A/N: This chapter has some important stuff in it, but for the most part it's just comic relief. That said, it's really not hard to leave a review guys. If all of you reviewed when you put the story on alert/favourite, then you would've had an update ages ago! =]

Chapter Five- And the World Spins Madly On

Alice POV:

It was our first day at the new school. We had relocated to Canada, there just weren't enough places in the USA that were rainy and that the people wouldn't remember us in. We were in Oakharbour, Newfoundland now.

When I say we, I mean Jasper, me, Carlisle, Bella, Edward, Rosalie and Emmett. Renesmee and Jacob had decided to stay in La Push. Jacob was needed to help with the huge boom in the werewolf population, and Renesmee had stayed with him. Their wedding had been last month. Life had gone on as it had before the Volturi incident, but we knew that it wouldn't last. Aro was quietly trying to get enough power to wipe us off the face of the planet.

And scarily enough he was almost there. Stefan and Vladimir were dead, Aro made a split second decision to go and kill them off. I didn't even have enough time to call them before it was all over. Despite how bad it sounds, I can't really say I'll miss them. Half of the Egyptian coven had gone over to the Volturi. Amun and Kebi had decided it was too risky to stay on our side.

Everyone else was coming to our house, no-one wanted to risk being on their own. I'm not sure why Carlisle even bothered enrolling us in the school. We were probably just going to end up pulling ourselves out when the fighting started.

To top things off I wasn't able to see anything other than fuzzy images from Volterra, which means someone is changing into a vampire. In the long distance, going past the fuzzy patch there are two big possible futures. Either Aro wins the war, or we do. And it's all triggered by whoever is changing right now, and I can't see them.

Some things are very, very strange. I kept getting things about Alec and a red haired girl that I've never seen before. I hadn't really seen all that much about Alec. I had always just thought that he was like the rest of the guard; heartless and mindless, totally devoted to Aro, and with a really scary gift. Aro was making all the decisions about us so I concentrated on him instead.

I'm starting to think that that was a mistake, but I can't see anything clearly until whoever is being turned in Volterra dies.

I'll check again at lunch time, whoever it is should be done by then.

Edward POV

I hate high school, I really, really do. It's boring and repetitive, and totally useless. The fact that every student and teacher in the school start to lust after us the minute we walk through the door only adds to the discomfort. Lucky me, I get all their twisted fantasies about my wife played in my head because I can read their minds. I'm surprised I haven't killed anyone yet.

I walked into the cafeteria.

Alice was sitting at the table. She had the zoned-out look on her face that said she was checking the future. I went and grabbed some food to eat and went and sat down at the table too. Everyone was staring at Alice.

I heard her thoughts, she was checking Volterra again. Whoever was changing is finished, she can see clearly again.

She checked Aro first, he had made no big decisions over the three days, but something was clearly worrying him.

Aro walked down the long hall in his castle, frowning. Caius looked up, "I told you it was a bad move to change that child. She is too powerful; she has already tried to escape once. She appears to be doing exactly what Alec does, she hates killing so she'll keep trying to leave, but she's powerful enough to succeed where Alec failed.

Aro glared at him. "Alec is older than she is and craftier, he has not managed to escape yet and neither will she."

Marcus sighed; his voice never lost the bored tone. "I think you're both missing the big threat. It's a mate-to-mate bond that the two of them have- almost as strong as those mutts have with their imprinting down on the Quileute reservation. Alone we can deal with the two of them- but together? The bond has developed even quicker than Bella and Edward's did. They will be able to find enough strength to escape in each other. And you have them locked in the same room down there; they're probably spilling out their guts to each other now. You think that the bond was scary before they've been in isolation together?"

Aro smirked. "A mated pair's greatest strength is also their greatest weakness. Threaten on with the other and they'll do whatever you want them to."

"I don't think that it'll work that way brother..."

Alice made a split second decision to try and move her vision somewhere else. I wanted to ask her what she was doing, then I saw where she moved and it all made sense.

She was watching Alec and his mate. The girl's throat was destroyed. I winced in synch with Alice. That must have really hurt. The question is why wasn't it healing?

The girl grabbed his hand and started to write with it.

Tell me a story...

We watched the entire conversation. I felt kind of bad; it's really rude to butt in on the story of someone's human life. But it was worth it.

"That's it..." Alice breathed softly. "Alec isn't with Aro willingly, he never has been. If we can get him and Arianna safely out of Volterra we'll win the war." All our family turned to look at her; you could have heard a pin drop at our table.

Naturally, the five minute bell chose that moment to ring; it was time to go back to class. "I'll keep searching guys," was all Alice said, "if I find anything worthwhile I'll give the signal and we'll all bail." Alice grinned, "Person with the most inventive way out of class wins."

We all grinned. Meet my family, first group of non-human killing vampires, the largest threat the Volturi have faced in centuries, second largest coven in the world... and all of us with serious issues that need therapy and an insanely competitive need to gamble. I love it.

We all went to our third classes. I was in math with my Bella, Emmett and Jasper were in gym (that's a disaster waiting to happen). Alice had art and Rosalie had family studies.

We were about halfway into the class when Alice gave the signal, she'd found something. I could practically feel every single member of my family freeze in anticipation. I was torn between horror and anticipation, insane vampires having a competition around helpless humans... never works.

Bella looked at me, her eyebrow raised. She took her shield down and began to think at me. I have an idea Edward... I'll need your help though, but when we win we can share the glory. She winked at me and outlined her plan in her head. It was brilliant; I can't wait to see the look on the teacher's face.

Her eyes grew large and glazed, her pupils dilated slightly, it was a more dramatic version of Alice's 'I see something you don't see look'. It made her look more than slightly insane. She looked around the classroom slowly and gave a twisted little giggle, "I see dead people..."

The teacher's jaw dropped to the floor. "Miss. Swan, Are you feeling okay?"

Her eyes widened. "Edward... the dead person is trying to talk to me. He's really scary."

I stood up. "I'm sorry sir... she must have forgotten to take her medicine this morning. Can I have permission to take her home?"

The teacher nodded, still looking stunned. "O-of c-course, I hope she-she feels b-b-better soon." I smiled apologetically before I grabbed Bella and walked out of the room.

We got out of hearing range and she started laughing. "That was awesome Edward; we need to do that more often!" I nodded agreeing.

Rosalie POV

The teacher stood up against the blackboard, we were talking about abortion. This gives me a few ideas. Mrs. Copper turned to look at me, I made myself look queasy, putting my hand over my stomach. "Rosalie, are you feeling okay?"

I shook my head, breaking down and pretending to sob. She looked startled. "Why don't we go talk in the hall?" She was a very maternal woman. We walked out to the hall. "Now, is there something you want to talk to me about?"

I made myself start sobbing a little harder, "I... I think I might be pregnant. We're still waiting for the official results to come in, I'm just worried about what Carlisle and Esme will think, I know they'll support me, but I'm just so afraid I'll disappoint them, I look up to them so much... They've been so kind to me."

She sighed softly, "Do you know who the father is?"

"Emmett is the only person I've had... done it with, it must be him. I really don't know what I'm going to do?"

"I think you should tell your parents about it, Rosalie. I'm sure they'll be able to help you."

I sniffed, trying to make myself as pathetic as I could. "Could I- could I maybe go talk to them now? I don't want to miss class, but I just can't concentrate."

Mrs. Copper nodded sympathetically, "Of course you can dear. Remember, I'm always here to talk to if you want someone to vent to."

"I will. Thank you." She nodded and went back into the room, I turned and walked down the hall, grinning. I felt a little bit bad about tricking her, she seemed very nice, but not too bad.

Emmett POV

I looked around the gym, trying to figure out what to do. I saw a spider on the wall. Perfect. "Jasper," I hissed, too fast for the humans to hear, "I'm going to start something, use your gift to add to the effect."

I gave out a high pitched, girly scream. "Oh my... it's the giant man eating spider!" I pointed at the tiny spider on the wall. Jasper sent huge waves of terror around the room, soon all the humans were running and screaming, eventually we all ended up with our backs pressed against the opposite wall.

Here's to causing mass terror and confusion.

Jasper walked over to the teacher, "Ummm, I'm sorry sir, my brother is affected by an unfortunate mental disability. It's normally best after he's had one of his fits to take him home and give him some peace and quiet."

I added to the dramatic effect by curling up in the fetal position and rocking back and forth quickly. My classmates all started to back away slowly. The coach nodded quickly, "Please do. I don't want any more of this."

We walked out of the classroom. Beat that, guys.

Alice POV

I decided to wait until all of my family was out of class, I didn't want to spoil their fun after all. I snuck into the washroom; I had five minutes to make a call before someone else came in. I pulled out my cell phone.

9-1-1, who else do you call to make a bomb threat after all?

"Hello, nine-one-one, what is your emergency."

Show time. "I am calling to tell you that I've hidden a bomb in the high school, I hated my days here and want nothing more to destroy it." I made my voice deep and masculine;" If you don't get everyone out of the school in ten minutes they will die." I crushed the phone in my hand and went back to class.

It took two minutes and twenty three seconds for the very terrified small town police to call the school and evacuate it then we were all sent home.

My siblings looked around at the chaos. "So who had the bomb threat idea?" was all Bella said.

Rosalie laughed, "How do we know it was one of us, for all we know some creep may have actually put a bomb in the school." We all threw her rather pointed looks. "Okay so it probably was one of us." She muttered.

I held up my hand. "Guilty, what did everyone else do?"

"I started having a mental breakdown in class. I pretended I could see dead people."

"We made the class think there was a man eating spider on the wall."

"I pretended that Emmett knocked me up."

We all sat there for a few seconds, and then we started laughing helplessly. "Let's go home guys."

Our living room was filled with vampires, the entire alliance was there, the same people that came for the Renesmee incident last time. The only difference was that Vladimir, Stefan, Amun and Kebi were absent, and that Alistair, Charles and Makenna had joined us after they noticed that you were going to have to choose sides for this war. The Volturi were recruiting entire covens.

"What are you guys doing home?" was all Carlisle said.

Rosalie broke down and started dry sobbing, "I think I might be pregnant." Carlisle rubbed his face.

"Okay, so Rose pretended to be pregnant to get out of school, compared to some of the messes you guys get into that's not that bad."

"I see dead people now." That brought a laugh from the collective dead people in the room.

"Faking a psychotic breakdown, Bella I thought you were more mature than that. I'm going to have to forge you some papers." If Bella was still human she would have been bright red.

Emmett looked up, "Jasper and I made the gym class think there was a man eating spider on the wall."

The vampires in the room started laughing even harder. Carlisle didn't even say anything, he just shot them the look. He turned to look at Alice, who was inspecting her shoes. "Alice, if you think I'm going to ignore you... what did you do?"

"It's not that bad Carlisle, really. And it got all the other humans out of school too." Carlisle muttered something under his breath that sounded a lot like we need therapy. Carlisle just kept looking at her. "I may have called a bomb threat for the school." She muttered quickly. "But I crushed the phone so they can't track it to us. I really do have something important to tell you."

You could probably have heard the vampires laughing from miles away.

"Since you have something that's so important, why don't you share?"

"I figured out what's going on in Volterra." All the vampires in the room fell silent. Nothing ruins a good mood better than the Volturi. "Aro's lust for power finally got the better of him; he turned an insanely powerful girl, Arianna. And she hates his guts."

The mood in the room lightened considerably when I said that. "And I figured out why Alec is so important, along with Ari."

"Why?" asked Maggie.

"He's never been with Aro willingly. Aro's been blackmailing him into it." If the room was quiet before, that was nothing compared to now. No one was even breathing.

"I know you're telling the truth," started Maggie, "but... Alice, its Alec. No one's ever heard of him rebelling against Aro. He's been the guard member that everyone is so afraid of."

"Do you honestly think that if anyone found out that Alec isn't actually willing to be a member of the guard that Aro will let them stay alive for long? Aro really likes his white hat and Alec's gift is one of the scariest he's ever had in his guard."

Zafrina looked at Elaezar. "What did you notice when you were working with Aro? How did Alec behave?"

"Honestly... I never saw that much of him. I saw him during feeding time and during missions, but that's about it. We all assumed that it was because he had a superiority complex. He and Aro spent pretty much all their time having glaring contests when they thought no one was looking. Looking back I don't know how I noticed that something was happening. He disappeared for about three years. It was right before I left, close to a hundred years ago. Aro was agitated; Demetri and Afton were almost always out of the castle. Eventually Alec reappeared. He was only at dinner about once a month, and he looked bad. Like someone was torturing him. I assumed that the mission he went on went badly and he was having a bit of a comeuppance."

Elaezar turned to Alice, "He tried to run away didn't he?"

Alice nodded, "Yes, it was the third time he ever tried to. Aro started world war two as his punishment."

"Why doesn't he just use his gift to escape? He's very powerful after all."

Edward was able to answer this one. "Think of the other gifts in the castle, Afton's in particular. Every time Alec would try to use his gift one of them would be able counter him immediately. There's only so much one type of gift can do."

Bella asked the next question. "What was he thinking about so hard when we were trying to get them not to kill Nessie?"

"He was trying to figure out a way to make it look like your shield could stop his gift. He wasn't sure whether his gift was physical or mental. He didn't want anyone knowing he could incapacitate us all."

"Why?"

"Think about it, what would Aro have done if he knew that he could, without a doubt, win the fight?"

"He'd kill us all."

"Exactly, and Alec didn't want us to die. He knew that both choices of what would happen would be good if the Volturi could lose the fight. Either we win and Aro isn't hurting people anymore or Aro is forced to back down, which seriously screws with his power base."

Carlisle looked around. "Let's have a vote. Either we help the two of them, or we don't."

We went in a circle around the room. The Irish coven got the first vote. "I think we'd be willing to help them," began Siobhan, "as long as Maggie gets a chance to talk to them first. If it turns out they're lying, we're going to kill them."

Zafrina looked at her sisters; they had one of those moments of silent communication. "We have no problem helping children. It's not their fault Aro is a twisted bastard." She said.

Benjamin and Tia looked at each other. "Ditto on what Zafrina said, he's tried to do the same thing to us, so I can sympathize."

Alistair went next, "Anything that can help our chances." Charles and Makenna agreed with him, as did Mary, Peter and Charlotte.

Tanya sighed, "I know that Elaezar trusts him, and that he did not personally have a hand in the death of my sisters and mother. It'll just take time for me to trust him I guess. But we'll vote yes."

"The pack will go with whatever Carlisle does. We'll probably keep our distance until we know we can trust him though."

Carlisle looked back at us. "What do you think guys, Alice has seen that they'll join our family. Do we want more people in our family?"

Emmett gave a booming laugh. "Awesome, now I'll have baby siblings too."

Carlisle smiled. "As long as everyone's okay with it we'll vote yes."

Tia started laughing "I cannot believe how everyone said yes. I was expecting Jasper to have to calm down at least one person who went into a fit of boiling rage over how we're consorting with the enemy."

"Oh, there most certainly would have been if Vladimir and Stefan were still with us," snorted Alice.

"But they're not here are they?" Maggie gave an evil grin, "so we can do whatever we want."