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Chapter 10 The End of Who I Was

BPOV

I walked forward towards the danger no fear in my heart with a sudden determination. Looking at the woods seeing the seperation brought to mind a favorite poem by Robert Frost. He had once said that he stood seperated by two roads and he chose the less traveled. Me I trudged through the center of those woods I chose the short cut down the middle.

I looked behind me seeing all the people who shared todays fate, no matter the outcome we would rise or fall together. Once we reached the clearing standing in the open feild we took our positions. Jake's pack hiding in the trees out of sight. Carlise stood next to me at the head of our family, no sence in having me hide when we knew that Aro would wish to see me.

Kate stood at my left her elbow touching mine keeping close knit with Jake phased standing on my right. I reached over stroking his fir as he bumped me with his head and licked my hand. Jasper stood next to Carlise with Garrett next to Kate forming our front line of defence. Our second line was formed of Carmen and Elezar. Esme stood directly behind behind them between Alice and Emmett who kept looking into the trees for Leah.

A small howl came out of those very trees directly across where Emmett stood, Leah letting him know she was close. He nodded his teeth clenched in his strong jaw, my determination making everyone stand strong and tall.

No one spoke instead we all waiting silent and still as the seconds tripped by into minutes. I reached back through our group to grab Alices hand as we shared a vision allowing her to see around the pack for the Volturi's arrival. "20 seconds" We said together then dropped our link.

I heard the pack settle low to the ground hiding themselves waiting. Carlise turned giving Esme a kiss Alice hugged Jasper who was emminating his love into her. Garrett kissed Kate's lips in a soft peck before pinching her ass. The boy was pure adreneline looking forward to what was coming. Carmen kissed her mate as well linking her hands with his.

Jake moved closer to my side bringing his body into contact I leaned down and hugged his neck breathing in his earthy scent. He was what I would fight and win for today. I heard the multiple feet connecting with the ground at that moment. Looking out across the feild coming from the swirling mist the Volturi.

They had indeed come in massive numbers. It would appear that they brought every vampire they had ever known. Aro stood in the center regal in his approach sure of his victory no matter the choice he would make. Marcus and Caius flanked him as they moved in on us. Jane stood with Alec, as well as Felix and Demetri. Renata stood directly behind Aro her sheild already firmly wrapped around him.

I let my sences take in the powers all around us, Reneta's sheild was strong, but only able to encase Aro, and herself. I could do more than that. I was letting my sences take over. I would not sheild until I felt the powers moving in on us. Then they would learn what I could do. I watched as the wifes filled in behind them, with a huge number of people behind that. I could feel their curiousity at seeing our small group standing here willing to fight if we needed to.

Aro stopped in the middle of the feild Reneta of course close behind him keeping her guard up. Felix and Jane to his left Caius and Marcus to his right. Carlise took a step forward to speak. "Aro my old friend to what do we own the honor of your visit, and with the entire Volturi clan no less." He said.

"Carlise, indeed I have come with a grave intent today. It seems that your little family has killed my dear Edward. Pity that is for he held such potential for us. A member of the Denali clan chose to come to us with her greivences and we are here to judge accordingly." He paused for dramatic effect clucking his tongue then turning, "Come forward dear one." As he said the words Tanya removed herself from the crowd to walk out her anger comes from her in waves.

"Let us begin shall we. I have brought the clans together today to bear as witness to Tanya's words. They will make their judgement, and we will decide the fate of the Cullen clan." He spoke to the people behind him waving his arm towards us in a graceful turn. "Tanya what say you my dear."

She stepped forward and glared at me with venom pooling in her veins. "I was waiting for the return of my Edward we were to be mated. He did not come back after his trip to ensure that she was taken care of. The Volturi had ruled that she was to be turned or killed no human allowed to know of us. Edward left to ensure that she would be silenced. After many weeks when he did not return, I was shocked to hear that he had been ripped apart by that large dog and Bella well it seems she has forsaken her vampire nature and mated that thing." She spat the word thing as if my Jake was dirt under her nails.

I moved a step forward wanting to shut her mouth for her my own anger raging now allowing my sheild to stretch and snap inside me waiting to throw it up at a seconds notice. "Ah yes Isabella, how wonderful it is to see that you have joined us in the vampire way of life. A shame though to hear that Edward was not your mate instead you have chosen this horrid smelling creature instead." He said with a wrinkle on his perfect forhead.

