Tale Of The Night
For it was of the night and we fought with all our might seeking those to heed our plight
Still we wait here ready to fight.
And though we may not have much left we shall fight on to the death.
Will we live or will we die?
We wont know unless we try.
We are waiting for the one that is like the raising sun.
Now we stand here at the tip of the gun; all I hope is that you run.
And though we may not have much left we shall fight on to the death.
Will we live or will we die?
We wont know unless we try.
Now its tail as dark as night and we tried with all our might to get on your heels and take flight and you get away from the sight of our lifeless bodies cold as the night.
And though we may not have much left we shall fight on to the death.
Will we live or will we die?
We wont know unless we try.
Now its tail as dark as night and we tried with all our might to get on your heels and take flight and you get away from the sight of our lifeless bodies cold as the night.
A/N Sorry its taken me so long to post, Ive been pretty busy lately. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this chapter, the story will be over in about five more chapters and I hope to write a couple of those chapters tonight and post them within the week! Thank you to all my readers and reviewers, your reviews mean a lot to me, they really do. I would like all of you who read to review and let me know what you think of the story so far, and also how you think it should end! I'm being serious here because I'm going to take all your suggestions and use them for the story. Well a lucky one anyways, because I only need one way for it to end lol because I honestly have no idea how I'm going to end it. Should it end with the Cullens somehow finding a way to beat Nor and Azora? Or will they get caught helping the humans and get killed? Tell me what you all think!
Bella's POV
Taking my mom and step dad in wasn't very hard. They had saw the news, knew that I was not evil, and were glad to accept our offer. Dad, on the other hand, was another problem.
(A/N Flash back right here)
I knocked on the door, Edward on my side, and smelled something really bad. Like wet dog only worse. My nose was wrinkled by the smell, and yet Edward wouldn't tell me what it was. All he said was "You'll find out."
My dad opened the door, and behind him was none other than Jacob Black and his father Billy Black. "BELLA!" my dad nearly yelled. "Yeah dad... its me." I said. "Come in, I want to know what happened to you." he said and rushed Edward and I in. "Look, dad, there isn't much time..." I started to say. But Jacob interrupted me.
"Isn't much time till what? Your vampire family enslaves him?" Jacob growled. I took a step back. "We aren't like that. We are trying to help save lives, not enslave them." I told him. He scoffed, "Yeah right." Then Edward growled, "Look pup, this is real. And you don't want to be caught in the middle of it, and I surely don't want this to be happening. I don't think its right. I really don't. We truly are trying to help save lives, not enslave them." He told him sternly.
"And why would you do that?" Jacob asked.
"Think of it this way Jacob, and pay attention. Why would we train ourselves so damn hard not to drink human blood, unless we didn't want to save lives?" Edward said. "He's got a point." My dad pipped up. "Thanks dad..." I said a bit confused at this whole conversation. All I knew, was that Jacob smelled so bad I didn't want to get any closer.
"Look, Jacob, its your job to protect humans from Vampires. Wouldn't you be doing your job if you let us help too? Maybe we could win if we were on the same side here." Edward tried to reason.
"How are you trying to help the humans?" Jacob asked.
"We are setting up safe houses for them, making it look like we are enslaving them when really we aren't. We are feeding them, giving them clothes, everything they need to survive." I told him.
"We also have several houses with many rooms, really big rooms too, big enough for an entire family to sleep in. They are being guarded by our closest friends. Most of them vegetarians, animal blood drinkers, and some of them aren't but don't feed off the humans in the safe houses and are starting to go on our diet." Edward added.
"My mom and step dad are already staying at our current residence, and we were hoping to get you to come home with us, and anyone you wish to take." I told my dad. He nodded, "How many can you fit in that house?" he asked.
"How many families? About seven more." Edward said. Charlie nodded again, "Wait." Jacob said, "What about us werewolves?" Jacob asked. Oh... so Jacob was a werewolf... did kinda make sense with the whole wet dog smell....
"You are welcome to come stay with us as well, whatever you need, just tell one of us and we will get it for you." Edward said. Jacob nodded, "I have your word?" he asked.
