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Embry's POV

I woke up stretching out and cracking my back. I sighed. That's one part of this life I don't enjoy. I was finally up to speed again. I was running as fast, and as hard as I was before I was bit by Patrick. The one piece that lingered was the pain. It was always there. It was like it had its own heart beat, but instead of pumping blood to all my veins it was the venom. It was little more than annoying but every time I phased it hurt… a lot. It never hurt before… nearly a week ago I brought it up to Carlisle to see if it made any sense to him. Hopefully his findings will be good. I threw on loose basketball shorts and a tank top. We have guests now… I can't just walk around shirtless anymore. I laughed at the idea, especially since I did that regardless of who was around most times. The Egyptians came in late last night. I really wish the Amazons and the Irish would have joined us but we did break Volturi law. It's only natural for them to stay out of it.

I made my way down to breakfast and saw Sam. He'd gotten back in to shape, better than he was before in fact. He'd started lifting weights with me even if no one else did. He now wore a thin goatee and the middle was gray from his time after phasing. He told me it was a reminder to him what he lost, and what he still had to lose. I pushed myself harder than I would have before but I didn't want Sam working harder than me. Carlisle approached me.

"We need to talk Embry… Let's go for a walk." I followed him until we were well out of earshot of the vampires and then further.

"Carlisle, what has so worried you're trying to hide it from the rest of the family?"

"Embry… You're dying."

Felix's POV

"So this is Minnesota huh?" Ivan asked

"Yes… Is it everything you hoped it'd be?" Ulrich snickered next to him.

"Not cold enough." Ivan snorted at Ulrich.

"You wouldn't be happy unless you had to wear one of those ridiculous hats." Ivan took a swing at Ulrich and he avoided.

"Boys, play nice." Evelyn chided.

"Evelyn, you know that won't help." Alexis giggled next to Ulrich.

"We're not here for enjoyment." I growled.

"Yes sir, Mr. Felix sir!" Demetri said mocking me. I backhanded Demetri but he blocked it.

"I don't need to guess where Ulrich and Ivan got it." Evelyn noted. That got a laugh from a couple more Volturi members. I understood the reasoning behind Demetri's little show. It was to try and keep the new guard members at ease. If they were tense more of them would die than necessary.

"Huh… it's so weird to be back… and yet this place seems as foreign as any." Adrian commented

"That's right… you haven't been back to the U.S. since becoming a vampire." Alexis noted.

"Yes… it's true… But I was from the south…" He explained.

"Did you say Yall, and yumpto?" Ulrich laughed.

"I said I was from the south, I didn't say I was a redneck."

"What's our plan?" Ivan said growing impatient. Felix answered

"We'll wait till nightfall and then we will move. And by tomorrow… this will all be over."

Embry's POV

"What do you mean I'm dying?" I asked with a lump in my throat.

"I mean phasing is killing you… it won't kill you today, or this year… but it's killing you, the pain you feel each time you phase… I don't think it's going to stop, I think it's going to get worse."

"I see." I didn't fear it though… because I could live out my life on my terms, either as a wolf or a human.

"If I stop phasing what will happen?"

"I don't know… it's possible if you stop phasing you'll become a vampire… but that didn't happen before… so you might just be very weak." That Idea doesn't sound appealing.

"I suppose you're going to try and convince me to stay out of the Volturi fight?" He laughed at my assessment.

"No, I know you will do it anyway, you're too stubborn and you have something worth dying to protect… your son." I nodded to his response. I nodded back to him looking down at my phasing body.

"Today is a good day to die."

