Fearful Rulers

Summary:

There are very few things the Volturi are afraid of and Amir is one of them. Long ago she scarred Jane to a point and now Jane must bring her to Aro along with her very special coven. If Amira manages to not make them angry, Aro wishes to recruit her talent to defeat the Cullens, but she is never so easy to win over. I do realize not everything is like this in the book but oh well!

Prologue:

"Who?"

"The Shade Coven."

"You can't be serious," Jane protested. "I am not going after them."

"Relax, sis," Alec said coolly. "What's the big deal? Aro just wants to extend an invitation."

"He can't! The big deal is that she is terrifying." Jane was never like this but she was clearly upset by something.

"Really? You are scared of someone? Who is she then?" Alec questioned.

"The leader of that coven. Amira."

"What's so bad about her?"

"You haven't felt her power."

"Well if she has a lot of power I can see why Aro wants her to join. What exactly does she do?"

"She cause fear that renders any special abilities useless. She makes you see every haunting disturbing thing you don't want to see and it freezes you in fear."

"And she's used her ability on you?"

"Yes."

"Well don't worry about it. It seems a lot like our abilities in a way. Maybe we can use them before she can use hers," Alec consoled his twin.

"I bet Aro also wants her coven to join. They too have special abilities."

"How many does she have with her?"

"The others are Tristan, Kayden, Jade, Gwen, and Mallory. Plus from what I've heard from her over the years they're newest member Spencer. They are probably the second largest coven and they don't feed on humans."

"One question. How would you know so much about them? I spent a while watching them before we joined the Voultri," Jane admitted looking at her feet.

"Oh, any other special abilities I should know of?" Alec asked again.

"Tristan has the ability of seeing things that are happening presently, and Jade has the ability of persuasion. I don't know about the others."

"Ok then. Aro wants us to set off as soon as nightfall. Go get ready," Alec told his sister.

Ch. 1

AMIRA

"Tristan?" I asked staring outside of our current hiding place through golden eyes.

"They are setting out but the girl, Jane? She is reluctant to come find us," he told me. It was only seconds ago she entered one of his trances.

"How many will they be sending then?"

"Just two. I believe that they are only coming to talk."

"Wonderful," I sighed. At least there were only two. I looked at Jade. Her dark brown cascaded down to her diaphragm. It was wavy in some areas and straighter in others. Either way it was a little messed up. Her bright gold eyes were fierce and full of life despite the fact she was basically dead. She was tall, and very persuasive looking.

I looked back at Tristan. He had dark swishy hair a couple shades lighter and his eyes were filled with understanding and thoughtfulness. He had previously been pretty cheerful until he saw what was coming through his thoughts moments ago. He was almost as tall as Jade, but I still had half an inch or so on him.

"Hey Tristan, see where everyone else is will ya?" I asked him.

The rest of our coven always took longer than needed to hunt. Tristan focused on an empty spot in a corner. From his expression it was easy to tell he was concentrating on finding the others. Moments later he snapped out of the sight and reported their location to me.

"They are still waiting for Spencer to catch his meal. For some unknown reason he became distracted and skittered off somewhere."

"Oh…. Kay then."

While we are waiting for the others to get back over here I will tell you a little about each. Also we really aren't one big coven, everyone just thinks we are because we always hang out around one another and the other coven, Kayden, Gwen, Spencer and Mallory, they don't have a title. So we hang, and hunt as one. Only times like this though we acted like one big coven… when the Volturi meddled. I refer to them in these times as the rest of my coven though.

When we aren't together though Kayden is there leader. I made Kayden a vampire, and at first he wished to go it alone but then he decided to start his own coven. So anyway we are really close to the nameless coven. Even the Volturi have yet to find out about us being two covens that stand together.

Before I begin let me say that our two covens are very special. Six out of seven have a talent.

First off we have Kayden. He has light sandy blonde hair and is at average height. He has the ability to stop mental attacks such as mine. Kayden can disable those mind powers, but only his enemies. He and Gwen are paired together. Gwen was straight light strawberry blonde hair that goes only about two inches past her shoulder blades. She has side bangs that she dies a different color every month. This month for example she had it dyed orange.

Her only ability was a sense of fashion, but other than that she is probably the only coven member without a talent. She is though, a great hunter and fighter. She can withstand more than other vampires, but I wouldn't count that as an ability.

