HARRY'S POV
She struck Snape first. I could hear the hit, and Snape gasp as his body collided with the wall. I reached to help him but it was too late. She was upon me. First she knocked the wand from my hand and then seized me by the arm. Instantly there was a voice inside my head, "Harry Potter, I'm not going to hurt you but you must let me escape." It was her voice.
As she released me my vision returned. Snape was climbing to his feet. Draco still lay unconscious across hallway from us. The halfblood vampire, stood mere feet straight ahead of us, holding Snape's wand in her hand.
"Kill it Potter." Snape urged. "Kill it NOW!" But I couldn't kill her. Not only was that one of the unforgivable curses, but she obviously needed our help. There was much more to this then we had initially believed.
Snape took two slow steps towards me. She watched us with glowing blood red eyes. "Give me your wand Potter." He commanded, reaching across my body. I moved the wand just out of his reach.
"She needs our help Professor." I said.
"Let me go!" She demanded baring her fangs.
As quick as a viper, Snape grabbed the wand and shrieked, "AVADA KED-" but before he could complete the spell Carlisle Cullen streaked into the fray, slamming into Snape sending his body flying against the wall and knocking my wand from his hand.
"Renesmee, what have they done to you?" Carlisle looked as though he might cry.
Lying on the ground, Snape reached behind his ear, grabbing his hair. His collision with the wall had busted his head open, leaving a long thin gash. A small amount of blood began to trickle.
The halfblooded vampire zeroed in that miniscule amount of blood, like the most ferocious predator does when looking in on its prey. Blindingly fast, she charged at Snape only to be intercepted by Carlisle who clutched her tightly dragging her away. During this entire exchange, I stood froze like a statue. A mere spectator as the events unfolded before me. The realization that the halfblooded vampire that stalked the hallways of Hogwarts was none other than Edward and Bella's own daughter hit me like a ton of bricks. I watched as Carlise restrained Renesmee, his golden-brown eyes filled with horror and anguish, while her blood-red eyes thirsted for something much more vial and sinister in nature.
"Harry," Carlisle said turning to me, "Help the Professor, I will take her back to the infirmary and begin work and the cure for your friends."
"Yes sir." I answered as he took Renesmee and headed down the hallway from which we'd all came.
I went to Professor Snape who refused my help up. "Potter your insolence could have cost us both of our lives!"
"You wanted me to kill her! That is one of the unforgivable curses." I retorted.
"You can't kill what's already dead, you dim wit. You would have simply knocked her unconscious for a short while." He said bending to retrieve his wand from the floor.
"I-I didn't know sir." I said rather sheepishly.
"Do you not read ahead in your texts? I bet your dear, dear Hermione would have known that." Snape said as I bent to get my wand. "For your insolence, I'm taking 10 points from Gryffindor for trusting a monster over a Hogwarts Professor . . . and for almost getting both of us killed, that's another 20 for disappointing lack of judgment and common since."
"But Sir, that's 30 points!" I exclaimed.
"And if you don't want more to deductions from your insufferable house of know-it-alls and goody-goody's, then be you'll be gone from my sight this second! I'll deal with Malfoy." Snape said turning his back to me to go check on Draco.
"Yes sir. Sorry sir." I said turning to walk away.
EDWARD'S POV
EDWARD! I heard Alice's thoughts ring inside my head as clear as day. As I came to my feet every inch of my body ached with pain. Scanning the scene took less than a split second. Bella lay perfectly still, just a few feet away. To my left I saw why Alice's thought screamed so loud in my head. There before my eyes stood a huge werewolf. Alice was pinned under its left foot. Jacob was in wolf form and was attacking from its right. Behind it, in two separate spots, I could see both Leah and Seth in human form. Both were naked and bloody and hopefully just unconscious. Despite my burning desire to check on Bella, to ensure that she was okay or even still 'alive', I knew that my more pressing concern was with my other family members. Alice and Jacob needed me.
The werewolf still hadn't taken notice of me. I used his distraction with Alice and Jacob to my advantage. I leapt from the ground into the trees, and then used my elevated height as a springboard; I descended from above the creature, landing feet-first atop its shoulders. As quick as I could I reached placing both hands under its chin and pulled up to remove its head from its neck but it didn't budge. The werewolf was stone solid. I felt like a regular human trying to break marble with my bare hands.
