The vultury were enjoying their time: Aro was writing something about his last research with half inmortal children, Caius was planning something to get rid of the Cullen clan and Marcus was… doing whatever the boring vampire always do. Their soldiers were around the perimeter in Voltera, waiting for the signal to go home for a meal. Heidi was smiling to their new preys, inviting them to go inside their building.
"What a peaceful day" said Demetri, cobbering his face with his hood.
"Yes, it´s so boring" answered Felix, who was walking by his side. Since the incident with the Cullens they haven´t had a problem. All vampires were obeying law… and the vultury didn´t have anything to do. That was giving him a headache.
"What are you thinking about?" asked the tracer.
"That our lives have just became so boring… I wish there was some kind of trouble"
"What kind of them?"
"Anything to get out of these routine, a big one or just a little one"
"Be careful with what you wish, Felix, be careful with what you wish…"
"What´s that suppose to mean, Demetri?"
"Nothing. Come on now, Heidi have finished fishing and they are signaling us to go have lunch"
"About time, I was getting hungry" the two vampires took off running towards their masters, not seeing that another one was spying on them from the shadows. These third vampire took off as soon as the vultury were all in their castle taking dinner and went to the main entrance.
-Outside the city´s walls-
A red haired vampire was eyeing the city with his red eyes full of fury, thinking about the time when he lived in a castle like that… in Rumany. His partners were at a cave´s entrance, looking at the vampire´s royalty´s fort.
"Boss, are you really sure we should do these only with the newborn´s army´s help? We can ask for some of our allies help. The vultury still not know anything about them, you know" said a very fat and round vampire with round glasses. His clothes were green and his smile wide.
"There is no need. I have been planning these for centuries, it´s going to work fine, Lucky Roo" answered the redhead.
"But, Shanks, newborn vampires are not really to trust in fight" said a calm raven vampire. From his mouth hang a cigarette and a rifle from his back.
"Benn is right, boss, we should get some help" said a vampire with a tattoo in his forehead.
"Yassop, it´s alright… see, Rockstar is already back. How are they?" asked Shanks. His companions were worried about him, he never was that serious and they missed their idiot boss and his occurrences.
"They are bored, if I have to tell you and… one of the guards, I think his name was Felix, wished for some fun" said Rockstar. He was the youngest of all the pack, if they didn´t count the newborns from the army, barely a decade.
"Okay, send the message now" orders Shanks, handing a paper to Yassop. The vampire only got up and rolled the note through his fingers. Suddenly, it became a bullet.
"Well, let´s start this" said the sharpshooter, putting his newest bullet in the camera of his weapon. Then he shot directly to Voltera´s castle.
"Now the show begins" said Benn, looking at his old captain.
"Mihawk, wait for me, my love, I will free you. And then we will reign again over the undead" said the redhead, looking with dreamy eyes towards the city.
-Inside Volterra-
"Ahhhhhhhhhh, such a delicious meal" said Felix, truly happy. He throw the corpse of a young lady to the floor and went to a corner where a child, still alive, was hidden. Jane and Alec were sharing their dinner, a young man about twenty. Chelsea was over a teenage girl´s body, licking the blood from her throat. Aro, Caius and Marcus have already finished and were back in their thrones.
"Indeed, my dear Felix" said the mind reader, tasting some of the blood from his lips while Renata carried a young boy in her arms behind him, drinking quickly from his veins.
"But, like I said to Demetri, it´s booo…" Felix was interrupted by a bullet, that broke a window and penetrated the camera. Aro dodged the flying object and this impacted in the stone wall.
"What the…" begin Caius, looking at the hole. In it only was a paper, that was written in a very beautiful calligraphy. He read it once and then handed it to his brothers.
"It´s in Rumanian" said him before Aro took the letter from his hands.
"Oh, no" said the vampire after reading it.
"What does it say, master?" asked Jane. Alec and she were near Renata, the three of them ready to protect the elders if a threat was coming.
"The worst thing we can imagine, my dear" answered the mind reader, handing the note to Marcus. For once, the face of the old leader fall, turning into a worried one first and then to a cold and calculating one. The guards were confused, they have never seen their masters acting like these before.
"What can we do?" asked Marcus. This was not funny at all, it was an old and, for most of vampires, long forgotten thing.
"Send our army to bring all the vampires around the world to Volterra. With that will be enough to… face whatever the enemy throws against us. Even with an enormous newborn´s army they won´t be able to face us if we are together" answered Aro and Caius agreed.
"I´m confused, master, what does that paper said?" inquired Jane, with all her companions behind her wanting to know.
"It said: Free Dracule Mihawk or you will meet your end at my hands, Shanks" said Caius to the army, now more confused than before.
