A/N: Hey guys! I bet you're all proud of her for updating practically in the same month! this one only took me like two weeks! round of applaause. yes thank you, I do deserve it! jk. Well I'm sure all of you will like this one, at least the ending anyways...
Apparently this fic has become really funny...I was only going to make it slightly humorous like with Raven and her POV but it somehow progressed to being mostly funny and well, I'm a funny person, I'm not gonna lie and I just get so many funny ideas that it's inevitable that I would put them all in. Hope you guys don't mind that.
Here's you next chapter whatever the hell number it is...I don't even know anymore.
Enjoy!
Oh! and before I forget Disclaimer for this chappy and the previous: I DON'T OWN SQUAT!
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Sappy pathetic little me I'd trade you places any day
That was the girl I used to be
You had me on my knees
I'd never thought you could be that way
But you looked like me on Sunday
Bella's POV
I rubbed my temples as me and the others collapsed into arm chairs in our study.
"They're going to give me a headache!" whined Raven.
"I'll give you a headache." Retorted Nicole threateningly.
"Oh shut up! All of you!" moaned Ashley.
"She's just in a pissy mood because Toni's not back yet." Snickered Raven.
"Would it kill you to act your real age not your mental age for once?" snapped Niki.
"Guys, we already have the other dimwits biting each other's heads off; we don't need to be doing that too!" I complained, covering my eyes with my arm as I slumped in my chair.
Just then a thought went shooting across my mind.
"Aw crap. We gotta go explain crap to the Cullens."
"What do you mean 'we'? 'We' ain't doin' shit, you're the one going to talk to them." Corrected Nicole, not even moving from her slumped position in her chair.
"So great to have sisters like you." I retorted sarcastically as I creakily got up from my chair.
Grumbling under my breath, I walked down the never ending hallway to where I knew the Cullens were at by sensing their auras. I guess some vamp out there has the ability to see auras cause I do.
If I wasn't on the verge of a migraine–I would have thought the sight in front of me was hilarious:
Alice was sprawled on the floor with anime spirals for eyes, drool coming out of one corner of her mouth, Emmett was in the same position next to her but more pathetic due to his size; Jasper was shaking his head while fighting a smile, Rosalie glared at her husband as if her will alone would make him snap out of it; Esme was knitting with Carlisle taking notes of what happened today down next to her; Edward was laughing; and Tanya was sitting next to him, not really there, thinking hard about the newly acquired information and how to relay it to her master.
Edward's laugh, I haven't heard that sound in the longest time, it made my heart clench and my eyes soften at the thought I may never hear him laugh with me again, but then my eyes hardened in anger at the fact that the only person in my way was Tanya. That bitch is going down and I know just how to do it.
Jasper looked up as he felt my strong emotions and waved before taking pictures of Emmett and Alice for black mail later.
I cleared my throat.
"Hey guys, umm, so…what did ya think?" I asked hesitantly.
"Well you know what Emmett and Alice think, they're still trying to process it." Commented Jasper, laughing lightly.
I started, I never heard Jasper laugh before, and he's always been so reserved and polite, well I mean I have but still…I'm not quite used to it yet.
Edward's eyes, luminescent from his recent laughter, looked over at me and seemed warmer and glowed more than ever before. I could feel all tension leave my body and a warmth begin to spread from my heart outward. Not even Tanya could ruin this moment.
"It was very informative; I'm still trying to get everything down." Muttered Carlisle absentmindedly, still continuing to write down what he learned this evening.
"He talked to the elves didn't he." I stated bluntly.
All the others nodded their heads.
"Well, as you all know, May Day is in three days so that should be plenty of time to get to know the others and decide what you're going to wear. I'm not going to tell you what May Day is cause everything will be explained then." (plus the authoress is just too damn lazy)
I suddenly dropped any pretenses and stiffness I had left over from dinner and became Bella, not Queen Adelina, once more.
I flopped onto the floor to fall back with my arms spread, hair around me, laughing gleefully, on the floor.
"Oh my god!" I breathed. "I never get tired of seeing them together!"
"I know!" Alice and I laughed out hearts out till our chests hurt and we labored to breath.
We were still lying on the floor, our heads on each other's shoulders, still grinning from our previous laughter.
Tanya, against her better judgment I'm sure, left the room saying she needed to "use the restroom".
I felt complete, more whole than I had felt in a while with my family: Emmett and Jasper arm wrestling, Edward helping Carlisle, Rosalie with Esme braiding her hair, and Alice and I laughing about nothing and everything on the floor.
I can live with this.
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Raven's POV
Where is that boy? He can't still be talking with the dragons.
A wave of jealously swept through me at the thought of the little pixies and fishes flirting with Cai as he chatted with them.
"I'm going to look for bastard." I stood abruptly, announced this, and marched through the door to look for said bastard.
I paced furiously through the palace, trying vainly, to find him.
You're overreacting you know…
Shut up.
This is what caused problems last time…
It's not my fault I have a hyperactive imagination!
Raised eyebrow. So you're saying that you could be imagining things?
…No…
That's what I thought…you think on what I said…
You didn't say anything! I was the one doing all the thinking!
Ugh. Now my head hurts.
I leaned against the wall and held my head.
"Ow." I whined.
I felt two hands on top of mine and someone place their forehead on mine.
"Didn't I tell you what happens when you think too much?"
I pouted up at Cai as he smirked down at me.
"Hmph. At least I wasn't off booty-calling pixies and fishi."
"Fishi?"
"Yeah, my word for more than one fish. Deal with it."
He laughed quietly before pulling me off with him, suctioned to his side.
"I'm serious!"
"I wasn't 'booty-calling' as you so delicately put it. I was off looking for you but since you just had to make a dramatic exit, I had no idea where you were." He replied, kissing my cheek.
"Ok." I sighed, snuggling against his side.
"I think Jordan and Amy are here, wanna go look for them?"
I nodded, not wanting to move from my spot.
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TIME SKIP!!! 3 DAYS LATER….
I.E. MAY DAY!!!!!!!!!
Bella's POV
"It looks like a giant carnival with a splash of Japanese festival thrown in." mused Raven as she looked around at all the stalls, rides, and open areas where the tournaments and entertainments were going to take place.
The faeries were in charge of entertainment, usually are; each of the different clans are very competitive and very different from each other–hence the emperor to unify them–so their magic is different. No matter what though, it's beautiful.
The different clans are:
The earth, water, wind/air, fire, lightening, stone, iron, light, and dark. You can guess the types of magic from that, right?
The first part of the festival is a time when everyone can walk around, talk, socialize in general and titles aren't used…the elves don't like this one much….
Then the entertainment takes place, all the rulers including us and everyone else, take their seats to watch and eat.
Once this is done, there's an hour break for those competing in the tournaments to suit up and the lots to be drawn.
Then the battles commence, yadda yadda yadda, more food, winners announced, you get the gist right?
So we were sitting watching all the usual tournaments…well our usual anyway.
Yes we have jousting but not your conventional jousting. Instead of horses, the faerie, vampire, merman, or elf rides a dragon that they have partnered up with and use special magic infused steel javelins.
It doesn't hurt the person when they hit, just jolts them enough to hopefully knock them off.
Once the riders fight their own battle, the dragons begin to fight each other. The winning team is the team that is still functioning.
Then there are the usual skill challenges that aren't as fun to watch, followed by dueling. This is the best part of the whole thing, well in my opinion at least.
A vampire walked through the booth handing out flyers.
I leaned over to Raven, "Ok, so which ones do I care about?"
She scanned the list of duels and made a purple check next to each with her finger tip.
Xaephyn vs. Daraemon
Raina vs. Oberon
Aubrey vs. Aelfdane
Jaladhi vs. Fazaron
And…
I spit out the blood I was drinking.
Tanya vs. Adelina
"No one told me I was fighting!"
"No one told me either! That little bitch!"
People turned around in their seats to look at us–mainly Raven.
"Heheh." We rubbed the back of our necks and turned back to the pamphlet.
Nicole and Ashley looked over our shoulders from their seats behind us.
"Do I have to separate you two again?" asked Ashley.
"Ok, who slept with who?" asked Nicole, inspecting the both of us for signs.
