A/N: So it's here, new book! The New generation! This book will be written in Renesmee's children's P. O. V as well as Ellery and Brandon's. Enjoy!
New Generation
Book One: Aura-Bella Black
Chapter One
1 May 2039
The ocean is a beautiful thing. The shy sun that rarely shines in this place lights up the usually dark blue sea. The waves that usually crash onto the shore are now still. There are thin wispy clouds strewn over the sky. The sparkling water completes the picture.
I was alone on the beach, it was about six am. Usually I'm sleeping this time and my sister Kyrie is trying to wake me up but I haven't slept yet. They're probably wondering where I am but they wouldn't put much thought into it. I am almost eighteen years old.
My eyelids were heavy, I would have fallen asleep right here, the cold wouldn't bother me, but I couldn't for some reason. I've only been sitting here for two hours, before four am I was patrolling the reservation for evil vampires that either want to kill my family or want to eat the residents of the town.
Though there hasn't been much activity for a long time, not since my family defeated the Voltury in some kind of epic war. Not that I want a war or anything, I just wish there was more action to this than running around a town all the time in circles sniffing the air and praying you catch an unfamiliar scent.
Maybe that's what was keeping me from collapsing. Lack of adventure. I sighed. The sun was rising higher and I needed to get ready for school.
I got up and ran home, took no more than ten minutes, if I had shifted it would have been five.
"Where have you been?" Kyrie asked as soon as I came in by the door.
She was perfect. That is the only word that comes to mind when you look at her. Copper coloured hair, ivory skin, bright red lips and chocolate brown eyes. Really hard to find flaws when I try to insult her.
"At the beach." I said walking upstairs.
"You look like hell" She said as she walked past me, her black stilettos clicking on the laminate flooring with each step she took.
"What's the time?" I asked rubbing my eyes hard to get the stinging out. When I stopped and opened my eyes I saw a burst of stars for a few seconds.
"You have forty five minutes, be quick." She said pouring herself cereal and called for the others to get done.
We were five in all, three girls two boys, I was the eldest. My father's werewolf genes were passed to me. which also made me the new pack leader, my father still had his pack though some had started aging, it was only my dad, Leah, Seth and Embry. The younger ones fell to my pack. There were a bunch of us.
Back to my siblings. Two years after I was born, Kyrie Rose Black followed me. My mom got her name from this baby naming book, it's supposed to mean something of the lord. She was born a vampire-hybrid and almost the exact image of my mother. She was the one responsible for getting me up in the morning. She grew up way faster than me and caught up to me in less than a year then overtook me. Though she looked older than me most of my life I never let her forget she was younger than me. But now that I turned eighteen on the fifteenth of July I finally looked older than her again.
Next came Leigh Megan Black, technically she was thirteen but she already looked sixteen. She was the most unique of our family, a vampire, werewolf, human hybrid. Though she really didn't look like it, she was really tiny, she was never really sad always cheerful, she was so sweet too, no-one would ever expect her of being vampire/werewolf but she had a bit of an anger issue, okay a huge anger issue, it was like she had a split personality.
And last but not least the twins, Anthony William Black and Mason Elliot Black. They were born five years after Leigh, ten years younger than me, Anthony was a werewolf since aunt Alice can't see him but Mason is apparently human, since she can see him. Anthony hasn't changed yet but he and Mason are exact opposites, not in looks-they both look kind of like my dad- but in personality, Anthony was always cheerful like Leigh but Mason was moody almost always and a loner, He only smiles sometimes, I think he feels left out that he's the only human out of five kids, though he usually gets along with Leigh.
When I came out of the bathroom we had about fifteen minutes. Leigh and Mason were eating cereal with peanut butter, some weird breakfast they came up with when they were younger. Leigh didn't go to school yet since she was still aging and though it was small it was noticable, like short hair one day, a week later BAM! So my mom home schooled her, when my friends came over we had to say she was our genius cousin who finished school early and moved in with us from Paris.
"Morning Freaks." I said mushing their hair and went to the fridge, When I closed the fridge I had some leftover pizza, some of grandma Esme's cookies and a bottle of orange juice.
"Pig." Kyrie said joining us.
I rolled my eyes then there was a flash followed by a snap.
"That my sister is going on the internet." She smirked and walked out.
I turned panicked to Leigh.
"Help me please." I begged.
