My hands were shaking as I walked into the large stone room. The three heads were not surprised I was here. The gaurd I'm sure, saw that I was coming.
Aro smiled at me, but the others kept their faces blank. Aro stood up form the throne he had just been sitting in, and was suddenly in front of me.
"Bella," He said holding out his hand, for me to shake. As I did his face went from expectant, then it turned to confusion and then relaxed finally over the period of ten seconds.
He sighed and looked at me strangely, examining me almost. I cleared my throat and he jumped.
"Oh, yes," He continued. He opened his mouth to say something else, but then his head flashed toward a dark figure standing in the shadows.
I couldn't make out the face until he stepped out into the light. He was beautiful and I nearly gasped when I saw him. He had light brown hair that flowed perfectly upon his head. It bothered me a little when I noticed his eyes were bright red, but then suppressed the feeling, knowing I must have looked the same.
"What is it, Damien?" Aro asked his voice expectant. Damien had an evil smirk across his face.
"Looks like this little beauty is going to be the head of the Volturi." His voice sounded mocking and I grimaced, thinking he was being sarcastic.
Aro's eyes widened as he said this. How did he know that I was going to be the leader? I was surprised as I looked into Aro's eyes that he was not joking. He seemed almost threatened by me and then took a step back. Then he lowered himself to the ground, and bowed before me.
My eyebrows lowered in confusion, and then I looked b at Damien and shrugged, then he bowed also. Before I knew it everyone in the room was bowing before me. I was suspicious and almost couldn't get my question out. Almost. "How do you know?" I asked Damien.
He stood up, as did everyone else and smiled, proud of himself. "I see the future." He said a little to full of himself.
I winced as Alice's face appeared behind my lids. Aro seemed to notice this and gave Damien a scolding look that he probably didn't want me to see. What he didn't know was that I was very observant. Now that I had become a vampire, it seemed even more potent. It must have been one of my powers, to be observant to the point that humans couldn't dream of.
That night they told me all of the powers I that I had, and was going to develop, courtesy of Damien. Speaking of him, that night as we talked together in their living room, I realized that I was rather fond of him.
"You will have," Damien said right after his face had become blank and he had had a vision, just like Alice had. I pushed the thought of her out of my mind as he continued, "the power to know everything about an individual, just by looking at a person's face." I already knew that, "You will notice everything in the room you are in, from emotions on one's face, or someone whispering or singing to themselves." Duh. "Most importantly you can control people if you want to. You can also create illusion." He smiled triumphantly.
I smiled back at him, not realizing that everyone else had left the room. Then unexpectedly he leaned forward and pressed his lips to mine.
His lips were soft as I kissed him, comforting to say the least. It would have been perfect, if when I closed my eyes, I wouldn't have seen Edward's face behind my lids.
Seventy-Five Years Later
I walked down the hallway silently to what I called the Main Room. It was where I told out large family to meet every week to discuss issues or missions to be handed out.
Since I had become the head of the Volturi family, I had changed many things, and invented many laws.
Law1: A vampire was not allowed to tell a human that vampires exist.
Law2: A vampire was not allowed to love a human, only its own species.
I had come up with many others, but those two were my personal favorites. They were the one thing that if existing earlier, would have made my life exceptionally better.
I still hadn't told them anything about my human life, not one little detail. They didn't even know what my last name was; mush less that I had fallen in love with a vampire who broke me beyond repair.
The Main Room was also where I talked to the vampires—and humans at times—that had broken the laws. Only once had I encountered a human and a vampire in love in the time I had been here.
The vampire's name was Aden and the girl he had fallen in loved with was named Mara. As soon as my eyes landed upon those two I hated them. I wanted to suck her blood right then and there, and kill that stupid vampire. I felt mad that they could stay madly in love, while he and I could not.
Before they even had the chance to talk, I ordered them to be murdered. It was horrible, and I knew that, but the horrid and evil things I did then did not bother me, not at all. In fact I was proud at what I had done with the family. It was better, more organized now, or at least it was in my eyes.
Since I had been there two people had joined. I had chosen them when they were humans, and it just so happened that they one was an empath, and one ended up being able to read anyone's mind, with the exception of me. Jade was the empath and Irene was the mind reading one.
I still did not fully understand how this position came to me. Damien had never fully explained.
Damien and I had been dating ever since I had come here. He wasn't sweet or amazing as he was, not even close. I didn't even know if he had in niceness in him at all, but I choose him. And just like everyone said, we were perfect for each other. We were probably the most beautiful creatures ever to walk the earth, or at least he was. People told me that I was also beautiful—amazing actually—but I never believed them. I never had—and never would be—beautiful. I was plain in my eyes, and apparently in his also. His opinion mattered the most, and I believed no other. I don't know why, but I trusted everything he said, even though most of it had been complete and utter lies.
As I entered the ancient wooden doors I couldn't help but smile when I noticed Damien waiting for me. He patted the chair behind him and I ran to it at vampire speed, wanting to be close to him as I fast as I could. He laughed at my anxiousness but then cleared his throat, as the others entered just on time.
Irene came in, her armed linked with Demetri's arm. Apparently they had fallen deeply in love. Just a week after I summoned her—or you could say captured her—they had gotten married. I thought it was just a little bit rushed. I was more worried about Irene. She should have waited to see if that was how Demi—as I called him—really loved her. I didn't want her to be crushed as I had been. But I kept silent and went to their wedding, never saying anything to Irene.
Damien and I never bothered to get married. We were just known. We didn't need rings for people—and vampires—to know we were together. Everyone knew that. And I mean everyone, as in humans also. I was actually a model, the first working vampire in the Volturi. I wanted my vampires to get to know people better so I made them get jobs. Damien modeled with me. Irene was a fashion designer. Demetri was a doctor. Felix: Lawyer, Aro and Caius and Marcus: Professional writers.
When Aro showed me his first book, I nearly fell of the chair I was sitting on I was laughing so hard. It was a book about a vampire, and the main person's name was Bella. She was an evil vampire who fell in love with a vegetarian vampire. Kind of like Romeo and Juliet, because in his book Bella's family despised the vegetarians, and the other way around.
I didn't bother reading it, knowing a book about love would cause me too much pain. In our family I was known as emotionless, my face was always blank. No one knew me well enough that there was something boiling underneath the surface. I was in pain, almost every second of the day, but I was amazing at keeping my face and voice blank and cold. Sometimes Damien called me his "Emotionless Beauty". It bothered me sometimes, but I did not protest, not seeing the need to.
When everyone was seated I cleared my throat softly, knowing they would hear me. They all stopped talking, and I swear a human could have heard a pen drop. Even it there was noise a vampire could hear a pen drop. Ha. I crack myself up. Hopefully, you sensed the hint of sarcasm in my voice.
My family knew not to mess with me, so they were as silent as possible. I even noticed that Jade had stopped breathing.
"I have a list of missions for you all." I told them. I heard a sigh coming from Jade and I turned to glare at her, my eyes like daggers. She was the only one who didn't like hurting vampires—or humans—and hated being given missions. She was scared out of her wits as she stared back at me, knowing what I was capable of.
I turned my gaze toward a different direction and continued, "Irene, you will be going to Australia. There is a vampire there that befriended a werewolf. Kill him." Jade flinched at this. I told the rest of them what they were to do, and then I came to Demetri and Damien. "Demi and Damien, you are needed for a special mission. I have heard rumors that in South America—Brazil actually—(hint, hint) there is a vampire and a human in love. They both shall be murdered, but I need you help to help me find them. We leave in an hour."
I dismissed everyone from the and headed to get ready.
At that time I had no idea the man I was going to be hunting, was the man I was once irreversibly in love with. I didn't know that he had fallen for a new girl, Isolde. What neither of them knew was that Edward was going down.
Don't worry. Do you really think I would let ANYONE kill Edward, much less HURT ONE HAIR ON HIS GORGEOUS LITTLE HEAD!! I don't think so!!
Bella IS NOT going to hurt him, or anything else. The human though,--curse her--is a different story.
My Beta agrees with me. ISOLDE HAD TO DIE!!
