1. Feeding Time

Alice's POV

I sighed, staring out the window. It was raining heavily outside, completely ruining my plans to kidnap Bella for a shopping spree. I was half-heartedly playing chess with Renesmee, who was now round about ten. She was only actually a couple of years old, but she was nearly as good as me. She glared at me, then raised her hand to my cheek. There was a picture of a chess board, dominated by her black peices. I grinned.

"You're not going to win me, Nessie. I refuse to be beaten," I grinned, studying the board. Hmmm.... tricky. It was time to use my unfair advantage. I thought hard about the chess board, waiting for a vision to come. One came, but it wasn't the one I expected.

It was a dimly lit, cavernous hall with maybe twenty vampires. The room was completely round. I felt a sick sense of déjà vu. I recognised all of them. Aro, Caius, Marcus. Chelsea, Heidi, Dmitri, Felix. Alec.

And Jane.

It was the Volturi. I'd been unfortunate to run in to them on at three separate occaisions, but only once in there home in Italy, which was where I found myself now.

I frowned. Something was wrong. I'd been having my visions for a long time now, and my experience had taught me a few things. One was that - apart from when it was irrelevant things like the weather - my visions always had something to do with my friends or family. Another was that whenever Volturi starred in my visions, it was nothing good.

And this was no exception.

There was a lot of noise coming from outside; babbling, laughing, squealing… human noises. My stomach flipped over as I realised I knew what was coming. I tried to pull myself out of the vision, even though I knew that was impossible.

Suddenly the huge doors at the front of the hall opened and tourists burst in. There must've been hundreds of them. About half must've been younger than me. There was a few moments of life as the rest of them filed in. RUN!!! I wanted to scream. GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!! But it was too late. The doors slammed shut. The tourists looked round, slightly puzzled.

Then the killing began.

Instantly the hall was filled with terrible screams. There was a huge thunder of feet as everyone tried to get out the locked doors. No chance. I noticed Jane vicously ripping into a three-year old boy, crying out for his Mum. She looked up, his blood trickling down her cheeks. She smiled, a smile of absolute pleasure. I began to shake.

Suddenly, there was a black smudge in the hall. It took me a few seconds to realise that it there wasn't actually a black smudge in the hall, but it was one of my blind spots. The thing was immensely fast, zipping round the hall. It was strong too, kicking Jane away from the little boy. She actually fell back. It sped around the hall, helping as many people as he could before making a run at the door. There was a huge crash as it broke through the door. Instantly, all the remaining people crammed around the door. The guards blocked the hole, but still, a good ten people and the thing managed to get through.

"They're escaping! Jane, Alec, catch them all. And make sure you deal with that boy." So, the thing was a boy. Not Renesmee then. A small part of me was releived. The other was concentrating on the vision and wondering what the blind spot could be.

Jane and Alec instantly sprinted out the hall. A few seconds later, I heard more howls of pain from outside the hall. One howl stood out from the rest.

It was the howl of a wolf.

Everything in the hall dissapeared as I suddenly found myself back on the living room floor. Renesmee grinned at me.

"No matter how many moves you saw, you won't be able to beat me," She grinned. Then she looked at me properly me.

I must've looked a right sight. I was sitting on the floor, shaking uncontrollably. My hair was a mess, and my eyes were wide and staring. I felt sick. "Alice?" Renesmee said, frowning.

"Where's Jacob?" I said urgently.

"He's in the kitche-" I ran in there without giving her chance to finish her sentence. Bella and Jacob looked up at me, startled.

"Alice, what's wron-" Bella began.

"Jacob, where are all the wolves?" He frowned at me, but did what I said without complaining. It had taken a while, but we completely trusted each other. Him, and all the other wolves. To me, they felt as much like family as Emmet and Edward did. Jacob began.

"I'm here," he said, very unhelpfully. "Quil and Embry have got summer jobs in some café in La Push. Sam, Paul and Jared are all hanging round in the woods. Leah just ran back home, cuz she was real hungry and hates eating like a wolf, and she hates eating with bloodsuckers - her words not mine. And Seth is off on some student exchange program."

"Where?"

"Italy."