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Secrets

Chapter 19- The Army

Previously on Secrets:

It was a conference between all of my enemies. Kronos, Hyperion, Atlas, Victoria, some Volturi members who clearly wanted revenge.

"Is the army ready?" Kronos asked Victoria, and she nodded, her blood red eyes sparkling.
"I have created the ultra army. No force no matter how godly can take them. They don't stand a chance against my newborns."

Newborns… Army… Vampires… my gods. They created a new born army, ranked with Greek monsters…

All of the sudden, Kronos looked directly at me, as if he knew I was there. I felt like I became visible, naked to all of the enemies.

"Burn." He simply said, and my arms, legs, body, head, my whole body felt like it was on fire. I screamed in pain.

My vision turned black as I heard people calling my name. I heard the Melodic voice of Edward, the half crazy voice of Percy, the sad voice of Alice, and many more. They all seemed terrified.

After struggling with the fire, I snapped open my eyes and the fire immediately stopped, along with my screams. Everyone looked at me with worry, pain, sadness, and they looked scared.

"They created a Newborn Army. They're after us."

-Bella POV-

"So… what's a newborn army?" Percy asked, losing the concerned look, and gaining a new look of confusion. Typical Percy.

The Cullens looked at us, fear in their eyes. All of them turned to Jasper who had his eyes closed, and Alice was hugging him. "Jasper, don't worry. We'll get through this like last time."

Jasper slowly, even more slowly for a vampire, opened his eyes. "Newborns are vampires… but at the same time, they do not have the control that an average vampire may have."

"So let me guess- these vampires have just been changed," I spoke, and everyone turned the spotlight to me. Well, everyone except Jasper. His eyes were in a far-away place, and he gave me a creepy smile, as if he were remembering a vile, yet an unbelieving memory.

"Exactly right Bella. These vampires are newly changed, newly born into the new life. Having had the name, Newborn," Jasper explained, and I smiled. I was right, but I also know that the term Newborn doesn't exactly have the best meaning. Victioria has an entire army of Newborns.

"Then how do we fight them then?" Percy asked, at the same time Emmet did. Percy raised an eyebrow at Emmet, but he just shrugged.

"For you humans… or half bloods if you prefer, I have no idea. But as for the Vampires… come with me." Jasper said, and I saw Thalia smirk from the corner of my eye. She knew something. I could just tell. I got up, and walked out of my cabin along with everyone else who was in here. (All of the Cullens, and Percy, Nico, Annabeth, Thalia, and Grover.)

We ended up following Jasper out to a small meadow in the woods. I immediately remembered Edward and I's meadow out in Forks. I wonder what Charlie thought… I'm just glad I really didn't have to face him. But I might have to sooner than later…

Jasper stopped, and turned to us. "Newborns are mindless. All they want is blood, human blood. Godly blood is even more appetizing, so you'll have a harder time trying to stay alive. Even though they have and extreme lust for blood, not to mention their uncontrollable strength… we still have a chance.

"A newborn's lust for blood overpowers their senses, making them… not necessarily uncontrollable, but they cannot control their own self. All vampires have gone through this stage. Carlisle is the only one here… who hasn't killed a human in their past."

We all looked at the Cullens who wore looks of pain, anger, and regret. I looked at Edward, seeing his face full of regret, looking down. He clenched his fists, and I saw Carlisle walk over to him, putting a hand on his shoulder.

Edward looked at him, and I saw a silent conversation flood through their expressions. I could easily understand what Carlisle is trying to get Edward to understand. He is not a monster, we all make regretful mistakes.

I remember when I tried to convince Edward that, and soon after I remembered the pain he made me feel. He left me. He didn't care about me. It was all a joke. He doesn't love me.

But why has he been worried? Only someone who truly loves the other would do that…

He could just be caught in the act. All it would take would be remembering why he left. That he feels nothing. That's the only real plausible resolution.

"Jasper, if you don't know how to train us half bloods, and if what you say about us being in even more danger, then what do you expect us to do? Run into battle and kill ourselves?" Annabeth asked, her arms crossed across her chest.

"Annabeth, you know I can't have an answer to that." Jasper told her, looking at her knowingly. She relaxed, and I had a feeling it was Jasper working his power. Annabeth isn't really the type who would relax, knowing her family was in danger. The woman likes her life permanent. This could defiantly ruin that.

"Annabeth. How stupid do you think I am? Obviously in all of my traveling, my huntresses have come across some newborns," Thalia laughed, looking at Annabeth's shocked expression. Yeah… not really expecting that? I wasn't either.

"You know how to fight newborns?" Jasper asked, looking at the Lieutenant of Artemis in awe.

"Yes I do. Can we get a move on?" Same old same old. Thalia would be impatient in a time like this.

