Chapter Twenty Five
Bella's point of view
I brought him down the trail and then jumped behind him and covered his eyes.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"You aren't aloud to see it! now stop breathing because with your super enhanced senses you'll be able to tell where we are." I ordered.
"If it makes you happy." He sighed and then his chest stopped moving signalling that he stopped breathing.
I walked him down the rest of the path and then out of the trees. There weren't any people there and the sea was calm. The blue skies had no clouds in sight.
I took my hands off from shielding his eyes and said, "You can look now."
He opened his eyes and took a deep breath, "This is the place in the picture."
"Yep! This is my favourite place! No one will bother us here." I explained. And dragged him over towards the water. "Let's take a walk. I promised to bring back souvenirs."
He smiled and kissed my cheek while taking my hand in his. We walked along the shoreline until I found a pile of shells. I knew who put them there. I looked around to find her.
"Who are you looking for?" Edward asked with a raise eyebrow.
"Well, there's this little girl named Sierra who is an orphan. She lives in the palace with Joan. I'm surprised we haven't seen her yet. She couldn't come to the party last night because she's too young. She's the only one besides me who really comes to this beach and I think she's the gatherer of these fine shells." I explained and he nodded in understanding.
"Bella! Bella!" A turned and saw the little girl in a pink sundress fly towards me using her little red wings. She's a fire fairy. She stopped short, looked at Edward with shocked eyes, and backed away slowly, fire already in hand.
"She's scared and wondering if I'm trying to hurt you. She's debating whether to throw the fire or not." Edward whispered to me.
"Sierra, it's okay. Edward is a good vampire, he's my boyfriend." I explained. She looked at me and then at Edward. Sierra then flew towards me at full speed and knocked me over onto my back.
"I missed you Bella! The palace is boring without you! Joan doesn't let me near the stove anymore because I burned the steak accidently." Sierra said, hugging into me as I sat up.
"You used your powers in the kitchen?" I asked, not surprised. She loved using her powers.
"I saw you do it tons of times and you never got into trouble!" She explained.
"Well, little princess, my power cannot blow things up." I explained to her.
"I'm not a princess. All the girls in school say I'm not a princess because I'm not like you! So I thought if I used fire to help people I'd be like you." She said in a sad tone.
Edward sat down beside us as I said, "You might not be a princess by blood but, in my opinion you are a princess. It doesn't matter what those other girls say! Okay?" I told her.
"Okay." She smiled at me, turned to Edward while holding her hand out and said, "Hello, I'm Sierra!"
Edward kissed her hand gently – not what she was expecting – which caused her to blush. Edward smiled and said, "Hello, I'm Edward. Nice to meet you princess Sierra."
She smiled brightly at what he called her, then turned her face serious and said, "You better treat Bella perfectly or you have a problem coming to you from princess Sierra."
"I'll do my best, your majesty." He bowed his head and she giggled.
"Good! Well, I must be going now, Joan will be looking for me soon! Help yourself to my shells! Bye!" She jumped up and ran back towards the castle.
I turned to Edward and shook my head.
"What?" He asked with a smile.
"You are too perfect! You made her so happy." I smiled at him and he wrapped his arms around me.
"I think you're the one who's perfect. She loves you dearly. You are kind to everyone and anyone. You just made her so happy when you called her princess and treated her as such."
"We'll agree to disagree."
We ended that conversation and just sat on the white sand until it was time for us to head back to the castle. We gathered up some of the shells and I quickly used some vines from the near by trees to create some necklaces for the Cullen's and Denali's. Even though I did not want to give any to Tanya, I would because I am nice like that. I took one of the many necklaces and put one around Edward's neck. He smiled, thanked me with a kiss and then helped me carry the necklaces back to the castle.
We snuck the necklaces in without anyone seeing them and hid them in one of my many drawers. It was now about one o'clock and Edward suggested –well more like insisted –that I go eat something. I was hungry so I did not refuse.
Alice, Rosalie, Jasper and Emmett were in the dining room. Alice and Rose were chewing away on some of the sandwiches that were placed in the middle. I grabbed a peanut butter and sat next to Alice.
"Hey, how was your morning?" Alice asked as Edward sat down next to Jasper who was sitting directly in front of Alice.
"Fun and relaxing. Have you seen Sierra yet?" I asked, directing the question to her and Rose.
"Yeah, she's growing up so fast. I kind of wish I was her age again. I remember all the stuff I used to get away with." Rosalie laughed.
"Yeah, I vaguely remember you almost burning down everything you touched and since you were still getting used to your powers, you got away with it." Alice joined in on the laughter. The boys looked stiff. We laughed at their scared expressions.
"Don't worry, I know how to control it now. I won't burn you." She teased.
I took another bite out of my sandwich as my mother, the Cullen's, the Denali's and the royal council walked in.
"Bella, we need to talk to you." Mom stated.
"What is it?" I asked.
"It's about the attack." She replied, turned and walked out, everyone following her. I got up quickly, as did Rose and Alice. The guys tagged along and we all walked into my mothers office. In the middle there was a big model of the island. We all gathered around it as mom spoke.
"Okay, so last night, there was a huge brake in the ice. Before Charlie died, he requested that if something happens, we should be prepared therefore. We came up with a plan. She clapped her hands and many little figures appeared on the model. "This is a war battle plan. Charlie and I decided that we would need this in order to succeed. As you can see we have the fire fairies in the front, Water in the near by pond, air in the mountains and earth in the field behind the fire."
"I think I get where you're going with this. But, we won't have enough fairies to beat them. They have practically the whole vampire world with them, we don't have that many." I said to her.
"That is why Charlie and I suggested that you go talk to the leprechauns and trolls." Mom looked at me and leaned over the model. She pointed to the distance between the earth fairies and fire fairies. "This is where they would stay in the battle field."
"You want us to use the other supernatural creatures? Mom, they can die!" I told her.
"They'll die anyway if we do not use our powers on the earth. We all need to survive and they will help."
"Fine. I'll talk to them. But, we need an army, mom. Where are we going to get one of those?" I asked.
"We've already countered that so we now have over fifty fairies waiting for your command."
"Wait, what? My command? What about you!" I asked.
"You are the leader, you're the only one who isn't effected by their mind powers. That's another thing, we need to get rid of the vampires with mind powers." She stated.
"That's going to be a problem. There are many vampires to who have mental abilities. I know most of them myself." Carlisle finally spoke up.
"Hold the phone. Carlisle, you know most of the vampire community, why don't you talk to them I mean, most of the nomads have got to dislike the Volturi as much as we do." Edward said to him.
"And Eleazar, you know most of the nomads as well. They trust you." Carmen added.
"Also, remember the Romanians? They hate the Volturi!" Emmett said.
"Well, you up for it?" I asked looking at the two men. They looked at each other, then nodded.
"We'll do anything to help." Carlisle smiled.
"I've been wanting to visit some friends before all of this mess started anyway, this just gives me the chance to do so." Eleazar smiled also.
"Okay, now that that's cleared up, we also need armour. I mean, our skin isn't diamond hard so, we're going to need some armour to help. It might not do much against their physical attacks but it could help if we get bashed up a bit." I reminded.
"Already getting that covered. The blacksmiths are already coming together with everything. Also, they've discovered they can create swords out of this diamond-like substance. It should penetrate their skin." Angela smirked.
"Good. Now let the games begin." Emmett grinned.