Chapter 17: This is personal.
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN TWILIGHT SO HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA... WHAT WAS I SAYING AGAIN? :3
"CHLOE!" I heard many people yell as I watched TV. I turned to see my family and the Volturi running towards me, literally jumping me. They hugged and kissed me, laughing at the fact I'm literally drowning.
"Can't breathe!" I yelled out of the cluster of people. They all said sorry and allowed me to get up before hugging me again. Really it was the women of my family who were crying and hugging me. Why are women so emotional? I hugged them back and hushed them soothingly.
"We thought you were dead!" Nessie exclaimed, slinging her arms around my neck. She was literally bawling, breaking my heart. Alice was clinging to me as was Rosalie, Bella and Esme. I awkwardly patted my bawling sisters, not really sure what to do.
"God I'm going to kill those fricking idiots." Rose said venomously. I laughed lightly as they finally started to unwrap themselves from me. Nessie wouldn't let go though, which I thought was sweet. I hugged he back, so glad I had a friend like her in my life. She was crying buckets and oceans, her chest heaving with the effort.
"I'm here Nessie, I'm not going anywhere." I said softly. She let go sniffing, a watery smile appearing.
"Don't do that again."She said. I laughed, yes cause it's my fault those douchebags jumped me! Felix ran up to me and picked me up in a bonecrushing hug, twirling me round and round. I laughed as he to started to cry.
"Felix! Are you crying?" I asked. He sniffed and gave me a serious look.
"No! I just had something in my throat. Good to have you back Munchkin." He said, setting me down. I grinned at him, just as a fresh assualt of hugs from the guys came about. I then I realised something.
"Edward Anthony Cullen! Next time give me the right information! I didn't know Carlisle was having a hunting trip!" I yelled at him. He looked guilty and he looked pretty sad. Oh be nice Chloe! I hugged him tight." You're an idiot." He laughed and whispered sorry. He released me for Jasper to hug me, the poor guy looked torn up. " Hey Jazzy, it's ok."
"God, I'm never letting you out by yourself now." Jasper said. I giggled, be back hugged by Emmett.
"Can you try not to get yourself killed kiddo?" He said. I laughed, unable to contain the joy that my family actually cared. I felt a hand on my shoulder and I turned to see Carlisle smiling down at me. I hugged him tightly, feeling his arms enclose around me. He kissed my head and chuckled quietly.
"You're a little fighter aren't you?" He joked. I smiled at him.
"Thanks Carlisle." I said. " Though I think it's mostly experience from near death experiences." This earned a few laughs, even from Jane!
"Have you seen Alec anywhere?" She asked. I notioned to the stairs,causing her to flicker up the stairs. Alec has been barred up in his room for two hours, the only time he's not been by my side.
"This young one shows true resilence, a warriors heart." Senna complimented me. Amun stepped forward, Kebi slung on his arm like a ragdoll.
"Whether or not she is resilent does not change the fact that we are being targeted. We must act now! The battle is in two more weeks and we have not trained, we are poorly equipped." He said. Way to kill the mood dude...
"That might not be the case," Alec said, coming down the stairs. "We have an array of cultivated gifts, something the Romanians lack. They may have numbers but we have skill. They fight like children, solely driven by revenge. We can mow them down by using the right gifts at the right time. The only hard bit is dispersing them and isolating them." I cleared my throat, bringing all attention to me.
"I can probably help with that. When I was attacked I managed to create a seismic wave with my power that dispersed them and sent them backwards. If I could project my shield against all of you and create a seismic wave large enough, I could easily scatter their army." I informed. Many seemed pleased with my plan, others skeptical.
"Can you project your shield?" Benjamin asked.
"It's gonna be hard, but I'm sure I can do it. The best thing about my shield is I don't have to consiously keep it up, it stays up until I take it down." I said. All of them seemed fully on board and Aro laughed happily.
"Yes oh how wonderful! Alec shall train Chloe and all shall train everyday. Let us not waste a minute! Let's go!" He said happilly. We laughed and all went upstairs to get changed, well except for Amazonians. Alec came up to me, studying me very carefully.
"You sure you're up to training? You just got out of a coma, I don't think you should be doing this." He said. I rolled my eyes and dismissed it with my hand.
"You worry to much, I'll be fine!" I said. He gave me a disbeliving look, but nodded. I smiled brightly, zooming up the stairs and to my room.
I took a quick shower and changed into some shorts and a hoody. I pulled on my sneakers and zoomed downstairs, feeling mostly everyone there. Zafarina smiled at me as I entered the room, earning a smile back.
"I am intrigued by your power, woud you care to explain it to me?" She asked. I nodded.
"My power is based off on feeling the vibrations in the earth, I manipulate the vibrations to create a force which can carry objects. The same way I use my shield, I set a wall of manipulated vibrations around myself. Everything you do creates tiny vibrations, so I can sense where people are, it's also easy to tell who they are. Felix is bigger than the rest of us, so I can sense him easily, where as Alec hardly makes any vibrations so it's hard for me to sense him." I explained. She seemed impressed and she smiled shyly to herself.
"Yes that Felix is something special isn't he?" She whispered. AWWWWWWWWWW! She has a crush on him! That's so cute! I smiled kindly, giggling slightly.
"He's really a big goofball. Trust me on that, he's not as mean as he looks." I said insightfully. She smiled as Demetri entered the room with a knowng look, Felix following. Demetri winked at me, in which I mouthed awwwwww earning a snort from him. Felix gave me a strange look, why does everyone do that.
