Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Human Strikes Back

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 32:

BPOV

I sat on the beach and watched the sunrise over the water. It was time to meditate. I crossed my legs over me and took my sword. Palms up I held it across my body on the outstretched palms of my hands. Serenity had taught me this. She said before I could use a sword as a weapon I had to learn to hold a sword. I thought she meant grip. We sat doing this exercise every morning. She would sit for an hour holding the sword in this fashion. My arms would cramp up from the outstretched position within ten minutes. She finally explained to me that my problem was I was thinking about holding the sword for a certain amount of time and holding it because she wanted me too. I had to just hold it. Not because she wanted me to. Or because I wanted to meet some time standard I set in my own mine.

One morning I picked up my blade and held it. I didn’t think about it. I just did it. It was a feeling of nirvana. I don’t know how long I held the blade. It didn’t matter. When I was ready I stopped. The sword had become a part of my body. I had to master holding the sword like I would raise my own arm or standing on one leg. When I let everything go and just held it out because I wanted to she told me I had finally learned how to hold the sword and was ready to begin learning to use my body as a weapon. I started every day like this. Staring at the sun rising over the water and holding the sword because I wanted to.

Jacob POV

I watched Bella from the cliffs in my wolf form every morning since I first saw her doing this. She was beautiful. She wasn’t concentrating. She was letting herself be one with nature. It was a peaceful feeling to watch her. Until I heard noise and saw movement in the trees behind her. The wind was blowing off the ocean and she would never have heard it. I saw them. Two large wolves walking straight for her. I took off running at full speed. All I could think about was that she wouldn’t hear them caught up in her meditation with the wolves approaching upwind.

BPOV

I heard them. A snap of a twig. No one would have reason to sneak up on me. A vampire doesn’t sneak up on a human, they move at incredible speeds. I could feel there were two of them. I maintained my position but slowly placed my right palm over the handle of my blade instead of under it. When they got close enough, I would turn and attack. I didn’t know if I could take two wolves. But I would be fighting for myself and Jason’s baby and there was no way I would lose this fight. I heard the two get within sword length. I could feel their hot breath on my neck. Bad breath. Seriously. I turned around and faced them ready to battle for my child’s life. At that moment I saw a russet colored giant wolf take both of them down from the side.

Jacob POV

Gotcha motherfuckers. Bells had turned around when they were three feet from her, sword in hand. I guess she had heard them after all and was waiting for them to get into her range. Smart girl. I knocked one wolf down and was on top of him. I instinctively went for his throat but before I could bite I felt the second wolf on top of me. I felt his jaws trying to get ahold of my throat. I looked up and saw Bells running toward me and she jumped. Oww! She put her foot on my snout.

BPOV

I saw Jacob easily tackle one wolf but the other recovered from the side blow quickly. He jumped on Jacobs back and tried to latch on to his throat. Fuck that. I ran towards Jacob. The wolf was too high on Jacob’s back. I was going to have to time this just right. I took a running jump planted a foot on Jacob’s snout to continue my upwards ascent and planted my sword in the wolf’s skull. Straight down. I love my sword. It’s a silver Katana blade and slices through werewolf bone like a hot knife through butter. I used my sword as leverage and pole vaulted over the now dead wolf landing on the back side of Jacob and started running. The last thing my baby needed was for me to get trampled. I turned around and saw the now dead wolf on top of Jacob fall to the side of him and Jacob clamp down on the wolf under his body.

Jacob POV

I felt the wolf on top of me fall to the side. I’m not sure what Bella did up there but its dead now. I focused my attention on the smaller wolf under me. I clasped my teeth around his neck. And I bit the fucker’s…

BPOV

… head off. Yuck. That cannot taste good. Both wolves were down and both had shifted back to human form. Jacob shifted back and placed his cutoffs on he had strapped to his ankle. I looked up at him. “Thanks Jake.”

“No problem Bellls. Thanks for… stabbing the wolf on my back. Where did you get him?”

“Top of the skull. Hey Jake can you hold his body up at arm’s length by his hair?”

Jacob POV

It was a strange request but “Sure why not?”

