Hello everybody!! Thank you sooo much to everyone that sended me either reviews or messages in French, I really enjoyed it! lol

Um, well, this is Chapter 10. It's nearly as long as the previous one, so I hope you'll like it...

One last thing: I'm leaving thursday on vacation with my family for about a week and a half. And I don't know if I'll be able to update then... I don't even know if I'll have access to a computer... So... I'll try my best to write stuff but please don't kill me if I don't...? Please? Basically, tomorow is the last chapter you'll get from me until July 7th. Sorry...

Enjoy!

Slowly, Edward walked back to the living room. Several pairs of eyes looked at him when he entered, but the conversation that was going on didn't stop otherwise. Silently, Edward came to sit next to Alice and Jasper.

"So? What happened next?" Emmett impatiently asked.

Aro smiled and Jasper stiffened at his brother's enthusiast.

"When we got there, we realized that we were to be facing the largest newborn army we had seen in decades…" Aro continued.

A large smile illuminated Emmett's face. No need to read his mind to understand he would have loved to be with the Volturi at that time… Especially after having told his own family about a million times that they had to take care of the army before it did anymore trouble…

"What are you waiting for to tell us when happened after?!" he nearly roared.

In his corner, Demetri tried to muffle is hilarity – and failed. Edward glared at him, but ended up smiling too. Obviously, the Volturi family wasn't used to Emmett's constant enthusiasm.

"How many were there?" Jasper professionally asked.

"Twenty five, I believe. Maybe a bit more…" Aro answered.

Jasper's face grew somber as he acknowledged Aro's answer.

"What?" the Volturi asked, puzzled by Jasper's reaction.

Jasper's eyes met Aro's. "Let's just say I'm from the south," the blond vampire answered simply.

Aro seemed to understand as he nodded.

"I see. So you are familiar with the concept of newborn armies?" he asked.

"Yes," Jasper said, prudent.

Indeed, Jasper was familiar with the idea of using newborns as an army. He was also familiar with the Volturi's punishment to who ever created that kind of army and/or was part of it. This being said, since he did not want to die, Jasper decided to keep for himself the fact that he had been created for that exact purpose: newborn fighter.

From the corner of his eyes, Jasper saw Edward and Carlisle nod, as they approved his discretion.

"Can you continue?" Emmett asked, impatient.

Refusing to be side-tracked, Aro eyed Jasper.

"I'd really like to hear your story if we ever have a minute of two…" he said, pensive. Jasper nodded tensely. Next to him, Alice straightened up as if to protect her mate and glowered at Aro. We'll see about that, she furiously thought.

Edward smiled.

"Later, maybe," he approved. "But before that, let us hear the end of your story, Aro," he added, to calm both Emmett and Alice.

"So be it," Aro smiled. "Seattle being sunnier than Forks—" he continued, smiled at the comparison, "we had to wait for nighttime before taking care of all those newborns. I'll admit I was a little nervous – twenty five against six? – it'd be a first… But than, as we started to fight them, we realized that they had absolutely no clue what was happening. All they were looking for was blood – they didn't even have a clue of who we were…!

Rosalie snickered. Arrogant, she spat. Edward tried to hide his amusement, and from the corner of his eye, he saw Jasper smile – no doubt, he felt Rosalie's annoyance and he thought it was pretty funny.

"When Marcus realized that the leader of the group was no where to be seen, it intrigued me. The battle lasted nearly three hours; curious to understand was what up with this odd and disproportionate group, I asked to be brought all the newborns – alive – so I could study their thoughts," continued Aro, unaware of what was going on around him.

Caught up in the story, Emmett nodded.

"All the mind reading brought us to the north-west part of the city, near the ocean creek. When we finished taking care of the three humans we caught spying on us—" the Cullens shuddered.

Thank God, Bella isn't here, they all thought, relieved.

"…we entered the forest nearby," Aro kept on babbling. "We were surprised by the intensity of our smell that was everywhere… Every single tree smelled like our kind. When Marcus told us that the leader of the group was somewhere around, we all started to look. We found five more newborns that were only a few days old feeding on some campers – we killed them all – and another one that was, what – may be a year old?"

Aro turned to his brothers to seek their opinion. Marcus nodded, seeming utterly bored (as always) and Aro turned back to the Cullen family.

"I believe his name was Riley," Aro said unemotionally.

"Was?" Alice asked.

Aro smiled at her.

"Yes, was. A nice kid, if we put aside the fact that he was part of a newborn army…"

'Guess it's a good thing Jasper didn't give any details on his past life, Emmett mused.

No doubt it is, Edward answered to himself. With the Volturi, more is always less…

"Continue," Esme softly pleaded Aro.

"Riley was not what you could call very cooperative – he refused to tell us who he was working for. Marcus had been able to tell us that he was not the person we were looking for, rather the leader's right-hand man. Jane—" a lovely smile appeared on the girl's angelic face, "therefore got to play with him a little, and then, surprisingly, he became extremely chatty… We got to find out everything we wanted to know and just to make sure he had told us everything, I read his thoughts before getting rid of him…"

"Anything interesting?" Edward nearly growled.

Aro shrugged, smug.

"Not really…"

Curious despite Aro's dismissive tone, Edward went to look through his thoughts to see what he had discovered, since the newborn army had worried his family quite a bit no so long ago. What he read in Aro's head probably would have given him a heart attack if – in the first place – it had been possible.

"Victoria?!" he snarled, enraged.

For all those who do NOT like cliffy ending, don't worry, this isn't one. For this chapter and the one I'll post tomorow, I'm using Eclipse as a guide line. So don't be pissed at me... lol

As I said, I probably won't be able to post chapters anytime after tomorow but I will try me best to check my e-mails so that dosen't mean I don't want any reviews - you guys still have homework to do while I'm gone... ;)

Well... That's about it. Thank you for reading and PLEASE leave a comment!

Btw, I have absolutly no clue if Seattle is actually sunnier than Forks - don't bite my head of if is isn't... :)