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Authors Note: This is my very first attempt at a fight scene. I am trying my best to not disappoint my readers or myself.
Chapter 23
Amanda POV
The night air was cool, a breeze coming from off the ocean just a few miles away. We'd just arrived at the clearing where the fight would take place. No. This was not a fight. This was a war. A war that I'm not very sure we are ready for. My skin feels as if it does not belong on my body. My muscle tense and quivering as I sit upon Embry's back at the front of our side. I had refused to let my sisters be the first targets. Yes Camellia could throw up a rock wall to protect herself, Angelica can freeze them long enough for someone to come help, Chasity can throw them into the nearest volcano sure, but I wield fire. I can protect myself much faster than they could. My mother I am not as worried about. She's ages old and has such wisdom. She can do so much more than my sisters and I. I wonder why this is our destiny and not hers. Why were we chosen to save the world instead of our mother who had the best training and the best control of her many gifts. Why rest the peace of the world on the shoulders of four girls who could only wield the elements, who have had to train themselves. These are the questions that have bothered me for the long minutes we'd sat her and the hour walk it was to get here. No one had rushed to the battle field, taking time to prepare and compose ourselves, and to say our absolute last goodbyes. I hadn't said goodbye to anyone.
A light breeze coming from my left caught my attention. Turning, I see Chasity upon Collin and Angelica upon Brady. They both gave me what an outsider would call a zombie look. I knew though, thus was their way of saying goodbye. I can see it in their eyes, as they shimmer with unshed tears. Nodding once I turn to my right to face my other sister. Camellia sat upon Seth, looking so calm and serene. As if she was simply enjoying the peace in the forest on a clear spring day. When her eyes turned to my though, I could see. The worry and fear that welled up inside her. Alice's soft voice reached my ears, just as I had turned and faced forward once again.
"Their here."
My eyes rested on the tree line before us, watching, waiting. From the dark outline of the trees and fog that coated the ground like a thick quilt, I could barely see the slow movement of cloaked figures. To begin with, they emerged from the dark fog one by one, but slowly they piled out of the dense forest, filling the empty clearing in a matter of minutes. There had to be a hundred at least, none of which moved or acknowledged our presence it seemed. However, nothing is as it appears.
Time seemed to stand still, the air becoming hard to breath. At a passing glance we all seemed relaxed, but you could see each individual start to quake in anticipation, waiting for the other side to make the first move.
Slowly as humanly possible, I shift my left hand from its resting place on my thigh to the spot between Embry's shoulder blades. I felt his muscles sift and quiver under the thick fur. His skin seemed to be jumping, his body ready to tear apart the first thing to move. I felt more than saw his back right foot shift back, his legs bending a bit, and standing ready to pounce. The figures started shifting as we heard a light voice come from their cluster. "A marvelous day for a war isn't it?"
A single red cloak emerged from the sea of black. Starch white hands lightly toss back the hood of the cloak revealing a small blonde haired vampire. Her eyes the blackest color I'd ever seen, seeming to look more like two holes in her head than actual eyes. Carlisle addressed her from the extreme lead spot just to Embry's left, "Ah Jane. How are you? Is Aro busy?"
Her emotionless face seemed to harden at the name Aro. A hiss could be herd and seemed to bounce around us for hours when it was only a few seconds. "Aro, a fool if there ever was one. All of them fool's." Her face smoothed back to its emotionless state. "No matter. They have already been dealt with. They will no longer be a problem."
Her eyes never wavered, but she slowly, un-humanly slowly turned her head to gaze at us all in turn, before tilting her head, "I see you gained some new pets Cullen's. Well, they shall be slaughtered as well."
The black figures crouched. Hisses and growls rolled off the trees and rocks around us, making the clearing seem to vibrate. Carlisle had yet to move, standing in a way that almost looked relaxed. This seemed to puzzle Jane, because she held up a hand, silencing the hissing mass behind her. "Carlisle, do you not fear me? My army? Surely you don't think you can win. There are a thousand trained and talented here. You and your pets don't stand a chance. So why try?"
Carlisle stayed quiet for a moment, before he quietly answers Jane. "We have something worth fighting for, were as you and your army are fighting just to cause harm."
A sick smile spread across her lips. "Let the game begin."
With that, she dropped her arm, the black cloaked figured shooting forwards faster than my eyes can follow. Before I could register any movement from anyone but Jane, Embry barked, snarling as he took off. Quickly twisting and facing the place we'd just sat. A male vampire was crouched, his eyes on the verge of crazed. Blood drizzled down his chin as he smirked wickedly at me. Embry's growl shook his entire large frame. My arm started burning. Reaching up, I grasp my shoulder and bring my hand before my face. My warm crimson blood covered my palm, dripping down onto Embry's back, down the sleeve of my armor. Frowning, I hold a fist full of Embry's fur and lean down just a bit. "Let's go."
Embry nodded his large head once, then went for the vampire who'd cut my shoulder. His teeth gleamed as he shot of the round to meet us head on. Pulling my feet up, I brace them under me, placing one foot between Embry's shoulder blades. When we got only feet from the vampire, I forced all my weight, propelling me off Embry's back and over his head. With a grunted cry from the effort, I pull all my power into my hands, forming the hottest flames possible as I twisted mid-air. A circle formed around the vampire, and with the twist, I cause a flamed line right down the middle on top of him, setting him on fore instantly. A few other vampires had gotten caught it the circle as well, and others rushed to help, only to be set aflame to as well. Around me I could only hear the agonizing scream's, the smell of smoke filled the air. The clearing was illuminated in red's and green's and blue's from the burning bodies of vampires and the cast away flames on the ground. I didn't dread on that. I couldn't look around, couldn't identify who was close and who was far. I could not afford being distracted. Closing my eyes for only a second, I compose myself and run in the direction on the closes vampire, throwing fire in any direction, careful of the Cullen family. Once I saw red, they got burned and I moved on to the next threat to my family.
