Gathering

The next couple of days went by really fast. Everyone discussed about who would help us against the Volturi, but we didn't want anyone to get hurt or killed for helping us.

"Did you ask the Denali's if they where willing to help?" Esme asked Carlisle.

"Yes, Kate, Carmen, and Eleazar agreed to help, but Tanya and Irina don't want to risk it." Carlisle looked devastated that he was taking part of Tanya's family away.

"I was able to get into contact with Peter and Charlotte. They both agreed, but said that if things started to turn for the worse that they were going to leave." Jasper said, walking into the room, closing his cell phone.

"That's reasonable." Carlisle told him, sighing. "I don't want anyone having to die because of us."

Emmett walked into the room and plopped down on the couch. "So that adds five more people that'll help. That makes it twenty two." Emmett said smiling. "We're outnumbering them."

I rolled my eyes at him. "That still doesn't help much Emmett. We can have as many people as we want, but with Alec, we will all stand unless."

Edward came into the room and looked at Emmett with a gleam in his eye. "But you won't." he said, looking to me, "If you take Alec out, we stand a chance."

I shook my head. "I would never be able to get close enough to Alec. Demetri and Felix would attack me before I got close enough."

"Just freeze them then." Emmett suggested. "You said you did it to Paul." He smiled, remembering when I told the story of Paul becoming a pupsicle.

"I need physical contact to completely freeze them, if I don't they will only get a little frosted." I argued back. I turned to Carlisle. "Do you know anyone that has a power that would be able to help us?"

Carlisle scrunched his face up in concentration and paced the room back and forth. After a few moments he finally answered. "The only person I can think that can remotely help us is Zafrina."

"What can she do?" I asked, with a little hope in my voice.

He looked up to meet my eyes. "She can make you see anything. Something completely different then what you're really seeing. It would be like you were suddenly transported to some place different." He started to pace the room again. "She can make it look so realistic that you would never be able to tell the difference from the real thing."

"She could take everyone else out before Alec took us out." Jasper said.

"Do you know how to get into touch with her?" I asked him.

Carlisle shook his head. "She doesn't believe in electronic devices. We would have to go to the Amazon to seek her. Her sisters, Senna and Kachiri, could possible help also. If Zafrina agreed, then you can be sure that they would to, they never leave each others sides."

"I know of a few Nomads that would probably help also." Jasper added. "But I would have to hunt them down. They always live on the move, but they always go back to the same places."

"Do you think Maria would be willing to help?" Edward asked him.

Jasper sighed loudly. "I don't know. But if I can't find many people, then I'll ask her."

"We need to get everyone here to get prepared for the fight." I told everyone.

"The Denali's said they would be here sometime tomorrow afternoon." Carlisle said. "I'll leave tomorrow morning for the Amazon." He left the room and went upstairs to say his goodbyes to Esme.

"Peter and Charlotte should be here tomorrow night." Jasper looked at Edward and I saw Edward nod his head. "I'm going to leave tonight. I think I know where Garrett might be this time of the year." With that said, he ran upstairs to gather his things.

Edward, Emmett, and I sat in silence for awhile, thinking of others that would help. "Do you think Alice could try and see if there are anyone that are near by that we could try and talk into helping?" I asked Edward.

"Yes." Came Alice's voice as she walked down the stairs with Jasper. "I've already seen a couple of people who would be more than willing to help fight against the Volturi." She looked at Edward, and I saw him smile.

"The Romanians." Edward whispered.

"Who?" I'd never heard of them.

"The Romanians." Alice said, coming to sit on the arm of the couch beside me. "Stefan and Vladimir, but they've added another member to their coven since the last time we saw them." She looked over her shoulder at Jasper. "I'm leaving with Jasper to go and get them." She looked at Edward. "We'll try and get back as soon as possible." Edward nodded to them both.

A few hours later, Alice and Jasper hugged everyone goodbye and left, saying they would be back soon. Carlisle went upstairs and got ready for his departure.

"I think I'm going to leave soon." I told Edward after Alice and Jasper had gone.

Edward turned around and faced me. He looked worried. "Why?" He asked me, putting his hands on my arms.

I looked up to meet his smoldering eyes. "I know a few people that can help." The worry slightly wiped off his face. "Don't worry, I'll be back. I promise." I said, cupping his face in one of my hands.

He smiled down at me. "When are you leaving?"

I frowned at him, not wanting to hurt him. "I was going to leave in a few minutes." He stopped smiling. "I want to leave as soon as possible, so I can get back here quicker."

He reached up and grabbed my hand that was cupping his face and pulled it down to his lips, kissing the top of my hand. "Hurry back." he pleaded.

I smiled. "I promise." I stood on my tip toes and kissed his cheek gently. With that done and said, I walked out the door and got into my Mustang and drove away.

EPOV

Bella walked out the door and drove away with my heart. I wouldn't be happy again until she got back. I reached up and touched my cheek that she had kissed and sighed in happiness.

The next morning Carlisle said goodbye and left to the Amazon. Esme started running around the house, getting ready for all of our guest.

There was a knock on the door and Esme went and answered it. There stood Kate, Carmen, and Eleazar. "Please come in and make yourselves comfortable." Esme told them, stepping aside for them to enter.

"Thank you." Eleazar said. "We came as quick as we could after Carlisle called."

"There was no need to rush." I told them. "Jane gave us two months."

"What?" He said, looking at me, shocked. "Why so much time?"

I shook my head. "I guess they knew we weren't giving up without a fight, so they have to prepare themselves." I shrugged. His guess was as good as mine.

Kate and Carmen came in and sat down on the couch. "What is all of this about anyways?" Carmen asked.

