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Chapter 9
The Beginning
LeahPOV
I stared at the person in the mirror.
She was me.
I was her.
My hair was up in a high slick ponytail. The colourful feathers and beads swished when I turned my head. Since I was still low on clothing I had on my skirt and crop top thing. Forgoing shoes since it was easier to travel without them.
The pack, aided by the Cullen's insight, had decided to meet the Volturi in the field where the big confrontation happened two years ago. I took a deep breath in and counted to thirty. Then I blew it out, thanks to vampires not having to breathe I could hold my breathe for minutes at a time.
I pushed the window to the side and climbed out onto the roof. Sliding down the tiles I jumped off the gutter and landed on the ground. My fists sunk into the thin lawyer of crisp snow. Standing up I brushed off my knees and waited for Seth. I could hear him clomping down the stairs, his steps diffident. I was surprisingly calm at the moment. My pulse was even as was my heartbeat.
The back door opened with a steady groan, "you ready?" Seth bumped my shoulder as he saddled up next to me.
"I suppose, you?" I turned my head to look at Seth.
"I guess, I mean, we've done this before you know." Breaching the tree line we headed in the general direction of the field.
"We have haven't we? Seth, I know it may seem like I don't, with all the child hood beatings and locking you in the washing machine when you were a baby, I actually do love you."
"Really? Who would have guessed?" Seth shot me a cheesy grin.
"Idiot," I muttered, "but seriously, I do love you." I ruffled Seth's head as he dodged away from me.
"You know I love you Lee, you're my big sister." Seth leant in for a side hug.
"Yeah, yeah. I have to tell you something, big-ish…" Seth deserves to know about the imprint and I was going to tell him. Breath in…breath out. I fiddled with my fingers; they entwined with each other and then unlocked again following the same consecutive pattern.
"Mm? What's up?" Seth spared me a glance.
"Uh, well…um…you know…that…I kind of…maybe…um…imprinted on someone…"
"What! When? Who?" Seth stopped walking and turned to look at me.
"Uh…um…J…uh…Ja…uh…Jacob." I whispered the last part out meekly.
"Who?" Seth furrowed his eyebrows. A cool breeze drifted through the forest, the snow crunched under our feet as we continued walking.
"Okay, don't freak out. I, uh imprinted on Jacob." What's this? My feet are suddenly so very, very interesting.
"What?! Jacob? As in Jacob Black? Pack alpha? The Jacob Black?" Seth's jaw dropped open.
"No, some random guy named Jacob," I said sarcastically, "of course Jacob Black."
"Wheeeeeen did that happen?" Seth looked at me like I had grown a third head.
"Maybe, two years ago-ish." I scratched my neck nervously.
"Two years ag-TWO YEARS AGO! Leah! What the hell! How come I never knew about this until…until now!" Seth demanded.
"Well I don't know! Maybe because no one would have believed me and Jacob had an imprint! Oh duh!" I shoved Seth in the chest as a familiar scent caught my interest.
"Now pipe down Happy-Go-Lucky, we'll talk about this later." I whispered/yelled through clenched teeth as we broke into the clearing. Everyone was here already; count on the Clearwater's to be late to something like this.
The Pack were nervous, I could hear the slightly erratic beating of their hearts and the way that their blood pulsed through their veins. They masked their nervousness with faces of steel. All set with determination and concentration.
The Cullen's stood around as well. Their normally calm aura was replaced by one much similar to that of the Packs. Carlisle acknowledged my arrival with a curt nod. I returned said nod.
"Leah, Seth. Where were you guys?" Sam demanded.
"We decided to stop for tea…where the fuck do you think we were? Our house is the farthest from here and you of all people should know that! Now zip your trap shut." I snitched at Sam. I wasn't in the mood for questioning but god knows that more was going to come.
Sam didn't seem pleased with my answer. His brow furrowed as he attempted to reply.
"Le-"
"Leah!" Jake ran over. Oh Taha Aki!
"Sup Almighty Alpha." I popped my p and raised my eyebrows at Jake as he slowed down. Seeming to not like the nickname I have as of just then bestowed upon him.
"I-" I whipped my head to the other side of the clearing and hissed. An abnormal scent wafted through the bitter air.
The Volturi.
I pushed towards the front and watched as the cold-ass motherfuckers emerged from the dense forest and stood at least 100 meters away from us. The distance was not a hindrance as we all had advanced hearing and sight.
Their numbers were less than they were two years ago. The three fuck heads stood in front as their supposed 'guard' stood behind them. Jane Bitch, her brother, Felix and Demetri flanked the three fuck heads and than the rest of the guard flanked those four.
I stood tall, my face passive, Aro had a cynical smile one his pale white face that I wish I could wipe off. The air was thick with tension; a butcher's knife wouldn't even come close to nicking it.
I walked forward until I was halfway across the clearing; Sam and Jake flanked me as Aro walked forward with his two minions trailing behind him.
