Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Battle
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight Saga; I'm just screwing with the characters. Have fun with whatever happens and characters I make up.
AN: I know these last few chapters have been kind of short but I'm coming close to the end and I'm thinking of rewriting some parts of the story. Leave a review on what you think and I'll take into consideration what you have to say.
Embry's POV
I woke up to the light barely peaking in through the window. The gray overcast shut out the beautiful sunrise but by the looks of it, it's going to clear up later today. I sighed as I pulled Marie, still sleeping, closer to me. I didn't want to let her go, knowing what this day had in store for us. I prayed to the spirits that they protect my precious Marie when I couldn't. Because I knew there was no way I couldn't convince her not to fight today. She was bound to do everything to protect her cousin; she'd even die for her she told me once.
I knew we needed to get up but I wanted to do something special for her first. I quietly got out of bed and went to the kitchen. I started the coffee maker as I started cooking breakfast: pancakes, eggs, and bacon. I made her plate first before I did mine. I got us some coffee and found a tray in the pantry to put everything on. I went back to the bedroom and put the tray on her nightstand. I knelt down by her side and began kissing her lips softly and worked my way down to her shoulder. I pulled the sheet back and started rubbing her shoulders as I kissed down her spine. I rubbed her shoulders, down her back, and back up to her neck. I knew she woke up when I saw the smile her grow on her face.
"Good morning, angel," I told her as I kissed her luscious lips.
"Good morning, Em. How'd ya sleep?" she asked me.
"Good, how about yourself?" I replied as she sat up and I pulled the tray onto her lap.
Her eyes widened and she looked at me surprised before she smiled, thanking me for it. She quickly ate her breakfast like she hasn't eaten in forever, but she still looks beautiful doing it. She can't help the wolf side of her like me. When we finished eating, I took our dishes to the kitchen and cleaned them off.
When I came back in the room, Marie was up and getting dressed. She wore black yoga pants with a dark gray long-sleeve turtle neck shirt. She was pulling on some flat, gray ankle boots as I came in the room.
"You look prepared to battle," I commented fearfully.
"Not completely," Marie responded as she grabbed her satchel and went to the bathroom.
Marie began placing as many potions into her satchel as she could, before strapping it around her waist and shrinking the strap to fit. She walked over to the mirror and began braiding her hair to pull it out of her face. As soon as she was ready, she stepped away and came over to me.
"We need to get to the field," she told me urgently.
Marie seems to have a lot on her mind when she was dressing, but she hasn't mentioned anything to me other than this battle. I'd be worried for my family to if some deranged, psychotic vampire was coming after them. We were on our way to the field, Marie securely on my back as I ran through the forest. She told me she didn't want to fight in her wolf form so she could move more agilely. I could understand that.
As we approached the field, we could see her family and the Cullens stand together, waiting for the newborns. Though her niece, Aleya, appeared a little worried since figuring out that the wolf in her vision fighting with Edward was Seth. Learning from experience, it hurts being away from your imprint, especially knowing that they're in danger by protecting someone they love. Marie jumped off my back and went to join her family and the Cullens in the front lines.
"Here they come," Jasper said as they appeared through the trees.
Third Person POV
The Cullens, Swans, and wolves began their fight against the newborns while Edward, Bella, and Seth waited for Victoria at their campsite. Jacob had already left after switching shifts with Seth. Jacob had taken the couple of days away from Bella to stop and think about what Marie had kept telling him. He realized he was willing to wait for his imprint and fix his friendship with Bella. He still didn't quite like Edward because of the period he had left Bella, but Jacob was more protective in a brotherly way.
When Victoria showed up with Riley and began the fight, Edward tried to keep her as protected as he could. Bella watching the fight unfold caused a massive memory overload for Bella. She watched the many years of her and Marie fighting alongside each other play before her eyes behind her eyelids. She curled in on herself as the overload of memories made her head burn with a terrible headache. Edward couldn't do anything to help Bella as he fought against Victoria.
From the field, a fiery explosion could be seen in the shape of a Phoenix. The battle in the field froze when they saw the flames. The Cullens, Swans, and wolves quickly took out the newborns in their stunned state and were cleaning up. The Swans became worried for Bella knowing that was her gaining back her abilities and magic.
After the explosion happen, Bella's mind cleared up with her memories returned along with her magic. She turned toward a whining sound and found Seth limping from Riley's attack. She turned on Riley and unleashed her fiery ability on him from her bare hands, effectively turning him to ash right on the spot. When Victoria saw what happen, she froze in fear but that wasn't the best choice. It gave Edward time to rip her to pieces and Bella lit the pile on fire.
"Aleya!" Bella cried out.
Aleya appeared to them on the mountain side and Bella pointed her to Seth, who was still limping. Aleya ran to him anxiously and began healing.
Bella turned to Edward and smiled at him, grasping his face in her hands. She looked like she was about to kiss him when she pulled her left hand back and slapped him. Edward gazed at her surprised.
"That's for being overprotective of me and thinking you know best for me," she slapped him one more time with her right hand and said, "That's for leaving me for my own good." She pulled his face back to hers but he was a little wary after the two slaps he received. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him with a fiery passion saying, "I finally have you back. I never thought I'd ask you this but do you want to race?"
This confused Edward until Bella ran off at top speed with her witch abilities. He realized she had her memory back from her past. When they came to the field, Marie was the first to greet them as she threw her arms around Bella with tears in her eyes. That's when a straggler newborn walked out of the forest. Leah leapt towards it as everyone cried out. Marie pulled away from Bella and went to pull the newborn off of Leah. Bella moved to help her like she always does. Marie grabbed the newborn within her arms and it thrashed in her arms, turning and biting her chin. Before the pain could affect Marie's cognitive thinking, she sliced her venom covered dagger across the newborn's throat so she could rip its head off. Bella created a large fire ball within the palm of her hand and set the remains on fire.
