The plane we were going to travel to Paraguay in was tiny. It had barely enough room for Jake, let alone the four of us, but somehow we managed. Jacob and I sat in the two seats behind the driver and passenger's. Dad flew the plane perilously fast. There were no doors, just extra tight seat belts. Jake kept his arm around my shoulders to keep me from leaning toward the lush green rainforest. It was like when you have to lean to the side every time a car turns sharply - only it was more of a constant thing.

The plane roared loudly and we had to where head sets to speak with each other, though I thought it was kinda pointless considering we weren't speaking at all.

"Yes!" Dad hissed into the headset. Mom turned her head toward him.

"What is it?" Mom said, asking the evident question.

"We found 'em. I can just barely hear Sena, but barely is enough," he answered with a grin. Mom's light auburn eyes twinkled. She leered in malicious pleasure. It was written all over her face that she was thinking about the Volturi, cowering after they saw our gathering, our army.

Dad landed the plane in an open meadow in the forest. It was just big enough to fit our aircraft. It seemed to be the only place not over bared by trees.

I had been in this forest one time before, like I told you before I was four, appearing to be seven or eight. Zafrina had called asking me to visit so, even though my mother didn't really approve, dad abided after my nagging him almost to insanity...

I fumbled with the harness until I got the latch to un-click. I shrugged my shoulders out of it and grabbed Dad's awaiting hand so he could help me jump out of the stationary plane.

I wrinkled my nose. I didn't much care for the Amazon's smell. Tangy almost, like you could taste the humidity.

A slight whooshing noise put each of us on edge. We were all now well out of the plane and standing on the mossy ground.

"We weren't expecting you," Sena said with a small smile. Kachiri was behind her, followed by Zafrina.

"I see you've brought you're malodorous friend as well," Kachiri said with her strange accent as she held her nose daintily. Jacob mocked her by saying her words in a taunting voice that had her same accent. I coughed to hide my laugh at his rude behavior. All ignored our jejuneness.

"Minha querida! Você veio para me ver! How you've grown!" Zafrina said, running toward me and in an instant hugging me tightly.

"I'm afraid we aren't here for just a visit, Zafrina," Mom said darkly.

"What have you Cullens gotten yourselves into now?" Zafrina asked, her tone still lighthearted.

"No. It is not our fault. It was already coming. We just -" I said unclearly. I broke off when I realized I couldn't explain further.

"Renesmee means that because of some of our gifts we have acquired some information... it involves the Volturi and it is absolutely critical that you trust us," Mom said with a vivid voice. She gave my dad a look that told himto continue with her proposition. Her features grew black and mysterious.

"There are more to the Voltuir than the eye can see," Dad began, emulating Mom's expression. "They are power hungry. Completely power hungry. Aro is looking to obtain each vampire with a gift-" Sena and Kachiri's eyebrows corrugated together,-"and then murder the innocent who don't have anything speacial to offer," Dad finished. Zafrina gnashed her teeth ferilly and let out a horiffic screech. I jumped and held my ears until her screeching ceased.

"When?" Zafrina growled.

"Soon. Individually. Coven by coven. Unless..." Mom said leaving her sentance unfinished and smiled sadistically.

"Unless?" Sena whispered.

"Unless we can catch the old bloodsuckers off guard and tear them to shreds before they can start their sick cataclysm," Jacob said simply, as if he were speaking of the weather.

"So, once again, you're asking for fighters," Kachiri said as her eyes narrowed.

"I don't think you understand," Dad said putting his hand on her petite shoulder - a comforting gesture. "We didn't cause this. We're helping out of kindness."

Zafrina's wild eyes widened and darting from Jake, to Dad, to Mom, and then finally resting on my anamolous face.

A small red butterfly flew past Zafrina's exquizet face. She lifted her arm and snatched the poor thing with ease. She stroked the creature that lay in her palm with her middle finger.

Zafrina looked up after a second and looked into my eyes. She showed me a picture. It was me as a small child. She was staring down at me. My hand was in hers as we exchanged our pictures. A few yards away Dad and Kate stood facing my Mom. Dad cringed every few minutes...

Zafrina smiled. "I speak only for myself when I say that there is no doubt in my mind I will help you. We can save those families who don't know. It is the Volturi's turn to claim their karma."

She released the butterfly and it flew back into the vegatation.

"Of course we will assist you as well," Kachiri said motioning to herself and Sena, who nodded furiously.

