As much as I wanted to run away to save myself, and as much as I thought this was a trap to lure me to my undignified end, I would take the chance for my Alice. I would sacrifice myself just to see her one last time. I would sacrifice myself just to feel her scent pervade me before I get ripped to shreds and burned to ashes.
"Jasper!" Alice shouted. I was hallucinating. There was no way that Alice was waiting for me perched on top and alive. Please make this be real, I chanted to myself.
"Oh, this is wonderful," a dreadful voice said, "Jasper is here!" Ew. Aro. At that minute, I was certain Alice was still intact, because there was no way in hell that I would dream of Aro alive.
Alice's POV
Jasper threw his body onto mine, and planted a billion little but intimate kisses on any visible part of my body. He lifted me up and sat me down on his lap, and then he wrapped his arms around me and pecked on last kiss on my ear.
"I'm so happy you're alive, you have no idea, Alice, baby. I'm utterly ecstatic," he bubbled.
"I was so worried, Jazz," I whispered, on the point of tears, but this time with relief.
Carlisle tried to look happy that Jasper was here, but you could tell that he was uncomfortable with the gleeful emotions coming off of Jasper and I.
He was still missing his other half, and there was nothing he could do about it. Jasper immediately went to Carlisle next, not needing his extra ability to know that our father needed the extra familial comfort.
After they shared a long embrace and a "whisper conversation," they pulled out at the same time and Jasper spoke.
"I'm sorry, I tried to get to Esme," he said louder, just enough that I could hear, but the Volturi brothers wouldn't.
I knew my father didn't want to show weakness, especially in front of the Volturi, but he started sobbing quietly.
"I'm so sorry," he quickly said and a wave of comfort pervaded our heads. "Sorry," he said again, "It seems like I can't focus on one person."
"It's fine, Jazz," Carlisle said between his dry sobs.
"No, it's not," I answered for him. I stood up on the thin branch that mysteriously held up all of us without snapping.
"I'm going to go get Esme," I told Aro, Caius and Marcus, "Don't you dare tell your so called fighters to stay away from me. I'd rather die." I glared at them.
"I'm going with you," Jasper and Carlisle said at the same time. Then they smiled for the first time in a long time and fist-pounded each other. Like father, like son.
We all looked down and saw Esme and a stranger trying to fight off Felix and some other Volturi. I winced when I saw someone jump towards Esme's neck and missed by an inch.
"No don't," Aro quickly said before we all jumped. I bet he wished that he kept that bodyguard. We stayed upright, easily balanced on the flimsy branch.
"Felix!" he shouted the name again, and in thirty seconds time, the brawny Emmett-esque vampire appeared perched up on the opposite branch. The thought made me want to break down, just because it was somewhat linked to the brother I could never talk to again, never play tackle football with ever again.
And with the thought of brothers, that made me think of Edward, who, after a good century of misery without a mate, finally found happiness. Then he had to have it all taken away from him all over again.
I hoped desperately that Carlisle was right. I wanted him to have a great after-life, find his human parents, stay connected with Rose and Emmett, enjoy forever with her Bella.
They all ought to have done enough to go to heaven. Rose, my sister, my best friend. She let the sadistic vampires rain down on herself alone, by forcing me to leave with her pained words. I would pray every night, apologizing to her for not being able to get her message to Emmett. But after all Emmett's done, the least God could do was keep them together. All he's done for his human siblings, all he's done for us. He brought joy upon us, always lightening up the mood. He was my walking sun.
Bella, my sister for only a few months, the klutz and the danger magnet; it wasn't her, that brought this tragedy upon us. It was… just fate. It was to prove that Carlisle's theory was correct. My siblings would come down from the cloudy Forks skies and tell me that life is great up there, and there's nothing to fear.
I would never see more visions about them. Their futures were to themselves, to share with no one. My brothers, my sisters; my best friends, they were. It would remain like that for all of eternity, even though they weren't exactly in the same universe as me.
Even though Rosalie offered to be Renesmee's godmother, and Emmett offered to be the godfather, I was sure that they would both offer Jazz and I the positions if they were harmed.
Bella would never let me live it down if I just allow Jacob Black and my niece run off to east nowhere and have no connection or memory of her Cullen family. I would do it for her; I would do it for Edward. I promised in my head that I would find their daughter and take good care of her before we handed her off to Jake.
"Yes, master?" Felix said. I wasn't focused on him. I was still looking down at the fight and obsessing of the fact that they would visit me in the night, whether I was thinking about them at the moment or not.
