Chapter 1
Jasper POV
Alice and I were hunting. I watched as she gracefully threw herself from tree to tree, eyes never leaving the forest floor. I ran below her, dodging trees. A few moments later, I realised she had stopped a few miles back. I wheeled around and ran back, worried. I reached out with my power, looking for her emotions. I found them. Tense, worried, scared, angry, confused, shocked. All in one roll. She was having a vision. I leapt up into the tree beside her.
"Alice, are you okay? What do you see?" I whispered frantically, bending over slightly too level my face with hers. Her blank eyes focused and found me.
"I need to talk to Edward." In the moments she said that, I knew it was serious. But what could it be? Unless...
Alice burst into the house a few seconds ahead of me.
"Edward! Carlisle, where's Edward?" Alice said. If she could cry, I think she would be. I wrapped and arm around her waist and made her emotions calm. She shoved me away.
"Don't, Jazz. Not right now." She said defensively, and her eyes went unfocused again, searching into the future. I held up my hands, surrendering, and leaned against the nearby wall.
"I'll go find him." Bella muttered, flitting from the couch and out the door. Warm air blew inside softly, cueing summers arrival.
"Alice, what's happened?" Carlisle said, bringing a chair behind her and pushing her down gently. Bella and Edward appeared in the front doorway, I looked up at him. Alice stared at Edward, and Edward swore.
"Well if Edward swore, it must be bad." Emmett snickered. I glared at him. He shut up.
"Carlisle. They're coming back. They want revenge. It's not to talk this time; this time they're getting the fight they wanted last time." Edward whispered. He looked worried.
"So it's not about Renesmee?" Bella asked, relieved. Alice shook her head.
"Where is Ness, anyway?" Emmett looked around.
"She's down at the reservation, with Jacob. Anyway, so they're coming to fight? This is bad." Carlisle said.
"Holy crap." Emmett was at a loss for words, and I chuckled at his hypocrisy at swearing.
"This is serious." Carlisle sprang up from where he was crouching next to Edward in front of Alice.
"It'll be okay. We can just get the same friends we got last time to help us." Esme appeared in the hallway, Rosalie right behind her. Rosalie carefully pushed past Esme and sat on Emmett's lap.
"We'll need more than that this time, Esme. Are there any other covens that could help us, Carlisle?" Edward looked at Carlisle, who had moved to stand next to Esme.
"The French, maybe. I wouldn't count on it because Yvette and Henri stood with the Volturi last time. Makenna and Charles maybe - they seemed hesitant to stand with them last time. Jasper, do you think the Esto-Russians would come?" Carlisle looked at me. I smirked.
"Of course. Kerli would anyway, so I imagine the rest would as well. If they were asked to, they could probably hunt down a few European nomads as well. If we really need the extra help, I could find a way to contact Maria, too." I smiled just at the thought of Kerli's enthusiasm to fight, and internally winced at the thought of Maria being around again. Kerli wouldn't be too happy with her being around either.
"So that would be the Denali's, the Amazons, the Irish, the Egyptians, the Romanians, American nomads, European nomads, the Esto-Russians, maybe the Australians, Maria and we could go back down south and see if Huilen, Nahuel, his sisters and his father could come as well. This is our chance to destroy them." I counted.
"That's 46 in total, not including us. I think they'll stop." Bella muttered.
"Plus the wolves." Rosalie piped in.
"They'll definitely stop." Emmett said, smiling at her.
"That's if they all accept. Granted, I wouldn't see why Kerli wouldn't, but the rest of her coven has free will; that could put us down seven people. The nomads won't necessarily say yes, so that's about fifteen worldwide. I haven't spoken to Grace for over a century, so the Australians might not accept either. We'll just have to contact them and see." Carlisle pointed out.
"When are they going to get here, Alice?" Esme said calmly.
"Two to three weeks." Alice and Edward said in unison.
"We'll get moving immediately." Carlisle sighed. I nodded when he looked pointedly at me.
"I'll call Kerli now - we have to get the other European nomads before the Volturi get to them." I grabbed my phone and went outside. I flicked through my contacts list, which mainly consisted of vampires around the world plus a few select humans. I found her name and pressed my finger to it. It began to ring as I put it to my ear.
"Tere, see on Kerli?" An accented, but familiar voice crackled through the line.
"Kerli? This is Jasper. We need your help over in America." I started.