It was 2 days later that they began moving, us moving slowly behind, giving the newborns time to damage the Cullen's ranks. I had no doubt they would win, however I knew not all would survive. We stayed outside of Edward's range of mind reading, but moved once the commotion stopped.
"They're coming."
"The pack needs to leave, you may pick up your fallen later, you do not want to be here for this." I heard Carlisle speak and his voice sounded broken.
We broke through the trees a moment later, our hoods up, hiding our faces from them. There were newborn bodies in the fire and 3 giant wolves dead, scattered around the field. We stopped a few paces from the family and removed our hoods, causing the family to gasp, or in Esme's case, begin to cry. "Jasper…" She sobbed, he looked like he felt pity for the women, but no remorse for his actions.
"I told you he was evil, he's a monster, but no one listened to me." Edward snarled before falling to the ground in agony.
"Jane." I spoke calmly but his pain continued. "Jane!" When she still didn't stop, I put my hands up, freezing the field and everyone in it, including my coven before taking a deep, unnecessary breath.
"What's happening?" My head snapped up and I saw a girl who couldn't be more than 16. She was a blonde I believe but it was hard to tell as her hair was caked with dirt and damp from having walked through the river with the other newborns. She was small, and very scrawny, leading me to believe she was homeless when she was turned, it seems most of the newborns here were.
"What is your name?" She didn't answer, only whimpered slightly. "I won't harm you if you do as I say and answer my questions. I'm sure these people have told you we're bad, however we're not. We are like police for vampires, and they do not like us because they enjoy breaking our laws. You're not a law breaker however, are you?" She shook her head quickly and I smiled. "You didn't know that traveling with those newborns was illegal, that slaughtering humans in numbers wide enough to make the news was illegal…you're just an innocent girl stuck in a bad situation, and I want to help you." She seemed to calm down as she began to believe me. "My name is Shadow. What is yours?"
"S-Savannah." She whimpered and I smiled.
"Well Savannah, you seem to be immune to my freezing abilities, I can freeze a room or group of people for up to 10 minutes." She looked awed by that. "I would like to try something, okay? I have a power that effects people physically, my friend Jane's affects you mentally, it hurts but I would like to see if it works, just for a second, okay?" She hesitated, but nodded none the less. I lifted my hand unfreezing Jane who seemed to catch onto the fact that I had frozen everyone quickly.
"I apologize my queen, I-"
"Don't, we will discuss this on the jet when we go home. First, you are to test your power on this newborn. My power doesn't work on her, I want to see if yours will. If she feels pain you are to stop immediately." Jane nodded and focused on the girl who quickly began screaming, causing Jane to stop. "Alright Savannah, it's over. You seem to have a gift of your own, you are some type of physical shield. How would you like to come with us? We will teach you the proper way to be vampires, you won't slaughter humans in droves anymore, we will help you." She nodded slowly, beginning to step towards us until she was by my side. "I'm going to unfreeze my friend here and he's going to take you to our jet while we discuss the Cullen's crimes, we will be there soon, alright?"
"Yes, that sounds good." I unfroze Felix who stumbled for a moment but quickly appeared at my side.
"You are to take this newborn to the jet, we will meet you in a few moments, she is not to be harmed. Understand?" He nodded, gesturing for her to follow him, not even looking in her direction. "Ready?" Jane nodded, still looking at me guilty. I unfroze everyone and Edward stood up carefully.
"It appears we missed an entertaining fight." Alec spoke up, not really caring at all.
"Yes. It's not often we're rendered unnecessary." His sister continued.
"If you had arrived a half hour ago, you would have fulfilled your purpose." I stopped Jane from saying anything and just continued myself.
"Pity…you missed one." I smirked.
"We offered her to join our coven in exchange for her surrender." Carlisle told me, still holding Esme close and it wasn't until then that I noticed the seer wasn't there.
"That wasn't yours to offer. It is ours, and that is why she is coming with us." They all became defensive before noticing that Savannah was gone.
"What did you do?!" Edward growled and Carlisle grabbed his arm, stopping him from doing anything he would regret.
"Exactly what you did, offered her to join us in exchange for her surrender, the difference is, I'm allowed to do that. The Volturi enforce the rules, remember, and all newborns created to fill an army are to be destroyed, however she was…special. She will fit in with us surely…who created this army? They must be disposed of straight away." I said, trying to make it seem like I was really concerned, however I don't think they believed me.
"Her name was Victoria, perhaps Jasper told you about her?"
"Edward, if the Volturi had knowledge of Victoria, they would have stopped her. Isn't that right Shadow?" I smirked contently.
