Emmett and Jasper POV, enjoy :)

Emmett POV

I was literally bouncing through the room in anticipation. We would have our first how-to-kill-newborns lesson tonight and all we had to wait for now was for Edward to arrive with Bella. My human baby sister had insisted on coming with us and I had to admire her persistence. I was sure she was going to be one tough vampire some day.

We all heard the sound of Edward's Volvo and the steady heartbeat that came with it. Bella's heartbeat was faster than normal and I couldn't blame her. This was all extremely exciting and I really couldn't wait. I raced outside just in time to see Edward open the door for a nervous looking Bella. She gave me a small smile, then waved to my family who had come outside after me. 'Ready to go?' Jasper asked seriously to everyone. 'Sure are, let's go!' I whooped loudly. Bella climbed onto Edward's back so that she would be able to keep up with us as Bella Backpack.

Melody spread her wings behind her and put an arm around Jasper's waist. Zackary had decided that he would run with us as he had wanted to race me for quite some time. 'See you at the clearing.' Jasper said and a second later Melody launched herself into the air. 'See you at the clearing.' I smirked to Zackary. I didn't give him a change to say something back as I shot into the forest towards the clearing. I wasn't running at full speed yet and I chanced a glance behind me to see how my competition was doing so far. Of course, looking back was a mistake as Zackary came closer to me really fast.

Before I had time to react he sped past me. 'Eat my dust, vamp-boy.' He yelled. A low, playful growl escaped then and I put up a burst of speed. I soon caught up with him and we were running neck to neck as we neared the clearing. We burst through the trees about the same time but I was sure I had won. 'I win!' I yelled at the exact same moment Zackary yelled the same thing. 'It was a tie.' Jasper chuckled from the left where he was sitting on a rock formation with Melody sitting behind him, a bit higher.

'It so wasn't a tie as I clearly won.' I said smugly. 'You couldn't have won as I was the one who was out of the forest first.' Zackary drawled. We continued bickering like that until Alice spoiled it. 'It was a tie. I saw it the moment you decided to race but you didn't wait for me to tell you.' She chirped happily. I huffed but had to admit that it was a tie then. Alice her visions were never wrong about these things. 'Next time I will win bird-boy.' I growled playfully. 'You're on, vamp-boy.'

Not long after we arrived at the clearing the wolf pack arrived as well. 'Amazing…' Edward whispered and I growled at him in frustration. He and his stupid mind reading ability made him forget that no one could understand what he was talking about but him. 'Care to elaborate?' I asked as Edward once again remained silent after saying something was "amazing". 'The pack's mind… it functions as one.' Edward explained quietly so that only we could hear. I wasn't even sure Bella could hear so the wolfs were definitely out of the question.

The largest of the pack had a russet colour and was looking at Bella as if he knew her. I growled at him as a warning to stay away from my baby sister and it had the desired effect of the wolf backing down. It was kind of a shame that I wasn't allowed to test my strength against the wolfs. They were our natural enemy and I had always wondered who was stronger; the wolf or the vampire. Edward chuckled at my thoughts but I just ignored him.

In the middle of the wolf pack stood a man in human form. He motioned for Melody to come over and I could tell that Jasper wasn't going for this. He pulled her closer and growled at the man while Melody looked at him apologetically. The man raised an eyebrow before turning his gaze on Zackary who nodded and quickly ran over to him. They discussed something too soft for us to hear before Zackary ran back to tell us what the big news was. 'He just wanted to tell us that they are only here to watch and not to participate. They'll remember the advice we give and will train with it later on their own. Sam, the leader who I was just talking to, is going to change now because he feels more comfortable in wolf form when he's this close to vamps.' Zackary explained quickly.

'Okay, let's get this started.' Jasper said and I couldn't agree with him more. All this standing around and talking wasn't what we had come here for. Jasper went to stand between the wolf pack and us but kept his gaze on us as if he was trying to ignore the fact that half a dozen, really bad smelling wolfs were standing behind him. He told us everything he knew about newborns except for why he knew so much about them. We all knew that story, even Bella as we told her a few days ago, and had decided that it was none of the wolfs' business.

