Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Growing Up

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 18:

BPOV

We were driving in silence. The five misfits of the vampire world. We hadn’t formulated anything close to a plan. Garrett, Peter and Benjamin were in favor of forgoing strategy, walking in and killing everyone. Kate and I thought we should talk about this. Maybe, just maybe, have somewhat of a plan.

We were outvoted of course.

We were near the La Push Indian Reservation. I had been to the beach here once. It was cold. Very fucking cold. Not that this bothered me now. I remembered driving to Forks with Charlie when I moved in. I was so miserable. But because of that I found Peter again. We would have found each other regardless though. We always had.

“Stop the car.” Peter told Garrett suddenly.

“Here?”

“Yes. Here. Now.”

Garrett pulled over without a word. Peter got out and stared into the trees.

I got out and stood by him.

“What’s wrong baby?”

He pointed through the trees. “We need to go that way. We need to go now!”

Peter took off running and I followed catching up quickly but staying slightly behind since I had no idea where I was going.

We finally reached a break in the trees when we both smelt her. Female vampire.

“Irina.” Kate said, panic coloring her voice.

“Let’s go.” Peter took off again.

We ran a half mile further. I could almost hear her running towards us. We broke through another clump of these damn wet trees and saw her finally. She had… a big fucking black wolf chasing her. It was almost on her.

The wolf jumped on her and pressed her into the ground. She screamed. His mouth was coming down on her when Peter hit him. Hard. The wolf fell and tried to get up but Peter punched him on the top of the head and his head hit the ground. We heard growling from the right. Two more wolves came running out of the trees straight for Peter who had the black wolf’s jaws in his hands and he was pulling them apart while the wolf snarled. Garrett took one of the wolves by hitting him in his blind side. I ran for Peter and jumped in front of him before the third wolf could jump on him. I threw up a wall between us and the russet colored wolf. He hit my shield and flew back hitting the ground fifty feet away. Surprisingly he turned human in an instant and appeared to be either knocked out or dead. Garrett threw his wolf, a silver one, at us. I kept my shield up and the wolf hit and seemed to be electrocuted as well. He flew next to his friend and seemed to be hurt pretty bad the way he was shaking. He finally blurred and was another naked boy on the ground.

Five more wolves came out of the trees. Ben raised his hand and the ground split apart. A thirty yard crevice opened up between us and the wolves.

I turned to check on Peter. He was still trying to break the wolf’s jaws. This was the biggest wolf. The other five were very agitated on the other side of the fault line Benjamin had just opened up. The black wolf flipped Peter off. Peter landed on his feet and struck the wolf in his bottom jaw. I heard a cracking noise. Peter hit him three more times in the snout. The wolves head crashed into the ground and buried a little deeper with each swing of Peter’s fist. Peter was getting carried away. He kept swinging. His fist was moving so fast I was having a hard time seeing it. The wolf was still awake but he was no longer trying to raise his head. Kate ran up to the wolf and shocked the fuck out of him. He finally blurred and turned human, laying face first in the ground.

“Is he dead?” I asked.

“Not yet.” Peter replied and reached for the guy’s head.

I looked and saw the two on our side of the crevice had gotten to their feet.

“Don’t!” One of the boys cried. Peter stopped. What the hell?

“Uh Peter? Honey? You know how you like to kill things? This would be a good time for it.” I whispered.

“Don’t move or I break his neck.” Peter said looking straight at the two wolves. He had his arms locked around the guy’s head. The guy didn’t look so good. He may be dead already.

The other two threw up their hands. “Hey, no problem. We won’t move. Just please don’t kill him. He has a kid on the way. Please.”

“You were about to kill my sister!” Kate shouted.

I looked at Peter. Kid on the way, tried to kill Kate’s sister. This was a tricky decision. I prefer to stick to my own kind though and didn’t really like kids so…

“Tell your friends back there to change. I see any more big dogs in five seconds I’m going to throw you his head so ya’ll can play fetch.”

I looked across and saw the other wolves began to shake. Suddenly five very human Indian boys were standing naked on the other side.

I looked closer at the one on this side. He seemed so familiar. Then it hit me.

“Jacob Black?”

He looked at me. For the first time since he bounced off my shield, although I suppose he was more focused on Peter then.

