Fight:
Crap, crap, crap! Ow! I thought. And only the fact that I had a child off at god knows where who happened to have an exceptional sense of hearing kept me from saying what I really felt. I looked across the large clearing and saw the others going strong. Unfortunately, looking around was a big mistake. My small distraction allowed Jane to wiggle out of my grip and shoot her lightning-fast, puny hand into cheekbone. Okay, now I don't care, OW! Shit, that hurt! I managed to keep locked in my head. "Damnit!" is what came out.
Jane gave a small, deceitful laugh that brought red to my vision. I quickly whipped around and lodged my foot into her gut with unmistakable, newborn force. I heard the satisfying sound to bones cracking and I guess that I took out at least two ribs. As a congratulation to me, I managed to throw my skilled fist right into her irritating mouth before she even had time to take a breath.
Once again I was exceptionally glad for my mental, mind-protecting shield. Without it, I would surely have been subject to Jane's ability. But since I wasn't, I was able to hear her razor-sharp teeth snap out of their position and see the blood that was there to take their place. Without Jane's powers, she was no longer the most powerful and I was able to get the advantage in our little sprawl.
But of course, the advantage couldn't last for long since nothing has really worked out in my favor lately. Jane now had murder in her eyes; she wanted me dead now more that ever, I could see it. She, very rapidly, swung around and did a round-house kick right into my gut with enough force to make me double-over in pain. As I gasped for air that I didn't really need, she ran around, turned me onto my stomach, and pinned me down.
"Looks like I'm stronger than you after all, little Bella," Jane taunted with her mad, red eyes. She bent down and grazed her lips across my neck. "it's a shame I never got a taste of you when you were human, you had the most delectable sent," and with that, she flexed her razor-sharp teeth and sank them deep into my skin. The pain was immediate, and terrible. A fire started across my whole neck and spread into my brain. The pain made it impossible to think. I tried to hold in a scream but I couldn't and my high voice pierced the night. Through the pain, I could hear Jane's shrilly, little laugh.
"I do feel pity for poor Edward," She went on, "I'm about to cause him so much pain. Oh well, I don't think I'll loose any sleep over it,"
That did it, once she mentioned Edward being in pain, a thick red haze, much like the one before the fight, clouded my vision and distracted me from the pain. I couldn't think clearly anymore and it had nothing to do with the venom Jane infused in me. The only thing that mattered was that Edward was going to be in pain and Jane was going to cause it. My fury granted me some strength. As Jane was preparing for the final kill, I used my newfound energy to thrust her off me and throw her about twenty feet ahead. I got up as quick as lightning and shot at her with a speed that could beat Edward's. Before she had time to get up, I was on top of her punching her face with both fists so fast; I couldn't see my hands clearly.
Blood was gushing out of her mouth, nose, and eyes. As she spit blood out of her mouth, I completely gave myself to my instincts. Without thinking, I bent down towards her neck and sank my teeth into her tiny little neck just as she had done to me before. I can only hope that newborn venom was more powerful and painful than normal venom. She screamed at a frequency that nearly broke my eardrums. As painful as it was to listen to, the satisfaction was unbelievable. I was finally able to get back at her for when she used her ability against Edward back in Volterra so many months ago.
"That was for Edward!" I roared at her. I ran a reasonable distance away and charged at her. Luckily for me she had tried to stand up once I had left her line of sight. As I was running at her I held out my arm as if to pass a baton in a marathon and whacked her directly in her chest.
"That was for threatening my family!" I screamed to her as she fell.
I took a deep breath, "And this is for me," I said almost to myself. I quickly got up and, with as much power I could muster, I jumped up, shot down, and kicked her directly in her un-beating heart. She moved no more.
She wasn't dead. She was just unconscious. But that was good enough for me. She was out of my way and unable to hurt Edward. I breathed a sigh of relief and looked down at her one more time. I mentally captured this image of her. Bloodied and broken, I committed it to memory.
I forced my eyes to look away and back to the problem at hand, the fight. The venom in my neck was beginning to loose it's intensity. I could only guess that it was because of my newborn strength and the fact that I had so much human blood in me. I looked at all the individual combats going on. About fifty yards away, I could see Jasper and Alice taking on four of the voultri guard, they seemed to be doing okay, only I could see blood raining down from Jaspers arm from yet another bite to add to his collection.
