Chapter 11

This chapter has violence in it.

One of the most stressful things is waiting. For hours after the sunset, we all paced back and forth, hoping that the army would arrive and dreading it at the same time. Even without the power to read minds or feel everyone's emotions I could sense the lingering anxiety in the area. At midnight, Bella fell asleep and Stefan soon followed. I stayed alert, too afraid to be caught off guard but gave in to my exhaustion an hour later and curled up underneath a tree at the edge of the field.

I was awoken by Stefan shaking me awake. "What is it…" I moaned, rubbing my eyes and picking up my phone to read the time; it was only half past five in the morning and the sky was still black. He placed a finger on my lips to silence me and gestured towards Alice. Her expression was blank and Edward was staring at her, reading her mind as she entered a vision. All of us were tense and the minutes we spent waiting for her to speak felt like hours.

"They're here," she said, only loud enough that a vampire could hear. Edward growled and we all braced ourselves. A young girl, sixteen at most, with dark brown hair and pale skin crept out from behind a tree. Her eyes were full of fear and her stance was that of one who was ready to run away. Her frame was small and it was obvious that she had no advantage over us physically. We all stayed still. Five more followed behind her, all of them staring at us as, waiting to see if we would make the first move.

That's it? I thought. We had faced worse enemies before. But as my uneasiness began to subside, more trickled out from the trees to stand with them. They were all young, in their teens or early twenties, and wore casual clothes stained in dry blood. By the unsteady way they walked and the way that the veins in their faces kept pressing against their skin, I could assume that the dried blood belonged to the people they killed to turn.

By the time that the flow of vampires had stopped there were at least thirty, maybe forty, of them standing there. None of them fit the description of Victoria that Bella had shared with me; long, red, curly hair and white skin. Though I knew that we were much more experienced, the armies size just standing there staring at us was intimidating.

What was more intimidating was when they started sprinting. The Cullens turned outwards to face the crowd of them that was quickly surrounding us. Stefan growled when one man came too close and pushed me behind him. The man swung at us, attacking before any of the others in his group and Stefan shoved him aside. When he growled and charged at him again, Stefan snapped his neck with ease, allowing me to stake him in the heart. "I know you can handle yourself," Stefan said as he ran after another one nearby. I nodded back at him and braced myself.

When I looked to my left, I saw Emmett fighting two vampires at once. While he was much stronger than them, it was clear that he was outnumbered. As one of them, fangs bared, crouched down to jump onto him, I threw one of my stakes as hard as I could. It missed her heart and instead embedded itself in her neck which, while not killing her, gave Emmett the chance to pull the stake out and decapitate the girl. He grinned as he tossed her head at the other girl he'd been fighting who, upon catching it, froze in shock. He drove the weapon through her chest before she could recover. "Thanks, Care Bear!" he shouted at me while pulling his stake from the corpse and tossing it back to me.

"No problem!" I shouted back. A man jumped from behind a tree at me. I shoved my hand into his chest and pulled out his heart before he could do anything. I dropped it as fast as I could; something about the way they were so warm and squishy made me squeamish. I sighed as I realized that I had forgotten to change shirts before coming here; I had just stained the blouse I had arrived in Forks with. At least I hadn't borrowed this one. "Wait, did you just call me 'Care Bear'? I hate that, Emmett!" I groaned. He laughed at me and wooshed away to help Rosalie. Care Bear. Of course, he's going to call me Care Bear.

The girl I had seen earlier, the small one with the brown hair, crept up to me. Instead of jumping straight at me like the others, her movements were tentative and unsure. "Come on! Fight me!" I taunted, smiling at her. She tried to flash behind me but I knew what she was doing. I spun around and shoved her to the ground. I pulled out the stake that was still bloody from the last kill and brought it up behind my head to stab her.

"Stop! Please!" she begged, her voice shaking. "I don't want to die." I hesitated. She looked absolutely frightened. It didn't matter though, she was a threat and she was only going to hurt us. But then I realized that so was I when Damon decided I had to die the night I was turned. To keep her from getting away, I pounced on her and pinned her down. Instead of staking her, I grabbed her head and settled for snapping her neck. It would keep her "dead" long enough that someone else could deal with her.

In the middle of the field, I observed Angela's unique way of fighting. When any of them would come close, she would cast an aneurysm spell which left them rolling around clutching their heads. Then, she would light them on fire. It was a peculiar sight. Most powerful witches always looked more… dignified. Angela was standing there flailing her arms all over the place but somehow it worked. It was when she was overwhelmed by two of them at the same time that she slipped up. One of them distracted her while the other one jumped onto Bella, digging his teeth into her shoulder. She cried out and I ran past everyone to get to her. I bit my wrist and forced it to her mouth. The vampire blood in her system made the wound close up quickly and I was relieved that I had gotten to her before she lost consciousness. My wrist was already healing but I rolled up my sleeve anyway. Everyone but Angela seemed to be too busy to notice that Bella had been attacked.

