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Bella arrived about ten minutes before the guest were supposed to start arriving to help greet everyone since she was -unwillingly- one of the hosts.
While Bella was dragged into helping pick out the music by Alice, I pulled on the green ballet flats that I had grabbed from my closet here, so that I wasn't enduring the party in shoes that would kill my feet. After securing the use of my feet tomorrow, I went downstairs to the door to be ready to greet the party goers who were no doubt ecstatic to finally see the Cullen house.
The first to arrive was Mike Newton, followed shortly by Jessica and Lauren. When I saw the steady stream of headlights approaching the house, I just left the door open, and made my way back up the stairs, suddenly not wanting to greet all those people.
Within an hour, the house was packed, and the party was in full swing. I had danced with Marcus once to satisfy his mating instincts, but made sure to dance with some of my mortal friends as well.
Almost two hours into the party however, we got some unwelcome visitors in the form of three of the wolves from La Push. I spotted them as I was walking over to hang out with Alice for a second, only to rush to her side at seeing her pause on the stairs with a faraway look. Before I could ask what her vision was, Bella arrived, her dogs right behind her.
"What did you see?" She asked, taking the words right out of my mouth for once.
"The newborns." Alice said, her voice low enough not to alert any of the other party goers to the problem.
"You're not going to Seattle, are you Pixie Sticks?" I asked, dread seeping into my tone.
"No, they're coming here." She said, looking at me so only I could see the slight panic in her eyes.
"Marcus, we have an emergency. Grab the others, and meet us in uncle Carlisle's study." I murmured, grabbing Alice's hand and pulling her up the stairs, Bella and her dogs following loyally behind.
When we got to the study, I was surprised to see Carlisle, Esme, and Marcus already there with Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper coming in behind us.
Dropping Alice's hand, I walked right over to Marcus, who immediately put his arm around my shoulder in a comforting notion as he pulled me in for a sideways hug.
"It's the army, they'll be here in four days." Alice said, wasting no time in explaining her vision.
"Hold up, what damn army?" Jacob demanded, stepping forward.
"None of your business, so go chase your tail Black. This is a people problem, but if we need someone to chase a car, we'll have Bella give you a call." I snapped, cutting Carlisle off before he could speak.
All three dogs and aforementioned pest glared at me, while Marcus's chest shook with silent laughter, and Carlisle gave me a look of mildly amused exasperation.
"Newborns. Our kind." He said, turning to look at Jacob after a second.
"What the hell does that mean?" The mutt demanded, sounding pissed.
"It means an ugly fight with lives lost." I answered for Carlisle.
"Did you recognize anyone, Alice?" Broodward asked, holding Bella like she was some kind of stuffed animal.
"Maybe one." She said, looking kind of sad.
"I recognize his face. Riley Biers. He didn't start this though." Broodward said.
"Whoever did is good at playing puppeteer so they can stay out of the spotlight then." I said.
Jasper looked grim faced at my words, and I knew he was remembering his time in Maria's army.
"I saw them passing around Bella's scent. A red blouse." Alice added, causing the tension in the room to build.
"They're after Bella? What the hell does that mean then?" Jacob demanded, and I rolled my eyes.
"It means dumbass, that Bella is either the target of the army, or the army is after the Cullens and knew Bella was likely to be with them. Either way, now that they have her scent, they'll be tracking it, and I'm certain that even one newborn in that army would have a better tracking skill than the brood master here." I said, jerking my thumb at Edward, who glared at me for bringing up the fact that he couldn't track for shit.
"Jacob, do you believe Sam would be willing to come to an understanding?" Carlisle asked, and my jaw dropped.
"Carlisle, we don't need them with our abilities and my weapons!" I exclaimed, switching to Greek so the mutts wouldn't catch anything.
"It would be potentially suspicious if they didn't help us, Stella. Now that they know an army is coming, gunning for Bella's scent, they won't be left out. If they find us manipulating fire, it could end up backfiring on us. You can still use your arrows if it makes you feel any better." He replied, thankfully in Greek.
I sighed in irritation, but nodded my acquiescence while mentally grumbling about having to work with the mutts. Jacob and his two lackeys were looking back and forth between Carlisle and I in wonderful confused irritation, but nodded in response to Carlisle's question for him.
"Just name the time and place." He said. In the next couple of minutes, we had agreed to meet in the baseball clearing tomorrow night at midnight.
The next day came all too quick in my opinion, and I had ended up sleeping until noon due to how late the party had gone. I had ended up passing out in my room at the Cullen's, and had spent the day there.
Thankfully though, after I had passed out, Esme called Charlie to let him know so that he didn't worry. I had gone back home for dinner though, and made spaghetti and talked to Charlie about random things. When eight rolled around, Bella had declared that she was going to bed early since the party had wiped her out.
I rolled my eyes discreetly, wondering how she would cover her being tired tomorrow since she had insisted on going to the clearing. I had managed to hold out until Charlie announced that he was off to bed at ten. I nodded and followed him up the stairs, hugging him goodnight at his door before continuing up to my room.
Once in my room, I grabbed my bag that held my things for the boxing gym, and pulled out the workout outfit within to change, pulling my hair into a high ponytail and twisting it into a bun so that it my hair was completely secure when I was done changing.
After making sure that I was ready for whatever sparring I may do tonight, I went to my desk and pulled out a medium sized square metal tin and a large thermos, and put them into my gym bag. The tin contained some ambrosia squares, while the thermos was full of nectar for the off chance that they would be needed.
