A/N: I have to say even though this is took me awhile to write; this has to be my best chapter yet. This chapter will be full of surprises I'm hoping you will all enjoy, but only you can tell me. So please, review.

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Chapter Twenty-Five

I was in fact correct about one of my theories. The howl that startled both Paul and I, was a warning that they were coming sooner than planned. Apparently, the Volturi have been able to recruit a member that has the ability to conjure illusions, the type to throw off Alice's visions. Which meant, the two vamps that were predicted to challenge us, could have more by their sides.

Emmett came as quick as he could to warn Jacob, which he gave us the warning. Not only that, Emmett told them that their army is two people short, Alice and Jasper disappeared without notice. No one knows where they went, or if they were taken, and it has shaken the family.

I knew there had to be a plausible reason Alice had to leave, her and Jasper wouldn't cower and leave us hanging. She knew the dangers we were facing, she had to be searching for some sort of motive to another route, to stop this from taking place. She has never been known to go against something her heart strongly believes in.

The entire predicament that was about to take place sent us all on high alert. Sam and Jacob ordered Brady and Collin to stand guard back at the rez, even insisting Seth and I should be with them, but we refused. Paul, before would beg me to stay behind, but I think he understands how I have to be a part of this all. Whether it puts my life in danger, it puts the risk in everyone else's life that I love, especially Paul. I can't just turn away from this.

As we stood at our posts, on full alert, and shaking from the anxieties we were facing. Our thoughts at mute, each on alert to pick up any strange scents. The night was soon over, sunlight peaking over the horizon slowly, the heavy dark clouds passing through, making the only thing positive about this, the weather.

'I'm picking up the stench.' Jared announced.

Jared stood guard closest to the perimeters; he would be the first to inform us if he sees anything, which we weren't far behind. The further we could keep the battle away from home, the better.

'I'm heading in your direction Jared,' Quil spoke, 'Don't want you facing anything alone.'

Time seemed to drag, not that I'm complaining, but I wanted to get this over and done with, without the fear of knowing that my families were in grave danger.

As I watched the area, Paul came from behind calmly and nudged his muzzle into my cheek; licking and rubbing his head against mine, showing comfort and love. It wasn't much in my thoughts, but more of a debate with my inner monologues, blocking the panic I had for my wolf. I was worried for him, but I didn't want him to know that. I couldn't burden him with the worry I'm sure he's been hiding so well. What we needed was focus, and I had to continuously remind myself of such.

'They're here.' Jared growled, projecting his sight for us to see.

Two of them, a girl in her teens, blonde hair that match the suns rays, eyes red as the flames of a scorching flame, skin as pale as the snow in the northern areas. She wore a robe that looked as if she lived in the medieval times. Next to her was a teen boy, brunette hair, eyes that matched the girl's as well as wearing similar attire. Both of them stood in front of Jared and Quil with wicked smiles as they inched closer to the wolves.

As Paul bolted, so did I. To our left, Sam was racing to meet them with Leah, Jacob and Seth was to our right running at the same speed. We knew that we needed to go forth as fast as we could possibly go, but that was until Seth crossed the path of danger.

It was unexpected, a massive vamp made the sneak attack and kicked the poor pup across the clearing, not soon after; Jared came rolling through as the girl threw him hard against us. Quil followed as the other vampire bulldozed him passed us and into the massive cedar tree behind us.

I had no time to think or react. Jacob was already attacking the big leech while Leah raced to her brother's aid. Sam went to help Quil, and Paul went to help Jared. I quickly impaled my weight on the big leech, making him release Jacob for that moment to help him regain his stance.

I was quickly tossed to the side, a fist connecting with my skull, making my sight become blurry for a moment. It felt as if we were outnumbered –like there would be more making a sneak attack-, and I was hoping that these three were the last of them that would go against us. Sam and Quil were barely landing blows as the teen voided their attacks, quickly maneuvering through the snaps of their jaws, as well as landing another blow on top of Quil's massive wolf head.

Paul and Jared seemed to be losing in the match as well; the girl was as swift and agile as any submissive. That was when I began to realize that we were all losing control of ourselves, we were letting our weaknesses overpower our strengths. Anger was clogging our abilities to think straight. I had to calm myself before I could tell the others.

