Chap. 9-Incoming
I whimpered in pain at the thought of this continues loneliness, then I felt a hand on shoulder. My eyes opened but all I could see was darkness. No shapes or forms, no trees, no Nessie. I felt a hand grab my paw and pull it from my face. I could see now. I hadn't noticed that I even moved an inch of my body at all. The shame of it all must have taken over for a moment. I saw the most beautiful face ever, Nessie's. She smiled at me without a trace of pain on her face. I sat on my back legs and stared at her, wondering exactly why she was smiling. No one else was smiling and I was sure no one had said a joke.
"Jacob. I love you, no matter what. There is no reason to feel as if I would ever stop loving you." she hugged me. The hair on my back stood up and I rapped my paw around her. She still loves me.
Edward, tell her I love her. Tell her I'm so sorry for putting her through this. I thought. My voice was broken and had no hint of enthusiasum left in it. Thankfully, whatever I thought, Edward said.
Leah backed up again, but her footing had changed. She was facing a different direction. I had forgotten that she was still there. All of my focus was on holding and trying not to crush Nessie. I opened my eyes and I saw that everyone had shifted, facing the same direction. It hadn't accured to me that there had been someone new standing in the distance.
"Hello." a small voice said. I jumped and pushed Nessie behind me. Emmet was the first one to move infront of us all. Bella, then Edward, etc. I faced the small woman who was shadowed by two larger men. "How sweet is this. A dog and a, half blood, together as one. I'm not sure what to think of this." she said. It was Jane. One of the Voluri menace we had dealt with in the past. She and two other Volturi members, Felix and Demitri, were here for a reason I assumed. What that was, I didn't know. Leah growled at them, ready to strike.
"There's no need for that dog. Where not here for you." Jane said. Leah eased her way up and she quickly bared her teeth.
Easy. I thought to Leah. It's best if we find out what there here for first.
"Nice to see you again Jane. Long time no see." Edward said as he slowly made his way infront of everyone. Carlisle grab his arm, but let go once Edward gave him a face of reasurence. "We were not expecting any company so do excuse us if we are bit, unprepared."
"That's quite alright." said Jane.
"We were just paying a visit." said Demitri.
"On Aro's behalf." said Felix. A promise I didn't think they would keep until now. Its seemed quite odd to me that they would come just at the moment when we were our weakest. When I was my weakest. Nessie poked her head from behind my now browed shoulders. She clinched my fur while concern and uncertainty weaved its way through her emotions. What do they want Edward? I thought. All he did was shake his head. His eyebrows narrowed and his body language changed completely. If I was reading his face properly, they were either hiding something from him, which he didn't seem to like, or he just didn't want to say what they were thinking infront of us all, which usually frustrated him.
"I'm sure you know why we're here, right Edward?" said Jane.
"Yes."
"Then you know exactly what Aro want's, correct?" said Demitri.
"Yes." Edward's temper was blazing with rage now. His nose flared and he was breathing heavy for the first time in years. Bella had already been working her shield, but it was slowly getting weaker and smaller because of the concern she had towards Edward's frustration.
Edward, what do they want?! I thought. My patience was wearing thin now, I had no time for these games. I wanted am explaination. They were on our lands now, and my job was still to protect Forks from these assholes.
I'll find out why their here. Leah thought. I had forgotten that she was here once again. I could feel the angur rolling in her body. Being called a "mut" or a "dog" wasn't something that she took very lightly. She growled with furry as the fur on her back stood on end. Leah, don't. I thought. She didn't seem to listen. She inched forward, snarling and baring her teeth. Nessie was at my side holding my fur tight. I couldn't leave her, but I didn't want Leah to make such a foolish decision. LEAH STOP!!
She refused.
"Oh look. The dog wants to play." Demitri sounded arrogant. He wanted a fight. That's exactly what he came here for.
"Cullen, you need to teach your dog some obidience. Make her heal." Jane said. That was a good enough comment to set Leah off. She jumped after Jane and Demitri stepped forward. NO! I yelled in thought. He smacked her across the face and sent her flying up in the air about 30 feet. I rushed away from Nessie, eager to crush Demitri once I got him between my teeth. Leah came falling back down just as fast as she went up and he round house kicked her back across the field. She landed with a crack.
