Summery: Its been years since the Volturi and the Cullens went face to face with eachother. Now the Volturi have decided to declare war on the Cullens and destroy the coven. Stefan and Vladamir have a crazy idea that might just help. Awakening a godess; with Embrys blood. Is his fate morbid? Or will he finally find a soul mate?
A/N: This is a big oneshot guys. It may be a little over the top but just bare with me. Hope you like it! Hit me with some feedback! ~Raquel
Old Legends:
"Come on Carlisle! There has to be someone on this Earth who is stronger than the Volturi!" Jake screamed. Renesme was 21 years old and the Volturi were back for revenge. They've already killed off a lot if the vampires that helped stand up to them. The Amazon Coven has been wiped out. Half of the Egyptian Clan is gone and they tried to get the Romanians but they survived. Now we've all joined together once more to try and stop the Volturi once and for all. We're all very scared, but if we're going to die anyway we might as well fight too. Right now the Denali Clan, the Romanians, Benjamin, Tia, Garrett, Alistair, Charles, Makenna, and Seth are here with us now. The rest of them went to hunt.
Renesme, in order to try and calm Jake down, went over to him and rubbed his arm, "Jake I'm sure we'll think of something. We just need time."
"That's exactly what we don't have!" Stefan bellowed making Renesme jump slightly, "We don't have time to sit here and plot out things to do! They are coming!"
"Hey! Calm down!" Jake said shaking and advancing towards him. That got the Romanians to growl and lower into a fighting stance.
"Enough!" I yelled, "We aren't going to get anywhere if we're all at each other's throats! We need to figure something out. And quickly."
Edward turned slightly to the Romanians, "What was that last thought you just had? Something about a... Goddess?"
I raised an eyebrow at them, "Hmm?"
Vladimir narrowed his eyes, "It's nothing. Just old legends. It won't help us now." He turned his look to Stefan warning him to shut up.
Edwards head snapped to Carlisle, "You know what they're talking about?"
Carlisle looked exasperated at him. "Care to elaborate on what's going on here?" Tanya interjected, "It does involve all of us you know."
We turned to Stefan and Vladimir, "There's this... Legend. About how Vampires were created. It started off with just one group created. We don't know how they were created. Theories are a group of humans made a deal with the devil. They became all powerful with every power known to us. They soon split. Two of then sought to use their power for evil. They said that beings like them weren't meant to stay hidden. They were meant to rule the entire world and kill everything that stood in their way. A battle was fought. Permanently killing one of the good vampires. Goddess Anastasias mate. The other two were said to have been sent to hell and Anastasia put herself into slumber. She couldn't stand life without him. She came back a few times and took consorts, but eventually always went back to slumber." Stefan continued walking around, he seemed entranced in his own story, I on the other hand, thought he was losing it, "Her skin is as warm or cold as the one she touches but as soft as silk. She does have fangs, they all did. Vampires like us evolved into what we are. She's unbreakable and invincible. Only great power, like her own, could kill her permanently. She has every power known to the vampire world, maybe more. It's said that since she took consorts you can weaken her enough to send her back to her tomb, back to slumber. The only way to wake her is to give her untainted blood."
I narrowed my eyes, "Untainted?"
"The blood either has to be from a Virgin human or from something that hasn't been mated yet." He smiled, "Untainted and untaken."
"But of course these are all just legends." Vladimir added, "Stories our people made up to explain the events that took place centuries ago. The Roman Empress Anastasia is just a myth."
"Carlisle?" Edward asked
He sighed, "Well when I was with the Volturi they did speak about a tomb in Rome that they kept guarded, but they never said what was in it. Only Aro, Marcus, and Caius know. I'm not even sure the guards that are there know exactly what they're guarding."
"So you expect us to be believe that there's some woman out there from a horror story or something that is an all-powerful goddess sent from hell and was turned good?" Jake said sarcastically, "Yeah. Go take your stories to someone who has time to hear them."
"No," Kate said, "I've herd of this. Back when our mother made the immortal child. Some group of vampires was trying to awaken her, but I guess they were killed by the guard."
"Un believable." Rosalie scoffed, "You're not actually buying into this trash are you?"
"If it's true or not, we still need a place to go. We can't stay in Alaska forever." Renesme interjected, "Maybe Rome is a good start. It couldn't hurt to try and I'm sure we could get past the guard. That might be a good place for hiding out."
"Where you two go, we go." I said looking to Edward who smiled
"I'm in." Seth said, Jake was about to interrupt, "No Jake. Where you guys go, I go. Leah's dead. I'm ready to get revenge." He nodded. Leah died fighting against the guard that came when we were in Forks. She died protecting Seth.
"And you know we're in." Emmett said latching onto Rosalie, "You two are family. We follow family." Rosalie nodded slowly
"Of course we're coming." Alice chimed in, "I may not be able to see clearly but I know we only have a few days till they start their search here."
"And us." Esme nodded
"Wait.. Wait.." Vladimir said, "Your willing to travel across the world, to possibly find out you've been chasing a myth?"
"It's a great way to kill time and try to figure out what their angle is." Benjamin said
"Let's do this, and get it done." Alistair growled
"There's a matter of the untainted blood." Carlisle said, "I'm not bringing along a human for this."
"No need." Seth said, "I'll do it!"
"Seth!" Jake, Renesme, and I all barked
"No, he's right." I narrowed my eyes at Edward, "He's the only one who can."
"I haven't imprinted on anyone, or fallen in love. I bleed, and I'm really the only one remotely human that would volunteer. I'm your only chance."
