Author's Note: Hi everyone! How are you? Only 6 or so more days until Breaking Dawn comes out! YAY! I can so not wait, I've read the first chapter and it sounds great, though I'm a little worry with how the Preface was written. Something going to happen in this book and it's not going to be good. But what, how the heck should I know, I'm not Stephenie Meyer!
I'm not sure how often I'll be able to update in the coming months, cause I have my year 11 finals in liked 7, 8 weeks. So of cause, I have a lot of school work to do, its kinda scary actually.
Anyway, getting off my despressing subject, this chapter is the beginning of new and interesting chapters, There Still So Much Left To Write (wailing!). After this chapter things will be different, this story will be going down many different roads (I'm gonna Die, trying to find time to write all my ideas down), but if I really think about probably have enough left to write maybe 8-9 chapters and then this will be done. Though when that happens, I'm thinking when I have time (HA), I might rewrite and fix up stuff here and there. Like I found out the other day that Jasper was changed into a vampire in the 19th century, but I thought Edward was the oldest in teenaged group, oh well. Also there's just stuff in the early chapters that i want to change and fix-up, so yeah. I espiacally want to mess around with the chapters set in around Volterra. Just change them and make them more mind then Stephenie Meyer.

Oh Yeah, random apologie, I'm sorry if the characters here are out of character. It's kinda hard to write Edward, since i don't think anyone (besides Stephenie Meyer) knows what going in his head. I'm trying my best with all the Characters.

Anyway, I'll shut up and let you read.

Chapter 19

The Pain of Battle

Luke and Emma

"Luke?"

Luke spun around, away from the window of the upstairs lounge room at the sound of Emma voices.

"What is it Emma?" He wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her into his cold chest.

"The Bloodthorns are heading for the Tanya coven."

"So?"

"The Cullens and that girl are there too?" Emma whispered. Luke bit his lip and nodded.

"Alright, I understand."

"Luke, are you sure about this?"

"I am more sure about this then I am about Rodriguez. Emma, please this is the only way."

Emma bit her lip.

"Please Emma, believe me." Luke whispered and lowed his head to look into hers, gently brushing Emma's blonde hair away from her face. He lowed his head to hers even further, lightly brushing his lips against hers.

"Luke! Emma!"

Luke quickly pulled away from Emma, letting go of her waist.

"Rodriguez?"

"What is the news?"

"The Bloodthorns are heading for Tanya's groups?" Emma muttered, twisting her fingers behind her back.

"And?"

Emma shot Luke a frantic look, before caving under her Master's gaze.

"The Cullen's are there too."

"Ah, so the girl must be there with them, too." Rodriguez said, smiling. "Thank you, Emma. Luke gather your best fighters and take them to Alaska."

Emma closed her eyes, bitting her lip. Luke gently took one of her hands from behind her back, squeezing it tightly before letting go of it and leaving the room.

"Do not worry, Emma, we will join up with them again once the battle comes close to closing." Emma just nodded before running out of the room after Luke.

"Luke!" Emma called after the dark figure waiting casually at the bottom of the stairs. As she came close to the bottom of the stairs, she threw herself at Luke, her arms wrapping tightly around Luke's neck.

"Emma, I'll be fine, I swear." Luke whispered into her hair, burying his face in her neck.

"Everything will be alright, I promise."

"How can you be so sure?" Emma asked.

"When I'm with you everything is sure to me." He pressed a kiss to her mouth before he pulled away from her and walked out the front door of the house.

Emma placed a hand over her mouth to stifle a sob that she felt erupting in her throat.

The Cullens

"Where are they? How long does it take to gather up a couple of Witches?" Emmett asked his family loudly.

"Never seen you get so nervous before a battle before." Jasper teased. Alice hit her husband's arm.

"I was just wondering?" Emmett complained, whacking his brother hard in the arm also.

Carlisle sighed and looked away from his family and stared out into the surrounding snowy woods.

"Are you sure we should be putting so much of our hopes into these witches?" Eleazar asked Carlisle quietly, stepping up to stand and survey beside him.

"Bella seems to think they will help us."

"And how much hope and trust can we put into this girl?"

Carlisle shot Eleazar a glare.

"You don't trust her, do you?"

"No, I don't?"

"Why?"

"Because she is a danger to us all."

"It's not her fault." Carlisle whispered sadly.

"I know." Eleazar said, still looking into the woods. "But she is still a danger and I really don't want her anywhere near this battle."