I quickly went back into the battle, assisting Jacob in any way I could. Once again, the vamp had hold of Jacob, so I rapidly pounced on the bloodsucker and took hold of his shoulder in my jaw, causing him to shriek in pain and letting go of Jacob's neck. I tried clamping harder, but before I could, he flipped me over his shoulder and making me land on my back and letting out a yelp of pain. He was on top of me, his huge hands wrapped around my throat. I was panicking, and I couldn't seem to gain composure to regain at least some sort of control.

Thankfully, Jacob came to my rescue and tackled the man and landed on top of him for a moment before being shoved off once again. I couldn't believe the brutal strength of these vamps, and now I understood why the Volturi recruited them and sent them after us. We couldn't seem to win, and there had to be some sort of way we could get around them.

Leah was still helping Seth, and thankfully he wasn't knocked out cold. Sam was still trying to gain control, but his anger was getting the best of him and resulted in the teen in colliding with Quil. Paul and Jared seemed to be going back and forth, and whatever strategy they had was helping a small amount. I knew we had to find a distraction in order for Paul and Sam to test their abilities on the attackers, but what? I couldn't seem to come up with a plan as well defend myself as well as Jacob. The vamp had the advantage.

As quick as it happened, Seth and Leah were back in the fight, Seth joined Jacob and I, and Leah went to help Sam and Quil. It did come to our advantage a little when Seth came into play. The vamp did have difficulties taken hold of the small wolf, and Jacob was always there to make sure nothing happened to him as well as I. But we still were getting nowhere.

'We have to try Paul!' Sam demanded in thought.

'I did.' Paul replied, still trying to avoid her every swing. 'I made it once, but she was able to push me out.'

'It didn't work?' I panicked.

'It does, but she's found someway to deflect me.' Paul answered.

'This one keeps doing it too.' Sam shook his head, growling at the vampire smirking at him. 'My orders are even being blockaded.'

I knew we were all growing tired, and I think this was their plan; they wanted us to grow weak so they could capture us. All they needed to know who had the abilities, and seeing how Paul and Sam made their attempts, they became the leech's targets.

With every attempt to take control, they kept pushing them out mentally, refusing Paul from channeling and Sam from enforcing orders, it was becoming hopeless. The boy and girl continued to mock them, mock all of us in fact, and it was pissing them off even more.

"I've grown tired of this." The female announced to the others, acting as if this wasn't a problem for her. "I'll go first Alec."

We hadn't a clue what she meant, that was until she shoved Paul and Jared back. I watched carefully as she glared down the wolves before they started screeching and howling in agony, both rummaging through the soil and snarling ferociously. I made the mistake by making eye contact with her as well, and that's when I began experiencing a searing burn go through my veins, like small crystal like particles crawling through them and slicing the walls finely and making my insides bleed heavily. A throbbing pulse in my head caused me to convulse rapidly. The pain was agonizing, and now I was sure the girl's focus was doing this. Not long after, as another wolf fell under he spell, the pain seemed to lessen, then another wolf, and another until the pain almost became bearable.

As the three vamps watched us squirm in pain, they laughed in victory. Until Seth stood still, motionless as the girl seemed frustrated that the wolf wasn't affected by her powers. In the remainder of time she was forcing infliction on Seth without success, it felt as if our muscles in our entire body lost all abilities to move, like we were a dead weight and we couldn't feel a thing. The boy focused on us as we watched the girl continuously stare at Seth, only receiving what looked like flinches from him.

"This is ridiculous, you try." She said frustrated, and as he released, she took hold on us again.

The pain returned, but a small amount where it even hurt to move. I couldn't understand why the inflictions of their powers had no effect on Seth; he was motionless still as they all observed the wolf.

"He's like a statue." The big one said.

We were all still laying on the ground, watching and screaming for Seth to make some sort of movement and get away before it was too late. Jacob, for the first time in a long time, was worried for the pup's life, actually begging and crying for him to move, to get away. At the pleas, Seth flinched once again, as if he had the shivers for a moment, and staying immobile.

"I can see you're both useless." The big one mocked the smaller vamps, smirking and moving closer to Seth.

