Disclaimer: I'm not Stephenie Meyer... because I'm not... okay?
Disclaimer Deuce: I would suggest to look up "Bloody Tears Judgment" to listen to Bloody tears by Lara on piano to listen to during reading this...
Embry's POV
I heard the soft seductive tone of Black Magic Woman performed by Santana. Almost as if an instinct I started swaying my head. I sighed realizing that meant Alice was calling me. She'd been good at leaving me alone since I left... all of them had... as I requested... but this breach was new. I sighed and took the call.
"What is is Alice?"
"You need to run... now! I don't care where... just get Mike and get out of there." I'd never heard her like this... this desperate. No I had... but only when the Volturi were coming.
"Calm down Alice... what's wrong."
"They're coming... an army... vampires, werewolves... they're huge like nothing I've ever seen before."
"Don't worry, we have Alec and Jane... everything will be fine." That reassured Alice but not much.
"Then they won't need you... take Mike and run... please." she said pleading.
"Mike's gone... it won't be a problem." I said again.
"No... Tonight is a full moon they're attacking from the north They'll take the whole city by storm... they won't try to hide... they're going to massacre everyone... please Embry don't be proud, just run."
"No... I have something worth protecting here." I said out loud before I knew I was talking about Themba.
"Then take them with you... but run they don't want you... they want Aro, Caius, and Marcus, just run."
"No Alice..."
"We can't get to you in time, it'll be all over before we get there..."
"Don't worry Alice... there isn't a force in the world that can stop us."
"There is... and it's on it's way... Embry are you religious?"
"Not very..." I admitted.
"Well you might want to start praying for a miracle."
Felix's POV
I found it hard to believe that there was a vampire force that wasn't the Cullens that numbered well over fifty but I took Embry's word that Alice wasn't lying. I looked up at the night sky seeing the white moon getting covered by clouds. I saw them in the distance... at first I thought I counted thirty... but as they came closer I saw they had closer to ninety. I felt a deep pit in my stomach... we were down to forty vampires after the battle with the Cullens... we never really recovered and our prized treasure was no where to be seen... I hope Alec and Jane and use their power over ninety vampires.
Embry's POV
I stared over their numbers... one figure towered over the rest. It was dark and I couldn't make him out but he had to be at least fifteen feet tall. Werewolf. Alice said Werewolves... multiple. I stared at the sky realizing the moon wasn't visible yet. If there is no moon... how is he a werewolf. I took a closer look trying to focus only on him... his hair was dark but around his collar seemed to be a silver ring of fur.I remembered a story of a werewolf with a silver collar from Caius. It was the story was of when he was attacked... but it couldn't be this one. I turned to face Caius who looked to be in a state of shock.
"I am Lycan... king of Werewolves." He growled, barely understandable through his rough voice.
"Behold... the dawn of the werewolf." he roared. As the moonlight hit the ground... A dozen more men on their side transformed in to giant werewolves, but none of them nearly as tall as Lycan. They roared and started to press forward but with a growl from Lycan they stopped immediately.
I should feel fear. I thought to myself... but I felt nothing. I felt just a serenity. Has sanity finally left you? Or maybe have you lost the last remnants of hope just happy to have it end. I didn't want death... I would fight to my last breath and longer if I could... so it's not want of death... so why do I feel so calm? Maybe I don't want to wait for a sickness to take me... maybe taking my death in to my own hands calms me? That sounded ridiculous to me. I'd rather die fighting then in a bed. I convinced myself... and I realized it was true... the idea of in a bed of a cough scared me beyond reason... dying on the field of battle... with blood and skin between my teeth... that I could live with.
Today is a good day to die.
Adrian's POV
I looked at the numbers and it didn't look good. We had Alec and Jane so why did they even try? They had to have a plan. I ran my fingers over the hilts of the Leaf blades on either hips. A vampire stood out in front of all of them, he was unremarkable next to his large assembly of vampires, and even more impressive werewolves.
"It took quite some time for you to make this force Vlad." Aro commented.
"Not to long at all... The Cullens proved something... you're not invincible as you'd like everyone to believe. And making this force wasn't so hard... just gathered people who hate you... there are quite a lot of us isn't there?" He said laughing.
