Now's the dramatic part of the story! Bella's kidnapped...Jason's waking up...aah! I have EVERYTHING planned out for the rest of the chapters...so enjoy!
Again (:S) can't think of a song for this story - as soon as I do I'll be sure to write it down! For now...suggestions would be great but hey - who needs music to read?
Haha...I know I do! :P
ENJOY!
Chapter Fifteen
Bella's POV
Bella was frozen by the voice.
It had seemed to come out of nowhere, but everywhere. In the darkness her senses were confused. She smelled bleak nothingness, saw nothing, touched only hard ground, and heard only one voice other than her own.
"Who's there?" she called. Unsteadily, Bella tried to stand and threw an arm out against the wall to keep from wobbling as she rose. Still clinging to the wall, she didn't wait for an answer but started slowly taking steps. The blindness was terrifying, but Bella managed to start gradually walking forward. The voice did not reply.
In her next step, Bella's foot landed on something slightly above the ground and she yelped, jumping back. Her heavy breathing was deafening in the silence. She wrapped her arms around herself and slid down into a sitting position against the wall, eyes desperately searching for light. She opened her mouth to speak, but stopped.
What could I say? She thought. If it's my kidnapper that's here with me, he or she wouldn't be ideal for helping. Deciding to be stealthy, Bella rose again, hands not leaving the smooth wall. She tried to take silent steps, until she reached the object again. Sliding into a crouch, Bella placed her hands on it and stroked them across the whole object, blindly examining it.
It was a cube shape. Feeling the top, a few little things stuck out like buttons. Hesitantly, Bella pressed one. There was a little click, but nothing happened. So, her finger moved to the next one. She brought her finger down and nearly jumped when a tiny light came on. It wasn't bright enough to illuminate anything but itself, but it proved that Bella wasn't blind.
She sighed in relief, but stopped after a second when she realised how much noise she was making. Without checking her pulse, Bella could feel her heart hammering wildly in her chest. She was surprised that the other person in the room didn't hear it. Bella decided not to press any more buttons – after all, she had no idea what this machine was.
So she stood and continued taking slow, careful steps against the wall. After a minute, her foot collided with something hard. She stuck her hands out and felt another wall and a corner.
"You won't find a door." The same voice from before came from behind her. Bella jumped and spun around, but saw nothing. The only thing that wasn't black was the little red light from the strange machine. It was surprisingly closer that Bella had thought.
"Who's there? Where am I?" Bella yelled into the darkness. There was a little squeak, like someone was rubbing something against a microphone.
"Who's there? Where am I?" an exact repeat of what she said played back to her. Someone had recorded her voice – it was too clear to be an echo. So, in frustration, Bella became silent again. She slid down and crawled back to the red light.
"Look, whoever-you-are..." she said angrily.
"Look, whoever-you-are..." the playback seemed to come from the little machine. Bella started tapping random buttons, but the red light didn't go out.
"Messing with that won't get you out." A girl's voice. It seemed to come from above. Bella looked around, up and down, but still saw nothing. After a minute of playing back the voice in her head, she realised that...it was her own voice.
Emmett's POV
The yellow Porsche, even speeding, didn't seem to go fast enough.
Alice insisted that they take it – and that Emmett drive. She sat in the passenger seat, eyes distant. She was in the middle of a vision, and not able to drive. Emmett was driving down the highway, looking for any traces of Bella and her kidnappers. As he looked at Alice's face, he saw that her mouth was open in horror. Her eyes darted in different directions, seeing something that wasn't there. Her hand reached forward, and flattened as if she were pressing it against something flat. Her open mouth moved as if she was speaking, but no sound came out.
"Alice?" Emmett placed a gentle hand on her arm. "What are you seeing?" He murmured. Alice's head snapped in his direction, eyes still searching. Finally, she gasped and threw her arms out at the dashboard, steadying herself. She started panting, but the vacant look in her eyes disappeared.
"Alice? You okay?" Emmett asked, not focussing on the road. Alice nodded vigorously, but after a moment gasped and jumped up in her seat. She pointed to the road.
Everything happened in at once after that. The car hit the man standing in the centre of the road, and in a desperate attempt to avoid him, Emmett tried to turn. The Porsche skidded and the side hit the man, sending him flying a couple metres. Alice screamed as the whole car drove straight into a ditch on the side of the road. It flipped over on its side and the airbags flew out, blocking their air. Emmett could no longer see anything – only the white of the airbag that blew up in his face. There was a grunt beside him and some movement, and air whooshing out of one of the airbags. In the confined space, Emmett managed to stick his finger in his own and pop it. Once it had deflated, he looked to his right where Alice sat.
Except she didn't.
Her door was wide open, and her seat was empty. Her airbag lay in shreds on the dashboard, and there were scratches on the seat. Emmett opened his own door...and was confused by the angle. He seemed to open it upwards. He climbed up and out of the flipped car, jumping out. On the road there were no cars – so no humans to see his 'miraculous' survival. Any human would've died from the crash, but Emmett was fine. Not a scratch. The man he had hit wasn't there – he had disappeared. But Emmett heard quiet breathing and slowly turned around. Alice stood behind him, a look of despair crossing her face. Behind her was a man, his elbow was holding Alice in place against him, and his hand was around her neck. His other hand held both of her arms pinned behind her back. One tiny movement and he could rip her into pieces. He was obviously a vampire. As Emmett concentrated, he remembered this man as the vampire who had threatened Bella while he was hunting.