"Because of Rodriguez Army?"

"Yes."

Carlisle nodded in agreement. "Yes, I agree also. The thought of Bella being here when the Rodriguez Army arrives makes me nervous. She can however control them."

Eleazar stared at him in disbelief.

"She can?"

"Yes. Well she seems to at least be able control the younger ones, I'm not sure about older vampires and I don't think she knows either."

"I don't think she knows a lot about herself or about her talents."

"I know, but she trying to learn about herself."

"But that might not be enough."

"Edward will never allow anything to happen to her." Carlisle said firmly.

"And I believe that, but that could also be a danger too."

"I know." The two men looked once again into the dark, snowy forest.

"Their here." Alice said grimly, walking up to stand by Carlisle other elbow.

"Thank you, Alice." Carlisle muttered and stepped out in front of the group.

"Welcome." Carlisle called out into the forest.

"Thank you." A low, but rich voice replied. A tall, dark man, with a huge sword strapped to his back, wearing a long velvet red cloak rippling in the wind, walked out of the woods, his ruby eyes glowing brilliantly in the moonlight.

You are the Vegetarian Doctor, are you not?" The dark man asked in his low, rich voice.

"I am Carlisle Cullen, yes." Carlisle said calmly. The dark man tilted his head; his thick black hair fell away from his eyes.

"I am Richard Bloodthorn."

"Pleasure."

"I am sure, but I have no quall with you or your fellows."

"What?"

"Really?"

Everyone glanced at Emmett and Alice who were the two who had spoken out.

"Sorry, but what?" Alice asked.

Richard turned his red gaze to Alice's face. Jasper stepped slightly in front of her in an protective manner.

"We are not interested in you?"

"Why?"

"Because you have never attacked or threaten my family."

"Err, aren't you the bad guys?"

"Alice!" Esme ordered.

"What?" Alice demanded back. "It's just a simple question."

Esme open her mouth to retort but was stopped by chuckling.

Richard was chuckling loudly from where he stood.

"If you have no interest in us, why are you here?" Carlisle demanded.

Richard eyes grew dark and he snarled.

"Because of Rodriguez!"

"And what about him pissed you off so, to want to start a War that could reveal all of us to humanity?" Jasper asked calmly.

"Apart from his mere existence, he means." Emmett added. Rosalie, at his shoulder, rolled her eyes.

"I thought your fight started with the Volturi?" Carlisle demanded. Richard turned his red gaze back to him.

"It did."

"What changed?"

"And why did you want to fight them in the first place?" Alice cut in once again.

Everyone shot her exasperated looks.

"What it's a simple question… again?"

"Might as well hear their side too." Tanya relented.

"Since everyone's so chatty." Emmett added.

"Ok, so why did you decided to pick a fight with the big guys?" Alice asked before Carlisle or Tanya could open their mouths.

"We merely thought it was a time for a change in power, but of cause the Volturi being the Volturi took that as a threat and as a declare of War and so they decided to have us wiped out."

"And Rodriguez?" Carlisle asked

"We mean a part from the fact that the Volturi hired him to get rid of you and your family, because that of cause isn't enough to want to go out and kill the guy!" Emmett said quietly under his breath though all heard him clearly.

"Emmett!" Esme warned him sharply. Emmett ducked his head sheepishly.

"Sorry Mom." He mumbled.

Richard looked a little amused at the display between the Cullens though his facial features were mainly frustration.

"The man comes into my territory without permission, ask for my aid before turning out to be a double-crosser, lying bastard who is really there to get rid of me and my clan, steal our secrets and to hunt down our witches magic."

"You have witches in your services?"

"Quite a number I can assure you." Richard said with a smug smile.

"Well that's a relief that you brought them along with you." Stated a completely different voice. "I mean, it would be kinda a pain to have to go back to Europe to pick them up. Or maybe you did leave them behind and enlisted the help of a powerful local Coven, such as, maybe the Blood Rim Moon?"

"Rodriguez?!"

"Yes! Yes!" Rodriguez said, stepped out from within the dense trees, several shadows flanking him in the trees.

Richard snarled at Rodriguez and bent down into a crouch, several more snarls erupted from behind both men.

"Now, now, please don't." Carlisle said, stepping forward between the two groups.

"Carlisle let the man and his Army be." Rodriguez smirked.

"No, no fighting!" Alice begged.

The woods lit up from a lightening bolt with a loud crack of thunder following it. Another clap of thunder brought huge drops of rain down upon them.

