Glad you liked the last chapter and I'm sorry it was so short. This one is longer and brings out the true Celeste under all that quiet and smart-alecky attitude of hers. Oh and please don't flame if the battle's a bit off cuz I'm not too good at fighting unless it's one on one.
Enjoy!
Punches and blows were going everywhere; wolves were on vampires but thankfully with Jane and Alec a good amount close to half were brought down. Edward and Aro realized most of these wolves were known criminals from around Europe, all with little or no family; easier to dispose of.
"Caius behind you!" a large wolf tried to spear Caius in half. Caius turned and grabbed the beast by the ankle and tossed him to the ground; he grabbed the man by his neck and bit into his flesh. Thankfully the moon hadn't risen but the wolves were getting stronger with each passing minute.
'We don't have much longer, I have to get to Andover!' after the battle began Andover vanished into the crowd and Celeste was caught up in the fighting. Nekolai had tried to go after her but some wolves stopped him.
"Look out!" Bella screamed and the shape shifters pounced on several wolves trying to break Felix and Emmett.
"Keep it up guys we almost got'em!" Emmett shouted and fought with Felix killing some of the wolves. They only had five more minutes before moonrise, and so many more wolves to go through but where the hell was Celeste?
"Nekolai! Go find your sister we'll handle the wolves!"
"Father!"
"Go son, I'll find you when I'm done kicking some moonchild ass!" Caius said those words with a good crunching sound after kicking one wolf in the ribs. Neko ran as fast as he could follow Celli's trail but as he was the trail was leading away from the battle and into the woods. Along with it was the scent of blood, strong wolf blood and lots of it.
'Celli where are you?' he tried to look through his sister's eyes, and all he could see was himself walking. 'She's watching me!' turning in the direction Celli was looking Neko spotted her seething and snarling on a hilltop. "Celli! Come on I'll get you home!"
"Stay away!" she growled at him.
"You'd best listen to her Junior, she's had a good bit of blood." Nekolai heard Andover from a distance but kept his eyes on Celeste.
"What've you done to her? I know human blood doesn't get her like this, what did you do?" Celli crouched in position ready to attack.
"Just a little something called…werewolf blood." Neko's eyes widened.
"Wolf blood?"
"Yes…highly addictive but a good reward for the loyal followers. Granted it has its…misdemeanors…but it does come in handy especially with age. I had planned on saving her for your father, but I think I'll let her start on you instead."
'Werewolf blood, he gives them enough to do his bidding and reward them with more like a drug addiction.' Nekolai kept his eyes on Celeste but began to look for Andover and got a brief glimpse of the battle before something tackled him to the ground. His vision returned and Celli was on top of him reaching for his neck; her grip was stronger, but his wits kicked in and she was thrown off.
"Andover you'd better return my sister to normal or so help me God I will rip you apart piece by piece!" Neko screamed and saw Celli charge again. She bit into his arm with her sharp teeth and he screamed in more surprise than pain.
"Hah hah, rip me apart you say? I think your sister may do the opposite to you." Nekolai grabbed Celli by the hair and yanked her mouth off his arm.
"Celli, please get a hold of yourself! I know you don't want to be like this come back to me." She snarled at him and kicked his torso.
"She won't listen Neko, your baby sister is under my control."
"No!" he let her pummel him to the ground.
"Yes! That's my girl Celeste, show your big brother what you're really made of!" she punched him multiple times in his front, and snarled with each hit to his flesh. Nekolai could tell she wasn't right, her punches were slightly off from where a human's vitals would be.
"Celli…please…I know you…I'm your brother…" he was pleading with her. "Mom…dad…they love you….they love us…" she continued to punch him but slowed as he mentioned their parents.
"At a girl Celeste! Show no mercy!" Andover's voice echoed again; Neko wouldn't move from his spot on the ground and let her continue to hit him.
"Celli…Oca-Ocarina…" she stopped, her left fist raised in midair.
"W-Wh…?"
"Ocarina…that's your name, your real name." he breathed out but stayed still. "Remember that time I teased your name, I called you…little mermaid…?" she paused.
"Nekolai." She growled.
