Hi again! Thanks for all the reviews! They've really motivated me with continuing the story. I hope you like this next chapter. It's a bit longer then the usual ones. There going to be like that from now on!
My disclaimer- I don't own the name gideion or anything directly from Twilight. I own the Morwen family, the Meldas, the plot of this story in particular, and what the creature gideion in this story is like.
ON with the story!
Ch. 5
I heard several gasps around me, and I knew I was in deep shit. Desperate to try and keep my secret, I gave Victoria a confused look, as though I had no clue what she was saying. "I'm sorry? My name is Izzy, not Bella. I think that-"
"Oh, don't try to play that game with me Bella," Victoria sneered at me. "You may be able to fool these morons, but I know better. After all, I've been trying to find you for the past 80 years." I just decided to give up my measly attempt at the charade, since it wasn't really doing me any good.
"And why exactly would you be looking for me?" I asked her as I crossed my arms.
"Why? Because of you, my dear James was killed. I figured that I should return the favor to dear Eddie by killing his one love," she told me as thought it were the most obvious thing in the world. I had to stop myself from snorting with laughter.
"Sorry to burst your bubble, Vicky dear," I said in an annoying tone. "But I'm afraid to say that you came here all for nothing."
She simply shrugged dismissively. "I know that you two are not together anymore. But it doesn't mean that it will hurt Edward any less," she said before she jumped at me, her followers going after my friends and family. I quickly turned gideion, like the rest of my family, and flipped out of the way. My feet only touched the ground for a second before Victoria attacked again.
I kept twisting and spinning, kicking and punching, anything I could to get away from the revenge-crazed vampire for a second. But she just kept coming at me full force, snarling like a rabid dog. My make-shift skirt from before had been completely shredded to nothing, and I felt a large bruise begin to form and fade at the same time on my left cheek from where Victoria threw me into the ground. I kept seeing out of the corner of my eye that my family was fighting one of Victoria's newborns, Jake and the Meldas fighting another, and the Cullens were finishing off the last one.
I knew that I had to end this now before she knew that she was being beat and would run off, so I charged at Victoria and tore at her head. As the usual sickening sound of bones snapping came to my ears and her head came clean off her shoulders, I had felt relieved. But then, I felt a terrible pain begin to shoot through me.
I looked down and saw enclosed in the dead hand of Victoria, a black handle of a knife, the blade shoved into my stomach. Now, in gideion form, my body is stone hard like a vampire's. But there is one thing that can break through the skin of both of our kinds- a titanium steel blade that had diamond dusting. I use this kind many times with my patrols and hunting, and I knew that it was hard to even get this metal. She must have stolen it from somewhere. I hadn't even notice her take it out.
I dropped the head from my hands- the body seemed to fall with it- and clutched at the knife in me. My tank top was changing from its lavender color to a deep red with my blood, the flowers disappearing as the blood spread.
I sunk to my knees and my head felt like it was spinning. All around me, there was the terribly sickening smell from the purple-black smoke as the vampires burned, and there was shouting. It took me a minute to realize that it was my old and new name being shouted. I felt myself fall further backwards, and I never felt the ground, but a pair of strong hands wrap around me. The last thing that I saw before everything went black was Edward's frantic face staring at me.
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I was starting to wake up thanks to a dull ache passing through me. I was hearing an annoying beeping sound from my right, but my eyes were too stubborn to open and see the cause of it. I felt something wet being dabbed onto my forehead as a hand gently squeezed my hand.
"Bella? Please wake up. Please!" I heard whispering in my ear, and I knew the voice was Edward. I wanted to say something, to open my eyes, but my eyes and mouth felt as though they were clamped shut and refused to open up.
"How is she Carlisle?" I heard him ask his father.
"The wound wasn't too deep, thank God. But she did lose a good deal of blood. I can't seem to get anything else. It is as though her body is protecting itself while she is unconscious," I heard Carlisle speak from beside the beeping, which I now knew was the sound of my heartbeat. It was strange. I don't even remember turning back to human.
I heard the sound of a door opening from across the room. "Carlisle, Edward?" I heard the quiet voice of Maria whisper as she walked in. "My mom just finished making these," she said and I smelt the aroma of my mom's wonderful cupcakes. The slight clink of metal on wood told me that she set a tray down on the table beside me.
