Emmett's POV
It was going to take three more hours until we reached Salta. When I said we were at the bottom of Argentina, we were at the bottom. Isabella was getting more irritated. I knew she was worrying about the girls and how they were feeling about this. Sure, the girls were strong. But sometimes, without Isabella, those girls would fall apart. Even Bella. She has been taking care of those girls for years upon years. I couldn't imagine what would happen to any of them. Literally, if one got hurt, they all got hurt.
"Uh oh... Emmett's thinking." Vastel whispered to Bella.
I punched him and called him a bastard. Even though Vastel went down for a while, he seemed a lot more happier than he usually is. He wasn't as awkward as he might have been at other times.
"Why don't you go sit with Dominic?" I whispered to him. He raised his eye brow until I glanced towards Isabella's direction.
"Oh. Okay. I see." He said. "Dominic, I am going to sit with you so Emmett and Isabella can do something privately." I smacked my head and I heard Dominic just laughing his little ass off. "I don't see what's so funny."
"Just forget it, Vastel." I said. Even Isabella cracked a small smile. I swear, that man was going to be the death of me instead.
I patted the floor next to me, to make Bella come closer to me. She didn't hesitate to move and laid down next to me. I had no words to say to her. I just wanted her to relax as much as possible. There was nothing to worry about in this moment. The others will make it to the house just fine. Everybody will be there. The Volturi has no idea where we're at. Everything is fine... That's all that mattered. That everything is fine. Going as it should be. Especially now since Vastel woke up.
I kissed Bella's neck, but she shooed me off. Maybe because we weren't alone. I turned her on her other side so I could kiss her. She didn't stop me, this time. But she stopped me before it went too far. About a couple minutes later, she ended up falling asleep. I didn't want to fall asleep. Something secretly told me to stay awake, just in case Vastel or Dominic didn't know which way to go.
I moved from under Isabella and sat up.
"Did she fall asleep?" Dominic asked.
"Yeah." I answered.
"Finally. That girl needs to relax." Dominic whispered.
I nodded, agreeing with him.
"So, we're going to Salta, correct?" Vastel asked.
"Yes. We should make it there in under three hours. Four hours at the most. If I drove, maybe two." I said.
"No, Isabella freaks out when you drive. You drive like a maniac." Dominic said.
I chuckled and laid back down. I ended up dozing off a couple minutes later. Really, I didn't want to, but it's hard to fight off tiredness. Hopefully, Dominic didn't need me too bad.
About an hour later, I heard Dominic say we were getting close. I slide closer to Isabella, trying to comfort her a little more. She mumbled and moved around, like she usually did. Night was starting to settle in. I'm sure Isabella didn't want to be here during the night. Maybe I should have driven instead...
I fell back asleep and the next time I was awakened was when we reached the house. Isabella didn't hesitate to run out of the car, straight to her girls. They were all excited to see each other again. After their small little reunion, I was doing a mental check, making sure everybody was here. I especially checked over my family and the girls, I didn't want to lose anybody. Hell, if I had a choice to do this fight alone, even though it would kill me, but saved my family, I'd do it thousands of times. Isabella, the girls, and my family were my first priority. Even when I die, I don't want them to. I want them to live on, to move on without me. It's something that they needed to know how to do.
"Emmett, stop talking like you're dead already." Edward whispered in my ear. "Because I will tell Isabella and we both know she won't be happy about that."
I silenced myself, but mentally made a list to kick Edward's ass later. Though he was right, I shouldn't be talking like I was dead already. But then again, he's wrong. Everybody knows there is no hope for me. I was going to die anyways. Plus, these gates to the dead supernatural world was open because of me. If I die, I would close it...
"We should get inside now." Isabella said.
The house was good for its size. We would just have to stick plenty of people in one room. Some would sleep on the floor, though they probably wouldn't mind. I know I wouldn't. As long as we had something surrounding us, we would be perfectly fine. I didn't want to be out in the open, sleeping in the middle of the desert or in a forest.
Isabella and I spent our time seeing who would go where. The hard part was splitting up the girls with someone who I could trust that would take care of them in case of an emergency. The deal was, if something were to happen, we would all split up in groups according to who you're sharing a room with. Isabella, Vastel, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, and I would be sharing a room. If something were to happen, we would follow each other. The hard part was putting Edward and Rose with Tanya, Carmen, Eleazar, Irina, and Kate. I know I can trust them, but what if one of them got hurt, I wouldn't know. Neither would Esme or Carlisle. For a while, I insisted that they be with us, but Isabella said our group would be too big in case of emergency. The Volturi would be able to stop us out with ease. So Isabella calmed me down, telling me that Rose and Edward would be just fine.
After an hour of splitting up people, I made sure the girls had someone very powerful in their group. Yes, the girls had gifts themselves, but it didn't hurt to have back up. It never hurts to have back up. That, and I wouldn't be able to see Isabella upset if any of the girls died. It would break my undead, cold heart to even see Isabella hurt. But I didn't want to think like that. Since I was already going to die, I would protect anybody and anyone no matter what.
