Lost Souls

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At the end of this chapter is another authors note and I strongely urge you to read it!

Chapter 13:

Trapped like Mice

Two hands reached through the scorching fire and gripped under my arms. I barely even felt the pressure, the flames pushes onto me and slowly tore my skin apart. The pair of hands dragged my body out of the fire, scraping my injured legs on the hard crumbling floor.

I did not notice when the flames had stopped licking until the heat from my body started to fly away in slow painful breaths. Finally the heat died a fraction and I could attempt to recover. I sputtered onto the floor, coughing and choking for air that I did not need.

"Ugh, that is horrible to watch," said a voice I knew all too well. Through my blurred eyes I managed to catch the colour of orange standing in the middle of the room. The flames did not lick into the room, but surrounded it almost like a… trap.

I sucked in a huge breath of air before I managed to mumble. "Bitch."

Victoria laughed, her eyes were cat like as she starred down at my ashed body. "This bitch just saved your life."

There was another laugh from the room, and I tried to roll on my side to see where the sound was coming from. I managed to tilt my body at an angle and there was Aro Volturi, standing in a black cloak and hood. Alec, Jane's twin, stood behind him as a guard. I squinted my eyes to see Aro's own red, smoke filled pupils.

"Don't be modest Vicky," he continued. "She is only alive because I said it was so."

Victoria bowed her head and decided not to say anything.

Aro hunched down on his knees so he could look me in the eyes. "Sorry about the fire Bella. I didn't want anyone to interrupt our little meeting."

"What do you want with me?" I gasped out loud, the speaking causing pains of needles on my sides.

Aro stood up from his position on the floor and walked around the outskirts of the room, barely touching the flames. "I'm not sure… you see, it took me quite along time to come up with this plan. Of course, I had to find some information out from this boy." Aro's hand came down to touch the shoulder of Nell, the boy who loved Lucy… and also the boy who had been captured by the vampires.

Nell was tied to a chair, his hands behind the arms of the chair and his hair dangling limply in front of his face. Burns were etched on his shoulders and around his legs, tears leaking silently from his face.

"We had to burn him a bit, I was sure you would see him in your sleep," Aro explained and he flashed Nell a set of his sharp gleaming white teeth. The boy erupted in screams as Aro stepped closer, taking in a breath of Nell's human scent. "Delicious… but I promised him speed, eternity, power, and a place in Volterra if he could survive."

Nell's cries were louder now and he attempted to fight off the binded ropes around his arms and legs.

"Let him go!" I hissed. "He is not what you want."

Aro smiled down at me. "You were always a sharp one Bella. Of course I don't need this boy. But I do keep my promises."

"How noble of you," I said sarcastically.

He ignored me like I knew he would and leaned one of his arms on the back of Nell's chair. "Sorry about the innocent children. But, I had to hurt you… for you hurt me."

Aro looked down at me to see if I would argue. I decided not to say anything, for the pain was throbbing to hard. "I offered you a place at my side Bella! And what do you do? Take on a battle. You're team injured some of my best! But it is not them I want, it is you."

I spat out the venom that was starting to pour out of my mouth. "Like I would ever join you!"

Aro simply shook his head with a little smile on his face. "I'm afraid this time you will not have a choice."

"Kidnappers are you? I thought your rank was civil," I snapped, choking on the blood swishing around in my mouth.

"Vampires are killers," Aro said simply, as if it was normal. "And I'm not ashamed to admit that."

He turned to Alec and flicked his hand at me. "Get her up, she won't be able to run if she even dared try." I flinched back, willing my mind to fight against Alec's approaching hands.

All of a sudden there was a loud crash and the ceiling from the second floor opened up as the floor broke into two. A wolf jumped down, its teeth flashing and sharp. For a second I thought it was Jacob.

Derrek's growl echoed through the room and following him came the petite frame of Tanya. She landed on the floor with her two feet and crunched over in an attack pose. Immediately Alec was fighting Edward's fiancé while Derrek lunged at Aro Volturi.

I struggled to get onto my feet, but my legs would not strand. I rolled around on my back, huffing in pants. A few feet away from me I could hear Victoria's angry shrieks. I caught a glance at her determining whether she should help fight or not. Vampires were always first self-survival.

But instead of jumping to Aro's help and over powering Derrek, she turned to me with an evil smirk on her beautiful face. "Well, looks like no one will notice if I kill you now will they Bella?"

I barely was able to curse her undead ass to the fires of hell.

She laughed, cruel and evil. "Looks like hell is on my side today." She raised her foot over my face, ready to push me into the firewall a few feet away.

"Mind if I drop in?" A voice rang from above both Victoria and my head. Victoria and I looked up out of reflex and in that moment, Kat's feet swung up as she jumped down, connecting with Victoria's chest.

Victoria was flown back, inches away from the burning flames. Kat managed to land with both feet on the ground in a crotched position.

"Geesh," she said to me. "Why won't this bitch die?"

But as Kat turned her head, Victoria managed to kick up her legs from the ground, striking Kat in the side. She tumbled in painful rolls in the opposite direction of me. Surprisingly Kat sprang up as quick as Victoria did and they began to pace around each other, circling- both ready to pounce.

Victoria managed to scratch one of her fingers along Kat's cheek and the cut began to pour out venom. The momentary blow made Kat clutch her face with her left hand, but so quickly that I didn't even notice, Kat's other hand balled into a fist and smacked into Victoria's nose. Victoria lost her balance and was forced to take a few steps back to steady herself.

