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Note- This is the final chapter of this story and I wish to thank all my faithful reviewers. Thanks to you all and have an Edward, Fang, and Nikias clone as well as any others you wish to have a clone of.

Warning- I have plans for this chapter and not all of them are happy. Consider yourself warned.

Author's Note- Sorry for the length. I just couldn't stop myself.

Chapter 25

Bella's POV

After me and Edward had met up with Max, we walked back into the house to escape the rain. The rain started to slow a bit and if it continued to slow, then all of us would start work on the grave, whether Max was back or not we would have to bury Fang soon.

After waiting a while, I decided to go see Fang. Thinking back to what had happened earlier, I started to wonder if t had been only my imagination. I mean, it had seemed like he had gained life again where I had touched him.

It was impossible to come back to life wasn't it? But then, vampires weren't supposed to exist either. Either way, I walked up the stairs at a normal speed, still adjusting to the fact that my normal speed was much faster than it used to be.

I opened the door and stepped in quietly, as though trying not to wake him. I walked over towards his still figure, placed gently on the couch. Dragging a chair over, I sat down beside the couch and took his hand in mine.

There was a strange tingling that started in my fingers but steadily worked its way up my arm and through the rest of my body. I tried to pull my arm way from him but couldn't. The tingling continued to spread, picking up speed as it reached my shoulder and started to spread through the rest of me.

When it reached where my heart was, I felt myself slip into the familiar darkness of unconsciousness.

Fang's POV

(Go ahead, do a happy dance…Fang's back)

After I died, an angel had come and taken me away, to a light place. But now, a new angel was trying to pull me back towards the darkness I had left. I fought it at first; demanding a reason to go back but it only said one word.

It had said, "Max." I tried to get meaning from this word but could not think of anything. Still it tried to pull me back, pulling harder still. I tried to fight back and make her release me but I was distracted by that word.

Why was it so familiar to me? Why did she choose that word to bring me back? Nothing made sense. I kept thinking that word over and over again until I realized… Max was a name!

As soon as I realized this, a face came to mind. It was after seeing this face that I knew; I had spent enough time here. It was time to go home to Max. The angel, sensing my decision, warned me it would be painful and take a long time but I didn't care. I needed to see Max again.

Max's POV

I reached the house, soaked from our fight in the rain, as well as covered in injuries. I was shivering uncontrollably and needed to get inside soon but as soon as I arrived, I saw the rest filing out of the house with shovels. I guess they decided to try to get the grave dug.

I landed not to far from them and they all looked up to see me well, except Iggy who turned an ear towards me. Gazzy, Nudge and Angel all ran up to me and started to hug me, but I gasped in pain.

They let go immediately and stepped back as I slid to my knees. Nudge yelled for Iggy who came over quickly. "What is wrong?" he asked Nudge. Nudge grabbed his hand and rested it on my ribs to show him I was hurt.

He nodded a little and then started lightly brushing over my ribs to find the damage. He looked shocked at the injuries. "How did this happen?" he asked and I just winced as he touched a sore spot.

He was focusing on the ribs and hadn't noticed the spot on my knee that glass had been shoved in so I used my hand to guide his to the spot. He looked shocked again and demanded, "Max, How did you get these?"

I answered as steadily as I could. "Kale..." I said and started to continue but was interrupted by Iggy. "I swear I will kill him the next time he's around for doing this to you," he said angrily.

I waited for him to finish before I continued. "As I was saying, Kale is dead." At this I got odd looks from all of the Cullens, or at least the ones that were there. Bella was probably still inside and I had no clue where Nikias and Dawn were.

"You mean he's actually dead?" questioned Emmett. I nodded and he looked disappointed. He probably had wanted a chance to kill him. Carlisle seemed a little surprised that I had been able to kill him and Edward looked skeptical while Jasper looked pained.

Alice said something to Carlisle who nodded and she led Jasper inside and away from my spilled blood. Once they were gone all eyes turned back to me. The flock was looking me over with concern as

Edward voiced his disbelief of Kale's being dead. "How did you manage to kill him? He is much more powerful than you. It has taken both you and…" He dropped his sentence, realizing what he was about to say but I already knew what he was going to say.

I finished for him, "both me and Fang together?" he nodded solemnly. "I know it has taken both of us, but I didn't kill him. He ran into a tree and the tree fell. One of its branches went through where his heart should be."

