A/N - I Don't own Twilight. (and I have nothing witty to say)

First of I am SOOOOOO sorry that I have not updated in a few weeks. But I have all good excuses. We moved. The 3 of us all working at different times and trying to move was not the easiest thing but we are finally done and settled in. YAY! So hopefully I will be getting back into my groove. I did get one chapter out tonight cuz to give you all something and to get your attention back with me.

Armored Souls is not that only one that has gone lacking this past month. But I have some outlines ready for this one that I can throw out there soon. I promise to have more updates this week. Maybe even another one tomorrow. Then with LoD almost over this baby will start rocking! YAY!

I feel way too much has happened when I was gone from here. I didnt even go to freak about BD around that time in an AN.. lame.

Twilightbyus was killer tonight and get this back to me on the quickness, being that I just finished writing it earlier this evening. That girl always has my back... plus she likes this chapter..

enjoy..

BPOV

Bella rode through the woods as fast as Harry would take her, nudging his sides anytime she thought that he had slowed down some.

The forest was one that she was not familiar with and the deeper she went into it the more unmoving her stomach was.

Danger was all that she could think of. But Bella ignored her gut feeling, only wanting to find her father.

She could see an opening coming up ahead of her in the forest and her body began to tremble with not knowing what was to come.

When Bella and Harry reached edge of the woods she was stunned by the sight in front of her. It was a dark and gloomy castle, high up as her eyes could see. What was the most disturbing about it was the gathering clouds among the top of it. When she first left her house the weather was beautiful and there was not a cloud in the sky. The looks of the sky here was as if there was a major storm rolling in.

Bella opened the gates and quickly shut them behind her, hoping back on her horse who took her straight to the door.

She knew that she needed to be cautious. There was something not right about this situation.

How had her father ended up here?

Why was he here?

What was this place?

Bella crept into the castle, trying to be quiet but unable to stop the creak that was caused by the door.

"Papa?" She called out. There was no noise to be heard at all.

"Papa?" Bella stepped all the way in and began to journey forward.

There was a giant stair case in front of her, leading up to multiple hall ways and several floors. Deciding to start searching the first floor she went to a big hall wall to the right of her.

"Papa?" The hall she now occupied was lined with red carpet and had several doorways. Bella paused in front of the first on but heard no sound coming out of it.

"Papa!" She called out a little louder unsure if she was even in the correct part of the castle.

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"Mama! Mama! A girl is here. There is a girl in the castle!" Seth bounced into the room where his mother was at.

"What are you talking about young one?" Mrs. Platts questioned her son.

"There is! I'm telling you I saw her." He looked over to Carlisle and Jasper trying to her them to believe him.

"Papa!"

"Was that?" Jasper gasped.

"A girl!"

"There is a girl a in the castle!" Mrs. Platts gushed.

Jasper made his way to the doorway snunk a peak through the crack just in time to see a women and her flowing dress go by.

"Papa?" The girl called out again.

"Let's go!" Carlisle started to quietly inch his way out of the door.

"What are you doing?" Jasper called after him.

Carlisle ignored Jasper, which only made him follow along.

"Wait!" Jasper said, louder then he thought. The girl froze hearing a voice.

"Hello?" She asked. They quickly jumped behind a doorway before she turned around to look into their direction.

Once they were sure that she was going back in the previous direction Carlisle booked up the stairway located on the other end of the hall, making sure to make a loud enough noise to get the girls attention.

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"Hello!"

Bella was sure that she was hearing things, until she her a noise come out of a stairway that she managed to pass by.

"Is anyone there?"

It was concrete, spiral, and not exactly welcoming but the light that she could see fading from up a ways ahead. Unable to push aside her curiousness she followed.

"I'm looking for my father."

The stairway was step and went on forever.

Right when she thought that she was never going to reach that end and that the light was just a trick she reached the top. There was a lantern sitting on the ground at the last step.

She quickly pick it up by its handles and made her way forward into the dark unknown.

"Hello," Bella called out again, trying not to lose hope.

"Bella?" the voice came from a darker back corner.

"Papa?" She was on the verge on bursting into tears. Bella ran over to the small dungeon cell that her father was in. "Papa what happened?"

"Bella, what are you doing here?" Her father coughed out.

"I came to find you. How did you get in here? Who did this to you?" Bella looked around trying to see anyone else around.

"Bella you need to get out of her. Go home." Charlie tried to demand to her but was week from the cold he had been in.

"No, I have to get you out of here." She gripped his hand though the metal bars in the small window of the door.

Then a growl came from behind her.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

a/n.. yeah a bit of a cliffy.. hense why I am going to update asap.

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