“Bella Swan? You’re dead. The red head killed you.”

“Obviously she didn’t.” I replied rolling my eyes.

“Why were you chasing this girl?” I asked, pointing at Irina who was now in Kate’s arms.

“She has been attacking us. Her and the red head.”

Irina spoke up. “The Cullens led us into a trap. They told the wolves where Carlisle and Jasper said we needed to be to attack them. We arrived and the wolves were waiting for us. They killed Victoria!”

“Seems like we should kill them Peter. Snap his fucking neck and let’s kill them so we can kill the Cullens. We have a lot of killing to do and I am not getting any younger.” Garrett said impatiently.

“Are you the Volturi?” Jacob asked.

“Do you know anything about the Volturi besides their names? Cause son I promise you, I don’t look like Volturi.” Peter told him.

“The Cullens… they said the Volturi wanted to destroy our pack. The Cullens were going to fight with us. These two killed Bella.” The guy next to Jacob said.

“The Cullens are lying pieces of shit.” I said quite loudly.

Kate’s phone went off. She answered. Really not the time Kate.

“Tanya… what? Carlisle told you the Volturi killed Irina. That’s funny because I have Irina here with me now. She says Carlisle set her up to be eaten by wolves. Wolves we just kicked the living hell out of.”

“Where are you at?”

“Stay there. Avoid the Cullens. We will be there as soon as we get a friend the Cullens are currently holding hostage.”

“Yes the Cullens. I told you what they were up to. Now it seems they set Irina up to be killed by wolves.”

Damn Tanya talked quietly. I wanted to ask Kate to put her on speakerphone but didn’t want to be rude.

“Stay there. If you see any vampires before I call you run. I don’t know who he is going after next. Jasper has apparently lost his fucking mind.” Kate ended the call.

“Benjamin could you bring the earth back together before you cause an earthquake that could drop California in the ocean? I think we need to have a talk with these boys.” Peter politely requested.

Without a word Benjamin moved the ground, bringing it together as if it had never split. The boys on the other side looked frightened. Good.

“My name is Peter. You boys better have a damn good reason for going after this lady or me and my friends are going to finish you all.”

“Bella, please… we thought you were dead. Carlisle Cullen told us the red head and this one killed you. He said they were going after Charlie. Then Charlie disappeared and we figured he must be dead. They kept coming around. Carlisle told us where to find them. We attacked. It’s kind of what we do.” Jacob said hands to his side raised up. I saw the wolf guy Peter had in a head lock go flying by me and land at Jacob’s feet. Guess Peter got tired of keeping him in a head lock.

“All you naked boys come here. You are gonna sit down on the ground and tell us exactly what we want to know. Bella here is probably getting hungry which is gonna put her in a foul mood.”

“It’s true. She eats like a pig.” Garrett added on. I shot the finger at him but continued to watch the boy dogs.

“Irina is Kate’s sister and I am sure they want a piece of you. Benjamin can make you all fall into the earth and close it up on you. And me and Garrett here, well, we can flat out kick the shit out of you. So sit down and tell us what the fuck is going on with the Cullens and what you know about the Volturi.”

The one Peter threw down slowly stood up and then fell again. Jacob helped him up and then spoke to Peter.

“Carlisle Cullen told us a coven called the Volturi had heard of our pack and were coming to destroy us. They agreed to help us. We didn’t trust them. Carlisle said his future teller could tell us exactly where these two would be to help us out. We figured they had killed Bella and most likely her father, mother and stepfather. The Volturi are supposed to be here in a week. We were to meet them in battle.”

“Good Lord, there is a lot of bullshit flyin around here. Bella has been hiding with me for over a year from the Cullens. Her parents are at an undisclosed location perfectly happy. Especially Charlie from what I understand.” Peter said.

“Can I tell the story? You know I love story telling, Peter.” Garrett asked.

“I want them dead!” Irina spoke up.

“Then kill them.” I told her. “But they have been played the same way you have by the Cullens, Irina.” That seemed to calm her down somewhat. I looked at Jacob.

