Yay! This is the last chapter people! I truly hope you enjoy this! Oh, and if anyone had read through the comments, there was a spoiler left by Unknown Scribe! ^^ hehe, I finally got her to remove the 'The' from her name!
"You didn't tell me there were vampires here." Risa's eyes widened.
"Tomaden… You were here the entire time?" He looked coolly over at her.
"Of course. I simply had to see what you were hiding." She growled low in her throat.
"I had been hiding nothing. I did not know what they were until this morning." He stood slowly and shot her a sharp glare.
"Then you should have responded to me earlier today. I'll be leaving now." She lunged at him but he dodged before laughing coldly and leaving. Risa glared at the door.
"Tomaden!" She gritted her sharp teeth and quickly contacted Ari.
"Ari, Tomaden is-"
"I am outside waiting to speak with the Cullen family. If you could ask them to come out I could warn them." Risa switch to her link with Alice.
"Alice. Ari is waiting outside. You must speak with her."
"Ari? The wolf?"
"Yes. Go now."
"Why? What's wrong Risa?"
"GO!" She cut the link and ripped her over-clothes off and changed back to her normal form as she took off and went to find the Volturi. She made it to Italy in half an hour and landed on a rooftop with a sigh as Alice contacted her.
"Risa? Where are you? Ari is saying your brother wants to kill us."
"I'm in Italy."
"… I'm serious Risa!"
"So am I. I am looking for the Volturi."
"How could you have gotten to Italy so quickly?"
"I do not believe that matters at the moment. You need to hide and be ready for anything."
"Risa, I realize you're not human, but we're vampires. It's very hard to actually kill us."
"Tomaden always has had no trouble in his hatred for your kind, regardless of the dimension. Now prepare, I will be back shortly." She cut the link and went to find Marcus. She finally found a younger vampire and stopped him with a firm grip on his arm. He spun around with a sneer.
"What do you want?"
"I need to speak with Marcus. Now. Where is he?"
"Like I would tell you. Now leave before-" She grabbed his throat and rammed him into the wall.
"Where is he?"
"Let go of me or else."
"You tell me where he is or else I will throw you into the farthest reaches of your so-called hell." He sneered again.
"You have no idea what you're dealing with." He broke her arm and spun around to kill her. Before he could she turned and glared at him, summoning a few of the soul demonds she controlled as violet-black fire surrounded them, twirling around the unfortunate vampire as the demonds clawed at him. His eyes widened as she snapped the bones back into place and healed her arm.
"Wrong. It is you that have no idea. Now, where is Marcus?" The vampire nearly flinched away as she approached, her eyes resuming their fiery violet-red color.
"He's not here! They all went to destroy the Cullens!"
"What? I swear of you're lying…"
"I'm not!" She looked over at him for a small moment before banishing the fire and demonds.
"All right." she re-opened her wings and took off, heading back to Forks. She landed in the trees near the Cullen's house and contacted Ari again.
"What's going on?"
"The family left. Volturi are here."
"All right. Thank you Ari."
"Do you want me to stay?"
"No… I can handle this on my own." Ari sighed mentally before withdrawing. Risa stretched slightly before opening the link with Alice.
"Where are you?"
"Risa! You need to get away! The Volturi are here and they don't like that you know of us. They're not too fond of Bella either. Can you get her away as well?"
"I asked where you were Alice. I need to speak with the Volturi."
"They'll kill you!"
"I highly doubt that. Alice please, you are in no way responsible for my life." Alice mentally sighed.
"…All right. We're in the woods next to our house, only about two miles in." Risa closed the link again and headed in their direction, finding them soon enough. She was relieved that she couldn't sense Tomaden anywhere near. Edward was standing stiffly next to Aro as Aro read his mind. The old vampire didn't look pleased. Risa snuck back and dropped out of the trees before walking into the clearing next to them, instantly having everyone's eyes on her. She went to stand next to Alice until Edward walked back, making sure not to look at her. Aro stepped forward.
"So you are the other one that knows too much. Come here."
"I've known what you would call too much for a long time Aro, and I take no orders from you. I came here to warn you all." Caius stepped forward slightly.
"We have no need of any warning. We shall be fine." Risa growled low in her throat as she stepped forward, stopping in between the two groups.
"Quiet Caius. I came to tell you that my brother is after all of you. He despises vampires and will do everything in his power to destroy you. I merely want you to be prepared." Aro sneered as Marcus watched her quizzically.
"Your brother? He will easily be taken care. Just as you will soon be." Another vampire stepped forward, slowly coming towards her.
