Everlasting Enemies

xStarletx

A/N: Well here's the next chapter, my friend's been pressing me for it, and as I promised her she gets to KICK ASS! Hopefully you guys like too! Don't forget to review people!

Chapter 4

"She's lost a lot of blood." Carlisle whispered, the family was around her.

"She must have gone up against another Vampire." Rosalie mused.

"Alice what did you see about this." Edward asked.

"Nothing about this specific instance, but she's going to die Edward, soon." Alice replied. Edward thought this over, She took in a sudden deep breath and jolted up, her hand connecting with Carlisle's jaw, throwing him at least two feet away from her. Everyone let out sighs of relief, though none except maybe Alice, would admit that they cared for her.

"Aw, I'm sorry. Reflexes and such." She apologized.

"You took an extra long time bouncing back from that" Alice whispered to her.

"Aw quit you're worrying, I'll be fine. I'm the best remember?" She snarled.

"Yea, well the Best just ended up with her intestines on the floor." Emmett snarled. She threw him a sarcastic glare. Edward walked out of the cottage and into the fresh night air, Alice's words repeated over and over again in his mind.

"She's going to die Edward, soon."

**

Edward and Bella went public about their relationship a few days after that, everyone at school was talking about it. Bella was beside herself with happiness, but something about Raven had changed. It was quieter and more and more tired by the day. Bella wondered if it was because she and Edward were dating, she also wondered if Edward had told her that Bella knew what they both were. Soon Raven stopped coming to school all together, no one saw her in town, and the lights were always off in the house. Bella asked Edward about it, but he just shrugged off her concerns, saying that if something had happened to Raven he would have heard about it by now.

A week later Edward announced that he would be taking Bella up to have dinner with his parents at their mountain abode. Bella was slightly worried, for one she knew that Vampires didn't eat, but what if they didn't want her there

"What if they don't like me?" Bella asked.

"I'm going to take you to my home to meet my Vampire family, and you're worried if they won't like you?" Edward laughed. Bella frowned, she thought it was a perfectly logical worry, she wanted his parents to like her. He left when Jacob and his father arrived at the house, there was an iciness around them.

"You smell funny, who have you been hanging around with? Other than that Cullen boy?" Jacob asked. Bella frowned.

"I was at Raven's a few days ago, I went to see if she was ok, but she didn't answer the door." Bella replied wondering if that's what he meant.

"Ah, that would explain it." Jacob replied, walking away from her. Bella wondered how much he knew about Raven and Edward.

**

Bella was nervous on the ride up to the house, which consequently was made mostly of glass. Once inside she was surprised by the open atmosphere and the light colors.

"Whoa, it's so open and light." Bella murmured.

"What did you expect? Coffins, bats and a moat?" Edward teased.

"No, not a moat." Bella replied Edward laughed, taking her up the stairs to where she found most of the Cullen's making food for her.

"I told them not to do this." Edward whispered into her ear. A woman that looked no more than twenty moved forward to greet her.

"This is Esme my mother for all intensive purposes." Edward introduced.

"It's so nice to meet you Bella, we're making Italiano for you. I hope you're hungry." She whispered.

"Yes I am." Bella replied.

"She already ate." Edward snarled silently under his breath. Behind them the bowl in Rosalie's hands snapped into pieces.

"Great, Just great!" She cried, everyone shot her warning glances but she continued, "She should know, now that they've gone public, if something were to happen, the whole family will be implicated."

"Something, as in, I became the meal." Bella filled in. Everyone chuckled, from outside a window, Alice came bounding off of an evergreen tree branch, Jasper following her.

"There were a lot of 'Sorrys' and 'My Bads' out in the woods today, I think we might lose another window." Alice announced to the family. Bella looked to Edward for clarification but she didn't get any right away.

"Not again." He snarled instead.

"At least I can give her medical attention. Her healing rates have become alarmingly slow." Carlisle announced. Bella looked around to the concerned faces, each were trying to conceal any hint of the emotion.

"She'll be fine, she's the best of the best after all." Edward replied, everyone glanced to Alice who wasn't smiling, but looking away.

"Um, who?" Bella asked.

