Hello people! It's me again! I finally got this chapter finished just right. Sorry for the wait. And thank you kriscrable for reviewing to all my chapters so far, and for making suggestions! I will try and see if I can work them in.
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Now on to the training!
It takes only minutes to get to the meadow. I just stand there for a few moments, admiring the beauty of the place, before I turn to Edward.
"Alright. Training time."
Ell's PoV
Edward collapsed to the ground, leaning against a tree and breathing heavily.
"It's impossible!" He complained.
"No, it's not. Now try again." I instruct.
"Can't I take a break first? I've been going at this for three straight days!" Edward exclaimed. I glared at him, willing him to get up and try again. After a moment though, I sighed.
"Fine. Do whatever you want." I say, my voice full of disappointment.
Edward groaned. "What no-" He cut off as he fell unconscious. Again.
"God, he's useless." I groaned, rubbing my temples.
"Oh, come on. He's trying. You have to admit that if you had to learn how to control all of those abilities in such a short time, even you would have been overwhelmed." Andrew said, coming out from behind a tree. His eyes, a dark red from thirst.
"…If we don't get this problem solved soon, we're going to have another. We all need to feed. And I doubt the Cullen's would appreciate if there was hunting around here. So what to do?" I worried.
"Let us let the Masters worry about that. We need to focus on here and getting your bodies back." Andrew said soothingly.
"But you haven't fed in a while. Surely you're having problems by now."
"Nothing I can't manage. Besides. If push comes to shove, I can always try going vegetarian for a while." Andrew joked, referencing the Cullen's food choice.
"Yes, but most of the guard would not. Let alone the Masters. We need to solve this, quickly."
"Agreed."
~o~
Edward and I had reached another impasse. He claimed that I was taking things too fast. I said he was a slacker who wasn't putting his all into it. Yeah, impasse.
We glared into each other's onyx eyes, both more irritable because we were thirsty. Turns out he couldn't keep down animal blood, and I refused to lower myself to drinking it. Thus, we were both starving.
"Try to do it again. And this time, turn the water into blood. Don't make it explode!" I hissed the last sentence. Edward growled in response.
He picked up the second to last canteen and closed his eyes, brow furrowed in concentration. The canteen slowly started glowing yellow. And then, slowly, a delicious smell came out of the cap. Now here was the moment of truth. The past three times, Edward lost his concentration due to thirst and ended up making the bottles explode, soaking us both thoroughly.
To my amazement and, though I'd never admit it, pride, the water completely turned to blood. Edward slowly opened his eyes as the canteen stopped glowing. He looked down on it, then a triumphant grin spread slowly across his face. He looked up at me, and I nodded in encouragement. He gulped down the blood in no time flat. My throat burned as watched him drink all of the miracle liquid. But I could wait. He could make more.
He tossed the canteen aside when he finished, clearly wishing he had more. I grabbed the last one and tossed it to him.
"Again." He quickly complied, and the water changed faster this time. When it turned to blood, he hesitated, then held it out to me.
"Here. You need it too."
I shook my head. "No, you drink it now. Otherwise you'll pass out sooner. I'll drink next time."
"I insist. You need to sate your thirst as well."
"No. I'll wait." In order to make it seem more final, I stood up and walked across the clearing towards the river. He sighed but complied. By the time I reached the river, I heard the clunk of the second discarded canteen hitting the first. I turned my head to the side without actually turning my head towards him.
"Bring those over here. We'll fill them up again." He instantly moved over to my side and kneeled by the river, dipping the canteens in the flowing water.
I sighed. I missed my body. While this body had some perks, like height and mindreading, it couldn't make up for it.
"You know, this really is frustrating." Edward mused.
"I know. But what thing in particular are you talking about?"
"At this moment, my mindreading. While these other abilities that I now…possess, are quite…fascinating, I'd rather my own ability." I laughed, and Edward looked at me, confused.
"That's exactly what I was just thinking." I chuckled. Edward smiled. "Now let's get me some blood. My throat feels dryer than a desert here." Edward frowned and looked back at the river. He seemed lost in thought for a moment, and I specifically tried to tune him out, in order to give him privacy.
