A/N: I just want to say one thing before you begin. First of all, that I'm posting this last chapter along with the Epilogue. I have to go out of town for a few days and I didn't want to leave you all stranded at the end of this story. The second is to let you know that I will answer all reviews on my return, but please feel free to review...a lot...lol. Thank you all for all of your support throughout this story, it really, really means a lot...so with that let the story begin...or end in this case...hehehe...hugs.

I do not own Twilight, that honor belongs to S.M. I just like playing around in her Universe.

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Chapter 25

So It Begins

The next morning after breakfast we headed back to the open field for more practice. The feeling I was getting was gnawing in my gut, telling me that the bloodsuckers were so close I could almost smell their scent. It surprised me that they weren't standing right in front of me, and that had me worried. I still had to say a few things to the pack about what they needed to do before this all went down.

"Look guys, they're going to be here real soon, and seeing as though we aren't killing the brothers a few things have changed. First of all, we're going to take them all on at the same time. I know we went over a few things last night, but after thinking things over more thoroughly, I think this is the best maneuver," I said, looking around at each of the wolves as they nodded in agreement. After seeing they agreed, I looked over at Jake and Tashunca.

"Okay, Tashunca I was thinking that maybe your pack could cover the back. After the Romanians move in, your pack can surround them from behind to make sure none of them get away; and, after we take control of the brothers you can herd them towards us so to speak. What do you think Tashunca, Jake?" I asked.

"I'm in agreement with that Bella," was his reply.

"Sounds good Bells," Jake agreed as well.

I nodded and turned to Colin and Brady. "Okay guys, I hate to do this because I know how much you want to be in on this fight, but I really need the two of you to go to the Reservation and watch out for the imprints and guard the Rez. Do you think you could do that for me?" I asked, knowing they were going to hate this.

"Ah man…come on Bella…Jake man do we have to?" they complained, looking from me to Jake.

"Sorry dude, you're the youngest and guarding the imprints and the Rez is just as important as fighting here with us," Jake explained as the boys let out an irritating sigh and then nodded in an undesirable agreement.

"Fine! When should we go?" they asked irritably.

"Now," I said as all eyes fell upon me.

"Now?" Jake and Tashunca said simultaneously, with an expression of worry in their eyes, as they looked towards the woods expecting to see them standing there.

"They're close, so close I can almost smell them," I revealed.

"Alright, my guys head west and stay upwind so they don't catch your scent, once the Romanians take their position, you come up behind them and wait for the fighting to start and then herd them towards us. But do it quietly and watch your backs," Tashunca commanded, as his pack took off.

"My pack form a half circle around me, Bella and Tashunca. Once the brothers and their coven arrive and Bella has talked to them. Will you stay with the brothers Tashunca to make sure they don't move until we're ready to converse with them again?" he asked as Tashunca nodded his head in agreement.

"Collin you and Brady take off and watch your backs," Jake ordered, as Colin and Brady took off towards the Reservation.

Everyone was in place as the first sign of the Volturi approached. They were wearing these black robes lined in red. It was almost like I was seeing a vision, as I remembered Tashunca explained how they would come and what they were like; he had explained them to a tee.

They were full of confidence, just like he said. They even wore a confident smirk on their faces, they truly did think they were invincible. The way they walked, if you can call it walking, was more like they were floating on air instead of walking on their own two feet.

As they came to a stop not fifty feet in front of us, they looked around at all the wolves. I saw the dark haired vampire smile; I could tell he thought this was all he'd have to face, and he thought he truly had won before the battle had even begun.

His two brothers stood on each side of him, Caius on his left and Marcus on his right. There was a small female behind him that had her hand on Aro's back. So this must be Ranada, his personal shield.

The tall pale slim females dressed glamorously to the hilt must have been Aro and Caius's wives; they stood directly behind Ranada, and looked more bored than worried about the outcome of this battle, and I presumed Ranada's shield protected them as well.

To the left of Caius was a boy and a girl, I took to be Alec and Jane, the witch twins. The boy seemed refined with a touch of confidence. He looked as if he didn't care one way or the other on how this would turn out, but Jane had a cocky smirk on her face that I would have loved to knock off.