"Oh, Raven, she's been practicing an awful lot these past couple of weeks." Edward replied. Bella nodded at this, it made sense the whole family knew her, and most of them even liked her, it was Edward who had the problem with her. Alice quickly leant in and gave her a hug.

"Oh you do smell good." Alice teased. Edward looked like he could hit her. From behind her there was a very loud,

"MOTHER FU-!" And suddenly a tree collapsed to the ground a million splinters ricocheted off the glass.

"Oh My did you see that? That tree exploded!" Bella cried, the family laughed.

"Don't worry about that. Bella and I will be good friends!" Alice replied

"Um, I'll show you around the house." Edward offered, taking her away from them.

"FUCK SHE BIT ME!" Came a scream, there was a thudding sound on the roof and then another tree was felled.

"Seriously what is that?" Bella asked.

"Raven, or Jann, most likely Nick." Edward replied. Bella looked back out towards the forest.

"But, how?" Bella asked.

"This is my room." Edward whispered changing the subject. Bella smiled, taking in the sight.

"No bed?" She asked, referring to the couch that sat in its place.

"I don't sleep Bella." Edward admitted downstairs there came a crash.

"YOU THREW ME THROUGH ANOTHER WINDOW!" Came a scream. Edward swore loudly. Bella smiled, Raven had gone through a window.

"Can we go see?" she pleaded. Edward stared at her, downstairs there were a few more crashes. Bella tried her sweetest look to win him over. Edward sighed.

"Just stay behind me, shit goes flying when those guys start fighting." Edward warned. Bella nodded in agreement.

When she got downstairs the entire living room was destroyed. The grand piano was destroyed, there were holes in the walls, one whole window had been smashed through, obviously the one Raven had gone through. And there she was in the middle, on her left a tall boy, somewhere around 17 years of age, his hair was snow white and of a shaggy short variety, he had small pert white ears on the top of his head, and a large white bushy tail coming out of his jeans. He was wearing a black tee-shirt, hat happened to have several large rips in it. His large golden eyes were watching Raven for the next move, he had large fangs dropping out of his mouth, he growled viciously at Raven, the gesture seemed to have no effect on her, but Bella was terrified by it. On Raven's a left a 19 year old Asian looking cat girl crouched ready to spring. She had long black hair with two small brown ears poking out of the masses, though most of her hair was up in a pony tail, her bangs were too short and were hanging over her right side of her face. Her long elongated brown tail was twitching back and forth, it also came out from her black jeans. She was oddly wearing tall leather stiletto boots, it must have been difficult to fight in but she looked comfortable in her pose. She was wearing a black halter top, which showed off most of her bare back which had a stripe of spots traveling down her spine and some sparsely situated spots from her shoulder to her elbow. She had large claws sprouting from her fingertips that were dripping a green liquid that was burning the wooden floors. Raven was dressed in leather pants, that had rips all over, and a leather jacket, on her back were two large swords, her hands were on fire her eyes were an odd bright blue and seemed to be switching back and forth between the cat-woman and the dog-man. Her lips were a bright red, though her bottom lip had a cut in it, her arms and torso were also covered in what looked like bit marks and scratch marks, there was splinters stuck in her black hair. So she was the one who got thrown through the tree.

Still in the kitchen the rest of the Cullen family huddled together watching the trio with avid interest, each whispering to each other possible about the outcome of the match. Suddenly with a quickness that surprised Bella the two animalistic opponents ran at Raven, who merely threw herself back, she landed on her hands and flipped back up, the cat ran at her, and with one kick sent her flying back to the wall. While Raven was distracted the dog came at her from the side, with her hands on fire again she managed to land a hit that sent him flying, though he had managed to slice her thigh.

"Shouldn't you help her?" Bella asked, these things were seriously trying to hurt her, and where was Jann or Nick, she saw no sign of her beloved pets. Edward merely laughed, Raven finally had the two swords out, but both had just pulled out guns. Bella saw Raven roll her eyes, the dog and the cat stood side by side now and opened fire, Bella didn't get to see much of what had happened for Edward had suddenly thrown her up onto the stairs. Bella heard the sound of bullets getting lodged in the wall, and bouncing off of something metallic, possibly the two swords. When Edward let her back in Raven was on top of the dog who had somehow been thrown onto the cat, she had both swords pointed at their necks. He gave her a dry look and then handed Raven her pink I-pod. She sheathed both swords again and then put her head phones on. Raven let out a small sigh as the loud pounding of music filled her ears. The dog and the cat stood up, each groaning, Raven took a deep breath and as she exhaled all of their wounds started to heal, bones snapped back into place, joints popping back in. Bella clearly saw Raven's jaw pop back into place.

