The sun shone bright patterns on the various flowers that grew wildly around them, in a kaleidoscope of blues, oranges and reds, marking the air with their floral essence. The river's water glistened brightly as waves splashed gently along the stream, making droplets land on their bodies and then run downwards. The sky spoke of hidden treasures as its bright rays shone in their hair, a blend of brown and red. It was at that moment that each realized the glories of life itself and basked in it.

The feeling was the complete opposite of how each had felt this morning.

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The terrain was rough with jagged points shooting above the ground at many different intervals. After tripping once and skinning her knee, Edward had personally escorted Bella, on his back, through the hike trail, worrying about her even though he knew any injury she sustained would be healed in less than two minutes.

It was two days after their first meal and each felt they were ready to get to stage two of their long adventure. So after a breakfast consisting of steak, bacon and eggs, courtesy of Esme, they each had set out early morning through the forest with Carlisle and Emmett, whom couldn't wait.

The energy and adrenalin they had gathered from Esme's meal had quickly vanished as they gazed out at the 50 feet drop in front of them. The winds whispered over their skins of the certain death they gambled on. Suddenly they each felt nauseous.

"Um… I don't think I can do this" Bella spoke aloud, her voice laced with fear, bordering on the edge of hysteria. Since new dragons needed to hunt every three days, she briefly thought of faking hunger to get away from this insanity.

"Don't worry love, I'll be right behind you", Edward said, kissing her forehead, trying to fully rein in his own fear to convince her of their safety, which he knew was useless, since Bella was always on some level deeply embedded in his mind as he was to her.

"Okay guys, let's get this show on the road" Emmett bombed, his face and tone spoke of his amusement at their faces and of his own excitement of getting in the sky again, since Rosalie, to all the families shock, had fallen pregnant again and could not fly in her delicate condition, both expecting parents prayed this one would last. Since children hardly survived full term, Carlisle had advised Rosalie as he did when Esme was pregnant with his own children, not to transform until after the pregnancy, which Rosalie had wholeheartedly agreed to, she would not lose her child again.

Edward and Bella both signed and faced each other, lending strength and encouragement to one another. Their green and brown eyes sparkled as the change began. It was different than the first change, as it happened in an instant. One minute they stood faced opposite each other, their hands linked together and in the next second there stood two black dragons, their lupine form on four legs, and their wings tucked tightly against their bodies.

Their fast transformation had been shock to the Cullen family as young dragons normally took at least three years adjusting to the stretching and changing paces of the transformation, but Edward and Bella took to it naturally. Instead of taking three minutes to transform, as new dragons normally took, they were done in less than five seconds, rivaling Casper's own time.

Casper had cursed the first time he had seen it happen, he was accompanying them on their third hunting trip and suddenly instead of leading two teenagers through the thick dense woods, he had two black dragons, towering above him. He had quickly transformed, startled by this, which in itself was a miracle to accomplish, seen as he was a very old dragon and hardly anything surprised him anymore, well except his wife and her giddiness for adventure, he smiled thinking about their last sexual escapade, she still affected him like she did 200 years ago and made him feel like a teenager.

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The cool winds felt cold against their warm scales, a result from their fast beating hearts. Their stance was frigid almost like a statue. Their breaths mingled, making the air smell of spice and the unmistakable scent of fear.

Before any of them could react or even savor a thought on what Emmett was doing, they were falling, over the edge of the rock face, courtesy of their dear brother. It was a long practiced tradition on the art of learning to fly. To be pushed, and having no inkling of the action happening, dragon instincts normally took over from the shock, guiding the young dragon on learning how to fly and away from the fear of failing and falling. In truth it was evil but if "it worked for the vultures, why not the dragons" the first dragon had written in the ancient text. Emmett had cursed the dragon after his first flight and crash.

The wind rushed in their ears, as they fell, their limbs spread out awkwardly under them. The flush green coppice was heading directly for them as they gazed downward, but before either could scream or howl in this case, it happened.

Instinct took over, their backs straightened, ears lowered on their heads and tails stood at attention, while wings unbuckled themselves from their backs.

The first thought from her head was "Whoa" as Bella felt herself stop falling and drifting on the air currents. No thought could summarize the amount of amazement she felt, looking down and gazing at the treetops.

"This is ethereal" Edward thought as he himself gazed around him, his aura slightly glowing from the emotion he was feeling.

Emmett and Carlisle laughed as Edward and Bella raced up from the rock face and above their heads. They seemed genuinely ecstatic as they raced against each other, their blue and white auras sparkling in the sky. They circled each other teasingly, seeing who would make the first lunge and surprisingly it came from Bella. Her wings tucked against her body, making a dive bomb for Edward, which he in turn intercepted with his tail.

Out of Edward's perpendicular vision, he saw Emmett flying towards them; his brown dragon form twice the size of their own due to his 122-year-old age on them.

"Bella on three, we gang up on Emmett" the thought came to her, just as she was going to make another lunge for Edward, loving the feel of the free spirit ness flying invigorated in her.

"3…2….1" they sang in their minds as the brown dragon, just realizing what was happening flew away from them but a tad too late.

