AN: Hello again lovelies. I'm not going to waste much time with an author's note, but I am going to throw in that I do not own any rights to the characters or already existing plot of the Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries or The Originals. This story is not intended to infringe on anyone's copyright, it is merely meant for the enjoyment of fans of each fandom. And now for chapter ten…

WARNING: VIOLENCE IN CHAPTER

Chapter Ten

Aurora Missing Four Days

Edward POV

We'd left two hours after Nessie'd conjured up the clues for a place to start looking for Aurora. It'd raised questions about how we couldn't locate her with a location spell, but were able to see her in the snow globe, but Nessie explained that she thought it was Aurora showing her the flashes of places—which more had been in her mind than were shown in the globe. It seemed to her that after all of the stories she had made up in her head and shown Aurora that their minds were so familiar with each other that Aurora was able to share something back to help us find her.

Alice and Rosalie hated they had to stay behind, but they needed to stay with their children and keep them safe. It was because of that, Esme decided to stay behind as well. She couldn't stand for someone she loved so much to be in danger and her powerless to do anything. "You'll keep us informed won't you? And you'll call me the second you find her?"

"Of course," I promised her as we said our goodbyes at the airport, "Try to keep Charlie and Renee calm as you can. And make sure Nessie doesn't leave your sight. I know that's a lot to ask, but we will find her." She kissed my cheek and went to tell Carlisle goodbye.

It had been horrible when I told Nessie she couldn't go. Nessie had never thrown such a fit. "I'm fully capable of taking care of myself and helping find Rora!"

It was true. Nessie would have been a great help and she would have been able to take care of herself now that she'd reached her full maturity. "I agree you are fully capable of taking care of yourself and helping us, but I cannot let you put yourself in danger."

"Daddy, I'll be fine."

"And suppose something happened, what do you think that'd do to your mother? To me? I will not let you put yourself in danger. Having one child in danger is one child too many. You are staying here with your aunts and grandmother. You can help keep Charlie thinking rationally."

"But Dad…"

"Renesmee Carlie Cullen, you are staying here and that is final." She looked at me with tear filled eyes and ran upstairs. I knew I'd hurt her, but I knew that I wasn't going to allow her to leave with us. She stayed mad at me for the next twenty-four hours. She only texted Jacob for updates and he'd answer her whenever he wasn't in wolf-form.

He had joined us along with the entire eight of his pack. He kept in touch with Sam's pack when in wolf form and made sure that they took shift guarding the members of our family that stayed behind. I was grateful for him yet again as he stayed by our sides to help make a strategy.

We'd been searching for two days and still found nothing. Carlisle's friends the Mikaelsons have been keeping eyes and ears out and relaying anything that they found which have all become dead ends.

Our family ended up searching in the northern parts of Louisiana starting to think that nothing was to be found there. I helped comb every inch of every town, and nothing. That's how we ended up around the dining table staring at a map.

"They could've just been passing through and used a shack in the swamp as a place to stay until they had other arrangements to move forward," Emmett said shaking his head at the map.

"It's possible. If what Amelia said is true, that they have knowledge of the future, they could've known that Ness would look for her and used this as a distraction to get further away." And that was Jasper's thoughts of battle strategy coming out.

"And if your right, were would they have gone? They could be anywhere by now," I demanded a little too harshly towards my brother. "My daughter has been missing for four days and this is the only clue we've found. Where else could they be?"

They all looked down without saying anything. There was nothing to be said. We were all at our whit's end. "What if we tried the spell that Nessie did?" It was the first time in twenty-four hours Bella had spoke. She'd started to give up hope, and had started shutting down again.

"Bella, Nessie was able to perform that spell because her mind had been connected to Aurora's," I replied impatiently.

"Yes, and no one's mind has been as connected to Aurora's as yours. You've heard her thoughts since before she was born . You could can see where she is." Bella had crossed the room from the chair she'd been occupying with Aurora's blanket to grab my shoulders.

"Bella I can't perform magic."

"No, I'll perform the magic. You just have to be able to think about her and see her thoughts. Please Edward we have to try."

I nod defeated and sit down in one of the dining chairs. Bella placed her hand on my temples and started chanting in whispers. I then began to see flashes of scenes and feelings. A dark room and the feeling of hunger. A small plate of food that could never be enough to keep a child healthy, but enough to keep one alive only barely. And then a sight that evoked a feeling of rage in me and a feeling of such excruciating pain from Aurora. That sight being the face of Jane.

The Next Day

Bella POV

"We can't just march over to Italy and barge into Volterra. It'll give them the right to kill everyone," Amelia argued with us as we told her our plans to retrieve our daughter.

"They have our daughter, who is also their princess. They've committed treason. They're the ones who should die," I argued right back.

"We have no proof she's there. Jane may have orchestrated this without the knowledge of her leaders."

"Amelia, she can't just go behind Aro and the others' back. At least one of them would've had to give the order. Jane has the pathological need to please them, especially Cias."

