Sorry I didn't update I had to help my aunt and uncle who live an hour away with odd chores and they have one computer with no word so I couldn't do much. Anyways on with the chapter.
What's Back?
Previously EPOV
"Well it looks like you got yourself a keeper." My father said. "This will certainly be the funnest game we have had in years.
"Game?" I ask.
"Well of course you trying to get her on our side. The best game because you have to use all your wits to win. Now come on and get dressed feeding time is in an hour.
It's just a game?
NOW BPOV
The black hood is up and covers my face as I walk through the castle. After the kiss with Edward I went in my room to figure out why I liked the kiss. Or didn't like the kiss? I don't even know myself, which is why I am going to Emmett to help me prank Edward. Edward probably did the whole kiss thing to mess with my head.
Turning a corner I see Heidi with violet eyes leading a group of tourists to there death. They all looked so happy, healthy, and….alive. I bow my head down more as they all point and stare at me. It is rare to see someone working in the Volturi castle. More like being held here against my will. I wanted to put Heidi in a headlock and scream for the tourists to run but they wouldn't make it anyways and I would be severely punished and it would all be for nothing.
Turning another corner I go up a flight of stairs, the human's murmurs dieing down with each step I take away from them. Distantly I hear a door open, a standard greeting, and then as if I was standing right next to the door the ear piercing screams started. The cries for help the bones breaking were just too much. Edward could read minds, so how could he kill someone knowing what they thought. The persons last thought ever.
APOV (Aro)
With our stomachs full the last of the drained humans were carted out to be burned. Edward had been acting unusual through the whole feeding; something was bothering him after I mentioned the game. I hope Bella doesn't convince him to switch diets everything was fine until she came along. But her power was so extraordinary that I couldn't let her go. Besides like Edward said she would make a good queen.
"Master." Alec said.
"Yes boy."
"There is trouble down at the gates. A rogue vampire.. is well.. he seems insane."
"That's impossible vampires can't go insane can they?" Marcus says even doubting his own judgment. Before Alec can inform us more about the vampire Jonathan comes in. He does not seem himself and looks disoriented.
"Aro" He screams. His clothes are torn and filthy and he smells almost as bad as a werewolf. Jonathan tries to take a step forward but the action seems to physically cause him pain. "They are back!" He cries again slumping to the floor. I hold up my hand to stop guards from taking him away.
"Who is back?" Edward questions. But Jonathan can't seem to comprehend what Edward was saying.
"They are back! They already killed Annie! They are after you next because you are the leader of the vampires Aro. They are more powerful than before. They have this poison that kills you slowly burning every inch of your body, the same burn that you had to endure when you were changed!" Jonathan falls on to his stomach and looks up to me with black eyes that are turning blue. Gasps are heard around the room. Soon we hear a heartbeat and his skin begins to age rapidly. "Be warned." He rasped and his body turned to dust, the skin, bone, organs all turned to dust.
Going over I scoop up a handful of Jonathans remains and order a guard to get a bag. Once I have a plastic bag I put the handful of Jonathan in there. We beat them the first time and underestimated their ability to get back. Soon all vampires would be dead if we didn't do something now.
"Get Carlisle." I order and a guard scurries off.
CPOV
After being summoned by Aro an unknown vampire led me to the throne room. Once inside I only see the four leaders plus the vampire. The door slams shut. Make that the four leaders of the Volturi. Aro stands up with something in hand and once five feet away slid the unknown object to me.
Picking it up it appeared to be a plastic bag full of dust that seemed slightly peach colored. Opening it I take a whiff to find no smell and feel it to find that it is just like paper.
"It's Jonathan." Aro says and as if the bag was electrically charged I drop it. No Jonathan couldn't be dead, it's impossible; he was the only one more powerful than Aro.
"What happened?" I ask.
"They are back Carlisle. Somehow they poisoned Jonathan that was his demise. But it's what the poison did that I think you should know." Aro pauses for what seems like eternity. "It made him human again."
"Then how is he dead?"
"We think that it made him human as in like, he turned the age of not what he looked like but what he actually was. Jonathan was 675 years old. The poison made him that age." Edward stated.
"But that.. that is impossible." It can't be. "What about Annie or Christopher?"
"Annie is dead and Christopher is most likely dead to." Caius says. "We need you to analyze Jonathans.. remains, see if you can find out what the poisons ingredients were so maybe we can find an anecdote for it." I nod and pick up the bag again.
"What should I tell my family?"
"It would probably be best if you didn't-" I cut Marcus off.
"No those guys are out there again I want my family to be able to defend themselves!" I was going hysterical.
"You know the way to kill them. Just make sure that they will be safe." Aro says. "You may go now." I nod and rush out the door and call for a family meeting in the game room.
