Love Bite

Chapter 25

I DO NOT OWN CHARACTERS OR TWILIGHT

A rubber band seemed to snap at the back of Bella's mind as all six of those horrible slavering beasts came down on them in a flurry of fur and fangs.

Before she could do a thing, Alice shoved her backwards. Bella did not even have enough sense left to make a noise, but as she suddenly went sailing back, she twisted in the air and landed nimbly on the porch, on her hands and feet like a cat.

A wild and primal command cracked across her mind.

Fight.

With wide eyes, the brunette let loose a furious hiss that choked off the second she looked up and saw the battle blossoming in front of her. Each Cullen whirled and slapped and snarled at a wolf, as Edward and Tanya stood their ground against a particularly monstrously large one, dwarfed only by the black one Leah was currently ripping into.

Or was being ripped into by. The black wolf was a behemoth, and Leah looked so very small and ashy grey, but she ferociously stood her ground against it, fearless.

Suddenly one of the wolves darted after Alice as the tiny vampire streaked to the right to avoid being crushed as it hurled itself at her.

That was when the rage came.

Bella felt her fangs drop low, nearly piercing her lower lip if she had not dropped her mouth open in a guttural growl of fury.

That was Alice, and she loved Alice, and no one was going to hurt her Alice.

No one.

The muscles in her legs locked and then sprang as she vaulted off the porch and soared through the air like a vampiric torpedo. There was no fear, only an instinctive, primal call to protect Alice that consumed her entire being, till it filled her like a firestorm.

She pistoned into the wolf's ribcage, leading with her shoulder, just as it opened its mouth to take a bite at Alice, missing by the tips of her hair. The high pitched yelp of pain it released was disturbingly satisfying as Bella wrapped her arms around it as far as she could and squeezed tightly when they slammed into the ground a second later.

The smell of musk and heat became overpowering as Bella tasted mud and wet grass when the wolf immediately snarled and rolled them over and over on the ground at breakneck speeds. Jagged thoughts pierced her mind, intermixed with the instincts clawing at her mind.

Stupid-Fucking-Dog! Kill you! You won't hurt her! I'll kill you!

The anger became more pronounced as she heard Alice cry her name desperately, boiling in her skull.

"Bella! No, Bella, NO!"

The weight of the beast was suffocating, as it twisted in her grasp and then slipped free, and with a burst of fiery pain she felt razor sharp claws rake her right shoulder and the breath exploded from her lungs as two powerful hind legs kicked her in the stomach and sent her sprawling ten feet away.

Stunned, Bella rolled slowly to her side, and then hissed in shock and for the first time, a trickle of fear that demanded her to move as the wolf was on her immediately, jaws open wide, saliva flying and black eyes glittering murderously, aiming right for her face.

"You bastard, get away from her!" Alice screamed and faster than Bella thought possible, got between them and socked the wolf hard in the muzzle. With another high pitched yelp it rolled away and whined once, eyeing Alice warily before it lowered itself close to the ground and growled low in the back of its throat, hackles rising high.

The sounds of the Cullens fighting the other wolves echoed in Bella's mind, filling the entire yard like some fucked up Discovery channel special, and her shoulder was on fire, but that one growl cut through it all, for one reason.