Now to my favorite chapter yet... the fight! And I don't have anger issues, before you ask, its just a more interesting chapter then the last ones. I hope you find it interesting, too.
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EPOV (Edward's)
I observed the thirty-one menacing vampires, watching us is curiousity. The newborns looked hungry, and were all thinking about how easy it would be to destory us. Their leader was more cautious, he was sure he would get rid of us all, he was just calculating the toll it would take against his army. But I saw their training; they had simply been told to kill everything and take blood, they hadn't been trained. However, the Vulturi had trained us all extensively; we had gone over strategy in both groups and single fights, the easiest ways to kill vampires, and we were prepared. I was willing to bet that we would defeat at least twn of them before there were any casualties on my side. However, I had kept myself from getting to close to the five I was working with, mostly because I had noticed their potential and had realized that I would be working with them. And you don't want to get close to someone when you might have to watch them die later. I could only hope that it wasn't Bella who died, because she would be the most important to our group. That, and the deep, uncontrollable feelings I had for her.
Then I forced myself to forget her, and to concentrate at the situation at hand, as I had been trained. First, I was used identify the situation using whatever I could. Well, I knew they were here to take over the city, I could see that they were deadly, there was a huge number of them, but only one of them had a power. I observed a red-haired female that could control people in her mind. She had to be taken out first. Then I followed through on the next part of my training; make sure the group knows the information. We had learned signals to communicate with each other without letting the enemy know what we were saying. To let everyone know which newborn had a power, I nodded my head in her direction, and put up three fingers. One finger meant a minor power that couldn't do much, two meant that it could do some harm if the person was smart enough to use it, and three meant that the power was a definate threat to the group. Everyone nodded back to let me know that they understood, and we all attacked on the same count.
I never thought I would be so grateful for the Volturi's training as when I was now feeling. The newborns barely understood what hit them when we all went at the enemy at the same time, using a strategy we practiced when there was a large group and two main threats. The two main threats were the newborn with the power, and the leader. The leader wouldn't be as physically strong, but would be able to come up with a real plan to fend us off. I tore through the crowd of newborns, mostly damaging them to keep them out of the picture for a while so that I could finish them later. Emmet, Rosalie, Alice, and Jasper were doing the same thing as me, getting rid of the number advantage the enemy had. Bella were invicible as she raced through the newborns to get at the vampire with the power. It was her job to take care of extra powers, because her own power made her immune to them. I was hoping that I would get a chance to see Bella's power in action, but I was so busy destroying two newborns at once that I decided it wouldn't be helpful to watch.
Then I realized that two minutes had gone by, and I set my mind on alert for a signal from anyone. Part of our strategy was that after two minutes, the person closest to the leader would shoot out, and we would all run to that spot to check our numbers and decide where to go from there. A loud scream from Jasper filled my ears, but it wasn't a scream of pain. He could see the leader, and so I was supposed to meet by him. After the scream, I had three seconds to get there before I was presumed dead, so I raced away from my current victim to meet by Jasper. When I arrived, Jasper was standing next to Rosalie and Emmet. Alice soared past my left ear to stand by Jasper, and I didn't expect to see Bella. We used talents to an advantage, and her invisibility would confuse the enemy. It was rather hard to think when you were being killed by someone that wasn't there. Jasper turned his right thumb a quater way to the leader and we didn't bother nodding before sprinting up to the leader and surrounding him. The five of us took the army by surprise, and so it was fairly easy to use the distraction of our unexplainable movements to kill the leader. Once he was dead, which it took the newborns about five seconds to realize, they went into chaos. But we were already spread out once again, doing as much damage as we possibly could. Then, in a matter of minutes, the danger that had been prowling Voltura was gone.
