Fate into Shadows

Chapter 8

Drivethru Movie Fright Night

Monday's, such dull and non-exciting days. I find myself sighing for a moment before my mood lifted as I heard the sound of a large vehicle pulling up outside my house. Alice and I had gone to Seattle on Saturday, after too much fun that morning, and I had indeed purchased a brand-new car to replace my 'truck'. Well, used. We had gone to a few dealers, looking for something along the lines of a Ford or something. That was why we were in the Ford lot when my eyes caught something too sexy for words.

It was a Mustang; an actual Ford Mustang. I had been cautious as it was a GT Performance version, and it was rather expensive. But that sleek all-over phantom black colour scheme made me drool, but I hesitated to look further as I realised it was an electric car. An actual electric Mustang. That put me off as I doubted they had any electric chargers in or around Forks Washington, let alone super chargers. However, Alice annoyingly tempted me as she brought up a map showing nearly all the petrol stations, and a few supermarkets in and around Forks all had them, and noted that I could have one installed at home if I wanted.

The Mach-E GT Performance (with all the trimmings, of course) was calling me. The one in the lot had only just been delivered, and within ten minutes of the test drive, and me quivering, I may have delved into misbegotten funds to top up what I would need to buy the car, have a few extra-extras installed, and arrange for a charging bay at home, and for the car to be delivered.

I just couldn't help myself. And with Alice and some cheesy sales man, egging me on, it was impossible to resist. I ended up spending way more money that I wanted to, but I didn't feel too bad for my purse, as the car was super sexy, and for a performance GT model, ultra silent, which was a downer to that racer girl in me, but a bonus to the ninja side.

It had a matte finish, and soft black leather interior, and even had a computer built in with touch screen tablet with sat-nav, and Android systems to download apps, and listen to music, and everything a girl could want and need, and it accelerated and then some, and wasn't a slouch for speed either – with four wheel drive for the kind of place Forks tended to be, it was perfect.

I smiled as I glanced out of the window to see them finish offloading my new car from the truck, and the sales guy said it wouldn't have less than three-third charge when delivered. It arrived just in time too. I thought, I would have to wait until after school to drive her. However, I quickly hurried to the door and opened it just before some guy was about to knock. He gave me a smile as I signed his computer register thingy, and took the envelope containing my remote thing keys and spares. Thanking him I grabbed my school-bag and left the house, locking up, as I ripped my remotes free.

I made it to my new car before the delivery guys had even left. Pressing one of the buttons, the alarms deactivated and the doors unlocked with a gentle swish while the lights all blinked, leaving the front and rear lights on low power mode. That was so much cooler than putting a key in. I quickly opened the driver's side, and slid in. The soft leather felt great as I closed the door and buckled up. I placed one remote away in my belt pocket and the other I just dropped into the passenger seat with a huge grin.

I pressed the ignition button and it hummed so softly I would have not realised it had started up if not for all the digital screens lighting up on the dash, showing she had come beautifully to life. I sighed dreamily. Its sound was almost as good as Alice's, as I felt the understated power around me, but not quite up to that standard. Speaking of which, she left earlier this morning to grab a 'bite to eat' and said she would meet me at school. I couldn't wait. I was missing her already. Therefore, I put my new car in drive, and pulled away even before the delivery truck had. It was so invigorating speeding down the road to school. I did a quick check of the battery gauge and smiled. The sells guy wasn't lying as it was at eighty-eight per cent.

It was even more fun to drive now it was not just a test. Yes, driving at normal speeds was fun now I have my own car, since Alice wouldn't let me have a go in hers. Though, we did have lots of fun on Saturday. But damn does she love to shop or what? I swear; my closet was almost bursting with the amount of clothes she bought me. She didn't even ask whether I wanted them. Most I hadn't even tried on, but apparently, they would look great on me. Ah well, if it made her happy, then I was happy too.