Once In Rome...
BELLA:
"Okay," I started once everyone was in the Hotel room we rented. Not everyone agreed to go. Only us, the Denali Clan, Benjamin & Tia, the Romanians, Garrett, and Alistair came with us, "So what now?"
"We go, and we conquer over the guards. We should do it now that the suns down. They'll all be inside so it'll be a lot less work." Benjamin said throwing us what looked to be black cloaks. I looked at him questioningly, "They're in style so no one will really look twice. Come on. Let's go."
We let Stefan lead us to where the tomb was supposed to be. When we got there it was this huge mausoleum in the middle of a huge cemetery. Death was evident everywhere. No one seemed to be around, so we made our way to the building. Stefan, Garret, Alistair, and Vladimir in the front. Edward and Carlisle flanking them. Jasper and Emmett in back of them. Esme, Alice, Carmen, Tanya and I next. Jacob, Seth, Benjamin, Tia, and Reneseme in the back, and Kate, and Eleazar behind them. When we entered Alice yelled, "Watch out!" and we were thwarted by vampires on all sides.
Stefan, Vladimir and Carlisle teamed up to fight the three leaders. Edward had his hands full fighting the biggest. Jasper, Emmett, Esme and Alice ran to get the ones that were fleeing. Jacob, Seth, and Eleazar were trying to protect the girls while Benjamin and teamed up. I pinned and ripped off one of their heads while slamming it into another vamp. Ben made the rocks cascade around and burry half of them. He looked at me, "Stand back!" Holding his hands out he made the rock below crack and move then he maneuvered it so we could easily kick them inside. Once they were in there he closed it up. We were all quiet for a while as we made sure everyone was still with us.
"We haven't been in a fight like that in centuries." Vladimir said as he took off the mangled cloak and tossed it aside, "You had better be right about this Stefan." He looked over at us and frowned, "Stefan?"
I looked around as well as the others for him, "Ben... You didn't?" I looked to him
He was about to answer when we here hysterical laughing coming from the other side. I looked back to Renesme and Jake signaling to stay close and held Edwards hand as we ran to see what was happening. Stefan was standing in a room lit with candles and jewels and old fashioned clothing. In the middle of everything was a huge tomb. It had the shape of a woman wearing old roman empress clothing and a crown only her mouth was bared open exposing her large fangs. Vladimir stepped beside Stefan dumbfounded. "It appears you were right brother..."
"Now hold on a minute..." Alistair said, "We don't know that it's true. This could just be a tomb for show that the Volturi has."
"Now's a nice time to find out isn't it?" Seth said pushing past us
"Seth wait!" I yelled stopping him, "What if this does work but she doesn't help us?" I grabbed Edwards arm, "And she helps the Volturi? Maybe this isn't the best idea."
"Oh now you have second thoughts!" Alistair threw up his hands, "Jesus! It's not like we have a choice now!"
"Enough." Vladimir barked, "If she does in fact come alive then she will join us. First of all she has a debt to us for helping her so she'll return the favor. Second she'll want revenge on those who imprisoned her tomb like this, and stopped her from awakening. Third, she's good. She'll fight for what's right. It's said that's how she and her mate wanted to make up for becoming what they were. By doing good together. Either way, we have leverage now."
"Well if she doesn't," Alistair growled narrowing his eyes at Vladimir, "We should know how to send her back at least! So we can at least have some sort of real leverage over her."
"There is a way." Stefan added, "To send her back to her grave you have to kill her Consort. Doing so weakens her enough to make her want to put herself back into slumber. But she'd go back to the tomb in Romania, not here."
"And who's the consort?" Alistair asked
"Well," Stefan sighed and looked at Seth, "If this works it'll be him."
"No! Nope!" Jake yelled, "No way!"
"Jake calm down." Seth said, "if it comes down to that we'll handle it, but right now this is our only chance." He looked at me and nodded reassuringly then back at Jake. Stefan led him to the alter and lifted what I thought was a stone carved into the coffin. It turned out to be some sort of knife. He picked it up and leaned Seth's arm over the mouth piece with the knife ready to cut him. I clutched onto Edward. You could feel the tension in the room. I'm sure the only reason why Jake hasn't phased was because Reneseme was so close to him.
Stefan cut Seth's skin and let the blood drip into her mouth before placing his arm on her mouth. Nothing happened for a while and I was planning on telling everyone we should just leave when the whole building started to shake and quiver. No body moved. We were too fixed on Seth. He was groaning with pain as the mouth clamped down on his arm, the coffin glowing. Stefan was on his knees in Awe I presume. Jake tried running to Seth but Vladimir pinned him, "No! Stop! If you stop her this whole place is coming down. He'll be fine." If looks could kill I'm sure Vlad would be on the ground by now.
I looked up at Edward. "This is really happening. Get ready." He said and squeezed my arm.
The coffin top burst open shattering on the wall and sending Seth flying across to the other. Renesme and Jake ran over to him and the rest of us braced ourselves.
Up out of the coffin rose the most beautiful vampire I had ever seen. Long curly blonde hair with a crown on top of it and diamonds and ribbon weaved in. Big diamond ear rings. She had a black cloth strapless bra and a long white skirt with a slit up the side. There were rubies stranded across her waist as a belt and she had a belly button piercing of a diamond studded cross. Resting between her breasts was the largest black gem stone I'd ever seen. It was nearly black actually. Such a deep blood red you wouldn't be able to notice the difference. Her skin was ivory so all of the gems shown perfectly. Vladimir and Stefan bowed; the rest of us stood gawking at her.
