Chapter three

I saw the taller of the two girls prepare herself, so I guessed she was the one that could control bodies. Suddenly I stood straight, and felt like I couldn't move at all. Then, just as suddenly, it was gone. I saw confusion on every face in the clearing, except Edward's, Romeo's, Juliette's and Sarah's. Edward's face was reigned by disbelief, and the others looked like…like they had just found true love.

I heard Edward whisper to Bella: "Shield the girls." And then, it was the Volturi standing like they were frozen. The girls ran toward us, Juliette straight into Romeo's arms. At the moment they reached us, the Volturi could move again. Aro growled. It was the first time we saw him lose his temper. It seemed like he had relied on his new additions, and not just a bit.

"It's your turn now." Carlisle whispered to Nico. She nodded. I saw Chelsea's eyes glaze over. We had to keep the Volturi from noticing, and so we let Joachym shoot fire at them, that flew everywhere around them and was almost touching them. After doing this for several minutes, Chelsea got her sight back. As soon as she realized what had happened, she turned to Aro.

"I've been loyal to you, I've worked for you, because I thought, as you told me, that my child was stolen by vampires, and that I couldn't do anything against them as a human, and so you offered to change me and help me in my search for the coven that stole my child. I immediately accepted this offer, and when I was changed you took me to your guard and had your tracker track the coven. When we came there, you read their thoughts, and told me my child was already dead. But you helped me to avenge him, and for that I was so grateful I offered to stay with you, belong with your guard and serve you as my master. But you've been manipulating me. How?" Aro just stared at her like she was crazy. I had an idea.

"Make him answer that!" I told Sarah. She did as I said. "It was all set up.." Aro begun. "We discovered you when you were already pregnant, and knew you would be very gifted. However, we saw you would never belong to us willingly, you were too tied to your family. And so we had to make a plan.

"In the end, we decided to kill your child, and say it was kidnapped by other vampires. I offered to change you and avenge your child by decimating the coven we accused of stealing your child. We tracked the down, and I pretended to read their thoughts and said I saw they had already killed the child, and then we helped you to avenge him. You were very grateful, and offered to serve me. I was delighted, and delight turned into happiness as we discovered your very powerful gift, that was better than I could have hoped for."

Chelsea growled: "You killed my child!" And with that, she ran to our side. I knew she had stopped bonding them together. Our plan was going well so far. "The guard!" Edward whispered to Nico. At once, the whole guard lost their sight. "When the mirror stops working, we have to go for Caius and Aro. They won't stop us, once they've seen they've been manipulated by Aro through Chelsea. Who takes who?" Jasper whispered.

"I will take Caius, together with Kate". Tanya whispered back whilst Kate nodded in agreement. "I will take Aro," Chelsea whispered. "and who wants to help me can help me." "We want to avenge our coven," Stefan whispered "at least a bit." Vladimir added. "That's settled, then. We don't want to risk losing anyone, so could you make them stand?" Carlisle asked Juliette. "Of course I can do that." She whispered back.

The guard got their sight back, and we took it as our cue to take out Caius and Aro. It was all very quick, in no time there was a small heap of what had once been two admired law keepers. Joachym set the heap on fire, and the air was filled with thick, mind fogging purple smoke.

"Don't be afraid." Carlisle spoke to the guard. "We won't hurt you, because we know you didn't have your free will anymore and it wasn't your decision to attack us. What you have realized now, is something we know a while longer.

"Aro collected gifted vampires. He was jealous, because our family has some gifted vampires he wanted. Also, he was afraid we would try to overthrow him. However, this has never been our intention. We just want to live with our family. The next thing I'm going to say, has something to do with that.

Now that you've lost Chelsea, you don't feel so bonded to each other anymore. If you stop working together, the whole vampire world will get out of control. This is why you have to stay together. It will be harder to cooperate, but you have to try. For our world, that you have made as peaceful as it is now. Your centuries of work shouldn't be lost just because you have lost two of your masters. They were just searching for power. One master will be enough to keep our world peaceful and keep us from exposure. Will you stay the respected Volturi guard?"

"Yes we will." Was what it came down to, but they didn't respond as a whole anymore, it was each for themselves, a lot of separate "Yes." "Marcus, will you stay the master of the respected Volturi, now truthfully just law keepers again?" "Yes, I will." Marcus answered in his dead bored voice.

"I suppose it would be best if you went back to Volterra now, to get things settled a bit." Marcus nodded in agreement, and they turned around and walked away in the same direction they had come. I ran toward Jasper, and kissed him with all the passion I had. Next to us, Romeo and Juliette were kissing. Rosalie and Emmett looked like they were exploding with passion, and Edward and Bella ended their kiss so they could hug Renesmee. Jacob joined them in a group hug, and soon enough our whole family stood there pressed onto each other.

The Romanians wore huge grins, they had seemed to enjoy ripping Aro apart, and had finally satisfied their vendetta against the Volturi. Carlisle said: "Thank you all for your help, especially Nico, without whom this could never have succeeded. We are freed from our terror. The Volturi aren't going to come back anymore. You can stay with us as long as you want, but of course are free to leave if you want to." He introduced everyone to Sarah and Juliette. I saw that Sarah's eyes lingered a couple of seconds longer on Sebastian's face, and realized the French sisters had found their mates on the same day.

We ran to our house, and Bella and Edward insisted Renesmee had to come to their cottage with them. Zafrina, Senna and Kachiri each hugged Renesmee goodbye, and said they couldn't be away from their rainforest any longer. Huilen and Nahuel went with them, the Romanians departed at the same time, and the Irish left not long after.

Maggie was sorry to go again, but Siobhan took her hand, and together they left. Peter and Charlotte chatted with Jasper a while, and Benjamin and Tia hugged Sebastian goodbye, who, together with Sarah, Juliette and Romeo and Jin and Joachym, who were surprisingly holding hands, chose to stay with us for a while, to try to become vegetarians.

Our Alaskan cousins left last, saying we had to visit really, really soon. We promised them that, and when they were gone, we all left for our room, leaving our guests downstairs to chat. They were all really cute couples, and I laughed a bit at the coincidence that brought Romeo together with Juliette. Jin and Joachym seemed both totally different, like fire and water, but somehow they just fit together. And for Sebastian and Sarah, well they just belonged together. This day belonged to love.