Kat's fist came out in a bang again, but Victoria managed to grab her fist and sink her fingernails into Kat's flesh.

I could see the blood and venom seep out of Kat's skin. Victoria began to slowly drag her fingernails up Kat's arm. The cuts became deeper and Kat fell to her knees from the pain of it.

"I am immortal. No one can destroy me," Victoria hissed.

I had to help, but my body was weaker and I could barely roll onto my stomach. I saw Derrek from the corner of my eye, glance at Kat with shocked eyes before Aro landed a rip through Derrek's fur covered back. I could not lose my son's love.

With all my strength, I wrapped my fingers around Victoria's ankle. As soon as she felt my hands there, she looked down into my golden eyes. Victoria wasn't fast enough.

I whipped my arm into the other direction and Victoria flew through the air into the firewall. I heard her scream with pain and with a poof, black smoke rose up from the spot that Victoria finally died.

Kat cheered and collapsed off of her knees to sit with her legs crossed. I noticed she quickly rubbed her hand, animal blood poured out of deep cuts and ran down the length of her fingers.

"We did it!" she cried happily, but breathless. She was completely oblivious to the other fighting happening around her. "You fucking did it Mom!" Kat bounced over and gently pushed my back up so I was in a sitting position.

It was only a few seconds later that I noticed the key word. I sputtered in coughs at that. "Mom?!"

Kat laughed and flashed a sheepish smile. "Oh right. Derrek!" She called. "Wanna get married?"

My eyes widened in shock as I turned my burned neck to my son who was still battling Aro. He turned his wolf head away from an attempt to bite Aro and I could see his dark eyes shine with fire.

Aro began to move and before I could scream, Aro's hand clamped onto Alec's arm and in a crackle, they both disappeared.

Derrek didn't even notice, but Tanya cursed as her attacking hands met just air. Derrek's wolf form staggered on four legs over to Kat and with a pop, Derrek was a human again. And completely bare naked might I add.

"Do you mean it?" he asked, his voice vulnerable.

"With my life," Kat replied in a sappy, but still magical voice.

My son then scooped his fiancé up in his arms and kissed her- passion, lust and love filled the room. It was almost unbearably sweet and certainly something I should not see.

"Mother in the room," I reminded them.

I think I even heard Tanya chuckle.

Damn, now I couldn't hate her. She had helped save my life. Life was so unfair.

Derrek turned to me and flashes a wide smile. "Mom, how many near death experiences have you had?"

"Too many of my liking," I replied. "Now help me up."

As soon as his hands had cupped my waist, the pain of the fire seemed to dull a tiny bit. He managed to pull me into a standing position, but I could not hold my weight up on my own. Kat rushed over and pulled one of my charred arms around her shoulders.

"Derrek, put some clothes on," I couldn't help scolding as I was pressed up against bare chest.

"You're not that much better Mom," Derrek said in a disgusted voice, obviously cringing. I looked down and the pants I had worn were holed from the flames. The bottoms of my pants were completely gone with the ends torn and covered in ashes. My legs were raw and red with black spots dotting my calves. I did not even want to see the rest of my body.

Kat managed to move in such a quick movement that my body had barely moved an inch as she pulled off her jacket and handed it to Derrek.

"Pink?" he asked, insulted.

"Get used to it, our bedroom is going to be that colour."

Bedroom? Oh right, I had forgotten that when married a couple lives together. "Where?" I questioned, obviously not noticing the flames still licking around the room. My voice was pained.

"Alaska," Kat answered.

"Forks," Derrek argued right back.

"I have lived here for thousands of years!" Kat bickered, placing her hands on her hips and her eyes pitch black.

"Time for a change sweetheart." Derrek tucked the jacket on sideways around his waist, not looking at his now fiancé.

"Can you stop!?" Tanya hissed, above our heads. I had not even seen her leave, but she dropped a long wood plank on an angle, so Derrek and Kat could drag me up away from the flames.

Kat fell silence immediately, but Derrek prattled on about the business that he had taken over from Jacob as he scooped my body up in his arms.

"Wait wait!" I cried suddenly, as Derrek started to climb the wood plank. "Why don't I hear another person?"

"Mom, they disappeared," my son said, as if I had not seen.

"No you big idiot," I argued in a worry. "Where is the boy? Where is Nell?!"

Derrek turned around on the plank and gazed at the room. There was no one else but us.

Nell was captured by the Volturi.

I felt my burned body begin to shake, and the pain stung. My eyes brimmed with venom. Lucy would be devastated. We had lost Nell forever.

Derrek carried me out of the burning building, jumping down from the second story and across the field. I could see many students wrapped in blankets, some being treated with burns and most crying.

It was only when Sarah-Anna approached with tears in her eyes did I remember my vision in the fire. Sarah was completely perfect, no scratch, no burns. Lucy was not with her.

:) Ending A/N: Well… I've been thinking folks, that this story has not had enough romance in it and I hoped it to have a lot more. Anyways, the next chapter (which will be the second last chapter!) could go either two endings and I have them both planned out. The question is, which one will I want to take? One ending would lead to a third story (which I do not know if I'm too lazy to write), the other would completely end this fic (which surely needs to end, I have dragged it on quite a bit!). So, I would like to hear from my readers which route to take! And thank you all for reading, check back for the last chapters!!