Beyond Her Control
Valencia's POV
I couldn't place the emotions that were swirling in her eyes. She hadn't been gone from my grasps for long but it felt like I never did know her at all. She had used me and yet, somewhere inside of me, I knew that I still had some kind of feelings for her. It was bizarre, really, to even think that I didn't fully hate her for what she had done. I honestly didn't know where I went wrong. Was I that unlovable? Surely, my species had abandoned me, and now her; the woman that I had given up almost everything for just to have her. At least she could do me some mercy of sparing my own heart that was trying hard to protect itself from crumbling into pieces. I should force myself to hate her, truly hate her. She still looked at me with those eyes that spoke of promises even though they were all broken. However, there was something in her eyes that pulled me in, silently pleading to me to figure the meaning behind them. Problem was; I did not want to.
"I beg you to stop, Valencia." She said pleadingly but stood her ground. At that moment the whole room came back into my senses, and I chuckled darkly.
"Why should I? I'm having fun, aren't you not?" I asked sarcastically as I tilted my head to the side. "I mean, with all the training that I've given you and the little 'missions' when you were with us, you did look like you were enjoying being the superior over these weaklings."
The pixie snarled at me and I chuckled in amusement. If she wasn't under Bella's protection, I would have burn her right now. Well, perhaps torture her first before burning her. Actually, the thought of having her as my pet sounded so amazingly awesome right now.
"That was not me!" Bella protested. "You know very well that I would never hurt anyone!"
"When have you learned to lie, sweetcakes?" I asked, a little too amused at the situation. "Did that pixie teach you?" And that earned me another snarl.
"I'm telling you the truth. That is not me!" Bella repeated and I sighed. I still remembered those days when she was so enjoying the power of making everyone did everything for her, right before me. Maybe she needed some kind of lesson.
"Can we just end her?" Estrella growled bitterly beside me. She wasn't happy with this little interaction that we were having and I couldn't blame her. She didn't like Bella whether the brunette was still human or not.
"You've already interrupted my fun," I responded as I glanced over to her, pursing my lips up a little into a small pout. "You want to get rid of all of my fun?"
She glared at me. "We're here to eliminate them. We're not here to have fun!" Before I could manage to say something, she added. "I guess I was wrong about you forgetting Bella."
The moment that sentence left her lips all I could see was red. I didn't really care if she was the love of my life or someone I was using. All I cared about was making her pay for what she had just said, which was an insult to me. So when she screamed in pain while clutching the fire that was playing around in her head, burning the inside of her but not her whole body, I let the fire rest there and turned to face Bella.
"I'm not here for negotiation or ending things quickly. I'm here to have fun, and I will get it one way or another." I glanced over at Ambrosine that was looking between Estrella and me, undecided on what to do. "And that includes my side of the field. From this point on, I fight for nobody except myself."
It was then that Ambrosine gave me her full attention, her eyes widened in disbelief. "Are you betraying Anthony? Are you insane? He'd destroy you!"
"Change into the creature that your heart desires, Ambrosine." I set the fire to surround her heart, heating it to the point that she could no longer control the beast inside her.
Hadrian wasn't like her, he had no control over his beast. Ambrosine had more self control than him, but I knew just where her weakness lay. I took a step back and watched as her clothes began to shred, her body taking a form of a Serpent that covered half of the hall that everyone was gathering in. Once the transformation was complete, Ambrosine took her chance and charged at me with her fangs barred, dripping with poison. I smirked at the foolish attempt as she drew nearer. When she opened up her jaws, readying to swallow me whole, I formed a protective fire around myself and a fire shield before me. As I was expecting, Ambrosine swallowed the shield, resulting in a painful scream as I changed the form of the shield into a sword, scorching from her mouth down along her throat only to drag it back up again and repeating the action. Her scream echoed throughout the castle as she writhed under my hands. The vampires had to get away from her body or they'd be squashed and thrown aside.
"Now, Ambrosine, I want you to be my only soldier. You won't have to suffer the pain anymore unless you are to disobey me. Will you take up this offer or should I just kill you now?" I asked as I looked up at her with mirth.
"Stop it!" Estrella screamed as she struggled to keep her voice as clear as possible. "You're out of control!"
I turned to her, letting the scream of Ambrosine to continue as I raised an eyebrow at her. "Really? Are you sure? Because I feel like I'm in control and the feeling is...amazing!"
It was then that Anthony appeared, standing beside Bella as his grey eyes looked on in pain and sorrow. I knew he was trying to save Ambrosine from the torment that I was giving her but there was no use. All the time that I've been with him, I've learned so much from what made him strong and weak. He treated every single one of his members like trash, but deep down he cared for them or else he wouldn't be trying to protect them like what he was doing with Ambrosine. His magic was strong but compared to my power, it wasn't strong enough. He was a fool to take me in and trained me to be the strongest in his army. He was a fool to even use my own heart and break it all because he wanted power. Not only that I hated Bella, but I also hated him for what he had done. If only I knew what he wanted from the beginning when Bella came, I would have prevented my heart from falling into pieces. I may be the most powerful being in this room, but I wasn't some stupid girl that would give up her heart for people to step upon.
"Valencia," Anthony started, his voice filled with sadness that was matching the look in his eyes. "We can talk about this. Please! Stop this! This isn't you!"
I started to laugh sadistically. He didn't even know who I was. If he did he wouldn't have let me go through with this pain in the beginning!