"She always starts to bake whenever she's nervous about something. One time, when she was waiting for us to come back from a school trip, she started to bake a bunch of cookies. When we got home, the kitchen was so full of them that we had to start sending them off in bunches as gifts to everyone in the town!" she laughed bitterly.
"I remember that," I mumbled out finally. I heard all three of them gasp.
"Bella?" Edward asked nervously, squeezing my hand again.
"Izzy? Are you awake?" Maria whispered again, holding her breath. I opened my eyes and saw the three of them all standing around my bed.
"Yeah, Mare-bear. I'm awake. I may feel like a shish kabob, but I'm awake," I joked. She laughed through her tears and jumped onto the bed, wrapping me up in a hug that could almost match one from Emmett as she happily shouted my name. When she did, the dull pain began to grow a bit.
"Careful there, Maria," Carlisle told her. "She still needs to heal. The stab wasn't too deep, but it will take a while to recover."
"Oops! I'm sorry Izzy!" she said.
"It's ok Mare-bear. I'm cool. Just try to be a bit more careful," I said as I waved my hand dismissively. Suddenly, the door burst open and everyone came filing into the room; the Meldas, Jake, my family, and the rest of the Cullens.
"Bella! /Izzy!" both Alice and Stacy shouted as they came rushing over to the bed and wrapping their arms around me, being careful of my stomach. The twins then pushed in and gave me pats on the shoulders as they lightly kissed me on the forehead. It continued like that for a few minutes until everyone was done.
"Bella, we thought that you were-" Esme tried to say, but stopped at the last word.
"I know, and I'm sorry about what I put you guys through. It's just that… well; I thought you guys were never coming back. And my life was already so different from everyone else's with all the secrets I had that I figured what would one more hurt? I had no idea that I'd see you guys again. Well, I did, but I just didn't think that you'd find out the way you did, and I'm gonna shut up now because I'm starting ramble like an idiot," I finished up. Everyone laughed at me, and I felt my cheeks burn with embarrassment.
"It's good to have you back sweetie," Esme said.
"It feels good to be back," I answered.
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It's mid October now. For the past two weeks, I was stuck in bed- Carlisle's orders. It was pure hell. I felt like I was some sort of caged animal that needed to be set free. I was still ahead of my work, thanks to Stacy, Maria, and Selena bringing me my homework. They'd usually bring the Cullens and Jake over with them after school, and we've spent the nights hanging out together.
Alice, Rosalie- who wants me to call her Rose now- and my sisters had made me do multiple sleepover parties with them. So far, they've painted my nails ten times in the past two weeks, done several different things to my hair, and everything else. When I was ok to be standing up for a while on my own, they started to dress me up in different outfit ideas. So far, I've actually liked the combo with my denim skirt that way slightly frayed at the bottom with black leggings underneath and my hot pink tank top and stiletto heeled, ankle boots, my faded blue jeans with my pale yellow ¾ sleeve top and yellow ballet flats, and my one sleeved blue dress with the silver strappy shoes I wore the other night.
Now I'm sure you're wondering if I'm back with Edward or not, so I'll just answer that question- yes, I am back with Edward. We're taking it slow, and it will take a while before I can completely trust him again, but we're working on it.
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Halloween was getting closer and closer, and my family was going nuts about it, like usual. Once, in every town or country that we've ever lived in, we decorate our house into a party in a haunted house styled place, and we go all out. We buy the best costumes and accessories with them, decorate the house to give it a haunting and hypnotic look at the same time, and we start cooking and planning everything for the 31st. This time though, we have the Meldas and the Cullens as part of our family.
"Bella, we need a hand over here!" Jasper said from outside.
"Coming!" I said. I quickly ran outside to see what the problem was. Connor, Emmett, and Jasper were stapling the black fabric that we painted to look like old boards of wood to the roof, and I saw that a part at the opposite end they were at was flapping in the wind. If they tried to go and fix it, they would lose the other end.
"Can you give us a hand Iz?" Connor asked. I raised an eyebrow and crossed my arms over my Green Day shirt. Connor rolled his eyes at me. "I mean, Bella?" I giggle before I flew up onto a patch of air and went to hold the other end down.
"Stapler!" I said as I held my hand out for one. Emmett tossed me the staple gun and I quickly punched down on it, securing the fabric in place. They finished up on the other end. "Done!" I laughed and jumped off the air I was squatting on- right into Edward's arms.