I was five seconds away from grabbing Demitri and teaching him a lesson when Edward, Jasper, and Emmet flashed infront of me, pushing me back by my front legs. Demitri stood in place with a smirk on his face. He was waiting for me to attack so he could put me in my place the same way he did Leah. He could snap my neck if he wanted to, but I didn't care. Even with knowing that truth, I was still enraged. I still wanted his head crushed between my teeth. Edward, Jasper, and Emmet had other plans at the moment. They knew what would happen if I decided to take on one of the Volutri alone. What he did to Leah was childs play compared to what Carlisle told me they were capable of. Smashing heads and faces, ripping limbs from bodies, torture for days at a time, and that was only what they did to vampires. They despised werewolves and would love any chance to rip one apart again.
Edward and the others were still pushing me back while I tried my hardest to stop Leah's angur from erupting through me. "Jacob stop. You need to be a pack leader right now. Trying to fight them isn't going to make Leah feel any better." Edward tried his hardest to talk me down, but the angur Leah felt was way stronger then the calm I was trying to make myself feel.
Jasper grabs my face, "JACOB, LOOK AT HER!!!" He shifted my face toward Leah who twitched in pain on the ground. Our eyes connected and I felt a jolt of energy shot through my body. Jacob, Leah thought, I can't breath. She had been trying to turn into human form, but her broken ribs wouldn't let her. Fire ripped through my lungs and the angur was now my own. I let out an earth shattering howl and broke the grip of my vampire barricade. I wanted Demitri and I wanted him now.
"This is what we wanted. Bring it on dog." Felix crouched down and braced himself for impact. Demitri laughed, obviously amused at how riled up I was. Jane seemed to be the only one bored with this.
"Uh, enough with this mess." Jane said. Then, after she spoke, I faintly heard everyone behind me gasp. My body went tense, then the pain set in. I was crippled from head to toe and could feel every musle in my body try to push back on the pressure that was crushing every inch of my exsistance. My eye sight went black as the pain went on and anything that I had ever known disappeard. The fire that burned inside me made everything go so much slower. It had to have been hours since I'd seen a person, since I had seen the light of the sun. I had no idea where I was, and as I thought about that, the more the pain took over. I had no idea why I derserved to feel such pain. I had no idea what had happened before this eternal pain took over my body. It was as if each breath I took just put me closer to death. I tried to breath, I wanted to breath. If breathing was going to kill me, then that's what I wanted. Less pain, more death.
Suddenly, I could hear muffled speaking from over me. A voice I seemed to vagely remember. Three men were having a converstion while I lay on my death and all I could wonder was, why they were letting me die. I tried to speak, but my breath hadn't stopped trying to kill me yet. All I could try to do was remember. Why am I here? Who did this to me? What's going on? I honestly had no clue what the answer to those questions were, I just knew that I needed to remember. I felt like I was going insane. My mind was so far gone that the only thing that I seemed to remember was my name. But the pain, that was what I would remember forever, weather it lived or died.
My vision came back to me, the trees, the sunlight, and Edward, I remembered Edward. My breath finally let me go and I could breath again. The air was sweet with vampire and I nearly choke on my first gasp of air.
The heated conversation between the three men I hadn't reconized before (Edward, Felix, and Demitri) had ended and I was scooped up from the ground by Edward. His skin was hard and sharp with a bitter cold on my skin. SKIN!! I hadn't realized that during my hours of being out I had phased. I was completely naked from head to toe and was being carried away by Edward. He hadn't seemed to mind that he was carrying a naked man. He didn't seemed to realize anything since his conversation had ended.
I spoke wearily, "Edward, what happened?"
"Jane inflicted a mental illusion of pain onto you." He spoke with strain. His teeth were clinched together and I could tell that his conversation had revealed more then what he got from their minds before.
"What did they want?" he didn't speak. He glanced at me for a brief second and I could tell the had something to say. "Edward, what did they want?" I said with a slight strength.
He finally spoke, "Renesmee."