"She's teaching me to play the guitar so I won't give you anything." Leigh said. Evil.
"I'll set you up with a guy at school." I suggested.
Leigh narrowed her eyes.
"Fine I will do your chores for a year." I said. She raised her eyebrows.
"And drive you wherever you want." I said flatly.
"Deal, I'll send you something." She said, taking the last bite of cereal, kissed Mason on the cheek then disappeared.
"Come on Mason, where's Anthony?" I asked lifting him off the seat.
"You're asking me?" He said annoyed and walked to the car. He was really grumpy for an eight year old.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" Anthony said bounding down the staircase.
He knew how this would end, three, two, one.
"Whoa!" He exclaimed, he did the same thing everyday and always tripped on the last step and fell face first on the ground.
"How many times Anthony." I rolled my eyes and picked him up and pulled him to the car. He climbed in the back with Mason.
Kyrie was putting lip gloss on looking in the passenger seat mirror.
"You always take forever." She rolled her eyes.
"I'm sorry if you won't help me get grumpy dwarf and clumsy dwarf in the car.
"I already have to wake you up every morning, take some responsibility." Kyrie huffed.
"You didn't wake me up today!" I said, my voice getting louder.
"Oh please, one day compared to how many years?" Kyrie rolled her eyes.
"Well it's not my fault I have to patrol to keep your little princess head safe from evil vampire's who by the way are still trying to kill us!" I shouted.
"You have a huge pack, that is no excuse, you don't have to be out till four every night and we all know the only reason you volunteer is so you and Elijah can go do business!" Kyrie shouted back.
"Elijah has nothing to do with this and I am still a virgin!" I said, I was starting to shake.
"What are you guys talking about? And by the way, school starts in ten minutes." Anthony said from the back seat.
I totally forgot they were there.
I started the car and sped down the driveway onto the main road, I pulled up at Anthony and Mason's school with two minutes to spare.
"Enjoy your day!" I called after them. They ignored me.
Anthony ran over to his group of friends while Mason just walked past everyone with his head down and into the school building.
"Aura, school remember?" Kyrie said waving her hand in front of my face.
"When will you get your own damn car?" I asked exasperated.
"Don't worry, I'll be out of here soon." She rolled her eyes.
I pulled up just as the bell rang for first class.
"I was wondering where you were." Someone said from behind me snaking their arms around my waist.
"Hey Elijah, I thought you were the one who wouldn't be here, you looked like the living dead last night." I said turning around to give him a quick kiss, Kyrie rolled her eyes and strutted off into the building.
"I have to go to class, I'll see you at lunch time." I said slipping out of his arms. Elijah attend the community college two blocks away from my school, he studied music, actually pretty talented, he could play the guitar, piano, flute, drums and even the harmonica. He'd wait for me at my school and hang out with me if there was time and again at lunch.
"You could always skip class." He suggested tugging on my shirt.
I smiled, we were not imprinted, just both shared a mutual attraction on the job. My father was not at all pleased but lightened up a tiny bit thanks to my mom.
"And miss the wonders of horizontal components? I think not. I'll see you at lunch okay." I said walking away.
I was kind of late, if I walked at human speed I would never make it in time but I was a werewolf so...
I was the last one to walk into the class behind a petite blonde.
I sat down next to Maya. My best friend.
She was a hybrid like Kyrie and my mom, her dad was Nahuel and her mom was my moms best friend Kaylen.
She'd already finished high school once but decided to do it again. My cousin Ellery was also doing high school again but she was posing as a junior.
"Where have you been?" She asked.
"argument with Kyrie." I said simply taking out my books.
"What else is new?" Maya rolled her eyes. She's been a witness to many of Kyrie and my disputes.
"She accused me a sleeping with Elijah every night when I have to patrol." I said under my breath.
"Oh my gosh do you?" She asked.
I looked at he and hit her with my pencil-case.
"What do you take me for?" I asked.
"Aura, Maya the class is waiting for you two." my teacher Ms Rane said.
I glared at Maya for a second then opened my book.
Let me tell you something, I am no genius like Kyrie, my mom or Leigh or even Maya. I was a wolf not a vampire, don't get me wrong I wasn't stupid, I managed to scrape a B in a few classes but that was without studying, and not paying attention in class. The only way I really survived was the notes Maya made for me which I only looked at when I crammed for tests.
When the bell rang for the next class I realized I hadn't heard a single word the teacher had said and instead of notes I'd doodled random things on the page. I examined my handy work as I walked to my next class, there was my name in different patterns, Elijah's name with hearts-that embarrassed me, it was so typically girly- there was a wolf, eyes with different types of shading and a drawing of a person getting eaten by a wolf labeled "Kyrie" and "Aura" I laughed out loud at that.
"Whats so funny?" Maya said taking the book from my hand as we arrived at our next class Biology.
"This is embarrassing." She said pointing to Elijah's name.
"Whatever." I said grabbing the book, she moved it out of my reach.
"Like really it's so typically girly, and you're supposed to be all tough Aura that like's things rough and messy." Maya smirked.
"Maya!" I shouted.
"No reason to say it that loud." She said, she moved her head down and let her shoulder length black hair hide her face as people turned around in there seats to look at us.
"What are you people looking at?" I asked narrowing my eyes at them, they quickly turned around facing the front.
The day felt way longer than usual and lunch took forever to come. When the bell for lunch hour finally came I was the first person out of the class.
I smiled when I saw Elijah waiting for me just outside my class room door. He gave me a quick peck on my cheek and took my hand leading the way to his really old but sturdy car.
"So where for lunch?" I asked as I got in.
"How about... some of my moms food?" He asked starting the car.
I loved Emily's cooking.
"Aura! Did Eli kidnap you again?" Emily laughed as we walked into the house.
"Yep, and while I was hungry too." I said hugging her.
"Ha ha, when are you not? Help yourself, I just finished making my monster muffins, they're on the window sill, I have to weed the garden." She said removing her apron, she still had the three scars running down her face and down her shirt, they had gotten lighter though but still really noticable.
I sat down on a seat at the counter while Elijah raided the fridge and grabbed a couple of muffins from the window sill.I helped carry it all up to his room, well actually just one muffin that I was eating.
Elijah's room was typical guy room, clothes everywhere, posters of cars and half-naked girls. Not that it bothered me much, clothes where everywhere in my room and I had pictures of hot guys on the wall.
First thing we did was eat, Emily's cooking was thee best, it was tied with Esme's I couldn't choose which was better.
"Why were you that late this morning?" Elijah asked when I lay down on my back after I was done eating. He was on his stomach staring at me.
"Well aside from the fact that I was out till four last night patrolling, I had a fight with Kyrie this morning. It would probably still be going on if Anthony hadn't reminded me of school.
"When are you two never fighting?" He said crawling up to me.
"When we sleep. How do you wake up in the morning in time for school? You're out as late as I am." I said.
"Speaking of last night." He said and crawled up all the way, he placed his arms on either side of my head and kissed me.
Okay so I had lied a tiny bit to Kyrie this morning about being a virgin, but that wasn't why I patroled until four am every night. It actually happened when I was skipping school and my parents were out hunting with Leigh.
Except for last night when we took a break at around ten pm when his parents had gone out.
He suddenly stopped kissing me and looked at the clock.
"Skipping one class won't hurt." He shrugged and started kissing me again.
He ripped off his shirt.
"Your mom's downstairs." I warned.
"My rooms sound proofed for the music." He said trying to kiss me again.
"The doors unlocked." I said stopping him again.
In a flash he slammed me against the door, turned the lock and started kissing me again.
"And where have you been?" Maya asked when I walked into the fifth class and sat down.
"With Elijah." I said, still a bit dazed.
"Mmmhhmm." Maya rolled her eyes, I kicked her under the desk.
"Oh yeah look at what you sister put on the internet." She said taking out her phone.
She brought up the picture Kyrie had taken this morning of me with my mouth full of food and rolling my eyes.
I checked my phone, I had one new message from Leigh. She'd sent me my revenge picture, I don't even know how she gets them she just always has blackmail pictures.
It was a picture of Kyrie, she was also eating, she may not have had her mouth stuffed but she did sneeze at that moment with her mouth wide open.
I put it on the internet.
The rest of the day seemed to take forever, and I avoided Kyrie like the plague. I knew she was following my scent around school to try and catch up to me and rip my head off. When the bell to final period rang I was the first one out of the class. Though my plan to jump into my car and be out of the gate before Kyrie came was immediately canceled when I saw her leaning against my car.
She was glaring at me with her arms crossed, tapping her high heels against the ground impatiently. I took as long as possible to get my keys out and open the car, though even though I was moving as slow as possible the confrontation just came so fast.
Next thing I know I'm pulling up in the driveway of our house, Anthony and Mason in the back.
Kyrie was seething, glaring straight ahead out of the windscreen.
Anthony and Mason, realizing that a major argument was about to break out got quickly out of the car and ran inside the house.
"You are going to pay for that." Kyrie said, her eyes moving to me, the phrase 'if looks could kill' flashed through my mind.
"Pay for what? Getting even? You had no reason to put that picture out and you have no reason to get angry, if you can't take what you dish out grow the hell up." I said and got out.
"Oh please, stop preaching about how we should grow up, we all know you're way past grown up since you go bang Elijah every night. Then you come home and pretend to be daddy's little wolfy ang- Ow!"
I ran over to her and pulled her hair cutting her off.
"Say one more thing about my sex life and I will rip your hair off your pretty little head." I growled.
She twisted around and punched me in my stomach. I flew back several yards into a tree.
When I got up I was a wolf. I launched at Kyrie my teeth aiming for her throat, then I was knocked in the side and was sent flying into another tree.
Aura stop it! Leigh screamed in my head. She had turned into a wolf.
Don't get in the way Leigh. I thought getting up again and shaking off my fur.
You two fight almost every day, why not just act like the older sister you are and stop taking everything she says so personally. You don't have to get so stressed when she comments on your sex life, she's trying to live through you until she turns eighteen, and teasing you and making you angry just reminds her that you are a normal person. Leigh thought. I really hated her speeches, they were just infuriating cheerful and wise.
I heard that, and I don't know if I should be angry about it or thank you. She thought.
Just go get me some clothes Leigh I thought rolling my eyes.
She was still in human form, she could communicate with wolves without turning into a wolf though she could turn when she wanted to.
She dashed inside. Kyrie was still staring at me, her eyes wide. I guess she was stunned that I actually tried to kill her. We have had our fights but not this bad.
She turned around and ran at full speed into the house, I heard her door slam.
Leigh came out a few seconds later with a sequined sun dress.
You're just like Alice I thought rolling my eyes, she just grinned.
When I had changed back and dressed I ran to Kyrie's room and knocked on the door.
"Kyrie! Kyrie I am so sorry I didn't mean to-"
"Just go away Aura!" She shouted.
"But Ky-"
"Go away!" She screamed.
I backed away to my room and sighed.
How am I gonna fix this?
Luckily my parents were gone for the week, we don't usually go all out like that and barely ever fight when my parents were around.
For now I tried to do my homework, I read through the notes Maya had wrote in my book but kept thinking about other things. Eventually I fell asleep.
I woke up about an hour or so later, the smell of food wafting up from downstairs. I was downstairs in seconds.
Mason and Anthony were playing video games and Leigh sat on the couch behind them cheering both of them on.
I could still hear Kyrie in her room, she was listening to music.
They were done eating so I went to the food and dished a heap onto a large plate.
"Did Anthony and Mason finish their homework?" I asked Leigh, she was in charge of supervising the twins.
"Well half, I told them to take a break for a while and continue later." She said.
"And did you read through the notes mom left for you?" I asked.
"I finished all of it monday." She said and pulled a face.
"Smartass." I muttered.
"Heard that." She said.
"Is Kyrie still mad at me?" I asked around a mouthful.
"Yep."
I sat down and finished my supper. When I was done Leigh told the twins to put the game off.
Leigh was helping Anthony and Mason with their homework while I did the dishes, it was supposed to be Kyrie's turn.
"Leigh I'm gonna hit the sack okay, make sure their in bed by ten please." I said yawning, I had asked Micah to take my shift tonight.
"Okay." Leigh smiled.
When I got to my room I immediately collapsed on my bed and fell asleep again.
When I woke up the sun was already high up in the sky behind a thin layer of clouds. Not that our family really needed to live in area's with constant cloud cover the only reason we live here anyway is because my mom wants to be close to her family.
I panicked at first thinking I was late for school then I realized it was Saturday.
I shuffled downstairs in my pajamas, yawning and stretching. Anthony was the only one downstairs playing video games.
"Hey Anth, where are the others?" I asked.
"Leigh and Mason went to the mall and Kyrie went to Ellery. Elijah was here too, I told him you were sleeping and he said to call when you woke up, something about a scent during the night near our house." He said, my eyes flashed at the last sentence. He was still a bit young to understand what we were.
