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Midnight Hush
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It didn't take us that long to get back to where we were. But damn Bella got us to the house really fast. We started to creep up to the battle; Bella was on the sidelines using her shield we'd imagine. She had her back turned to us. "Do you think she knows we're here?" I asked Jayla. Bella immediately turned around and glared at us "I spoke too soon"
Jayla just nodded and smiled at Bella "Hi…Aunt…Bella" she smiled awkwardly, we both knew we were in trouble.
"What did I tell you two about coming back here?" she hissed. We stared at her for a little bit, she still had her red eyes.
"We couldn't take waiting at home, Bells" I answered "it didn't feel right"
"You know what isn't right?" she looked at the two of us as she leaned forward. Me and Jayla eased back slightly "The both of you being in danger"
'Since when was she assertive?' Jayla thought.
'It's the vampire genes'
'Ah' Jayla nodded.
"Go home, the both of you" she had her back turned to the battle; she was leaning forward in attempts to make us feel intimidated. She didn't see that one of the Volturi guards had seen her back turned and came running to attack her.
'Jayla! Shield' I ordered. As Bella turned around the Volturi guard had leapt in the air. Jayla stood still watching what was happening. 'Jayla!' I said to get her attention again. The vampire bounced back. Bella looked at us both. "You need us to be here too" I answered "if we weren't here, that vampire would've been tackling you to the ground as we speak"
"Thank you" she nodded "but like I said, keep your distance from this"
"Fine" I nodded I looked at Jayla and winked at her. I knew better, I was going to fight. And plus, even though Edward could hear me…there was nothing he could do about it…he was fighting Volturi scum.
'You know, when they find out your plan, they'll do everything they can to stop you' Jayla said. She was still staring straight ahead watching people back and fourth.
'Eh, what can they do? Edward's too busy fighting and listening to the thoughts of the Volturi attacking him. He won't even have time to even know what we're thinking' I smiled in confidence. Edward glanced at us and shook his head.
'You spoke too soon' Jayla smirked.
"Jayla! What the hell are you doing here?!" Wesley yelled as he ran toward us. Some of the Volturi guard's heads turned in our direction; I don't think they noticed that we were there. Thanks Wes, way to give away that we were there in plain sight.
"Wesley!" Jayla yelled out to him. Wesley had stopped and stood in front of her.
"What are you doing back here? You were safe, I saw Bella take you and Maddox away, why are you back?" he looked at her and then looked at me "why are you back?!" he said as he grabbed my collar.
"Wesley! Stop it! Let my brother go!" Jayla walked to his side and yelled in his ear.
"Why are you both back here?!" he shook me.
"Listen to me werewolf. Whether you like it or not, this fight is about us. So you can do what you want in defending your honour and integrity. But Jayla and I are here for ours too. So back off…now" I looked at him dead in the eye. Wesley glared at me and put me down and then turned to Jayla.
"I don't want you setting foot into that battle you hear me?"
"I hear ya" she answered monotonously. This is what sucked about being an imprint, whatever they want you to do, you do it. No questions asked, as long as it made them happy. I looked over into the battle and could see Leah in the distance. She was dodging left, and right. Seth was with her double-teaming. Even though Seth was old enough to take down a vampire by himself, Leah would always beg to differ.
"Make sure she doesn't" Wesley looked at me.
"What am I? Her keeper?" I looked at Jayla to which she smirked at my reaction.
"I promise I'm not going to go anywhere Wesley" she sighed 'even if it is against my better judgement' I heard her think. I looked at her and smiled. Wesley nodded and ran back into the battlefield.
"Well he knows how to suck the fun in fighting the Volturi" I looked at her.
"No pun intended right?"
"Huh?" I looked at her.
"Never mind" she sighed as she put her hand to her face. We were looking into the distance. We saw Rosalie who looked like she was being 'piggy-backed' by a guard. You had Amitiel trying to catch Jane who was giggling as she dodged each time Amitiel would leap toward her. Edward looked like he had this crazy lookin his eye as he was about to attack a guard who was about to take a surprise attack on Alice and Jasper who were working together with our mum and dad to take down four of the guard that they had circled and surrounded. Esme and Carlisle stood by watching on one side of the field with us from a reasonable distance, as did Aro, Caius and Marcus on the other side. They were staring at me and Jayla to which I protectively moved in front of her. "Maddox! I can't see!" she said as she moved me back to the side.