Suddenly Edward's eyes started glowing, and so did the river. The river started turning red.
"DAMN IT!" I ran over to Edward and punched him as hard as I could, sending him flying. He flew over the river and through several trees before he crashed into a rather large one and fell to the ground. There was a me shaped hole in the tree where Edward had hit it. It was almost comical. I looked back down at the river. It had stopped turning into blood.
"Why did you do that?!" Edward screamed at me.
"YOU IDIOT! DO YOU NOT EVEN REALIZE WHAT YOU WERE DOING?!" Edward gave me a confused look. I leapt across the river and landed right in front of him. I leaned down over him, my face a foot from his. "YOU ALMOST TURNED THIS WHOLE DAMNED RIVER INTO BLOOD YOU BUFFOON!" Edward's eyes widened. "KNOW WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED THEN?!" He shook his head. "EVERY DAMN HUMAN IN THE AREA, ALONG WITH EVERY NEWSCREW ACROSS THE WORLD WOULD COME TO SEE THE 'MYSTERIOUS RIVER OF BLOOD'! POLICE WOULD LINE THE BANKS LOOKING FOR BODIES, AND VAMPIRES WOULD SWARM THE PLACE LOOKING FOR A 'MIRACLE FOOD SOURCE' OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT!" Edward started looking terrified. "GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THEN? THE ENTIRETY OF THE VOLTURI WOULD DEDICATE THEIR ENTIRE EXISTENCE TO KILLING YOU! PROBABLY YOUR WHOLE DAMN COVEN FOR HAVING CREATED YOU, AND NOT CONTROLLING YOU! THEN THEY'D KILL ME FOR LETTING YOU DO SUCH A STUPID THING! SO EXCUSE ME FOR TRYING TO STOP YOU IN THE ONLY WAY I COULD!"
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'll work on it!" Edward said, cringing. Andrew steps out of the treeline, looking concerned, but I hold my hand out towards him, motioning for him to stop.
I glared down at Edward. Pathetic. I stood up and took several steps back. I closed my eyes and took several deep breaths, trying to calm myself.
"Get up." I growl quietly, not looking at him. I hear Edward scramble to his feet and I turn back to the river, planning to jump to the other side. "Come."
I heard a loud crunch and looked down at Edward's feet. There, lying in the grass, were the gems from my ring, and some gold chunks. He had destroyed my ring. Anger pulsed through me, my vision turning red.
"EDWARD!" I screamed, furious. He looked at me, terrified.
Oh crap! That was her ring! Edward thought, backing away, hands up in front of him.
I lunged, hands aimed at his neck. Right as I was about to grab him, I froze. I swore when I saw I was glowing yellow. Andrew grabbed me and restrained me when Edward let me go.
"Let me go!" I screamed, struggling futilely against Andrew's strong hold.
Jasper was suddenly there, and a calm wave spread throughout the clearing.
"What happened? I felt his-err-her anger all the way from the house!" Jasper exclaimed, staring at me. I'm not sure what he did, but the amount of bloodlust she has is astounding. If I'm not careful, I'll be affected by it.
"He. Destroyed. My. Ring." I spat through my teeth, glaring at Jasper. Stronger calming waves started spreading, but I could barely feel it. Meanwhile, my murderous intent was growing.
"Ella! You have to calm down! If you're not careful, you'll hurt your body! If you do that, you might never get back to normal again!" Jasper reasoned. I froze. He was right. I couldn't risk it. Damn. But if I don't do something, I'll go mad.
I looked back at Edward, and he was cowering against a tree on the ground, looking like the slightest glare would kill him. Hmm…Fear…THAT'S IT!
"You can let go of me now Andrew, I won't hurt him." I said, careful to not let the rage in me show. He hesitated for a few seconds, but released me. I started walking over to Edward. "But, I feel I must warn you. While I am not going to hurt you now, I can't guarantee your future safety." I had reached him now, and crouched down in front of him. A smile came to my lips, and my next words were in a soft and gentle tone. "If you ever do something like that again, I will make sure that you regret it. Believe me, I know tortures that are hundreds of times worse than death that have broken even the strongest of spirits. If you do something like that, I will use all of them on you." Even to my own ears, the way I was saying this sounded frightening. Edward started to speak, but I continued. "Of course, not on my body, but on yours once we switch back." I leaned closer to him, and started speaking so quietly that only he could hear, allowing malice to leak in my voice. "Or perhaps, would you prefer I try them out on that pretty young girl from earlier?" He stiffened, fear plain on his face. The smile on my face grew more and more vicious. "Though I'm not sure how her frail human body would handle it. It would probably break more than just her spirit."
