DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT~

Victoria was a good fighter. But I was better. Every 2 seconds or so, I would be able to rip a small piece of her out, and I was pleasured by it. This woman, this woman who wanted to hurt my Bella, would never ever get a chance to even lay her gaze on her anymore. This was going to end, soon, now.

I tensed myself for a leap. Distracted as I was on Victoria's thoughts, I couldn't check in on Seth's. I guess he might be doing alright. Just when I was in mid-flight, something hard rammed on me and brought me to the ground. I had no time to waste, even a split second was unaffordable. I kicked the obstruction aside in 1/200 of a second and leap to my feet. I had no time to think about this useless junk which collided with me.

Until I heard a low whimper.

I glanced down for a fraction of a second. What I saw was a mass of brown hazel-nut fur, panting deeply. Seth. My mind was already racing through making the calculations. If Seth was here, where was Riley. That thought cost me, probably the biggest of my life.

"Bel-" Fear washed through me.

"Too late Edward," Victoria's sugar-coated voiced rang in my ears. Too late Edward. Too late Edward. Too late Edward. On her other side, stood a blonde vampire who looked permanently disfigured, chunks of him were missing here and there. Only a smaller part of my attention was focused on these trivial facts.

I could not bring myself to look at Bella, to see the innocent confusion in her eyes, the fear. Yet, it was simply too painful to look away. Any second, Victoria could …

"Why, Edward. Such false claims you have made, such false promises you have made to dear Bella over here. You said I would never touch her, then what am I doing now?" Her peals of laughter filled the clearing.

Right then, I wanted to rip her throat out, but how could I? Bella was so close and so fragile. There was a strange red-tint in my vision, with Victoria burning the brightest. I couldn't attack, as much as I would have wanted to. I would have to wait, I would have to stall her, until my family had finished off the battle, and they would come to help me.

"Why are you doing this Victoria? The girl is innocent; I was the one who killed James."

Victoria's lips pulled back to let rip a vicious snarl when I said James' name. I was suddenly afraid; a simple movement of her hand could be the end for Bella – permanently. I shuddered sub-consciously at that horrifying thought. Tears were streaking down Bella's cheeks, onto the ground where I could feel the gentle vibrations. She looked at me, trying to hold my eyes, but I could not look into her warm- chocolate brown eyes and not feel a pang of guilt and stabbing desire to embrace her in my arms.

"Well you see, I lost someone important long ago. Someone who…I …love-loved- very deeply." It was easy to tell that Victoria had trouble getting those words out. Riley, confusion apparent on his features, started to shake his head, staggering back with exaggerated slowness. "Victoria…"

He was in denial. He was suddenly unsure. You lied to me…

Victoria continued, oblivious. "I suffered greatly. Almost killed myself too. But then I decided to take revenge, you will pay for what you have done, Edward Cullen." She stabbed one cold finger at me. Her knuckles became whiter than their usual pearly colour, and contracted the slightest bit.

Bella screamed in pain.

"You will experience the pain that I went through." And she re-adjusted her footing.

There was a sickening crunching sound and Bella fell to the ground, writhing in obvious agony. My heart lurched forward, it ached. No, it did not ache. It burned, it stung, it tore and ripped.

"Stop, please stop." I pleaded uselessly.

"Come one step nearer and…" She did not bother to finish her threat.

"Why don't you just torture me? Torture me all you like, just let the girl go. Please, Victoria." I tried once more.

"Hah. Nice try, but pretty pathetic, don't you think? Now, where would be the fun in that?" Her smile turned sarcastic, mocking as she picked Bella up on her good shoulder and threw here against the mountain wall behind her. Bella landed on the hard ground beside it like a lifeless rag doll being thrown against a nursery wall in one of a child's little tantrums. Her body crumpled in pain, and it felt like I might just explode from the pain of watching this.

Blood gushed out from assumed to be a head wound. Suddenly, Victoria's eyes lost all mocking edge of sadism, all was left was burning thirst in her flat black eyes. This was my chance. Victoria turned to face Bella, hunger radiating from every inch of her feline body. She was distracted, exposing her unprotected back.

Something flew against her and knocked her down, ten feet away. It was Riley. Pure fury was glaring out of his eyes. You lied to me, how could you? Rip,tear,rip,tear. I trusted you so much, yet you lied to me. Screech,shrieks,screech,shrieks. Big mistake. And then the screeching metallic sounds and Victoria's outrage cries disappeared altogether.

I picked Bella up carefully in my arms and ran. Downhill in the clearing, the battle raged on.

oh,i kinda new to this fan fic thing, so i'm sorry if i've wasted your time if you do not like it. Yeah, and if there are at least maybe 3,4 reviews, i'll post the next chapter up.