What I've Been Living For

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Blood

"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood" William Shakespeare

"In battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win" George Bernard Shaw

Bella's POV

Run. Search. Find. Protect. Destroy.

Run. Search. Find. Protect. Destroy.

The words echoed in my mind, repeating like a sacred chant, as I rushed through the forest. All I could picture was Victoria. Her leaning against the tree, holding Sophia's wolf dripping in blood....dripping in blood.

The image kept passing in my brain, making me push myself further. The thought of the blood being Sophia's making me sprint faster than I ever had before. The trees passed by me in a blur, as I focused on tracking Victoria's scent.

God help her. If she touched one single hair on Sophia's head, I would rip every limb from her body and make her watch as I burned her to pieces.

"Bella" Cersei called to me.

"Not now" I grunted back. We didn't have time for discussion. We needed to be focused on finding Victoria.

"No, Bella's its important!"

"NOT NOW!" I growled back at her, putting up my mental block against her.

I didn't have time for her advice or her philosophical crap about being smart and not getting revenge against Victoria. I wanted revenge. I wanted to be enraged and full of fury. All that emotion would just make it easier for me to rip her body in two. A sadistic smirk stretched across my face at the image of that occurring.

By no means, am I an evil person, but there's always someone who brings out the worst in you. There's always someone who makes you consider doing terrible horrible things, you would never imagine in your life. There's always someone who brings our the animal in you, the monster. And for me, it was Victoria.

Crack!

The tree on both sides of me, suddenly snapped in half, falling down in  my direction. I quickly leaped forward, avoiding being crushed and turned to observe my surroundings.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

One by one, the trees around me snapped in half, forming an enclosed circle, with me trapped in the middle. I growled out loud, knowing that this was the work of Victoria.

Suddenly, a evil cackle rang out through the forest., as I saw a dark figure hidden in the shade of the forest. Victoria.

I watched her as she emerged from the shadows of the trees. She walked forward confidently, a smug smirk on her face as she observed me, arrogance and anger oozing from her being. I growled lowly in my throat in warning to her. If she thought that she could take me on, then she had another thing coming.

She ignored my growls and continued walking forward, until it was just me and her in the middle of the clearing. Neither of us spoke for a few moments. We both stood there, watching the person we each thought ruined our lives. I took notice of her body language, observing the constant change in her footing, the quick glances she would make around the trees behind me, the way she subtly moved her fingers in a secretive gesture towards the area around us. She didn't come alone.

I knew that she wouldn't. As desperate as she was, she was also smart. I had sensed the other's presence the moment, I step foot in the forest. The only problem was I didn't know how many she brought with her.

I knew that I could take her down along in my wolf form, but I had never sparred before  with more than one enemy attacking me. If I remained like this, I would be at a disadvantage. Analyzing the situation as quick as I could, I shifted back to my regular form, making sure to not to hide my hair color or any other aspects of my body. If she brought multiple vampires, with her than I would need all the power I could get.