"Witches?" Jasper hissed as he moved into a fighting stance.

"But which group?" Emmett asked. "Is it the Bloodthorns group or ours?"

"Who cares! As long as it stops the fighting." Alice shrieked.

"I care! I don't like rain, it messes up my hair!" Katrina screech.

"Are you for real?" Emmett demanded.

"Alice?" Jasper touched his wife's arm, before wrapping his arms around her to support her as she swayed on the spot.

"Bella! She can't come here." Alice gasped.

"Well, we figured that much out! Why?" Emmett asked, still not moving from his fight stance.

"Because they'll get her." Alice whispered, closing her eyes in despair.

"Ok… so no Bella near here, then. Well Edwards with her so if we tell him to keep her away, he will." Jasper said calmly.

"Look I know Bella is a problem, but at the moment we have bigger problems!" Rosalie hissed.

And things were starting to look bad. Richard coven was moving forward as were the Witches that were accompanying them

"You shouldn't have come, My Lady Witch." Rodriguez said suddenly as a tall dark woman walked out from among the trees. She carried a long staff in her right hand; the jewel at its top, glowed a deep red and was shaped like a crescent moon. She glared at Rodriguez.

"You are wrong, Rodriguez, it is you who should not have come here." The Lady Witch snapped. "But you are here and it will be your end!"

"Oh really?" Rodriguez asked lightly, "but you don't have the numbers to perform the spell to rid yourselves of me and my Army."

"That may be but by the power of the Goddess, you will be stopped!" she snapped and with that she waved her staff purposefully. The heavy rain that was falling upon them turned to ice that where sharper than sharp knives. The first ice knives caused little damage to The Army, however being hit repeated in relativity the same spot can cause some damage and that was exactly what happen.

The storm above them all grew worse and the Lady Witch stared up at it confused. She knew very well this wasn't of her covens doing. Was it possible that one of the vampire groups had enlisted other witches help?

She scowled at the idea. Her coven would not be beaten by some silly wiccan group who had no desire for the true power of natures magic!

She motions for her Coven to begin, chanting a counter spell against the ragging storm.

The two powerful spells collide creating huge bolts of lightening. Each strike of lightening flashed a different colour across the sky.

One strike of lightening fell like a shooting star from the sky, hitting one of the witches, who screamed in agony, blood spilling from the gapping wound in her torso.

At the smell of blood the younger Vampires started to get excited, edging closer to one another ready to fight, eager to fight.

"Calm yourselves." Bellowed Richard Bloodthorn.

"Says the man who is desperate to rip Rodriguez apart!" Emmett snorted. Jasper snickered.

"Emmett!" Rosalie hissed.

Another strike of lightening lit up the dark sky and that seemed to be a green light for the two vampire armies. The battle flared between them, raging loudly.

"Oh shit." Emmett hissed, grabbing a paralysed Rosalie out of the way of being struck by lightening. Lightening, that if it hit a vampire turned them into dust in seconds.

"We need to get out of here." Alice screamed, only just dodging being torn to pieces by a young vampire, whose side was unknown and probably will never be known as Jasper, only seconds later tore him to pieces.

Another bolt of lighten hurtled their way, but this time they weren't as lucky as before.

Rosalie let out a shriek of pain as the lightening bolt went straight threw her calf. Apparently it wasn't a strong one for she did not turn to dust, but her leg was badly injured, completely split open.

"Where the hell is Edward?!" Emmett bellowed in fury. His anger fueled from his fear for his wife who was gasping be agony, clutching her leg, her eyes squeezed shut against the pain.

"Right here."

"You bastard, what took you so long?" Emmett demanded angrily. Edward stared at his big brother startled at his anger, but quickly understood when he saw Rosalie. Bella, who stood behind him, looked slightly sick and guilt filled her strange golden silver eyes, which were unusually dark for once.

The moment Alice saw Bella she began to panic.

"Bella, you need to leave, now!"

"Why? I can't leave you guys!" Bella argued.

"Yes, you can. If you're here, we're in more danger." Alice snapped. Bella's eyes widen, a hurt look within them, but Alice could see that she understood.

Bella started to backtrack the way that she had come, desperate to get away if it meant the Cullen's might have a chance.

She started run, but with her luck, she found herself in the midst of the battle.

"Oh CRAP." She started to backtrack, then stopped.

Err, why don't I just tell them all to get lost? She wondered to herself, dodging a kick that was sent her way.