We were decimating the army. Only about ten remained and even those didn't look like they were going to last much longer. The ground was littered with hearts and heads and it made me wonder how the police were ever going to be able to explain this.

Just as we were finishing off the last of them, Victoria emerged from the trees. By her side was a smug blonde haired boy and close behind were another twenty or so. "You have got to be kidding me," Emmett yelled, throwing the heart he was holding on the ground. "Are we playing Plants versus Zombies? How many of them are there?" Victoria ignored him. Her presence was terrifying; she signaled to the vampires to attack while maintaining eye contact with Edward at the same time. Somehow, she could tell the difference between him and Stefan. Probably the skin tone.

This second round of vampires was much stronger than the first that we faced. I watched Alice for the first time since the fight started. Like Edward, she had a major advantage while fighting. No matter what the other person did, they couldn't surprise her. The girl that attacked her was fast, even for a vampire, I had a hard time keeping track of her. But it didn't matter how quickly she got behind Alice, you can't sneak up on a vampire that can see the future. Alice jumped and did a backflip, landed on her shoulders, and ripped her head off. I stared in awe; we definitely needed her on our cheer team.

A stake hit me while I was distracted. I coughed and blood flew from my mouth. I looked down to see that it sticking out of the right side of my chest where it had punctured my lung. I fell to my knees. I should have learned my lesson when Bella did the same thing to me. A teenage boy, who I guess threw the stake, was walking towards me. Midstep, his body started to desiccate and he fell forwards. A stake had entered the side of his chest so fast that it came out the other side. "Caroline," Stefan said as he ran to me. He pulled the stake out of my chest and I took a deep breath, finally being able to breathe normally again. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's healing already," I smiled at him. He sighed and pulled me into his arms.

"I thought you were going to-" he stopped. Never before had I seen him looking so scared.

"I'm fine, Stefan. We can't just stay here," I said, getting to my feet. He was visibly shaking with worry. I pulled him up and saw that in the minutes we wasted, Victoria was close to Bella. Jasper was currently fighting a couple of vampires ganging up on him so Edward was left with Victoria and the blonde boy with Angela. Angela raised her arm and the kid collapsed screaming.

"Inscendia!" she shouted at him. Unfortunately, that type of vampire wasn't nearly as flammable. His hair, however, was. It burst into flames and his screams got even louder. I couldn't help but laugh. But because the fire alone wasn't going to kill him, Angela was stuck having to cast the aneurysm spell continuously to keep him down. With Victoria distracted by the sight, I took the opportunity to try to kill her. I wooshed my way over there but crossed between Angela and the boy. The spell transferred to me for just a second, but it was enough to knock me off my feet.

Angela put her hand down immediately. Edward ran to my side to check on me. "No!" I shrieked at him. "Edward don't! I'm fine!" He stopped and turned back to Victoria but it was too late. She had used the distraction to get past him. The boy grabbed Angela and held her hands behind her back so that she couldn't cast any spells. By the time I processed what happened, she had her hands on Bella's head.

"If anyone moves, she dies."

Everyone was still, including Victoria's vampires. It wasn't until a few minutes passed and the sun started to rise that they finally retreated to below the trees to avoid being burnt. The only ones who remained were Victoria and the boy who she must have turned with her venom.

Edward looked like he was dying inside, Bella was trying to be brave for him, the rest of the Cullens were staring at Edward, and Angela was staring at Bella, deep in thought. Edward's expression turned from worried to shocked in an instant at something that she thought. He turned his head ever so slightly to look pointedly at my wrist. My wrist. What was important about my wrist?

Oh.

"Do it," I breathed. It was so quiet in the field that everyone, even without vampire hearing could hear me.

"Angela, no!" Edward screamed. She muttered an incantation.

The Cullen's daylight rings were inactivated, and just like that day in the kitchen, the skin of the seven of them reflected light in every direction. The vampires that had been hiding under the trees simultaneously burst into flames. Screams echoed from all around us as the entire army burned. The young brunette I had faced earlier, who had finally woken up from her snapped neck induced sleep, turned to ashes. I didn't even know her name.

And with a crunch of her neck, Bella's fell limp at Victoria's feet.

I think that is important that I address some of the reviews. To maryokeefe16, no, Bella is not Katherine. Stefan believed that she was in chapter 2 because they are doppelgängers. To PartHistory, I really appreciate constructive criticism so thanks for the advice. Since being more descriptive was already mentioned in another review, I will try my best to improve on that. I'm actually considering rewriting the first couple of chapters because I don't like the way I wrote them (I will not change the plot or dialogue). About Damon referencing Twilight in TVD, that is unavoidable without a) an alternate universe which I do not want to do or b) ignoring the few references made which is much easier. Thanks again to The French Girl! I seriously love that you've been reviewing every chapter! It is very motivating when you respond because of how detailed your reviews are. My friend has fun translating. You're the best! I will try to update as soon as possible. Sorry for the long AN, I'll try not to do that again. Hope you liked the chapter, I'm so happy that I got to include Bree.

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