Chapter Sixteen: Battle Scars

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Embry's POV

I pulled Marie into my lap as we sat down in Sam and Emily's living room. She seemed upset about something though I didn't know what it was except for the White Wolf Spirit. Paul sat far from Marie after his experience with her. Jake walked through the door though Bella wasn't with him, he had taken her home. He looked angry about something but we didn't know what it was.

"Jake, we need to get Billy, Sue, and Old Quil, and the rest of the pack together on the beach," Sam told him as he walked out the door.

"What's going on?" Jake asked as he followed Sam out the door.

Emily looked worriedly between everyone but didn't ask anything. She came to stand next to Marie and took her hand in hers; she could tell Marie was upset about something.

"What's happening, Embry?" Emily asked in a quiet whisper, probably thinking Marie wouldn't hear her.

Marie didn't react to her whispering, just letting Emily think that she didn't hear any of what was being said. Her mind was distracted with what was coming and the losses she had endured.

"We're about to have a council meeting. You'll see why in a few minutes," I told her and she leaned away and patted Marie's shoulder.

Marie stood up from my lap and I was up with her. "We should go now. Since Sam and Jake are getting the council and the pack, we'll prepare everything on the beach for them," Marie told them. "You guys go ahead and be down there before them with the bonfire prepared and warm. Emily and I will bring the food."

Jared and Paul nodded their heads and ran out the door. I looked down at her; not wanting to leave her while she was upset. She gave me a small smile and nodded her head to the door.

"Go with them, we won't be far behind and we'll be safe. I promise," she told me as her eyes flickered over to Emily's busy form in the kitchen.

I sighed and listened to her. I wouldn't fight with her. I kissed the scars across her face then her lips lightly as I had seen Sam do to Emily. I don't know why I did it that way, I just kissed her like that. Maybe I just wish I could fix that for her, make all the scars and problems in her life go away but I knew they never would. I looked back at her before I walked out the door. Marie blew me a kiss before she waved and walked to the kitchen with Emily.

Sam POV

Billy was over at the Clearwater's so that made it easy for us to get them and then get Quil and his grandfather. It was a good thing Jake had brought his car for Old Quil, Sue, and Billy. I would drive them to the beach while Jake, Leah, Seth and Quil run down there in their wolf forms.

"So are you going to tell me what's going on?" Jake asked as we pulled into the Clearwater driveway.

"I'll tell everyone when we get to the beach, Jake," I told him/

I step out of the car with Jake following behind me. I stepped up to the door and pressed the doorbell. Seth answered the door with a smile and welcomed us in. Billy and Sue looked up from their conversation.

"Billy, we're having a meeting on the beach now," I told him urgently.

"Why?" Billy asked turning his wheelchair toward the door.

I only had to say one thing, "White Wolf."

Billy became alert and began to wheel his chair to the door.

"The legend is true?" Sue asked me as we left; Seth and Leah left quickly phasing and running for the beach.

Jake followed them after making sure that Billy was in the car fine. Sue got in the back seat after she called Old Quil, telling him what I had said to Billy. She told me that Quil was driving him and his grandfather to the beach. We were quiet as I drove us to the beach until Billy decided to break the silence.

"So, the White Wolf Spirit is in fact human?" Billy asked me.

"Not human but witch," I told him as we pulled into the parking lot of the beach.

"Do you know who?" he asked me as Sue got his wheelchair from the trunk.

I could see the trees rustling and Seth, Jake, and Leah come out of them. Paul, Jared and Embry were already here with the fire already going but Marie and Emily were not. I started to worry about the both of them but Embry wouldn't leave them unless Marie had told him to.

"Sam?" Billy asked worriedly. "Where are Emily and Marie?"

"They should be on their way now," I told him.

That's when I saw Marie with Emily laughing next to her. We didn't see why until we looked above their heads and saw the floating food and drinks. Marie had a smile on her face but it didn't reach her eyes. Embry must be real worried about her. Does being remembered as the Spirit sadden her? Emily looked over at me and pointed up laughing. Billy and Sue began to laugh as we walked to the beach. Old Quil and Quil were laughing as well as everyone on the beach good thing there weren't any humans out here this late.

Emily and Marie set up the food on tables that were in the back of the cars. Marie went to sit in Embry's lap with a plate of food as Emily sat in mine with a plate of food. The humans and imprints went and got their food first before us wolves devoured it. Emily and Marie sat next to each other while Embry and I left to grab us a plate of food.

"Who knew Marie could do that?" I commented as we made it to the table that was almost void of any food.

"I found out the other day when she flipped herself over the Cullens stair banister. I figured it was either part of a witch's agility or she used her abilities and she told me it was a mix of both," Embry explained.

"Wow, just think, this is something that Bella might have been able to do for many millenniums and we thought she was a human that was good with weird," I told him as we walked back to our girls.

