Disclaimer: If I pulled a muscle can I not have to write that I don't own twilight? Guess not.
So this has been the most difficult chapter in the whole story to write. Not because it's Edward's POV, but because it contains so much necessary detail which I have to somehow incorporate in without sounding rushed fake or hating it. At that I'm still worried I left
Edward gets a good part in this story; Edward's still Edward. He may be a pompous asshole while he's trying to be 'perfect' but in the end he still is a vampire sweet heart.
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Edward's POV
I'd been out in the wilderness for forever now it felt like...
This was forever coming from a vampire?
I definitely was getting irritable now.
I hadn't hunted. I refused to. I hadn't spoken, or caved into any of my vampiric natures, it was mandatory I didn't. I was weak and thirsty but I had to ignore these facts. I forced myself this way the second I left Bella's life.
I needed to ignore everything for my Bella.
I needed to find Taha Aki the great wolf.
He was the last Great Spirit Chief and first shape shifter in the Quileute tribe. He would be the key to saving Bella from the Volturi. Though the only fact the fuelled my constant frustration was he was my natural born enemy. Everything about him was designed to kill my kind, and likewise I was designed to kill his.
I called his name into the forest- day and night with no return. Alice had seen a vision in addition to the one of Bella leaving our family, it was Taha Aki finding me. With each passing day I was becoming more anxious. I needed him to show himself to me, our union would be the only thing to prevent the Volturi from killing the entire race of Quileute shape shifters... and anyone who knew of them.
Even though Jacob was not my favourite person, he was with Bella. He was making her finally happy in the most righteous ways. They were meant to be together and I couldn't fight against that. I could and would only protect her.
This was everything I wanted for her; for her to keep her soul and live a natural human life with children and aging. And now my selfishness from before was about to take it away from her.
Our trip to Volturi had ultimately cost her life. She was bound to my life due to her knowledge of this immortal life. Her knowledge was breaking the law laid down by the Volturi. Though this shouldn't be the case now, Bella was allowed to know about everything. She was Jacob's, our enemies imprint. It was even told in Quileute legends that imprints were allowed to carry the knowledge of the secretive world of monsters around them.
Unfortunately the Volturi didn't know that modification to the rule; nor would they want to hear it from a supposed werewolf. They wouldn't listen; they'd order a massive slaughtering.
I couldn't allow that.
I had to do everything in my power to save my Bella.
I had seen what I had to do briefly in Alice's thoughts, and I took off. Alice took her place in the plan, as usual only Bella's safety wanted. Unfortunately much of Alice's visions were shady because of the vast amount of shape shifters involved.
She could only see me alone in the forest calling for Taha Aki, and the Volturi's battle ending two ways. Neither of us knew if any of this would work. We only could pray.
I prayed day and night feeling part of Bella still with me. She was Jacob's and I had accepted it. But I knew that part of her heart always belonged to me and my desire to make her one of my kind.
I couldn't let that part of her down, I needed to save her.
"Taha Aki!" I called out in agony into the forest.
Once again nothing emerged in response.
I sighed every inch of my body craving the monstrous deeds I regularly preformed to survive. I never before had so much hatred for what I was, and what I thrived on.
I was nothing more than a monster.
An alarming smell dragged through the air, setting my senses on fire.
It was Bella.
Bella's sweet aroma had drifted here from far away.
I crouched to control myself. It was so difficult not to chase the heroin like scent down when the thirst burned my throat so severely. My body instantly relaxed when Jacob's scent followed hers. He was with her, and keeping her safe from monsters like me.
I sat inhaling and exhaling the unnecessary air, enjoying the beauty of Bella's odour. I played with the scent in my mind, the part of her that was still mine. The part of me that hadn't let go...
The scent suddenly changed.
A wolf's howl echoed through forest- no Jacob's howl. For a slightly second my stomach felt sick at the new knowledge of what they were doing. But a wave of a new emotion overcame my bitterness.
My body suddenly changed.
Everything in the world shifted in a new perspective.
She wasn't mine to claim anymore, nor did I want her to be. She was Jacob's mate now and forever. Her heart was full and complete; her feelings were assured and final. Everything had fallen into place. The part of me that had restricted myself to my nature and fuelled my jealousy was gone.
I wasn't thirsty.
I didn't resent Jacob Black.
I didn't need Bella Swan.
They were finally each other's, they had mated. I knew that for a fact, there was no doubt in mind. Despite my mind quickly becoming a fussy blur, I still sure of the fact they had mated.
I needed to save Bella, even if it was the last thing I ever did. I could not let the Volturi take her future from her, the future she finally had.
The earth around me felt like it shook. The emotions were rushing through my mind with hurricane strength. My body collapsed unpredictably failing me. It became sprawled out across the forest floor as pain wretched through my marble like stone limbs.
I didn't understand.
My sight was taken from me making the world only a dark blank canvas.
Are you sure you want this?
'Yes' I gritted in my mind, the pain unbearable. The back of my mind knew that I had to except this overwhelming power that had found me.
You will die for something that it is not yours? You will give your soul for hers?
'If I have one and it will save her, then it is my only desire." I heaved the cold burning and eating away at my flesh. I barely remembered my transformation into what I was now but this was comparably the opposite in the scale of extreme.
I was freezing and shattering, the numbness wasn't coming to relieve my endless pain.
Then come.
With that, the hold keeping my body tied to the ground was gone.
The pain had vanished as quickly as it appeared.
The greatest revelation of all is what stood before me, Taha Aki. His soul shimmered in the moonlight, as did mine as I glanced at the new form I had taken.
I had left my body, I was dead. My marble statue laid across the forest floor as colder and more lifeless than it had ever been. My golden hair was scattered into a mess, with dirt smudges across my face from the grovelling with the ground. My eyes remained wide and alert, but with no movement. Though something intrigued me indefinitely, the liquid gold that had once collected in my iris was fading into an emerald green I had not seen for nearly a century. It was impossible but it was happening.
"How?" I questioned faintly. The shock had not faded through my thoughts, Taha Aki was here. He was the one I was so desperately looking for but could not find because of the restrictions of being his soul enemy.
"Anyone that can fight their monstrous nature- human or not- has a soul within them. You wanted nothing more than save Bella Swan and the life she still had. Even though she belongs to our tribe's alpha now, only a soul could want that." He spoke with age but limitless powers.
"Can I save her?"
"We can Edward; we can permanently paralysis the Volturi from ever laying their hands on the Quileute tribes."
With his comment every thought and intention Taha Aki had ever had came rushing in to my thoughts like the doors were wide open. Never before did I experience such tremendous power rush through my body- the body that did not have.
I knew of the stories of every battles and event the Quileute tribe had been through. I deeply respected all of them from a new level which couldn't be possible in my previous body of a vampire.
I was only a soul now, nothing left of me except for this soldier of a spirit which would end it's essence to save my love's life and purpose.
Taha Aki had known that I wanted to find him, he knew of Alice and Carlisle and other like my kind. We were accepted by him as he watched us from the distance. He had no scent, no body, only his soul. It was at one point uncomfortable to stay in the world of the spirits constantly, but knew his tribe needed him to stay like this after he first became a shape shifter, and now he knew why.
Our souls would be destroyed in the process of doing this, but the Volturi would be terrified to ever question our existence. We were each other's equals, wolf and vampire soul, and we were together. Our powers where greater than any other mythical creature on the earth, we were indestructible to anything but ourselves.
I was no longer regarded as a vampire- an enemy to the Quileute tribe, their land was my home now. Taha Aki had created and pulled me from my body. No vampire could do this without a spirit warrior -and their enemies- grant and abilities. The Quileute were granted this power to protect humans by protecting themselves. They were able to activate this spiritual ability so even the most complex coven of vampires could not destroy the wolves that protected the mortals-mortals like Bella.
But only the golden eyed un-dead could be granted this gift from Quileute.
My former family was the exact golden eyed un-dead that the Quileute spoke of.
"We need to leave." Taha Aki spoke.
"Yes. I need to ask if I can do something before we leave for Volterra." I asked sternly.
"What would that be?" His voice was deep and solemn.
"I want Bella to know she was right- right about my kind, or more of my family having a soul." I clarified.
Taha Aki's lips turned up in a smile full of wisdom and patience, "You will be able to do that when we get back, right now we need to leave, Caius is coming. He is passing through here smelling you. He's going to find your body. We need to arrive in Italy at the same time as Caius."
"He's going to find my body fully intact but lifeless. He's going to bring it back to Aro and that's why the Volturi clan will want to destroy all of Quileute and my family. They'll think they're a significant threat because they killed a vampire without laying a hand on him." I concluded intelligently.
Taha Aki nodded.
"They would have come here anyways and found the wolves, they wanted Bella dead. They see her as a threat to vampires with her ability of keeping her mind blocked off. Now even more knowing she's with a supposed werewolf." He continued.
"If I never had been involved with her; if I never came back." I sighed morosely.
"If you hadn't, the Volturi's would never be put in their place. They need to see the world from a different perspective. They were never royalty, and they certainly do not have the power to wipe a race from the earth that was created from the protection of humanity." A inhuman growl came from Taha Aki`s throat.
It sent shivers down my spine. I could feel the power he possessed.
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I thought I knew speed and agility before, but I was wrong.
I was wrong about many things I had discovered though.
I was in Italy by the next morning, but we had not swan as Caius would have. Water was no longer water to me; at that, the very earth I used to stand on was not my stable ground anymore. I needed nothing, I craved nothing, accept for the survival of Bella and everything that could keep her happy; and Jake would always keep Bella happy.
Our journey was like walking on ice, only it was the unkempt waves of the ocean.
We were now permanently invisible to mortals, and invisible immortals on desire. Entering the city of Volterra blazed my mind with memories from the last visit. The one that had almost killed me; if it had not been for Bella`s determined and unconditional love for me.
Even if that unconditional love she held within her body could not compete to love that was always there for Jacob.
He was her best friend, her lover and could give her everything.
I could smile at the thought of them now without the regret and pain I`d once felt. The second my former body learned that she was his lifelong mate, that the animalistic side of him had accepted her as his, I could no longer force myself physically to long for her. Regardless how human I tried to be, an animalistic side ruled over me as well, the one that wanted to take Bella in a much different way. Taha Aki`s mind had shown me the truth behind the Quileute mating traditions so I understand the change that rapidly occurred in my body.
Emotionally I still missed her, I still loved her. But jealousy no longer boiled inside of me, only a blissful peace knowing she had gone down the just path.
We glided our way through the crowds of Italy our sense of smell guiding us easily to location the Volturi remained. They were hidden from society in the most secretive maze of underground tunnels.
Nothing could stand in the path of us, walking through a brick wall was as easy as obliterating it. Though the first of the two was the options we used to gain entry to any of the tunnels of the Volturi. The halls were as memorizing and ancient as I remembered leading us deeper into their cavern. We walked slowly as we felt Caius feverish presence enter the facility as well.
Taha Aki took in the royal guard`s dwelling, this was never before crossed by Quileute tribe members, or a shape shifter. Never before was it possible for only the two of us united to pose such a lethal threat to Volturi.
Aro would never suspect anything of this power to affect the Volturi.
Taha Aki passed by the red eyed demons with disgust in his filling his features. He was as clear to me as any visible creature before; and would clear to the vampires if he chose to be.
Even though in the legends of the spirit warrior mortals and immortals alike could not see him in his spirit form, once he turned into a shape shifter, and left his body spiritually, he was something entirely different.
We were completely unnoticeable by any being without an ability of emotion, and without a soul. The Volturi clan fitted this description. I once would have too, with bloodlust being my only priority. But I had deprived myself from human blood for decades and animal blood as soon as Bella left in order to protect her. I had earned myself a place as a soul, and had the powers of the gods.
One human girl stood in the halls, their brown iris full of wonder and obsession. They had no idea about the death the Volturi intended for them. Her long copper hair stood with waves highlighting it`s natural shine. She felt our presence as a cool breeze as we walked by. Goose bumps formed on her arms as she turned to see what she had just felt.
I grinned at her, though she couldn`t see me. She just stared at the nothingness that had spooked her. I wasn`t as scary as these vampires to her, I was just the shivers that ran down her back, but I was the reason humans would continue to live in peace.
We continued down the maze of halls, the auburn bricks illuminated in the dim lantern candles. Vampires didn`t need lights, our vision was as clear as day even in the darkest of night. This was the same as my vision in my new form.
By simple memory of Aro`s scent I was able to find his thrown where he sat in his face severely displeased. Caius just entered the court room lined with rich linen, and gold ornaments dragging my body behind him disrespectfully. My eyes remained attentive only now only filled with the vibrant emerald green I had seen earlier.
"Caius come." Aro called, his menacing voice echoing through the room. Everyone of the guard stood alert watching Aro's reaction. Caius crossed the room in a swift glide, dropping my body in the middle. Caius quickly approached Aro and Marcus, a grin dancing across his face. Renata stood firmly by Aro's side, even with only the members of the guard in the room- to their knowledge.
We watched intensively waiting for our chance to appear.
Aro gently placed his hand on Caius arm looking up for a mere second. He grinned as well looking at my previous body limp on the floor. His eyes danced with hatred.
"We seem to have a problem with the clan residing in the area of the peaceful werewolves." Aro spoke directed to everyone.
"Do tell; I'm sure Caius was charmed to find these wolves." Marcus sneered wickedly.
Aro laughed, "You have no idea. Though that is nowhere close to the most exciting portion of Caius's trip, do you remember Edward's Bella Marcus?"
I gritted my teeth and almost appeared to them at the mention of Bella's name. Taha Aki gripped shoulder firmly. He shook his head, knowing it was essential that we remained silent for now.
"That interesting human; the one with the extraordinary head?" Marcus replied. Aro's smile widened and he nodded.