At least I did some good, the distraction of me landing on the werewolf's shoulders caused him to loosen his foot hold on Alice and she was able to wiggle free. That was the good news. The bad news was now he turned his attention to me; reaching above his own head seized me by the leg and slammed me into the ground with the force of a train hitting a car parked on the tracks. As he did this Jacob bit the creature's leg and I heard it yipe in pain.
I scrambled as best I could to my feet in my semi-dazed state. I saw Alice fly over my head, landing a solid spin kick to the beasts face. Even in battle Alice had style. Her moves were graceful and almost fairy like. Although, immediately after her kick, the werewolf swatted her back like a fly.
My first impulse was to tell everyone run. It seemed like our attacks were doing nothing to dissuade the creature but the problem was our injured friends and family. We couldn't leave them here to become this things dinner.
I charged ahead, deciding to strike in a lower more, um vital and hopefully painful appendage. My first strike was swatted away, but as I dodged the werewolf's claw attack, I threw my second punch that landed square in his groin. He howled in pain. That's it E! Punch him in the werenuts! I could hear Jacob think. I almost smiled too until I got whacked upside the head for my troubles.
Alice had made her way behind the creature, and began rapidly punching the monster in its kidneys. As it spun to face her, I took over the punches to the kidneys. Now maybe we're onto something. I thought.
Werewolves for all their strength and power apparently were not high on the intellect charts, or at least not this one. As Alice and I stood on polar opposite sides of him, taking turns punching him the back and dodging his claws, the beast just kept spinning in circles trying to stop whoever was the last person to hit him. Jacob seized this opportunity, leaping from the side with a calculated attack, his massive fangs sunk into the werewolf's collar bone tearing away a large amount of skin, muscle and cartilage. The beast shrieked in agony fell down onto all fours. Alice kicked the beast in the face as Jake snapped another bite, this time tearing away a large section of the creatures left thigh.
The werewolf lost consciousness and reverted back to human form. We all stood there, temporarily froze watching to see if he moved again. He did not.
"Jake, go check on Seth. Alice, you check Leah." I stood a moment longer after they had gone before rushing over to see Bella. As I approached, I saw her foot twitch. The elation I felt is indescribable.
As I knelt beside her, Bella opened her eyes and asked, "Wh-what happened?"
"The weirdest thing, you just fell asleep." I told her with a smile.
"No really," she said trying to sit up.
"I'm serious. You have the world's first case of vampiric narcolepsy." I told her as straight faced as possible. I could hear Alice and Jacob's thoughts, Seth and Leah were going to be alright.
Alice came over carrying Leah in her arms. "She's going to be okay. But her werewo- um, shifter metabolism has already started healing her wounds. We have to get to Carlisle quick or she's going to have much rougher recovery."
Jacob came trotting up with Seth draped across his back. 'Want me to finish off the werewolf before we leave? He asked me in his thoughts.
"No Jake, leave him. We have to go find Renesmee." I said.
You haven't found her yet?! Jacob exclaimed.
"No we haven't."
"Yea," Bella said, snapping back to reality. "Edward take Seth. I want to speak to Jake. Human Jake."
"He doesn't want to shift back because he'll be naked." I told her.
"Then I hope Seth has an extra pair of shorts. Either way, I don't care. I want answers." Bella said crossing her arms.
When Jacob caught up with us he looked really funny wearing Seth's shorts which were several sizes too small for him.
"Nice shorts." Alice observed.
"Shut up." Jacob responded.
"I want to know exactly what happened!" Bella demanded.
"Look Bells what can I say? We were just chillin' in San Diego when this bald guy in a creepy black cloak and slits like a snake for a nose showed up and . . ."
BLOATMAN'S CORNER: This chapter turned out way different than or shorter rather than I had initially written. I cut out all the Leah action, then after the fight was over, originally Voldemorte showed up to retrieve Fenrir and to deal punishment to those who stood against him , only to be ran off by the Centaurs for his killing of unicorns in the forest years earlier. While in my head it seemed wonderfully brilliant, on paper in turned out to be long and unnecessary, thus the cuts. I hope this condensed chapter is better and progresses the story more smoothly.
So next chapter is it! It's the last chapter in A Bat in the Belfry. A few years in the making, it's not my fav piece of fiction that I've written, but I do think it's still entertaining and I was able to stay true to both entities, Harry Potter and Twilight. So what do you think? Did I do okay?
Please be on the lookout for the conclusion to be posted very soon! And as always, THANKS FOR READING!