"Did I miss something?" He asked. I shook my head, trying to hold in my laughter and Zafarina's small smile. Once everyone was down, Jasper signalled for me too look for a clearing. I closed my eyes and focused for an area with little vibrations, finding a clearing far from here.
"Found one." I said. He told me to lead the way and started running out the house, the rest of them flanking me. It was beautiful to see all of them run, Senna swinging effortlessly through trees, Mary and Randall leaping great distances, Tia dancing through roots, Jane gliding and Garret striding through the deep snow. I broke my eyes away and sprinted towards the clearing. We made it to a huge clearing and we all wondered curiously into our new training ground.
"Let's get started!" Jasper called. Peter chuckled, as did Charlotte.
"Just like old times, another war for us eh Major Whitlock?" Peter teased. Jasper laughed, obviously tickled by the memories of his southern war days.
"I guess so Peter. Anyway Alec and Chloe you need not a lot of training, so work on Chloe's gift. You two shall be partners when in the battle, which brings me to my next topic. We stay in groups at all time, do not try and fight by yourself. Everyone keep to their coven except for Chloe and Alec and Jane and Randall. I hope you don't mind but Alec and Jane need protection if their power is to work succesfully. Randall do you mind?" Jasper asked. Randall shook his head, smiling kindly at Jane. Amazingly she smiled sweetly back! Alec and I gave each other a disbelieving looks, what's going on between them?
Alec and I found a space to work in, stancing ourselves. Kate wandered over to us with Garrett at her side.
"I think I should help you guys, motivation really." She said. I gave her a confused look, what could she possibly do to motivate me?
"What are you gonna do?" I asked. She smiled and touched Alec's arm, causing him to fall on the ground. I gasped, I forgot about her gift. Oooops... Alec got back up and instead of glaring at Kate, he glared at me.
"You just had to ask." He said. I apologised and urged them to start. " Ok now try and visualise your power, what it looks like, what colour it is and how it flows. Got it?" I nodded.
"I'm going to electrocute him and you have to stop me." Kate said. I nodded. Alec braced himself and I visualised my gift as a thousand tiny bubbles encasing themselves around him, protecting him. Kate reached in her hands and broke my bubble wall, shooting electricity up Alec's arm. She studied me very carefully, as Alec groaned rubbing his arm. "You don't seem very motivated, shall I get Alice here too?" I growled at her.
"Are you crazy?" I yelled. She raised her eyebrows and prepared for another round.
"Chloe you have to try harder." Alec urged. I nodded, visualising the bubbles again. This time they were triple layered and bigger, a better defence system all in all. Kate reached in her hand, this time with difficulty but she still managed to send Alec to the ground. Kate smiled.
"That was better, I really had to fight to get my hand through. You just need to seal him there Chloe." She advised. Alec stood up again, clearly aggitated by the pain. I visualised it again, the huge bubbles in four barricades and all welded together like a steel cage. Kate struck out her hand, only to be met by a barrier. She tried punching it a few times but it wouldn't break, now I wasn't even focusing on keeping it up! Garrett to tried punching it, but my beautiful shield stayed strong. The sweet relief on Alec's face was almost laughable, the poor lamb chop!
"I think it worked!" I exclaimed happily. Kate and Garret laughed and clapped. Alec smiled as I lifted my barrier off of him." I least now you won't get electrocuted." I joked causing him to laugh. I smiled, loving the sound of his laugh. Like music to my ears... God! I'm going soft! I can't help he's perfect, even when he was a jerk he was perfect. Someone I used to love to hate, but now I'm not sure whats happened. We used to be at each others throats, now everything has changed.
"Come on in everybody!" Jasper called. Alec and I headed in together, standing very close. For once I don't really mind someone invading my personal space. " Chloe can you show us how far you've come with the power situation?" I nodded and turned to Emmett.
"Emmett charge at Jasper." I instructed. He nodded and I put my shield on Jasper. Emmett sprinted at him, only to hit my shield and fly backwards at least ten metres. Jasper smiled and all the others laughed at a cursing Emmett. The dude can swear like a trucker... "I think we can do pretty well."
"Good! Now you said something else about creating a seismic wave. Can you demostrate?" Jazz asked. I nodded, doing a cartwheel and focusing my power on my landing. I put every amount strenght I had into it and landed with the sound of thunder. Everyone flew backwards, someone trying to grab on to tree branches or roots to station themselves. Everyone looked scared and I couldn't help but start laughing, literally I fell on my ass laughing like a maniac. I managed to calm down when Alec pulled me up and whacked me upside the head.
"HEY! What was that for!" I exclaimed. He grinned, showing his pearly white teeth.
"No reason, you just sent me flying into a tree is all!" He said sarcastically. I started to laugh even more, recieving another gently slap to the head. I caught his hand and tried to bite it, earning a laugh from him as he swatted me away. Someone cleared their throat behind me, causing us to freeze midway goofing off.
"I think we should be able to scatter the army, nice work Chloe." Jasper said. He was glaring at Alec as Alice giggled and winked at me. If I could blush I would have, Jesus way to be subtle that you like him Chloe! Everyone got up and started to head back to the manson, giving up for the day. Alec and I looked at each other guiltily and I just had to lighten the mood.
"Well this is awkward..." I said. He burst out laughing and grabbed my hand, steering me home.