Dad briefed the Amazon Coven in on the rest of the plan, including the part about the other members of our family finding other covens.

CARMEN'S POV

Eleazar and I had been awaiting Alice's word to find the Japanese. It's night time, but it still feels like day, because of the neon billboards and lights. We had been waiting in a dark alley - the only one that we could find that was concealed from the light.

Eleazar's phone rang suddenly. I reached into his shirt pocket and flipped it open.

"Alice?"

"Hey, Carmen. Everything is all ready to go! Be careful, okay. They're a bit hostile," Alice said in her trilling voice.

"Thanks so much for doing this, Alice. Where will we find them?"

"Try a sewer." Alice paused for a second. "You're already in Toyama, right?"

"Yes."

"Go down four blocks, Make a left turn into an alley and jump down the first sewer in the alley. Please be wary."

"We will. I'll see you soon, Alice."

"Yes, you will. Bye Carmen."

"Bye."

"Ready?" I asked Eleazar after shutting the phone and shoving it in my purse.

"As I'll ever be, my love."

I smiled at him and grabbed his hand. We followed Alice's directions, getting only a few bewildered looks from the humans. We took the final turn into the alley.

Eleazar grimaced at the sewer he had opened.

"Ladies first?" he said with a small smile.

"Sure."

"I don't like this," he muttered, his voice obviously chagrined.

"You are always such a worry wart," I sighed before jumping into the sewer. Eleazar followed me in.

The sent of our kind was everywhere, mixed with the vile smell of sewage. We followed the sent until we ran into the Japanese vampires. There were three of them, two men, and a woman. One of the men was much older looking than the other. The first was in his late twenties, early thirties. The second male was only a little older than Renesmee. The woman was in her early twenties.

"Why are you here," the first male spat, his queer accent tugging at his English words.

"Be patient, my treasure," said the woman who stood behind him. They both were, as all of us are, unbelievably beautiful, but something about the male's face scared me. "My name is Aika. This is my husband, Raidon. And this," Aika pointed to the second boy who was next to her, "is Udo. Now, what brings you here?"

"Surely you know of the Volturi," Eleazar started.

"Yes we have heard of the coven, but we have never been face to face with them," Udo said.

Eleazar explained the rest of our situation to the group. They agreed surprisingly easily. Udo also has an extremely amazing power - complete mind control, but only on his skin, much like Kate. Quite unusual, if you ask me.

"So tell us about your strange yellow eyes," Aika said, her almond shaped eyes vast with curiosity.

I think we will be great friends with these peculiar Asians...

TANYA

"So far we've found Charles and Makenna, Peter and Chalotte, Mary, and Randall," I said into the receiver of my touch screened phone.

"You're brilliant, Tanya! Who else is there?" Edward said. There was a happiness in his voice. Even though I wish he and I would have worked out, he had his Bella and he loved her more than anything in the world, and I am happy he has found someone. I smiled, in spite of myself.

"Hardly anyone," I replied. "We'll check around France, but I don't know anyone who lives anywhere close. "

"That's great! Wonderful, really. We've got the whole Amazon Coven, and Kachiri is getting Huilen, too. We truly stand a chance."

"Edward, there was never a single doubt in my mind that we stood a chance against these braggadocio Italians. Assuredly you know that, what with the - uh, mind thing."

Edward laughed thunderously. "We'll talk to you later, Tanya. Call if you need anything."

"Not a problem. Bye, Ed," I said with a smirk.

"It's Edward, Tanya," he said, his voice going flat.

"I know, but I loathe syllables."

"Shall I call you 'Tan'?"

"Gross, no. Fine. Bye then Edward."

"Bye Tanya," he said laughing again.

I put the phone back in my leather purse and turned to Kate who sat in the passenger seat. Garrett was driving the car I had snatched from London. It was fast and personable and clean. Since I don't know much about cars, that seemed to fit criteria of a 'nice car'.

"You smell that?" Garrett asked. He rolled down the window cautiously. It was overcast but there were small cracks of sunlight.

"What?" Kate asked, coming out of her slouched posture.

"We got one!" I squealed. "Pull over, Garrett."

"Yep," he said pulling into a warehouse's parking lot. We were in a shabby part of France. More than shabby,ghetto actually.

"That shack," Kate pointed to a broken down house,"Is where the scent is strongest."

"Why would a vampire live in such a place?" Garrett said.

