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BPOV
As I watched Alice being dragged away, my heart felt heavy with fear. What would Victoria do to her? To Rosalie? And how could Jessica and Lauren let her and James get away with it?
These questions prowled my mind, but my only answer was to go to Edward and Carlisle. I rushed to the boy's space to find Edward, but he was gone, along with Emmett and Jasper. My breath completely stopped in fear for them but I didn't have a millisecond to react before I heard someone coming and I was off to Carlisle. He wasn't in hir office, and neither was Esme. There was only one option left; the Volturi brothers.
Aro was talking with his brothers when I arrived. Caius was arguing loudly about his point, looking furious. Aro was calm and controlled as usual, but of course speaking back. And Marcus had his usual bored expression. All three of them looked up at me expectantly. Aro raised his hand in greeting and smiled. Caius just appeared irritated.
"Yes?" he snapped.
Aro frowned at his brother, "Ah, my dear Isabella. How nice of you to join us. Is there something I can do for you?"
My words came out quickly, even for a vampire, "Aro, James is conspiring against you and the Volturi. He, Victoria, and Laurent have already captured Rosalie, Alice, Emmett, Jasper, Edward, and maybe Carlisle and Esme. They are aware that I know their plans, and they also hope to turn all your newborns against you."
Aro blinked undecidedly, "Very well. Guard!" the usual guards that always were around Aro, moved forward, "Prepare all the newborns in the hall. Count how many are missing, and call all everyone loyal to me at once. We have a war on our hands."
"A war?" I gasped.
He nodded without smiling, "Yes, Isabella. I believe James means for a fight and I do plan on giving him one. What a fun game this shall be. Marcus, do you remember the last uprising we dealt with?"
Marcus shrugged, "Yes of course. Can't we just let the guard deal with this?" he sighed.
Caius shook his head, "No." he hissed, "We should deal with this threat personally. Aro, we must leave at once."
I glanced between the brothers, hoping their discussion could end so I could get to my key task of rescuing Edward. Aro seemed to agree, "Paitence brothers. We will deal with this personally and as quickly as possible. Its really a pity, though, I hoped to have an ally in James. Quite unfortunate how things worked out. And Bella, you may go after Edward now."
"How do you know what I'm thinking?" I asked, curious.
Aro only smiled indulgently, "I don't have to read your mind to know you must be worried about your loved one."
I nodded, not really caring about his explanation and already making my way out. As soon as I was respectively out of sight of the brothers, I broke into a run. There was only one person on my mind, and I had to track him.
The first place I went was out in the forest where Rosalie had married. It was the last place I had seen Edward. Once there, I could smell all my friends recent scent, as well as several other people. Victoria, Laurent, Jessica, Lauren, and the other vampires that had been with Victoria. There wasn't any scent of James, so he must not have been with them.
I followed the scents around the Volturi castle and well past the city of Volterra. About ten minutes past the city, other scents joined the group; James and his followers. There was also an absence of Victoria and the vampires that had come to get Alice and I with her. However, about five minutes more, and then the rest of the group joined up again, Victoria's group with a slightly stronger scent that meant she was following James. And this time, Alice was with her.
The trail continued furthur along and I found myself running for hours. Then I became aware of where I was going- to Romania. I recalled Aro speaking about an uprising against the Volturi in Romania. Surely James wasn't working with the vampires left from the uprising?
Yet I was well aware that fit his personality, so I kept running into Romania. As expected, there was an old castle, not to much unlike the Volturi's, that the scent went to. I used my power to become invisible and crept into the old castle. After listening for noise, my ears led me to a large room where two male vampires, one with dark hair and one with blond, that were speaking to James and Victoria. I silently hissed at the sight of both Victoria and James, but kept my eyes on the older vampires. Their names, I remembered, were Vladimir and Stefan. And once again, they were fighting against the Volturi.
Yet as aware of the situation as I was, the politics of vampires was not important to me. I forced myself not to kill them all, and to instead turn away towards where I knew Edward was.
There were traditional stone dungeons, dirty and large, where nearly an army of vampires surrounded my friends. Actually, a large group of about seven vampires surrounded each of my friends personally, so as the not let them group up. Jessica and Lauren were among the enemy, and the both guarded Edward. So I knew who to deal with first.
Acting purely on instinct, I lashes out at both girls and didn't give them a chance to react before they were in pieces. Then I continued on the rest of the unsuspecting enemy surrounding Edward, until he no longer was surrounded.
"Bella?" Edward finally whispered in surprise.
I turned visible for a second to embrace him as tightly as possible. Then I turned back to the task at hand. Killing fifty angry vampires while waiting for the Volturi.
I finally updated! So, the story is nearly finished. I want it to be a realistic fight, so somebody (that is good) will need to die. Now; will it be Alice? Or somebody else? Or better yet; everybody?
