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Chapter 5: Final Hour
Bella POV:
Once our minds were made up, it took about a month to get our plan straight. The good thing about the Volturi is that they work like clockwork. I'm sure that's Aro's doing. Their schedules ran like a German train station. Liam and I paid attention to everything and everyone. We knew all the guards' weaknesses and were ready to strike. Finally our day had come.
It was about mid-morning, they had fed us and put us in our cell for a short period of time while they prepared for a day's work of making our lives a living hell. Well not today, no sir. As soon as the guards cleared the doors Liam and I were on our feet waiting for the perfect moment. When it came, we struck. I took out the first guard in no time, he was a nobody, but he had a weapon. It looked like a simple handgun but my experience taught me better. This thing had power. Power sufficient to pierce the skin of a full vampire. But the bullets were where the real magic was. Each one was filled with venom, enough to make any vampire stop in their tracks for a bit. We started running. We had listened to the guards' every move for the past month and we had a good idea of which steps to take to get to an exit. Getting there may be an issue though. Another guard caught sight of us and was about to shout before Liam got his head.
"Nice." I said forgetting the situation we were in. It was an impressive kill.
"No time!" he yelled at me. Oh right. We're kind of escaping right now. Get your head out of your ass Swan. We ran further into the maze of hallways. An alarm started blaring over our heads. "Shit that can't be good." We started running faster. I had never gotten to run this fast before, this was what I was running for. I pushed my beaten legs harder. Demetri jumped out of nowhere and I had no time to fight him, he actually had some skills. I instinctively shot at his frame and he fell screaming. Not too bad a shot. More guards were chasing us and yelling for us to stop. I just kept shooting blindly behind me until I ran out of bullets. Right when I ran out we saw the most beautiful thing in the world, light streaming from the outside. We knew what to do, we had planned this. Right when the door to our freedom burst open, we phased. Liam and I had only voluntarily shifted into our wolf forms once before, but with what was at stake, it had never felt easier. And then we just ran.
We ran all through the night. Luckily wherever we were had nice forest space, we figured somewhere in South America. Eventually when the distance felt safe enough we shifted back into our human forms near a deserted cabin. It obviously hadn't been used in years but it was plenty for us. We raided the closet and found some simple clothing to put on. I wandered around the cabin a bit wondering who used to live here. I came across a mirror in the bathroom, and for the first time in three months, looked at what remained of me.
I had aged so much in so little time. I looked around 22 or 23, but my eyes looked dead. They were blood red. I flinched and looked at the rest of myself, not focusing on my eyes. My hair had not grown from when the Volturi cut it when they processed me in. My body was thin but muscular, it looked as though I was gone through war. There were multiple bruises, gashes, and dried blood caked on parts of my body. I wished that we had running water to shower. I felt I needed to cleanse my body from the Volturi. I ran my fingers through my short choppy hair. What have they done to me?
I walked slowly back to where Liam was and I found him looking at himself in a mirror by the closet. I can't really remember what he used to look like as a human, I only saw him that one time. But I do think he was thinner like I was. He caught sight of me behind him in the mirror and turned to face me. "Well," he grimaced, "what do we do now?"