Carlisle seemed to think for a moment then turned to Emmett and Rosalie. "Would you two mind going to find Kale and then taking care of him properly?" They each nodded and ran out the door, Emmett surprisingly graceful even with all his muscle.

A few moments later, they came back and nodded saying that the body was disposed of and he wouldn't be coming back. Knowing he was truly dead made me wonder how Edward felt about this. Especially since this all had happened right after he learned Kale was his brother.

Carlisle said, "Here, let me take her inside to work on her injuries." He helped me up and then scooped me into his arms, being careful to not cause anymore pain. Iggy offered to help but Carlisle said he was needed out here. I was carried upstairs into an office like room where he laid me gently on a couch.

He quickly went to work after giving me some drug to make me sleep. When I woke up later, I was alone in Alice's room. I got up, instantly regretting how fast I had moved and then started to slowly and painfully walk down the stairs. When I reached the bottom, I purposely looked away from the couch so I didn't have to see Fang's lifeless body.

I walked to the front door and saw that the rain had picked up again and that everyone was trying in vain to dig the grave. I watched for a few more seconds then opened the door and stepped outside.

Walking over towards the grave, on slick mud, in the rain, with a broken rib and injured knee… didn't exactly prove to be the best idea. I nearly fell on the mud and drew in a sharp breath as I lost my balance and jarred my ribs.

One of the Cullens ran over and caught me as gently as possible without hitting my ribs again. I looked up to see which one had caught me and was shocked to see Dawn there.

"What are you doing here?" I asked. I was sure that Carlisle had said she was away doing work just earlier that day.

"Oh, yeah, I came back just a little after you went inside to be worked on by Carlisle." I was about to question where she'd been and where Nikias was when she continued.

"Me and Nikias had to go and speak with the Volturi about all that was going on…In fact; my husband is still over there talking to them. I was able to convince them that I was still needed here."

She smiled as I stared at her, trying to figure out how she was able to read my mind. She didn't tell me so I ruled out mind reading. We reached the attempt at a grave quickly and I saw that all of them were absolutely covered in mud.

Dawn put me down and Carlisle, also covered in mud, looked up. Upon his seeing me, a look of disapproval came across his face. "Max," he began, "You really shouldn't be out in this weather with you broken ribs. You're going to hurt yourself."

I ignored his scolding and moved to pick up a shovel myself but had it snatched away before I could get a hold of it. I turned to glare at whoever had stolen the shovel and saw Alice grinning widely and holding the shovel.

I opened my mouth to demand the shovel when Alice said, "Sorry Max, but you've been asleep for a day and you still need to heal before we let you do anything remotely difficult. Carlisle probably won't even let you walk more than necessary."

I glared at her for a minute then calmly said, 'Alice, I am fine so give me the shovel." She shook her head and said, "Nope." I moved to take the shovel from her and she snapped it easily in her hands then gave me the handle part.

"Here you go. You get half the shovel and I get half. Compromise." He grinned even more widely than before and I just glared at her. Suddenly Alice went stiff and she got that distant expression on her face. A few moments later she returned to normal but with a distraught look on her face.

"Alice?" I said hesitantly. "Alice, what happened? What did you see?" She looked at me for a second and then ran up and hugged me. She was crushing my ribs again and I said, "Alice! Let go!" She released me.

Then she looked at her feet and said, "Max, I saw a vision of you fighting vampires. Many more of them than we've ever seen before. There was a war going on and you were caught in the middle."

The flock and me both gasped and the Cullens looked at Alice, with horror written on their expressions. I tried to stutter out a sentence but couldn't speak yet. After a few minutes of silence, Edward regained his voice and said, "Where?"

Alice thought about it for a minute and said, 'Here… in about four minutes." As if on cue, Nikias flew above us and landed just a few meters to the left of us. He said to us, in a low voice, "You have to get away from here. The Volturi is coming to get rid of all Kale's followers and the fight is going to happen here."

Edward looked at him calmly and said, "We just learned that actually, and I myself plan on staying." He received some odd looks so he continued on. "We can't take a dead body with us and Bella is still a new vampire who hasn't been given a chance to hunt yet. Max is injured and there is no way we could get out of here without being seen by either side. I am going to stay and help the Volturi."

I said, "He's right. They have agreed to stop trying to kill us so we might as well help get rid of the last people who do want us dead." To myself I added, and I get to kick some eraser butt.