A Volturi guard saw us and came running. "JAYLA! SHIELD UP!" Bella yelled out. She did as she was told and put her hands out. I couldn't see anything, but for the life of that vampire, I hope it was up, otherwise I'd have to jump in and kill him myself. The vampire leaped into the air and bounced back.
"That was close" Jayla sighed in relief.
"Keep that shield up, until I say so" Bella ordered
"But, I'll get tired"
"Try to, Jay" she nodded. Jayla nodded and all we could do was stand there and watch.
I didn't realise the Quileute instincts were so strong within me that I wanted to fight; everything in my body wanted me to leap into the action and defend. But I couldn't I had the shield up, protecting myself and Maddox. We were told to, but I know that Maddox thought otherwise. "Jayla, why are we in this stupid dome shaped prison!" I looked at her. I wanted her shield down, I wanted to fight, I sat there on the sidelines enough and I wanted to join in.
"Don't get mad at me co-jack" she glared at me "this was ordered by Bella, and I'm pretty sure mum, dad and the others would too. If anything happened to us…we're the reason why they're fighting! What would be the point in fighting for us when we're in there risking our lives when they're fighting to defend ours?"
"Huh?" I looked at her.
"Just stay here, we were told to stay here and that's what we're going to do"
"I want to fight, Jayla"
"You think I don't want to as well? It's in our blood" she looked at me.
I resisted every bone in my body that wanted to jump in and kill some vampires. Jayla and I did it before, and I could do it again. I wanted to kill. Jayla looked at me in shock. 'What? The hunt is instilled; don't tell me you don't want to tear up some vamps'
'I'll pretend I didn't hear that'
"They're innocent Caius" Bella yelled out to him "stop this before everyone is killed!!"
"Then why are they defending them when they are innocent?!" Caius said as he started running toward me and Maddox.
"Maddox! Jayla!" mum yelled as she ran toward us, she was in human form. In a state of panic Jayla must've drop the shield that she put up. Mum managed to push me out of the way. I fell on Jayla. We hit the grass at the same time, I looked up and we saw the vampire wrap his arms around her.
"MUM!" me and Jayla both screamed. This was the dream! It was happening. It wasn't just a dream; it was some sort of premonition. Suddenly there was a wolf that knocked him out of the way and mum was set free. But instead, the wolf got bitten; the Caius had managed to sink his teeth into the wolf that saved mum. The vampire got up and walked away, he turned to attack but Jayla managed to put up the force field around us both.
"NO!" I heard mum get up to her feet and ran toward the wolf. I saw the wolf transform before my eyes. It was dad. "No! Jacob! Jacob stay with me!"
"Maya…" dad was choking, it sounded like he was. My heart stopped and all I could do was stand there and watch.
"Dad" Jayla gasped, her arms were down, we were unprotected by the shield.
"Jayla! Put up your force-field before he attacks again!" Bella yelled out to her. She nodded, but she found it hard to concentrate at what was happening. Dad was bitten by a vampire and mum was in agony.
"Jayla!" I yelled at her. I saw her face, the tears started to rush down. She was scared and she was in pain watching dad like that.
"Jayla!" Bella yelled at her again "shield up NOW!"
She couldn't do it. She was watching mum and dad. She looked at me 'I'm sorry' she then ran to mum and dad in the open.
"Jayla! Are you insane?!" I yelled as I followed after her.
"Dad" she said as she started to cry and press her head against mum's shoulder.
"Jacob" mum looked at him as she took his face in her hands "you're not going to die. We've come all this way, I'm not going to continue alone!" her tears were falling, her eyes were red. Jayla held dad's hand. I was watching making sure we were all ok.
"Jayla!" I yelled out to her, there were a horde of vampires heading toward us "put your shield up now!"
"I can't" she shook her head as more tears started to fall "I can't do it"
"Jay…" I heard dad's choked up voice call out her name "breathe, you'll be fine kiddo. I know you can do it"
"For the love of God!" I yelled as I pulled my hands out, hell if she could do it, so could I. I started to concentrate and tried to make this so called shield that Jayla could do, appear.
"Maya..." dad's voice was faint now "go now, you're going to be killed"
"You'd seriously think I'd leave you?!" Never!"
