Author's Note: Hi everyone! Here's chapter seventeen.
I'm actually introducing Tanya and her coven in this chapter and I actaully did some research about Tanya and her coven. So I know their names and that a couple of them have a talent, don't ask me what I have no idea and also I have no idea what their personalities are like so i'm going on a wim, so don't beat me up about. And when Breaking Dawn comes out and I find that I've completely screwed up Tanya and her group, I am so going to cry. But oh well, I'm doing the best I can.

Oh yeah, really, really Happy! I've read (and I'm guessing hundreds of you have too) the first chapter of Breaking Dawn. But I'm also kinda worried about how this book is going to go. I'm over-thinking what I read and the vibe i got from the Preface of Breaking Dawn and it's creeping me out. But I'll shut up now and let you read, so you can tell how badly I stuffed up on Tanya and her coven, cause they are actually going to be hanging around for a while. Well for at least, two or three chapters.

Chapter 17

Alaska's Snow

Bella's Point of View

Pain ripped threw me. I couldn't understand why! Why was I in such sudden pain? I am a Vampire for Gods sake! I'm not supposed to feel pain like this!

Something hot was burning against my stone cold chest. My fingers pulled at the chain around my neck.

I stared at what hung from it, an Ankh. Even though the Ankh was a way from my skin, I was still being ripped to pieces on the inside.

The Ankh swung on the chain, mocking me. Why did I have the same sort of Ankh as that male vampire that attacked Emmett?

I crawled into a sitting position, for the pain was slowly leaving my body.

"Bella?"

I flinched at my name. At this moment, I wished it wasn't mine. I was putting them all endanger just by being with them, but I couldn't bring myself to run. For this was how far I had managed to run, calling distances from the cars. How pathetic.

"Bella, we're going, come on or you're walking." Alice soprano voice tickled my ears.

Did she just offer to let me walk? Alone? By myself? Even though she knew about my talent for running away.

But did I really want to run anymore, I had tried just now and I had gotten this far, I had stopped before the pain started. Why had I stopped? Then I realized, I understood. I was sick of running away. I just wanted to give up and stay with them, even though they must really think me to be a nuisance. Especially Edward and Alice. I groaned.

I wondered how much they disliked me now, with how I'd been acting around them this last day.

"Bella? What are you doing?"

I jumped at his soft silky voice that hid much sadness under its honey tone. I stared at my feet guiltily.

Mew.

My cat suddenly appeared, brushing herself up against my legs. I stared at her dumbfounded. How did she get out here? Why wasn't she asleep in Carlisle car where I had left her?

I stroked her soft fur.

"She was complaining and calling for you. Something really distressed her." I jumped as Edward crouched down beside me. I tried to cover my surprise and shyness at his closeness with raising my eyebrows at him.

"Distressed? What did…?" I started too demanded, but Edward quickly held up his hand to stop me.

"Neither, Emmett nor Jasper have been anywhere near her. I think," He said slowly, "I think she was distressed because she didn't know where you were and maybe she thought something was wrong." My head dropped, my eyes turn away from his golden, searching eyes. He knew something was up with me, that something had happen to me in these past couple of minutes.

But before he could speak, Alice's voice shrilled, "we're going, you two are walking."

I scooped Isis up into my arms and with Edward by my side; we headed back to the cars together. Alice gave us a searching look as did the others, but they all looked away, with Edward's glare. I suppressed a smile as I climbed into Alice's Porsche much to her surprise, though when she got in she was grinning from ear to ear.

"Why is it taking so long to get there?" I asked, holding Isis firmly in my lap, since I had left her cage accidentally in Carlisle car.

"We don't want the Army to know exactly where we're going, that's why we're taking longer routs to get there." She explained seriously. I nodded, I could understand that logic.

The Army! I shifted uncomfortably in my seat, my fingers raised to my neck, lightly brushing the silver chain there, from which the Ankh tangled, now pressing coolly against my rock hard skin.