"Stop." Marcus finally spoke, stopped the vampire and gaining everyone's gaze. Marcus ignored them as he stepped closer to Risa, pausing only a few feet away. He studied her for a while.
"Risitka, it is you. You haven't changed in over one hundred years." Risa smirked.
"As I said then, it's Risa, not Risitka. Nice to see you too." She looked over to see Aro's and Caius' surprise and grinned, "Now will you take my warning seriously? We would be foolish to believe that he is not on his way here now." Marcus nodded and went back to the others as Risa turned and went back to stand next to Alice again. All the Cullens looked at her oddly.
"You are over one hundred years old?"
"You have met them before?" Risa rolled her eyes.
"Of course. Ari doesn't much like them, but Marcus isn't so bad. Now can we go? My brother-"
"Can wait. You will tell us what you are now." Risa hissed at Edward.
"There is no time!" Edward merely glared at her as the Volturi left quickly.
"Make time."
"Edward, if the Volturi are heeding her warning we should too." Carlisle put a hand on Edward's shoulder but Edward shook him off and grabbed Risa, hoisting her into the air.
"You will tell-!"
"And you said I had no reason to dislike vampires. They are even attacking you sister." Risa's eyes narrowed into a glare over Edward's shoulder as Tomaden stepped into the clearing.
"Leave Tomaden. I still say you have no reason." Tomaden smirked.
"It doesn't look like you're in a position to object, but fine. I'll simply go after the others. The old three are named Aro, Caius, and Marcus, am I right?" His smirk widened and he ran off after the Volturi.
"No! Damn you!" Risa turned her glare to Edward as she punched him, cracking his ribs and jumping away, "You might as well stay there now that he knows your scents!" She took off after her brother, leaving the Cullens staring after her in shock as Edward's body healed itself. A moment later and Edward got up and started to go after her. Everyone else followed him. They heard fighting a few yards away but the trees around them were too thick to see anything. As they got closer they began to see sharp flashes of movement. Before they could go into the clearing they were stopped. Ari growled at them dangerously.
"You have all ready caused so much trouble. Why have you come to cause more?"
"We did nothing wrong." Ari growled and lunged at him, her jaws snapping inches from his face.
"You should have listened to our warnings! This could have been prevented. Risa now must fight for both her life and all of those vampires'!"
"Those had listened to her warning though, how have we caused this?" Ari turned towards Carlisle.
"Because Tomaden had not known of those ones and had been focused on you. If you had listened, he would not have gone after them and this fight could have been prevented." She got off Edward and stood to the side, "Go if you must, but if you make it worse we shall all be after you." Ari backed up into the forest; soon only her dark eyes gleamed at them, as well as about twelve more pairs before they all vanished. Alice was the first one to enter the clearing after that. She stopped at the edge of the clearing as a silence fell over it, everyone else doing the same. The Cullens stared in shock as they looked over at Risa. She was at the opposite end of the clearing as Tomaden and was bleeding. Oddly enough, no one felt an urge to drink her blood, but that wasn't what unnerved them. Risa had reverted back to her original form; even her wings were out by this point. She hardly spared them a grim glance as they entered the clearing, but Tomaden's gaze lingered on them with a sickening pleasure. He didn't appear to be harmed much at all. Edward met Tomaden's eyes for a second and he held in a slight shiver. His eyes held a sick pleasure at the thought of destroying them, even though it was hurting his own sister. And then the moment ended as Tomaden lunged at them with incredible speed. Edward managed to dodge the first attack, but Tomaden had spun around into an instant second attack, clearly used to fighting at high levels. Edward was thrown across the clearing. Tomaden grinned and went after him again, throwing him through some trees before finally stopping Edward's movements by plaguing his senses with the thoughts, sounds, sights, tastes, and feel of his worst fear. Now all Edward could see was Tomaden and Bella's dead body in his own bloody hands, her life dripping from the corner of his mouth. Edward looked up at Tomaden as he raised a clawed hand and aimed for his heart.
As the illusion of his fear faded, Edward wasn't sure if he had been trapped in another one or not. He could see his family running towards him and could feel blood on his chest, and knew that wasn't an illusion. What he couldn't believe, was that he wasn't the one hurt. He stared up at the person that had thrown their self in the way, preventing his destruction. He blinked slowly as his family got there, dragging him out of the way. Once they were at a reasonable distance they looked back at the scene. The only change was Edward wasn't there now. Tomaden hadn't removed his arm, even though it had pierced all the way through and his eyes were wide in a mixture of shock and horror. On the receiving end, Risa had a small smile on her face, her eyes closed as she held Tomaden there. She opened them and leaned closer, beginning to pull his arm out as she whispered to him, barely loud enough for everyone to hear.
