Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Protecting Maddie

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 36:

BPOV

We were currently in a plane. A plane that was not going fast enough. Everyone says I baby her too much. Everyone says I am too possessive. She is too dependent. I need to let her loose so she can grow.

I let her out for a damn week and she and her new damn husband are taking on the Volturi and raiding aircraft carriers!

“I still can’t believe this. Peter try to call him back again. I will try Maddie.”

“Bella they are probably a little busy right now.”

“Peter try.”

“Bella…”

“Peter.”

“Look we will be there in 6 hours.”

“She could be dead in 6 seconds.”

“You really believe Alexander would let anything happen to her?”

“I don’t know Peter. I mean, no, not when she is with him but you heard what he said! He let her go off without him.”

“Yeah, maybe he trusts her to take care of herself.”

“He doesn’t know how impulsive she can be.”

“Okay. Granted. Maybe he hasn’t realized some of her quirks yet, but I don’t think he would let anything happen to her. He trusts her. Maybe you should too.”

“I do trust her Peter.”

“No, you don’t! Look I have stayed out of your relationship quirks for long enough. I put up with this unnatural dependency you two have because it made both of you happy and I love you both. But it has to come to a stop soon or she is always going to be the little teenager who jumps into your arms when she sees a fucking snake. You two are the same size! You know how stupid she looks jumping into your arms? Sometimes she still acts like a child. She is a married woman.”

“She is a child. Stop being a jackass. I’m not in the mood. When we land we may have to launch a rescue mission if we are lucky against the fucking Volturi with half our coven shopping in Paris fucking France. Why don’t you get your mind right?”

“She is 18. I’m not saying she is a completely mature person but who the hell is?” He asked.

“You sure as hell aren’t.” I responded, getting tired of his crap already. I had to listen to this lecture for six more hours.

“You were raising a child at 18 by yourself.”

“I know. I remember. I was there you know. But I had Alice. And I had AJ. He was gone a lot for training but he was still there.”

“Yeah, but you are the one who had her, raised her most of the time…”

“What is your point Peter?”

“How come at 18 you got to grow up but you won’t let her?”

“I do. I have been harder on her. I made her work with Jasper. I made her work on her powers…”

“You should have told her to stop calling you and to enjoy her honeymoon.”

“You want to tell me what I should have done?”

“Yeah. I guess I just did.”

“What are we doing here? We are going to rescue her Peter.”

“Bullshit. We are going there to appease you. By the time we get there she and the Alexander the Ego will be sailing that carrier into Chili. Maybe Argentina.”

I don’t know why people don’t leave us alone. I love my daughter. Peter knew she was my life when he met me. Why does everyone not get it? Still I could hope he is right.

“I hope you are right Peter.”

Only my baby girl could find trouble in Antarctica. I hope she doesn’t do anything stupid.

Maddie POV

God I can’t believe I am about to do this. I am so stupid. But there are kids up there. I don’t know how long it is going to take Alexander. I can hear the thoughts of the kids. And there is one thought pattern that is extremely childlike. No coherent thoughts. Shapes and colors. A baby. I was currently underwater. The ship was huge. I swam a mile away and surfaced.

“Yes dear.”

“Alexander. 6 miles from the spot where the Volturi landed. Head straight that way. Carrier is there.”

“Okay. I am about to get the humans. Stay in the water.”

“Alexander there are kids inside. One that I know is a baby. I can see 6 gifted vampire signatures. Not many more thoughts. I’m thinking 10 total. I’m going in. Alexander if the Volturi follow us we are going to have to kill them all.”

“Maddie. Do not go in. Wait for me. Give me ten minutes.”

“Don’t worry baby. I am going to sneak on board. Get the layout. I promise I won’t get into any major fights until you get here. I got to go.”

“Maddie…”

I ended the call. No time for discussion. I got some folks to save. The carrier was not heavily guarded. I could get in through the giant screws under water. I swam back under the massive shadow on the surface. I couldn’t believe the size of this damn thing.

I skimmed underneath the ship. I saw what looked like a door of some sort. Torpedo tube?

No. rectangular. 18 Meters long and 10 meters wide. Must be a submersible tank or a dive tank.

I grabbed ahold of it and the door started to crush under my grip. I didn’t want that. Noise. Had to be quiet.