The Army of the Ankh! How fitting a name.

I gave the chain a tug as I had done many a time over my life as a Vamp, but now I knew what might happen if I managed to remove, I'd become a mindless, blood-thirsty, fighting machine. A real vampire if I removed the Ankh.

Mew?

Isis looked up at me with bright green eyes, confused by my stiffness.

"You're a good cat." I muttered, scratching her ears making her purr. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Alice roll her eyes. I stuck my tongue out at her.

"You seem in a better mood." Alice said cautiously. I smiled at her.

"I feel better." Alice raised an eyebrow at me.

"Ok, I lied, I don't feel better, I feel worst about…well, me." I admitted in a whispered. Alice frowned at me.

"Why?"

"I'm not normal, Alice, I know that. I've never been a normal vampire."

"You were never a normal human either." She muttered.

"I know." I sighed. I had heard that often enough to know I hadn't been a normal human. Hey I hung around with Vampires and Werewolves and I had actually known that they were Vampires and Werewolves, and I had been human. That said a lot about my social life, didn't it? I was rejected by reality and thrown into the supernatural world. And I had fallen in love with a Vampire and my best friend had been a Werewolf. Yeah that's normal human behavior. I shook my head, sighing.

"Just once I'd like to be normal or to at least be considered normal." I whispered to myself.

"Bella, you're just special, that's all."

You see, Bella, you are very special and that's why I'm making you one of my coven.

I cringed away from the voice inside my head. It was familiar. Where have I heard it before?

"Bella?"

"I'm fine, Alice, just thinking." I looked up at her questioning face. "I don't want to be special anymore. I just want to be normal cos maybe then people will just leave me alone." I stared out at snowy mountains growing closer with ever speed limit the Cullen's broke.

"Do you wish we had left you alone?" her voice was strained with her question. I shook my head.

"No, I'm glad you found me and want me to stay with you." I said with more feeling then I thought possible for me to express out loud. I surprised by that, but it soothed Alice. She smiled at me happily and took her hand off the wheel for a moment to squeeze mine.

"You'll be okay, Bella." She reassured me.

"I hope so, for all our sakes." I whispered too softly for her to hear.

Well I can say one thing about Tanya's clan, is that she, Katrina and Irina haven't changed one bit. Their still as man hungry as ever.

And Tanya has a thing for Edward.

I don't know why but I felt really depressed when Tanya walked up to Edward and went all coy on him.

How heck was I suppose to stand a chance with that Beautiful Creature? I stand no chance! I felt like hitting something… I felt like hitting Tanya! Then Edward for even paying the slightest attention to her! For even looking at her!

Whoa, where the heck did this negativity and violence come from? And when did I get territorial of Edward?

Hello depression. I think I'll just go crawl into a hole somewhere and let those two be alone.

I actually turned to leave Tanya's house, but Alice grabbed me before I even made it to the door.

"I'm just going to sit in the car with Isis?" I complained lamely. Alice rolled her eyes.

"Lame excuse."

"It wasn't supposed to be." I hissed.

"Isabella?"

SPRUNG!

Carmen walked towards me, startled to see me, but smiling all the same. Carmen, though a whole lot quieter than the Denali 'sisters', is a very smiley person, with beautiful dark flowing hair and twinkling golden eyes. Her true love, Eleazar (Carmen can actually settle for one man, unlike the sisters who hope from one man to another in a heart beat.), walked behind her, smiling at me too. He is the only vampire I think, who realize how dangerous I can/could be. He had been the one who had helped me make up my decision to leave. Not saying he's mean, but he's very protective of his clan. He's very protective of his Carmen

"Isabella?!"

Ahhh, crap! Sprung again. Stupid, no-good vampires.

I side stepped and hid the best I could behind Alice as the three sister bounded over to me.

"Your scary her again!" Carmen sighed heavily.

"We're not scaring her." Irina pouted. I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Wait you know, Bells?" Emmett asked confused.

"Yah huh. Wait, you know her?" Tanya asked.

"Yup!"

"Really, wow, that's wonderful! Who did she find for you?" Katrina asked. The Cullen's looked bewildered.

Tanya glanced from me to the Cullen then back again, taking in Edward moving slowly to stand close to me.

"This is the girl, isn't it? The girl who had the blood so irresistible to you?" she asked him softly. Edward frowned, but nodded slightly.

I sighed heavily. Me and being human with irresistible blood. How did I survive? Oh wait, I didn't.

"Well, this makes things interesting?" Katrina said laughing.

"Not really." I muttered.

"Isabella, I have a favor…"

"No." I knew exactly what they where going to ask, since they couldn't get anymore out about me being a vampire who as a human had irresistible blood, they wanted to use one of my talents, probably the finding one.

"You don't even know what I'm going to ask." Katrina whined, her sisters pouting along with her.

"No."

"Fine!" Tanya smiled turned to Edward, who was trying to keep a straight face as he tried to make sense of what the hell was going on.

"Edward will you…" Tanya began but I buttered in.

"Fine! Who do you want me to find?" I demanded thrusting my hand out to what Tanya had just smugly pulled out of her deep, wine red dress pocket.

She handed me a photo of a good looking young man in his late teens or early twenties, with thick unruly black hair that hung into his golden-green eyes and a scarf.

"Where's your map again?" I asked dully.

Tanya practically dragged me into what I guessed was the drawing room that was just off the huge main entrance that we had just been standing in.

There was a huge world map that stretch across one wall. I knew this map, since I had used it frequently when I had stayed here.

I walked up to it, strumming my fingers along it, while holding the photo and scarf tightly with the other.

"He's there." I said tapping the map with my index finger. "He's somewhere in upper United States."

"You mean, Forks Washington?" Katrina asked standing beside me, staring at the spot on the map I was tapping.

"That's sounds about right." I said without thinking. Then I did think and said the most intelligent thing that came to mind.

"Huh?"

"You mean the guy you're searching for is in Forks?" Emmett asked from the doorway, behind everyone else crowded into the room. "Wow, never thought Forks was that popular."

"For the supernatural, it's a holiday resort." I heard Alice snicker.

I stared back the photo in my hand.

"What's his name?" I asked Tanya quietly.

"Hmm, Luke I think. Why?" she eyed be suspiciously. I heard murmurs from the Cullens.

"We've met him." I mumbled.

"Him and his army?" Tanya asked coldly. I nodded.

"Tanya, what do you know about the Army?" Carlisle asked, stepping forward. Tanya shrugged.

"Not much, only that Rodriguez is in charge and none of the kids that are in the army have any memory of who they were previously to the change."

Oh brilliant! I was so not one of them. Oh please, don't let me be one of them. I thought desperately.

"They attack us. Well one technically, but…" Carlisle said. The room went deathly quiet.

"So, you think Rodriguez is up to more than he says he is?" Tanya asked her eyes dark and cold. Wow, talk about split personalities.

Carlisle nodded and Tanya groaned.

"Can't that guy just get it into his thick skull that he can't be king of the world?" Tanya complained.

"Obviously not." Carlisle sighed.

"Well, we know where to find his second." Irina said, cracking her knuckles. "We've been meaning to find an excuse to go to Forks for awhile." I felt cold, she wasn't talking about…

"Why?" Emmett asked.

"Unsettled issues with some dogs there." She said easily,

"Do you mean the Werewolf's?" Carlisle asked guardedly. Irina nodded.

"Yup."

"Damn Laurent to the deepest pits of hell." I heard Edward hiss softly behind me. I gulped.

"You want revenge don't you? We made a pact with them, you know." Carlisle said reasonably.

"So?"

"NO!" the word exploded from my lips before I could stop it. Everyone was frozen in place, staring at me, startled and angry.