"I'll be back shortly, please at least try to play nice brother." She yanked his arm the rest of the way out, giving out a small cry as it left her wing, and slumped forward, her head hitting the ground with a solid thud before she was consumed by black flames. In a matter of minutes her body was gone. Tomaden just stood there, blood still dripping from his arm as he held her heart in his tightly closed fist. For two minutes no one moved as they all stared at the smoldering spot until finally the Volturi turned and took off. Tomaden's head snapped up and glared as he took a half-step after them, stopping as his foot brushed the burnt area and it re-grew. Tomaden gave one last half-hearted glare after the Volturi and knelt down, shoving Risa's heart into the center of the small area. The Cullen family watched him for a moment before Alice broke away and went up to him, ignoring her family's protests. Tomaden spun up and glared at her, grabbing her arm when she reached out to grab his shoulder. She watched him as he tightened his grip before finally speaking.
"Why are you so upset? You were fighting with her in the first place. Besides, she said she would be back." Tomaden threw her away from him and then slowly advanced on her.
"What would a damned vampire know?" He spit out the word, "Vampires know nothing beyond themselves and their next meal!" Jasper grabbed Tomaden's arm before he could harm Alice and Tomaden kicked him off.
"Maybe some vampires only care about that, but we choose to be different." Tomaden took a deep breath before turning to Carlisle, appearing before him in a second. Carlisle stared right back at him and continued, "We choose to suppress our desires in order to live as normally as possible." Tomaden laughed, a cold sound.
"Live normally? That's rich; next you're going to say you protect people!"
"We do." Tomaden stopped laughing as Esme took over the explanation.
"We don't drink human blood, and Emmet, Rosalie, Alice, Jasper, and Edward all go to school until their ages won't match them anymore. Carlisle is a doctor." Tomaden sneered.
"You expect me to believe something like that?"
"What you believe is your choice. We're just telling you our side." They turned to leave, "If you want proof you can always watch us for a while." They left, Alice and Edward taking one last look behind them before taking off. Tomaden watched after them before looking back at the now lush area. He sighed.
"I'll play nice until you return then." He jumped into the sky and left, heading back home to wait. Tomaden landed in his window, gripping it tight enough to crack the building, sending chunks crashing below him. He closed his eyes and breathed deeply before going in and laying on the cool bed. He closed his eyes again, remembering when he was a child and had found Risa playing outside with a few spirits.
Tomaden watched as Risa spun around and fell into a heap, the shadow spirits dancing around her. She smiled innocently, oblivious to their audience. He frowned at the smile and walked up to her.
"Sister, what are you doing?" She glanced up, her smile changed to curiosity.
"I am dancing brother. Would you like to dance with me? The shadows are quite good at it." Tomaden looked over at the shadow spirits, their yellow eyes gazing back at him as they stilled.
"Sister, the shadow spirits are not to be trusted. They are not safe." Risa tilted her head and frowned.
"The shadows are as safe as anything else brother, and they seem to like me. I trust them, and besides; I think they are merely misunderstood. Perhaps if you gave them a chance?" Tomaden looked over at the ever watching shadows and frowned in distrust.
"I don't believe you."
"What you believe is your choice brother. I am simply telling you my choice." She smiled almost sympathetically at him and went back over to the shadows and began to dance as they swirled around her.
Tomaden jolted up and snarled, realizing what had stopped him from destroying those vampires. He looked around the room and glared at the yellow eyes watching him next to the pair of dark eyes. He waited for them to explain their presence in his rooms when Ari leapt at him, pinning him back down onto the bed.
"Explain her death. Now Tomaden Lunare." Tomaden glared and shoved at the large wolf, only to have the shadows wrap around his arms and legs, preventing movement for the moment.
"Release me."
"Explain why you killed your twin."
"She's fine." Ari snarled.
"She is not fine! You ripped through her wing!" Tomaden paused.
"The wound… could not have been that bad. The flames took her." Ari shook her head.
"Which flames Tomaden? Did you care to look?" Tomaden paused, remembering the color.
"Black… They were… pure black…" He looked up in horror, "Ari, why has the fire changed?"
"They have never changed. Your sister has the control over the flames, but only when they gain the violet tinge. She had no strength to make sure she would not truly die." Ari turned to leave, the shadows releasing him in the process, "Congratulations Tomaden. You have finally killed your twin sister." They left and Tomaden stood, chasing them. Before he could make it to Risa's rooms though, his mother found him.
"Tomaden? Is there something wrong?" His hands shook slightly.
"Mother… I have a question." She inclined her head towards him.
