The next day some of the other covens began to arrive. the Denali clan was the first to get there.
"This feels a little like deja vu, doesn't it? Once again we must battle the Volturri in order to just exist," Tanya said.
"Yes, it does seem that way doesn't it?"replied Carlisle with a sad smile.
The Romanians arrived next, they were delighted to be given another chance to defeat the Volturri.
"Just send us to where Alec is," said Vladimir, "he still owes me many lives."
I remembered the last time he had said words similar to those over 100 years ago, it seemed vampire vengence still had a grip on him. The next to arrive were the Irish and the Amazons. The last to arrive were the Egyptians, and it was only Tia and Benjamin who came.
"Amun refused to join us," Benjamin explained apologetically. "He said that last time was a close enough call for him. He said that last itme you only asked him to bear witness, this time it could be potentially fatal for him and Kebi."
"But the Volturi already know that he was with us the last time. They will look for him too once they realize what is happening," I said.
"Amun and Kebi have already started to run, looking for hiding spots," Benjamin said. "Amun has made his choice and we have made ours, we will stand with our friends. It really is time that the world be rid of the Volturi."
"I second you on that, comrade," Stefan said enthusiastically.
Once everyone had gotten settled in a meeting was called in the living room. Once again the house felt too crowded. There was the map hanging on the wall with
the places marked where the Volturi guard would attack. Carlisle stepped into the center on the circle and adressed the group.
"Thank you all for coming again. I feel as though we keep meeting on bad terms, hopefully this will be the last time we have to do this."
"Yes, hopefully after this the world will be rid of the Volturi for good and we can be restored to our power," Vladimir interrupted.
"Yes, well- Jasper why don't you explain the plan," Carlisle said uncomfortably, he hated having to destroy anyone, even if it was the Volturi. He had hoped that once again this could be resolved peacefully, but he knew that this was impossible. The Volturi were hell bent on destroying us.
"As you all can see here," Jasper said pointing to the map," this is where Alice has seen the Volturi plan their attacks. They keep changing their minds though, she does not know if they are going to attack one point at time or if all the points will be attacked simultaneously, so we need to be ready at all of these locations. We will split into groups and meet with the nomad in the area, as that is their plan. The Volturi plan to pick off the nomads as they do not have strong ties with any of the covens, they figure that by the time the news reaches us it will be too late."
"So what will the groups be?" asked Garrett. He arrived with the Denali coven, he went back to Alaska with Kate after the last Volturi attack . It was good to see that he had adjusted to the vegetarian lifestyle so well.
Jasper pointed to the map again. "We tried to keep most of the covens together as you know your coven well. In the first group it will be Stefen, Vladimir, Rosalie
and Emmett, and they will go find Alistar as it looks as that is where Alec will be. The second group will be Benjamin, Tia, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, and myself, and we
will go find Peter and Charlotte. The third group will be Kachiri, Senna, Zafrina, Maggie, Siobhan, and Liam, and they will go find Charles and Makenna. The fourth
group will be Eleazar, Carmen, Tanya, Kate and Garrett, and they will locate Mary and Randall. The final group will include, Edward, Bella, Jacob and Renesmee who
will look for Hulien and Nahuel."
Vladimir and Stefan looked visiablly pleased at the idea of destroying Alec. I was worried about my family and friends. I had a bad feeling about being split up, but I
knew it was the only way we had a chance. Though how would everyone fair without my shield there to protect them. I couldn't have it be in multiple places at
once.