"Of course. That is actually why we are here, to destroy a vampire Jasper spoke to us about. The one who's mate you killed a year ago, the one who's been living in agony since her mate was ripped from her, the one Jasper told you that you needed to destroy but you didn't listen. Of course we had no idea she was behind the newborn army, it was just convenient that we could solve 2 problems at once while we were here…although if she was behind it then that means…all of this is your fault. You all chose not to listen to Jasper, with his extensive knowledge of vampires, newborns, and details of mating after living with nothing but newborns for years…your friends death is your fault…isn't it?" I asked, looking straight at Edward who looked ready to jump at me though one growl from Jasper and his posture became more frightened than threatening.
"We've been trying to find her for a long time now." Carlisle explained and I shrugged.
"My statement stands, if you had disposed of her with her mate, she wouldn't have lost her mind and tried so hard to kill your…pet."
All of the Cullen children snarled at me then and I just found it comical. "She's right Bella, you're a pet to Edward. I can feel what he feels for you, always could, though Alice kept me silent. He doesn't love you, he's obsessed with you, it is not the same thing. You give him an ego boost for every day he can spend with you without eating you, you're his blood singer after all, it takes a very strong vampire to resist."
"He proves he loves me then, he has the will to not harm me." Bella spoke and I couldn't help my giggle.
"If you think that sister, then you truly are an idiot. A mate could never have left you like he did for all those months-"
"Jasper left Alice."
"They were not mates, he is our mate." Alec spoke, moving to take his hand as Jasper wound an arm around Jane.
"Damn man, twins, nice." Emmett joked and got a smack in the back of the head from Rose.
"We're happy for you Jasper…we just wish you hadn't had to leave…" Rose admitted and Jasper seemed to feel guilty about that, he did care for Rose and Emmett, though they were the only ones he truly felt genuine love for.
"We don't need to fight, please? Give us Savannah back and we will be on our way." I shook my head.
"I'm sorry, the Volturi don't give second chances, she's ours now. Keep that in mind, it's interesting to know that she's still human." I looked at Bella who glared at me.
"The date is set, after our wedding next month." She seemed to think she was boasting about her relationship that was doomed to fail and it amused me.
"No."
"No?!" Bella demanded. "What do you mean No!?"
"Exactly what I said. If I go back to my mate, who gave you until graduation to change her, and tell him that you've graduated but you're still human, we will be sent back to slaughter you all, and you know it Carlisle." He had the decency to look ashamed as I said this, knowing what's left of his family with Jasper leaving and Alice being killed, was in danger because he didn't enforce the Volturi's sentence. "Stop letting an eternal 17 year old run your coven Carlisle, be a man! Do what you have to in order to protect your coven, and if Edward refuses to change her then either distance your family from him in order to protect them or bite her your god damn self! You have until tonight at midnight Cullen's, she will be bitten by then or the entire Volturi will be knocking down your door. Demetri?"
"Yes my queen?"
"You will stay here, if she is not bitten by midnight on the dot you are to call us. If she is bitten even one minute late, then you all die Cullen's. I'm giving you these extra hours because part of me, a very small part mind you loves my sister, and if I did what I was supposed to, we would be killing you all right now. Thank me for you all continuing to live."
"Thank you. If Edward doesn't bite her by 11:59, I'll do it myself. I won't die because of him." Rosalie spoke to me and I smiled.
"At least one of you is smart. Good choice Rosalie Cullen, take advice from her. She knows what she's doing. Demetri, call us at 12 exactly, we will wait on the jet." He nodded, following the veggie vamps as we ran back to our jet, finding a quick meal on the way and bringing Savannah and Felix some 'take-out'.
"Hey guys, we-AHH! My Eyes!" Alec screamed as he walked into the jet and ran back out.
"Alec, what's wrong babe?" Jasper asked and he looked traumatized.
"They're getting it on! On the couch!" Jasper stepped in and quickly stepped back out.
"He's right, they're mating. We're burning that couch…we're burning this jet and getting a new one! Tell us when you're done please?" We hung around outside for the next few hours and it's times like these that I hate vampire stamina. It was midnight exactly that Demetri called us.
"Rosalie bit her, Edward wanted to give her every possible minute of human life, but Rose wasn't risking it. She bit her 5 minutes early while Carlisle, Esme and Emmett held Edward down."
"Good. Return to the jet. You need to get your friend to put his pants back on."
"What?" I hung up before responding and he showed up in front of us 5 minutes later. "What's going on?"
"Felix found his mate…and apparently you passed on your kinkiness, I swear to god she called him daddy…again, burning the plane." Jasper explained and Demetri sighed.
"Go. I don't need to see that and I'd like to get back to MY mate, he has a bed in the castle, plenty of time to continue those…activities." Demetri nodded and jumped into the plane. There was some screams, a lot of banging, a cry of pain, and then Demetri's head popped out.
"We're good to go." He grinned and I laughed, hopping on the plane and spreading out on the couch that was not fucked upon.
"Let's go home boys and girls."