Huntress (Carlisle Cullen)

Chapter Three

"Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting." 

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

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"You got a scent at all?" I asked Sam through the phone as I stand with my family waiting for her, Alice trying to find her, her eyes glazed over, intently watching something in her mind. The woods are all mist and shadows –a stark contrast to yesterday.

"No we've got nothing," Sam said. "I'm going too shift and run around with the others now, I'll howl if we find her," Sam states.

"Okay, thank you," I said and hung up. "They haven't found her I said as I walk over and stand next to Carlisle.

"You sure this is where you saw her?" Jasper asked, all of us becoming jittery.

"She's almost here." Alice states and then spins towards Emmet. "On your left." She says and Emmett explodes to his left, Rosalie right behind him. Jasper and Carlisle go wide, looking to cut Victoria off, Esme, myself and Alice following up the rear.

"Wait. She's in their territory." I hear Carlisle call out. I curse under my breathe before jumping over and chasing her. I pull my Colt Paterson 1836 ball and cap gun modified to fire metallic cartridges, into the air and shoot, the echo hopefully ringing in the shifters ears. "Kara! Be careful!" I hear Carlisle shout.

"I will!" I growl as I almost catch up to her. I turn as I see three giant wolves leap out from behind me and take up the chase after Victoria. The leader is black, enormous, Sam. I see a parallel chase ensues, the wolves and the Cullen's, my family keeping to their sides of the ravine, I see Victoria leaps back over.

"All ours now." I hear from Emmett as I groan and change back over keeping up to speed with the family and wolves. Our family begin to close in. Emmett grabs hold of her shoulders and hair. They roll head over keester – Victoria uses the momentum to her advantage and flings Emmett off and over her into a tree. She takes the split second he's down to leap back over to wolf-land and keeps running.

"Emmett don't!" I shout as he flies over the ravine-the second his feet hit the other side Paul turns to face him. "Keep going after her I'll get Emmett!" I order and they nod, Rosalie scared, but goes with the family.

There's a moment of standoff. It would be simple enough for Emmett to defuse the situation by jumping back-but that's not his style. Paul growls with bravado. That just makes Emmett smile. Paul and Emmett charge each other. And bam! They roll in dozens yards in the dirt. I growl and jump over. I grab Emmett and fling him back to the other side as Paul jumps onto me and bites hard on my arm, I hold my scream back and I squint my eyes, before grabbing my dagger and stabbing Paul in the paw.

Paul lets me go and howls in pain. "Mum!" Emmett shouts before grabbing me and taking me back to our side. I groan and moan as the bite stings. "Carlisle!" Emmett shouts, as he starts wrapping his jacket around my arm, trying to control the bleeding. I flinch in pain as moans begin to leave my mouth.

"Fuck!" I shout as I feel lightheaded, my body now beginning to feel hot, the sweat dripping down my face. I felt my eyes widen in fright, what was going on, their bite can't be doing this to me. Their bite doesn't have poison in their system. Unless. "Nik!" I shout, feeling a sort of high now, my eyes looking around the woods.

'Sorella!'

'Sorella!'

"Wake up!"

*Niklaus's POV*

"Klaus!?" I hear the shocked boy as I speed to be right with my little sister.

"What happened?" I growled, pulling her body to me, her body was boiling. Her eyes flicking around.

"I got mad, and I jumped across the ravine and I went over the border that separates us and the shifters, I got in a fight with one and she chucked me over before the shifter could get me and he bit her," the boy gasped out, his body shaking with regret. I growled, angered.

"Sorella! Can you hear me!?" I yelled holding her shoulders as she shook. "Fuck!" I growled as she never responded just shook, withered and boiled. I couldn't handle this I couldn't let her die. "Where is Carlisle?" I asked.

"I called him, and I can hear him coming," the boy answered, as I also heard the family coming here.

"She doesn't have time; she's going to die again!" I growled. My eyes welling up, tears starting to fall.

"Come on, Sorella!" I whispered leaning over her and whispering in her ear.

"Help me, Nik," I hear her, voice light and disappearing quickly. "Help."

"I will Sorella, I will," I whispered, picking her up, her body leaning on mine. Her head hanging, I bit into my wrist and propped her head on my shoulder and shoving my wrist to her lips. My blood beginning to slip down her throat. "Drink it Sorella, please" I pleaded. Slowly she started drinking her wound not healing, but that'll change when I finish the process. "I won't let you go."

I took my wrist away and waited for Carlisle to approach. "You have two minutes, let her go or you let me change her, now," I growl as I see her mate standing there, the family behind him. "Make your choice now!" I growled. 

"I'm not losing her, I won't let her go," he said as he stared at me, no tears. 

"Welcome to my hell, Karlene, welcome to the hell our mother casted on us, but don't worry sorella. I will be with you the whole way," I whispered, before snapping her neck, Karlene now dead... but still here.