We arrived to the throne room where Aro, Marcus, and Caius spent majority of their time. When they saw us enter they stood from their seats. Demetri was already in front of them and we appeared in front of them in-less than a second, with me in the middle of the group. With their taller frames, they made me look like a little girl next to her older brothers.
Of course this little sister wasn't to be messed with...
I looked at Demetri and smiled. I hadn't seen him since yesterday. He returned a smile with a wink. I roll my eyes. I still found it funny that he was the smarty pants of our group. He knew everything about everything. Although this was normal for old vampires, Demetri was only 200 years old (which is young for a vampire). And he knew more than Aro. Who was about ohhh...1000 years old.
Demetri was also very handsome, he was taller than Felix, but with less muscle. He had dark blonde hair that laid smoothly around his face. To most he looked like a surfer boy. He however loathed the beach.
Aro appeared before us, and stepped to be in-front of me.
"Aah.. My beautiful Isabella, return safely to me." Aro smiled kindly pulling me into a tight embrace. He squeezes me slightly before pulling away, only to hold me by the shoulders and kiss my forehead. I smile at him kissing both his cheeks, causing him to look at me lovingly before returning to his seat. His black hair came to his shoulders, making him look like an old renaissance picture. Just like his brothers.
"Make sure to bring her back safely, I have no doubt she can take care of herself. But I want to make sure you understand me clearly when I say a hair on her head had better not be harmed." Marcus's voice is firm and serious when he speaks from his throne to Demetri and Felix who both nod in assurance.
I roll my eyes but smile none the less. Everyone said that these three brothers were heartless, soulless monsters, but to me they were the most compassionate, overprotective dad's I had learned to love dearly.
As soon as Demetri and Felix nod, Marcus appears before me and pulls me into an embrace and then places a kiss onto my forehead like Aro had done before. I -in return- kiss his cheeks, and he smiles a soft smile then returns to his seat. Last but not least. Is Caius, who appears before as soon as Marcus sits. His face seems totally emotionless to others but to me his eyes show more emotion than anyone I've ever met.
And right now they were saying a-lot. He leaned his head down and his nose skimmed my neck up to my cheek before kissing my cheek. His long white hair tickling my neck.
"Don't die." Was all he said but to me it was I love you, and be careful in two words.
I smile and step closer to embrace him tightly, he sighs softly and returned the hug. I pull back after two seconds. After all Caius did have a reputation to uphold. I smile and kiss his cheeks and then he returns to his throne.
To strangers it would seem as though I was about to go off into some war. And with the Volturi you just might. Even though today I wasn't assigned a battle, every time one of the guards walk out of this castle there is a chance of something unexpected happening. Which is why Aro, Caius and Marcus do this routine of seeing me off for every mission I go on. Even if they were little ones like this, and though I was more than able to defend myself, they continued to worry.
"Well then, Leave now, we will be waiting for your return." Caius says, we all nod and then take off to the Volturi Jet that sits in the back of the castle.
When we arrive to the jet we all enter and go to our positions. Demetri goes to the front starting the engine and me and Felix sit down and start to discuss the details of the mission.
"So what are the four vampire's abilities?" I ask Felix with my business voice. I need to know what we were up against, just in case things did get out of hand. Also I was curious to know if it was anything new than what I had seen before.
"Nothing you can't do better I'm sure, There's a mind reader, a psychic, a pathokineisis and a shield." He says reading the file , Anya , the observer for our London observation sent yesterday. As he continues to read the file to me I suddenly get very uncomfortable, those abilities sent a spark of déjà vu through me and I wasn't exactly sure why.
"Is something wrong red?" Felix asks noticing my expression, I shake my head and though I can tell he doesn't believe me he lets it go anyway.
I smile, grateful that he doesn't push me into anything further.; he rolls his eyes and goes back to reading the file.
"It says there is a super strong vampire as well, and the Pathokineisis used to be a commander of a newborn army, hmm…that could be promising." He winks and I kick him playfully, causing him to laugh. I get up and go up to the captains room with Demetri.
I sit in the co-pilot seat and he looks suspiciously to me.
"Is there something you need, Isa?" I shake my head, and look out of the window; we would be arriving in London in less than 30 minutes. My mind wondered to my human years, although I didn't remember anything before I awoke to this existence, I felt as though something were missing, or someone.