I got nods from the rest of the flock and the Cullens all seemed to agree. Alice had only one protest. "Well, Max is hurt. She can't fight and neither can Bella so I say they have to stay in the house and out of the fight until it's over."

"What!" I almost yelled. "I will not stay out of this fight!" I glared at her and she met my gaze evenly. This stare off lasted only a moment though before we heard the sounds of heavy eraser wings flapping.

Iggy was the first to hear it and he said, "Erasers, in the air, twelve o'clock. The flock spun to face the direction he'd named and I started to jump into the air but Alice said, "Max, please don't fight." She was pleading with me now. 'I don't want you to get hurt like in my vision."

I shook my head and launched into the air. Nikias rose with us. I nodded acknowledgement to him as we prepared to fight a lot of erasers. Iggy got out several bombs from somewhere and Gazzy took some from him. All the rest of us just prepared ourselves.

I thought of all the times my flock had been hurt by these guys and about how they had caused us almost as much pain as Kale had caused us, almost, but not quite as much.

I felt a similar anger to the one I'd felt earlier, rise in me. Thinking about Kale reminded me how everything around us had frozen in place as we had fought. I thought about that as the erasers came into view and wondered how that had happened.

I wondered if I could do that again or if it had even been me who'd done that. The erasers were still just specs in the distance so I concentrated even more on that fight. The more I thought about it, the more I thought I was missing something.

Then I remembered why things had seemed so wrong. Someone else had been moving. Another person had been unfrozen. She must have been the one to have done that.

Just as I looked back up to see where the erasers were, I felt something furry impact on my gut. I doubled over but was able to avoid the next attack by dropping a few feet before he could attack again.

I shot back up and hit him under the chin and snapping his neck. Normally I didn't enjoy knowing I was killing these erasers but this time I felt enjoyment as I saw him fall to the ground.

Another group of erasers came at me and I thought about all the times they had hurt us, bringing back that anger from earlier. I fought them off quickly, one after another falling to land on the ground as the vampires approached from either side, on the ground.

There hadn't been as many erasers as there normally was and they fought badly compared to normal so I was starting to wonder what was going on. We had finished them off easily with angel's mind control, Iggy and Gazzy's bombs, and mine and Nudge's fighting.

We landed on the ground again with the Cullens and waited, facing the direction that the erasers had come from. Soon, on both side of us, vampires ran out of the trees and into the clearing in front of the house. We could hear the clashes of the ones still in the trees.

The leaders of the groups appeared in the clearing and walked out a little bit from the guard the have with them. All of us were right in the middle of all the fighting, and I saw Alice throw a nervous look at me as I cringed from the pain in my ribs.

Aro stepped forward along with Marcus and Caius from the Volturi side and two other vampires stepped forward from the other side. One of them was a tall guy with light brown hair and the other was an average sized girl with long black hair.

Neither of them seemed too concerned about what was going on, only angry and when they saw me, they must have recognized me from my attack on Kale because they stared at me with more hate than imaginable.

I stopped myself from stepping away from their hate filled gaze and focused on meeting their gaze calmly. They finally stopped staring and looked over to Aro, who was on the other size of the line of Cullens and flock.

Aro, looking extremely fragile, said, "What is it you wish to accomplish by destroying us?" He met their gaze as calmly as if he was looking at a flower or something.

The girl stepped forward, both of them seeming no older than I was and said, 'You have held all us vampires back. We want you gone so we can take power and allow our people to do what we should be allowed to do." She sounded so confident that they could handle this that it was almost hard to believe that they couldn't.

The boy also stepped forward and added his part. "We also want that one," he said pointing to me. Alice looked concerned for a moment and glanced in my direction.

"Why do you need her?" Aro asked, suddenly curious, probably suspecting that I was secretly working on their side. He waited for a response from the boy but it was the girl who answered.

She said, "This girl was the one to kill our leader Kale and for that she must be punished." With that she snapped and in seconds I was pulled back by a strong arm around my ribs and one around my neck.

I almost cried out because of the pain in my still recovering ribs and tensed up even more than I already had. As I was dragged back, I heard a feral snarl come from Alice and she lunged at my captor. Another vampire stopped her before she could reach him and I continued to be dragged backward towards Kale's followers.

I was held there as Aro spoke with the leaders of the others. They seemed to be demanding he give them something before the battle continued and if they were given it then they would call off the battle.

Aro refused and the two leaders stalked back to the others as the Cullens and the rest of the flock joined with the Volturi. I stood there helpless as I was being restrained by some vampire planning on killing me as soon as possible though I am sure it would be some slow and painful death.