I also felt how she was trying out her gift on us. I could feel it shimmer across my shield; but, with my shield protecting the pack, it wasn't working and she grimaced at me with an expression of hate.

To Marcus's right stood a tall man and directly next to him was a shorter man. With Tashunca's description I took them to be Felix and Demetri, the muscle and the tracker, who stood confident as well. The rest gathered behind them; there looked to be at least twenty of them, but we had a plan to take out the most important gifted ones before we got into fighting them all.

"Marcus, have the Romanians arrived?" I asked Tashunca's Beta, , with my mind link.

"Yes ma'am," he answered.

"Are they in place and how many are we looking at?" I asked.

"Yes, they are in place and waiting, just like Tashunca had told us, we have surrounded them, they aren't going anywhere, and there looks to be about fifteen of them. It looks as though they think the Volturi will do their work for them," he replied with an inward chuckle.

"Good, wait for my signal then push them toward us, watch your backs guys," I replied, and I could see through Marcus's eyes as a few of them nodded their giant heads in reply.

"We'll do Bella, you do the same," Marcus said, as I broke the mind link for now, and focused on the problem at hand.

I squeezed Jake's hand before releasing it and took a step away from him. I heard a low growl emanate from him as I moved away. I smiled inwardly at how protective he was of me.

I pulled my duster back to where it caught on the back of my holster so I could grab my sword at a moment's notice. I put one hand on it and held my head high and pulled my shoulders back to let them know there was more to me than just being a single human, and of course they took notice.

"Ah, you must be Isabell…a; it is a pleasure to finally meet you. I have heard great things of you child. My name is Aro and these are my brothers Caius and Marcus, we rule the vampire world," he said softly, as he pointed to each of his brothers still holding his smirk.

"I know who you are, and if you know who I am then you must know that I kill your kind. So what brings you here?" I asked, knowing full well why they were here.

"Isabella, it must be a tedious job chancing all over the world fighting our kind. What if I could offer you a more laid back way of life, where you can sit back and take it easy, let others do the fighting for you," he offered.

"Are you suggesting that your guard would go around and kill your own kind?" I asked. He laughed and shook his head.

"No dear child, but you could help keep the vampire order in line, that way you would never have to kill us again. You would have control over them, they would do your bidding," he explained.

"So I would remain human…so to speak?" I asked. He chuckled again.

"No… I would take it on myself to turn you. You can ask anyone here, that this is an honor, for I never if ever sire a vampire into our world," he explained. I smiled thinking that I would love for him to take a bite out of me knowing the outcome of that bite.

"Well…you see we'd have a problem there. Because, there is no way in hell, that I would allow you or any other vampire to bite me, unless you or they wanted to die, and believe me…no one wants them to die more than me. I am a Slayer, like my father before me, and I intend to keep on doing as he did…killing vampires," I said as he growled, and looked over at Jane and Alec.

Without turning I opened my mind link and told Violet to get Chelsea, and then told Jake and Paul to take out the twins as Embry took his place and started stalking towards them. I dropped my shield from the others and put it only on Embry to protect him from their gifts, as Jake and Paul pounced. I, as well as the Volturi, watched as Jake and Paul tore the witch twins into pieces as Embry started a fire and caught the pieces and dropped them into the flames to be burned to ash.

At the same time Violet pounced on Chelsea, and in one swift move beheaded the bonding leech, and proceeded to rip her apart. We had hoped that a few of the bloodsuckers would run for their lives after being released from their bond, but not one of them did.

They charged Violet which sent Paul in an uproar, and after tearing the twins apart he dove for the leeches that were headed for his mate to destroy her. Jake followed shortly after grabbing a few as he ran tearing and ripping as he went, followed by Embry who did the same.

The brothers growled as Aro yelled. "Kill them all!"

Sam ran and pounced on the big leech Felix as Leah took on Demetri. Quil took off and pounced on Afton. After Jake and Paul tore the heads off of the twins, and Embry, after burning what was left of the twins, followed Paul and Jake, as they took off after the remaining vampires behind Aro.

