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Chapter Twenty One: Travel

"Aro this isn't necessary is it?" Carlisle pleaded with his old friend. "Bella and Edward have done nothing wrong so there is no reason for them to have to go with you"

"Ah but we were promised Bella and promises made to the Volturi are not broken" Aro answered "Plus now that we have seen what she is capable of we are most interested in her."

"But Bella didn't make that promise someone else made it for her" Carlisle said still trying to reason with Aro.

"It doesn't matter Bella was promised to the Volturi so she is coming with us" Aro said with a wicked smile that made me cringe into Edward in fear.

"And Edward" Carlisle asked "He has made no promises to the Volturi so why must he go with you?"

"Ah yes Edward" Aro began "Well my brother Marcus informed that if we tried to spilt up Edward and Bella it wouldn't go over well."

I must have looked confused because Aro then added.

"Marcus can feel how strong your relationship is and we felt that splitting the two f you up would not be in anybody's best interest."

"But taking us away from our family is" Edward said acidly.

"It's in your family's best interest Edward" Aro said " Because if you don't come with us now we kill your whole family as punishment for the murder that took place today and for the promise that will be broken."

"I killed James so punish me" Edward said and I tightened my hold on him.

"We were not here at the time so we can't verify that" Aro began "We would have to punish everyone just to make sure."

I pulled Edward's head around so he was looking at me because I knew what we had to do.

"Edward I don't want anyone to get hurt so we have to go with them" I said.

"I know but the thought of you their scares me" He admitted.

"I know it scares me too but you will be there with me" I said trying to reason with him.

Edward nodded and sighed then we both turned to face the Volturi to tell them our decision.

"Fine we will come if you promise not to hurt out family" Edward said.

"Of course your family will be spared" Aro said looking pleased that he was getting his way.

"Excellent now that we have everything settled we should be on our way" Aro continued.

"Wait" I said "Can Edward and I have a minute to say goodbye to our family first?"

"Yes of course we will wait outside" Aro said trying to act like he cared about how hard this was for us.

The Volturi left the cabin and then it was just me, Edward, the Cullens, and the Denali coven left in the cabin.

I said goodbye to the Denali Coven first and thanked them for everything they had done for me.

The truth was that the Denali coven had become my family just as much as the Cullens had with one big exception and she wasn't here.

It was harder saying goodbye to the Cullens because we had just reconnected and now we had to say goodbye again.

After Edward and I finished our goodbyes we went outside to find the Volturi waiting for us.

"Shall we be on our way" Aro asked like we had a choice.

Edward and I just nodded still too wrapped up in the goodbyes that had just taken place to say anything.

"Excellent" Aro continued ignoring out depressed looks "We will be running to a small airport nearby that has a flight to Italy."

Edward grabbed my hand and we staring running; even though both Edward and I were faster than the others we were running with we stayed back a ways.

After we had be running for at least an hour I noticed how thirsty I was because I hadn't hunted in a week and I am still a newborn.

"Edward" I said quietly.

"Yes love" Edward replied.

"I need to hunt do you think they we will let me" I asked.

"They better" he said as the Volturi noticed we had stopped running.

"What seems to be the problem" Aro asked in a slightly irritated voice.

"I need to hunt" I said quietly, hating that all the attention was on me.

"Fine but make it quick we have a plane to catch" Aro said.

Edward and I ran deeper into the woods together and found to our surprise and delight two mountain lions.

We took the two animals down easily and drank until they were dry; we also found a few deer and Edward let me have most of them because he knew how thirst I was.

When I finished my last deer I looked and saw Edward staring at me with a smile on his face.

"What" I asked embarrassed.

"I love watching you hunt" He replied

"Why" I asked.

"You look so sexy when you hunt" He replied in a husky voice.

"Whatever" I said not quite believing.

"Just trust me" He said "We have to go now they are starting to irritated"

"Ok" I said even though I didn't want to leave yet.

Edward grabbed my hand again and we ran back to where the Volturi were waiting.

After running for a few more hours we finally reached a small airport and waited to board the plane.

Once on the plane I noticed how small it really was, there were only about ten other people on the plane with us.

It was a good thing I had such good self control because the other ten people on the plane were human.

Edward and I sat in the back as far from the Volturi as we could.

I spent the whole fight in Edward's lap not wanting to leave the safety of his arms.

I also let my shield down when were on the plane and I spent the whole flight thinking things to Edward.

I thought about how scared I was, how glad I was he was here with me and how much I loved him.

When we finally landed I looked out the window and noticed with relief that it was cloudy outside.

We were in another tiny airport and the volturi new exactly where to go so Edward and I followed quietly behind them.

When we got outside I noticed that there was a car waiting for us.

I slide into the back seat and Edward slide in right after me then we were moving fast.

I started to shake in fear as I suddenly remembered where were headed.

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