"Yeah you remember." He laughed. "Ocarina…I'm sorry. I'm sorry I kept you locked up, I'm sorry I sheltered you so much, I'm sorry I was such a jerk to you. I deserve everything you've done to me so far, because if it weren't for me and my stupid selfish thoughts you wouldn't have run off and gotten caught. This whole thing's my fault…not our parents…mine…"
"Well lookie here big brother's grown a conscience." Andover mocked. "Let him grovel to you Celeste, and finish him!"
"It was my fault we ran away, I pushed you into it! They wanted to talk to us and like cowards we left! But that's over…Celli, Ocarina, I made up with our father." Her eyes widened at him. "I made up with him, he explained everything to me…he never meant to hurt us. Never, he loved us…and still does…" her fist lowered slightly.
"Loves us…h-he loves us…" before Nekolai could answer someone else did.
"Yes." His father's voice reached them both. He looked over to see Caius, covered in blood and his clothes ripped almost to shreds. "Celeste, Ocarina…I love you and Nekolai more than anything, please believe me. I made the mistakes, I should've told you the truth before it was too late but now it's not. I want you and Nekolai to come home with me and your family. Your mother….she wants to see you…she wants you home where you both belong." Celli's wrist lowered slowly.
"Mother…"
"Yes…your mother…Athenodora loves you. She wants you both safe and at home, please believe me." Celli's hands moved off her brother and she began to shake violently; her body's violent shaking increased and she curled into a fetal position.
"Celli!" she began puking and then a laugh was heard over them.
"It appears that she's in withdrawal from the blood, quite effective isn't it?" Caius snarled as Nekolai comforted his sister. He pulled her into his arms and rubbed her back as he spotted his father jumping up into the trees and yanking Andover down onto the forest floor.
"You bastard!" he punched and pounded Andover's face multiple times. His knuckles became even more bloodier than before; he picked Andover up by his long hair but then was thrown back as his body began to change, his black eyes turned yellow, hair sprouted from his body all over, and his face shifted into a wolf's face before giving off a long howl at the full moon.
"AAAHHWWOOOOOOO!" his howl was loud enough to raise the dead, and soon more howls came after his. "Time to die dear Caius!" he growled with a large monstrous grin.
"You first!" they went at it. Neko quickly grabbed his sister and pulled her away from the fight into an area of trees.
"Celli wait here ok, I'm going to get help." He would at least after he saved his dad from being killed. Making sure no one was around he sprung from the spot back to the fight; his father had his arms around the beast's neck but was almost flung off with every twist and turn the wolf made with his giant paws on Caius' wrists.
'Have to get close to the beast, or he'll kill him before I get the chance.' If the legends were true, a simple bite from a werewolf could easily kill a vampire if not keep them from quickly healing. Neko had to get close enough to stab the wolf in time and give Caius a chance to kill him. Nekolai quickly but quietly snuck around behind the wolf and leapt at him.
"JUNIOR!" he heard his father shout but then the wolf turned and clenched his paw around Neko's throat. Nekolai gasped as his skin began to crack under the tremendous force, his vision began to blur and he last saw his father biting into the wolf's neck before he dropped him.
"Why you arrogant little furry mutt-faced son of a bitch!" he managed to shout as his skin quickly healed. The wolf howled in pain as Caius sank his teeth into his neck as Nekolai could see was probably a pressure point. "Look out!" the wolf's long sharp claws sunk into Caius' back and forced him to let go; Caius was flung towards Nekolai and he watched as his father's face went still as if dead.
"Oh my…two for the price of one." The beast snarled. "Must be my lucky day!"
"You bastard, all this for a centuries old grudge for your brother! You really think he'd want you to do this?"
"Radovan was my brother and your father took him from me, so it's time to return the favor."
"By getting yourself killed? If you kill us the guards will hunt you down and destroy your kind for good." Giving them long enough time to let his father heal his back all he could do was talk the monster down.
"They haven't caught me for centuries boy, so how would they catch me now? The oldest, smartest living werewolf there is huh?"
"Things have changed Andover, and I'm sure you're well aware of most vampires' abilities of tracking? Even if you do escape you'll always be on the run, they'll never let you live after this."
