Chapter 12: Volterra, Italy

Nessie's POV

After 12 long hours I finally began to feel the plane descending. After listening to my sister complain nonstop and dealing with a fussy Nathan stepping off of that airplane was like a godsend.

"Thank God that's finally over," Annie said.

I rolled my eyes. "Yes it must've been so hard to complain for 12 hours straight, right?"

"Oh please!" she cried. "It was not 12 hours straight! More like 11,"

For some reason I laughed. My sister's arguments always made me laugh.

"So where we going next?" Annie asked.

The letter said we were supposed to go to the castle/hotel as soon as we landed. My growling stomach, however, had other ideas.

"How about we get our luggage and then grab a bite to eat? Something that's not overpriced terrible tasting airplane food?"

"Nessie its like you read my mind," Annie said as she licked her lips. "What about our instructions to go to the castle as soon as we landed?"

"I'm sure it can wait. I mean I don't even think they know what time we landed,"

"That's true,"

We got a lot of strange looks as we walked around town. By the way we dressed I knew we stood out from the locals. I'm sure dragging around luggage made us look even more strange.

Eventually we found a pizza place to eat at. After eating we got completely lost trying to find our way back. Eventually we found our way to the castle. It was literally the only castle in the town.

There was no one waiting outside for us. So I decided to push the door open and luckily it wasn't locked.

"Hello there,"

I screamed when a woman suddenly appeared behind me. Nathan started crying and I hugged him a little tighter.

Once I got over my fright I realized just how beautiful the woman really was. Up until now Rosalie had been the most beautiful woman I had ever met but this lady had her beat. It was hard to stop staring at her. Her red eyes was the only thing about her that freaked me out a little.

"I'm Heidi, you must be Renesmee,"

"Um yes and this is my sister Annie and my brother Nathan,"

"Welcome. Follow me,"

"May I ask where we're going?" Annie asked.

"Oh you'll see,"

I felt the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Something about the place was starting to freak me out. I glanced at Annie and could tell that she was more nervous than usual. Even Nathan didn't look as at ease as he usually was.

I held my brother a little tighter in hopes of comforting him.

I looked around the castle which definitely didn't resemble any sort of hotel at all. I had sort of begun to think that castle was a Vegas style themed hotel. Looks like I was wrong.

A girl that looked to be about 12 or 13 years old suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The young blonde was small and harmless looking but something about her really scared the crap out of me. The red eyes certainly did not help at all.

"Jane what are you doing here?" Heidi asked her.

"Are sent me. He heard our visitors arrive and wondered what was taking so long,"

"Humans move slowly Jane. You'd think he'd know that by now,"

They were talking about humans as if they weren't humans themselves. I followed them into an elevator despite the fact that every molecule in my body was screaming to run as far away as possible.

They led us to a room that contained three throne chairs made for kings and queens. In them, were three men, three extremely pale red-eyed men.

The one that was sitting in the middle stood up and approached us. I guessed that he was the leader.

The smile that formed on his face really really really freaked me out. I was almost hyperventilating by the time he approached me.

"My my. Young Renesmee," I was really getting scared now. "My have you grown into such a beautiful creature,"

"Do I know you?" I managed to ask somehow.

His smile faltered a bit.

One of the other men spoke. "She must be lying Aro. Her scent is exactly the same as it was before,"

"Brother let me be the judge of that,"

"I really don't have any idea what you're talking about,"

"We'll find out soon enough if you're telling the truth. May I please see your hand?"

My hand was suddenly clasped in his ice cold ones. We stayed that way for about thirty seconds before he released my hand. Then he did the same thing to Annie.

"Magnifico," Aro said.

"What does that mean?" Annie whispered to me.

"I don't know. I don't speak Italian but it sounds like magnificent," I whispered back.

"Well?" one of the other cloaked men asked as he approached us.

"The girls know nothing. Renesmee is telling the truth. It seems that she has lost her memory and the Cullens have yet to tell her the truth,"

"I don't understand anything," I admitted. The only thing I did understand was the fear I felt in the presence of these people.

I looked around frantically for the nearest exit. I heard a terrible agonizing scream echo throughout the hall. I looked around and saw my sister writhing on the floor in pain. The girl called Jane stared down at my sister with a sadistic smile on my face.

I screamed in horror at what I was witnessing. Jane then turned toward on me and instantly I was in the most unimaginable pain that I had ever been. I had studied the Salem witch trials in school and now I could say with absolute certainty that I understood what they felt when they were burned at the stake. Because now it was me on that stake. Every single molecule on my body was on fire.

The pain was unbearable. I could barely register the fact that I was screaming. Then suddenly the feeling was gone. I hadn't realized that I had fallen to the floor until then. Luckily Nathan was unharmed.

There was something seriously wrong with that girl. She scared me in unimaginable ways. She looked at Nathan straight in the eyes and for a second I thought she was going to do to him whatever she had done to Annie and I.

Something happened. Something went wrong for her this time. Instead of Nathan writhing and screaming in pain it was her. It was as if whatever power she had simply bounced off of him and hit her in full force. She was the one screaming in pain.

I took the opportunity to run but I didn't make it very far before I was caught. Nathan was violently ripped from my arms.

"Lock the girls away. Renesmee will be useful in luring out the Cullens. This baby is gifted. Nothing like I've ever seen in all my years. Imagine what he'll be capable of as a vampire when he's old enough to be turned? It's best to gain his loyalty now while he's still young,"

"What about the other girl?"

"She's seen too much. She's a liability now. You know what to do with her," Aro answered.

A loud growling noise suddenly erupted from the hallway. Then an extremely large reddish brown wolf came charging in angrily. He looked just like the wolf from the forest and the wolf from my dreams.

I didn't know where this wolf came from but I could tell he was extremely pissed off right now as he charged right for us!

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