"No! And we didn't sleep with anyone!" we said rather loudly again.
"Sorry." Raven and I muttered.
"Ahem." We coughed trying to make things less awkward.
(I don't really feel like going into all the different fights so I think I'll just sum them up with a few words describing what happened and who won until Bella's…that's the one you need to pay attention to.)
Normal POV
Xaephyn won of course despite all the bets being made between dragons and elves. Daraemon was close at certain points in time but Xaephyn was stronger and had fire on his side…plus daddy was watching and he wanted to make him proud.
Raina almost won but come on! Oberon is the faerie emperor if she had won there would have been a HUGE upset! It would not have gone over well. Fazaron was ok with it saying "She did her best. Reminded me of her mother when I tried to cop-a-feel." Needless to say Raina was not as happy with the compliment as most would think. The rest of the assembly screamed "TMI!" to the dragon king who was busy trying to appease his raging daughter.
Now the fight between Aubrey and Aelfdane was interesting to say the least…Nicole is still trying to recover from the shock. During the course of the fight, Aelfdane tried to rile Aubrey up enough to get sloppy by insulting the queens. And we all know how much of a sexist bastard he is so…what happened when Aelfdane insulted Nicole is a real shocker. When he did that, Aubrey's face contorted with rage and ended up giving the elf king a bleeding gash on his arm and told him to never ever insult "Gabriella" in his presence again or that he would do worse than a bloody "cut". The was a big gasp from the crowd as he said that, well mainly from the vampires because they had all seen Aubrey and Nicole at least once in their stay at the palace. Ashley, Bella, and Raven all looked at Nicole with identical smirks as if to say "I told you so."
Said female is still trying to figure out what came over Aubrey and is currently in the bathroom; Aubrey's whereabouts are still unknown. He disappeared after Nicole kicked Raven in the head and ran to said bathroom.
Jaladhi vs. Fazaron…I'm sure you all can guess what happened but for those of you who are too slow to figure out the outcome of water against fire then let me inform you. Whenever Fazaron tried to flame the merking, said merking would just change it into steam with his water….Jaladhi won but barely, most thought it would be a stalemate but with these turbulent times one can barely tell anymore.
Now there aren't just these five fights, there's more in between each of these fights, these are just the only ones our main characters (and author) care about.
Cue announcer voice and lights…
"Now it's time for the fight you've all been looking forward to! The fight between our very own Queen Adelina and the treacherous Tanya! Who will claim Edward's heart? (Edward spit and choked when he heard the last part, Emmett thumped him on the back) The only way to find out is to watch the match!"
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Bella walked into the clearing wearing a short-sleeved tunic and pants with laced up boots. She appeared to be weaponless and her face was wiped clean of any and all emotion.
Tanya on the other hand walked out in a sports bra, sweat pants, and tennis shoes. She had a overconfident smirk on her face and a sword strapped around her waist.
This is going to be a cinch, between the facts that we can't use powers and from what Edward told me she hates violence. There's no way she can win. Thought Tanya to herself as she and Bella shook hands and stepped back, preparing to fight.
Bella calmly got into her fighting stance with her right foot behind her and her left in front, both were bent; her right arm was in front of her body and her left bent and behind; her hands were curled into semi-fists. The whole time her face was kept blank or anything that could give her intentions away.
Tanya stood with her feet planted square with her shoulders and her arms locked with the sword pointing out in front of her, still smirking.
The official waved his arm down, signaling the start of the match; Bella didn't move an inch but Tanya charged forward bringing her sword down in a swinging arch to land on Bella's shoulder only to feel wind as Bella disappeared and reappeared behind Tanya, in the same stance as before.
Tanya, in response, whirled around with the sword to have it slice Bella's head clean off but Bella's merely dodged. The fight continued in this fashion, Tanya attacking with the sword and Bella dancing around it at the last possible moment.
Bella could tell that Tanya was getting frustrated at coming close but never succeeding every time, this was exactly what she wanted, to get her to become so angry as to make a mistake.
On one of her arcs, Tanya was able to slice a bit of Bella's tunic. Tanya smirked triumphantly at Bella. Bella, meanwhile, examined the cut with mild interest before walking over to the side of the clearing and picking up the sword that was hung on the wrack there.