I gave the order to Marcus to herd the Romanians to us, I could hear the ripping and tearing that sounded like metal being torn and knew that Tashunca's pack had engaged in the battle.

Everything was happening so fast I hardly had time to think, as I pulled my sword and began fighting; the brothers looked on in awe. I swiped my sword a few times as I twirled through the air, taking out three to five of them at a time, watching as they fell to the ground and burned to ash, and knew in no time this battle would end.

Leah was holding her own until Demetri slammed her into the ground and opened his mouth, pulling back his lips to reveal his sharp teeth. He leaned down to sink them into Leah's neck when David roared, and pounced onto his back and sunk his teeth into Demetri's neck and tore his head from his shoulders, saving his mate. He was quickly tossed aside by Felix who had freed himself from Sam, but Sam regained his composure from being thrown and slammed into a tree and charged at the same time as Felix grabbed David. Between the two of them, they tore Felix to shreds, as Leah finished off Demetri.

Tashunca took Embry's place and began feeding the flame with the vampire's pieces that the pack was throwing to him, fighting off a few leeches in the process.

Quil was making good progress with Afton. He was keeping him busy not letting him use his gift on him as he tore and maimed his hardened skin; but, Jake grabbed an arm and tore it off as he passed, giving Quil the opening to wrap his elongated sharp teeth around his neck, tearing Afton's head from his body. He proceeded to tear him apart and threw the pieces to Tashunca to be burned, before running off to help his brothers.

It was then I heard the voice in my head. "The brothers," it said as I turned and watched as they began to stalk towards the fight. I threw up my shield around them covering them, Ranada and the wives. They came to a complete stop as they ran into my shield and began slamming their fists into it. I could feel the shield weakening with every slam of their fists. But, I couldn't worry about it just now.

The pack and I kept on fighting, and within no time I could feel myself start to weaken even more. I fell to the ground trying to catch my breath. Jake seeing this ran to me, phased, and picked me up and took me to where Tashunca was still feeding the flames, and sat me on the ground beside him.

"What's wrong with her?" Jake asked worriedly, as he wrapped his arms around me.

"It's her shield, it's weakening her," Tashunca said pointing to the brothers. "We have to make sure the brothers do not get in this fight Jacob," he continued as Jake looked over at the brothers who were still banging on my shield.

Tashunca walked over to the brothers and told them if they wanted to live to stop what they were doing and wait out the battle and we would speak to them afterwards. Caius laughed.

"We will kill you all old man once we are free," he said as he continued to beat on the shield. Caius was a more experienced fighter than his brother, not that he would live if he was to free himself and get involved in this fight, but we had to stop them from doing so.

"Bella, search within yourself for the gene," the whispering voice said. I knew it was Raphael. I closed my eyes and dug deep, deeper than I had ever delved before, searching for what would help me. Soon the battle noise became softer, and it wasn't long after that I was plunged into complete silence.

I felt as though I was floating, as I dove deeper and deeper into myself. Searching every inch of the supernatural part of my body, I finally saw a glimmer of a light. It sparkled like nothing I had seen before, like it was peeking out from behind a soft cloud.

I headed towards the soft light, and as I got closer the brighter it got, it was like a beacon, shining like the sun above. It was so bright it was almost too blinding to look at.

I reached a mental hand toward the light, and when my fingers touched it, it was like a new life had evolved. It shot through me like a star exploded and filled every part of my body.

I gasped and threw my head back and I just knew that the light I felt was beaming from my every pore. I jumped to my feet and opened my eyes and let out a long slow breath of air. I looked over at the brothers, and as I strengthened my shield it vibrated and knocked the brothers to the ground.

I took my hand and moved the other side of my duster out of the way to put my hands on my hips when I felt something. I looked down and saw another holster with another sword sheathed deep within it. I wondered where the hell that came from, but decided to worry about it later.

I looked over to see how the battle was going and could see the wolves pretty much had everything in hand. It was then I saw them. Stephan and Vladimir. The two I wanted more than anyone. Well not so much Stephan, I would let Tashunca take care of him, but Vladimir was mine. I stalked towards them, as they halted and watched me approach.

"Isabella, it is so nice to see you," Vlad said with his Romanian accent.

