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Brawlers

Anthony's POV

I ran as hard as my powers could let me. I was going much faster than I usually allow myself to. I started to become drained of energy. I slowed down and finally came to a halt near a large oak. I spun round and noticed I was sat a clearing within the woods, the soil had been disrupted as if there was a fight and I turned around again to see a raised bit of ground that reminded me of where a leader would stand. I smelled the air around me and, if I were a human, I would've gagged.

The air had a rotten stench of dog. But I ignored it and walked to the oak, punching it hard, over and over in frustration.

I love Marie to pieces; I would destroy the world for her. I would put myself in the firing line of a tank for her. Charlie I don't mind, we're best mates and all but the absence of Marie in my life has taken its toll. She barely speaks to me anymore since about a year ago. She doesn't even give me a kiss or a genuine hug of need; it's always me giving them. I also feel like I don't know her anymore. I was channelling my energy to hear her thoughts on the plane and she actually considered the idea of killing the little girl when she could've just as easy erased her memory. I stopped punching the tree.

I heard the cracking of my skin healing. This sound also reminds me of one hundred and ninety nine years ago, when I gave my life and became a vampire with Marie. She was so happy and sad, sad that I'd given my life away for love but happy that I would be with her for the rest of her...our existence. I punched the tree again in frustration and heard the cracking of the bark, breaking apart. I heard the quick whoosh of something running by and I turned around, seeing nothing in front of me.

I take a couple of paces forward and listen again, this time with the assistance of my power.

I could hear something running around, stopping then running again. The sound started to become louder, it was getting closer. I tensed and braced myself. I could see it. I could see him.

A muscular man with short brown hair, grey top and dark jeans with trainers was running towards me. He was baring his teeth and hissed as he pulled his arm back to punch me. He was metres away.

I slowed down time (or I became impossibly fast) and I moved forward and stuck my arm out in front of the guy. I strengthened my health and my sure my arm wasn't blown off. The guy was knocked back and I pinned him down.

I spanned my senses and reached for any sharp object in the area, until a thick and long branch was next to my head. I grabbed it and rammed it through the guys shoulder, making it hard, even for a vampire, to get up. I got up and paced around him while the guy grunted and moaned in pain.

"What do you want?" I spoke calmly. The last thing I wanted to do was kill another vampire, especially one with the same diet as me. His eyes, like mine, were a gold amber colour.

"To know why you're here." The guy clutched the branch and tried to yank it out. I sat down, knowing he wasn't getting up anytime soon.

"I'm here on my own business with…a friend." The last thing I wanted to do was give away that Marie was here. If he had friends and came after us, I wanted Marie out of the picture. Charlie would see them planning anyway.

"Why?" I sit next to the guys head and pull out the branch, but keeping all force I've generated to making him feel heavy.

"None of your business. Now look, I know we got off on the wrong foot. You attacked me, simple. But I'm old enough to know someone with a small tiniest bit of sense to know not to piss me off. So I'm going to let you stand, and we're going to stay here and talk. Deal?" The guy nodded in submission. I reached hard into what power I had and tried to generate a hook like Marie can. Despite the fact that I generate power and can turn it into something else, I still have to be taught how to do things, unlike Marie who knows how to do things when she gets the ability. Marie suggested that to make myself stronger, and our relationship closer, she would become my tutor in the psychic areas. For the past twenty or so years, she's been teaching me.

The problem was I hadn't done a psychic technique, except for mind link, in a while, and you really need to concentrate to achieve it. I kept the guy pinned down until I generated the hook, then I put it in his mind carefully, hoping the energy wouldn't break. I already got a flood of information from him. His name was Emmet Cullen; he has a mate called Rosalie. He's part of Carlisle's clan and there's Alice, Bella, Edward, Esme, Jasper and Renesme, the girl who's caused a lot of stir. I release the energy off him and offer my hand to help him up. He takes it and I could tell with the amount of force in the lift, that he was attempting to pin me. When Emmet stood up and starting brushing himself off, I got a buzz from my mobile. I decided to ignore it. Emmet started looking at me with slight wonder and possibly jealousy. I decided to change the hook into an emotion twitch (the nickname I give to very sensitive emotion readers).

"Who's that?" Emmet pointed to the phone.

"A friend. So you're part of Carlisle's coven?" Emmet hissed slightly and I sensed panic in his emotion stream. "You don't need to panic. I read your mind, I know everyone in your family, just trying to start conversation but I feel the only way we can get rid of the awkwardness is for me to introduce myself. My name is Anthony Archer; I'm two hundred and seventeen years old and have been a vampire for one hundred and ninety nine years. I'm frozen at the age of eighteen and have a power to morph energy into whatever power I want. I can boost my speed, strength and senses. The reason I'm here is to see your family." I put my hands behind my back and look straight at Emmet his emotions were thoughtful. He was considering how to approach the situation. A wave of understanding swept over him.

"You're with Marie, right? The girl that called us?"

"Yeah, about that, I technically lied to you. I'm here with two people not the one person. Marie and Charlie and I can assure you, they're nice people." I grab my phone from my pocket and look at what the buzzing was about. It was from Marie, pleading me to come home. I looked up at Emmet.

"Well, that's alright as long as you're all on the same diet. By the way, I thought Marie's maiden name was Archer?" I look away and I feel pride in my chest. I loved Marie so much that I gave up my surname and acclaimed hers. Actually, let me rephrase that, to show my love for her, I changed my name.

"Yeah, it is. Look, I got to go. Would you mind sending a message?"

"Sure, no problem."

"Don't let your dogs come near my girl again."

"How do you know about that?" I spanned my senses and heard that behind a large cluster of bushes was the russet wolf I heard growling at Marie, before she ran off and started panicking with Charlie, who had told me he'd seen one too.

"Your friend behind those bushes nearly attacked her. I'd appreciate it if you didn't let it happen again." I turned around and ran off.

I got back into the house and the first thing that happened was Marie running into my arms and clutching me hard. She was in a bad state of mind and I could tell she'd spent some time in the white room to try and calm her down but being in an unstable emotion, which is fear, it has twisted her slightly. I look at Charlie who nods.

"Are you alright? How many times have I told you to stay away from the white room? It messes with your head." Marie leans back and shakes her head. I pick her up like the first time we got married and walked over to the couches and sat her down on my lap and she leaned into me.

"It's alright. No need to be afraid. C'mon Marie, you're the bravest girl I know." I place the hooks into her head with less difficulty and I see what frightened her. The fact she was caught off guard with the wolf and the fact it knew her name, that it was snarling and it was huge. I felt an even heavier weight to what I forced on Emmet; I have only done this twice before.

I only have to do this when she's in a bad state of mind. I fill her with my energy, enough so, that I become extremely weak. This takes a really bad toll and at these times we are most vulnerable, for about two hours, we're basically like humans. No powers, no speed or strength but we still have the blood lust. I press my hand on her chest and pulse energy into her and I heard her gasp as I look away. Marie gets off me and I try to stand but I collapse.

I do the one thing that no other vampire can do.

I blackout.

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Emma 'EePee' Paige