I ran to the phone and dialed Elijah.
"Aura." He said sounding both relieved and stressed.
"What happened?" I asked, I was pulling on a jeans as I talked.
"We got a scent about two kilometers from your house, we traced it through town and then near your grandparents house and then it went to the mountains and disappeared." he said in a rush.
"Maybe its someone my grandparents know, sit tight, I'll be right there." I said and ended the call.
I then dialed my grandpa Edward's number.
"Aura-bella?" He asked sounding puzzled.
"Hey grandpa, I need you to meet me at the Quilette border, we caught an unrecognisable scent, Elijah says it passed about two kilometers from our house then went through town and near your house then it disappeared in the mountains." I said I was walking out the door.
Just before I started running I dialed Maya's number.
"Hey A." she said a bit sleepily.
"Can you come and watch Anthony for while, I need to head out on wolf business. I'll explain when I get back." I said quickly.
"Sure be there in two." I ended the call and took off.
I was at the border in ten minutes, I would have been quicker in wolf form but I prefered walking.
My grandfather was there already, as well as Elijah, Micah and Henry.
"I don't recognise the scent but what I can tell you is that its a hybrid. Smell's almost like your mother, as Bella describes it, its the perfect balance between the most delicious food and the most lovely smelling flower." He said.
"But how would there be more hybrids, and more importantly why are they here?" I asked.
"Maybe we should follow it." Henry suggested.
"I think so too, it might lead us to a coven, but you should not go alone, a few of us will go with you." Edward said.
"So when should we tackle this?" I asked and looked up.
The sky had turned dark very quickly and the animals were silent.
"We should go today, it'll rain in a few hour's and wash the scent away." I said.
"Gather a few people up, we'll meet back here in thirty minutes." Edward said.
Instead of numbers I collected skill, I took the most experienced wolves, Elijah, Henry, Rayleigh and Keenan. They were all roughly my age give or take a year or two.
Henry was a year younger than me, his parents were Jared and Kim, Rayleigh and Keenan were twins, their parents were Brady and his wife (not imprint) Carrey.
The others were either too young or on patrol duty, but it was sufficient, When we met back at the border, my grandfather was there with Bella, Alice, Jasper, Emmett and Carlisle.
He led the way, I could feel Leigh watching through my mind, she was still at the mall, watching a movie with Mason but not paying attention.
Stop worrying Leigh, I'll be fine, concentrate on the movie. I thought to her, the rest of my pack couldn't hear her voice, only mine but she could make her thoughts available to anyone in our pack if she wanted, she could turn too, she just prefered not to.
Up till Leigh was about ten years old, we all though she was like Kyrie, a vampire hybrid. We thought that maybe her human gene was more dominant since she grew slower than Kyrie, then my mom was scolding her one day, I can't remember what for, she was yelling right back, she looked about thirteen already. Then she stormed outside. Mason followed her but just as he got to the back door she exploded, her clothes fell like confetti around her, she was so shocked she turned back human. Kyrie and I ran to her and helped her. She only turned a few times after that but by accident, she didn't want to join the pack.
Most of the time she just pretended she was human like Mason, she walked slowly, ran slowly, did the dishes slowly, she even let herself be a clutz just to seem normal.
Please stop thinking about that. She thought, and she closed the connection, just before she did I saw her let a tear escape in the movie theater and glance at Mason. Maybe there was more to the story.
We followed the scent to the mountains, it disappeared just like Elijah had said, but my grandfather picked it up again a few kilometers on the opposite side of the mountain then a bunch of different scents spread out.
"Carlisle and Emmett take the northern scent, Alice, Jasper will take the north west, Bella and I will take the north east, Elijah and Rayleigh take the west and Aura and Henry will take the east. Keenan will you come with us for contact?" My grandfather asked, and Keenan nodded. He looked to me. I nodded and followed the east scent, Henry followed behind me. after about half an hour I picked up a fresh scent, I started running Henry sped up with me. Then another scent forked out from the first leading a separate direction.
Henry, take that one I'll be fine, the others will be here to back us up soon. I thought.
She barked once and followed the other scent.
I was getting closer to my target, I could hear the fast heartbeat, like a hummingbirds wings. I could also hear laboured breathing, my target was getting tired and slowing down. Then I was thrown from behind into the trees, a loud crashing sound came and the trees I crashed into splintered and fell.