My ride was cut too short for my liking as I reached the school parking lot and entered. I looked around for a space, ignoring the few students that double took when spotting an actually Mustang GT entering the parking lot. I suppose it was not often that cars like this were seen. I think only the Cullen's could ever get more gawking than me when it came to cars. As they did have a Mercedes, a BMW, a Porsche, and an Aston. I don't think anybody would take too much notice of the Jeep.

I smiled as I spotted a space right next to a shiny silver Volvo. Edward's car. The Cullen's all mulling around it as I pulled into the space with a grin, as it was nice to have a computer with parking assistance as it reversed into the space with the screen guiding me with rear camera, and radar against hitting anything. Putting the car in park, I turned off the ignition and the electronic handbrake activated itself, and grabbing my remote, I opened the door and climbed out, closing it behind me. I only had a second to secure my car before I was tackled in a hug by Alice.

My grin only widened as I hugged her back. "I missed you!" she said in excitement as we pulled apart, her golden eyes shining with joy.

I heard some snickering from the others but I ignored them and replied. "I missed you too, kitten," I said, teasing her about her purring.

She just smiled though and leaned up on tiptoe, giving me a quick kiss on the lips. "The car suits you," she commented. Both of us ignored the glares we received from passing students trying to fit in, and Rosalie's, but at least hers was just because she didn't like me. Yet. I'm determined to build a friendship with her, whether she likes it or not. I'll hold her down if I have too.

"Yea, that's a pretty sweet ride you got there, Bella," interrupted Emmett wearing a wide grin, as Alice let me go, and he gave me a surprise hug. "Glad you got rid of that hunk of junk," he finished as he let me go.

I laughed at that. "Yea, me too," I agreed as I took Alice's hand in mine and began to lead them to the school building. "Though, I still have the truck parked up beside the house out of the way until Jake takes it back."

"How do you two cope?" Edward suddenly asked with a look of exasperation adorning his features. Alice and I looked up at him in surprise. "You know with all the gawking and glaring?" he elaborated with both a look of jealousy and shame.

"We just do," said Alice smiling at both Edward and Jasper. The later looking uncomfortable with the subject more than Edward. "You two shouldn't be such chickens."

"We're not chickens!" replied Jasper in annoyance. "But it makes it harder when I can feel their emotions and Edward can read their minds."

"I suppose that does," I agreed reasonably. "So, what's the verdict? Is a lynch mob likely to form anytime soon? A witch hunt maybe?" I asked amused at the prospect. "I could do with a good fight – after all, what real witch would ever get burnt at the strake?"

"No, lynch mobs," answered Edward. "They're kind of scared of you after they saw how easily you escaped the van on Friday. It's the jealousy that's hard to take. And I get to hear it and feel it through Jasper. Most of them honestly… surprisingly as modern media would say otherwise, but ninety-nine per cent of them don't care about the lesbian thing."

"Don't watch the mainstream media, My Dude!" I complained with a sigh and shake of my head. "They might as well call themselves propaganda networks these days," I continued while he shifted a little looking sheepish while Alice was giggling, "anyway, what do you mean, jealousy?" I finally asked in surprise, and Jasper nodded when I looked his way for conformation. Alice giggled and Emmett boomed out a laugh. "So, they're jealous of me?"

"Not just you, Alice too," said Jasper with a tight smile. Wow, and I thought I was the lucky one. "Boys and girls, but mostly boys. Not all of them are angry because of homophobia… well most aren't. A lot of straight guys in these small towns feel intimidated if a woman will rather the company of another woman over a man, and gay people in general are more of a rarity outside of cities. Especially when they're both as beautiful as the two of you. It makes them feel, less of a… man, as they're not used to things shifting the status quo."

I blushed a little as I thought about it. "I see. That's just sad, I think, but thanks..."

He shrugged. "It's just the way it is. It's worse with guys. They're ignorant enough, having not met a gay guy before that they'll think we want to butt-rape them or something."

