So this is the last chapter (epilogue excluded) and I must say that i am sad to let it go. it was amazing writing this story and I've gotten a lot of fabulous reviews! It was my first FF and i am very proud of how it came out. Thanks to all those who told me i was one of the best writers on Fanfic because i totally appreciate it (even if i do think you're off your rocker!)!! I really must say thank you though, to my amazing beta and twin 4life, Intoxicated By His Presence! You're flipping amazing and i am forever in your debt!!

By the way, now that Breaking Dawn has come out my story obviously has some major errors, lol! But I finished my chapter before BD came out (you can thank my forgetful (yet amazing) beta for me just now posting it) so i win!! lol

So, without further ado...

Ch 26!

Third Person POV

6:oo p.m.

The group traveled their way to the end, finally reaching the break where they planned to trap in the newborns and their so-called "leaders". They split up in groups and headed off in different directions so that their ambush would go smoothly. Today all of them were in a fight for their lives. They were pretty sure things would go over smoothly…but you can't always be right…

Carlisle's POV

We were quiet as we waited for even the slightest sound. I was leading one of the two groups of seven. The other six with me were Rochelle, Candice, Sam, Clare, Tanya, and Tia. We were already in our positions. Some were in the trees, some hiding in bushes. We were surrounding the area where the newborns were sure to come out. It was quiet as we waited. Too quiet actually. They should already be here. Unless…the prey became the predators…

Bella's POV

I was safely in the trees on a hill. The area we were fighting seemed to be a small valley. Nothing was moving. And then, everything was moving. They came from over the hill across the small clearing. They were running fiercely and then on the right side at least eight of them went down. They didn't seem to notice. They kept running as if nothing happened. Then, on the left, about six or seven more went down. We were doing pretty good so far. I saw two large newborns and focused my attention on them. Instantly, they were frozen. The others just moved around them.

Edward's group with Jade, Vince, Kyle, Alice, Laura, and Kent, were all waiting in the middle of the clearing to take newborns head-on. It was not a plan I wanted but in happened nonetheless. Jane, Riley, Seth, Rosalie, Jasper, and Oliver were picking them off from the back. Emmett, Esme, Alec, Marcus, and Jackie were actually running with the newborns and taking them down that way.

I noticed all of this within about twenty seconds. I continued to freeze the biggest ones I saw but after about ten I started to really feel the weight of it pulling me. I knew I could still freeze a couple more but I was focusing to much on the fight. Emmett was now taking on about three at one time while Alice danced around two herself. Clare had two, Esme, one very big girl, Tanya and Sam handling three, Kyle practically playing around with three. It was crazy. I was busy looking for Giuliani/Brandon or one of his two goonies. So far no luck. Then, it happened.
Edward had just ripped some newborn apart when three big ones came after him. Of course, since I'm Bella, I panicked. I tried to freeze at least one of them but I couldn't. I jumped down out of my tree and rushed over to Edward who was handling it as best as he could. I ran right past Rochelle and her two she was taking, punching one of them for her one the way. I kicked the one on top of Oliver off and kept running. Finally, I jumped on the back of one of the big ones that was pounding on my Edward and twisted his neck with a deafening crack. Then I jumped off of him and ripped his arm out of his socket. I ripped him to shreds and then turned around to see that Edward done the same with the other two.

We stopped and looked at each other.

"Shouldn't you be in hiding?" He asked.

"Well, you were in trouble and…" my excuse faltered as he gave me a skeptical look.

"Well, thanks Bella," he said. I beamed at him and watched as his eyes quickly flashed over my shoulder. "Duck," he said calmly. I obediently did as he told and then watched as he easily ripped the guy apart.

I would have finished talking to him but I didn't have time as two crazy looking women came flying toward me.

"It's time to party," I murmured to myself. Then, I struck one of them down.

7:10 p.m.

Emmett's POV

I'm not sure how long we were fighting but if I was to guess, maybe an hour. And still, the newborns seemed to be the same amount. Well, maybe I was over exaggerating a little, but still the had at least thirty or so left. It would have been fine if we still had our twenty-six…but that was not the case. Marcus, Sam, Tia, Laura, Jane, Seth, Oliver, and Jackie were all down. It was hard but we all had to keep fighting. Actually, when Jackie went down, it seemed to make Kent, and Riley only the more fiercer in their fighting. So, we were down too eighteen. We were winning though. Well, we were in any case. That's when they came out.

