Title: Beware of the Angel
Summary: *Set during Twilight, the first book* Bella is the new girl in town with a mysterious past. She's human and hangs out with three strange vampires….
Rating- PG-13
*Bella's nickname from the three vampires is 'Aria' meaning 'melody'.*
New characters:
Zero (18) –Quiet, keeps to himself. Parents were killed by vampires. Is in love with Bella! Is 6'2.
Born in: June 18, 1901
Year of death: 1918
Special Power- Has exceptional gun skills/ tracking skills.
Dante (25) - Brilliant, got bitten by the Volturi vampire Aro for figuring out there secret. He thinks it was one of the Volturi who bit him and holds a grudge against them for turning him into a 'monster'. Is 6'4.
Born in: September 25, 1575
Year of death: sometime in the 17th century
Special Power- Has exceptional sword fighting skills; dark night skills.
Chiara (17) - also likes to be called 'Clare', she is a very hyper girl. Is 5'3. Loves Bella like a sister.
Born in: April 19, 1623
Year of death: 1640
Special Power- Hit the right pressure points on a vampire either to make him weak, immobile, or not able to use his powers.
~*~
Chapter Two: The Split-Welcome to forks
I'm surrounded in darkness.
I looked up, there's no sky, no moon, no stars, not even a cloud.
I looked around me no one is here beside me. I was completely alone.
I looked down, there's no dirt or grass or even cement. It's just a black ground underneath my feet.
I walked around in what seemed like circles. There was no exit, no way out.
"Hello?" I yelled into the darkness hoping for someone, anyone to answer.
I closed my eyes and tried to listen for anything, any sign of life.
I heard a soft laugh. My eyes shot open and a huge smile formed on me lips.
I would know that laugh anywhere. That is Chiara's laugh!
There they were, Chiara, Dante and Zero, standing right in front of me in their glorious perfection. I tried to run as fast I could towards them but, the closer I got to them the farther they seemed to get.
"Hey guys! Please, wait!" my cries of plea did not reach them. I tried to run faster but my legs felt heavy, as if something were dragging them down. I gave way to the intense weight.
"My body, it weighs a ton." I used all the physical strength I had to lift myself up, though shaky, I was able to stand on my hands and knees. I looked up to see the shaded figures of my family disappear.
I tired to call out to them but no sound came out of my mouth. Only muffled noises came out. I felt as if I were I was choking from the weight of the darkness around me.
"Chiara, wait!"Hoping that with a mental distress call she could hear me.
Nothing, I felt empty.
I let the weight get to me and crush my body to the ground. There was, no emotions to explain how I felt at this very moment, probably because I couldn't feel anything at the moment.
Tears escaped from my eyes.
I wanted to scream and yell and shout at the top of my lungs!
Suddenly I heard heavy footsteps.
"Someone's coming." The footsteps became louder and my heart beat sped up. "Maybe it's Chiara! I knew she would return for me!"
The footsteps became louder and louder until suddenly it stopped. My eyes looked around, looking for the mysterious person.
"Chiara? Dante? Zero?"
A dark and ominous laughter broke the silence. My strained my eyes to look up as far as they could go but to no avail.
"I found you." Even though the voice sounded soothing, it scared me- no it frightened me. A hard, cold hand grabbed my neck roughly and hoisted me up into the air. It was Demetri, his red eyes stared into my brown eyes and he smiled at me with a brilliant white smile, beautiful, had I not known he was here to end my life. I tried to find my voice but only the muffled noises escaped my lips.
I tried to transform into my true form but I couldn't find the power to.
"So you tried to escape again, huh? I'm very disappointed with you. How ever shall I punish you now?" Demetri laughed and let go of my neck letting my body fall to the ground. I felt as though I was falling in slow motion, I waited for the painful impact with the ground. Before my head could collide onto the floor, he was above me with one of his hands behind my head and the other hand was caressing my face. His fingers traced my face, eyes and lips. My body shook, not from his cold touch but from shock and anxiousness. I tried to scream but instead little mewing sounds came out.
"Shh" he put a finger to my trembling lip "don't worry I'll do this quickly." His fingers dug deep into my scalp, he pulled my head back so my neck was entirely exposed to him and his lips curled back exposing his now lengthened canine teeth.
"No!"
I gasped as I sat up from a bed. My heart was pounding fast and I couldn't control the tears that escaped from my eyes. I put my arms around myself trying to calm my violently shaking body. A door opened and a pair of skinny, cold arms wrapped around me in a soft embrace. Soft whispers entered my ears like the sound of the calming waves of the sea.
