Pt 1.
That evening all Cullens gathered in Volturi's mansion. This time they had a really important problem to discuss.
We're on the threshold of the great war with werewolves, - Aro kept on to speak. - It's not alike any war we had before. This is gonna be the last one. The very last. No one can even predict what side will win. But the fact is that very little of us and them will be left in the end... if it will at all...
All the rest kept silence. The news was too shocking.
I ask you now, - continued Aro, - Is there any idea of what we can do to avert this war?
But can we really do something? - wondered Alice.
Talk to their elders may be? - suggested Esme.
Woooo, that'll help for sure, - Carlisle gave a sarcastic laugh. - You've forgotten the story of a last few hundred years, my dear.
Carlisle's right, - sighed Marcus. - Negotiations with werewolves have never helped.
But this is the only way we can help, - Emmett was angry with the though that nothing can be done.
Aro, - said Edward. - You must know something we don't know I believe.
Well... - Aro kept silence for a while. - The tribe with what I traveled when I was just turned into vampire was the Ostrogoth tribe. They told me stories about first vampires and werewolves. They told me once that long before the first war started the elders of both sides wrote some rules to control the relations between them... they also wrote what to do in case the rules are broken and the way to reconcile a dispute... - Aro made a pause.
And? - in one voiced asked Alice and Rosalie,
As you can understand – the rules were written in Ostrogothic – this language is considered to be dead for ages. And the second problem – I'm afraid it would be impossible to find the text.
We've got an enormous library here, - reminded Caius. - We can look for it there.
It's a useless waste of time, I'm sure... - answered Aro.
But it must be somewhere, - exclaimed Esme.
They say the text was inscribed on stones, - Aro seemed to remember something more.
These stones must have been left in the place of their last refuge... - supposed Jasper.
It was somewhere in Italy as far as I remember, - wondered Edward.
Well, in fact it was the island we now call Cyprus, - answered Marcus.
You must have books on history in your library! - not a question but a statement from Rosalie. - We can search for more exact location...
Let's try! - agreed Carlisle.
Even if we find those stones, - remarked Caius, - can any of you understand Ostrogothic?
No, - sighed Emmett.
I' ll sort it out, - winked Edward, leaving to make a call.
** Somewhere in US **
Marina woke up from ringing phone. She could hardly see the name of her best friend on the screen because some part of here was still sleeping :)) She switched off her phone, supposing that everything in this world can wait at least a few hours and fell asleep again. That time she couldn't even think what words used her best friend to explain his dissatisfaction with her action :)))