Even Rosalie laughed at that. It wasn't really what he said but the nonchalance and seriousness in which he said it. Plus, his southern accent added to the humour. We couldn't help ourselves.

0oo00oo0

Ah, gym class already. Damn I used to enjoy this before I out(ed) myself. The looks most of the girls gave Alice and I in the changing room if we so much as glanced their way would terrify any normal girls. But when you're as strong as us they seem about as intimidating as newly hatched robins. But the amusing part was, the wander of their eyes; the slight catch of that curious gaze that we caught to amuse ourselves with.

At least Angela wasn't acting like a fool. She was my only human friend and I like her. Though I've been getting a little suspicious of her. She seems odd, even more so than me. However, to a normal person you wouldn't notice. She seems timid and genuinely kind. But I've noticed a hidden confidence. And she doesn't seem afraid of much, contrary to appearances. And I've also seen her giving the odd person a look that could freeze over lakes. Without being a kunoichi, I'm certain I would miss it. Ah well, so the girl had a dark streak. She only gave those looks to asses talking bad about me and Alice, so I'm not going to pry because she's being protective.

Gym was the same as it had been for the past few lessons with Edward, Alice and I as a team and the rest of the class complaining if they had to play against the dykes and the poof; not that they were sure in Edward's case. Well, the teacher didn't seem to give a rat's ass what they didn't want and told them to do it anyway.

So, another game with us trampling all competition. We had come to the silent agreement that we would never lose to anyone for their punishments we would humiliate them during every game. It seemed to amuse the coach. He had even asked all three of us to join one of the few school sporting teams. But we each let him down gently with the excuses that we wanted to get into good collages on educational merits rather than sports, as we each had academic interests that we preferred. Looking to our futures and all that garbage, so he understood.

My next and final class of the day was chemistry. Yahoo, my favourite class. Nah, only joking. I'm rubbish at it. I'm no good with chemistry whatsoever. Except when it's to do with me and Alice. Then I get an A plus. However, my lab partner may just be a genius at the subject. Plus, Angela doesn't scorn me so I'm content with this class very much so. How she can find the subject so interesting baffles me. But I suppose everybody has some weird interests, and she's rather comforting, and sweet.

0oo00oo0

Ah, finally schools out, and I'm on my way home. I just have to make myself and dad dinner, and then Alice would be over to hang out and have some fun in my room. Yay me. I'm so happy.

However, I frown in surprise as I see a small blue hatchback car up ahead pulled over to the side of the road with the hazard lights flashing, and the hood up. Hmm… that looks like Angela's car. I wondered what could have happened as I see steam issuing from it. So being the nice girl I am I pulled over in front of her. I looked back to see her staring in my direction in surprise.

I smile as I climb out of my car and approach her. She offers a sheepish smile as I look into her steaming engine. "I think it overheated," she commented. I just nodded in agreement wondering whether Rosalie would come have a look, but I didn't feel like we were anywhere near that stage in our relationship yet. "It's done it a few times before. I just need to let it cool down for a while."

"Um-huh," I agreed with a smile. "Well, I'll wait with you then. It's getting dark. I don't want to leave you all by yourself. It could be dangerous."

She smiled but shook her head. "No need Bella. I'll be perfectly fine."

I frown at that and shake my head stubbornly. "Nah-ah. I'm sticking around. The least I can do is keep you company until you can drive home."

She sighed with a tight smile. "But what would Alice think?" she asked jokingly.

I laughed and shrugged my shoulders. "Probably that I'm the sweetest person for sticking around."

"You know. You're probably right," she agreed with a laugh.

I was about to reply when we heard a rustling in the bushes nearby leading into the woods. We both looked over in surprise. I was surprised because it wasn't the wind and I couldn't sense any lifeforce, I could sense energy that gave me the creeps. I looked towards Angela to see worry etched on her face, and I took note that whatever was hiding was still there.