"Ready?" I whispered to Carlisle and Jasper. They nodded back. We were just about to slip our dirty feet off the tree when Felix's booming voice halted us.
"Don't jump yet! I'm going to get his mate, and… you guys can stay here and not get killed!" he rambled quickly.
I nodded slowly and sat down again. The Cullen men—the ones that were remaining, I should say—followed my lead.
I was glad the wolves left before they came to an un-heroic death. Life is way too precious to give up; I should know. At least Jake and Nessie were still alive. Or I hoped. They deserved to have a life outside this crazy vampire war. I would find her though.
Carlisle quiet cries of agony ceased a little, but little sniffles still escaped from him. Jasper and I rubbed soothing circles in his back.
"Oh, suck it up, Carlisle," Caius smirked.
"Shut the hell up," Jasper growled.
Just when Carlisle was about to break down again, Felix appeared with Esme thrashing in his arms.
"Let go!" she shouted over and over again.
"Esme!" Carlisle exclaimed. The squirming immediately stopped. She jumped out of the rock-like body and into Carlisle's arms and kissed him passionately.
Usually we would've told them "the hotel is across the street" or "get a room," but Esme was just saved from a horrid death, we had to let them have their peace. It didn't mean anything if it were said without Emmett, anyway. I tried not to linger on their deaths, and marked a note in my head so we could get a proper grave for them.
After they pulled out of the kiss, Jasper and I joined the embrace. This bit of the Cullens was going to survive. One thing to be glad about.
The fight was slowly ceasing, more and more of those burning piles appeared. You see used and un-used matches lying in sparse areas in the clearing, and cigarette lighters and torn down trees.
Even without Jane and Alec, the Italian vampire force—a euphemism for sadistic killers, of course—was unstoppable. All of us were only able to end three of them. Alec, Jane and… Demetri.
I broke out in quiet sobs again. Jazz immediately tightened his grip on my shoulders.
"What's wrong, Alice baby?" he asked, worried. Esme and Carlisle in their own little world right now; unable to hear or see the outside world, and talking with their eyes.
"Edward put the last bit of his strength to save… me." The response I got from my husband was a kiss on the top of my head.
"Demetri, wasn't it?" he said quietly after a while. I nodded in confirmation.
"Well we won't have to worry about getting tracked down that easily," Esme cut in. I focused on the words "that easily." Does that me that we still will be tracked down? I fervently thought so.
As the killing frenzy ended down below the treetops, people walked casually around the burning piles of limbs, some snickering and some spitting in them. It was downright disgusting.
Our witnesses weren't required to stay to fight; in fact, we encouraged them to leave if violence was involved. They all sacrificed themselves to save my family. God bless these innocent beings.
And the whole point was to put Renesmee to an end, but she was able to escape without a hair pulled out, or even tangled. If Jacob Black doesn't take good care of her for the time that she's alone with him, I'll rip him into pieces myself when I find him. In the back of my head, I was completely sure that he'll treasure Nessie like the only jewel in the world.
"You all are free to leave now. Carlisle?" Aro said after all fire was ceased. The clearing was a mess, but it contained an eerie silence. The field we used to play some inhuman baseball in was ruined, and it would be filled with grief. We would only come back to honour the beings that died, and for that reason only.
Carlisle glared back at the vamp leader that used to be one of his closest and first friends in the vampire world. He never knew how violent and sadistic they were. It seemed even more intense to the pacifist that we all knew he was.
"You're free to visit anytime with your mate. Same goes with you, Alice," he looked at me.
Carlisle didn't even care about a possible death when he said, "No. I will not ever consider it, much less agree to it." Then he jumped out of the tree with my mother in her arms without even looking at the ever smiling Aro.
The look on his face was priceless. His hand was motionless, expecting one of us to take it with the same smile always plastered on his face. Caius just snarled.
"Can we please leave?" Marcus said, extremely bored.
Jasper let out an angry snarl before he grabbed my hand and jumped off the high tree.
"It's not over," I caught Aro say before we were completely out of their sight.
He was right. It isn't over.
A/N: This was an edited and better version of my first story, and it ended at this chapter in the first version. Instead of making a sequel, I'm just going to continue from here, because I have a couple more ideas, and I'm going to be smart this time, and write an OUTLINE! I hope y'all keep reading, it's just about to get good. Another apology : I completely forgot I had this chapter done! I didn't even see it until tonight. So I'm posting it now (: Hope y'all enjoyed it!