It was Giuliani/Brandon along with five others. I could see the girl he was with before and the tall guy too, but the other three were a mystery to me. Two of them were on one side of them and one was one his other side. The other two stood behind him out of sight.

As soon as he stepped out, the rest of the newborns fled to him. Rochelle, Kyle, Jade and Tanya were ready to run after them but Carlisle gave a commanding, "No," and they backed off. We all gathered on either side of Carlisle, eight on one side, nine on the other side. Giuliani/Brandon walked up until we were about a mere hundred yards apart.

"Well Carlisle, I am very sorry to know that you have caused s to go to the measures." Giuliani/ Brandon said.

"Actually Giuliani, or Brandon--"

"It's Zack these days" Giuli--or Zack said

"Okay then Zack. Well, anyway I do believe that this is your fault. You are too stuck on your own pride to see that this is completely barbaric," Carlisle could even sound smart when he was insulting someone.

"Well now I do not see how it is barbaric parse but maybe a little overdramatic, yes,"

"A little over-dramatic? A little! Are you fucking kidding me? You want wife dead over bullshit!" I yelled at Zack.

"It's not…err… 'Bullshit' to my friend here," Zack waved a hand toward the guy next to him. Someone I never thought I would see again…Blake.

"You!" I spat at Blake.

"Me," he said simply.

I started toward him but Edward held me back.

"You really are very pathetic," came Bella's voice from somewhere on the other side of Carlisle. "I mean, this whole thing happened five years ago. Isn't it about time you got over it?"

"Yeah, and to bring innocent people into this. Really, get a life why don't you? Now, we'll have to kill you and them," Rosalie said from my right.

"Oh, so you really want to kill us?" Blake asked.

"Uh, let me think about that, YES!" Rochelle yelled. She seemed to be getting irritated with the small talk. Well that makes two of us.

"You hear that Demetri?" Blake asked the guy next to him it was the same guy who came with Zack that day at or house.

"Oh yeah, I think I did. It seems they want to kill us. Can you believe that Kayla?" Demetri asked the hott girl who had also came that day.

"Hmm, well I don't think they really understand what their saying D," she told him.

"Oh we know what we're saying!" Tanya yelled.

"Yeah. If you have something you want to say, spit it out already!" Riley yelled.

"Well then," Zack began, "it seems we have a couple of people you would like to meet."
Brian and Chad stepped out from behind Zack.

"What the hell is this!" I yelled.

"What have you done?" Bella uttered.

"Why, exactly what it looks like! I have changed your childhood friends into vampires! Exciting huh?" Zack said as if he just announced we won a million dollars.

"You asshole!" I yelled. This time Rosalie and Edward held me back.

"Actually, I didn't change them. Kayla and Blake were rather thirsty so I let them have the pleasure."

"Son of--"

"Wow," it was Brian who spoke. "You know, I thought Chad was crazy when he was talking about you and Bella," his eyes flickered to her as he said her name, "still being alive. I guess I was wrong."

"Oh my God. Brian, Chad, we never wanted this to happen," Bella chocked out. If it was possible she probably would have been crying.

"See, I told you," Chad said.

"Chad, Brian, why are you doing this? You don't have to fight with them," I told them.

Brian's eyes narrowed at me. "We have our reasons. Well, I definitely have mine in any case."

"What? What are you talking about? And especially now! How can you still want to fight when it's us you're fighting? I mean I understand you might not have known who you were fighting before. And, I don't know, maybe you wanted to fight because you felt all of the power you had but, now, it should be different. Right?" Bella asked desperately.

"Wrong. You see, it's you're fault we're like this," Chad said.

"Our fault? How is it our fault? If you wouldn't have called Lucy and old her everything, you might still be alive! At least Brian would be!" I yelled.

"Well if you and Bella hadn't ran off and got yourselves killed, none of this would be happening," he retorted.

"Hey you jerk off!" Bella yelled. "It's not like we woke up and decided 'Hey, let's go get hunted and killed!'"

"It doesn't matter. Whatever, it doesn't matter. Whatever you did to Blake here, he's pissed and now, when you die this time, you'll stay dead. What did you do to him Bella? Break his heart too?"

"Fuck you dickhead!" She yelled.

"Nice one Bella!" Riley said under his breath.

"Alright, enough talk. I think it's time we finally settle this," Zack said.

"You know Zack, that might be the first intelligent thing you've said since you got hear," Jasper growled.

