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Jasican's Point of View
I couldn't explain it, but all of a sudden, my anger had soared and in an instant, I had Joham by the throat pinned up against the wall. I vaguely heard noises behind me, presumably my vampires and Jacob moving to defend me against the others, but I didn't exactly care. "HOW DO YOU KNOW GODRIC?!" I spat at him.
"Taking me by the throat won't get me to talk, boy," Joham sneered at me, almost surprising me on how calm he was.
"Answer me!" I shouted, "Or I swear I'll yank every single memory out of your head!"
Joham laughed at me before I found myself flying backwards, smashing into the rock wall behind. After half a second to compose myself, I launched myself again at Joham, this time, pinning him by his chest and I raised my other hand to face-level, feeling my body begin to vibrate and shake in respond.
"I'll ask again," I said through grit teeth. "And know that I'm not one to pass around random bluffs."
"Do you really know anything, boy?" Joham asked condescendingly. "Couldn't it even cross your mind once that maybe you'd come across another progeny of Godric?"
"LIAR!" I exclaimed. "Godric would never create a piece of shit like you!"
"And yet he did," Joham laughed again. "Believe me, I'm not as thrilled as this fact as you are, but the truth remains."
"Jasican," I heard Jacob say behind me, "I hate to tell you how to do your job, but this is one of the things you said you would not do as coven leader."
I stood for a moment before I withdrew my hand and slowly backed away. As much as I wanted to continue otherwise, Jacob was right, and with tremendous effort, I suppressed my anger for the time being.
Nahuel walked up next to me and spoke to Joham, "You told us all that you were created by a female vampire."
"A small change in story," Joham responded. "After he released me, I saw it fit not to ever bring up my vampire father again...that is, until you showed up," he gestured at me.
"I haven't exactly heard the best stories about you," I shot back. "You'll forgive me if I'm at a loss of why Godric would even bother with someone like you."
"And how well do you know him?" Joham jeered. "You still show signs of being a newborn, I highly doubt Godric had divulged all the details of his past life. He was a very different person not but five hundred years ago."
I narrowed my eyes at him. I wasn't sure what to believe from this freak of nature, but there was no denying his scent. His smell nearly mirrored Godric's similar to how mine presumably was. Several thoughts crossed my mind, one of which was itching at my head the most. I could easily take every mind here to prevent me from yanking all the answers I want, but as much as I wanted to, it wouldn't be the right thing to do, and could very well prevent the rest of the vampires and hybrids here from joining me.
"It won't do you any good to try and get anything out of me," Joham simply said. "We share the same blood, and I am far older than you. I could easily overpower you."
"And yet I was able to take your mind," I answered back. "And I can do far more, do not test me. My duty as coven leader is the only thing preventing me from invading your mind to the fullest. And besides, I'm not here for your help. The way I hear it, you aren't exactly the most friendly of vampires to humans, and that isn't what I'm looking for."
I turned back to Nahuel and said, "I apologize. Although my coven saw fit to see me leader, I'm still learning control."
"You won't see me complain," he replied. "I honestly thought the Volturi would have investigated him and seen him executed, but I guess they weren't quite in the mood of sticking their nose in anyone's business for a little while, after the scare we gave them."
Joham glared at us both, but said nothing. I then looked around at the rest of Nahuel's family as the realization came to me: Godric had created both me and Joham, making us vampire brothers. That thought alone was disturbing, knowing I shared the same vampire blood as this freak, but then I looked to the others and knew that I also shared blood with Nahuel and his siblings, making them my half-nephews and -nieces at the least. I was looking at a whole new vampire family before me, and quite honestly, I didn't know what to think at this point.
I noticed that one of the hybrids was missing, the male with brown hair. "Wasn't there someone else with you two?" I pointed at Serena and Maysun.
They both looked to where they thought he was standing, then the dark-skinned one, presumably Maysun, called out, "Nikolai?"
No response. Everyone had looked around and not a one found this Nikolai. I raised an arm and stretched out my senses, hoping to find his mind. I found one, speeding away from us fast, still underground, so he hadn't gotten too far ahead. "I sense one person, heading," I turned to my right, "in that direction, close enough to be your missing brother. He's speeding away fast though."
"Perhaps you scared him off?" Jacob asked.
"Not a chance," Joham spoke proudly. "Nikolai is a fine man, I was proud to create him."
"Create him?" I asked. "You mean help birthed him."
"Not this one," Joham simply replied. "I had the immense fortune of encountering him in Ukraine, and he already had some well desired traits. I decided to mirror Godric's sentiment, if only for a moment, and create him based on how well he would do as a vampire. He hasn't disappointed me once yet."
"Then where is he going?" I demanded, trying to ignore Joham's comment towards Godric.
"Jasican!" Alice suddenly shouted. "He's right about Nikolai, I can see him now."
"Where?!" I turned to face her, ignoring Joham's protests.
"He's keeping his mind blank, but its not perfect," Alice replied. "The bits I can see have him heading to a small town to the east."
"The Volturi?" Jacob asked.
"Close," Edward replied for Alice, presumably reading her mind, "a loyalist group, locally stationed here. I doubt they know of our presence yet, but this Nikolai could."
"That's all I need to know. Jake!" I shouted, and in an instant, Jacob shifted into his wolf form, nearly taking up the width of the tunnel we were in. "Edward, stay with Nahuel. If shit goes down, call the others for backup. We'll try to stop him."
Edward nodded as I mounted Jacob's back and we sped down the cave, toward the direction I had earlier specified. I kept my senses open and pinged Nikolai's mind every few seconds, keeping us in his general direction. After weaving in and out through the tunnels and caverns for a few moments, Jacob and I emerged from out of the mountain and headed downhill into the valley. Miles ahead, I could still feel the rouge vampire's presence, just as distant as before. Whoever he was, he was fast, perhaps as fast as Jacob, which worried me that I may lose him to the loyalists. Such act would prove disastrous for not only our mission, but to the coven's goals, as the Volturi would surely act fast to impede on our progress, should they learn we're still recruiting.