"Are you ok?" Bella asked, walking towards her. Raven turned to her she was oddly calm. Bella moved towards her in a flash the cat woman was in front of her. She hissed at her, her claws swiping at Bella's face. She would have got her had Edward not been there to pull her back. Edward's fangs dopped, he growled at the cat girl, the cat took an instant defensive stance, the dog was there behind her, growling at him. Edward glanced back between the two, Bella had a feeling that he couldn't take on both.

"Enough!" Raven screamed. Both the dog and the cat straightened. The cat turned on her.

"I don't like her. I don't want her touching you, or me or Nick. Just let me kill her!" The cat pleaded, her voice dripping with a British accent.

"I'm with her, get rid of the problem no more threat. Makes perfect sense if you think about it." The Dog countered, he also had a British accent.

"We're not going to kill anyone you understand, now stand down or I'll confiscate your chew toys, and your cat nip!" Raven warned. The dog and the cat both snarled but slunk away. Raven looked around at her surroundings.

"Wow, we really messed this place up this time." She whispered, looking around. Raven lifted her hands, her fingers spread wide, she began to hum and things began to move falling back into place. The holes in the walls were patched up the glass for the window rebuilt itself in frame, the burns from the cats claws disappeared, and the bullets all dislodged themselves from the wall and floated back to Ravens hand. The grand piano rebuilt itself and every dent or broken item was fixed and replaced. Bella had never seen anything like it before in her life.

"There we go I think that's everything." Raven cried, handing the bullets to the dog who was waiting beside her. He took them and put them in his pocket.

"Alright, can we go now?" The cat asked, her arms crossed across her chest, her acid green eyes were glaring at Bella.

"Don't be rude." Raven warned.

"Oh, do I smell Italiano?" The dog suddenly asked, sniffing the air.

"Yes, we made spaghetti for Bella, but she's not hungry." Esme replied.

"Who's rude now?" The cat snarled. Raven sent her the most evilest of the look and she immediately shut up.

"Don't worry about Jann, she doesn't like anyone." Raven whispered to Bella.

"Whoa, that's Jann? But I thought she was a cat!" Bella question, the cat stood up ready to stalk across the floor to smack Bella across the face.

"Well, that's just one her forms. But word of the wise, don't call her a cat." Raven warned.

"And that's Nick?" Bella asked pointing to the white hair dog man, who waved back at her, he was more interested in the bowl of spaghetti Esme had given him.

"Yes, that's Nick." Raven replied, watching as Jann joined him in the kitchen for a bowl of spaghetti.

"You should have some of this, you're too skinny." Jann snarled, shoving a bowl of spaghetti into Raven's hands. Raven thanked her and took a bite. Jann glared at Bella again.

"If you so much as even look at me the wrong way you will know what death by spaghetti feels like, and you will die thinking 'wow, that's what that feels like.'" Jann snarled to Bella.

"Ignore her." Raven whispered. Edward was beside her.

"Well this is eventful." Edward whispered.

**

"So, Jann like hates my guts?" Bella asked.

"Jann hates everyone." Edward whispered, he was driving her home, Raven, Jann and Nick had left a few hours ago.

"Jann has wanted to kill me since the 13th century." Edward replied after a few seconds of bubbling laughter.

"Why hasn't she?"

"Raven wouldn't let her. She may not act like it but she listens to what Raven says." Edward replied. He pulled up to Bella's house and saw Jacob walking in the direction of the lake.

"Where do you suppose he's going?" Bella asked.

"Probably to the lake." Edward murmured.

"But why?" Bella asked. "Why would he want to see Raven?"

"I don't know." Edward snarled, watching as Jacob's form disappeared into the shadows. Something was going on, Bella realized, and she still had no idea what it was.

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