The leech carefully approached Seth. It seemed we weren't the only ones wondering why this scene was so suspicious. To tell the truth, we began to realize that even Seth was no longer conscious through the mind link, like he was no longer in the same plain as us. So as the vampire inched closer to Seth, Seth scarcely began turning his head towards the approaching leech slowly, watching him.

"The hell with this."

The vampire bolted towards poor little Seth, making us all cry out to the kid to do something. Jacob was making his best efforts to stand, only to be forced down by the other two. It was hard to decipher what was actually happening, the two teen leeches stood clear as the big one went after Seth. But… I wasn't sure if I was seeing all of this right.

Seth shook vigorously as the big vamp held the pup around his chest, making the man try and hold on tighter. As he tried to hold tighter, Seth's body conjured what looked like a sound wave. I wasn't exactly sure, but it looked as if it pained the vamp, resulting in him to collapse to his knees and cock his head back to let out a scream. The sight of it was enough to alarm the two that had hold on us.

Alec, and the girl stepped back, curious if they should stay at bay. We all knew if they released us, they'd be in trouble now.

Staring back at the brute of a vampire, it looked as if his marble face was cracking from being in the line of sight of Seth. Seth's wolf moved closer, now snarling at the vampire that looked back at the pup in fear. I couldn't understand what exactly was happening. Just as the leech tried moving back, Seth tackled the guy and released another wave that shattered the vampire into tiny particles of dust.

The two remaining vampires released and stared at the pup in shock, us probably mirroring their expressions. What the hell just happened? Did Seth really take out our biggest challenge out of the three, or were we hallucinating. As the scene was taking place, I knew now was the time to take action.

'NOW PAUL!' I ordered. 'SAM!'

'WE BOTH GO FOR THE GIRL!' Sam ordered.

Watching, both Sam and Paul's wolves head's bow and closed their eyes. Seth collapsed to the forest floor and fell unconscious. So much was happening in this moment, Jacob and Leah of course fell worried for the pup, Quil, Jared, and I circled the girl as we waited for Paul and Sam to get rid of the other one.

Even though it was unplanned, we knew exactly what they were doing. They took control of the girl and used her power against the one she called Alec. As he fell to his knees, inflicted by the pain, we quickly approached him and began tearing him apart, tossing his remains in different directions.

Just as Paul and Sam seemed to return to their bodies after the victory, the girl balled her eyes out, no tears falling, but the pain was noticeable. I could only imagine that he must have been very close to her. She glared at each of us, as if she was waiting for us to make our move, like she wanted us to make our move.

"Do it mutts." She fumed as we continued to circle her, snarling and growling threats, "you killed my brother, I see no purpose in living."

As if on cue, we attacked. She didn't fight back after that, she more of waited for us to end her. Sam, of course went for her neck, tearing her head off. The rest of us tore her limb from limb, tossing it into a pile while Jared finished it off by igniting the pile of body parts.

Jacob raced over to Leah and Seth, panicking, as the teen lay unconscious. Leah trying her best to do what she knew best. I felt the sympathy everyone had for the pair. Never in my life have I ever seen Jacob cry. It was a sad sight to see, for all of us. I knelt next to Seth's lithe body, wiping the tears from my cheek.

"He's fine, he just needs rest and a lot of recuperating." Leah explained, "Jake, take him back to the house, my mom will know what to do for now, I'll be there in a moment, I have to check if everyone is fine."

Without questioning, Jacob picked him up bridal style and departed in a flash. Leah took the moment to examine each of us, and thankfully we ended up with a couple bruises and cuts that would soon heal within the hour. As she finished, we stayed to speak to the Cullens in hopes they've made it safely out, while she returned to check on Seth. I knew for sure that we couldn't be more grateful for Leah to take on her talents; she was actually becoming a pro on the art of healing.

The question that remained on all of our minds was the fact that Seth destroyed a vampire by himself, with some sort of ability of his own. But what exactly was it? And has he been keeping this from us the whole time? Whatever it was, I can say it helped out a lot, but sadly it affected him massively. We were all clueless to exactly what Seth was capable of, or what caused his powers to trigger.

But we all agreed that it was a sight to see.