"I know, makes you wonder what else is out there," Embry asked.

"You know pixies aren't the cute little things that you see on TV like Tinker Bell and true werewolves are affected by the moon patterns but not silver bullets," Marie told us as she took a bite out of her hotdog like it was nothing while Embry and I did a spit take.

Emily sat next to me giggling while I composed myself and Embry looked at Marie astonished.

"What?" Marie asked through a mouth full of food.

Emily busted out laughing causing everyone to look at us and wonder what was happening. Marie went back to eating while Embry and I tried to eat after hearing what she just said. Really pixies and real werewolves, we thought we were werewolves and if not then what are real ones were?

"You mean, you met an actual werewolf?" Embry asked Marie curiously.

"Met it, fought it, killed it, have its pelt as a rug at my home in Paris, and have the scars to prove it," she told us like it was nothing.

Everyone heard her this time and looked at her as if she was crazy. She gazed at us with her cup to mouth then moved it.

"Alright, alright, I'm kidding about the pelt part but I fought an actual werewolf and those things are ferocious. They have no control over themselves as a human they don't care about other humans. They rape women and kill men for fun. There was one loose where I lived in France so I decided to hunt it down and killed it but it's not as simple as that. I did get bitten and scratched and I'll show you the scars if you'd like," she told everyone.

"I have got to see this," Paul said with excitement before he cringes from be hit by Quil.

"Alright, hold on a moment," Marie says as she closes her eyes.

Suddenly her eyes open and they are sapphire blue as she lifts her hands and everyone stares in amazement at her.

Her hands scan over her body as she whispers, "Revelare."

A light the color of her eyes scanned over her body starting at her ankles and moved to her head revealing many scars. All the scars were in ranges from large scratches to small bites. Marie gazed at us shyly and then looked up at Embry who looked horrified at her scars riddled body.

"I look ugly and horrible, I know that's why I hid them," Marie said as tears brimmed her eyes but she held them back and tried to keep strong.

"No, no, baby, it's not that, I'm just surprised to see all this," Embry told her as he held her cheek with one hand and motioned to all her scars with his other hand. "You're still and always will be beautiful," he told her.

We heard a gagging noise and looked over to see Paul putting his fingers to his mouth and making a gagging look. All of a sudden he fell back with his fingers going from his mouth to his eyes and we heard him scream and howl in pain. Embry, Emily, and I stared at Marie who had an innocent look on her face as she began to eat some potato salad.

"What?" Marie asked as we all stared at her innocent look and bust out laughing.

"So what are all the scars from?" Paul asked rubbing his face.

Marie began pointing to the scratches and large bite marks that were either werewolf or vampire, mainly vampire, and the small bite marks were done by pixies which caused Paul to laugh. For one werewolf scratch, she got up and pulled the back of her shirt up to show the huge claw marks across her back.

"You mean things like Tinker Bell from Peter Pan. That's hilarious," Paul said.

"No, they look like Tinker Bell but have you ever seen the ones from Harry Potter, the one that like to mess with you and torment you?" Marie asked him, angrily.

"Uh, yeah, why do you ask?" he asked her.

"Ever been bitten by a poisonous snake?" Marie asked him.

"Um, no," he answered confused.

"I've been bitten by a rattlesnake when I was a young boy before," Billy spoke up to Marie's question.

"Alright, imagine a hundred of those biting you at once and injecting their venom into you," Marie told us.

We saw Billy cringe probably remembering what one rattlesnake felt like and comparing it to a hundred.

"That's a pixie, Paul," Marie told him with a straight face.

Paul cringed and then looked at her other scars. Embry pulled her closer and began rubbing her arms because that's where most of the pixie scars were. He was trying to sooth her. After she showed all her scars she said operiet and the scars disappeared

"How is it you're still alive? How do you react to vampire venom?" Paul asked her curiously.

"I carry anti-venom potions on me which is really hard to make and I'm starting to run low on. That's why I need Bella to get her memory back soon," Marie told us.

"Why?" I asked her.

"Bella's the potion master in the family like I'm the spells master. Only she can make certain potions that work right and only I can perform certain spells right without any consequences. Bella's the one that's makes the anti-venom potions that prevents the vampire venom from killing me or else I would be dead right now," she told us.

We were all quiet because we had nothing to say to this.

"You know how a person whose been bitten by snakes so much can adapted an immunity to their venom?" Marie asked us.

"Yeah," Embry responded.

"I think I sort of have that same immunity to an extent. My immunity has gotten so strong it can fight the venom long enough that someone can force feed the potion to me but the bite will have to be as far from my heart as possible," Marie told us.

"Why are you telling us this?" Billy asked.

"Because a battle is coming and if I happen to get bitten, I'm not the only one that goes down," Marie began to tell us solemnly as Embry froze stiff.

"I go down too," Embry said in a grave voice.

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