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Chapter Two

Aro's POV

I have seen a lot of things in my life, both life and death. But this is new; in less then a year I have found ten different people—humans that I have thought that would make wonderful additions to my Guard. Isabella Swan, a lovely girl who could unconsciously turn aside the powers of our kind, and a group that calls themselves the Flock. A group of human children who were already super-human, I hardly dared to imagine what they could do as a part of the Volturi. I wanted them to join us, and then the Cullen boy would have to allow his little love to become one of us. I didn't want anything more from him, but he refused to give even that much, and so I would have to force his hand.

"Marcus, do you know of any particularly strong relationships in the group that came through Italy about four months ago?" Maybe we could lure them all here to speak with us, and only have to trick one of them. I hated tricking people; it had always seemed overly cruel. I didn't even like forcing young Edward.
"They are all very close. It would only take one of the entire group to have the rest of them at our beck and call. However, if we get the dark boy, then our hold will be particularly strong. Or the blonde little girl, she is the group's little one. They all are extremely protective of her."
"Let's take the blonde one, seems like the quickest." Caius had always preferred to get work done quickly, so that he could go back to whatever it was that he did.
"That would work the best," Marcus chimed in. Marcus hated a job half-done, so I trusted that this really was the best way. Though I felt a little sorry for taking one so young, I had always felt pity for them. "Alright, but be careful. It might end up being easy for them to escape."

I started looking into those nine children, the ones with wings. One of them was here with me, helping me find other experiments created by the School. . She also helped me learn more about them, in exchange for the promise that I would change her. I thought she had to have a good reason to desire the change, but since her wishes mirrored my own I hadn't needed to pry. I searched for the place called the School, using all the resources that the Volturi had to spare. I finally found them, in California the same branch that most of the humans came from. She said that one of them was from New York, but I would learn about him later.
Let's see here…

There was a good amount of information on the little band, as long as you knew where to look. The School didn't toss out any of their information, so I easily found anything that I was looking for. I even managed to see the children's testing records from all the experiments. I felt a little sorry for them when I read that they had to undergo experiments from the time that they were born, but it would be a help for the Volturi for flying children to join us.

The girl came in, telling me that it was time for her to go into town. I knew what that meant, Heidi was here with food. No matter what Carlisle said, I had no idea how he managed on only animal blood. Still the girl said she didn't want to be here. Confusing, but a simple touch had told me that it was a completely innocent desire. "You're going to have to get over your problems with hunting if you are to become one of us."
"If and when, I'll hunt my own prey. I don't want to see people lured in like fish on a pole. I'll hunt." That was the same thing the youth had said every other time I asked. And her mind told me that it wasn't what bothered her so much. Still, I gave the same answer as always. "Alright."

Morals be damned I thought after hunting, that is the best taste that anyone could ever hope for. My food was mortal and dispensable. And they tasted like heaven. I languishingly walked back to the computer, and saw that the girl was back. "You're here, what do you need? Normally you don't return this quickly." I was excited; maybe this meant she was getting over everything. Or at least it meant that something interesting was going to happen. "I saw an Eraser. He said that he was sent to speak to you, so I ditched him by the back way." Goodness, I wondered how an Eraser knew about me. With my interest peaked, I told the girl to let him in.

"Hey, thanks for letting me in babe. Now as I leave I can have a little snack."
"Do us all a favor and jump off a cliff. Wings in."
"Oh, that's not the way to talk my little moon-dark child. Careful or the big bad wolf will come get you."
"Screw the big bad wolf, here's Aro."
"Aw… unfriendly aren't you?"

She let the young man in. Moving with animalistic grace, he looked like he was hunting instead of walking into a room. "Hello, I was sent by my employers to see about us maybe working with you." Wow, he suddenly became very official, instead of threatening the people that stayed with me.
"What would you need us to do? Actually, it might be a better idea to wait for that until some friends of mine come in. If you would please?" I directed the last question to the girl, and heard her mutter, "Would it re-kill you to use my name?"
"You will be called by your name soon enough." I called loud enough for her to hear. There was only one human that I called by name, and that girl was not a human for much longer, I could guarantee it. The girl came in only a couple of minutes later with both of my brothers.

"Brothers, this man would like to speak to us about an alliance of sorts. He's from the School I've told you about." Neither of my brothers did more then nod. "Well then, what kind of alliance are we talking about?"
"My bosses will find the Flock you've been asking about, eliminating the risk of a human knowing about you, in exchange for some venom for our experiments. Of course, no one would know what kind of venom it was. Also we could bring a Miss. Isabella Swan to you, for the same price. We also have one more offer. Ten of the creatures like me, often called Erasers, could come and be transformed to join your ranks." The School had thought this out. And to make things even better, I could let them do some experiments that I've been interested in, and for the pleasure they would give us almost twenty strong warriors.

"Child, take him to get some snacks in the city while we discuss this."
"I don't think that's wise. The two of us don't get along very well, and I would hate to kill your guest."
"We both know that you would love the opportunity. And you both are aware that if one of you returned without the other, then whoever was left would die. Now go."

I told the two humans that the three leaders of the Volturi needed to talk, but none of us said more then three sentences and I was the only one that did that. Marcus was first to hold out his hand, showing me what he thought about the offer. It is tempting, but we might loose the girl. A moments pause before, I think we should go for it regardless, with their help the girl could become useless anyways. Next was Caius, lets use them, they could do the work. And the price is not to terrible"Then it's decided," I spoke aloud, "We are going to let the School help us, and we are going to pay their price. This should be an interesting way to go about it, allying with humans."

The humans returned, and I saw that the man had in fact gotten into a fight with the girl. I watched as they scowled at each other. Then I told them both that we were glad to accept their offer for a bargain. The girl stormed out of the room screaming curses of me and all my kin. I would tell her later that all of my kin were long dead. Then the man looked at me with a smirk. "Don't worry about her. Miss. Artemis Hastings has always been a little high strung."
"Yes I know. I don't doubt that she will come around, I will send Demetri to talk some sense into her."