I asked Aro where I came from, where my family was and if he had any information of my human life. He unfortunately didn't know, he said Alec and Felix had found me when they were on a mission. And I was dying of blood loss from a nomadic vampire and Felix saw me something made him change me. While I was going through my change they brought me to Aro, where I've lived ever since.
I was grateful to Alec and Felix for saving me…but I was also sorrowful of the memories I couldn't remember and the people I had unknowingly forgot.
I wondered if my parents were still alive, or if they died, if they had missed me or looked for me. I wondered if I had any friends, if I had any pets, or even a boyfriend. I wondered what foods I liked, if I graduated, if I were clumsy.
I knew that these were answer that would more than likely never be answered, but I couldn't help but wonder every now and then. There was one thing I felt though when my heart finally stopped beating, it was …pain. Not the kind from changing it was…my heart, it felt as though my heart -although it was already frozen- had been torn out my chest and I was suffocating... I couldn't breathe.
Over time I learned to ignore it and it finally numbed. Then eventually I didn't feel anything at ll. Although sometimes it stings when something triggers it. A word, a sound, a song…
"Were landing." Demetri says knocking me out of my thoughts, I turn to look at him and he's staring at me with a questioning gaze. I shake my head telling him not to ask and get up to go to the exit dock.
I walk next to Felix who is standing next to the door as well, he grins at me.
"Ready for some action!" he exclaims cracking his knuckles in anticipation, I chuckle.
"Yeah Lix, don't antagonize them to a fight. Were just here to warn them, and leave. I really want to get back home and get to Lindon." I say firmly, Felix was usually calm, but if he hadn't had a fight in awhile he got…impatient and would try to tempt other vampires into fighting.
He frowns slightly knowing my word is final, "Yeah okay red, I won't antagonize anyone, but I still don't know why you named your violin Lindon...You should've named it something cool like Felix or Xilef."He smirks.
I roll my eyes, " Yeah that's going to happen."
I feel the jet tumble knowing that we've just reached land, after ten seconds Demetri appears and the exit door opens. We step out, and walk into a field that was surrounded with trees. I listen for thoughts, heartbeats, and human sounds but find none. I knew that Demetri landed us far from any human life. But you never know what might be roaming the woods. "Okay the coven is north of here, The run should be about 10 minutes..." Demetri informs us.
Me and Felix nod in confirmation and we take off.
Something in my gut is twisting as we run; I've been feeling this way ever since I heard about this mission a couple days ago, and I have yet to figure out why. I start to think of the new composition I had been making in my head and which notes and melodies I should put with it, when Demetri spoke.
"Hey Isa, I've made a new course for you to train in for your abilities." Demetri says as we run, I sigh. "We'll start training when we return."
We had just got done training for some of my abilities two days ago, but Demetri was all about training me to be the best weapon the Volturi can have. I was happy that I could protect my family, but sometimes I just wanted to be...me. Not some secret machine.
"Okay Demetri." I finally say, we've been running for about seven minutes and I hear the thought of the coven.
"They're coming." One mind says, I could see through his head that they were all waiting at the edge of the forest, in the back of their house.
"There are three." A small girl says, "I can't see their faces because of the cloaks, but there are two males and…a girl." She whispers the word girl making me think she is shaken.
After a couple of more seconds we appear before them, our hoods covering our faces just like the girl had said and I figured she was the psychic. I silently observed the nine vampires that stood in front of me. There was a large muscular man who looked about 18 he stood in front of a beautiful blonde protectively, they were both glaring at us; I'm guessing they were mates.
Next to them stood a black haired boy who looked to be about 16, behind him was a red headed girl who peeked around his shoulder her eyes showing her fear. I could feel that the boy had an ability and observe the lighting that surrounded him. So he's the shield, and a weak one at that.
I smirked amused at his weak attempt to keep me out; I could break it with a flick of my wrist...or pinky.
The couple next to them was who I assumed the leader of the coven, he had smooth blonde hair that reminded me of Demetri's classic look. He was smiling at us kindly although his eyes were guarded . Behind him stood a lady with caramel hair and kind eyes, and she was looking at me softly. I almost laughed, she thought I was a little girl who had been forced into this life, she saw my petite figure and it made her mother instincts want to come and embrace me.
