Carlisle smiled warily and got up to greet us. "The Denalis came to give us some news" he said and Edward stiffened at my side as he heard in Carlisle's thoughts what they came to tell us.

Tanya smiled at Edward and got up to hug him "Oh Edward, it's been too long" she said as she pulled away from him to smile and hug me. It had been only six years since we last saw the Denalis but I guess any amount of time away from Edward seemed to be too much for her. I had decided that I didn't quite like Tanya but she was tolerable.

Next, Carmen and Eleazer came over to say hello. "You all look exactly the same" Carmen joked. I really liked Carmen, she always lightened the mood, and she was always someone who could just listen to you talk, no matter what it was you were talking about.

I looked to Kate and Garrett where they were sitting on the couch and smiled. I still couldn't get over the fact that it had been Kate to teach me how to project my shield and to just push it all the way out of my mind, I would always be grateful to her. She got up to greet me and Garrett gave me one of his infamous bear hugs.

"So what is so important that they had to come all the way down here to tell us?" asked Jacob. The Denalis still were not fully comfortable with Jacob but they were used to him and seemed to ease up more every time we saw them.

"Well something's happened in Italy and we just came to warn you" replied Eleazer with just a bit of hostility towards Jacob.

"What do you mean something's happened?" asked Emmett "another war? Do we get to fight this time?" I rolled my eyes at Emmett's blunt enthusiasm for something that wasn't anything exciting, but actually sort of terrifying to me.

I looked up at Eleazer to continue but he just stared at Edward, they were having a mental conversation and I was getting very impatient. Finally, Jasper spoke up and asked Edward what was going on.

"The Romanians have started an uprising against the Volturi" Edward said, his voice devoid of emotion. "They've decided that they want their power back so they created a small army and are threatening the Volturi." I was shocked. Why would they do that? The Volturi were much more powerful than the Romanians and it seems stupid of the Romanians to try to threaten them when they will obviously just be defeated. Someone must have been thinking the same things as I was because Edward seemed to be answering my question when he spoke again "They found a lot of talented humans, who all proved to be great help to them. I suppose most of them have special powers."

I didn't know what to think. Were we going to join with the Romanians and try to undermine the Volturi once and for all? Or would we simply stay here and hope it didn't affect us? That brought another question to the forefront of my mind, why did this affect us? I saw how it could affect us in a bigger picture sense, but why would the Denalis travel all that way to tell us this news if it didn't pose a direct threat to either of our families? I just didn't make sense, there had to be more that Edward wasn't telling us.

"Why does this affect our family though?" Rose had the same question in her mind as I did but wasn't as afraid as I was to hear the answer, apparently.

"The Volturi are looking for new vampires." Edward stated. "More gifted vampires." That's when it hit me. They were going to try to get us to join them; probably if we refused, we would either be forced, or killed. I pushed my shield out of my mind - too frightened to actually speak the words - and stared into Edwards eyes wondering if I was correct. He looked at me with a pain stricken expression "No." he said, "They aren't asking people to join. Gifted vampires all over the world have been disappearing and everyone thinks the Volturi is taking them. So far it has been Benjamin, Zafrina, Maggie, and Siobhan who have disappeared. Liam, Siobhan's mate was killed by them, other vampires happened upon his ashes and they could smell Jane and Alec had been there."

That's when I understood. The majority of us in the Cullen and Denali clan all had special powers, and we would probably be targeted next. I felt like I might faint, had that been possible. "What are we going to do?" I whispered. I was surprised anyone heard it, it had been so quiet, but Edward turned his eyes to mine and he looked like he had no idea.

"The Denalis are going to stay here for a bit, so if it does turn into a fight, we will have better chances." Hearing the word fight made Emmett's eyes light up and Carlisle's breathe catch. Most of us didn't want it to come to that, but we did have a better chance if the Denalis stayed with us, so we started making plans for who would stay where.

Jacob and Renesmee would move into the cottage with Edward and me, while the Denalis stayed in Jacob and Renesmee's three bedroom house. It wasn't going to be exactly comfortable or pleasant really, but it was the safest way, and that was what was most important. We took turns hunting, in groups of three and would try to make sure that if there was a group out hunting, the rest of us were in the main house.

We continued going to school and Carlisle kept up work at the hospital, but it was different now. We all knew something was coming, something big, and we were just trying to prepare for everything. We practiced fighting some, we expected them to send a few members of the guard, and we hunted more than needed in preparing for a possible fight and maybe even a war if it came to that.

But we never got a war, we got something much, much worse.

I know I know, I hate cliffhangers too but trust me the next chapter is going to totally take you by surprise. This chapter was really short, I'm sorry, I was just trying to explain what's going on.

BTW all the characters that I mentioned getting captured were all in Breaking Dawn -

Benjamin is in the Egyptian Coven and has the power to influence the elements

Zafrina is in the Amazon Coven and does the mind projection thing

Maggie and Siobhan were in the Irish coven and Liam is really Siobhan's mate. Maggie can tell if someone is lying or telling the truth, and although it never states in the book whether Siobhan actually has a talent or not, it says she does in the Vampire Index thing so I'm guessing her talent is when she wills something to happen, it just does.