Author's Note: Hey everyone. well obviously here's chapter 16, which is an interesting chapter in itself but it's the start of what my main idea was. Yeah, were only just beginning to get to my main idea, that's kinda sad. 'sigh' This is going to be long, hopeflly you'll all see it to the end.

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Hehe, I just realised that I've been on this site (posting fics) for just over a year now... I don't know why I find that funny, I just do!

Chapter 16

Witch

Darkness crept through the trees.

Emma paced in a small clearing with some of the older vampires of Rodriguez's army. She was worried about Luke. He and his younger group were supposed to meet her here three hours ago, but they hadn't come yet.

She portrayed calm to her group, but they could sense the tension that she expelled.

"Ma'am, could it be that Master Luke has been…" Emma snarled at the male vampire who had dared to question Luke's survival. The vampire's name was Simon; he was one of the youngest of group. He cringed under the small, blond woman's glare.

"Emma?"

Emma spun around at the sound of her name; relief flowing through her body at the sound of his voice calling her name.

"Luke." She gasped, eyes softened and filled with emotion that she showed no one else but him.

Luke walked towards her, a small smile playing on his face as he looked at her. The two groups of vampires looked in different directions, to give the two oldest ones some privacy. For privacy was something they rarely had the luxury of.

Luke quickly pulled Emma into his arms, burying his face into her soft blond hair.

One of the younger vampires, a female, called Sara, glanced behind her suddenly and coughed loudly to catch Emma and Luke's attention. The two quickly broke apart and turned in the direct Sara was pointing.

"Luke, Emma!" the two growled silently inside their chests as the man they hated most came into view with five vampires flanking him. Their master walked into the clearing, twirling his bowler hat around his fingers as he walked up to them.

"Rodriguez." They greeted him with mock politeness that he took no notice of.

Rodriguez looked around at Luke's group, a slight frown playing on his features.

"Where is Michael?" he demanded, staring hard at Luke. Luke shifted uncomfortable, as did the rest of his group. Emma stared between the two men nervously. She stared up into Luke's face and realization filled her eyes and she looked away quickly, her eyes sad.

"Michael got carried away when the group I sent ahead met the Cullen's." Luke muttered.

Rodriguez nodded.

"So the boy was a fool after all." He said more to himself then to anyone else. He looked back at Luke.

"So you disposed the fool." He asked, Luke nodded, his eyes looking straight ahead.

Emma closed her eyes and fingered her Ankh beneath her shirt and gave it an absent-minded tug.

"Emma." Luke warned her, she glanced at him startled, then looked down at her hand tugging on her Ankh. She quickly let go of it.

"Master." They all swung around at once, as a young black hair male vampire, who had been around seventeen at his change came forward, dragging a middle-aged human woman, she was gag, a blind fold covered her eyes and her hands were bound behind her back.

"Nicolas, what is this?" Rodriguez demanded, striding towards the vampire boy. The boy cringed under his Master heated gaze.

"She's a witch, Master, from the other side." Nicolas mumbled.

"Really? a witch?" Rodriguez said looking delighted. He bent down beside the shaking woman and pulled the blindfold and piece of cloth out of her mouth.

"Hello my dear, do you know who I am?" he asked the woman softly. The woman had curly chestnut brown hair and deep brown eyes. He chuckled at the brown eyes that stared up at him in terror.

"Yes, you're the one trying to steal the secrets." She breathed.

"Good girl." He praised her with genial happiness. The woman just stared up at him, unable to move.

"What is your name?" He asked her, still smiling in a gentlemanly fashion.

"Madison McIntyre, I'm the mother of Mark, Madeline and Mathew, the wife of Tom McIntyre. I work at an insurance agency. My power is truth seeing." Madison gushed out, before gasping in horror at the information she had just revealed. Forgetting her fear of him, she glared up at Rodriguez, who just continued to smile down at her.

"Do your children share your gift?" He asked her. Madison clamped her mouth shut refusing to fall victim once again to speaking the truth against her will. Her body shook in pain.

"Do your children share your gift?" Rodriguez demanded, his eyes glowing with the desire to know.

"Tell me." He ordered. Madison let out a shriek of pain. Fire was burning through her soul, but she couldn't tell she needed to protect her child.

The fire grew more intense in her mind; she tried to block it out.

"If you tell me the pain will go." He whispered in her ear. She turned her head to stare at him, tears in her eyes but fire and strength also.

"No." she whispered. He suddenly laughed, which was truly a terrible sound that sent shivers down her spine.

"Ah, but you see you don't have a choice. Now which one of your children has your gift?"

Another scream erupted from her mouth.

"Madeline." She sobbed and the pain immediately subsided and she fell to a heap on the ground sobbing at what she had done. Rodriguez sighed heavily.

"Thank you very much. You know normally I don't have to course pain to get the information I want, but that's the problem with Truth seer, fortune readers and telepaths, they have much stronger minds then most normal beings. So I am truly sorry, but once again I thank you."

Tears started to roll down her face.

"What are you going to do to my daughter?" she whispered, her voice going slight high with hysterics.

