Talk:Volturi confrontation/@comment-66.109.51.50-20130306051611

Well, According to the book there were 34 Volturi Guards including the Wives of Aro and Caius Who never fight. None of the witnesses would fight for Volturi, Infact most of them were heartened towards Cullens after Garrets Speech (Which they did not show in the movie). While Cullens were 25 Vampires and 17 Wolves. So Infact Volturi were Heavily Outnumbered. In the book Edward says

"They’ve never been outnumbered before. That’s what stopped them.” “Outnumbered?” Tanya whispered incredulously. “They don’t count their witnesses,” Edward breathed. “They are nonentities, meaningless to the guard. Aro just enjoys an audience.”

After Garrets speech, most of the witnesses despised Volturi and some were sensing that Volturi would chase them after the fight. Aro Admitted this as well

'“We are outnumbered, dearest ones,” he said. “We can expect no outside help. Should we leave this question undecided to save ourselves?”'

and Bella only needed to protect the alphas of the wolfpacks Sam and Jacob and all wolves would be protected..

'Fascinated, I tugged in more threads of the fabric,pulling it around each glimmering shape that was a friend or ally. The shield clung to them willingly, moving as they moved'

'Their minds must have been more interconnected thanI’d imagined. If the Alpha was inside my shield, the rest of their minds were every bit as protected as his.'

With Sam and Jacob protecting Bella, Zafrina and Benjamin and Alice around Bella, They could have easily overcome anyone who tried to Attack her. In the end Aro Himself realized that Volturi were at disadvantage. All their abilities were rendered useless and Cullens had the numbers and talents to predict their moves, Incapacitate them, read their thoughts etc... Edward had read Aros thoughts and he explained this after the fight

'“You should have seen how we looked to them! Usually, Alec cuts off all sense and feeling from their victims while they go through the charade of a counsel. That way, no one can run when the verdict is given.But there we stood, ready, waiting, outnumbering them, with gifts of our own while their gifts were rendered useless by Bella. Aro knew that with Zafrina on ourside, they would be the blind ones when the battle commenced. I’m sure our numbers would have been pretty severely decimated, but theywere sure that theirs would be, too. There was even a good possibility that they would lose. They’ve never dealt with that possibility before. They didn’t deal with it well today.”'