'Emmett, care to help me give a demonstration?' Jasper asked with a grin after he finished his explanation. I jumped up, as I sat down during the explanation out of boredom, and ran to stand in front of Jasper. 'Just attack me head on like a newborn would do.' He told me. 'My pleasure.' I said with a smirk. I launched myself at Jasper who crouched down in a defensive position. As I was about to hit him, hard I might add, he jumped to the side and before I knew it he had me pinned to the ground in a very uncomfortable way.

I growled at Jasper in frustration and as a sign that he could let go as I got the message. Jasper let go of me and I jumped to my feet again as he explained what had happened and what he had done to avoid it. 'Never go for the easy kill.' He said, emphasizing each word carefully. Everyone nodded, even the wolfs, which looked very funny, before Jasper continued the lesson. After a few more rounds of me biting the dust, literally, it was time for Edward to show what he was made of.

It was fun to see Jasper fight Edward even though it was only a play fight. Edward would hear what Jasper would want to do, but Jasper had way more experience in fighting than Edward which meant it was quite an even fight. In the end neither of them won which left them both grinning like fools. Next came my Rosie and I had to admit that she was doing very well. She kept standing longer than I had but in the end, Jasper won that fight as well. He gave Rose some instructions before moving on to the next member of the family.

I watched as Alice, Esme and Carlisle all had their turn and was proud to say that I wasn't the fastest to go down. Both Esme and Carlisle went down quicker than I had. Jasper than turned to Bella. 'I know you're afraid for both Zackary and Melody as they aren't vampires and have blood flowing through their veins.' Bella just nodded but appeared too stunned by what had happened to speak. 'Zackary, if you please.' Jasper said.

Zackary grinned wickedly at Jasper as he went to stand opposite him. 'This should be fun.' He grinned. Jasper then surprised us by attacking first. With all of us he had waited for us to attack. Zackary waited until the last second before jumping up and… well… just hovered there with that same grin as before on his face. Jasper's head snapped up and less than a second later he had jumped up and grabbed Zackary by his ankles.

Before Jasper had gotten his feet back on the ground he flipped his body into a horizontal position and pulled Zackary with him. At the exact right time Jasper let go of Zackary which caused the big mouthed phoenix to fly at an alarming speed towards a couple of trees. Jasper landed and kept his eyes fixed on Zackary. The moment I thought he was going to hit the trees Zackary flipped backwards and planted his feet on the tree; using it as a platform to launch himself from. This went on for a couple of minutes and neither of them ever really got the upper hand.

Next came Melody and I heard her mutter, 'finally'. I chuckled at my little sister as I had noticed her getting anxious to get her turn in all of this. She went to stand in front of Jasper as relaxed as if they were going to play catch. Jasper started circling her slowly, for a vampire, and Melody just followed him with her eyes. The only thing she moved were her wings which twitched as if in anticipation. After circling her twice Jasper launched faster than I had ever seen him do it. Melody jumped to the side at the last second and punched her fist out. She didn't touch Jasper at all but still my brother flew to the side as if the punch had been dead on. Jasper flew out of the clearing and through a few trees before he could stop himself and launched back at Melody.

My sister was waiting for him though. She spread her wings and launched upward at the exact right moment. She then folded her wings and let herself fall down at an amazing speed. Luckily for Jasper he had a lot of experience in fighting so he got away and grabbed melody around her neck with one arm while securing her arms behind her back with his other arm. I heard Bella whimper and walked to her side. 'She's going to be alright. I know my baby sister and she always finds a way out of these kinds of things.' I told Bella. 'Edward said the same thing… but still.' Bella whispered. Edward pulled Bella closer to him and kissed the top of her head. 'Don't worry so much.' He said softly.

I turned my gaze back on the struggle between Melody and Jasper. In the short period of time I hadn't been looking Melody had wriggled herself free and was standing upside down with her hands on Jasper's shoulder. She gave him a fast wink before falling over and dragging Jasper with her. The moment her feet touched the ground she pulled Jasper over her shoulder and released him at exactly the right time. Jasper flew with magnificent speed, I doubted Bella would be able to follow it, towards the other side of the field but before he was halfway Melody stopped him with her power. She lowered Jasper to the ground slowly and released him again once his feet touched the ground. In less than a second Jasper was standing in front of his mate again with a grin on plastered on his face.