"Aro how nice to see you, yes infact Tanya is speaking part truth. I am indeed mated to Jacob, however Edward never came back to kill me instead we were married, and he planned to turn me. The events more than that. Perhaps you would like to see for yourself?" I asked holding my hand out to him. His eyes lit up, and he approached me.

"Am I able to read you now that you are a vampire my dear?' He asked the excitement clear in his voice. "I can allow you to see what I wish Aro. I will lower my sheilf to let you see the events that took place with Edward, and you will know without a doubt that we have done nothing wrong." I spoke to him as well as the masses behind him. Making sure they understood that we were not at fault.

Stepping out closer with Jake at my side I moved to Aro as he reached then taking my hand in his. His eyes lit with excitement his face betraying him as he cycled through the memories of what had transpired with Edward. I felt the emotions coming off him tapping into Jaspers powers. Aro felt excitement and greed over my power as a sheild. I closed the link tight around my other powers. He then lit onto my mate and the pack in my memories his eyes turning a fire red with want.

I then tapped into his mind seeking while he read into me. I could see his decision that Edward and Rosalies deaths were not enough to warrent this attack. His mind set then trying to come on a way to take out the Cullen's wanting Alice, the pack and myself to be forced to join him. He coveted my sheild his desire for it almost lustful making me ill with the images that sprang forth. I closed the link and stepped out of his reach.

"Aro I hope it is clear to you now that we are infact not wrong in our actions." I said it with conviction the truth ringing clear in my voice as Japser and me combined sent out the feelings to everyone allowing the all to feel for themselves the honesty of our words.

A rumbling of voices began behind Aro from the large crowd. He turned to speak then picking up on the dissention in his ranks. "Indeed, they speak the truth, Edward was never dear Isabella's mate. He deserved the fate that was delt him. Now Tanya what to do with you for your deceit." He looked over at Felix as the words left his mouth.

With a speed that shocked even me she lay in peices at Felix's feet. "Now that her lies have been delt with I feel we should move on to the actual problem I now see here before us." Aro turned back to look at me his eyes falling on Jake. " This creature this werewolf should not be here today. We have condemed them and hunted them into extinction many years ago. We have no choice but to do the same with this one."

"No." I said moving to touch Jakes shoulder as he crouched low reading to spring. The other pack members moving to the clearing behind us their number clear now for Aro to see. His eyes lit with a small amount of fear before Carlise spoke. "They are not in fact what you think Aro. These wolves are not the Werewolves from before. These animals are shapeshifters the wolf just happening to the form of choice. As you can see there is no moon in the sky, they are not mindless creatures held by the moon,"

"Ah yes, they are in fact different." Marcus spoke. "Who cares what they are we need to eliminate the threat here and now." Cacius hissed. They moved slightly advancing. I slammed my sheild into place instantly. Right in front of them seperating the Volturi from us in the glass dome now protecting us all. They slammed to a halt as their forms met my sheild and crashed into it.

A sick twisted laughter came from Aro who rubbed his hands together, "Impressive my Isabella. You are very much everything I had hoped you would be dearest one." I met his eyes before saying, "Aro I am more than that as you will find out if you press this matter." He seemed delighted with my spirit as much as he was with my sheild. "Is that so little one are you capable of more than you show us now? I feel I am duty bound to take you under my wing. I will of course allow your mate to join you in Voltera as you undergo your tutilage."

"I will not be joining you Aro, let this go now we don't want to fight you. This family has done nothing wrong you hold no ground for this fight you seek to start." I looked behind him eyeing everyone in the crowd. The whispers starting anew at my words. "Do you feel that they should be left in peace dear ones? Is the Volturi wrong to take out a threat to our way of life?" Aro asked the crowd behind him.

A tall blonde vampire walked forward from the crowd. Her voice ringing out as she spoke, "Aro we have come to bear witness as such it is clear that the Cullen's were not wrong in what they chose to do. Instead they protected their family as would any of us. I am not going to stand by idoly as the Volturi kill an entire coven on nothing more than greed. You are all aware of my dear neices power to know the truth of someones words." She beconned a small girl forward.

The girl walked slowly she was small of stature clearly no more than a child when she had been turned. Her red eyes wise beyond her bodys age. "Amanda is right in what she says. This family speaks the truth the only lies I feel are coming from Aro as he tries to find a way to acheive his goal, whatever that might be. This family should be left in peace."

"Brianna my small one, you are welcome to leave us if you feel strongly in your convictions. I do not ask you to fight only bear witness." Aro said with a snear towards the small girl. "I will fight Aro as you are sure to know, we will fight side by side to stop you from the wrong you attempt to do this day." With that she turned placing her small hand into the tall elegant blondes as the turned to the now dispencing witnesses.

