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Chapter 21

Edward stiffened and then let out a growl so fierce I shivered back in fear.

We all whipped our snowmobiles to a stop and turned to Alice who was now laying on her back in the snow with Jasper defensively crouched over her.

None of us knew what had happened. Everything had seemed fine until she screamed. The only thing out of the ordinary was the wretched smell drifting to us from our home.

I looked at Edward who was now standing in front of me defensively. His face was one that was enough to scare anyone to their own death.

I laid one hand on his shoulder softly, and looked up at him. His eyes were glazed over and anger.

Carlisle, Esme, Emmett, and Rosalie had all formed a circle around Alice and Jasper, and Edward and I closed it off. My dead heart broke into pieces as I looked at my sister, my best friend, my Alice writhing in the snow. Jasper clutched him to his chest with unshed tears layered in his eyes, and pain etched across his face while he made sounds of comfort and tried to send her calming waves.

Carlisle broke the silence. "Edward, what is she seeing?"

His lips firmed a straight line, and he growled low in his chest, but didn't answer.

I looked up at his angelic face and touched it gently. "Edward, please. We need to know what is happening?"

The smell drifted over my senses yet again, and my nose wrinkled up in disgust. The soft padding of their paws hit the snow as they came closer circling our group.

I sunk closer into Edward's side, and he protectively put an arm around my shoulders to shield me.

He met my eyes, and sighed softly trying to release some of the tension. Alice stopped writhing and she now lay limp in Jasper's arms as she sobbed dryly against him as he soothingly rubbed her back trying to keep her calm.

The pack had fully surrounded us now, and I noticed Jacob was directly behind Edward and me. The expressions across their faces were all murderous, and their teeth were all bared in a threatening manner.

I shivered against Edward as the light shone off of his long razor sharp teeth. One of the few things in the world that could tear apart my family if they got the better of us.

"I thought we had a treaty. I thought we were okay...." I spoke to Jake. I was confused as to why they were here. Why they looked like they were ready to rip some vampires apart today.

Edward's hand rubbed a soothing circle in my back, and looked down at me. "They aren't here to hurt us. They are here to help us love. They saw the other vampires in Forks, and realized that they were different..."

"Other vampires?" Emmett spoke angrily.

I looked around at my family. Everyone looked angry and confused except for Alice, who was still being consoled by Jasper.

"Edward now tell us what is happening." I spoke firmly. I needed answers.

He looked at me and sighed trying to calm himself enough to speak calmly enough to explain what was happening.

He looked at me and pain was filled in his eyes. He began to explain.

"Apparently a small group of vampires went to Forks, and they were not like us. They fed from humans. They were not discreet, and they all seemed to be newborns. The wolves here heard of the killings, and they traced the vampire into town and killed two of them." He paused shortly and looked me in the eyes before continuing.

I grew scared. "Charlie.." I questioned..." He looked grim but shook his head no. "Charlie has been kept safe in LaPush. Him and Sue Clearwater have apparently taken a relationship together, according to the pack here."

I looked at Jake, who still had his teeth bared in anger. "The vampires didn't kill Charlie, but they did kill an entire group of high schoolers that were out at some party. Bella, your old friends are gone. These vampires killed Tyler, Mike, Lauren, Eric, Angela and Ben. Bella."

I threw my head against Edward and sobbed into his chest softly. "Keep explaining." I muttered.

"Alice saw the murders. Apparently they were quite brutal and gruesome, but the pack was too late to help them. But Alice also saw that as punishment the Volturi are coming. They want to know who created this small pack of newborns, and set them free to wreak havoc. It was hard to try to cover up the brutal murders of 6 teens in a small town. There was one vampire left, but she apparently got away."

I could hear the crunching of Emmet's granite skin as he crushed his fist into his palms in anger. "That was a home for us. It will hundreds of years before we can ever go back now." He growled.

I pulled my head back from Edward and looked up at him. I could feel the tears wanting to spill from my eyes for my lost friends back at my former home, but I knew those tears could never be shed, and that thought just made me feel sadder. My friends, especially Angela and Ben, deserved my tears. They had my respect, and now I couldn't even show my pain for the loss of them.