"Dracule Mihawk?" asked Renata. Even the name seems to make the room colder and tenser. The elders faces turned into one of anger.
"It´s a vampire, an old one, even more than us. Rumors said that he was the first´s one´s creation if not the first vampire to ever appear in the face of the earth" said Aro, pressing his lips in a tense fashion.
"As a fact, he was a Rumanian leader, about a millennium and a half ago. His own people got tired of him and asked us help to overthrow him. But when Dracule Mihawk fell, the strength of the Rumanians too and we took power" explain Marcus.
"Then he is dead, why ask you to free him if he…" begin Chelsea.
"No, not even the fire could give him the permanent death. He is alive and waiting, a royal prisoner in our basement, so dangerous that we can´t allow him to walk in this world free again" finished Caius.
"And who is these Shanks?" asked Alec.
"No idea, but Vladimir and Stefan could answer that… when they come. All of you, now listen. We have to call all the vampires known around the world and ask them to meet us here. If they refuse, then drag them here. We will need all the help we can" said Aro.
"Why?" asked Felix.
"Because if we are dealing with one of Dracule Mihawk´s allies, we can be sure these vampire is old or powerful or both. Hawk eyes didn´t make a vampire for nothing"
"Hawk eyes?"
"He was named after his strange eyes, they were yellow like a hawk´s"
"He was a vegetarian?"
"No, just an anomaly. But don´t get distracted, you have work to do" said Aro and send his army directly to the telephones. Once in the room, Demetri whacked Felix in the head.
"What is your problem?!" asked the vampire angry.
"You and your silly wish. You want some trouble for fun, now we have a big problem. I told you, be careful with what you wish"
"It isn´t my fault Shanks choose this time to attack" said Felix, picking up the phone and starting dialing.
-In Forks-
"Carlisle, the phone!" yelled Esme, playing with Nessie. Alice and Bella were near them.
"Why didn´t any of you picked it up?" asked the leader of the Cullen Clan.
"It´s the Vultury, we thought it would be better if it was you who pick up the phone" answered Alice, holding a nice dress in front of the girl.
"What do they want now?" said Carlisle worried and answered. He started talking with Jane in a low voice, so nobody (except Edward) of his clan could hear.
"What´s happening?" asked Bella, putting one hand in her daughter´s head.
"The Vultury are summoning all the vampires to Volterra and they are sounding a bit… afraid" answered the mind reader. Then Carlisle hang on the phone and walked back to the living room.
"Who is Dracule Mihawk? Or Shanks?" asked Edward, getting up and facing his father.
"I don´t know, but… the Vultury seems to be quite scared of them. They´re hopping Vladimir and Stefan could answer some questions, so they send Demetri after them. Anyway we better start packing, they are expecting us as soon as possible"
"Why do we have to go? They were our enemies a few months ago" said Emmett. Rosalie nodded from her positions on his knees.
"It doesn´t matter, these is something we couldn´t ignore. Come on, get packing. Bella, Edward, find a place to leave Nessie, with Jacob or with Charlie must be fine"
"I will phone both of them" said Bella, moving towards the telephone. Soon all the vampires in the room were moving at fast speed, preparing the luggage and at their phones, talking with humans, werewolves or airlines to buck some tickets to Italy.
"What´s going on?" asked Renesmee, touching Alice´s leg.
"The world have just turned crazy, I think" answered the clairvoyant.
-Back in Volterra-
"It has already begun" said Marcus, eyeing the evacuation of Volterra from a window. The humans were leaving their houses because the Vultury didn´t want them to be near if Shanks attacked or near the vampires they were gathering. They will be just a distraction.
"Yes, our soldier said that nearly all the covens in the world answered our call, even the Cullens and their allies. Their only condition was to leave the girl out of these brawl" said Caius.
"She is just a little girl, so it is okay. The Cullens will be valuable in battle against these vampire. Have you already sent a tracing party to find the Rumanians?" said Aro.
"Yes, brother, they are going off right now. They will be gathering others too" said Caius with a wicked smile.
"When are our first guests arriving?" asked Aro.
"Right now, brother" answered Marcus.
"Then we better get off to receive our guests" the three leaders were off then.
-In the outskirts of Volterra-
"They are calling reinforcements, Shanks, a lot of them" said Yassop, returning from a field trip with Lucky Roo and Rockstar.
"It´s okay, our army can with them too. While they are fighting we can sneak into the castle and find Mihi… then the fight will be over"
"Mihi?" asked Benn, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, Mihi, my beloved Mihi" said Shanks in some kind of dreamy trance, like a fool in love. The other three vampires began laughing. Benn stopped first.
"So, now it all begins" said him, looking towards Volterra.