Bella's secret life

Training and unwanted guests

"Remember, control your emotions, they are what magnify your powers, feel the wrong emotion at unnecessary times, you can do a lot of damage!" I call out to Michelle as she lights her hands up in flames of fire, "What happens if I can't control my emotions?" She asks, "Then bad things will happen, one of them will result to death." After I said that she almost looked scared, "Believe in yourself Michelle, your worst enemy is yourself, if you let that control you, you won't stand a chance against anything that comes your way." She sighs and nods. She lights her hands up again, "Breathe Michelle." I command and she lets out a breath and the out of control flames, start to steady themselves.

"Good, your doing it. Now I want you to magnify the heat of the flames and make them rise." I say and she does, but then after 13 seconds, loses concentration and the flames die out. "I'm so sorry!" She yells. "Don't be Michelle, that was really good, go and cool off in the house, then we will continue." She smiles and walks in the house. As I go to follow her, I hear a rustling in the bushes, I look back and see nothing, so I proceed towards the house, then I hear it again. This time, I decide to check it out and head further into the woods.

As I go deeper, my enhanced intuition tells me I'm not alone. I can sense there is more then one, maybe 3 or 4. This is fantastic. As I absorb my surroundings more, I can tell they are witches, not very nice ones. 

"Isabella Swan." I hear a Russian accent behind me, that I know all to well, "Galena Markovic." I reply in my Russian accent, after being alive for as long as I have, you pick up languages along with accents, "It's been far to long Isabella." She says and I smile, "I've been alive a very long time Galena, you know I hardly notice time anymore." She chuckles, "I'm fully aware of how long you have been alive Isabella." I smile again, "What can I do for you and your friends Galena?" I ask and she frowns, "The girl, we want her back." I look at her and read her mind, "Michelle, and what could you possibly want with Michelle?"

"She is from our witch coven in Kazan, we are here to return her to our father." She states and I laugh, "Now, Galena you should know me well enough now to know, if you don't give me a good enough reason for something, I will not grant you it. Now tell me what significance Michelle is to you and your coven?" I am now challenging her, I am seen as the queen of witches, (technically I am) so people usually have to give me good enough reasons for me to grant them something, but there will be those people who try to cross me, like Galena is now.

"She is my little sister." Galena replies and I instantly know she's lying. "Don't lie to me Galena!" I raise my voice, higher then my normal talking voice, but lower then a yell. "I am not lying Isabella!" She exclaims, "I don't have to read your mind to know you're lying to me, your eyes tell me everything that I want to know as clear as daylight." I say, getting closer to her. "Fine, that little witch killed Egor and for that she must be punished!" She yells, "That little witch, can't even control her powers. Now I want to know, how the hell she got involved with Egor and your family?" I snap, "We found her on the streets and took her in. We were not aware she was a witch until the night she killed Egor."

"Why did she kill him?" I question and she shrugs, "I have no idea." Lying again, "What have I told you about lying to me." I state, my blood starting to boil. "Fine, Egor hit her when she told him she wasn't interested in him. He was head over heels for her, then she turned him down and you know how Egor had to have his own way, so he lashed out and she burned him alive and ran." I nod, "I am sorry about Egor, Galena. I know how it feels to lose a loved one, a family member. But I cannot sacrifice the girl to you because she acted in self defense, if anything, your brother brought his death on himself." 

"You cannot be serious Isabella?!" She yells and continues, "You were the one that forbid any acts of violence that could result in death, your words!" I pipe in, "I also went onto say, that if any form of violence is used upon someone they may also use some form of violence to defend themselves if necessary. Michelle has no control over her powers, she has no formal training, in fact I don't even think that girl even realized just how powerful she was or how her emotions could magnify her powers, so excuse me, if I care about a young girls life." My words seemed to take Galena back.

"I won't let you get away with this Isabella." She says, "You can't do anything to me Galena, everything you can do, I can do it 20x more powerfully. You may leave now!" I say and turn back to the direction my house is. "When I tell my father about this Isabella, you're dead!" I saluted her, "Good luck with that Galena!" I call back and walk away.

