A/N: Hey Guys!! What's up foshizzle my nizzle?! It's about 1:00am right now but I decided to be nice and give you guys your update now instead of waiting till tomorrow. I am such a good person...cough...yeah right. Anywho, This is the moment you all have been waiting for...not sure if it came out the way you guys wanted it but I tried! Honestly I did!! Well I hope you all like it anyway regardless of the suckiness. And the title is a quote by John Milton.

This chappy goes to condawg1 for being awesome (for a sicky) and putting up with all my D.Gray-man and Naruto rants and Truelove 4ever!! I could never plan a hostile weed take over of the world without you!!! You're my weed partner in crime!!! Here's to all those moments with which we make our parents wonder about our sanity!!!!!

Disclaimer: I own everything in this fic that Stephenie Meyer doesn't!

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I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby it just happens every day

Recap:

"Your Majesty, I have some news that may be troubling to you." She said in her thick Jamaican accent.

"I doubt it could be that troubling dear Galmaea."

"Oh but it tis. I know who attacked the Princess Raina of the Dragons."

And time seems to have gone still.

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"You-You what?" gasped Bella, clutching her chest before quickly regaining her composure.

Galmaea looked around then turned and began walking down the hall to one of the private rooms. "Come Your Majesty, it is not safe to speak of such matters where there are prying eyes and ears."

With a quick glance behind her to make sure no one would notice her absence and a quick pang of guilt for not grabbing the others but it would have caused too much ruckus, she followed the hem of Galmaea's retreating form into a room off the hall.

The Seer was already seated in one of the wing-back chairs by the fire in the always lit grate.

Bella gracefully entered the room and sat down across from her. Galmaea appeared to blend in with the dark room; her form illuminated by the fire's dancing light.

"You said you know who did this?" pressed Bella after a silence, trying not to let her impatience seep into her voice.

Galmaea got a glint in her eye as she withdrew a small crystal ball from one of her long white sleeves of her under-dress. The ball was filled with silvery swirling smoke whose contents only Galmaea could decipher.

It was the gift and curse of the Seer, the Seer could not pass on until someone was found who could read the crystal ball's messages and replace them. Some Seer's have had to wait centuries before a replacement was found and trained so they could die in peace.

"You do realize that I cannot see exactly what has happened to da child. I have only come across dis information by deciphering what da crystal shows me."

"Of course Galmaea. If it's a question of my trust in you then know that I trust you to tell me the truth." Bella leaned forward, waiting for Galamaea's reading.

Galmaea didn't reply but instead focused all her energy and attention on the crystal. The tattoos on her face and arms along with her eyes lit up to a blinding white as she gazed into the crystal's depths. Suddenly she snapped to attention, sitting board-straight in her chair, her glowing white eyes bored into Bella's as she sat there shell-shocked. The Seer began to speak, not only in her voice, but the voices of the past Seers.

"A yellow serpent hides in the midst of a grand garden while a purple dragon sleeps. The serpent attacks the sleeping dragon, biting and injecting its poison into the soft underside of the dragon, forcefully waking it up. The dragon roars and tries to fight back but the poison has paralyzed the dragon. Going in for the kill the yellow serpent wraps itself around the neck of the purple beast, choking the life out of the once great creature. A blue dragon and a gold dragon descend from the sky and pull the serpent off their fallen comrade. Together the blue and gold dragons kill the serpent, leaving its body to rot in the earth of the once grand garden. Pearls of tears leak from the eyes of the dragons as they carry the body of the purple away for them to mourn their loss.

"Beware the serpent Isabella Marie Swan, Queen Adelina of the Vampires. 'Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned'."

With that, the lights on Galmaea's body glowed for a couple more seconds before fading, her eyes and posture returning to normal.

Based on the clues from the reading, the blue and gold dragons were Xaephyn and Fazaron and the purple was Raina. The serpent however Bella had no idea.

"Do you know who the serpent is?" She asked once Galmaea had regained control of herself and organized her thoughts.

"For dat I had to read da bones for da answer." She got a knowing look in her eye as she looked at the woman across from her. Bella was less than reassured.

"The one who did dis great crime is a woman vampire who is practiced in da ways of deception. She tinks that she can outwit me by her seeming innocence but my bones do not lie and can see into da blackest of hearts." Galmaea's anger seemed to grow along with the fire that began to crackle and grow more and more as the seer spoke, seeming to grow herself.

"Da one who did dis is –"

The fire roared and blazed in the great, burning the logs with a great ferocity breaking them in half. The sound masking what the Seer said and the gasp coming from the Queen's mouth.

