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It was tomorrow morning, the sunlight was filtered through the dark heavy clouds of Forks, the roads were starting to see cars moving around as people headed to their own workplaces, or to their school.
Driving towards Fork's Highschool inside a silver volvo, were the Cullen family, Alice Cullen, Emmet Cullen, Jasper Hale and Rosalie Hale.
The Cullens usually took two cars, a red jeep as well as the volvo however since Edward wasn't around, they didn't see the need to.
Inside the car, Alice was practically jumping on her seat, unable to hide her excitement for the day, meanwhile Jasper who was seated next to her on the car's backseats, looked like he was so very close to having a full blown migraine.
"Alice… can you calm down?" He asked softly with that southern drawl to his voice as he turned his head slightly towards her.
"Oh, right. Sorry Jazz, It's just that I'm totally going to make him spend more time with me today and then I'm gonna make him go shopping with me after school and maybe even like go to…" Alice said as she started practically rambling her mouth of at the hundreds of ideas that she had about her day, causing Jasper to raise his hand up, his palm facing her.
"Stop… we get it, I shouldn't have even said anything." Jasper muttered softly as he released a sigh and turned his head to gaze out of the window.
"It's weird though, I had this really bad premotion last night, it's why im a bit frantic right now. I didn't see any visions… but it's just a bad feeling. I'm sure its nothing." Alice muttered under her breath as her excitement slowly dwindled as she turned her own head to gaze out of the window on her side of the car.
"Bad premotion? You? That… let's just hope it's nothing." Jasper replied softly, he and the other two had heard Alice speak clearly even though her voice had been barely a murmur under her breath.
Around twenty minutes later, the four of them arrived before the parking lot as Emmet drove the car inside and parked it at their usual spot before turning the engine off as the four of them got out of the car.
Bella Swan seemed to have arrived before they had, as she could be seen standing by her orange truck on the other side of the highschool parking lot.
"That's Bella right? Edward's blood singer, she's early today." Emmet muttered as he gazed towards her, he wasn't one to usually care about anyone besides his own family and so he hadn't really bothered to even learn much about the girl, and Edward himself hadn't said much before he had decided to simply head to Alaska at the denali to deal with his own bloody urges.
This was the complete opposite of Alice who had rambled her mouth off so much that every single Cullen, Carlisle and Esme included already knew even the smell of Alan's hair, his exact eye colour, how apparently his voice was sent by the heavens themselves just for Alice and a lot more frankly quite useless information that they had been forced to hear because Alice couldn't simply shut her mouth for a single second.
"He's a bit late isn't he?" Alice muttered softly to herself as she looked around and yet she couldn't see Alan anywhere.
"Maybe he just overslept? You worry too much." Emmet said as he stretched his arms behind his back, making his already large figure look even more gigantic.
"I… don't know, maybe? I mean he did miss first class like two times just this past week. I'll stay here." Alice said in turn as she turned her gaze towards the entrance of the parking lot where the students who came on foot would enter from.
"You're seriously going to skip for a human?" Rosalie finally spoke up, her tone cold as ice as she narrowed her eyes towards Alice, her gaze seeming to almost pierce into her.
"Yes, I am. It's not like we are actually learning anything are we?" Alice replied instantly.
The two step sisters had been fighting and making comments about eachother ever since the day when Carlisle had given Alice the go about Alan, Rosalie didn't particularly hate Alan, she simply hated the fact that a human was getting involved into matters that they had no place in. Alice knew this, she knew that Rosalie hated her own existence and that Rosalie wished no one else had to ever suffer the same fate as she had.
Alice however had no such problems, to her, her existence as a vampire, as a cold one, was natural, as someone who didn't have the memories of her human self, being a 'Cold One' was simply her base state, her 'normal.' And so she didn't see the reason as to why Rosalie was so against her getting Alan entangled with their world.
Minutes passed and soon enough the bell signaling the start of the classes rang, as Jasper and Emmet gave Alice a nod of understanding before turning to head towards the front entrance of the highschool whilst Rosalie remained behind for a bit longer.
"Alice… you're making a mistake, you're going to put all of us in danger, all of us. Is a human… even if he's really special to you… worth losing the entire family? The Volturi always thought of us as a thorn to their side, they just need a single excuse…" Rosalie muttered softly towards Alice, her voice calmer and softer than the previous icy tone that she had used all week.
"I know… I know Rosalie, but to me… he's already the one for me, It's already been decided before I ever even met him. He… already holds the same importance as the rest of us." Alice replied, her own tone softer than before, as she tried to explain just what she felt, hoping for at least a little understanding from Rosalie.