Angelica POV
Somewhere in the chaos around me I'd lost Brady. I was doing as directed by Jasper earlier, staying on the out skirts and keeping an eye out for Amanda. She was the best of us all, disconnecting herself and throwing fire at any vampire around her. I was supposed to watch and if she hit someone on our side by mistake, out them out.
I fell so helpless. You can't drown a vampire, or freeze them. What was the purpose of being here if I can't do anything more than put out the flames that went where they aren't supposed too. I could feel my anger rising, my blood boiling with rage. Bella and Nessie where fighting vampires close to me and are holding their own to say the least. Edward and Jacob had gotten close to Jane, before other vampires had attacked, gaining their attention. I was far from my sisters. Camellia had built a wall around a few vampires to high and thick for them to break through and adding to the bunch as much as she dared before making another. Chasity was up in the air, blowing wind over dieing fires Amanda had set to build them up, then would blow them towards as many vampires as she could. Mom is no were to be seen. Rosalie had vanished as well. The anger just kept rising and rising in me until I had to stand, the ground beneath my feet a sheet of solid ice. I scanned the battle field for her. The cause of all this. It took my only a second. She stood in the very center of everything, throwing pain here and there at any one even her own fighters. A sick, evil, twisted grin on her face. With determination I began for her, each step leaving a thick sheet of ice in its wake. An aflame vampire came at me from the side. Holding up my hand, it ran into it, my palm slapping her chest sending her flying, dead. The ice that I had forced into her had instantly spread in her body, causing her to explode and the flames took the tiny pieces in a matter of seconds. Numerous vampires came at me, the same thing happening to each and every one of them.
As I came just a few precious feet from my target, Jane faced m. That smile will haunt my dreams for the rest of my life. She was enjoying this. The pain and suffering. The absolute chaos around her.
Scowling, I take off towards her. Brady, my sweet Brady. His voice reached my ears just before the pain began.
"Angel!NO!"
Then everything went black.
Camellia POV
Once I had as many vampires in my cells as I dared to fit, I moved to make a new one. A quick look over the battle field proved that I had gathered a good many around me. "Amanda turn them to ash!"
My sister finished the vampire she was wrestling with. Running at full speed, she leaped into the air, Chasity had seen and created a glider under her, keeping Amanda steady in the air as she shot millions of scorching flames into my cells, instantly causing them to become infernos and killing every vampire within them. My heart soared; maybe, just maybe we could do this and not have any casualties on our side.
As soon as I finished my thought, I heard a sound I wish I never will hear again, one I wish I had never heard to begin with.
"Angel! NO!"
Brady's gruff scream made my sisters and my head turn towards the source. What we saw turned our vision red with anger. Our sister, our pregnant loving sister, lay pain stricken on the ground. With a gruff scream, I turned all my attention, my anger, on Jane and forced sharpened shrapnel after shrapnel at her. Amanda can beside me, throwing flames and flaming stones. Chasity came to my other side, forcing as much hot hair as she could beside our own attacks. As we threw everything we had at Jane, we began walking towards our fallen sister. The one we think to be dead. Her body unmoving. Once we stood beside her, we gave it more than we ever thought we had, forcing Jane back with the attacks, but not killing her. I stay by Angelica as Chasity and Amanda side step, creating a triangle around Jane. We hit her from each side we could, trying our best to kill her with our combined attacks.
Jane's face started to crack, the heat causing her skin to break but not killing her. Her eyes started to show a little panic, but when she realized that all our force was doing was cracking her skin she laughed. "Fools! You cannot beat me! All your little parlor trick does is crack my skin and heat up the ground around my feet!"
We gave each other determined but worried looks. What was missing to kill her?
"But with me, you'll die."
Brady POV
Angelica shakily stood, grasping her left side with her right hand, staggering just. Camellia and her sisters shifted, so they all stood in a circle around Jane. Angelica's hands started to glow blue, followed by Amanda's red, then Chasity's white, to Camellia's green. My baby-girl gave the biggest triumphant smile I'd ever seen.
"You see Jane, they couldn't defeat you without me. But you knew that, which is why when you saw me approach you, it gave you the opening you needed to kill one of us. What you didn't prepare for, is Bella shielding me seconds after your attack. You hit me with enough pain to knock me out, but only for a moment." She raised her hands, just like her sisters, and shot as much boiling water and razor sharp icicles at Jane. Then, a smirk appeared on her lips just as her and her sisters eyes glowed like they had before, in union they floated into the air with Jane in the center and Jane herself started glowing black. Their colors grew brighter the longer they floated, Jane's becoming dimmer, receding into herself. Suddenly, the sister all said. "Goodbye, Jane. The darkness within you shall die with you and all like you shall parish."
Just like that, the light around the sisters shot like lightening into Jane, dissolving her before her harsh cries could be herd for more than a mere second. The light erupted, spreading and killing each vampire with Jane we'd yet to kill. Slowly, the sisters floated back down to the forest floor. My brother phased and we all pulled on our shorts before rushing to the spot our mate would touch the ground, our arms open and waiting.
As Angelica's feet touched the ground I buried her in my chest and kissed her, before crouching and kissing her still flat stomach, before wrapping my arms around her. My one hand placed over hers over her abdomen and the other on the nap of her neck, our foreheads together and smiles on our faces. The rest seemed to fade away from a few moments as we let the love swirl around our little family before sharing a wistful kiss and facing our 'army'.
Authors Note: Well….I'm not absolutely thrilled with this chapter, but I think it was a good first attempt. Have a long way to go before trying a fight scene again thought! Thanks for reading, review!(: