A/N: I need to clarify something that I forgot, prior to last chapter, all of the scenes with different characters were happening at different times. So Felix smelling Jasper around the Cullen house and in Forks happened right after Esme sent him down there a few chapters previous to hunt out for clues about what happened to Bella. Obviously, he doesn't find anything. With this chapter, the different events line up concurrently.

Oh and I posted the Bella/Tanya story I was talking about. It's called Beyond the Forge, so check it out if you're interested. It won't be updated regularly, but more reviews would help me write it faster. More reviews would help me write everything faster, so keep that in mind.

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Posted: April 23rd, 2016

Chapter 10

"Didn't 'xpect ta see yer ass down her' again any time soon ya sonofabitch," Peter greeted Jasper when he spotted the vampire stepping out of the Porsche he was driving, the exposed skin glittering in the noonday sun.

Jasper grinned at his 'brother,' clapping him on the back when he reached him, "Good te see ya fucker, been a while."

Peter snorted, belting out a partial laugh, "A while? Ya callin' o'er twenty years a while? Ye finally cracked fucker." Jasper just chuckled and followed Peter back to the house, Charlotte greeting him with a hug and a slap as soon as he walked in the door.

"I deserved that," the golden-eyed vampire conceded, rubbing his jaw from where the strong-handed woman hit him.

"Ya did fucker," Charlotte grinned, her long curly hair bouncing around her shoulders as she walked.

"So why did ya come for a visit?" Peter asked as the three settled around the living room, bottles of beer in their hand. "Finally ditch the flat-ass wifey of yours?"

"That's my mate fucker," Jasper growled, downing a mouthful of beer. "I don't like ya talking trash about her."

Charlotte rolled her eyes, "Fine fine, but why are ya her' without her, didn't think she'd let you outta her sight?"

Jasper waved his empty hand, "She's in Austin poking around in the art galleries, who'd have thunk it that Texas would'ave one of the largest art centers in the country hmm?"

"Us, though we've always known Texas was the best," Peter grinned, sipping his beer. "Still doesn't tell us why ya her'."

"Fine fine, I wanted ta come and see ya Pete cuz I needed ya help with something, though I only tol' my wife that we were stopping her' for a few days before I take her on the shoppin' spree of her life in New York and Paris." Jasper grinned at that statement, "The only way she'd've let me come see ya fuckers."

Peter narrowed his eyes at the casual way his brother and sire mentioned his wife ordering him around, forbidding him from coming to see his family. "Looks like there's a crazy small medium at large wandering around in Austin then, thinkin' about all the art she's gonna buy ta match her shoes," he chuckled, taking another swig of his beer. "Now whatca need Major? What's with all the covert sneaking around?"

Jasper leaned back in his seat, continuing to sip at his beer as he thought about his answer. "I need help from ya gift Captain, I'm looking for someone."

Quiet warning bells started to sound in Peter's head but he pushed past them. "Who?"

"Edward lost his mate, a human. He told her about us and then lef' her cuz his prissy self was afraid of hur'ing her or somethin' like that, made the entire family leave as well. Ima not comfortable leaving a loose end like tha' runnin' around, especially if the Volturi hears, ya know since I'm already on thin ice with them cuz of the wars. I need ta find the girl an' bring her back ta the family, Edward is moping around, gettin' on our nerves." He let out a chuckle at that, "Esme asked me to look for the girl to make him feel better and to keep the Volturi out of our business."

The other two veterans of the Southern vampire wars felt shock entering their systems, but they quickly clamped down on it, having learned long ago to temper their emotions around their sire. The empath constantly used his gift to read emotions and find secrets, and they did not want that to happen in this instance. "Did ya go to where ya used to live?" Charlotte asked, keeping her tone light but curious.

Jasper scoffed, "Of course I did, but she nay there, hadn't been there in a while, maybe a month. Found she snooped around the house before leaving, but couldn't find a trace of her. Figure Peter could help me out."

"Is Alice helpin' ya look?"

