Chapter 4:

Chapter 4:

I didn't know what to expect. I was so excited to find out what Mrs. Smith had to say.

We pulled into the driveway and we escorted Mrs. Smith into the house. Alice was there already telling Esme and Carlisle all about our new friend. Or at least, all that we knew.

"It seems Mrs. Smith, that you have a very interesting story to share," said Carlisle. I knew that Alice had read the future and spoiled the ending. I had to work hard to put her thoughts out of my head.

"Yes," she said, "Edward informed me that your coven is no stranger to the Volturi."

"Yes," he agreed.

"One thing you might not know is that the Volturi have become corrupt. It was the Volturi that took my son from me. I was almost killed in a shooting at a grocery store. A vampire there had lost control and drained two people. By the time he got to where I lay, he decided to save me in the wrong way. I had a son. He was with me and he was shot too. The vampire bit both of us and took us to his home."

"Where is your son now?" asked Esme.

"My son had a very special power. He could do extraordinary things. The Volturi decided that his power was too great to be wasted living with me here. They took him to Italy and trained him. They do not claim him as one of the guards. They keep him locked away so no one will know, what they are, capable of." She paused and looked somewhere far."

"I had no idea that the Volturi were allowed…"

"They aren't, they took him and told no one."

"Have you told no one else?"

"Who would believe me? 'Oh, the Volturi are keeping my son locked in the basement. Help me free him'?"

"I guess not," agreed Esme and hugged her.

"I do not have a power, and so I was not allowed to stay with him."

"How can they do such a thing?" Esme hugged her tighter still.

"I do have a bigger coven now."

"What?"

"The rest of my coven lives in a house up the road. We want to be big enough to go against the Volturi, but it is a problem. No one has a coven bigger than yours."I thought of James's coven. How easily Laurent deserted them. The only coven like ours is Eleazar's. "It is not common to see big covens. Usually we travel alone or in twos. What you have here is remarkable."

"It is. How many do you think we have together?"

"You have eight, and I have five."

"And Eleazar has five, so, nineteen."

"Eleazar?"

"A good friend of mine," said Carlisle.

"Don't the Volturi have eight?"

"Yeah, that we know of," said Emmett."

"But it couldn't be more than eighteen," said Alice.

"Whoa, we are not seriously considering another war?" asked Edward.

"Edward's right," said Carlisle, "we can't go to war with the Volturi."

Mrs. Smith looked sad. "We couldn't ask that of you. But perhaps I might intrest you to visit my coven?"

"That would be fun," said Esme, "It's not everyday that we meet another coven of vampires."

"I'll take my Porsche!" cried Alice too excited to breathe. Alice jumped at any opportunity to drive her car.

"I am driving my Murcielago." I told Edward.

"But," he said.

"You always get to drive your stupid, shiny Volvo and I want this for me."

"But, I, It's just that," He couldn't find an argument so everyone took the cars they missed.

"Let's go," I said to Edward and dragged him out to the driveway. We took our cars and followed Mrs. Smith to where her coven was.

"I'm excited!" I said to Edward racing only one-hundred miles per hour.

"I can see that," said Edward putting his hand on mine. I was shaking a little and Edward had to make fun of me.

"What do you think they will be like?"

"I suppose they will have pale skin, gold eyes, fast reflexes, good vision, super-." I cut him off.

"No! What will they be like?"

"Uh-huh."

"Oh, Edward. You can pretend you aren't excited but I know your just dying to find out if one of them has your interest in music, or likes to make fun of people that trip over themselves.

"Fine, I am interested. You can think what you like about me being interested, but more than that you can't believe."

"My, you are defensive. I think there's something else." I thought that his thoughts might give me a clue. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon… He was reciting the letters of the Greek alphabet.

"Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota…" I finished for him.

"But you're forgetting some."

"Tell me what it is that you are excited for!"

"Eyes on the road, dearest." He looked away out the window.

"Fine don't tell me, but soon you will run out of alphabets." I turned to face the road and listened to him name at least five more alphabets before he did them backwards.

"Here we are." I pulled in behind Alice's Porsche and Emmett's Jeep thundered behind us.

"If I could I might have peed my pants by now."

"T.M.I!" yelled Alice rushing to see us.

"What is that?" asked Edward.

"Too much information. Duh. Edward, I swear you are socially retarded."

"This is my house." Mrs. Smith said to us and waved us into her home.

We walked into the front.

"This is Roman. A large looking man stood. He must have been only eighteen but he was close in size to Emmett. He had a tan colored hair, and huge hands.

"Hey," he said, raising one hand a little.

"This is Derek." He had pitch-black hair cropped to his chin. He had pasty-white skin and he didn't look too excited.

"There is also two others, but they are out."

"We need to have a discussion. I think that we might be able to start something here with the Volturi. But we will need, help." Mrs. Smith looked at us eagerly.