Marie finally clasped to the ground in pain and, Bella lifted Marie into her arms and carried her away from the fire. The Cullens and Pack watched in amazement at the scene before them. They could not believe the socially inept and clumsy girl they knew wasn't truly Bella. Suddenly Marie cried out as the burning of the venom started to spread and began thrashing. She had finally given into the pain and Embry could feel as well now but not as badly as Marie was feeling it. He had fallen over, whining. Bella quickly searched through Marie's satchel to find the venom extract potion but couldn't find it.
"Does Marie not have any more of the extract potion?" Bella yelled out.
Her family looked to each other unsure. Aleya was back with Seth when her Aunt Vera sent her to their home to find some of the potion.
"Oh no, the baby," Rosalie whispered in concern.
"What?!" Bella shouted, hearing Rosalie's silent whisper, as her hand started to glow.
She ran her hands over Marie's stomach and looked alarmed. Aleya appeared back with the murky looking potion in her hand. Bella quickly uncorked the potion and forced it down Marie's throat. Soon, silver liquid began oozing out of the bite mark on Marie's chin. Marie became still and Aleya stepped forward, after Bella cleaned the venom away, and healed the bite mark up. Embry crawled over to Marie's side and began licking her neck to relax himself and her. Marie's eyes fluttered open and she sighed out and with Embry's help, she stood up.
Alice gasped and told everyone, "The Volturi is coming; the wolves need to go."
Carlisle agreed and Marie and Aleya kissed their wolves' bye, promising to see them later. As Marie approached from the forest where the wolves left, she noticed that a young girl stood behind the Cullens next to Jasper.
"Who's she?" Marie asked sternly.
The newborn teen cringed away from Marie's stare but Jasper placed a firm grip on her shoulder to hold her in place.
"Her names Bree Tanner," Carlisle told her. "She didn't fight and we offered her asylum."
"Alright," Marie said calmly after he explained and stood next to the family with hers.
Everyone quieted as they watched the dark cloaked figures sweep into the field. There were only four of them. Once they were in front of the group of vampires and witches, they pulled their hoods off. There stood Demetri, Felix, Alec, and Jane. Marie was quiet as she stared at her twin children in front of her. They scanned through the Cullens but the twins' eyes stopped when they spotted their mother standing with them.
"Mater," the twins said simultaneously.
"Yes, it's me, my children," Marie choked as tears pooled in her eyes and she held her arms open for them.
The twins ran into their mother's arms, hugging her. She kissed both their heads as she began to cry. The Cullens gasped at this but Marie's family just smiled at the small reunion. Bella came up and put her hand on Marie's shoulder to comfort her. The twins looked up at Bella and seeing the blue rings around her eyes, realized she remembered everything.
"Oh, Aunt Bella, it's wonderful to have you back," Jane said as she let her mom go to go hug Bella, nearly tackling her to the ground.
"We thought you'd never remember anything," Alec said next, following his sister's lead.
Bella hugged the two kids she remembers helping Marie raise them.
"How's Avis?" Marie asked them.
"Grieving as always," they said simultaneously.
"Ok, well, take care of him please," Marie told them as she held their shoulders.
"What do we tell Aro?" Jane asked worriedly.
"Tell him that the Cullens have destroyed the newborn army along with their creator. Don't mention anything about us except in confidence to Avis," Marie instructed her.
She turned to the other two guard members there and said, "Thank you for keeping a secret that isn't yours to keep."
"It's our pleasure, Lady Marie, but in all truth, I take it on as my secret to because this lovely lady here," Felix says taking Jane into his arms, "Is my mate."
"Well, you take care of her and we won't have any problem," Marie told him sternly.
"You don't need to worry about that, Lady Marie," Felix told her as he held Jane's hand.
Marie pulled her twins to her and kissed their heads, telling them good bye. She wished Felix and Demetri good bye as well and watched as they disappeared through the trees. Marie tried to appear strong but knowing that she might not see her children for another possible five centuries, made her break down into painful sobs. She fell to her knees as the tears streamed down her face and her head hung sorrowfully. Jane and Alec listened as they heard their mother cry from watching them leave but they knew the dangers of what would happen if they didn't report back to Aro and Caius. Felix gently patted Jane's shoulder and ushered the twins forward toward their destination. The only peace the twins held was that their grandfather was in Volterra and they needed to care for him. That as well kept Marie's mind at peace, knowing her twins would be safe and somewhat comfortable with their grandfather in Volterra.
Bella walked forward grasped Marie's shoulder firmly, trying to comfort her. Marie looked up to her cousin who's been like another sister to her and picked herself up. Bella softly smiled at her and told her, "We'll fix everything. One day, somehow, we'll fix our family."
Bella made the vow with such power in her voice that it scared everyone but every Swan stepped forward and stood with Bella and Marie. They laid their hands on the two cousins before raising them in the air together in a witch promise. Each hand glowed a different color of magical energy except for Emmett's who was assisted by Aleya. The magical energy became colorful streamers and wrapped around each witches arm, up to their elbow before dissipating. The Cullens watch this phenomenon with great astonishment that the family had a good laugh when they broke apart because of their expressions. The families departed from the field quietly, going to the Cullen house, except for Marie and Aleya who went to search for their wolves.
AN: Well, this is the last chapter of this story unless I do an epilogue. Let me know what you think and I might do an epilogue…please leave a review!