A/N: Since I haven't written in a while I kind of forgot my original plan with Maria and the Volturi, so I came up with a new one. Review me and tell me if it makes since or not. I'm always open to suggestions.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Twilight Series *gasp*! I am not Stephenie Meyer *bigger gasp*! Sorry to disapoint.
Jessica Black's POV
There are three things in this world that I am absolutely positive about.
1. Seth loves me
2. I love Seth
3. Why world is about to be turned upside down.
I've spent every year of my life being taught that vampires are awful nasty creatures. It's a part of who I am, just as mush as my black hair and brown eyes and copper skin. It's just a simple as a fact like the fact that my heart beats, and theirs doesn't. I've known this my whole life, so why was everyone acting like this wasn't true?
Why were Seth and every other werewolf going to risk their lives for these…these…these things? They didn't deserve to be saved by us. They suck blood for God's sake! They aren't natural, they aren't human. They shouldn't walk this planet.
So again, I ask, why was everyone willing to risk their lives for them? Like I said, my world was about to be turned upside down. Without my permission.
I was just walking. Just walking. When BAM! Out of nowhere there's this short looking girl with black hair and tanish looking skin standing in front of me. She grinned a kind of sickly grin. "I'm Maria," she said her voice light and floating. "And, well, I've always liked to stir up some trouble. Ever since the 1800s."
And just like that I was kidnapped by a vampire. How pathetic, right? But I'd like to see you escape from some freak who can run faster then a freaking car, who can silence your scream before who even draw the air from your lungs to scream with.
"And why did you do this again?" I asked after she tied my wrists around a tree so tightly there was no way I was ever getting out.
"Oh, this fight is not starting fast enough for my liking. Hopefully, you'll speed things up a bit. Get your family more involved."
"Why my family?" I asked. "Why La Push? I mean, why not shoot for something a bit… I don't know, flashier?"
"Like Italy?"
"Yeah, that sounds good."
"Glad you agree, because that's what I'm doing."
Oh, okay. That argument hadn't worked well at all. "I'm confused," I said because, well, it was true. "Why are you doing this? Not just kidnapping me, but all of this?"
"Power," she grinned sickly sweet. It was sort of disgusting.
Like being a vampire, holding human lives in your hand, wasn't enough. "Explain?"
"Certainly," she grinned again. So pretty she was ugly, at least in my werewolf descendant eyes. "I was created on the Mexican Texas boarder by a Volturi."
"A who?" I asked. I know that my brother and Seth and all the others had been talking about the Volturi, but since it had to due with vampires, I hadn't really thought it worthy.
Whatever. Ignorance is bliss, and I wasn't the only one to think so.
"Ignorant little girl," hissed the thing named Maria. "If you weren't so ignorant this wouldn't have worked for me. So I guess I'll have to thank you for that. The Volturi," she continued now sniffing the air, "are the most powerful clan in the vampire world. They uphold the rules by punishing those who break them."
"Rules?" I scoffed.
She rolled her eyes. "Yes rules, as if your kind doesn't have them. Our rules are probably similar to yours. Never reveal your identity to a human- you don't count as human," she added when I opened my mouth to protest. "No vampire children," I cringed at the thought, "and the basics like that."
"Continue with your sob story then," I said when she paused maybe for dramatic effect.
"He brought me back to Italy to live with them and to rule, but the others didn't want me there. So I was…deported back to my home. And hey, if they wouldn't give me power or even a family," she spat, "I'd get myself."
She was starting to really creep me out, more then before.
"Ever hear of the vampire wars?"
"Uh- no." They whole secrecy thing she mentioned.
"I had one of the largest and best armies," she said her red eyes bright, almost dreamy. "I had real power. The power," she said appearing right in front of my face, "to destroy entire cities."
"Congrats, to you?" I started to try to move my arms, thinking that maybe I could at least try to untangle myself, but those ropes were not budging.
"My star commander was Jasper Whitlock, with his help I was unstoppable. But then, he left and joined the Cullen family years later with his mate, Alice," she said the name quite viciously. "The Volturi came and destroyed the rest of my army. It's been two hundred years since I've had that kind of power, and I want it back."
"Not that I didn't enjoy your little speech, but could you please just tell me how you plan to get this power?"
"So impatient," she sighed. "But why not? The Cullen family is a powerful family, especially with their newest edition Bella. They're so powerful I'm pretty sure that they could defeat the Volturi, and with the Volturi out of the way and hey maybe even the Cullens as well that gives me the opportunity for power again. But obviously they're not going to start the fight themselves, so I figured I should help them."
Twisted. Vampires are so messed up. So twisted and messed up. So wrong. They shouldn't be allowed to walk this planet. They're not even human. Earth is for humans.
But then I realized, I'm not really human either. Sure, I'm not a werewolf, but I'm pretty close. Like Maria said, I don't count as human.
So whose side was I on? It's usually customary to take a side in these kinds of situations. I guess I should be on the side that's going to try to save me, not that I needed to be saved. I struggled with the ropes again, Maria laughed. Alright, I needed to be saved, by my werewolf family preferably and I guess by the Cullens.