"Aria, Aria, its okay. I'm here for you, you're safe now. Relax Aria."
"Demetri! He was there….in my dreams……darkness….and you and Dante and Zero….oh Chiara!"
"Shh...Aria its okay, I'm here were far away from Demetri now. He can't find us. You're safe."
The shaking only mildly stopped, my breathing was still shallow and the tears still ran down my face. Chiara was doing everything she could to make me feel better. She rubbed my back, hummed my favorite song and eventually, with sometime, I did stop crying. I rested my head on her shoulder and breathed in her wonderful scent, something that always soothed me.
"Are you okay now Aria?" she handed me a tissue; I took it and wiped my running nose with it. Chiara smiled at me, I couldn't help but to smile back.
"Thank you Chiara."
"Of course, you're my sister; this is what I'm here for." She continued to soothingly rub my back.
"Chiara? Is everything alright in here?" I looked at the doorway, it was Zero. He walked towards us and sat down at the foot of the bed.
"Yes Zero everything is fine, now. Has Dante gotten in contact with Carlisle yet?"
"No, not yet." I tried to listen to whatever else they were trying to say, but my mind was just too tired to pay attention. However I did have one question that was bothering me…
"Chiara, where are we?"
Silence. Chiara stared at Zero for a while before answering.
"Chiara? Zero?"
"We're in one of Dante's acquaintances home. His name is Charlie Swan. He was kind enough to let us live here for a while."
"Oh."
"Aria, we have to talk but we'll wait until you're well rested." Zero walked out of the room, Chiara was following suit but I held her arm.
"Please don't leave me tonight. Just until I fall asleep."
"Of course Aria. I'll stay here as long as you like."
Chiara settled me back into the bed and lay beside me. She started to hum the moonlight sonata in my ear and I quickly fell asleep.
This time my dream was a happier, peaceful one.
~*~
Morning.
I saw red behind my closed eyes and rolled over to my side. I bumped into something hard and remembered that Chiara has slept with me.
She was still humming songs to me, a Vivaldi song. I woke up and stretched my arms up.
"Good morning Aria." Chiara stood at the foot of the bed, smiling at me.
"Good morning" I threw my legs to the side of the bed and stood up.
"Where's the bathroom?" she indicated out the door.
"Downstairs and it's the second door on your left. Your bags on that chair, I'll go and make some breakfast for you." She disappeared. Grabbing some clothes and a toothbrush from my bag I headed towards the bathroom.
After my shower, I quickly dressed and followed the delicious aroma of cook food to the kitchen.
Zero was leaning on the sink counter with his arms folded over his chest. We both waved a hello to each other. Chiara smiled at me and had a plate of food in her hands.
"Good morning Zero. Hey, where's Dante?" my question was ignored.
"Here I made some eggs and bacon for you. Hoped I cooked it right." I walked to the small wooden table and took a seat. The plate was huge, she made enough food for an army but the sight of it made my stomach growl. I was hungrier than I thought. I took a forkful of eggs and bacon and smiled.
"Delicious. Pretty good for someone who can't eat." I took another forkful into my awaiting mouth.
"Yeah, the food network helps too."
"So you said that we had to talk about something last night?"
"That can wait until you're done eating."
I pouted my lips at her and she laughed at me. I quickly eat my food, almost choking on a piece of bacon in the process, and shoved the plate away from me when I was done. Chiara took the plate, washed it and then sat back down in front of me, all within record time.
"Okay, start talking."
"Aria, I have to leave you for a while."
"What why? Where are you going?" I over reacted a little bit and knocked the chair-Chiara caught it before it fell- over as I stood up.
"Aria, please, sit down." I sat down.
"Aria, it'll only be for a while. I'm going with Dante to find out where Carlisle lives, of course you won't be alone Zero will be with you. Don't give him a hard time."
I looked over at Zero. His eyes were closed as though he were sleeping.
"So how long will you be away?"
"I don't know." My hand automatically went to my neck to play with my charm. I usually did this when I felt nervous. My neck felt bare, I felt nothing.
"Where's my music charm?" Chiara looked at my neck and shrugged her shoulders.
My fingers went around my bare neck, as if putting them there would make my charm reappear. I felt, naked without it.
"Don't worry Aria; maybe you dropped it in the room upstairs." I nodded my head, hoping she was right.
