Chapter Five

Shopping and Saving

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."

-Albert Einstein

Madison Cullen

We arrived at Seattle. There was nothing special about Seattle, just the fact that it was a larger city than either Forks or La Push. Nothing much impresses you about the city once you've travelled through the amazon and raged war on ravenous vampires wanting to kill you.

But, there again, the city did have some kind of human beauty about it. The bright lights, the smell of damp and dust mites, the dusty alley ways and the dirty street corners littered with waste and the magical sky scrapers many meters high that you could imagine been built into the clouds.

I guess at night the city was also pretty beautiful, the sound of police cars zooming around and the smell of puke and alcohol ringing around the streets. The feeling of fear and violence that couldn't really hurt me, the anger, the passion. I guess that's what it must be like to be human, so beautifully human…

"Come on girls! Let's go shoooopppiiiinnnnngggg!" Alice said shrilly, I can honestly say I found my aunt rather irritating when we went shopping with her. She got way too over excited.

"Fine." Renesmee grumbled, seemingly not in a much better mood than me.

"Aww come on, cheer up girls!" Alice frowned sticking her lip out at us both.

"It's a bit hard to be giddy when we're been forced her against our own will." I groaned to her.

"Actually Nessie invited you because you're her maid of honour. It was her who is been forced along. Not you." Alice smiled at me knowingly and Renesmee shook her head and face palmed herself.

Within minutes we were at a shop that sold dresses of all kinds for special occasions. Alice ran to the rack and began to pull through the dresses looking at them, they were beautiful and very expensive designer wedding dresses and within seconds she had a large pile of white and ivory gowns piled up for Nessie to try on.

"Come on then, try them on!" Alice beamed; I shook my head and looked at Nessie pitifully.

"And so it begins." Renesmee murmured under her breath to me. I couldn't hold back a smile as she picked up the first wedding dress, She went into the cubical and closed the red velvet curtain quickly, I heard a zip and then she walked out.

The dress was awful. It swamped her small figure and made her look like a kid in a dolls dress or as if she was trying to copy some Disney princess.

"No, try this one." Alice said barely hiding her disgust for the dress on Renesmee.

She tried on dress after dress, not been able to find a nice dress. I had to admit, none of them suited her, even the ones that Alice said 'maybe' to. They were all too big, too poufy and too showy for Renesmee's small frame. I sat on a seat commenting on the dresses, each of them stating that I hated them and wouldn't be seen dead in them. Renesmee seemed to agree but Alice kept throwing small dirty looks my way.

"Maddie, will you try finding me another dress?" Renesmee whispered to me as Alice went looking for more dresses.

"But I-" I was cut off.

"You know what I like. Please, just do it, for me?" She begged me, her brown eyes wide with fear at what horrid dresses Alice would bring back next.

I zipped off without another word and surprisingly I went straight to the older wedding dresses, the vintage ones. They were all made out of soft silk and netting, beaded and encrusted with crystals. These were beautiful.

I raided the rack trying to find the perfect dress. I came up with one that had netted sleeves and neck line, but the bodice and skirt were that of a strapless dress. It was white and encrusted with beads and crystals shaped to look like floral patterns the same as the netting. The dress was a corseted back and didn't flare out very much, just enough to look like a wedding dress but not overly poufy like the dresses Alice kept picking.

I took it back to the changing room and Alice looked at me, "Where have you been?" She asked me and then her face dropped when she saw the dress in my arms.

"I thought I'd give her a dress to try on that I thought would suit her." I smiled and then hooked it on the rack Alice was hanging her dresses on.

"But I'm supposed to pick her dress." She frowned heavily.

"No, Nessie is supposed to pick the dress." I grumbled as Renesmee came out yet again in a dress that made her look like she was wearing a Cornish pasty on her bottom half.

"Try that one." I pointed at the dress, all of a sudden Renesmee's face broke into a smile and she quickly rushed back into the room with that dress, throwing the pasty dress over and letting it land near Alice so she could put it back on the coat hanger.

I heard Renesmee gasp and then she walked out with tears in her eyes.

The dress hugged her figure making her look slender yet curvy; the dress hugged her at the right points and flared out at her hips. Whenever she moved, the slight glow on her skin and the jewels on her dress seemed to act as one and sparkle together like mad. I felt a sob catch in my throat. She looked undeniably beautiful.

"It seems Maddie was right. That's the dress!" Alice yapped and then grinned as if she had chosen the dress. She took an armful of wedding dresses back to their respective racks and I rolled my eyes, still watching Renesmee as she swayed in the mirror checking herself out.

"Maddie, it's beautiful." She whispered to me and then pulled me into a big hug. "Thank you so much!"

"I did good for once." I half smiled and then touched Renesmee's hand and used my power to send thought's into Renesmee's head. I'm glad it looks nice. I don't know how many more pasty dresses I could have stood to see you in.

I know, I hated those poufy dresses. They didn't suit me. Nessie cringed as she sent me her thoughts back.

Maybe Alice is losing her fashion sense. I giggled and Nessie smiled at me, pulling her hand away as Alice came to us again.

"The dress maker would like to start alterations right away!" She squeaked with excitement.

