CHAPTER NINE
"Very well." Jasper said suddenly, giving me a strange look like he didn't understand me.
That made two of us.
I didn't understand myself.
"We must find out about Juno and how you two are connected," Carlisle said, "My mother knew Juno very well despite who her father was… but she didn't know her as well as my father and Lyca did," he gave a glance at Jacob who had a curious look on his face, obviously confused.
"We need to find Lyca and see if Juno had a secret lover no one knew about, someone she wouldn't let anyone know about." Esme said, squeezing my hand tighter.
"No." Jacob said, shaking his head. "Nobody knows where he lies except the elders, and nobody can get that out of him."
"Edward can!" Alice said, unlike everyone else's somber mood she looked excited, practically jumping in her seat.
"No I can't, nor would I." Edward said, narrowing his gold eyes at his family. "If she is going to fight with us then she needs to begin training, Alice you've seen they all leave Italy in a month, and this time it isn't just the warriors it's Alec and Jane and the original three. We have no time to spend wasting on assumptions." He growled.
"Brother please," Carlisle said, suddenly looking annoyed, "We have to follow this. You know you want too."
"I want to finish off the Volturi Carlisle, for our mother and father who died at their feet. For Juno herself who sacrificed her life for us. If it is that important to Isabella," he spat my name, "Then after the war- if we still walk this earth with freedom I will help her find out, but till then. I am doing nothing but training."
"You're so frustrating!" Jacob yelled, shaking slightly and making the entire dining room shake with him-if the tension hadn't been so high, Esme would be flipping out. "All she wants is answers! Isn't that what you've always wanted Edward? But you never got it, now you're taking her knowledge from her because of this war that's been going on since before any of us were born. You may lead us but you are no leader to me."
And that was it, Edward snapped. He leapt himself over the table at Jacob in a dashing speed and was on top of-a wolf?
In the few seconds Jacob's clothes had ripped off and now he was a huge, russet wolf. Growling fiercely beneath the vampire.
It took less then a second for Jacob to be knocking against the table, splitting it in the half that he hit. He growled once more but Edward was on him again in speed I had never seen before, faster than anything my eyes had ever laid eyes on.
Then Emmett and Carlisle got involved, Emmett pulling the huge wolf out of Edwards grasp and Carlisle jumping on his brother's back and slamming him into the floor. Making the chandelier above quiver.
In a matter of seconds Jacob was out the door and I heard the door slam loudly and could make out the voice of Emmett as he tried to calm Jacob down while Carlisle was struggling with Edward. Still on the floor, he didn't release him till Emmett's voice and Jacobs's growls became softer and eventually unable to hear.
"Calm down brother, peace remember? We must have peace before the fight." Carlisle said, backing away from Edward with hands raised.
Lord Edward himself nodded, though his eyes still held aggression that would of scarred anyone else, but it suctioned me in. Making me lock eyes with him for a few seconds, a deathly stare in his own till they became wider and he lowered his face to the ground. He almost looked ashamed.
"I am sorry brother, I just… my temper got a hold of me and I didn't think to control myself."
Alice sighed, her happiness from earlier gone and now she just looked disappointed.
"Everything will end in ruins if we continue this way, I can see it."
Esme gasped, reaching for Alice and pulling her into a warm, motherly hug. "Don't say that Alice, we must always have hope or we shall fail."
Alice laughed grimly, looking at Edward for a few seconds then me. Her eyes huge and far away, "We will if they cannot find a common ground."
"Shutup Alice," Edward growled, giving her a look that could petrify. Making Alice freeze up and stop moving, her golden eyes locked tightly on Edward. Like she was being controlled.
A second passed before she shook her head, her eyes moved again. Beside her Jasper growled.
"Edward stop," he growled, wrapping Alice in his arms, "you and your mind tricks only work on humans, leave Alice alone."
"Wait, what?" I whispered to Esme who just sighed, brushing her hair with a hand.
"Edward and Carlisle both have multiple powers, and one of Edwards is that he can compel humans into doing what he wishes. But just humans," she nodded at Alice, "he has no control over vampires."
"Oh." I said, my lips making a perfect oval as I looked at Edward.
"Come, Bella." Carlisle said, grabbing my hand and pulling me away from the dinning room, "You have much to learn, maybe much more than we imagined…"
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"This is pointless," I said, feeling exhausted. A feeling I didn't know a vampire could have.
I'd been with Jacob and another vampire called Kate all day, learning things from fighting techniques to how to spread my "shield" and it was tiring.
Kate was one of the Denali's- the first three vampires Carlisle had ever created, Kate had told me the story. Or rather shown me when I'd looked into her eyes…
Flames burned the city, cries still heard from dying people rang in my ears but I tried paying attention to my sisters instead. Tanya was the strongest, always facing dangers before we even heard of them. That was why she was our mothers' favorite. Irina was even more fragile then me, she stood on Tanya's other side shaking.
Our mother had done the unthinkable, turned an immortal child. Something the Volturi opposed, something that would get our mother killed.
Thoughts ran in my mind as we walked down to the huge fire pit to face the Volturi.
Why had my mother had to change? My sisters and I were humans, but my mother ran off and got changed, then changed that baby whose name I didn't even know. Now our whole village was dead, so was my mother, and so was it.
"Come forward you three." The vampire with long black hair said, beckoning us in a voice that was sweet like honey, though his deep red eyes held another story. Those eyes….
Tanya slowly walked ahead of us, her steps light and careful.
"Please your grace, we wish you no harm. We are innocent, our mother-her plans were without the thought of the three of us." Tanya spoke softly, her voice quivering in a way that made Aro's eyes lit with joy.
He liked seeing us in pain. I thought, wishing I could have him dead and my mother alive.
"She lies brother," the white haired one growled, "I can feel it. She is like our sisters, manipulative of Juno, quick thinking like Lyca and wicked like Cyra."
"Oh brother," Aro began, "We cannot be sure of this till we know the entire story."
I was confused, what did he mean?
"Come child." Aro said, nodding at Tanya who was now shaking in fear. The white haired one smiled wickedly at this.
"I won't hurt you unless your intentions are not what you have said," he murmured quietly, his eyes locking with Tanya's as she stayed put, eventually he sighed. Almost seeming disappointed.
"Very well. Jane."
From behind the ranks of dark cloaks and smoke came a vampire smaller than the rest, she was young too. Just a few years above grown, if I hadn't been about to die I would of accused Aro of changing an immortal child himself.
The child reminded me of a cat, with huge eyes and curious face, but the color of her eyes ruined it. They were deep rubies, gleaming out and making Tanya shake even more.
And shake she did.
As she looked at Tanya my sister began to shake fiercely before falling to the ground in obvious pain, her face twisted into a gruesome look and body turned at an awkward position, her mouth was open as if she was going to scream but she made no sound.
"Tanya!" I screeched, flinging myself at my sister before another vampire stopped me, he was a young man obviously, but his age could have been eleven or twenty. You could never guess, but his dark hair and round eyes made it obvious, he was the brother of Jane.
Alec. And he was currently holding Irina and I back as Jane let Tanya bathe in her pain before Aro-after a painful couple of minutes- told Jane to stop and let Tanya breathe.
"Now child, do you wish to re-consider?" Aro asked again, a slight smile on his face. Like we were old friends.
Shaking, Tanya slowly got up and walked to Aro, gripping his hand tightly she looked sick.
"Ah." Aro said after a few moments, taking a step back from my sister and nodded. "I see now child, they are innocent."
"No!" Caius growled, his eyes gleaming.
"Brother please," Aro said, trying to calm the white haired vampire but Caius wasn't having it, in a few seconds Caius had jumped before Aro and sunk his teeth into Tanya's neck in a way that looked like he was kissing her, but that wasn't it at all.
I saw blood streaming from her neck before Caius was on Irina, doing the same to my sister and then turned his gleaming eyes on me, they were black with hunger, behind him my sisters gasped like fish needing water.
And then he jumped on me and it all went black.
Kate had explained to me that after Carlisle, Edward and the missing brother James had found them. Apparently back then the brother had hunted for the Volturi, tracking their movements and making allies within the groups of people who had suffered demise from the Volturi.
Carlisle had found them all first and changed them as their blood still flowed from their neck, injecting their poison and creating three vampires who hated Aro almost as much as Edward did himself.
I heard screeching and realized that I'd failed again.
I was supposed to project my shield from myself to Jacob and protect him from Kate's power (a sharp, electric-like pain I'd been told) that could make you feel like you'd been struck by lightning or stepped on an eel.
"Bella!" Jacob moaned, rubbing his arm where he'd been shocked, "Come on now, you did it once for a second lets do it again before I have to amputate my arm."
I sighed, raking a hand through my dark hair.
"I'm sorry Jacob, I don't know what I'm doing."
Beside me Kate laughed lightly.
"Ugh. It's fine… let's go again I guess."
I tried-I truly did. I pushed my shield out like a bandaid and thought of it wrapping over Jacob like a shield. But it was more of a rubber band with too much tension; it wouldn't stretch far without bouncing back. Coming back into whatever "shield" I possessed and leaving Jacob to yelp in pain again as Kate shocked him once more.
"Okay," he said, wincing. "That's all I can take today, we can try again tomorrow. Or maybe you can get Emmett to help you-I hope- cause I might have border patrol." He looked at his singed arm again, "Yeah I defiantly have border patrol."
"No problem Jacob." Carlisle said, joining us. We were in a part of the cave, far away from anyone else to not interfere with other practicing.
"I was just about to ask Isabella to come with me for some, research…"
"What kind of research?" Kate asked, sounding disappointed that she was loosing me.
"Just a few things I think she might be interested in; come Bella." He called to me over his shoulder as he gracefully walked away from the practicing grounds and towards one of the steeper walls of the cave, standing high, I could make out a few caves on the walls which Kate had explained to me was the library, storage and the Temple of the Gods, a cave that stood higher than the others and was rarely visited.
Carlisle jumped from crevice to crevice in the wall, making it look like it wasn't a complete ninety-degree angle straight up, eventually we made it to the lowest cave that was lit by lights that had someone been hung from the wall.
I faintly wondered how long the electric plug would have to be to have lights.
"What are we looking for?" I asked once we reached the ledge, peering into the cave. It was bigger than Eleazars my much, and wasn't covered by books but instead scrolls that looked much older than anything I'd ever seen, too old to be seen in even the oldest of libraries dating my hundreds of years. These, these were the scrolls that held the beginning of human life itself. The beginning of religion and faith and the Aztecs and Romans. This was it.
I could tell why Kate had earlier said that unless invited by one of the Lords, you could not go up here without serious consequences. This information was too fragile to be touched with careless hands.
But here I was, in what was possibly the oldest library of all time, with Carlisle Cullen.
"We are looking for what everyone looks for child," he said gently, suddenly looking much older than his physical appearance usually led on to, "We are looking for answers."
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