"Why? Why do you care?" Irina demanded. I cringed a little, but straighten under her fiery glare

"Cos, I just do. Please don't hurt them." I whispered. Irina snorted at me before turning her back to me, ignoring my existence.

"They killed one of our coven." Tanya explained calmly to everyone else. "Laurent was his name; he disappeared to Forks for some reason and didn't come back. We were told he was murdered by a pack of huge wolves after he tried to attack a girl."

"Oops." I bit my lip. I was in trouble. And Jake and the pack had enjoyed killing Laurent too.

Alice and Edward were both watching me keenly, watching every expression that crossed my face with keenest interest.

"And I had nothing to do with that." I sighed under my breath. No one noticed my comment, except for the two I really hadn't wanted to hear it. I was going to be interrogated un-mercilessly later, I just knew it. Me and my big mouth.

"Everyone," Carlisle gesture to us, "go wait outside for a bit."

Outside? Where there's wet, gross snow? Eww!

And so, once we where outside, in the cold and the wet with heavy snow flakes falling all around us a deathly snowball battle began. I took my stance up tree, high above the flying snowballs.

"Bella? Whatcha doing up there." Alice yelled from below. She had a snowball in her hand. Oh great!

"Getting away from you crazy people!" Alice smiled at me wickedly.

"Once you're in you can never get away."

"That's probably true. Fine, I'm getting away from the wet, flying stuff, because when that starts flying I go inside or…"

"Up a tree." Alice finished for me. I made a rude hand gesture at her, which she laughed at. No fair.

"What's Bella doing up a tree?" Emmett asked, suddenly appearing at Alice's side. Oh crap, I do not like the crazy glint in Emmett's eyes. I swear if Emmett had been the one driving when we where randomly breathalysed he would have been so up there that the police would probably take him away then and there.

"I'm not coming down." I yelled, "Well not until you all disarm."

Emmett walked up my tree (Ahh, crap), and started to shake it. Without much effort at all on his part, I lost my balance on my branch I had been sitting on for the past hour and fell out of the tree into… well wow, this isn't cliché at all. I fell into Edwards open arms.

"I can't believe you fell." Emmett snickered.

"Aw, shut up." I grumbled, pouting as Edward set me on my unsteady feet. I would have fallen down if Edward hadn't held me up right. Though of cause everyone saw my unsteadiness and started laughing, even Rosalie. I tried to be mad and angry about this, but I soon gave up. There was just no point in staying mad at these people, it's too hard

"Oh yeah, Bella." Emmett started innocently, before dumping an arm full of snow on top of me. Maybe not, I take it back. I could get mad at these people.

I struggled out of Edward's arms, scooped up a handful of snow and threw it at Emmett laughing face. It actually hit him straight in the face.

There was silence before we all started creaking up laughing and the battle resumed. This time the battle took place between teams rather than singles. Edward, Emmett and me against Alice, Jasper and Rosalie. The teams were actually quite evenly matched, though Jasper and Emmett were bigger, Alice and Edward made up for that with speed. Rosalie and I were sort of the left out ones, with no physical talent, but we were pretty good at sneaky up behind others and dumping a heap of snow on them.

And dare I say it, it was actually quite good fun, except when you get hit in the face with a snow ball, though that didn't happen to often with Edward, Alice and me, we all managed to dodge most of them

Carlisle

"This war is getting out of hand!" Carlisle sighed heavily. Esme bit her lip and nodded.

"I know, but what do you propose we do?" Tanya asked angrily, "Since there aren't many who are actually against this. Any chance for new territory they lunge for it."

"I know, but I wish we just knew what Rodriguez was planning."

"And soon." Eleazar said from his corner of the drawing room.

Carlisle shot him a puzzled glance.

"The Volturi are getting restless." Tanya explained. "They want to know why the war hasn't come to an end yet. And… apparently humans are beginning to notice signs of the War and I don't mean small signs, I mean huge signs. Of cause they don't understand what going on and why so many people are missing and some being found dead while others aren't, they just know something bad is going on around them."

