Chapter 7

2 weeks ago, we were only training. Now we were putting our skills to the test, in hopes of survival. Everybody else was pumped. I was scared for my life. We trudged through the snow, Kayla chattering away excitedly.

"This will be so easy! There's only what, 7 of them?" I nodded. "Yeah. We have 20. No problem." She laughed. "Don't worry Bee, we'll…" Her voice trailed off as we caught a new scent. We all stiffened, frozen where we stood.

"Go." Riley mouthed. And we did. I went forward slower than the others. Then there was a horrible metallic screeching. I climbed quickly up a tree. Looking down, I could see smoke. Smoke and piles of cold, white limbs. One flash of blonde hair stood out from the hard arms and legs. Kayla. I choked back a dry sob as I jumped from tree to tree, eager to get away from here. Away from the smoking piles of my friends. As I leaped onto an especially icy branch, I slipped and toppled into the snow below me.

"Bella?" A small girl with dark, spiky hair and wide, honest eyes gasped. I growled at her. Those eyes were honest, but I didn't trust them. "Bella, it's me, Alice." Alice. That name sounded familiar. "I thought you were dead. When I saw you jump off that cliff…Edward!" She called. Cullen. Alice and Edward Cullen. Some memories came flooding back. I loved Edward. Alice was my best friend and Edward's sister. The sudden realization hit me so hard, I was in shock.

"Bella?' A velvety voice pulled me out of my state, while strong arms lifted me out of the snow. Edward held me close to his chest as I cried tearless sobs. "Shhh…" He murmured in my ear. I shook my head.

"I'm fine. You can put me down. I'm just…overwhelmed." He set me back on my feet. I was down for about two seconds before I jumped back up, wrapping my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist. He chuckled as he pushed my hair back off my face and kissed the spot behind my ear. Then hard hands were ripping me off Edward and into the snow. I screamed as my arm was ripped out of its socket.

"Jasper! Stop!" Edward growled.

"She's a newborn, Edward!" Jasper yelled back as he held me in the snow.

"She's Bella." Jasper's hands were gone as quickly as they came. Alice rushed over then, holding my arm.

"Bella? Are you alright?"

"Yeah." I gasped. "It just really hurts." She held my arm in place as it fused back to my shoulder. Jasper walked over and kneeled next to me.

"I'm real sorry Bella. I didn't see that it was you." Edward glared at him.

"That's all right, Jasper. I'm okay." All of a sudden, Alice's tiny hands were tight around my arm. "Alice, are you…" I stopped short in my sentence as I looked up an saw that her eyes were blank. She was having a vision.

"The Volturi. They're coming. They're going to destroy Bella."

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