I stood there with my hands out. The Volturi guard were running toward us, I closed my eyes expecting the worst; the force field wasn't going to appear. 'Come on Maddox, you can do this' I thought. I waited to be tackled down and be killed, I was prepared for it. But…nothing. I looked up and there was this blue-ish thing in front of me. The vampires kept leaping toward us, I moved back, but they kept bouncing back. So this was what a force-field looked like.
"Maddox?" Jayla looked at me in surprise.
"Seems to me that I got my Makah powers just in time. Just needs a good kick of adrenaline" I answered. A heap load of adrenaline. I looked over at dad and I couldn't help but panic. I didn't want him to die. I looked over at mum "Perfect timing for my powers to come shining through don't ya think?"
"Jay…help your brother out..." she looked at dad, she was in agony. Her eyes were red, she had trouble breathing.
"I could really use it, Jay" I looked at her.
"Coming" she said as she stood up next to me and stood there.
"What are you doing?" I looked at her "shouldn't you have your hands out?"
"I worked out on putting up a shield without having the aid of my arms" she looked at me "Oh yeah…about freakin' time for your force field to come in handy"
"I didn't know that I could do this, now could I" I glared at her "but now it has…" he trailed off and looked off into the distance. I looked over at mum again, her head on dad's chest crying uncontrollably.
"Jacob!" she cried again "please don't leave me…not now…" she struggled to get the words out.
'Maddox' Jayla looked at me 'if you wanna go in and fight now, go' she nodded 'I'll take care of mum and dad'
'You sure?'
'Positive' she nodded. I looked in the distance and I could see the same person that the Volturi guard that had taken down dad was running toward us.
"Jayla!" I yelled as I leaped. I felt my clothes tear up and I landed on all fours. I took down the Volturi guard as they landed on their back with a thud.
"Maddox!" I heard mum yell at me "come back!" her voice was getting hoarse from the crying and yelling she was doing. I looked at the vampire, as it tried to take swipes at me from every angle. I jumped, left, right, left dodging and ducking as much as I could. I managed to push them down again and this time, it was going to be the end. I took off one of the arms, as I felt their scream fill my ears.
'Maddox behind you!' I heard Jayla's voice. I ducked in instinct and I had just missed a vampire from attacking me from behind by a slight centimetre. I concentrated back onto the vampire that I was attacking and continue to rip off their limbs, one-by-one with each scream fuelling my anger and adrenaline. I could sense that Jayla was watching me. I growled and manage to rip its head off and toss it aside.
'That was for dad'
'Maddox what are you doing out here kid? Didn't we discuss that you weren't going to fight?' I heard Embry's voice.
'Embry, I had to'
'I understand kiddo, but stay at my flank, ok?' he ordered 'you're my godson, and you will do what I say. Your dad will kill me if I ever let anything happen to you'
'I'll stay at your flank…but if I see a perfect moment to attack, don't hold me back'
'Ok' he barked. We stayed at each others sides.
'Be careful Maddox, I'll keep watch'
'Thanks Jay, hows dad doing?'
'I can't say'
'Come on Maddox, you have to keep on your feet' Embry looked at me.
'Got it'
'Can you keep up with me?' Embry looked at me.
'Does it look like I can't?' I answered sarcastically.
'On your toes' Embry began to run. I ran by his side. We dodged, left, right, left, right. It was fun! I didn't realise fighting was exhilarating. I saw a Volturi member with their back turned and I decided to go for it. I leaped in the air and took them down. Embry came to my side and helped me out. We were ripping, limb-from-limb. And they said the Volturi guard was dangerous, I guess they had some disposables lying around. The vampire was dismembered. 'Good job 'dox' Embry looked at me.
'Thanks' I nodded
'You need to keep on guard tho-'
'Embry!' he was taken down by a vampire that side swooped him. I immediately leaped onto the guard and went for the jugular, it suddenly started taking swipes at me, to which Embry had managed to get free and help me take down another vampire.
'Thanks man'
'Not a problem' I nodded
'Maddox watch out!!' Jayla yelled out in my mind. I suddenly heard mum scream out dad's name in the background. I turned around and a vampire was about to jump on me, when a black wolf knocked it out of the way.
'Dad?!'
"Jacob!" mum yelled. Dad was in front of Caius and Aro growling maniacally. I joined his side, as did the wolves; the three Volturi leaders were surrounded.
'Jacob you're alive! Welcome back bro' Embry barked.