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Soon after, Rosalie similarly walked away from her after exchanging another look before walking away towards the front doors of the Forks Highschool.
Alice remained alone as she watched the front gates of the highschool, waiting there, waiting for the one person who had been able to somehow bring colour into her world without even trying. Waiting for the one that had completely filled her thoughts over the past few days.
Minutes passed into an hour, the sky darkening further as the clouds rumbled overhead, light drops of rain starting to hit the pavement and yet Alan Walker was nowhere to be seen.
'Please… please.' Alice thought to herself as her desperation slowly started to show, her usually amber eyes having already darkened into a pitch black colour, leaving her eyes almost pupiless as the colours reached almost the same pitch black darkness, both the iris and the pupil inside the eyes.
More time passed and the rain started increasing in intesinity to a full blown downpour as Alice stood there, in the parking lot, she was entirely drenched in water by this point and yet she refused to move even a single inch.
Her body already cold, somehow becoming even colder, meanwhile her eyes that before had slightly showed her desperation, were now almost fully wide, it was like an animal that was on full alert, and yet the alert it was waiting for, wasn't coming.
'I… I can't take this anymore.' Alice thought as she turned and in an instant, her body became a blur as she vanished from the parking lot.
She knew that she shouldn't do this, she knew that it was likely that Alan was simply skipping school, that maybe he had simply overslept more than usual, she knew that she shouldn't head to someones house just for them being late an hour and a half and yet she couldn't stop herself.
Every instinct of hers was telling her, screaming at her that something wasn't quite right.
It didn't take her long, in fact it merely took two minutes to reach Alan's apartment, what took Alan almost half an hour, merely took her a few minutes, the speed was blinding, it was a level at which regular people and even most supernatural creatures could never hope to achieve.
She finally stopped as she arrived to stand before the apartment building and looked upwards, without hesitating even a second longer, she jumped as she quickly started climbing up the side of the building easily until she reached Alan's apartment floor and peered inside through the window.
Everything… looked normal, too normal. There was nothing wrong, the bed was made and no one was inside, the front door was also locked and the key wasn't inside, so it was clear that Alan had either left or hadn't come home, but everything was pointing that he had already left, and she currently didn't have anything to go off of that would make her believe otherwise.
'Was I over-reacting? Maybe he just went somewhere with those kids… damned, and I told him that he shouldn't go and do drugs… haah… I'll have to get Carlisle to get Charlie or someone and imprison them, I can't have them corrupting MY mate.' Alice thought to herself as she almost released a feral growl at the mere thought of someone else stealing 'her' time with Alan before she shook her head to clear her thoughts for a slight moment and then she jumped down towards the ground, from a multiple story high positon and onto the ground.
And yet she didn't make a single noise once she landed onto the ground, as if she was lighter than a feather, before she turned around and vanished in another blur of speed.
Meanwhile, inside of Alan's apartment… the scene that could be seen from outside the window abruptly changed as the clean apartment… vanished into one that looked almost completely ransacked and ran through.
The three corpses of Jeannie, Adrian and John could be seen on the floor, the smell of rot already permeating the air, meanwhile the black haired, blue eyed, beautiful man was sitting on Alan's bed, his gaze directed towards the window as a soft smile slowly appeared on his face.
"Alan… oh Alan, you just keep getting more and more fascinating, A vampire mate… how… utterly beautiful. It just makes me want you… so much more." The man muttered in that soft posh voice to himself before releasing a soft chuckle and closing his eyes and taking a deep breath of air.
"Aahh~... the smell, it's getting quite nice. A bit more and it'll be simply excuqisite… I wonder If you'll appreciate my… welcome home gift. Alan Walker." The man muttered to himself as the smile slowly started widening.
Hours kept passing, the downpour of rain stopping a few hours later, the sun having already reached its peak although as always it was completely hidden from sight by the dense clouds that were as always present on Fork's skyline.
Alice had gone back to the highschool and started attending her classes… and yet even as the second portion of classes started after the lunch period, even after the sun started to slowly descend, Alan… didn't arrive at all.
'That… I'll have to teach him a good lessson…. If only he wasn't so easily manipulated by pieces of…' Alice thought to herself obliviously whilst she was in her Art class, her hand holding the pencil so tightly that cracks had spread all over it, and yet she didn't notice at all.
*Crack* *Bang*
The pencil finally cracked enough that it exploded in her hand, sending small splinters and small chunks of wood flying, and yet she still… didn't even lift her head, whilst her classmates that were seated at desks closeby to hers turned their heads and looked at her with pure shock and confusion.
