Chapter 1

"ELLA! WHERE WERE YOU!?" Jane barked annoyed with me.

I attempted to halt to a stop, but nearly face planted it instead luckily Alec caught me. "Thanks," I whispered while he just chuckled in response and patted my shoulder.

"ELLA!" Jane barked once again.

"I was out running," I told her.

"Where Florida? You nearly missed our flight!" she growled at me.

"Sorry Jane, I lost track of time," I told her.

"You lost track of time! UGH! How does Aro continue to expect me to put up with you imbeciles! Especially ones who stink like you, wolf girl!" she snapped at me before walking off ahead of us.

I straightened up shifting uncomfortably used to the remarks. I was half wolf and half vampire. I know quite the mix, which also made me one of Aro's most prized possessions.

"Don't mind her, if vamps could have a time of the month, it would be hers every day," Alec joked swinging his arm around my shoulders.

I smiled at him in thanks. Alec was my best friend in the Volturi. He was the only one who didn't call me the smelly wolf girl behind my back. He stuck by me, maybe because he was with me the moment I woke up at the Volturi house. I shuddered at the memory. It was the scariest moment of my existence. My name is Ariella Volturi, or that was my name now, that wasn't always my name.

When I was three years old, I died, had an open casket funeral and everything except my doctor injected a new drug into me, one that he got from the Volturi. They had been attempting to find someone like me. Someone who had a 'shapeshifter' gene, but was still half human with no shifter genes. Dr. Cullen targeted my human genes with vampire venom while leaving my shifter gene untouched unlike vampires who complete the change in a day. I took an entire year, and when I woke up my growth had been progressed much like one of a half human half-vampire hybrid. I looked to be about ten years old.

The moment I woke up, I remember looking around the dark room seeing everything so vividly and hearing every little sound and I started crying, because the last thing I remembered was…this void, I remembered being loved and happy, but I couldn't remember anything else. Alec took my hand then and explained where I was…and what I was. He stood by me through every painful event I went through. When I was the physical age of sixteen one year later, I shifted into a wolf. I was a beautiful snowy white color, thanks to my vampire side. I was able to shift back, but it was so confusing to me. I had no one who understood what it was like to be a wolf. No one that understood the pain it was having every muscle and bone in your body expand into a new form. I was surrounded by vampires, who feared the shifters, and therefore feared me as I was a part of both worlds.

"Where did you run to?" Alec asked me breaking me from my thoughts.

I sighed, "Where do you think?" I asked him.

"Ella, please tell me you didn't go to La Push, do you realize how dangerous that was?" he hissed at me angrily.

I hung my head in shame, "I couldn't help it, I had to see it, what if it is the only opportunity I had to ever see the place I was born…the place I died…" I trailed off.

"You are lucky one of the shifters didn't see you, or catch your scent!" he growled at me.

"I was careful, Alec, but…I saw them…" I whispered.

"Who?" he asked me.

"Paul and Jazzlyn Lahote… my parents…" I sighed thinking of the loving man kissing his daughter and the woman who waddled with her huge pregnant belly. I knew she was actually my aunt, but she was the one who raised me. My two brothers and one sister…I had done some research.

"Ella, you're crazy, what if you were caught!" Alec said trying to shake some sense into me, but there was no point.

"I didn't get caught, and I saw them, and it was worth the risk, and now I know, I know why I look the way I do, and the life I could have had. It's closure," I lied it was nowhere near closure. I wanted to talk with them, I wanted to tell them I was alive, I wanted to hear about me as a child from my mother. I wanted to hear about the first time my father shifted into a wolf…I wanted him to hug me as I cried telling him my confusion. I wanted my little brothers to annoy me and to braid my little sister's hair, and I wanted to be there when my youngest sibling was born. I wanted to know that side of me.

"You have a new life, Ella, you aren't Ari anymore, you don't even remember being Ari. You're my best friend, you are a soldier for Aro, you're vampire royalty, with a secret weapon, forget about that other life, you have a life here with me now, but I'm glad you got some closure," Alec sighed.

I sighed leaning my head on his shoulder, "I know, it's just hard, no one gets it, what it's like, and I just wish I could talk to someone that did, you know, I'd like it to be my dad, but…I know Aro would never allow that," I sniffled.

"Why don't you ask him then, to find you a guard dog," he said.

I whacked his arm, "I mean shifter," he corrected.

"He'd never go for it," I replied.

"You're Aro's pride and joy, I bet you could talk him into it," he told me.

I thought about it, and smiled a bit at the thought, it wasn't my dad, but…he'd understand. "It's worth a shot," I agreed.

"Definitely," Alec joked hip bumping me before dragging me onto the plane first class ignoring the weird stares from people that he was wearing sunglasses inside.

