A/n alright, I'm not quite sure how many reviews I've gotten, I didn't keep track this time. So, I'm sorry if this is way overdue, and you're lucky if it isn't. This will not happen again, so review! Review for your lives!!!

-Hailstorm

Practice

The Cullen's were gathered on the back porch, and I was facing them from out in the yard. The drill here was, they would call out a random animal and I would try to change into it. We had actually discovered that I couldn't change in to certain animals, like a kangaroo or a giraffe or an elephant. I made a note to ask Carlisle about it when he got home.

"Be a bear!" called Emmett. Smiling, I changed into a cute little panda bear. Emmett frowned. "That's not a bear." He whined.

I laughed at his stupidity. "Of course it is Emmett. It's a PANDA bear!" and then the rest of the Cullen's burst out laughing with me, while Emmett sat and pouted.

"Try an owl" Rosalie suggested. I locked in on my power and concentrated on an owl. I shrunk from my panda size down to owl size, and my skin felt itchy as the feathers grew in. I peered in the mirror that we had set out, and saw my eyes had changed from topaz to a light amber color, and my plumage a snowy white.

Then we heard the purr of Edward's Volvo. He had gone to get Bella so she could see my new talent. I took flight and hurried to the tree line, watching from the branches of a large oak.

Edward led Bella across the lawn towards the porch, and I heard him talking to her.

"Where did she go?" Bella asked. "I'm not sure….she should be right here." I could tell he was lying. With his vampire eyes he had seen me flying to the trees. The other Cullen's were suppressing their laughter.

With an almighty screech, I flung myself off the branch and swooped over Bella's head. She screamed and raised her arms.

I flew right past her and did a 180 degree turn, coming back at her. This time I slowed as I got nearer, and landed neatly on her head. Bella screamed again, louder than before. Now that I was closer, this was deafeningly loud, as I already had vampire hearing and being an owl that was amplified even more.

I let out a feeble hoot, and fell from her head, momentarily blinded by the pain in my ears.

I slumped to the ground and morphed back into my human form, groaning and clutching my head.

"My ears…" I whimpered. "My poor poor ears….."

Bella, startled, looked to the ground and saw me lying there, where the owl was only moments before. "Oh my god!" she exclaimed. "Did I hurt your ears? I am so so sorry!"

I shook my head and groaned again, unable to communicate.

Edward chuckled and I glared at him through watering eyes. It was a good thing those tears could never spill. That would be humiliating.

I stood up, my legs trembling, my ears ringing. Emmett laughed at me from the porch. "There, now was that so hard?" he called sarcastically. "I didn't think that your ears effected your whole body!" and he started laughing again while everyone else stared at him, excluding me. I was glaring.

"You want me to show you how much that can hurt?" I asked him menacingly. If there was one thing I hated, that was being teased.

Emmett's laughter stopped abruptly and his eyes widened. Andrew grinned madly and shoved Emmett into the clearing, and I advanced upon him.

I leapt up and, in midair, morphed into a black howler monkey, and landed on Emmett's shoulders. Then I sucked in a deep breath and screeched into Emmett's ear as loudly as I could.

Emmett gasped and fell to his knees, clutching his head just as I had done. I stopped and morphed back to my regular self, standing right next to him. I know it was cruel to put such a big guy in so much pain but hey, in my book, he deserved it.

Emmett groaned again and hauled himself to his feet, wobbling on the spot. I put out my arm to steady him. Hey, I'm not heartless.

"Now amplify that by about 10." I said softly. "You feel my pain now?"

Emmett nodded and returned to the porch; Where Edward and Bella were now sitting.

"I think that's enough practice for today" Alice murmured, and Jasper nodded in agreement, wincing. I realized that he could probably feel the pain that Emmett and I had just gone through.

I smiled and nodded, and I headed back to my family. I sighed and sat down on a free porch step, resting my back on Andrew's knees. I felt his surprise at this gesture, and I suppressed a giggle. Back at school, this was normal for me. My friends and I always shared seats, sat on each others laps, and rested our elbows on each others shoulders. It was a perfectly normal thing for me.

I sighed and put my hands behind my head, staring at the clear blue sky. The clouds looked so soft….I had always wanted to touch a cloud, ever since my first time in an airplane (I have been in an airplane so many times…cuz we used to go to Florida every other winter, now we go pretty much every winter. In February. That's why I want it to be February 15th right now, so I can go someplace a hell of a lot warmer than Duluth Minnesota.)

That's when I realized that, if I really wanted to, I could go touch one right now.

As that thought clicked into my mind, I stood up and changed into a bald eagle. I flapped my mighty wings (ha, for some reason I love that sentence) and took flight. I soared high up into the sky until I reached the very bottom of the lowest cloud. I skimmed around it and brushed the tips of my wings to the powdery white fluff.

I was hardly surprised to find my wing wet after that. Every person my age ought to know that clouds are made up of water. I soared higher and swooshed right through a very large cloud.

Now I was soaking, and I was finding it very hard to fly in that state. So I slowed and started to descend.

Then I was jolted as a gust of wind caught me. I was flung up higher into the sky. I fought against the flurry but it was useless. Even with my vampire strength, I was stuck. The wind was much too strong. It whipped me back and forth, up and down. I was quickly losing control, and the fact that the wind and water together were making my feathers stick up everywhere, making it impossible to steer correctly.

Then an even harder wind struck, and I was blown backwards. I felt myself falling, and the house dropped out of sight. And I was still falling….and I could tell there was no one to catch me…

Ooh Cliffie!! You better update quick and find out what happens! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha!