Author's Note:

Hey Everyone! Here's chapter 18.
This chapter is another introduction Chapter, but the characters being introduced are my own. I invented them so technically their mine... I hope!
Also this chapter is a lead up to the first fight between the Vampires and Witches i guess, but their in the background chanting spells to get help or get rid of Vampires not sure which yet. Since is going to be the first battle, war, whatever, I've written it's probably going to suck and since magic and Vampires are involved with it I have no clue how to write it, but I'll try my best.
Oh yeah, you find out a bit more about Bella and her past and about my universe of Vampires and Witches

Chapter 18

To Know About Witches

Bella's Point of View

"I can't believe I didn't see them coming." Alice had been gasping that out for the last hour or so.

"Alice."

"I don't understand why I didn't see something this big until now."

"Alice?"

"I… I can't believe it! Maybe my talent aren't as strong as they once were."

"ALICE!" I yelled, finally catching her attention. She stared at me shocked.

"What? You don't need to yell! I do have vampire hearing, you know!" she snapped at me.

"Well turn your Vampire Hearing Aid UP!"

"Fine." And much to my and I'm guess everyone else amusement, Alice made a display of turning her imaginary Vampire Hearing Aids up. Now that I think about it, I don't know why we founded it so amusing, maybe because it was Alice and Alice is just Alice and she can make the simplest things hilarious.

"Alice did it ever occur to you that the reason you didn't see them before now was because they weren't interested in us until now." Edward asked her. That sounded like reasonable logic to me. Alice, however, didn't agree.

"No, that hadn't occurred to me, but I should have seen something! I usually see something if something big is coming!" Alice wailed.

"But you did see something." I pointed out gently. "And you warned us that they where coming."

"Yeah, you gave us three hours warning." Rosalie sighed from where she sat, leaning against Emmett's shoulder. We all shot her exasperated looks, which she returned with a glare.

"I was just saying."

"We know." Edward grumbled, rubbing his forehead.

"Don't the Bloodthorns carry broad swords?" I asked randomly. Everyone stared at me as if I had finally gone nuts.

"Well that… What?" Emmett asked, looking around at the rest of his family.

"Bella, have you ever heard about the Bloodthorns?" Carlisle asked me, walking towards me. I shrugged my head dropping.

"I don't just think I've heard of them, I think I've met them a couple of times. I think I might have even done a job for them." I muttered, chewing my lip trying to remember every detail I remembered of them.

"What sort of job?" Carlisle asked.

"Yeah, what sort of job?" Emmett asked way too eagerly then was needed. Rosalie and Edward both whacked him over the head. Carlisle and Esme shot him disapproving looks.

"One of them lost a really valuable sword and I was asked to find it. They wanted me to work full time for them but I snuck away." I was actually quite proud of myself for being able to actually get away. Though, then again, I hadn't been that heavily guarded, but that's beside the point.

"So you didn't just walk around." Alice said sounding strangely triumphant for some reason.

"No, I just walked around doing odd jobs that got thrown my way." I said shrugging. Alice pulled a face at me with I returned.

"Bella, how much do you know about the Bloodthorns?" Carlisle asked, shooting Alice and Emmett warning looks.

"Not really that much," I admitted, hanging my head again, "just what I heard from the odd vampires and witches I bumped into and from what I could pick up from the jobs I did for them."

"Witches? You know witches?" Edward asked.

"Sure," I said, staring at him puzzled, "there's a whole coven of them not too far from here. That Coven is sort of a mix bag of practitioner and those who are just in it for the religion benefits… well that's what they were last time I visited them, which wasn't too long ago about ten years I think."

As I finished, I noticed everyone was staring at me wide eyed in disbelief. I shifted uncomfortably under their golden gaze.

"Bella, do you think that the Bloodthorns would actually ask witches to help?" Carlisle asked.

"Um, they might, well obviously they have, but… I mean some of them are from before witches were considered evil, but um the only Coven I can think of here who would willingly help a group of war-crazy Vampires, is the Blood Rim Moon Coven and the only reason they might help is because their founder is a Vampire from the same time period as the Bloodthorns. But then again, the Blood Rim Moon witches aren't really out for anyone but themselves." I paused for a moment, thinking hard.

"No I don't even think having their founder being a Vampire will make them willing to help. Probably the only reasons they'd help is if their lives where endanger or if there was magic involved and that'd have to be a lot of magic to get them interested." I paused for a moment and noticed everyone, including Tanya and her group who had just join us outside, were all staring at me with wide eyes and their mouths hanging open again. "Why are you all looking at me like that?"

"Eh, sorry." They all hurried to return to their normal facial expressions.

"You really do know a lot about Witches, Bells." Emmett said grinning. I shrugged.

"I hung around with them a lot. Most don't like Vampires but they didn't mind me, don't know why though."

"So the witches accompanying The Bloodthorns, you think might be the Coven of Blood Rim Moon, correct?" Carlisle said. I nodded.

"Do you know what their powers are?"

I sighed; he had to ask that, didn't he.

"Well, it's not as if they actually took me into their secret chamber and showed me their Book of Shadows."

"Bella!"

"Ok, I think their main source power comes from the moon, hence the name and their Power Element is water."

"Water?" Emmett asked, raising an eyebrow at me. "Water doesn't sound so bad, but you would have thought they'd call themselves the Watery Rim Moon Coven!" he snickered

"I think they can call the water and blood out of the body of humans and animals." I explained absented minded.

"Ew, and I thought Vampires way of doing it was bad!" Alice complained.

"I think their foundered didn't like that way and founded it too messing, so she created a spell to do all the draining for her."

"And how do you know all this?" Emmett asked.

"I told you, People meaning: Vampires, Werewolves and Witches aren't bothered by me, so they talk freely around me and I pick up on things."

"You know Bells; you're a little scary at times." Emmett sighed. I just grinned at him.

"All right so now we know what to look for, what are we going to do with this information; I mean those idiots have witches and great whopping big swords." Tanya complained.

"The sizes of their swords are probably to compensate for what they don't have…" Katrina started to say before she and Irina broke into giggles. Carmen and Eleazar both rolled their eyes in disbelief at their sisters' silliness at this point of time.

"Shouldn't we tell the witches that the Bloodthorns are on their way?" I asked Carlisle.

"Will they be willing to help?" he asked, though he seemed unwilling to ask.

"They might, if I ask them. I mean this does involve them." Carlisle looked a little confused. "Um, well you see, Witches are sort of like Vampires with the whole territorial thing. If an unknown or known Coven comes into another Coven's territory and without telling that Coven and they don't have a good reason for being there, things can get interesting."

He just nodded.

"Do you want me to go and ask them for us?" I asked. Carlisle chewed his lip unhappily.

"What can they do?"

"Well, mainly their Weather Works, but some I think are Technopaths and Pyrokinesis."

"A real mix bag of freaks." Emmett commented.

"And we're not?" Carlisle sighed. He rubbed his eyes warily.

"They can take care of themselves." I promised. He looked down at me.

"If we don't tell them, they'll still find out and try to sort it out their way and they'll try and take us with the Bloodthorns and Blood Rim Moon Coven." I added. He slowly nodded.

"Alright Bella, go and tell them what's going on and see if their willing to help us." I nodded and moved for the door.

"See you in a bit." I called as I closed the door behind me.

Isis mewed loudly from Carlisle car's front passenger window. She had somehow managed to get free of her cage. I sighed and open the door and she flew into my arms

"Sorry Isis, I can't take you with me, but I'll be back soon promise." I whispered to her as I pushed her into her cage, which she so didn't want to go in, she even had a swipe at me with her claw, which did nothing but shorten them. I closed the cage door, ignoring the glare of my discontented cat.

"Be good." And I closed the car door.

I had been walking for about five minutes when I sensed someone was following me. Sighing, I stopped.

"You don't have to come, you know." I said turning on the spot, my hands on my hips glaring as Edward stepped out from the shadows of the trees. He didn't look at all sheepish that he had been caught; actually he seemed pleased that I had sprung him.

"I know, but I wanted to come anyway." He replied calmly, falling into perfect step with me. I looked away from him, so that he couldn't see me smiling, I didn't want him to get too smug by the fact that I was actually glad that he was coming with me.

I'm not really bothered by witches, I just a little worried about their whole reaction to the bad news I was bringing with.

"Are you sure this is the right place? It looks like an old bomb shelter." Edward asked me as we came to a sudden stop in a clearing surrounded by dense pine trees. In the center of the clearing was a mound, a man made hill, with a steel door protruding from one side. All it need now was to have the door rounded and painted green with a huge oak tree on top and you'd have Bag End. I told Edward this very same thing and even managed to get a grin out of him, before he went serious again.

"I can't hear anything." He muttered and he wasn't talking about his ears, cause I couldn't hear anything either.

"But their here." I replied calmly.

"How can you be so sure?" he started to asked before he was hit over the head with a really big heavy looking cauldron. It hit him so hard and it was so unexpected that it actually sent crashing to the snowing ground.

"Ow?" I asked him. He scowled, his mouth moving so quickly, that I couldn't pick up on any of his cursing and grumbling. He picked himself up off the ground and looked wildly around for the thing and person that hit, but the cauldron disappeared at quickly as it had appeared, well it had appeared long enough to knock a Vampire sprawling to the ground.

"Well, you know them, say something." Edward grumbled, rubbing the back of his head.

"Um, Hi! It's me, Isabella Masen," I heard a smug snicker from Edward at the last bit. I glared at him, but his just smiled angelically back at me. My knees started to go weak. Ok, back to work! No more looking as humanself's true love.

"I have something important to tell you." I yelled at the door.

"What's the password?" came a soft voice from behind the solid steel door. Edward looked startled then amused.

"Witches have passwords?" he asked snickering.

"Can I say the one I got given ten years ago by Miranda?" I asked sheepishly. There was no reply from the other side of the door for a moment, before the voice returned.

"No."

"Then what can I say then to make you believe I'm me." I demanded. I was starting to get really stress out. If we didn't hurry, things might go really bad for the Cullens, then again, things still could go really bad even with these witches help. I can't win, sometimes.

"What's the werewolf name?" the voice behind the door asked suddenly. It was a different voice than before. It was a familiar one to me and my panic started to die.

"What?" Edward looked bewildered. He turned from the door to stare at me questioningly. I smiled at him shyly.

"Sorry." I mouthed to him and not looking at his hurt eyes, I turned to the door and took a deep breath.

"Jacob Black." I said calmly and the door immediately sprung open and a woman about twenty-eight years old bounded out, grinning as brightly as a new light bulb.

"Bells!" She laughed hugging me tightly. Well, as tightly as she could without bruising herself.

"Hi Miranda."

"What're you doing here?" she asked me, letting go of me but continuing to grin, despite the startled and disapproving looks she was getting from her fellow sisters and brothers witches.

"Um I both came to warn you and ask for your help." I said. Well, if I was going to ask them all for a huge favor I might as well get straight to the point.

"If it's about that damn army we want nothing to do with it." Snapped probably the oldest member of the Coven, she was what you'd call the real fairy tale crone and she didn't like me one bit, never had.

"Um, which army? There seems to be a few going around these days." I asked her sheepishly. She glared at me with great dislike.

"Don't you be smart with me miss. You might be an immortal Vampire, but I'm still older than you in human years." She snapped at me.

"Yeah, but your not older than me." Edward said suddenly, stepping up beside me. Nearly all the girls and woman present heads snapped in his direction, all of them taking on a dazed expression, even one of the men had a dazed look about him.

"Stop dazzling them." I hissed at him. He looked at me, bewildered.

"I think Granny was talking about Rodriguez army." Miranda informed us.

"Oh Him! No, I wasn't talking about him. I was talking about the Bloodthorns and the Blood Rim Moon Coven." I explained quickly. The covens eyes where back on me, though a couple did stray to Edward from time to time.

"What are those witches up to now?" Granny shrilled loudly.

"Um, we think they've join together with the Bloodthorns." Edward said.

"Oh well, if any Coven was stupid enough to join up with a Vampire family it would be the Blood Rim Moon." Granny sighed in irritation.

"Ehh…" Edward and I were speechless.

"You were going to ask for our help, weren't you?" Miranda whispered to me.

"Ya huh, right after we warned you." I whispered back.

"When are they going to get here?"

"In about," I looked down at my old watch, "an hour and a half." I looked at her nervously but she didn't look at all fazed by this news.

"Yeah, we could all sense something big was coming tonight, we just weren't sure what, that's why we are here, building up a storm just in case.

"Great." I said, sincerely pleased about this.

"Autumn Lights, stop revealing our secret to the Cold Ones." Granny snapped at us. Miranda cringed a little, but didn't move away. Edward scowled a little but said nothing.

"You finally have a name." I gasped, grinning at her. She grinned back self-consciously.

"Yeah, but it's so lame. My little brother Liam came up with it, which is against the rules, but I seriously couldn't think of any name that meant anything to me. But Autumn is the season I was born in and I love winter lights, so what can you do."

"We can go inside." One of the younger girls stated, threw chattering teeth.

"Oh, alright! All of you in." Granny growled.

"You three, come on." The three of us jumped, we had thought that Edward and I would have been part of the 'all'

"So, who's handsome back there?" Miranda whispered, nudging me in the side that was sure going to give her a bruise.

"Hmm, oh, um, he's Edward Cullen. Edward this is Miranda Clarkson." I quickly introduced them as we stepped inside the bright doorway.

"It is a pleasure to meet you." Edward said politely.

"Right back at you." Miranda said, looking once again dazed by him. She turned reluctantly back to me. We walked down ten stairs before we entered a large underground room, with bookshelves on two long walls; there was another door way at the end of the room. The room was filled with tables with cauldrons and bottles filled with god knows what.

There was several fire pits around the room, but only the main fireplace was lit and was crackly merrily under a large pot with what smelled like it contain chicken soup. It smelt pretty good, my long forgotten human stomach twisted in memory of food.

"So how did you meet?" Miranda's question brought me back to reality.

"Well, apparently he knew me when I was still a living breathing human."

"Really, that's kinda cool. Wait a minute, was he a human back then too, maybe you both got done by the same guy. Is this a joined revenge thing?"

"Wow, you really are getting way too excited over this and no that's not what happen at all, I met and he was a vampire then."

"Oh OK… did you know he was a vamp?" she asked me, I nodded.

"Yup."

"You are a really weird person you know that right?" Miranda said, sitting down in a chair around one of the tables closest to the fire. She gesture for us to sit too.

"You have no idea." Edward agreed as he sat down beside me. I shot him a crabby look, but he just smiled at me.

Then Granny came to stand in front of us.

"So tells us what we need to know and we might think about helping you." She told us coarsely.

I looked at Edward, who nodded for me to begin.

"This has a bit of guess work on our part, but heres the gist of it…" and so I began.

And so the battle began. So many from so far! Some fought to concur those they considered weaker than themselves; while others fought just to survive and keep what little was theirs.

In the midst of the battle, those of strength that should have wain fell back under the control of one who was meant to be on their side. One fought against the control and lunged for the girl. Thick hand curled around silver chain, yanking it free from her neck. The world goes terrifyingly black with pain for more then just one.

Author's Note: Ok, so that's chapter 18 done and I hoped you enjoyed. As you can see I'm trying to make the witches a mixture of fantasy ones and wiccans (I hope i'm not offending anyone by writing about this and if you want to point out anything Wiccan i can use that would mean a lot to me, I am trying to involve as much as I can to keep it real and so that i'm not insulting anyone)
I have already started writing chapter 19, though I have no clue when that will be posted, since I really don't have a clue how I'm going to write (Any ideas, Please).
All right, thanks for reading, please review, you guys are really keeping me going since this still isn't close to finish yet, there's still heaps I want to put in, but do know that the end is coming closer... I think.

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