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My One True Love
Chapter 20
BPOV:
The Cullens had been gone for about two days when we started noticing things going on over here. People started going missing and their bodies were being found drained of blood. The Pack suspected new bloodsuckers had made their way here but we were no closer to finding it.
Until today.
We had gone patrolling and since it was a saturday I was one of the wolves patrolling when I came across a scent. I alerted Jared and Sam who were also on patrol with me to alert the others.
What is it Bella? my dad asked.
Leeches I said.
Paul came up next to me, butting his head with mine.
Where is it coming from babe? he asked.
Over by the cliffs. I'm worried we'll find someone else because another guy just went missing a few days ago. I said.
I'm worried some are being changed. My dad said. I'm hoping we catch this person, before we have to call the Cullens.
I don't want them coming, they have other things to worry about Sam said.
We all heard things moving from a mile to the west and our heads snapped that way.
Go! my dad ordered. We all took off, running to see what it was.
Brady, Collin and Seth! I need you three to go to towards the Res and make sure nothing happens there! Split up but be careful! my dad said, leading us in the charge.
Paul! You and Jared take the left side, Bella, you and Jake take the right and you all circle around and meet us at the coast! Sam you're with me!
Jake and I ran right, and in the distance I could see four leeches draining a poor man and woman. I didn't even know there was another person missing.
Guys! There's four here! I shouted to the others. As if knowing what I was doing they all turned and started towards Jake and I.
GUYS!
Since we didn't know when they would make it here we charged them, taking two each. I jumped towards one, snapping at his shoulder. I kicked backwards and heard the other leech slamming into the trees behind us. I slammed on the leech in front of me with both paws, snapping at his face and throat. I scratched my paws downwards and tore his face to shreds, pulling his left arm off and towards the side.
We're almost there Bella! Hold on baby!
I snapped my jaws around the first leeches' head and was twisting around when something grabbed me around my shoulders and squeezed. I felt the bones in my shoulder snap and break, making me let out a whimper of pain.
I felt Paul's panic and he pushed harder to get to me. Jake had ripped apart the second leech, before the leech that had broken my shoulders knocked him back a few feet. I couldn't let this one get me again so blocking my mind to the pain I leaped forward and latched onto his head. I twisted left and right a few times before his head tore off his shoulders.
I didn't bother finishing him up, the pain breaking through the barrier and forcing me to phase back to human. I was crying in agony, both shoulders broken.
Jake ran to me and attempted to dress me, at least to give me some sense of privacy.
"Come on Bella, shh don't cry the others are on their way I promise!" Jake said, panic and fear written on his face.
When he tried getting my sleeves in was when the pain got worse.
"Oh God Bella! Oh God! Screw this! They'll have to catch up to us" Jake said, picking me up bridal style and heading back towards the Reservation.
"Jake!"
Jake kept running, yelling for the guys to meet up with us.
"Is she okay?!"
Paul...
"She'll be better after medical attention! We need to set her shoulders before they heal!" he said, passing me onto Paul.
"Jake go with the others! Paul will take her to Sue. We need to make sure there are no others out there!" Charlie said, leading Jake back where they came from.
Paul kept running, cooing to me when the pain got too much for me to handle. I heard him call Carlisle and ask him what he should do. Carlisle gave him tips and since he wasn't here agreed to lead them in a procedure to help me out.
"Don't worry baby, we're almost to Sue's house" Paul said, kissing my forehead.
He led me inside the house a few minutes later and Sue was working to make sure my bones weren't rapid healing before they could start anything.
The next hour was the worst in my life. Paul and Sue, with Carlisle on speaker, were working to heal my shoulders. They pumped me full of morphine and worked to break any bones that had started healing wrong. After throwing up three times due to pain, almost passing out and a bag of morphine later my shoulders were deemed healed.
I held onto Paul's repaired hand. I mean repaired as in fully healed after I broke it from holding onto it too hard.
The others hadn't shown up yet so there must have been more out there. Paul went to phase and make sure they were okay.