I tensed as the wind suddenly shifted and I could smell something rotting. It burnt at my nostrils and made me feel queasy. I looked over at Angela again and took note that even she could smell it. But what concerned me most was the scent coming from multiple sources. I grimaced. This was most certainly not good. What the hell could make such a foul smell, and have such a weird energy without a lifeforce?

"B-Bella. Run. Please run," Angela suddenly whispered these frightened words to me. I was startled and looked into her pleading eyes. "Hurry before they come out and attack. They want me not you."

"What wants you?" I asked, bewildered. "What the hells out there!" I demanded to know.

However, she never had the chance to answer me as two grey-skinned decaying, scared and bloodied men charged out of the woods, at quite impressive speeds. Their eyes were completely empty, and hisses issued from their cracked and busted lips. I moved faster than I ever had before, pulling Angela out of the way, she squealed in surprise. My right foot snapped up, cracking one's skull and sending him flying into a tree where he slumped to the ground.

The second one just carried on to attack, but I reached into my pocket belt and pulled out a small plastic kunai, though it was still very sharp, maybe I should get some metal ones made. However, pushing that aside I pulled Angela behind me and moved forward to attack. The corpse of a man lunged blindly, but I span around him my kunai sliced into his spinal cord before I pulled it back and he slumped to the ground unmoving.

However, the second one had recovered its bearings and climbed up from the ground. His face was now covered in congealed blood, and his right arm bent at an odd angle. His left leg had snapped and he was dragging it across the ground in his attempt to continue his assault. I rolled my eyes and swiftly threw my kunai. It sailed at speeds, slicing straight through the guys forehead and out of the back embedding in a tree.

I let out a sigh of relief as he toppled over, and turned to see Angela wide eyed. Well, I suppose that's understandable. "Angela. Why the hell are there freaking zombies after you?" I demanded, and I saw her gulp. "And who the hells controlling them?"

"Um, Bella," she replied though she didn't answer, just pointed shakily behind me. I groaned as my ears picked up more charging out. I jumped up flipping round my left foot connected, sending three more zombies flying out of my way. I glared at them, though I'm quite certain no matter how much spiritual energy I put into my killing intent, dead people won't feel it. But it makes me feel better anyway.

Another jumped at me from the left, but I span, increasing my strength and caught her by the throat without a second thought tearing her head off her body, letting her drop my right leg snapped out sending another miserable zombie away from me. I felt a small smirk line my lips as I charged forward, up I grabbed a guys shoulders and my left knee followed through smashing into his skull, crushing it under the force.

I flipped up hand standing on his shoulders for a moment as he fell. Then I tightened my grip before flipping over, taking him with me. I span in the air using the ex-zombie(fied) corpse as a club, smashing the others away before I threw him into some more that charged, knocking them away like skittle, which would have been funny under better circumstances.

This was freaking ridiculous. There was at least one hundred, maybe more. I smashed out with my right fist, then my left. Smashing into what remained of their noses, trying to smash bone threw their brains to put them out of commissions.

I growled in annoyance as I cupped my wrists together and thrust them into the chest of a zombie at full force. "Hadouken!" I yelled out as a huge explosion of blue energy engulfed the zombie, incinerating half of him and blowing apart maybe twenty or more behind. The blue blast tore a trail threw the ground as it dissipated. "Hadouken! Hadouken!" I cried out, firing two more blue balls of energy, shattering into more of the monsters, causing me to pant for breath, I growled as they were crowding me still, and jumped up and forward, legs in a perfect sideways splits.

"Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!" Wind screeched around me with the rotation as I span, blasting zombies back as I moved forward several metres at speed before landing with a sweeping kick to the legs of an undead, and punching down on its face, its skull caved in as it crashed down and I stood, having cleared out some space for me to breath for a moment.

My muscles tensed as I heard Angela's scream. I looked behind me, but all I could see was more zombies. I ground my teeth in frustration. I forgot about Angela. Therefore, I hopped up onto the head of a zombie and ran across them like stepping stones before slice kicking the zombie that had Angela in its grip. It went soaring away as I landed on the ground in a low stance.

