Chapter 21 Aftermath and Destruction (gets gory)
It was then that Jane Squeezed my hand I looked at her and saw the relief in her eyes that we were going to survive this attack and have the chance to remain together. I returned her grim smile, as she was concentrating as hard as I was when I felt something snap within me. I became so full of rage with the realization that in this attack Jane had been one of their first targets, because she was one of the offensive weapons of the guard they sought to neutralize her.
I decided the destruction was moving too slow now. How dare anyone target the object of my whole existence. My Jane?!? I began disassembling the vampires before they came to Marcus and Caius and pushing them into the pit myself. Marcus stepped back with a blank look on his face but Caius nodded and smiled at me and said "Good, good, destroy them they are all condemned to death for this outrage!"
The slaughter went on for an hour, I had to pause to allow the fire to die down a couple of times when the parts were building up too tall and threatened to topple. I finally had enough control to release the rest of the guard who remained back from the slaughter, only the Cullen's came join me at my side. Edward remarked that they did not want to get caught in whatever you were using to suck the attackers into the fire. Jane, Alice, and Bella shared a chuckle at that. Alec stepped up and used his power to numb the attackers as I destroyed them at Aro's suggestion.
Finally there were 2 vampires who were at the rear of the attacking formation who I had brought out of the hole when Aro commanded "Hold John, what have we here?" "Stephan and Vladimir?" He strode toward them followed by his personal guard "I had thought we had taught you a lesson already?" "Since you persist in attacking us you really leave us with little choice but to destroy you. What made you think you could successfully attack us?"
The one called Stephan spoke for them "When you were routed by the Cullen's, we then knew what we had to do. We searched for gifted humans and turned them one by one until we found the one in front of you in pieces. Daniel has an ability like your Alec, but his gift is physical, so he would not be stopped by a shield like Isabella, so we built our army and decided to attack once we had numbers on our side. We would have destroyed you too, we do not see how we could have lost?"
Aro shook his head "Your attack would have succeeded had we not had the Cullen Family here. You see, like us they do not share your irrational desire to rule the human world. We exist living as we do only because of our masquerade. If we had allowed you to continue as you were it would have only been a matter of time before the humans developed weapons to destroy you. You think the destruction we threw at you was bad, how do you suppose you would have fared if the humans had developed nuclear weapons and fired a missile at your castle? They would not have left you alive as we did. You would have been destroyed in the conflagration."
Caius signaled me to proceed and I added the Romanians parts to the pire. Then Aro stepped up to the vampire in front of me and signaled Jane to stop and said "John, return his head to his body"
Not knowing what to expect I put his head back onto his neck and was amazed when it pulled itself back together and mended as if it was never apart. Aro addressed the vampire "Daniel, you are a gifted vampire, and although we already have Alec your gift makes you joining us interesting. Do you wish to join us, or are you determined to suffer the same fate as your former masters?"
Daniel spoke, grimacing through the pain. "I do not want to be destroyed but I was indoctrinated by Stephan and Vladimir that you were evil and held our kind back from our rightful places of dominance" Aro placed his hand on his shoulder reading his thoughts "Ahhh, I see. Well some of what they said is truth, from a certain perspective. We did unseat them from their positions, but they never claimed to rule the vampire nation. They thought themselves rulers of the world. As the world was changing around them however they did not. It was inevitable that humans would attack them or as word spread of their existence they would have been avoided and humans being fully aware of our existence would take steps to limit our access to banking, and travel and identification and important documents. As it is now we have to employ criminal means to obtain documents, creating new identities for ourselves to be able to acquire wealth, own property, and to travel commercially."
Daniel made a stern face, and Aro nodded and removed his hand "Daniel has made his decision, he will not accept us and our rules, he must be destroyed....."
AN: Plenty of people appear to be reading this from the story traffic, can I get some feedback(reviews)? Should I continue? Should I just delete this story off fanfiction because it is crap?!?