Author's note below: please read ;p
Song for the chapter: Stand my ground by Within temptation (love her voice, check her out just a thought)
Jane opened the door and walked in quickly. Her heels of her shoes making sharp dagger like sounds against the marble floor. I shut my eyes for a second then opened to follow in behind her. My eyes were glued to the ground afraid of making any eye contact with any of the vampires that possible inhabited the room.
"Acacia" Spoke Aro. "You look lovely, your hair what a lovely shade of red"
My eyes shot up to see Aro sitting a long rectangular wooden table. In his hand was a glass cup of some sort of red liquid. He brought it to his lips and took a sip.
"My dear please sit we have prepared you a meal" He sat his glass down then turned his head toward me. Dark locks fell onto Aro's shoulders over his black cloak. His hands gestured leading me toward a seat next to him. "We have much to talk about.
Slowly I moved my feet toward the long table. What was wrong with me, I had become so timid. Jane walked before me then pulled out a large chair for me. The chair had to be about six feet tall. I drug my feet to the chair and sat down. It was surprisingly comfortable. Jane pushed the chair in then exited the room. I would have rather her stay. I did not want to be alone in this room with Aro.
"My dear how did you sleep? I hope your bed chamber was to your liking, it will be yours" his voice was calm, but not with out a hint of evil.
"Mine?" I asked looking from the table toward him.
"Yes, yours" He smiled. "And everything in it as well, we will be stocking it with clothing of course"
"Then I am to stay?" I asked with eyes wide open. "I really wish you would let me go"
"I'm sorry" His lips pouted. "But this was your choice my dear and here do you see the Cullens coming here to save you?"
I looked back down at the dark wooden table with a frown. He was right, it had been more than two days and the Cullens had yet to come rescue me from this place.
"You also made a deal" His voice went higher in pitch, the evil was dripping through even more and becoming dominant.
"I did" I lifted my head up, my red hair fell into my pale face. "I made a deal to come here, but not to be turned."
"Do you want to die?" Aro's slender fingers moved my hair behind me ears out of my eyes. "I mean really die" his eyes went animated.
"No" I whispered shaking my head.
"Then this is your only choice" He placed a hand on my left cheek and moved my face toward him. "It is not a bad choice, you will be loved here and a part of our coven, this family. Vampires will bow down to you everywhere"
"Family?", I asked. "But I already have a family"
"Had" He lift a dark brow. "This will be your new family now my dear"
"They are still my family" I argued getting out of his grasp.
"But you will not be able to be near them once you have changed"
"I wont" my heart fell. I was to not see my father, my mother and most importantly my grandmother. Bella was going to pay for getting me into this mess.
The large door open once again and two set of foot steps filled the air. I dare not turn to face the two guest that entered the room. Chairs were pulled out and the two vampires sat down. I shot my face toward them. Caius and Marcus.
"You have two choices girl" Spoke the blond vampire. His red cat like eyes turned into slits and his face still dawn the same scowl. "Either die or die"
"Or I can be set free" I glared at Caius. why couldn't he just leave.
"My dear I'm sorry to say, but Caius is right" Aro spoke. "You will either be turned or killed, but I will assure you that you will be turned before any notation of you actually really dieing occurs."
"What if I don't want any of this" I stood up from my chair. Caius as well stood up his eyes glaring daggers into mine.
"sit down Acacia" Aro ordered. "This will all work out, just let it, Caius sit down as well"
I sat back down. My stomach began to growl. I was hungry.
"You must be hungry my dear" I nodded my head.
With in seconds walked in someone with a trey of food and placed it before me. There was some sort of red meat, a plate of pasta, a basket of bread, and a small bowl of salad.
"Thank you, now you may leave" The one who brought the food walked out and shut the door. "Please eat Acacia"
I sat up and felt all eyes on me. How strange. Bringing my hand to the table I pushed the meat away from the food. A faint laugh filled the cool air.
"Not fond of meat" Aro laughed.
"No"
"How Ironic I don't eat animal either and you wont have to as well"
"You all only feed off humans?"
"Yes and their is a reason for that" Marcus interrupted.
I looked over to him and picked up a fork. "A reason?"
"Yes"
"For what reason do you not feed on animals?"
"For the same reason as you I suppose, why eat an animal when it has done nothing to us, when humans are the main reason the earth is hell" Aro continued.
"So you feed off humans because you hold grudges against them"
"Not entirely" Caius but in. His voice was angry.
"The cullens, they have golden eyes how come you all have red eyes" I randomly remembered.