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(I was thinking about stopping here…but I didn't…aren't you all relieved?)

The door to the room where the Seer and the Queen occupied flew open with a bang as it hit the wall. The Queen tore out of the room, right up to the group keeping vigil. In her haste, she roughly sent Aubrey flying, knocked over Cai's chair with him in it, and scratched Toni's cheek as she ripped their wives/girlfriends from their protective grasps and continued down the corridor.

"What the hell?!" shouted Cai as he got up from the floor.

Galmaea walked over to them, the mysterious knowing look back in her eye. She smirked at their confused faces, revealing her not so pearly teeth.

"The Queen has merely found some information that brightens her whole outlook on life."

"Huh?"

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"JORDAN!" yelled Bella as she went to the room where he and Amy were staying.

She knocked on the door; there was a manic look in her eye as she pounded on said door.

Amy pulled open the door to look at the group as if they were all crazies. She had her long blonde hair in a ponytail and she was only wearing a camisole and shorts.

"What's going on?" asked a shocked Amy as she ushered them inside. "What's got you all so worked up that you're asking for Jordan?"

"Your guess is as good as ours." Said Raven, shrugging as they all sat down.

"Where's Jordan. I really really really need to speak to him." Said Bella, she was craning her head to look around the room to see if she could spot him hiding somewhere.

"He's in the shower. And I repeat, what's going on?" pressed a flustered Amy.

"Galmaea the Seer told me who attacked Raina but I want to make sure we have the right person." Said Bella quickly as if that was the most unimportant thing in the world as she listened intently to hear if the shower had stopped.

"What? When in the hell were you going to tell us?" asked an outraged Raven.

"Sshh. I was going to tell you once I was sure on everything." She waved her hand in Raven's direction to quiet her down while her head faced the bathroom.

"Which would be when exactly? After you talked to my own fucking brother?" Raven stood up, furious, sarcasm laced heavily in her voice.

"Ssh." Bella continued to ignore her, her whole focus burning holes in the bathroom door.

"No I will not be fucking 'shh'd!"

Nicole rubbed her temples. "She's talking like me more and more."

"That's not a good thing." Chorused Ashley and Amy.

"God dammit Bella! You don't have to do everything yourself!"

That got Bella's attention. She turned to face her fuming sister.

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me! You're always taking on more and more work! More than you should so that we all can spend time with our loves! It all started since before May Day and don't think I didn't notice! I remember one time I had a whole stack of papers to sign and go through when I had a date with Cai that same night and there was no way I was going to be done in time!"

Raven had Bella's full attention by this time, along with everyone else's.

"And what did you do? You told me to go on the date and not worry about all the paperwork saying you would do it and I said ok! I knew you're desk was covered in stacks upon stacks of papers ranging anywhere from reports from your spies to bills waiting to be signed and I said ok anyway! Didn't think anything of it!"

Looks of dawning comprehension were on Nicole's and Ashley's faces as they remembered all the free time they had been having recently and how little they had been seeing of Bella.

"Even Galmaea goes to you instead of going to all of us!" continued Raven.

Nicole suddenly took a long look at Bella at how the bags under her eyes were more pronounced, how pale her skin was and the slightly dulled look in her black and gold eyes. "You haven't been drinking enough blood have you? I haven't seen you at dinner the past couple weeks and if you were there, you barely drank any blood at all!"

"When the maid handed you the hot chocolate with blood, you drank that like it was the last drink you would get in a while." Continued Ashley.

"Bella! You've been doing too much from the sounds of it! These three aren't the only ones who think so! The whole palace has been talking about all the work you've been doing. People are worried dear." Said Amy, putting a reassuring hand on her sister-in-law's knee.

"I'm fine. I've been through worse…there's no need to worry. You guys need to spend time with your loves and since I don't have one, I think it's fair that I help you guys out." Bella was stunned in her chair, she honestly didn't want to worry them and she just wanted to make sure what happened to her wouldn't happen to them.

There was a collective exasperated sigh in the room as they all looked at her as if to say "do you really think we're that stupid?"

"You're being self-sacrificing again." Complained Raven.

"We were meant to share the work load equally, that's why we each assigned each other the jobs we have. Don't worry about us. You should be worrying about yourself so we don't have to." said Ashley.

Nicole got up and slung her arm around Bella's shoulders. "You definitely don't hang out with me enough. Give me two weeks and I'll have you being selfish in no time."

Amy looked disapprovingly. "I will not be having you corrupt Bella any more than you have."

"Lighten up prissy pants."

"Excuse me?!" shrieked Amy.

