I pierced the neck of the human that now lay limp beneath me. I was murdering this person, killing this person for my own food? When I first started drinking humans blood, it bothered me because I was killing an innocent person, but now it didn't really affect me that much.
The warm blood poured into my veins and I was giving that high of feeling strength course through my body.
I felt refreshed, like I could do anything.
"Are you ready to leave?" I turned to Jane. She stood before me with that same uninterested expression on her face.
I slowly nodded my head and wiped the leftover blood off my face. "Yes, let's go," I was full on blood and knew that I could handle myself around humans. I didn't feel the blood lust when I was full.
We had to board a plane to get to America, just because we were vampire's didn't mean that we could run across water.
I sat impatiently on the plane. It was going way to slow for me. Jane, Alec and I were forced to wear American clothes, so that we didn't stand out as much. They were so different from what I was used to, but I remembered a long time ago when I used to wear these everyday for school. I thought back to my human life. I remembered all of my friends, my father and mother. I was sure that they were long gone by now, but it would still sting a little bit coming back to the place where I grew up.
"Isabella, please stop squirming in your seat, we will get there soon enough," Jane shot death glares at me from my movements in the seat.
I very quietly hissed at her. No one took notice.
"Would you two stop fighting over there, just relax and enjoy the ride until we get to America," Alec was leaning back in his seat looking out the window. He was just as impatient as Jane and I were, but he wasn't showing it.
I sighed and crossed my arms examining everything on the plane, most everyone was asleep, if I was thirsty enough, I could kill a few of them and no one would notice until we landed. I didn't want to cause I scene before we got to our destination. Aro would be upset and Jane would throw a fit. I was in no mood.
We landed in New York. Everything was so busy and fast paced. I wasn't used to it, back in Volterra, everyone was just kind of calm and relaxed, nothing ever seemed to happen, except a few unexplained deaths here and there, but it was nothing to serious.
"Come on Bella, we better start running if we would like to get there by sun rise," Alec informed me as I looked around at everything. They weren't interested in the states, they just wanted to get the mission done as soon as possible so they could head back home.
We quickly walked out of the airport without anyone noticing that we were walking fast than the average person.
As soon as we were out of site of a lot of people, we were running at full speed. Off to Washington. It was going to be a little while to get there, but I would have rather gotten my legs a good run instead of sitting on another slow plane for 4 more hours. I would go nuts.
We were in Montana around five in the morning. I was slightly tired, but I still felt that I could run to Washington easily.
"What are we doing, we can't stop, we need to get there as soon as possible," Jane protested as I took a seat.
I breathed in the scent of earth as the wind passed by my nose. There was a small little town not far from here, but I didn't think that I was that hungry that I needed another sip or two.
"Fine, we will get there as soon as possible," I growled just slightly. Jane was a good friend when she wanted to be, but when she was impatient and nasty, she wasn't someone that I wanted to hang out with.
Forks was only a few minutes away and the smell of my old home was in the air. I couldn't believe that I had actually returned to this place. I didn't think that I was ever going to see it again.
"Come on Bella, do you think you could run any slower?" Jane asked. This was not in a teasing sense and I wanted to jump her, but I couldn't because he strength was way beyond mine.
I ground my teeth together as venom formed in my mouth.
"Cool it Jane," Alec hissed at her. She just shot him a dirty glance and I ran ahead of them both.
"Bella, get back here, where do you think you are going?" Alec called to me. I put my shield on knowing that Jane wouldn't be able to touch me once I did. There was one thing that I was better at than both of them. I was much faster than them and I would give thanks to Demetri for that.
I knew where I wanted to go and they weren't going to stop me. The damp ground padded beneath my feet as I reached closer and closer to the house. I breathed in and knew that Jane and Alec were still following me, but they were far behind me.
I stopped when the house was only a few feet in front of me.
I caught my unneeded breath and stared up at the white house in awe.
It had been so long. I thought that staring at this house was going to bring me to tears, but it only brought sadness.
All the memories started flooding back. My first day of school, my friends and what we used to do. My old boyfriend, wow was he a handsome man. I loved everyone in this little town.