I smiled in satisfaction of the completed job, and glanced over Emmet, Rosalie, Jasper, and Alice. My eyes widened as I realized that Bella wasn't among us, even though it was safe for her to appear. The thoughts that filled my head drove me crazy, as I imagined her dead somewhere, but invisible to our detection. My four 'partners' seemed to realize her absense as well, and we all panicked until she appeared out of nowhere, looking around with a horrified expression at the scene, but otherwise fine. This put my mind at ease, so I helped the others dispose of the dead, the smell of smoke soon filling my nostrils. We worked quickly, all of us wanting to get back to our friends and tell them about our amazing conquer of the newborn army. An army of thirty newborns and one leader, who had managed to break into Voltura, kill ten Volturi guards and contless humans, attack Aro, and six young vampires had managed to kill them without a scratch. We might have been the best from our group of two hundred, but if the others were even anywhere near as good, the Volturi had finally found a way to destroy their enemies for good. Reading my 'partners' minds, I realized that they were thinking around the same lines.
Man, that was totally cool. I wasn't surprised to hear Emmet thinking.
Rosalie was on the same page, I can't believe it was that easy. I guess that not only am I beautiful, I'm also unstoppable. I can't wait to tell Tanya and Lauren.
That didn't turn out the way I expected it to. And I'm so glad that Jasper is safe. Alice thought.
Jasper smiled at her as he thought, Alice is safe. I can't believe she is okay. I guess we are better then I thought.
Bella seemed to be the only one who wasn't celebrating over the way the attack had gone. But I couldn't read her mind, so I couldn't really be sure. I could only guess based on what I knew about her, so I guessed she felt guilty about killing the newborns, especially when she had used her superior powers against them. Judging by her facial expression, and the fact that she wasn't able to look at the flames that had gone up, my guess was correct.
"We should be heading back." I told her quietly, looking at her in pity.
"Ha!" Alice laughed, "You said we! But I really am not surprised, I mean we made a pretty good team today. Even you can't deny that, Edward Cullen. There is a reason that Esme picked the six of us." she was completely gloating, and I refrained myself from tearing her to pieces.
"Yeah, we were great out there!" Emmet voiced, too thick to pick up on the tension between Alice and I, "That was amazing. There should have been a video made about that performance. It was absolutely spectacular."
Bella shook her head, "It was a performance of death." she said so quietly that I doubt she meant for any of us to hear, "But we should all be getting back."
We agreed with her and ran to the castle, Emmet and Rosalie leading, and Jasper and Alice bringing up the rear. I ran silently by Bella, even though I was itching to talk to her, and tell her that everything we did was needed. I was sure that she knew this, but I felt that she needed to be reminded. After all, the army had been killing innocent victims because of their bloodlust. There wasn't any reason to be feeling pity for them.
When we entered the castle alive, I recognized the shocked stares from Marcus, Caius, Aro, Carlisle, and Esme, as incredulity. They had obviously expected us to die; take down the numbers of the army, but eventually die. None of them even bothered to hide their thoughts from me, because they were in too much amazement at seeing all of us in perfect condition. If I was being honest, I would have felt the same way in their situation.
"You killed them all?" Aro eventually asked.
I nodded, frowning in displeasure, "Yes, we did. Even though you expected us to die, we decided that we weren't quite ready yet."
Esme broke into a grin, and started to hug us all, "Oh, you poor, poor, children. I'm so sorry about all of this trouble. You weren't ready for this fight, but you survived anyway."
She was obviously proud of our accomplishments, but the other vampires just nodded and stalked away. None of us really cared whatr they thought, so we hastened down the halls after Esme, trying to get to our friends to recall the entire situation and become idols overnight, even though we were already the most popular vamps in the entire castle.
The class stared at us in open-mouthed admiration as we arrived in the class. I took my usual seat right next to Demetri and Tyler, after I winked at all the girls. Their thoughts were all on me, I was happy to report, which would be a snub to Rosalie's pride about her stupid boyfriend. Even though I had just fought alongside Emmet, Rosalie, Jasper, Alice, and Bella, I was ready to go back to hating them. Well, maybe not Bella, but I had never really hated her. Though I had come close when she wouldn't go out with me, so I couldn't win Rosalie's bet. The bet that I hadn't been able to get out of my mind until the thing with the newborns. But I was ready to refocus on the bet. I was ready to ask out Bella and get a yes.
Yeah, fight! If you didn't like that chapter, I'll warn you that there will most likely be some more like this one. But anyway, please review, and tell me what you really think. I haven't gotten any constructive criticism yet, so I'm still looking for ways to improve. Please don't leave me hanging!