The other three just shook their heads, those two will never get along they thought.

Just then Jordan came out of the bathroom wearing a pair of sweatpants with a towel around his shoulders to catch the water from his still wet jet black hair.

He looked over at his wife and Nicole still bickering in each other's faces. He sighed, "Those two will never get along will they?"

The looks on all their faces were "DUH!"

"Right. So anyway, based on all the yelling and such Bella wants me to look into the past to see who attacked Lady Raina. Actually I'm surprised you guys didn't come to me sooner." He rubbed the towel in his hair, making it messier but drying it off at the same time.

That got Amy and Nicole to stop muttering curses at each other's faces and to look at him as if he was an alien.

"What? I thought it was obvious." He looked at all their stupefied faces.

"If it was so obvious why didn't you come see us at once dickweed?" shouted Raven, as she stood up to yell properly at her older brother.

"Dickweed? Like I haven't heard that one before." He said dryly. "And to answer your question, you all were so upset I didn't want to add anymore burdens. I was there when Dad died Rave, so I know how much you can take at one time." At that last sentence he looked his little sister right in the eye making her look away and sit back down.

"So I made sure to already go and check the past right away once I heard the news at dinner, just ask Amy."

"Quit stalling and tell us which bastard did this." Growled out Nicole.

"Fine." He held up his hands in defeat. "The one who did this was..."

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Tanya was in her room, sitting calmly on Edward's lap as they both were reading the same book. They heard rushed footsteps coming down the hallway but thought nothing of it.

Probably still looking for me. Cackled Tanya in her mind which she had blocked from Edward.

All Edward did was turn the page and continue to read.

The footsteps stopped outside their room and someone began banging on the door.

"Open up! Open in the name of the Queens!"

Exchanging confused looks, Edward put the book down on the table next to the chair and got up to answer the door after placing Tanya from his lap to the chair.

Tanya watched him open the door and talk to the person(s) outside. After a few minutes he opened the door to let in Jonathon Gray, army commander and head of castle security, and three armed guards: a vampire, dragon, and elf.

Jonathon breezed past Edward and, along with his men, made his way over to a smirking Tanya.

Tanya was highly amused by this spectacle, what were they going to do? Issue a royal decree? She almost laughed out loud at the thought.

Jonathon smirked back at her as he pulled out a rolled up piece of parchment from a pouch on his belt.

He unrolled it and began to read in a loud carrying voice:

"By royal decree of Their Royal Highnesses Queen Adelina, Queen Caterina, Queen Gabriella, and Queen Rosalina, I, Jonathon Gray Commander of the Army and the Queens' Guard here by arrest one Tanya of the Denali Coven for the charges of treason, false pretences, and attempted man-slaughter on one Princess Raina Devau of the Dragons. You are to be detained in one of the deepest and darkest cells in our dungeon while the date and manner for your execution is set."

He rolled the scroll back up with a flourish and kept a composed face as he motioned to the guards to seize the frozen Tanya.

"What?" she gasped as the dragon guard pulled her roughly up and placed arms behind her back as the elf placed reinforced steel handcuffs on her. "You dare!" she shrieked.

"Yes…I dare." The dragon moved so that he could grin wolfishly down at her. "You're going to be wishing that the Queens killed you now once the Fuhrer and Prince are through with you."

For the first time since Mathias came to see her, a prickle of fear crawled down her spine causing her to get chills.

The guards moved to form a circle around her once they reached the hallway, not to prevent her from escaping but to protect her from the hostile onlookers who had been drawn in by Jonathon's purposefully loud voice.

The Cullens were part of the onlookers. Alice smiled impishly up at Tanya as she passed while Esme clutched at her frozen heart in Carlisle's protective embrace. Rosalie stood there next to Emmett with a stony face, no sympathy at all. Jasper was almost as bad as Rosalie and Emmett, well Emmett just looked on sadly.

By now Edward had walked out.

"Edward! Edward darling! Help me! Bella's just using this as an excuse to get back at me for taking you away from her! Edward! She's just jealous of us!" she called pleadingly over her shoulder.

He just looked back at her: sadness, betrayal, and anger were all present in his eyes...but not love. She tried to use her powers but found she could not.

The vampire guard looked at her smugly, "Injected ya while you was shrieking like a banshee. Nifty little thing" She flicked the syringe she had used. "Weakens a vampire to the point of being practically human and prevents them from using an special powers they got. This means no using your powers on Eddy dear back there."

"Love!" called Tanya again but Edward just turned his back on her and went to his family.