"Oh yeah. Let's get this done," I sprinted then, straight for Chad.

This time, no one held me back.

And so, the fight restarted. I was almost to Chad but was stopped short when two newborns got to me first. I finished them easily, and by the time I had threw aside the last arm into the pile of body parts, Chad was fighting Tanya and Clare. He was getting the better of them. I paused for a second to look around. Carlisle was busy with three newborns, Alec two, Kyle had one really big one. Where's Bella? I thought desperately. I turned once and saw she was handling Brian. I was just about to help her when I caught Rosalie fighting Blake. She was winning.

"That's my girl," I said to myself.

I finished fishing through the crowd, in search of Chad. Then, I heard a deathly cry. I swear, I think everyone turned around to see what had happened. It was Alice. She had just finished ripping the dude, Demetri, apart.

"You bitch!" The chick named Kayla yelled. She threw Candice, who she was fighting, aside and ran over to Alice.
None of us were worried. Alice never lost. The fighting began again. And this time I saw Chad. He was fighting Bella with Brian. I ran over and pulled Chad off of her and punched Brian in the face. Brian and Chad stood facing us, side by side. Bella and I mimicked their stance.

"Why are you doing this?" Bella asked. I felt bad for her because she felt bad for them. I was over words.

"Bella, sweetheart. You just don't understand. Some things are worth more than friendship. I figured that out the day Lucy called me and asked to come and check on Chad. I could have cared less about Chad at that point," Brian told her. "I was going to propose to her. Propose! and because of this fucking bullshit I am now, essentially, dead! I'm dead! How can I marry her if all I will want to do is kill her?"

"Oh my God, Chad. Listen, no one wishes you weren't in this situation more than us. Trust me! We've been like this for five years! Look at us! I'm still seventeen! I never finished high school as a human! You think I want you to live the rest of your life like this?" She said, trying hard to make him understand.

"She's right Brian. Dude, I swear to God If I knew this was going to happen then we wouldn't have ever even come to this town. Listen dude, come on. This isn't you. It's not us you're mad at. Even if this guy is mad at us, he changed you. he ruined your life. Not us man. Not us." I held my hand out to him. He stared at it for a moment before grabbing it and walking to stand next to me. I clapped him on the back.

"No! Brian Zack said they would say that!" Chad yelled.

"Dude, no. Emmet's right. We need to see who our real enemies are bro. but I can tell you one thing; it isn't

Emmett and it isn't Bella," Brian told him.

Chad looked like he was about to break. I looked down at the ground.

"Alright," he said looking up.

"That's my boy Chad!" I said, holding my hand out to him as I had done with Brian.

"No I think you've misunderstood me, " he said stepping back from my hand. "I meant, 'Alright, it seems I have to kill all three of you,'" and he lunged at me.

It wasn't very hard to defeat him and as I ripped off his head and threw on the ground I whispered, "Sorry bro. but your ass was crazy."

Bella and Brian were already off. We were winning again. Not many newborns were left. Of course I could see more of us were down too but I didn't have time to do a body count.

I had just noticed that Alice wasn't fighting Kayla anymore. In fact I couldn't find Alice anywhere. I cringed but I searched for Rosalie. If she had already finished Blake then that meant only Zack was left. But I couldn't find her. I turned around in every direction but I still couldn't find her. Bella was handling a newborn and Brian was fighting another. Edward had one and Vince had two. But where the hell was Rose? And then I saw it. A streak of blonde hair.

I turned to see Rosalie…flying? No…she being…carried?! I looked harder and saw it was Zack. He had her held over his shoulder but why she wasn't moving or why she hadn't yelled was beyond me. And then I saw Kayla and remembered what she could do. She must have had Rosalie in a mind hold like she did to us that day at the house.

"Shit," I whispered to myself. "Rosalie." I was off then, running as fast as I could toward them. "ROSALIE!!" I yelled. She didn't even look up at me though I was sure it was because of Kayla rather than Rose deciding she didn't want to see me. "Rose!!" I yelled again.

I was far behind but if I kept running I doubted that they would be able to get away from my view. I kept running and I wasn't paying attention to anything. A fatal mistake.

From nowhere it seemed, some random newborn threw on me, grabbing on to my legs which brought me down. I fell to the ground with a hard thump. I turned to see it was some guy who grabbed me. I took him by the collar while I stood up and punched his gut with my other hand. Then I kicked him back about twenty feet. I I turned back around to finish following Zack, Kayla, and Rosalie but, with dismay, saw that they were almost over the hill. I needed to catch up now or risk losing them in the trees. I put on an extra burst of speed and was thinking I would catch back up when Kayla turned around and started running backwards.

