A/N: Didyme's power, if you didn't know, is to make people around her happy. I have finally finished mapping out the storyline, and I hope it will be 10 chapters long. We're past half way! Yay! I hope this chapter clears up a bit of confusion I might have inadvertently created. This chapter is mostly action again, but hey, there is a battle going on, and you wouldn't like it if I didn't do enough detail on the different phases, and how it goes from being a clump of individual fights to two big fights. Wow, long sentence. LOL. And please guys, review number is still zero. (As of the 30th of March 2009. Hopefully this figure will soon be out of date.)Thanks for reading!

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight and or any of the characters that appear in the Stephanie Meyer books. However, the characters that do not appear in the books are of my own creation.

The Two Fronts of the Battle

Trevor stood majestically on top of a hill, looking down at the scene before him. 88 vampires locked in the struggle of their lives were left, the fastest, strongest, smartest and luckiest. Of the original 75 Romanian vampires, only 48 were still alive. Trevor marvelled at the atrocity that this battle had been. But the Volturi had lost vampires as well, and their initial number of 61 was now almost halved, and there were only 40. Trevor was relieved that Marcus, Aro and Caius were among the living, for now at least. He also noted that Marcus' spy, Mathias, and his mate, Farfalla, were alive, and fighting together.

Trevor felt his mind go into torment. The Volturi was cracking. He knew it. Didyme and Marcus were now so deeply in love, that they no longer cared about Aro's plans to dominate the vampiric world. Over the past few months, as Marcus' enthusiasm for the cause disappeared, Trevor's had gone along with it. Marcus and Didyme planned to leave after the battle. Aro knew this, and Trevor could tell that he was not happy about it. He had given the couple his blessing anyway though, and they would soon depart for an uncharted land across the sea, and one which would stay uncharted for centuries.

What Aro hadn't counted on, since he hadn't read Trevor's mind for a while, was that Trevor was going with them. He had told Marcus this, and they were happy to have him along, though they warned him to stay out of Aro's way until they left. Trevor's thoughts were interrupted as Harrison, from Sonia's guard, leapt onto his back. Trevor flung his opponent over his head and attacked with confidence. Harrison was a strong tracker, and one of Sonia's most valued guards, but now that he had found Trevor, his talent would be useless. Harrison leapt sideways, but Trevor tackled him out of the air, and tore off both arms with a grunt.

Trevor's expression was grim as he decapitated Harrison and ripped the rest of his body to shreds. He hurled each piece quickly into the nearby fire, the second one to have been lighted for this battle, and the smaller.

Aro gasped as his victory against Gargoyle, Vladimir's second-in-command, was snatched away from under his nose as Vladimir himself plunged into the fight. Aro quickly signalled for the other two vampires to take out Gargoyle while he dealt with Vladimir as easily and quickly as possible.

Gargoyle screamed as he was dispatched at last, and Vladimir's face crumpled with despair. Aro leapt forward, seizing the opportunity presented to him on a platter. But as soon as Aro touched Vladimir, he read his mind, and saw that Vladimir was feigning shock. Aro was thrown to the ground, but saved within seconds as Vladimir fled. Aro cursed himself for carelessness. If he hadn't been for those other two vampires, he might now be dead.

Caius screamed with rage as his twenty-first vampire went down. He now had only three more, and retreated from Lucian's attack to merge his forces with Marcus' who were also struggling. Lucian grinned maniacally as he pursued Caius, but was not fast enough, and Marcus' forces were already clashing with his own before he could chase the Volturi leader further.

Marcus saw Caius run frantically with only three surviving vampires towards his own force. Lucian's vampires assaulted his own from the side as Caius and his last three rushed away, leaving his forces to bear the brunt of Caius' mistakes.

"Didyme, please stay here, I will repel Sonia's forces. Then we can concentrate on Lucian. Soon-"

"Alright, love. You don't need to tell me your military strategy. I already know that you will be the victor." Marcus smiled, genuinely happy, and not just because of Didyme's talent. He sped off to aid Trevor against Sonia's guard.

Marcus crashed into the fray beside him, and Trevor grinned inwardly. Sonia's guard was now down to just five, not including the leader. The bad aspect of the fight was that Caius' forces were all but depleted, and Lucian's were not. Caius could be accredited with the fact that his vampires had brought down thirty of Lucian's forty though. Now the battle was being fought on two fronts. On one it was Marcus and Caius versus Sonia and Lucian and on the other, Aro against Vladimir and what was left of Stefan's forces.

Then disaster struck as Lucian's vampires dispatched four of Marcus' in quick secession and broke the line heading straight for Didyme. Marcus' battle with Sonia had taken him far away, and Trevor found himself as the only thing between Didyme and death, as Didyme's four bodyguards had all been killed earlier in the battle. Didyme glanced at Trevor as she stumbled backwards. Trevor caught her hand though, and pulled her up, reaching her side and more than willing to die to defend his mother.

Trevor roared to the sky and charged forward to attack the ten vampires threatening Didyme. He knew that if he took the time to kill any of them, one of the others would seize the opportunity and take Didyme away, and kill her easily. Since she had always had Marcus and the rest of the Volturi to protect her, Didyme had never needed to fight, and it looked like this could soon be the cause of her death.

Then suddenly Trevor laughed with relief as Marcus and several other vampires turned away from Sonia's forces to rush to Didyme's aid. Lucian growled and fell back. He looped his vampires around Marcus' and joined up with his mate. By then Marcus had decided to stay with Didyme until the end of the battle. Her near-death by Lucian had shaken Marcus up. Now it was just one big block of vampires against another.

Marcus evaluated the battle quickly. Aro was winning against Vladimir and Stefan, so even though he and Caius were going to lose to Sonia and Lucian, if they could hold off until Aro had eliminated Vladimir and Stefan's vampires, they would be saved. 'On to more glorious victories' would be Aro's approach. Aro would dismiss the lost and call it a great day in vampiric history. He again told himself that as soon as the Romanians had been dispatched, he, Didyme and Trevor were leaving, with or without Aro's blessing.

Suddenly an idea struck Marcus. If he didn't have Didyme to worry about, he could help fight Sonia and Lucian's vampires. Then he could hold off Sonia and Lucian for longer. He again glanced over to Aro's front of the battle. He was most definitely winning. He made up his mind quickly and spoke to his wife and mate.

"Didyme, take shelter with Aro please. This is heating up." Marcus said to his wife, waiting tensely beside him. She was also scared from what had happened before.

"No! I want to be with you!" she started defiantly, although she knew that she had to go. Marcus wouldn't be able to think clearly about the battle if his mind was on her. Without another word, she nodded and left. Marcus never saw her again.