Hearts of fire and ice book 2: colder weather
chapter 5 the beast within...
Bella had raced through the underbrush and the large twisted vines that hung down usually tripping her right away when she so much as walked through the un-trimmed forest surrounding the Cullen estate. Making it back to the gravel drive that looped around the lawn and stopping.
She was barely out of breath after having run at least a mile. She looked from where she had come and smiled proudly she'd never felt more alive. This is what Jacob must feel like all the time except for the whole could've been leader of the pack thing. Every inch of her body felt stronger ready, alert somehow.
She remembered Emmet had a weight room in the garage so Bella decided to see just how strong she really was. Making her way through the side door and into the small room where there set a weight bench, tredmil, free weights and of all things a bow-flex machine above the door way to the garage area hung a pull-up bar.
I decided to go for it and try lifting the weight bar on the bench. I looked at the current setting it was five hundred pounds. Even on a day when I felt like batgirl I couldn't lift that. I'd have to be power-girl to even think of it. Which of course meant I would drop a couple of the weights from the bar.
After carefully executing the release of the excess weights so that the super-eared couldn't even hear me. I took stock of what was left which totalled two hundred pounds if I was indeed as strong as a werewolf. I would be able to execute the lift without a hitch and if I wasn't then I would probably herniate myself and die on the spot.
I positioned my body on the long seat and placed my hands on the steel bar. Taking a few preparatory breaths I pushed up with all my upper body strength. I found the weight to be heavy but not difficult to move and did several reps before stopping. I stood up and looked at my biceps a part of my body I rarely ever noticed. Needless to say they had increased in size I wondered when that happened.
I pulled up my grey v-necked tee and saw that my stomach muscles were now rippling what on earth was going on? I asked myself. Making my way back into the house and to the kitchen thinking I had seen some grap flavored gatorade in there. I grabbed a bottle out of the fridge and chugged it.
Looking at my watch I noticed the time it was well past time for Carlisle to be home. So I ran up the stairs and to his office the door was open a crack and so I let myself in. Seeing him setting on the edge of his desk arms folded as if he had been waiting for me the whole time. "Come in Bella." He greeted unfolding his arms so as not to seem too dramatic I assumed. "How was your day anything interesting happen?"
"Yeah, as a matter of fact I discovered I'm strong enough to lift two hundred pounds in Emmets gym and I have the speed of a frightened alley cat. What's up Carlisle?" I asked with folded arms of my own.
"I ran your blood through a series of tests it's composition never changed. When I tried to alter it the proteins in your blood fought back and grew immune." Carlisle explained.
"All that means what in English?"
"It means you are immune to almost every disease there is Bella. Werewolves don't have the good a composition to their blood atleast not without help. They usually have to get sick first the healing process is heightened by the animal within. But your blood just acted like a shield. Your cells are mutating at an increased rate into what I'm not sure I'm guessing werewolf. Though at this point I cannot be positive on that diagnoses."
"But you just said that my immune system was stronger than that of a normal werewolf?" Bella questioned.
"That's right you don't I think this mutation of cells may have something to do with taking a marrow donation from a wolf and injecting it directly into someone whose immune system has been completely wiped out. It didn't know how to work or what to attack so it started a process of elimination in your immune system." Carlisle added further to his earlier explanation.
"So that's why when the flu went rampid through our dorm I was the only human who didn't get so much as a sniffle."
"Precisely it's really quite beautiful when you think about it. Right now you could walk through a camp full ebola virus and not catch it. I can only guess at the next part of my theory. But I'm supposing that this is the reason behind your strength, speed and agility." Carlisle predicted.
"Does that mean I'm not turning into a wolf?" That news would have made the mortals day.
"No I'm saying I don't know what will happen next your blood is far too complex at this point for that kind of prediction. I-I'm sorry Bella I can't help you."
"So what I'm supposed to just lie down and take what's happening to me. You sound just like the elder that was here today he told me either to die before the transformation was complete or be cursed by the tribe if I couldn't accept what's happening to me. I just wanna be Bella Swan college student whose madly in love with a vampire." She protested breaking down into tears always when she was mad. She hated that but it atleast made her human.
Then the pain started in her spine and shoulders penetrating through her ribs like a sharp knife digging into her nervous system like a surgeons scalple. The heat eminating from her insides to her outsides made it feel like she was on fire from head to toe. Falling to her knees her shirt ripped open she scraped her hands along the floor making large unfamiliar claw marks in the rug. When Bella looked down at her hands she saw that they were monstrous dog-like paws with huge claws like eagles talons.
Hair grew all over her body within a matter of minutes. Her entire cellular structure changed her thighs turned into haunches. Her hands into legs her shoulders narrowed cracking her backbone and causing the re-alignment of her spinal cord. Her face lengthened into a snout and dripping teeth.
She stood before Carlisle a large black wolf now. Vampire's weren't usually scared of anything however being face to face with a lycan. It was one of those uncomfortable moments they dreaded.
He made a break for it when she caught a glimpse of herself in the glass book case which housed Carlisles oldest medical texts. Then she jumped out the window of the second floor and ran into the woods.
On the floor her cellphone lay ringing endlessly it was Jacob..
"Dammit Bella pick up!" Jacob said with frustration in his voice he slammed the phone down and upon hearing footsteps snuck out of his bedroom window. Creeping quietly into the woods he transformed. He picked up the leather bound journal in his mouth running towards of all places the Cullen house.
Little did he know he was not alone in his journey there he was being followed closely. But not just by other wolves but something far more sinister was on his trail.