"ENOUGH!" Caius yelled. Everyone stopped and looked at the Volturi leader "we will shed no more blood"
'You're alive' I gasped.
'Really? I didn't notice' dad looked at me 'and what you did back there, running into the battle was reckless, nevertheless I am proud of you'
"I suggest we discuss these matters, brother" Aro looked at Caius.
"Marcus?" Caius looked at his other brother. He just nodded silently. Everyone phased back into human form. The Cullens joined our sides and the Volturi guard were left standing waiting for their masters for their orders. "Stand watch and stay where you are" he ordered. They all nodded and stood in place. Mum and Jayla came running to our sides. "Now that we're all together, there are some questions that need to be answered…Uriel!"
He emerged from the bushes and walked slowly in front of Aro, Caius and Marcus. Jayla immediately left my side. "Uriel" she ran up to him and stood in front of him, she was protecting him. I wanted to jump in front of my sister but she looked in my direction and shook her head.
"He didn't do anything wrong"
"You'd protect someone who was sent to kill you?" Caius raised his eyebrow.
"He's my…friend" Jayla nodded "and isn't it proof enough that we're NOT werewolves? Its daylight and the fact that the Quileutes can transform doesn't at least strike a chord that we may be different?"
"Jayla!" Wesley yelled out.
"No Wesley" she yelled back at him "too many people have died already. We're not a threat to you. Nor are the werewolves, everyone just wants to continue living. And if you're worried about this being revealed…my family have been keeping this on the hush for a really long time, and I don't think they're going to let that slip anytime soon"
"We've kept this secret for many years now, Mr. Volturi…sir" mum said.
"The Quileutes and the vampires have existed in peace for a very, very long time" dad answered as he wrapped his arm protectively around mum and pulled her close.
"And this agreement has never been broken?" Aro raised his eyebrow.
"It never has. We've co-existed in peace for many years now. Why break it?"
"Uriel" Aro called out.
Uriel emerged from behind Jayla to which she protested. "Jayla, its ok" he approached them slowly and looked up.
"As we assigned you to this mission, and get to know these people…we shall ask you… do they pose a threat to us?"
"No, my lord" Uriel bowed his head "they wouldn't attack if they see fit. And in my time of my being within their presence there have been no sightings as such. This is the first time I have seen them do what they are able to do"
"Are they werewolves?"
"No, my lord" he bowed again "and I'd like to repeat that they don't pose a threat to us"
"That goes everything against what Isabella said" Caius raised his eyes. The environment was tense. "Isabella" he summoned her. As she walked past us, she hissed at Jayla to which she growled back. "Do they pose a threat to us?"
"Yes, my lord"
"How do we pose a threat to you?!" Jayla snarled "keep saying I am a threat and I'll show you"
"Jayla!" I yelled at her "shut…up"
"Why is Uriel telling us otherwise?" Caius asked.
"He's gotten weak, he has seemed to form some sort of friendship with the mutt"
"I oughta" Jayla said as she took a step forward, to which Wesley grabbed her and pulled her back. Good job Wes.
"Carlisle" Aro called. Carlisle took a step forward and approached them slowly. "Old friend…these people, you co-exist with them?"
"For many years now" he nodded "my children are the godparents of Jayla and Maddox"
"So the secret will remain as is?" Aro looked at dad and mum.
"Always" dad nodded.
"And as for the Harpers…" Caius looked at Johnny "we will no longer hunt you, as long as you agree to the same terms as they do"
"Of course" Johnny nodded "then we are in agreement then?" Johnny stuck out his hand
"Of course" Aro shook Johnny's hand "and I would like to formally apologise for the death of your parents, they were the most loyal of our servants" he bowed "but you must understand, it was just business"
"That, I will never understand" Johnny answered "you killed the wrong people"
"All we can do is look back and regret, nothing more" Aro bowed his head again "and as for Isabella…" he looked at the black haired beauty, he looked over at Alec and Jane and nodded.
"Please…NO!" she screamed. I closed my eyes, the last thing I saw was Jayla turning around and Uriel wrapping his arm around her. There was a loud scream and it went quiet, followed by Jane giggling sweetly. My eyes were still closed.
"Dispose of it" Caius ordered. I opened my eyes and they were gone. "Now that Isabella is taken care of…what to do with you, Uriel?"
"I…" he began. Jayla opened her eyes and stood in front of him again, guarding him.