"Hadouken" I called out, blasting back several out of the fight and knocking back dozens more with the force alone.

I looked back at Angela to see relief barely flicker in her eyes before fear returned ten-fold. I froze for a moment as I realised the zombies were backing off, and quickly stood up and spun around. I was confused as the zombies began parting as if to let something through.

It was then I could actually sense it. Something big. It came out of the trees at least fifteen feet tall with muscles that were not far off the size of tree trunks. Its dry scaly grey-silver skin, flecked with tufts of black hair. It had three huge horns on its head, one in the centre and one to each side, with large bone like blades on its arms, and wearing torn up black shorts. Its eyes were red with no whites glared at us in its fury. A cruel sneer worked it's way onto its muzzle like mouth showing off row upon row of shark like teeth.

"You have got to be fucking kidding!" I declared in annoyance. My breathing just barely under control I look back at Angela and she obviously tried to give a reassuring smile. However, it held nothing but fear. "What the hell did you do to piss this thing off?"

She never got the chance to answer as the monster charged at me. I guess I'm its top priority right now. I shot forwards removing a kunai to each hand. My blades clashed with his in a shockwave. I held my ground for maybe two seconds when he gained leverage and tossed me flying. I flipped round in the air and landed in a crouch on the trunk of a tree looking up at the beast. I didn't want to show it, but I was freaking terrified. Zombie-army, I can deal with, but I'm not Saya. I can't fight freaking huge ass daemons.

My eyes scanned all around me for a way for Angela and me to escape, but I saw no way passed that thing unless I fled alone, but I couldn't do that to my friend. I also took note that the zombies were active again, but I had no clue why. They were leaving both Angela and I to the daemon though, so that was okay.

The daemon watched me as my eyes returned to him. He seemed quite content on letting me catch my breath. He no doubt realised I had no choice but to fight, and was in no immediate hurry to finish me off. Damn, what the hell am I going to do? That guy is built like a freaking rock.

Alice

My family and I had just returned home from school, and it was quite a dark evening even for Forks. Emmett, Edward, Jasper, Rose and I had decided to go out for a quick snack. I had already fed that morning, but I had nothing to do until I see Bella later, and I was annoying myself with how fidgety I was being so decided to join them even if I'm not eating.

I was just leaning back against a tree watching Rose as she gracefully finished off a mountain lion when I saw her suddenly tense with a look of wonder and surprise on her face. I frowned as I took a sniff too and wrinkled my nose I disgust.

"I smell dead people!" I muttered to myself. I might have found the similarity of my sentence with the boy from the Sixth Sense amusing if it weren't for the fact, I could smell a lot of dead people. And I mean people who had been dead for years as well as slightly newer. Rose just looked at me and nodded, looking confused.

However, Emmett's booming laugh reached my ears as he and the boys appeared next to me. "Good use of movie reference!" he commented while laughing before Rose came over and slapped the back of his head. "Ouch. What was that for?" he asked while rubbing the back of his head.

"For being an idiot," she retorted glaring at him. "This is serious…" she trailed off as a huge explosion a few miles away rocked the ground. We looked in the direction it came from and if my heart still beat, it would have certainly stopped as I saw a huge blue flash of energy. In fact, I could even feel the air charge with static electricity.

"Bella!" I whispered and I was off before I even registered my feet moving. I barely took note of my family following behind me. I don't think I've ever ran so fast in all of my afterlife.

"I can smell we are nearing those dead people!" commented Edward as he ran beside me. He didn't even question why I was running towards the light, pun not intended, as we saw a few more flashes of blue light in the distance.

We quickly pulled to a stop by some trees, our eyes widening comically as they lay witness to over one hundred corpses up and about moving. However, that was nothing to the huge thing with red eyes staring daggers at my sweet adorable Bella as she stood on the trunk of a tree watching it carefully.

