21. BATTLE

At Emmett's cue, the rest of our group entered the room.

Our small group became massive as all of the wolves joined us, now phased into their wolf selves, along with the Denali coven, the Amazons, Ben and Tia, the Romanians, Esme and Carlisle, and Rose. Carlisle was at lead with Esme by his side.

All of them came forward to join us, our group amounting to nearly fifty.

"What's all this?" Aro asked. "Have you come to declare war on us?"

"Oh, no. Of course not." Emmett said in a tone laced with sarcasm. "We've come to kill you," he said without flinching.

"Have you now?" Caius asked in an amused tone. "And how do you expect to do that?"

"Well we've already broken down you shields," he started, "and your two main defenses are useless against us," he was referring to Jane and Alec, "and our numbers are equally matched…" he trailed off. "I don't see how this fight isn't in our favor."

"There's only one loose end for us to take care of," Dad said. I knew what he meant by this, we had talked about it before leaving for our trip. We needed to get ride of Chelsea so the bounds she was creating would be broken. There were many people here that were probably being kept against their will. It was Chelsea's job to make everyone feel like they wanted to be there, but it wasn't always the case.

The plan had been that when the fight started for Emmett to make his way to Chelsea as soon as he could, but I realized that if we killed her before the fighting started that a lot of people had the potential to be saved in the process.

No one would expect me. I can do this.

I looked over to Emmett and he looked back at me. We had become good at silent communication over the time that he had spent training me. I used this to my advantage to tell him about my plan.

Let me get her, I told him with my eyes.

The corner of his mouth corked up. You're sure?

Together.

We both gave each other a nod so we knew we were in agreement and then I turned my attention back to the group in front of us.

I let go of Jake's hand as I scanned the group for Chelsea, finding her quickly. Before anyone could guess at my plan I went into action.

I knelt and sprang across the room towards her. As I flew through the air I kept my eyes open for anyone coming for me. I placed my hands on one of their shoulders to boost myself up into the air as I began to loss some momentum. This gave me what I needed to make it the rest of the way to Chelsea as I flipped myself around in the air to put myself behind her.

Before she had any time to react I grabbed a hold of her and threw her across the room to Emmett.

I immediately had to duck out of the way of a swinging arm. As I ducked to miss it I knocked the person's feet out from underneath of them then straightened myself up and launched myself back over to the side of the room where my family was. I landed with a roll and brought myself into a crouch. As I straightened myself up with a grin on my face I looked over to see Emmett with Chelsea in a vice hold; no one was stronger than Emmett.

Everyone was looking from me to Emmett.

I had moved so quickly and so swiftly that no one of the Volturi had had true time to react to my attack. No one, not even my family and friends, had expected this from me. Emmett and Jake were the only ones who knew that I could fight the way I could; to everyone else I just looked like an innocent bystander.

"Nessie, would you like to do the honors?" Emmett asked me.

I walked over to him where he stood with Chelsea in his arms as she thrashed about and shouted obscenities.

"Let go of me, you bastard!" she shouted.

"So I'm guessing that you stand strong with the Volturi then?" I asked her. "All we want from you is for your bounds to be broken."

"I will not betray my coven!" she shouted at me as she continued to thrash around in Emmett's arms.

I sighed deeply. "Very well," I said to her.

Emmett griped her even tighter so that she was completely incapable of any movement.

I walked up so that I was standing right in front of her. My face was a scorn as a reached up quickly and snapped her head off.

"NO!" Aro shouted.

As I held it by the hair I would have expected to feel something, but killing had been second nature to me all my life and you could hardly even think of some of the Volturi as people. They're souls had been lost for them when their human lives had ended. Now a lot of them were just empty shells living only on our animal instincts and forgetting everything else.

I looked down at Chelsea's still open eyes and felt only anger. I gripped her hair tight and flung the head over to where Aro stood. It fell by his feet as he looked at me in disbelief.

"Perhaps you should have killed me when I was a child," I said to him in a heavy tone, "because now I will be the cause of all your deaths."

Emmett cackled and the battle ensued.

Almost instantly Jake was by my side as his wolf self along with Mom, Dad, Emmett, and Seth. The original plan had been for them to protect me while the fighting was going on, even though Emmett and Jake had known that I wouldn't need it.

I decided to abide by my parents wishes though and stay put in the protective circle they had formed around me… that was until I saw some of the members of the Volturi standing back away from the melee with frightened expressions.

I ducked and weaved and jumped and leaped my way through the crowd until I was standing with them on the other side of the room.

I heard someone coming up behind me and spun around quickly.

It was Dad.