“Look we don’t have a lot of time here. The Cullens are holding a friend of ours hostage. We are on our way to get her out. We also plan to kill as many of the bastards as we can. I’ll give you the short version because Garrett is unable to…” I looked at him. He was pouting. “The Volturi aren’t here to attack your pack. It is doubtful they even know about your pack. They are here because the Cullens declared war on them. Jasper Whitlock to be specific. Carlisle is in on it as well. He is probably hoping to use you to thin out the Volturi. That’s why he is drawing them here. But I guarantee he was not planning on fighting with you.”

“I knew we shouldn’t have trusted that son of a bitch.” The black wolf man said finally coming around.

“So you killed the red head and were going to kill Irina because you were told by the Cullens they killed Bella?” Garrett asked.

“Not exactly.” Jacob said quietly. “I mean yeah that was a big part of the reason…”

“Why did you kill Laurent?” Irina yelled.

The black wolf guy spoke this time. I had a feeling he was the leader. “Look we are protectors of our tribe. It’s why we are what we are. To defend our tribe from vampires. Our elders are very good friends with Charlie Swan. I’m guessing this Laurent was the vampire with dreadlocks right? He was heading toward Charlie Swan’s house. What would you have us do? Stay back and let him do what he wanted?”

Irina looked at the ground.

“Seems to me Irina that the Cullens played him and you.” Garrett said.

“Fine. I won’t fight you any longer. But I had better never see you again. Next time I won’t come after you. I will come after your family and take as many of them out as I can before you kill me. Understand?”

“Yeah. We only want to protect our lands.” Jacob agreed.

“Fine. We need to go put our non-plan in place Peter.”

“Damn it Bella. Do you have to criticize in front of enemies? Attack is a plan.” He actually rolled his eyes.

“Pretty archaic for someone who reads biographies of great generals and reads the Art of War like most people read the Bible.”

“Wait. We can help.” Black wolf man said.

“What is your name?” Peter asked.

“Sam.” He rubbed his head. Peter really beat the hell out of him.

“Sam, if you really want to protect your people go home and stay inside. Do not turn into a wolf. You will only get hurt. Cullen has twelve vampires there plus whatever family members are there. All of them have some sort of power. Once they are dead or gone from the area the Volturi will be busy chasing after them, not even knowing about your dog pack unless they see you. Make sure they don’t see you.”

“We were lied to. Please. Let us help. You are outnumbered.” He argued.

“Yeah. Technically speaking we are outnumbered. But they can’t handle us. Besides our friend is there, like Bella told you and I can’t have you guys accidentally eating her. Go home. We got this.” Peter was losing his patience. I started rubbing his shoulders. We started to walk away not worried about the naked boys behind us. I looked to the trees and saw what looked like a naked native girl in the tree line. Guess they come in both flavors.

“Bella, my Dad will want to know… is Charlie in danger?”

“Yes Jacob, he is.” I told him continuing to walk to our car.

“From vampires?”

“No. Worse. Gold diggers. Stay inside. Behave. We got this.”

We reached the car. Irina got in the back with Kate, Garrett and me. Kate had to sit on Garrett’s lap. It was kind of crowded. Benjamin drove this time.

“Hey I have a plan.” I mentioned casually.

“What’s the plan Bella?” Peter asked quietly. I always have the better plans historically. He knows.

“Take me to the Port Angeles Airport. I’m going to get Tia out of the house. Benjamin is going to open the ground and make the house fall into the Earth. When they come running the rest of you can pick them off. Once I am out with Tia, we can all join in the fun.”

“Okay… why the airport? Looking for more kidnappers?” he asked, being a smart ass as usual.

“No. Do you think there will be any there? Never mind, dumb question. Anyway, just hear me out.”

Two hours later I was in the air. Looking out the plane this seemed like a better plan in theory. Damn that pilot smelled good.

“Lady are you sure about this? I could lose my license if you get killed.”

“Don’t worry. I told you I have done this a million times. Just get me to the GPS coordinates I gave you. I will jump when we are over it.”

I would have to time this just right. Fifty feet in either direction would not be good. No way could I guide a parachute where it needed to go. But jumping straight down. In theory this would work. If it didn’t I would never hear the end of it from Garrett. He thought I was being a drama queen and wanting to make a dramatic entrance. Maybe that was a small part of it. I hoped I landed in Edward’s room. Right on top of the fucker.

“You aren’t even in a jump suit!”

“I paid you $20,000 to fly me here and not ask questions. Let me know when we are near.”