Alice was known to be… quite a weirdo if anyone had anything to say about her, but she wasn't known to be aggressive or an angry person at all, the current her left everyone befuddled, it was a sight none of them had ever seen on the pixie woman.
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Hours continued to pass, the moon rising up into the sky and then slowly falling back down again, It was now friday, and yet Alan Walker was nowhere to be seen. The man however waited, he waited patiently, having not once even moved away from his spot on the bed, that same smile ever present on his face as he simply gazed at the window out of the apartment room… and waited.
Alice meanwhile had already gone back to the Cullen mansion, and as the next came came, she once more arrived at the Fork's highschool early in the morning, and then she waited… once more, she waited by the parking lot, the first class hour passing, the second and third quickly following and yet she refused to move from her position at the front of the parking lot.
Waiting for that familiar figure to walk through the front gates of the school… and yet it never came.
Finally, lunch period arrived, and Rosalie Hale, Jasper Hale and Emmet Cullen, walked towards her.
"Alice… you should go home, we'll help you find him later, even get Carlisle to check and maybe file a police report if no one has seen him. I asked around, and no one's seen the three that he hung around with either." Jasper Hale said softly with that southern voice as he softly placed a palm on her shoulder, he was using his gift to the maximum of his capabilities and yet he could barely hold her back.
He could sense it, Alice… Alice was really close to practically going feral. It was an emotional range that he had never seen from the woman, something he couldn't even believe until now that she was capable of feeling.
Alice didn't turn her head, her gaze still fixed onto the road outside the school parking lot, her body stiff as rock and cold as ice.
"Alice… You can't be here with how you are at the moment… you could put humans at danger." Rosalie said softly as she walked closer to her, even she, who would have usually been glad that Alan wasn't coming around, knew that she couldn't push, not when her sister looked ready enough to rip someone apart with her bare hands, and the fact that she could actually do it, didn't help the matter at hand at all.
Finally, at her voice, Alice's eyes narrowed slightly before she nodded and started walking towards the road and out of the school grounds, she didn't vanish in a blur of speed, she didn't take the car, she simply walked out, at normal human speeds.
The three others were left there standing watching her walk away, knowing that they had to find a solution, before Alice decided to take matters truly into her own hands, and that could cause potentially catastrophic outcomes. None of them knew what an enraged and utterly feral Alice would be capable of, and none of them wanted to find out or let the matter get that far.
"Call Carlisle, right now." Emmet muttered under his breath as he turned towards the other two.
Jasper nodded in an instant as he took his phone out of his pocket and brought it to his ear.
*Ring* * Ring* * Ring*
The phone rang three times before Carlisle picked it up, he was in his office at the Forks Hospital, checking over some medical documents when he had recieved the call.
"Alice, she's not well. Her 'mate' Alan Walker hasn't been to school yesterday or today, and neither have his friends." Jasper said simply, he didn't need to explain anything further than that, Carlisle would understand the gravity of the matter instantly, they weren't ones to usually call each other unless it was an extreme circumstance, and currently… it seemed like one.
Meanwhile inside a completely different dimension, a certain boy could be seen sitting on a large rock inside what appeared to be some kind of cave, he was almost entirely covered in leather gear, besides his head, on which he had a pair of black nightvision goggles and a gas mask.
He seemed to be staring at the air infront of him, if someone was able to see his eyes inside the night vision goggles they would notice them swervering side to side… as if he was reading something on the air itself.
All around him, the cavernous area was covered in what looked like yellow and purple viscous slimy liquid that was splattered all over the floor and walls.
'Finally… not much time left now… just a bit more.' Alan thought to himself as he read a certain line in his status menu, his expression under the gas mask slowly changing into a wide almost unhinged grin of pure excitement.
[ Status Menu ]
[ Name: Alan Walker. ]
[ Age: 18 ]
[ Race: 88% Human, 12% Elf ]
[ Level: 28 ]
'I hope… that this is enough… I could go all the way to fifty… but with this much, with atleast level thirty… I should be able to survive an encounter long enough that… I'll be able to atleast get back inside the dungeon. Otherwise… if the gap is truly that large… twenty more levels… won't really effect it much, and the truth is… that I'll have to leave this dungeon if I want to join the next one whenever its unlocked.' Alan thought to himself as he released a soft sigh, his excitement dampening slightly as he rose up from his seated position and gazed at the splatters of the remains of the slimes that he had killed which were quickly disintegrating into small motes of light and floating up into the air and vanishing out of existence.
'These guys… were quite annoying to fight.' Alan thought as he remembered the battles that he had done for the past few days inside of the dungeon. Just as he had suspected, every five levels, he could go and enter a different alley without it being too dangerous, and every alley either had a larger number of the same type of slimes as the alley before it, or it had a smaller quantity of slimes but a stronger more mutated version.