Next we have Mallory. She has dirty blonde hair with natural light brown highlights. She has regular bangs that cut off just above her eyes and her hair is usually wavy if not brushed. She also has an ability. She can sense other vampires around her. She can sense them from anywhere she is, to up to about a 20-mile range. She is paired with Spencer. He has the possible talent of distraction. Spencer has blonde hair that is maybe a shade lighter than Kayden's. It would be hard to tell them apart, but if you go by attitude they are very different.

Spencer is usually hyper and crazy, or just content, but Kayden is serious, calmer. He is also cooler about everything her does. Anyway that leaves the last three. Jade is a loner. She is quiet, peaceful, and somewhat shuns the world.

There is also another member. He tends to be a loner like Jade but they dislike each other. He joined for a short time but then flew the coop. He had no special abilities so his main use was to comfort Gwen. He really disliked being involved with us so he's gone.

Tristan and I are paired up together though. Speaking of that, I will now describe myself before the others get back.

I have light almost dusty brown hair. It is usually in spiral curls naturally but when we are at our usual home I occasionally straighten it. I, like I said, am pretty tall. I am almost as tall as Jade, but I don't really care if she is taller than me. I love the color blue, and if you see me I will almost always be wearing blue jeans and some patterned blue shirt. The others always change there styles over and over, so describing tonight's in particular would be useless because most likely Mallory or Gwen will have moved on from today's fashion.

Also to give you an idea, I was about 19 and 1/2 when I became a vampire, so there's that little bit information for ya.

"Amira, they're on their way back now."

"Great."

"They should be here in about a minute," Tristan alerted me.

"Ok, Jade! Get ready o hunt!" I half yelled at her for no apparent reason. She looked at me and then back to the world outside the cave we were camping in for the night.

Then Spencer leaped onto the ledge of the cave from a nearby fur tree. He was smiling and seemed very satisfied with whatever he caught.

"Good hunting night?"

"Yup," he replied in a pleased tone. Mallory was the next one in.

"Hey Amira. How were things here?"

"Oh the usual. Jade was silent, Tristan sighted something. Which we will talk about when we get back," I told them sternly. By the time I had finished Kayden and Gwen had come in. They seemed full and content with the night of hunting they had.

"Well, Tristan… Jade, catch up soon will you?" I changed my statement as Tristan and I left. Jade paused and bit her lip. No doubt she was somewhat worried over what Tristan and I had been talking about the whole time the rest were hunting.

She then shrugged off the concern that was bugging her and jumped off the ledge landing graceful on the ground, not disturbing the dirt. She caught up to us in no time and even went ahead. It wasn't long before she caught the scent of a passing heard of deer. Being the first one to reach them she jumped from a low limb and leaped onto a fleeing doe.

Before she had sucked it dry, Tristan and I had already caught our meals. Jade stopped after the first one, probably still thinking about the sight and started her way up a tree to watch me wait for Tristan while he went for seconds. I split that one with him because he almost never finished a second one off which was odd.

I dropped the now completely empty carcass on the ground and wondered why in the world… or how Kayden, Spencer, Gwen, and Mallory had taken so long.

The trip back was very quickly and must've lasted no longer than 2 minutes or so. It was pretty busy when we got back. Spencer was being his usual carefree self and blabbing about what had distracted him to no one in particular. Mallory was humming to herself and dancing to silent music and Gwen and Kayden were discussing the meting to come.

"Ok, I'm glad you're your all silly and talking right now, but keep it down. We have an important mater to discuss." Everyone glanced up to me and was instantly quiet.

"Ok, so you all know about the Volturi… Right?"

"Yeah," Spencer replied now almost as serious as Kayden.

"Well, they have sent two guards to come and speak with us. I want you to be polite, but on guard."

"Wh? Couldn't you like take them out before they even got here?" It was always Spencer who spoke or answered me in one of my meetings.

"I could…. But they are only here to talk, or so Tristan says. I don't know what they want since we haven't done anything, but my guess is recruitment. If I can I will try and get out of it, but please don't do anything to upset them. I don't want to have to fix everything.

"I'm appalled you'd actually need to lay down the law on this bunch," Jade commented sarcastically in a quiet yet strong voice. I glanced at her.

"Just saying," she defended herself.

"Anyway," I said taking my hard gaze off her with a sigh, "let me do the talking. They are sending two of their most powerful guards, which I believe is odd, only sending two to come and speak to a powerful, dangerous coven that out numbers just the twins. So, they will arrive soon, and we will do whatever they want or refuse politely," I said indirectly repeating myself so I was understood.

"We're all clear?"

There were various nods from the family.

"Good."

"They should be here in less than a days time," I heard from Tristan. I half-heartedly smiled. That was more than I had expected.