CHAPTER 1 - EMMETT

"I bet we're close enough now." Emmett said to Jasper as they moved like the wind through the forest. "He better not bail!" Emmett hissed.

"This is Edward's night, not yours, Emmett." Jasper reminded Emmett.

"Yeah yeah." Emmett finished, rolling his eyes.

They continually ghosted around the trees, nearing Bella's house. Both catching the human scents of Bella and Charlie and also the scent of Edward. It was not hard to miss, since they followed his scent's path starting from their home. Knowing that they were in close proximity of Edward's gift to pick up their thoughts, they slowed their pace.

Edward.

They both thought at the same time. Knowing that it was all it took to get Edward's attention. It wasn't hard to catch Edward cursing lowly in Bella's room.

"Oh, for the love of that's holy!" Edward had said.

Emmett crouched into position, then launched himself upward towards Bella's bedroom window. Holding onto the eave of the roof, he pulled himself up with one arm to look into her window. He purposely scraped his nails across the glass, making an irritating high pitched, squealing noise. A big cheesy grin crossed his face.

"If you don't send Edward out, we're coming in after him!" Emmett hissed through the window. Then dropped himself from the roof's edge to land softly on the ground. Smiling, Jasper shook his head at Emmett in disbelief.

After a moment, Edward was there next to him. Edward punched hard but playfully at Emmett's chest. It caught Emmet off guard. Exactly what Edward wanted.

"Dammit!" Emmett cursed. He habitually placed his hand over the area where Edward punched him.

Edward smugly smiled, his teeth flashing brightly under the light of the moon. Seeming very satisfied about Emmett's reaction.

"You better not make him late." They all heard Bella call down with a hushed but irritated voice towards them. Jasper could hear the tension in her voice, sensed the essence of it. He made his way up to Bella's window, speaking to her as he hung from the eaves.

"Don't worry, Bella. We'll get him home in plenty of time." Jasper assured her. It seemed automatic to use his gift around Bella. She was always tense or close to panic. That was a lot for a girl to handle when she was part of the world of vampires. He seemed to feel sorry for her most of the time.

Emmett was getting antsy down below. Wondering what was taking Jasper so long. Edward could hear his thoughts.

Does it really take that long to get Bella to calm down?

"She's just a human, Emmett." Edward told him. "Give him time. You know how Bella can be."

Usually it's entertaining, but geez.

From the window, Edward and Emmett could hear Bella speaking to Jasper. "Jasper? What do vampires do for bachelor parties? You're not taking him to a strip club, are you?"

Edward rolled his eyes as Emmett raised his eyebrows, smiling cheesily cheek to cheek. His smile faded as he thought about how the conversation could take all night. He wanted to make Bella stop asking questions already so they could get to hunting!

"Don't tell her anything!" Edward growled.

Can we go already?! Emmett thought to himself.

Emmett grimaced as Edward read his thoughts. Emmett knew what was coming. He felt a hard knock to the back of his head as Edward smacked him with his hand. Emmett slowly turned to look at Edward with shock on his face. Edward quietly laughed, looking pleased.

Emmett, on the verge of pouncing on Edward, was interrupted by Jasper's appearance inbetween them.

"Finally!" Emmett said impatiently. Jasper flashed a quick smile to both his brothers.

"I'm done."

"Let's go already!" Emmett complained again.

"Emmett..." Edward warned him.

"Fine, fine. Let's go, please." Emmett whined.

Edward just shook his head.

"Let's go." Jasper answered.

In one swift movement, they headed into the blackness of the forest. Their course of direction would be toward the north, up the mountains, where their "game" would be plentiful. Jasper could feel the excitement lashing out from Emmett & Edward as they continued to 'fly' through the forest. He smiled happily that they, the 3 brothers, were able to spend time together. Jasper wondered to himself in silence, what Emmett and Edward were thinking.

"I feel the same." Edward muttered, answering Jasper's question.

"What are you babbling about?" Emmett asked Edward.

It was nothing to them, carrying a conversation while flying through the trees.

"Jasper said this will be fun." Edward lied.

"Of course! We're feasting on bears and lions tonight! All we're missing is the tigers." Emmett said, chuckling afterwards. His brothers followed, also laughing.

There was comfortable silence as they ran. The air fresh and cool as they breathed in the night. They could hear the forest life scattering around them as they passed quickly by. Only leaves rustling as it was stirred by their speed. The moon was bright, filtering through the treetops, slightly lighting the forest below.

The image of Bella was etched into Edward's thoughts as he ran. He could not stop thinking of her. How her scent was still intoxicating to him, feeling overwhelmed how she could love a creature like himself, remembering how warm her skin felt tonight against his bare chest, knowing the blood in her veins were rushing frantically through her body when he kissed her.

Most of all, how Bella Swan was going to become his wife tomorrow, forever. Mrs. Bella Cullen.

A small smile lifted one corner of his lip.

Emmett noticed Edward's smirk. "What are you smiling about?"

Edward, ignoring him, kept the smile. "You don't want to know." The longing look in Edward's eyes gave him away.

"Nevermind. I think I already know. Edward. Snap out of it!"

"We're here." Jasper interrupted.