"A-are they what I think they are?" Rose suddenly asked snapping everyone out of their stupor. We all glanced at her as she gestured wildly at the horde of corpses, a look of 'what the…' adorning her features.

"Freaking awesome!" chuckled Emmett, amused. "We just ran into a zombie, ninja flick!" he laughed a little more until I growled and slapped the back of his head in annoyance. "Ow, would people stop hitting me?"

"That's my girlfriend over there, idiot," I growled out. "And you're making jokes while she faces off against some giant-sized monster?"

"Err, sorry," he replied sheepishly.

"Angela's here too," commented Jasper as he gestured towards the road. Yep, she was. I now realised why Bella was here as I saw two cars parked up beside the road. Angela's had the hood up so Bella probably stopped to help her out. But why would these things attack my girlfriend?

"What do we do?" asked Edward looking confused.

I didn't answer. I let my instincts guide me and shot forward tearing apart several zombies before they even realised, they were under attack. The creatures hissed as I viciously snarled and tore into more. It was a few more moments before the zombies tried to fight back, but they weren't anywhere near powerful enough to cause me any damage even if they were fast enough to touch me.

Soon I noticed Emmett had joined me, squishing a zombie as he landed on it with a huge grin on his face. Freaking moron was enjoying himself. And I notice Edward and Jasper a little way from us tearing into them too. Rose I took note was taking great care in not getting filthy as she strolled over not even bothering with taking care of the zombie infestation on her way.

"Alice, Emmett. This is seriously gross," she said wrinkling her nose in disgust. "Can't we just let the ninja handle it?" she suggested hopefully, but at my heated glare and hiss shock her hands in defence. "Okay-okay. It was only a suggestion," she continued and knocked a zombie flying into a tree. "See. I'm helping…" Both Emmett and I raised our eyebrows and pointed to the zombie she knocked down as it staggered back to its now damaged feet with its arms bent all out of place.

"Honestly Rose. Haven't you watched a zombie flick before? You have to destroy the brain, or shatter its spinal column," said Emmett in amusement as he crushed a zombie's neck and let it drop to the ground. "See. They don't get up after that."

Rose glared. "But that's disgusting," she said shaking her head. "I don't want dead people to spill on me. Why do you think I'm a vegetarian vampire?"

That should have been funny, but I was in no mood right now. I had to help my Bella before she gets hurt. Oh, and I suppose we'll help Angela out too. But right now, she's not in any immediate danger.

Bella

I glared fiercely at the monster, unsure of what to do yet when I sensed them rather than saw them. I realised what took the zombies attention. My sweet Alice had come to the rescue. That was nice of her, but now she was going to get killed too. No. Fuck that. I'm not letting any C-ranked freaking daemon hurt my Alice.

"Uhhh!" I roared out through my teeth clenching my fists. I exploded from the tree shattering the bark and ripping the tree apart in a spray of wood chips as I flew forward at my target. A blue-white aura rippled around me. He held a smug and egger look on his face as I neared. However, that turned into confusion when I faded out.

Cupping my hands, wrists together, the blue aura pulled round with a roar of energy, pouring between my hands, and forming into a ball as I appeared the other side of him and he turned just as the last of the aura poured into my attack, I pushed forward.

"HADOUKEN!" I roared and thrust forward, and my energy smashed into the monster moments later, and it screamed in a roar of fire and sound, and smoke, as the creature was lifted from the ground and send hurtling several metres back before crashing to the ground with a loud thud, still smoking with a gaping hole in his stomach gushing grey blood.

Alice

I had watched in mesmerized shock as my Bella had torn the tree apart when she flew in at her opponent. That turned into awe as she just swished away. However, when she reappeared with all that energy pooling into her hands, my mouth hung open. There was no level of shock or awe to describe how I felt seeing that storm of pure power coiling into that attack like something from a game or film, and that final smirk, she offered me with a wink while sweaty and breathing heavily made me weak in the knees with want and need.