'I win.' Melody said with a similar grin. 'You go lil' sis!' I yelled happily. Of course my brother just had to kiss my baby sister before turning to us. 'You see, Bella? No need to worry about Melody. I would never let her get hurt.' He said the last thing more to Melody than to any of us and I made a gagging sound as they kept staring lovingly at each other. Melody turned to me and grinned. 'I know Emmett, I know.' She said while walking over to me. I grinned at her and held my hand up for a high five. She slapped her hand against mine with a grin. 'You were great out there, squirt.' I grinned.

'Emmett, again.' Jasper called and I walked to him with a last grin to Melody and Rose. Rose winked to me and gave me an air kiss. As before I readied myself opposite Jasper. I crouched down and a second later I launched myself at my brother. This time I didn't continue head on but instead stepped right at the last moment and my fist collided with Jasper's jaw less than a second later… or I thought it did as I was aiming for it. I had, however, hit his hand which he had put between my fist and his jaw just in time to catch it. He grinned at me and I answered his grin by making a high kick to his head. This one did hit its mark but Jasper wouldn't be Jasper if he didn't retaliate immediately.

The training went on like this, each of us going up against not only Jasper but each other as well, until the early morning. Anna was a surprisingly good fighter for a newborn but if things got to heated she would turn back to basic which meant she would get herself into trouble. Jasper had each of us fight against her so that she could learn the different styles vampires could use in a fight. She absorbed everything and became better and better with each new match.

Bella had fallen asleep halfway through it and was leaning against either Zackary or Melody as they didn't have an ice cold body which would cool her down too much. As the sun started to rise we called it a day… or night… whichever and Edward took Bella home. We continued like that for a couple of days until Alice got a vision of the newborns' attack. It was going to be in two days and so, it was time to plan for real.

Jasper POV

We were waiting in the clearing for the arrival of the newborns. Alice had told us they would come from the village side of the forest so we waited on the other side of the clearing. The wolfs were all hidden in the forest at a point where Alice had seen the newborns' futures disappear which meant that half of them would be destroyed by the wolfs.

Bella had made a trail earlier today that would lead the newborns right to us. She was now, with Edward and two of the wolfs, deep in the mountains and would stay there for the duration of the fight. She had wanted to be here in the clearing which would be a perfect strategic plan as the newborns would go crazy because of her scent. Edward had been the one to absolutely refuse to go along with this plan and so we had to do without it.

Anna on the other hand had refused to be left behind as she wanted to help fight to save Bella. Even though she had wanted to kill Bella when they first met she had worked hard on controlling her bloodlust and against all odds Bella and her had become quite good friends. We had put her at the back of our formation with Esme and Rosalie who would keep an eye on her and help whenever she needed it. In front of Esme, Rosalie and Anna stood Carlisle, Alice and Zackary and I stood at the front with Melody and Emmett.

We waited and listened for the arrival of the newborns. Alice was trying to get a glimpse of the exact time of arrival but hadn't found anything so far. The wind blew past me and I caught a whiff of the stink of the wolfs which meant they were in position. 'They're here.' Alice suddenly said and I looked back just in time to see her pull out of a vision. I felt everyone tense around me and instinctively reached for Melody's hand. She met me halfway and held on tight as we both looked at the other side of the clearing.

Soon we could all hear the rustle of leaves and a second later the bright red eyes of the newborns became visible between the trees along with two sets of deeper red eyes of the two vampires who were walking in front of the rest. They stopped as soon as all of them were out of the forest. There were thirteen newborns and two older vampires in front of us which meant that the others were going around to try and ambush us. They obviously didn't know about the wolfs, good.

'It seems our pet isn't here, Laurent.' The one with the ponytail drawled. Several of my family let out a growl at the word pet but didn't say anything. 'Well then we should finish up here quickly and find her, shouldn't we James.' The one called Laurent drawled back. So, they were called James and Laurent. Not that I cared as they would be dead soon but it was still nice to know the names of those you are about to kill… or so they say. I never really cared for such nonsense as the quicker you kill your enemy the less damage he or she can do to you.