"Ah, so here we have the fabled hybrid." Aro started, his expression continued to be eerie.
"Ah so here with have Depression, Anger Issues and you." I shot back, a glare staying hard on my face. Jake and Sam stiffened their limbs shifting and muscles preparing for a fight.
Aro smiled at my retort and tutted to Jane who hissed at me, "Feisty aren't we."
"Mmhm." I raised my eyebrow as if I was questioning him. Jutting my hip out I rested my hand on it. Fuck being passive, here comes my inner bitch.
"You certainly are a delight," Aro let out a creepy giggle, "how long I have waited to see you. You certainly have a knack for…running off."
"Yeah well, you're here, you've seen me, now shoo."
"You can't get rid of me that easy and to think we got off to an amazing start."
"Psht, yeah amazing," my voice was dripping with sarcasm, "well, unlike you other people have things to do, you know…productive things so get to the point popsicle." Screw him, I have never been known to play nice and I never will. I will not schmooze and get all buddy-buddy with him. I am technically a third vampire so in my books I don't have to listen to him or obey their fucked rules.
"Well, as always it is obligatory that the members of the Volturi follow up any…funny business concerning our kind. And you my dear, are certainly funny business." I scoffed, shifting my weight.
"I am nobodies dear." I do not take kindly to pet names.
"Well obviously, now tell me dearie, are you a threat to us? Do we have to, although I do not wan to, exterminate you?" Aro raised his eyebrow.
"You can try buddy, you can try," I growled out, "but no, I am not a fucking threat, I have no interest in you or your little play friends, capiche? I may be a vampire/shifter hybrid but I am certainly more human and shifter than I am vampire. So you have no reason other than interest to be here." I said.
"Now, now, now, that is no way to treat your elder. To think, we have come all this way for…this? I don't suppose you would be willing to show us your…abilities?" I scoffed and shot him 'are you serious' look.
"I didn't figure as such, well we always have our ways of persuasion." I stiffened, going into a half crouch I hissed at him.
"What? You mean the little pale bitch? She can try me but I can assure you I will have her head if she is your means of persuasion." I snarled at him.
Aro smiled at me, "no dear, Jane can be very persuasive but today I have something or rather someone else." Mom, they have mom. How…when? They must have her.
Straightening up I glared at Aro, "hmph, who have you got then?" Aro smiled wider, motioning with his hands six figures came forward. Four guard members and Senna and Zafrina.
My anger spiked, I crouched lower and hissed out, preparing to attack, "using innocents to do your dirty work now?" Sam and Jake were preparing for a phase.
"No dear. This is just my means of persuasion." Aro zipped back to his group of little friends and again singled.
The anger disappitated almost immediately and was replaced by horror. I watched as one of the four guard members holding my sisters reached for Senna's head, she struggled and screeched profanities at him. I hissed, if Aro wanted to see what I could do I would show him.
Spinning around I shoved Sam and Jake backwards, sending them sprawling through the snow. This was my fight.
I sprung towards the guard members who had his hands firmly locked around Senna's head. Landing behind him I grabbed him by the shoulders and flung him backwards. I dodged an attack from a second guard member and kicked him in the gut effectively sending him shooting out into a tree.
Before I could act I was sent backwards, crashing into the snow I jumped up and hissed at the first guard member I had sent sprawling. Charging him I used my blend and knocked him to the ground. Confused and he scrambled around searching for me. I grabbed his head and twisted, popping it clean off of his shoulders and dropping my blend.
Sprinting back over to them I rammed into the second guy, he tumbled backwards and shot up, a third guard smacked into me from the back, slightly confused and winded I stared up at the sky. Black dots dancing in my vision.
"LEAH!" Zafrina screamed her eyes wide as visible ice blue fissures broke out across her tan skin as the fourth guard pulled at her head. Instantly I phased, my silver coat over took my russet skin. My thin nails morphed into thick black claws that dug into the snow. My face elongated and my eyes narrowed. I let out a vicious growl before pouncing on the guard.
Taking his head into my mouth I ripped it clean from his body. Flinging it somewhere behind me I phased back. My clothes were blood stained as I had sustained minor cuts through the fighting. I dropped down in front of Senna and Zafrina and started working on the chain that bound their arms and legs.
"Are you guys okay? I never meant for you to get dragged into this! Any of it!" Fumbling with the chains I felt a pair of cold hands grab my head.
The last thing I heard before the third guard snapped my neck was a blood-curdling scream. An awful pain shot through my body as my vision blurred and then completely disappeared.
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LAWL! Do y'all hate me yet? :P
This chapter is shorter than the others and that's because I wanted to end it here and had nothing else to add on!
So, I have been getting reviews where people are all like negative and what not and I am sorry if you don't like the story but I can't help that!
So yeah, I'm sorry for the long wait, it's been hectic getting ready for school which starts up in two weeks! ARGH! Organising and preparing things has been busy!
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