Originally posted by Robtard
Disagree. His skin cracking (or not) after being slammed onto a rock floor by a super-powerful being would be an indication of his durability; it not cracking in the book, being the more durable of the two versions.Also, we see the healing factor directly in the film, another important factor in here.
You're correct. In book 2, chapter 21 Page 474, 475, and 476 it reads:
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'A first," he said to himself. "I wonder if she is immune to our other talents....Jane, dear?'
'No!' Edward snarled the word. Alice grabbed his arm with restraining hand. He shook her off.
Little Jane smiled up happily at Aro. 'Yes, Master?'
Edward truly snarling now, the sound ripping and tearing form him, glaring at Aro with baleful eyes. The room had gone still, everyone watching him with amazed disbelief, as if he were committing some embarrassing social faux pas. I saw Felix grin hopefully and move a step forward. Aro glanced at him once, and he froze in place, his grin turning into a sulky expression.
The he spoke to Jane, 'I was wondering, my dear one, if Bella is immune to you"
I could barely hear Aro over Edward's furious growls. He let go of me, moving to hide me from their view. Caius ghosted in our direction, with his entourage, to watch.
Jane turned toward us with a beatific smile.
'Don't!' Alice cried as Edward launched himself at the little girl.
Before I could react, before anyone could jump between them, before Aro's bodyguards could tense, Edward was on the ground.
No one had touched him, but he was on the stone floor writhing in obvious agony, while I stared in horror.
Jane was smiling only at him now, and it all clicked together. What Alice had said about formidable gifts, why everyone treated Jane with such deference, and why Edward had thrown himself in her path before she could do that to me.
'Stop!' I shrieked, my force echoing in the silence, jumping forward to put myself between them. But Alice threw her arms around me in an unbreakable grasp and ignored my struggles. No sound escaped Edward's lips as he cringed against the stones. It felt lik my head would explode from watching this.
'Jane,' Aro recalled her in a tranquil voice. She looked up quickly, still smiling with pleasure, her eyes questioning. As soon as Jane looked away, Edward was still.
Aro inclined his head toward me.
Jane turned her smile in my direction.
I didn't even meet her gaze. I watched Edward from the prison of Alice's arms, still struggling pointlessly.
'He's fine,' Alice whispered in a tight voice. As she spoke, he sat up, and then sprang lightly to his feet. His eyes met mine, and they were horror-struck. At first I thought the horror was for what he had just suffered. But then he looked quickly at Jane, and back to me--and his face relaxed into relief.
I looked at Jane, too, and she no longer smiled. She glared at me, her jaw clenched with the intensity of her focus. I shrank back, waiting for the pain.
Nothing happened.
Edward was by my side, again. He touched Alice's arm, and she surrendered me to him.
Aro started to laugh. 'Ha, ha, ha,' he chuckled. 'This is wonderful!'
Jane hissed in frustration, leaning forward like she was preparing to spring.
'Don't be put out, dear one,' Aro said in a comforting tone, placing a powder-light hand on her shoulder. 'She confounds us all.'
'Ha, ha, ha,' Aro chortled again. 'You're very brave, Edward, to endure in silence. I asked Jane to do that to me once--just out of curiosity. He shook his head in admiration. ..."
-Stephanie Meyer
Copyright 2006
Retyped straight from the book without permission.
Nowhere do we read in there that Edward got into a fight with Felix. No. Where.
Also, no where in the book does a Vampire's skin crack from a blow or blunt trauma. No. Where.
That should put to sleep any disagreements or questioning of what I stated. That's what happens when someone contradicts me: pwnage. lol!