The one called Laurent held out his arm as a sign to the newborns that they should wait as they were getting restless. 'This will be over soon.' he whispered, barely loud enough for us to hear. 'Take no prisoners.' James growled. Laurent put his arm down and in the blink of an eye the newborns launched themselves towards us. Emmett growled at the approaching newborns before launching himself towards two of them. A normal vampire would stop his assault but newborns didn't function that way.

I didn't see the end of Emmett's assault on the two newborns as two others flew directly towards Melody and me. I crouched down and observed my attacker. A great thing about being a vampire was that observing your enemy only took about a second. The only thing that the newborn listened to was his bloodlust which increased as he came closer to my mate. 'I love you.' Melody whispered before launching herself at the second newborn.

Halfway there she stretched her arm backwards and made a grabbing motion. The newborn who was coming towards me stopped and was pulled backwards the moment Melody swung her hand in a throwing motion towards the newborn she was engaging. The look on the newborn's face was priceless as he flew back. A loud crack resonated through the clearing as the two vampires collided in midair. You focus on the older vamps. Melody told me as she came to stand in front of the two newborns who were on their feet again.

I didn't like the idea of my girl fighting two newborns on her own but I had my own battle to fight. I knew Melody was more than capable of fighting these two but it still felt wrong. I didn't get more time to think about it as another newborn attacked me from my left. His bloodlust wasn't as bad as the one from before and his eyes were slightly less crimson which meant he was a little older than the others. I quickly ducked as the newborn made to grab me and shot my fist up to collide with his jaw with a satisfying crack.

The newborn flew backwards and I wasted no time in flashing to his back and grabbing his arms. The newborn's head shot back and his fear increased dramatically. I felt the grin I had worn while fighting in Maria's army spread across my face just before I pulled back and ripped both the newborn's arms from his body. The metallic screech it made echoed across the clearing and as if on cue the fear of all the newborns increased.

'Need some fire?' Zackary asked as he dropped his opponent who was in several pieces by now. I grinned at him before turning back to my own newborn. I lifted him up as I saw Zackary light his enemy with a green fireball. I grabbed the head of the young vampire with both my hands and before he could say or do anything I ripped it clean off his head with another metallic screech. I was about to throw the pieces towards the fire when they literally flew away from. Just go after that James guy. Emmett broke free from his fight and is going to help you. Melody said as she kicked a newborn straight in the head which made it summersault backwards a few times.

I reluctantly looked away from Melody and instead focussed on the two vampires who were watching from the sidelines. 'Emmett, let's go.' I growled too low for the two little wannabe generals to hear. As we advanced on them I heard more screeching sounds both from behind me as from the forest to the side which meant the wolfs were doing their job. As Emmett and I came nearer and nearer to James and Laurent I tuned out all other noises. The fighting, the growling, the screeching of limbs being torn off, everything was pushed back to a minimum volume.

'I guess the newborns aren't as good as Riley said.' The dark one, Laurent, drawled as we came to stand opposite them. 'You were foolish to believe that a couple of newborns could defeat a coven as large as ours.' Emmett drawled right back. 'Maybe so but I'm curious as to why the ones we send around for an ambush aren't here yet as they should obviously see that their comrades are losing.' James mused out loud. 'That's for us to know and for you to never find out.' I growled.

Before James could reply to this I launched myself at him. Of course he wasn't a newborn so he sidestepped me as I had expected he would. I let him think his plan had worked and made my move as soon as James moved to grab my arms. I jumped up and twisted at just the right time. James's arms grabbed only air as I landed behind him and grabbed both his still outstretched arms. I pulled both his arms backwards and placed both my feet in the small of his back at the same time. He growled as I pulled at his arms and pushed into his back at the same time. 'You will never be smarter or stronger in battle than the God of war, James.' He told him in a menacing whisper before ripping both his arms off with a satisfying screech.

As James howled in pain I wasted no time in throwing his arms into the now blazing fire. I chanced a glance over the battlefield and was glad to see that none of us was badly damaged but that there were still seven newborns left. Emmett was still battling Laurent but he was winning as Laurent had already lost an arm and a leg. I turned my head back to James to see him glaring at me. If looks could kill he would definitely have won right now but lucky for me that wasn't the case. We started circling each other but I could tell by his emotions that he had no hope of winning left.

