A/N: Wow, been awhile since I've updated, so I'm sorry about that. Been busy, and I've had one test after another in school, and then I got caught up obsessing over a few books, and a lot of other random stuff going on. So yeah, I know none of you want to hear excuses, but yeah, sorry it's been a while. So…enjoy!

Oh, and I'd recommend maybe going back and rereading some stuff, since it's been awhile…I had to do that myself, I'm getting my stories mixed up.. ;

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Chapter 10

Bella POV:

We touched down soon enough, I guess. We hurried off, Carlisle going ahead to get us the fastest rental car available, and soon he was driving us as fast as the car would go (a fairly sad 95 mph -- the rental car shop did not have many choices) towards Volterra.

I sat in the back squashed between Edward, Emmett, and Rosalie, and Jasper, while Alice, Esme, and Carlisle managed to share the front -- it was a wonder we could all somehow fit, though not comfortably, I might add. We would reach Volterra soon, everyone kept reminding me. I stared out the window at the passing landscape the entire time, focusing all of my energies on not letting my emotions control my powers. A few times, my anger got the better of me, and a flame of fire would appear in my hand, or on my arm (not hurting me, of course), though they went away quickly enough -- I surprised myself; I couldn't usually control myself this well.

Just a little bit longer, I kept saying to myself. I'll save my family. I have to…

Olivia POV:

This was ridiculous, to say the least.

My family betrayed me… well, not just me, and it wasn't my entire family. The family that I had trusted handed us over to the Volturi. (AN: ooh, a plot twist!)

Ayla, Saira, Amber, Marie, and Aaron betrayed Mark, Nick, and I. I'm still not quite sure what's going on, just that according to the Volturi, Mark, able to manipulate time, was apparently too dangerous to be kept conscious, so they somehow made him brain dead or something -- he won't respond to anything, won't do anything, just sits there in the room they locked the fourus in -- the walls, ceiling, even floor were reinforced with titanium (Richie tried many times to break through somewhere, even added five more of himself to his force, but it was no good). They asked us to join, just like our traitor family did, but we refused. We know we'll be killed, but why haven't they done so already? Do they really think we'll change our minds?

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Not long after we had been thrown in this room -- there was no way to tell how long it'd been -- we heard a commotion outside. We heard voices…I recognized one in particular.

"Bella!" the three of us conscious said at the same time. The voices stopped, confused.

"…Olivia?" I head Bella whisper from behind the door. "Richie? Nick?"

"Mark's here too," I confirmed. "Only…brain dead, I guess you could say."

"Where're the others?" she queried.

I bit my lip, and opened my mouth to answer, but Nick beat me to it. "They betrayed us," he hissed. "That's why we're here!"

"We'll get you out," she replied weakly after a minute. So she was with the Cullens. Good, that would give them more people.

She fell silent, probably building up energy. The door started shaking violently, and we all barely had time to get out of the way before it came blasting off its hinges into the room, glowing red-orange at the top, green on the right, blue on the bottom, and brown on the left side. We all stared at it for a minute.

"How'd you do that?" I asked weakly. She just shook her head, also staring at it disbelieving.

"Bella, the Volturi?" Edward reminded her from behind. She nodded, suddenly brought back to her senses.

"Let's go," she said, beckoning to us.

"What about Mark?" Richie wondered.

"It's Alec's powers." It was Edward again. "I don't think we can do anything right now, so we should leave him." We all nodded, though Richie split himself into two.

"I'll stay with him," the newly formed Richie volunteered.

"But…okay," I agreed, not wanting anything to happen to Mark.

We left the room quickly, running at vampire speed down the countless corridors, and soon emerged into the large room where the traitors sat.

"Ah, Bella has arrived," Aaron said happily. No one said anything; my siblings and I just glared at the man that we had once considered a father figure.

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Bella POV:

We were here. We had Olivia, Nick, Richie, Edward, Jasper, Emmett, Alice, Rosalie, Carlisle, Esme, and I to fight, making eleven, unless you count any clones Richie might come up with.