"I think I should at least check if they're okay." I debated.

"No, we're waiting, someone has to at least inform us about something." Paul said in a demanding tone.

We've been waiting for at least over an hour and the flames from the burning corpses have died down already. I couldn't be blamed for worrying about Carlisle and his coven, they still mean a lot to me. I kept thinking that the worse has happened, being my regular worrywart of a self. I couldn't seem to stop sweating; the anxiety was getting the best of me, making me clasp my hands together. Paul must've sense my emotions, wrapping his arm around my shoulder and kissing my temple.

I hated the waiting game, and I was so close to finding out if everything was okay. Everyone noticed, and I think they were waiting for me to do exactly that. But the more I thought of it, I hesitated, because I knew that they would in fact follow me, which be bringing the pack to another war that wasn't there. If, they were battling it out.

"Good," My head shot up to the familiar voice, "you're all safe."

It was Carlisle and Esme, both looking exhausted for the first time. I couldn't have been more relieved than I was then, sighing to release the tension build-up. I quickly raced to both of them and hugged them, surprising them as the hugged me back. I hadn't realized just how grateful I was that I wouldn't have to grieve their departure.

"Where's the other three?" Carlisle asked worried.

"They're fine," I wiped a tear from my cheek, not realizing just how emotional I was becoming. "Seth came with a surprise, something I need to ask you about later."

"That's good." Esme chimed in. "Glad to see you're okay."

"I'm fine," I chuckled, "is everyone else okay."

"They're all okay, just in shock still." Esme answered.

"The Volturi realized that they were bound to lose this war." Carlisle smiled. "Alice returned with a boy named Nahuel, his birth was very similar to Michael's, and he proved that Michael wouldn't be a threat."

"Though they were still reluctant, and as they were ready to enforce punishments, one of their lower-leveled recruits returned with news that their three strongest members failed their mission." Esme added, "Which to all of our relief, and us being forever grateful to the pack, they fled realizing just how powerful you guys are."

"Your victories," Carlisle appointed the pack, "has saved us from reaching a pandemonium, I can't thank each and every one of you enough. But I will start with a thank you, and if you ever need us, we'll be there."

Before we went back to the rez, I had to ask Carlisle about Seth to see if he had any knowledge on it. We discovered that Seth had his own ability that Carlisle explained to us what was called energy absorption. To Carlisle's knowledge, and our explanation on what we witnessed, Seth has the ability to absorb any power inflicted on him, causing him to bundle it up inside where it's fissured through painful waves of energy, exactly what we saw Seth do. Carlisle's theories are that Seth most likely hadn't known, and once –what we learned the vamps names, Jane, Alec and Felix- they practiced their powers on the pup, it kicked in.

Carlisle and Esme were intrigued by our evolution as a pack, especially gaining the abilities and conquering control over it. Of course Carlisle wanted to research it more, but Sam denied the request, explaining that this was something we had to do as a pack. But he understood finally, and offered us any assistance if we ever needed it.

Before we departed, I told Carlisle and Esme I'd visit the family tomorrow. And with that, I was finally able to go home with Paul and bask in my sanctuary. I was looking forward to every bit of it.

We actually checked on Seth first, finding that he was recovering with Jacob next to him. Sue and Leah making sure he was eating properly, and Seth being clueless to what took place. Jacob was actually laying next to Seth, smiling like a fool, and offering to help Seth in any way. Jared went home to Kim, Sam back to Emily, and the rest went their separate ways as Paul and I went home.

Finally in the same place as last night, in Paul's arms, listening to the distorted sounds of the TV, nudging closer to Paul as we drifted off. Him grabbing my hand and pulling me closer as he placed our hands on his chest, smiling with his eyes closed.

So I smiled again and closed my eyes.

A/N: I'm not so sure about the ending of this chapter, but I can say I like the entire chapter. So I hope I did you all justice with the fight scene, if not, well maybe next time. So, please leave a review, I love hearing from you.

Those who are waiting for an update on my other fic, I want to finish this one off before I get back into the process of finishing Pack of Submissives. So, some may be glad to know that I have one more chapter left on this one. Oh, and sorry if there are grammatical errors.

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