I was dazed, when I snapped out of it I felt the crippling pain in my leg. My left leg had crashed onto a huge splinter, a huge gash with the wood sticking right through.
I howled and then it turned into screaming as I became human. My body automatically shifted with the pain.
"That must hurt." Said a cocky voice behind me.
I tried to look at the owner but I couldn't move my head, my whole body was shaking. I had to get the splinter out. I breathed deeply through my teeth. This was going to hurt.
I took a deep breath and wrenched the splinter from my leg without giving myself time to change my mind. Another scream ripped its way from my throat.
When my scream faded away I fell back onto the debris. I didn't even care who the hybrid was or the fact that I was totally nude. I was just tired and had no energy to lift the long sweatshirt that was tied to my ankles.
When I finally had enough energy, I lifted my head and inch to see that my leg had fully healed. I untied the sweatshirt and slipped it on really slowly, my body was still aching all over and my hands wouldn't keep still.
I stood up to face the hybrid. I got up too fast, saw only a flash of green and then went blind and dizzy and fell forward.
"Woah!" someone said then I felt arms around me.
A few seconds later I could see again and saw that the hybrid I was following had been the one to catch me. In a fluid move flipped over his shoulders to his back and shoved his head to the ground with one hand while holding both his arms in the other.
"Who made you?" I asked.
"And why should I tell you that?" He sneered.
"Because I can rip your pretty little head off right here and now." I growled and pulled his hair.
"That wouldn't help you. Besides if you do that, my family will be after you, your precious pack won't be able to save you." He said.
"Tell me, who created you!" I said tugging even harder.
Then in a second I was the one pinned on the ground. The hybrid had my arms pinned on either side of me with his own and when I tried moving my legs he sat down on them, his mouth inches from my neck. His dark, curly locks falling all over my face.
"I assume that you have heard that vampire venom can kill a shifter." He said and I stopped struggling.
"Of course I wouldn't kill someone as pretty as you. Oh no, I'm a gentleman." He smiled and looked into my eyes.
His eyes were dark almost black.
"Some gentleman you are, pinning me down like this." I growled.
"Well you were trying to kill me." He shrugged.
"What are you doing here?" I asked ignoring him.
"Well I live here." He said.
"No other vampire's live here except the Cullens." I said narrowing my eyes.
"Please, there are plenty of vampires that live in places you don't know. Technically you're in our territory and I have every right to attack you." He whispered as he brought his head closer.
"Who are you?" I asked.
He sat back up.
"Alexander." He said. "Your turn."
"What if I choose not to say my name." I said with as much dignity I could muster while being pinned down by him.
"I know you're a Cullen, that much is pretty simple, but you're not a vampire, you're one of those shifters." He said.
"How do you know what we're actually called? Most vampires assume we're werewolves..." I narrowed my eyes.
Then in a flash he was off me and I was on my feet. Edward, Bella and Keenan had come, Edward had thrown him off of me.
Alexander landed on his feet and ran. Edward ran after him and we all followed.
He was almost as fast as Edward but he was slowing down gradually.
Then Edward caught him and pinned him against a tree. The tree groaned from the pressure.
"Where do you come from?" Edward snarled.
Alexander said nothing, his face defiant.
"His not giving anything away, he's trained his mind to not give information." Edward said to us.
"Unhand him Edward, need I remind you that this is not your territory?" A voice said from the opposite side of the small clearing.
Edward's eyes widened when he turned to look at the new comer.
"Aro." Edward snarled.
Alexander took that moment to wrench out of Edward's grip and ran over to Aro.
I've heard stories of the voltury from my parents, they didn't know what happened to Aro and the others after the Italian speaking guy took over, my parent's said they just kind of disappeared.
"Where have you been hiding Aro?" Edward growled.
"Oh we've been here for about sixteen years, ask your lovely wife, I would assume she would have told you." Aro said. "I see you've met my son Alexander, he was born about three years before we came here." Aro said, a smirk on his face.
"Might I ask where the rest of your lovely coven is? I would have expected more than a handful to take on mine."
"We're not here to fight Aro, that's the last thing we'd want to do, we were not aware of where your coven was situated." Bella said, she tried making her voice less cold but it still came out that way.
"Of course you would not Bella, we all want peace." Aro said, with a kind of sickening mellowness.