I dragged the guy’s body up by his hair and before I knew it Bella had cut off his head and I was left holding only his head.

“Uhhh”

“Sorry Jake. My swords made of silver but I had to make sure the bastard was dead.”

“I think you did that Bella.”

“I got to call Jason and tell him to get someone to collect these bodies. And brag to him that I have killed three wolves and he hasn’t killed any yet.”

JPOV

Bella called and told me what happened. I made her promise to go to the hospital and get an ultrasound and I would meet her there to make sure the baby was okay. Charlie called and asked if I would pick him up as Jake called him and told him what happened. I stopped at his house when I saw movement in the forest across the street. This is interesting. Looks like hits have been put out on Bella and Charlie. Charlie waved to me and I waved back. Before I got out of the car I grabbed a .45 Smith and Wesson revolver loaded with silver bullets and my new silver bladed K Bar knife.

I walked up to Charlie not saying a word but staring directly into his eyes. He got the message and stepped back into the house.

I heard trampling behind me. The fuckers were actually charging me. And there were four of them. And I had 6 shots. I shot the lead two in the head but the one behind those two peeled off. The back one stopped and took off to the left and circled me. I had to wolves coming at me from different sides. I picked the one on the right and fired hitting the dog in the flanks as he turned to get away. Unfortunately this left my backside open and I got rammed from behind. I am really getting tired of getting pushed around by these fuckers. I rolled and popped up on my feet and looked for my gun in a split second. It was 10 feet away by the front porch. The wolf had turned back to human. I had learned from our research division they weren’t as strong as a wolf depending on the phase of the moon. But the human version was plenty strong enough.

“My brother was sent after you and your mate in Texas. You should have let him kill you. It would be a mercy compared to what I am about to do to you.”

“What the hell are you talking about Mate? I don’t know any Australians.”

“I’m speaking of your wife.”

“I know, I’m just fuckin with you. Seems all you supernatural types are obsessed over mating. Whatever happened to just marrying a girl who’s good in bed?”

Not much for small talk he took a swing at me. I’ll admit he was fast but I was faster. I ducked and struck him in the gut and followed with an uppercut to his jaw and a kick to his groin ( a polite way of saying I kicked his balls into his throat). He stepped back a few feet. He stepped back a few fucking feet. How the fuck does Bella kill these things so easy?

Oh that’s right she carries a big fucking sword with her everywhere.

I slipped my K Bar out from its holster at my back. He swung at me again and this time connected with my chest. To my credit I didn’t fall this time but swung around with a reverse punch with the K Bar slashing right across his face cutting through his nose. He howled and lunged at me wrapping his arms around my waist.I used his momentum to throw him to the ground and jumped on top of him aiming my blade for his heart. He rolled out of the way and I hit the ground sinking my blade into nothing but grass. Fast fucker was on his feet and kicked me in the ribs causing me to roll over and away. He stood over me and I heard a gunshot. He looked down at his chest to a hole that wasn’t there before. He then fell over dead. I looked up to see Charlie standing there with my .45. He looked at me on the ground.

“You done fucking around so we can go see my daughter?”

“Yes sir.”

BPOV

“No, no fucking way.”

“Baby it ain’t about you it’s about our kid.”

“So not only do I not get to be on the team now I have to live with the Cullens so I can have a guard 24/7?” As I said, no fucking way.

“What do you suggest? I would be glad to stay home and protect the kid while you go fight but right now the kid is kinda stuck inside you!”

“I can take care of the both of us!”

“YOU WILLIN TO TAKE THAT CHANCE?””

“FUCK YOU JASON!”

Dammit. He’s right but I’ll be damned if I’m living with the Cullens. Dammit.

“What if we got a house and some Cullens could take turns staying with me?”

“You want a house here?”

“No I want to stay at my dad’s or the barracks or Sam and Emily’s for the foreseeable future. I’m not asking you to move here Jason. I know how much you hate this place. I just want my own home while you are fighting and I am sitting at home barefoot and pregnant like a good wife.”