Carlisle laughed as he gazed up in the sky to his children joyfully playing above him. He couldn't help chuckling as the two black dragons' head butted Emmett in his back and quickly flew away again preparing another assault. He was slightly amazed they could actually land a hit on him, seen as they were so much younger but he hypothesized that through their mind sharing abilities they had quickly adopted a style all their own.

They seemed to breeze through the newborn stage, their calculated attacks and faces proved that as they continued to combine attack against Emmett.

Suddenly out of nowhere, Emmett crashed to the ground, debris and dirt shattering as he crash landed and Carlisle grazed above to two very awestruck, and horrified dragons. The air was thick with dust, fire, heat and apprehension.

The pounding in his head lessened as he got back on his four paws. His eyes stung from the dust that had flown into them and his wings felt too heavy on his sprained back, he basically felt like he'd been hit by a boulder and then burned, which practically he had. Quickly he transformed and signed heavily as the pain evaporated, the result of changing from one form to the next.

Edward and Bella was horrified as they gazed down at their brother, whom lied motionless below them, and Carlisle's trained gaze, that seemed to bore into their souls.

They quickly flew down and transformed.

The last of the sparks had hardly died down when two distinct "We're sorry" rang out in the air. Carlisle finally stopped gazing at the bluish fire that was still lingering in the air to look at his children, whose faces were chagrined.

"Children, what happened?" Carlisle said as he helped Emmett off the ground, whose own face held confusion.

Carlisle listened as Bella and Edward explained that as Emmett was head bombing towards them, a slight sizzling had exploded over their bodies and the next thing they knew Emmett was bouncing off an invisible barrier, his body aflame.

"It's okay" Emmett said walking over to his siblings, one of whom had tears in her eyes, and hugged them tightly, "I know it wasn't intentional, I just have to be careful around you two" and with that his toothy smile returned, as he wiped the tears running down Bella's face and kissed her on the forehead.

Carlisle went over the facts again and again, long after he and Emmett had returned home, leaving Edward and Bella who wanted some alone time, on the rock face. He had explained to his family and the Swan family what had happened and each was puzzled. The first thing Rebecca had said was that "Dragons shouldn't be able to do that" and it was true, never in Casper's 600 years or his own 300 had they ever seen anything like this.

Esme summed it up to having to do with their mysterious connection and the family couldn't agree more. The family members resolved themselves into finding out more information about this, even the Swan family, who wanted to help their daughter.

(little lemon goodness)

Mouth open against her, Edward kissed Bella with all the love and passion he felt for her. His tongue inched itself into her honey sweetened mouth, almost making him explode. This was beyond what he had imagined, her soft moans spurred him on, and his body reacted vigorously to her mewls, rubbing himself gently against her.

His hands on their own accord moved softly under her blue v-neck blouse and inched toward her stomach, feeling her muscles twitch underneath his sweaty palms.

The strange sensations running through her were exhilarating as she ran her hands in Edward's curly, reddish brown locks, slightly scratching his scalp, which made him began to purr, a low cat-like sound, the noise rumbling from his chest. "I didn't know dragons purred," she whispered laughingly into his ear, as she continued her assault on his head.

Her laughter quickly died down as she felt Edward inching toward her bra, his long fingers hesitantly encircling her laced covered nipples, which had grown to hard points.

Edward felt uncertain as he continued to assault her breast but the rasped gasp from her mouth did build his ego but he knew they had to stop as Bella's hands started rubbing themselves over his miniscule amounts of chest hair and heading farther downwards. He just couldn't find it in himself to tell her to stop.

He nearly jumped from the ground when her hands started to rub against his erection, setting his skin ablaze. He started to increase his pace against her.

At the same time, they briefly managed to gain back some reality from the senses overflowing their minds and said to each other, their voices hoarse, "We need to stop"

They both laughed and slowed their pace, Bella's hand returning from his southern region and his hand from her breast. With one final kiss they both settled back into the flowers, their chest heaving rapidly.

"Sorry" Edward said facing Bella, feeling contrite at his actions, he could imagine what his mother would have said to him if she ever found out.

Gathering from his mind, Bella felt the guilt and disgust he was swallowing himself by and quickly reassured him.

"Edward, if anyone needs to apologize its me, I was the one touching your…." She coughed and blushed just thinking about it, the red flourish quickly spreading across her cheeks. She remembered thinking as she was stroking him, how excessively big and warm he was, even through his denim jeans, it was like being under a magic spell, knowing what was happening but having no control over it.

Edward quickly grabbed her hands and blushing said, "Well, I um enjoyed it so there's no reason to apologize" his rare blush lightening his face, matched with a little grin, making his little dimples show.

"He's so adorable" Bella thought and after a while said "How about we just admit we each got away from ourselves".

The sun continued to gaze upon them as they both smiled at each other with the love basically shining from their eyes.

A/N We got to 65 reviews, thank you so much guys, obviously couldn't have done it without you. The little lemon was a little reward, how did you like it. My ultimate goal is to reach 100 in the next 2 chapters, aiming high :) Sorry for any mistakes in this chapter and story actually, I forgot to mention I do not have a beta. Please tell me what you think,

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