A/N: Hey, I'm back. Sorry it took so long to update. I've been having trouble with this chapter and with another chapter in my other story. Gah!! And I'm sorry that the last chapter was a little off. It wasn't my best work. So, sorry again. Anyways, I'm going to stop rambling so you can read. So without further ado, Read On!

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.

Chapter 14: THE VOLTURI

(Bella's POV)

We were in the clearing where we last saw the Volturi, waiting for them to show up like Alice predicted. As we were waiting, I realized that I never figured out why everyone was shocked when I opened my eyes the day before.

I turned to Edward and asked, "Why did everyone seemed shocked yesterday?"

"You haven't seen them yet?" he asked in disbelief.

"Seen what?" I asked, confused.

"Your eyes," he said.

"What about my eyes?" I asked, getting nervous.

"They're not red. They're topaz," he said.

I stared at him in shock. "They are? Why?"

"We think it's because you didn't like blood when you were human but it's only a theory. We're not exactly sure," Carlisle spoke up.

"Oh. Is that why I wasn't thirsty yesterday?"

"Maybe. We're not exactly sure why any of this is happening," Carlisle answered.

I paused, thinking about this but then I remembered what had happened in the meadow yesterday. "What about yesterday? I know that wasn't normal."

"That is a mystery to us all. How you knew what Alice was thinking could only mean that you read her mind and the only vampires that I know who could read minds are Edward and--" I cut Carlisle cut off.

"Aro," I said, pointing behind Carlisle. They all turned around to see six dark shapes float out of the trees on the other side of the clearing.

We were all silent as the dark figures walk gracefully over to where we were waiting. They stopped about twenty feet away from us. "Hello, Cullens." the tallest figure said. They all threw back the hoods of their cloaks to reveal theirs faces. The the one who spoke was Aro. Next to him on his right, stood Marcus, Felix, and Demetri. On his left stood Caius and Jane. Felix looked over at me and winked. I looked at him in revulsion.

Carlisle spoke next. "Hello, Aro. Marcus. Caius," he said as he gave a slight nod to each of them.

They nodded back and then Aro spoke again. "Let's get to the point of our little gathering, shall we?" He turned to me and smiled. "Ah, Bella. It's so nice to see you again." He walked, more like floated, towards me and stopped about three feet away from me. I felt Edward tense up next to me.

"You as well, Aro," I said politely.

He then turned to Edward and said, "I see that you held up your end of the bargain." He nodded in my direction.

"Yes," was all Edward said.

Aro turned back to me and said, "I was wondering if I could maybe try again." I knew what he was talking about. I looked over at Edward and he gave a slight nod. I reached my hand out a little bit and Aro did the same. Our hands touched for a few seconds and then he pulled away. "Still nothing," he said with a sigh.

He floated back a little until he was standing in his original position next to his brothers. "Jane?" he asked. Edward stiffened again, ready to move in front of me if needed. Jane smiled and started to stare at me. Nothing happened for a second until Felix fell to the ground, wriggling in pain. Jane stopped to stare at Felix. Everyone looked from Jane to me to Felix.

When the pain stopped, Felix got off the ground and glared at Jane. "What the hell was that for!" he screeched at her.

"I wasn't doing it to you. I don't know what happened," she said back to Felix.

Then everyone looked at me again. I gulped, I didn't know why Jane's power had effected Felix but I had a feeling it had something to do with me.

Aro was staring at me. "Jane," he said without looking away from me. "Again, please." Jane focused back on me but the same thing happened only it was Demetri on the ground this time. He got up, fury blazing in his eyes.

"This is interesting. I've never seen anything like this before." He paused. "I wonder if you would consider joining us. You've got the power and the skill. You would fit right in."

"Um... I'm sorry but I'll have to refuse," I said, still being polite. I didn't want to get any more involved in this than I already was.

"Oh, that's too bad. We were hoping to learn more about this," Aro said.

Edward took a small step in front on me, a low growl starting to rumble from his chest.

Our family started move into a loose circle around Edward and me. Growls could be heard coming from their chests. Apparently they knew what was about to happen.

The members of the Volturi started to move closer to us but Carlisle tried to make peace. "Now everyone please calm down. This isn't necessary." Aro nodded in agreement. The Volturi stopped growling and so did my family but they didn't move out of the circle.

"Well, we've seen Bella. She clearly is a vampire and now everybody's happy," Aro said in a cheerful voice. "It was nice to see you again," he said with a nod as he turned with the rest of them and floated back towards to trees.

We were about to turn to leave when all of a sudden we were surrounded by about thirteen members of the Volturi guard. They were closing in slowly. Jane, Felix, and Demetri were standing on the outside of the circle. "We would really like to learn more about you, Bella. But that's a bit difficult when you're on the other side of the world, don't you agree?" Jane said in her sickly sweet child-like voice.

My family made a tighter circle around me. Snarls ripped through their throats. I was a vampire now and I could easily rip half of these people apart with my new strength and speed but I was too scared to think about that at the moment. The only thing I could think of was my family and how they were going to risk their lives for me again.

No one moved for a moment and then everything went into mass chaos. Snarls and growls were ripping through the air and chunks of white flew across the clearing.

Rosalie and Emmett had teamed up and were ripping apart three of the guards at once. Little Alice and Jasper were double-teaming a pair of the guards. Carlisle and Esme had taken care of another pair. I had never seen Carlisle or Esme get like this except for when they were training to battle to newborns.

Edward and I were dealing with the last of the group. Well, actually it was just Edward. He was trying to protect me and battle two of them at once.

Once they were all down, Jane, Felix, and Demetri just stood there. After a second, Jane said, "Come along, boys. They said if they could make it through the guards then we shouldn't mess with them until later." With that, they all turned and disappeared into the forest.

Once they were gone, we just looked at each other for a while. "They'll be back," Edward said, breaking the silence. "I don't know when, but they will be."

"Well, they're gone now," Alice said cheerfully. "I'll be watching for them though. Don't worry about that." She was serious about the last part.

Before we left the clearing we gathered up all the pieces of vampire and burned them, then we headed back to the house. We were still a little on edge when we got back though. But we were also relieved. The Volturi wouldn't be back for a while and they knew I was vampire. We would be safe, for a while at least.

Over the next year, I mastered my power and learned to control my strength. (I accidentally broke a table when I was arm wrestling with Emmett. I won though. Emmett was laughed at for a week.) I went hunting with the family. When the fall rolled around, everyone thought I was in control of myself, so Edward and I headed off to college for my freshman year.

After I graduated from college, we moved from Forks to a small town in Canada where it was always raining, of course. We all enrolled in high school again. Edward, Alice, and I were posing as freshman. Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper as sophomores.

After we all graduated from that high school, we lived there for another year and then moved on. This was our routine for the next sixty or so years until Carlisle and Esme decided that we were moving back to Forks.

"Really? We are?" I asked, excitedly. I never thought I would miss that town but I did and I missed it badly.

"Yes," Carlisle said with a smile. "We're leaving in a week."

I bounced up and down excitedly and jumped into Edward's arms and hugged him tight. He laughed and held me tight.

"We're going home," I said. I would always consider Forks my home, no matter how far away we were living at the time.

He put me down and smiled down at me. "Yes. Yes we are."

A/N: I'm sorry it's short and for all the time jumps but I'm losing interest in this story and I don't want to drag it on. I think there will be one more chapter until this story is complete.

Just to clear things up, Bella's power is that she can reflect/use a another person's power if it is being used on/near her but it doesn't effect the actual owner of the power. It only works on the mind-type powers though, like Edward's mind reading or Jane's torture. Hope that clears things up.

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