Thanks for the reviews for the last chappie, I'm glad most of y'all liked it when Caius got punched and burned by his own son. Hope this one's just as good for you, just please keep the reviews coming.
Enjoy!
Somewhere outside Volterra:
'Where am I?' Celeste's vision was clouded by a black blindfold and bag over her head. Her hands were bound with some weird restraints she couldn't make out, as were her legs. She could hear car sounds, and horns beeping, but no voices.
'I have to contact Neko, I have to use my hands.' She started pulling off her bag and blindfold, and then noticed she was inside a large black box made out of weird metal she couldn't break free from. Whomever captured her knew how to keep control of a natural born vampire, and must've known about her and Nekolai.
'This has to work, Neko can see through some darkness but I need some light.' She looked around and noticed a small crack of light coming from the corners of the box. 'This thing's too strong, I have to make the light bigger.'
"Hey boss, should we give the girl that blood now?" she heard the voice of a man call from behind her through the box.
"Yes but not too much, we can't have her getting sick since the Master wants her alive." Soon the box top opened and someone grabbed Celli's throat forcing her mouth open and poured blood inside. Celli tried to spit it out but couldn't.
"Drink up girl, boss says you gotta stay alive and in control before you meet him." The man slammed the box back down and Celeste felt extreme nausea hit her. Her stomach started feeling queasy and her head felt heavy.
'No! Not this again! Not now!'
1:30 a.m., Volterra Palace Clock Tower:
Neko had been up in the tower for over thirty minutes after he'd publically humiliated the entire Volturi and his parents. He kept trying to look through Celeste's mind, but all he could see was pitch black; she had to be blindfolded so tightly it obscured her perfect vision.
'Celli come on, help me here.' As he continued on searching he didn't hear someone come up the stairs and through the door.
"Nekolai." He stopped and turned to see Marcus, looking at him with concern, something he hadn't seen the broken man express or feel in forever. "I know you're angry and don't want to talk, so just let me talk and listen. Alright?"
"Alright." He mumbled turning back to the nighttime sky.
"You know your parents love you, and you know they'd do anything for you and Celeste; but you have this idea of them wanting to turn you into tools, weapons of power and war correct?"
"You tell me, you're the one who can see the bonds between people."
"Yes, and I can also tell you that your bonds with us haven't disappeared as you say. I know you still care, you're just furious and want to be free. Nekolai I know we hurt you and Celeste, we never wanted that. We both know you and Celeste left because you wanted freedom, but you were so young and yet so powerful your parents couldn't let anyone else see you."
"Because of the Romanians right? Vladimir and Stefan wanted revenge around that time right?"
"You're right, they were still at large about killing us off for destroying their coven and if they found out about you and Celeste they would've used you or worse killed you. You have to understand we didn't want to keep you locked away but it was Caius's wish that you both be kept safe."
"By making us learn things we hated? Not letting us play or be like normal children?" Marcus sighed.
"Aro wanted you both to have a good education, just so you could learn more about the humans."
"And then eat them? Or have you forgotten about Celeste's weakness?"
"No one has, and not one of the other covens knows about it. Nekolai you had a right to be angry with us, but you never gave us a chance to explain."
"Why should I have? You would've just said the same thing, 'It's our natural food source, you must try it.' Those were Aro's words to Carlisle when he first came right?"
"How did you, oh right you can read lips through people's eyes. Look Nekolai we all care about you and Celeste, and if you really don't want to come back here then you'll have to explain it to everyone else. I mean I understand why, but they don't."
"Then why don't you tell them?" Neko sneered those words.
"Because it would make more sense coming from you, plus think about your sister, do you think she'd want to see you be this way for the rest of your lives? Think Nekolai, think about how she would feel about this and then decide what you think you should do." Marcus left the room after that, and Nekolai started to feel a twinge of guilt building up inside.
'Celli, where are you?'
Throne room:
All the covens had gone off somewhere in the palace after the small talk with Aro. They decided they would have to wait until something else happened before anyone could do anything. Now all that were left were the guards, Aro, Caius, and the wives.
"I can't believe this is happening, one of my babies is missing and the other hates me." Athenodora was being comforted by Sulpicia, and Caius was, as usual, sulking on his throne. He gave off a sigh every now and again, and that was getting on some nerves.
"Um, Master Caius if you don't mind me saying, instead of sitting their sulking like a child why don't you go see where Junior I mean Nekolai is?" Alec got a glare from Caius, but the man didn't budge.
"I can't believe they've been gone this entire time and we didn't know about it." Sulpicia.
"Well why can't you believe it, they used the memory power on us and now we're the laughing stock of the whole vampire world!" Caius bellowed and Sulpicia winced.
"Do not yell at my wife like that!" Aro yelled. "This is your fault anyway."
"How is it my fault?" Caius stood up from his throne.
"You're his father! You should've seen this coming after all the times you'd lied and told them everything we did was for the greater good! Well now that's gotten them both in deep hatred for each of us, and God knows what's happened to Celeste!"
"Her name is Ocarina, stop calling her by that fake name!"
"Caius!" everyone turned as Marcus entered the room and sat down on his throne. "You are being irrational right now, and you need to talk to your son. He's been hurt for over 1000 years and all you can focus on is his name. Your children need to be talked to, and not talked AT, talked TO, meaning you have to try and sort this out with him. Now before you lose him and Celeste again." He sat back and everyone was quiet.
"Marcus is right, when they were little all we did was tell them what to do, never once let them do what they wanted to do. Caius I really think you should just tell your son how you felt about all of this and the pure truth. Then let him talk and explain what he's been up to all this time, AFTER we ask him to help us find Celeste and those bastard wolves."
"No need." All eyes averted to the door; Nekolai came in and looked directly into Caius's eyes. "I will help since it's my sister who's the main one in danger right now. After that we'll see what everyone has to say about all of this. And I'm sorry for belittling you in front of everyone."
"I'm not, look son I'm sorry for what I did to you and Celeste, but we can talk about this more later." The two shook hands but with great awkwardness. Just before anyone else could say anything the Cullens and the rest of the covens came running in with Alice and Jasper in the front.
"Alice what is it? Have you had a vision?" Aro walked over and Alice looked at Nekolai with pure torment and anger.
"It's Celeste! They're killing her!"
Sorry if it's too short or not what I said I'd do, but I forgot what I wanted to do and I have a slight amount of writer's block. Fear not though I will make the next one longer, and bring in the wolves again after they bring in Celeste. If you have ideas I'll be glad to put them in if they're good and match up, if not then it means I have enough going on.
Please review and I'll see you next time.