"Vlad I let you live because you were nothing when we took over control of the vampiric world... taking Vlad as your name doesn't make you Dracula anymore than sitting in his throne room." Aro sneered.
"I will rule this world as he did... I won't stop at one city though, I'll take over the whole world, bring the human population to their knees, what you have feared to do for too long... I, Vlad will rule this world."
I listened nervously my fingers tapping the hilts of my blades. I strained to hear something, anything... I forced myself to calm down. Just like Football... no nerves. I mentally told myself trying to remain cool.
"Vladimir was the father of all vampires, and you're not worthy to tie his shoes. The reason we spared you all those years ago is because you were no more than a surf in his court... now you would pretend his throne? Learn your place." Aro said signaling Alec and Jane. It was unlike anything I'd ever seen before, all of them immediately fell to the ground, then Vladimir started screaming in pain. Aro smiled.
"Had you lived this long only to forget how we took out all of the Vampires of your coven except Dracula and Alucard? You fool... they might have been strong enough to resist the twins attacks... but you aren't."
Vlad coughed out a sickly laugh between bloodcurdling screams of pain. Aro kicked him while he rolled.
"And you're a self important leech whose time is done." I heard two snaps and looked to their origin. Standing behind Alec and Jane was Murphy who held the twins by their broken necks.
"Murphy? What have you done?" Aro said as Murphy sprinted away from our line towards their's with Alec and Jane's corpses dragged along with him. Felix and Demetri sprinted after him but four werewolves stepped up Demetri caught the back of Felix's collar pulling him down to avoid a slash that would have separated a slash that would have cut him clear in half. They both sprinted back to us.
"Murphy... how could you?" Andrea his sister asked. He turned and looked back at her smiling an evil smile showing a hint of his teeth.
"It's because that isn't Murphy... it's the shifter... Murphy never came back from his hunt... damn it! The shifter killed him to." Murphy started applauding before turning in to Dr. Anderson.
"Well done Felix... And now you know why we attacked now... We know Michael Iverson is gone..." She laughed evilly. Andrea sprinted towards the shifter, Connor Disappeared from my side in a puff of smoke then reappeared with his arms around Andrea, then disappeared and reappeared next to me.
"No Andrea... Murphy couldn't kill him... you can't..." he has to pay. Andrea tried to move but a large hand grabbed her shoulder and stopped her.
"I'll kill him myself." Ivan said dripping with hate. So the rumors are true... there really is something between them.
"Let's not delay anymore." Vlad called. Their army charged at us.
"The Shifter is mine!" Ivan growled charging in front of the pack. The shifter smiled and transformed in to Ivan.
"Nice trick you bastard but you don't have these!" He growled putting on his clawed gloves. I charged after Ivan and grabbed him by the collar ripping him back in to our line before he separated any more and was slaughtered. He swung back at me clawing but I managed to pull out a leaf blade and block it.
"You idiot, you'll get slaughtered." I yelled. Ulrich sprinted up to my position Claymore in hand.
"Come on Ivan... prove your strength" The shifter taunted.
"You're pretty brave behind a wall of your army." I called back at him as his army closed the distance between us.
Ivan's POV
"Fine, then let's do this in your army." he said transforming in to Andrea. He charged at me and I met him. He evaded his my attack and started moving back and forth through the battle lines. I struck at him be he slid under my attack then kicked back up behind me kicking me away as he ran again. I followed as best I could then turned a corner and received a back flip kick. I looked down at him as Andrea and took a pawing swing at him, he leaned away and drove his knuckles in to my solarplex and ran again.
I chased after him again losing him. I found him standing still looking around, I assume for me. I didn't hesitate I charged and sliced but there was something wrong a split second before my claws sliced him at the throat clearing off his head I saw it... in his eyes... no her eyes.
"Ivan..." I heard her whisper as her head rolled off her shoulders. I saw him behind her smirking as the head rolled to him. He started a lighter and dropped it. I tried to stop it but wasn't fast enough I couldn't reach him in time and I watched as the head of my Andrea burned.
Pure rage poured through my veins pumping hate through my body. I leapt at him with a speed and strength I never experienced before slashing through his midsection. He seemed scared then shapeshifted in to my form baiting me away.
"You can't run from me, I'll hunt you to the ends of the earth! The ends of the earth!" I roared as I chased him.
