That’s one way to keep things balanced. Give Bella a new power (minor physical shield and flame retardation) but take away her lover and best friend (incidentally the two most powerful witches she has at her disposal). Oh, and while you’re at it have the enemy recruit her greatest brute-force allies to their side. Maybe have her brother in law try to kill her. Perhaps a good way to set up a “rationalists don’t always win!” moral. :)
I wonder if Bella may not be able to make use of Jasper. She should have a decent chance to defeat him in combat. She should be slightly stronger than him (residual newborn strength vs carnivore) while a whole heap more strategically competent. Apart from being somewhat more dominated by bloodlust he is also barely sane and his combat advantage from witchcraft is missing. Their current injuries are comparable (torn off arm vs ‘left his hand back there somewhere’).
Assuming she can tear him apart she could possibly send him against the Volturi. Talk to his disembodied head and remind him that he must hate the Volturi almost as much as he hates her and that killing all of them may be as pleasurable as killing just one of her. That and remind him that he’ll never be able to find her anyway.
Leave his body in a great vat of fresh blood, with his neck attached remotely to his head via strained elastic. Have his head suspended above the vat ready to be released by a call from a mobile phone. Leave him in Italy. Leave a vest loaded up with a (literal) ton of explosives, napalm and an ‘on release’ trigger. And a map saying ‘you are here’ and ‘them’.
I wouldn’t risk it myself. There is a chance that he will just tell them Bella is alive. He seems stupid enough to do something that will mostly hurt the rest of his adoptive family and not Bella at all.
If I actually was in Bella’s shoes I’d probably just kill Jasper. Stop pretending I’m a boy scout earning pocket money and start stealing cash. Like whole ATMs, that sort of thing. Then I’d move to Italy and start preparing to kill the Volturi. Rigging all the surrounding area with explosives, creating walls of fire. Firebombs of a suitable weight and with suitable payloads that I could lob them inside said ring of fire. That sort of thing. Witchcraft is overrated. :)
The recent chapters are dark. Love it.
That’s one way to keep things balanced. Give Bella a new power (minor physical shield and flame retardation) but take away her lover and best friend (incidentally the two most powerful witches she has at her disposal). Oh, and while you’re at it have the enemy recruit her greatest brute-force allies to their side. Maybe have her brother in law try to kill her. Perhaps a good way to set up a “rationalists don’t always win!” moral. :)
I wonder if Bella may not be able to make use of Jasper. She should have a decent chance to defeat him in combat. She should be slightly stronger than him (residual newborn strength vs carnivore) while a whole heap more strategically competent. Apart from being somewhat more dominated by bloodlust he is also barely sane and his combat advantage from witchcraft is missing. Their current injuries are comparable (torn off arm vs ‘left his hand back there somewhere’).
Assuming she can tear him apart she could possibly send him against the Volturi. Talk to his disembodied head and remind him that he must hate the Volturi almost as much as he hates her and that killing all of them may be as pleasurable as killing just one of her. That and remind him that he’ll never be able to find her anyway.
Leave his body in a great vat of fresh blood, with his neck attached remotely to his head via strained elastic. Have his head suspended above the vat ready to be released by a call from a mobile phone. Leave him in Italy. Leave a vest loaded up with a (literal) ton of explosives, napalm and an ‘on release’ trigger. And a map saying ‘you are here’ and ‘them’.
I wouldn’t risk it myself. There is a chance that he will just tell them Bella is alive. He seems stupid enough to do something that will mostly hurt the rest of his adoptive family and not Bella at all.
If I actually was in Bella’s shoes I’d probably just kill Jasper. Stop pretending I’m a boy scout earning pocket money and start stealing cash. Like whole ATMs, that sort of thing. Then I’d move to Italy and start preparing to kill the Volturi. Rigging all the surrounding area with explosives, creating walls of fire. Firebombs of a suitable weight and with suitable payloads that I could lob them inside said ring of fire. That sort of thing. Witchcraft is overrated. :)