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setting the game

Bella with the help of Damon and Tyler began setting up their new game to play in town since they now knew of the new players. The first steps they put into place was finding the stone that both her uncle and Katherine seemed to be looking for in between messing with Damon's brother and his friends. Bella knew the older female was trying to make the other group in town her pieces to a game she seemed to have been playing for a long time if her incitant need to get the stone was any indication. The problem with the older woman's plan was that is she seemed to have dismissed Bella and her cousin from her game. This suited Bella just fine since it meant Katherine had ignored her uncle when he warned her about Bella tendencies and that she already knew Damon. So while she was at the Lockwood mansion visiting with her aunt, Bella went and got the real moonstone from her Uncle Richards safe and using her illusions she changed an ordinary black stone to look and feel just like the real moon stone. She grinned to herself knowing only another fae would be able to tell that it was a fake.

Tyler still playing like he had know idea about the werewolf curse began asking his uncle questions. It took only a few hours for Tyler to make him angry and in his anger he spilled the story to Tyler of his turning to convince him to hand over the stone. Tyler decided that it would be the last test to see were his loyalties really lied and knowing his uncle he was behind the attack on Damon and his brother that afternoon. Bella was okay with that because she had warned her uncle and her aunt after the accident as they liked to call it that Tyler was her priority in this town and Damon being her fiend could now be added to that list of those to keep safe or else, for his loyalty and friendship to her over the years. Thanks to the Bennett witch's interference in one of her uncles plans for his brother; Damon over heard her talking about Mason heading to give it to his girlfriend who in the vision was Katherine.

With a quick text to Bella and Tyler Damon decided to get the revenge for the betrayal for the two and piss off his sire at the same time. During the questioning her uncle tried to say that he was doing his niece and nephew a favor and even as Bella walked in dressed in a light blue tank top with the words pink across the front and light blue low rise ripped jean with grey combat boots his excuses never stopped. He then tried to switch tactics in saying he knew his girlfriend loved him and that after his girlfriend broke the curse of the sun and moon for him he would help Bella find her twin. Tyler had walked in just as he ended that statement and to say that it was the wrong thing to say to her did not help his predicament.

Damon's brother walked in to the room a few minutes later to see Mason's heart land across the room and Tyler trying to convince Bella that setting his body on fire while it was in the boarding house was not the answer. She quieted down as Damon pulled out the cell phone and with a grin decided to trick Katherine in revealing her next plan. Bella was impressed with the threat the woman delivered but she really needed to stop telling her plans no matter the number she had as back ups.

Seeing how he was about to open his mouth, Damon just stared his brother down and then the rest of their scooby gang when they trailed in behind the doppelganger. The duckling who came in after them seemed to be the only one who wasn't surprised by the mans death having figured out long ago that while the adults seemed to believe Bella was joking about her threats when it came down to Tyler, Bella never joked. As Damon rolled the body in the tarp and deposited it in the truck for disposal Bella and Tyler were ignoring the questions on why they were okay with this just until they walked out the door with Damon and Bella left the parting shot saying, "When have I ever had tolerance for betrayal, you betray the pack and this is what happens."

Bella did not care that she now had the scooby gang convinced she was a werewolf with that statement because if anything it would confuse others who came to town when it turned out she wasn't. Helping type a convincing text to her aunt from Masons phone about going to Florida and driving behind him as he pawned the truck at a shady shop a few cities over Bella was not surprised to her her cousins next statement to Damon.

"I am not going to be one of her pawns like my uncle so I figured you could help me out with activating my curse." Damon tilted his head as Tyler continued talking. "Besides I know my cousin has been searching for a way to change the curse and I trust her to make sure that I survive anything that comes our way." Bella could tell from the emotions he was going through that he was remembering the promise she made to him that day she had told him about the curse and that if he ever broke it by his choice or otherwise she would fix what ever part of the curse he wanted her too.

Damon drove to Richmond for the hunt they were going on and Bella decided to stay with the car and read the Bulgarian grimoire. Finding out that it belong to a Bulgarian traveler witch in the same family as Katherine was amusing. finding out the witch called the head of the coven stupid for sending the doppelganger away even more so. Even more so when she wrote about the reason why having been hoping to give the girl to another coven that was charged with guarding a body that looked just like the doppelganger was enlightening. As she read a little bit further and found that the male doppelganger was slightly harder to find due to the originals weird magic meant Bella had found her first hint of the story about what had happened to her prince. So over the years they had been relying on the girls line to practice certain magics since for reasons she didn't say they were no longer able to practice their old magic. Bella had not been expecting to find the mate of the fae prince was being carted around by a group of travelers no wonder they were having an issue in finding her. It wouldn't help Bella in finding them but it was more information about either of them that she's found in a while. She also mentioned letting a hybrid know about the girl being a viable option still though she never wrote if she did go through with this option.

