To Live Again (Twilight)

🗯️7: Show Down🗯️

It was getting close to the time she had to leave for college. She was thinking whether to tell Charlie that she wanted to wait for a semester before she went to college or not.

She decided that she wanted to major in Criminal Justice and become either a lawyer or a lab technician. She knew it was different from the plans she made of majoring in English Lit when Edward was around but she found that she had a knack for forensics and debates.

When she told Charlie what she intended on becoming, well he was the happiest father on earth. He certainly felt so, to think that his daughter was going to work something along the lines of his work certainly made him proud of her.

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What happened was certainly surprising, shocking and unexpected. They were expecting and anticipating Victoria to attack but they had no seers around to tell them that she was going to attack them with ten newborns, her lieutenant and herself on one of the few peaceful morning they had while they were training out on the beach. It was an over cast day with the possibility of rain like every other day in Forks.

It may have been good luck or bad coincidence, but all the pack was there except Quil who went for one last patrol around the grounds in his human form. When he came running out of the woods onto the beach in his wolf form in front of the few on lookers without caring if they saw him, they knew something was wrong.

They found out soon enough what was wrong when vampires started running out of the woods following Quil.

Emi, Amelia, Rachel stood back to back as one team while Kim, Crystal and Bella stood as one. Emi and team were surrounded by Quil, Paul and Embry with Sam in the middle for better protection. The same formation around Bella's team by Jared, Seth, Leah and Jake in the middle.

It was all a blur. It felt as if it happened in the blink of an eye.

Bella counted twelve vampires. She already had a physical shield around the imprints but she had to take them down if they had any intention of helping. But she had strict instructions that she is not to let her shield down unless there was no way to escape and then to fight to death or something along those lines.

They looked on even though they were ready to fight as the wolves tore out eight vampires efficiently. Though the vampires seemed new they had strength which they used a lot on Paul and a little on Seth.

Victoria was trying to circle around and find a way to get to Bella.

"If you give me Bella, I will let everyone go, or else I will kill you all." She said.

Bella knew no one had any intention of giving her or that she wouldn't keep her promise either.

Leah, who was smart enough to carry around a lighter from the time this hunt began started building a fire with the few things she had and they even added the torn clothes and the girls kicked the moving pieces into the fire. It got brighter and kept burning with a purple tint and a sickly sweet smell. In a few more minutes there seemed to be only Victoria and the man she called 'Riley' left alive. The pack did a very good job of killing all the vamps.

Then, the trouble started. The wolves stopped moving though the imprints can. Riley was concentrating very hard. He was doing it. They had no way to stop it.

They kept looking as Victoria started breaking bones and tearing out muscles from the wolves as they stood paralyzed.

Though Bella had a shield, she didn't yet learn to project it to so many people. She could at most protect six people at once including herself.

She took the shield of her team and put it around Jared who was her next victim. He pounced for her throat and she wasn't fast enough.

With the death of his sire, Riley seemed to have lost it and let go of his gift. To say nothing else, they ripped out his hands and legs.

"You will die. You will all die. The Volturi will kill you all. It's not over yet." Were the words he shouted as he was being beheaded. It was Paul who bit his head and pulled as his torso was held down by Jake. Well, it seems they broke the formation when they told the girls not to do it. Hypocrites.

Bella got worried as she heard the words. She didn't know what to say. Her mind was in over drive and it was at a risk of being shut down from over thinking. But she forced herself to concentrate on the present, her pack, friends, who needed her help.

As she looked around, she found almost all the wolves injured in some capacity. They can't go to hospital in Forks nor did they have one on the rez which can treat them anyway.

They lay there panting from the exertion. As she was looking around, that was when she noticed Colin and Brady unconscious a little ways away from them. She remembered telling them to run back to the safety of the rez and get away from the beach. She remembered Emi telling them the same thing.

But it seems like they didn't and they fought too.

As she slowly walked to them, dread pooling in her stomach, she didn't want to look at them and find something she wouldn't like. As she got closer she saw Colin bleeding from his stomach, arms and various other cuts. He was breathing very heavily and he didn't seem to be healing at all.

"Emily." She shouted her name. "Emi!" Now she started sounding hysterical. As she came rushing to see what the matter was she too started crying and calling the others over.

"Colin." Bella called him, shaking him lightly. "Colin, please wake up." She was pleading, begging. She didn't want to lose her family member.

The healed wolves and the healing ones walked over. He still had a heart beat and Brady seems to be waking up from his shoulder injury healing.

"Colin?" He called out weakly. He too started crying.

The scene was more than heart breaking. It was horrible. They surrounded Colin as his life bled out of him from the wounds infected by the vampire venom, so much that the venom couldn't be secreted or expelled and in turn the injury couldn't heal.

They were in the same places for how long they didn't know but it was long enough for some of the parents to come looking for the kids. No one was in any state to answer any questions when they were asked. No one knew what to say anymore. They lost one of their own. They lost one of their youngest and the liveliest of the pack.