'Let's end this.' I said while glaring him down. James's head snapped from me to Emmett and Laurent to me and then to the other side. 'You can't run, James. This is where it will end and you all brought it on yourself by threatening a member of my family.' I growled. 'I might not be able to run, but I might be able to take something from you before you can take my life.' James growled back and before I could stop him he launched himself directly to Melody who had just thrown her opponent into the fire. I raced after James but he had a head start and would reach Melody before I could get to him.

Melody, behind you! I yelled in my head. Melody's head snapped up and she spun around to see James charging her. Without wasting any time she pushed her hand out like she always does when using her power. This time however her hand started to glow and I only got a second to jump aside before a red and gold fireball shot out of her fist and into James. He hadn't expected anything like this to happen and was unable to get away from it in time. He howled and screamed as the fire consumed him but I ignored him.

I raced to Melody's side but she didn't acknowledge me as I came to stand next to her. All she did was look at her hands and I could feel both horror and fascination come from her in waves. I didn't feel it coming… it just… happened. She whispered to me. Don't worry about it now, honey. We have a battle to win after which we will both kill your brother for lying about all this. I told her. She looked up to me and smiled and I saw her red golden eyes twinkle at my words. Wait… red golden eyes? So at least that was true about what Zackary had said. Her eyes were the same colour as her fire had been.

We both didn't have time to dwell on this as two newborns noticed our distraction and decided to take us by surprise. They hadn't counted on the fact that I was an empath and could sense what they would do. Melody felt it through me and we both surprised the newborns by reacting immediately to their attack. Both of them were quite new and being near Melody was making their bloodlust the strongest emotion which overshadowed all other emotions. This was their downfall and I dismembered mine in a matter of seconds. I looked up just in time to see Melody dismember the other newborn and use her power to throw the pieces into the fire that had once been James.

I looked around again and saw that the fight had ended. Emmett had taken good care of our friend Laurent. He was rubbing his arm and I could feel the pain that came from the bite wound he had gotten. Rosalie darted to her husband's side and kissed his arm tenderly before kissing him passionately on his lips. I looked further and saw that Carlisle was holding Esme tight against him and were watching as the newborns burned. They were both feeling sad and I knew it pained them to have killed those who had no choice in what they were doing. Neither of them had any bite marks on them for which I was glad.

Zackary was kissing Alice and I couldn't find any bite marks on her either. So far only Emmett had gotten a mark and that was probably because he was toying with his opponent too much. I let my gaze drift and saw Anna standing a bit too the side. She had a couple of bite marks on her arms and one on her neck but was feeling really proud which was pushing the pain of the wounds away. I turned back to Melody and was about to lean down to kiss her when her fear spiked. She wasn't looking at me and I followed her gaze which was fixed on Anna.

Without a warning Melody shot towards Anna just as a newborn jumped out of the forest towards her. 'Anna, run!' Melody screamed. Anna didn't question Melody and bolted to the side as fast as she could. At the same time Melody brought both her hands to her side which started to glow. As Melody's anger spiked she pushed both her hands forward and two massive fireballs shot from them. The newborn didn't even have time to react as the fire hit him and consumed him in seconds.

Melody was breathing heavily as she slowly dropped to the ground and folded her wings behind her. As her feet touched the ground she collapsed and I was glad that I had vampire speed so that I could catch her before she actually hit the ground. I looked her over, afraid to see injuries that I had missed earlier, but didn't find anything. She was just feeling exhausted and I couldn't blame her. That last attack looked extremely powerful.

Melody opened her eyes then and gave me a weak smile. 'Don't worry… I'm fi―' she began but stopped midsentence. Her eyes grew big and I could feel her body temperature rising quickly. 'Get back.' She screeched and she pushed me back with more power than I thought she had in her weakened state. The moment I was away from her a giant red golden fire sprang to life around her. I looked in horror as the love of my life was engulfed in the flames, no longer visible through them.

Melody's fear and pain spiked then and it crippled me. I fell to my knees and let out a loud howl as if the pain was my own. The flames began to diminish then and snuffed out a second later as if they had never existed. The only thing left was a plume of smoke which was slowly rising upwards and a chocolate brown feather lying on the grass where Melody had been standing only seconds before.

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~Marieke~