“We will be there in twenty seconds. We really aren’t that high. You are going to have to pull the shoot quick. You will most likely crash into a tree.”

“Let me worry about that.”

“Ten seconds.”

“Great. Thanks for the ride. Remember, I was never here.”

“You say so lady. Here you go.” I jumped without thinking about it. I tried to arch my back like I see skydivers do but it wasn’t working. I wound up tumbling over and over. I finally stopped screaming and straightened my legs in front of me so I would land feet first. There was the house. Coming fast. I ripped my chute pack off and tossed it to the side. I hope I didn’t fly all the way through the house. That would be embarrassing.

I hit the roof and busted through. Crashed through the attack. A board hit me in the face. I crashed into the second floor causing the floor to buckle but I didn’t go through. I stood up and brushed dirt off my face and jeans. I got a rip in my Jeans down the right leg.

I looked up through the dust and saw that I was not alone. Rosalie was on the bed reading. At least she was. Roof tiles were on her bed now. One was perched on top of her head. She looked surprised.

“Bella?”

“Yep. Where is Tia? Or do I need to beat it out of you?” I hoped I would have to beat it out of her. I was really hungry. That pilot smelt like… he smelt good. I wasn’t hungry until I got around him.

“She is in Jasper and Alice’s room.”

“Where?”

Rose pointed at the wall on the other side of her room. She seemed to be in a daze. I suppose it’s not everyday someone crashed through your roof and lands in your bedroom. I ran through the wall. I saw a beautiful dark haired red eyed girl. Next to Alice Cullen, who also had red eyes.

“Bella?”

“Yep.” I rushed Alice and hit her. She flew through the wall into Edward’s room. I heard vampires running up the stairs.

“What is your name?”

“Tia.”

“Come to me. I’m here to take you to Benjamin.”

To her credit she didn’t ask questions. She ran next to me as he walked into the room.

“Bella Swan? Nice of you to drop in.”

“Hello Jasper.”

“You could have used the front door.” He smiled. I wrapped my shield around Tia and me.

He smiled. “A physical shield. I thought as much. How long can you hold it up?”

“As long as no one touches it for about five minutes.” I told him dishonestly.

“And if someone touches it?” He asked still grinning his evil little grin and reaching for it.

“A lot longer.” I told him as soon as his fingers made contact. The arc blew him into another wall. Benjamin wouldn’t have enough to sink by the time I was done with this place.

“Tia stay close to me.” We took off running down the stairs. I told Peter I would come straight out with Tia. But I saw Esme standing with wide eyes next to the stairs. I ran at her and got a perverse joy out of seeing her electrified ass fly back into the kitchen. We ran out the front, the door exploding in front of me. Outside were the rest of my friends. Peter was smiling.

“Damn girl. You came down like a fucking meteor. I thought I was going to have to dig you out of the ground.”

“The roof slowed my fall. Jasper is in there.” The smile left his face. I unwrapped my shield and Tia ran to Benjamin. He hugged her and then placed her behind him. Stretching out his arms we heard the rumble under the ground. Peter was right. We were probably fucking around with some serious fault lines here. The house began to get lower. Vampires broke out of every window.

Jasper ran outside with a look of fury. Until he saw Peter.

Peter said nothing. He just stared at Jasper and began shaking. I felt my mental shield attach to my friends. 17 vampires stood in front of us. 12 I didn’t recognize. Carlisle, Esme, Jasper, Alice,Emmett and who I would guess would be the twelve gifted vampires. Shit. One girl just disappeared. We could smell her though. One girl had flames wrapping around her waist. She sent a wall of flames towards us. I threw up a shield. We stood and watched the flames try to crawl over only to fall behind us.

The flames died down. I dropped the shield. I saw Jasper running. Running away. Carlisle was on his tail as was Esme. Alice ran in the other direction. Fuck that.

“Bella stay here. The vampires have gifts. Protect the others. Garrett and I got them.”

I dropped my shield and saw Peter take off, Garrett right behind him. With Peter gone too far I wouldn’t be able to cover him. It was alright though. The only emotion he would be feeling today was rage.

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I had the fucker. He had a lead. He was fast. But he was in my sights.

“Garrett, get Carlisle. Screw Esme. We need to take both him and Jasper out.”

