Inevitable
They stepped out between the trees, barely making a sound.
I gasped, along with a few others. There were more than we had anticipated. I counted them, and saw that there were thirty two of them.
They came in a formal formation, moving in perfect synchronicity. After a few seconds, they started to fan outwards. Behind Aro, I saw two of his guards holding an unconscious Jacob.
I took a step forward, intending to start the fight right then and there, but a couple granite hands grabbed me from behind, preventing me from going any further. "All in good time Bella." Edward whispered in my ear. I nodded my head and stepped back beside him.
The Volturi suddenly stopped a third of the way across the field. I saw Edward smile. "What?" I whispered so the Volturi wouldn't hear.
"They only stopped because of the wolves." He laughed. "They weren't expecting so many."
I looked out of the corner of my eyes and saw that all of the wolves had stepped out between the trees.
After a few minutes of silence, Aro walked forward, much to his guards dislike. He stopped in the middle of the field between us and his guards. "Have you considered our proposition Isabella?" Aro asked, already knowing the answer from the way he was looking at everyone we had gathered.
I took a couple steps forward. "Indeed. I have considered it, …" I shook my head sadly. "but I think I will have to decline." I smiled, a mischievous smile. "Terribly sorry."
"It's alright." He snapped his fingers and the two guards holding Jacob came and stood beside him. I looked at Jacob and noticed that there was a thin fog, that you could barely see, was around him. "But it's not for him. Alec, if you would." I stopped smiling.
It was then that I realized that he wasn't unconscious, but Alec had been keeping him under with his power. Alec took a deep breath and the fog slowly started to leave Jacob's body.
Jacob lifted his head up and looked at me with still unfocused eyes. He blinked a couple times, and when he could see clearly, looked me square in the eyes. He mouthed 'sorry' and his head dropped back down, to tired to hold it up.
I looked at him more closely and saw that there was dried blood all over his cloths and running up and down his face and arms. I felt so guilty, it was all my fault that Jacob was put through so much pain.
Behind me I heard all of the wolves growl and take a few steps forward. I turned my head to look at the giant black wolf, Sam, telling him to stop with my eyes. He stopped and so did the rest of the wolves along with him, including Jami.
I looked forward and saw Aro frowning at the wolves. I guess he had wanted them to attack so they would have more reason to kill them.
"What do you want with the wolves anyways?" I asked, taking a couple more steps forward.
"They are the Child of the Moon. They can't be trusted." Caius said, stepping up beside Aro. "They must be killed."
Of course. It was all Caius's idea. I should have know. I knew how much he hated the werewolves. He had gotten into a pretty bad tussle with them a couple centuries back, and had nearly made it out alive. Soon afterwards, he made it his mission to kill all of the werewolves.
I laughed aloud, and I could feel stares on the back of my head. They must think that I had lost my mind. "They are not the true Children of the Moon." I laughed again. "The Children of the Moon only change with the full moon." I gestured at the twelve wolves behind me, then up to the sky. "Do you see a full moon?"
He looked up then back down, confused. I couldn't hold back my laughter. "See, they are not real werewolves. If they were, then how would they possible be wolves right now?" I laughed and Edward laughed with me.
"They are only shape-shifters." I said. "They only shaped into a wolf by mere chance, not choice."
Caius narrowed his eyes and shook his head, not wanting to believe me. "It doesn't matter." he said after a moment. "They are still a danger to us."
Edward growled. "No matter what we say, he's going to kill the wolves." All the wolves growled from hearing what he said.
I narrowed my eyes at Caius, taking one more step forward. "Well, if that's how you feel, so be it." I said in my most deadly voice. I turned my head to the side a little to look at Sam, and nodded my head.
Then I looked back forward and took a deep breath and blew out, sending a wind toward them, causing a couple of the unexpected vampires to fall backwards. The wolves ran past us and charged the Volturi, barring their teeth in anger. Benjamin raised two boulders and threw them right into the middle of the Volturi group, making them scatter out of the way before they were squished.
Emmett ran forward and tackled Demetri to the ground. Rosalie followed behind him and grabbed a girl, pulling her arm out of its socket and throwing it into the trees.
"Sierra!" A guy yelled and ran at Rosalie. Rosalie tore off the girls other arm and threw it at the guy that was running toward her. The arm hit him square in the chest and he fell to the ground. Elijah ran forward and took care of the guy while Rosalie finished off Sierra.
Kate and Garrett ran out to join in the fight. Wherever they went, people would fall to the ground from Kate and Garrett would try and finish them, but I could see that Kate's only priority was getting to Jane.
After only a few seconds, everyone had already joined the fight.
The two vampires that were holding Jacob, had dropped him to protect themselves. I ran to Jacob, but I stopped when I heard an agonizing scream coming from up ahead. I ran to where the scream was coming and found Esme on the ground, holding her head, whimpering, trying to hold back her screams. I looked up and saw Jane, smiling evilly at Esme.
"Zafrina!" I yelled. I looked around and spotted her, back to back with Senna, fighting four people off. I caught her eye and pointed at Jane. She nodded her head and tried to concentrate, but the four around her, lashed out at her and she lost her concentration.
"Hold on Esme." I whispered in her ear.
