Chapter Six.
Three weeks later, late March. The twenty third, Thursday.
"UGH! I've killed them all!" Victoria shouted. "I don't know why I'm not full yet!"
Riley glanced around the dark barn. Eleven freshly deceased corpses lingered. All killed within the last two hours. Victoria had tried desperately to turn them but her thirst strongly took over. The newborn army count was at its lowest, to Victoria of course. Fifteen were holding up. The numbers had to be high for her.
"Have you tried doing it the quick way?" Riley asked.
"I tried, I don't know what's gotten into me. I don't get it? I feed before I attempt to change whoever you bring me and it doesn't work. I get thirsty again…Even when I feel full!" Victoria shot back.
"You do know that those I brought you came from the city, right? LOCALS." Riley said.
"I am aware of that! Find more! We need more!"
"Are you sure?" Riley demanded.
"Of course I am!"
Riley took one long stare at Victoria before making his way out.
Victoria stood silently in the dark barn. Everything was becoming a waste lately to her. She had only turned three humans to newborns in the past two weeks and she soon found out less than a week after they were changed that they had killed each other or had gotten killed.
It just isn't working!
Is this enough already? They're only seven of the Cullen's…
She pondered her question. Would the fifteen satisfy her plans? She didn't know.
She gave one long look to the barn and the dead humans she had drank from. Her left hand quickly reached for her pocket and on the far end of the barn she seen what was a gasoline tank, still filled with the fluid needed to start a blaze. Effortlessly, she was across the room and picked up the ten pound tank and started spreading the gasoline everywhere. She poured the gasoline all over the dead humans. Her eyes scanned the rest of the interior of the barn, she had gotten everything. She still had a little less than half the tank.
Whatever, She thought. She threw the tank down and lit one of the human corpses before making her exit.
As she ran from the barn it ignited within seconds. Five minutes later, the barn was fully engulfed with wild flames sizzling out of control in all directions. All evidence was destroyed.
Victoria quickly traveled into the city. Her main intention now was to continue to create the army. She was positive the Cullen's didn't know, and she was right…
She would wait until the army was more matured, but young enough to still have the power to fight.
She would wait and not make any decision that would alert the Cullen's future teller.
She wouldn't desperately attempt and fail at another run through to Forks to murder Bella.
All of her attempts were failures except the time where she was close to Bella who was on the shore of La Push.
She knew what she wanted to do. This army was her only solution and it was failure proof.
They wouldn't dare to fight an army more massive in size compared to their own coven, She thought.
The wait was worth it for her, because in the end she would hold the throne for victory.
Back in Forks, The Cullen's are fully settled back into their home once again. Victoria didn't know that the Cullen's had been distant for the last several months-in order to protect Bella from the dangers that hung around in their world-but all that changed when Bella and Alice saved Edward from his suicidal thoughts. Victoria suspicions of Bella becoming a vampire were confirmed the night before when Bella had asked for a vote, but Victoria didn't know that. It was just a worry that it might happen.
The breeze of Seattle surrounded Victoria as she stood atop a building watching below. The night was young, and forever was she. Both her and Riley watched over the few newborns who were murdering down below.
"So what's your plan now? Your official plan…" Riley asked.
"We wait. We can't do anything sudden because the female will see us…and best believe they'll be ready. I want to corner them so sudden that they won't have time to plan or retaliate. It will give our army the advantage." Victoria replied.
"Sounds good." Riley smiled.
"Yes." Victoria agreed. "I think waiting is a better option than rushing into it, Riley. Our children haven't even been trained to fight. They know nothing of this life than how to feed. All of their humanity intellect was lost during the change."
"If you so say…So, we wait and turn more." Riley said.
"That's the plan."
It was there that the horror in Seattle began to take a turn for the worse. In the months that followed the city became what Victoria knew it would become…Deaths playground by night and a magnificent city during the day.
It's only the beginning, She thought.
They won't even know what's coming for them until it's far too late.
Bella Swan will die.