"We'll be leaving then." Bella said, she pulled Edward slowly along with her.
"Wait," I said. All eyes shifted to me, kinda creepy.
I swallowed and continued. "If you are going to be hunting humans, the reservation as well as the town is off limits, we will attack immediately if an outsider sets foot over the boundary." I said squaring my shoulders as I spoke.
"Certainly Miss..." Aro said.
"Aura." I said.
"We will keep out of your tribe boundaries Miss Cullen." Aro said.
I didn't even bother correcting him, I just wanted to get out. Edward and Bella left, I followed them and Keenan after me.
We ran until we were back at the reservation boundary line.
"Why didn't you tell me Bella?" Edward said, he actually half shouted but tried to contain it.
"I don't know, I was scared okay, I couldn't just go 'Hey Edward, while I was hunting with Nessie and she was heavily pregnant I ran into that psychotic vampire Aro, you remember him right? He's our new neighbour.'" Bella said very fast, her words almost one word.
"So you wait sixteen years?And even then you don't tell me, I have to hear it from Aro himself!" Edward this time shouted.
I spoke before Bella could. "Hey you two can do this later can we discuss the plan now?" I asked.
"There is no plan Aura, as long as they follow the rules they can stay here, we'll just start an unnessessary war if we attack them." Edward said exasperated.
"Well we can't just sit here either, you know their planning something, why else would they situate themselves so close to our territory?" I said heatedly.
"Yeah well we can't prove that, besides we have no idea how many coven members they have. We should just sit tight, be vigilant until they make a move. We need your pack to expand the patrol trail, around the town, include all of our coven's houses and the mountains just outside of their territory."
"That's a huge area, I don't think we have enough wolves to cover that. Everyone would have to be on patrol, we're not vampire's we need sleep." I said.
"There will be an explosion of young wolves, this much vampires so close to the reservation is bound to awaken some soon."
"We can't guarantee that."
"We'll help too." Bella said.
"Help? How?" I narrowed my eyes.
"We'll patrol as well, we'll do it in shifts, and I'm sure Jacob's pack will too."
"So this is all we've got?"
"Pretty much." Edward shrugged. I sighed.
"Fine. Rayleigh, Keenan and Elijah gather the others and meet me at the bonfire site, we need to work out the shifts. You guys have to be there too." I said to my grandparents.
"What time?"
"At around eight pm."
"Should we get your dad's pack too?" Rayleigh asked.
"Yeah, my dad's coming home tomorrow so I'll tell him then." I said and stretched.
"We'll see you tonight then." Edward said then disappeared with Bella. Elijah and the others left as well. I went home.
When I got home I sent Leigh and Kyrie a message to get home.
"So what happened?" Maya asked when I put the phone down.
"We tracked a scent past the mountains and ran into this coven, turns out they're the famous voltury." I said.
"I thought they were defeated."
"These are the one's who disappeared. My understanding is that they have a lot of hybrids. We were tracking a hybrid."
"So what's the plan?"
"There is none, Edward just said that we have to expand our patrol trail. I called a meeting tonight to discuss the shifts."
"I'll help too."
"You don't have to."
"I'm older than you, I can handle myself." She said crossing her arms.
"Fine knock yourself out." I rolled my eyes.
"There's a bonfire tonight?" Anthony asked excitedly.
"You can't come, its pack business." I said.
"Please! Please, please, please!" He begged.
"No Anth, you have to stay here with Leigh, Mason and Kyrie."
"But I'm gonna be a wolf too." He whined.
"Not for a while kid." I said, though it might be sooner since there are a lot more vampires. But he was only eight, it was really doubtful.
"This sucks, I never get in on the fun stuff." He said and kicked the counter.
"Ow!" He hopped up and down.
"Convincing argument." I said sarcastically.
"What's the emergency?" Kyrie said coming through the back door.
"We have a meeting with the pack about a new coven of vamps in town, I need you to watch the kids." I said.
"A new coven? Are they a threat?"
"Well they are the new and improved voltury we've heard so much about." Maya said.
Kyrie gasped.
"You're lying." She said.
"No lies, Aura saw the leader Aro herself."
"Well then I'm going." Kyrie said.
"No you're not, you're only sixteen." I said.
"I've been physically eighteen for nine years Aura."
"Like I care, you're still my younger sister and I'm not letting you near those creeps."
