Come on people I got a whole 2 reviews last chapter and only 120 hits on it… I need a bit more encouragement than that to continue the story. It is a waste if no one reads it or likes it all that much. So, give me a shout! Fight scenes are hard to write, I hope you guys like it. I'm still iffy on it. I actually shortened it because it was getting boring; I chopped up the training lol. This is extra long for the extra long wait I made you all go through. Happy reading! Enjoy!

Chapter 6: Not that! Anything but that!

Angela and I walked through the door to see my father and the witch trainer, Laurent. (A/N: go with it, it has its significance.) We walked over to the two of them. My father smiled, wished us good luck, and turned to leave.

"Alright ladies, I assume I don't need to tell you the rules? On second thought, since Miss Angela is here I may just have to waste the time to go over them." He smirked.

I was furious, so he thinks he's too good for lower class? We'll see about that, I may not be trained but we are all born with some kind of magic. It is only about a tenth of our real capabilities but it is still there, I have been practicing. In fact, we all practice. We used to play with our powers when we were little, trying to out do each other when we really couldn't because at the time we all had the same amount of power. The trick was if you could control it better or not.

I smiled my evil little smiled and did a quick mental spell onto his shoe laces, tying them together. I was too focused to see who actually came through the door, but I heard them. Laurent tried to step forward but fell flat on his face. Angela, being the lady she is, felt bad and tried to help him up. I just smirked, pretending I didn't do anything.

I was looking around, faking my innocence, when I spotted him. Edward Cullen wasn't kidding. He actually came to watch us practice! His eyes met mine and he smiled. I looked down, blushing. This is going to be great, now I can make a fool of myself in front of my betrothed.

The door opened again and the rest of Edward's family came in. My mouth dropped open in shock. Perfect, even better I can make a fool of myself in front of his whole family, my future family.

Carlisle stepped forward, "I hope you don't mind ladies, Edward told us of your training practices and we were curious. I have never seen one."

I smiled politely, "No Your Highness, not at all. Please enjoy yourself."

"Bella," he chided, "we are about to be family. Feel free to call me Carlisle."

I nodded, still expecting impending doom. I was sure to mess something up. I heard training was hard. We would be learning the self defense today. In light of the recent events my training is to be stepped up. A normal training is done at a slow pace of an hour a day, three days a week, for a month. I need to learn it all in about half a week. Meaning I would be in training all day long. The only breaks I would get are food breaks, when I sleep, and my chaperoned time with Edward.

"Now," Laurent seems to have got his shoes under control and gave me an evil smile, "there is something that was not mentioned to you ladies."

I gulped. Not a surprise. I hate surprises. Oh, please! Let it be anything but a surprise. Hopefully it's only a minimal surprise, nothing that will embarrass me or make my training any harder.

"Ladies, the Cullen royal family is not here just for you to show them how training works. They will be taking part in training you to make the sessions go faster and become more meaningful to what you could face."

I blanched. What?! I would have to fight the Cullen's?! My future family! How could anyone ask that of me? What if I hurt them, they would hate me. Come to think of it, I am an untrained witch; they would probably have a better chance in hurting me.

I paled further, what if I had to fight Edward. I looked at him and he was staring at me smiling, almost smugly, he knew what I was thinking even if he couldn't read my mind. He held up his hand and pointed to me then to himself and grinned. Oh no, I did have to fight him.

I felt woozy and started to fall. He was there in a second holding me up. I looked in his eyes, big mistake. They were smoldering again, my thoughts were lost.

"Bella, what am I going to do with you?" He chuckled. "You swoon at the idea of fighting with me. I suppose that is a good thing, we won't fight as often." He smiled at his joke.

I didn't find it funny. "We can't fight, isn't that illegal or something. Can you really fight your spouse?" I was panicking and grasping at straws.

"Bella, I am doing this for your own protection. Nothing will harm you if I have something to do about it. This is just going to help you if I am ever away, God forbid, something should happen. I will see you safe Bella, even if I die trying." He said it with such sincerity, I believed him. He would never break this promise to me.

He paused, staring at me, and bent down to my ear.

"Have I told you that you look ravishing this evening?" I nodded as he kissed the hollow of my neck. It was entirely improper but I didn't care.

"I don't think I could tell you enough. I don't think I could explain what you do to me."

His lips skimmed my neck line, to my jaw. Then I was falling, landing with a hard thump with Edward on top of me holding my hands above my head. He was in a crouching stance, he tricked me.

"Be careful Bella, vampires will use what they have to bring you down."

I brought my leg up over his back. He was far enough forward where I could swing it up and hit him in the head. He grabbed his head, releasing my hands. I quickly maneuvered and switch places with him. He wanted to play dirty, fine, we'd play dirty. I pinned his arms down and made sure he wouldn't be swinging his legs up at my head. I had no idea how flexible vampires were, but I didn't want to find out.

