I learned soon that the rainforest was no place for a baby. I had only given birth three weeks ago, but already I knew. We couldn't stay long.

Emmett hadn't left my side since we arrived in the woods. Hana, Eric, and my father were sitting in the far tree, my mother's shield keeping all animals and insects from attacking us. Emmett and I had our own spot at the base of a tree, sitting between two massive roots.

"Hey, Elizabeth," he greeted our daughter quietly as she opened her blue eyes to stare at him. Emmett had blue eyes when he was human, as I understood it.

My fingers ran through her dark hair. She had Asian characteristics from my blood and seemed completely enraptured with Emmett as she stared up at him.

"She's beautiful," I said quietly, twisting my finger in her dark curly hair.

"When's this going to be over?" Emmett asked.

"Soon," Alice said from across the space we had occupied. I glanced at her, sighing, before letting my daughter's hair go.

"How do we ever get to meet the two leaders of the Hunters and end this?" Emmett asked her.

"My visions say that next month they'll find us," Alice told us all.

I translated and then frowned as Elizabeth gurgled. She started to giggle wildly, reaching for my hair.

I leaned down so she could grab it and she tugged, hard. I winced slightly at her amazing strength, and gently unwound her fingers from my hair. "Now, now, let's not bald Mommy."

Emmett laughed, "Way to go, Liz."

I rolled my eyes at the nickname. "Shut up, Em."

Exactly as Alice had said, Demetri, Felix, and a few others arrived at the edge of our hide-out, Hunters armed and ready.

The boys had achieved weapons for us to use against the humans, and with the Cullen's, it would be a rather easy fight... I honestly didn't see why they thought they could win.

"Why are you here?" Kiari asked them.

"We come to get rid of the Kayoko family. They are an endangerment to the vampire secret," a short man with reddish hair stated.

"How?" Kiko asked. "We keep our secret, as you keep yours. Only family knows, as they are immortal as well."

"Your family is larger than the Volturi allow," another, taller and more buff, continued. "They have twenty-eight members, men included, and our understandings are the men become mortal after so much time."

"Jealous, Felix?" I questioned.

I had left Elizabeth with Hana, my father, and Eric. Hopefully they could handle her well, as I trusted them to keep her safe. Esme and Alice were with them just in case.

The tall one's eyes flickered to me, bright red with hate. "Actually, more repulsed. When they turn mortal, they risk exposing the secret."

"That is why you kill them, isn't it?" I continued. "Because you are stuck as an immortal forever... while I, and the woman in my family alike, are allowed to experience life as a human with the immortality of a vampire. The men... they get both, don't you boys?" I glanced over my shoulder at Tamiga, Kiko, and Tiko.

I glanced over all the Hunters with them, doing a quick count. Fifty. Easy.

"We will give you a chance to back down," Demetri, the shorter one, said clearly. "Those that surrender will be given a swift death. Those that do not, will have a painful one. We guarantee that."

Tiko, who was translating, grimaced.

"Well, you'll be disappointed that I'm not making this easy for you then," I stated. "I don't surrender because I don't intend to die today."

"Well, sorry, sweetheart, but your wish isn't granted," Demetri snarled.

Emmett growled, "Don't talk to my mate that way, pip-squeak."

Demetri growled back, "You'll be the one to watch her die, then, tough-guy."

I stood straight by Emmett, "Actually, you're going to die first." Then I paused. "Or should I just have you look behind you for you to realize that your blood bags are reeking of fear... none of them will survive this battle, you know that."

"They're expendable."

"So are you," I smirked.

And then the gunshots went off. Tamiga, Kiko, and Tiko acquired machine guns - don't ask me how - and were firing at the Hunters, knocking them down immediately. I could smell the blood pouring from them, and knew everyone else could as well.

And then the real fight began. Demetri seemed to think I was the bigger threat, so he came right at me. But it was a wrong move, because Emmett intercepted and took him out. I took care of the humans that made it through the line of fire, the others helping.

Blood was everywhere, assaulting all of my senses. I could smell it running the leaves red. I could hear it as it beat one last time through the human's heart. I could see it as it rained crimson all over the rainforest plants. I could feel it soak into my hair, my clothes, and my skin. It had been so long since I last fed...

There was a silence as my family and I cut through the last human. My rapid breathing was the only sound of life, besides four heartbeats of Eric, Hana, Elizabeth, and my father. I straightened up and glanced at my family. No deaths. Emmett's arms wrapped around me.

It was over.

We were safe.

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