Five years to change

Chapter 9

There was a loud crack throughout the forest as Charlie made impact with jasper. They were locked in a wrestling match while I sat watching in the sun my tail flicking lazily on the boulder. "Hey beautiful" it was Edward he came and sat next me on the boulder were the sun was beating down on me. "Hey handsome" I said letting him put an arm around me. I had gotten into the habit of walking around in my tigress form most of the time except when in the house, when I was in the house I half shifted leaving me with big cat eyes and tail. It was more comfortable being in between the two forms. Right now I was full tiger mode and I let Edward scratch behind my ears. Charlie was doing well it helped that he already knew some stuff from being a cop. He didn't have any extra powers like me and the others though he did seem to be that little bit stronger than the rest of us which meant Emmett was constantly trying to beat him. I had shown everyone my extra powers and they thought it was great until I made it rain in the middle of a beautiful sunny day, I didn't mean to but Emmett snuck up on me and I made a snap decision to throw him into a tree and start the rain. It wasn't my fault!

I watched as Charlie was pinned by Jasper. I sprang forward and pulled them apart. "Right now the warm up is over time to train" I said jumping on my hind legs I bet I must look pretty strange I could hear Edward chuckle at how excited I was. I walked past him and flicked him with my tail "up mister I need a target to demonstrate with." I said he stopped chuckling and now it was Jaspers turn to chuckle. My father sat on the boulder I was just on and Jake came and joined him along with the rest of the family. "On three come at me" I said Edward nodded I had been trying to show him I can handle myself and fighting him does just that. "One… two… three" he sprinted forward and I pictured myself going through the motions. I jumped over him leaving a trail of colour that vaguely resembled me which carried on as I ran around him disorientating him before I leapt on his back and sent him on his front, "hi" I whispered pecking him on the cheek he smiled "you know if you wanted to kiss me you didn't have to attack me in front of my whole family" he smirked "where's the fun in that?" I asked as I helped him up. "How did you do that? It looked like there was a million of you" said Edward as we walked back to the stunned family. "it is the traditional fighting technique of the searchers they created it when they wanted a way to fight other threatening searchers without leaving a trail. It makes it harder to track someone when it looks like there are more than one of them. This means it should come naturally to you dad but the rest of you will need to work on it."

I said Charlie looked happy with this information, but the rest of them looked bored yet impressed. "Bella as impressive as it is why we would need to use this technique when it is a technique of the searchers?" asked Rosalie who was in the middle of inspecting her nails. "Because you can still be tracked by vampires and searchers alike and it is a very powerful fighting technique. You guys need to be protected. I know you don't think you have any enemies but there are a lot of people who want to exterminate vampires completely. Like the Australian shifters they shift into wolfs and have been trying to kill as many vampires as possible and are currently winning the volturi are going to have to interfere soon and then the hunters will come." I said they all looked more alert now and willing. Now to start of I want you all to line up a meter apart." They did as I said. "Now think of yourself as all different molecules what shape are they? What colour are they? How do they move? Now I want you to imagine them shifting and while doing that I want you to walk forwards slowly and imagine you conscious leaving your body." They did as they were asked Charlie got it first time; they all walked with their eyes closed until I told them to stop. They turned around and looked for any part of themselves that has left a trail. Charlie's was perfect and he was really happy "that's great Charlie, perfect now I want you to turn it off you do this by imagining all the particles coming back into your body imagine then flowing towards you." He did as he was asked and the trail disappeared back into him. "Great now go and practise doing that and don't do anything more than just walking yet" he nodded and went back to the start point. I looked at the rest. Alice had a faint trail that would be unnoticeable to the human eye but was defiantly faintly there. Jasper had a more solid looking one but it had no colour and stopped in certain places. Edwards had all the colours in the right place but the shape was all over the place. I expected this from these three because their gifts were centred around the mind and how it works differently to their body, but the rest weren't so lucky they hadn't produced anything.

Five hours later

They had all produced a trail that was good enough to confuse Charlie our resident searcher. Btu they needed to work on moving quickly with it and not just walking. Btu I was happy for now and they were all in need of a break. We all trooped inside, Charlie flopped onto the sofa even though we couldn't get tired it mentally exhausting. Jake had gone back to the pack as soon as he had mastered walking with it so he could go on his patrols. I sat on the floor always preferring hard surfaces to soft ones after sleeping on a forest floor for most of the time it felt natural. Edward sat above me stroking my hair. While Alice and Jasper sat across from us on the loveseat, and Esme and Carlisle tucked into each other on the armchair I didn't know were Emmett was, Rosalie was in the garage but Emmett ran off into the forest without warning once we finished training. I smelt the best smell on earth approaching the house, my tail perked up and Edward chuckled as I sprang up and ran outside much to the bewilderment of the others. I went outside to see Emmett clutching the biggest amount of catnip on earth. I heard the others file out behind me and laugh as they realise were Emmett has been. I shifted fully and pulled Emmett into a hug. He laughed and rubbed some catnip on my nose and I went crazy, but he held above me and made me jump for it. Oh so he wanted to play. I crouched down and sprang forward grabbing the bunch of catnip and landing high up in a tree. I spread out lounging in the tree with the magnificent scent surrounding me. They all laughed down below as I rippled with purrs. "I think we should leave her alone for some catnip time" said Emmett as the family trooped back inside as I snuck into the scent. And started playing with bundle.

2 hours later.

I ran up the steps with a the ripped up sack that Emmett had put the catnip in. they were all sitting around the lounge reading talking and listening to music. They all looked up at me and smirked as I came in full human form. I dumped the destroyed remains of the sack on Emmett's lap. He looked at it in amusement and then back at me, "you enjoyed that?" he asked I nodded eagerly. It was the best and I was still blissfully peaceful from it. I heard the communicator go of in its new home in the kitchen. I ran to get it eager to talk to Elizabetta. "Bella you there?" she asked.

"I'm here"

"Good, how are you doing? How's training?" she asked

"it's going well they were a bit reluctant at first but they are doing good now" I told her

"well you are a good teacher, listen there are a few hunters that we have picked up on around your area they are around Seattle but from what we can tell they are trainees and don't know what they are doing otherwise they would have found you by now. Just a warning though you might want to get a memory potion brewing." She said I nodded if they were trainees there would be no need for a fight, if they do find us they will be weak enough to put a potion on.

"alright I will get that ready" I said as Emmett walked in, "hey Elizabetta how are you?" he asked cheekily ever since he found out that Elizabetta was a bear shifter he has wanted to wrestle her. "I am good Emmett you still trying to beat Bella at something?" she asked, "Actually I found Bella's weakness Catnip." He said wiggling his at me, "Emmett! Do Not Give Bella catnip! We tried it on the island and she was seriously uncontrollable! Only use it when you want to bribe her!" she said before calling of. Emmett boomed with laughter I secretly planned my revenge.