I tsked, "Edward, I am sure you're smart enough to know I wouldn't let a mere vampire get near enough to seduce me with words. If they did then I am at their mercy and I would know so, their words would mean nothing to me. Yours on the other hand mean everything to me."

I bent down to his face and gently kiss his jaw; all is fair in love and war right? If you have it, use it. I just hoped this wouldn't be deemed inappropriate for training. If it was in regular society, well, then we would have a problem.

I moved from his jaw, to his cheeks, eyes, nose, back to the jaw and down his neck. He was breathing hard and I smirked, lets see how he likes to be the one tricked.

I quickly got up off of him, he looked stunned. I used what we used to use when we were kids throwing rocks at the walls. Except this was so much stronger; but it wouldn't hurt him, I hoped; I wasn't sure. I picked him up and threw him into the open window and out onto the grounds. Hearing a loud, satisfying crash, I released the power.

I turned to everyone looking at me in shock. Maybe it wasn't acceptable in combat, but he started it.

Jasper was the first to break the silence.

"Bella, he was feeling so much love and attraction towards you I thought he would burst. Then you throw him out the window," He chuckled, "I almost feel bad for him, poor man."

Edward jumped back in the window, only having eyes for me.

"Bella, that was amazing. I never thought you had it in you. Apparently, I misunderstood witches bewitching powers." He laughed when I blushed.

He came over to me and cupped his hand on my cheek.

"Like I said Bella, you have no idea what you do to me." He kissed my forehead and looked towards our instructor. "Well, sir, you have your test of what she can do. Now, let's get to work on strengthening it and focusing."

He turned back to me. "Bella, if I am hard on you I am sorry in advance, especially if I hurt you. I just need to know you'll be safe." He hesitated and whispered, "I can't lose you, you mean too much to me. I love you Isabella Swan."

I felt like I could cry and managed to choke out, "I love you too Edward."

"I realize this isn't the place to be declaring ourselves, but everyone is watching us anyway, now was a good as time as any. Besides you made me proud, which came with an undeniable amount of love. I couldn't resist telling you. To know you feel the same way lessens my want for a better time to say it even more." He smiled, and bent his head to mine.

We were interrupted. I sighed; it was probably for the best. I wouldn't have been able to control myself if he kissed me. I am not very experience in reigning in the witch's sexuality side, I've never had to. I use it to get what I want from the humans and that's it, I found no other use for it.

Angela told me in confidence how difficult it is to thwart a witch's sexuality. Almost uncontrollable, she told me there was no way to help it, no way to stop it. She thinks it is because it banishes all will to stop. She has already had her first kiss with Ben. The thought now makes me envious. Finding out what would happen between Edward and I probably wasn't the best thing to do now.

"Alright you two, as much as we enjoy that you love each other we have to train you two up a bit. Then you won't be defenseless and you can start your book studies. I hear that's the fun part." Carlisle smiled at us.

Angela and I groaned. We hated book work, hopefully it was action packed.

I heard Edward chuckle, and looked at him. "You better be careful or I'll send you out the window again."

He smirked and, once again, unleashed the power of his eyes. "You wouldn't dare."

I shrugged, "You never know. You were the one who attacked first. What I do is just pay back."

He looked shocked, his family laughed. Apparently no one surprised Edward Cullen with attacks.

"Well, if it is anything close to pinning me on the floor then I'll suffer in contempt." He said with a smile.

"Oh, you flatterer you. I guess you missed the part where you went out the window. Do I need to teach you again?" I smirked.

"You're quite confident in your abilities young witch, that will get you into trouble." Laurent decided to cut in. He looked like he was ready to start training. We have probably wasted a lot of time.

"Alright ladies, first we will start with basics. Bella you will sit out the first round since we already know you can throw massive objects far distances."

I beamed, Angela paled she'd be doing it alone.

"It's okay Ang, you will do great."

She smiled at me and focused on the table at the end of the room. Soon it lifted and she threw it out the window.

"Well, I am glad to see you ladies will speed up your training even more. Either you are extremely fast learners or someone has been teasing the boys since they were little." Laurent looked impressed, and a little frustrated. I couldn't understand why. I looked to Edward and he seemed puzzled also.

"Alright, mind magic you seem to have we will do some more work onto restraining objects with your mind." With that said he picked up the chairs to the table that just went out the window and threw them at us.

I put my hands out protectively in front of me and closed my eyes waiting for impact. Nothing happened. I looked up and the chair was floating feet from my face. I slowly lowered it to the ground and looked to Angela. She was doing the same.

"Well girls, most do not progress to this stage until well into their training. If other were rushed it would have taken them three days. The training is easier when you have your mind magic completed. You may be able to learn it all in just today, maybe into tomorrow. Amazing." He whispered this last part. I wasn't sure if we were meant to hear it. Edward's brow furrowed, something was wrong.

"What's wrong, Edward?"

"Bella, how well do you know him?"

