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Hello all, this is DramaDramaDrama and Principessa Volturi. We have decided to co-author a story together. This story, A Shattered Eclipse, will be told from a third person's point of view. We hope you enjoy it, so please tell us what you think by reading and reviewing!


Prologue

The purple and gray smoke billowed over the ground and through the forest of trees saturated in green, creating an eerie fog like film that spread and encompassed the ground that a bronze haired vampire noiselessly glided over. It almost seemed to part as Edward stalked forward, desperately searching for his love's red headed foe.

Victoria.

Edward knew that she was out in the forest somewhere along with the rest of the Cullens and the pack, yet, thus far, all of Edward's attempts to find any of them had been in vain. They were nowhere to be found, and he was alone.

Panic filled him as another loud, metallic scream could be heard as an unrecognizable vampire met his or her final fate. He had heard several of them within his short time in the dense forest already, but the thought that the screams could very well originate from his family never failed to frighten him.

Who could it have been? Alice, Esme, or even Carlisle?

In the intervals between the screams, there was an unnatural silence that expanded over the dimly lit forest like the smoke. Between the smoke and silence, the atmosphere was almost suffocating. But the suppressiveness of the atmosphere as well as being separated from his love were not the only things weighing down the golden eyed vampires.

The young Cullen's posture showed defeat as the reality seemed to sink in. He was losing. Soon, he would not have to worry about having lost his family anymore, or anything in that matter. Soon, they would all be dead, and the newborns and Victoria would have gotten what they wanted.

Only then, as a piercing wave of pain shot through him, did he hesitate in his steps. To lose his family would be to loose everything. Unfortunately, the chance of him loosing his family was greater than what he wanted to admit.

Whatever way he looked at it, the Cullens were at a total disadvantage. Victoria had been smart — she had impulsively changed her tactic before the battle, rendering Alice's previous vision useless. They had prepared for a battle that would never happen; at least not the way they had imagined it.

The last he had checked, Alice's gift was now blurred — even so, Edward still had full usage of his mind reading abilities. The only problem was, there was no one around for him to read the minds of, rendering his supernatural ability useless.

He was isolated. His family was dying, and he could not help them.

He knew that he had to get back to his coven. He might not see Isabella or the rest of his family again after all if he didn't. Jasper had installed a certain level of fear into all of them about the dangers of being separated from others in battle.

"Bella!"

The slightly distressed Edward continued to move forward, perhaps a bit more blindly now than before as unconditional fear was numbing him from the inside out. Each step the Cullen took was weighed down with uncertainty, but never once did he falter in his movement.

He had to find his love, if it was the last he would do. This was all his fault. She did not deserve to die for his mistakes!

Edward realized that perhaps selfishly trying to see his family for the last time was the wrong move — no, he was going to do whatever he could to buy them more time.

He was on a quest, one that would end in the death of a certain red-headed vampire and possibly himself, of that much he was certain of.


Thousands of miles away in Volterra, Italy, another quest was about to be embarked on.

This one would be pursued by a much more confident vampire: Marcus Volturi, ruler and king of the vampire race. He knew nothing about the Cullen's predicament other than the possibility that he might cross them at some point in his journey, for his destination was Forks, Washington.

But this trip was not about gathering information. Of course Marcus was zealous to discover more about his friend Carlisle's quirky coven of 'vegetarians'; truthfully, though, he would be traveling for another reason.

His reason was a certain clumsy yet strangely graceful human girl with knowledge of his existence. This human had come to the Volturi willingly to save her vampire love a mere year ago.

Her friend was Edward Cullen and the girl was none other than Isabella Swan.

Marcus had been present at the time of their arrival and had met both of them. He had also read the bonds and found something remarkable, something truly amazing in Isabella's.

It was for this reason why he would be going to her this time. Alone. He had taken his time in thinking it over, but now he was truly certain.

Making up his mind, in a fluid notion he got up from his throne and called for one of the Volturi's most trusted guards, Alec. It would become ironic, in a sense, that Marcus would rely on this guard to help him with his departure.

Marcus had decided at once that he would refuse the company of the guards on the trip. Retrieving Isabella was something Marcus felt compelled to do on his own without the help of anyone else.

Once the young guard, eternally frozen at the age of seventeen, returned back to his master stating that everything was in order, Marcus took care in reminding the guard not to mention any of this to anyone. It was a moot point concerning his mind reading brother, but Marcus was confident that while his brother would undoubtedly be curious, he would not openly speak of this.

Marcus felt no need to be bothered with Caius, as out of the three joint ruling kings, the blonde haired vampire with a more sinister attitude, did not have a detectable gift of the senses. It was speculated privately between Aro and Marcus that it was because of Caius' lack of any mental or physical ability that made him cold hearted.

Now Marcus was a little skeptical about that being the only reason.

Picking up his pace so that he could leave the castle undetected, the third king exited his place of residence and headed in the direction of the airport.


As/N: So, there it is. What do you think? What will happen to the Cullens, and what is Marcus' quest? Please leave a review, they are greatly appreciated.

- Principessa Volturi and DramaDramaDrama