I roll my eyes, keep dreaming lady.
The ones next to them were an ability couple, the pixie girl had a bright silver which told me she was a psychic, and the yellow surrounding the blonde one told me he was the pathokineitic.
His body was covered with our crescent scars, which confirmed his place in the newborn army with Maria.
I pulled my cloak around me more self conscious of my own scars.
Next to that couple was a boy, he seemed 17 or 18, he had bronze hair that was going every which way, It seemed messy but it looked good on him, he was undeniably beautiful…more beautiful than any male vampire I had ever seen.
My frozen heart felt as though it were being beaten, and the feeling that hadn't bothered me in so long started to come to life once more, except this time more painfully.
The Blonde Pathokineitic turned his head quickly towards me and I knew then he had felt my emotions. I quickly shielded us, cursing myself for forgetting. That however made him curious.
"Hello, how may we help you?"The leader spoke politely, I nodded for Demetri to step forward. He did and began to speak to the coven.
"Yes we noticed your new arrival and just came to give you a... 'greeting'." Demetri spoke; he took off his hood, allowing them to see his face. The shield growled causing my head to snap at him, he was glaring at Demetri.
"Greeting? Don't you mean threat? Look you don't scare us. This is our territory. As you can see we have more of us then there are of you. Why don't you go back to where you came from, Italy or hell. " he snarls in idiocy. All of the others looked at him in shock and growl in warning; the girl behind him tightens her grip on his shirt in an failing attempt to calm him.
"Shut you're mouth Logan, before I come over there and rip it off you're face." The blonde beauty said in a growl. I smirked at that.
"I would listen to her boy." Felix said teasingly, I smiled. This would be just what he was waiting for.
"Why? If you haven't noticed we have a mind reader, a psychic, a pathokineitic and me a shield." He said smugly.
I noticed Felix had taken off his hood trying to appear more threatening, I could feel the boys fear despite his speech.
"Yes we were quite aware of that before we arrived here." Demetri spoke calmly although I could tell from his emotions and thoughts that he wanted to rip the boys' throat out.
"Logan, please keep quiet." The blonde leader says. His command is useless because it just goes in one ear and out the other.
I felt the boy's confidence lower and his fear increase but he made sure not to show it with his face, I could feel the others wariness and shock from what Demetri had just said. The boys' confidence started to increase as he spoke.
"So? Don't you think it would be unwise to go against nine vampires, four having powers. One being a shield, you can't even touch us." He said with smugness once again.
I could feel the amusement and anger coming off of Felix and Demetri.
"I wouldn't be too sure of that." Felix said chuckling, that caused their emotions to change to confusion and more wariness.
"Yeah? Why don't you try to come through then, when you do then I 'might' be scared!" 'Logan' said cockily.
"Logan. Zip it." The Papathokineisis says in a growl. It's to later though. I never back down to a challenge.
Its my turn.
I take off my hood, earning gasps from around. I was used to different reactions from people so I automatically ignored them. I take a step closer to the blabber mouth and I feel his fear increase. Not so tough now..
"Well since you asked so nicely." I say hauntingly as I begin to walk forward, I dig through my powers and use the one I had received from Jane. I look at him searching his shield for a gap, I find a weak spot and send that energy at full force to him causes his legs to buckle, and him to fall to the ground screaming.
"Stop! Stop, please…" He whimpers in pain, I smile amused. The others gasp in panic.
Not so tough now are you.
I take control of his shield and it vanishes from around them.
"Please stop!" The girl that was behind him pleads as she tries to comfort him.
The others around him don't say anything but their fear tells me enough, I look around curiously as I feel their shock, too much shock.
They all have looks of recognition.
Hmm…. Have I met them before. No, I was pretty sure I haven't.
I don't stop the pain on Logan until Demetri puts a hand on my back, "Stop Isa." I stop the pain, but he is still panting from the intensity.
I sigh; he always has to ruin my fun.
"Maybe next time you should be careful what you wish for. ." I said tauntingly.
He wisely doesn't reply.
I guess I left him speechless.
I smirk at that.