Seattle newborn army

Seattle Newborn Army
Founding information
Founding time	April, 2005
Residence	Seattle, Washington
Alias	Newborn Army The Army Riley's Coven
Special characteristics
Special abilities	Victoria: Self-preservation Fred: Physical repulsion Raoul: Superiority magnetism
Affiliation
Occupation	Destruction of the Olympic Coven Protection of Victoria

"So Riley doesn't need brains. He needs numbers.
Like chess. He's not making knights and bishops.
We're just pawns."

―Diego and Bree

The Seattle newborn army, also known as Riley's Coven in The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, was an army of newborn vampires created by Victoria for the sole purpose of getting past the Cullens to kill Bella Swan.

History

Twilight

Victoria originally was part of a nomadic coven that consisted of herself, her mate James, and their friend Laurent. When the nomads reached Forks, they found the Cullen family and a human named Bella. Bella was the girlfriend (and later fiance and wife) of Edward Cullen. When James realized this, he and Victoria decided to hunt Bella for sports. But James was killed when he made his attempt on her life. Victoria, feeling alone and vulnerable, quickly ran away. Upon arriving in Seattle, she changed a young college student named Riley Biers and won his heart with lies about her background story and her feelings. She created more newborns for protection, and Diego, Fred and Raoul were added into her collection.

New Moon

{C}When she sensed Edward's coming for her life, she ran away to Texas and encountered a small coven with newborns vampires. This encounter gave her an idea, and she used her newborns to make an army and exact revenge on Edward by killing his mate, Bella. Wanting backup plans, she traced Laurent, who had relocated to Denali, and extracted information about the Cullens' powers and weaknesses, then sent him back to check if Bella was still under their protection. After finding out about her being alone in Forks, Laurent never reported again. She went to investigate and wanted to kill Bella on her own, until Sam Uley's pack of werewolves came across her and chased her away. When the Cullens finally returned, she knew her solo attempts were up, and put all of her focus on her army, and started creating more of them. Bree was added into the collection in early 2006.

Though the creations went into high gear, so did the murder rates in Seattle as the newborns relentlessly terrorized the city in the night, only keeping themselves hidden during the day due to the lies made up by Riley and Victoria about sunlight being deadly to vampires.

Sam's pack destroying the Army

Eclipse and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

After she was satisfied with her army, Victoria said that the Cullens posed a threat to them all, and that by finding Bella, they would find the Cullens. When Jane and the other Volturi guards found Victoria and Riley, they offered a five-day limit to fulfill her army's "task" before making a decision. Riley then persuaded the soldiers to stop killing each other and start working together to fight against them. The army followed Bella's scent, and ended up walking right into a trap. The Cullens had been monitoring the situation in Seattle, and allied with a local shape-shifter pack to combat the army. Victoria and Riley, however, weren't fooled, and they found Bella's hiding spot while the army battled the Cullens and wolves. But Riley died at the hands of a wolf named Seth Clearwater and, seconds later, Victoria met her end at Edward's hands and teeth.

The inexperienced army was slaughtered except for Bree Tanner, who surrendered. The Volturi showed up after the battle was over and Felix, one of the Volturi guard, killed her.

Known members

Deceased

The Cullens standing over the dead newborns.

• Victoria - leader with the power of self-preservation (killed by Edward Cullen)
• Riley Biers - second in command (and Victoria's puppet; killed by Seth Clearwater)
• Raoul - co-leader with the power to lead underlings (killed by the Cullens and the wolf pack)
• Kristie - co-leader (killed by the Cullens and the wolf pack)
• Jen - (killed by the Cullens and the wolf pack)
• Sara - (killed by the Cullens and the wolf pack)
• Warren - (killed by the Cullens and the wolf pack)
• Logan - (killed by the Cullens and the wolf pack)
• Heather - (killed by the Cullens and the wolf pack)
• Jim - (killed by the Cullens and the wolf pack)
• Dean - (killed by the Cullens and the wolf pack)
• Kevin - (killed by Emmett Cullen)
• Casey (nicknamed Spider-Man; killed by Sara)
• Bree Tanner - (killed by Felix)
• Diego - (killed by Victoria and Riley; lost to the sun)
• Adam - (killed by Victoria and Riley; lost to the sun)
• Doug - (killed by Victoria and Riley; lost to the sun)

Survivors

• Shelly - escaped with Steve
• Steve - escaped with Shelly
• Fred - a member with the power of physical repulsion, escaped before the war

There were originally over twenty-two newborn vampires (including the ones that had been "lost to the sun"), but overtime, they fought and killed one another and eventually narrowed down to nineteen, before the engagement with the Cullens, including Riley and Bree. They also had a red-haired vampire who was also "lost to the sun".

Appearances

• Eclipse
  • Eclipse (film)
• The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
• Breaking Dawn (mentioned)

Trivia

• The only known survivors from the army are Fred, Shelly, and Steve.
• Fred and Raoul were the only members of the newborn army known to be truly gifted, other than the leader Victoria who had supernatural self-preservation: Raoul could draw others to him and view him as their leader, though it only worked on the weak-minded, while Fred can create a feeling of repulsion to push pursuers away.

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