"Ask."
"How would you revive someone once they have died?" His mother looked at him strangely.
"Should you not be asking Risitka this?" Tomaden shook his head slightly and he whispered back.
"She is the one that needs revived." He looked back up to see her shock and confusion and whimpered, "… I killed her… completely." His mother nodded, her face betraying nothing as she strode down the hallway and into Risa's rooms, instantly earning growls and hissing from the occupants. She ignored them and thumbed through the books before finally pulling one out, a small slip falling to the floor unnoticed. She sat on the bed, Tomaden next to her and began to go through it. Once she had finished she had Tomaden bring her the next one. She was nearly halfway through the books when the next morning came. Tomaden had been pacing the room for the last three hours, his mind replaying her death over and over. When his mother finally looked up at him she noticed his confused expression.
"Tomaden?" His head shot up to look at her.
"Did you find something?" When she shook her head his shoulders slumped back down and he sighed.
"Tomaden, what is bothering you?"
"…When she was dying, sister had smiled at me…"
"How had she died?"
"I all ready said it was at my hands." He kicked frustrated at a small demond, ignoring the hiss he got in return.
"How Tomaden? Why were you fighting?"
"Vampires. She protected one, giving her own life for his… I-I had torn her heart out and punctured through a wing." His mother let out a small gasp when he mentioned the wing, but nodded anyway.
"Then she was glad to protect the vampire. That can explain the smile. What else is bothering you?"
"… She said she would be back. Did she not realize she was dying?" His mother paused and surveyed the room as she responded.
"Perhaps not, but she always was one step ahead of others… No. I believe she knew, but also knew you would try to find a way to bring her back. So there must be a way. We simply must find it." Tomaden nodded and studied the room as well.
"She would have left a clue. Or had researched how to do this. But where did she put the information?" The demond Tomaden had kicked earlier tugged at his leg and Tomaden glared down at it, attempting to kick it away again. Soon, more were pulling at his legs, swarming around him.
"What do you want?" he hissed out, "An apology?" They only tugged harder, not being able to speak with him. When he still did not understand they left him alone and left the room. It seemed eerily empty after that. Tomaden shivered and sat next to his mother. She began to go through another book when Tomaden felt something watching him. He spun around and stared straight into the yellow eyes of a shadow spirit. He fell backwards as it moved closer to him. His mother stopped reading and stood as well, also not trusting the shadows her daughter seemed to care for so much. It paused and looked at them before rasping with a hardly used voice.
"Trust me…?" Tomaden paused as his mother shook her head slightly.
"Why should we?" The shadow tried again, focusing on Tomaden.
"Choose…" It paused, "Trust me…?" Tomaden's eyes widened slightly at the reminder of his memory before slowly standing.
"Yes. I will trust you for now." The shadow seemed satisfied and held out the slip of paper to him.
"Bring her back… We want our princess back…" It disappeared as soon as Tomaden took the paper. He opened it quickly and glanced through it before smiling in relief and handing it to his mother.
"This is it. It's not pleasant, but it should work." His mother looked over the paper gravely.
"This takes time. We need to get started before she is too far gone. But first, you had wounded her right wing yes?"
"Yes, close to her heart."
"How bad?"
"My arm went through her, Mother." She nodded grimly and left the room to begin their task.
Meanwhile, the Cullens had gone back to their home, securing it the best they could before the morning. They still went to school the next day, Edward having been told to not tell Bella of this until they knew more. He had agreed then, but wasn't planning on following orders. With a final reminder to Edward, they split up and went to their classes, Edward meeting up with Bella first.
"I need to tell you something."
"What is it Edward?" He quickly scanned the room to make sure no one could hear before whispering.
"You need to be careful. The Volturi may be after you soon. And stay away from Risa if you see her, and anyone named Tomaden, understand?" She nodded.
"But why Edward? What's going on?" He shook his head.
"I can't tell you right now, but she's not safe. She not human. Come on, we're going to be late."
"Edward, you're not human either. Is she a vampire too?"
"No, and I at least used to be human. Come on Bella." He led her to class, showing the conversation was over. She didn't bring it up again, determined to ask Alice about it instead. Bella sat next to Alice at lunch as Edward went to get her something to eat.
"Alice, what's going on?"
"Edward told you about the Volturi then? I knew he would."
"He said something about Risa too."
"Don't worry about it Bella."
"What aren't you guys telling me?" Alice grinned.
