AN- I do NOT own any of the Characters (apart from George, Daniella, Antony and Alicia), they are owned by Stephenie Meyer. I would appreciate constructive criticism so I could make this better. If anybody notices any grammatical errors or spelling errors, notify me, so I can correct them. Enjoy!
Chapter 8: Into the Emerald Woods
Dragging two vampires out into the woods isn't as nice as you would think when one is growling at you, and the other is laughing at you.
"What did you do that for?!" George shouted as I came to an abrupt halt and released them from my vice grip.
"They are going to talk about us staying with them as uhh… on a more permanent agreement than what we originally thought." I explained, I could feel the excitement bubbling over in my still, cold heart.
"Alice's gift, you saw the future?" Dany question, I merely nodded.
"Why drag us out then." He protested.
"George, please lighten up" Dany reprimanded him. She turned to me then
"So what exactly happened?"
"It started when Alice suddenly spoke up for Edward in his decision to hold a meeting, so I used her gift, as you know, to see what was going to be said. They talked through everything, about what we felt, what we thought. They ended up voting on our stay. They said yes!" I giddily spoke. I couldn't believe it! They actually said… or will say yes! Wow this is difficult to comprehend if it hasn't happened yet.
We continued to dart through the woods, ever-green, with chirping and clicking galore. The gentle breeze caressed my cheek, it felt invigorating to feel, see and hear so many thing at once. A human probably would have found it an annoyance, but we vampires love our solidarity, so we find comfort in the small things, such as this. As we slowed, we could smell and hear a herd of four elks congregating in the moonlight.
"I get the larger one!" I quietly exclaimed before either of them could call it. We went separate ways to corner them. I gracefully leapt into the air, and onto the back of the elk, half of the fun was wrestling with the animals. So like did since I started the animal diet, I indulged in the thrashing and flailing of the elk, it reminded me of how strong vampires were, and how weak humans and animals were. I don't know why, but it made me feel sad about the strength difference, but, it didn't stop me. I let it think it could escape for an extra tenth of a second before I dug my teeth into its pulsing, soft, warm throat.
The dull aching fire was soon drenched in crimson blood. I had to say, with each animal I drank from, the better animal blood tasted. I actually felt saner after I drank from animals, than after I drank from humans. I had a feeling that Carlisle was on to something when he told me that that was the probable reason to why we could mingle with the humans.
I looked over to see Dany and George finishing off their 'meals' and smiled to myself at how far we had come to our 'dreams' in such little time.
We spent several hours in the woods. The sun was coming up and there were a few strands of sunlight. I was fascinated with the look our skin took in the sunlight, so I stood there, in one of those strands marvelling at my skin. George and I wrestled, now that was a hilarious sight for Dany to observe. We thought we were like bears clawing at each other, wrestling for our territory. According to Dany though, we seemed like kittens playfully taking baby swipes at each other. But we had managed to 'accidentally' up-root a small tree, just to prove Dany wrong. I also told them about my sudden outburst of laughter a few hours ago. They joined in too when I had finished.
We stayed out in the woods, as the sun was slowly rising higher and higher into the sky, so we slowly made our way back. The setting of the woods was far different now than it was at night. The woods became enchanted now, with lines of light tearing through the canopy of the woods. I liked to notice the small things that humans would otherwise look over because of their ability to be over ignorant at things such as these.
We would stop and look at the scenery around us as we wandered back down the trail. Back to the house. The lights were now turned off, a part of the human charade perhaps? I could hear them wrapping up their meeting, we came through the front door as the family came down the spruce staircase. Just like in my vision I triumphantly thought.
"It appears that you already knew?" Carlisle stated towards me.
"Edward!" I threatened.
"They guessed from your reaction." He explained plainly. It bugged me that Alice was looking at me in disapproval, and Emmett was grinning from ear to ear.
"Why did you have to do that?" Alice chastised me, Emmett stepped forward and patted my shoulder.
"Nice play little dude." He congratulated.
"So Carlisle…?" I acted innocently.
"Yes, you can stay with our family." Esme spoke, I felt a sudden surge of acceptance, and love for them for accepting us.
"Yes!" I cried out again, and, without knowing it, I unintentionally ran through the family, bewilderment was evident on their faces as I ran to where Edward and Bella stood, and hugged them. I don't know why though?
Edward, I think that Antony has taken quite a liking to you and Bella. Emmett joked.
"Shut up Emmett." Edward and I said together. I realized I was still hugging the couple, so I let go.
"I am so sorry." I apologized.
"Don't worry about it Antony. Edward told us that the three of you have never had a proper family that you could remember." Bella explained, "We're just glad that we could fill that role." I looked up into Bella's eyes, and saw nothing but the truth in the topaz orbs. I couldn't have felt anymore love towards the Cullen family, and I am sure that Jasper felt this rolling off of us in thick, incandescent waves.
"Thank you for this!" and "We can't thank you enough!" were all we could say to them now. I'm pretty sure we said it to each of them plenty of times. I couldn't help it, I couldn't help feeling this way.