“On it.” I got close to Jasper. I could almost touch him and then he was gone. Or I was.

Everything was black. I stopped.

What the fuck? I couldn’t see.

“Garrett?”

“Yeah Peter?”

“Can you see anything?”

“Nope. I have a feeling we should have brought Bella with us.”

Fuck. Vampire. Neither of us spoke. I stood still listening to the wind. The ground. No birds were chirping.

There.

I blade of grass just bent. Behind me and to the right. Air is picking up. The vampire is attacking. I can smell him. Three two one… I swung my hand behind me and felt the contact. Direct hit. Felt like a jaw. Suddenly the lights came back on. I looked up and saw what looked like two jungle women in the trees. One was holding her jaw. Where the fuck did they come from?

“Garrett can you see?”

“I think so. Am I seeing a couple of female Tarzans in the trees?”

“Yep.” I turned to look and saw the two Cullens and Whitlock were gone.

“They are running.” Garrett said. “Should we follow?”

“No. He’s gone. Let’s go clean up back at the house. We came to rescue Tia. That’s what we did. We still got vampires to kill.”

BPOV

Damn this was fun. Unfortunately I was not fighting my preferred vampires. I didn’t even see Edward. Esme ran off with Carlisle and Jasper. Alice took off out the back before anybody could stop her. Rose and Emmett were standing by the remains of the house watching the fighting. That one chick was trying to burn down the world until Benjamin dropped her in the ground and closed it up on her. When she dug her way up Irina tore her head off.

Then Irina saw Rose.

“I won’t fight you Irina. I wanted nothing to do with this.”

“You didn’t stop it though, did you?” Irina asked stalking towards Rose.

Kate joined Irina. Both of them looked very, very pissed. I looked at Emmett. He was rushing towards them. Tia was fighting a guy who could levitate. Not very high apparently because she just grabbed his leg and smashed him to the ground. I ran towards Emmett and tackled him from the side.

“ROSE!”

Emmett wasn’t looking at me. I turned and saw her being shocked by Kate. She was on her knees. Irina just twisted her head off.

“Benjamin! Catch!” Irina tossed Rose’s head in the air and Benjamin lit it up before it hit the ground. I tried to hold Emmett on the ground. Tia jumped on him with me. The guy she was fighting flew off. Emmett broke free. Irina and Kate were waiting for him. Kate hit Emmett in the jaw, shocking him at the same time. I saw two very large vampires rise up from the debris. I guess they had been hiding. I rushed one and Tia rushed the other. One raised his hand and the ground beneath me exploded. I landed at his feet. He bent down to grab my neck. Tia was next to me. I expanded my shield and he flew back into Peter’s arms. Damn it! Jasper must have gotten away. Big guys head was tore off in a second. Garrett kept trying to hit the other big vampire but he couldn’t make contact. Guy must be gifted. Finally Benjamin moved the earth under the guy’s feet and caused him to lose balance. Not much for evasion once that happened. Garrett hit him hard enough to echo off the trees. I turned and checked on Kate and Irina. They were struggling trying to hold Emmett who was apparently not being affected by Kate’s shock. That or his mate was just fried and he was pissed. Tia got to him right before I did. She hit his legs and I jumped on his back. Irina and Kate pulled his arms back while he lay face first in the ground. Tia and I grabbed his head and we both twisted. It finally began to give. A snap and it was off. We jumped off and Benjamin lit him up. I turned and saw Peter and Garrett standing by one pile of burning ashes.

“So where is everybody?” Peter asked. He was angry.

“Most ran. The ones who stayed are dead.” I told him. I didn’t ask if Jasper got away. I knew he did.

We heard movement and saw footsteps running off into the forest. Invisible. I moved to go after her but Peter grabbed me.

“Enough Bella. Let the vampire go. We got what we came for today. We hurt them a little. But not enough. We tested them today. These were their trainees. He is running. He will regroup. We need to do the same.”

“Peter we know he is near. We can get him now.” I was angry. I wanted this over. Peter was right though. We had accomplished what we set out to do. We got Tia. We probably saved some young puppies lives who were going to be set up by the Cullens.

“No. He’s gone. He had help in the trees. A couple ladies who can make you blind. At least one of them could. Don’t worry darlin. His day is comin soon.”