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We boarded a private plane for Perm, Russia. Dad was recently informed of a new coven there and was sending Jane, Demetri, Felix, and I to let them know of our rules.
"It's too bad we're going just to lay down the law. I want to fight someone!" Felix was pacing around the plane. He kept talking but I didn't really bother listening.
We usually kept tabs on every coven; there were even nomads that call us when suspicions rose. Usually when a coven turns up out of nowhere, it can get dangerous. So we try to set all the rules straight; find them before they find us.
It had been a month since I let him go. There was no word of James what-so-ever, and the vampire world was very quiet. No one had committed a crime or done anything that needed to be questioned in weeks.
"Earth to Bella!" Felix snapped me out of my daze.
"Yeah, Felix?" I asked, turning towards him.
"I was just saying you should ask Aro to let us fight again, like when-"
He abruptly cut off with a grunt as Jane walked by him.
"Because we're all getting antsy," Jane finished.
"Sure. I'll ask him about it when we get back."
Felix mumbled something to Jane, but it was too low for me to hear.
We finally landed and ran straight from the plane platform with our cloaks.
It could be tough to find covens, but with Demetri, it wouldn't be too hard.
"Looks like we have to stay in the shadows today, I don't see a cloud in the sky. Just be careful Demetri," I told him.
He spaced out for a minute; searching. "It seems like we're not that far anyways."
Then he took off into the wilderness opposite from the direction of the city.
We didn't have to run for long, soon could smell the scent of three vampires. Eventually we came across one just finishing off a body. I took my place in front of everyone as we came to a stop.
He looked up from the drained body and immediately took us as a threat. He crouched and I threw my shield up around the four of us as caution.
Then he unexpectedly threw himself at me and I easily pushed him off. He flew into a tree and quickly got back on his feet.
To keep him from advancing Jane helped me out and he fell to the ground in sudden pain.
"You've obviously never seen us before," I said to him. "But I wouldn't recommend attacking me again."
I heard two other footsteps running toward us through the forest and there were two more vampires in front of me.
One man, one woman, and the one boy. He looked as young as Alec and Jane, who were turned around 13.
The man turned to the boy after looking at the four of us, "I told you to watch out."
He looked really familiar to me. If he had warned the boy about us, he couldn't be a newborn.
"Well then. We were told you were all newborns, but it seems only two of you are." The woman's eyes were too bright of a red to be a mature vampire. She had an odd amount of a human scent clinging to her. "It seems we don't have to explain all the rules then."
I kept eyeing the woman; she was hiding something.
Demetri stepped in beside me. I knew he could tell something was off too. "Please, tell us your names."
"This is Sveta, and Maxim," the man told us.
"And you?" I asked.
"I'm surprised you don't remember, Isabella. We had an encounter once. Although, you were quite busy at the time."
"Well, I've had a lot of encounters. You lose track after a while. Everyone's just so… disposable." I cracked a wicked smile and heard Jane snicker behind me.
"I suppose so. When you're a friend of James, you're easily forgettable. I'm Laurent."
I was silent. Laurent escaped James and Victoria after she created the army. He was the first we'd discovered when tracking the army down. He was very hostile towards us, which I'm sure he had picked up from James. I knew they'd stayed in contact. I wanted run up to him and demand he tell me where James was. Not that he would know anyways, James was manipulative and hid well.
"Did you create these two?" Demetri asked Laurent.
"Oh no, I don't have that much self control. I'm watching them as a favour to a friend."
Obviously his friend was James.
I finally spoke. "Why did he create them?"
"Oh Bella, you know James as well as I do. He doesn't share anything."
He was right. James had to have known we would check up on the two newborns sometime, and if he were present, I wouldn't have hesitated to kill him.
I wanted to know more, but our job here was done; we checked up on the new coven. My dad would want us out as soon as possible.
Jane realized this too, "You know our rules Laurent. Just make sure they follow them."
"I'd recommend to Sveta that she cut off her human ties. We wouldn't want to have to kill them all."
That was it. Felix put it all together faster than I did. Not only did James create two newborns for an unknown reason, but one of them still had connections to her human life.
I saw her swallow hard before we left.
I wasn't going to let this small piece of information on James get my hopes up. It could be decades before we heard anything again.
I found myself reluctantly wishing I'd never been part of the Volturi. That was the only reason all this trouble ever started.
On our way back to Italy, I was planning how I could escape the castle and Volturi to track down James. But I wouldn't make it by myself. I was strong enough to fight someone but my senses weren't enough to track down a vampire.
I wouldn't be allowed to leave anyways. Sometimes we let people leave for a short amount of time, but where would I go? My home had always been Volterra and my family was always the Volturi. The only other place I had was Forks, and that was out of the question. James would easily find us there together.
So I was stuck.
When we got back to Volterra a guard meeting was called.
I suppose I should have taken charge of the meeting but I couldn't find the professional Volturi side in me to do it. I let Demetri tell everyone what had happened.
"James created two newborns in Russia and left Laurent to watch them. We suspect Sveta stills has human ties, so we need to keep an eye on that."
My dad looked over to me.
"James?" He asked.
I took in a shaky breath. I hadn't had a real conversation with anyone, let alone my dad, for a month. A conversation was too much energy and it all ended in one place; Edward.
"I don't know, Dad. He's obviously got something up his sleeve. But he's too good a manipulator and I can't do anything."
I realized we were talking about this in front of the guard, but it's not like they wouldn't hear about it anyways.
He looked at me for a while before addressing everyone, "Get someone to keep watch on the newborn girl. We can't have her being so close to humans. If she can't take the warnings; we'll have some slaughtering to do."
Then he waved his hand to dismiss everyone, without another word about James.
Anger boiled inside me; was he really giving up?
"You can't be serious," I let acid leak through my voice. "You're not going to do anything about James?"
"I'm sorry, Bella," was all he said to me.
I was shocked. In all the years we wanted James dead, he wasn't willing to use creating and abandoning two vampires as an excuse.
"I'm so disgusted with you right now, you know that? In all the years James has threatened us since I killed his stupid mate, you won't use this as an excuse to find him and kill him? And now he's ruining my life, because he threatened Edward and we can't be together, and you're just standing by and letting it happen?"
"Bella, I'm sorry. But a vampire still associating with her human life is more of a risk for us right now and-"
I cut him off, "You know what? I'm sorry. I'm sorry that my real parents left me out in the street to die and you had to take me in. I'm sorry that I ever became a part of this stupid organization you like to call a guard! You're not protecting the vampire world; you're ruining it."
I knew I could be disowned… or even killed for saying that. But I couldn't even care. Aro thought me too much of a daughter to let anyone lay a finger on my precious little head. And today was the day I questioned a whole life of him being such a father to me.
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