Jacob pushed himself to full speed and I was relieved to find us gaining ground. However, as soon as he did that, my mind sensed a large group of mental pings directly in front of Nikolai, and we would be upon them in seconds if we didn't stop. Without so much as a thought, I suddenly found myself racing on four legs and I dug in hard, hoping to stop myself fast. As fast as I discovered I was on four legs, I suddenly found myself back with two legs flying into a nearby rise in the ground. As soon as I knew what happened, I looked over and found Jacob shifted back to human form, jogging towards me.
"Sorry, I didn't plan that," I muttered, and suddenly aware again of why we stopped, I motioned for Jacob and whispered for him to go "Down!", to which he complied. "As I was tracking our friend here, I suddenly sensed more than I should have. There's a large gathering of life just ahead."
"Life?" Jacob repeated. "Not vampires?"
I expanded my senses once more and replied, "It's not just them, it's both vampires...and humans. They're close, very close together, but I don't hear screaming, nor smell of blood."
"Perhaps they're human-friendly," Jacob guessed. "It's not too much of a stretch that the coven are the only ones."
"Maybe, but from this guy's roots, I'm willing to bet there's more going on here," I concluded. "We need to get inside, but the conventional way would immediately give us away. We have to get in there and discover what kind of relationship they have together."
I looked over the rise, then continued, "From everything I've seen, there are vampires placed in strategic points in that town ahead, meaning that they're not here for a simple visit. They want to keep people out, away from whatever meeting they all are having right now."
"Pity they didn't send us an invite," Jacob said sarcastically, before looking at me and finishing with, "We'll just have to make our own."
I smiled briefly before I said, "Get out there and run interference with whomever I don't get. Try to do this as quiet-like as possible."
Jacob nodded and about the same time, he shifted back to wolf form as I stood up and spread my arms outward and outstretched, allowing me the maximum coverage of my powers, and without any warning, I took the minds of all the beings on the perimeter of the town, and anyone close to their visual range. This is where I had to be careful, as I had only tested the distance of my mental powers, but I had never tested the capacity of whom I could dominate. With all the combined life I sensed here, there were probably sixty-three beings total, with less than half being human. I didn't think this was a simple bait-and-snatch of potential human game, seeing as all the minds I touched seemed calm in movement.
Within a few moments, I had most of the outer population under my control, or, at least, their senses, as I had encroached enough of their mind only to blind them. With Jacob making a circle around the town, he snorted once and nodded his head at me, signifying the area was clear. We reduced our speed to half as we skirted past the first set of vampire guards, but my puzzlement grew as I found there were humans close to the guards along the outer edge. I inched closer as the remaining population was gathered close, in the heart of town, almost surrounding the innermost beings, so I held the hope that perhaps they were all too busy with their activity to be listening for noise.
As soon as I turned to listen, I immediately began to hear voices, almost as loud as thought they were standing right next to me. "Strange vamps, their leader had my father in some form of control," said a distinct Eastern European accent. "Took off when they were scuffling, shouldn't have followed me."
"E 'troppo pericoloso per le vostre disavventure, Nikolai (It's too dangerous for your mishaps, Nikolai), said a male Italian voice, to be translated within a moment to English.
"Relax, Prime Minister," said another voice, possibly Portuguese, by the accent, "We know your safety takes great priority when you grace us with your presence, and our guard will keep that promise fulfilled in compliance with your own."
"Did he just say 'Prime Minister'?" I mouthed to Jacob. When I only received a puzzled look, I turned back to listen.
"Enough of the pleasantries," growled a deeper Portuguese voice rang out. "We grow tired of entertaining the human pawns of the Volturi. Haven't we done enough to warrant their gracious presence, and submit to their cause? I demand we'd be given the chance to speak to Lord Aro in person!"
"Signori, per favore, avrai la tua occasione al più presto (Gentlemen, please, you'll get your chance soon), the voice of the Italian Prime Minister rang out again, quickly translated. "In effetti, ho con me un ospite speciale con me oggi che dovrebbe calare ... l'appetito (In fact, I have with me a special guest with me today that should...wane your appetite)."
I dared to inch closer, and I could see the gathering of humans and vampires as viewed by my senses. While from this distance, I couldn't yet tell vampire from human, as most of their eyes were obscured and the sun wasn't placed right to betray their presence. Everyone, however, was standing in what looked to be a small courtyard, or gathering area perhaps meant for this town. I could see in the center an aging man with Mediterranean complexion sitting down with a tall, dark-clad figure next to him, presumably the Prime Minister and his translator. Sitting across from them were two other people, I assumed were the loyalists to the Volturi, and thus vampire. While not dressed dark like their Italian counterparts, it was still strange enough to warrant attention. But what caught my eye was a fifth figure whom just stood up to meet with the Prime Minister.
He was hooded, unlike the other, which completely obscured his face. I tried hard to focus my eyes on his to see who he was, to no avail. He walked up to the Prime Minister and stood by his side as the Minister stood up himself. "Gentleman, vi presento un membro della più alta guardia dei Volturi, il Demetri (Gentleman, I present to you a member of the Volturi's highest Guard, Demetri)," he said, translated.
I heard a sharp intake of breath from Jacob as the hooded man, Demetri, now revealed himself, and said in a calm and formal tone, "Greetings, my fellow vampires and associates. While I am immensely interested to begin out new...relationship, unfortunately, we've had a few unexpected guests recently join us, whom have probably heard everything that we have talked about," and suddenly, his eyes turned directly to our direction.