Chapter 28
"What is it Alice?" asked Bella.
"Remember that coven that I had a vision about a few days ago?" she said.
"Yeah why what's wrong?" asked Bella.
"Their coming" said Alice panicking. "According to my vision they will be here tomorrow night."
"We must tell everyone at once so we can be prepared" said Jasper.
They ran to the throne room to alert Aro and the rest of their coven. Jasper and Bella both knew that in order for everyone to have enough strength to take this coven down that they'd need backup and that they'd need to feed on humans because human blood makes them the strongest. Everyone gathered in the throne room and Edward read Jaspers mind.
"Absolutely not Jasper" said Edward.
"Edward be reasonable here" said Jasper "You know that's the only way we are going to have enough energy to beat this coven, plus that is the only way Bella's shield will last when she has to protect us all. If Bella doesn't have that energy that human blood will give her we could all get hurt and die."
"I'm with Jasper on this one" said Carlisle. "I don't particularly like the idea but if it's going to help us then I think it is something that we need to consider."
"I agree" said Rosalie.
Then everyone else started agreeing. Soon enough Edward finally gave in.
"Wonderful" said Aro. "I will have Heidi's sister Lauren go out and bring us a snack then. And don't worry; I'll make sure that these people are criminals that way we won't take away any innocent lives."
"Thanks Aro" said Bella, "That makes me feel better about feeding on humans."
"My pleasure Miss Bella" said Aro, "Now if you excuse me I have business to attend to but we will meet back here in one hour."
With that everyone went their separate ways and Jasper and Bella went back to the garden to work on some more wedding plans.
"What type of flowers do you want" asked Jasper.
"Hmmm…" said Bella "I like lilies and orchards"
"Those are both beautiful flowers" said Jasper "Let's have both"
"Ok" said Bella smiling. "What about music? Do we want a live band or a DJ?"
"I'll take care of that because I have a surprise for you in that area" said Jasper smiling.
Smiling Bella said "Whatever you say cowboy. What about the guest list?"
"Well, I talked to Aro privately and he said we can invite the Quileute Tribe because they are your friends" said Jasper smiling.
"That's such great news" said Bella smiling. "I miss Jacob so much."
Barely smiling Jasper said "Yes I know that. He was there for you when everyone left and when I came back for you, I knew you loved Jacob." And Jasper was kind of sad when he said that.
"Jasper, don't give me that look of sadness, I love Jacob yes but you're my soul mate Jazz…I know that if vampires didn't exist then Jacob would be my soul mate and in a parallel universe apparently Alec would (Jasper growled at that) but I'm here with you now Jasper and I love you more than anything. That's why despite everything my mind is telling me, my heart was the one that told me to say yes, my heart is the one that knows you are the one for me Major Jasper Whitlock and nothing and no one can change my mind about that or the way I feel about you…" and then Bella got up, sat in Jaspers lap, and she kissed him.
"That was beautiful Bella" said Edward as he walked out into the garden with Alice trailing behind him.
"Thanks Edward" said Bella.
"You never told me anything like that when we were together" said Edward pretending to sound hurt.
"That's because you were way to over protective, you never let me have any fun at the risk I would get hurt and you always kept me to yourself. Yes I did love you and I always will because you were my first love but you were an insensitive jerk when you left me alone in the woods and you always made me feel like I was a good for nothing weak human!" said Bella.
"Oh my god Bella I am so very sorry that I made you feel that way. I had no idea…" said Edward.
"Yeah well now you do" said Bella.
"Look we can all talk about this later" said Jasper "But right now we have to meet back in the throne room."
They ran back to the throne room and then Aro began talking.
"Heidi's sister Lauren has brought us more than enough humans and they are sitting underground right now in one of our many dungeon cells" said Aro.
"Then why did we have to meet here right now?" asked Rosalie.
"Because" said Aro, "Jasper, as well as the rest of the Volturi will train all of you to fight. That way we can beat this coven that dares to try and challenge us."
Aro leads everyone to the south part of the main garden to start the training. Bella was a natural when it came to fighting. Everyone was training all night into the morning. Then, they all went into the dungeon to feed and gain their strength. They were ready for when the coven would show up. Any minute now they were going to have to fight. Bella was feeling weird but she was blocking her emotions so no one knew that she could be hiding something. But what exactly was Bella hiding…that is the question…