cory asked me not to let Bella know. She said if anything was to happen to her, keep it from Bella. Dustin said to get Bella out of danger first then we would go after Cory. Cory didn't even want Dustin to come after her; but I couldn't stop him."
After a moment of consideration Emmett spoke.
"What if he's already dead?" Rosalie punched him in the arm and short him a glare. "Ouch… well come on she could be dead for all we know."
"No, she isn't." Everyone turned towards the familiar voice by the door. Dustin stood in the doorway; dark circles around his black eyes,. Face was paler then I thought possible, even for vampires. His clothes were stained with mud and tattered. To put it plainly, he looked like shit.
"Oh Lord, Dustin!" Esme ran forward and wrapped Dustin in her arms. He smiled weakly but didn't return the hug.
"How are you sure?" Carslie asked breaking the silence.
"The night she was taken, she called me and told me to be quiet. She hid the phone I guess. When they came in, Cory asked them questions. Trent's power is to see what human's powers would be if changed and use them temporarily."
"So that's why…" I muttered to myself. Everyone looked at me with curious, waiting, faces.
"I could read Trent's mind clearly until he shook Bella's hand. Then it went blank. Like Bella blank." I let my voice grow quiet as I heard a whimper upstairs and then a scream.
"She was bitten?" Dustin's voice was caring but fierce.
"James bit her, and Walker killed him before he could finish her off."
"Why would he kill one of his own?"
"I… think… Cory may have made a deal with them; that if they saved Bella…" I let my sentence trail off leaving it open. Dustin roared and put a fist through the wall.
"Is she insane? What the hell was she thinking?"
"She was thinking of saving her sister."
"By trading her own life?" the room was quiet while Dustin calmed himself. Once he was calm he started towards the room where Bella was in, with me following behind.
I claimed my spot on the bed next to Bella, and Dustin leaned against the wall on the other side of her. After a long moment of silence Dustin spoke.
"What if we can't find her? Oh God… Bella, she's going to be so…" Dustin dropped his head in his hands.
"What about you? If we can't find her that is…" Dustin didn't answer he just turned towards the window.
"Don't… I know what your thinking…"
"Of course you do." He chuckled darkly.
"Dustin I mean it. If you storm the Volturi demanding they release her, they will laugh in your face. We have to go about this rationally. We know she's alive… in a sense… we will just ask Alice to keep watch, see if she can get any visions."
With that Bella let out a blood-curdling scream and began thrashing violently on the bed. She started to claw at her arms where the venom was spreading more.
"Bella, no, shh, it's okay." I gathered Bella into my arms locking her against my body pinning her arms so she couldn't do harm to her self. After about ten minutes, she relaxed to only crying. You know the kind of crying where you hiccup…
Oh God, Cory… how pathetic am I? Dustin's voice echoed in my head; as a memory flooded his thoughts.
Ring… Ring…I looked at the caller ID and felt my dead heart drop.
"Cory? Cory what's wrong?"
"Shh!" Cory urged into the phone. My brow furrowed while I waited for noise.
"Damn, awake she's."
"I guess we will just have to tell her now. Before we bring her to the Volturi."
I snarled through the phone and started sprinting back to the hotel with the phone on my ear the whole time.
"What do you want?"
"Oh how rude of us. We would like you, Cory." That made me stop. I growled, I didn't like the sound of his voice. The 'we' statement was too under emphasised and the 'would like you,' meant more then it was implied.
"Want me for what?"
"Have you heard of the Volturi? Well they are like royalty in the vampire world. Just about a month ago we found Trent here. He had a power that benefited the Volturi. You see the Volturi is made up of vampires with talents. Trent's power, is when he touches a human, he can tell what powers they would have as a vampire. You were lucky enough to have one. Two to be exact." .
"And my sister? Why is James after her?"
"I didn't sense a power. I sensed something… but it was strange. Something was there but wasn't at the same time. But blank none the less, so James was hungry." I heard a crash and my feet moved faster.