"Jane and Felix came and took Jacob, Bella's friend. They knew she would react irrationally, and that's exactly what they wanted." I sighed and shook my head. "They want Bella to give herself over to the Volturi in exchange for Jacob."

"Bella?" Kate asked.

Emmett suddenly walked into the room, and patted me on the back. "The woman our Eddie boy here has fallen for." He said, laughing.

"Really?" Kate laughed. "I thought you weren't going to find anyone that caught your interest."

"Ha, ha. Real funny." I said. "Could we please stick to the subject at hand right now. You need to know what you're getting yourselves into. We're not asking you to risk your lives to help us."

"We understand that, but we consider all of you our family and we want to help our family." Eleazar said. Kate and Carmen nodded, agreeing with him.

"Thank you." Esme said, looking sad. "But we would understand if you left when things start to get out of hand and things turn for the worse."

Kate jumped out of her seat. "We would never do that to you. We'll see this to the end."

Esme looked like she wanted to cry if it were possible. "Thank you… again."

After a few minutes, Kate finally broke the awkward silence. "So… where's Bella?"

I sighed, missing her. "She went to get some friends of hers."

It had been three weeks and still Bella hadn't shown back up. Carlisle had just arrived back the day before with four people from the Amazon: Zafrina, Senna, Kachiri, and Inez; and part of the Egyptian coven: Benjamin and Tia.

Esme ran straight into his arms when he walked in the door. I felt so lost watching them, not knowing when my Bella would be back.

Alice and Jasper came back a few hours after Carlisle, bring three nomads with them: Garrett, Randall, and Maggie; and the Romanian's: Vladimir, Stefan, and Elijah. Jasper tried to find Maria, but had no luck.

There was now twenty four vampires in the house. The wolves were beginning to get restless, not liking them here, but they didn't argue, knowing that they were here to help get Jacob back.

"I talked to Alistair, but he wanted nothing to do with the Volturi." Carlisle told me. "He said that just by me talking to him, they'll hunt him down and kill him." Carlisle shook his head in shame.

"Then we'll have to win so then he'll have nothing to worry about." Emmett said from the backyard, wresting with Garrett.

The next couple of days everyone practiced their fighting skills and learned things that we didn't know about the Volturi from Eleazar.

I tried to listen, but my mind was on Bella, wondering where she could possible be. Everyone that didn't know her, thought that she had ran away, not wanting to get killed, but I knew better. She would never leave Jacob in their hands, she would do everything in her power to save him.

Emmett was ecstatic that we had so many people on our side, especially with some of their powers. There was Zafrina with her power of making you see anything. There was Kate that was like Jane, but she needed physical contact. There was Benjamin that could control all four elements. Then there was Inez, our secret weapon as Zafrina liked to call him. Only the Amazon's knew what he could do and they were blocking their minds so I couldn't find out. I guess it was for the best just incase Aro touched my hand and found out everything.

Then there were eleven wolves. Sam told me that two more had joined the pack recently with all the vampires in the area.

We had one week before the big fight and Bella still hadn't came back. I was starting to really worry about her. I almost left to go and find her, but every time I did, Carlisle would tell me not to worry, that she would make it back in time.

I was upstairs, watching everyone in the backyard fighting, when I heard a car pull into the driveway. How everyone else reacted, they had heard it too. They stopped what they were doing and looked to the front of the house.

I ran downstairs and threw open the door. There stood my angel. I ran to her and picked her up, spinning around in circles. She screamed out in delight and laughed with me. After a minute I finally set her down and reluctantly stepped back from her, smiling.

I couldn't stand it anymore and pulled her into a hug, lying my head on top of hers, breathing in her scent. "I've missed you so much." I whispered.

She wrapped her arms around me tighter. "I've missed you too."

"You don't know how many times I thought about going out to find you." I pulled back to look at her face. "I was thinking about that right as you showed up actually."

"Then you would have missed me." She stated. "You wouldn't have found me anyways. I was practically running all over the world." She laughed and I melted inside. She had the most wonderful laugh.

"Aww, the love birds are back together at last." Emmett said, walking outside with everyone else behind him. "It's about time too. Edward was going mad without you."

I growled at him, warning him to shut up. Bella laughed and I looked back at her. "I nearly went mad to, don't worry." She whispered in my ear, so no one else could hear.

She pulled back from me and looked at the people behind Emmett. "Wow, you guys found a lot of people." She gestured to the people that where behind her, that I had just noticed. "I got four more to help."

BPOV

We now had a total of fourth people. There was of course the seven Cullens. There were the Denali's: Eleazar, Carmen, and Kate. The Romanian's: Vladimir, Stefan, and Elijah. The Amazon's: Zafrina, Senna, Kachiri, and Inez. The Nomads: Garrett, Maggie, Randall, Peter, and Charlotte. And part of the Egyptian's: Benjamin and Tia. Then there the four that I found: a vampire named Huilen, two half vampires: Renesmee and Nahuel, and a werewolf: Jami. Then we have the eleven other wolves: Sam, Paul, Jared, Embry, Quil, Seth, Leah, Collin, Brady, and the two new wolves: Mark and Nicholas. And of course, me.

We were to meet in the field where the Cullens always played baseball at.

We all left the night before they were to arrive so we would be more prepared and to set up some things that would help us in the battle. Benjamin used his earth bending to make huge boulders that he would throw at the Volturi when it was time.

We would be standing on the east side of the field, because Alice said the Volturi were going to be coming from the west. The wolves set up camp in the trees to get rest so they would be fully charged for the fight. All the vampires went hunting the day before so they would be charged as well.

When the sun started to rise, we all got into formation, standing in a close circle, our strongest fighters in the front, with the wolves hiding in the trees right behind us. We stood there for five minutes before we heard their footsteps on the snow.

They had arrived.

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