"Holy shit!" whistled Emmett in awe as the creature was choaking up blood and struggling to breathe or move while whimpering and growling

Bella sighed in relief. She looked us all over, and smiled. My family had just finished off the last of the zombies, and I smiled back as she began walking towards us, to let the creature die, as she looked so tied. However, our relief turned into horror, as we hadn't noticed the enraged monster had somehow returned to its feet and charge at Bella, even as pieces fell from its body and grey blood poured from it.

Bella spun around, eyes widening in shock.

"BIND!" A panicked and fearful girl yelled out.

Our eyes widened further as the creature stopped, and as if by some invisible force, its arms and legs snapped together. It struggled and squirmed, but it was no use it couldn't get free, and it looked like it wouldn't last much longer.

There by the road stood Angela Webber her thumb tips touching and her hands out stretched, palms out. A brilliant golden pentagram was glowing brightly around her feet, in a complex pattern. The light beamed up from the circle making her glow a little and wind blew at her hair and skirt. It was a pretty awesome sight and if I hadn't already seen some fucked-up shit already tonight, vampire or not I might have fainted.

Angela was panting heavily and looked a little banged up. However, I'm one hundred percent sure; she was holding the beast down. I looked at Bella to see she also watched Angela in shock. But that was short lived before a smirk lined her lips. The one that makes me want to jump her and trail my tongue over every reachable area of flesh on and in her body it could reach.

Bella grit her teeth in anger and moved, faster than before, and then she was within the light of the bind, crouched with her right fist clenched, she pushed up and span with the flow of air to her left. It was like she was drilling through the space above her as she reached for the stars.

"Shoryuken!" echoed from her as it was like power flowed through the wind, and her fist connected with the monsters face, and I winced as I heard the cracking of bones, and worried my Bella had hurt herself for a second when I watched in awe as the monsters skull split and cracked and shattered as Bella continued up and around, continuing up, smashing skull and horns, the best lost life in its eyes as they burst out as its head was smashed in half and brain burst up.

Bella stopped her upwards momentum, and with grace beyond a mere mortal, landed feather light facing away from the demon, as it collapsed one-hundred per cent dead. Bella looked drained, and ill, as she took a few shaky steps towards me.

I mildly took note that Angela had dropped down and passed out, the pentagram gone. But Bella was my only priority right then, as I moved to her. I wrapped my arms protectively around her and she looked at me smiling tiredly. She only had a few scrapes and bruises luckily, but looked like she would need days to recover her strength, and she was dehydrated from her cracked lips, and that was wasn't sweating anymore.

"I-I was so freaking scared, Alice!" she whispered as a few stray tears formed in her eyes, all the moisture she could manage. "B-but I found a magician!" she let out a smile laugh.

"Yeah. I see," I agreed looking over to see Edward was with Angela before back to Bella. "Well, don't worry. We'll get Carlisle to check you both over. But no more fighting monsters all by yourself."

She chuckled, learning up and we lightly kissed for a moment before she passed out contently in my arms. It made my heart soar with happiness that she felt so safe with me.

I smiled as I picked her up and waited for Edward to reach me with Angela carried in his arms. Jasper was keeping his distance, and Rose was glaring at my Bella as if it was her fault, we had to fight a horde of zombies. It was more likely Angela's fault, since Bella hadn't long been in Forks.

"I'll take Bella's car," Rosalie suddenly said, rummaging in Bella's pocket, ignoring my glare she took the car remote. "Jasper. Emmett. You get rid of this mess, and try to get Angela's car started or push it or something, as that is beneath me, but I may think about being nice enough to fix it once home!" she finished with a smirk as she walked off towards the road.

Edward and I shrugged as we shot off home. Though, the last thing we heard was Emmett complaining about cleaning up. But it had to be done to keep the humans ignorant. There would be mass panic if they realised monsters really did exist.

To Be Continued…