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-Bella-
I crouched as the duel started, watching as Emmitt did the same, and we started circling. Looking for a weakness in each other's defences. Emmitt growled, and in that second he lunged. I had expected it to be a blur, but my eyes kept with his movement. I pivoted to the left, intent on throwing him over my head, but he was not as slow as Jacob. His fist swept across, I ducked. I felt the wind from the blow over the top of my head.
I heard a primitive growl, and looked up to see Emmitt grinning, his fist mere centimetres from my head. I dropped to the floor and rolled, though his fist came in contact with my thigh. It hurt, badly, but I managed to keep from whimpering. It didn't break anything, and I was thankful for that.
Move! My mind screamed as I saw his fist coming my way again. I rolled out of the way, the ground cracked underneath me as I got to my feet quickly. I barely dodged the next hit. Crap, he knew to keep the opponent on her toes.
I was at a disadvantage, Damn, I needed to focus. Time to get him off the stable ground. I spread my wings and let instinct guide me. My wings flapped and I was air born.
"Running away Bella?" I let a laugh escape.
"Too scared to come get me? You really are a teddy bear aren't you?" I retorted. He took the bait, jumping through the trees.
I attacked when he was scaling a trunk, sending my foot to his head. I connected, Emmitt roared in what could have been rage or pain, or both, as he fell to the floor. I started to laugh.
"What's the matter Emmitt, I thought this was a no holds duel, is that all you have?" Predictably, he scaled the trees again, jumping from branch to branch. I didn't bother to attack; I wouldn't get him with the same thing twice.
"Come on little girl, holding back are you?" Emmitt called as I stayed out of his reach.
While I had the advantage, I healed my leg. I had the advantage, this was my domain….the skies.
"No, I'm just waiting for you to grow some balls" I heard laughter from behind me, and I joined in too. Emmitt didn't say a thing, but I noticed his position change. I readied myself for his attack.
He launched himself off the tree, and I dodged out of the way, then dived toward his falling form. My feet made contact with his back, and as he hit the ground, I gave him a strong push, forcing a firm imprint of his body in the hard ground. I back-flipped off his back, landing in a crouch. Emmitt got to his feet, we started our circle again.
-Emmitt-
She was a devil, figuratively speaking. She has been the first supernatural that I've had a good fight with, only 3 vampires have ever landed me on my back, and here she was, defeating me in a fight! She was smart, and fast. That made up for her lack of strength, I guess. I watched her as we circled, growling again when I found no sign of weakness in her defence. I was seriously starting to wonder if she had been taught how to fight.
I lunged again, her wings spread as we engaged in hand to hand. I could win this. She kept up with my every move, dodging and blocking. Suddenly she faked a left, I saw through it as she threw a right hook, only I got it wrong. She pulled her right hand back, and her left uppercut hit me in the jaw. Sneaky little girl! I was even more surprised when I felt my body go flying. My back smashed against a tree hard enough to crack it.
I growled, Bella still had her foot raised. I realised with a start that she had distracted me with a hard uppercut, and then followed through with a good kick! I was stronger at hand-to-hand, how was she eve able to land a hit, and that quickly? How was she able to hit so hard! I snarled at her.
My sharp eyes noticed she was holding her hand against her chest as she lowered her leg. She had done damage to herself by doing damage to me. I almost laughed, but stopped when I thought about her power. Of cause she wouldn't worry about hurting herself, she could heal herself.
I ran at her, but she took to the sky again.
"Stop running away!" I yelled.
"Grow some balls, you too chicken to come after me?" I growled, the first time she had said 'balls' I think we all were shocked. We had never heard Bella use anything but the occasional damn; I had actually wondered if she was capable of letting some colourful words fly.
I knew I was grabbing the disadvantage, but hell, I just couldn't stop myself wanting to rip her apart for her taunts. I jumped up the branches, halfway up; I decided I needed to be unpredictable. When I was still 10 or so feet from being at her level, I forced all the power I had into a jump, I laughed when I saw her face, and heard the branch I jumped from snap.
It was like she was frozen, unable to do a thing. I didn't know what happened then. Her mouth opened in a silent scream as her back arched, and instead of attacking her I ended up catching her as she fell. She started to thrash in my arms. I landed with a thump, and the others where around me in a flash.
"What's wrong with her!" Edward snarled.
Her back arched again, her eyes wide. Jasper fell to the ground.
"It's like her pain inflicting attack, pain is consuming her body" He ground out.
"But isn't she a shield?" Edward asked quietly.
"To vampires, yes" Alice said. "We don't know if she is shielded from other supernaturals."
We all growled and turned to the sound of a twig snapping. I held onto Bella's thrashing body as tightly as I could without hurting her.
There, just inside the shadow of a tree, was a man, and a woman. The man I recognised, the woman I did not, but she surprised the shit out of me.
There, on her back, where some black wings, but there were no feathers on them, they were made of bones and skin, like that you see on a mythical dragon or bats.
"Give me back Bella, or we'll keep hurting her!" The man yelled, and as if on cue, Bella's painful scream filled my ears.
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