"Wait… can you give an example?" Jasper asked, smiling. He was defiantly excited now. I'm sure I would be too, put in his situation.

"Yes, I can. But who are you thinking of having me go all out on?" Thalia asked, looking at her stubs people call nails just to add a dramatic gesture. Of course, the Cullens wouldn't know that… but Edward would. Just to prove that, I heard Edward chuckle a bit.

Emmet didn't find not knowing what was so funny… funny, and cursed before mumbling, "Stupid mind reader." Let's just say that only caused Edward to laugh even more.

"Emmet, would you care to help Thalia out?" Jasper asked, making Emmet snap his head in an inhumanly fast speed to see Jasper.

"Yeah. Sure. Why not?" His tone was sarcastic, and he went off mumbling profanities on his way to the middle of the meadow. Thalia just laughed at how dumb Emmet was acting, walking out there too.

Everyone turned to face her.

"Okay. First things first. When you fight a newborn, make sure you keep them at a nice distance before you go all out. Usually, we'd team up into pairs, having one shield you, while you go on the offensive. But since we don't have enough warriors, we'll need to fight alone.

"Like Jasper said, Newborns are mindless. We just use tactics and strategy to take them out. And don't worry on that part, it's in our blood. Since we have powers, Annabeth yours being strategy, we can use them in the offensive. Time for an example. Bella, would you mind using your shield for Emmet?"

I smiled and nodded at her, willing the water from a nearby creek to form a dome around Emmet. All of the Cullen members looked at it in awe, Emmet even touched it, trying to force a finger through. It couldn't go through.

Thalia went into war mode, lifting her arms up and letting them come down strong. I knew in that motion, she summoned lightning, doing her 'daughter of Zeus' thing. Lighting came down, shocking my shield, making me stagger back.

The Cullens looked at me worriedly, not really understanding it happens every time.

I took that water, and flung it at Thalia. Usually that would kill a person, but not Thalia. Lighting doesn't affect her, lighting charged water wouldn't either. But the water would. Ha.

She was soaked, her hair charging with electricity. She sighed, and it calmed down a few notches. All of the halfbloods and a satyr were laughing. Let's just say the Cullens looked like we were crazy. Thalia got a mad look in her eyes and I saw it coming. Quickly, I summoned a water shield over us while the lighting struck it.

I just let the water go in the trees, making them suddenly greener… huh. I should do that more often…

"Are you done?" Alice asked, giggling at the little disagreement that went on in front of her.

"She's done Alice," I said, smiling at her. Thalia glared at me playfully and I glared back. Everyone laughed at that. I defiantly saw Thals as an older sister… who looked way younger than I ever could.

I saw Thalia straighten her silver vest, and she shook it off. "Okay, now we need to really get to business. Percy… do an attack that can penetrate Bella's shield. Bella, you do the strongest shield you have ever done."

We nodded, and walked out. I created a dome around me, creating a barrier between me and the outside world. Sometimes I wonder if the shield is mental too. I have a tendency to cut people out.

I layered the dome, making it ten times stronger than it was for Thalia. But I knew Percy had mad skills, so I made sure he wouldn't hurt me.

Ready? Percy asked me, going on that weird mind frequency all children of Poseidon have.

Ready.

Water swirled all around him, raising him up. I saw Thalia move everyone back a few feet, knowing he was going all out. And we didn't even do that in the arena… this was going to look really cool.

Water daggers threatened to penetrate the water dome, but I just added that water to the dome. I was using his 'advancements' against him. I saw him generate his own little storm cloud, sending lightning at me, too.

All of the sudden, it stopped. Thalia smiled, and walked out to Percy. "That's the force it would create to kill about, by the looks of it, five newborns. Good work."

She had Annabeth , Nico, and Grover attack my shield too, and it was extremely tiring. I knew Thalia was training me to use this in battle, but what about my offensive skills too? I really haven't done anything to increase my skills lately… well, besides the whole arena thing.

I caught a glimpse at Jasper working with the Cullens about three hundred meters to the left. I saw Carlisle and Edward going at it. It was pretty funny, seeing Edward take him down, and Jasper scold him as he lost focus, letting Carlisle get the upper hand back.

After while, the sun started to go down, signaling a whole different day was ahead of us. Carlisle was going to see if he had some friends who could help us, but on the other hand, we didn't want any more casualties than we already had. Plus, Thalia told us that our swords and daggers would work against the Vampires. So much for being invincible.

Percy and I soundlessly went back to our cabin, ignoring all the weird glances we got from other campers since we missed our activities for the day. Usually we don't miss them at all. In fact, we love doing them, and getting to help newbies.

But today… we had some better things to do… sort of.

Sorry for the long wait… if you want details of why it was so long, review or PM me. But anyways, my cuz is over, and we are having a writing Frenzy for the next two days… expect this story to be over soon… sadly

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