*All Belongs to Stephanie Meyers; I do not own Twilight*
Prologue
Hearing the door knock, Edward jumped up in surprise. He would have felt the vibrations of the floor or smelt the person. Frowning, he walked up to the doorway and very quickly swung the door open. Expecting someone standing there; there seemed to be no one. Edward looked down to his feet to find a journal sized book, it was black and hard covered. Sniffing the doorway suspiciously (and yet not finding any source of lingering smells) he grabbed the book and shut the door.
"Alice?" He asked in a mild tone. No longer then a few seconds later, had his pixie accented sister stepped into view. "What?" She questioned, her voice annoyed like he had interrupted something.
"I found this." And he plopped the thing into her pale hands.
Alice frowned un-concerned. But as she flipped through the pages, her eyes grew wide in shock. Edward tried to read her mind, but all he got was difficult math equations.
"What is it Alice? Let me see it back." She sighed annoyed and flipped open to the front page and stretched her arm to reveal it to him. It read: BOOK THREE: bella
"So?" Edward asked. "There are plenty of people out there who have the name Bella."
Alice shook her head. "You are un-believable. This is important; get everyone to the sitting room. I'll be waiting. We need to read this book." She took off swiftly, holding the black book.
"Rosalie," He said walking up the stairs. "Emmett, Jasper, Carlisle, Esme?"
Four of the five came out of the rooms while Rosalie came out of the bathroom.
"What Edward?" Some muttered, obviously busy.
"I found a book at the front door; Alice thinks its something important and wants to meet all of us in the sitting room to read it." Edward replied.
Rosalie rolled her eyes. "Let me just finish giving Bella a bath and then we will both meet you down there." Without a reply, she shut the door with a snap.
After about ten minutes, Rosalie came down holding Bella who was shaking. Her skin was bland, she had dark circles under her eyes, she was bony and thin, and worst of all; her stomach was bulging to a large extent, bruises slowly growing on the skin.
"Rosalie said there was something important for us to do, what's going on?" Bella asked in a hoarse voice. Rosalie smiled kindly, (which was a rare trait) "Just reading a book Bella, come on." She led her softly down on one of the couches.
Edward clenched his fists fighting back the urge to spring on her and to remove that vile thing that was destroying his precious Bella. But he didn't; Bella was protected by Rosalie, and Rosalie was protected by Emmett. Plus, it would break Bella's heart.
"Everyone ready?" Alice piped up. Everyone nodded.
She opened the book and began to read.
No longer just a nightmare, the line of black advanced on us through the icy mist stirred up by their feet. We're going to die, I thought in panic.
"What's going on?" Carlisle asked clearly confused.
"It's the preface." Alice answered quickly.
I was desperate for the precious one I guarded, but even to think of that was a lapse in attention I could not afford. They ghosted closer, their dark robes billowing slightly with the movement. I saw their hands curl into bone-colored claws. They drifted apart, angling to come at us from all sides. We were out numbered. It was over. And then, like a burst of light from a flash, the whole scene was different. Yet nothing changed—the Volturi-
"What?" Everyone asked clearly shocked.
"Why are the Volturi in this book?" Emmett questioned.
Alice sighed annoyed. "It's a book about Bella, now let me finish."
-still stalked toward us, poised to kill. All that really changed was how the picture looked to me. Suddenly, I was hungry for it. I wanted them to charge. The panic changed to blood lust as I crouched forward, a smile on my face, and a growl ripped through my bared teeth.
"What is this supposed to mean?" Bella asked shocked. "Am I a vampire or something?"
Everyone clearly just as shocked, Alice flipped to the next page to continue to read.