We may have a lot of fighters, but I couldn't help but notice how many they had -- Aro, Marcus, Caius, and two child like figures, who I suspected to be Alec and Jane, along with their guard. And now five members of my family with them, not to mention the fact that they're very powerful. We couldn't win, could we?

Aro stepped forward.

"So nice to see the Cullens again!" he exclaimed. Not even Carlisle bothered to feign excitement. "And this is Bella, I presume," he said, turning to face me. I said nothing.

"Why not join us?" he asked politely. I raised an eyebrow in disbelief.

Amber laughed. "Didn't I tell you? Bella won't join us. Just go ahead and kill her and the rest."

I stared, not sure if I had heard her right. Amber, the girl I had gotten along with so well for the past year…how could she be like this? How could any of them be like this?

Aro frowned. "Oh, of course I don't want to do that. The potential of Bella…"

It was Ayla's turn to surprise me. "What potential? She can hardly control herself most of the time. You don't need her, you don't need them. But they do pose a threat -- can't we just get rid of them?"

Edward had had it. He flew at Ayla angrily. Their fight didn't last long, but it was the strangest thing to watch -- two telepaths fighting each other. They each knew what the other was going to do, so they could dodge easily. But it wasn't an advantage, really, or anything -- they couldn't touch each other.

"Jane?" Aro said in a bored tone. The small girl stepped forward, smiling menacingly. They both saw it coming and stopped immediately -- neither wanted that kind of pain. Edward fell back into place beside me, glaring at everyone.

"We never got an answer from you," Aro reminded me. I shook my head -- was it that hard to see what my answer was?

"Very well," he said sadly, and snapped his fingers. Now the fight began.

Edward stepped in front of my instinctively. I cleared my throat loudly. He glanced back at me and frowned.

"I don't need protection," I reminded him once again through my teeth. He nodded slowly, and we both ran to join in the fight.

It was an odd sight, really. My two families fighting against each other, give or take a few. Aaron and Carlisle were fighting next to Marie and Esme. Aaron must have gotten into Rosalie's apparently easily penetrated mind, for she suddenly ran over and helped him gang up on Carlisle. Emmett ran after her, trying to get her to snap out of it.

Alice, Jasper, and Edward were fighting in a triangle formation, taking on two members of the guard each. Olivia was fighting off Ayla -- it was sad, really, knowing how close they had been -- and Nick was halfheartedly fighting Saira -- she didn't seem to be phased at all by the fact they were supposed to be a couple, though that wasn't at all true for him. Richie, or at least a Richie, was also fighting his loved one in a corner, while seven other Richies were taking on guard members.

I was doing… nothing. Aro, Caius, Marcus, Jane, and Alec were all standing in a clump, watching the fighting take place -- Aro taking the aura of a five year old boy at his first baseball game, while the others looked merely bored.

I ran over to help Edward, Alice, and Jasper with the guard members. They smiled as I neared, but I suddenly stopped -- I could attack from a distance.

I shot a few fireballs at them from about twenty feet away -- easily hit their targets. I closed my eyes for a second, focusing, then shot more fireballs at high power at the guard members. I opened my eyes and saw them on the ground. Getting hit in the face with fire isn't the most pleasant experience, I suppose. Edward grinned, and the three of them ran off to attack Aro and the others. I stayed to make sure the guard members wouldn't try and get up again (they did once, but stayed down after a few beams of fire in the face again) and then took off to help them.

I saw Edward fighting Aro, Jasper fighting Caius, and Alice fighting Marcus. Jane and Alec still stood there. What were they waiting on?

I looked around quickly, then realized they didn't really need to fight.

Everyone from our side was gone (besides Alice, Jasper, and Edward) -- I hadn't really thought we were fighting that long, but I guess it didn't take long to make seven vampires disappear. They must have locked them in another room -- most likely brain dead by Alec's powers, too.