"Keep dreaming boy, this is the last time you'll ever get to." He crouched low about to take charge at the two, and then he was knocked away from a spear-like move. Nekolai watched and his eyes widened as he saw Celeste on top of Andover's waist with her hands around his large throat.
"Celli!" Caius suddenly woke from his coma and watched with Nekolai as she let out a loud cry.
"I! WANT! MORE!" she opened her mouth and sunk her teeth into the same spot Caius had bitten earlier. Andover struggled trying to pry her off but her strength was too great, his legs kicked and thrashed trying get her off but nothing worked. Nekolai and Caius both watched in shock and terror as she drained his blood down to the last drop. Her hands were soaked from where she'd sunk her nails into his throat and nearly tore his head off.
"Celeste…" Caius got up slowly from his spot and carefully approached Celeste. "Sweetheart…" he held out his hands as if trying to call her over.
"Celli…Celli it's us…" they approached her slowly as she licked her hands clean like a hungry puppy. She looked at them with curiosity, and then dropped her hand smiling.
"Relax boys, I'm fine." She got off Andover's dead body and jumped into Nekolai's arms.
"Celli…how did you…?"how in the hell did she come out of that?
"A buck appeared after you left and seeing as I was still thirsty after that wolf blood I killed it. After I cleaned up my mind sobered and I realized what happened, so after witnessing the little brawl you two had with Andy there I decided to finish him off the only way I knew how." She gave a smirk of triumph and squeezed Nekolai around the neck.
"Ow…Celli you hurt." He pulled away and then turned her towards Caius, who stared in complete shock at her. "Father?"
"Father, I'm sorry." Celli said and then ran into his arms. He caught and spun her around several times before placing her down and Nekolai joined in.
"My children, I'm so glad you're both safe."
"And alive." Celli joked and the embrace lasted for a few more seconds before Caius released them.
"Do you want me to call you Celeste or Ocarina?" Celli made a face and thought for a few seconds.
"Let's just stick with Celeste, Ocarina's too old of a name. And does this mean we're a family again?"
"Yes sissy we are. We made up on the way here, got a lot of issues resolved." She gave him a look.
"Seriously?" Nekolai hugged her.
"Yeah, Celli I'm so sorry about this. If I hadn't sheltered you so much this wouldn't have happened." She hugged back.
"I've already forgiven you Neko, don't worry. And now that I know we're a family once more…" she smirked and slapped his and Caius' face.
"OW! What was that for?" they both asked.
"For being such insufferable jerks to everyone and me; either I punch you or slap you now which would you have preferred?"
"Neither!"
"Too bad." They hugged again.
"Alright you two, let's head back to the others." Caius put an arm around both of them before heading back towards the rest of the vampires, whom hopefully had finished off the last of the wolves.
"But what about…?"
"Leave him, I'll let the guards handle it." They walked back and saw the rest of the covens picking up and burning the remains of the other wolves.
"Caius! Neko! Celli!" little Renesmee came thundering over before embracing whomever she could get her hands on; whom would go first other than Nekolai?
"Off kid my legs hurt."
"Oops sorry. You all ok?"
"We're fine young one." Caius stated calmly to her.
"Brother!" Marcus and Aro came over. "So happy to see you still alive, and the twins!" both twins embraced their uncles.
"Glad to see you again Uncle Marcus, Uncle Aro." Celli kissed both their cheeks with her blood covered lips. "Everyone safe?"
"Didn't lose a single member thank goodness, now the wolf boys suffered a few broken bones and sprains but Carlisle's looking after them. Is that blood on your mouth?" Aro pointed to Celli's lips.
"Yep." She stated proudly. "Don't worry about Andover anymore." Part of her hands were still covered in blood but so was her shirt and part of her face; along with Caius and Neko somewhat.
"What in the world happened to you three?" Marcus.
"Long story Marcus, let's just finish up here and we'll explain on the way home." They all laughed and helped pick up as they prepared to leave for home.
A little lame for the ending of this one but it'll get better in the next chapter which will be a mix of the final chapter and epilogue.
R&R
Later!
