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13. FIGHT

"Alright, here's the deal." Jacob stepped in between Paul and Seth. "You two will fight until one of you gives up, or passes out."

"Can we fight now? We get the rules." Paul starting walking back and forth, keeping his eyes on Seth, who just stood there smiling.

Jacob walked out of in between them and raised a hand up. "Go ahead." He walked over to where Rachel, Edward, and I were standing. "This should be good."

Paul snarled as his body shook and erupted into a huge dark silver wolf. His heavy paws hit the earth with a thud. He bared his teeth, beckoning Seth to make a move. I looked up at Rachel who's eyes were open wide. It was her first time seeing a werewolf phase, it is a bizarre thing.

Seth ran at Paul, still human, and Paul crouched ready to attack. As Seth neared him, Paul lunged. Seth pressed his hands down onto Paul's head, launching himself up and over him, as Paul was forced onto the ground. With a well executed flip and sudden tearing of clothes, Seth landed on the ground, a smaller sandy-colored wolf.

"Oh man! That was awesome!" Quil and Embry were both nearly clutching each other out of excitement.

Paul lifted himself up off of the ground, growling. He couched low to the ground, again springing forwards at Seth. Seth, too, lunged at Paul, their bodies colliding in mid air. Snapping jaws and thrashing claws were all around as they both viciously attacked each other.

Paul used his larger body to ram into Seth, knocking him down onto his back. The silver wolf stood over him, snarling. With a swift kick of the hind legs, Paul was sent soaring through the air landing with a thud near Emmett. He picked himself up and let out an angry roar.

"They're going easy on each other…" Jacob scratched his chin, as a smile slowly spread across his face. "Hey guys! I forgot to mention…"

Both Seth and Paul turned their heads to look at their Alpha.

"The loser has to do the winner's patrols for a week as well as mine!" Jacob crossed his arms in front of him. "If that doesn't get them going, nothing will."

When Seth turned his head back to face Paul, the silver wolf had already lunged at him. By the time he knew what had happened, Paul's claws were already slashed down Seth's side. He let out a wail as the pain hit him.

Seth quickly recovered from the momentary instance of pain, as he slammed his head hard into Paul's ribs. It looked like Seth was trying to tip him over, but Paul had dug his claws into the ground, holding himself in place. Seth pulled his head back, ready to ram into him again, but Paul had quickly moved out of the way, leaving Seth with his back turned.

Come on Seth, you've got this…

Paul opened his enormous mouth, in an attempt to bite Seth, but Seth had lowered his front half down freeing his powerful back legs and kicked Paul in the face. The big silver wolf recoiled with his eyes squeezed shut in pain, swinging his claws madly, hoping to get a lucky shot.

Unluckily for Seth, he did. Paul's massive paw smacked Seth clean across the head. He stumbled around a little bit before collapsing to the ground. Paul opened his eyes to see what he had done, and happily trotted over to him, standing victoriously over his opponent.

Oh no, Seth… I'll admit, I was rooting for Seth. I thought he would've been able to take Paul, being smaller and more agile. But I can't always be right.

"Well, it looks like we have a winner." Jacob walked over to the two wolves.

I was looking at Seth when I noticed his eyes suddenly snap open. If I had blinked, I would've missed what happened next. Seth spun his body around, knocking Paul off of his feet. As Paul's body started to fall over, Seth forcefully stood up, bashing his head into Paul's.

The big silver wolf's body fell limp to the ground. In an instant, Paul had reverted to his human form, unconscious, laying naked in the middle of the Cullen's backyard.

Jacob, who had jumped out of the way, walked over to Seth again. "It… looks like we have a winner… Seth… congratulations, my Beta."

Emmett and the rest of the wolf pack erupted into applause, hooting and hollering at the spectacle that they just witnessed. I looked at Rachel. She looked concerned. I found that to be funny, she just met Paul but she already cared enough for his safety.

Edward chuckled. "That's the same trick he used against Riley…"

I turned to Edward. "Who's Riley?"

"One of the newborn vampires in Victoria's army. She and Riley had found where Bella and I were hiding and they attacked. Luckily, Seth was there to help me fight them off. But, yeah, that was the same trick he used on Riley. Faking an injury." Edward looked impressed at Seth's fighting ability.

You'd have to be an idiot not to see how talented Seth really was. I turned back to talk to Rachel, but she was no longer next to me. I looked around and saw she was kneeling my Paul. Her hand was on his forehead, she was trying to wake him up.

Jacob walked out of our house with a freshly clothed Seth. Jacob's arm was around Seth's shoulders and they were talking about something, but they both had huge smiles. Jacob was right, Seth could hold his own. He would make a good Beta.

When Jacob noticed Rachel kneeling by Paul, he walked away from Seth and lifted Paul up. "I'll take care of him."

He walked back into our house, followed by Rachel calling out to him. "Let me take care of him!"

"Ugh… Well at least let me put some clothes on him first! … Rachel! Don't touch him there!-What are you doing?" Jacob started freaking out at whatever it was Rachel was doing to 'take care of' Paul.

"Ow!" Paul yelped in pain.

"Jacob! Don't hit him! He didn't even do anything!"

"Don't make me turn the hose on you two! If I go outside, am I going to be able to come back in without the fear of being an uncle?"

Everyone outside of the house was laughing at the events taking place inside. Quil turned to Embry. "I bet Jacob regrets telling Paul he needed to get laid now, huh?"

"Paul, I command you take your hand off of my sister!" Jacob roared in frustration. "I hate not being able to command anything between the imprint and imprinter! AGH!"

Muffled laughter came from inside the house. Followed by Rachel yelling. "Jacob! Stop smothering him!"

"Paul! Go run patrols! That's an order!"

Paul stepped out of the house, shoulders slumped, head hanging low. "Stupid Alpha… stupid patrols…"

Rachel quickly ran out behind him and pressed her lips to his cheek. "Hurry back…" Paul's face lit up as he turned back to face her.

"God damn it!" Jacob bellowed from inside the house as items of furniture started to be thrown out the door, directly at Paul.