Twilight: The New Storm Chapter Four

[Dale Flannery]

Chapter 4

Day four

Rainy days

The next morning Dale woke up bright and early, and went downstairs and still he was the last one to wake up.  Or so he thought he walked into the kitchen and sat down for breakfast he looked outside it was pouring rain, also there was Nobody around, none of the Cullen’s were around it was all quiet and the house was empty.  Suddenly Edward and Bella walked in the back door that led to the kitchen with Renesmee, Edwards said “Dale, get your shoes and jacket on.”  Dale asked “Why, Is something wrong?” Edward replied “No, nothing is wrong the family is out playing baseball and Carlisle asked us to swing by and pick you up when you woke up.”  Dale looked outside and said “Well, I bet you that they're not playing right now its pouring rain outside.”  Suddenly thunder clap making Dale jump, Edward replied “There still playing.”  Dale looks puzzled and asked “Their playing in the rain, this I got a see!” So Dale ran upstairs and got his coat out of the closet and then he saw his things on the floor, he thought I’ll take them with me when the rain stops I can get little exercise in.  He grabbed his box and tossed in his sticks and nunchaku's and closed the box and picked it up and got his shoes on.  Then ran downstairs Edward and Bella and Renesmee were at the front door waiting for him.  When Dale arrived downstairs Bella asked “what's in the box.” Dale replied “Oh, just something to do while I'm out there.”  Bella said “You'll be playing baseball with the rest of us.”  Dale replied “I can't play baseball.”  Bella said “Oh, I'm sure Carlisle will let you.”  Edward Read Dale’s thoughts and said “He doesn't know how to play baseball.”  Dale looks at Edward in shock and said “How the hell did you know that?” Bella's just simply replied “Ok, we’ll teach you, we're goanna try to teach Renesmee.”  With that they all walked out the door and climbed into the four-wheel vehicle that was parked out front, Edward climbed into the driver seat, Bella strapped Renesmee in the back set passenger seat and Dale climbed in behind Edward and shut the door.  Then Bella climbed into the passenger seat and closed the door then Edward drove to the baseball field. The way to the field was bumpy and on the way, Edward looked at Dale in the rear view mirror and asked “Dale, how come you never played baseball?” Dale replied “None of the other kids wanted me on there team so i left, and i didn't have a mom and dad to teach me.” Soon they arrived at the baseball field and Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmet and Rosalie were practicing baseball, Edward pulled up beside their vehicle and stops the four by four, Edward got out and so did Dale and started walking toward the group.  At the same time Bella went to the back seat and got Renesmee then shut the door and walked to the group also.  Dale looked around and he could see dark clouds in the distance however it was not raining there, Carlisle saw Dale and walked over to him and said “It appears you're out of uniform.”  Dale looks at the rest of the family each one of them had a baseball uniform on with a baseball cap with this letter C on it. Dale just smiled and said “Well, I guess that means that i don't get to play.”  Carlisle replied “Oh no, you do get to play because it just so happens we have a spare uniform in your size.”  Dale look shocked, Carlisle walked over to a box and pulled out a baseball uniform that was in the plastic wrapper inside the plastic wrapper was a Jersey that had CULLEN in big bold letters on the back of the Jersey along with a number which was a nine, also there was a baseball hat with a large letter C on it, Dale look at Carlisle and said “Carlisle, I can't take this I'm not a Cullen.”  Carlisle looked at Dale and said “As long as you're staying with us your part of our family and you are a Cullen, now go get in your uniform.”  As Carlisle walked away he said to Esme “Dale Cullen that sort has a catchy ring to it.”  Then he stood beside Esme and the both started talking while Dale was changing into his uniform.  Esme looked at Carlisle and said “You are kind of taken with that boy aren’t you?” Carlisle turned and looked at Esme and said “And your not?” Esme chuckled and said “Ho, I love him I can't see what it was like without him here; he is just a funny kid it makes me want to keep him forever.” Carlisle thought about it for a second and said “Esme, Dale is Charlie's responsibility and when Charlie gets the room cleaned out He'll be living over there instead of with us.”  Esme sort of side and said “When that day comes I will truly miss him, the House will be awful quiet without him there.”  Carlisle thought about it for a moment and looked at Esme and said “Well, Charlie is never at home and sense every one here does not have a problem with him besides Rosalie of course.”  As he thought about it suddenly he saw Dale walk around the four by four with his uniform shirt hanging out, his hat on crooked, which started Carlisle chuckling.  Esme was wondering what Carlisle was chuckling at when she saw a Dale she smiled, he was walking toward them Carlisle said “Maybe I could have a talk with Charlie and maybe he could stay with us indefinitely, unless you change your mind right now of course.”  