"Its apart of the diet" informed Caius. "If you are a new born vampire you will have red eyes as well as those who feed off humans"
"The cullens feed off animals"
"They do and its a shame they have no clue what they are missing"
I poked my fork into the plate of pasta and picked of a piece the placed it in my mouth. It was good, I loved pasta, but it was a little cold. I couldn't complain though.
"About your transformation" Aro looked at me. "It will happen soon, the sooner the better, but we will not tell you when"
I about choked on my pasta.
"So soon?" I asked dropping my fork on the white porcelain plate. My eyes just about exploded. "By who? Why wont you tell me when?"
"By me" the blond leader stated dully. "we will not tell you because if you anticipate it, the pain will hurt worse"
"You are not going to be the one to change me" I shouted across the table. "I will not give you the satisfaction"
"Acacia" Marcus began. "It was Aro's and my decision"
"No" I shouted standing up once again and pushing my chair out. I began to walk to the door. A figure flew right in front of it. Cauis.
"Where do you think you are going" he lifted a brow. "We are not finished with this conversation"
Caius's red eyes bore down at me and his full lips formed a thin line.
"Sit back down" he ordered. "Or I shall turn you now"
I didn't move, my eyes just continued to glare at him. I was challenging him. Either way the rest of the vampires wanted me to be changed so they didn't move.
"You wouldn't" I spoke weakly looking into his eyes. My glare slowly faded away into sadness.
"I would" He shouted.
"I don't want to be a vampire" Tears slowly leaked from my eyes, they were warm against my skin causing goose flesh to crawl up my entire body from the cold air. "I don't want to feel the pain of transformation or live forever"
Caius extended out a cold hand and with the scowl still across his face he placed the hand against my cheek wiping a stray tear away with his thumb.
"You have no choice" he hissed.
"Don't touch me" I spat moving away from his touch. "The last time you touch me I was thrown across a large room and landed on my back"
Caius lifted a brow then exited the room.
"I shall leave you here to eat my lovely Acacia" Aro stood up from his large that sat at the top of the table. Marcus sat up as well. Marcus was an okay guy besides the fact he seemed a bit off half the time...like he wasn't here on earth. "But after this feel free to wonder the castle to make your self acquainted to your new home"
I sat at the table a lone. The cold air that surrounded me began to sink into the fabric of my outfit and slide across my skin. Keeping me feeling uncomfortable. The food was cold, but I ate it all except the meat. It didn't take long for me to feel full either. I just stuffed my face until it all disappeared. I did not want it to go to waste, for there were not other being that inhabited this place that could eat any of it. It didn't take me long to drink half the bottle of wine either. It didn't really affect me, but I did feel a little light headed.
LATER...just a bit later.
Quickly after I finished my meal I stood up and walked out of the large open room. The building seemed to be getting colder and colder so I pulled the cloak like hood that was attached to my coat over my long hair then set out to wonder and explore.
The castle was huge in size and cold in temperature of course. It was a ancient building built of stone and marble. I couldn't help, but to stare up at the ceiling. They were tall really tall and covered in all sorts of intricate designs. The walls were not bare, but covered in fine art ranging from early times periods of before the renaissance to past the renaissance period. There were realistic style pieces to the most romantic pieces with abstractions.
I walked down the long hallways just staring at all the art work in my mind going crazy from all beauty and my hands itching to touch a brush and paint for myself. There were so many rooms along with so many doors. My mind began to get curious and wonder what was behind the doors of course they belonged to those who lived here, but not all of them could be occupied by someone. I didn't open any of the doors though. I knew I shouldn't I knew I didn't want to see anything I didn't want to see.
"The tunnel" I spoke loudly. "I wonder where that leads, how do I even get there"
I continued walking down the long hallway still soaking in everything with my child like eyes and sense of wonder. But there were just rooms and statues. I was more surprised that no one was walking the halls either, because I was feeling kind of lost.
Interestingly enough my ears began to hear the sound of movement to the left of them. It was odd because this area seemed to be less occupied with pieces of art and had less light except for a few lit candles. It was quite a dark hallway. My feet began to walk involuntarily towards the sound and stopped at a large iron door that was slightly ajar.
My blue eyes peaked in and grew wide with fear and surprise. There laying on top of a bed was a naked woman struggling against a cloaked figure that was leaning over her. When her eyes locked with mine she began to scream louder. My hands fell to the door pushing it open with a loud creak. The figure stood up from the woman then with one last second came crashing upon the woman one more time diving for her neck. The woman shrieked one last time then didn't move or make a sound again.
The hooded figure stood up from the woman again revealing that she really was naked and covered in blood. Of course vampires, how could I forget. The figure turned to face me and a small growl escaped it's lips. It had to be a man.
