Chapter Four

Search Party

Edward

An hour had passed and I was still awaiting Karis' arrival. Something in my conscience was telling me that leaving her to make her own way over to mine and leaving her on her own at her house was a very, very bad idea and I would soon be regretting it. And I was regretting it. I paced the hallway of our large home several times; Esme coming to comfort me several times like I was a child, telling me everything was fine and there was no need to worry. I pretended that I didn't worry and it was only because I was impatient, but it never fooled the people I had lived with for decades. In the end, they gave up noticing I was pacing and grunting about Karis not being here. Until my thoughts were taken over by Alice and a new vision.

I watched carefully. There were three people tied up with their hands behind their backs and black sacks covering their heads. Suddenly there was a crash and a few sobs that sounded too familiar. I hissed slightly in anger but still watched the rest of Alice's vision through her thoughts. In front of this sobbing girl, blocking her from the view stood Bella in a long, black velvet dress. Her hair had grown from the last time I had saw her, it thinned out at the end and her brown curls reached her lower back.

"I am so pleased that you bought her! But where is her boyfriend?" She hissed, her voice slightly more soft from what I last remembered, yet her tone was still like a monster.

"Leave Edward alone. Please, just leave him out of wanted me. I'm here. Please." She was uncontrollably sobbing, her voice sounding manic. I clenched my hands into tight fists as I recognised her voice too well, it was her sobbing earlier in the vision. Bella laughed slightly and turned around, her back facing Karis.

Bella's face had changed. The forty years old woman suddenly looked ten years younger, her skin ten times paler than it was before. Her eyes were a deep crimson colour and I couldn't help it but tense.

She was a vampire now. A vampire that fed off of human blood.

She turned back to Karis and grabbed hold of her, lifting her by the arm. I could see she was gripping tight on her and the piercing scream escaping from Karis' mouth told me she was getting hurt.

All of a sudden, the vision stopped. In the blink of an eye, I was next to Alice discussing what she just saw and rounding everybody up so we could start a search party.

"Edward, you and I will go to Karis' home and see whether we can pick up a scent." Emmett suggested, his face full of anger. I nodded, checking if there was any scent to be left around was the best idea being spoken right now.

"Jazz, Rose and I will get the cars out ready for you. I will also try to see whether I can visualise anything else that is going on, help us to find a whereabouts." Alice suggested, pacing around like a nervous wreck.

"Cars aren't such a good idea, Alice." Carlisle said, "we can get around much quicker on our own two feet. Let us all just work together and see if we could find a location whilst Emmett and Edward try and find a scent." He suggested. Everyone nodded to him, Esme walked over and grabbed his hand, squeezing it gently to comfort him. He looked down into her eyes and smiled at her, his eyes showing a completely different emotion. I felt that looking at them right now was completely ruining the moment they just had. I turned on one foot and sped out of my home, Emmett not too far behind me.

We arrived at Karis' home. All the lights were switched off, the windows closed and the door seemed complete and in perfect condition which ruled out the fact that the intruder was definitely not human. The key was still hidden in the soil of the plant pot outside her front door which left many questions to how the intruder got in. Emmett and I searched the house high and low for a trace of some evidence or something that could bring us closer to Karis' location right now, but there was nothing.

Worst of all, there was no scent.

"Dammit!" I screamed as Emmett and I sped back to home to share the news.

"We'll find them Edward and we'll kill them too!" Emmett laughed slightly at the thought of a fight.

Alice had a lot to share when we got back home, I saw it in her thoughts.

"Bella is working with three other vampires. A pair of blonde girls who are twins and a boy with dark brown hair. She seems to be unaware of the fact I can see the future because she doesn't seem to be trying to hide anything. The boy, he was the one who took Karis hostage. He has a gift like you and I Edward, where he can hide his scent and any other trace of him and others around him wherever he goes, if he chooses to protect their scent too. The one blonde girl can see when people are coming, she told Bella she couldn't see us coming at the moment. Her gift is sort of like mine just a lot weaker. Her twin sister has the same gift as Bella, a protective shield which stops them from getting hurt. Their gifts are clever, we need to work a way around them." Alice explained.

"That would be why we could trace no scent!" I hissed, realising the intruder was the dark haired boy with the gift of hiding any trace of him. "What can we do?" I asked, looking around and feeling completely helpless. It wasn't long before that feeling was washed away thanks to Jasper and his ability.

I saw Carlisle had an idea and it wasn't something I was to fond of but as I read the thoughts of my family around me, it was the only idea and it seemed slightly reasonable.

"I think we should split up, so if they see us coming they see two groups of us and split up. It will be easier for us to escape them then, there is only 3 of them who will need to split into two. Also, we're vampires and we aren't weak... Unless, anybody else has an idea?" He asked.

Everyone stood facing Carlisle and we all shook our heads, none of us with another idea.

"Who will go with who, then?" Rose asked.

"Edward, you, Emmett and Rosalie go together and Esme, Alice, Jasper and I will be the other search party." He decided and he turned to look at me, "Edward, we'll find her. It will all be over soon." I could see the optimism that he really thought.

With quick preperations, we watched each other off and the search began.

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