Esme was a static she hugged Carlisle and kissed him on the cheek then walked over to Dale and said “Dale come here.”  Dale walked over to her she strained his cap then starts tucking his shirt into his pants and saying “Dale you are the sloppiest baseball player I ever seen.”  Dale's remark was “I guess that settles it I'm not a baseball player.”  Suddenly Emmet yelled “Dale's goanna play baseball, HELL yeah.”  Dale just turn to him and waved, Carlisle said to the family “All right lineup.” so the whole Cullen’s formed a perfect line and the two team captains were Esme and Carlisle and started taking turns picking people, Carlisle picked first he picked Rosalie, Esme picked Edward, then Carlisle pick Jasper while this is going on Dale was thinking in his head that no one is going to pick me for their team because I don't know how to play.  Then Edward whispered something to Esme, Esme looked back at Edward and then looked at Dale and she said “Dale.”  Dale walked over to where Esme and Edward were, Edward patted him on the back, Next was Carlisle turn, Carlisle picked Bella, Esme picked Emmet.  Which of course meant that Alice would have to be the all-time pitcher? With that Carlisle's team took the field since he got the picked first, Alice got on to the pitcher's mound.  Esme was the captain she said “Dale you bat first.”  Dale looks at her in shock he replied “You're kidding!” Emmet handed him a bat, Dale took the bat and looked at everyone else in the field.  Rosalie yelled “Easy out!”  When she said that Edward started helping Dale at batting he said “Dale, think of this as what you would want to do in martial arts, the balls are goanna  come right over this plate take the bat and swing right where you think the ball's going to be.”  He showed him how to place his hands on the bat then moved his feet a little bit, now he looked like a batter Edward moved Dale’s bat over his shoulder and now was ready to swing at the ball.  Dale look scared, at Alice who only smiled Esme cheering him on saying “Dale you can do it, you can do it, you can do it!” Cheering him on, with that Alice threw the ball and it whizzed passed Dale.  Esme said to Alice, “Alice he's not one of us yet slow the ball down for him.”  Alice nodded and Esme threw the ball back to Alice, Edward looked at Dale and said “Dale keep your eyes on a ball when the ball gets close enough, hit it with the bat.”  At this point Dale was a sweating he didn’t know if this was going to actually work.  Alice threw the ball again and this time it was slower, so slow that when dale's swung for the first time he hit it but it went foul.  Dale thought he was seeing things, he could a swore he saw Edward move so fast after the baseball it seemed that he was almost in two place at once.  Edward walked past Dale and Dale look rather puzzled at him, Esme threw the ball back to Alice and Dale watched Alice for the next pitch.  She threw again and Dale tip the ball once again this time Esme caught it with her bare hands and then she threw back to Alice, Edward walked up behind Dale and said “Not like that, like this.”  And with that he held the bat over dale's hands and when Alice threw the ball Edward help Dale hit the ball, the ball when he hit it went far and fast like a rocket, all Dale did was sit there in shock while the rest of his team started yelling “Run! Run the bases!” Dale yelled back “which one?” And then he ran as fast as he could to the first base and froze just-in-time because Jasper already had the ball and was almost on top of him.  While Dale stood on first base he started thinking nobody can do this, these guys are playing better than the Mariners play and they were professionals.  And the way Jasper ran you think he was the flash, next it was Edwards turn at bat Dale watched as Alice pitched the ball and that ball went super fast at Edward and Edward hit deep in the center field at a high velocity at the same time he saw Edward running toward him Edwards said “Dale Run for the bases ahead of me!” Dale start running as fast as his legs could go, but Edward was right on his tail yelling “Go faster go, go faster!” Dale replied “This as fast as I can go!” With that Edward grabbed dale's pants and picked him up and ran him ahead of him and they really were going fast around the bases, faster than Dale could imagine running.  As they rounded third and was running for home Esme caught the ball and they're running right for her on home plate, Edwards said “Ho great were both going to get out.”  Dale replied “Right when you get closer to her toss me in the air about three feet.”  Edward was unsure he said “Are you sure?” Dale replied “Just do it!” Just as they got close enough to Esme Edward tossed Dale into the air about 3 ft. up as Edward slid in the home plate Dale leaped and flipped over Esme and landed on home plate before Edward which gave their team a two point home run, Esme just stood there in shock as well as Alice and the rest of the people that were in the field. Carlisle was holding Renesmee suddenly out nowhere it started to rain and I don't mean sprinkle I mean buckets, before they knew it Dale made a mad dash for the four by four and the game was canceled during the rain Carlisle handed Renesmee to Bella, Bella jumped into the front passenger seat Dale was already in the back passenger seat and Edward was in the driver's seat they're all headed home.