I waived my hands over the door feeling the magnetic pull grab a hold on the inside. The door gently slid open. See Peter? That’s how you don’t kick a door in. I rose into the ship and saw I was definitely in a dry tank of some sort. This must be a diving area. I don’t know enough about these ships to tell. The Military Channel never shows you too much. Just what’s on top that everybody already knows about. The good stuff they keep secret. I checked the future to see the paths I could take. Nothing there. Aunt Alice can’t always command these things whenever she wants and it is even harder from me. I don’t like doing it but I need to know where I am going. I was currently in a black spandex cat suit. Nice for swimming and fighting. Alexander must like these. I can’t think why else he would have packed it.

I listened. I heard voices. Sounded like three levels above me. Nothing on these levels. I didn’t want my footsteps heard. If I could hear them, they could hear me. I saw a small metal cylinder on the ground next to a port hole. Looks like someone cut the cover off with a blowtorch and left it laying there. Sloppy.

I rose it slightly over the ground and jumped to it, landing as softly as I could. I began using the metal circle to levitate. It wasn’t easy. Kinda like trying to skateboard for the first time. Constantly fighting to use you balance only this time with the power radiating from your body instead of your feet and waist.

Once I had it, I floated down the narrow metal halls I rose two flights of stairs.

Listening to thoughts I could tell that there were three vampires on this level. None gifted. All three seemed to be discussing something about an engine. Up above in level 5, there were 8 vampires. 3 gifted guarding the humans. At least 100 humans. I reached out with my emotions and nearly dropped the lid I was hovering on when the fear from the humans hit me. But they weren’t moving. They couldn’t feel anything. They were just standing. The fear was radiating from this. They were in a zombie like state. This could only mean one of the vampires was gifted.

The witch twins. Alec. He must be one. On the flight deck I sensed 3 more. One gifted. I couldn’t make out the gifts from where I was at. But the signatures were there. The colors. One was extremely bright. Must be Alec. To have that kind of thrall over so many must take a lot of power. How to do this?

If I attacked these three the 11 above would hear and come running. I needed to take Alec’s gift and use it on the 8 on level 5 to keep them quiet. But could I? Could I control that kind of power suddenly?

Fuck it. Never gonna know unless I try. I attack the 8 on level 5 and pick off the rest when they come. I needed to make sure that baby is safe. My guiding star in life has been what would my mother do? What would Peter do? What would my father have done? The answer now was simple.

Attack.

Alexander POV

Dammit. She is going in. If I go now she is going to be incredibly angry if I don’t bring these humans to her. Better get a move on. I suppose I could kill them all now but that would take time, even for me.

Best to make a direct approach with a side of misdirection. I took a large chunk of glacier and tossed it at the row of helicopters from the side. Three were destroyed and a fourth was undamaged. I continued throwing ice boulders at the choppers. The Volturi stood there for a few seconds not understanding they were being beaten at a game of super snowball fight. Finally they turned.

Damn, that’s a lot of damn vampires. But I only needed one. They raced towards me. The ground was shaking under their mighty hooves. I ran into the middle. Straight threw. Straight for the blonde king. One touched me. He lost an arm. When I run as fast as I can, it is usually not a good idea to touch me. He was still looking to the front of his men and didn’t see me split them down the middle. At the last second he swung and I ducked grabbing him from behind and placing my arms around his neck.

The vampires who had gone after me now turned and were in front of me staring.

“Caius right?”

“Who the hell are you?”

“Think of me as Superman and the Flash rolled into one.”

“Who?” Don’t these people ever leave the castle? Judging by how pasty their skin is and how cloudy their eyes are, I would guess not.

“Never mind. Who I am does not matter. Aro.”

“Yes?” He was smiling. A girl walked up and placed her hand on his shoulder.

“I have some demands. You are going to abide by them or I tear Caius’s head from his body.”

“We cannot give in to the demands of renegade nomad’s stranger. I am sure you understand. Release him and I will guarantee a quick death for you.”

Aro was smiling. My teeth were inches from Caius’s neck. He had to see the lighter in my hand glinting in the sun. Dammit. I threatened the wrong king. That’s who they are able to work as a ruling body so cohesively. They aren’t a unit. Aro rules them all.

“Why do you have a female touching you?”

“This is Renata. She is my bodyguard. I think you will find it extremely difficult to touch me when she is near.”

“Good to know.” I threw Caius to the ground and hit Renata in the jaw. She flew into a snow bank. I grabbed a very surprised Aro by the neck and lit the lighter in my hand, bringing the light to his eyes and my teeth to his throat.”

“Are you willing to negotiate now Aro? Or would you like to end your wretched existence at the bottom of the earth?”

“Jane.” He gasped.

I looked forward and saw a pretty young lady with a sadistic little smile. She was staring. Oh I see. There it is.

“My, my, my. You are a powerful little thing. Keep it up and you may give me a headache.”

“Master my gift does not work! He is a shield!”

“I’m not a shield little one. I’m just stronger than you. Now listen to me. I have no desire to kill you all. It would take me too long and to be quite honest I have someplace I need to be. Your master is about to give you instructions that you are to follow. If you do not, I burn him and go back to the blonde fellow. After I burn him I will visit the bored looking individual staring at the ice pack.”

I felt a vampire walking behind me. He was quiet.

“Make one more step and your master is ash.”

He backed up.

“Ready to listen to my demands Aro?”

“Yes.”

“Are you going to listen to the demands of a renegade nomad?”

“Yes.” He was scared. Good. He should be. He and I had work to do.

“Tell your army to do as I say.”

“Do as he says.”

“Aro!”

“Caius quiet!”

“Aro have you read my thoughts?”

“No. I get nothing from you.”

“Do you know why?”

“No.”

“I am better than you. Stronger than you. Smarter than you by a long shot. I could destroy you and every vampire here. Do you understand?”

“Yes.”

“There are humans in those containers. You are to take each human quickly to a yacht two miles on the other side of that glacier. You are to place each human, unharmed into the ship, inside. DO not attempt to disable the boat. Your Master will be coming with me. While you are doing this, you two ugly fellows up front will disable the other helicopters. By disable I mean smash them to pieces. One human is harmed and your Master is dead. Understand?”

The little girl spoke up. “Master?”

“DO as he says Jane. I do not know what or who he is but for now we must do as he says.”

‘You are smart when it comes to your own survival I give you credit Aro. A coward hiding behind an army for most of your existence but very good at saving your own ass. I would order them to attack me were our situations were reversed. But you are still a child. You have time to grow. At least you may unless you piss me off.” I tightened my grip around his neck.

“Do it Jane. Do it now.”

The Volturi slowly moved towards the survival habitats.

“I may not have mentioned this already but I am pretty sure I have. I am on a timetable here. Hurry it up or I kill this slimy bastard. No humans harmed. Not only do I kill you master but whoever harms the humans.”

The vampires started moving quickly. I heard screams as they were dragged out and ran across the barren frozen ground.

“Why are you doing this? Who are you?” Aro gasped.

“Who I am is not important. Why? A beautiful woman. What else?” The last of the humans were gone. The original vampires had returned. When the last vampires had returned I dragged Aro to look at the choppers. They were destroyed. Excellent.

“Okay. Good job everybody. Did we lose any humans?”

The vampires shook their heads in the negative.

“Excellent. Your master will be coming with me. He will be swimming back to you in an hour or so. Until then you should continue to enjoy the scenery. Do not, I repeat do not follow us!”

Before a word could be uttered I lifted Aro in my arms, still holding his neck and ran across the surface. We made it there in seconds. I put the brakes on before I got to the boat and watched the snow spray kick up. That never gets old. Walking into my yacht, I saw it was packed with humans. They were practically sitting on one another. I addressed the crowd.

“Hello everyone. My name is… Alex. You have been kidnapped by evil vampires, intent on making you their meal.”

“Have you lost your mind?!” Aro hissed.

“Shut up asshole… excuse me everyone. As I was saying you have all been kidnapped by evil vampires. I am to be your rescuer today. The man who can’t shut up and is currently in danger of being decapitated and burned to ash is the man who ordered you to be taken. He will be staying with me on the bridge. We are going back to the ship you came from and then we will be heading to freedom. It is important that you do not panic. It is crowded in here. None of you are dressed to go outside and if you do, you could possibly die at worst and lose some fingers and toes at best. This… male will be with me on the bridge. When we get to the ship I will address you all with further instructions. Until that time, men, please make sure the women and children are taken care of.”

They stared at me now with wonder mixed with fear. I like that combination. I find it the best for men to follow you with a sense of wonder and fear. The wonder inspires them and the fear keeps them in line.

I dragged Aro to the bridge and sat him down.

“Have a seat, Aro. Don’t say a word. If you do something like try to run I will kill you. Your army won’t realize it until I am already gone.”

He nodded and sat, no doubt contemplating in his head how he would get revenge. Too bad. Wasn’t happening. Now time to get to my woman and hope she hasn’t done anything to stupid.

Maddie POV

I slowly entered the level 5 holding area invisible. I hopped off my floating skate circle and opened the door quickly. Entering I saw the looks of surprise on the vampires faces seeing a door open and then close on its own. I’m sure my scent must have been masked somewhat by the other vampires and the humans who were currently sitting on the ground in a daze. Seven vampires were above me surrounding the holding area. I looked to the side and saw a power spike in the room to my right behind a door. The seven vampires jumped down. Still they weren’t sure where I was until the damn powers hit me.

The jolt always causes me to lose concentration. I guess I lost my invisibility. Because I had six hissing vampires surrounding me. The seventh ran to the door where the eighth was. I wonder what is in that room.

“Who are you? Where did you come from?”

“I’m Madison Weber Whitlock… the Great? Yeah, that’s it. I’m actually not sure of what my last name is because I just got married. I don’t even think he really has a last name. Last names weren’t big in his time…”

I was rambling. It’s kind of my thing when I get into tense situations.

“What do you think you are doing here? How did you get in here?”

“I’m sneaky?”

“Take her.” Alec commanded. Two vampires grabbed me and I tried to paralyze them. Then I remembered I was wearing a full body cat suit. Not great for skin to skin contact. So I did the next best thing.

I head butted the one on the right paralyzing him and kicked the one on the left. Alec attacked me and I bent backwards and reverse kicked him behind me. I had to get in front of the humans. I couldn’t have any friendly casualties. The three other vampires jumped for me. I shot up in the air to the top of the ceiling sticking to the metal. Open that box dammit.

I saw the mist cloud emitting from my body. The five who weren’t paralyzed jumped for me straight into the mist. They promptly fell back down. Wow. That shit works good.

Three others ran from the bottom decks as I expected.

I jumped back to the ground as the three other vampires busted through the door. They kicked the metal door in, sending it flying towards the humans. I reached out and stopped the metal with my magnetic personality and swung it back towards the door knocking the three vampires down. They stood up quickly and I placed them in a vision underwater, the scene I saw when I dove under the ice cap with Alexander. I couldn’t keep screwing around and I didn’t know how long I could hold Alec’s power. I ripped the hand portion of my cat suit and touched them all, freezing them in place. The mist dissipated and all 9 vampires came to life. Too bad they couldn’t move. I walked up to Alec. His eyes were looking everywhere. I felt his emotions. Nothing but fear and panic. Of course I felt that from the others in the room as well, humans and vampires.

“Alec? What are you doing here? Why is the Volturi here?” He couldn’t answer but his mind gave me the answer I needed. Volturi Castle attacked by the Romanians. Volturi on the run. Gathering humans from tourist spots. Heidi. Ship channel. Yachts. Carrier. Hiding. Rebuilding and regrouping. Base in Antarctica.

“Thanks. I got it all I think. Why is there a baby in that room?” I asked him pointing toward the door the eight vampire ran into with the seventh.

Wow. I can’t believe… yes I can.

“You are one sorry son of a bitch Alec. So are all your friends. Have a nice time in hell.”

I hated this part. The killing. Not so much the killing but the whole process of dismembering someone. Uncle Jasper says go straight for the heads and don’t worry about the limbs if you don’t have too.

I did it quickly. Nine headless bodies moving around. Freaky.

I lit them on fire with my hands making sure that the fire didn’t get out of control. A fire on a ship is never a good thing.

I heard voices. The humans had came out of their daze with the death of Alec. They were all staring at the headless burning bodies and the burning heads.

Then the screaming started. Shit. I tried to second calm to all of them. But I wasn’t that good yet. As soon as I got one group calmed the others screamed.

“BACK UP!”

That shut them up.

“I’m trying to rescue all of you but I kind of need quiet to do it. Could we keep it quiet please?”

To the crowds credit they shut the hell up.

“Good. I have a few more people I need to kill then if my husband ever decides to show up we are going to sail you home. So everybody chill okay?”

A little boy walked slowly forward.

“Are you a superhero?”

I smiled at him. He need to be set straight.

“Yes sweetie. Yes I am. But I have some more bad guys to beat okay? So you keep everyone calm for me. Can you do that?”

“Yes ma’am. What’s your name?”

“Maddie.”

“No, your superhero name?”

Uh. Oh. I hadn’t…

“Let me get back to you on that okay?”

I began walking to where the baby was. The baby who wasn’t kidnapped for food. “I will be right back. If anybody comes in here who isn’t me, scream and I will hear you.”

I strode to the metal door. Two gifted vampires behind it. I felt two jolts as I got closer. Dammit. I can already read powers. The electric shock thing would be a neat trick though. No point in being subtle. I used my magnetic powers to rip the door off the hinges. I heard the kid I talked to say cool under his breath.

A Spanish guy and a blonde female.

“Who the fuck are you?” May as well get the pleasantries out of the way.

“I am Eleazar. This is my daughter Kate. We do not wish to fight you. You are the daughter of Bella Swan. I can tell. She is the only other I have ever seen with such power.”

“You are the guy who sold out my mother to the Volturi?”

“Uh…”

“Yeah, tell me about the child.”

“She is 8 months old.” I already knew this.

“Why does Aro want her?” I knew this too from Alec. I wanted it confirmed.

“She will be a shield when she grows up. A mental and physical shield.”

“Where are her parents?”

“They are dead.”

“How?”

“The Volturi killed them.”

“Not you?”

“No.”

He was telling the truth.

“Does she have other family?”

“No.”

“You made her an orphan?”

“I didn’t.”

“Yeah, you did. My Daddy Peter is from the Old West. You know what they did with men who rode with bandits?”

“No.” he whispered.

“They hung with the gang. You hang out with outlaws you suffer the same fate. Honestly I have been wanting to do this to you for a while. You have indirectly fucked with my life too many times. Who is upstairs?”

“My Mate and two other daughters. Please leave them alone.”

“Yeah, uh, no, not gonna happen.” I stepped forward and they both hissed preparing to fight. Too bad I couldn’t fight with a baby in the room. This would have been fun.

I touched both of them. They tried to avoid it but I was too fast. I took their heads quickly. The baby was up. I grabbed her gently and walked out the door. When we reached the door I turned and stared. They both went up quickly. As soon as they were ash I snuffed out the flame.

Nice knowing you jackass. Now for the rest of the Denali’s.

I walked into the room and handed the baby to a lady who seemed halfway calm.

“I’ll be right back for her, okay? Can you watch her?” I knew what I had to do. Mom did it when she was my age. That kid was special and needed to be protected. It was time for me to grow up. There was not other family or coven that could protect her and not use her for their own means.

She nodded her head and I walked up the stairs to the flight deck. Looking up at the captain’s bridge I saw a window was busted out. I jumped up prepared to fight and saw body parts on the ground. Three women. What was left of them. And my husband standing over them.

“Hello dear. What took you so long? I was just about to take these body parts to the flight deck to burn. Care to join me?”

“The humans?”

“Safely aboard the yacht.”

“How did you do it?”

“It was easy. I kidnapped Aro.”

“Where is he?”

“I ripped him apart and sent him to the bottom. I’m sure his army will find him and oput him back together. In a week or two.”

“Great. Uh listen we need to talk.”

“About what dear?”

“How do you feel about having kids?”

BPOV

We had landed and Peter was currently negotiating a power boat to get us where we needed to go. We just weren’t sure where that was at the moment. I couldn’t find Maddie or Alexander. It was frustrating. My phone rang.

“Maddie! Where are you?”

“We are on out yacht about to sail into Argentina. Listen Mom I need you to do somethings for me.”

Thank God she was alright.

“Anything baby.” Peter had walked over to me.

“I need you to call the Chilean Coast Guard and let them know there is an aircraft carrier twenty miles out that is filled with captives taken by a terrorist group. The humans will go along. Alexander convinced them that nobody would believe their story about vampires anyway.”

“Okay. How many humans?”

“136.”

Damn. My baby girl just saved 136 humans. Wow.

“Peter is doing it now.” I told her glancing at Peter getting on his phone.

“Great. One more thing Mom. I need you to get diapers, baby clothes formula. Whatever it is that I will need for the trip back to Texas. Some warm things. I will get what she needs for the long term when I get home.”

“What are you talking about Maddie?”

“Alexander and I have a baby girl.”

Peter walked up hearing that statement. He grabbed the phone from me.

“What the hell kind of honeymoon did you two have?”