"You'll regret this Edward Anthony Mason Cullen! No one can stop Victoria! Not even your precious Queen Adelina." She spat.

A resounding slap echoed through the air as Tanya's head was thrown brutally to the side.

In front of her stood a furious Alice, hand still raised, and breathing heavily as she glared up her former friend.

"Don't you EVER speak about Lina like that again." She growled and instead of being a twirling pixie, she resembled what she truly was…a vampire. Her teeth were bared as she snarled.

The vampire next to Tanya looked and whistled appreciatively at Alice. "Like you even more kid. You should think about training with us sometime." She said.

Alice beamed up at her, "Careful, I may just take you up on that!"

The other guards had continued without their vampire comrade and were already at the end of the next hall.

"Oops. Gotta run! If you feel like it, head down to the training grounds at around 8 o'clock. Tell them Regina sent you!" with that she sprinted down the hall to catch up with the escort party.

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Tanya was thrown roughly into the cell. She jumped up from the ground and raced to the door just as it clanked shut and was locked from the outside.

"Damn you all to hell!" she yelled out, her voice echoing on the walls as she gripped the steel bars in her hands.

The guards' laughter reverberated around her before the door where the distant beam of light was coming from slammed shut and was locked as well.

Instead of sinking to the floor and moping, she paced around her cell, trying to think of ways to get her out of this mess. So far the future was looking bleak unless Victoria somehow broke her out.

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A somewhat healthier looking Xaephyn and Fazaron stood in front of the Queens, although they still didn't look presentable.

"You captured the one who hurt Raina?" asked Fazaron.

"Yes we have and she is currently in one of our worst cells awaiting her punishment." Replied Raven.

"Are you absolutely positive this is the right person?" asked Xaephyn.

"Galmaea informed me earlier today and we confirmed it with Caterina's brother who has the ability to see into the past." Bella nodded, a smile gracing her face for the first time in a while.

Fazaron sat weakly into one of the nearby while Xaephyn remained standing.

With a fierce look on his face he asked, "She'll be getting the death sentence of course?"

"That is out of our hands although that is what we plan to do. Even though this was in our country and one of our people, she attacked your country's princess and therefore we are giving her to you to deal with as you see fit." Said Nicole graciously.

Xaephyn and Fazaron both bowed deeply to show their thanks.

The dragons turned to leave.

"I hear the cooks are serving venison with lunch, why don't you two go there before going back to Raina's bedside?" asked Ashley as she steered them in the direction of the Great Hall.

"But!" protested Xaephyn.

All Ashley did was shush him and keep pushing them both, chatting merrily away the whole way to the Great Hall.

The remaining three slumped once again in the nearby chairs.

"Good thing we didn't tell them that the reason they're getting her is that we're too tired to deal with her." Muttered Raven.

"Fantastic idea Niki to make it look like we're doing it diplomatically." Bella gave Niki two thumbs up.

"Yeah and now they won't think you're doing it for revenge." Niki replied back.

Bella stood up and stretched. "Well I have a hankering for some nice Jungle Jaguar, who's coming?"

"Nice to see your appetite back." Laughed Nicole as she stood up as well, along with Raven.

"Jaguar's for hoes, I've got a mighty hungering for BLACK PANTHER BITCHES!" cackled Raven as she zoomed out the door with Bella and Niki hot on her heels.

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The End!

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I wanna see your face, painted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
Yeah!

A/N: Well I hoped you all like it and I just want to say now that I won't be able to update for the next two weeks at least since I start school again on Monday and the following week I have exams so I'll be studying all this week and next week! Joy, no?

Ok, so now I'm going to rant about random crap for a while. So I got Guitar Hero III for the Wii for Christmas and man that is an awesome game!!!! The song above, Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones, is on the game...I beat it!!!...on easy but WHATEVA!!! I've beat the whole game on easy so now I'm going to try medium..oh lord. Who else has it? And who has read Vampire Kisses?! ZOMFG!!!!!!! That is an amazing book!1!!!1!! I read that in one whole night and I finished Kissing Coffins last night!!!! I love Alexander!! He's awesome, not as awesome as Edward of course but still!! Speaking of Edward, by a show of hands how many people hate Jacob? Ok, that's a lot...how about how many people like Jacob, not more than Edward but they like him...Ok that's one...two...three? no ok only two including me...I can see why people don't like him but I personally think he's awesome. My friend hates Jacob with a passion and wishes that he would die. That's just a bit harsh right? Hmmm...I was going to talk about some other random crap but I can't seem to remember it...what was it?! UGH I can't remember! -pouts-

All questions and/or ideas are welcome!!!!!!!

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