It rained all day that day, the whole family was watching TV, Dale got bored of TV and went up stairs to his room. The box was on the bed he picks up his box and put it back in the closet and when he looked up he saw the uniform which he took out of the closet and laid it out on the bed. He stared at it, suddenly there was a knock at the door and without thinking he said “come in.” it was Alice, Dale continued to stare at his uniform Alice walked up to him and said “Dale, why did you leave the movie?” Dale did not answer he just continued to stare at his uniform that was lying on the bed, Alice suddenly noticed it she said “What is that?” Dale replied “It's my uniform for ninjutsu.”  Alice being Alice loves clothes said “Well go to the bathroom and try it on, I like to see you in it.”  She picked it up and handed it to Dale and started pushing him to the bathroom he walked in the bathroom and then change into his uniform and walked back to his bedroom Alice was sitting there on his bed as he walked into the room and stood in for the mirror.  He just looked at himself in the uniform; Alice said “In that uniform you look very dangerous.”  Dale replied “But it isn’t me anymore?” Alice replied “It is you that will always be a part of you.”  Dale said “Alice, I don't want you to tell anybody else about my martial arts I'm afraid they will send me away.”  Alice said “Carlisle would never do that, you told me one your secrets and I'm thinking sooner or later you'll find out about ours that your cousin Bella's a part of,  I've seen the future and your part of it as well.”  Dale asked “What are you talking about?” Alice continued and said “All of us now don't freak out all of us including your cousin Bella are vampires.”  Dale couldn't believe what he just heard, he's down in the dumps and Alice is making jokes he knew better his mother told him there was no such things as vampires; Dale just chuckled and replied “There is no such thing!” Alice said “It’s true; I and the rest of my family are vampires, now you have to keep this a secret you cannot tell anyone.”  Dale replied “Who am I going to tell, who would believe me anyhow I don't even believe it myself, and if you guys are vampires I would have been dead the very second I walk through the door.”  Alice replied “We are different type of vampires we only eat the blood of animals out in the forest.”  Dale said “And you're telling me all this, why?” Alice said “We each have powers being a vampire, my power it is seeing into the future and I saw your future I saw you as a vampire,  All those things you can do what you did to those guys and what I saw you do on the baseball field was amazing for a human.” Dale replied “It’s just training every sense I was seven I learned how to do these things and since my parents’ death I’ve been trying so hard trying to control it, I made a promise and I am slowly but surely breaking that promise.” Alice thought about it for a moment then said “Dale, don't control it your parents would not want you to hold this promise because it's holding you back I agree there are times you should control it.”  Dale sort of chuckled and said “I think Charlie's is in an agreement he gave me this box and told me to start training again.”  Alice replied “I think you should it will make you feel better and can I ask something of you?”  Dale looks at Alice suspiciously and said “What?” Alice asked “When you train can you teach me?” Dale could not believe what he heard for one thing if she is what she said she is being a vampire and trying it teach her martial arts would be crazy, then Dale said “If you are what you say you are then this is nuts.”  Alice asked “What is nuts about it, I want to learn, and I want you teach me, plus you would have someone to help you.” He said “You want me to teach a vampire how to fight?” Alice replied “You forget one day soon you're goanna be one too.”  Suddenly they noticed that Edward was standing at the door, Dale thought he probably heard the whole thing. Dale said “Oh, no.”  Edward looked at Dale replied “Remember what Alice said we each have powers I can read minds so I don't have to hear the whole thing.”  Dale replied “Well I guess the jig is up.”  Edward replied “You know what vampire's are and what we eat aren't you afraid?” Dale looked at Edward and said “If you guys were going to kill me you would have done it already.”  