"Yes, I bet it is Vlad. We finally come to the end of all this. My father will finally get his revenge."

"I have done nothing to your father Isabella; it is not my fault that he was killed fighting one of our kind. Oh wait a minute…you were there when he was killed were you not?" he asked sporting a gleeful smile. He knew exactly what he was doing to me. I felt a twinge of guilt as I remembered Adam dying before I killed his murderer.

"Nor was it hers," a familiar voice came from behind me. I swirled around to see who it was and couldn't believe my eyes. There standing behind me was Adam. He smiled at me and pulled me into a hug, then when he pulled away, told me we'd talk later.

"Oh, such a sweet reunion, come Stephan let's leave these two alone to get reacquainted," Vlad said, I knew he was frightened with both of us standing in front of him. He would run as fast as he could to get away from us; but, as they turned to leave they found Tashunca and Jake standing there with their arms crossed across their chest daring them to move one more inch.

"Tashunca if you would do me the honor," Adam said as he pointed to Stephan. We watched as Stephan's expression turned to fear.

"It would be my honor old friend," Tashunca said grabbing Stephan at the same time he morphed into a wolf and tore him to shreds. Vlad looked on in sheer terror.

"You see Vlad, Bella was new at being a Slayer and she had complete confidence in me to take care of the vampire at hand," he continued in what he was saying before.

"It was my fault that I was killed. I knew better than to take for granted that the vampire didn't have a gift. But in the end she did kill the vampire that took my life. I am very proud of my daughter in the way she has turned out. She's one hell of a Slayer, and now she has brought you to me. You killed my beloved Elizabeth, and you will pay for taking her from me," Adam promised.

Adam held out his hand to me. I knew exactly what he wanted and it also explained why I had the extra sword, it was for Adam. Raphael had to be responsible for this entire outcome. I was sure I'd learn more about this later. I drew the second sword and handed it to him, and took a step back, as he continued what he had to do.

I wanted to be the one to avenge my father in what he had to deal with all those years ago, but I was happy to stand back and watch as he did it for himself.

I remember all those times he would get quiet while we were alone together. I would be reading one of my favorite books, as he stood looking out the window quietly. The sad expression he held on his face made me want to weep for him.

I know now that he was thinking of his beloved Elizabeth, and how much he missed her. I wanted nothing more than to take out his revenge on Vlad for killing her, and then to be run out of Europe unable to face his enemy face to face was a terrible blow to his ego. I was happy I could make this happen for him or at least happy that Raphael made it happen.

He held the sword in front of him letting Vlad see the flames as it licked the blade, and began to speak.

"For the crimes of taking my beloved Elizabeth from me, and causing havoc on this earth, creating a race of vampires to kill and maim humans with no regret. I sentence you to death. May you burn in hell for eternity," Adam said, and then twirled around and sliced through the hard shell that vampires call skin and set him on fire.

The shrill shrieks that poured from this vampire were earth shattering, as he burned to ash in front of us all.

The battle was finally over. The only thing left was dealing with the brothers and making sure they stopped their rampage of taking humans and turning them for their own disgusting, selfish wants of using them as weapons to serve them.

And there were other things I needed to know, like if Adam would stay or did Raphael just bring him so he could have his revenge, but first things first. I looked over at the brothers who stood and watched this chain of events. Jake, Tashunca and I walked over to the brothers and stood before them.

I dropped my shield only to have Caius charge towards me, but before he got close, Raphael stood in front of us and blocked him. He put up his hand as the remaining vampires dropped to their knees.

Sorry guys, we'll finish this in the next update which happens to be the Epilogue as well...I hope you enjoyed the battle, and the return of Bella's father, Adam, that Raphael saw fit to bring back for his revenge.

Next time we'll see how Bella handles the brothers and then she'll get to talk to Adam one last time. We'll see how things end up on the Rez. Will Paul and Leah stay in La Push with there mates? or will they leave with them, when Tashunca and his pack leave? How will Jake and Bella get along after all this is behind them, as well as Charlie and Sue. coming up next.

Let me know what you think, thanks for reading...So until next time...I send you all bigg huggs.