"Yes." he and I both said at the same time. "Okay. Dad, id like you to go with them and ill go talk to the pack and let them know." Jacob said. Billy nodded, "Go son, I'm in good hands." Billy said.
I was surprised at how easily persuaded Billy was. Considering he was the father of a werewolf that also belonged to a pack of other werewolves. "Ill pack your things before I leave." Jacob said at the doorway then left.
"Dad." I said to get his attention, "Go call whoever you need to, let them know the Cullen's address and to go there. Its the only safe place around here, then go pack." I told him, pleading actually. He got up and hugged me quickly, "Whoa you guys are cold..." he said. "Yeah..." I said, feeling a bit awkward.
"Uhm.. How did you..?" he began to ask. I looked up at Edward, "Your much better at telling the story." I said to him. He smiled down at me.
"Well, she was about to die, so we changed her. I couldn't stand living without her, I couldn't let her die... and not be with me." he said to Charlie. "Hmm romantic." Charlie said. "Yeah, kinda." I said with a chuckle, "Now go!" I told him sternly and he did just that.
Edward and I continued to stand near the front door, not having to sit down. Billy waited just as quietly, not making a sound. He didn't feel the need to talk just like we didn't.
Dad was done calling people in about thirty minutes, and done packing in ten. "Okay I'm ready, and a couple of guys from the station are on their way to your house." Charlie said walking towards us with nothing but a suit-case and what appeared to be a leather bound journal that wouldn't fit in his suit-case.
"Alright, lets get going." Edward said and offered Billy his help. I walked out of the house and put dad in the back seat of Edward's Volvo and opened the trunk for Billy's wheelchair. Edward had Billy out of the wheelchair and into the car in record time, surprisingly not using human speed with him. I got in the front seat, but he didn't look shocked at all.
Edward got in. "Chief Swan?" he asked. "Just Charlie." my dad insisted. "I hope you know that I will be driving above the speed limit, and I hope you also know that I have better reflexes than humans and have never gotten into a car accident in my entire existence and you are perfectly safe with me behind the wheel." he informed my dad. "Uhmm ok. I guess the laws are not in effect anymore anyways." he said and I could hear him shrug.
"Seat belts?" Edward asked as he started the car. "Got them on." Billy said. "Lets do this." Edward said with a slight smile and off towards the house we raced.
(A/N) End of Flash back
As you can tell, the only hassle with getting dad here was Jacob, and more of a hassle was getting the pack and their families all to fit in the mansion here in Forks. We actually ended up taking a few of Charlie's friends out of state to a different house just to make room for them because they refused to stay anywhere far away from La Push.
So far, we have gotten over five hundred humans to stay in one of our safe houses, we found out that the other big vegetarian family was killed by Nor and Azora, for not agreeing to help them. Which made all of us really sad, but we did use their houses for safe houses, the other Cullen's knowing they wouldn't have minded. We just didn't get to them fast enough... Carlisle and Esme took it the hardest, they knew the Denali clan really well, and it made me sad whenever Esme looked sad.
Its now been two weeks since this whole fiasco started, and still no sign of Nor or Azora. Which makes us all a bit suspicious. Surly, they would have shown up by now, right? I mean its been two freaking weeks! And every hour we all got more and more keyed up.
"Oh would you knock it off?" I heard Leah say as she came through the front door, Jacob at her heels. "Knock what off?" he growled back. "You know exactly what I'm talking about. She chose a vampire, she is a vampire. Stop fucking whining about it!" I heard her say lowly let viciously. They couldn't be talking about me, could they? "I'm not whining about Bella being a vampire you idiot. I was just a bit hopeful about what Charlie said..." he said then broke off. Okay. They were talking about me. Time for me to leave.
I went outside to see some people lounging around in the sun. They didn't stare or gasp at me as I passed by, something that they didn't do once they got used to it. "Hells Bells!" I heard a male voice yell. I turned around and it was Seth, Leah's brother. He was always nice to us, and he and Edward were actually pretty good friends. He didn't take the whole "Vampires and Werewolves are mortal enemies." thing seriously. "Hey Seth." I smiled as he came up to me.
