Feirce roars echoed behind me as I sped off to see him, I had to literally push to my limits to make sure the Newborns didn't catch up to me, and I didn't stop. Not like I'd get tired or anything, I was a vampire, afterall, but the thought of what was going to happen to him if I didn't make it was unbearable, and it made me anxious. I let a dry, tearless sob escape from my throat as the picture flashed through my mind again, then I shook it away. I snarled and ripped my way through two Newborns charging head-on at me, and their cries of pain fueled my speed somehow.
I saw him, finally, after having to battle my way away from him, then back to him, away from him again, and then back once more. A smile made it's way onto my lips.
"Claude!" I cried, and in an instant I was stopped beside him. He turned to me, bewilderment clear on his face, then he smiled and hugged me. I hugged back, then pressed my lips to his. We were only like that for seconds, because Newborns were beginning to surround us yet again, their eyes wild with thirst as the little human girl I had come to love dearly was pressed between Claude and I.
I began to take out most of them while Claude took out any who tried to go near her. We put the peices into piles and began lighting fire to them, and then Claude picked Raven up.
Then, I saw her just as she raced off with a Newborn at her side. Victoria.
"Adellia, I'm going to take her somewhere safe," he told me, carrying her in his arms bridal style, and I nodded.
"I can handle Victoria," I grimaced at the name, and he pressed a kiss onto my lips.
"I love you," he told me in a low voice.
"I love you, too," I whispered, bringing the back of my hand lightly against his cheek.
He was my mate, my soulmate, and I knew he wouldn't live without me. I had to live, then, so we could both protect Raven. She was like the daughter we could never have. For a second, he held Raven carefully with one arm, and took my hand, placing a kiss on it. Then, he was running, and for a minute I watched him, completely oblivious to the war that was still raging. Everything came back to me, all of the sights, sounds, and smells of the thing called destruction that war had brought with it.
I took off, following Sam's thoughts, no matter how unbearable those wolves might smell, one of them would lead me to-
Snap.
I dug my feet into the ground, coming to a stop, and looked around intently. Another Newborn looking for something to drink out of me. Why did I still smell so appetizing even as a vampire? I can understand when I was human, I could see the struggle in their eyes, but even as a vampire! How stupid!
Rustling came from behind me, uneven breathes, the smell of fresh blood, footsteps, and a cry as it lunged at me.
I dodged the Newborn's attack with half of a second to spare, then proceeded to rip her apart just like she had intended to be my fate. I threw her in a pile, and lit her on fire, purple smoke beginning to rise after a little while. I looked at my hand, and saw the slightest bite mark on it.
"So she got me anyway..." I muttered, rubbing it, then a velvet voice spoke in my head.
'Damn... One wrong move and Victoria will get Bella...' Edward thought, his voice coming from northeast of my location. I sped off again, letting my anger take control.
It's shocking, though. I never would have thought I'd be in a battle like this. I still have yet to wonder how things will turn out.