Emmett was about half a mile away taking on three guard members himself and having the time of his life. His big, goofy grin was visible from here. Rosalie was seen fighting beside Kate. They were facing Marcus together. Jacob was with his pack members on the left side on the clearing. They were forming a defensive circle around each other. That was very good planning on their part. It allowed them to attack without having to watch their backs. Esme was about thirty yards ahead sprawling with one of the wives. Carlisle was surprisingly seen fighting Alec and Caius all by himself. I could see a giant gash in his lower leg that seemed to be the result of the vampires clawing at him. His gash didn't look so good.
I was about to go over there when a sound reached my ears that dropped my motionless heart into my stomach. Edward was screaming. I darted my head over to the sound of his voice only to have my heart ripped in two. Edward was fighting Aro single-handedly, and was loosing.
I could see Edward fall down to the ground. Aro had apparently summoned amazing strength and was able to double-punch Edward right in his spinal cord. Breaking his back.
As the love of my life fell, I could see other casualties that nearly ripped me to pieces. There were several bleeding bite marks against his arms and two on his throat. As well as a giant bruise already forming on his skull, a mark that would spell immediate death to a mortal. Once he hit the ground Aro bent down to, most likely, kill Edward the same way Alice killed James. He was planning to rip my loves head off.
Without thinking, I raced over to him as fast as my heart would take me. I slammed into Aro just as he grabbed Edward's face. "Get the hell away from him," I seethed, fire in my eyes.
Aro glanced up at me and I could just barely restrain a gasp. He looked completely different. He no longer had the milky, mysterious eyes from before. They were replaced with cold, red daggers. He no longer held the posture of a gentleman, but the pose of a mad lion. And when he spoke, he no longer had the trace of kindness and interest, but a flat, relentless tone that was completely new.
"Bella," he said in a cool voice, "sweet, complicated Bella. I guess it is expected that you interrupt this particular moment. For this was one of the most vital tasks I have been looking forward to ever since you and your miserable bodyguard, Edward, made a fool of me in my own city!" through his rant, his voice changed from almost pleasant conversation, to a hostile and cruel snarl.
"You have been looking forward to killing him?" I asked cautiously. I tried not to wince when I said 'killing' but Aro must have noticed.
Aro gave a sick, little laugh, "Bella, I thought your new vampire mind would allow you to think much more clearly," he taunted, "it seems that you are either very narrow-minded, or you are being selfish,"
"'Selfish'? How?" I asked mostly to keep him from going after Edward. It was very hard to restrain myself from attacking him.
"You are willing to admit your lover's death, but not your own," He pointed out the contradiction.
His words stung, hard. But I got the message. He didn't just want to kill Edward, he wanted me dead too, and this was his way of doing it. I kept my face blank, despite the anger that threatened to overcome me at any moment.
"I've admitted my death long ago, but yet, I'm still here. It seems that I have an uncanny ability to stay alive," I said with forced coolness.
"Ha! Bella that is the most truthful statement you have said in your entire life." Aro agreed, "In fact, I feel almost regretful that I have to break this wonderful strand of events," Without warning, Aro shot towards me with the speed of a cheetah.
The fight was on. Once Aro slammed into me, I was pushed back about twenty feet and ended up slamming into a tree at the edge of the clearing. A move that would have killed a human, only managed to stun me briefly. I silently thanked my newborn talents for about the fifth time today. But I didn't have long; Aro was coming towards me with a speed that I had never thought he was capable of.
He was not the only one with remarkable speed though. My mind was racing, I looked up at the tree and thought of a plan. I quickly got up and ran around the tree trunk as fast as my legs would take me. My plan worked, I was running faster than Aro, so when we collided at the base of the tree, I punched him directly in his chest and he was knocked back about fifty feet. Aro didn't move. I mentally congratulated myself and rushed over to Edward.
The scene I saw nearly killed me right there. Never before had I seen anything so horrifying. Edward was lying motionless, face-forward in the grass. His face was bruised and bloodied. Aro had managed not only to break his back, but also give Edward a massive concussion and five bite marks against his arms and throat. I scuffled a tiny sob and shook Edward slightly.
"Edward?" I said in a tiny, broken voice, "wake up," he didn't move. I could not tell if he was alive or not. He wasn't breathing, but that was expected, he wasn't moving, but vampires can go the whole day without stirring, and he was cold. All signs that spell death for humans, but normal for vampires.
Edward?" I practically begged, "Please, you have to-"
An immense force slammed into me and knocked me off balance. I shook away some black dots from my vision and looked up to see Aro gazing down at me with wild, mad eyes.
"Did you really think you could kill me so easily? Uh! Did you!?" Aro sneered, "Well you are sadly mistaken!" He looked completely insane now. He was so wild with anger; I didn't think he could even think clearly. I had really pissed him off. Crap, I thought. I guess I should have made sure he was really dead… not one of my best plans.
I quickly got up off the ground and away from his hitting range before he had time to smash my head off. This battle was going to be completely different from my last one. Aro had much more power now. Power generated from anger and a thirst for revenge. But he was also clumsier now. He was not thinking clearly and therefore, could not strategize as well as before. I could use that to my advantage.
As Aro took another swing at me, I swiftly dodged his punch and ducked between his legs so I was behind him. Once I steadied myself, which took about a millisecond, I clamped my two fists together and pounded him as hard as I could right at the base of his neck. Aro gasped and stumbled forward a few feet but was otherwise unharmed. I guess his newfound power also gave him newfound endurance. Double crap, I thought. Aro turned around quickly, breathing heavily. He then darted at me with lightning fast speed, grabbed me by my shoulders, and continued running. I stupidly turned my head around to find that he was hurling me directly into another tree.
I snapped my head around and braced for impact. The blow was actually harder than expected. It seemed to happen in slow motion. First my back hit the tree, than my head, and finally the rest of my body. The pain was almost immediate. My head was throbbing and I could feel blood start to trickle down my neck. The rough bark was starting to penetrate my rock-hard skin because of the pressure between Aro, the tree, and me. And finally, my back was incredibly painful. There is only so much damage that even a vampire spinal cord can take. I wanted to start shouting swear words at the top of my lungs, but I didn't want to give Aro the satisfaction. But I still couldn't stop a sharp intake of breath that penetrated my lips.
Aro seemed to take great pleasure in that, " Does that hurt, Bella? Hm? I hope it does. I'm finally able to get back at you for all the torment and humiliation you have caused me!" there was no possible way Aro could feel all this resentment at me for what Edward and I did in Voltera. Could he? The only logical explanation I could come up with was he was finally going mad. All those years of being cooped up underground a great city. Doing nothing but ordering people around. It was finally starting to loosen his grip on reality. I almost felt sorry for him.
"Aro," I tried, "it doesn't have to be this way. You can let all of this go and leave here. There is nothing you have to gain from fighting us,"
"Oh Bella," he replied in a shaky voice, "you are sadly mistaken. Don't you understand, You, and your little vegetarian family have disrupted and disgraced the world of vampires for the last time. Your whole family must die! I will kill all of them off myself! Starting with you, little Bella,"
He was still holding me against the tree so it wasn't that hard for him to bite into my lower neck with his venomous teeth. I nearly screamed at the pain. It clouded my vision slightly.
"It's funny," Aro continued, my blood dripping down his neck, "everything I've been through and I have only one regret,"
"Oh yeah?" I spat at him with new anger for the pain in my neck, "what is it?"
"I only wish your dear Edward was here to see this," he flashed an evil grin and bent in for the final kill. That little crack about Edward infuriated me. The very thought of him seeing this brought red to my vision. My anger gave me enough strength to brace my legs together and give Aro a steel-braced kick directly in his guts. Aro doubled backwards and released his grip on me. I ran towards him, fast as lightning, and grabbed his arm with both of my hands. As hard as I could, I twisted and pulled his arm right out of its socket. Blood started gushing out of the hole in his arm immediately and Aro gave an ear-splitting scream.
I then jumped up on his shoulders and did a little something that I learned from Alice. I grabbed his head in my hands and twisted his neck as hard as I could. It worked, Aro's head snapped cleanly off, right at the base of his neck. Blood immediately started pouring out of the gigantic hole. I jumped off his shoulders and backed away.
Just before he fell I caught a glimpse of the headless figure and felt an ounce of pity. Aro didn't really want all of us dead. He just wanted to keep order in the vampire world. But then I remembered all the pain and worry he caused my family and the ounce of pity disappeared quicker than water in the desert. Aro's headless body fell and he moved no more.
"Yeah your right Aro," I said smugly, "it was to bad Edward wasn't here to see this,"