Disclaimer: I'm bored ...

Rosalie: Me too ...

Disclaimer: *gasps* OMFG! I know what we could do!

Rosalie: OMFG what!?!

Disclaimer: We could say the line.

Rosalie: OMFG no way! That's an awesome plan!

Disclaimer: I know.

Rosalie: She owns-

Disclaimer: Nothing! *laughs hysterically then suddenly stops* Rosalie? Will you straighten my hair for me? Pleeeeeeeease.

Rosalie: Yay! I was wondering when you would ask! Come on! I'll go get my ghd's ...

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Chapter 7

Bella's point of view:

All of the Cullens seemed slightly put out. The Volturi were coming tomorrow and the English had dragged them - and me - into their pre-fight ritual. It involved sitting in a circle while Tyler named random gods and said some kind of chant. The gods weren't even from the same culture! And I'm pretty sure some of them were from the English's own personal imagination box.

'Everyone rise.' We all stood. 'With one last hope.' He paused and we repeated. 'We hope for life.' Again we repeated. 'For safety and protection against our strife. For forgiveness and peace against our wrongs. And love and happiness even when all is gone.' We repeated the final section and then the English said something about hunting.

'Bella, honey. We're going to go hunting now. That's okay isn't it?' I looked to Carlisle who nodded.

'Sure it is Rachel! If you have to hunt, you have to hunt. And try not to get to messy because Esme doesn't like it. And I will ban you from the house. Remember last time?' Rachel laughed and ran off with the rest of the English who were all fighting, laughing and falling into things.

'I see what you mean Alice.' Edward muttered mysteriously.

'What was that hun?' Edward came over and wrapped his arms around my waist, kissing the top of my head.

'Nothing.' I raised my eyebrows at him. He relented with a sigh. 'Well, I was just agreeing with Alice that the way they hunt and fight is very ... Animalistic.' There were a few chuckles from behind me and I whacked Edward's shoulder playfully.

'That's not animalistic! Oh, wait. You haven't seen what it's like when me, Nala and Serena hunt together.' I laughed. Nala was just sixteen with African origins, she had long silky black hair and a dark skin tone. She was absolutely gorgeous. And Serena ... Well, the easy way to describe Serena would be plastic. And she knew it! She was seventeen, had long, wavy, wheat-coloured blonde hair, was tall and had the most amazing figure ever. [AN: I imagined this girl with Serena off gossip girl's face. If you know who I mean.] We were all best friends but because of our love for fighting we went almost insane around each other. It was quite funny actually.

'Honey, we hear you.' I turned and my two favourite girls were there.

'Serena! Nala! I thought you went hunting!' I jumped on them and gave them hugs which they fiercely returned. I was happy they were here but worried in case their thirst weakened them.

'We hunted yesterday.' Nala said in her strong African accent.

'Oh. Well let me introduce you to the Cullens properly instead of a quick pointing thing.' Yesterday when I'd introduced everyone I had just said their names and pointed out the leaders. I grabbed their hands and towed them forward. 'This is Carlisle, he's the leader I guess. But he's very against hurting anything apart from animals. A compassionate vampire.' Nala and Serena giggled. 'I know. No offence Carlisle.' He nodded to let me know it was okay. 'This is Esme, she's one of the loveliest people you'll ever meet and she's ... well, she's a mother to me I guess. She's Carlisle's wife.' Esme beamed at my girls and they smiled back. 'Then Alice. Shopping crazy, future seeing and annoying as hell. My best friend and sister.' Alice laughed at my quick analogy of her. 'Jasper. Sensitive as anything - and I mean it, he senses your emotions and when he starts to screw with them it gets annoying as hell - and Alice's husband.' Jasper smiled at them and Serena swooned.

'Damn! Why are all the cute ones taken.' I laughed at her.

'You got your cute one. Matt.' I thought about Matt and compared him with Jasper. 'Though I can see where you're coming from. Jasper versus Matt ... Well, there's not much competition is there?' Serena and Nala giggled while Jasper looked confused. 'It's a compliment Jasper. Don't worry.' He smiled at me quickly. 'Then Rosalie and Emmett. Rosalie is painfully beautiful, speaks her mind and ... loyal.' She grinned at me briefly. 'And Emmett is muscle-man in disguise who can't keep his hands off Rosalie. And he can't beat a girl at an arm wrestle either.' They laughed briefly. 'Oh Emmett. You owe me an arm wrestle. 'Kay?' He growled at me and I smiled at him.

'Don't do what you did to Ty!' Serena said letting Nala continue her sentence as usual.

'His hand was crippled for weeks!'

'And Lona said that ... well you know what Lona said.' I laughed. Lona had complained about several things she was deprived of because of his crippled hand. If you get what I mean ...

'And our last Cullen would be Edward.' He was pouting at me. 'Why are you pouting Edward?'

'Tell you later okay?' He said and I was intrigued.