"Naw," Jasper replied, shaking his head, "Esme wanted ta keep it quiet tha' I was lookin' for the girl. She and Alice were real friendly. And Edward could read it from Alice no problem, she never learned ta shield her mind from him. If he finds out about this before I get the girl back home, he'll just kick up a fuss and cause even bigger problems."

"I would love ta help, don't want ya in trouble fucker," Peter replied grinning, making sure to keep as much honesty and truthfulness in his voice as he could. "But ya know that my knower doesn't work like yur pixie person, can't just ask it stuff."

"I know that fucker, but I figured tha' I'd ask ya, and then if ya get somethin', you could tell me," the other man replied with a grin. "Now enough shop talk, catch me up with what y'all been doing."

The two vampires caught up their sire and coven leader with what they've been doing, careful to leave out any mention of their involvement in Bella's disappearance. Something about his story didn't make sense to Peter, but his knower was silent, almost as if it was trying to figure things out as well. After a few hours of talking and drinking, a vibrating sound came from Jasper's pocket. He pulled out his phone and flipped through his text messages. "Alice is done shopping," the older vampire said when he placed his phone back in his pocket, "She wants me to come back and help her with her purchases. This has been fun, but I have to go."

Peter stood up and clapped his sire on the back, "Try not to be such a stranger fucker, don't let a few decades pass before you come back ta see us."

Jasper smirked and punched his 'brother' in the shoulder and hugged Charlotte. "Will do, you'll let me know if yur little knower friend pings on our lost human?"

"Of course man, I don't want to bring the Volturi down on my favorite bunny munchers," Peter replied, a cocky smirk on his face. "Now why don't ya run along and get that flat butt wife of yurs."

"Lay off my wife fucker," Jasper rolled his eyes before climbing back in his car and speeding out of the driveway, spinning the tires slightly in the gravel as he left.

"Peter," Charlotte started but he put his finger to his lips and motioned her back into the house. She nodded her head and retreated inside the house to their bedroom, knowing that the intense soundproofing they installed in the room would protect their conversation.

Once the two got to their room, Peter backed his wife up against the door and claimed her mouth, cupping his hands under her butt to urge her to wrap her legs around his waist. "Peter," she whispered out between frantic kisses.

"Make the decision to fuck," Peter whispered, grinding against her, "Plan it out in your mind, it'll protect us from the pixie midget."

Charlotte nodded her head and clearly pictured the image in her mind, layering it over and over with previous moments and illusions of sex, fucking, making love, any name the act could be called. They had started utilizing this method years ago when they first met the rest of the Cullens, mainly the Small Medium and Edweenie, bothersome busybodies. By layering images and decisions to have sex in their minds, they could avoid both of their gifts. She nodded once she had completed her task and Peter gently put her down before sitting on the edge of their bed, running his fingers through his hair in frustration.

"What is going on Peter, why is Jasper lookin' for Bella?" Charlotte asked, sitting next to her mate.

"I don't know," he muttered out, his hand dropping as he lifted his head up. "I don't know, and that annoys me because I'm not used to knowing."

The blonde woman was silent for a moment as a thought entered her mind. "Do you think we were wrong?" She questioned hesitantly, "Do you think we were wrong about Alice and Jasper? That we flipped the situation?"

Peter snorted, "No way, that Pixe midget is totally manipulative, do you see the way she dresses Jasper? Button ups with sweater vests, khakis and loafers, that's not our Major."

"Just because she manipulates Jasper into wearing what she wants and doing things for her doesn't mean that she's the one pulling the strings and whatever the fuck the Cullens are up to…"

"I know…"

Charlotte looked sadly at her mate, leaning against his shoulder to offer comfort, "What exactly did your gift tell you about the situation?"

"Not much really," Peter let out another sigh, "Just that the Cullens were up ta no good shit and the human, Bella needed ta get away. Said that not all of the Cullens were rotten apples though and I just assumed…"

"You just assumed that Jasper was good and that Alice was the problem," Charlotte finished, knowing his thought process. "Pete, I know he's our sire, our brother but… We don't really know him, only what he allows people to see. This doesn't mean that Alice isn't manipulative and bossy, just, just not as evil as we thought."

"We were wrong," Peter said after a few moments. "We need to find Bella, my knower last pinged on her heading to the Volturi, but I don't know after that. She could've been changed or killed, but we have to know for sure. She deserves to know that those fucking Cullens are looking for her."

"Have you gotten anymore information about this Genesis Project thing?"

"Nothing, just that those bunny munchers were involved and that Bella was being dragged into it." The male vampire cocked his head, his eyes taking a faraway look before he looked at Charlotte in alarm, "And apparently the Volturi were apart of it. The whole project, it started there."

The blonde stared at her mate before uttering the only words she could think of, "Well, shit."

"Get your ancient rear in gear Sulpicia, I'm not missing the chance to kill stuff just because you and your mate are in disagreement as to who wears the pants in your relationship," Athenodora yelled outside her sister's chambers, tapping her right foot impatiently as she waited.

Inside the room, Sulpicia's eye twitched as she heard her sister yelling but the defiant brunette in front of her took up the majority of her attention. "You're not going," Sulpicia gritted out, having lost patience for this argument several days ago.

"I'm going," Isabelle retorted, her crimson eyes glittering with anger. "You already basically implied that I could go when you kept talking about seeking answers and vengeance."

"I thought about it and it's too dangerous, you're barely over a month into this life and I don't want to put you in danger," the queen replied, trying to keep her voice calm. "The creature who trapped you in that perversion of a mating bond might still be running around and could actually try to kill you this time, or attempt to take you from me."

Isabelle scoffed, "Like you would let them, you're a queen damnit!" Sulpicia tamped down the urge to smile smugly at the faith her mate had in her, in her strength and power, especially when said mate glared at her with hostility. "I need answers Sulpicia, I need to know who I was so I can firmly shut the door on my human life and move on. I need to face this past that Demetri and Felix dug up and then move on with my life, with you."

Sulpicia's resolve deteriorated when faced with Isabelle's firm determination. She opened her mouth to respond to the girl when Athenodora started pounding at the door. "Let the girl come Cia, we have to go, and you know you wouldn't be able to focus if she remained in the castle anyway!"

The dark queen rolled her eyes and sighed, "Fine, grab your cloak and let's be off. Time generally waits for royalty, but I feel in this matter it may just be working against us."

The two exited the room and were met with Sulpicia's impatient gaze. "Finally," she muttered, linking arms with the other two vampires and tugging them out towards the underground garage. "Caius and Heidi already went ahead of us to the airport to arrange everything. Afton is waiting for us in the garage in the limo to take us there as well."

Sulpicia was not surprised by Athenodora's enthusiasm and haste to get out of the castle and on the plane to America, but Isabelle was younger and ended up being dragged along beside the blonde. "She seems excited," Isabelle whispered to Sulpicia when they were finally allowed to sit next to each other after boarding the plane. They were situated in the private bedroom at the back of the plane while Athenodora and Caius were in the sitting area and Heidi was prepping the plane for takeoff.

"Excited, determined, insane, all interchangeable words," Sulpicia grumbled, wrapping an arm around her smaller mate and tugging the brunette into her.

"Why does she hate werewolves so much anyway?"

"That, precious, is a long story."

Isabelle shrugged and snuggled in closer to her mate, "I hear it's a long flight."

Sulpicia smirked and leaned close, her lips brushing the shell of her mate's ear. She spent the entire plane ride murmuring tales and stories to Isabelle, telling her of times long ago, of meeting Didyme and Athenodora, of the Romanians and Egyptians, of the Chinese and Russians, of the Yeti hidden in the Tibetan mountains and the dragons hibernating in the Siberian icecaps. The brunette closed her eyes and listened to her mate's words, her mind conjuring images of long forgotten times and creatures, ones that only exist in myth and legend, or the dark of night. The queen held her mate close as she spoke, distracting her from the roar of the engines and the feel of being high in her air with her words and soft touches. They stopped once briefly to refuel the plane, but nothing broke them out of their intimate yet innocent embrace.

"Stop canoodling you two," Athenodora yelled, pounding on the door to the private bedroom. "The plane is landing soon and we need to make a game plan on what we're going to do."

"I thought strategy was your and Caius's thing?" Sulpicia retorted, reluctantly releasing her mate and moving towards the door. She opened it and was greeted by her blonde sister's impatient gaze.

"Well if you had been paying attention to our conversation rather than spending the entire trip whispering sweet nothings into your mate's ear, then you would know what we've been planning," Dora retorted, retreating back into the cabin of the plane.

Sulpicia rolled her eyes and followed after her sister, pulling Isabelle along behind her. "So what is the plan?" The queen asked once the two of them were seated across from Caius and Dora.

"Find wolves, interrogate them, kill them, move on," Athenodora replied with finality in her tone.

"That's it? It took you guys the entire plan ride to come up with that?"

"Of course not, Caius and I spent most of the ride trying to figure out the best way to kill the wolves," the blonde scoffed, eyeing her sister like she was crazy. "We couldn't decide if we should choke them, smother them, roast them over a spit…"

"I liked the torturing them by ripping them apart piece by piece option," Caius interjected.

"Oh yes, I liked that one too…" The two blondes picked back up their discussion on death and torture methods while Sulpicia sighed and Isabelle leaned forward in fascination.

"Makes sense on why they're mates doesn't it?" The queen asked, one of her hands toying with her lover's hair.

Isabelle giggled and nodded before leaning back into Sulpicia's embrace, "They sure do know a lot of ways to torture and kill someone."

"It's an art they have perfect over the years," Sulpicia conceded as she felt the plane begin to descend towards the airport. Once Heidi had landed the plane and taxied to a stop, several airport employees and customs agents came out to meet them, going over what luggage they had and stamping their passports.

Felix drove up a few minutes later in the car he rented once he learned they were coming. Caius pulled him out of the car once he stopped in front of them. "We are going to run back, it'll be faster and I need to scout out the area myself to make sure it is secure. The ladies will be taking the car."

The large vampire nodded quickly, trying to keep down the fright he felt at the sight of the imposing vampire clutching at the collar of his shirt and her wrapped tightly in his dark Mistress's arms. "Yes Master Caius, of course," he stuttered out slightly, breathing a sigh of relief when the guardmaster released him. "Mistress Sulpicia," he said, turning towards his queen, "I should tell you, I scented Jasper Cullen, formerly Major Japser Whitlock, here a few days before we arrived. His scent was all over town, it seemed as if he was looking for something." The 'someone' was left unsaid as his Queen's arms tightened around her and her eyes narrowed. "Demetri tracked his scent back down to Portland Oregon where it mingled with another scent, possibly his mate before heading further south. They used human methods to travel so we couldn't track him any further."

"Hmm, it would seem dear Carlisle is having his changlings do his dirty work for him now," Sulpicia mused before waving Felix away. "Thank you, now go before my brother gets too antsy." The two male vampires disappeared and Athenodora climbed the driver's seat, shooing Heidi into the passenger's seat, claiming she didn't get many chances to drive. Sulpicia shook her head at her sister and pushed her mate into the back seat, settling herself into the car.

Isabelle focused her eyes outside of the car as the scenery around them went by at an alarming speed, her advanced eyesight catching objects and details humans could only dream of seeing. "Anything look familiar?" Sulpicia leaned over and asked her once they reached the town limit of Forks.

The brunette shook her head, her eyes never wavering from the trees and buildings careening past through her vision. "No, though I'm not sure if I want it to truthfully. Everything's bright and green but it seems…"

"Depressing?" The queen guessed, "This region of the country receives a lot of rain, so the atmosphere is mostly cloudy. Good for vampires, not as great for humans."

They continued on, driving quickly through the small town, leaving behind the buildings and turning down the partially overgrown driveway leading towards the Cullen home. Athenodora parked the car in front of the large, glass house and stepped out, Demetri appearing next to the car a few seconds later. "It's good you were able to see me and follow me here Mistress Athenodora," the Greek tracker said, nodding his head at his queens.

"Yeah yeah, my husband is out with Felix scouting around, and you're here, so I want you to tell us everything you know about these wolves," Dora ordered, narrowing her eyes at the guard member.

Demetri shifted his eyes from Athenodor to Sulpicia, briefly landing on Isabelle before averting his eyes. "From what we've gathered, there are three wolves left, we are unsure as to how many wolves there were originally as they've been killing themselves off, not sure why on that end either. The three wolves are Samuel Uley, a large black wolf, Jacob Black, a large reddish brown wolf, and Paul Lahote, a silver wolf." He hesitated slightly before continuing on, "We learned that the wolves have a mating habit, called imprinting, and that the silver wolf imprinted on one Isabelle Swan, whom he hated. He has since descended into madness, killing human girls with long brown hair and keeping it as a souvenir."

He flinched as the dark queen's eyes blackened and a growl rumbled from her chest. She flung her arm out and grabbed at the vampire in front of her, jerking him close so that his face was only inches from her own. "Where is he?" Sulpicia hissed out. Her hand brushed against the exposed skin of his neck and she took in everything he had seen and heard the past few days. She watched in disgust as the silver wolf ripped into a human corpse, displaying his brutish nature in the way he tore into the remains. Intrigued broke through the haze of angry and hatred in her mind when she heard the words of the two older native men.

"I want this book, this journal they were speaking of," Sulpicia said, releasing the guard member. Demetri stumbled slightly when the queen let him go, his attention never wavering from her wishes. "I want that wolf in front of me first though, I want his memories, access to his mind before I squeeze the life out of him."

"There, that's a good way to kill them," Athenodora agreed. "You take the silver one and Caius and I get the other two, deal?"

Felix ran up next to Demetri, an urgent look on his face. "My queens, you have to hurry, the two large wolves, the black one and the reddish one have started attacking each other and the silver wolf. If we don't hurry, they're going to destroy each other."

The fives vampires followed Felix back through the forest towards a clearing, the sound of snarling, clawing and snapping growing louder with each step they took. They broke through the edge of the clearing and saw three horse-sized wolves in the center, each one actively trying to kill the others. Caius appeared moments later, brining with him a gust of wind, blowing their scent over towards the beasts.

"Isabelle, I want you to stay here," Sulpicia ordered as the wolves paused and turned their attention to the seven vampires. "It's not that I don't trust you'll be able to handle yourself but…"

"But I'm still young and I've only just started learning to fight," Isabelle conceded, "I got it, go kick some furry ass."

Sulpicia smiled and she and Heidi took off, heading straight for the silver wolf while Caius and Athenodora went for the black wolf and Felix and Demetri for the red one. The dark queen focused on her target, a gleeful grin fighting its way onto her face as she caught sight of the anger filled golden eyes of the beast. The other two wolves had a dark haze covering their eyes, signifying that they weren't fully in control of themselves. But this wolf, her opponent, her prey, he was alert, he was focus, he would present a worthy challenge before she beat him into the ground.

The beast snarled and lunged, Sulpicia whirling away at the last second to barely miss the glistening fangs, giving her opportunity to grab one of his back legs. Using the wolf's momentum against him, she flung him in the opposite direction, creating a dusty cloud as the large weight hit the ground. She tilted her head slight as the fragments of memories she saw when she gripped him registered in her mind. They were disjointed, twisted, incomplete. It was almost as if she was viewing them through the eyes of a wild animal.

Sulpicia shook her head and refocused on her task, noticing that Heidi had wrenched the wolf out of the small crater he had created and tossed him back in her direction. She moved slightly out of the way and kicked out with her leg, sending him flying sideways and his body wriggled, trying to land up right. The queen smirked as she heard several ribs fracturing under the power of her kick and the labored breath of the wolf as he struggled to stand.

The wolf growled, his eyes narrowed before his head snapped to the side, spotting Isabelle waiting at the edge of the clearing. He snarled and launched himself towards the brunette vampire, a ferocious roar leaving his mouth. Sulpicia met him in the air, wrenching him back away from her mate by the tail, slamming him into the ground. Heidi flashed over and grabbed his back legs while the queen laid into him, rage filling her body at the creature dared to attempt to attack her mate. She was going to toy with him, let him think that he had a chance, but the moment he moved to go after her mate was the moment his fate was sealed.

She dodged his flailing claws and jaws, wrapping her arms around his neck, cutting off his oxygen supply. "I know you can understand me you filthy mongrel," Sulpicia hissed out. "She. IS. Mine! You had your chance and lost it, you will never have her again." The wolf struggled more with every word she said, his movements becoming sluggish due to lack of oxygen. "I thought about just killing you as a beast, stripping you of dignity to die like a man, but I want to look you in the eyes when I kill you, now change back," she growled, squeezing her arms even tighter around the creature's neck.

In a moment, she went from holding a large, flailing wolf to a large naked man, still thrashing around in her and Heidi's grip. Sulpicia glanced over and saw her sister, Cauis and her guards had subdued the other two wolves, picking up the naked humans and dropping them near where the dark queen was. "Are we going to interrogate and kill them, or are we just going to skip the talking and head right to the killing?" Athenodora asked, a wicked gleam present in her eyes.

Sulpicia rolled her eyes and stood up, motioning for Heidi to keep the man restrained and on his knees before her. Felix and Demetri moved to place the other two men before their queen. She frowned when she tightened her hand around the still slightly defiant man's neck, his memories still disjointed and erratic, as they were when he was in wolf form. She released him and moved onto the other two, finding it easier to view their memories in their unconscious state. She sneered when she grabbed hold of the russet wolf man, boy, Jacob Black. She saw the lust he held for her mate, her mate's human self Isabella Swan; lust and hatred. He lusted after her, craved her like one would crave after a new toy, trinket, and yet he hated her, hated that she wasn't his, hated that she preferred vampires over him, hated that she would never see him as anything but her friend.

The boy's memories were useful though, providing her with a timeline of Isabella's, Bella's life and knowledge of vampires, as well as more insight into what the beast, what Paul had done to her mate. He tortured her, used the imprint bond against her, pushing her for her existence as well as trying to mould and break her into something he deemed more suitable. It disgusted her.

She released the unconscious boy and filed away what she had learned about this imprinting, this perverted mating habit, from the two unconscious wolves for further contemplation at a later point. The queen turned her attention back to her only conscious captive, Heidi keeping a vice grip on his wrist to keep him in place. "You torture Bella, Isabelle," Sulpicia started, preferring the way her mate's new name sounded than her old one. "Punish her for something you caused, drive her away into my arms and you dare think that you can take her back." He growled out in response, salvia dripping from his mouth and his eyes a feral gold. Sulpicia's hand flashed out and clenched at the short hairs on top of his head, wrenching his head backwards with a sharp tug. "And then you kill humans, women who happened to look like Isabelle, and you still think you have the moral high ground, that you are somehow better than I? I am speaking to you Paul Lahote."

A dark chuckle escaped the man's lips. "Not Lahote, not Paul, he was weak, I am not."

Sulpicia eyed the creature in front of her, pieces clicking into place in her mind. "You're the wolf aren't you?"

He grinned, his mouth full of pointed, yellowed teeth. "Paul was weak, never fully in control of himself. He denied me what I wanted most," he turned his attention to the brunette vampire behind the queen, "to sink my fangs in her flesh and devour her, to feel her blood dripping down my throat while I took pleasure from her body in other ways. I craved it and he denied me, sinking himself into any harlot her could find."

"What did you do to him?" The queen asked, slightly fascinated by this supernatural case of split personality syndrome.

"He died," the man, beast stated proudly, "I killed him. When the imprint broke, it was meant to kill me, taking something as compensation for reject a gift giving by our ancestors." The wolf sneered, "I sacrificed Paul's spirit instead, giving me free rein in this body as well as my natural form. Those women, those harlots, they've all been practice, training for what I want to do when I finally managed to locate my property, to remind her of her place before I devoured her in every way."

"I'm guessing you're the reason why your pack mates were killing each other," the queen mused, rage coiling in her stomach at the words of the creature in front of her.

He scoffed, "They're weak, that's why they were attacking each other. Some creature, a spirit or apparition was attacking their human minds, corrupting them, they deserved to die."

"And you, do you not think you deserve to die as well?"

"For what? I have done nothing that you monsters don't already do," he growled out, thrashing around a bit on the ground.

"Well unlike your kind," Sulpicia spat out, "We don't claim the moral high ground. You are going to die for what you did to my mate, what you thought about doing, and I can't stand the sight of your face." She released his head and raked her nails down his torso from neck to navel, smirking in satisfaction and the snarls of pain falling from his mouth and the blood coating her fingers. "I do have to thank you though," she murmured, getting closer to him as she placed her hand above where his heart beat rapidly in his chest. "If it wasn't for your, for Paul's actions, I wouldn't have found my mate. I would've had to wait even longer for her soul to be reborn in order to find her, so for that, I'll give you the quick death you don't deserve." She plunged her hand into his chest, ripping out his heart at the exact moment she snapped his neck with her other hand, watching in grim satisfaction as his body slumped to the ground.

The queen turned around and handed the heart in her hands to her mate. "For you my love," she smirked, taking in the expression of awe and lust on the younger vampire's face.

"That was so sexy," Isabelle murmured, taking the heart and crushing it in her hands. "You always give me the nicest things."

"Only the best for you my love," the queen whispered, sealing their lips together.

Athendora interrupted the two of them by unnecessarily clearing her throat. "Hate to break this up, but what do you want to do with these two?"

"You can kill them Dora, they don't know much more than what I took from them and if what that beast said is true, they'll continue trying to kill each other anyway."

The blonde queen gleefully skipped over to the unconscious bodies and snapped their necks, choosing speed and efficiency over amusement. "How are we supposed to get information on their species now? Or this imprinting thing? Or that spirit that was attacking them?" Caius groused but slightly amused by his mate's reaction.

"I believe I can help you there," another female's voice rang across the clearing as two unknown vampires scents drifted in their direction. The seven vampire's turned and spotted two female vampires at the edge of the clearing, the guard members rushing in front of their queens while Sulpicia held Isabelle close to her. The two women approached them slowly, and the dark queen was observing them closely as the walked. One had fair skin and long flaxen hair while the other had a darker skin tone and brown hair. Both had bright orange eyes and wore animal skins over cloth tunics and leathers.

"I didn't mean to startle you," the tan skinned woman said once they were in front of the group of vampires. "I have been keeping track of what has been going on here and I believe I can answer whatever questions you have."

"Who are you?" Sulpicia asked, her eyes shifting between the two. "I've never encountered you before, which is something as I'm one of the queens of the vampire world."

"We keep to ourselves," the blonde woman spoke, her voice carrying a thick accent. Her voice and manner pointed to a warrior, one who lived in relative solitude.

The brunette haired woman placed her hand on her companion's arm before looking back at the group. "I am Dyani, and this is my mate Aila. I know much about these wolves and what your mate went through because in my life, my human life, I was Taha Aki's third wife…"

A/N: Wow, who saw that coming (I did) but I mean really, who would've thought that the third wife would show up (me, I knew). So all the wolves are dead, and next chapter we'll get some answers, and even more questions as some of these answers will lead to the other major plot point for this story.

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