We Three Witches (Twilight)

Chapter 15 - Traitor to the Covenant

Third Person POV

February, 22nd , 2003

Bella's scream was furious and agonising. It held every second of pain she and her sisters had felt at the hands of this woman. Blinded by her rage, she threw a ball of raw magic at Victoria. Her sole focus was on killing the woman who had turned them into the church. Who had burned them.

Only the moment the magic collided with Victoria, it bounced off her as if she were protected by a shield. The wild magic bore into the ground, doing no damage to its intended target. Victoria threw her hands out in front of her with a snarl. Like pins in a bowling alley Bella and the Cullens around her were blasted apart. Still a distance away, Alice and Rosalie planted their feet into the ground and grabbed Esme as roots wound around their legs, securing them.

"She's a witch," Jasper breathed and he immediately realised how much danger that added to this fight. Three vampires they could take, but a hybrid? An old hybrid? He'd seen whole armies torn to shred by a single hybrid—and they were no army.

He, Bella and the rest of the Cullens were up in the blink of an eye and amassing again, just as the roots that had grounded the girls sunk back into the ground. Bella was already moving; she planted her hand firmly on the ground and rocks immediately encased the three completely. Bella enforced it with magic to give them a minute to figure out a plan before hell broke loose.

"But she's a vampire." Rosalie was focused on Bella's movements, but Jasper could sense a rising panicked anger inside her. "She can't be a witch."

Jasper shook his head. "It's rare, but there are occasions. Permissions can be granted."

"No!" Rosalie insisted and Jasper frowned slightly in her direction. "If she's a witch..."

"If she's a witch, then it means she was a witch when she had us burned," Alice explained in a soft voice that didn't disguise the rage boiling inside her.

"That bitch," Rosalie growled. "She's–"

"Hold on," Emmett said. "Why is her being a witch so bad? Like I get it makes her harder to kill, but you're acting like it's a crime or something."

Bella's face was more thunderous than any of them had ever seen it. "Thou shall not harm thy Covenant sisters; neither by blood of life, nor hair of head," she hissed.

"To do so is treason of the highest order," Rosalie continued.

"And the traitor shall be judged by magic herself," Alice finished.

"It's the Witches Creed of War," Bella growled. "It goes into effect during times of great peril for our kind. It was in effect during the vampire wars and the Age of Fire—the most dangerous times for witches everywhere. The code has been in place since the creation of the Covenant, it is our most sacred law."

"That Victoria broke the Creed—and during the Age of Fire no less—is treason beyond redemption. Turning us into the Church should have seen her turned into the Covenant and judged by magic to receive her due. That it was the Age of Fire means that she would have suffered a fate worse than death," Alice snarled.

At that moment cracks began to spread across the stones.

"Okay, well that's fucked up and all, but right now we have bigger issues: like how the fuck do we defeat her if we can't kill her?" Emmett questioned.

"We treat her like a vampire. Dismember her and call the mutts," Bella said immediately, her vampire-killing plan at the ready. "Dismembering her will work temporarily. Even removing her head won't invoke the treaty since that's not really killing her."