Chapter 11 – The Death of a Pack

Marcus had gone out hunting. There was not much for me to do while he was gone. It would not take him all that long anyway. He knew what was expected by the wolves. That he took his hunting out of the area at least if he were not hunting animals. If he hunted anyone in this area they would come and they would kill him themselves. There was nothing wrong with that and he said he would do the right thing.

I stood in one of the rooms of the house talking with Jane and Alec, I never bored when we were all talking. Then Marcus came back in and Jane and Alec left. Both of them were not interested in being in here when Marcus was around at the moment. Plus his eyes told them that he needed to talk with me, alone. Not something any of us could ignore if it was one of the leaders.

"What's wrong, Marcus?" I asked, wondering what this was all about. He had to have a reason for sending the twins from the room. What ever it was he knew that I would still stand by him no matter the cost.

He sighed and I watched his face, knowing that he was a little worried. "Bella, that La Push pack will be coming here."

"What!" It was a shock to hear him say something like that to me. "What did you do?"

"Hey one of them tried to attack me. I doubt that he would have let me get this far if he was not alone. He waited for his friends to catch up before I heard them coming after me."

I gulped. We were not meant to draw attention to ourselves, and yet now we had. Charlie would hear the fighting if he was driving past. Which meant he would see us all fighting with the wolves. "Ah crap."

"What?" Now it was his turn to be surprised.

"If Charlie comes past he'll find out what we are!"

"Already told my brothers about that. Don't worry, they won't have him hunted down. Not unless they want you angry, which means I would be as well," he told me. "You might want to call him though and tell him not to come this way if he hears wolves in the woods fighting someone, and people shouting as well."

"He won't listen. I guess that's something to worry about. We'll have to see what happens. I could be freaking out over something that might not happen, if we're lucky."

It was then we heard the howls. Carlisle and his family would not be fighting, seeing as they were not the ones that did something wrong. I snarled as I waited with the others for the wolves to advance on us.

I sighed knowing there was going to be a lot of noise soon.

They were not the ones that were going to come out of this fight victorious. We were simply too strong for them to fight off like this. There was no way any of us would allow them to get the better of us this time. Too well did we know how to deal with those who did not want us to stay alive. Only fitting that we were the ones who remained alive and not those others.

Still what had caused that wolf to try and attack Marcus? Even Carlisle had no idea about that. I could sense the Cullen's watching us all as the wolves came towards they doom out of the woods. He knew that we would not be stopped once there was a threat near our leaders.

Jane, Alec and I already knew what we were to do in the fight. I was expanding my shield to cover all of the vampires around us, including the Cullen's. As soon as the wolves were in range, Jane and Alec activated their devastating gifts. As soon as a wolf went down the others were quick to attack and kill him. Marcus and the other leaders though stayed behind Jane, Alec and I, we were the last of their own defence at the moment.

It did not take long to even the numbers on either side. Only a few more minutes past before there was only one wolf left. It had russet fur and I wondered if it was the one responsible for this whole fight?

"Leave him," Marcus called.

Caius gasped. "What?"

I was even as surprised as Caius, and I had nothing against the wolves really. Except that one of them had tried to attack my love.

"You cannot be serious, Marcus. If he's destroyed there won't be any more wolves to attack us," Caius added. Well that explained the gasp from him. All of knew that he hated wolves a lot now. One of them had nearly killed him a long time ago, and he had had them hunted down to almost extinction.

Aro snapped his fingers and one of the others approached the lone werewolf.

"No, not him. Bella can..." Marcus said quickly.

The werewolf turned its dark eyes on me, baring its teeth. I snorted. It stood no chance against me. I would not give it a chance to fight me off.

Just as it attacked, and I fought back we all heard the car pulling up out the front of the Cullen's house. Charlie's scent came rushing towards me, making me pause in distraction. Why did that have to happen right now? When my concentration was needed on the werewolf in front of me?

It was then the wolf leapt at me, sinking his teeth into my shoulder. He did not get a chance to rip it off because I let out a shriek of rage and threw him off without caring that he slammed into a tree. I grimaced though, knowing that my arm had nearly been severed from my shoulder getting him off.

Just as I finished him off I heard Carlisle talking to Charlie, in an attempt to stop him from seeing what was going on. For just one moment I let Edward hear my thoughts. 'All clear out here. Charlie can come out here.'