"What are you doing down here" the figure raised it's hands to uncover it's face. Caius. "No one is allowed in these parts, this is my wing of the castle"
I turned to close the door and run, he looked vicious with blood from his full lips. I sprinted down the hallway even for me a runner there was no possible way to out run this son of the devil!!!
So I hid, I hid in a corner behind a large statue of some figure, it had a likeness of Caius, but this figure was smiling and looked handsome, something Caius lacked. Placing my hands on it to appear around it to make sure Caius was not after me, I accidentally placed too much force on the statue and the damn thing fell. Yes fell and broke into multiple pieces. GREAT! I had to run now. I set off once again just to come crashing into a hard figure and landing on the floor.
Caius lifted a brow at me, blood was still dripping from his lips. He lifted his hand to his face and wiped the blood away with his thump then placed it between his lips sucking it away. I swallowed hard looking away from. He looked dangerous.
"You shouldn't have walked into that room Acacia" he spoke sternly then advanced to pull me off the ground. "That could have been you"
"I..I.." I stuttered shaking my head. "I don't think so" The words shot out of my mouth.
"I could snap your neck right now and Aro nor Marcus would be able to save you" His eyes glared at me. "That statue was of me if you were wondering, it was my favorite statue"
"Really" A laugh escaped my lips. I couldn't help it. His grip around my arms were tightening "I don't believe it. The statue looks nothing like you, because its actually handsome and smiling, you look as if you hate the world half the time"
His hand came across my face quickly bringing my body to the ground again.
"You know nothing" he spat. "You know nothing of what you speak of"
"You bastard" I shouted (the character really loves that word) instantly bringing my hand to my right cheek. It was wet, my lip had split. Blood. I was lucky he didn't dislocate my jaw. "I swear one day I will..."
"You will what?" he cocked his head curiously. "Foolish little mortal"
"I will kill you" I glared up at him.
A rich laughter escaped his lips. It was a pleasant laugh, but unnerving at the moment. He grabbed my arms again yanked me to my feet and near him.
"Your blood smells so.." Caius leaned in and smelled the dripping red liquid that was running down to my neck. I felt the cold just radiating off of him. My heart began to beat fast and all the blood was rushing to my cheek. A smooth finger traced my neck up to my cheek. Caius removed his finger from my skin then brought it close to his eyes watching a drop fall to the marble floor. Then he brought it to his lips and sucked it free of the rest. "I could take you here, right now make you a vampire"
"No don't" I whined.
Author's note: so another chapter with Caius. This was somewhat of a slow chapter and I apologize for it because I was in the middle of finishing up a paper and working on an art assignment. But as long as Acacia and Caius have their alone time its all good...right? ;) I really want to say thank you to all of those who have been reviewing! I really love feed back! Also if you are a big true blood fan (not that I am trying to turn you readers away from Twilight) but I also write fan fiction on True blood, more specifically Godric fanfiction (too bad he died too soon) but check them out if you like vampires in general!!!!
questions:
how do you like caius's and Acacia's relationship so far?
what about how Aro is treating Acacia? it's clearly he wants something from Acacia....hmmm maybe to be apart of the Guard or even better to have a seat next to him as a ruler? hmmm...not in a loving sort of way of course.
Do you guys really hate how I am leaving these cliff hangers? :p
I also have a few plot ideas I am thinking about at the moment....for future chapters.
please review!!!
and would you guys like to make play lists?
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE REVIEWS!!!!
xiloveanime01x :Haha I did it again! sorry!! but thank you for the review and for READING!!! :)
arrancarstar: haha I have noticed the over sexed caius characters as well, I just feel like the real Caius, though a very cruel vampire that probably hasn't had sex in a while (what am I saying? he probably has...idk), would not be so naturally you know...but don't worry I have a steamy heated up chapter in mind with him in it...naturally of course ;) that's why I have to make an authors note stating I am changing the rating possibly.
Blackened Lilly: Thank you for your very kind review! I've noticed a lot of OOC Caiuses as well, they are all cool and such, but I am trying to keep Caius with as many known personality traits and characteristics as possible. I may throw in a few on my own, but they wont be that arbratrary compared to how he is. of course fanfiction is an art its Writing! :) I hope you liked this chapter!
TBadillo90: Thank you for the review I am glad to see that its coming a long well. I was afraid since I didn't automatically go straight into the whole volturi scene that readers may not like it. I just had to explain things and try to keep as many plot holes out as possible! :)
RememberingYesterday: Thank you for another review!!! :) Essays just seem to lack all the good things that narratives and stories have. I used to be really good at writing essays but since I have been getting really vague essay topics lately things have kind of gone down.
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