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Bella smelled them before she spotted them. Was this the day Aro made his ultimate folly and tried to eliminate her? Bella chuckled at the thought, as if he'd ever be that foolish. They were most likely coming to either finally kill or take Alistair away. Either way she won.
She decided to get a good seat for the show.
A few minutes later she spied ten vampires, four of which she recognized. Aro was really pulling out his best for this mission.
The ten almost moved flawlessly together. Chelsea lagged behind and was pouting. Bella could tell she hadn't changed at all from the coddled girl Bella remembered her as.
Alistair growled loudly at the oncoming vampires, sensing that this attack was different than the others. Chelsea stood far back from all of them with her own personal guard as the other eight formed a circle around Alistair.
"Aro says this is your last chance to join the Volturi of your own free will. If you refuse you will die this day." Jane said with a commanding voice. Alistair just chuckled at the little girl. "Very well then." That was Chelsea's que. She huffed in annoyance before focusing on binding the savage looking vampire to her then Jane and Alec.
Alistair could sense something was wrong, he suddenly didn't hate the female that was far off in the distance. His mind told him this wasn't right so he focused on hating her, his gift of willpower slowly coming to life.
Chelsea gasped as she felt her work being reversed. She knew about his gift, but she didn't think it would actually counter her own.
"Distract him!" Chelsea squeaked out as she tried to concentrate on manipulating his relationships. Alec released his gift and Alistair saw the slow moving fog. He jumped up into a tree right before Jane's gift hit him full force. Only through his sheer willpower he was able to fight the pain and hold onto the tree branch. One of the guards lunged at him and he disposed of him with only one hand.
Bella arched herself higher to get a better view of the show. She was surprised he was lasting so long.
The fog started drifting up the trunk of the tree. Alistair hopped to a different one. He found the longer the small female used her gift on him the less it hurt.
"Damn it, Alec! Hurry up!" Jane said while growling. She was throwing everything she had at the lone vampire and he was only grimacing. "The rest of you attack him!" Of the last five surrounded Alistair one of them was smart enough to fall all the trees around them so Alistair couldn't jump to them.
Alistair cursed silently to himself as another Volturi member attacked him and he swiftly beheaded him. The shimmering fog was growing closer and he had nowhere to run. He had no idea what it would do, but he knew it wouldn't benefit him at all.
He decided to attack head on. Alistair pushed against the tree causing it to fall over and for him to fly towards Alec. Alec looked shock, before he grinned in victory. The closer the fog was to its master the faster he could move it. Just as Alistair landed on him fog started pouring out of Alec's skin, blinding Alistair to all sensations.
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