"Ironman" Jack Elzam's POV

We were gathered in to a room that had been converted in to a makeshift theatre room. We were at a neutral location. Right now we were watching for views of the same open area, in the middle was a microphone picking up the sound of wind but we all just sat there. Schmidt and Briggs smuggled some "contraband" peanuts in to watch, when I caught them Lisa Williams laughed at it. When did I become a parent? I thought inwardly. I allowed it if for no other reason than I was trying not to laugh myself. I was the first one to sit down, and on my left sat Williams. I took note of it but nothing more. White sat down on the other side of Williams nonchalantly. Like a boy pining over a girl… it's sad for a grown man to do it, especially one of the best snipers in the world. Guy Nakamura was on the opposite side of White not saying a word but watching the screen. He's the polar opposite of Jeff and Nate.

I looked over to Jeff and Nate who were laughing about something one of them said. Look at them, I would have figured they would be fighting constantly. At 5'6 and 6'4 the two of them acted more like brothers than rivals. Good… More important than any one person in this team will be our connection to each other. I know it sounded like Saturday morning bullshit out loud but it was true.

I advised each member to bring with them their best hand gun and keep it concealed. Havik might be helping us but I didn't trust him. I had my gun angled so I could shoot it from my pocket ahead, if Havik gave me a reason to. I couldn't understand why he was helping us, or why the Brass at Langley thought he was a safe bet, and as I'd learned the hard way to always trust my instincts and not always Intel. Havik walked in to the room and sat in front of us he wasn't even facing us just staring at the screen.

"So when is the show going to start?" Jeff impatiently called.

"In time, I'd say a half hour."

"How do you know when this whole thing will happen, or better yet set up video cameras where it's happening." I asked him.

"That information isn't for sale."

"Of course it isn't." I said laughing that I didn't see his answer coming. I was beginning to believe this whole thing was a trap until I saw the first person there. Is he a vampire? I asked He had blond hair and a woman with him looking like his wife… then more and more, Teenagers, huge teenagers. Teenagers that were far more muscled then that should be. I saw three that looked like brothers walking together, then a younger one… then a smaller then I had to do a double take.

"How tall is that one?" I asked not expecting an answer.

"I'd say 7'4" Havik said offhanded.

"What? He is a bear."

"What do you mean He's a bear?"

"I mean he's a shifting bear."

"I thought there were only wolves." Havik laughed humorlessly.

"I guess you thought wrong." I clutched my side arm in my pocket gently. I knew I shouldn't trust him, but maybe he'd prove useful… which meant not shooting him now. I released my hand from my gun reluctantly, it would have to wait.

Embry's POV

At my suggestion the Alpha's stayed unphased so we could speak for our packs. It was intimidating to watch the mass of red glide calmly towards us. I tried to count but quickly realized we were outnumbered. They didn't bring any spectators along this time. This would be war and they knew it. I still held on to the dim light of hope that we would escape unharmed. The wolves and bears were spread out among our ranks. The Volturi seemed to be appraising us.

"Carlisle, it's so unfortunate that we only get to meet again under these unpleasant circumstances."

"I believe we're just in an unfortunately misunderstanding perpetuated by outside sources." Carlisle explained.

"That's an interesting way to describe it, especially what we've received in reports."

"The person you received the reports from was the outside interference."

"Is that right Xavier?" Aro asked as Xavier walked forward.

"I was just playing my proper part." He smiled evilly at me." I growled back.

"Oh… I don't recognize that would from before."

"Well he's grown a bit, that's Embry Call."

"Embry Call, the one who started this all… Carlisle you really need to stop adopting dangerous kids, these kids keep getting you in to trouble." I heard snickering from the Volturi Guard, especially Demetri.

"Yes… Well I would like to think more of the blame falls on the shoulders of Xavier." I stepped forward to speak for myself.

"Really? He reported that Embry was protecting her from him even after she learned he was a vampire."

"Did Xavier mention that Embry already warned him away?" Xavier made a mocked innocence expression with Aro turned to him.

"Really… is that so?"

"Quite an honest mistake, must have slipped my mind." He said trying not to smile. I forced my hand to unclench."

"Regardless of that you're harboring a human that knows our secret." Aro explained.

"We have many women and parents in La Push that know our secret and are no danger." I explained. I almost immediately regretted it.