"Everyone's fine" Paul said after walking in "Quil's got a broken finger, Seth has a concussion and Sam has a dislocated shoulder but they'll heal fast".
I was so worried and after being told the news I let it all soothe me and proceeded to fall asleep.
EdwardPOV:
It was nighttime on the third day or being out here.
It was a slow processes getting rid of the newborns, but I'm glad we had help from the Volturi. We were leaving Texas tomorrow, having rid the streets of the newborns during the nights we were here.
It seemed Maria had given them one order when she created them, to feast on what they could.
We were deciding on whether or not to go straight to Maria and stop her from creating more, or to keep going through each state until we eventually go tot her. Right now everyone was hoping to go right to her the next day and destroy her. So it looked like that was our current plan.
The Volturi were plucking Jasper's brain for anything and everything he knew about Maria. We found her weakness was being surrounded. Maria never liked being surrounded, which is why she never was. We were creating a plan to use the fear against her.
We would split up, so once she was distracted by Jasper we would attack.
Carlisle had spent the day on the phone with the wolves, leading them step by step on how to fix broken shoulders. I guess others made it to Forks after we had left, leaving the wolves to handle it.
I was concerned, since I knew it was Bella that had gotten hurt. Sue had to refix her shoulder since it had gotten pretty smashed during the fight and was starting to heal wrong. Paul was having a fight, insisting on being the one to break them.
"Edward our flight is ready at the airport, we need to leave now"
I looked at Alice and nodded my head. I hated doing this, but in order to protect our secret and our way of life we needed to do this.
"Okay, I'm all packed up so I'm on my way" I said, grabbing my duffel bag to head out.
She smiled at me "we'll be home soon. I know you're worried about Bella".
"I am, she's my best friend" I said.
"She could have been more if you wanted" Alice hinted.
"No" I said. "She wasn't meant for me. Maybe in another lifetime she might have been mine. But not now, even if I did really desire her that way, she wouldn't be truly happy. That's all I want for her, to be truly happy. And it wouldn't have been with me".
"I'm sorry about before..." Alice said.
I looked at her "it's okay Alice, you meant well. It just could have gone better".
"I just wanted you happy. I saw you two together for a time but then the wolves stepped in. I just felt that they robbed you of happiness" she said.
"No they didn't. If we were meant to be together, she would have been imprinted on in the first place" I said.
"You're right. I'm sorry" she said again.
"I know. Let's go" I said, leading her outside to the cars. The others were waiting, their minds telling me they gave us some time alone to make up for everything.
We drove the hour drive to the airport, settled in the jet and took off for South Carolina, where Maria had last been spotted by the Volturi spies.
Demetri had met her once before, so he had her scent. So once we landed we followed him as he set off towards the coast.
"Demetri where is she?" Aro asked.
"About twelve miles to the South" he said. Aro nodded and we continued on our way. I heard his thoughts and they were thinking about surrounding her when we got to where we needed to be. Aro and Caius would be up front, allowing Maria to see how much her actions had cost her, the others would surround her from all sides. I would be with him so he could touch me after I read their minds.
"Edward, I need you to stay with me as well as Jasper and Alice. Carlisle, you and Esme follow some of my guard to the West, Rose and Emmett go to the East. We'll take them that way" Aro ordered, then proceeded to split his guard up.
We all slowed to a stop once we saw groups of people up ahead. Our designated groups split up and started heading to their sides. Alice, Jasper, Felix, Demetri, Jane and Alec all gathered around their masters. I was next to Aro, waiting until I was needed.
Once Aro got the confirmation that the others were in place we ran forward to meet Maria.
Her face when she saw us was one of pure shock. And pure horror. She knew she had been caught.
"Maria, we have come to put a stop to your crimes. You have changed many people and left them to wreck havoc. This must stop, now" Aro said.
Fuck... I thought to myself as thoughts of a newborn army arose through Maria's mind. She was planning on taking over the South, and in a few years she was aiming for the country.