I looked up at the old house. It was deserted, no longer lively and that's the thing that bothered me the most. It was knowing that there used to be life once in this house, but now it was just left to the weeds and mold to take over. I wondered how long had it been since Charlie and Renee died. I shook those thoughts away. I wanted to step inside and explore to see what had become of my home, but a cold hand stopped me from moving any farther.
"What do you think you are doing Bella, running off like that, what do you think Aro would think of you if he knew that?" Jane asked as her red eyes pierced into mine. They used to give me chills, but they could no longer do that, I wasn't afraid of her.
"Let me go," I said with venom flooding back into my mouth. Oh how she bothered me sometimes.
"Would you two knock it off, if I have to stand another minute of you two fighting over the littlest things then we are going back to Aro and he is going to send others to do this simple mission that you two can't seem to focus on," Jane and I were having a stare down. We didn't blink and we didn't look away. "okay if this will make anything easier for you two, we'll all split up and try and search for the Cullen's. They shouldn't be to difficult to locate, we can easily smell them out, now just remember, they can smell us just as well as we can smell them, so try to be sneaky," Alec was most diffidently the leader of the group because he wasn't fighting like Jane and I were.
"Fine," Jane ran off in seconds leaving me standing there with Alec.
"Why did we have to bring her along, all she ever does is complain," I argued with Alec trying to get him on my side.
"You don't have much room to talk Bella, now I know this is hard for you because this is where you grew up and died, but your going to have to learn to get used to the way Jane feels about things. Aro wouldn't want you two fighting all the time, he wants everyone to get along," I rolled my eyes at this. That's all he ever wanted. He wanted things to be all fine and dandy like nothing bad would happen, but bad things did happen, and everything didn't always go fine, not when Vampires were involved.
I sighed and thought his words through carefully. "Do you understand what I'm trying to tell you Bella?" He pressed the question again.
It took me some time, but I slowly nodded my head back and forth. I would try and cope with Jane, but I wasn't getting blamed when she got all snotty about things.
"Good, now go search for the Cullen's," I listened and I was off. I didn't even bother trying to pick up a scent I just wanted to get away from everyone. I wanted to be by myself.
I kept running. I didn't know where I was running to, but then something did hit me. It was the smell of something interesting. Something that I have never smelled before.
I stopped in mid run. I let the wind pass my nose and this was an intoxicating smell. I loved it and somewhat craved it.
It wasn't like humans blood. It was different.
What was that. I ran towards the smell, wanting to find the source. Then I saw it. It was tall man. He was crouching with his back facing me. He looked like he was hunting something. But then when I came close to him, he stopped and stood up straight. I went and quickly hid. I wasn't sure what he was. I didn't think he was a human, I couldn't hear his heart beat, nor could I smell blood.
The forest was perfectly silent. It didn't seem like either of were moving an inch. We didn't know what the other one was.
I didn't breath and I stayed hidden within the ferns.
I wasn't sure what to do because I wasn't positive about where his position was.
I slowly stood and tried as quick as possible to move behind a tree, but he was faster than myself.
He pinned me down to the ground with his hands at my wrists. Hatred was what was on his face. I tried to push him off me, but he was stronger than myself.
"Get off of me!!" I yelled kicking him in the stomach and running for it, but he caught my by the stomach and threw me against a tree. I landed on the ground with a thud. I hissed as I stood and we were both positioned across from one another and we were in our defensive stances.
"Who are you and what are you doing on our land?" This man asked as I could see the venom dripping from his fangs.
I hissed and stepped back. "It's none of your business," I was trying to back away.
"Clearly it is, since you are the one on my land, state your business here before I tear you to pieces and burn your flesh,"
I heard about that kind of death, not a fun one clearly. "My name is Isabella Swan, that's all you need to know," I didn't think it wise to tell him I was from the Volturri.
"State your purpose Isabella," He said my name with the flow of perfection.
"I don't feel that I should tell you," I spat back looking at my surroundings seeing if I could escape easily. I figured that it would be a no. He was way to fast for me.
He growled and I showed my teeth.
This man then moved quickly and pushed me up against a tree and keeping me there.