"Also, I temporarily gain the humans powers. One of yours will be you can create force fields, another is you can manipulate sound. So what do you say? Being part of the Volturi guard?"
"I say go to hell."
"To bad you don't have a choice."
"Hurry it up. Bite her now her powers will come in handy."
"DUSTIN!" I could see the lights of the hotel coming closer
"Damn she's smart."
I could hear Cory screaming and crying in pain. I could feel the monster, which my powers had been suppressing. I snarled in anger as I tore through the streets not caring if there were people there.
"Make it stop! Please!" I heard the dial tone and that's all t took for me to speed to the door of her room. I kicked down the door to find the room empty. The window was empty with the curtain flowing out of it.
The scent of the room hit my like a tonne of bricks. The scent of Cory's blood radiating off of the blood soaked sheets. Venom flowed freely into my mouth and I fought to bring black my control. Running to the window I could smell Cory's scent on the wind. I jumped from the window and ran following the scent into the trees on the other side of the highway.
"CORY!" I screamed when I entered a clearing. Cory was on the ground withering in pain. Screaming and thrashing as she clutched handfuls of grass. I ran to her and knelt beside her. But when I went to gather her in my arms, my hands hit a wall.
'One of yours will be you can create force fields'
"Show your faces!" I snarled loudly rising to my feet. I heard a chuckle from behind me and I turned quickly to face Trent and crouched down to a protective stance in front of Cory.
"Beautiful isn't she? I can't wait to see what she will look like when she's changed. I must say she surprised me in so many ways." He bit his lip suggestively and I lunged at him. He sidestepped me quickly and darted over to Cory letting his hand skim over her face.
"Don't. Touch. Her." I snarled Cory's eyes fluttered open. Her bangs were sticking to her clammy forehead and her shirt was soaked in blood. Tears ran down her cheeks as she reached out to me. I strode towards her only to hit a wall. I growled again as Trent smoothed her hair from her face exposing the puncture wound on her neck. Slowly, keeping his eyes on me he bent down and kissed it lightly. I snarled and punched into the wall keeping me just feet away from her.
"I think I will like that reaction too." And with that, Trent lifted Cory and took off. I went to run after him but the force field was still there, keeping me in a box… after a good ten minuets or growling and trying to escape, I dropped down with my head in my hands.
"Dustin…" hi head turned to me, eyes a dark black. His face was set in pure agony. "There's nothing you could have done. You tried your hardest. It doesn't matter though. We will get her back; For you and for Bella."
CPOV
I awoke lying in a soft bed. The sheets were tangled around me and my pillow was damp. I rolled from my stomach and onto my back and finally opened my eyes. I gasped when I saw two golden eyes smiling down at me. I shrunk back into the bed while Trent chuckled.
"Hey beautiful…" he whispered. I winced at the loudness of his voice.
"Don't worry, it won't seem to loud after a while. How are you feeling?"
I went to make some smart-ass remark but suddenly I bolted up and Trent jumped back in surprise.
"Bella! Bella is she okay? you saved her right! If you didn't so help me God I will rip you-" Trent pushed m back onto the bed, his hand firmly over my mouth muffling my rant.
"Shh, I promised you we would stop James and that is what Walker did. Right now he went to Volturi for a little… meeting… He should be back in a couple days."
I sat up slowly and Trent sat on the side of the bed, watching me still.
"Th-thank you…" I muttered quietly. Trent just smiled.
"Come on, there's something I want you to see before I fill you in on some things." I looked at him curiously and he jumped up. Grabbing my hands he lifted me with him. Letting go of one hand, he pulled me towards a door that led to a spacious bathroom. Before I could enter, Trent turned to me smiling.
"Close your eyes." I huffed annoyed and didn't comply. Trent sighed and went behind me holding his hands over my eyes. He walked me forward a few steps and then turned me to my right.
"Okay, look!" he removed his hands and I blinked a few times to focus. I stared back at the mirror, not making a move, not a sound. I just stared.
