"Thank you for coming," Carlisle said to the group. "This is the second time you have come to our family's side and we have not had a chance to repay you for the first. We are eternally grateful."
"Carlisle," Zafrina spoke up, "We are the ones who are eternally grateful. You have assisted us all in the past, and this is us repaying you for your good deeds."
Carlisle smiled, "Thank you Zafrina, for your kind words." He raised his voice, "So as you all know, the Volturi are coming once again. They will not be as merciful this time, they are determined to end this confrontation in a battle and to destroy our family. However, with Jane on our side, we have her power as an advantage. A disadvantage however, would be that they now hold Alec with them, and he will be able to temporarily disable us all from fighting as well, being immune to Jane's power.
"I can do anything Alec can do." Zafrina spoke up once again, "I can get him first before he gets us. Then Jane and I could go ahead and fight him two against one. It will be a cinch."
Jane shuddered. As much as she hated her brother right now for leaving her and going off to the Volturi, starting this whole mess, she couldn't imagine laying a finger on her beloved brother. He had been so loyal throughout their whole lives together, and they were still siblings after all, no matter what he had done to her. She wondered if he would be able to fight her.
Carlisle nodded, "That's what we are depending on. The hard part is, we need to let Aro finish talking first before we begin our attack. We wouldn't want to start anything unnecessary."
"So, after Aro's babble and before Alec's attack? I can do it. "Zafrina assured.
"What are our plans if the battle doesn't look good?" Jacob suddenly interjected.
Edward looked at him,
"Protect yourself. If it looks like we are losing, gather up your families and loved ones and get out of here." He looked at Nessie and nodded at Jacob.
Jacob nodded back, in silence.
"We won't lose," Emmett said with a grin, breaking the silence. "We are all great fighters. Right Jasper?"
Jasper nodded, "I can't say I've seen an army stronger than this, debatably other than the Volturi of course. But we will need a strategy. We can't just go into the battle blind with no plan. I think our best way of attack would be to assign individual fights."
"Like... assign enemies?" Emmett's eyes lit up, "Shotty Felix."
Jasper nodded seriously, "I think that would be best. Lets start a list."
One by one, we all checked off a member of the Volturi to fight. Edward to Demetri, Carlisle to Aro, Jasper to Caius, etc. Since our army had more numbers than them however, we decided to assign two of the newer wolves to one Volturi member. We wanted everyone to be as safe as possible. Of course, Zafrina and I ended up with Alec.
"Ok everyone," Carlisle spoke again after everyone had a battle assigned to them, "We have eight hours. You may choose your own tactic to preparing for battle. You may spend these last several hours relaxing and calming yourself down, or you may continue to train. If you go off to hunt, please do not go far as we will need everyone on call and ready if anything comes up. I advise that you do not tire yourself out completely if training. We will need everyone in the best shape they can be for the confrontation."
With that, everyone split off into their individual activities. I noticed a small group of vampires disappearing through the trees to hunt and refuel for the night. Some covens simply stood there, holding hands and talking quietly. The whole pack of wolves were all huddled in a circle, patting each others backs and ruffling each other's hair, getting pumped for battle. With no one to love or comfort, I found a flat tree stump, and sat down. My whole body was shaking, a very uncommon thing for a vampire, and even more uncommon for me. Had I completely lost my old, strong, mean and ruthless self?
Alice suddenly yelled out, "Everyone come back!" She waited for a small moment with her eyes closed. Her eyes fluttered open as she said, "It's time."