I reached for Aro's hand and his eyes widened in shock. We needed to make sure that all the vampires in this area were destroyed.
"I have a right to create what I wish! Your laws in Volturi have no effect on me!" she yelled, holding firm on her belief.
"You are a vampire! The law is the law! And you and your newborns will be punished for disobeying the law" he said sternly.
At this other vampires materialized out of the woods and began to attack, caging Maria and her vampires within. Jane and the others with us charged, overwhelming the others. Some surrendered immediately, Aro pushed them to the side, deciding to deal with them later on. I went and started dealing with a few that were thinking of making a run for it. I took down a girl and later two boys, beheading them and giving them to Caius and Aro to burn.
I saw Jasper in the distance, fighting with Maria. I knew he had to be the one to take her down, for his own closure. He fought, twisting and turning, dodging her hits and getting his in. She was taunting him, telling him about their past, but he wasn't having it. He fought her, blocking her words and her attacks. Finally he had had enough, speeding up his attacks. He knocked her down, stepping on her and ripping her head from her body. He proceeded to tear her appendages off her body, chucking them into the fire near Aro and Caius.
He wasn't upset, he was relieved. Relieved that her presence would no longer haunt him like it had been for the past few decades since he left her.
Aro was talking/reading the vampires that had surrendered to us when the battle started. The others were finishing up getting rid of some. My family was safe, which was all that I could wish for. I knew my family would fall apart if we lost anybody.
I was listening to Aro's mind when I heard it.
If I could just make them believe it, then Maria's plan will still be complete.
I saw from one of the survivors that the real plan wasn't to take over the country, it was to get rid of Aro and Caius. Marcus they felt wouldn't caused a problem, so they didn't deem him a threat. I rushed forward, tackled him and proceeded to try and knock him onto his back. I tossed him to Emmett, who locked him in his arms.
"Edward what's wrong? What did you hear?" Aro asked.
"The plan wasn't to take over the country. It was to lead you here to take you and Caius out" I said. The vampire began struggling in my brothers grip, doing all he could to get out. His mind was rabid to get to Aro and end him. Aro looked at me, asking if he was trying to get to him, I nodded my confirmation to this.
He nodded at Emmett, who crushed the vampire in his grip. The others were scared, not wanting to betray them. Aro continued his readings of the other's minds. When he saw that they were all willing to change he had his guard take them to the jet, planning on having them work for the Volturi to make up for the crimes they committed.
Once everything was set, we began our way back to the jet to continue getting rid of the vampires that were roaming free from Maria's creations.
We finished up Texas, went East towards Louisiana, then straight onto Mississippi, then Alabama and Georgia. We sent some guard to Tennessee and Emmett, Rose, Carlisle and Esme with Jane and Alec to Arkansas. We all met up in North Carolina where we got rid of the rest of the newborns. Once a month had passed we were finally on our way home.
When we arrived we set up a meeting with the Pack, trying to figure out what happened while we were gone.
It seemed other than the attack near the reservation, nothing bad had really happened. Bella healed fine, no one else had been hurt besides a few minor injuries. The vampire had ended up being Garrett, the American nomad, who was sent straight to Alaska. He had created some companions who were easily destroyed by the wolves for trying to kill Bella. Garrett wasn't there but he came a few days after the attack, looking around for his friends.
Nothing else seemed to have happened. The Pack continued on with their lives once everything died down, going to school, patrolling and working. They had it easier than us obviously.
Bella, Paul and I hung out for one whole day, catching each other up on what happened. We talked everything out. Alice's want to make me happy, the battles I fought in the South, Bella's attack and Paul frantic worry over her for two weeks.
Yeah, I missed this. Really fucking bad.
Let's hope it lasts.
And it did.
AN: So I think that's the last chapter for this fic. I might do two more after, one as a regular chapter and one as an epilogue. I dont know for sure yet but you'll all see as soon as I post it. Let me know your thoughts on this chapter please! I want to make it to somewhere over 100 reviews soon please! Hope you all had a Merry Christmas with your families! Until next time!