I finally looked passed my new reflection to see Trent right behind me, arms on either side of me against the counter.
"You look beautiful…" my hair was darker, and now perfectly straight. I didn't have any uneven layers, no flyways. My hair was choppy and still fell slightly below my shoulders. Bangs were just under my eyebrows, still starting from the middle of my head. My skin was paler then I thought possible. With XP, my skin was already pale, but now, I was paler then Trent, paler then Edward, paler then… I gulped remembering his name, remembering his face, his eyes… then I noticed mine, a shade of crimson like the other three vampires that showed in the field that day.
"Why…?"
"Why what?" I felt a lump form in my throat as I turned to face Trent.
"I don't want to be a monster." I screamed, my voice tight. Trent's shoulders tensed and then relaxed as he pulled me against him. He rubbed soothing circles into my back and I tried to shrug away from him but he only held on tighter. I swallowed the lump in my throat. I didn't want him to touch me. I didn't want him to see me break down. At this moment I wanted … Dustin… more then I thought was possible. I wanted him to hold me; him to wipe my tears.
"Let. Go."
"Cory, it's alright…" Trent held tighter. I felt an anger ripple through me and when I placed my hands on his chest and pushed, there was a gap between me, and his hold on me. I concentrated, trying to widen it but I lost control and Trent went flying back into the bathtub.
"Who knew, now all you have to do is learn to manipulate sound. I'm surprised you learned so quickly." Trent bounced back up, unaffected that I just threw him back. "You don't have to be a monster. All new vampires eyes are red at the beginning. Come on, lets go start you on a pair of golden eyes." He grabbed my hand and pulled me out the door of the hotel it was raining at the moment, but I could see the sun starting to break through. He walked to some trees in a park a few blocks away and then broke out in a run. The wind rushed passed me and I almost shut my eyes expecting the familiar wave of nausea but it didn't come, instead I basked in the freedom the run provided. Once we stopped, we were in a lush green forest.
"Breathe in deeply? Do you smell it? Not mouth-watering, but enticing. Go for it Cory. Let yourself go."
I shook my head vigorously.
"What if it's a human…"
"None around for miles trust me. I will stay with you the whole way in case anything happens. It won't, trust me." I nodded and breathed in, waiting for a scent to tickle my nose, I smelled something, just as he said not mouth watering, but I wanted it… I took off running and could hear his faint footsteps following me but I didn't care, I just ran faster.
I finally hit the source of the scent and knocked it over full force and snapped it's neck. Without a though, my head bent to it's neck and I sucked on the wound feeling the warm thick blood ooze down my throat. Once I was done, I snapped out of the daze and looked down. What I hunted was a grizzly. Though I felt sad for just killing an animal… I couldn't help but smile.
"What?" Trent asked. I had forgotten he was with me.
"Emmett's going to love me… I chose his favourite…" I let my smile falter. I turned to Trent who was standing in a clearing and headed towards him. Once I was about five feet away from the clearing, he spoke.
"Let's go." I nodded once and headed into the sunny clearing as he turned and I followed. I stepped into the sun hesitantly at first; I outstretched my arm waiting for the uncomfortable feeling of sunburn. It didn't come; neither did the sparkles that I was told about. I stepped forward until I was completely submerged in the warmth I had missed out on…
I let my eyes fall closed and let the warmth spread through my now cold skin.
"Cory?" I opened my eyes to see Trent watching me curiously. I smiled and started forward until the pain began. My skin crawled. I felt on fire. This pain was worse then my change, for that I'm sure. My knees buckled below me and I screamed out in pain. I looked down at my skin as it started to steam and the pale shade turned reddish black. Looking like scorched skin.
"CORY!" Trent ran over to me and took off his coat draping it over my body he lifted me up and tucked my face into his neck as he ran. My screams were lost now, to only whimper's… until my world went dark. Funny… I didn't think vampires could go unconscious, but somehow I think I did…
A/N: Yes... heart breaing chapter i know... but don't worr everything with get better and i willl update quicker expect before there was venom update soon