The last chapter (54) totally shattered Bella’s unintentional illusion that her plans were without flaws that she could not fix. I’m going to assume that Bella and Edward survives, at least the rescue of the Werewolves—if not the duration of the story. As such, the most realistic way of surviving the encounter with the witch twins I can conjure up at the moment is that Bella is exaggerating the situation.
It’s entirely possible that Alec and Jane have been too busy keeping the wolves incapacitated to do any interrogation—and to my knowledge; it’s quite difficult to answer questions, or even hear them, when either paralyzed or gasping breaths between screaming in agony, anyway.
So the Volturi may not even suspect Bella of doing any folly—a situation she will surely use her quick wits to make the most of, both in short- and long-term. As Bella suspected, there probably are reinforcements on the way to deal with the wolves in whatever way the Volturi have decided, but Aro certainly doesn’t have to be among them. If I read him right, he would rather stay in Volterra; totally confident that the witch twins and the reinforcements will bring him a few wolves to experiment on.
There’s also what I think is the more unlikely possibility of Bella suddenly learning to expand her shield and using this new-found ability to make the packs immune to the twins—she did after all learn that their powers affected the packs collective minds, so why shouldn’t hers? The most likely event to trigger this I can think of is if the Volturi are hostile and come close to killing Edward, making Bella desperate enough for a way to help him to subconsciously bring her ability to the next ‘level’.
Anyway, great chapter that gave me much to think about, trying to predict where you’ll go with it next. I love doing that. I don’t love Rosalie being so eager to tell Elsie’s parents to go die so she can be her mother though, but that’s just Rose I guess.
All Bella needs to do is take out the two vampires with incapacitating powers. Once she does, the wolves can act as the anti-vampire killing machines they were born to be and take out the rest of them.
Once they do, her position’s a lot stronger; Bella and the packs might be able to negotiate a peace treaty with/unconditional surrender from the Volturri, assuming they don’t go onto the offensive and wipe them out once their big guns are gone. IIRC the werewolf packs outnumber the guard by, what, two or three to one, while being physically superior to boot.
One wolf versus one nonwitch vampire will tend to result in a win for the vampire. The wolf advantage is in their better ability to coordinate and to come in numbers.
I really doubt Bella will be able to take out Alec and Jane, even with Edward’s help. Both are old vampires with way more combat training and experience than even Edward. Jacob also said there are some hard-core Volturi fighters there, probably including Felix.
Bella and Edward may be able to take them with the help of Jacob and the imprinted wolves, though; either by using the free wolves as a decoy for the fighters, - should the Volturi not be hostile to Bella and Edward—or just attacking them together. I’m guessing Jane will be unable to keep a pack incapacitated while fighting, and maybe Alec, too.
Hmm. Actually, if they pretend to be friendly, none of the werewolves has talked, and Aro hasn’t arrived yet, they might be able to dupe the Volturri into thinking that they were sent there by the Cullen coven to look into something going down on their territory, so as to get close enough to the siblings to be able to sneak attack and disable or kill them and allow the werewolves to polish off the rest.
The last chapter (54) totally shattered Bella’s unintentional illusion that her plans were without flaws that she could not fix. I’m going to assume that Bella and Edward survives, at least the rescue of the Werewolves—if not the duration of the story. As such, the most realistic way of surviving the encounter with the witch twins I can conjure up at the moment is that Bella is exaggerating the situation.
It’s entirely possible that Alec and Jane have been too busy keeping the wolves incapacitated to do any interrogation—and to my knowledge; it’s quite difficult to answer questions, or even hear them, when either paralyzed or gasping breaths between screaming in agony, anyway.
So the Volturi may not even suspect Bella of doing any folly—a situation she will surely use her quick wits to make the most of, both in short- and long-term. As Bella suspected, there probably are reinforcements on the way to deal with the wolves in whatever way the Volturi have decided, but Aro certainly doesn’t have to be among them. If I read him right, he would rather stay in Volterra; totally confident that the witch twins and the reinforcements will bring him a few wolves to experiment on.
There’s also what I think is the more unlikely possibility of Bella suddenly learning to expand her shield and using this new-found ability to make the packs immune to the twins—she did after all learn that their powers affected the packs collective minds, so why shouldn’t hers? The most likely event to trigger this I can think of is if the Volturi are hostile and come close to killing Edward, making Bella desperate enough for a way to help him to subconsciously bring her ability to the next ‘level’.
Anyway, great chapter that gave me much to think about, trying to predict where you’ll go with it next. I love doing that. I don’t love Rosalie being so eager to tell Elsie’s parents to go die so she can be her mother though, but that’s just Rose I guess.
All Bella needs to do is take out the two vampires with incapacitating powers. Once she does, the wolves can act as the anti-vampire killing machines they were born to be and take out the rest of them.
Once they do, her position’s a lot stronger; Bella and the packs might be able to negotiate a peace treaty with/unconditional surrender from the Volturri, assuming they don’t go onto the offensive and wipe them out once their big guns are gone. IIRC the werewolf packs outnumber the guard by, what, two or three to one, while being physically superior to boot.
One wolf versus one nonwitch vampire will tend to result in a win for the vampire. The wolf advantage is in their better ability to coordinate and to come in numbers.
I really doubt Bella will be able to take out Alec and Jane, even with Edward’s help. Both are old vampires with way more combat training and experience than even Edward. Jacob also said there are some hard-core Volturi fighters there, probably including Felix.
Bella and Edward may be able to take them with the help of Jacob and the imprinted wolves, though; either by using the free wolves as a decoy for the fighters, - should the Volturi not be hostile to Bella and Edward—or just attacking them together. I’m guessing Jane will be unable to keep a pack incapacitated while fighting, and maybe Alec, too.
Hmm. Actually, if they pretend to be friendly, none of the werewolves has talked, and Aro hasn’t arrived yet, they might be able to dupe the Volturri into thinking that they were sent there by the Cullen coven to look into something going down on their territory, so as to get close enough to the siblings to be able to sneak attack and disable or kill them and allow the werewolves to polish off the rest.