For the second time I was stopped in my tracks and fell face first onto the ground but this time it wasn't because someone had grabbed me. Kayla had put somehow made me immobile. I now remembered that first day we met Zack back at the house. When they left we had all been in some type of hold like this. It wasn't like Bella when she froze time because I was fully aware of my surroundings. I could hear, see, smell, and feel. Kayla just…immobilized me. I couldn't even talk but I did feel someone running past me. I caught the scent.
Yeah Emmett, it's me Edward thought to me. I'll catch that son of a bitch. Don't wo--

His thought was caught off and a second later I felt something the ground vibrating as something hard hit it.
Damn it, she got me! Edward thought to me. Don't sweat it. I'm pretty sure this will only hold until she gets to a certain distance away from us. I thought back. He didn't respond but I knew he was waiting, like me, until we felt the hold lift. Then, we would be off.

Maybe two minutes later it was gone. I jumped up and started running towards the hill. Edward was with me a second later and as we ran into the forest past the hill something in me knew it was too late. That day back at the house, when we tried to find a scent, there was none. Just like when Brian and Chad disappeared, nothing.
Don't worry Emmett, we'll find her. But even in his thoughts, Edward seemed unsure. I pushed on into the forest. I had to find Rosalie…I had to…

12:15 a.m.

Bella's POV

We were all still sitting in the clearing when they came back over the hill. They had been searching for Rosalie for maybe two hours. Esme suggested about thirty minutes after they'd gone that we go and help tem search, but Carlisle said that it would be pointless. Alice wont even told us all she's seen of Rosalie's future is blackness. But not like it was dark…as if she wouldn't exist. She wont even tell us what she see's Zack doing, but she does see Kayla dead…but that won't be for a couple of years.

When they came over the hill, everyone stood up. We knew when we saw it was only two of them coming over that hill however, that Rosalie was still M.I.A.

They stopped about thirty feet away form us but I knew it was because Emmett couldn't go any farther. I started towards them.

"Bella wait…" Riley began. But I didn't say anything else so I knew I should go on.

Edward was standing next to Emmett with a hand on his shoulder. I knew he didn't know what to say. He looked at me helplessly and I gently smiled at him and nodded my head towards the group to let him know I wanted him to leave us alone. When he passed me he gave my hand a squeeze for good luck. I kept going. When I was standing in front of Emmett I almost lost myself. He was so torn, so heartbroken. I had never seen him like this. It was always me with the problems. I was the one who broke down when mom died. Or when we made the move from Arizona to Washington. It was Emmett who always pulled me to him and held me as I cried.

I slowly reached out to my brother and placed a hand on his arm. He looked up at me. I've seen his eyes many different colors. Brown when we were human, red when we were newborns, and honey-caramel color when he was fully fed, and black when he desperately needed to feed. But right now, his eyes looked…blank. There was no recognition when he looked at me. The only thing I saw, was hurt. I gripped his arm and pulled him to me. He we feel to our knees as he dry sobbed on my shoulder. And as he held me so close and so tight I knew that I was returning so many favors in one.

It was maybe an hour or so later when Carlisle broke the silence. He came to squat next to us and said in a gentle voice,

"We're heading home now. The field will be pretty burned in a second." I looked up from Emmett's hair and saw that the piles of newborns were already set afire. Emmett rose his head and slowly stood up. I stood up with him and we headed home with Carlisle. Emmett held my hand tightly the entire way.
Inside the hose I realized just how many we had lost. In the middle of the fight when Zack and the others showed up, we had already lost eight. Now, as we all seated ourselves in the front room. I noticed we were missing four more. Twelve of twenty-six gone. It was quiet as we sat in the room. We had won, but it was so obvious how much we lost.

Once again, it was Carlisle who broke the silence.

"I want to thank you all for coming. It was very brave of you and I know we all have…sacrificed…a lot. May we please take a moment to remember all of those brave, brilliant, and fearless vampires. Sam, Clare, Tia, Laura, Jane, Marcus, Seth, Oliver, Jackie, Kent, Vincenzo and Candisil'la Chace, and…" he paused for a second. "And, Rosalie Hale. They will never be forgotten and we will always love them." He bowed his head, as did everyone else, as we gave them our respect.