“Nobody said you had to take your fucking shoes off Bella. Stop being a drama queen.”

I couldn’t help myself. I threw Sam’s cordless phone at him. I don’t condone domestic violence. I really don’t and I felt bad when I saw the phone hit Jason in the eye. We both stopped and stared at each other.

“You threw a phone at me. You threw a phone at me. Who the hell does that?”

“Uhhh….”

Then he started laughing. I started laughing. We were both laughing so hard I had to sit down and was in tears. Jason came up to me and hugged me.

“I love you baby girl.”

“I love you too baby.”

We decided to find a house to rent and it would be big enough for Rose and Emmett to be at. Jason called them and they agreed to be my “personal guards.” I figured it wouldn’t be so bad with Emmett here. And I knew Rose would protect me and the baby with her life with no hesitation. It made me feel good about my baby’s safety.

JPOV

Sitting in the briefing room with the wolves, Cullens, the team and the Whitlock’s I couldn’t believe it. My sweet wife hit me with a phone. I killed three werewolves today and sliced the nose off another one and nearly got a black eye from my wife. I loved her to death but still. That shit hurt.

The Boss came on a conference call. We were told the President had wanted us all to meet due to the Romanian movements in the Olympic Peninsula and the recent attacks on Charlie and Bella’s life. Assuming it was Charlie and not me they were after.

The boss started us off. “We are tracking movements of vampires and werewolves into America from Siberia. They have established a base buried in Mt. Olympus almost near the top. So far we believe there are only 4 vampires and around 10 wolves in the compound. There were 14. Four are now dead. I want ideas on how to deal with this.”

I started things off since everyone looked at me. Well here goes.

“I think we should have a two prong attack. One team hits the Siberia base of operations and the other team hits Mt. Olympus.”

“We do not have clearance from the President to attack anything on Russian Soil. He wanted to remind us that they do still have nuclear weapons and could see a hostile act in Siberia as a prelude to war.”

“We can sneak in, blow up the compound and then sneak out. We’ve done missions like this before in hotter spots than Siberia.”

“We also don’t want the suits and rifles in Russia in the event that one of you is taken hostage or killed. That technology cannot get into foreign hands.”

“So we go without.”

Bella piped in at this point. “I’ll be damned if you are going without armor to try to sneak up on a compound full of werewolves and vampires and attempt to place explosives around the building Jason Connolly. That’s not brave that’s fucking dumb.”

Bella sure has a way of building up my self-esteem.

“Your right darlin. Probably not the best plan. So what do you want to do Boss? Have us play defense? I would rather avoid a full scale attack on our turf if we can.”

“I could see attacking the Olympus compound. That seems a viable option to take out the enemy stronghold before more enemy arrive. Plan it and run it by me. I will make it happen.”

And the line was dead. Have a nice day. Take care of yourself. So much for pleasantries.

“Jasper, ideas?” I asked the Major.

“From what I am looking at in this satellite photo it seems there are only one way in and one way out. It will be difficult to rush the front door but I don’t see what other option we have.”

“What if we blew the front door off?”

“What are you thinking?” Jasper asked.

“An aerial attack. Strong enough to flush the enemy from the compound. Then we pick them off.”

“When do you want to do it?”

“Give me a week to get everything together. It’s not going to be easy to explain blowing up the top of the highest peak in the Olympic Peninsula. This will take a special type of bunker busting smart bomb to limit the damage to the surrounding area . Plus I want to be close in when it happens. Easier to fight than from a distance. That means we have to be protected from the flames. Sam’ I’m assuming the Wolves want to be in on this?”

Paul answered. “Your damn right we do.”

“Good then you will need some training on how we plan to get to the top of the mountain.”

Paul and the other wolves laughed. “Jason I think we are going to be fine getting to the top of the mountain in wolf form. It’s you guys that are going to have a problem.”

Cocky asshole. You had to love him.

“Actually Paul if you climb the mountain in wolf form or the vampires run up the mountain they are literally going to see you from a mile away.”

“So what’s your plan?”

“We are going to come from where they will never expect us Paul. How do you feel about jumping out of an airplane?”