Bella's POV

I held back a gasp, "Hello, Isabella," he said. "How did you survive?" I managed to ask, still shocked. "Well how did you?" he replied. "But if you must know, there was a door in the floor, leading to the bottom of the castle, and while you and Jean took cover, I went in it and did not perished, I left Volterra and went to my home in Boston, where I met up with my sister-in-law," Aro said.
He stepped to the side, and then Athenodora came out of the building, with a smug look on her face. "Hello, Darien," she said. "She told me that she heard the news of the exposion in Volterra, sadly every great empire has it's fall, but sometimes they rise again, Gustavo!" he said, and then yelled Gustavo.

Then a giant vampire, came out of the building, he was bald with a mustache that went downwards at the ends, and then a beard. He looked tough and mean, "And that's not all," Aro said. Suddenly there wasn't just one scary looking vampire, there were seven of them. He can duplicate himself?!

"I'll let you seven get aquantined, come Athenodora, we need to discuss new castle plans," Aro said, walking away. "Have fun," Anthenodora said, before quickly following him. "Yeah, she's a keeper Darien," Amber said. "Okay, get ready," I told them, crouching into a attack postion. They copied me, and got ready to fight. Gustavo lunged first, Amber made herself bigger, and slapped him with her hand, sending him flying into a wall.

Lightning crackled from my hands, as I shot them flying into another Gustavo, roots rised from the underground and wrapped around his ankles, I turned around. I think I just found out Violet's power. Jean turned into smoke, everytime one of the Gustavos tried to punch, kick, or tackle her. Making it almost impossible for one of them to hit the other, Darien wrestled with one before ripping of his arm.

Nancy, well she teamed up with Darien, because after all this was his first fight, and against a giant of all things. I made a fire, it was getting out of control though, so we fought faster, we all grouped up together and tumbled down on three Gustavos, then quickly tearing them apaart and throwing them in fire.

We killed them all, "Bella!" Nancy yelled, she was looking at the fire. It was getting bigger and evem more out of control. "How do we put the fire out?" Darien asked. I didn't know, they must have read my expression and we just stood there, we couldn't just leave, but we didn't know what else to do.

I did soemthing then, that I hadn't done since the explosion in Volterra, I brought out my shield figure and togehter we encircled the fire, preventing it from furhter extension. Amber got 12 stories tall and big, and tried to blow out the fire, while the others went to get water, after some time we finally got the fire to settle down. "So.. Aro's back," Jean said. "And Anthenodora," Darien added. "And he's going to re build his empire, and renew his title as King of the vampire world, and when he does he'll make sure we are all dead, including our family," I said.

"What are you going to do?" Violet asked. "I'm going to fight against him, and make sure he isn't put back on the throne again, and make sure that he dies, because if I don't he'll kill all of us, and the ones we care about, and i'm not going to let that happen, are you guys in?" I asked.

"For our family," Jean said, "For the fact I really hate Anthenodora, and that Jean is doing this too," Darien said. "Because your my family too," Amber joined in. We turned to Violet and Nancy, "We're in," they said simultaneously.

"Great, now we are going to stay here, we need to get vampires to join us too, because Aro will be doing the same thing, we also need a home for all of us, that building would do, we can fix it up, and we need a cover for it too, because the humans would get suspicious," I said.

"Okay, looks like we got work cut out for us," Jean said. I nodded, "We can't tell our famalies yet, it's safer if they didn't know, and saty where they are," I said. "But Aro will surely find them," Amber said. "We get soem vampires on our side, to watch out for them," I said.

"Operation Blend&Defend begins," Jean said. I raised a eyebrow, "Well bledn, because we are going to blend in with hthe humans, and defend our famalies," she explained. I nodded, "Okay, Operation Blend&Defend it is, let's get to work," I agreed.

In four months we recruited vampires everywhere, nobody wanted Aro to rule again, or a second Voltrui, some people donated money, I used my former designing skills from when I was in Oregon, and made a clothing line, Jean and Amber said we should have a company name, I said you come up with one that fits, and we stick with it. They came up with Bella Lee, after clothes we made accessories, after accesories, we did perfume, and after that we even did candles.

The idea was to come up with alot of things people would buy, so we could make more money, so we could build the Bella Lee company building, it became a big thing in North Dakota and South Dakota, we all trained the newborn recruits ourselves, helping vampires control their thirst, since there would be so many human customers.

Violet came up with the idea of selling products made specifaclly for vampires. We expermeinted with blood, and made diffrent blood drinks, it was top secret and not advertised, we just simply send out members to sell them, it became a hit too.

"Hey, Bella I'm thinking of making a new drink to sell, which one?"Violet asked, she held out two pieces of paper, one said, 'Vanilla Spice Blood' and the other said, 'Tropical Punch Blood'. "Hmm the second one, we already did alot of sweet and spicy ones," I said.

We were able to manufactur blood into diffrent flavors, much like the ones we use to taste when we were human. She nodded and left to her office, I took out a folder marked, Operation Blend&Defend. It has everything about it, I read the latest news from it, Aro was planning something big, rumors were he was planning a attack at our building, but we didn't know for sure.

My phone rang, "Hello?" I asked. "Bella, we received news, Aro and Anthenodora are planning to attack the Cullens, the O'wells, and Whitneys," Tara, said. "When?" I asked. "In two monthes," she said. "Okay thank you Tara," I said. "Bella?" she asked. "Yes?" "What are you going to do?"

"I'll let you know, when i do, but meanwhile keep an eye on them okay?" I asked. "Affirmative," she said and hanged up. What to do, what to do.

"Nancy, Violet, Darien, Amber, Jean, "I called. "Yes,Bella?" Nancy said. "Aro, he's planning an attack on the Cullens, O'wells, and thw Whitneys, any ideas on what we should do?" I asked. "Wait, you mean you don't know what to do?" Darien asked. I nodded, "That's a first," he muttered. "Do you know when he is planning to attack?" Jean asked. "Two monthes, Tara called," I answered. "Oh, then we know it's true if Tara called,"Amber said. "Do you know why he is planning to attack them?" Violet asked me. I shook my head no, "Hmmmm he's probably just trying to get to us, how many vamps is he sending for the attack?" Violet asked. "I don't know, Tara just told me what I told you," I said.

"We'll work on it, we do have two monthes," Amber said. "Okay, thank you," I said. They left, I sighed, somebody please have a good idea.

Ad then it clicked, I knew just what to do.