Chapter 10

Only 5 minutes till 12.00 and the ceremony will start, I shook myself I was nervous for her all number of things could happen. My whole family Esme was in the big people carrier down the street waiting for us to run out and then make a run for it. Alice, Rosalie and Carlisle were all pretending to be night patrollers up on the roof; we had nabbed some uniforms and weapons before knocking out the actual guards. Me Emmett and Edward had all snuck into the three buildings around the courtyard, I was in Bella's building where I could hear her getting ready. I was hidden in the room that had a window right out into the courtyard, the lights were out and the rest of the rooms were locked except Bella's. Edward was in the one opposite, and Emmett was in the one next to mine. There were a few vampires in attendance, but they were just labelled as immortals in this community, we kept an eye on them but they had limited abilities, and Edward said they had barriers in their minds that dulled their senses. I watched as her father conversed with Bella's husband, I drew in a breath we had to discuss this with my family first, the only way to get Bella out of the marriage was to either, make Jacob realise her or kill him. I was really hoping I got to kill him, but that just might be me letting my emotions take hold.

The crowd grew silent and I could hear Bella coming down the stairs. I waited to catch a glimpse of her, she walked right passed the door unaware of my presence, and I was so close to her that I just wanted to run to her. She stepped out into my range of sight and I saw her beautiful form being lead through the crowd she looked calm but her emotions were all over the place, from what I could tell she had every right to be, the ceremony was apparently the most dangerous moments of a person's life because it decided if they were worth keeping or are too dangerous to be part of the community. She knelt in front of her father who looked pleased, she was rubbing her wrist again, and it had become a habit for her. He addressed the crowd but I was focusing on Bella. She went ridged at what her father said. "He has decided to strip search her mind, they never used to do it in the ceremonies she has seen, she is afraid that they will see that we are planning against the community." It was Edward, texting me I was glad that he knows what's going on. The search iris complete they didn't find anything, they are going to grant her, her powers now, she may be in pain because the marks or tattoos are apparently the most painful part, she won't know what's happening till the change is complete. I watched as her father staggered away from Bella and she crumpled to the ground, her father looked horrified, or was it scared. Bella's figure was curled up in pain, but I could still see what made her father so scared.

On Bella's arm were three symbols, a star covered the most of her forearm, and then blended into fire and then into a waterfall. I stared in disbelief; I thought she was just a witch how can she be all three and an immortal? I didn't know enough about the community to make any judgements but by the looks of things this was not good. "She is too powerful, someone kill before she wakes up!" called her father. The crowd backed away towards the doors. That was it, I smashed through the window and so did Emmett and Edward, there were a lot of screams, and some had the sense to run to the exits, the others stayed to fight. They were all human but some were fighters we took them out first, then the rest ran. Carlisle, Alice and Rosalie all joined us from where they had been shooting at the humans. I looked around the courtyard and saw that Bella was in the centre still going through the change; her father was standing over her with a gun. I ran at the group but as soon as I got within five feet of them all I was stopped in my tracks. I couldn't get any farther it was like there was a force field around them. The rest of my family tried and we couldn't get through. Bella's father looked at us and smirked before returning his attention to his awakening daughter. A woman with red hair was holding her hands up just behind him. My best guess would be that is who is putting up the force field. Inside was, Jacob, Charlie Bella's father, a boy called Mike, her brothers Tony and Ben and their friend whose name I can't remember. She stirred and looked around shocked, she stared at her father before looking at her, left arm were the tattoos were. "All three" she whispered in disbelief. "You need to kill me" she said to no one in particular, "yes we do Isabella but also for your acts against the community, that's when she looked up and saw us stuck behind the force field. She looked happy and then sad as she saw that we had failed, we had failed.

"But we could always just make you watch as this lovely caring family is killed" he said pointing a gun at us. A gun wasn't going to hurt us was it? My family seemed to be thinking the same thing. He looked at us and we tried to get to him to get to Bella but we couldn't move. The red head was keeping us glued to the spot. "Tony show the family how the guns work" said her father and tony smirked before moving in front of Bella. Who was grabbed by her brother Ben and the other one. She was dragged to her feet and I struggled harder, so did she but the ones holding her were vampires also and she remained in their iron grip. Her brother approached her and shot a bullet into her leg, she screamed out in pain, I hissed and tried to get out of the freeze. Her father looked amused, how it hurt so much. "Take out the blonde one first Tony." He said looking at me, Bella looked at me with pained eyes as I struggled against the witches powers. He put the gun to my forehead and was about to pull the trigger and when I heard Bella scream. It wasn't a normal scream it was like she was doing it with her mind. It wrung through my head as she mentally screamed those closest to her dropped to their knees clutching their heads, so did Tony and I took the opportunity to take the gun from him and shoot straight at the witch keeping us captive. She didn't see it coming and crumpled to the ground. We were immediately freed and I rushed to her father who was getting to his feet as Bella quietened, she had fallen to the ground clutching her leg, but I saw her wrist was burning red hot from the band. I pinned her father to the ground and hissed at him. He was a vampire and a fighter and I could feel his powers were pounding against my mind trying to get in but they couldn't something was stopping them. I looked up to my family they were experiencing similar things, then I looked at Bella she had found her way to a nearby wall and was propping herself up against it. She was deflecting certain lethal blows and keeping shields over our minds. She looked at me and her father who was now trying to break free. "move Jasper" she whispered, I saw her forming a ball of light in her hands, and I jumped up from pinning her father, he tried to grab my throat but the ball of light hit him too fast and he crumpled to the ground, his skin was cracked all over. He was paralyzed and the energy ball was stopping him from healing himself. I flicked open the lighter I had brought and lit his body on fire.

The rest of the family was finishing with the opponents they had they were mainly immortals the only human ones were Mike and Jacob. Mike was being protected by Bella and he was pinned to wall for safety. Jacob was warding of both Emmett's and Rosalie's attacks with mental attacks but it they only made them stumble a bit before regaining control. I picked up a gun and when he deflected one of the attacks I shot, he fell to the floor not feeling a thing before dying on the floor the bullet hit him in the forehead. I heard Bella gasp in pain and I looked to see her struggling to stay up. The bullet wound had something in it, and it was travelling up her skin. I rushed forward and caught her just as she fell. I looked at her wrist and saw the metal band making its way to the surface of her skin. It was a gruesome sight as the skin was parted and the band burst from her flesh she screamed and I cradled her as Carlisle rushed forward to mend the wound, you could see the bone of her wrist. Carlisle removed the band and Bella surprised me the whole time by smiling through the pain. "Why are you smiling? I thought it hurt?" I asked, she started to laugh, "of course it hurts! But I am free now no one to tell me what to do no one to hurt Me." she breathed out and pulled her closer into my side as the rest of my family joined us. Her wrist was mending itself and she was getting her strength back, Carlisle pressed the skin and tendons back into the right places while I looked at her leg which was trying to mend around the bullet but the bullet wouldn't let it. "Bella reached forward and held her hand over the wound she muttered something and the bullet shot out of the wound and straight into her hand. I looked dumbfounded at it. "the bullet was laced with vampire venom so that it could get into our skin and kill you if a death shot was fired, it hurts like hell." She explained, all her wounds were now taken care of and I was relieved. "It's ironic I was the one that was told to design that gun and the same one tried to kill Me." she said chuckling as I helped her up, I chuckled as well. "Thank you, all of you" she said and the family looked embarrassed at the thought of doing anything but help her, they all waited a moment before pulling her into a group hug welcoming her to the family.

I smiled she was my mate and I had succeeded she is going to be with us for eternity now.