AN: Once again I thank my Beta, Gozde. You are an amazing girl. Thank you for all your help!

BPOV

Each of the boys had one of my arms as we ran out of the door. We stopped in mid gallop.

It was pitch black, you couldn't see your hand in front of your own face. Emmet tried to joke as usual for him, but I panicked.

We started taking tiny steps, I know the guys could see better than I could. Edward had already told me about their sight.

Wings, I heard wings flapping all around. At first I thought it was owls or bats or some other night bird that we had stirred up. Then....

Bella, listen carefully. Do NOT make a sound. Only speak to me here.

What is it Edward? What is making those sounds?

Bella, we aren't the only breed of Vampires. We are Carpathians, Antonio is Andalusion. We have gifts that they don't and vice versa.

One of their gifts is, they fly. It's like the way we dissipate; they morph only it's like a shadow creature.

The whole time he was explaining this to me, the boys were feeling their way back and forth along a wall of rocks to our left. Apparently, they found what they were looking for.

Edward took his shirt off and twisted it, then wrapped it like a scarf around my neck. Then he handed me his jacket and told me to scoot into the crevice and cover my head with the jacket and do not expose myself until either he or Emmet came to get me no matter what I heard.

I heard Edward taunting them, "What's the matter Tony, you not willing to get your own hands dirty? You gonna sit up there, watch and let your boys here get hurt?"

There was a loud screeching sound. It sounded like a huge hawk. And Edward and Emmet were its prey.

I couldn't see anything clearly, just bits and pieces. I saw Emmet duck as a huge black fog like bird dove over his head. Edward was staring at something in front of him and seemed to be in deep concentration.

I was afraid to try and contact him. I didn't want to distract him and get him hurt.

I was shivering and biting my lip to keep silent.

Something swept over Edward and I saw him spin to the right and let out a groan. His shoulder was bleeding when he turned back to my sight.

I wanted to run out to check on him, but I was afraid it would get him hurt worse.

He stood there and laughed. "Why are you being such chickens? Can't you form to face us like true Andalusions?"

It must have been a strike on their pride because the shadows began to form into men in front of Edward and Emmet.

It seemed like a long time but everything was moving in slow motion so I'm sure it was only seconds. Emmet had winked at one of the guys and that set it off.

Both sides leapt at each other. There were screeches, thumps, thuds, coming from every direction at once.

I saw Edward's hand shoot out so fast it shoved right into one guy's chest and he pulled out the heart and threw it to the side.

I covered my mouth to hold back the scream. There was blood all over him and he just kept fighting.

One of the others got behind Emmet and jumped on his back, sinking his teeth in Emmet's shoulder. I heard a scream from Emmet and then he shoved backwards against a tree and crushed the guy enough that he fell off.

Then he made the same move Edward had by slamming his fist into the guy's chest and throwing the heart.

I knew they were fighting for their lives and mine as well, but I had never seen anything like this in my life. All I could think of was how sweet and tender he had been with me and how frightening and dangerous he was now.

I was scared to death, I kept covering my head with his jacket and then pulling it off so I could make sure they were still ok.

The fight went on for a long time. It seemed like there was a never ending supply of them.

Suddenly I heard a loud rumble coming from the wooded area to our right. The guys heard it too. They looked at each other and smiled.

"Oh Tony, looks like the cavalry is here, don't you want to come say HI yourself?" Edward teased.

I had concluded that this Tony guy must have been their leader because he didn't do the dirty work himself, he just watched as the others did.

There were loud snarls and growls coming straight at us. I tucked myself deeper into the rocks.

A group of men emerged, running at full speed and they hit the fight with a crash.

The fray only increased tenfold from there, there was so much dirt being thrown around I could barely see at all now. I could hear men thrown to the ground with loud thuds, heard what sounded like bodies being torn, things flying past the opening of my cave.

Suddenly I heard a cry out of unanimous cheers.

There was rustling and scuffling all around then someone struck a match and a huge bonfire started up.

Edward came to my cave and told me to come on out. As soon as I heard his voice I let all my fear and emotion I had bottled up explode from me and began to cry so hard I could barely scoot out.

He gathered me against him and held me. He smelled terrible, like rusty old blood. I didn't even care as long as he was ok.

I stepped back to take a look at him and saw he was clawed up pretty bad. He had a long gaping wound across his right shoulder that trailed halfway down his back.

He had so much blood on him…I was having trouble figuring out what was his and what was others.

He just kept whispering that he was fine and holding me and asking me if I were ok.

I nodded and buried my face in his chest.

A tall muscular man walked over with a sheepish grin, "and this must be the fiancée?"

Edward smiled back, "Yes, this is my Bella."