Edward thought about this he agreed true if there were any other kinds of vampires they would kill him the very second he walked through the door, but they weren't. Then Edward looked at Alice and asked “So, you want him to teach you how to fight?” Alice replied “It could come in handy especially when it involves the Volturi.” Edward said “I did read Aro's mind and he did show an interest in me and you.”  Alice replied “And what you think he'll do when he finds out about Dale, he was already lenient once with Bella and now we have another human living with us.”  Dale jumped in and said “Wait a minute what do you mean lenient?” Alice replied “The law of our kind.”  Dale replied “Which is?” Alice said “The law is any human finds out about our kind is either turned or killed with them there are no exceptions, that is how they keep the secret of our kind from the humans.”  Dale started chuckling and said “I knew Bella was goanna get me into trouble, she's always getting me into trouble and I'm always the one try to figure my way out.”  Then Dale looks Edward and said “And now that job falls on your shoulders,  But I had no idea in my wildest dream she'd get me in this much trouble.” Both Edward and Dale started laughing, Alice said “Well getting back to the problem at hand, Dale will you teach me?” This is something Dale had to think about for a moment; Alice replied “Since you know Edward and I both are vampires were your only chance at survival if the volturi find out about you.”  Dale replied “Ok fine you got me, but we will need more equipment than I have here.”  Alice said “Anything and everything we need we can get on line through the Internet and have a shipped here.”  Edwards said “Well I better get downstairs Bella's probably wondering what happened to me by now.”  Alice looked at Edward and said “Edward, you're goanna be trained to.”  Edward was shocked he said “me?” Alice said “Yes, if we both know what Dale knows our family will have more of a chance if we have to fight.” Dale looks at Alice and said “Alice, let me think about it because there's a lot of stuff to teach and I'm not sure about training I mean after all it’s been a long time and I never trained anybody before.”  Alice replied “We will help you, and once you've trained us, when you become one of us we will train you.”  With that they both went downstairs to the living room and watch TV for a while, Bell was holding Renesmee Edward sat next to her and sat next to Dale and Rosalie just stood next to Emmet.  Emmet asked “Hey, Dale is it that time again?” Dale replied “What do you mean?” Emmet asked “Is it time for you to call Charlie?” Bella looked at Dale and said “Oh, no don’t you dare call my father and do those calls again.”  Dale look at Bella and replied “Oh, come on, isn't there times when your father plays a prank on you?” Bella looked at Edward and said “Well there was a time on my birthday this was in the morning I woke up he said I had gray hair and I looked at the mirror looking for the gray hair and I didn't have one.  Dale Replied “Exactly.”  Suddenly Esme and Carlisle walked in the room as Dale pulled out his cell phone.  Bella said “All right one more Dale.”  Dale immediately went down the list and dialed Charlie's office number and it started to ring, suddenly Charlie answered the phone he said “Hello forks police station is the officer Swan May I help you?” Dale replied “Yes I believe you can, I am looking for a gentleman there his first name is Oliver and his last name is clothesoff and believe he is being booked.”  Charlie said “Hold on i will check with my deputy.”  With that Dale turned the speaker phone on the cell phone to on so everyone in the room could hear Charlie, over the speaker you could hear Charlie asked his deputy “Do we have an all of her clothes off here.” The Deputy thought for a second and then started laughing, Charlie he had to think it through saying to himself “Oliver clothesoff.”  He looked at a deputy and said “I have been suckered again haven't I?”  His deputy replied laughing, “Yes you have.”  Then Dale hung up the phone, and they all started laughing, after the laughing was over they continued to watch television soon it got late and Dale started getting sleepy he kept looking at the rest of the family and they were wide awake so he went upstairs and climbed into bed and went to sleep on the floor.