"GO AWAY! ALL OF YOU GET LOST!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. Everyone froze for a moment, staring her direction.

"BELLA! NO!" Alice shrieked. Bella looked in her direction puzzled. Hers and Alice eyes met, for a moment Alice eyes where begging her to stop, but then something off to the side caught her attention and her eyes widen.

"BELLA!" but that was all Bella heard when she was suddenly knocked to the hard, wet forest floor. She struggled with the vampire that had attacked her. She shoved him off over her but as she shoved he grabbed hold of the silver chain that was swing freely from her neck. His fingers curled around and pulled, breaking the chain.

Bella stood there frozen, staring at the place where the ankh had hung. She lifted her head slightly to stare at the vampire who now held her ankh in his hand. She open her mouth to say something, anything to get the ankh back, when suddenly pain ripped threw her being. She fell again to the wet forest floor screaming.

Edward, HELP!

As she lay there, agony ripping her apart, images flew threw her mind. Images, strange painful images, but she didn't want to lose them. Could they possibly be? Memories? Memories, of which she was only just remembering now! But, why?

An image of a beautiful meadow appeared before her eyes as did Edward, shirtless and shining like thousands of diamonds in the sunlight. She could hear his soft, velvet voice murmur.

'And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…'

Her own voice answered him.

'What a stupid lamb,'

'What a sick, masochistic lion.' He agreed, staring off into the distance that she could make out.

To her distaste the scene changed, but it turned out even better than the last one.

They where standing in some forest place and he was telling her, he loved her. Hearing him say that he loved her, even if it was only just a memory, it helped eased the pain in her body, to almost becoming nonexistent.

"Bella!" she could hear him screaming out her name here in present times as she vaguely felt something or someone grabbing her and pulling her up into their arms.

"Let go of her!" Edward bellow, running straight into the battle ignoring his family's yells for him to stop. He saw that it was the dark haired man; Luke, the young man that Tanya had wanted was the one that had grabbed Bella and was walking with her in his arms away from the battle.

He started to run full sprint and he was almost upon them when all of a sudden Rodriguez was there in front of him, blocking his way.

"Let me passed." Edward snarled at the older man and vampire. All his hatred for the man in front of him came forth in waves.

Rodriguez merely smiled.

"I apologize Edward, but I'm sorry to say I can't do that."

"WHAT?" Edward bellow. He lunged at Rodriguez, but Rodriguez hit him before he could even finish he's attack.

Edward fell to ground almost in the same spot as Bella had, gasping in pain, his hand clutching the deep wound in his chest. He glared up at Rodriguez with loathing.

"We'll see each other again soon and maybe even Bella will be there too." Rodriguez said calmly as he strode away.

"No." Edward whispered. "No, no, no, NO!" this wasn't happening! Not again! He wasn't losing her again! He struggled to his feet, swaying as he did so.

"Edward, stop, he put a spell on you. Edward! Edward! Stop, we need to get back, we won't survive if we don't leave now." Carlisle swung his son up into his arms and strode quickly out of the still raging battle, even though the main reason for its cause was gone.

Edward struggled weakly against his father's steel arms. He felt so weird, almost like he when he was sick with the Flu that had killed his biological mother and father. This scared him, but not as much as the thought of losing Bella again.

"Bella." He whispered, still struggling.

"I know. We'll get her back, Edward, we'll get her back." Carlisle promised him as they reached their family.

"Edward!" Edward clearly heard his family's frantic thoughts, but shut them out. He didn't care, he didn't care! He just wanted Bella.

Give her back! Give her back to me! Don't you dare think I'll leave her again? Give her back to ME! He bellowed in his head.

"Bella." He whispered again before everything went black.

Author's Note: Yeah, Cliffie! Don't kill me or you'll never find out what happens next and what everyone is up to.
So in summary, Bella has lost her ankh and is remembering stuff (why is that, do you think?), she has been captured by Rodriguez and his "Bad" guys, though its not really their fault (All will be explained in later chapters, promise), I actaully like Rodriguez group, i've written little one-shots (which I have not found a way to get them in here, maybe in coming chapters, I don't know) about them and they keep cracking me up, I'm really fond of them.
Anyway, Edward is hurt, Rosalie is hurt, Tanya's group bolted and the whole Cullen group is in a real mess and Edward's wants to murder Rodriguez personally now. It's James all over again!

Ok, Hoped you enjoy, please review. Thanks and hopefully I'll see you again soon, if i haven't died of over-school work by then.
See ya.