"Ok, blind boy, how would you make a bomb out of old CDs, a paper clip, ad a piece of rug?" Jasper quizzed Iggy, pointing at the 3 items he laid out on the table.

Iggy felt around for the items, calculating. "I wouldn't. These are insufficient items for bomb making. Even if I tried to make the bomb, which I could, it would only have 10 or less of the force of a very small firecracker." Iggy then started to take apart the CD and extracted the foil under the plastic. Jasper's expression looked satisfied that he was finally able to fool the great 'Bomb Master'. Until at least, Iggy started shaping the items into something useful.

"What the heck are you doing to that rug?" Jasper asked when Iggy started ripping it to shreds.

"I am making a flammable plasmatic radiating conductor out of the ultra fine rug fibers," Iggy answered as simply as if he were teaching the ABC's.

Jasper opened his mouth, but closed it again, obviously not liking the idea of someone being smarter than him. I thought this was quite interesting and useful. If the Volturi came here, we could just blow it up.

"Man, how did you find out all that information?" Emmett seemed ecstatic about the idea of having explosives.

"Research, tests, and a whole lot of failures," Iggy lifted his left elbow a revealed a long gash that stretched up into his shirt an inch wide. "I sold our old couch on Ebay and got 600 bucks. I bought a couple gallons of oil, gasoline, gunpowder, old computer pieces, a couple slabs of steel, and a cheap melting and welding station. The only reason why I could buy this stuff is because some idiotic superficial put his license on the Internet. Anyway, I created this really nice bomb, but I forgot to put the timer on it when I ignited it in the middle of this clearing. Boy, that thing nearly killed me. Gasman said that the explosion went 800ft high. If it weren't for the fact that the bomb exploded most of its force in the opposite direction because of a rock, I would be in my coffin."

"Still, shouldn't you have a lot more scars?" Emmett asked.

"Didn't Max tell you? We heal extremely fast, being mutants and all."

"So, now you know what you did wrong, do you know how to a really powerful bomb system, without the concern of money?" Emmett asked, interested.

"Yah. 'Haven't gotten around to designing one, though. Wait, are you saying that you will buy the materials for me?" Iggy's blank eyes suddenly widened hungrily.

"Anything you need," Emmett made a small bow.

"Oh, thanks! But please don't tell Max, PLEASE," Iggy's face showed the up-most excitement.

"Sure," they headed off Emmett's computer to research and order, leaving Jasper and me downstairs.

Why am I still the weakest link? Even out of all the new comers. Even Angel is still more powerful than me.

I gave him a sympathetic glance and he walked away. Bella was with Alice, Max, and the rest of the girls. She seemed to get along extremely well with them. Gasman and Total were probably with Carlisle to find out more about each other. I headed over to find Bella. Her thoughts were coming from Alice's room. I dashed to the room to find them all in a large crowd doing girl-talk. I stayed on the sidelines, watching and listening to their thoughts, trying to be entertained.

Just then Bella noticed me and hurried over to greet me. I guided her away and out of the house. We then took a walk through the woods.

"So, what do you think of Max?" I asked to break the silence.

"She's great. I can really get along with her. It's like we can share everything about us and she wouldn't care. I even shared some secrets about you and me and—."

"Hold on," I interrupted, suddenly a little paranoid. "You shared secrets about us?" We stopped walking.

"Oh, nothing," she giggled and started walking again. I followed her, knowing I was probably going regret dropping this subject, but I continued on.

"Did you see Iggy and his bombs?" wondering what she would think of the idea of explosions.

"Yah, don't want to make him angry. In fact, I am still surrounded by people who are more dangerous than myself," she blinked and raised one eyebrow. Oh crud, another uncomfortable subject. This was going to lead to the 'I still want to become a vampire' conversation.

"What's wrong with not being dangerous?" I asked, knowing the answer before I said it.

Crack! What was that? We both froze. Something was in the bushes 50 ft from where we were.

Kill, Kill. Food? DINNER! The thoughts were unfamiliar and savage. Whatever it was, it was not something I wanted to deal with without reinforcements. The rustling came closer and we started to back away.

Like lightning, I grabbed Bella, put her on my back, and ran. Just as I did, a hideous creature with features that should not exist on this Earth leaped from the bushes ready for the chase. Its hairless skin bounced and flapped up and down as it ran, its long and many shiny teeth were bared like—a wolf, and its long claws danced on the ground as it gained on us. Boy this thing was fast, but it was not going to get to Bella or my family. I dashed faster. The trees were a blur, even for me, yet it still kept up. I took an abrupt left and changed my course to the baseball field. There, I would have more room to fight. There was a defining—sound, that must have been a yell of some sort, that came from behind us. An answering call, that resembled breaking of glass except amplified 100 times, came from our right.

