Hi, everyone. I apologies for the delay in this chapter, but I do have my reasons for making you wait. My Beta is unavailable at the moment so is unable to check my writing. This means that until she returns (or I find a substitute until she returns) my spelling and grammar are going to have some errors. I will try my best to write to the highest of my standards and when I find a beta I will have any unchecked chapters replaced. Sorry!

Quote of the day: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."- Bernard M. Baruch

Chapter 24

EPOV

I had just come back from a hunting trip when I heard my phone buzz. It was Bella. It felt like weeks instead of hours since I had last seen her. She was my life, my heart and my soul. Slowly she had made me notice that I had those things, but I still didn't really believe I did. No, Bella had given me those things. It feels like all these years I had been without my soul and then when I met her, she brought it back to me. It did truly believe that from the day Bella was born, her carried my soul in those small, fragile hands of hers.

Flashback

"I love you." Bella whispered as she lay her head on my shoulder. We were it the meadow and for once the sun of pushing the clouds away, shining brilliantly down on them.

"I'm a monster, Bella. How can you love a monster?" I frowned.

"You're not a monster, Edward." This, of course, only made his frown deepen. "It's true. I looked it up and there are four definitions for the word monster- none of which apply to you."

"Bella." I complained but she continued. "One..." She said holding up a finger. "A large, ugly, and frightening imaginary creature. You are not larger than the
average person, you are definitely not ugly and, I don't know if it is just me but, you don't frighten me in the least. Two: An inhumanly cruel or wicked person. I
don't think you have a cruel or wicked bone in your body. You feel remourse for killing those people, even if they were criminals. No one cruel would feel remorse. Three: A rude or badly behaved person, typically a child. You are certainly not rude- you're too chivlrous to be rude. Four: A thing of extraordinary or daunting size. And like I said, you are no larger than an average person."

As I flipped open the phone, I frowned at what I read. She want us to meet with the wolves at the treaty line. Why? I shook my head, this time I wasn't going to second guess her. I did once before and that only led to pain.

"Carlisle." I called. I didn't bother rasiing my voice, in a house full of vampires there never was any use for it. There was no privacy here.

"Edward?" He said calmly, 'What is it?'. He thought.

"Bella sent me a text saying to meet the wolves at the treaty line." I frowned down at the phone. What if she was with the wolves now? They were dangerous, what if one of them lost control.

"Why?"

"I don't know, but if she is asking then I am going. It must be for a good reason. Besides, if we trust Alice with her visions, then it would be hypocritical not to
trust Bella on what she had see." I said, then muttered, "I realize that now."

"Okay." Carlisle nodded his agreement. 'I know how you feel, son. Charlie was a great man and not trusting Bella is what lead to his death' he thought.

It didn't take long for us to call a family meeting and announce that we were going to meet the wolves. At first everyone was reluctant to go, and I didn't blame them. Everything about the wolves repelled us; their scent being the main one. Wolves generally smelt like wet dog, it was a moist, musky scent that repulsed any vampire. However, when we mentioned that Bella had informed us of the meeting their interests were suddenly peeked and they decided to go.

When we got to the border line it wasn't long before I heard the annoying chatter of the wolves minds and the steady thump, thump of their feet. Soon huge horse size wolves bounded out of the trees and towards them. The acidic smell of wet dog forcing me to hold my breath.

In their numbers I immediately looked for my Bella. She sat astride a red brown wolf who, Edward found out, was Jacob Black. Bella jumped ungracefully to the floor, stumbling slightly on the uneven forest ground. Then she walked over to the treaty line, where she stood with one foot in our land and one foot in theirs.

With Bella in his reach, I allowed myself to examine the rest of the wolves. In the middle, slightly ahead of the other wolves was a large black wolf. Searching his mind I found that he was Sam Uley, Alpha of the pack. The brown black wolf beside him was Jared Cameron, the beta. On the other side was a grey wolf, Paul Lahote.

The rest of the pack consisted of a grey, dark spotted wolf, Embry Call and two young wolves Collin and Brady.

Each wolf growled threateningly whilst me and my family hissed defensively. What was wrong with these mutts? They were rude and vulgar, according to their thoughts were they were shouting colourful words at us.

"Enough." A voice stressed and every supernatural creature turned to see Bella was the one who shouted at us. "Stop being so territorial and act your age. If none of you can get along then we're dead." She turned to the wolves seriously, "your imprints are dead."

That had silenced everyone. "Imprints?" Carlisle's thoughts asked.

I quickly ruffled through the flights of the alpha to find the answer then spoke. "Imprints are their soul mates. They are what centres the wolf and the man. It is a very strong bond."

"What? How did he know that?" One of the wolves minds asked.

"Certain vampires have extra abilities. Jasper can control and influence emotions, Alice can see the future and I can read minds." I replied matter of factly. All the wolves growled lower and howled about their legends being true. That with the combine questions of my family made me wince with pain. However as I felt the pain, I allowed my mind to search for Bella's and submerge myself with her silence.

"Serious, stop." Bella cried out making the wolves fall silent once more. "I... WE have more important issues than this mutual enemy crap." Then she held out a newspaper with a face on it. The teenage boy had blond hair and went missing in Seattle. "This" she announced, "is Riley Biers and he is one in twenty three newborn vampires how are coming to Forks."