"They weren't suppose to die," I whispered. "They were supposed to all grow up happy, and live. Angela and Ben were in love, and they should have gotten married and had a family one day. Mike was an annoying goof, but he was sweet hearted. He would have made some girl happy, and Jessica would have been a great sister or best friend to some lonely girl who needed someone to take her under her wing. Eric could have gone far in his newspaper journalism dreams, and Tyler would have been a great athlete. I didn't know Lauren well, but I am sure she would have been a great shopping partner or something like that. They all had lives that were worth living, and now they didn't even get to graduate high school."

I tilted my head back in frustration, and looked up at the sky hating that it was sunny out. This was a time for pain and remorse for those lost. Not a time for chirping birds, and sunshine on the mountains.

I heard Alice finally speak. "We can't change what has happened. It was horrible, and unjust. But we need to prepare for the Volturi. They are coming, and they want to find us and ask us questions because we were the ones who lived in Forks. It is possible that an enemy could have sent the newborns to Forks knowing it was our home as a sort of message or revenge."

Rosalie suddenly growled now.

I kept my head facing the sky as my emotions grew at an alarming rate in my anger. My poor friends were brutally killed. My father could have been killed if he wasn't in LaPush, and only God knows who else I knew was in danger. Now the Volturi was coming, and my family could possibly be at risk. My family was in pain, and they were worried, and the wolves, my friends, were deeply angry.

I heard the twists of my families necks as they looked at Rosalie whose growl was surprising and filled with venom.

Edward gasped in shock at her thoughts and growled as Rosalie voiced her opinion.

It was one name. One word.

"Victoria."

The venom surged through my body at an alarming rate with my anger. This was the woman who had started all of the drama with her insane boyfriend. This was the woman who could not let my family and I live in peace with the small blessing we did have. Now the Volturi would come, and none of us knew what would happen.

I tensed my neck even tighter against the sky as I felt the anger flowing through me.

The venom was crawling though my marble skin as I closed my eyes locking the hostility inside of me.

I heard my sister's pixie voice speak in shock. "Oh my God..."

Then I screamed.

My lungs forced out all of the unneeded air as I released the pressure at the pure sky, and I felt the venom coating my very mind. Sliding along my nerves, tendons, muscles, and veins as I screamed out.

I heard the shock in my families gasps and mutters of surprise. I heard the wolves giant paws take a step back in surprise, and I heard Edward's velvet voice cut through my mind like a knife as he spoke my name with wonder coating it's every tone.

I heard the sudden crash of thunder over my head, and I opened my eyes as a total downpour began to fall across the land. I blinked my eyes furiously, finally happy that nature seemed to have gathered its senses together and realized it should be angry.

Just as those thoughts crossed my mind, a sudden bolt of lightning came down and struck an old tree that was not less than 10 feet from us. The tree caught on fire, but it didn't seem to burn the tree. It just lapped up against the firs on the pine as if it were caressing it in it's gentle warmth.

The fire looked nice to me, and I knew I should fear it because it along with a fellow vampire or wolf was the only thing that could bring harm to me, but I couldn't fear it. It looked warm and inviting, and I saw it as a helpful tool to eliminate those that did wish to bring harm to my loved one.

Suddenly the fire seemed to leap from the giant tree, and coil itself towards me like I was it's friend that sought it's comfort. My rage turned into slight confusion, but then back to rage as I imagined Victoria and her flame red hair. I imagined the flames licking at her skin from the inside. Burning her apart so that she would never be able to reform her body.

Just as I imagined this image the fire seemed to swirl up giving shape to the image in my mind.

I looked at the image, and gasped at the image. I shook my head vigorously clearing away the thought.

I looked away from the fire to see my entire family staring at me. "What?" I asked.

Edward answered me. "Bella....This is you...."

I tilted my head in confusion. What was me. Was what I had just seen in the fire real or was it just my imagination.

Carlisle looked too stunned to speak so it took me by surprise when his voice cut through the tension from the atmosphere.

"Bella. Are you causing this? The storm... This is random, and the fire it should have burned the tree, but it didn't. It angled itself against you like it was one with you."

I looked at his intelligent eyes, and shrugged my shoulders. "I don't know Carlisle. I am just so angry, and I thought the sky was a shame because it looked so peaceful in the event of this tragedy, and then when Rose suggested Victoria, I just ….my mind.. I … I just wanted to see her die for threatening the people I care about. For threatening my family."