"I offer our coven to him" Carlisle immediate cut in. Aro and Caius looked in his direction. Esme smiled and nodded.
"You're serious?" Aro looked at Carlisle.
"I am"
"Uriel" Aro looked at him "as much as we'd love you to remain a guard, after all you did fulfil your duties, we asked you to seek them out if they were a threat, and you succeeded. But it is your choice at what you want to do"
"It's ok if you accept their invitation Uriel" Aro nodded.
"I choose to stay with the Cullens my lord" he bowed his head "if you'll let me"
"Then that's settled" Caius nodded
"They pose no threat" Marcus sighed "but I must thank you" he looked at the tribe.
"And why would that be?" dad asked.
"This was the most fun we've had in a long time" Aro smiled "my Carlisle, you and your family and extended family circle make our lives fun"
"Good to know" Carlisle bowed his head "I assure you, they pose no threat again, I have lived with them in our lives for some time now, and they are intending on keeping our secret, if it means us keeping theirs"
"Very well" Caius nodded "but should we return to check on things…the secret must still be kept, or…" he turned his head toward Jane who just returned with Alec by her side who smiled and waved her fingers, I couldn't help but shiver.
"You have our word" dad nodded
"As is ours" Carlisle nodded as well. The three Volturi members bowed and walked into the bushes.
"Until we meet again, old friend" Aro turned and nodded his head. They continued into the bushes, followed by the guard, they were gone too. It was silent for a few minutes, I looked around, and everyone had seemed to survive. There were just a lot of blood and injuries as a whole.
"Ow! Maya!" I heard dad yell. Mum must've punched him or something "what was that for?" he said as he rubbed his shoulder.
"That was for scaring me half to death!" she glared at him "I thought I lost you back there" mum said as she looked at dad.
"Maya, as long as there is you to protect. I'll fight off even death itself"
"Yes, but can we please keep the 'death fighting' to an all time low" she said as she hugged him.
"You're ok" Jayla said as she smiled at me 'I knew you would be'
"Jayla!" Wesley ran toward her and embraced her in a tight hug "you're ok"
"Of course I'm ok" she smiled and then she hit him on the shoulder as well.
"Ow" he glared at her "what was that for?"
"A number of reasons…" she glared "one – not letting me fight, two – yelling at my brother, three – not letting me have my moment of talking to the Volturi"
"I'm sorry" he said as he kissed her on the forehead "it was for your safety"
"I know" she sighed monotonously. Wesley looked at Uriel was still standing there, unsure what to do.
"Thanks man" Wesley took out his hand "for sticking up for her"
"Always a pleasure to protect Miss Jayla" he said as he shook Wesley's hand. "But keep in mind, the moment you let your guard down, I will be on her like that" he said as he clicked his hand and smiled slightly.
"I'd like to see you try" Wesley smiled as well. I think they had an understanding between each other.
"Uriel" Carlisle called out. Uriel walked past us and went toward the Cullen's "welcome to the family"
"Maddox Black!" I heard mum yell.
"Eep" Jayla and I said together
"What was going through your head when you ran into that battle? Are you crazy?" she looked at me
"I'm fine mum" I looked at her
"As well you should be, if you would've gotten hurt, I would've killed you" she glared.
"That doesn't make sense Maya"
"Shut up Jacob" she glared at dad to which he smiled his signature grin.
"Maddox!" we heard a voice in the distance, it was Leah.
"Go on" dad nodded. I ran toward her and held her in a tight embrace.
"You're ok" she said as she kissed me
"I'm fine, not a scratch on me" I smiled proudly "and how are you going?"
"I'm fine" she nodded "I'm glad you're ok"
"Thanks babe" I smiled at her. "You know what?"
"What?"
"It got me thinking…"
"Oh boy, what now?" she looked at me.
"I…hey that was uncalled for Mrs Black"
"You deserved i-" she cut off "I'm sorry what?"
"Did I stutter?" I smiled "will you or won't you?"
"It's too soon Maddox" she answered, I sighed and looked at the grass "but" she said as she kissed me "let's make it a long engagement…a very long engagement"
"I love you Leah Clearwater"
"I love you Maddox Black" she smiled as we leaned in and kissed. Volturi problem was done with, Uriel is now a part of the Cullen clan, Wesley got some sort of closure with the death of his parents, dad is alive, and my girlfriend just agreed to marrying me – all in all…it was a good day.