"Hey gorgeous," I heard a guy remark as I passed him on the plane.

I scoffed, "In your dreams," I snapped as I slid into my seat beside Alec.

"Fiesty," Alec joked and I just rolled my eyes at him.

"Shut up," I mumbled.

"So are we going to make out the entire ride to pass time, or are you going to read?" he joked.

So Alec and I were fuck buddies. Neither of us wanted anything more than a good time, so we were kind of perfect for each other. I wasn't mentally stable, and Alec suffered from being turned at 14. I didn't mind his small dick and he didn't mind my doggy breath. We were a match made in heaven.

"Make out sounds amazing right now, but I say we fuck when everyone goes to sleep," I smirked at him.

He wiggled his eyebrows at me, "In the bathroom right?" he asked me.

"I do have some class," I joked.

"Oh really," he laughed.

"Really!" I teased him snuggling into his chest and he kissed my head.

So the plane ride went rather quickly since Alec and I made the most of our time on the flight, and when we arrived back at the Volturi mansion he wished me luck on my mission to talk to Aro.

I sighed taking a few breaths fluffing my hair before skipping like a little girl over to Aro. He felt like he got to raise me in some ways, so I kind of played the daddy's little girl card to my advantage.

"Aro!" I cooed jumping into his arms.

"My darling, how are you?" he asked kissing my cheek.

"Great, the trip was fun!" I said cheerfully.

"I bet so my love," he said and I could tell he was reading all my thoughts.

"You went to see your parents?" he asked me softly.

I hung my head in shame, "I'm sorry, I couldn't just lose that opportunity," I told him shyly.

He sighed, "I wish you had conversed with me first, that was mighty risky," he reprimanded.

"I know, I'm sorry," I said waiting for him to bring up my question.

"And as for your question…" he trailed off.

I looked at him hopefully, "Please, Aro, I understand my vampire side so well, but my wolf side, I honestly feel like I trip over my own two feet, and…I feel like there is so much to learn…and…maybe if I understood that side of me better I wouldn't be daydreaming about my parents so much," I offered.

"There is a shifter, that we could arrange that with, Carlisle informed me of one who was not hostile toward them even before they became on much better terms. I will speak to him about sending him, he was around when you were child as well, so he may be able to inform you of that. Let me call Carlisle," he offered.

I nodded excitedly as he pulled out a phone and called Carlisle, "Carlisle, my dear friend, how are you?" he asked.

I could hear Carlisle speak on the other line, "Well and what do I owe this phone call?" he asked.

"Ariella is requesting a shifter come to the Volturi so she can learn that side of herself, I know that none of them in La Push would be willing to join up, but what about that one who ran away?" Aro asked.

Carlisle was silent on the other line, "I haven't spoken with him in years…Aro, I have no idea where he is…you'd have to mention the truth for him to come, though, Seth adored Ariella," he said.

"I will send Demitri to track him then, thank you Carlisle," he said hanging up before Carlisle could object.

"Go gather Demetri would you?" Aro asked me.

I stiffened, and Aro sighed knowing my reason for not being fond of Demetri, "He is another guard member, Ella, you must get over your misgivings," he told me.

I just nodded standing up and hurrying around the castle till I found him taunting and playing a small human girl as he murdered her. I flinched at the sight as I always did when they killed in front of me. Apparently it was my wolf side, "Aro wants you," I told him.

"Alright, you may bring me to him, let me just finish this up," he smirked at me before killing the human girl quickly and I squeezed my eyes shut as her screams echoed through my mind.

"Alright, I'll clean that up later," he winked at me before grabbing me by the butt and leading me toward what I liked to call the throne room where Aro spent most of his time believing he was king of the world.

"Demetri," Aro reprimanded noticing where his hands lay.

Demetri released me and just smiled at me while I raced quickly next to Aro. "I want you to track a shifter for me, he could be anywhere in the US…will be in wolf form, you may bring a sedative, but bring him to me alive. He will not be in La Push, he'll be wandering faraway. Seth Clearwater is the name," Aro informed him.

"Yes sir, I will leave immediately, will I be allowed to bring a companion?" Demetri asked winking at me and I shuddered moving closer to Aro.

"No," Aro said as he took my hand gently and gave it a soothing rub.

"Alright, I will see you later wolf girl," he winked at me before racing off.

"His name is Seth?" I whispered to Aro.

"Seth Clearwater," Aro smiled at me tucking a strand of hair behind my ear before kissing my cheek.

"Now run along, I will inform you when Demetri arrives with your gift," he told me. I nodded racing off, as his name echoed through my mind. Seth Clearwater. His name was Seth Clearwater.