"Nothing now, my dear, but when she is older I will give her a magnificent gift." Rodriguez said getting to his feet.

"No, please take me! Take me instead! Please, just leave Maddie alone." She begged him.

"Ma'am, you are a Truth Seer! You can see I cannot do that. Besides, my dear, I can not possible take you, for you have already learned to hate me, though I could erase your memory, I'd rather not bother." He said coldly, turning around and striding away.

"Young ones." He called and nodded towards the sobbing woman curled.

Luke stepped forward.

"Rodriguez, should we at least get as much as we can from the woman, before we decide to destroy her." Luke asked, glancing sadly in the direction of the woman, who was now being surrounded by some of the youngest in the groups.

"I have no more use for her?" Rodriguez muttered and waved his hand behind him to give signal to start.

Most of the older ones looked away as the woman's terrified screams started and the sound of hissing and growling filled the clearing.

"Rodriguez." Luke said walking after Rodriguez as he left the clearing. He was gently pulling on Emma arm for Emma eyes where frozen, her whole body was stiff with horror. Emma had never been able to drink human blood, not even as a young one. This might have been because her father had been a man who had tried to save lives not one who took them.

"Yes, Luke?"

Luke hesitated. Did he really want to tell Rodriguez about that girl? Bella was her name, should he tell Rodriguez about her? She had managed to stop all his vampires and Michael, with only a few words. Did she share the same power as Rodriguez? But why, why would Rodriguez want another like himself.

He didn't know why, but he felt that this girl was different from the rest of them. He didn't how she was or why she was. She just was.

"Speak!"

Luke groaned. Stupid mouth, shouldn't have hinted that he had something important to say.

"I saw that girl." He muttered. He felt Emma stiffen beside him, but he didn't look at her, he stared at Rodriguez, watching every emotion that passed over his face. Surprise, anger and calculating passed, until his face finally settled for a content look, which neither Luke nor Emma understood.

"How did she seem to you?"

"Well she was fairly protective of the Cullen's! Threw two huge branches a Michael's head."

Rodriguez looked amused.

"Was she protective of all the Cullen's or only certain ones?"

"How the heck should I know? All I know is that when she told us to get lost, it felt as if we where being dragged back." Luke snapped crabbily. Emma bit her lip, it wasn't always such a wise idea to get crabby at Rodriguez, but at that moment he didn't seem to actually care.

"So she has the power to control. And she's still protective of them. Or protective of him." A slight small crossed his face.

"She cried for them, she wanted them to be with her, but she wanted them to stay away, too. I wonder how they'd feel if they knew how much she screamed for them." His smile grew as he remembered that day.

"Edward!"

"Yes, Edward. Think of him… while you still can."

"EDWARD!"

How she had screamed for that boy when he had bitten. He had almost felt a little sorry for her. That was why he had tried to soothe her by telling that they might even bump into the Cullen's when she was a Vampire.

Oh the hope that had filled that girl's eyes at the thought of that, it had even made her smile. But the smile had only lasted a minute before she started crying and thrashing, sobbing out.

"Edward! Why?"

"WHY!"

That girl's change had been by far the worst of them all. For they had just screamed in agony, while the girl had just cried and sob out her love ones names, she had known what to expect. That was why putting the Ankh on her that second day had been such a relief even though it had taken it twice as long to work on her then it had done for the others, she had still been sobbing her loved ones names when those damn beasts had come along. If they hadn't come, he would have a powerful member for his army, more powerful than the rest.

He let out a frustrated growl and stomped off, leaving his two oldest children in bewilderment.

As soon as he got his hands on the witches secret weapon against all vampires, he'd turn the girl into a human again then start the whole process all over. He might even get his hands on the two Cullen boys and girl. He could do with their sort of powers in his army. He smiled at the thought; no one would dare to challenge him.

Now he just had to figure out a way to get near the girl without the bronze boy jumping in. He knew that the boy must be ten times as protective as he had been when the girl had been human.

Not many Vampires' would run in pretty much blind and attack a Trained Tracker. But the boy had and he had survived.

Yes the boy, as long as the girl was close to him would be extreme valuable to his army. The boy would probably do everything he said, if he had a held on to Bella, just like Luke and Emma. He had Emma, Luke did everything he was told.

He strummed his fingers against his Ankh. He focused his mind on Bella.

In a mountain surrounded, snowy place Bella, curled up into a tight ball, as pain ripped threw her. Her fingers pulled at a silver chain around her neck and from under her shirt with she withdrew an Ankh with shaking fingers. The ruby in its center of the Ankh shone a fierce red.

She clamped her hand to her mouth to muffle her scream agony.

EDWARD!

Author's Note: And so, I've finally dragged in the Witches that I meantion ages and ages ago. I wasn't sure exactly how to first introduce them and this was the only way I could think to do, which is completely different to what i originally thought off, but hey, if it works.

Thank you SwanBella228 for taking on the role of my Beta and I hope my bad Grammar and Spelling doesn't kill you.

Please review and Chapter 17 is on its way.