"I'm afraid not. I'm enjoying this way too much, can't you tell?" I asked rhetorically with a grin as I turned the fire sword inside Ambrosine's throat upward, and guiding it to pierce slowly through her flesh. The Serpent let out a painful cry as her whole body collapsed on the cold floor, shaking the place at the impact as she trashed around in pain.
"What exactly do you want?" Bella asked as her face was filled with pain and pity for the Serpent, or was it, for me?
I grinned and raised my index finger towards the pixie girl; Alice, that was standing beside her. "Kill her."
Anthony turned to look at the short vampire, but before he could do anything to the girl Bella stepped in front of her, snarling dangerously at him. I chuckled in amusement at the scene that was playing out before my eyes. I didn't even think that Anthony would even take that as a command. I mean, all of the years that I've known him, he was always the one whom commanded me, not the other way around. So for him to even willing to kill that girl for me was just too amusing. It wasn't as amusing as the idea of him thinking that it was all that I wanted. I wanted so much more than just the dead of Alice Cullen. I wanted everything that this world had to offer. I didn't want to rule the earth. I wanted to rule them. My little pawns that set out to fetch me entertainment to keep me from being bored. I would make them pay for playing favorites. I would make them pay for using people like me, people that thought they have found someone that loved them but in the end, they got hurt because of it.
If I wasn't too cautious, I would have missed the small detail of the blonde male from the Cullen clan trying to take me out. It was impressive that he even took the small opportunity of me being distracted to weave himself out from the crowd, and headed towards me. When he tried to lay a hand on me, I caught him firmly on the neck and tossed him right next to the writhing Serpent that was bleeding from the inside out. I couldn't let her die, not now at least. She still needed to answer my question though whether she was in pain or not. I looked up at her and frowned.
"I suppose you should answer me now. I guess all you can do is scream and trash about in pain. Well then, let make it easy for you." I nodded my head towards the blonde before glancing up at her. "Kill him. Break every bit of bone in his body. Let me hear his scream. Then I will take that as your answer to join me."
"No!" A feminine voice screamed out.
I turned to look at the beautiful brunette that was struggling against the brute of a man. I raised an eyebrow at her as I heard the slow movement behind me before the blonde man's scream echoing in my ears.
"Why do you care for him?" I asked in curiosity. "Why do all of you vampires only care about your own species and not others?"
"He's my son! Please! Spare him!" She cried out as she watched..her son..being strangled.
I snorted. "Vampires cannot reproduce. You're dead to me. Why not just let him actually...die?" I turned and watched as the blonde's body cracked and twisted in the most disturbing way possible as Ambrosine mustered all of her strength to kill him just as I had asked of her.
When there was no sound emitting from his mouth, Ambrosine dropped his broken on the floor before her tail fell down on top of him. I chuckled at her effort and distinguished the fire that was torturing in her throat. She took a sharp breath before wincing at the damaged that my fire had left behind. She looked at me, I could see the fear in her eyes more clearly now. Ambrosine feared no one but Anthony, and for me to see the fear so evidently in her eyes for me was so rewarding. These creatures...They feared no one until they were put in some kind of unbearable pain.
"That's not the last part of your task, by the way." I commented.
"How many more do you have to kill?" Bella asked in distaste.
I turned to look at her, the looks in her eyes were filled with pure anger. I guess whatever her plan was to do with me earlier vanish. I shrugged at her question. "I'm not sure. Maybe until I feel like the pain and betrayal in me is gone I suppose."
"Then why not just kill Bella? Aren't you here because of her?" Estrella shouted, her voice was strained from the screaming.
I sighed and shook my head. "You didn't know, do you?" I lifted the fire that I had set in her head off of her, watching as she quickly recovered like a robot vampire.
"Know what?" She asked, confused, but that didn't mean that she was being cautious around me.
I turned to Anthony and frowned at him. "He was the one that plan this whole thing! He set me up with Bella. Have me fallen in love with her when he knew that it wouldn't last! He let my heart be played and tossed away like a piece of trash! Do you even know how that feels? I feel worthless! I feel like everyone is just out there to use me for their own personal gain! For once in my life I want to feel belonged! All of these years I feel like I'm trapped in some kind of world that only cares about power and more power! I'd rather have me getting rid of all the power hungry idiots than to fall victim to it again!"
"Well I guess I don't need to hold you down."
I quickly turned to the soft, feminine voice and frowned at the beautiful blonde that was smirking at me; Aurora.
"Why won't you?" I asked.
"Because you're actually a good person, just going at it the wrong way." She shrugged. "Besides, this war is just ridiculous. You can't kill them all, you know."
I huffed. "Yea right, with my power do you think that I wouldn't be able to?"
"Not if I'm here." She stated with a grin. "I'm not sure you'd be able to do anything when you're laying flat on the ground."
I grinned. "You want to try?" There was so much that these people didn't know about me. There was a part of me that no one in this room knew about me. A part of me that I kept hidden from Estrella, even Anthony. I wasn't ready to trust anyone with that little secret of mine. And I knew that if Aurora was to take up this challenge, I would know how long it would last for me to break free from her gravity control power and strike back.
A/N
I, honestly, didn't mean for Valencia to turn out this way. I was just going with the flow...So, three words...BITCHES BE CRAZY! Even Anthony had to fear her. Sorry about Jasper though. I should have put Edward up for the kill but that would be out of his character to, since, you know, he's a coward and what's not. Jasper is the hero and he will always try to be the hero. Bless him. As for Edward, I just hope that he'd live with the guilt of not being manly enough D:
