Numb But Moving

Chapter 12: Cleaning Up

This is the fight in Edwards POV first.  The next chapter would show the fight from Bella's POV so technically this is just a filler chapter. Hope you enjoy it anyways!

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Her voice reverberated throughout the area for a moment before being overshadowed by the crashing of marble bodies against each other. My family and I watched, completely mesmerized, as Bella worked her way through the sea of bodies.

It almost appeared as though she was invincible. From where I was I could see that there were no scratches or tears across either her or her clothing. It seemed an impossible feat, considering she had at least five vampires attacking her at each moment. It almost seemed as though their hands just slipped past her, like she was too smooth to grab a hold of. Unfortunately for the other vampires, it also appeared that whenever one would make their way within reach of Bella’s hands, she would immediately tear of their head, followed almost instantly by their arms and legs. She did not pause once and her facial expression did not waver in the slightest. It almost seemed like she did not quite realized or did not care that she was tearing living creatures to pieces.

The fact that she did not make any sort of hesitation scared me, but only slightly. I did not truly know what kind of life she had had to lead the past seventy plus years and so I could not judge her too quickly, but I also knew that this was not my sweet innocent Bella anymore. Time and experience had calloused her; I would just have to hope it had not done the same to her heart.

The fight did not last long; probably a good ten minutes or so. Bella’s expression seemed almost disappointed as she collected body parts to burn. The army had set up a fire before she had ever arrived, sure it would be their victory, but instead Bella was able to use it.

She seemed so lost in thought that she did not notice our approach.

“Bella” Alice practically screamed.

Her head snapped up to look at Alice, her eyes going wide. Bella looked around almost frantically at the half circle my family had made. We didn’t want to box her in but we also wanted to have less of a chance of her getting away once again. She seemed to recognize the fact that she would not have an easy escape when her shoulders slumped in resignation.

“Alice. What are you doing here?”

No matter how hard I stared, it appeared that Bella was oblivious to my gaze. Although hurt by her determined indifference, I continued to look at her, feeling my eyes smolder. I hoped that she had not changed so much that my attempts to dazzle her would fail should she actually turn to meet my gaze.

“We came looking for you. We thought it would take forever, or at least a few years, like it always took for the Volturi, but then you called for a big fight and we were able to see you.” Alice laughed nervously. She didn’t know what kind of thing would set Bella off and was afraid to have her run away again.

Bella laughed humorlessly. It was a hollow, sad sound and my heart hurt to hear it. “Yes, I guess I did make a bit of a spectacle of myself. But why are you here?”

“We love you Bella.” Bella’s face seemed to tighten slightly at Alice’s statement, so she hurried to say something more. “We’ve missed you. When you left suddenly we were shocked. We were so happy to see you again and see that you were okay. Well, not exactly okay, but that you weren’t completely dead and gone. You know, I was just so happy to see you. And then you ran off and we had no idea where you went. The only advice the Volturi could give was to head south and hope you decided to make your-self known somehow. When we got the message, we knew our search would be over. We were so happy because it meant we would be able to see you again. And we have. Here you are!” Alice stopped her rambling when Jasper put a hand on her should.