"If even the slightest mistake happens with this War, humanity will defiantly find out about us." Carlisle sighed. He rubbed his weary eyes.

"And all this just because they want more territory."

"And magic!" Eleazar muttered.

"Magic?" Esme asked puzzled. The older vampires glanced at one another. Carlisle turned to his wife and explained.

"In the older days, magic was quite often practiced by our kind. We were considered to be one of the few true masters of sorcery and of cause that made some arrogant, so arrogant that they thought they could take over the world and become Gods. But of cause that never happen, for there, were other magic wielders; witches, sorcerers, games, Wiseman, Witchdoctors to name a few. Well these groups took stance together and striped most of the Vampire race of all their magic, to stop us from becoming any stronger and actually taking over the world. Witches and Sorcerers are some of the few who still come in contact with the odd Vampire and that's why they still have a weapon that can be used against us."

"What is this… weapon?" Esme asked. Carlisle sighed.

"That, we do not know. Those who still know and wield the power to actually create the weapon hide their secret within, where no amount of torture can make them tell."

"But you think Rodriguez is after this magic weapon?" Tanya asked him.

"I do, why I don't know. All I know is that Rodriguez has always had a strong fascination of magic, even before his change. Rodriguez never took well to Christianity, where magic was forbid and those who used it were burned!"

"So you think he wants to get back to his old roots?" Katrina asked.

"I dare say so."

"Brilliant!"

"Yes, things could get interesting!"

"And as if fighting the Bloodthorns weren't enough."

Bella Point of View

I was laughing and feeling high.

Alice was trying to peg me with snowballs the size of my hand, but she kept missing, even though she kept predicting my next move, maybe it had something do with me forever falling down.

I readied myself to duck another attack (cough-fell over-cough), when I sensed something. No my spider senses weren't tingling, my vampire ones were, though.

Alice froze also as a version came to her make her gasp.

"What?" I hissed. I can only sense things I can't tell whether their bad or good, that was Alice's and Edward's area.

"It's the other's." she whispered, looking far away, her eyes unseeing.

"The other what?"

Alice stared at me with an exasperated look, looking completely normal again.

"The other side, Bella! Gee, Bella keep up."

"And this is a bad thing?"

Alice's nodded seriously.

"A very bad thing, their really bad news."

"They can't be worsted than Rodriguez's group." I pointed out. She nodded in agreement.

"Their just older and more of them and their all pretty strong with some talents among them and witches, too." She added as an after thought. Oh that's why I sensed humans, too.

"So, their bad?"

"Yup!"

"And their coming this way and will get here in, like an hour or two." Alice gapped at me.

"Bella!" she wailed, "Why didn't you say something sooner!"

"I didn't know they were bad!"

"Why are you two yelling?" Jasper asked.

"Cause we have trouble, the Bloodthorns are coming!" Alice shrieked at him and for the other I'm guessing. Bloodthorns? Wow, how Vampire like!

"The Bloodthorns?" Edward, Rosalie and Emmett had just arrived on the scene. Bloodthorns why did the name sound so familiar.

"We should go and warn the others." Edward said calmly. I suddenly realized that though Edward looks the youngest besides me, he was actually the oldest after Carlisle in the family.

"Can you hear them?" Rosalie asked him. He shook his head.

"No, but we should go now."

And without much conversation we ran back to Tanya's, bombarding on their secret conversation with the news of Bloodthorns. Wow, I never knew life as a Vampire was so interesting.

Author's Note: Well this chapter was a mix bag of things, but I hoped you guys liked. I don't know when my next update will be since I'm going to my Dad's in a couple of days and I'll be gone for a week or so and he doesn't have the interent 'sigh'
Thank you SwanBella228 for prove reading this for me.

Thanks for reading and please review. I swear the next couple of chapter's will be interesting!