Yuki's POV
I watched as Ivan chased after Shifter leaving a path of dead bodies in his wake. I stayed close behind Adrian as he warned me. I wasn't nearly the warrior any of them were. I'd survived the last two wars it seems by luck completely, that and staying clear of the real fighting. Since I'd started playing music with Adrian, Embry, and Mike I'd been learning to fight from them too. I was one of the few Volturi without a weapon having never had one fashioned for me.
I watched as one vampire from a distance watched me. He was stalking me... with a shiv in his hand. I kept Adrian between us but after a while he'd managed to flank around Adrian... there was no way I could avoid fighting him. He carefully approached avoiding any battles.
"Hello there... you've been avoiding a fight all along and I'd hate for you to be left out." He said grinning showing his rotted and broken teeth.
Think what would Mike do? He charged. I through out a front kick he sidestepped and I felt a sharp pain on my thigh. I looked down to see his shiv buried in the top of my thigh. He smiled broken toothily at me. I dropped my leg down and he jerked his shiv to the inside of my thigh then ripped it out... All my muscle in rendered next to useless. Panicking I threw a hook punch he easily ducked under. He spun switching his blade hand and I felt a hot cut through my neck and then cold air and struggling to breathe... then I saw it.
He spun his shiv in his hand and I watched as it came straight for my face.
Adrian's POV
I heard a bloodcurdling scream behind me and turned to see a vampire pulling a weapon out of Yuki's forehead and Yuki's corpse collapse to the ground. I watched the vampire turn around and look at me.
"Oh... you liked that one didn't you?" he smiled.
"You bastard..." I said fastening one of my leaf blades to my hip. I charged at him. I threw my blade at him but he dodged. I charged him using my power to throw him after my weapon then sprinted past his flying body to catch my weapon before turning around and swinging back and decapitating his flying form. His head landed by my foot and I stomped it in to nothing. I stopped to take a moment and look around. There were bodies strewn across the battle field... I saw Aro holding his beheaded wife Supicia, Chelsa begging Afton to come back to her. Renata was ripped in two by a werewolf. Walter's body was over Kalen's who laid next to Jerome whom were all dead... no this wasn't going well at all... I turned my attention to Felix and Santiago who were back to back fighting. His eyes turned to me only for a split second but I knew what I saw... No matter how good of a fighter he was... he knew eventually he'd die to their far superior numbers. I pulled out my second leaf blade and charged over to where Santiago and Felix were fighting, quickly joined by Demetri.
"Hell at this rate, we'll have enough room in the Volturi even for you to join Adrian." Demetri chided at me as he moved behind me. All four of us together made a square.
"Oh great... so since it doesn't look like we're going to survive this can you guys make me a member of the Volturi guard now instead of later?"
"Yeah sure... just rip the robe off Kalen's corpse... he's not using it." Santiago noted. I looked over to where I noticed Kalen and watched Ulrich swing his Claymore like a man possessed. He moved with a determination I'd never seen from him... then I saw why. Hiding behind him was Alexis. That reminded me of something else.
"Felix, where is Evelyn?"
"She's working with Abhash in Israel... she'll survive this." Felix said with more than a hint of relief. Even after all this fighting they out numbered us three to one and there were still five werewolves left.
"It's been fun... any last words?" I asked.
"Yeah... I bet I can kill more than you before I die." Santiago laughed.
"Challenge accepted." I yelled back at him.
Embry's POV
The giant Werewolf didn't attack... he simply stared at the small contingent of phasers who were all in their human form. He walked closer to us. He took a sniff.
"So you are the shifters." I put my arms out holding back Rhino and Pantera.
"Yes... we are." he took another smell.
"You have a strong bloodline... you are the alpha wolf..." he growled.
"Yes I am."
"There is something else though about you..." he said smelling again.
"You are... tainted... by vampire."
"We all are... we've all been around them." I said standing in front of the pack of misfit monsters.
"Not like you... strange..." he growled before taking another smell...
"You have vampire in you... but how... you should be dead." Oh fuck...
"What's he talking about Embry?" Themba asked.
"He's mine..." I claimed.
"What are you talking about he's nearly twice your size!" Rhino said before shifting and charging... when Rhino got going he had enough power to derail a train and he planned on running down Lycan. Lycan sidestepped and wrapped hand around Rhino's horn and tossed him away.
