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Battle

(Tess POV)

"It's starting..." Edward said, clambering out of his tent, with Bella in tow.

I stared at him for a minute, how his eyes glazed over and his jaw tightened when he went into such a trance. Were I not bound to Jacob, I might have thought it was attractive, but in this case, I just thought it was... interesting.

"Jacob just got there..." I perked up at that news, "He's good..." He suddenly jerked his head to the left, in a way Bella must have recognized because of what she asked, "Someone's hurt?"

"She's close..." He muttered, "I can hear her thoughts."

I turned to the sandy colored wolf, "Seth, go!"

Edward was still rambling, "She knew we weren't there, but she caught my scent..."

Okay, really? After all the shit we went through to mask –

"She knew you'd be with me... She found us." He added, clearly ignoring my thoughts from his mind, "She's... not alone."

All of the sudden, a pale man – about Bella's age, if not older – emerged from the forest behind me. I whipped around, almost turning invisible on instinct, but caught myself as I registered his features. I was good with faces.

"Riley..." Edward said, stepping in front of me, making it so that Bella and I were next to eachother, while whispering something so quietly in my ear I could barely hear it, "Keep her safe..."

I turned invisible as Edward started talking to the guy, Riley.

"Listen to me," He said, "Victoria's just using you to distract me... But she knows I'll kill you..."

I cupped a hand around Bella's mouth, shushing her as I turned her invisible and pulled her into the trees. That was when I noticed the redheaded woman, Victoria, crouching on a rock on the other side of the campsite.

"In fact," Edward continued, though I could hear him less clearly now that there were trees and more distance between us, "She'll be glad she doesn't have to deal with you anymore."

"Don't... listen, Riley," Victoria whispered from her perch across the camp, "I told you... about their mind tricks..."

"I can read her mind, so I know what she thinks of you."

"He's... lying..." She whispered in a sultry tone.

"She only created you and this army to avenge her true mate, James."

Bella was writhing around in my grasp, but I was stronger than her, so she couldn't get out just yet. But my energy and strength were slowly draining.

"Think about it. You're from Forks, you know the area."

Bella ripped out of my grip, but she tripped an fell over before getting more than two feet away.

Frantically searching through the snow, she found a rock and broke it, making the edge sharp enough to cut her skin. But before I could, I turned visible and grabbed it from her.

"Bella, not yet!" She stared up at me in awe.

"Y... You can turn invisible?!" She whispered.

"... Yeah..." I muttered. "If I kick snow up into the air, you can cut your arm to distract them, okay?"

She bit her lip, but nodded.

I turned invisible after rubbing pine and bark all over myself to mask my scent, making sure we were both ready for whatever could happen.

"Riley..." Victoria whispered, "Don't. Let him. Do this. To us. You know I love you."

Riley spoke for the first time, directed at Edward. "You're dead."

I didn't have a lot of time to register the threat because at that moment, Seth attacked him. They rolled over to where Victoria had been perched and continued fighting.

I could sense that Seth was going to get hurt, but I waited a minute while Edward confronted Victoria, who was about to jump off the edge of the cliff.

"You won't get another chance like this!" He called, but my focus was torn away by the sound of Seth crying out. Riley had drained him of his energy.

All my anger I had ever had at any of the vampires, or anything, really, poured out as I leaped over to him, jumping on his back, holding him in a chokehold. As I slowly increased the pressure on his neck, he clawed at my arm, scratching and pulling. Seth slowly got up, regaining his strength.

Cracks began to form on Riley's face.

"Victoria!" He called, "Victoria!"

Seth took hold of his head and ripped it off. I let go of him, springing off, as he crumpled to the ground.

I looked over at Edward, who was pinned down by Victoria. I kicked a shpeil of snow into the air. Our signal.

Bella stepped out of the woods and slid the edge of the rock across her arm, slicing clean and smooth.

Victoria's head shot up, sniffing the air. She noticed Bella, on the complete opposite side from her, and released her grip on Edward.

He flipped her over, pinning Victoria down. He was relying on me.

I leaned over and ripped her arms off. Adjusting his grip, Edward was now holding her by her neck.

Cracks started forming on her face as he pressed even more onto her neck.

I returned to visibility and placed my foot on her chin. She looked up at me, shocked by my sudden appearance and gift.

I lifted my foot and slammed it back down, forcing her head to pop off.

Edward immediately ran over to Bella, ripping part of her sleeve off to bandage her arm, while I dragged the bodies together and lit them on fire.

"Something's wrong!" Edward said, out of nowhere. "Alice needs us to go. NOW."

I headed for the tents, intending to start packing our stuff, but Edward stopped me. "We'll get the stuff later, we need to go."

I sighed and we quickly made our way down the mountain.

. . .

"How long?" Someone asked. I couldn't see the person because I was frantically searching for Jacob. I'd been without him for several hours now...

I saw the russet wolf at the edge of the woods. His eyes softened when he saw me. I smiled, warmth filling my heart. I had started feeling... cold without him.

"The pack needs to leave..." Edward announced, "The Volturi won't honor a truce with the werewolves..."

That's when I noticed that there was a vampire sneaking up behind Leah.

"Leah, WATCH OUT!"

Jacob saw it a second after I did and ran towards her as she turned, but the vampire noticed Jacob's charge.

I started running towards him, but I was too far away. The vamp blurred behind Jake and wrapped his body, squeezing hard.

Leah bit the vamp's head off as both me and Jacob crumpled to the ground, yards away from eachother, clutching our sides.

Jacob's ribs had been broken, and I felt the exact. Same. Pain.

I tried to scream, but nothing came out. My vision blurred as I recalled his face as that leech broke his bones.

"Leah..." I heard Sam say. His voice was all... echo-y. "Take Tess back to Billy's... We'll be right behind you."

My eyesight was really blurred now... My eyelids had started to droop. I felt Leah's warm arms wrap around me, gently, like I was some fragile little doll.

A/N: Hope you liked this chapter... Action packed, yo! Anyways, I fucked the format up in OpenOffice at the last minute, so I'm not sure how it'll look. So yeah, leave a review!