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But enjoy anyways.
Jasper's POV
I watched as four vampires trembled in fear. At first, Amelia had tried to act calm and uh, suave, but as Carlisle began to talk to her that calmness was overpowered by fear and anxiety. We were back in their living room, all of us positioned, standing, while we faced our hosts in the middle.
"I'll ask you again, what deal did you make with the Voulturi?" Carlisle asked. Emmett stood threateningly on the other side of them. They pressed their lips tightly together. Carlisle sighed, "I really didn't want to do this, Sophia?" Sophia stepped up and closed her eyes, Lillian began screaming, the other three watched in horror. When she finally let her go, Lillian whimpered, "I thought only Jane could do that..."
"Who's Jane?" asked Emmett with curiosity.
"One of the guards there, apparently, she had used her power on them..." Edward said in thought as he read her mind. Amelia turned to glare at Lillian.
This time it was Thea's turn to shriek in pain, "Stop! Please!" she screamed.
"Not until you tell what your deal was," Sophia smiled angelically.
Edward snapped his fingers, "The Voulturi made a deal with them to help capture us and bring us here, they were going to wait until the last day of this week though. They wanted to find Carlisle, to help them find something..."
Amelia, this time kicked Thea, "You idiot!"
Carlisle didn't respond, he only stared out of the window and whispered, "Seraphim..." There was suddenly an aura around him, one that I had not felt from Carlisle for a long time...
Fear.
Alice's POV
"Who?" all of us asked at once.
But Carlisledidn't say anything else, but orders "Tie them up, and lock them in a room, and get your things, we're leaving. Leave the Voulturi to come back and find them..."
We were all struck speechless from his abruptness, but did as we were told.
A couple minutes later we had left Maine and were running to Alaska, Tanya had agreed to let us stay for a bit.
"What do you think Carlisle is so afraid about?" Jasper whispered anxiously.
"I don't know mayb-- wait did you just say you felt fear from him?" Carlisle had never felt fear, maybe a little frustration or surprise but never-
"I can still hear from you two!" Carlisle called from the behind us.
"So are going to tell us or not?" Emmett yelled back.
Carlisle was silent from then on.
Bella's POV
We had arrived at Tanya's and I have never felt so much happiness in my life. Poor Jasper had to sit down with all the mixed feeling in the air. Kate had seen Edward and me holding hands and squealed with joy. Carlisle however, took Tanya, Eleazar and Carmen aside, his face filled with worry.
I was walking up when I heard them in the study; this time all their faces were of worry and angst.
"I cannot believe they found out..."
"What do we do?"
"How will we warn them? Nobody's seen them for years!"
"How can we be sure their still alive?"
"I don't know, but we have to find them somehow. The Voulturi knows, that I know... Possibly all of you as well..."
Suddenly they stopped and Tanya had appeared in front of me, her expression terrifying, she hissed, "You're not supposed to be here!"
"Well how about you tell me what's going on! What do you think I would do, with all the secrecy!" I snapped back, then looked down on the floor with shame, just waiting to be hit for that remark. Instead Carlisle stepped up and said gently, "She's right Tanya, it's time we tell you, all of you.." he glanced behind me.
I turned to all the rest of the members in the household standing behind me.
"Come in all of you," sighed Carmen. We dispersed ourselves among the cramped room, our eyes filled with curiosity.
"Now," began Eleazar, "You all know that Amelia's family attacked Carlisle's when they were staying in Maine." We all nodded in agreement, Kate's eyes then narrowed, "Sluts," she whispered. Eleazar shot her a glance but continued, "The reason the Voulturi made a deal with them to capture Carlisle and his family, is because they thought that Carlisle knew the location of something the wanted to...exterminate."
"Which was?" Rosalie raised one eyebrow.
"Something called Seraphim. Do any of you know what that is?" Carmen asked. We all shook our heads, "It means Latin, for 'angel', a name. But what Seraphim is, is a group, a group of vampires. The group who apposes the Voulturi. Not by murdering humans, but... Stealing something from them." finished Carmen, "They worked as the Voulturi guard for years, living off of animal blood, the only reason why they were kept, was because of their skill. Masters of the greatest talents Aro had ever seen, he had let them join in a heartbeat. Aro had long ago tried to change their diet, but they did not give in. Carlisle was living in Volterra at the time as well."
"I had been living their for nine years and ten months, when they finally pulled me aside. Seeing as how our diets were the same, they considered me as an alli and explained their true motive for joining the Voulturi guard. They wanted to steal the Ion."
"What's an ion?" said a very confused Emmett.
"The Ion, is Voulturi's most prized possession, a stone, one that can absorb any power of another vampire and use it anytime," Tanya explained, "Absolute power to anyone who possesses it. The Voulturi had managed to unearth it in the Himalayas and then bring it to Italy. Seraphim wanted to prevent them from having the great power over the vampires and stole it."
"As you can see, there has been a major struggle to get it back, and Aro is getting rather desperate, soon they will go to extreme measures, ones that will put us all at risk." Esme glanced at Carlisle worriedly, he took he hand and squeezed it before continuing on, "I had last contact with them when they were in Greenland, but that was it, nothing else."
"Why would you have contact with them," asked Derek.
"Because... well, all four of us, Tanya, Carmen, Eleazar and I, allies with this group," there was no where in the room you couldn't look and see open-mouthed stares. "Yes, in our first 100 years of vampire stages, this group had founded us and asked us to join, one of the reasons why Carmen, Eleazar and I are vegan vampires know," Tanya clarified.
"So, their at hunt for us now!" cried Irina. The adults looked solemnly at each other and nodded.
"What do we do?" asked Jasper in a slightly strained voice.
"The world is so little, we can't run for long..." Carmen said sadly. There was a long silence until Alice stepped foward, "They're somewhere industrialized, and somewhere that speaks English, but not here." she said firmly.
"When did you find that out?" Emmett asked.
"I think I drifted around when 'Aro was struggling to get it back' or something or other, I don't know but their definitly not in America,"
"Why not?"
"Their was some Tamil or Malay language in translation under each sign..."
Derek snapped his fingers, "Either Malaysia or Indonesia!"
"But it has to be one of the major cities, like Singapore or Jakarta.." murmured Jasper in thought.
"Has to be Singapore, they don't speak Tamil language in Jakarta," Derek scoffed.
Retorted Jasper "Not necessarily.. Some citizens do--"
"Boys! Now is not the time for your knowledge game!" snapped Esme, but when she realized what she had said her shoulders sagged, "I'm sorry, but it's a little tense." Carlisle kissed her forehead and started leading her upstairs, "We need to rest for now, but we'll probably head to Malaysia tomorrow."
I finally was able to move from my frozen state that I had been in and picked myself off of Edward's lap, he too had not said anything throughout this conversation. "Edward.. Sweetie it's over," I bent down to see if he was alright. I could tell he was in deep thought; his brow creased with worry. "Edward?" I asked again, this time he responded with a crooked smile and stood up.
"Shall we?"
"Go where?" I asked confused.
"Oh just around the woods, Alaska is beautiful this time of year.." his tone was light, but knowing him better, I could read the slight worry that hung in his eyes as he led me into the woods.
He had heard something that he refused to tell me... something dangerous...
Thanx for waiting.