He nodded his head. "Bella, try to clear your emotions out. Think of something peaceful. See what happens?"

"How am I supposed to do that. All I can think about is the horror Angela must have felt. The satisfaction that Victoria probably got, and the stupid..."

Then Edward's lips were against mine in a gesture so deep that I found myself unable to pull away because of the intensity of his passion. His lips molded against mine, and I let my tongue trail against the smooth edges of his mouth as I pulled myself against him. I knew he was just distracting me from my pain so we could test what had just happened, but I didn't care. If I got to have an amazing make out session with my husband in the name of discovering another gift then so be it. I will suffer this way any day of my eternal existence.

I heard Emmett make a small gagging noise, and I am sure the wolves were all more than unhappy about watching this, especially Jacob, but after a while I heard silence. All I could see was Edward in my mind as we made love, or our time in the meadow as I was a human. He was all I wanted, and all I needed, and I would never let him go. Nothing would break our bond.

Then I heard Jasper's awestruck voice. "Look at the sky."

I pulled away from Edward unwillingly and looked up at his topaz eyes.

"Not fair. You just manipulated me into changing emotions." I punched his shoulder lightly in mock anger.

He replied with a smirk across his lips, "Well, love, it had to be done. All in the name of vampire science you see?"

He gestured towards the sky for me to follow with my eyes, and sure enough the sky had totally cleared. It was now even bluer and brighter than before. The usual haze that surrounded the mountains did not even linger in the air, and the fire from the lightning bolt that had just been there had dissipated into thin air.

Carlisle spoke now. "Well Bella. It appears you do indeed have another gift. Nature itself or the weather maybe, I am not sure yet seems to bend to your emotions. These emotional ties seem to be strong enough that you could manifest the one element that could help destroy our kind."

"Freaking cool as hell Bells." was Emmett's witty reply, and Rosalie just smirked at me and her and Esme exchanging knowing looks of the intense power I apparently had inside of me.

"Great." Jasper spoke enthusiastically. "We should practice these gifts before the Volturi come. I know the Volturi, and if we have Bella on our side they will feel less inclined to threaten us with their powers. I know you have a lot to learn Bella., but we're going to help you."

Carlisle nodded in agreement with him. "Yes Bella. You are a great blessing to this family. Hopefully we will not need to resort to these extreme powers to help the Volturi remain courteous, but none the less Jasper is right. I have known the Volturi for many years, and they have managed to be more than manipulative on some occasions when they feel that they have the upper hand."

Alice's pixie voice spoke then, and as tiny as she was I heard the anger lingering in her voice, and I felt fear at her.

Someone as tiny and dangerously deadly as Alice should be classified as a nuclear warfare weapon.

"The Volturi are not going to play nice. We are already a threat to them because of our size and gifts, and Bella's will only make Aro more greedy. But don't worry. Bella's new gift has capabilities so wild that it's going to surprise us and turn the Volturi into ruins if we let her."

The wolves all exchanged glances, and I could see that while they were in awe and fear at my power, a lot of them were still antsy about being in the open with so many new threats that needed to learn about.

As if Edward could read my thoughts he spoke. "Jacob, Sam. Why don't as many of you as you feel comfortable with go phase and come into our home. We will inform you of everything you want or need to know, and then we will go from there."

Jacob nodded, and the pack disappeared into the woods one by one.

Everyone got back on their snowmobiles and went to return to our home leaving Edward and I alone for a moment.

Edward slowly leaned in and kissed my forehead. "Even though you are apparently super strong love, I am still never going to stop protecting you whether you like it or not."

I sighed and leaned against him enjoying the comfort he brought me.

I smirk crossed my lips as I realized that even though he would undoubtedly always be my protector, I didn't necessarily need it.

I couldn't resist speaking the one thing that now lingered in my mind.

"I could totally kick your ass though."

A/N: All done. Okay so I know you have all been waiting for this chapter, and tell me now what do you all think is going to happen. I could use the suggestions because it takes a while to decide what to do when I have like a hundred million scenarios running though my mind on where to go with this. Like for example, I was going to have Charlie die, but I just couldn't do it so yea. Okay now REVIEW. I need some suggestions, and I love the reviews because they make me feel all happy and like you actually like my story. Okay anyways, REVIEW.

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