Time Traveler

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Chapter 6

Since it was almost night and the sun was setting behind a mass of clouds, almost erasing it from the sky, I decided to give Carlisle a break, even if he won't even notice it. He was still at the Volturi, and the story said he was going to stay there for a few years. The guards didn't run after me pass the castle, since it was in broad daylight by that time (I was invisible, of course).

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I was walking at a human pace down the almost empty streets, keeping a low profile to prevent people from seeing my eyes, even if they were a sort of amber. My curls were dangling in front of my face as I tried not to breathe too much, in fear of loosing control. The sun had just set so it was ok for me to pass by without being invisible. I turned on a street and saw a little group of four men, standing in the street. They were about twenty or twenty-one years old and they were all looking down at somebody on the ground. They didn't seem to notice me so I took a few steps closer to get a better look on the person on the ground. He was a young man, around my age; he had messy blond hair and was wearing ragged clothes, like if he got in some sort of fight.

A very sweet smell came to my nose, almost making me run towards the guy for his blood, but I didn't budge. I didn't want to eat him, because something (not Ebony) was telling me that he was special. I suppressed a growl as I heard the four men snickering at the poor guy. Somebody approached to the one on the ground and kicked him on the side.

"Hey, you!! What do you think you are doing to this person?" I asked in fluent Italian.

They all turned around to face me. I swore under my breath as I noticed my mistake of speaking up and tried to back off slowly but I knew it was already too late, even if I really didn't care if I killed one or two of the guys. I stopped backing off and started to move slowly towards them. Yup, I would definitely kill at least one of them. The blond guy on the ground seemed to say 'No, it's a big mistake you are doing, run for your life!!' but I didn't have a life anymore, so I didn't care.

My fist arrived on the first person I could touch, and it landed perfectly on his jaw. The man fell to the ground with a cry of pain.

"Antonio!" said one of his friends, "You getting beaten up by a girl?" I punched that guy too, in the guts.

Two of them were down, two of them to beat up easily. But I was afraid to use my vampire skills in front of humans, especially near the Volturi, so I did everything at human speed. I have to admit that I did use a little bit more force than a human would when I punched them, but still, it was worth it.

I kicked both of the ones still standing at the same time, leaving a foot mark on their faces. Three of them scrambled up to their feet and ran away as fast as they could, while the other one was crawling behind, asking their help. I tried hard not laugh at their scared faces.

I heard a soft coughing behind me. Oups, I think I forgot the victim!

"Umm… hello…" I said, "What's your name?"

He looked taken aback by this response after that fight. He had dark brown hair and looked around seventeen or eighteen and was kind of nice looking for a human. He seemed tall and a little bit muscular.

"My name is Rudy" he said In Italian. "And who are you?" he asked back, getting up in the same time.

"My name is Laura"

He seemed then to realize that blood was dripping from his nose. Of course, I tried my best to ignore the red liquid and standing as far away from him as I could without looking impolite. He wiped the blood from his face with his sleeve.

"Is it ok if I ask you how you got into that fight?" I asked after some hesitation.

"You'll think I'm crazy, but I think we should go somewhere where nobody can hear us"

"So your story is that crazy?"

He took my arm to lead the way, but got startled by the coldness and marble-like texture of it and let go. I tried my best to look as if I hadn't noticed it. We went somewhere not to deep into the forest, near where Carlisle and I came from.

"Will you promise not to tell anyone?" he asked after an awkward silence.

I nodded and he started his story.

"Please don't think that I have gone crazy, please. I've got the impression that we are similar, that you arrived here the same way as I have. Before, I lived in Germany, 1943, during World War II. I don't know if you've heard of it. When they were booming our little village, a strange person came to our basement, where we were protecting ourselves from the destruction over us. He was incredibly beautiful, just like you, in fact" I would've blushed at the compliment, but I couldn't. "He said his name was Dave and he wanted to talk to me. We were all hypnotized by his voice, otherwise, I wouldn't be here. We went upstairs and he looked at me right in the eye. I was surprised by its color, dark red, and I started to get a little scared. He said 'I'm going to make sure this works before sending real people over there.' I didn't know what he meant, but as I was going to ask, a swirl of reddish color came around me and I landed on one of the men you just saw earlier. He got angry and hit me in the face. That's when you came around. Now, I'm sure you think I'll go to an asylum…"

I should have known that it was Dave's work.

"Wait a minute, if you're from Germany, then how can you speak Italian? It doesn't make sense!"

"That's because my uncle lived in Italy before, but came live with us in the end, so I learned Italian." It made sense.

"How did you arrive here?"

"That's a long story…" I began.

"I don't think it's a good idea that you lie to him, maybe you should tell him later. At least gain his trust before hand" 'Maybe you're right, I'll invent an excuse.' A chance I had Ebony, otherwise I would already be dead.

"Maybe another time, I think you need some rest." That was true, Rudy looked like he was going to fall asleep right there.

"I think you're right" he agreed "but where are we going to sleep? We can't go to the village, I am sure the four men over there have alerted everybody!" he said.

"Maybe we could sleep in the trees" I said "I could help you climb one of them; I am a very good tree climber"

We started walking towards the inside of the forest and got to the highest point of the trees, with no big difficulty since Ebony helped me and Rudy. He fell asleep almost immediately while I was 'talking' to Ebony about how I could tell him about my vampire-ness.

I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry that I hadn't updated in a big while. I was in a major major major writer's block (I hope you noticed) and really didn't know what to write. I really hope you guys aren't mad at me because I didn't update. If ever you have an idea about what I could write in the next chapters, please tell me. I hate writer's blocks, they suck. Review please!!!!! I am in desperate need of some!!!