People think that the fastest thing in the world is light. Well, they're partly right. But really the fastest thing in the world is the light's opposite. The shadow.
I know, I know. You think I'm crazy. But I'm not. Light is very fast, but shadow is just a bit faster. Shadows hide from the light so they quickly move away from them.
I might not have convinced you yet, but I will soon.
Why I'm talking about shadows and light is because of the Shadow People.
Shadow People must sound really crazy to you. But if you believe in vampires you might as well believe in Shadow People.
Shadow people are very tall and slender. A lot of people say they are quite beautiful. They have very dark hair. Usually dark brown, black, or dark red. It's very rare for dirty blond hair. Shadow People always have black eyes but if they are really powerful they have dark, very dark, blue eyes. And they are very strong in both their humanity and unnatural powers. And when I say unnatural powers, I mean unnatural.
There are threes powers and only three. Each Shadow Person has one of these powers. The powers are Shape Shifting, The Sight, and Reflection.
Shape Shifting allows the Shadow Person to, of course, shape shift into anything of their choice. Though when that Shadow Person chooses to become immortal, the last creature they turned into is the creature they are stuck with for eternity. Shadow People whom posses this power feel a slight pain when they shape shift because of the bone structures moving.
The Sight is a whole lot more painful. They can see Lost Souls and see into the future but the worst part is yet to come. When they see a Lost Soul or a person in the future, they feel what's happened to them or what's going to happen to them. Which usually ends up as pain.
The last power, Reflection, is the most powerful. The Reflection allows the Shadow Person to take anyone's power and use it for their own if they pay attention to only the person's eyes or if the person allows them to use it.
They have more powers but I'll tell them to you as we go along.
Shadow people travel in-groups of three. All groups have every power and Shadow People have to find their groups. They usually feel a sort of bond when they first see a group member. My group has been together since I was in sixth grade.
Hi, I'm Echo Noel and I'm a Shadow Girl. I have shoulder length dark wavy brown hair and I'm five-foot-ten. My power is Reflection.
Mica is the Shape Shifter in our group. She has waist long black straight hair and she's two inches shorter then me.
And Fate is our Sight. The name fits real well doesn't it? Well Fate has the rare dirty blond hair and it reaches to her shoulders and is curly. She's about the same height as me.
We all became a group when Mica and I were in sixth grade and Fate was in seventh.
I had already met Mica in the third grade so we always hung out by ourselves at recess and lunch.
Fate was a year older then us so we didn't met her till we were in the first day of sixth grade. We were in a theater arts class with a lot of seventh graders so we were stuck with second lunch on A-days.
We sat down at a table by ourselves and started talking when I felt a nudge in the back of my head. I could tell Mica felt a nudge too because she was looking around like I was.
That's when I saw Fate sitting alone at a round table in the middle of the cafeteria. She was looking at us and we walked over to her table and ate lunch with her. We knew what she was and she knew what we were so it was all settled. Our group was filled.
I know you thinking 'Hey, what's this got to do with the Volutri?' Well I'm getting to the point of all this.
In fact I'm telling you this right now in the hallways of the Tower of Volterra. But let me tell you what happened just three days ago.
Mica and I had just started High school and our history teacher, Mr. Pettway, gave us an assignment of learning about our ancestors and where they came from. But it had to be from our mother's side.
I already knew that I was part Irish because of my mother's side but that was all I knew.
So that night I was in the attic looking for an old family tree. The project wasn't due for a week but I always liked finishing homework as soon as I can.
My dad's human and my mom is a Shadow Person so she has two family tree books. One that is all true. All the family members and if they were immortal and all. And the other is what a human would believe. Real birth and death dates, which were not real to me.
I was looking for the Human family tree when I found the Shadow one. I decided to look through that one to see if I could savage anything but it looked as if my grandfather was an immortal for two centuries. And my great grandfather lived two centuries before him so I really couldn't do anything.
I was about to shut the book when I saw and blank on the page.
It was my great great grandmother from who knows how far back. And she didn't have a husband line, yet my great grandfather was her son.
I looked over the page and saw nothing that answered why it was as it was.
There was a loud bang downstairs which made me drop the book. "Mom you okay down there?" I called down the attic stairs. "Yes dear. Just dropped a couple of pans on the floor!" She called back.
I giggled. What a clumsy mother.
I picked up the Shadow family tree and noticed a letter and a drawing of a man fell out. The letter was very old so I thought it could have come from a dairy from my great great grandmother.
I read the letter and it was from my great great grandmother. But she only wrote a few lines.
I was engaged to him because I was to give birth to his child that we made together two months before father knew that we even loved each other. We were to marry but he left four weeks ago before and never came back. To this day I haven't told my son about his real father, Lord Volturi.
That's how I ended up here in Italy with Mica and Fate. I wanted to know what happened back then and mother didn't know anything about it either. So she let me go to Italy with Mica and Fate by ourselves. It took major convincing to my father but he still doesn't understand that Shadow People can take car of them selves.
But we got here and we're not leaving till I get some answers.
Fate had a headache. And a bad one at that. So I went alone in Volterra while Mica stayed with Fate.
I was walking in the main square when I saw a woman who was totally covered in clothing and was leading a bunch of tourist into Volterra Tower. I walked up to her and asked her if they were going inside. She gave me an unnaturally beautiful smile and said yes. Her voice sounded like singing birds.
So know we are at the present time where I'm following this woman through the halls and I felt something wrong was going to happen.
I put my shield up which would protect me mentally and physically when we reached two huge doors. The doors opened and a man said, "Welcome to Volterra Tower!"
Me and the other tourist walked in and the doors quickly shut behind us. I suddenly heard screaming and snapping.
I looked around and saw people in black robes snapping people necks and some with their mouths to the people's wrist.
Suddenly a guy with brown hair and red eyes was in front of me and was trying to grab me. Man, am I glad to have put my shield up when I did! But how do I get out of here? I can't turn into a shadow and run while my shield is up but I can't take my shield off without these monsters getting me before I had a chance to turn myself into a shadow.
Then I felt a nudge in my head. I looked around at the monsters with red eyes. They all looked mad and confused because they couldn't get to me.
When my eyes fell on a man sitting in a throne between two other thrones I took the drawing (The drawing of a man I found in the attic and took with me) out of my pocket and looked between it and the man on the throne.
He was starring at me with great interest and said, "Leave her be for the moment."
He got up from his throne and walked to me.
"Lord Volturi?" I whispered.
He looked at me with a smile. "Please. Call me Aro. And how, may I ask, do you know me?" He said. He tried to grab my hand but my shield wouldn't let he get two inches close to me.
I handed him the drawing in my hand.
"I know you because of that drawing and a letter from my grandmother from who knows how many centuries ago." I said in a hushed voice.
Aro looked at me in confusion.
"I guess you can't remember much from your human life. But Aro . . . I might just be your great great granddaughter." I said.