Bella was impressed with the witches plans and wondered who the hybrid was that she spoke of before being distracted by the change in her cousins aura as they got closer. she could see that the wolf was awake but had a feeling that him and his wolf wouldn't truly be in sync with each other until after his first transformation. As they joined Bella in the car she could make out the distinct smell of cold ones and seeing her face Damon explained while searching for a low life to feed on then let Tyler kill they stumbled across a cold one feeding. Damon decided to take out the cold one and informed Tyler to handle the victim so they wouldn't have a newborn on their hands in three days. After Tyler set fire to the dumpster and chucked the victims body inside Damon followed suit with the parts of the cold one. Bella had a strange feeling Victoria had finally been able to find what state she was in before deciding that the woman would have a fight of her hands if she ever found the right city.

The next few weeks they spent their time getting ready for the masquerade ball her aunt was throwing. There was a lot of commentary over text messages from Damon about his brother stupidity and Tyler spent much of it being a messenger for his mother since Bella had blocked her number in an attempted to get out of having to go. The day of the masquerade she even tried saying she didn't have a dress to go to it anyways so she should just be allowed to stay home. In response her aunt sent Tyler over to her cabin with a big box and the duckling following behind with a dress of her own.

She hadn't been lying when she said this because the only dresses in her closet were one Damon had put there for when he wanted to drag her to clubs which he hadn't done yet since she hadn't gotten lost in her research just yet. Tyler then spent the few hours they had to get ready laughing as the duckling bossed his cousin around to get her ready in time. Bella ended up in a stunning dress it was a one shoulder black dress that flowed into different shades of blue at the bottom with some crystals on the shoulder and the waist on the opposite side of the shoulder strap. After being forced into heels and then to sit for her hair to be done in a half up do with the bottom half being curls and the top half being intricate braids. Caroline handed her a white lace mask with a swan shaped over the left eye before marching them out the door to the party after getting ready herself.

Knowing the plan the scooby gang had she decided to spend the night by her cousins side and when a text from Damon revealed Katherine move to force Tyler's change. Bella spotted the two with the difference in their auras and glamoured Tyler before deciding it was time leave. Texting Damon that it was taken care of and to let her know how the rest of his night went Bella decided she had enough of the party and left.

Tyler spent the night at her place and in the morning they were awakened by an annoyed Damon calling their phones until they picked up. Putting him on speaker phone as she cooked breakfast they listened to him rant about how his brother not only couldn't keep his promise about killing their sire, but how his brother was stupid enough to drag Damon on a rescue mention for his missing girlfriend because neither one can apparently keep their word. He was forced to hang up shortly after by said brother threatening to crash the car they were in and since it was Damon's baby that probably was a descent threat. Even if Bella didn't want to be Damon's brother after the girl was saved if the growls he was letting out were any indication of his mood.

Tyler spent the rest of the day playing video games and texting Damon for entertainment while Bella began looking up the different native American languages she would have to learn to read the book since it seemed to be in a cipher format to help hinder those who would wished to read the stories she wondered if the original grimoire was like this as well before deciding on leaving it for later when Damon asked her to come over the next morning to meet an Older vampire who apparently had information about the curse that they needed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~meanwhile in the fae realm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

After confirming with Bella about her move to the town that seemed to keep drawing creatures to the area. Queen Mab began organizing strategic portals around the town with only one in the actual center of town across from the Mystic Grill. Since over the years many of their portals had been damaged in the town due to construction from the humans. King Oberon had been over seeing the searches for the missing male twin believing much like Bella that he had some powerful friends and that his own magic was helping to hide him. Just as he moved to talk to puck his vision blurred before playing a scene which took place in an old mansion and showed candles in a circle and the hunter Bella described to be in Mystic Falls stood in front of a giant box as a witch began chanting and behind the witch stood the very fae they were looking for. The way the male was looking out one of the windows he was close enough to feel the pull. As his vision righted it self he continued to puck knowing the council would have to be told to call off the searches. They would also have to discuss the possibilities of allies if his vision was correct and shared with other council members who agreed then everything would start to come together very soon by fae standards.