Amelia looked at me with eyes that conveyed her sympathy, but also held the stern disapproval of a queen. "I'll send word that we are visiting in order to request their help with finding Aurora. We'll have to fly over there and we'll have to go through all of the proper diplomatic channels. Call all of your friends in Europe and request their help in searching for her over there, but keep your friends here looking. We'll leave as soon as we can."

I thanked her whole heartedly and rushed off to tell my family.

Two Days Later

Edward POV

We'd been in Volterra for a whole day and still nothing. Bella and I weren't allowed to enter the castle, and it was driving us insane. Our daughter had been missing for a week and now that we had Jane as the prime suspect, the Volturi keeping quite was doing nothing but confirming they were hiding something.

Bella and I said at the Embassy with the rest of our family and awaited word from Aro. As time ticked by, we were becoming more and more impatient and almost irrational, and then Felix and Demetri visited the Embassy with an invitation.

Bella and I went over at once and followed the hallways we never thought we'd have to follow again. We then came to the same room from so long ago, and both noticed that Cias' chair was empty.

Venom pooled in my mouth and my vision turned red as I put two and two together without having to hear Marcus' thoughts to confirm what I knew. Cias had orchestrated the entire thing.

"Edward, Bella we are so very sorry for what has happened, and we would like you to know that we do not condone what our brother has done. Our sources have confirmed that your daughter is being kept around New Orleans," Aro said and a growl escaped me.

"You've know this and yet you couldn't have told us before we left Louisiana to come here," Bella demanded while she was literally shaking with anger.

"Lady Bella, I promise you I had no idea about this before you came here," Marcus said rising from his seat. "I can't speak for anyone else, but I do hope you find your daughter. She's being kept at these coordinates. I am so very sorry that this happened."

Bella took the address from Marcus and squeezed his hand before she turned and dragged me from the room. As we walked she whipped out her phone and started texting.

"What are you doing," I asked her as we continued darting out of the castle.

"Texting Damon and Stefan. They picked up the search in Louisiana when we left. They'll be able to get to her before we can. I don't care if it's us that save her anymore or not. I just want to have her safe. I don't want her to have to endure what's happening to her any longer."

With our friends notified and on the way to save Aurora, we gathered our family and started back to New Orleans.

New Orleans Two Hours Later

Elijah Mikaelson POV

I had received the text message from my brother thirty minutes before and started towards the compound as soon as I could, but it seemed every red light in the city was against me. It was at one of those red lights that I noticed a young woman walking out of one of the shops owned by the witches.

She had raven hair that shone with strands of red in the sunlight. As if she felt me staring, she looked at me with the most beautiful hazel eyes that changed to the brightest emerald green before my eyes, smiled and nodded my way before she turned to walk away.

The car behind me honked, and I shook my head to clear it of the thoughts of the woman. I started driving forward again and then soon arrived at the compound.

There in the courtyard waiting were my brother and sister, Marcel, Jackson, Damon and Stefan Salvatore, Elena Gilbert and her friends along with three other vampires. "Where are they hiding her," I demanded jumping right into action.

"Not too far outside of town. They're using a cloaking spell, but with the coordinates we won't have any trouble getting to them. The trouble will come from not knowing how many are there and how we're going to incapacitate them without losing anyone," Marcel explained.

"We know that Jane is with them and can only assume so is her brother Alec. They have powers that will cripple us and make our efforts in saving Aurora useless," one of the other vampires, that I then realized was named Garrett.

"I think I can help with that. I can take them out. They'll have to come outside to use their powers. Jane has to look at you, and if Alec were to use his gift inside he'd incapacitate everyone in there," Bonnie Bennett informed us all.

"Just get Jane to her knees. It's about time she got a taste of her own medicine," one of the female vampires told her.

"You can have Jane, Kate, but Cias is mine," the other said.

"Well Tonya, as a father, I can say we'd better leave him for the girl's father to handle," my brother said giving his two sense worth.

"So what's the plan," I asked and looked at each of them.

"Well, the wolfies here, make a whole lot of noise howling and what-not. The witch twins come out to investigate. Bonnie fries their brains. Someone picks off those two. The rest of the conspirators come out. We kill them. And then the big, bad ugly comes out and we incapacitate him for Edward to handle as he sees fit. We rescue the princess, get her bathed and fed," Damon replied in Damon fashion. "Let's go."

"The girl may need medical attention. God only knows what they've done to the poor darling," Rebekah stated, making a very good point.

"We received some medical equipment made to treat her. We have everything we could need for any situation," Stefan informed us. "And I'm able to treat her."

"Lead the way," I said and another thirty minutes later we were in the woods outside a small shack not too far from the Bayou.

We all waited silently until the first howl started once Niklaus showed up next to me and the Salvatores. Quite surprisingly the first ones to exit the shack were the very ones we predicted. This was probably due to the fact that they'd be able to shut down any treat quicker than anyone else.