"Seen the news lately?" he asked me. I shook my head, "Well apparently there has been tons of talk going on politically. The president is trying to find a way to kill the Vampires. Surprisingly none of them have tried to kill him yet. Anyways, he thinks that somehow they can round up a shit load of them into one country and nuke you guys... but I don't really think thats gonna work." He said. I chuckled, "Wow, I wonder if it would though. I mean the nukes killing a vampire." I said. He chuckled, "I don't know, but the whole getting you guys into one country would be like impossible." he said. I nodded and chuckled, "Yeah seriously. Carlisle is actually trying to get the president to come to one of our safe houses, he left this morning."
I informed Seth. "Yeah thats going to go real well." I nodded, "Even though the took Jasper with him, I'm not so sure Carlisle will be able to get close enough to him to talk any sense into him." I told him.
"Wouldn't it be cool if he did though? And if we actually got to meet him?" He asked. I thought for a moment, "Yeah I guess it would be kinda cool." I said in agreement. I never really watched the news or anything so basically the only thing I knew was who the president was. That and we were supposed to be at war with Iraq or something like that. That was about it. I didn't like politics.
"EVERYONE GET INSIDE NOW!!!" Alice yelled out of her bedroom window. Everyone knew and trusted Alice, so I got everyone inside before I got inside, then I rushed to Alice. "What is it?" I asked as she pressed a button on the side of the wall and the entire west wall window was covered in metal, a safety system apparently.
"Azora is on her way.. Everyone! I need you guys to make it look like your busy being enslaved! Like I taught you how to!" She told the humans and instantly they all got to work with something, some of them going upstairs.
"Why is she on her way?" I asked as I walked behind her as she had the children all go to their rooms and she locked them inside. "To check to see if we are doing our job." she said. "Oh crap." I said then began helping her.
"Ms. Bella?" one of the little girls asked. "Yes Melony?" I asked her, "Are you going to save us?" she asked me. I bit my bottom lip, "I'm going to try." I told her honestly. She smiled and hugged me, then went into her room and I locked the door from the outside like Alice was on the other rooms. Then there was a knock at the door. "OH CULLENS!!" We heard Azora's odd voice yell from the outside, "IVE COME FOR A VISIT!" she yelled.
I groaned and looked at Alice, "Time for some good acting." she said under her breath and led me down the stairs, Edward there by my side in an instant with a calm look on his face. "It is going to be ok." he whispered in my ear. I nodded, then put my face into composure the way Alice taught me, and waited for her to open the door.
The werewolves were outside, in the woods just in case. We didn't know how Nor and Azora would feel about them being here, supposedly enslaved. We didn't want our cover blown. Alice opened the front door and pushed the button on the wall and the window was once again visible. "Hello dear Cullens." she said to us and stepped in. "I smell something funky going on here..." she said as she looked around.
"Meaning?" Edward asked. "I smell the smell of a shape shifter, though I cant see any." she answered. "We use them as guard dogs." I said. Might as well make a story out of it, yeah? "Oh? Are they good at it?" she asked.
"Perfect." Edward said. "They destroy any vampires that cross our path and try to take our humans from us." he answered.
"Nice security system." she said, looking somewhat impressed. "I don't need any of those though, I have plenty." she said to us with a smile and a wave of her hand. "So hows the campaign going?" she asked.
"Carlisle is currently trying to get the President." Edward said. "Which one?" she asked. "The United States President." he said. "Ohhh he should be a nice collection." She said with a wicked smile. "Indeed." he answered.
I didn't know how much more of this I could take. "Anyways, I just thought I would stop by." She said in a cheery voice and looked around once more. "You guys are doing a great job, better than the Vulturi. At least you keep them clean." She said, wrinkling her nose. "Thanks." Alice said with a false smile. "We hate smelly humans." She said.
Azora chuckled, "Me too. Well, I guess I will get going and go check on the others." she said then walked out the door. "Thanks for stopping by!" Alice said after her in a false cheery voice. Azora waved her hand then disappeared. Freaky......
