Chapter 3: Temporary betrayal
They walked swiftly with a certain calm attitude, as if they have foreseen this before, as if they were so confident that they would win.
For the first time, I was not so pessimistic. I was confident I would rip a few heads off, and tear some vampires up. I was both surprised and glad that Rosalie was standing here next to me, ready to fight side by side.
I have to admit, I was a bit nervous. Not pessimistic, but nervous. Not for myself, but for the two loved ones right next to me. I was worried as hell that they would even get a small scar somewhere on their body. God forbid anything serious happen to them.
I wondered how Edward was doing. I didn't really have the time to search for him among the bloody battle going on, but it wasn't hard to immediately pick out where he was as soon as I saw the second biggest wolf—Sam—and a head with golden hair next to him—Edward. I was a little relieved that there was a gigantic wolf to hesitate some of the vampires approaching them, although that wouldn't completely stop them from anticipating to kill Edward.
I quickly turned my attention forward once again. I created my invisible shield around the three of us, in case any of the Volturi guards decided to attack us mentally.
A mist started approaching us again—Alec's doing probably. I smirked at Alec.
As the guards were still walking towards us, Jane and Chelsea appeared from behind Caius. She whispered something to him and grimaced at me. Then, Caius and Marcus shrugged their shoulders and turned to join the fight against Edward.
I guess Jane really wanted to fight me physically, considering that her mental illusions of pain were no match for my shield.
The advancing Volturi guards then stopped. They created a slight triangular formation with Jane and Alec in the front line.
Suddenly, something came flying across the floor a few feet away from me. Distracting my attention away from the Volturi guards standing in front of us, I turned my head to see that it was Edward. Without thinking, I quickly put down my shield and ran towards where Edward was lying. Edward quickly got up in his crouching position and yelled to me, "Bella, don't! I'm okay! Go protect the others!"
At that moment, as Edward resumed his fighting position, he shriveled, bending down onto his knees, and then shrieking in pain, lying on the floor. I quickly turned to Jane, who was smiling rather widely. I growled and ran towards Jane. In no time, I jumped on top of Jane, knocking her down to the ground, and we started to fight.
It felt as more of a cat fight at first. I was getting at her face in fury and outrage. Edward's screaming stopped immediately and Rosalie ran to Edward to help him up. I still struggled to fight Jane. As we were both standing up again and Jane was throwing me all over the place, Jacob ran towards Jane and grabbed her with his mouth and shook his head furiously like a wild dog trying to rip up a Barbie doll.
I quickly turned around to see that Chelsea was glaring at Rosalie, then Jacob.
Suddenly, Rosalie quickly turned to Jacob's direction and growled at him. Did I miss something?
I then straightened up and realized what I've missed. Edward had told me before that Chelsea had a special power of breaking and strengthening relationships. Apparently, she found that Rosalie and Jacob had a little weak spot.
As Rosalie jumped to attack Jacob, I ran as quickly as possible.
I was furious that the Volturi guards were just watching on the sidelines while Rosalie was attacking Jacob…not that I wanted them to join in on destroying Jacob, but just the fact that they were controlling our bonds.
Jacob whined, letting Jane free, as if to plead to Rosalie to get herself together. At a certain point, Jacob started getting aggressive as he realized that whining wouldn't make any difference, whatsoever.
Then, Demetri joined in on top of Jacob's back. I guess he was trying to get rid of the gigantic wolf first, before the Volturi guards could get rid of us.
As I reached Jacob, I wasn't sure what I supposed to do. Was I supposed to get on top of Jacob's back and throw Rosalie on the ground so that she would stop? But she's family! But then again, if I don't throw her, how am I supposed to get her normal self back? Like that dilemma wasn't enough, I had to worry about fighting Demetri.
Time was running short. It was a matter of time that Rosalie would destroy Jacob, considering that she had some anger built up from before Renesmee was born.
I quickly jumped on top of Jacob and threw Rosalie on the ground. I felt sorry, but I had no other choice. Then Demetri turned to me and attacked me. We both flew onto the ground, my body hitting the floor, while he tried to strangle me, on top of me. As I saw that Rosalie tried to attack the helpless Jacob, lying motionless, I gripped Demetri by the neck and threw him. Before hitting the floor, he resumed his crouching position.
Before I could even run to Jacob, the rest of the Volturi guards that were on the sidelines watching us, joined in on the fight. Most of them came for me, while the others, including Jane ran to Jacob. Of course, Chelsea was still on the sidelines controlling Rosalie's bond with her mind. As the guards ran towards me, Quil appeared out of nowhere. He knocked a few guards over with his head as if they were bowling pins. I jumped on a few guards, twisting their heads off. As much as I would have liked to help Quil destroy the few guards he was fighting off, I had a more important matter to take care off. I quickly ran towards Jacob. He was fighting as hard as he could than the last time I saw him lying motionlessly, but I still had the urge to save him.
As soon as I reached him, Jane smirked at me and started torturing him, giving him illusions of pain. Jacob howled in excruciating pain. Edward, then appeared out of nowhere and knocked Jane to the side. Then, I tried to pull off any vampires on Jacob. As the persistent guards advanced towards me and Jacob, my anger grew. With the same hand notion I had had before, I pushed against the air, giving out a strong wave of rippled air that hit the guards and pushed them towards the center of the field. Edward, quickly turned his head towards me, completely speechless. He started laughing, as he casually twisted and broke off Jane's head.
One pain in the butt gone. A several more to go.
Edward, then got rid of Chelsea standing on the sidelines, with no difficulty. Rosalie quickly resumed her normal self and shook her head. Her eyes were round with surprise as she realized she was on top of Jacob's head, about to bite him.
Second pain in the butt gone.
Soon, we were all in the center of the field, fighting in the crowded area with everyone else. Ben helped us out a few times, as he 'influenced' the earth. He often made the ground elevate and depress to disturb the Volturi guards' balance and stance. Kate often helped Jacob out when the guards tried to gang up on him. She shocked the guards with electrical shock, leaving them motionless, which gave Emmett the opportunity to twist their heads off.
Most of the time, Emmett, as usual, was not serious. As he fought the guards, he was laughing and smiling, enjoying the fight. Sometimes, he laughed when he wrestled the guards and none of them was able to challenge his strength. I even laughed. Who dared to challenge Emmett in strength?
Most of the Volturi guards were done. We managed to defeat them. The ones, still persistent in their fight, were obviously the main Volturi guards—Demetri, Marcus, Caius, Renata, Felix, and Alec. The one, who did not even put a finger into this fight, was Aro.
All of us turned to face Aro and his guards with disgust. He was holding something in his arms. It was hard to pick out what he was holding when the main Volturi guards were surrounding him in a line. I tried to see more clearly what it was. I saw a few locks of hair falling to the side of his arms. It sort of looked like a little girl. A girl that looked exactly like…Renesmee.
My hands instantly dropped to my sides, and I felt dizzy and breathless for the first time ever since I became a vampire.