"I don't know him at all. All I know is he is, and has been, the instructor for years. He is very good at what he does."

"I don't trust him Bella. When you are not with me I want you to stay away from him."

I was about to object but his expression made me hold my tongue. Besides I would do almost anything to make him happy.

"Why don't you trust him?"

"It angers him that you are so good. Shouldn't he be happy? He keeps thinking, 'Let's see how they handle what's coming.' I can't tell if he means training or something different."

I shivered. Hopefully he meant us no harm. He is the one teaching us so how could he harm us? He is the best there is. The only thing that would get to anyone trained by him is if he didn't tell us something in training that we needed to know.

"Next! Hand to hand combat. Your wonderful friends here will be helping you. I am required to train you ladies up against real vampires."

I turned to look at Edward. "You evil man! You couldn't tell me I had to fight you in the hallway? Instead you go all cryptic on me, 'Maybe I will come watch you.' Bah! Watch indeed, you just want to kick some witch butt."

Edward looked pained, "Bella, how could you ever think that? I only care for your safety, not defeating you. Beware Bella; it is because I love you that I will be so hard on you today. I need to know your safe."

I felt bad for my outburst and was going to apologized when I was once again knocked to the ground. I looked up and Alice was there. She brought her hand back and punched me in the face.

"Ow! Alice, STOP! What are you doing!?"

"I am sorry Bella, but like Edward I need to know your safe."

She punched me again, it was a test. I needed to outwit a vampire. I put up a mind magic blocking her hand from my face, at the same time I picked her up and threw her. They may have the physical strength and speed but we had the mental. We just needed to slow them down. There was some incantation for that. I read about it and now I sit here cursing myself for not remembering it as Emmett barreled towards me.

I tried to move out of the way but arms behind me held me in place. Edward was about to let me get pummeled by Emmett. I thought Alice hurt, Emmett would surly kill me.

Before Emmett reached us Edward whispered in my ear, "Once again love, I am sorry I have to be so hard on you. Don't go easy on us either. I know you can do more than you are showing us."

He was right of course. Angela and I both could. Jacob Black has been teaching us as much self defense as he could. We didn't know why at first, apparently he thought we didn't need to know details about the missing people either.

Jake couldn't do mind magic, but he found someone who could. Angela and I had mind magic down, we could do it all. I thought we would get into trouble if we displayed that here. We are mostly trained up in defenses; Laurent is simply the best and will perfect us. What we didn't know were the incantations, spells, and potions. We learned a lot of our history in school, but we still needed to iron out the details that will come our way. Our full training was far from over, but we got to skip a good year or two of it.

Emmett reached me and started to hit me. I started kicking at him, throwing mind magic balls in his direction staggering him. I threw my head back into Edwards causing him to stumble, releasing me. I turned around and kicked him to the ground before turning back to Emmett. I executed a few moves on him that Jacob said was a need to know to get out of sticky situations. The moves worked beautifully, he was on the ground also. I constricted a mind force around both of their bodies, keeping them to the ground.

I looked to Angela to see she had Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie, and Alice fighting her. Someone was missing. Where was Jasper? I was once again thrown to the ground. Jasper stood above me in a fighting stance. I had a second to react but was too late. He started to hit me and as he leaned into bite me I put all my energy into a mind ball and blasted him to the other side of the room. I constricted him there.

Angela was just finishing up.

At Laurent's request we let them up.

"Well, I really don't see why I am here to teach you. Obviously someone else already has. Apparently I just need to iron out some details, train you a bit more and your done. Then you get to do the wonderful wand waving, incantations, and potions."

He trained us up a bit more and called it a day. It was later in the evening. Then I remembered something with a shock.

"Angela, dinner!"

She looked confused and I watched as it sunk in. She smiled, happy to see Ben.

"I'm glad I didn't tell him a time."

Edward came to stand behind us.

"Ready for dinner?"

"Do we look ready for dinner Edward? Look at us we are sweaty and gross…"

"And as beautiful as ever." He interrupted with a smile.

I smiled back, blushing.

"I will see you both and Ben in about an hour, yes? We will meet in the gardens. I have a surprise for you Bella."

"I hate surprises." I mumbled.

He only chuckled, kissed my hand and turned and left.

Angela and I walked into my room to get ready. I was wearing a dark blue dress, Angela had the exact same just a lilac color. (A/N: Pic in prof. No dress descriptions remember )

We walked into the gardens. The smelled beautiful. Roses, violets, lilacs, and other flowers perfumed the air. The fireflies were out and small strings of lights were up every where adding to the beauty, setting the romantic mood.

We walked further into the garden and waiting for us by a table was Edward and Ben, red roses in their hands. They pulled out the chairs for us, silently telling us to come join them.

I looked at Angela, she looked at me. We both smiled and took a big, deep breath. We held hands and walked forward to meet the loves of our lives.

A/N: Yay, until next time people! Next chapter? The date of course… and some other fun tidbits as my plot unfolds.