"He's mine alone!" I roared back at the cats.
"Did you see what he did to Rhino? You'll get killed!" Themba pleaded.
"That's why he's mine alone... he'll kill any of you... This fight is mine." I stepped forward and phased dropping my extra clothing next to me as I went.
"You haven't told them you're poisoned have you?" Lycan asked.
"No I haven't."
"It's a pity... You're possibly the most powerful wolf I've come up against... including other werewolves... if you were at your full strength you might stand a chance against me."
"It doesn't make a difference... I have something worth protecting." I told him looking over my shoulder at Themba one last time.
"Ahh... yes... I recognize that... so shall we?" he asked. I howled in response. Today is a good day to die.
Guy's POV
I didn't want to come home like this... but Father gave me no choice... He would disapprove of my methods and of bringing modern weapons to his village but it couldn't be helped. I ran my whetstone over my blade one last time as the helicopter flew to the mountains. I felt White bump me.
"You ready?" He asked me. I nodded.
"We've all got rubber bullets for locals and our specialized weapons for the vampire... Since civilians are involved we couldn't bring our Zealot frames because of their classified nature... We don't have much on this vampire besides the fact that he's been trained in the same fighting styles as Guy, no read out on his powers or his danger... bring him alive if possible... if not you know what to do." Commander Elzam said running through the briefing one last time.
"Bushido has lead on this operation, Hawkeye has his back, Psycho and Tiny have the parameter and Red and I will provide backup where ever necessary, from a trailing distance on Bushido and Hawkeye. Are we clear?"
"Yes Commander." we replied in unison. The helicopter stopped in mid air. The ropes fell out t he windows and we slid down. I was first followed closely by Hawk.
My father was the first person I saw, he met me at the front where I landed.
"Who are these people who invade our peaceful village." He asked me.
"They are my team. We came to deal with Temper."
"He is under our protection. As our guest, you should understand this... I taught you better." my father said disgusted.
"Listen pops move out of the way." White said pointing his hand gun at Hikaru. That's a mistake. I thought before my father charged and hit White's weapon out of his hand with his kendo stick. White caught the kendo stick and hip tossed Hikaru and put him in an armbar. Kaito struck at White freeing Hikaru they both stood up. Elzam pulled out two pistols and pointed both of them at Kaito, whereas Williams had hers pointed at my father.
"So you are the leader." Hikaru said turning to Elzam.
"Yes... and you will show us to this "Temper." so if you please." Elzam said.
"And why is that?"
"While you might be willing to die for this intruder... I doubt you're willing to watch your pupil die for him." Elzam said still aiming his pistols at Kaito.
"So you would betray us Son?" I felt a deep dark pit in my stomach.
"I'm protecting you."
"From a lost boy?" Hikaru asked me. Regardless my father led me through the village to a small house and opened the door. At the door was bedding neatly folded up on the bed.
"Search the village for him." Elzam Commanded.
"Yes sir." my father smiled.
"We'll find him." I said frustrated with my father's smile.
"No you won't he's gone the same way he came."
Adrian's POV
I saw it before I heard it, and I barely saw it... I white streak of something flying through the sky then crashing throwing dirt everywhere... dust was still in the air but it split the battlefield in two.
"What the hell is that?" I asked. Once the dust settled I could finally see a form. A man with his legs a bit more than shoulder length apparent was bent over, one arm on the ground as if to catch himself, with a sheath in hand. The other arm straight out from his shoulder, weapon straight out of his arm. He was dressed in traditional Japanese clothing, his hair long and dark and in a ponytail but he was facing large army led by Vlad and I couldn't make out any features. He didn't move for quite some time until the dust had completely settled. He stood straight up and turned over his shoulder looking back at us. His chin was covered by a dark goatee. Who the fuck is he?
This is of course the first part of the battle... second part will be in the next chapter. I hope you enjoyed it... lots of fighting will be in the next one. I hope to finish the next chapter some time soon (of course soon is relative) but I don't know when it will happen with school, work, and everything else. Thanks for reading, please remember to review. Remember high fives, knucks, rolls of twenties, and comments. Thanks for reading. Catch you on the flipside.