Edward's smile faded slowly as they all slowed as they came across the valley of the mountains. The climb towards the peak was before them. Their instincts overtook them as they prepared themselves to hunt. Crouching low to the ground, they waited. They listened to every sound, vibration, hum of the forest. Any hint of their prey who were abroad. The breeze of the black night air was there, all they had to do was be patient. Emmett lithely moved across the forest floor, alert for any sound of a bear. He closed his eyes, after moving deeper into the uprising forest, breathing in the scents of everything around him. He felt the stir of the breeze and caught the scent of a bear in proximity. It might be miles to mere humans but it was close enough for Emmett. He opened his eyes sharply and shot in the direction of the bear, like a silent stealth jet. Flashing his teeth as he moved rapidly closer to his prey, feeling the overwhelming salivation of venom in his mouth. His perfect vampire sight caught the bear near a carcass of a big, dead animal. The scent was overwhelming Emmett. Silently, he advanced towards the bear, the bear completely unaware of him. But Emmett always LOVED a challenge, changing his mind to be silent. He stood up and walked noisily as he could toward the bear. The bear, puffing as it heard Emmett's approached, turned and roared.

"Yeah! That's what I want! C'mon!!" Emmett yelled as he walked. It only egged the bear more so.

He started to run after the bear stood on his hind legs to threaten him. The bear growled angrily, saliva dripping to the ground from its mouth. Emmett returned a growl of dominance as he tackled the bear head-on. He wrestled with the fierce animal, causing the bear to thrash his paws at him again and again. Emmett could feel the bear's blood pump furiously as it got more agitated. At one point, Emmett lost control of patience and propelled himself off the ground and onto the bear's back. He mounted its back and grabbed it's fur with both hands, spreading the fur to find the skin. He started to rip the fur at one spot and the bear's high pitched roar filled the forest. Jasper and Edward, who were watching from a distance away, smiled in amusement.

"You know we'll never hear the end of this." Edward said, with volume that only Jasper could hear.

"I know." Jasper chuckled. "I should have made a bet with him."

Edward looked at Jasper curiously. "What kind of bet?"

"To bet that he'd get fur in his teeth. I would have won."

Edward laughed loudly, catching himself after a few seconds, hoping the sound didn't distract Emmett or the bear. His body shook uncontrollably. It also shook the tree as if someone was shaking it.

Emmett was nearly finished ripping fur out of the way to expose the skin. The bear's blood pulsed loudly through its veins, Emmett could hear the "whooshing". He bared his teeth and struck like a snake. Quick to bite, but slow to feast. The bear was turning in circles trying to reach Emmett, it's paws flailing about. The beast started wobbling after a minute, dizzy from Emmett's draining. Finally, it fell to the ground with a loud thud. Emmett spent another minute, draining every last bit of blood from the bear.

"Aaahhhh." he sighed. Completely satisfied. The color of his eyes were now the brightest of a flat, gold hue. He let go of his grip on the bear and its body slumped into an unusual position. He laughed very happily to himself.

"Got bear? I did." he joked to himself.

Edward rolled his eyes at the corny joke.

Emmett raced towards Edward and Jasper, finding them watching from atop of tree branches. Edward and Jasper held their hands up high to plant him high-tens.

"Nice form, Emmett. The 'bear dance' was entertaining. From a 1- 10 score, I give it a 9 ½ ." Jasper humored him. Jasper's voice mocked a judge scoring a gymnast just finishing their performance. Emmett bowed his head towards Jasper thankfully.

"Yes yes, Jasper. I concur. Fascinating. I believe that you were also not able to receive fur onto your teeth, " Edward said, "but I have to give you a score of only a 9."

"Bravo, Emmett. Bravo!" they called. They clapped their hands playfully like women at an opera house.

Emmett's brows furrowed into a disappointed expression. "Aw! A 9 and a ½ ?!" Emmett complained.

"Look at your shirt, Emmett. It's obliterated. Obviously, your score needed to be lessened." Edward eyed his rags of a shirt.

Emmett looked down, then hung his head low in defeat. "Esme gave me this shirt for our 84th Wedding Anniversary! She's gonna kill me!" he groaned. His brothers laughed at his reaction.

"Alice wouldn't mind. Anything for another shopping expedition." Jasper said.

Emmett took off his shirt and tucked it into his pocket, at least what could fit into his pocket. Not a good idea to leave a ripped up shirt in the middle of the forest.

"Who's next?" Emmett asked. He slapped his hands together and rubbed them against each other slowly.

Jasper looked at Edward. Emmett's eyes followed.

In truth, Jasper didn't mind letting Edward hunt first. His appetite for animals wasn't as strong as the other Cullen family members. Not that any of them had a choice, if they wanted to live with the rest of the world. But Jasper still craved for human blood, it was difficult to get into the hunting mood. He was not going to kill the fun they were having for the sake of his thirst, anyhow. It was Edward's night, a bachelor party, as they called it, they've been planning for awhile. It's been so long since they've hunted together, just the three.

"You are the man of the hour." Jasper told Edward. Edward nodded his head once and turned to head up higher into the mountain. Where the mountain lions would be within reach.

"This is gonna be good." Emmett nudged Jasper's shoulder, eyes still on Edward.

They followed as Edward ascended towards higher ground.