"Surprised? Don't be. I caught up with your two accomplices because they took the long way. I know a shortcut and caught them just before they escaped with little Bella here," he said as he stroked Bella's cheek.
Bella flinched away from his touch and I looked at her for the first time in over five months.
Bella's appearance had changed drastically.
Her hair had become stringy and her face was gaunt. She had on the clothes I had last seen her with and it was apparent that she was just doused with water until she no longer smelled. Her eyes were dull but there was something that worried me more.
Through the rips of her clothes and every visible part of her body, there were bite marks everywhere. The bites were big ones, little ones, and even ones that looked like they ripped her skin off. The worst part is that they were all criss-crossing each other and they made Jasper look as if he endured nothing.
Bella made eye contact with me and as I stared into her glazed brown eyes. For just an instant, I thought they had showed a fierce determination and I could have sworn I heard her sweet voice say trust me, but when I looked at her again, she remained the same as we had found her.
"You monster!" Trina yelled as she struggle against Moz holding her back.
"You wouldn't want to threaten me while I'm holding your friends captive," James teased as he held a knife against Bella's throat. Bella moved her head upward but her expression remained the same.
"What do you want James?" I asked him angrily. He moved directly behind Bella's chair and pushed her into the dark. We heard a gurgle and a crash as her chair landed out of sight.
"Ah, ah, ah," James stopped us before we moved toward where Bella was. "Move and I'll set you all on fire."
"What do you want?" Jasper growled as he moved in front of Alice.
"I want the mind reader and the future teller. I have no use for the emo," James said as he waved a dismissive hand at Jasper. Jasper growled but James silenced him by pointing the flame thrower at his face.
Emo? Jasper thought angrily. I shook my head at him to reassure him and he decided to shake off the comment.
"What use do you have for them?" Rosalie asked. She was trying to dismiss our powers but James knew better.
"Well, I'm trying to create a new mate since you all burned the last one to ashes."
"That's all you want? A mate? Why did you kidnap Bella then?" I asked him.
"Well I wanted her as a mate but she's 'in love' with you," he said annoyed.
"Smart girl," Moz said.
"I'm also going to procure the largest treasure the world knows and I need their help to help me pull it off. After all the stealing and the money acquired, I'm going to do something no other vampire has tried to do: overthrow the Poultry," James said with a devious smile.
We all glanced at each other.
"Ah, so you don't like them as much as I thought you did. That will make them easier to destroy," James said pleased.
"What have chickens ever done to you? I mean, I get that they don't taste good to you guys but us humans still enjoy their taste," Moz said confusedly. We were all wondering the same thing.
"What? No! The Poultry! You know the feared adversaries to all vampires?" James said in frustration. That's when what he said registered to everyone.
"Do you mean The Volturi?" I asked James. He huffed in exasperation and rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, whatever. The Volturi will be overthrown and I will be king!" James said as he stood in a pose.
"The Volturi are royalty for a reason," Jasper told James.
"And what reason do they have besides being older than everyone?" James asked us bored.
"They have vampires with special skills that can make whatever we do look like simple tricks," Alice told him.
"Well I'm not going to be bested by anyone, especially by those raisins," James said as he waved a hand in the air. At that point, we realized that he had absentmindedly put the flame thrower down, making him unprotected.
Alice was the first to strike, jumping so fast that James didn't have time to react properly. Alice wrapped her tiny body at the top half of James, trying to remove his head as Rosalie knocked the flamethrower to the other side of the room, causing it to clink on the far wall.
Moz and Trina both took it upon themselves to help Alice by grabbing onto James but he swatted Trina away and tore at Moz's hand with his mouth.
Trina hit the far wall with a sickening crunch and Moz collapsed onto the floor in a bloody mess.
Jasper was about to intervene when we heard a sick "Crunch" coming from James and Alice. Alice froze, causing everyone else to freeze as well.
Alice dropped to the floor to reveal James in a frozen pose. His head slid forward and dropped onto the floor with a thump. His torso collapsed and Bella stood behind him with a knife in her hands. Tuna and Fish were also holding a chunk of legs from James as they stood next to Bella.
"That's for being a pompous ass," she snarled and she collapsed as well.
BPOV
I heard screaming and frantic voices as I laid on the floor. I had endured so much crap that all I wanted was some sleep.
I knew I was safe since I had seen Edward's face. Everything would be all right as long as he was there.
When I heard Emmett's voice, I almost cried from happiness. It broke my heart when they saw me sitting on the chair as I had been for the past few weeks. I had lost track of time and it felt like I hadn't seen their faces in over a year.
They weren't supposed to be here but I couldn't care less.
The biggest highlight was seeing Edward's gorgeous face. How I had longed for him to show up. For every whip that I was hit with, every bite that I endured, every time the venom coursed through me, I focused on Edward's angelic face and took everything in silence.
Screaming didn't do any good so after a while, I stopped.
I always gave them a grim smile when it was time for the hourly questioning and it creeped them out every time.
When they told me they were going to go play baseball with and Eric and Rosalie, I couldn't help but hope that it was them.
Esme and Carlisle had just about found me and were working on untying the ropes until James showed up and demonstrated how his device worked on a nearby chair.
He tied them up with the ropes I had invented with vampire venom and gagged them as well.
When James threw me aside, the metal chair they had dragged me in through all the hideouts broke and I gave a grunt of pain to remove my bound hands from behind my back.
I quickly got to work on untying my hands and procured the knife I had stolen from Esme's pocket. I had heard the commotion that had happened after the lengthy monologue James gave when I decided to sneak up on him. Tuna and Fish had managed to sneak in as well and were moving silently beside me.
I had given Tuna and Fish some hardening tooth protectors so they could help me out because I knew I was too weak to do it myself.
I got up just in time to see Trina's body collapse from the impact of her hitting the wall and Moz endure an agonizing vampire bite that tore at his flesh. I had received a couple of ripped skin bites from the three vampires during my hostage time and I knew how painful it was.
I saw Alice struggling to hold on but I knew she wouldn't last much longer. James had hit her with a stun gun type of gadget but my girls tore through his legs with a sickening crunch. I took that opportunity to slice his head off at the exact same moment. When they both collapsed, I couldn't hold on anymore and fell as well.