"Nice catch!" I said before kissing him lightly on the cheek. He set me down on my feet and looked up at the roof.
"It looks good," he said as he looked around. He, my dad, and Max, had just finished digging out large spots of the lawn and placed a long box that resembled a coffin in them, each containing a fake skeleton that had been dirtied up and dressed in shredded clothing to look like dead people, the lids of each box opened to look inside. Headstones were at the top of each grave, and we had fog machines hidden everywhere in the trees, so at night, it would look like we had a cemetery on our lawn.
"That's nothing. Wait till you see the inside!" I said as I dragged him inside.
The inside was done to be just as great. We had four more fog machines in side; one at the top of the stairs facing down, one in the living room, one in the kitchen, and one set to be right above the front door going down so that you couldn't see what is inside. Alice and Stacy were adjusting the red, blue, and dark purple strobe lights along with some black UV lights everywhere, while Maria and Rose were using the Webcaster Guns that we bought online and were spraying the room and staircase with glow in the dark webs. We had the furniture moved out of the way already, and the second floor was already closed off to the guests. If we wanted anything, we would have to go in through the windows. We had a few death warrants that we made up on the computer and printed onto old style parchments pinned up on the walls, as well as a few lenticulars paintings- you know, those kind that change from normal to creepy and back as you walk by?
Mom, Esme, and Stella were in the kitchen, finishing up with looking for creepy Halloween recipes before we were going to head over to the Melda house for the night. Usually, we just spend the entire day on the 31st getting ready for Halloween, but now, they want us to spend the nights over at their house and take care of the house day by day.
"Hey Mom, Stella, Esme!" I said as I gave them a kiss on the cheek.
"Hi sweetie/Bella, and hello Edward," they greeted. Edward nodded politely.
"Hey Mom, are Jake and Selena back yet? We need to install that screen soon," I said. Jake and Selena had gone into town to rent a movie screen. We're planning on setting up one of the guest rooms on the first floor into a small theatre and playing some horror films. Another room was already divided into a small haunted house. Either way, the guests would get scared somehow.
"Not yet, Bella. But they should be back really soon," Mom answered.
"Oh well," I shrugged as I took a seat at the table. "So what creepy treats are we making this year?"
"Well, there's of course, our favorite 'Bloody Punch' recipe, along with a Witches Brew punch, a Chocolate Coffin cake, Eerie Eyeballs, Freaky Witches Fingers, and we're going to make Ghoulish Gravestones with the names of everyone in town," Mom started rattling off some of the ideas.
"It sounds fantastic, Sophia. I'm sure it'll be the best Halloween this town has ever seen," Edward told her.
"Thank you Edward," Mom said as a horn started beeping outside.
"They're back!" I yelled as I ran outside. Jake was already unloading the massive screen along with Connor while Selena and Dad were unloading the bags filled with chips and the simpler snacks.
"Hey guys!" I said as I grabbed a couple of the bags from Dad. "How was it over there?"
"It was ok. Hey Bella, do you know where my dad is? He hasn't been picking up his cell phone today, and I've left ten messages," Selena said.
"Haven't seen him," I answered.
"Yeah, Carlisle's been missing too. Wonder what's going on," Emmett added. Everyone else seemed slightly worried, but Edward had this grin on his face that could only mean no good.
"Ok mister!" I said as I looked at him, my hand filled with bags on my hips. "What do you know?"
"Why don't you find out yourself?" he asked as he pointed behind me. I spun around and nearly jumped for joy.
A black hearse was coming up the driveway, and inside were our two missing dads.
"Dad! Carlisle! Where did you get this?" Selena asked as they got out of the car.
"Well, we thought it would add a little something extra to this year's Halloween party," Carlisle said.
"And, we also got this," Angelo added as they walked around back and pulled out a pure silver, life size casket.
"Just got this from that site you had talked about the other day. It just came in!" Carlisle said as he and Angelo started to haul it inside the house.
"Oh yeah, this is going to be the best Halloween ever!" I laughed as I ran inside, followed by everyone else.
I had so much fun writing this chapter! I wish I could make up a house for Halloween like this! The recipes that I mentioned in this are real- except for the Bloody Punch I think. Anyway, I hope you like it!
Please keep those reviews coming! They're really inspiring me to do a really good job with this story!
Nancy (aka megamatchmaker)