I watched as they both then fell to their knees screaming without any noise escaping them. Kate and Garrett then moved in, dragging them off into the woods. A few minutes later out came two vampires like us and a witch. Elena and Caroline moved in then taking out the vampires and dragging the witch over to us.

"Is there anyone else in there except Cias and the princess," I asked of her.

"No," she replied crying.

"Is the princess still alive?"

"Yes," she answered again. "Are you going to kill me?"

"No, you will be taken back and you will be interrogated and tried by the queen for crimes against the crown," I told her and Elena and Caroline dragged the woman off.

We all started moving in towards the shack then, but Cias exited holding the princess.

"Day! Stef," the little girl exclaimed struggling against Cias' hold and reaching towards us. She was very thin and pale.

"Ah, the Mikaelsons. It's so nice to see you again. Though I must admit I never thought I'd see you with this bunch. Now, where are the two insolent creatures that created this abomination," he said with a sickening grin.

"They are on their way back from Volterra. They'd found out that you had a part in this and were going to retrieve their daughter," Niklaus informed the monster before us. "If I were you, I'd release the girl."

"I don't think so. It's a pity that the parents won't be here to watch their daughter die. I do hope you'll inform them of what happened." Tonya had started to move in on him and he grabbed Aurora's throat and squeezed a little. "I wouldn't do that, Tonya."

Tonya stopped her advance and looked at Aurora. "It's over Cias! Let the girl go!"

"You're right Tonya, it is over, but if I'm going to die, I'm going to take the precious princess with me." At that moment Cias closed his mouth around Aurora's throat and we all stood still in shock.

Within a second our bodies were able to function again and as we started forward Cias dropped the girl. I darted forward and caught her, and I looked over to Cias to see that his mouth had turned black as if it had been burned.

I turned my attention back to the girl as the others carted Cias away. Stefan had joined me and was digging through the bag of equipment. Cias's teeth had severed the girl's spine and cut through her trachea, though as I watched she began to heal slowly. All that didn't matter then because she was suffering.

She looked up at me with her brown eyes, fighting to breathe. "Talk to her and distract her. I'm going to have to intubate her," Stefan told me and turned to Aurora. "Rora, I'm going to need you to focus on Elijah's voice. Don't pay any attention to what I'm doing. It's going to be uncomfortable but it's going to help you get better."

"Hello, princess," I started.

"Tell her a story," Rebekah said coming to help.

"I don't know any stories."

"Yes, you do. Tell her about the ball back in Mystic Falls."

"Not long ago, in Mystic Falls, there was a ball," I started as Stefan inserted the tube down the little girl's throat and I could see that the air that Rebekah was pumping into her from the little bag was helping. "The ball was thrown by my family, and there was music and dancing. Every girl wore a pretty gown and the boys their best suites."

Before my eyes the girl healed quicker and quicker. "Your friends Damon, Elena, Stefan and Caroline attended." Just then, Aurora's throat completely closed on both sides, and she grabbed my hand. She started breathing around the tube, and Stefan explained what he needed her to do in order to remove it.

After it was out she tried to speak. "No, no, princess. You mustn't talk," I told her and let her squeeze my hand. "You're throat is going to be sore for some time, but we're going to take you back to our house and get you better before your mommy and daddy get here."

"We need to move her. She needs blood, and food. Something cold to soothe her throat," Stefan said as he packed up.

Damon had returned at that moment, and took the girl out of my arms. "Hey Rora. Everything's gonna be okay." I had never seen Damon so relieved in the entire time I've known him.

"She's his best friend and he's her's," Stefan explained. "Well, he's tied with Seth and then I follow at a close second. Now, you might tie with me for that honor."

We all headed back to the compound and made sure to make the princess comfortable. Tonya and Kate made sure she was given a bath and then Elena and her friends made sure she was fed. Damon stayed with her and made sure she slept some before her parents arrived, and the rest of us stayed downstairs and made sure Cias stayed weak and unable to escape.

The young parents arrived a couple of hours later. They rushed right up to the room the princess was staying in along with Carlisle. A little while later, Carlisle and his son emerged from the room. "Thank you my friends. My family and I owe you a great debt," Carlisle said as he came to shake each of our hands.

"Yes, thank you for saving my daughter," Edward said looking down and then back to us. "What exactly happened?"

"Edward, I don't think it's best-"

"Carlisle, they kidnapped my daughter and hurt her. We both saw the scar. I want to know what happened to my daughter."

"I can show you," I offered and after he nodded I replayed the events of the night. "I'm sorry."

Edward bit his lip and closed his eyes to rein in the anger he felt, and then he looked up at me. "Where is he?"

AN: And that was chapter ten. It was a little longer than the past couple of chapters, so that's a plus. In the next chapter we will get to see Edwards confrontation with Cias. Don't forget to review and follow. Until next time… SuperBat5795