I tried to get out of his grip but all he did was squeeze tighter on my ribs and I gasped in pain. I tried to squirm out of his grip but he chuckled softly and tightened his grip again.

The flock saw me being held there and anger showed on their face. Nudge was telling Iggy what was going on, I guessed by the outraged look on his face and the fact that she was whispering to him. He looked directly over at me and got a determined look on his face.

To myself I prayed that he wasn't going to do something stupid. Just then there was a pain in the front of my head and the voice returned.

Hello Maximum. You seem to have gotten yourself into a situation. I would have said something sarcastic back to it then but the fight began. Kale's followers moved towards the Volturi and their followers too quickly for me to watch.

The sound of colliding boulders echoed all around me and shook the muddy ground. Rain obscured the scene going on around me but I heard the sound of a struggle clearly. I could hear the sounds of the flock's wings flapping as the lifted into the air to gain an advantage over their seemingly invincible opponents.

I renewed my struggle suddenly, catching my captor by surprise and managing to shake of the arm around my neck. Then I used the little freedom I had gained by his surprise and managed to slide out of his grip on me.

I turned to face him and knocked him back wards with a kick to the chest and then jumped into the air along with the rest of the flock as we watched from above, helping only with the vampires we knew were on the other team.

We saw Alice being attacked by three vampires while Esme was fighting two and I told Nudge and Angel to work together on the second one Esme fought. Iggy and Gazzy went to work on one of Alice's while I went to the other.

We fought with a fury that I had never seen in any of them before. We couldn't kill most of them but we were able to keep them busy until whoever else was nearby took over for us.

One after another they came and I could hear the collisions echoing loudly over and over again. Everything seemed to move quickly because it was going quickly. People fell and were torn to pieces, disembodied limbs continued to try to reattach themselves to other body parts, and people died.

Me and the flock stayed up in the air, occasionally going down to help one of the Cullens when they were being teamed up on. After a while, I started to tire a little whereas the vampires seemed to have lost very little energy.

Neither side seemed to be anywhere close to giving but I could tell that the flock was coming close to crashing so I ordered all of them to go into the house through Alice's window and to stay in that room until I came to them.

They went without argument for once and I sighed, inwardly relieved that I didn't have to worry about them anymore. I saw that Esme needed help again and went down to help her.

I fought the vampire with the same force I had all the others but heard a flapping and looked up for a moment to see Fang. He was circling the field, looking for me. I had become distracted from my fighting and the vampire took advantage of this.

He lunged at that moment, throwing me backwards and into a tree. He followed me and pushed me up against the tree. He had one hand holding both my arms above my head and the other was placed against the tree on the other side of me.

"Well," he said with his face so close to me that I could feel his breath on my face. "I am not sure that our leaders will be happy you died this quickly but they will have to live with the disappointment." With that he moved his hand to snap my neck.

Well. So ends my story. I hope that you have enjoyed it and that my next story will be as fun to write as this one was and that I can hope to get just as many wonderful reviewers as I have had here. I hope you enjoyed the ending of my story……Okay, who am I kidding, there's more. Just scroll down a little bit.

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At that moment though, the same thing that had happened when I fought Kale happened. Everyone around me froze and I was able to struggle lose of the vampires grip on my arms.

I ran a little bit and then jumped into the air to see who it was that had frozen everything. I saw only one other person moving and flew towards her. She had long, black hair and was as tall as I was.

I landed in front of her and she looked up at me. "So, I wondered when I would get a chance to talk to you." She said, looking me in the eye. "I never imagined that I would have to freeze all these people to do it though.

I waited to see if she would continue but she said nothing. I guess I had to use my wonderful social skills then. "Who are you?" I asked ever so subtly… not.

"Well, my name is Alexial but I'd prefer that you do not speak of me to others. The only reason I am free of both sides of this war is because no one knows of me. I prefer it that way actually."

I thought through what she'd said but then remembered that she had been in Kale's lair when I had been there. "What were you doing at Kale's lair then and why did you want to speak with me?" I questioned.

She thought for a moment as if debating whether to tell me the truth or not. She must have decided because she opened her mouth to speak. "Well, I have more than one talent and one of my other talents is to visit the lands of the dead. I was there when a person with wings arrived." She stopped for a moment.