"I would like to see you try and stop me, this is my home too and my family, I won't hide when I'm fully capable of protecting them." She said looking straight into my eyes.
"Let her go Aura, she can handle herself, she used to train with Emmett and I." Maya said.
"We're not attacking them! It's just a strategy meeting, we need to get a patrol roster because Edward wants to expand the patrol route. You don't need to patrol." I said.
"If he's expanding the route you're going to need as many people as you can get, you don't have that many wolves." She said crossing her arms.
"We're expecting more, now that there are even more vampires, we're bound to have new wolves soon." I shrugged.
"You would have to train them to control the shifting. You're running out of excuses, I'm going." She said then walked up the stairs to her room, her stilettos clicking, as they always do, on the floor.
"Thanks a lot Maya!" I said angrily hitting her arm.
"We need more people and she can handle herself." She said simply.
"You're a terrible friend." I said crossing my arms and going to the living room.
"It's why you love me!" She laughed.
"So tonight will be Rayleigh, Henry and Kyrie around the town, Keenan and Maya will take the reservation, Emmett, Jasper, Elijah and Edward will take the mountains. Shifts switch at twelve. Ellery and Nick will take the reservation, Dean, Victor the town, Bella, Edward, Alice and I the mountains. Those will be till four am." I finished.
"Sounds good."
"Keenan you'll have to watch for new wolves tonight, you know what to do right?" I said.
"Yep, I have to calm them down and explain." He said.
"So we're starting right now." I said getting up, dusting my jeans off and stretching.
I went back home, I let Kyrie take the first shift so we could alternate looking after Leigh, Anthony and Mason.
I paused and narrowed my eyes at the bushes.
"You three come out right now!" I yelled. They were really bad spys, especially if their spying on mythical creatures.
"What gave us away?" Anthony whined.
"Please, I heard you when you got here, you're not the most quiet person. You were really clumsy, kicking rocks and moving the branches." I rolled my eyes.
"I told you not to touch anything!" Leigh said hitting him over the head.
"You should have told them to stay at home! Its way too dangerous to be out right now." I said.
"Well I like being updated." She shrugged.
"I would have told you when I got home."
"No you wouldn't.?" She raised her eyebrows. She was right.
"You're too young to worry about this, please just stay away from the tribe meetings." I said.
"Fine, fine." She shrugged, I could see she was lying.
"I will lock you in a titanium cell one of these days." I rolled my eyes and started pushing them in the direction of the house.
"Wait here." I said when we got to the trees." I went into the trees, shifted, took my clothes in my mouth and went back to them. I gave my clothes to Leigh and bent down so they could climb on.
We got home fairly quickly, about three minutes. When Anthony and Mason hopped off, they were dizzy.
"That was awesome!" Anthony exclaimed, he was walking skew.
"Maybe you shouldn't have ran so fast." Leigh said hopping off me too. She put my clothes down and went to help Mason and Anthony into the house. I gave a kind of wolf laugh, more like a grunt then shifted back.
I decided to spend the four hours I had till my shift by doing what I really needed to do. Sleep.
"Aura, come on, you told me to wake you half an hour before your shift." Leigh said shaking me awake.
"Can you make me coffee?" I asked rolling over to face her.
"Sure." She said and left.
It took a lot of will power to not fall asleep again and get up. When I got downstairs, the house was quiet and only a few lights were on.
"Anth and Mason asleep?" I asked taking the cup Leigh handed me.
"Yeah, they went to bed around ten." She said.
"What were you doing all the time?"
"Playing video games." She shrugged.
"You're just one of the guys, add some glasses when you go to school and you'll be a nerd every guy would wanna date." I laughed.
"I'm so glad I can finally go, just a few more months." She clapped her hands. "Have you heard back from any of the universities yet?"
"I haven't applied to any, I'm taking a gap year. I'll start next year, not like I'm running out of time."
"What about law, or environmental studies?"
"Let's not discuss my future right now, how about you tell me what the deal is with you and Mason? Why did you tear up earlier?"
"You saw that." She sighed.
"Yeah and I want to know what happened."
"Its really personal I don't feel like talking about it." She said softly and looking down at her feet.
"Come on Leigh."
"I don't want to talk about it!" She shouted and stormed out of the back door.
"Leigh!" I said rushing after her. When I got to the back door I saw a cloud of material falling onto the grass, she phased and she was running straight for the mountains.