"Well it seems as though she is no longer pursuing being a vampire- or romantically pursuing our dear Edward laying dead here. What I question is why he is dead, without having a single hair out of place. This is exactly how Caius found him." Aro carried on slyly.
"It seems we might have some concerns with these wolves now Aro, Marcus?" Caius persuaded too pleasurably. Their conversation was making me sick, they were vile and malicious creatures who need to be stopped.
"I agree, we can't allow them to continue with this newly emerging power to kill someone such as Edward with laying a paw on him... I can't say that he was superiorly strong with his peculiar diet though." Aro mocked glaring at my body. I glanced over at Taha Aki waiting for his expression to stimulate our engagement with the Volturi. My anger was building rapidly.
"Regardless we must kill the tribe immediately, there are many of them, and they do not welcome our kind on their land." Caius scoffed. I could felt a gentle rumble of power humming from my mystic figure.
"No creature will rule over us, we are royalty and they must obey our rules." Aro grunted relentlessly. His mockery at the wolves even angered me to a new level.
They were anything but royalty to the Quileute tribe.
Taha Aki appeared suddenly with me standing firmly by his side. Aro's eyes suddenly widened in fury and disbelief. Our bodies no longer glimmered with a hallow dimension, but retained the same appearance as if we were as sturdy and mortal as a human. Though we could tell the Volturi could sense the power within the pair of us.
"Who allowed them in here!?" Aro bellowed standing from his thrown in fury.
"No one Aro." I reply coldly.
The entire Volturi guard, including the wives stared in disbelief, as many others flooded into the room in shock. Every one of their cold crimson eyes was dancing between my dead body, and soul that stood immortally in the room with them.
They couldn't smell me.
They couldn't feel my presence; it was as if I never existed.
"Who is this being by your side! Answer me Edward! You are dead now how can you be here. Is this a joke! " Caius wickedly snarled. I laughed in humour at his arrogant demands.
I didn't answer; I allowed Taha Aki to speak from himself, "I am Taha Aki, the great spirit warrior, and the first wolf shape shift. Now I am something entirely different." Everyone stood silent, still and cold from fear.
"A werewolf." Caius roared in repulsion.
He lunged towards Taha Aki in a revengeful leap. His teeth flared and eyes were glossed with blood lust. Taha Aki didn't shuffle or even flinch. He just raised his arm to instantly catch Caius`s neck in his firm hold. His body seemed to freeze in the air for a second, as I gripped his forearm and twisted. To our surprise at both of our concrete grips on Caius's body the coloured washed out.
He let out a blood curling screeched as his body shivered to ashes.
Vampires and wolves hated each other for one reason and one reason only. Together we were destined to be so powerful, only the great and honourable could attain it. Only the great could overcome the malice and unit to each other to prevent the evil from every laying their hands on the things we loved and protected most.
Both Taha Aki and I had one love in common, the tribe.
We loved it for different reasons, but the love was equally as prevailing. Every cell in body betrayed me, and our bodies were linked in an unrecognizable form.
A wolf stood on all forms, its skin-like fur the cold marble mine had once been but its face was forced into a wolf's snout. Its eyes glowed between onyx, emerald and azure, and its teeth sheered their cold magnificence.
"With our souls, none of you will stand without a curse. The Quileute descendants will remain untouched for eternity. Every one of you will waste away to ashes if you dare attempt to go against my words. You will never be royalty, only malice filled demons only driven by blood lust." Our voices doubled, and spoke in rabid snarls and the growls emphasizing each word.
Aro launched towards the god intended beast I was and shredded to pieces of carbon in the air as my body broke into a haunting howl.
Aro was dead to my delight.
My body was weakening quickly; my soul had done its job and needed to move on now. Our souls would forever last in the winds of Volterra ready to keep the curse valid. We were not strong enough to continue in this intimidating form, it was killing us.
We vanished from the Volturi`s cavern leaving the demons to deal with their loss.
I used every ounce of strength left in Taha Aki and I to pull myself back to the beach in La push. The body that was our vessel had almost vanished by the time we arrived. My soul was being tugged away into the elements. Bella stood on the beach beside Jacob, smiling brightly. He held her protectively, full of the adoration that Bella deserved. I limped to brush my hand across her face one last time. She could only feel cool fingers across her face and smiled.
She jumped at the sudden feeling, "Edward."
Her body touching my soul drained me intensively. I fell to the ground. Taha Aki's presence was no longer there, he'd given into eternal peace moments ago. With the last of my life, I dragged my fingers in the sand writing...
Writing my last message to her, to my Bella.
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Edward the heroine, cause he's always been good at heart even when filled with blood lust.
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