"You wouldn't." Edward whispered.
"Well don't forget, it is only because of this little incident that you all's punishment has been postponed." He started shaking. It was at that point that I drew all of the malice out of my face and voice, replacing it with a benevolent tone and a cheery smile.
"But of course," I said, standing up and speaking at a normal volume, "This all depends on whether or not you make a mistake like that one again." I started to walk in the opposite direction, past Jasper and towards Andrew. "As long as you are careful and do as I teach you, we shouldn't have any problems. Okay?" I asked, stopping and looking back over my shoulder with an angelic smile.
Edward nodded, then stiffened. He had an odd look on his face, so I read his mind.
All of a sudden, I saw an image of us practicing in the meadow. Huh? What's going on? The vision me looked at her watch.
"6 pm." I muttered. Then I saw many large wolves come out of the tree line to the East on our side of the river. We all turn and growled at them, Andrew and me seemingly involuntary, for we then both looked surprised.
"Wha-" I started to ask.
"Werewolves." Edward and Jasper said at the same time.
"Shit, they must have been downwind of u-" Then Edward collapsed forward, unconscious. He'd run out of energy. Jasper turned for just a second to look at Edward, who was behind him, when the large black wolf lunged, effectively ripping Jasper's head off. I ran over to the black wolf and kicked him in the side, sending him flying, and tried to run backwards toward Edward. Then a reddish wolf lunged at me.
"Stupid dog, I'm not Edward, I'm Ella!"The me from the vision yelled, and tried to grab him by the throat, but missed. It grabbed me by my shoulder and ripped my arm off. Metallic screeching filled the clearing. A smaller sand-colored wolf ran up and tore off my other arm. More screeching, and I backpedaled even quicker. I could hear that same screeching, and well as screaming coming from other areas in the clearing, and it was clear that I couldn't expect help. The black wolf moved slowly out of the tree line, limping slightly and growling. I closed my eyes for a second, and then I was gone, only to reappear in front of the red wolf. It appeared that I had given up on surviving, and had decided to take as many as I could with me. I dodged its attack, and jumped, lifting my left leg into the air over the wolf's head. I then brought my left leg down on its skull, crushing it; at the same time that I brought my right leg up, snapping its neck.
"One down, seven to go." I said, smug. I disappeared again, and then reappeared in front of the sand-colored wolf, kicking consecutively upwards underneath his chest, breaking all of his ribs. I could almost hear the sounds of the ribs piercing his organs.
"That's two." Suddenly, I was being lunged at by werewolves on all sides, each less than a foot away. I jumped into the air to dodge, causing them to run into each other, causing injuries. My smug smile grew wider as I landed to the side, unharmed by that attack.
I then rush behind the dark grey wolf and kicked upwards between his legs, effectively crushing his balls. He howled in agony as he fell to the ground. "Welcome to womanhood, Paul." I said. I then stepped on his spine in rapid-succession, effectively breaking it into unmendable pieces. With the collective wounds he had received, it was clear that he could no longer fight. "And by the way, that's three!"
The large black wolf charged me, fangs bared. Instead of trying to dodge completely, I ran at it; right as it was about to bite my head, I turned so it bit my chest, and I bit it's neck. Ha! If it tears me apart, it'll just be ripping out its own neck. No way it'll do anything. Then the wolf did the unthinkable. It tore me in half, causing his throat to be ripped open.
"Heh. You knew my venom would kill you anyways, so you decide to let me rip your throat in order to save the remaining lives of your pack, huh? Fine by me. At least I could take out half of you, and your leader. That's good work, if I do say so myself." I smiled and closed my eyes as the remaining wolves dove on me, a final metallic screeching filled the air as the vision ended.
I looked down at my watch. It said 5:55. Shit.
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