The vampires and werewolves assembled in Bella's yard. She had never paid much attention to it before, but now she was thankful Charlie's position caused people to give their home a nice amount of space. Nosey as citizens of Forks were, it was unlikely someone would spy on them while Bella showed off her new abilities.

She smirked at the uneasy expression on Rosalie's face, the blonde trying desperately to hide her true feelings behind a mask of contempt. Edward's lips twitched slightly, and Bella guessed that Rosalie's mind wasn't hiding anything.

Her smirk turned into a gentle smile as she looked at her love; if she had a choice, she wouldn't fight him, but she knew even he was skeptical about her newfound strength and wouldn't believe her capable of holding her own in battle unless he had firsthand experience. The last thing Bella needed was for Edward to underestimate her and end up hurt because he tried to be heroic and rescue her.

Before anyone knew what was happening, save the Siberian pack who had experience training against Bella, the halfa had lunged. Paul found himself flying several feet away and landing painfully against a tree. He looked up groggily, shaking his head to clear his blurred vision. He frowned when he saw Bella easily fending off Embry's half-hearted attempts at punching her.

Even if he wasn't as close to the girl, Embry still liked her. She gasped when Jared managed to punch her stomach, but she didn't bend over to catch her breath as was expected. Rather she did a flip in the air and dug the heel of tennis shoe in his face, using her leg muscles to push him back.

Twisting away from Embry, she appeared in front of Alice. Smiling apologetically over what she was about to do, she jumped down and swept the vampire's legs out from under her before the older girl even realized what happened. Jasper, seeing Alice go down, lunged at Bella, but she ducked and kicked up, knocking him in the face painfully hard.

Two vampires down now, she turned back to the werewolves. Embry and Quil had decided to tag team against her, but even that proved to be not enough. Bella, still small, ducked under them easily and watched amused as they landed in a heap on the ground, too entangled in each other to jump up right away.