I stood there, my mouth hanging open in shock. It didn't take long for a tsunami of thoughts to hit me.

"What I haven't seen this?" -Alice.

"Newborns... Bella is right we will need the wolves help." -Jasper.

"Impossible. Who would do such a thing?" - Carlisle.

"Oh dear." - Esme.

"Alright, we finally get some fun." - Emmett.

"Right... I bet she is just playing with us." - Rosalie.

"How does she know?"- Jacob.

"New... What? Vampires?" - Collin.

"Really?"- Brady.

"Twenty three..." - Jared.

"We can take them." - Paul.

"Quiet, what's the difference between you and the newborns?" - Sam.

(Sorry but I didnt know the best way to write all of their thoughts.)

"What are they thinking?" Carlisle asked out loud.

"They want to know how Newborns are different from us?" I responded though the chaos in my head.

Jasper stepped out, catching the wolves attention. "A newborn vampires strength and speed greatly surpasses that of an older vampire because they still have the blood from their previous human loves in their system. Also their thirst is extremely painful and insatiable and will feed as much as possible to curb it. This thirst makes them feral, they are driven by their need for blood. They are blinded by it."

"Great." One wolf thought sarcastically. "So, all we have to do is rip them to pieces like we do to every other vampire."

"What are they saying?" Jasper asked.

"They think that it will be like killing older vampires- all they have to do is rip them apart." I replied my eyes still trained on the wolves leader.

"No, that won't work. You have to be cautious around newborns because if they get their arms around you then your dead."

Once again there was a moment of deathly silence, even everyone's thoughts seemed to have been silenced by shock. In fact it was so silent that if it wasn't for the sound of breathing and hearts beats I would have thought I was all alone. It was a peaceful intensity. The type that people feared breaking.

So it was fearless Bella who was the one who broke it. "I want Jasper to show the wolves how to defend themselves

Against the newborns. In fact, everyone should get a refresher course."

"What? She wants us to be trained by a leech. Hell, no." All of the wolves shouted almost in unison.

"They don't want to." I told her blandly- not really wanting to be any closer to the wolves than I had to.

"It is the best way. The only way. Our numbers are too small with just the vampires." She responded.

"Why? It is not as if they have that many people to join us." Sneered Rosalie.

"With the newborn army coming, more will be joining the pack." Bella looked over to the wolves as they growled. "Quil will join soon and then so will Seth and Leah. The pack is going to be the biggest history has seen."

"Wait... Leah? Females can't shift." - Paul.

"That is impossible woman don't carry the genes." -Sam.

"If she does phase that is going to be awkward." Jared thought then began thinking of the love triangle between Sam, Leah and Emily (who was apparently Sam's imprint and Leah's cousin). Tough luck on their part, I thought.

"How does Bella know this?" Sam questioned. The authority in his voice was unmistakable. It was raw and powerful making the other wolves bow their heads slightly in submition.

"That is for Bella to explain, not us, Mutt." I sneered, defying the obvious order the alpha had made.

"What? What did they ask?" Bella questioned, her voice showed the alarm she felt upon hearing my side of the conversation.

"They want to know how you know what will happen." I told her.

"Oh."

For a moment she was quiet. I turned to search her face, finding indecision there. She chewed on her bottom lip and there was a slight crease in her forehead that she usual made when she was in deep thought. Then determination shined in her eyes.

She took a deep breath and said, " I know because I have see it before. No matter what I say you will think I am crazy but I dreamed about it... All of it. The vampires," she waved her hand towards me and my family, "the shape shifters" she motioned to the wolves, "and the newborn army." She shook the newspaper she held in her hand."

The wolves scoffed and barked in what the rest of us assumed was laughter and my noise in my head increased tenfold. Most of the comments went along the lines of "She's right. She is crazy." In fact there was only one wolf and held a shimmer of belief, Jacob. His thoughts gave me the impression that Jacob could say or think a single bad thing about Bella. He loved her but it was a strange kind of love; more like the love for a sister or a friend except he was undyingly loyal to her. It made me sick. And mad. And unnecessarily jealous.

"Fine, you don't believe me now but you will. I don't know who has created this army because the vampire who did it in my dream is dead and I can't tell you when it will happen but it will..." Bella shouted over the wolves 'laughter'. Then with a sigh she walked over to me and hugged me to her tightly.

"Love?" I asked, "Do we really need them?"

"Yes, we do." She whispered gravely.

With a sigh of my own, I pressed my lips to her forehead and muttered. "Then why don't you tell them something that they already know but that you couldn't possible know."

Bella's beautiful chocolate brown eyes searched mine before she smiled a sweet smile and turned around in my arms.

"Sam broke up with Leah because he imprinted on her cousin, Emily. Soon after Jared phased he imprinted on Kim, a fellow class mate..."

When Bella said that one wolf, presumably Jared , shouted. "Wait, what? That is bullshit. I haven't imprinted on anyone."

"Bella." I whispered to her. "Jared hasn't imprinted yet."

Her eyes went wide like a doe caught in head lights. Then she said, "What? No, Jared imprints on her his first day back at school after turning into a wolf."

I heard a snort, then I understood all of the confusion. "Jared hasn't been back to school yet."

"Oh." Was all she said