The others were advancing on me. Saira teleported and seized me from behind. I tried to kick her but my foot wouldn't make contact -- Amber had put up a force field. Saira started carrying me off to wherever the others were being held, but I was smarter than that. I shot a large stream of water at Amber, knocking her back and cancelling the force field. I kicked Saira in the stomach hard, and she dropped me, surprised.

Now was my chance. I hadn't tried it before, but I just knew it would work. It had to. I created a gust of wind from underneath me, and I was lifted up, twenty feet off the ground. I smiled down at my old family -- none of them could fly, and even Saira couldn't teleport into midair. Not that she didn't try. She teleported right next to me and tried to hit me, or grab hold of me before she fell, though I just moved out of the way on my little blast of wind before she could get me.

I quickly moved over above where Edward and the others were still managing to fight. I wondered why Alec or Jane hadn't done anything yet, though maybe they'd just gotten cocky.

Giving up on me, the Millards ran over to gang up on them. Frowning, I made a ditch in the ground, feeling my eyes flash from gold to brown and back again, which they fell into. It was fifty feet deep, and they were having trouble getting out of it -- except for Saira, that is. She teleported out and went to help out the rest of the Volturi.

It wouldn't take them long to figure out they could get out by Amber conjuring force fields and using them as steps or footholds. But then again, they weren't the most creative people with their powers (they got most of it from me).

I started getting worried about Edward, Alice, and Jasper. They were fighting Saira, Aro, Marcus, and Caius, and it wouldn't take long for Alec and Jane to decide to intervene.

I moved my little tornado of wind above me at an angle that propelled me towards the fight. I dive-bombed into Marcus (which was hilarious to see the look on his face). Alice laughed, and began fighting Saira instead, who would usually be a tough opponent, but Alice was able to See where she would teleport to.

Jane and Alec apparently finally caught on that they should probably help out -- I think they had been too busy laughing at the stupidity of the Millards, who still hadn't gotten out of the ditch -- and Jane turned her nasty smile on me. After a moment, she growled, and I suppressed a laugh. Alec tried me next, but he too couldn't get into my mind -- so Edward and Alice had been right.

They gave up on me and ganged up on Jasper and Alice. Jasper stopped fighting as soon as Alec turned towards him, like a robot that had malfunctioned. Alice fell to the ground in pain -- though maybe Jane didn't even use her powers, that hideous smile of hers could cause any sane person the same kind of pain.

Still fighting off Marcus, my body began to glow red. I didn't care, I let myself lose control of my powers, which actually helped a bit. Fire shot out of me in all directions, but on full power towards our enemies. Alec and Jane stumbled, losing their concentration, freeing Alice and Jasper, and possibly anyone else from our family that Alec had gotten to. The three original Volturi were also hit, right in the face, and fell down (I hadn't thought it would hurt THAT bad -- I guess I just don't know my powers' own strength). This gave us the opportunity to make a break for it.

"Alice," Edward said as we started running. "Where is everyone?"

Still running, she closed her eyes and opened them after a moment. "This way," she said, turning to the right.

We ran down countless hallways until we stopped at a small looking room. "Bella?" Alice asked. I nodded and blasted the door down with enough water to fill Lake Michigan.

The Cullens and the Millards that hadn't joined the Volturi were in the room, again staring at the door I had somehow managed to knock down.

"Come on," I said forcefully. They all nodded and we ran down the hallways, trying to find our way out.

We were almost there to. But we weren't quick enough. We ran into an invisible wall and fell back -- you try running as fast as we do and stopping suddenly, I don't think you'd be able to stay standing.

The Volturi, accompanied by their newest members, stepped out from behind a corner.

"Nice work, Amber," Marie congratulated her. She smiled.

We had been caught.

Again.

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A/N: I don't think that was as long as I thought it was… oh well. Yeah, plot twists… I'll try and update more frequently now!

Oh and for anyone who's been reading Fate's a Funny Thing: I should update that soon, too, maybe tomorrow.

-Ayode-