"Yeh." Renesmee and Me both said sarcastically at the same time.

Isabella Cullen

"Right, There's the prison, I must go now. Even though I hate the Voltouri I cannot fight the people who once used to be my brothers and I won't put my babies life at risk like that." Jane stoked her baby's hair and looked into my eyes. I saw nothing to say that she was lying or trying to deceive us.

"Thank you Jane." Edward said sincerely. I nodded at her, still not fully trusting her.

I then turned and ran at the vampire at the entrance to the intimidating stone building. We had no strategy, just to divide and conquer really. There were little more than four vampires, a number me and Edward could easily take with our powers.

I ran at one vampire, I swung around and gave him a fast and powerful roundhouse kick in the ribs, he howled in torment but raced towards me. i gave him a sharp punch to the jaw, seeing my chance as he clutched his mutilated mouth, I punched again, and this time the vampire wasn't so lucky. With a loud crack his head fell off his shoulders. I left the body for Edward to burn as he confronted the other two vampires attacking him.

I walked inside the prison, it had high stone walls, something I was sure a vampire could easily break. I wondered what kept the vampires here and kept them so weak… then I saw a glowing orb on the wall. It was red and reminded me of a crystal ball only it was ruby coloured and seemed to be lit from within with some mystical flame that could get inside the crystal and not only light it but give it life.

I felt my knees collapse and my vision went blurry. It was like I was human again. I quickly put up my shield and stood back up. That teaches me never to put my shielded down when I'm in danger!

I looked at the orb again, and it still had the ethereal glow about it, something was beckoning me towards it but my love for my unnamed daughter drove me onward.

Then I froze again. What had made me so weak? What had literally made me feel like I was a weak human again?!

I turned around and ran at the orb, picking it up of the resting place on the wall. It was very warm, but not warm like it was burning as it looked like it was. Strange.

I picked up the orb and was about to smash it when Edward ran in saying "Stop!"

He then collapsed to his knees the same as I had. "Edward!" I ran to him and placed my hand on his shoulder, one hand still on the glowing orb.

"Don't smash it. That thing… it's the witches Orb. It's one of the most powerful artifacts of the witches and it's been missing for millennia. I've read about it before, we need to return it to the witches." Edward stated as his breathing became heavier… more human.

"What is it doing to you?" I shook the damned ball and felt like I wanted to aim it at the stone walls of the prison.

"It makes us weak, partially messes with our metabolism to make us more… human like, I think. Maybe that's how they stopped vampires escaping this place." Edward stood very slowly. "It feels weird been so weak." Then he gasped.

"What is it Edward?" I looked at him concerned.

"The orb! It has thoughts!" HE blurted looking very scared as he backed away from the orb.

"What's it… what's he… or she… thinking?" I frowned and then I touched the orb again.

"It's not really a thought… more a feeling… it… it likes you Bella." He smiled, he said this as if the orb was a child, like he did when he realised Nessie loved me in my womb.

"I wish I could hear it." I sighed and then gave the orb to Edward and he seemingly could not support the weight of the small object. "Maybe you could turn off for a little bit?" Edward asked the orb looking rather crazy.

All of a sudden the light from the ball dimmed and then went out as if the orb actually listened to Edward.

"That was creepy." I shivered and then walked down the hall with a now strong Edward. I began to hear murmurings and stirrings from the vampires in their cells. They must have felt their strength return to them. One door busted open and a crazy vampire ran out yelling "I'm FREEEEEE"

I cringed inwardly and continued down the now very busy hall. Then I saw her, the girl who I knew had to be mine and Edwards. She had my brown hair down to the back of her knees, her pale skin was smudged with dirt but underneath you could tell she looked just like my other daughters… and there was also those eyes. Those bright green eyes that were a mirror of Edward's human ones.

The girl stood silently in the hallway looking dazed as all of the vampires pushed past her. I ran to the girl, almost getting crushed in the stream of vampires. I wanted to call her, but she had no name.

Finally I came face to face with her. She looked me up and down and I saw her eyes widen in… recognition?

"Mom?" She whispered. I shivered and then blinked.

"You remember me." I stated and then I hugged my daughter.

"I remember the day the Voltouri took me… I don't remember anything else though." She whispered as she began to cry.

"What's your name?" I asked her. She blinked and then smiled at me.

"What did you name me?" She asked back and then I felt really guilty as I didn't know what I had named my own daughter.

"I can't remember…. The Voltouri made us forget… please, forgive me." I begged her as Edward came from behind me and managed to get to his daughter at last.

"The name the vampire's in my cell gave me was Winona. It means daughter." She shrugged and then me and Edward both hugged Winona again. Our beautiful daughter…

Next chapter will be in Winnie's (Winona's) PoV and I'll take some requests for this. The Orb will play a big part in the story… and don't think I've forgotten about our villain Joseph… also, I've gotten Renesmee's wedding written already. That should be up around chapter… tenish?

SO REVIEW FOR WHAT PoV YOU WANT! :D Also… I'm going to take requests for characters so if you want review a character you would like in my story, name them, give 5 main personality traits and write who would portray them…. TTFN!