Hey readers, I hope you all hand enjoyable weekends and the works :). This is the last real chapter of Changeling; the next will be the Epilogue, then two shorts set from different points of view. Enjoy the following!
~Moony
Exactly a week since my eighteenth birthday passed. Sonya, Kierston, and I were inside the Cullen's house, taking a break from weapons during a heavy rainfall. Everyone else was gone from the house, so I was surprised when there was a knock on the Cullen's front door. Who would be here at this time?
Lutie-Loo flew from my shoulder and, remaining invisible and silent to all but the fey, looked through the peephole. She flew back to us and said in her high-pitched voice, "Its two vampires, in the cloaks of the Volturi. You should open the door."
I smiled up at her and nodded my thanks, and walked from the kitchen. I pulled open the door, and there stood Demetri and Felix, with the hoods of their cloaks down. I grinned and stepped forward, hugging Demetri first, then Felix.
Both hugged me tight in response and I said, "Come on in, I'm sure Carlisle and Esme won't mind."
Demetri and Felix worked for my parents secretly, but openly were guards for the Volturi.
"So, what are you guys doing here?" I asked them when we were all seated on couches on the Cullen's living room. Each time I thought that, I smiled to myself. Living, really.
"Your father heard from somewhere that an Isabella Swan, Morrigan Shade, and Layla Shade were dead, killed in a car accident. He asked us here to investigate. When we went to the crash site, we were quite a bit shocked to smell Carlisle's scent all over the tree, and surrounding area. So Felix scented out the path, and we followed it here, only to find you, Miss Mikayla. So are you going to tell us what happened, and why you are staying with Carlisle?" Demetri explained.
I was hesitant to mention Edward, as Carlisle had been pleading with me most of the week to allow him to live. I couldn't not mention the vampire. His bite marks were evident on the Twins and me, shining bumpy skin on our normal whiteness.
Kierston sighed next to me, and took my job of explaining the past. "One of the Cullen vamps was called to Mikayla's blood, so he 'walked' her to the office, while really heading into the trees. There, he attacked Kay and drank her blood. She dropped the human disguise surrounding her, and tried to stab the vamp with a venom-coated, spelled iron blade. Sonya, Lutie, and I were too late, and the vamp had already bitten both sides of her neck. So Sonya chained him up, while he was on a fey-blood high, and I picked up Kay. We ran here, and Carlisle came back from the hospital and gave Kay Nevermore, which countered the venom by strengthening her glamour."
"You see," Sonya continued, "we had met Carlisle and Esme the night previously, but Kay had known them years past when they visited the court. Val and Ravus gave Carlisle Nevermore then, in case of emergencies, and it was useful."
"Right, and then the vampire's blood lust increased, and he attacked Sonya again. We took him outside, and after a battle which involved all three of us hurt, he ran off to Denali, we believe. My sister and I got the Nevermore in time, so only random cells throughout our bodies were changed," Kier finished.
"Which Cullen attacked you?" Felix demanded. Usually, he was a softie, but with the news, his cold, guard exterior came up full-force.
"Well, we promised Carlisle we wouldn't mention which vamp it was because he wants him to live…" I said. I was good with keeping promises, but Felix might get it out of me. How, I have no idea, but he was a good worker that way. Hence the reason my father kept him secretly employed. The reason was also joined by the fact he was a hugely muscled, human-drinking vampire.
"Mikayla, I'm going to get the answer out of you, one way or another, and it will be better if you just tell me now, before I have to get forceful," he threatened, standing up at towering over me.
"Felix, I really wouldn't do that if I were you," I warned him. He knew nothing good would come of threats, as he had been friends with me since before Carlisle and Esme's visit. Payback was sweet, and I enjoyed the feelings of revenge.
The huge vamp sighed, and was about to speak again, when the newly-repaired front door burst open. "Mikayla, Twins, the Volturi are on their way! I saw them around the crash!" Alice nearly screamed when she ran into the room we were all seated in. "Oh, it looks like you already knew that…"
I smiled at the pixie-like vampire and said, "Alice, meet Demetri and Felix of the Volturi guards and Unseelie Court."
She looked curiously at us, with Felix hovering over me, and Demetri seated on the other couch between Sonya and Kierston. "Well, it looks like you're already acquainted. Alice Cullen, nice to see you both again, and please, when you see Aro, tell him I still must decline his offer of joining the Volturi yet again," she said politely. Her usual bouncy exterior was held still, and it was a shock for me to see her still.
"Are you going to tell us which Cullen attacked our fey?" Demetri questioned her.
"Nope! I don't have to, and Carlisle did want us to not mention him," Alice replied, as she returned to her normal bouncy exterior, hopping up and down as if in a sugar rush.
My life would be much easier if I just turned Edward in to the Volturi and my parents, but I knew Carlisle and Esme would never forgive me. Chances are, neither vamp would return to court, so I wouldn't see them again. I really liked the couple, so I kept their secret.
Felix growled and told Alice, "Tell the rest of your coven that we are taking Mikayla, Kierston, and Sonya back with us to New Jersey tomorrow. Say your goodbyes tonight; the plane takes off at seven A.M."
"What, we're leaving already, Felix?" Sonya said. A smile spread over her face; the rainy town was depressing to her, though New Jersey wasn't any better.
"Yes," Demetri responded. "We'll go and pick up your belongings from the houses you were in," he continued, "well, at least those of importance. Felix will be around with the rental tomorrow at five thirty, so have your other belongings ready please."
"Please don't hunt in this area; we need to keep away suspicions, and we would have to move if anything happened," Alice spoke quickly. She then ran from the room, and I heard her up in her and Jasper's room, doing stuff.
With that, Felix moved back from me after kissing me once on the forehead, a fatherly gesture, and Demetri hugged each of the Twins and me before both walked from the house. I heard them run in separate directions, their capes flapping behind in the wind.
I do hope you all liked it :). I'll just ask, not beg, for a review, considering I am done and all with the writing. If I get a bunch of reviews, I'll update again by Friday, maybe sooner if you all are nice.
~Moony