"What were you thinking?" he asked me in a breathless voice.

"Help me," I told him.

I went over to them as they stood in the shadows.

"Do you all choice to surrender?" I asked them.

It was the girl closest to me who responded. "I don't want to be here," she nearly cried. She was the typical blond hair, blue eyed beauty although her eyes weren't blue anymore but more of a deep red. She looked no more than sixteen and even with being a vampire she still looked utterly harmless. "I don't think I ever wanted to be here."

"And the rest of you?" I asked the others, "You no longer want to be apart of the Volturi either?"

They all remained silent but shook their heads in response.

I turned to Dad. "Are they all telling the truth?" I asked him.

"None of them have any desire to be a part of the Volturi."

I turned back to them. "Go then. Get out of here."

They started to scatter to get out of the room as quickly as they could; all except for the young girl who had spoken before.

She reached up to grab my sleeve, I noticed that she was wearing gloves.

"Where am I supposed to go?" she asked me. The rest of them were all gone now, she was the only of the surrenders who was still around.

"How old are you?"

"I was thirteen when they came for me only a few months ago. They told me that I was going to have an amazing power and made me into one of them."

"And do you have a power?"

She nodded her head.

"What's your name?" I asked her. I knew I had to get back to the action soon, but I couldn't just send her off on her own. She was right, she had no where to go.

"Maddy," she answered in a small voice.

"Okay, Maddy. You can either find somewhere to hid until the fighting is over or you can come with me."

"I'd rather stay with you," she told me. I had never felt so much in charge of another life before.

"Do you know how to fight?" I asked her.

"The Volturi taught me, but I don't like to. My power isn't physical."

I nodded my head. "Okay." I took a deep breath and turned around to find Dad anxiously watching all of the action going on around us. We were standing back away from it in the shadows so that no one took much notice to us, but if anyone had Dad would have taken them out before they would have even gotten the chance to get to me.

"Daddy, back us," I told him.

He turned slightly so that he could see me but still keep an eye on the action.

I reached back to Maddy and grabbed a hold of her hand.

"Maddy, I'm Ness, and you can trust me."

She gripped my hand tightly.

"Come," I told her.

I started my way back to where Jake, Mom, Seth, and Emmett still stood in a partial circle on the other side of the room.

I kept a hold of her hand as I pulled her along with me as Dad followed behind us.

We made our way back to them with only a small set back.

An angry member of the Volturi came towards us.

I slid down between his legs and came up behind him. I ripped off his head before grabbing a hold of Maddy's hand again and leaping into the protective circle.

"These people are my family, Maddy. They'll keep you safe."

"Family," she echoed the word in disbelief that something so beautiful could be possible for people like us.

maddy

In the circle I was surrounded by two giant wolves that were unlike any creature that I had ever seen before, and the other three were like me. And then there was Ness.

Ness was different from all the others. She seemed to be like me, but I knew that I could hear a heart beat when she was by me; my heightened senses allowed me to hear it, but it seemed to beat faster than any humans I had ever heard before.

I looked around at the five of them and wondered how it was possible that they were her family.

"Stay in the circle!" she shouted to me. "The sooner this is over, the sooner you'll be safe."

She leaped out of the circle then and started her way around the room killing the members of the Volturi that still remained. She was so graceful and quick. She was probably the best fighter of them all.

As I stood completely still in the middle of the circle finally feeling some sense of safety I watched Ness going around the room. I wasn't sure why it was that I trusted this vicious killer, but she seemed to be good. I knew that the Volturi weren't good people, so anyone killing them seemed justified in some way.

I noticed that the three leaders Aro, Caius, and Marcus were still standing where they had been before the fighting had started. They were making no moves towards any of Ness's family as they fought all around them, and none of them made any move towards them either. I hoped that they didn't have the intentions of letting them live because Aro had been the one who had come and taken me those few months ago. I hated him so much, and I wanted to be sure that he was dead before I ever left this place.

As I turned to look around the room I saw the biggest of the vampires surrounding me wresting with one of the Volturi.

The girl managed to break away from him, but instead of coming at him again she started toward me instead.

renesmee

I heard Maddy scream and spun around quickly.

A girl was running towards her and no one was going to be able to get to her in time.

I did the first thing that came to mind and closed my eyes quickly and sent out the thought of darkness to the girl.

When I opened my eyes she was frozen in place looking confused. She was about to go after Maddy again but her pause was enough for Seth to get to her first. Emmett was there instantly too with a gleam of revenge in his eyes. Between him and Seth the girl was in pieces almost immediately.

I looked around the room to find that only Aro, Caius, and Marcus were left standing, and it was time for them to die.