A/N: This chapter has been done for a little while, but I've been so busy working on my original that I had yet posted it as I don't like to post until I've at least started on the next chapter which I am currently working on.
Chapter 11
Garrett has been gone a little more over a month, calling ever third day. He has been sending us people as he runs into other nomads and tells them the truth behind why the Volturi wanted me dead. I still don't fully understand what I did so wrong. I just figured out what that man was in Venice.
The first three that arrived, we sent them to the Cullen house since my gut said one of them couldn't be trusted. I was pleased when Jasper listened to me. There was just something in the way the James guy looked at me. Victoria and Laurent gave me no bad vibes.
It turned out that Laurent is Irina's mate, something even Char, didn't see until they had mated. Edward came around a few days after the nomads arrived and told us that James wanted me to be his, even though he is mated to Victoria.
This set Jasper off, and he said that James wasn't allowed within a hundred miles of me, if he valued his life. We learned that James was one of the best trackers and that Victoria had the gift of evading. Neither of their gifts was something we needed to use now. The only way James would be useful was if any of the Volturi runs away. I will be sure to allow James to track them down and let me kill them one by one, if he really was willing to stand up for me.
The stronger I felt the madder I got with this whole kill the Assassin agenda. It was getting on my nerves. I was ready to stand and fight for my life not run.
Jasper along with Peter and Carlisle's help started buying houses to house all the vampires that were showing up. Making sure they all understood that they couldn't hunt in any of the local towns. It seems like everyone Garrett talked to was more than willing to stand up to the Volturi simply because I was Jasper's mate.
With all the new people, it has only been family that brings Jasper his food. The other day Tanya and Randall brought his food, making it the first time a non-direct family member has brought it.
"Tanya, I thought only family was going to be bring Jasper his food?" I asked, as she handed the moose to him.
"Bella, I thought we were sisters," she said sounding hurt.
"Where and when did you think that?"
"Just look at the way we fight, it's worse than I fight with Irina and Kate. You know I would die for you just like I would die for your mate."
"Ya we fight and I know that you would die for me, or at least you keep saying you would, but that doesn't make us sisters."
"Well I consider you my sister."
"We will just have to see if I feel the same way at a later time," I, then turned and walked to just inside the back door.
Training camps were taking place both at our place and at the Cullen's. We soon had vampires show up from around the world as word has gotten out. Garrett called saying he would be here in three days. He wanted us to have everyone meet at our place when he arrived because he was bringing someone very special.
Not even Randall could give us a clue to whom he might be bringing with him.
We had everyone gathered waiting for Garrett to show with his special friend or whatever you wanted to call this person that he was bringing here. The family made sure that James, and his coven were all towards the back of the group.
"I can't believe this," Edward said after we had been waiting awhile.
"Edward who does Garrett have with him?" Jasper questioned.
"Chelsea, she is from the Volturi and has been looking for someone to bring a message to us," Edward explained from what he was hearing in her thoughts.
I had my sword on my back if I felt threatened by her, I will kill her myself. This thought got Jasper all protective as he pushed me behind him when they came through the trees into our back yard.
"Garrett, this better be worth it, or you might just die beside her," Jasper shouted out to them.
"Jasper, nobody needs to die this day. I come not only with a warning, but with some information, you might find interesting." Chelsea said trying to appease Jasper.
"Say your peace and then I'll decide if you live or die," Jasper stated.
"The warning is you have one month to bring the Assassin to Aro, or you will all die. The information I have that you might find interesting is that the arm and hand, which you think to belong to Esme and Alice, do not. A few years ago, Aro found a young vampire, who can modify scents. I have no clue, who the arm or hand belonged to, but I do know that Esme and Alice are not imprisoned as Aro says they are. Years ago, I created the bond between Esme and Carlisle per request of my masters. Carlisle, do you feel the pain of losing your mate?"
"No, it's not what I've been led to think it would feel like," Carlisle answered.
"That's because when I create a bond, it feels right until the two are apart for a time; then what I created disappears. Esme is mated to Felix and is very happy to finally be able to be with her mate. She's known from the time I placed the bond between the two of you that she wasn't your mate and that when the time was right, she would be allowed to be with her mate. The bond you felt for her was just the bond a sire feels towards his creations. Alice is a different story. She has not mated, but is and has been a valued part of the guard since before she came to you, "Chelsea explained.
It was silent for a while. All I could think about was those bitches will die with the Kings when I get my hands on them. I will do away with them myself.
"Chelsea, why is that the Kings feel this human has to die?" one of the many nomads asked.
"Because she knows of us and has killed us."
