Here´s the first of a couple of fight chapters. I´m not sure I like it though, but at least I tried...

More fighting scenes to come...

Enjoy :)

Down and Dirty

Jacob Black

After spending the night talking and cuddling with Nessie we were woken up by Bella. Today was the day we would either die or break out of the clutches of those nasty bloodsuckers. Even if we do take them, for some of us it might be the day we do both. It would be naive to think that we could just take down the Volturi without any casualties. We would fight and do our best to help each other and hopefully we would all be OK. We had already lost Leah; I could and would not lose another member of my pack.

The pack was ready and set. We were all eager to fight. Everyone wanted to kick some bloodsucker ass, everyone wanted to revenge Leah and finally everyone wanted to save Charlie. We had all grown up with the kind, warm and funny police chief and we could not picture Forks without him. I was also fighting to protect my second family including Nessie; Sam was fighting to protect Emily, Jared to protect Kim, Quil to protect Claire and Paul to protect Rachel. We all had common ground to fight for and our personal motivation.

Nessie was nervous after we had grabbed some breakfast. She held on to my hand and refused to let go. She wasn´t afraid for herself, no, she was afraid that something might happen to me or her family and friends. Just like any other member in this family she would fight them all alone just to keep everyone else safe. The only ones she trusted not to get hurt were her uncles Jasper and Emmet. They were indestructible in her opinion, they had trained Nessie ever since she could walk, but I would do my best to keep her away from any sort of fighting what so ever. I couldn´t and wouldn´t risk her – not now. Not ever.

I held her hand all the way to the field and tried my best to reassure her. We would be OK. I would make sure of that. We would have the future we had spent all night talking about. Nessie had told me she that when the time came she wanted a small wedding with just family and the closest friends, she wanted loads and loads of kids and she never wanted to be parted from her family. I decided 6 years ago that I would be the one to give all that to her if she would have me. And now she would. Hopefully this would be the last obstacle we had to get passed to get our happily ever after.

If we survived this then I would ask Edward permission to ask her to marry me. Edward was old fashioned so asking for her hand seemed right all though it scared the shit out of me. He of course already knew my plan, but had the respect to let me do this my way and when I was ready.

I looked Nessie in the eyes and my stomach did flip flops, she always had that effect on me. I would do anything for this girl. Even ask her scary bloodsucking dad for her hand and that´s saying a lot.

"I love you," I said with a smile directed at her.

She smiled back and opened her mouth to answer when everything around me disappeared. She was gone and so was Bella, Edward and all the others, all that was left was this black hole and an indescribeable pain. I fell to the ground; at least I think I did.

It felt like my blood was boiling in my veins while I was cut open by razorblades. The air around me was freezing so I felt cold on the outside and hot on the insides – I just wanted to escape my body. This pain was unbearable and this was just the physical pain. I had the feeling that I was all alone, abandoned and unwanted. My heart was shattering in a million pieces; everything in my head was empty except for my own thoughts:

"Oh god no – I AM alone. No one´s here to save me. No one loves me. I´m not good enough. I´m a freak – a burden."

I don´t know how long it was like that. It felt like a couple of lifetimes. All I wanted to do was to die, I wanted out of this existence. All thoughts of love, family and Nessie were gone. There was nothing else but pain.

Suddenly it all stopped. I was back at the field and Nessie was hovering over me. Nessie. That beautiful face could save me from anything. I glanced in her beautiful eyes and smiled. She looked sad. I looked around and noticed that we were not alone. All of the family, friends and witnesses were here too, and so were the Italian leeches. I started to shake all over and had to suppress a growl. Nessie held me close to her and that calmed me down. I couldn´t lose control with her so close by.

At least now I knew where the pain had come from. That female gnome had spotted a moment of weakness in Bella´s shield and had used her creepy power on me. Thank God for Bella.

I looked around and our side had lined up perfectly. We were ready to strike. We each had our targets if it would have to resolve to violence. I couldn´t see how it couldn´t though. Somebody had to pay for Leah´s death and better them than anyone else.

Carlisle stepped in front of us and greeted Aro.

Aro also stepped in front of his group.

"Hello Aro," Carlisle said in a flat voice.

"Hello Carlisle," Aro answered back in a sickening sweet voice. "I must say that I am disappointed in you my old friend."

"Is that so?" Carlisle answered back.

"This is no way to great an old friend and ally is it?" Aro said in the same voice.

Emmet snorted and Edward rolled his eyes at Aro´s comment.

"And sending random attacks at my friends and family is?" Carlisle asked sarcastically. You go Dr. Fang. I always knew he had it in him.

"You can hardly call your little lapdog family," Aro said while he sized me up. Hah, was that the best he could do? The dog jokes were so old. Spending so much time around Rosalie had made me practically immune to such jokes.

Paul growled and started shaking, but Sam was right beside him calming him down. What was up with all this calming down? They deserved what was coming to them and so much more.

"I consider myself very lucky to be able to call Jacob family," Carlisle answered with a smile. "And I do believe you have taken a member of my family and are holding him against his will, so excuse me for being a bit cautious."

"I am not holding anyone against their will Carlisle. You should know that. I am merely upholding our laws. You are aware off course that our laws demand secrecy to the humans and that law has clearly been broken," Aro replied back.

"We are merely waiting to see if the verdict is change or death," Aro said coldly.

"So you are saying that Charlie is standing in the back of your guard of his own free will?" Carlisle asked.

"More or less so, yes," Aro answered.

"Well Aro, Charlie doesn´t know what we are, at least he didn´t until you showed him. He only knew we were different. He never had to know more and never wanted to know more. I hardly think it´s fair for you to punish an innocent human because of your lack of information," Carlisle said.

Enough with the talking. I wanted to kick some ass and it had better be soon. These dudes were asking for it.

Aro glared at Carlisle for a while before answering.

"No matter how this human found out about our world, the law has still been broken," Aro stated.

"Then you should be punished with death as well. Since it was you who broke that law," Emmet spat at him. I was hoping that he would pounce at Aro soon so I wouldn´t have to be the first one to break line. I was really relaying on Emmet or Paul´s hot headedness.

"It was your choice to stay in touch with the humans. When your choices are not what the law commands, your choices have consequences," Aro said with a growing smile.

"Aro has decided to cast his vote for Charlie´s fate," Edward said facing Carlisle.

"He has decided that `granting´ Charlie the death penalty would be too kind a way out. He wants us to suffer. He wants to turn Charlie in front of us and then he wants to take him back to Volterra and teach him the ways. He´s willing to risk a newborn in Volterra just to hurt us," Edward spat obviously angry. I growled angrily, this time Nessie did nothing to calm me down – she was fuming herself.

"It is you, Aro, who once again has proven not to be a friend and ally. I cannot accept your ways to uphold these laws of yours. This has to come to an end. Your reign of terror has ended as of now," Carlisle said to him in a voice full of authority.

Emmet finally flung himself at some huge leech, I´m guessing that was Felix since Emmet had called dibs on him. It had taken him long enough to react. Nessie stepped away from me so that I could phase without hurting her.

"About time," Quil thought.

"Easy Quil, keep it together. We have to stick to the plan if we want to succeed," I replied calmly.

Sam looked my way and nodded.

"You OK?" he asked through our Alpha connection. I was really happy any other days that I couldn´t hear Paul and I bet that he was driving Sam crazy right about now. During a fight like this though, it would have been beneficial that we could all have been connected through our thoughts. It only made the Alpha job that much harder.

I replied with a simple nod. We could talk about this later.

Emmet was already fighting Felix so we had to start on our assigned targets. A lot of them we had to fight were unknown witnesses. But as Paul used to say, a leech is a leech.

"Watch out Jake. To your left," Embry shouted.

Two bloodsuckers were coming at me from my left while I fought another. The heads up came just in time.

"Thanks man."

"No probs, boss," Embry grinned back. Both he and Quil were enjoying this. Unlimited fighting, this wasn´t just some practice session. This was it.

Seth however fought, but the thrill was gone. He never uttered a word unless he really had to. He was focused on the battle and avenging his sister.

"Wuhuu," Quil sang in his head. He had just finished off two vampires at the same time. "This is fu-u-un," he said.

"Yeah, we really should do this more often. You know what they say about practice makes perfect," Embry grinned back.

Nessie had started at fire in the middle of the field before she herself had found an opponent. I growled at the sight of her fighting.

"Seth, go help Nessie," I thought.

"Sure Jake," Seth replied without enthusiasm.

We had been fighting for a little while when all of a sudden some of these witnesses started to look confused. They stopped fighting.

"What the hell…?" Quil thought.

I looked around. Emmet, Edward, Bella, Esme, Carlisle and Jasper were still fighting some of the guard members.

Why did they stop fighting all of a sudden? And then I remembered our plan.

Some lives would now be spared, but maybe some of ours as well. A smile spread across my face.

Carlisle really was a genius.

"Well there goes our fun," Embry thought.

Some of the witnesses were talking, but I wasn´t paying attention. There were still others fighting and I wanted to do my part.

Sam and Paul were fighting on the other side of the field, helping out Carlisle and Jasper. Quil, Embry and I had almost cleared the space around us and we were joking about it in our heads.

"Jake," Nessie called out. She and Seth were surrounded by unknown vamps. I growled and threw the remains of my latest victim in the fire.

"Embry, Quil," I was almost panicking but fought to keep it together.

Before I could give the order they had already caught on by Seth´s thoughts.

"Sorry Jake," Seth thought. "I don´t know where they came from."

"Don´t worry Seth, we´re in this together," I answered him. I had to be the strong one.

It was now five against eight. Easy enough, except that I was too busy worrying about Nessie being one of the five and standing in the middle of all this.

I would die right here if it meant that Nessie was safe.

Not a nasty cliffy this time :D

I am really nervous about this fight stuff though - so if I really need your reviews now...

I´m almost done with the next chapter, so if you want it by tomorrow then review ;)