The blonde Amanda spoke again, "I will fight against the Volturi at the side of these golden eyes. They are fighting for their families their lifes in peril for Aro's greed to have new powers. How long before the Volturi come for us next. Each time he hears of a new coven growing in strength and size they are taken out without just cause. I will not stand by and see that happen again."

She turned then to walk with the small one towards us preparing to join our cause. "Jane." Aro said the words and the small one was instantly on the ground screaming in pain. I reached out grabbing and holding onto Jane's power using my own throwing it back at her. Brianna was able to stand at once as they moved through the hole I allowed in my sheild. They all watched in shock as Jane lay crumpled on the ground her body convulsing in pain. I stopped my attack once the new additions to my family were safely next to us.

"I warned you Aro, we will fight if we must, and I have more powers than you can imagine." I let the venom in my voice spread out with the waves of fear Japser and I pushed at them. Aro and the others stepped back. The remaning witnesses leaving Aro and the wifes, and his guard to their fates. "Isabella it seems you have me at a disadvantage. Surely you understand we do not wish to fight you. Perhaps we could come to an understanding." Aro said attempting to defuse the situation.

I felt it then around my sheild the tiny fingers of a power. Ahhh there you are it was Alex trying to numb us to allow them to destroy my family. In that moment I knew there would be no peaceful resolution to this day. The Volturi would never allow us to continue they might perhaps leave us in peace this day, but they would return again to pick us off. I stepped forward this time my anger causing tiny strips of electrical current to stem from my body. Kates power coursing across my skin. My hair standing on end as I drank in her strengths.

I moved out of my sheild closing it behind me. Jake rushed to get to me only everyone of my family was trapped inside safely bound in my dome of protection. I could see Jake clawing and fighting to break free. His howls of desperation tearing at my heart. "I see it clearly Aro you will never leave us alone. It will not end well this day. I will not allow you to take my mate or to hurt my family. This will end now."

The sparks leaping from my fingertips has them all moving back a step as Felix altered his attack at me, I laughed as a new power hit me from behind. Oh yes this would be fun. I pulled deeply from Amanda and flung it out towards Felix. His cry of terror ringing in my ears as his body shook from the inside. Aro screamed, "Kill them all!" I was lost to the powers floating inside me.

Felix shook and convulsed his body stretching and erupting his skin spreading out from his cold frame as it bubbled and boiled. Instanly he erupted in flames as he became the inferno of my rage. The others lept at me as Felix became the ash raining on their heads. I turned to Demetri next as he rushed me his stong frame pouncing. I evaded and as he came to the ground I turned and sent Kate's borrowed energy into him. He exploded in a flash of white lightening leaving nothing but a scorch mark on the ground in his place.

The ground itself shook then as it split and a caved in, a large cavernous hole with molten lava spewing forth behind the remaning Volturi effectively ending their escapes. Jane fell and was instantly gone from us. Renata was sheilding herself and Aro holding them safe from my attack. Ignoring them for the weakness they were i moved onto Marcus who crouched low.

Cacius srpung at me then, falling back as my sheild hit him hard in the chest a large gapping hole in his side. I sent wave after wave of my sheild forward as it pumelled him ripping him to bits. I dropped my sheild behind me allowing the others to move, as they fought next to me the wolves tearing into the bystanders who had sealed their fates aligning with the Volturi. Aro moved on Jake who fought to gain access to Renata.

Jasper, Garret, and Emmett ripping Marcus to peices on my left. I watched as Aro kicked Jake hard sending him flying back a few feet and my anger multipled. I lept then my body shking with rage. I grabbed through Renata's weak attempt to block me her eyes full of terror. I was the last thing she ever saw as my hands deftly removed her head from her shoulders. Her limp body falling at my feet.

I stepped over her moving towards the last member of the Volturi. "You die now." I screamed the rage of everyone around me the bloodlust coursing thourhg me my eyes burned as I advanced. Never had I felt the anger i did in this moment consumed by it. I couldn't stop the shaking in my body as I sprang at Aro.

I am not sure what happened as I landed on him my teeth tearing into his neck, my claws raking down his frozen chest tearing large gapping holes from him. I didn't think just tore ripped shredded him not stopping until the pile of his body was spread out around me. Tiny shards of sparkling vampire glinting in the light of day.

I turned to bark out the order to burn him when a howl ripped past my lips.