"Okay, I have to get going now. Listen Aria, Dante's friend, Charlie, he will return home a bit late tonight so make sure to greet him, okay?" I nodded. My eyes stared down at the table.
"Aria, be extra careful and watch where your going at all times. Don't let your clumsiness hurt you." Chiara held me close to her and kissed my cheek.
"Sure, sure. I'll be okay." I whispered.
"Good. Zero?" Zero just nodded at Chiara "Stay in touch with me okay?"
"Yes. Now get going before Dante starts ringing the phone again." He said in a bored voice.
Chiara gave me one last hug before she left. My last image of her for the day was of her smiling at me, before she used her amazing speed to leave the house.
I touched my neck again and sighed. Looking towards Zero, he still had his eyes closed. We never really hung out alone like this and I didn't know what to do with him.
"So, what do we do now?" Zero opened his eyes.
"I don't know."
"Want to go outside?" I indicated with my thumb to the window behind me. Zero scoffed at me.
"Don't feel like it." He walked away into the adjoined room without even glancing at me. I followed behind him; he was slumping in a single loveseat across from a television uninterested in whatever he was watching. I sat down on the couch and watched the program. It wasn't too bad-a mediocre sitcom about a man and his children-I actually laughed a few times.
When I looked out the window it was dark outside. The digital clock read eight-thirty, how did so much time pass by so quickly?
Zero stood up and stretched a little bit. He walked towards the kitchen; I heard the water run down from the faucet and then a couple of loud gulps.
When Zero returned his eyes had a brighter red color to it. He sat back down on the loveseat and closed his eyes.
I saw the cap of a small pill bottle from the opening of the pocket of his vest.
Blood pills.
Dante and I had been working on those for sometime now. These pills were revolutionary! They looked like regular pills only, when one drops the pill into water, it makes the water taste like human blood. It can fulfill a vampire's thirst for up to two whole days. We had tried to pitch the idea of this pill to Aro, Caius, and Marcus but they just ignored us, saying that there was no substitution for the real thing.
The door opened, a man in a policeman uniform entered into the house.
He looked at me and Zero and then hung up his jacket and gun belt. Zero just stayed seated where he was, with his eyes closed and a bored expression on his face. I looked at the man, when he turned around our eyes locked for a moment.
"He's a human? When or how long did Dante know this human?"
If the Volturi knew they surely would've killed him. However, I trusted this man. If this man knew our secrets then surely he was not malicious at all. I couldn't help but feel that there was something familiar about him. His face and his eyes. A nostalgic feeling came over me.
He walked towards me and held out a welcoming hand.
"Hello, I'm Charlie Swan, also known as Chief Swan; welcome to Forks, you must be Isabella?"
"Bella and thank you for allowing me to stay here." I put my hand in his and shook his large hand.
"Well, Bella, of course. Any friend of Dante's is a friend of mine. So where did he and Chiara go anyway and why'd they leave him behind?" Charlie pointed his finger toward Zero.
"Well they went to go look for Carlisle and they left Zero as a sort of body guard for me."
"Ah, yes, I heard about your clumsiness. Can't last a day without one of them huh?"
"Nope."
"Well uh. I'm going to go upstairs and sleep so you two can make yourselves at home."
"Thanks."
"Oh yeah by the way, Dante told me to tell you that you'll have school starting tomorrow. He's already enrolled you into Forks high school. Says he wouldn't want you to go without a proper education. He left you some things in your room for school. A book bag full of things you will need for school."
"Great. Of course Dante would something like this…. Is that all?"
"Yup. Goodnight." Charlie disappeared up the stairs.
I looked over at Zero; he was still lying with his eyes closed.
"Well I'm going to bed now, goodnight Zero."
"Goodnight."
I walked back to my room and closed the door behind me. Across from my bed was a simple brown messenger bag. It had a design on it, a blue treble clef.
When I walked closer to the bag I noticed a small 'D' near the tail of the treble clef, this was designed by Dante himself. I opened the bag and emptied everything that was in it onto the bed.
There was a five star notebook, a laptop, a couple of writing utensils, a music sheet book, folders and a folded white paper. I unfolded the paper-it was a short letter from Dante. In his very precise handwriting it read:
Dear Aria,
Please forgive me. I'm sorry to have to leave you and not say goodbye to you. I just wanted to find Carlisle as soon as possible.
Also, as Charlie may or may not have told you, I have enrolled you and Zero into Forks high school. This is your beginning at having a normal-human-life. Zero will be attending to protect you and so you won't be alone. Now, for the meantime I put you under the alias as Isabella Swan and Zero as Erik De Luca, your cousin.
Also, your concert flute is hidden underneath your bed along with your violin. I hope to hear more of your wonderful songs when I return.
We will return as soon as possible.
With Love,
Dante
P.S: Hope you like the design I drew on the bag for you.
: There is a closet full of new clothes for you, courtesy of Chiara.
I put the letter on top of the table next to the bed and put the things back into the bag-except for the laptop which I placed on the table.
Walking to the closet door I slowly opened it and glanced inside. I sighed in contentment. Chiara hadn't gone overboard and instead gotten me some simple t-shirt, a couple of blouses, nice shirts and a lot of jeans with only two skirts. She also had gotten me three new pairs of sneakers and some flats. The last time I had worn high heels I nearly broke my neck walking down the narrow steps at the Volturi hideout.
I picked out an outfit-a checkered turquoise long tube top with a red belt over teal pants and aqua colored sneakers -for tomorrow and went to bed. I touched my neck again and sighed. Now there were two important things missing in my life, my charm and Chiara.
I walked over to the bed and sat down on it. I looked down between my feet and saw a thick blue string. I got down on my knees and pulled the string; a drawer slid out from underneath the bed and in it was my violin and concert flute. I took my flute out of its bag and played a simple song that was in my head, it sounded sad.
Playing my flute had always calmed my nerves; when Chiara isn't able to, and tonight I had played extra long because Chiara wasn't here.
After sometime I put away my flute and changed into my pajamas. I switched down the light switch and lied down on my bed.
However I had a tough time sleeping. Without Chiara or Dante here I felt sort of, alone. Sure Zero was here but....
Getting up from the bed I looked inside my bag and found my old C.D player. Thank God for Chiara. Opening the lid, the C.D I had made with Chiara was still in there. Some of the songs were classics by various artists and some were sung by Chiara and me, although I did most of the compositions. As I lied back down on my bed and listened to the C.D my eye lids felt heavy.
My head- with the help of the music-was filled with sweet dreams.
~*~
The sky is a dark blue color, with the light of the moon casting a glow onto the earth.
A man in a black cloak is running around in a meadow. He is examining his surrounding and notices some ashes. He walks closer to the black pile- he picked a handful of the ash in his gloved-covered hand and sniffs it. He growls and lets the ash fall like a waterfall back down on the ground.
His eyes catch something glittering on the ground, not to far away. Walking over to it he picks it up and examines it. It is a small music charm with a little bit of blood on it. Putting it in his pocket he runs back to where he came from in blinding speed.
He reaches a quiet town, where everything is peaceful.
Walking around in the darkest alley he disappears underneath the ground.
He walks down a massive stairway and reaches a huge and enhancing wooden double door. He pushes the door open and walks into a chamber room.
Inside there is another man, three of them, whose names are known through out the vampire world as Gods among the vampires.
Aro, Caius and Marcus.
"So what news do you bring, Demetri?"
"They seem to be dead my lord, no remains of them or a scent of her." Demetri takes out the music charm from his pocket and shows it to the three men.
"Ah...and so they have perished it seems." Said Caius.
"Yes it has. It is a very sad loss, especially for the human girl. Eleazar had said that she had very promising potential as one of us." Said Marcus.
Aro looked at Demetri in deep thought.
"I thought it strange that Dante would want to go with them. Hmm…Caius, Marcus, my brothers do not be deceived for they have tricked us."
"What?"
"They could not have possibly perished so easily." Aro clapped his hands and next to Demetri, there were three other persons.
"James, Victoria and Laurent. I have a special job for you, do so and you can join our coven."
"Yes master." Said the three vampires in unison.
"But Aro!" Aro raised his hand to Demetri.
"Demetri do not waste your talent. Besides we need some new recruits. Now give the charm to James." He indicated to the blond boy.
Demetri growled at James but gave him the charm.
"Use this to find her scent and bring the girl and the big one called Dante back to me, alive."
"What about the others?" asked Laurent?
"Well, I really don't care what happens to them just bring the girl and the man. Now go!"
The three vampires were gone. Demetri growled and looked at Aro, glaring daggers at him.
"Now Demetri please do not be angered with me..." he left before Aro could finish.
"I wonder who will get to her first?" said Marcus.
"Humph. This will prove to be interesting." Said Caius.
The three men let out a laugh, the large doors closing after Demetri's leave.