Not good. I was now out numbered. I put on all the speed I had. Bella made a yelp as I almost crashed into several trees. Then, the clouds let down a steady rain. Just my luck; I continued to swerve through the forest. Four more yells cracked through the air, piercing me with fear. Now, we were seriously outnumbered. The monster behind me had fallen behind, but I could still here its light footsteps on the ground, still in pursuit not far away.

Need food.

Must eat.

Smells good.

More thoughts reached my mind. Suddenly, my foot misestimated a puddle and I slammed into a tree. The tree flew through the air, spun, and fell several hundred feet away, but Bella and me were still fine. Trying to not slow my pace I kept my running. Suddenly, 5 more crackling yowls came from the left. They obviously heard the tree fall. I quickened my pace, not distracted by the wind and increasingly heavy rain and took a detour to avoid monsters. The baseball field must be close now.

Then, something heavy fell from the sky and landed right behind us, missing Bella and me by inches. It growled and lunged at me. Bella screamed, and I veered to the right. I ran straight, not caring whether or not that I was heading to the baseball field or not. I just had to get Bella to safety, away from here.

Whoosh! A strong gust of wind moved the tree branches and reviled the field, not a quarter of a mile ahead of us. Will new energy I sped up and hurled myself into the open field. I sped to the middle of the field to get a better view of whom I was up against. The rain started to lighten and I let Bella off my back. She clung close to me.

"If this is the end, please meet me on the other side. I love you so much, but I am— scared," Bella whimpered. I hugged her.

"We aren't going to die. We have gone through worse situations than this and survived, you will see," I tried to comfort. I was actually trying to convince myself that this wasn't the end. I bent down and kissed her, with as much passion as was left in me.

Then twelve yells erupted from all sides and the monsters emerged from the forest into the drizzle. I lifted my head, returning my mind back to the actual situation. Now I could clearly see their features. They had not 4 limbs but 6, all with foot long claws at the ends. Their heads were mutated and resembled rotten raw meat slabs. Worst of all, they walked like spiders. Edging closer and closer, ready to feast. Crawling menacingly closer and closer, ready for a fight to the death. Inching closer and closer, ready to attack.

The biggest and ugliest one, probably the leader, released a darkening battle cry and charged forward. I braced myself. It lunged forward, gaping jaw wide open. I duck and punched it with all my force in its belly. It flew hundreds of feet into the air and then—whoosh! It had wings! They were huge black ones that resembled solid tar flapping unsteadily.

Then 4 figures in the sky appeared though the clouds and flew right at the monster. They crashed and spiraled down to the ground.

Half of the monsters still racing at me stopped, a few flew up into to the sky to help the leader, and the rest continued to charge at me. Two lunged at me simultaneously from the sides. At the last second, I ducked. They slammed into each other and I slammed my fists into their jaws. They flew backward 20 feet. One landed on another monster.

Four more figures raced from the trees and attacked the monsters. Through the misty drizzle, I could see Emmett, Carlisle, Jasper, and Alice.

Bang! An explosion erupted above me and 3 monsters crashed to the ground. It must have been Iggy.

"Dang, that CD/rug/paperclip bomb worked much better than I thought. Especially when you add gasoline to it!" he yelled down to Jasper, who had an amused face. "Max, where's the closest one."

"Down to the left—Edward, watch out!"

I ducked just in time to see a monster through its body at me. I rolled over, narrowly avoiding being squished. I stood up and jabbed my elbow into my side with all my body weight. It yelped and fled.

Suddenly, the clouds separated and a vibrant beam of sunlight descended from the heavens onto the field, as if the Angels were coming to help fight the battle. My skin started to sparkle, just like the rest of the vampires fighting. The monsters cringed at the light and started to cry in agony. They then retreated to the safety on the trees. Only 2 stayed on the ground unmoving.

I turned and picked Bella from the ground. She was shivering, with a terrified look on her face. "I told you it would be alright." She managed to smile and I hugged her, so happy she was safe.

The flock kids and my family gathered around Bella and me.

"I got this vision that a," Alice paused, trying to find the right word, " 'monster' was going to attack you when you were walking with Bella. When we were about to leave. My vision changed and reviled a lot more monsters. That's why we brought as many as we did and it looks like you needed it."

"I am glad you came," I thanked them. We then all started walking back home. I stared off into the sun, thankful that everyone I knew was safe…

…for now.