"You will listen to me, even though you are a woman, that doesn't mean that I'm going to treat you differently, I will take you to my father and he will deal with you appropriately," He hit the back of my neck knocking me out. I woke with people surrounding me. I was laying on a couch and everyone was looking down at me.
I gasped and stood up quickly getting ready for a fight. There was so many of them. I counted them all. 7.
Wait, 7 that rang a bell. I looked at them all and they didn't look a thing alike except for their skin color and their eyes. I could hear no heart beats from anyone of them.
This must have been the vampire coven named the Cullen's
"Relax, we aren't going to hurt you," A woman spoke putting her hand out sweetly. She looked like one of the most loving. I didn't know how to respond. Should I take in their love and get to know them or stay as I was.
I picked the second one.
"You are one of the guards from the Volturri aren't you?" A smaller girl asked as she smiled at me, not seeming to find one ounce of threat from me.
What was wrong with them.
"Yes I am, now tell me are you the Cullen's?" I demanded to know the answer.
"Yes we are, welcome to our home, you must be Isabella," The smaller one came up to me and looked me in the eyes. "You won't be any trouble at all, I can see it and I really do hope it ends out that way," She made my mind twist and turn with confusion, what was she talking about.
The rest of the family looked at her with nerves and worry working at their bodies and minds.
"This is our family, I'm Alice, and this is my partner Jasper, my brother Emmett and his mate Rosalie and our father figure Carlisle and his wife Esme and this one is my older brother Edward," Alice smiled.
I didn't feel comfortable being hear. She was showing me to her family like I was her best friend.
"Hum, well thank you for showing me around, but I really think that I must be going," I quickly ran to the door but was stopped by Edward blocking the door way.
"Get out of my way," I spat at him.
"I don't know if I want to let you leave just like that, we don't know where you are going to go, and we don't want you spreading things to just anyone," I glared at him for a long moment.
"Edward, don't worry, she's only here with two other guard members, Jane and Alec," Edward's eyes went from harsh and angered to worried and looked like afraid. Did they know about Jane and Alec.
"And why is it that you seem so calm and cool about it?" Edward asked sternly, still not bothering to move one inch.
"Edward they are only here to get some information on us, it's nothing bad really, at least not from what I've seen so far," I furrowed my brows at this. What was she saying? Was she saying that she could see the future.
"But it's Jane, you know what's she's like," Edward pressed on. I didn't feel comfortable standing here. I wanted to get out of here as soon as possible.
"May I leave now?" I asked trying to get past him, he didn't move and this time he didn't look at me. He kept staring at his sister.
"Edward it's going to be fine, now let Bella pass," Alice instructed placing a gentle hand on his arm.
He was tense. I could feel it, see it and just tell by the way he stood there.
He eased up slowly and moved out of the way.
"See you soon Bella," Alice called as I darted out the door. They were so weird. Like I was going to see them again soon, not like that ever again hopefully, from now on, I was going to have to be more secretive, that was a big mistake heading towards something that smelled good. I shook my head from those thoughts and knew that I was going to have to seek out Alec and Jane and tell them what I found.
Speak of the devil, Jane popped out of the trees running right into me. "Isabella, hum, fancy meeting you," She sniffed in. "What is that smell, I thought you were one of the Cullen's I picked up a scent and it led me to you," Her brow furrowed in confusion as we came to a stop in the forest.
"I found the Cullen's and one of them caught me off guard and took me into their home," Jane looked displeased, not worried about me being captured by a stranger, no. Those feelings from Jane had fled long ago."What did they do to you?" She asked curiosity seeping from her words.
"They were just curious about me and wanted to know what I was doing in their area, one of them knew everything, she knew what I was doing here and she knew about you, I think there is something going on with a few of them, you know special powers," I explained. Jane's face went from anger to interested. That's just what Aro was looking for, some new vampires with new powers ,something to help his coven become stronger.
"Hum, Aro will be pleased to learn this," Jane's lips curled up into a smile.
A devilish smile that bothered me.
I noticed that Alec wasn't with us and I didn't smell him around the Cullen household "Where is Alec?" I asked Jane with a softer tone and less tense, the important conversation was done and over with.
"He's off getting some information about the land and area and what goes on in this town," Jane explained as we were on the run again.
"What were you doing?" I questioned.