"No one move." He ordered, scuffling backwards with Alice. "Or she burns." He nodded to the car, which was now smoking. Inside there were shadows of fire. Emmett slowly and reluctantly lifted his arms in a sign of surrender, and his eyes widened in shock as more vampires came out of the trees. Two walked to...Laurent. Emmett remembered his name. Three crossed the distance to Emmett and grabbed him from different places. These vampires restrained them in a way that was fatal if they made a tiny move to kill them. Laurent stood in front of them, smiling in a way that sent a chill down Emmett's back.
"So," he murmured. "We meet again. I've heard that your human has...disappeared." he made a poof motion with his hands. Emmett snarled furiously and struggled against the vampires' hold.
"I swear, if you lay a hand on her..." he left the threat for others to imagine.
"Actually, you can't do anything about it. But don't fret, that is not of my intention. You see, we have quite a game set. And you're the players." Laurent made a tiny signal with the flick of his wrist – barely noticeable. Three more vampires came out from the trees – two were strangers and the third was...
April.
She was being restrained along with the rest of them, and she fought hard. She was struggling and trying to kick them off of her. As Emmett examined her closely, he noticed a thin pink line around her elbow. She had already been injured and had probably just gotten her arm back. Once she noticed Emmett and Alice she stopped fighting and her jaw dropped.
April's POV
The only reason April had been caught was because of carelessness. She had let her guard down while taking care of Jason. She had sat with him, explaining everything about his new life. He had taken it quite well – and afterwards wanted to go hunt.
He was persistent, natural for a newborn vampire. She had found a completely secure area for him to hunt – animals of course – and let him loose. She hadn't been concentrating and was grabbed from behind. By vampires – too strong to break loose from. They had brought her, running, to the highway were they entered a small clearing.
Looking around, April noticed that there were many, many other vampires around. As she scanned their faces, she saw Emmett and Alice were restrained too. She stopped thrashing against the vampires' hold and her mouth dropped open. She had an excuse for getting captured.
But Alice and Emmett? They were skilled fighters, and yet they had been caught. April also noticed a crashed Porsche in a ditch behind them. Okay, so maybe they had been taken by surprise. But they should've gone down fighting. She noticed Alice's face suddenly go blank. Her eyes took on a distant look, and she seemed to be focussing on something invisible. April racked her memory for anything to explain this...
"...Some people in our family have...abilities. Edward can read minds. Jasper can sense emotions. And Alice – she can see the future..." Something Emmett had said to her earlier in the day. April could tell that Alice was in the middle of a vision.
Alice's POV
Bella stands with her back to James. She wears clothes that are unusual for her – skinny jeans, knee-high strappy black boots, and a tight black tank top with a leather jacket thrown on top. Her hair has changed too – completely straight unlike her usually curly hair. She also has on sleek Aviators that hide her eyes. She moves with a familiar grace.
"So, I see you have her." Her voice is the same...but different at the same time. It's strong and beautiful, like wind chimes.
"Yes," James replies. "You've seen. Now what?" he asks. Bella turns to face him, laughing slightly.
"Francesca, let's not fool around here. I've delivered what you wanted. Now for you to keep your end of the bargain." James snaps, impatient.
"Of course. I'm sure the Aeternas will be very...welcoming." with that sentence Bella, or Francesca, steps forward and holds James' face in her hands. With another smile, she snaps her hands to the side and spins around, taking James' head with her. Out of her pocket she produces a lighter. Dropping his head, she returns to his body with inhuman speed and rips his body apart, laughing slightly. Once all the pieces are dismantled and in a pile, she turns on the lighter and drops it in the pile. Laughing, she struts around the growing fire before exiting out through a small door in the corner. In the other room, there is a scream of agony.
Alice jumped, realising that she was screaming along with her vision. She looked around. She was being held still in the restraints of vampires, and everyone stared at her.
"Ah." The one that looked like the leader stepped towards her. "A vision? How interesting. Pray tell us what you saw, young one?" He had a thick English accent, and Alice recognised him as the man that Emmett had hit. He was...unharmed. Fine.
"Was it about the human that you Cullens hold so dearly? What's her name? Isabella?" he continued, smiling. Emmett snarled again beside her. Looking around, Alice saw April also in the same situation – watching her, and held back by vampires.
"Well, if no one feels like making conversation, why don't we go visit Bella?" Laurent smiled maliciously and gestured to the highway as a red convertible pulled over next to them. Alice cringed in recognition of the woman stepping out – Bella. Or rather, Francesca. Alice didn't understand what was happening – Bella was a vampire, and had killed James who had called her by Francesca. The woman walked forward, a smile on her red lips. She flipped her straight brown hair behind her shoulders and took off her sunglasses. Emmett and Alice gasped.
"Well, hello everyone." She greeted them. "It seems we have a lot to talk about. I'm Francesca." It truly wasn't Bella. It was her look-a-like, who had blazing crimson eyes.
A vampire.
DUNdunDUN! I gotta admit...the whole look-a-like thing wasn't my origional plan...but I threw it in! And I'll say now, it's NOT MY IDEA! I took it from Vampire Diaries, because I thought it would be an interesting twist!
Review!