The drive to Port Angeles didn't take long, it was only a 40-minute drive with Alice behind the wheel.
Arriving at the town, Arthur looked around, noticing that the city was indeed much more populated and developed.
"Did you check if there was any sunlight out today or tomorrow here?" Arthur asked Alice as she parked the Porsche near a parking lot at the center plaza of the city.
"Yes, the forecast didn't show anything, and something like that I could predict as well," Alice replied, her tone was serious, she clearly wasn't in a mood.
"Right, Alright then, you check the edges of the city as well as the west and north whilst I'll check around the East and South sides," Arthur replied with a quick nod as he opened the car door and headed outside, walking at a fast pace but not running, his job was to find the two, not to actually interact with Bella or Edward.
'That's a death wish. Edward will obviously protect his mate over me. If this goes badly, he could even end up killing me, though I should be able to at least avoid him and get to a populated area before he does after which I should be safe. Even he knows well enough to not attack me anywhere near humans or cameras.' Arthur thought to himself, as he did he kept doing it at an impossible rate for regular humans so as for Edward to not be able to hear these thoughts and for him to find his location.
'Even then, he usually blocks out most of the thoughts from his mind so that he doesn't get overwhelmed by them but at this point, he's in a fight or flight state, he's likely concentrating on all of them at the same time even at the cost of stamina.' Arthur thought as he kept looking around, his eyes moving at quick speeds as he scanned the faces of all the people near him.
What he was doing was quite costly on his mental however it had to be done but even that wasn't just what he was doing.
Walking to the middle of the plaza, he sat down on a nearby bench and closed his eyes.
Concentrating entirely on his sense of smell, it quickly got enhanced to beyond superhuman levels.
'Vampires have an easy smell to differentiate, it's close to corpses and the smell of blood is always on their bodies. What I need to do now is to differentiate the vampires. There are two different conditions that I need to apply but the main one is that I need to differentiate between Animal and Human blood. If I mistakenly follow a vampire and they have human blood on them, that's not the Cullens, that's a straight death wish. Thankfully Animal blood and Human blood can be differentiated with smell at least when I concentrate. And next, I need to ignore any smells from the West and North as well as those too far away.' Arthur thought quickly as he focused even more.
'Nothing… wait… there... On the far south almost at the edge of the city.' Arthur thought as he turned his head towards the south, the smell in his mind felt like a trail that led in that direction, it was as if a blazing red path was opened inside his mind leading him straight towards the target.
'I can't really tell if there is a human near there or more specifically Bella however at this point I have to simply go for it.' Arthur thought as he released a soft sigh and opened his eyes, they were shining blue almost eerily as he got up and started walking in that direction whilst at the same time he grabbed his old phone that Alice had bought for him.
"Alice, I might have found a vampire, I think it's Edward however I'm not one hundred percent sure," Arthur spoke into the phone as soon as the call was picked up.
"I've just got called by Carlisle, Edward, and Bella were found by them," Alice replied over the phone.
"What? Then who…" Arthur mumbled confusedly before his eyes widened.
The smell of the vampire he had caught was coming in his direction and it was coming quickly.
"I might be getting attacked by a rogue vampire, they smell Animal blood however so they might be a vegetarian, I don't have any idea how they realized I had locked onto them. Im in the south side of the city already." Arthur quickly spoke into the phone before shutting the call and throwing the phone into an alley.
At the same time, he quickly removed his upper clothes, ran towards a building, and started parkouring up quickly before throwing the shirt onto the balcony of an apartment and then using the side railing of the building to slide back down and starting to run through an alley, his steps silent as the wind as he did.
Parkouring through a few different roadblocks and walls, he quickly arrived around a hundred meters away from his previous location before he parkoured up another building and into a balcony that had its door open.
Heading inside the apartment silently, he quickly crouched hiding from the gaze of a man and woman who were talking in what looked like the kitchen.
Sneaking around, he quickly walked behind the couch, sliding in between it and the wall before staying utterly still, even his breathing was slowed to the point that a regular human would have already started suffocating whilst his heartrate fell down to almost impossibly slow beats, barely alive.
'There's a couple of different ways that he could have noticed me. But it is most certainly a vampire gift, the question is just what it is. Is it something similar to Alice or is it something like instinct? An enhanced Instinct would allow him to know the general direction as well as the fact that he was being tracked and that would make sense since he wasn't actually coming directly in my direction but that is still too vague, I have close to no information on the vampire besides the animal smell coming from them and the fact that they most definitely have a gift. I threw away my phone and shirt so that if he had a smelling sort of tracking gift he would be thrown off however that would make no sense since smelling me wouldn't make him realize that I started tracking him.' Arthur thought as he felt a headache starting to come at the situation he had found himself in.
It was at this moment that a pair of footsteps were heard on the balcony.
'Ah… fuck.' Arthur thought to himself.
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