I jumped up and ran over to Zafrina. The guy didn't notice me, since his back was to me, until it was to late. I jumped up and landed on his back, my knees right on his shoulder blades. He fell to the ground and tried to roll over, but my hand had made its way to his neck and I had already started to put the chill into him. He stopped struggling after awhile, but I continued to put the cold in him until his neck was completely frozen. Then I squeezed and pulled backwards, shattering his neck like ice.
Zafrina nodded her thanks to me and concentrated again. After a couple seconds, Jane fell to the ground, and Esme quit screaming.
Alec ran to his sister, but Jane's eyes were glazed over, seeing whatever Zafrina wanted her to see. Alec screamed out and stood up. I looked down below him and saw the thin white fog traveling over the ground. I saw a few people stop or fall to the ground and Alec smiled. I turned to Zafrina, but she was already under his spell. I heard a yelp, and looked over and saw that one of the wolves was being tackled by five vampires.
"NICHOLAS!" I looked over and saw that one of the wolves had shifted back into his human form and was racing over to the already dead wolf.
I turned and looked at Alec with Jane standing and smiling right beside him, no longer under Zafrina's spell.
I was about to run at him, when I hand landed on my shoulder and my head. The person sank their teeth into my neck and I screamed out in pain. I grabbed the hand on my shoulder and twisted it around, causing the person to take their teeth from my neck. I pulled forward and sent the person flying into the air and land in front of me. It was Athenodora, Caius's wife. I looked down at her and saw that she was gasping for air.
I leaned forward and smiled down at her. "My blood doesn't taste so good, now does it. Not when the chill starts to go into you." I stood back up and laughed, then I planted my foot on her neck and pressed down, putting more of the chill into her. I stepped down harder, causing her head to brake off from her neck.
I looked around me and saw that almost everyone, except the Volturi, were under Alec's spell. We were losing.
I heard a scream and I turned around to see Caius standing a couple feet away, looking at me with anger and horror in his eyes, before he sprang at me.
I closed my eyes, waiting for the impact, but suddenly it went completely silent. I opened my eyes and saw that everyone was frozen, as if someone had pushed pause. Well, almost everyone was frozen. Someone walked around from behind Caius and I saw that it was Inez, the one from the Amazon.
I looked at him confused as to what was happening. "How did you…?"
"I froze time." He said, cutting me off. He walked over to stand beside Alec. "It won't last long because I can't control it, but you might want to move." He hit Alec upside the head and Alec fell, right as time unfroze.
I didn't have enough time to move, so Caius ended up landing right on top of me. He swung his hand back and clawed me across the cheek. I screamed out in pain and confusion from the sudden change of things.
"Bella!" I heard Edward yell, getting out of his trance from Alec.
Caius clawed me again, making the cuts deeper. He bent down to bit me, but I lifted my legs up and he fell forward, right over my head. I turned around and pushed off the ground, getting to my feet. I reached down and grabbed Caius by the throat, lifting him into the air.
"You're going to get it worse then your wife did." I threatened, narrowing my eyes at him. I brought him down and kissed him right on the mouth. It became deathly quiet from my sudden display of affection. He put his hands on my shoulders and tried to push me away from him. I quickly opened his mouth with my lips and blew in for a couple minutes. He went completely still and I pulled back from him. I dropped him to the ground, and he lie there as if he were dead, his eyes wide open, staring at nothing.
I reached down, about to rip his head off when Aro yelled 'STOP'.
I looked up at him and smiled ruefully. I noticed that all of the Volturi had went to stand behind Aro. I stood up, but planted my foot on Caius's chest.
"I don't want anymore of my coven killed." Aro pleaded, looking at a body to my left, then down at Caius. "Just let Caius go and we'll leave and won't bother you anymore."
I looked to my left and saw the mangled body of Demetri. I would have to thank Emmett later.
I took my foot off Caius and went to stand by his head. "I could take the chill out of him," I said, looking up at Aro sadly, "But then he will always live with some of the pain still in him." I shook my head, as if it killed me to see Caius in pain. "Or I could just kill him and end his suffering." I looked over to Athenodora's beheaded body. "He will be in pain without his mate anyways."
Aro looked torn, not wanting Caius to suffer, but knowing he would without Athenodora.
Jacob came up beside me and looked down at Caius, then at me. "He kidnapped Jacob." I stated. "I can't let him live." With that, Jacob reached down and twisted Caius's head, ripping it from his body.
The Volturi backed up to the trees, scared what I might do next, then they turned and ran away.
We were all quiet for a few minutes, not sure if it was really over or not.
"It's over." Alice said. "You all can relax now."
With that said, everyone started to cheer and ran to their loved ones, making sure that they were okay. I hugged Jacob, glad that he was okay. "I'm so sorry about everything Jake. It's all my fault."
"Yeah it is your fault." I looked up at him, about to apologize again, but I saw that he was smiling. "Just joking Bella." He pulled me back into a hug. "You know that I would never blame you for anything. I love you like a sister." He said, hugging me tighter to him.
I pulled back and looked around, searching for a certain someone. When I spotted him, I walked over and gently moved people out of my way so that I could get to him. I grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him down to eye level. He looked startled by my force but didn't have time to protest. I leaned forward and roughly planted my lips against his.
He put his hands on my back and pulled me closer to him. My hands found there way into his hair, making sure he couldn't pull away from me, not that he wanted to from the looks of it.
"Whoa! Go Eddie." Emmett said, ruining the moment.
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