Breaking away from Bast

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Italics for thoughts (Edward can hear it if he's present)

Stages of forms

Tiger: first form (actual tiger)

Tigris: second form (were-tiger, like werewolves, larger than actual animal)

Taiga: third form (cat ears, tail, more tiger musculature, fur, full canines, paws)

Tigam: fourth form (half and half, humanoid form, light fur, tail, nearly full canines, paws)

Tegamen: fifth form (mostly humanoid, no fur, stripes marking the skin and claws and longer canines)

Higar: sixth form (human but with cat senses and scent, regeneration and able streak mind)

Human: seventh form (completely human)

Chapter 22

Pain

Bella pov

My mind could hold on to anything but the agony in Edward's eyes as he screamed as his other arm was ripped away. Tears streamed down my face as I tried to go to him only to be hit back by Kari. I could think of anything until I hit the tree and landed harshly on the ground. The pain brought me back to myself and cleared my head. Kari was going to kill me and Edward was being destroyed before my very eyes. I felt nothing as I thought about this and sobbed as I knew that for him I would kill anything that passed my way.

I could be the monster that my mother was, I could be so much worse than her and in some way not care. Thousands, millions could die by my hands if I lost him and I knew I would feel nothing. If I lost Edward I would loose too much of myself to ever be human again. For the goddess for the world I couldn't let that happen. I had to kill them, all of them and make it final to prevent this being from coming into existence.

Kari moved towards me making her strike against me, thinking I was broken and awaiting death. I smirked to myself as I realised that just moments before I was just that. Now I knew that could happen and what should never occur. Less than a hundredth of a second before she hit me I moved and decapitated her. Her body hit the ground and didn't move, it was not final death until I push all of myself at her body cleansing it of her essence. Now she would never return to life, I bowed my head acknowledging her death.

Gabriel stared at me eyes moving only once to the body at my feet. He knew that she was gone and yet was unsure of his next action. I sighed wishing I could give him something more than a swift death. Edward was in five pieces at his feet, head still attached to his chest. It was not the correct order but I knew that this was what either Renátka or Kari had wanted him to do. I took one step towards him and he dropped the leg that he had been holding and bowed to me.

"It will not save you my friend. I have realised what I am and what I could be if I lost him. I can not let that be, so you must rest eternally." I told him and he didn't seem to react.

I could feel the Cullens behind me but knew it was my swift extermination of Kari that had settled him. His death was as swift as Kari's and it was just as easy to push them out of their essences out into the arms of the great mother. By Bast let them be at peace until it is time again that they walk amongst the great Cats. I feared for a moment that I had lost my heart until Carlisle and the others swarmed his body carefully putting it back together. He healed in part before my eyes and I was relieved and finally felt again the presence of joy and pain fill my temporarily empty mind and body.