Chapter 15

BPOV:

I woke up with the sun shining brightly through the windows, I reached over to where Edward was supposed to be, but the bed was empty. I had a slight moment of panic before I saw the note on the pillow.

Bella,

I went to Carlisle and Esme's room. Come and join us when you wake up. I love you!

Edward

The note made me smile. I sat up and stretched and headed to the shower. I jumped in and out of the shower as quickly as I could and got dressed in the clothes that Alice had left in the room for me. I pulled on the dark wash jeans and a tight midnight blue tank top with lace at the top, then slipped on black ballet slippers and pulled my hair up in a high pony tail. After I was presentable I went to meet up with Edward.

The whole family was there when I opened the door. I smiled and went straight to Edward where I sat on his lap. He kissed my shoulder and wrapped his arms around me.

"You look beautiful love," he whispered in my ear, I blushed bright red which made Emmet laugh and point. I just ducked my head and we started to talk business.

"I am ready to face him," I announced to everyone. "I have enough control and enough power to face Aro."

"We scouted the land last night, we have found a way to get in there quietly, make a surprise attack," Jasper added.

"Good, so when do we do this?" I asked looking at everyone.

"I say we do it tomorrow, we go over our plan tonight and strike tomorrow," Jasper said. We all nodded our heads in agreement.

Three hours later we came up with a pretty good plan. Jasper, Edward, Alice, and I are going to go in before the others, we will clear a path for them. Carlisle, Esme, Emmet and Rosalie are coming in after us and they are to find the prisoners that Aro had taken from my kingdom and help them escape, then come back and meet us in the rendezvous point where we will make a united stand against Aro and his brothers. We all hunted and dispersed after that and Edward and I headed back to our room where we made love over and over again.

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We all met up the next day outside of the Aro's home, we went over the plan once again and headed to work. The others stayed back while we went in first. We went in quietly, and I made sure that no matter what we where all standing down wind so our scents didn't carry. One after one we took down the guard posted all over the back gardens. We would come up from behind, quickly rip off their heads and I would call fire and burn it, leaving their bodies for later. Once it was all clear Edward sent the message via mind to Carlisle it was time. While they were doing that we were going to locate Aro. I sent my magic out to search closing my eyes and stretching my hands. My magic swept through the house, silently looking through every room until a white hot light came up in my radar. I smiled there you are you sick bastard I thought to myself. I looked over at Edward and nodded, dropping my shields so he could read my mind and get Aro's location. I could feel him like a cold breeze enter my mind then send the message to everyone else.

We waited till Carlisle and the others met up with us at the rendezvous and we headed out. As we were walking toward the pending battle I prayed to the Goddesses.

"Earth Mother, Goddess of the Moon, hear my plea. Grant me the power to keep them safe, I beg of you to grant us strength," I whispered, and I felt their power breeze through me and smiled.

We could hear them before we could see them. They were in the next room, hidden behind wooden doors.

"What are we going to do about the Sidhe princess Aro, you wanted to keep her alive, and now she has escaped, just like her mother did two hundred years ago," I heard a man say.

"I say we just kill her, she is just in the way," I heard a familiar voice say. "Jessica," I growled quietly. Edward reached over and grabbed my hand, rubbing soothing circles with his finger tips, it helped me cool my rage. I looked over and smiled my thanks at him and he just smiled and nodded back.

"No," I heard Aro growl. "She is to powerful to destroy."

" She is to powerful not to destroy! One day she will reach her full level of powers and she will be unstoppable, you have heard the prophecies just as I have, she is the reason why we wanted the Sidhe people destroyed centuries ago!" I heard another man yell. My eyes widened at this, what were they talking about?

"No, you wanted to destroy the people, I wanted to capture them, and harness their power for our use, none of us knew that the prophetic child was to come of Charles and Renee, that includes you Caius," I heard Aro yell back.

"That is enough, both of you, don't you understand that if we had left their people alone in the first place, then the child would not have been born to end our reign? You two brought this onto all of us and now you argue like children," I heard a new mans voice say.

"I think its time to make our presence known," I whispered as I called my magic to the front again. I could feel the power build up inside of me and vibrate in the air around me. I heard a gasp to my right and looked over towards Edward. "Your eyes," he whispered. I looked at the mirror in the wall behind him and understood. My eyes were glowing with a light of my magic. The wind started to pick up around me causing my hair to swirl around my face.

For the first time, I felt confident in my own abilities, and with me floating on this new feeling, I walked forward and slammed the doors open causing a loud bang against the walls. We all walked in and fanned out, covering each others backs.

"You want to kill me, here's your big chance," I said loudly for everyone to hear.

"Princess, you have returned, and brought your friends as well," Aro said gliding over to stand a little further away from us. I just smirked at him, "What Aro, afraid of me?" I asked. "Why would I be afraid Princess? You are the one that should be afraid." He smirked back at me, but the tension in his eyes never left.

"Why Aro? The only guards you have left are the ones standing in this room, all of the others are dead," I said. He tried to hide the flinch and failed. That is when Aro noticed Carlisle for the first time.

"Carlisle, my friend, what are you doing here?" Aro asked him, truly surprised.

"What I should have done a long time ago Aro, I will no longer stand by while you slaughter and pillage, I am making a stand against you," Carlisle said.

"You will die Carlisle, you know that," Aro explained.

"I would rather die doing the right thing, then live a millennium sitting out while you destroy," Carlisle said, holding his head high.

"Very well," Aro said. " Jane, Alec," he called. The two small twin vampires came forward. Aro just nodded his head and they both smirked. Alice fell to the ground screaming, convulsing with pure pain, Jasper went to run to her, but fell still, his eyes going blank. I knew what was happening. I needed to stop them from hurting my family. I pulled my magic and threw it around my family and I could feel the shield take shape. I pulsed magic into it, building it until I could feel the last piece snap into place, and Alice's screams fell silent. Jasper ran to her and helped her stand. I looked over at the twins, my rage bubbled up my throat and came out of my lips in a scream.

I started to think of fire, I stared at the two twins and willed them to burn, to burn in a fire that would not be put out until they were nothing but ashes.

At first small bits of smoke started to rise from them, but in seconds fire consumed their bodies. Their screams bounced off of the walls, they shrieked and still I pushed my magic into the fire. Only when their screaming had stopped, had I pulled my magic back and let the fire die.

I turned to Aro, "You will all pay for what you have done to my people, but you Aro, you will pay for what you did to my family, and believe me, you will want to die long before I am through with you." Fear started to hum in the air. They were all afraid of me. Good.