I waited in the over grand hotel with about twenty other people waiting to be took to Volterra castle for the so called 'heart stopping' not to miss tour. I frowned at their choice of words it was just another boring museum and I was only going for the experience but then again who was I to tell of it. I ran away from my home after my annoyingly rich and stuck up parents decided to pack me off to a boarding school, oh yes, Dianne and William Crosswell the royalty of our little yet rich village and their young Karla who is bound to follow in their footsteps. Well I'm not.
I packed a backpack full of money and the essentials and tricked my mum into signing a parental whatever you can go on a plane whatever sheet and off I went. Most people would regret it and come crying back home but I am quite happily enjoying the freedom. I saw the tour advertised and decided to go because even if Volterra is kind of freaky it's not as if they could hurt me.
When I was six I started doing weird magical things like making objects float and disappearing to a place I call forever land, teleporting, being able to use an invisible force to fight with. It came in very handy but it was my secret I had never told anybody, I would be a complete freak if I did. So I was not at all worried at what may happen, I could hide out in forever land for a bit. Forever land is my nickname for the place I go when I want to teleport or disappear, it is all white and goes on forever they are no walls or flooring you just sort of float about and it's really boring unless you are playing hide-and-seek.
I pulled myself away from my thoughts when an inhumanly beautiful woman came over to the tour group. She had violet eyes, wavy brown hair, pale deathly skin and an outfit to make a married man ask for a divorce, now. It was a tight fitting black mini dress and she wore black stilettoes and black gloves. Who knew black was still really sexy I thought it went emo?
She then introduced herself in a crystal voice "Hello, I'm Heidi and I will be your tour guide round Volterra Castle today"
Some people nodded but others were too busy looking at her to register she had spoken. I rolled my eyes and went to follow Heidi; this was the most immature group of people ever. We walked through the small cobbled streets of Italy until we came to a gigantic clock tower with a large heavy wooden door under it. Heidi pushed the door open with ease and I was shocked at her ease but then shrugged, it probably wasn't as heavy as it looked.
"I'm Daniel Hall, twenty one and as bored as you look" said an older boy with messy, black hair and stunning baby blue eyes.
"Look, as nice as this conversation could be you look like a serious flirter and I'm only fourteen but seen as my dad isn't here to tell me off I'm Karla Crosswell" I answered slyly
"What! As in THE Karla Crosswell, daughter of Lady Dianne and Lord William"
"Yada ya, yep it's me but who cares even a spoilt princess like me can be a rebel"
"Haha ok I see ya point oooh look we have come to another big door I think we should stay quiet now"
I nodded silently to Daniel and look over the heads of the rest of the group to see a big pair of double doors. One of them opened and we filed through into a magnificent room. It had big pillars with a dome at the roof, on a raised platform sat three intricately carved wooden thrones and on them sat three people. On the middle one sat a small skinny yet muscular man with black hair, pale skin and….red eyes, he wore an excited expression whereas the one on his left wore a smirk and had blonde hair the one on right just looked bored. They were an odd three but together they screamed danger and power.
My instincts told me to run but I stayed where I was while chanted 'they can't hurt you...they can't hurt you…..they can't hurt you' in my head. I prepared myself for a fight or for a trip to 'forever land' when all of a sudden it started. I heard a scream near the front of a group and a man of about thirty dropped to the floor, dead. The middle man smiled brightly at us but blood stained his lips and teeth.
"I am Aro, I am a vampire and I want to thank you for your sacrifice" he said eagerly
As I on cue everyone started to scream while other vampires drained their life away. I backed up against the wall silently as I clutched Daniels hand, he smiled at me faintly but we could not deny it, we were petrified. I should just teleport with him but I knew I had to wait, what for I did not know but I had to wait.
Then a woman with brown hair and vibrant green eyes came over to us clutching a baby. She looked even more scared than us.
"This is Angelina, she is my world and I love her, she just turned six months today and please take care of my baby girl for me" she whispered franticly
Just then another vampire with blond hair latched onto her and the woman fell limp and I caught Angelina just in time, I gasped at the baby's beauty and unawareness to the mayhem around her. I had to think quickly now and put a shield around me, Daniel and Angelina to stop anyone coming within a foot of us.
The blond smirking leader on the left ran up to us but when he got near my shield I made him be pushed back, flying through the air until he hit a large pillar with a deafening thud, it was then I realised we were the only ones left out of a group of twenty.
All the vampires turned to stare at us and I felt something pushing at my shield, I cradled Angelina in one arm and put my other out to maintain my shields strength. It was hard but finally I felt the weight on it release and I let out a relieved sigh. Aro walked up to us in amazement and he circled around us like we were animals in a zoo.
"H-H-How did you do that? Is it a shield or is it a matter pushing strength or or or the possibilities are endless, and as part of our guard. Well, we would be feared by all, no one would dare question us!" He was extremely hyper like a kid on Christmas day
"Me? Join you! Why would I join a sick psychopath who has just murdered a bunch of innocent humans! Are. You. Joking!" I said in astonishment
"Don't tell me with a power like that your record is clean" the blondie leader guy said
"That" I said slowly "is not the point"
Blondie chuckled to himself and I felt the courage to finally ask questions.
"What are your names?" I said bravely
"I am Caius, this is my wife Athenodora, my brother Marcus and that is Aro and his wife Sulpicia. The rest are Jane, Alec, Felix, Demetri, Corin, Chelsea, Afton, Heidi, Renata. Santiago. What is yours, not that it matters"
"I am Karla Crosswell, this is Daniel Hall and this is Angelina" I said holding Daniel's hand tighter and tighter and making sure my hold on Angelina was secure.
They were all still staring and I didn't know what to do, should we leave or would they track us down, I had already sensed their powers but it did not ease my paranoid mind. Only add to the worry I was facing. Many others seemed to have the same idea 'what do we do with them'.
"Ok it was really nice meeting you but I don't plan on sticking around so got to dash bye" I said teleporting us three to Forever Land.
Once we were in the never ending space I quickly changed our scents to new ones so we couldn't be tracked and then I changed our look to match each other's so we looked more like biological siblings. And then I frowned, changing a full appearance made you immortal so I made me and Daniel look slightly older so we could stay in one place longer and gave us pale blond hair and vibrant green eyes to match Angelina. I couldn't stop her ageing so young I would just have to change her scent.
"Ok Daniel don't freak but I had to change our appearance so look in the mirror" and I made a mirror appear "your new name is Caleb Bennet, you are twenty two years old and we have moved from England after our parents Mary and Jackson died. You were born on 8th August, I am your little sister and so is Angelina" he looked shocked and I moved on "I am Rebekah Bennet, I am sixteen years old and was born on 23rd June" I continued with a deep shaky breath "This is Lulu Bennet she is six months old and was born on 13th January. You are our legal guardian and stay at home all day to car for Lulu while I go to school to keep up an appearance. Us two will never change, we are immortal and as soon as Lulu is older she will be too. We will be safe but Daniel, Karla and Angelina never existed."
He seemed to be taking it ok unlike me so he pulled me into a hug whispered soothing words in my ear; he truly was a big brother.