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Walking out of a dark alley and back onto the main tokyo street, Alan looked around before releasing a soft sigh of pure exhaustion as he started heading down the street.
'Groups of red slimes, a minimum of five of them each time, and not all of them were hibernating… not hard… just had to be on guard constantly… damned, I really wish that I could sleep.' Alan thought to himself as he walked further down the street.
Ever since entering the system dungeon, he hadn't slept a single time and he was quite sure that it had been over twenty four hours already and yet he was still stuck in here, still fighting constantly to the point where he felt like he was some kind of low wage slave inside of a black company in a third world country.
'No… they likely sleep atleast a little bit just so they can survive… fuck… I can't complain, can't complain… I already complain a lot… god damn it, I have a reason to complain.' Alan thought to himself as he released a long tired sigh and kept walking until he finally arrived to stand before another alley.
This was the supposed… level twenty alley, or atleast he thought it was, he still wasn't sure that his information and theory about the alley's was completely correct however considering the past four alley's had followed the same logic, he assumed that It wouldn't change.
'Just a new slime… it's just a new slime that likely has different attributes and is also much more annoying to fight… can't they atleast be something…. Nope, yeah let's just always stick to slimes, I'll take slimes over zombies or dragons or whatever the fuck else.' Alan though as he entered the alley, his hand frimly gripping the spear at his side as he walked further and further into the darkness.
Just like in the other alleys, he quickly noticed that the rate of deterioration had increased multiple fold, it didn't even take more than a few meters for the entire walls to start getting cracked and have moss all over them, as if the buildings had stood there for hundreds of years already.
Walking further and further inside, the scenery changing quickly from an urban back alley into what could only be called a small passage through two broken stone walls that were utterly covered in all kinds of plants that he didn't recognise at all and had never seen in person in the real world.
'A yellow… flower?' He thought as he turned his head slightly and gazed at the yellow almost shining flower next to him, located slightly above his head on the left wall.
It looked like some kind of rose or at least a variation of it.
Alan lifted his hand slowly towards the flower before stopping as he brought his hand back down to his side.
'Yeah… that's how every dumb protagonist dies in a horror movie, it's a damn flower that's shining and I was just about to touch it. Intelligence ten my ass.' He thought before using his observation skill.
[ Observation Skill has been activated ]
[ Analysis of the target in progress. ]
[ Analysis Complete. ]
[ Name: Screaming Yellow Rose. ]
[ Age: 132 Years and 3 Months Old. ]
[ Description: It is said these flowers once crowned wedding ceremonies, symbols of union and joy. But after a nameless catastrophe, an untold time ago, something changed, something seeped into their petals and their roots, changing them. They drank in the souls of the newlyweds, binding them within them. Now, at intervals no one can predict and caused by sometimes a mere touch, the flowers tremble and release the muffled, agonized screams of those condemned to remain trapped inside them forever. ]
*Gulp*
'Aaanndd… yeah, I am not touchin the creepy flowers.' Alan thought almost instantly as soon as he read the description that the system had given them.
'Though… I wonder just what that catastrophe was? What happened that caused these flowers to mutate… is it just a vague description about them, something more like a myth, that doesn't actually mean anything or are there really any souls inside them. And the description is written as if this is a myth or a legend… and in that case, who created it? What group of people believed in these stories and myths?' He thought as he pondered and yet he couldn't come up with any kind of explanation and as such, he shook his head, clearing his thoughts once more as he tried to remain as vigilant as possible.
Turning his head forwards once more, he continued walking down the alley, the amount of flowers slowly but surely increasing every couple of meters as he went inside deeper and deeper.
And that's when he saw it, or rather he heard it before he saw it.
A shining yellow slime that was stuck on the wall further down the alley, on the right side of the wall, currently attempting to digest one of the special shining flowers inside of its stomach.
That wasn't the only thing however, it seemed the flowers were as said in the description, screaming, the muffled screaming sounds coming out of them even as they were being digested inside the slime's body were loud and shrill, and utterly impossibly horrid, it was as if a human was being tortured right before him, as if someone was taking a peeler and skinning a humans skin off, atleast that's what Alan thought, he had never once in his life heard any screams that sounded as agonising and terrifyingly horrid as the one he was currently hearing.
Raising his one free arm that wasn't holding the spear, he brought it to his ear, as he felt a small headache already forming simply from the screaming that was occurring infront of him.
Thankfully, it didn't seem to last long as the flower was fully digested by the shining yellow slime and the harrowing screams came to an end.
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