E POV
"You have to concentrate on yourself and only yourself. If you see someone that needs help, well then, help them but don't only focus on helping others. If not for yourself for your mate or friends. You'll only cause them pain if you die," Zoey said.
"We are not exaggerating. One mistake and you die." Bella stared at all of us.
"We are going to take turns fighting five of you at a time. Try to watch and see what we do," Charlotte instructed us, "but first we are going to fight Demetri, Felix, Heidie, and Ethan. The rule is to hold the opponent down and take out a lighter that will be passed out to you and put it on their body."
They all bent down into a crouch and then they all jumped towards each other. There was sliding and tripping, people were being thrown across the room and there was wrestling. I was picking up on every one of their moves.
It went like that for the rest of hour. Then we were fighting. The guard walked around and corrected us if we were doing something wrong. "Never let your guard down." Was the main lesson that we learned. Bella came over and tackled me to the ground. I flipped us over and started kissing her and she kissed back.
She pulled back, pushed me off her and stood up. "Fight me," she demanded.
"Okay... Why am I doing that?" I was curious.
"Because if you can fight me then you'll be one step closer to actually fighting."
"Okay." Then I understood what she was saying. "Wait. What? I thought I was already fighting."
"Not unless you can get past your protective nature over me and get 100 percent in the fight."
"Deal." We both got down in a crouch. We circled around each other then she made the first move. She slid across the ground and tried to trip me. I jumped above and she slid into a wall. I wanted to go help her. My body was pulling me towards her but I knew better and stay put.
She got up off the ground and ran towards me and tackled me to the ground but before she could get her lighter out of her pocket I kicked her off me. She went flying to the roof. I hopped up off the ground and looked for her but she was no where in sight. Then she tackled me from behind and then I felt the lighter on my neck.
"I win," Bella sang. She stood up and I tackled her to the ground.
"Never let your guard down," I copied her. She giggled and I kissed her nose.
"I love you," she whispered.
"I love you too."
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Days turned into weeks and those weeks passed by until there was only two days left before the battle. We were drilled in to not go for the obvious kill and those who haven't fought before don't even know how to use the obvious kill because they said learning it was a waste of precious time.
We barely hunted and we were becoming weak. Bella, Felix and Hazel went on a special mission so they went hunting yesterday. We were going hunting today and we were told to hunt humans. Jasper was going to do it and most of us were going to follow his lead. All but Alice.
Carslile and Esme were banned from fighting but badly wanted to fight. Aro said it was not proper for someone as high up in the ranks as they were to fight.
We came back to the castle only to see Bella wasn't back yet.
How long is her mission going to take?
"We don't know." Charlotte turned to me.
"Did I think out loud?" I asked.
"Yep." Zoey popped the 'p'.
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"Where is she?" I asked Aro.
"I have no idea. They said they were going on a secret mission and they couldn't have anyone know about it and they know you can read my mind." Just as he said that Bella, Felix and Hazel came back. They were all wearing black and smelled like newborns and ash. "What happened my darlings?" Aro asked.
"We took out about half their army," Felix said.
"Wonderful! Positively wonderful!" Aro exclaimed.
"How did you do it?" I asked.
"That's for me to know and you to never find out," Bella said while skipping up to meet me. I opened up my arms for her. She walked up to me and we wrapped our arms around one another.
"Welcome back," I whispered in her ear.
"Mmmm, I missed you," she said as she snuggled into my chest.
"I missed you too," I mumbled into her hair.
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We were warming up before the big battle. I looked around and I barely saw anyone.
Most people didn't pass training.
"Remember, just focus on yourself and your limitations. Use your strengths and use your weaknesses to help you," Zoey started to lecture us.
All that was going through my head was Blah Blah Blah. I couldn't anything but snuggle up with the angle in my lap. I began to kiss up her neck.
"Pay attention," she whispered to me. I still kissed her.
"How am I suppose to pay attention when I know I can think about you?" I asked.
"Do I need to get up and leave?" I tightened my arms around her.
"Who said I would let you?" I shot right back.
"Just listen to Zoey." I continued to kiss her neck. She turned around to look at me. "Please listen to her. If not for you for me."
"Fine," I huffed.
"Let your self be controlled by what you learned here. Let your training shine through." I started entertaining myself by playing with Bella's hair.
"Edward," she warned.
"I'm multitasking," I defended myself. "I'm listening and playing with your hair."
"Edward, please," she begged. "Your life can depend on this and I can't lose you."
"Okay." I put my head on her shoulder and listened to Zoey.
"And remember, don't do what you can't handle. If you can't handle killing the amount of people that are after you then just focus on staying alive." And that ended her speech.
I went back to kissing Bella's neck.
"Edward," she whined.
"Yes?"
"You need to practice." She moaned as I got behind her ear.
"I don't want to," I whined – imitating her whining from before.
"You need to," she insisted.
"When will I be able to kiss you?"
"After the fight," she said.
"But I want to kiss you now," I complained.
"If you beat me in a fight then you can -" I tackled her to the ground. I bent my face as though I was going to kiss her and she started breathing hard. I brushed on of my hands on her face as I balanced on that arm and reached into my back pocket. I pulled out my lighter and put it to her neck.
"I win," I whispered in her ear. I bent and kissed her. We rolled over until she was on top.
Someone cleared their throat but I just held Bella where she was, "Edward," she whispered against my lips. "Edward, we have to get ready."
"Fine."
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