Emmett stood up after a second. "I'll be in our--" he stopped himself. "I mean in my room." he slowly walked up the stairs. We all waited until we heard his bedroom door quietly close.

I looked around the room and realized that Emmett was far from being the only one mourning. Rochelle had lost her parents. The ones who saved her life. Carlisle lost his best friends. As did Esme for that matter. Riley and Kyle lost their entire coven. Riley had instantly gone from a coven of five to a single man. I even felt bad for Tanya and Jade. Laura and Tia were their sisters in every sense of the word. The same way Rose was my sister. And Alec. Alec actually had lost his sister. He and Jane were changed at the same time. I don't think he cared much about Marcus, but it was sad about Jane anyway. Brian had lost his whole life. Literally. Not only the being alive part, but he lost Lucy as well.

Alec was actually the next person to talk. "I guess I better get going. Aro will be waiting to know what has happened. I will tell him good things Carlisle. He will trust you more than ever now and will believe that you will always be able to clean up any dirty work the Volturi cannot get to fast enough." He stood up and bowed to Carlisle before nodding his head at the rest of us. "Hopefully," he said as he headed out, "we will not meet again if you know what I mean." He left and we all heard his car zoom away.

"I guess we should head out too. It was…well not wonderful but nice either way to have seen you all," Tanya said.

"Actually Tanya, Jade," Kyle said before they left. "Would you guys mind taking on another person. It's only…well…" he trailed off. Tanya smiled. It was obvious that they were hitting it off.
It felt good to know that even in bad times life and love go on. (A/N: that's from The Host!)

"Of course Kyle," and then her, Kyle and Jade left as well.
So now it was Riley, Rochelle, Alice, Jasper, Carlisle, Esme, Brian, Edward and I who were left in the room.

"I have to go," Brian said, standing up abruptly.

"Listen Brian, I know you're confused and everything right now, but I have to tell you. Going after Lucy right now would be…stupid. You risk killing her yourself," I told him. He sighed.

"I know. Listen, I'm not going after Lucy. I just need to travel and be alone for awhile. I swear though, if you have a permanent number, I can keep in touch. I don't want to lose you guys again Bella. You're all I have left." I smiled weakly at him.

"Yeah, I know." I gave him my cell number. We only used it in emergencies. Which were hardly ever.

"Wait Brian," Carlisle said right as Brian was about to head out the door. "I know this will be hard for you to hear but I can call Lucy for you and make up an excuse for your death. I did it with Bella and Emmett. And this way it wont be like you just disappeared on her."

Brian thought about it before grabbing the same pencil and notepad I used to give him my number and using it to write down another number. "Here's her cell. Tell her you got it out of my phone or something. I don't want to be hear while you do though. I--I don't think I will be able to stand hearing her voice." Carlisle nodded understandingly.

Brian left right after that and we were quiet as Carlisle made the phone call.

"Umm… Carlisle?" Rochelle asked in a quiet voice.

"Yes Rochelle?"

"Of course you can!" Alice said dashing next to Rochelle and hugging her tightly. "Why did you think you had to ask?"

"Well, it looks like Alice answered your question," Carlisle chuckled.

"Oh, and you too Riley. No need to ask," Alice put in.

"Thanks," Riley said quietly, looking down at his hands. We all sat around, unsure what to say when we heard the door to Emmett's room open. He was downstairs a second later.

"I'm going to go and hunt. I need some air," he announced when he got to us. I looked at my brother. His eyes were soft, light, and almost playful. He was such a convincing liar. Everyone knew he was too. I stood up and went to hug him.

"Have a nice…umm…hunt. Be safe okay?" I whispered to him, my face buried in his chest. I took in a strong whiff of my brother.

"Sure Bells. I'll just be gone for a bit. Sheesh," he joked. I looked up at him, his eyes the same. I smiled a little. He was always trying to protect me.

"Sure Emmett," I said.

"Cool. I'll be back guys," he said to everyone. They all nodded sadly. Knowing that he wouldn't.

Right before he left the room to leave through the back door he looked over his shoulder at me.

"Hey Bells, you know I love you right?"

I nodded not being able to say anything else.

"Alright. I'll see you later okay? Get it?" he asked. I smiled.

"Got it," I answered.

"Good," and then he left out the door.

I looked around at my family. We were sad, we lost two, but we would handle it. I sat down next to Edward. We would be okay, I was sure of it.

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