Tanya had taken the time to clean and sharpen her sword. Bella returned and took up the same stance as before except her right arm was bent over her head holding the sword and she leaned more on her left foot.
"I think it's time to become serious, don't you agree Tanya?" Bella asked.
Tanya blanched a little at the fact that Bella had been toying with her but quickly covered it up and said,
"About time, I was getting bored with the lack of initiative."
"I wouldn't want to bore you." And with that Bella shifted her weight and pushed off with her right foot to run at Tanya with flawless grace to bring her sword in a high arc and have it swing beautifully down to slice Tanya's cheek; a bit of clear venom leaked out.
Growling, Tanya leaped back and changed up her stance to accommodate this new art style of fighting she had never seen before.
The fight–if you can even call it that–deteriorated at a rapid pace for Tanya after that.
Bella was simply too fast for Tanya, although to give the girl credit, she did slice Bella's arm and her leg a little.
Bella, on the other hand, didn't go for the kill, she slowly but effectively made little cuts here and there on Tanya's body. Now you wouldn't think this as the best battle strategy but think about it, venom is a vampire's blood so Bella is depleting Tanya's source of energy through the bleeding cuts that wouldn't heal till the match was over.
Shing. Both swords were knocked out of the other's hands as they swung at each other with equal strength.
Not missing a beat, Bella resumed her original position. Tanya took a similar stance but with fists in front of her.
There was silence as both waited for the other to make the first move, assessing the other's injuries and remaining strength.
Tanya was breathing heavily but her stance was till firm. Bella wasn't breathing as hard but you could tell.
This time Bella made the first move. She pushed off with her left foot instead this time and sped at Tanya, constantly changing position as she ran in order to confuse Tanya as to which direction she was going to attack from.
Bella was moving so fast that one could only see glimpses of her whenever she changed position.
Bella disappeared and reappeared behind Tanya at a diagonal in the air and swung her hand out to slice Tanya in the back of the neck with her nails.
Tanya spun around to meet Bella and swung her arm up to meet Bella's stomach. Reacting quickly, still in the air, Bella moved her body to the side so Tanya missed by a hair's width. Bella swung her leg up to catch Tanya's head and send her spinning to the ground.
With all the venom loss and the injuries she received, Tanya lost her energy and was only able to get to her knees, panting for air.
The official raised his arm in Bella's direction and announced her as the winner.
Bella walked over to Tanya and held her hand out to help her up as a good sport, but she pulled her up and put her mouth close to her ear and said so that no one noticed or could hear,
"I was holding back." She let go and moved back to be treated for her minor cuts and gashes while Tanya just stood there, shaking slightly.
The medics went to her as well and she was taken to the hospital wing of the palace.
As Bella was being congratulated for her victory and was questioned to where she learned to fight like that she caught Edward's eye and saw the look on his face as he stared at her.
She had won.
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The End!
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I know who I am, but who are you?
You're not looking like you used to
You're on the other side of the mirror
So nothing's looking quite as clear
Thank you for turning on the lights
Thank you, now you're the parasite
I didn't think you had it in you
And now you're looking like I used to
Ok so that song was Sunday Morning by No Doubt. Umm...i hoped you all liked the fight, I had a blast writing it. I was going to make it where Tanya and Bella were matched but then Bella stopped holding back but I was like "nah" they don't want to see Tanya almost winning! I have people asking met to kill her for pete's sake!
And I was going to have Emmett push Edward into the lap of some old vampire or dragon lady, you know the creepy scary ugly ones in movies where they like stalk the young hot guy who tries to escape them and they always leave lipstick marks? well yeah like when he choked but didn't feel like adding it in...
Hoped you all liked it!
and Review! That means you, you people who only Favorite me, my fic, or put me on story or author alert! You need to review too!!!!!!!
i mean i'm flattered and all but throw me a bone here! if i feel like people are addicted to this (like some are, you know who you are) then i will be guilted into writing more and updating somewhat regularly.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!
mines gonna suck, my cuzes on my dad's side are coming up and they're all boys...in my house...for five days...someone shoot me now...hope you's guyses is more fun than mine!!!!