'Or you could think it. I can read minds 'cause your near me.' He smiled and nodded and I opened my mind to his thoughts. He was undressing me in his head. I whacked his arm again. 'Edward! Totally inappropriate!' He laughed and I shut his mind out again. 'Edward can read minds, is shockingly hot and my ... Ummm ... What are you?' I asked him. He chuckled.

'Boyfriend? Unless that's moving to fast. Hmmm. Well this is confusing.' It was my turn to laugh.

'Honey, I think we gave up on the whole moving to fast thing awhile ago. Edward's my boyfriend.' It was Nala's turn to be disappointed.

'Lucky thing.'

'And again! You're married! And hands off, he's mine.' Everyone laughed at my last statement and we all dissolved into normal conversation.

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The English had returned from their hunt and, as usual, were covered in mud with clothes ripped to shreds. I had made them all sit outside until they cleaned up a bit and Esme had thanked me dearly. The Cullens, Serena, Nala and I were all sitting on the sofas inside.

'I'm bored.' Nala whined.

'Me too.' Serena said as well. I had an answer for that.

'Fight?' I asked even though I knew their answer. They jumped up and ran outside shrieking and wooping and the English soon joined them. I ran outside after them.

'Just us three like normal?' They nodded. 'Dignity or not?' Strange question but it made sense to the three of us. Dignity was were we retained our sanity and fought like normal vampires. No dignity was when we went crazy. We snarled a lot more and did anything. You could think of it as free-styling against a choreographed routine.

'Not.' Serena said, already pulling her long hair back into a ponytail.

'Not.' Agreed Nala. We had more fun fighting like this but sometimes we needed to keep our appearances or our dignity.

'No powers agreed? The winner is whoever retains all their limbs.' This never quite worked as we all lost limbs pretty quickly but just reattached them later. I had lost my left arm ninety three times, my right arm ninety seven, my left leg thirty four, my right leg twenty nine and my head once. And that was less than the other two.

'Agreed.' They mumbled in unison. The Cullens appeared outside and melted into the circle the English had created.

'Bella what's going on?' Alice asked and I could feel the rest of them prickling to ask as well.

'And what's all the talk about losing limbs? It sounds dangerous love.' I laughed. Edward was such an overprotective fool at times.

'You'll see. Just don't step into the circle if you value your life.' The three of us laughed wickedly and crouched.

At the exact same time we all launched ourselves into the air, snarling like animals, baring our teeth. I knew their tactics. Take Bella out first. So I jumped high and grabbed a surprised Nala's arm, swinging her round into Serena, pulling it off in the process. I threw it to the side where one of the English, who were now jeering and calling out wildly, caught it. Nala and Serena fell in a heap near the ring of our families. Although Nala had lost because of her arm she wouldn't sit out. We would continue to fight until someone lost three limbs or called a stop.

They both regrouped and started to circle me. They would work as a team until I was totally out and then they would call a truce. They never fought each other.

When they were both exactly at my side they both jumped forward, meaning to catch me from both sides. Serena jumped higher than Nala so if I jumped up to escape their manoeuvre she would catch me. I launched myself forward and did a forward roll out of the way, wincing when I heard some of their bones crack as they hit into each other. Everyone except the Cullens were cheering now. Most of them cheering for me. Everyone except Matt and Oliver who were worried for their mates. But they shouldn't be. Fire was strictly banned as was tearing off small pieces. It was an entire limb or not. It got confusing otherwise.

I could see and hear their bones cracking back into position as they regrouped. They advanced, cornering me against the ring. They had done this several times before as well. I knew from experience that over and under didn't work. Nor did waiting for them. I charged straight forward and bulled into Serena, knocking her head over heals. She fell back against the sea of legs but not before I had ripped one of hers off. That was also thrown into the crowd. Two limbs down, three or two to go. Depending on how it played out.

Most people would survey this and say I had the upper hand. And technically I did. Keyword to that sentence being technically. But if I thought like that I would get cocky and over-confident. Lose my focus and my subconscious survival instinct. My most effective tactic was to believe I was going to die. Resign myself to death. Then it wouldn't matter if I did die because I would be prepared for it. And it made my survival instinct stronger.

I was advancing instead now, backing them up into a corner. I changed tactic again and hesitated on purpose. Nala thought it was genuine hesitation and took advantage. She threw herself at me an landed on my back, teeth at my throat. I grabbed her other arm and flung her forward with such force that her other arm snapped off as well. I threw that into the crowd and this time one of the Cullens caught it. From my peripherals I could see it was a totally shocked Rosalie standing next to an awestruck Emmett. I forgot they'd never seen me at full speed or strength. A now armless Nala flew into Serena and knocked them both backwards. Then Nala ran full pelt at me. I stood still and waited until she was just in front of me before I ducked down and took out her leg. She fell to the ground snarling and just as I was about to pull it off Serena jumped at me. She landed behind me and spun, clawing at my back, ripping my shirt. Lucky it was only a tank.

I was pretty much screwed. Finish the fight by ripping Nala's leg off and risk losing my head or deal with Serena and risk losing my head. Those were crap options. So I chose my option three which I had never used before. I waited until Serena had grabbed on to me properly and flipped myself over, landing so she was on her back and I was lying on top of her with my back to her front. I heard the crack of her ribs as I forced myself into them and I knew by the wheezing one had punctured her lung. She'd be fine, the rib would right itself and her lung would seal and re-inflate itself but for the next minute she wasn't gonna be up for much. I also heard the crack as Nala's leg was ripped out it socket and twisted. I stood up and ripped, needing only a little strength as I didn't have to break through bone and that was it. I held the limb up and the English swarmed forward to tend to the other two and congratulate me on winning. Over the victory cries and laughter I saw the other two get up, limbs reattached but wincing from their injuries. I ran over to them and made sure they were okay.

'You're okay right?' I asked, the concern creeping into my voice. The both laughed.

'Hell yeah! That was awesome! Best fight ever!' Serena cried.

'Yeah, you got new moves! You have to teach us sometime!' Nala shouted over the English's insane cries. We all started to laugh then looked at our outfits and sighed.

'Ruined.' We whispered in unison which brought on another round of hysterical laughter. The English ran off into the forest, making war cries for the fun of it and I realized it was me, my girls and the Cullens left in the front yard. And the stares from the Cullens. Well, I don't think they saw me as Bella anymore.

'What's with the creepy stares?' I asked and they all seemed to unfreeze. But they kept the creepy stare.

'You were right. You're not my innocent little Bella anymore. You're still my Bella but you've changed.' He was looking at me sadly and with a twinge of ... wait was that ... disappointment? That I'd changed?

'Changed in what way?' As if I didn't know. It would be my love of fighting he ranted on about.

'Well, the fighting for one but that's not it. Your emotions, the scared, timid side but the immense confidence with your powers as well. Even the way you dress! The music you listen to! It's changed!' What was he saying, the way I dress, my music choice?

'The way I dress and the music I listen to! So because I dress emo/indie and listen to emo/indie stuff is a problem!?! I'm not even emo but if I was why would that matter!?! Are you trying to say something!?! That I'm a freak or whatever! Are you trying to change me back!?! Because this is me Edward! You can have all of me or none of me! You can't have bits of me! I'm not a frickin' pick'n'mix!' I don't know why I was so angry all of a sudden but I was. I could see the Cullens eyeing me, waiting for me to run again. But I wasn't going to run, not anymore.

'I'm not trying to change you Bella. And I do want all of you. Not just little bits. I want you to stay with me forever. Don't run again. Please. I wont stand it this time.' I was so aware of his family behind us, criticising everything.

'Do we have to do this in front of your family?' I turned to face the Cullens. 'It's nothing to do with you guys, I just don't want an audience.' Then I turned to my girls, silent and impassive at my side. 'Same with you.' Then I faced Edward again.

'Why not do it with an audience? There's nothing to say to you that I can't do in front of them.' I stared at him open-mouthed and shocked.

'Excuse me?'

'You heard me.' His voice was as cold and hard as a stone. Everyone else was staring at him with the same expression.

'What are you trying to say to me?' Didn't he just say he wanted all of me? That he wouldn't stand it if I ran again?

'I'm not sure. I'm confused as hell at the minute.' I nodded and looked to Alice.

'Where are they going to arrive Alice? We'll head there now and prepare. We may see you later. I may go back to England with these.' Alice pouted.

'I'll show you and I'll stay to fight. I'm with you Bella.'

'Me too. You're family now. I'll stand by you.' Rosalie piped up. That surprised me, I wasn't expecting that. Jasper and Emmett declared themselves as well, for their wives, the fight and me. Carlisle and Esme excused themselves saying how they didn't want to destroy human life unnecessarily. Edward just stayed silent and impassive. Ouch.

'Okay. Thanks. We should probably head off now though.' I turned to my girls who were still there behind me. 'Are you going to be doing your ... ummm ... warm up?' They giggled.

'Hell yeah! Woo!' Nala cried but when our eyes met I could see pity in them. Great. Just what I wanted. Pity.

'Yeah. If they're doing their warm up we need to go now. How long till they get here Alice?'

'About an hour. Will that be enough time for your warm up thing?' Serena and Nala nodded. 'Great. If you'll get everyone else I'll take you to the clearing.' They nodded and smiled.

'You know Alice, we should have gone to get the others because their way of fetching them isn't exactly sa-' A load of vicious war cries started to emerge from Nala and Serena. The English heard them and were soon at their side producing similar war cries. 'I did say before they arrived they were all totally insane didn't I?' The shouts outside became more wild and I grinned briefly. 'We're ready to go whenever you are.' I told Alice and ran out to join the screaming, dancing pack

Okay I get it not much happened in this chapter. But Bedward got into another fight over Bella loving to fight and Bella did rip a load of vampires limbs off ... so am I forgiven? Please say so. And I'm thinking about writing a quick story/one-shot of Bella's life in the 200 years before. What do you think? Advice and ideas please. So, usual things, R&R read my other stories please.

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