"Yes, I understand that, but what about allowing her mate to turn her. She's known of us for over a year and yet to say anything. If she was turned there wouldn't be a problem at all, and she would have no reason to say anything," The same nomad asked.
"Charles, you ask some valid questions that I cannot answer. I'm with you on this one. Once it was found out she was the mate of one of our kind the vendetta against her should have been dropped. I think this comes down to some visions that Alice told the Kings years ago."
"Chelsea, Alice can't see Bella or anyone that is close to her. She can't know anything about what has been going on here or even this talk we are having now," Jasper clarified to Chelsea.
"What do you mean she can't see Bella or anything around her?" Chelsea asked amazed by this information.
"When I had Peter tracking her, Alice would lose sight of Peter anytime he was near her. We aren't sure of the distance, but we know that Alice has never seen anything to do with Bella."
"From what I've been told Alice has been having vision of the Volturi down fall for twenty-five years; all her visions are checked by Aro."
"When has she been around Aro?" Jasper asked, sounding confused.
"Jasper you really think all those trips to shop overseas were just to shop and not pop in and see Aro and not to go give her reports on her visions. If you think that, then you are dumber than Alice has told us you are." Before anyone could say anything I had my sword and was running towards her.
Chelsea and Garrett just stood there not knowing what to do with a human running towards them with a sword. I was almost there when I felt his arms wrap around me. Damn him, "He's not dumb; she is just a lying, manipulative bitch," I scream at her.
"Isabella, what were you going to do?" Jasper asked almost shaking me.
"Kill her for lying," I answered him.
"Sweetheart, she's not lying," my dad piped up.
"How do you know?"
"Sweetheart I can tell when anyone is lying, that is my gift. Everyone here has said nothing but the truth. I know that look, and you can't always have your way. She was told that if she told us the truth, we would let her leave here alive and that is just, what is going to happen," my dad said in that daddy scolding tone that I haven't heard in years.
"But daddy she said my mate was dumb," I said still mad as hell.
"Sweetheart she only knows what she's been told over the years. From what I've been told since I awoke I would agree that Alice is a master at manipulation. That doesn't mean you have the right to kill the messenger," he gently scolded me.
"What just happened here?" Chelsea asked sounding more confused than Jasper was asking her questions.
"If my mate hadn't stopped me, your head would be off your body at this moment; since you froze and didn't know what to expect from a human running at you," I answered her.
"Is that how you kill our kind with that sword?" she asked.
"Yes and no, I have other means of killing too," I said causing everyone to look at me.
"So, you're as deadly as we've been led to believe I see. Why not have your mate change you?" she asked next.
"It is this human that the Volturi, are so scared of; it will be this human that beheads the Kings," I growled at her stepping out of Jasper's hold.
There was some movement off to my left; I knew that only that a blur was heading towards me, which could mean only one thing. This was a setup; someone was going to try to take me out. I readied my sword, swung, connecting with the vampire in motion taking off his arm. This stopped James in his tracks as he screamed out in pain.
He was screaming as his mate came up to him. Edward also came forward.
"Victoria, don't you dare, touch your mate until I know the truth why he tried to attack me just now," I screamed at her, lifting my sword once again to the ready position. "Edward what was going through his mind as he ran towards me? Jasper, what was he feeling? " I added before anyone else could say anything.
"Isabella, he was thinking that the only way he was going to have you was to bite you and change you. Having your maker's blood run through you would make you bonded to him. Not as a mate, but as a sire; it's a bond that is very seldom broken." Edward answered causing Victoria to go in a rage tearing off James' other arm.
"Why did you just tear off his other arm?" I asked not understanding why she was in such a rage.
"Because he is always cheating on me, even though we are mates, he thinks so little of me. I'm sick of playing second fiddle to other women," and then she pulled out a can of litter fluid poured it on James and lit him on fire.
We all just stood there staring as the drama played out. Victoria dropped to her knees grasping her chest at the feel of her lost mate.
"Chelsea, if Victoria agreed to it, would you and could you create a mating bond between the two of us?" Carlisle asked kneeling down in front of Victoria.
"If that is what she wants I can make it so."
"Victoria, I've lived a lie for so long, and I would be honored to be your mate. What I've seen of you these past weeks, you're a fierce fighter, which also has a kind soul."
"Carlisle, are you sure you want to be bonded to yet another female who is not your true mate?" Victoria asked him.
"As I said, I would be honored to be mated to you."
"Then I would be honored to be your mate," she said smiling back at Carlisle.
"Chelsea, please work your magic."
I watched as she quickly touched one and then the other, and then I knew by the change in Victoria's face that she was no longer in pain from killing her own mate.
