This is longest chapter yet. Sorry if it's a little confused; I got carried away. Enjoy – the ending's not cliffy (so there's no reason to beat me up...)

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"What?!" every single Cullen roared. "Victoria?"

Carlisle, Esme, Jasper, Alice, Emmett and Rosalie looked at each other before turning towards Edward, furious yet surprised. But Edward was too stunned to answer their questions, so Carlisle turned to Aro.

"Please tell us what you read in Riley's head?" he asked impatiently.

"Why?!" Aro couldn't stop from asking, stunned. "What's going on?"

"Let's just say that Victoria is an old enemy of ours. Can we please know what you learned about her?" Carlisle pressed.

Aro hesitated. He threw a quite glance to his brothers and to his guards, and found them just as surprised as he was.

"Um… Victoria changed Riley. She created the newborn army we took care of."

"Anything else?" Edward asked through his clenched teeth.

"A few more days and we would have missed Victoria and her army; there were about to attack…"

"Attack who?" Alice growled.

"I don't know. Rileydidn't know. But he was nearly obsessed with a very floral smell, freesia – just like Bella's, Edward," Aro looked at Edward.

"The clothes!" Jasper out of nowhere screamed.

Everyone turned to look at him, and suddenly, his family understood what he was talking about.

"Yes! That'd explain everything!" Rosalie said.

"What on earth is going on here?!" Felix wondered out loud.

His masters and friends turned to him, just as confused, but the Cullen family completely ignored him.

Edward got up and started pacing around, nervous. Suddenly, he stopped and turned to Aro.

"Did you catch Victoria?" he asked him.

Aro shook his head.

"No. She was long gone by the time we were done with Riley…"

Edward swore under his breath.

"That means she'll be coming back here…" Emmett thought to himself.

A huge smile appeared on his face as the idea of fighting her off made its way to his mind. Edward growled at his favorite brother.

"This is no game, Emmett. She won't stop hunting her until we get rid of her!"

Jane and Felix looked at each other, a large smile in both their faces as they understood what Edward was talking about – especially the part about hunting someone down… Rosalie and Jasper noticed and simultaneously growled at them.

"Sure, American vampires are entertaining, but man, are they stuck up – they can't even take a joke…" Felix laughed under his breath.

Jane nodded, chuckling.

"We have to take care of Victoria. This can't go any further – a newborn army?!" Carlisle sighed, incredulous.

"Is it just me, or Victoria is a tiny-ishly bit prone to over-reaction?" Rosalie hissed.

"Tell me about it," Jasper grumbled.

In his corner, Aro, tired of being ignored, turned to Jane and tilled his head in Esme's direction. Another angelic smile illuminated the girl's face as slowly rose and focused on the only Cullen vampire that was not talking. When Esme screamed in pain for the first time, all her family members froze and turned to her, worried.

"Esme, what's wro—" Carlisle started.

Esme fell from the love seat she had been sitting on, in obvious pain, and Carlisle automatically kneeled next to her, followed by the rest of the family.

"Esme, love!" he pleaded.

But Esme didn't answer; her eyes were shut, he face twisted in pain and she was whimpering. Happening to look around her, worried, Rosalie soon understood what was going on when she saw the look on Jane's amused face.

"Stop it!" she roared, startling her family members who looked up to see who she was screaming at.

When he also understood what was going on, Carlisle's face darken with fury – and for the first time, he actually looked like a real, cruel, evil vampire.

"Free her," he hissed as he murderously looked over the tiny Jane.

Jane totally ignored him. Carlisle turned to Aro, tensed, and was about to pounce when Edward held him back.

"Look," he simply said, pointing at Jane.

Carlisle calmed down a little and followed Edward's stoic gaze: slightly shriveled up on herself, her face shut with obvious pain, Jane was stiffening.

"Jane, dear…!" Aro wondered, almost worried.

What the hell is going on here?! Emmett thought.

Edward turned to his brother, and simultaneously, both of them shrugged.

"Oh my, Jasper!" Alice exclaimed.

Everyone – Cullen and Volturi – looked at her and then turned to Jasper. Somber, glaring and stiff, Jasper's eyes were locked on Jane.

"What are you doing to her?!" Aro asked when he understood Jasper was the one responsible for Jane's pain.

"I diverted Esme's pain on her," Jasper simply responded.

"Well, stop it!" ordered Aro.

"You first," Jasper said. "Tell your Jane to free Esme. Her pain will stop with Esme's."

Aro glowered at Jasper – obviously, he hated obeying to others – but nodded. He didn't really have a choice.

"Jane, dear. Stop it. It's alright, now," he smoothed her.

Jane sighted and managed to nod. Carlisle and Edward turned towards Esme to see how she was doing: slowly, she stopped cringing and started breathing again. When she finally opened her eyes, Carlisle ran to her and hugged her to his chest, relieved. Edward turned back to Aro and Jane.

"You will pay for this," Aro hissed.

"You first," Edward growled.

Rosalie, Emmett, Alice and, above all, Jasper joined him.

Silently, Felix kneeled to Jane's side.

"Are you okay?" he asked her under his breath.

"Yes," Jane answered weakly.

Aro startled everyone in the room by chuckling.

"You indeed are a very interesting person, dear Jasper," he laughed when all the Cullens turned to him.

A deep and menacing growl build its way deep in Jasper's chest.

"Don't you ever dare harming my family again," he roared.

A slight, humor-less smile obscured Aro's face.

"I'll try to remember the advice," he scowled.

"You better," Edward glowered.

Dead serious – no pun intended – all the Cullen children gathered together to face as a whole Aro's family, while Carlisle took care of Esme a few steps behind them.

For the first time, Aro actually considered his friend's family as an equal to his.

Just a little reminder, I am leaving for a week and a half vacation so this is probably the last chapter you'll get for this story until I come back. I hope you liked it.

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