"The same, I was just getting used to the land and everything that went on here, so do you want to relax for a while, or would you like to do some more spying?" I think that I had enough of the Cullen's for one day and that Edward guy, he was a jerk.
"You can do some of that, but I'm sure they are going to be expecting you, I don't know how, but they will, just be careful," I told her. I wasn't sure about their powers yet and how many of them had powers, so it was still dangerous, even though Jane had her own little power of her own.
Jane and I separated and I figured that it was for the better. I knew where I wanted to go. I wanted to go back to my home, my home that I lived in with my family. I knew it would be saddening to go there, but I had to see it again, the insides and have the memories once more. It was something that kept me who I was, and not someone like Jane.
I ran back to my home. I knew where it was because when I was hear in this little town, it was like everything came back and I remembered everything.
I stopped at the front of the house and looked up. The wind blew through my hair and a million different scents filled up my nose. Damp leaves, wood from a tree, colorful leaves. Everything was so peaceful. I was calm and relaxed. The thought of the Cullen's were long gone and I was lost in memories.
The good memories and bad ones came back to me, also the sad ones that made me want to cry. If Jane or Alec saw me in this condition, they wouldn't find me to be Volturri material.
I wrapped my arms around myself as the cool fall breeze brought back the thoughts of being cold. I didn't know if it was safe to enter the house.
I hadn't been in there in years.
I went to the door and checked to see if it was unlocked. It was. I stepped into the dark and desolate room. The living room, that's where Charlie spent most of his time on the couch in front of the flat screen, laying horizontally on the nice couch. I took each step with care looking at every little detail with my vampire eyes.
The kitchen. Renee and I cooked dinner in there every night. I could see myself when I was little peering over the counter on my tippy toes trying to find out what mom was making for dinner. She would ruffle my hair and pick me up in her arms and show me what she was making. Then she would put me on the counter for me to watch. I was in love with cooking ant watching my mother do it. It fascinated me greatly.
I traveled up the old dusty steps to the bedrooms. I found mine. It was empty, but I could see in my mind where everything used to be. It gave me an aching feeling in my chest thinking about where everything was and that this house used to be so lively, now it was empty and creepy.
I left the house feeling I had stayed for to long. If I stayed any longer I would be attached and never want to leave, that's something Aro didn't want. That was my one promise and I wasn't going to break it, no matter what it was that I was getting attached to.
My day was exhausting, and I was just ready to relax and read a book. Jane, Alec and I rented a cabin in the woods to stay in for a few months. It was going to be very stressful living with them for that long, but hopefully I wouldn't have to be with them that long, hopefully only on nights.
I went to the cabin as the sun started to set and everything was getting dark. I liked the woods when it was like this. Light enough to see most everything, but dark enough that the forest was eerie and slightly ominous, like you didn't know what was hiding everywhere and that it was going to be coming out shortly
"Heading home I suspect," I stopped abruptly at the sound of the deep velvety voice that rang through my ears. I turned, there was nothing. Something quickly moved by.
"you seem distraught, is it because you can't see me," I growled because I knew that voice. I knew it and I was going to find him and hopefully kill him. He was a bother to the Cullen family and a bother to me.
I turned back around and there he stood right in front of me. He didn't look to happy, that wasn't a surprise. I was hoping that I wasn't going to run into him again today.
"Get out of my way before I call my friends," I said threatening him with the stronger guards.
He tensed for a split second, but then relaxed a little when he thought of something else.
"And how do you suppose your going to do that, a cell phone?" He asked talking about the new technology.
"Get out of my way," I walked past him, which surprised me, but he grabbed hold of my wrist stopping me.
"Just listen to me for this one thing," I was trying to tug away from him, I didn't care about what he wanted me to listen to. "I'll be watching you and looking for you everywhere because I will admit that you are an interesting person," Edward whooshed out of mid air and I was left in the woods pondering on what I was going to do with him
A/N: Okay what did you think of the second chapter, I kind of just threw something together. Tell me what you think and if you have any suggestions about something that should happen in the story, please don't hesitate to ask and I would really enjoy it if you told me because I'm slightly stuck and I don't want to go through Bella's and Edward's relationship to fast