"He kept saying something about a girl named max and being in danger, so I came back to this world after getting as much information out of him as possible. I then visited this place and got in touch with some people around here to find out what is going on around here. Then I learned about you from Kale himself. He seemed to think you were quite a remarkable person. Then I saw you fight him and froze everyone so they couldn't team up on you. Then I was here for the fight to see who truly would be better to win and I choose that the Volturi would best serve us all so I will unfreeze them soon. I just wanted to talk to you."

She looked like she was afraid that I would not believe her and try to hurt her. I could tell that she was being honest though. I smiled a little and said, "Well, would you like me to cover you so it seems like me or Fang were the ones to freeze everyone so that you can stay out of the picture?"

She smiled a little and said, "I'd like that. I would like to remain unseen." She turned and walked away then and everyone in the Volturi unfroze wile the rest of them all stayed frozen in spot. I flew over to the Cullens and told them that we wouldn't be needed anymore and they all ran into the house, with me following after signaling to Fang.

He came in after me and everyone stared in amazement as they saw his living body moving around and breathing. He shrugged and pointed to Bella, who lay unconscious on the couch in his place.

Edward ran to her side and looked up at Fang and said, "How did this happen? She has a heartbeat again and you're alive." Everyone stared in confusion and Fang just shrugged again.

He sat down and then said, "She transferred her eternal life to me to give me back life and in doing so gave herself back an actual life." I smiled and called up to the flock, who came down, saw Fang, and ran down to the couch except for Iggy who was still confused as to what was going on. Nudge said excitedly, 'Fang's back!"

With that Iggy smiled and said, "Again? Fang, you come back as many times as Ari does." Fang gave one of his rare smiles and hugged Angel back and patted Nudge on the back.

I could tell Fang was feeling a bit awkward so I said, "Well, I think it is time for all of us to get some rest so everyone, why don't you go sleep for awhile." I made it sound like a suggestion but everyone knew it was an order.

They grudgingly agreed and everyone but Fang, the Cullens, and me went back upstairs. Nikias and Dawn were both still outside, finishing up the work but everyone else was here.

I didn't know how well everyone would take this but I said, "We have to leave soon, probably tomorrow. We have caused so much trouble and we just have to leave before we cause anymore or anything. Sorry for all the trouble we caused."

During my speaking, Bella had woken up and she looked confused while Alice looked really sad and so did Esme. The others seemed to be hiding what they were feeling although Carlisle did seem a little unhappy but I might just have been imagining it.

"Well, if you feel that much of a need to leave, we won't stop you. We'll miss you guys though. It was nice to have young children around rather than all these old ones." Esme said with a weak smile. Then she and Alice both ran forward and gave me and Fang hugs.

"We'll leave tomorrow morning," I said and all of them nodded. Me and Fang said goodbye and went up to our rooms to sleep. I would talk to Fang once we were out of here. I was too tired now.

I went up to the room and fell asleep really quickly. The next day would not be easy. When I woke up to the morning sun, I got up and prepared for us to leave.

I had all the stuff we'd need ready when I went to wake up the rest of the flock I went in and got up nudge, Angel and Gazzy, but for the other guys, I just knocked on the door knowing they'd get up.

They did and we said our tear filled goodbyes with the Cullens. We left and saw that the Volturi had already finished their work and had left. We flew out over the town of Forks and away from all the people we'd come to like here.

We flew east for an entire day before we stopped and rested. We went back to our meals cooked over a fire and back to nights on a cold ground but you know, it wasn't as bad as it seemed. We'd done it before so we could do it again.

The rest of the flock crashed almost as soon as they had lain down but me and Fang were both still staring at the fire when we heard the steady breathing of the others. I turned to Fang and he got up and signaled for me of follow him.

I too got up and walked after him. After we were a while away he started to speak quickly and in a rush. "Max, I have been waiting to say this too you since the day I saw you in the Volturi and thought I was going t lose you but Max," He stopped here and I waited for him to continue.

"Max," he started again more slowly this time, "I love you." He stopped there and looked down at the ground, all traces of emotion gone from his face as though he thought I was going to run away screaming.

I didn't but I also didn't say anything and he started to get up and walk away. I caught his arm and finally said, "I love you too."

Alright. This actually is the end and I am sorry about the length but I couldn't stop myself. I spent like seven hours in front of my computer typing this and changing it and fixing it and working on it so now my butt hurts. I hope you have enjoyed this story and that you will tell me what you really thought of it.