I know it was rude, but I never even let go of Edward to shake the guys hand or anything, I just held onto him for dear life.

The guy smiled warmly at me and nodded at Edward before he went back to checking for more parts to throw on the fire.

Emmet came over to us and asked if we were ready to leave.

Edward said we needed to find somewhere to clean up and make arrangements for a flight back.

Emmet said he had already taken care of it, we would go to the Area Leader's house to shower and change and the plane would be waiting for us as soon as we were ready.

I kept my eyes hid in Edward's chest as we walked away, there was so much blood everywhere I was nauseous.

They took me to a small house, the leader and his wife had clothes already laid out for us. After a quick shower, I went looking for Edward to make sure he really was ok.

He was sitting at the table with the other men. The leader's wife was checking Emmet's bite wound. She cleaned it out to make sure there was no venom left to fester there and then she leaned down and licked across it.

I must have gasped because they all turned around quickly. Edward motioned for me to come to him and I hurried over.

When I passed Emmet, I looked over at his wound and it was sealed over with fresh pink skin. It wasn't healed all the way but it wasn't open anymore.

The four of them laughed. I lowered my head and was on the verge of tears, everything was so emotional for me right now. I was so tired and hungry and everything was vastly confusing.

Edward pulled me onto his lap to sit and cuddled me in, "Baby, I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to hurt your feelings, it was just the look of confusion on your face when you looked at Emmet."

"You will learn all our gifts soon. We have the ability to speed the healing process with our saliva. A lick is all it takes. Watch as Layla checks my wound for poisons and she will show you."

The lady smiled at me and walked behind Edward, I leaned over his shoulder as she slid her hands gently across his skin. She spread the wound open wide and ran a cloth of warm water over it to wash away some of the blood.

Edward winced at the pain and I took his hand and kissed it as she worked.

The wound was deep and she had to wash it several times before she was sure it was clean. Then she leaned down and began at the top of his shoulder and gave a gentle swift lick all the way down his wound.

The skin melded back and it was a pink healing scar now.

I stood looking at her in awe. She gave my arm a little squeeze of comfort, and then moved to her husband to tend his wounds as well.

Sitting there while the guys put their shirts on and discussed the happenings of the night, I realized that Layla didn't speak English. She would ask something in another language and they would all understand her and answer.

After filling the leader in on all of Antonio's underground lair business, Edward thanked him for all his help and pulled me close as he emphasized that we were extremely grateful.

There was a car waiting for us. We rode to an airstrip and boarded a small plane. After making sure I was buckled in safe, Edward went to his seat. Emmet handed me a blanket in case I got cold or just wanted to nap until we landed.

Once we landed, we were again ushered to a waiting car. I fell asleep on Edward's arm and the next thing I knew he was carrying me to his door.

The door swung open and Alice and Rose grabbed me in a huge bear hug.

Jasper was standing there grinning as well.

Emmet walked up behind us and cleared his throat; "Ahem... well looks like I wasn't even missed" and he began to pout.

Rose ran over and began to kiss all over his face "of course you were missed baby, we just had to make sure Bella was okay first. She is the weakling up next to my big strong teddy bear."

Her sweet talking worked, his pout quickly turned into a grin.

The smell of bacon hit my nose and my mouth was watering. I looked at the girls, "got any of that bacon left? I'm starving!"

Alice hopped up, "Of course we do silly, we cooked it for you. Edward called when you were in the car and told us to find you some food, go sit down and I'll bring it for you." She hurried to the kitchen.

She came back with a tray and sat it on the coffee table; there was a BLT, some chips and a large glass of milk.

I reached for the sandwich and took a large bite. "Ohhhh that is so good!" I groaned. They all laughed at me.

I ate every single crumb of my sandwich and drank all the milk. The boys were filling Jasper and the others in on all the happenings while I ate. When I finished, I leaned back against Edward.

When they finished telling the events, I asked the girls if my dad was going crazy looking for me. They had taken care of it.

Alice had called and asked if I could join her in a road trip to check on her sick aunt so she wouldn't have to go alone. Since my dad was so fond of Alice, he had agreed right away.

"I think I need to get Miss Sleepyhead here to bed." Edward said as he scooped me up in his arms.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and closed my eyes.

He had me all tucked in and was laying beside me when I looked up at him half asleep, "Edward?"

"Yes baby?"

"I know you told those guys I was your fiancée so they would help you. I just wanted to thank you for all you did."

"Baby, please don't thank me. I'm the reason you were grabbed and I broke my promise to you about keeping you safe."

"No you didn't. There is no telling what they might have done to me if you hadn't come when you did."

"We can talk about it later baby, you really need to get some rest."

"And Bella?"

"Yes?"

"I told those men we were getting married because that is what I fully intend to do."