Alice quickly shut the door and then pushed the button again for the metal to cover the wall. "I think we should keep this on from now on..." She said. "Can we stop pretending to be busy now?" My dad asked. "What?" Alice said at first, "Oh yeah, everyone can go do whatever they would like now." She said, then Edward kissed my temple and went upstairs, probably to get the kids out of the room. Only he and Alice had the combinations to the locks.
"Whats going to happen now?" I whispered to her. She looked up at me with sad eyes, "I don't know Bella..." She whispered back, "But we need help, and not the help of a vampire..." she said. Translation, we need some gods on our side. I nodded with a sad expression. How on earth were we supposed to get a freaking God on our side?
Suddenly we heard some growling outside from the wolves, and I ripped open the door. "Hey Wolfy back off we are here to help!" some guy yelled in the middle of the circle of wolves. "How dare you attack GODS?!" Another man yelled.
"What. The. Fuck." I said and stepped towards the wolves. "Who the hell are you?" I asked as Edward appeared out of no where and wrapped his arms around my waist protectively.
There was about eight of them, and they didn't smell like human or vampire, or like Nor and Azora. But they were all males, all well dressed, with one exception: They were all wearing swords, all but one. And they were dressed as if they were about ready to go to war. In all black, but with symbols on their chests. Different symbols for every male.
One man with purple hair, yes purple, said, "I am Loki, God of Fire." He said. "I thought you were the god of mischief? I asked. "Who isn't?" he chuckled. I nodded and let that one go.
Then the tallest of them came forward, the most muscled one, and the one with long natural red hair. "I am Thor." he said. Not needing to say what God he was, he left it at that. My eyes were wide. The god of Fire, and the God of Thunder. What else was next?
"I am Hades, Olympian God of the Underworld." The next man said with dark blue short hair. Wow these guys liked to have weird hair color...
"I'm Apollo, Olympian God of Music, Healing, and Truth." A blond, shorter male said.
"I am Ares, Olympian God of War." A black haired, scary looking man said.
"I am Hermes, God of the thieves and Zeus's messenger." the shortest of the eight said. He had average brown hair, didn't look that impressive at all. But I still wouldn't fight him.
"I am Odin, Father of the Norse Gods, God of Magick, Wisdom, and Learning." The male with long blond hair said, he kinda looked like one of the Elves off of The Lord Of The Ring.
"I am Tyr, Norse God of war and the lawgiver." The last male said, carrying a walking staff with him. He had brown hair, like mine, and had one of the oddest symbols on his chest. Id never seen it before.
"Wow..." I whispered to myself. "We are here to help. The others would have came but they have trees up their ass's." Ares said while Apollo smacked him in the back of the head. I would have laughed if I wasn't so damn scared.
"Well... Uhm... Thats really great." Edward said. "We need all the help we can get." He said. His eyes were wide, just like mine.
"Excellent. Now, I'm hungry." Hermes said. The others rolled their eyes. "Your always hungry." Thor said. Hermes shrugged, "I cant help it."
The wolves had backed off, but still formed a lose circle around us.
"Gentlemen, if you would like to come inside..." Edward said and led the way. He had to literally drag me with him. I couldn't move. They showed up like literally when I thought about it. How freaky is that?
"Totally freaky!" Loki said. Edward spun around so fast with me it wasn't even funny. "Wait, how can you read her mind while I cant?" Edward asked him. "I'm a God son, I can do anything." He said with a chuckle. If I were human id be trembling. Holy crap...... if I wasn't so scared id be impressed.
Edward looked at him suspiciously but then turned around again and led the way inside the house, me in tow.
"HOLY FUCKING HELL NO WAY!!" Rosalie yelled as we entered the room, apparently she heard what was said outside.
"Yes way." Thor said in a bored tone. "Shitfuckrun." She said under her breath. Loki and Hermes laughed, "Ah I always loved that one." Hermes said, Loki laughed with him, "I remember when I first heard that..." Loki said.
I swear I wish I could pass out right about now.......