I wonder back to the garden and Michelle is standing there waiting for me. "Where did you go?" She asks, "I was just speaking with Galena Markovic." As soon as she heard the name she started to freak out, "No,no,no, she can't be here, she's going to kill me!" I tilt my head, "Like you killed Egor." Her head snapped in my direction, "She told you!" She screams and starts a fire which I easily put out. "Michelle, stop panicking, I just saved your life. I'm not mad, I know the entire story." I say and she automatically stops. "You do?" I nod, "You shouldn't cross the Markovic's Michelle, they aren't nice people when pushed too far." 

A car pulls up and Edward, Emmett, Carlisle and Jasper hop out. "Bella, I see you found the new witch, she's young." Carlisle says, "Michelle, this is Carlisle and his sons, Emmett, Jasper and Edward." Edward speaks up, "I'm also Bella's boyfriend." Michelle smiles and small shy smile, "Hi, I'm sorry about the whole blowing up the building situation." She cringes while saying, "That's OK." Carlisle says, then Michelle speaks again. "You guys aren't human, but you're not witches either, what are you?" Emmett replies, "We're vampires." Michelle just nods, "Michelle why don't you go inside, I need to talk with them." She nods and walks inside. 

"So you're giving her a place to stay now?" Jasper criticizes, "Jasper, she's exactly like a newborn vampire, she knows nothing about controlling her emotions, which means not a lot of control over her powers." Emmett responds, "So why is she here?" I sigh and shake my head, thinking that he is such an idiot. "Emmett, I'm the oldest witch alive, and I'm the strongest, and I have a young, out of control witch in my house, why do you think she's here." I state, and he just shrugs.

"I'm teaching her how to control her powers you idiot." I say, throwing my hands up in the air. "Oh that makes sense." I go to say something else when I get a premonition.

"Father, we need to attack Isabella Swan, she won't surrender the girl." Galena says to her father Pavel, "Well then, Isabella Swan is going to be in for a rude awakening." He replies.

"Crap." I say, "What is it?" Edward asks concerned. "Let's just say I had a visit from a witch about 10 minutes ago, who wanted to kill Michelle and I did not grant her that and now her along with her father and entire family are now extremely pissed." I state and Carlisle grows concerned also, "Do you know this family?" I nod, "Yeah, fairly well actually. They are a Russian coven in Kazan, met them here while I was travelling 20 years ago, Galena the witch who visited me, was just young at the time, grew very attached to me. When I left she was sad, then tragedy struck in their family." I explain, "Like what?" Jasper asks, "Their mother was killed by a werewolf while she was casting in the woods. It was a full moon and her casting caught the attention of a werewolf hunting for vampires. Ripped her head off in the blink of an eye." 

"What happened after that?" Carlisle asks, "Pavel, their father, grew cold and emotionless. Vowed to destroy anyone who even looked at his family in the wrong way. That's when he started killing."

It was 1997 and Pavel was hunting a werewolf tribe in southern Russia. He had gotten a tip from a family friend who lived in that area, that a pack of werewolves from out of town were crossing through. He believed it was the pack, that the werewolf who killed Pavel's wife Esfir, belonged to. Pavel being a changed man, who once believed in love and equality, followed the lead and killed the entire pack.

"That is when I created the 'non violence rule' upon the witches." Emmett starts talking, "Wait you made a rule?" I nod my head, "I'm the oldest witch alive, which means like the Volturi, I create laws among my kind." Carlisle becomes intrigued, "What happens if they break the rule?" I continue, "I strip them of their powers for 2 months, it's a curse but also a blessing. I give them 2 options, if in 2 months they still want to be a witch, I give them their powers back and vow if they ever cross the line again, I will take their powers away permanently, but if in that 2 months they decided they prefer the mortal life, I'll give their powers away to our ancestors."

"Hmm, seems reasonable, us vampires are punished by death." Emmett says nodding away, "Yeah, believe me, I know." I walk back into the house with the boys and see Michelle reading. "Michelle, now that the Markovic's are hanging around we need to be careful, if it's alright with you Carlisle, could we continue her training in the woods by your house?" I ask, "Of course." He replies.