Chapter Two

Trapped

The Cullens stood in front of me. What a big surprise. Especially with my power, copying other powers. I had seen it that morning to tell you the truth, but that was just cause I had been bored and decided to mess around. The week before when I had been bored I had combined my mind-reading and seeing the future power together and peeked in and out reading people's thought.

What? You try sitting in this prison where either you're being tortured or sitting on concrete floor thinking about the chances of death of boredom. It was like the Holocaust.

I never did tell you what this place was, did I? Think back to when you learned about the Jewish Holocaust during World War Two. We, the vamps, playing the cheerful part of the Jews and Alex our darling Hitler.

Alex was a wanna-be-dictator who dreams of immortality and over-all power. Basically Voldemort from Harry Potter and Hitler. And he's read that series too, reads aloud during torture times, funny enough. I personally like the books.

But anyhoo, someway or another many, many vamps ended up here. In Italy. I share quarters with the Volturi. Fun, listening to Aro whine all night until Jane gets sick of it and zaps him. I've actually tried it myself, very useful power Jane has. And she's smart little girl too, never tries it on me.

"Follow me," I said in a toneless voice. Weirdly enough, they followed without question. Astounding. Usually all these newbies complain how they never did anything wrong, they shouldn't be here, its all a huge misunderstanding, blah, blah, blah. Some burst into dry sobs on the floor. Others burst into flames (had that happen actually, nasty time to let his fire power out of control.)

We followed the twisting hallways to the very back of the giant building. May be the best quarters but it took quite a bit to get there. To say they were dead-silent would be a lie. With my extra-advanced hearing from a certain vamp that had sensitive hearing I had come across a few years prior. Handy little power too. Alice and Jasper were whispering, wondering where they were and what was happening. Rosalie was whimpering, they obviously saw the torture chambers on the way in. Emmett was desperately trying to calm his wife, I flashed back to my favorite big brother, my oversized teddy bear.

I quickly brushed the thoughts away, and focused opening the door to the crawlspace. It was the quickest way to get there, or else you take a thirty minute detour and I wasn't in the mood for it. I hitched up the heavy skirts of black and crawled through the small space. I heard what I could only assume was Esme from the poor looks of my clothing. My skirts got into worse shape as they scraped along through the gravel. But I didn't care. Alex would replace them within a week or so.

Soon enough after the entire family hunched over, on all fours following me we came to the hollow thing that just goes up. The Volturi (this was their castle actually) were planning on making a new tower but it was never finished. The slick walls of the unfinished towers were intimidating to anyone else, but they didn't worry me. I could fly up. But, for the sake of examples I had my back to the one side and my feet holding me up pressed to the opposite side. Once I got up to a certain point I slipped through a crude hole that was covered by a drape on the other side.

"Ya comin'?" I yelled down. Alice came, then Rosalie, Esme, Jasper, Emmett, Carlisle, and finally Edward. I was floating in mid-air to make sure they were doing it right, nothing like a splat down onto the hard ground below, it'd hurt even to a vampire. I climbed through finally and collapsed onto one of the couches that the Volturi had hidden somewhere.

"Wow," Esme breathed from the exhilaration of the climb.

I laughed good-naturedly. "Any questions."

"Where are we?" Alice asked timidly.

"Your worst nightmare. Or, mine at least," I said, standing up to look at the ruins of the human city a distance away. Swiftly I looked back to the Cullen's family. "Here, You're trapped. A simple detail in the plot that will destroy the world one step at a time. As if nature needed help to do it."

I gave a harsh laugh. "Everything's falling apart faster than anyone can piece it together. At this rate Alex will get what he wants."

"What's that?" Jasper asked.

"Immortality and all power, what else? He isn't all that original," I replied.

"Are we ever going to get out of here?" Esme questioned.

"I can't tell you that answer. It all depends on how badly you want out of this hell."

I turned and walked to the dorm room I shared with Jade, Blythe, and Emily.

(A/N Urgh, I know someone has read this! In fact 26 people have read this and how many reviews did I get? Huh? Is this the subtle way of saying your story sucks Ella, try again? Pretty please just review and tell me I suck already.