BPOV
"Hey Emmett" I sing. "Whatcha doing?" He looks up from a video game and offers me the other controller. I smile and take it turning to the game. "Mario kart? Aren't you a little old for that. Say like 60 years to old."
"Remember the saying Bells. 'It's not how old you look but how old you feel'"
"And I'm guessing you feel like your 13?" I say and pass him.
"You got that right. So why did you decide to grace me with your presence? He asks hitting me with the red shell.
"Well you are good at pranks." He nods his head. "And you seem to dislike Edward."
"Dislike is an understatement."
"Anyways I have pranked him twice already and I wanted your help for the third one." I finish off.
"Okay no objection to that but why do you want to prank him?" Emmett asks.
"Well he kinda sorta kissed me and I wanted to get him back for messing with my head." Yoshi, Emmett's character crashed and I came in first.
"He did what?" Again with that?
"Who did what?" Jasper said coming in.
"Edward fucking Volturi kissed Bella!" He screams. "Wait it was him that kissed you right?" I nod my head yes. Then I am going to kill him!"
"I'm helping." Jasper finishes looking furious. Sweet to angry brothers.
"Okay so I was thinking that-"I got cut off by a pixie entering the room.
"Hey guys Carlisle called a family meeting in the game room said it was super important so come on." And she bounces out of the room. How can a vampire be so hyper?
We get up and follow her skipping steps through the twists of the castle. It was getting easier to maneuver around. Walking to the game room there were two vampires carrying out what looked like dust to the garbage. Okay weird I thought this place was super clean, oh well. In the room Rose was sitting in a love seat filing her nails, Emmett immediately went over to her. Jasper and Alice sat on the couch, Carlisle and Esme sat in to plush seats and I sat in a video game chair.
"We have something to talk about and I'm not sure it will be easy to say." Carlisle starts off.
"Bella did it!" Emmett screamed. We all looked at him like he had a third eye and a second head. "Uh sorry."
"Anyways as you know the vampire's enemy is the werewolf. That is only half true." What oh great there are more people that want to kill us? "Back in the 1700's, when I was still with the Volturi they had four leaders then to."
"But didn't Edward join the Volturi in the 1900's?" I ask.
"Yes but this was a different leader. His name was Jonathan."
"Why wasn't he painted in the portrait with the others?" Alice asks referring to the painting of the Volturi in Carlisle's office.
"He never did like his picture taken. That's not the point, what is that the second enemy of the vampire's are the witches."
"But I thought those were the only mythical creatures that were fairytales." I say.
"Yes because we thought they all died out. In the early 1700's a witch was greedy for power and mixed her magic to the one of what they thought was Satin. Mixing their powers with that creature made their skin decay and their eyes to fall out. They couldn't speak very clearly and fed off of human souls or anything living. At the time they were no threat. We killed them easily and the regular witches were slaughtered by Aro's command because he feared that the more witches would turn over to the… dark side I guess you would say and he didn't want them to have power. But just today we found out they are still living and they made a poison that turns vampires into humans again."
"That's great!" Rose all but screams, she always wanted a child.
"No Rose not great, you wouldn't look the age you are now. Rose you are more than 80(sorry if my math is wrong) years old. Your body would age rapidly until you looked 80." But that is impossible. "They killed Jonathan, this." He pulls up a bag of dust. "Is his remains." If I was human I would be sick I thought as I looked at the bag in horror.
"Why do they want to kill us, what did we do?!" I ask my eyes filling up with tears that would never fall.
"We don't know, we think that they thought vampires had to much control over the world. Kill us, be the most powerful thing to exist." Carlisle says sadly putting down the bag. "There is a way to kill them. Killing them is like killing a vampire, they won't die from a simple gun shot. Their heads will need to be torn off and their bodies burned. Their weak point is the funny bone or their heal. If you feel a sudden temperature drop be on your guard and don't underestimate them and go in groups wherever you travel. Jonathan was more powerful than Aro and he died at their hands."
"What are they called?" Jasper asked. "Witches or demons or.." He trailed off leaving Carlisle to fill in the space.
"They don't have a specific name but most call them Infectus umbra."
"What does that mean?" Emmett asks.
"It's Latin, it means Blackened shadows. Why are they called that?" I ask.
"Because they are not living and they are not dead. Their souls are black and bring the living dread." Carlisle finishes. "The old poem humans wrote when seeing the creature."
"So now they want to kill us and have poisons to kill us with?" Alice asks. Carlisle nods his head sadly. "Alright good to know we are on the same page.
When life brings you lemons you make lemonade. But what happens when life brings you demons? What do you make out of that?
So what do you think of the Blackened Shadows? Crappy name I know but it seemed to fit them at the time.
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