"Where is this woman? The one the argument is about?"

"She's not here."

"So she's not with you anymore." He inferred.

"Yes… well."

"So what's to stop her from telling the whole world about our existence?"

"Her son is one of us now, she has a vested interest." Carlisle interrupted.

"How true… how true…" Aro affirmed, he waited for a moment.

"And where is this newborn… Michael?"

"He's not going to be here…"

"Yes, I heard he knew your secret and you didn't turn him." Aro explained.

"I don't suppose Xavier informed you HOW he learned about it." I asked angrily.

"I assume you told him, or you slipped up."

"Nope, Xavier told him, then kidnapped him and turned him, all of which breaks our laws. The police are still looking for him."

"Must have forget to tell you about that."

"Your lack of memory will be the cause of your death." Aro stated.

"Oh no!" Xavier said in mock fear. He started to snickering as Felix and Demetri ripped his arms head then legs off and in a smooth motion he was gone.

"I do wonder why he had no fear of death." Aro asked out loud.

"I can answer that for you esteemed Volturi, it's because you didn't kill him." Carlisle explained

"Really?" Aro questioned

"Yes… His power is multiplicy."

"Most interesting… I suppose that means we'll need to hunt him down and kill him when we're done here… isn't that right Demetri?" Demetri smiled and nodded next to Aro.

"I currently can sense eight of him, three in the U.S. one in Germany, another in Israel, one in Toronto, Tokyo, and Moscow."

"That will be our next stop… but we have a problem… the points he brought up are valid."

"Yes he was, but the facts cannot be ignored… your family has broken the laws time and time again, and we can't continue to abide by it because you're old friends." He stopped for a moment then looked at our number.

"Why did you bring humans with you, to bolster your ranks? You wouldn't break that law outright would you?"

"They're phasers… all of them." Carlisle responded.

"Really? Quite interesting, I wonder what could have caused such an influx in their population." Aro said to himself. We all knew the answer but dared not give it. I heard a sound in the distance and everyone else heard it too. All of our attentions turned to behind us. It was like a thudding sound that grew in volume as it approached.

"Psycho" Nate Schmidt's POV

Truthfully it made me a bit sick to my stomach. These were kids, some of them not even 18 and they were going to get slaughtered. One side were the very elite of vampires, and the other side had half its forces who'd never even fought a vampire before. I finally spoke up.

"Why are we even watching this? It's going to be a massacre."

"We haven't seen any footage of Vampires fighting other than our personal experience it'll be good to learn from."

"This isn't going to be a war, it's going to be a one sided holocaust." I said in disgust.

"One grain of salt can tip a scale." Havik said cryptically.

I heard a thud then a cracking sound of branches and then I saw a body flying out of the trees behind the first group of people. He was bent over on one knee and his upper body bent over it. His shirt was ripped through it was closer to a rag than a shirt now. He stood up slowly and I could see his eyes, bright a hint of red the golden hue. His body was well muscled but not to an extreme level. His hair was dark brown and his skin pale but not as pale as the others. Then I saw it, his white pants and white rag shirt were covered in blood, his face, blood, his hands blood, his arms blood. There might have even been blood in his hair.

"Who the hell is that?" I asked annoyed.

"That… would be one grain of salt."

Well the wait is over… (or it will be… at the start of the next chapter) yep, I'm cliffying you one more chapter, I feel since I'm not a cliffhanger author (I should work on that more) I figure one now and then wouldn't be that bad. This chapter I'm thanking two people who've been reviewing for a while now, Brankel1 for the short and concise reviews, who has been around for a long time, thanks. And a new reviewer, BrokenSofia who has the Force, she predicted the future of my story in the last review… or part of it. Thanks for your thoughtful reviews, and his name is Leonard, he's neither a famous artist/inventor nor a ninja turtle. Thanks for reading and reviewing. Take care, spike your hair.