"Probably quite a bit, but seriously, you don't have to worry." Bella frowned as Edward came back with a small smirk and set her food down. Bella didn't bring up the subject again. A week later, while Bella was out visiting Edward, a few wandering vampires showed up. Much to their dismay, they decided Bella would be a good snack and attacked them. They eventually wound up at a cliff, Bella behind the Cullens as they fought the new threat. She tried to keep track of Edward, but it was impossible. Unfortunately, one of the vampires got behind the Cullens and lunged at Bella. She stumbled backwards to avoid him as Edward came out of nowhere and knocked him away from Bella. He looked over at Bella to make sure she was unharmed in time to see her topple over the edge of the cliff to the rocks below. Edward tried to grab her in time but missed her hand by a centimeter and she plummeted down. He was about to jump after her when a hand stopped him. He spun around to knock the hand off and came face-to-face with Tomaden. Edward glared at him as Tomaden smirked and tossed him away from the cliff. Carlisle stood in front of him as Tomaden took a step towards them.
"Did you need something?"
"No. I just found it foolish for him to jump off a cliff."
"He was attempting to save Bella's life."
"I'm sure she'll be fine."
"How? Bella's human!" Tomaden rolled his eyes and looked behind him as Ari jumped up onto the cliff, Bella on her back.
"She seems alive." Bella got off of Ari's back and hurried over to Edward. Carlisle instantly checked her over before turning to Ari.
"Thank you Ari." Ari just yawned and lay down.
"I did it for Risa, not for you." Alice stepped a bit closer.
"But isn't Risa dead? We saw him kill her." Tomaden didn't look at them as Ari growled.
"I know he did. He still has yet to be punished too. Risa though, is not adept at staying dead." she stretched and got up, brushing past them and heading into the forest.
"Where are you headed?"
"To your house of course. I would hate to keep Risa waiting." She disappeared and the Cullens watched the spot for a moment before hearing Tomaden growl.
"Damn you Ari! You knew where she was the entire time?" He took off after the wolf, closely followed by the Cullens; Edward carrying Bella on his back. They caught up with Tomaden at the edge of the trees by their house. He had stopped there and was looking inside it. They passed by him and went in to find Ari lying in the middle of the living room with Risa knelt beside her. She hadn't bothered trying to look human. She glanced up when they entered and smiled up at them before standing.
"Yo." They stood there looking at her for a moment, Bella more than the rest having never seen her true form before. After a moment Alice smiled and gave her a hug.
"Glad to see you're alive. How are you feeling?" Risa smiled at her.
"I'm fine Alice. No need to worry about me. How have you been? No problems lately? Except for Bella's recent tumble off a cliff of course" Ari lifter her head and almost glared at Risa.
"Sit back down kit." Risa pouted, but sat next to Ari regardless. Alice smiled.
"We've been fine. No problems until today, but you all ready know about that. Oh, I do have a question though. How come I can't see your future anymore?" Risa shrugged.
"I blocked it of course. Couldn't have you seeing everything I do. It would cause trouble." Alice rolled her eyes and Edward stepped a bit closer, almost shielding Bella.
"How would it cause trouble?"
"Well, seeing into my future can get confusing, as well as show you my mother or brother. And you never needed to know about them. Too late with Tomaden, but I digress."
"Who is your mother?" Risa narrowed her eyes.
"I recently saved your life, and all you can do is interrogate me? If that's all you're going to do, then I'm leaving. I might see you at school tomorrow." She got up and walked passed them, but Edward grabbed her arm. She didn't move as Ari growled.
"Let her go boy." Edward glared at the wolf.
"You're not going to hurt me."
"Yes she will Edward. Tomaden is watching you as well. And this time, I won't be able to protect you." His grip loosened when she mentioned that and she shook him off as she walked out of the house, Ari right behind her. They watched out the windows as she went up to Tomaden with a smile.
Tomaden frowned as she approached and shot a small glare back at the house. Risa sighed and grabbed his shoulder, steering him away from the house to just past the first row of trees. Ari brushed against Risa before taking off to hunt. Risa sighed when she looked back at her twin.
"What are you glaring at now Toma?"
"Why were you waiting inside their house? You can't possibly-"
"Stop it Toma. I still have no reason to hate vampires." She held a hand up when he started to protest, "It is not their fault that you killed me. Now I'm asking you to leave them alone. All of them, that includes any other vampires in this dimension. Can you do that?" He shot a glare back in the house's direction before answering.
"You're not going to block me?" She shook her head and he sighed, "All right. I promise." Risa smiled.
"Thank you. Now, if you're going to stay here, why don't we enroll you in school?" She grinned and dragged him off. Needless to say, neither he nor the Cullens was particularly thrilled the next day.
Well, That's all there is! I hope you enjoyed this story! Remember to review and point out any typos I may have had!