Finally, we locked down the house and split apart into our separate rooms. Of course Jasper and I gave the queen bed to Carlisle and Esme. There was a reason why I wanted to have Carlisle in my group anyways. Carlisle was supposedly "friends" with Aro. If the Volturi went straight for Isabella, Carlisle would be there. Maybe, just maybe, Carlisle could talk them down. But Peter said there was a small chance of that happening. And because of those odds, Peter was with Maria, Charlotte, and Maria's head newborns. They would be our military group, being that they could strategically take down the Volturi. But I was concerned about the Volturi's old guards. No one knew anything about them, not about their gifts, nothing. They were probably powerful, but then again, they died. However, no one knew how they died. But then again, the new and old guards would be put together. They'd take us down easily.
I shuddered at that thought.
I made a small "bed" out of sheets for Jasper and Alice, Vastel, and Isabella and I. It was certainly more comfortable than having absolutely nothing. Esme, of course, felt bad about having the bed and gave the pillows to us.
I waited until the others laid down and comfortable before I laid down with Isabella. She was wearing my black shirt, waiting for me to come lie down. Finally, I turned out the lights and walked over to her. I laid down first then she laid her head on my chest. I kissed the top of her head then dozed off. During the night, I felt her move around. She was probably uncomfortable, so I fully put her on top of me.
"Sorry." She mumbled.
"Shh, it's okay. Just get comfortable." I whispered back.
"You know, if we were alone and didn't have this situation in our hands, this would be romantic."
I chuckled. "Anything's romantic with you."
"Even killing other vampires?"
"Even that." I kissed her head.
"I don't want to lose you."
"You will never lose me. Not mentally, at least. Just know that I will always be there, even when you don't realize it." I whispered.
I heard her sniffle. But nothing else was said. I waited until she fell asleep then fell back asleep. I'm sure everything in the morning would be fine.
Vastel's POV
I listened to Isabella and Emmett give their small little "romantic" talk. It's too bad they were going to die. I was just staring to like them. I snorted a little then waited until Isabella and Emmett went back to sleep. About twenty minutes later, I quietly walked out of the room and out of the house. Luckily, no one heard me walk out of the house. I had to give my masters a call. This week would be the last week for everyone in that house. The Volturi would be on their way here and they wouldn't know about it.
My masters were not actually going to pick up the phone, no one was. I had to leave a message for a reason. Just in case someone was actually awake and could hear me.
"The plan in still intact. We have reached Salta and we are in a house in the mountains. We're away from population, so this place is fine to have this fight here. Our secret will not be exposed. Come when you can." I said. Then hung up the phone.
I hid the phone outside and walked back into the house. Everything went perfectly fine.
Just as I was going to the room, someone walked out of their room. Uh, what's his name? Benjamin. He was pretty powerful. He could control the four elements: water, fire, air, and earth. I was always weary of him, fighting wise. I definitely warned the Volturi about all the gifted ones, especially Benjamin.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"I had a small feeling, just checking around the house." I said.
"Oh." He said. "Can I be honest with you?"
"Sure."
"I don't like you. Only, because I don't know you." He said. "So, because I don't know nor like you, I don't believe anything you say. Just understand that."
I winced at his words. Was it possible that this entire time he hasn't believed anything I've said? Remember, my gift is based off of people believing my lies. If someone didn't believe them, they have a possibility of messing up the lie. The lie, whatever it was, could start... I guess to glitch. The more people who didn't believe my lies, the more it would mess up. However, many people believed all of my lies. This was just one person. But what if someone else didn't believe my lies? What if it wasn't just Benjamin? I had to find out. If people started to not believe my lies, the old Volturi guard would disappear, he gate to the dead supernatural side would close, Emmett wouldn't die, Elijah (who was being used as leverage) would disappear and so much more. Pretty much a big mass of problems would erupt on me.
"Dude, all I said was I didn't just you. Stop freaking out." Benjamin said. He started to walk away.
"You can trust me," I said. "I'm not an enemy."
"I'm sure you're not. I just have problems trusting people sometimes." He said. He started to walk away again.
I couldn't have him not trusting me. So I was contemplating on whether I should kill him right now or not. However, Benjamin was so much more powerful than I was. I'm sure he would wake up this entire house by making an earthquake happen and get me killed. Plus, Benjamin couldn't just disappear during the night, randomly. It would cause problems. So I left him go. I just had to work hard to make him believe everything I said. But first things first, I had to make people trust me. I had to find out who didn't trust me and make them like me. This was going to be a lot harder than I thought.
"Goodnight Ben." I said.
"Goodnight. Just don't ever call me Ben." He said.
I chuckled and walked back into the room. I looked at Emmett and Isabella, to make sure they were fully asleep. Then I looked at Carlisle and Esme, making sure they were asleep. Finally, I looked at Jasper. The one person I truly wanted dead. The Volturi promised me that I would be able to kill Jasper, guaranteed. He had something that I've wanted. Alice...
Once he dies, I was going to take Alice away from the fight, "saving" her, only if she didn't see me kill him. Which was going to be the hard part. I would have told her that I made a deal with Jasper, that if he died, I would have to take her away from the fight. It was a good plan on getting Alice. That's all I've wanted. I could care less about this damned fight on getting Isabella killed, I just wanted Alice. But Jasper was in the way. So this fight is the only way I could get what I wanted.