Realizing that I was now done preparing for the meeting, I sat on my bed and started playing around on my phone for the remaining hour and forty five minutes until I had to go.
Thankfully, the time passed quickly with the distraction, and soon it was eleven fifty. I grabbed the duffle bag and walked over to a shadow in my room, concentrating on the baseball clearing, and walked out of a shadow not too far from where the Cullens were standing.
"Hey, Stella." Emmett greeted, as I walked over to join them.
"Hey, Teddy Bear. Where's Marcus?" I asked, noticing the lack of my mate.
"He went hunting, but he should be here soon." Rosalie said, coming over to give me a hug.
I nodded and returned her embrace right as the broody duo ran into the clearing.
"So what's in the bag?" Jasper asked, after nodding at the two in greeting.
I smiled, setting my bag down and opening it to pull out the tin and thermos.
"Well Ninja, I thought it would be likely one of us would get hurt, so I brought nectar and ambrosia. I've got a towel in there too, if I need that as well." I said, showing them the containers of the godly food and drink.
"What's nectar and ambrosia?" Bella asked, sounding tired and clueless.
"The food and drink of the gods." A familiar smooth voice interrupted, before an arm dropped around my shoulders.
"According to my lovely mate here, if a mortal were to consume either one of them, they would burn to a crisp from the inside." Marcus said, causing me to nod, and Bella to pale.
Before I could say anything else though, all the vampires turned to face a grouping of trees expectantly, and I realized that the wolves were arriving. My eyes widened only minutely when ten large wolves emerged from the trees.
"They don't trust us enough to be in their human forms." Broodward announced, and I had to hold back my scoff.
So they trusted us enough to show up, but not enough to speak for themselves in their human forms? What idiots.
"They came, that's all that matters. Will you translate?" Carlisle asked, and Broodward nodded.
"Welcome, thank you for coming tonight." Carlisle said, addressing the pack of idiots in front of us.
"We will listen and watch, but no more. That is all we can expect of our self control." Broodward said in a monotone voice, and I realized that he was speaking for the alpha of the pack.
I had to bite the inside of my cheek to keep from voicing how stupid that statement was, though I couldn't suppress the eye roll.
"That's all we will ask of you then." Carlisle stated kindly.
"What is the other Swan girl doing here?" Edward asked, and I glared at the pack, answering before Carlisle could.
"I am here because I have a unique skill set, and weapons that are able to pierce vampire skin and take them here. I'm here because I'm an asset, and will protect my loved ones." I said, barely refraining from snapping.
"Would you be willing to share these weapons?" He asked, and I saw the large black wolf tilt his head, indicating that he was the one who had asked, and was likely the alpha.
I glared firmly at him, standing straighter and exuded a little bit of the power I had. My godly aura was slowly gaining power, but I wasn't able to make them collapse. I wouldn't be able to exude that much power until my 18th birthday, but it was enough to get their attention and realize not to mess with me.
"The weapons I have are made from very rare metals that are even considered sacred. I will not share them, and should I find any of my arrows missing once we take down the newborns, I will go after each and every one of you to get it back, and if any of you get hurt, it will be on your own heads." I warned, making them wince.
"We understand, we will not touch your weapons." Edward spoke for them, and I nodded in satisfaction.
I watched as Jasper explained how newborns differed from matured vampires, and the rules about fighting them before grinning in anticipation as he started calling people forward to fight.
I laughed as he whooped Emmett's ass in less than a minute, before facing off with Rosalie, who he also beat, though she put up a bit more of a fight.
I made a mental note to teach both her and Emmett some fighting skills that I picked up from my Ares heritage. Finally though, after nearly an hour, it was my turn.
"Stella, you're up." My soul brother said, waving me forward.
I felt Marcus tense for a second before letting me move forward. I stalked up toward Jasper confidently, having studied how he fought against the others. I remembered how he had told the wolves that the newborns would not fight with anything but single minded brutality. All I had to do in order to put up a decent fight against Jasper would be to picture fighting Hercules on his hissy fit on the beach that first fateful quest.
"Ready?" He asked as I stopped in front of him.
In response, I dropped into a casual stance that only a trained eye would recognize as ready for a fight.
"Whenever you are, Ninja." I said casually.
He nodded, and in the next blink, swung at me. I ducked the swipe, fluidly gong to the ground, and kicking his legs out from beneath him. He rolled to his feat as I rose from the ground and tackled me. I inwardly smirked as I brought my foot to his gut and kicked him over me, using his own momentum against him. Our fight managed to go on for five minutes before he got in a lucky shot to my side, sending me flying a couple feet and winning the spar.
"Are you alright?" He asked, coming over to check on me.
I nodded, slightly dazed from his hit, and allowed him to help me to my feet.
"I'm fine, I just need a drink." I said.
It was casual enough not to alert the mutts to anything, but Jasper grimaced slightly, walking me back over to Marcus who had the thermos and tin in his hands.
"Go kick the others' asses, Ninja. I'm fine, really." I told him, and he nodded once before going back to his instructing.
Once the wolves were once again distracted, aside from the rust colored one who was next to Bella indicating that he was obviously Jacob, I opened the tin and popped an ambrosia square into my mouth and chased it with a gulp of nectar. Once I could feel the pain in my side from what I knew was a cracked rip going away due to the godly food and drink healing me, I sat down, prepared to take it easy for the rest of the night.
Boom baby! Double update tonight! I hope you guys liked the chapters for tonight, and promise to get the rest of this story up before I move. Love ya! Read and review!