"Beats me," I said in a hushed voice.

We walked toward the shack headily. Garrett held his fist to the door, hesitated for a split second, and knocked on the door twice. We waited for at least three minutes until we grew impatient. Garrett opened the door slowly.

"Hello?" Garrett said. Kate looked over her shoulders to see inside the house. The wood floor was completely defiled. The rug was half eaten by moths. There were no lights on - Perhaps because the only lamp in the tiny front hall was broken in half. It looked like someone had flung it across the room. "Hello?" Garrett asked again.

"Oh enough of this!" Kate said and stepped inside the house. An unknown force sent her flying backward. The door slammed shut behind her. Garrett caught Kate before she could fall to the cracked cement.

"What the Hell was that?" I said quietly. How strange! There had been no one near the doorway....

Garrett walked over to the window to see if he could see anyone inside. The blind shut suddenly.

"Cool," Garrett breathed. Garrett turned to face me and Kate. "There is definitely someone in there."

"Really? I had no idea," Kate said sarcastically, flipping her hair over her shoulder.

"It's a girl, obviously a vampire. Changed at fourteen, maybe fifteen," Garrett said. "Pretty new to, by the looks of her eyes. Three or four maybe..."

I knocked again on the wood of the door. "Please let us speak to you, young one. We mean you no harm," I said in a cooing voice.

"No harm!" a bell like voice with a thick French accent said from the other side of the door. "Look what your kind did to me! He said he meant 'no harm'!"

"We can help you. I promise you we can," Garrett said. The door creaked open a crack.

I could see the girl clearly from the tiny crack. She was just under five and a half feet tall, with curly reddish brown hair.

"I am beyond help. Look." The young girl stepped towards the three of us until she stood not a foot away. She flipped her palm up and raised it, concentrating on me. I was raised upward toward the sky. "See I am a freak. Nothing more." She lowered her hand again and I was set back down.

"You're extraordinary. There are others like you. You must know that!" I said to her and grabbed her hand.

"I'm not ignorant! I'm aware of the covens! It doesn't make any of us less of a monstrosity!" she spat.

"Then you no of the Volturi," Garrett started, trying to cut to the chase. Kate elbowed him in the rib.

"Not yet. Let her calm down," she muttered under her breath.

"Everyone knows of the Volturi," the girl said rolling her bright red eyes. "What are your names? Where are you from? Why are you here?"

"May name is Tanya. This is Kate and Garrett. "

"What is your name, child?" Kate asked.

"Michele Blancfantôme," she said, the words saturated in her timbre.

"White Phantom?" Garrett asked with a smirk. Michele's eyes narrowed.

"Cruel coincidence."

"It's not a very common name," Garrett mumbled.

"Why do you live here? In this terrible area?" Kate asked.

"It's safer. For the humans, you know? And it gives me a place to practice."

"Practice what?" I asked, releasing her hand.

"My gift," Michele said simply. She glanced embarrassedly at the broken lamp behind her. "But you've not answered my other questions! Why are you from and why are you here?"

"We're from Denali, Alaska. We are here because we need fighters. The Volturi have gone power hungry. This endangers every vampire. Especially gifted ones. There is going to be a war and we need warriors. There are a group of particularly compassionate family of vampires that will welcome you, as they would welcome anyone, and help you with everything. Your gift and bloodlust."

"I never said anything about blood," Michele whispered.

"It was implied," Kate said with a raised eyebrow.

Michele clicked her tongue. "I suppose."

"How about it then? Will you help us?" I asked.

"I feel this gut feeling that you and this other family you speak of are some of the kindest people I'll ever meet. I don't have a clue why, because, quite honestly, you seem kind of stalker-ish. But I tend to go with my notions and things always seem to turn out right so... yes. I will help you defeat this coven," Michele said.

Her unarticulated words were so significant that they seemed to hang in the air for several minutes.

We exchanged our histories in the car and the rest of the way back to Alaska where we were going to meet up with the others. Michele seemed hot headed at first, but she truly was a normal, almost carefree teenager.

RENESMEE

Zafrina and the rest of her coven, including Huilen were at the hotel packing everything back into the suit cases. All of us were taking the same flight back to Alaska - that out to be interesting- right after we got each of them some contacts to where. People would freak if they saw a bunch of tall, beautiful, red-eyed creatures walking around an airport.

Yeah, if I wasn't in the know I would freak out, too...