I walked over to Jasper and Alice, wanting to rip his head off. But I resisted myself. I bent down to touched Alice's cheek. I didn't do anymore and walked back over to my little "bed". Maybe tomorrow I could get so much closer to Alice. I ended up falling asleep with a plan in my mind to get Alice on my good side.
Isabella's POV
In the morning, I was the last one to get up. Alice was still in the room, though, folding up the sheets. The others were probably downstairs waiting for me. I was little surprised that Emmett didn't wait for me to get up, like he usually did.
I said good morning to Alice then got dressed. She was little distracted... or confused. One of the two. Something was definitely on her mind.
"You seem a little distracted." I said.
"Yeah." She said. "Just thinking."
"About what?" I asked. "What has you thinking so hard like that?"
"Well..." She said. She looked at the door, silently listening downstairs. Everybody was talking, so it was a little loud.
"Relax, no one can hear us." I said.
"I know. It's just that I don't want Jazz to hear me." She whispered.
"About what?"
"Well, last night, I woke up during the night. And I think Vastel did as well. He sort of... touched me."
"What the hell do you mean?!" I asked.
"No, not like that." She said, putting her hands up. "He touched my cheek. And this morning, he's acting really weird. I think he likes me."
"Oh." I said. "That's nothing to be worried about Alice. Vastel may just have a small little crush on you, nothing big."
"Well, why don't you go tell Jasper?"
"It's just a crush Alice. We don't need Jasper to know. It's perfectly fine. No harm done. Unless you want Jasper to kill Vastel..."
"No, no. I was just a little surprised." She said. "Anyways, let's get downstairs to the others."
I chuckled as we walked down the stairs. "Just a small little crush Alice. Nothing more. Plus, what could go wrong? Vastel kidnapping you?"
We both chuckled and walked into a room full of people. Emmett was standing next to Rosalie and Edward. A very small part of me was jealous of Rosalie. She was beautiful and she was able to marry Emmett, having years upon years of being with him. Since I was so stupid in having someone actually love me, I pushed Emmett away for a couple of years. Then I take him in and he's going to be dying soon. It wasn't fair. None of it was.
Emmett looked at me and smiled. I walked over to him and he kissed my forehead.
"Alright, Isabella's awake. How about we all have a seat somewhere so we could talk?"
We crowded in this small living room, plenty of people sitting on the floor. Emmett, Jasper, Dominic, Peter, Maria, Carlisle, Vastel, and I were standing up. We were pretty much the "leaders" of this fight.
"Alright, I'll start." I said. "As you know, the Volturi has probably added more guards to their group for this fight. I'm sure they are powerful, strong, making them outnumber us. Though we have newborns, they are not as trained as the guards are. I, of course, being a former Volturi guard, know how much the Volturi trains you. And because they train at a high level, Dominic, Eleazar, and I want to teach you everything we know about fighting. Some of you might know already, but the Volturi doesn't just run in and start killing people. They have a plan before hand. They already know how many people we have. We don't know how many people they have, so they have that advantage. Are there any questions?"
"When do you think this fight is going to actually happen? Plans keep changing." Zafrina asked.
"I can't exactly say anymore."
"What are we doing with the wolves?" I have been fitting the wolves that I have collected over the years with these vampires, I didn't want to distinct them just because they were werewolves. But now that I knew the Volturi's old guards were here, I couldn't help but push them back. I didn't want them to fight, but we also needed them. It was something that we had to think about later.
"I don't know yet." I said. "We'll figure something out. Anyways, I want to start the training as soon as possible. We have no time to wait around. Every second counts."
"Well, let's do this then." Emmett said.
Since Dominic, Eleazar, and I were the only ones trained by the Volturi we broke up everyone into three massive groups. I purposely put Alice and Vastel in my group, sort of to piss of Alice. She glared at me when I did, but I just smiled back. It was twenty for each group, without the wolves and newborns, so we had a decent amount of people. Though we could have more if we wanted.
Alice's POV
We trained for hours upon hours. Jasper made Emmett mad and threw one of his shoes to the other side of the house. I laughed and decided to get the shoe myself. Isabella was shaking her head the entire time. Those two were insane when they were put together to go against each other.
I laughed and walked around to the front yard to get Jazzy's shoe. I saw something buried in the ground, where Jasper's shoe landed. I was going to let it go, until I was too curious for my own good.
I dug up the little hole and pulled out a phone. The phone had Vastel's scent covered all over it. The number that was recently called was blocked. When I looked at the time it was called, it was in the middle of the night. Why the hell does Vastel need to be calling someone during the night like this?
I was about to call the number until I heard someone behind me. I turned around to see Vastel looking at me.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Why do you have a cell phone buried? And who did you call last night?" I asked. "What are you hiding?" I immediately blamed him for hiding something. I didn't know who he was, so it was hard to trust him.
He walked up to me and grabbed the phone from me. Then he gave me a small smile.
Hmm, well, it's been a while since I've done a cliffhanger. Last chapter wasn't that bad. :P
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