Chapter 17, I believe.
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Darkness. I was surrounded in it. I guess I have gone blind. I would have assumed that I was dead, and ultimately accepted it, since there is nothing I can do about it but voices were crowding my ears; hushed whispers more like. It was like I was in a smothering wall of black and noise. The question: How did I go blind?
Theory number one: oh shit, I don't have a theory.
I scanned my brain for the slightest memory. The last thing I remember was…nothing. But then I yet again heard that same voice that…unexpectantly interrupted my train of thought in my room just…when was it? I don't remember.
The very last thing I remember before waking up was being knocked upside the head with a brick. A brick that was Cameron's hand… So his hand must have hit a nerve or something that caused me to go blind.
So Cameron must have knocked me out and kidnapped me. I guess; I mean, if I were still in Volterra, Demetri would have done found me by now. I hope. Were they even looking for me?
Just as soon as the last query was resolved, another one settled in my brain: Where am I?
I had no definite ounce of evidence making it obvious I am no longer in Volterra though I instinctively know that I'm noy. It reminds me of a movie I used to watch when I was a child. The voice of Judy Garland still repeats in my mind We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto…Except, it was more like You're no longer in Volterra anymore, Jade…and I'm not surrounded by dancing midgets and a yellow brick road. And Dorothy was just asleep, or passed out.
She was just passed out. Maybe I was too.
Though, I didn't feel like I was asleep. My head feels like it had been cracked open and someone had poorly shoved all the pieces back together. In addition, my mouth was dry and I am terribly hungry. On my lips, I tasted the saline tinny tang of blood.
Finally, a small crack of light allowed my vision, which was either coming back or clearly still there, to readjust and distinguish a masculine stature in the doorframe. The figure advanced and halted at my aching side, kneeling down and allowed me to make out his face. Cameron, I observed.
"How are you, Jade?" he sneered, tone hinting that he was aware of my perceptibly sore state.
My anger quickly whipped me out of my hurt, and I derided, "Despite my critical condition, I'm quite peachy."
He brought a finger to my lips and swiped them of the blood that was beginning to dry," You've got a little something…" The vampire sampled it and clicked his tongue to the roof of his mouth and smirked back down at me," I don't see why they haven't killed you yet."
"What do you want, Cameron."
"I wouldn't say its something that I alone want, rather something my whole coven covets."
"What coven?"
"My coven," Cameron curved his head towards the door and called, "Come in!"
Pouring in came several more vampires, from the look of it, half were men, half were women.
"Where's everyone else?" he barked, looking away but sustaining a grip on my weak wrist, so I guess if I were to try anything and get away, you know, since its clear that I'm quite capable of it.
"A few went hunting just on the outskirts of Cheyenne. The rest are elsewhere." A female voice answered.
"Elsewhere?" Cameron inquired, irritated.
"Under Marshall's demands." she assured.
"Marshall's demands? I give all the demands around here. You all are my clan. Maggie, Brad, Jacob, Terry, go round them up. Every last one."
"What do we tell them?" came a feminine voice, I'm guessing Maggie seeing as she was the only female that he asked anything of.
"Severe punishment. If they don't want to end up like the others."
And with that footsteps scattered out of the darkened room. Only a few others were left in the room.
"Now back to you." Cameron resumed, cupping his dead hand on my balmy cheek," It seems the Volturi have a lot of power. Too much, actually."
"What about it?" I inquired, goaded that he wouldn't cut to the chase and tell me what the hell was going on. He was leaving way too many questions open and I was getting annoyed. I suppose he forgets the fact that I am human, impatient, and I don't have all the time in the world like he does.
"I deduct it would be better to start from the beginning.
"Remember that day when you were told about the newborns in Seattle?"
I nodded.
"Well, lets just say that the woman who created all of those vampires created me. Her name is Victoria. She also created a vampire named Riley, who made many more newborns. So many, that the little house of his that we were in became crowded. But that's not the reason that those of us who are now a part of my coven broke free of Victoria's dire clan of newborns.
"Riley became a bit of a …tyrant. It got old... or at least that is what I convinced everyone else of. As Riley was away one night, I brought up the idea of breaking apart from the others. I soon rounded up a few others that were agreeable.
"Then, I brought up my true reason for starting my own coven: for power. In other words, take over the Volturi. Become the enforcers."
Shocked, I contradicted, "That's impossible. The Volturi are the most powerful coven-"
"Do you think I care?" He snapped, "That's where you come in."
[Third person POV]
The frosty haired vampire stalked down the marble halls, fulfilling his duty to his master and fetching the young girl whom he was normally guarding . He approached the door to her bedroom and although he heard no heartbeat, nor smelt the girl's delectable scent, he rapped on the door, only to be greeted by a deafening silence. The vampire tried again; once more no response coming from the room. Assuming she was elsewhere, he surveys the rest of the palace.
"Master, I cannot find her." Demetri informed Aro, head bowed and ashamed that his legendary tracking skills failed to look for the young girl, who he cared very much about, in an older brotherly way.
Confounded, the raven haired ancient straightened his posture and looked at his guard in the eye, "What do you mean you cannot find her?"
"I've surveyed the whole palace. I've even asked a few people."
"Who?"
" Felix, for one. Chelsea, Renata. Even the Wives."
"And the response?"
"All of them have said they haven't seen her in the last hour." Demetri abashedly replied, upset that not only he had failed his Master but the girl may be in danger.
"Have you asked Alec?" Aro inquired, hoping that maybe the girl had gone off with her lover like the pair have done many times. Then yet, Alec has always been obedient, like his sister, and was supposed to be on shift.
"Yes sir. His response was the same."
Aro sighed, "Go survey Volterra. Return once you have been around the whole town."
"Yes sir." and with that, the frosty haired guard bowed his head and left the chambers without another word.
"I'm afraid I cannot find her." Demetri brought forward the terrible news.
Aro shook his head, "Fetch Caius and Marcus, along with the rest of the guard. Tell them to meet me in the slaughter room."
Demetri obediently followed Aro's commands.
Nothing was worse than seeing the look on Alec's face was Aro shared that his mate had gone missing. Confusion and hurt crumpling his usually focused mind, he quickly left the room to go look for Jade himself.
He knew that it were unlike Jade to go missing. Running off in such ways was not her thing. Without knocking, the boy entered her room, motionless and silence filling the space. Jade was not there.
Then, he spotted something on his bed. Something that he was positive did not belong to her. A laptop, with the vampiric scent on it.
He opened the Mac; the light of a webcam blinking every few seconds. Alec perceived the penname at the bottom of screen: CameronsClan.
Unplugging the charger, he closed the laptop and headed in the direction of the throne room. Or wherever Aro happened to be at the moment.
Alec had an idea of where she was. And he was determined to get her back.
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