Chapter 16

Before:

I wrapped the egg against the edge of the coffee table, breaking it open with a crack.

I screamed when I saw what was inside.

Now:

Rolling out of the egg and on to the floor was an eye, but that's not what bothered me, believe it or not. It was the fact that the eye was topaz that really got to me.

Alice, Rose, and Esme quickly hid their faces in the chest of who ever happened to be closest. While Jasper, Edward and Carlisle just starred at it in complete horror. Seeing that no one was moving, I leaned down and picked it up.

To my surprise the eye, which I had thought was Emmet's or another innocent "vegetarian" vampire smushed beneath the light pressure of my fingers.

"What the hell" Jasper said, coming over to have a closer look.

Jasper practically jumped out of his skin when he heard Emmet's booming laughter coming from the doorway.

"You…hehe...should've...haha…seen…hehehe…your faces!!!" Emmet fell over laughing.

"Emmet you are a dead man!" I threatened as all of us made out way slowly over to him. He looked up at me in horror, jumped to his feet, pressed against the wall, and spoke quickly.

"Wait!! If you kill me now then I wont be able to tell you what the strange man with the weirdo boots said to me!!"

We all stopped instantly and, seeing this, he proceeded to tell us what had happened, hoping that we would forget to punish him in the mean time.

"Okay so I was out in the woods hunting, right, when this strange old vampire comes up to me and asks me to go to his place because he has a bear problem and he's too weak to get them himself so I go with him only to find out that he didn't have a bear problem but wanted to tell me a bunch of stuff to tell you guys. Anyway, he said that Kevin and the Volturi are building up an army right now to come and destroy you, Bella. He told me that there were resisters though, thousands of them, all gathering in a huge underground fortress just outside of Italy. Their getting ready to follow you into battle! How cool is that!!!" He exclaimed.

All of us were looking at him like he was the craziest person on the planet. Our mouth's hanging open and our eyes wide with surprise. I stood there watching him take in all of the looks on our faces, getting more nervous by the minute, thinking that he may have told us too much at once. I was the first to regain my composure, quickly shutting my mouth and relaxing out of my tense stance.

"Was there anything else Emmet?" I asked him, knowing that in the excitement of telling us what happened, he probably forgot the tell us the most important fact of all, "Did he say anything other than that?"

He thought very hard for a few moments, his face scrunched up in concentration. Then, suddenly, something seemed to click " Oh yeah, the guy with the funny boots said the battle would take place in four days, three hours, thirty-six minutes, and 22 seconds!" He responded, looking extremely pleased with himself and the fact that he was able to remember something so important.

The fact that the "boot man" knew exactly when it was all going to happen didn't surprise me, Alice, or Edward because we knew he was the keeper of time, but Jasper, Esme, Carlisle, and Rose's jaw's dropped still lower, upon hearing this.

"Guy's?" I called, once they had brought their expressions into check. Everyone turned away from Emmet to look at me. " We need to start packing a few things. Nothing much, just a change of close will do. I'm going to call the airport and get us all some tickets." I told them.

"Where are we going?" Rose asked, still trying to process everything that was going on.

"Italy." I replied, and with that I went upstairs to pack and call the airport, dragging Edward along behind me.

Once we reached our room I dropped his hand and walked over to out closet and grabbed a pair of faded jeans, a baby doll t-shirt, and my fitted brown jacket, shoving it all into a small duffle bag along with a pair of black converse (sp?) and my undergarments. I looked over at Edward to see him standing in the same spot I had left him.

I sighed and went to his side of the closet pulling out a pair of tan slacks, a plain white t-shirt and a black, short sleeve, button up shirt to go over it. I tossed it all into a second duffle bag before going back into the closet for his black dress shoe's and a pair of smiley face boxers, stuffing those into the bag as well, then zipping it up and throwing both bags over near the door.

When I was done packing I pulled out my new, mint green, chocolate phone and called the airport to get eight tickets on the soonest flight to Italy. Unfortunately, most of the flights were booked and the best I could do was get two tickets on a plane for tonight and the other six on a plane that leaves at four tomorrow morning. I thanked the stewardess person for her help, accepted the tickets, and hung up.

"Who's leaving tonight?" Edward asked, finally coming out of his stupor and walking over to me.

" I'm not sure, I was thinking of sending Alice and Emmet first, to find out if these "resistors" really exist because Alice can see if anything will go wrong before it actually happens and if she doesn't Emmet is there with his brute strength to bust them out." I told him, liking the idea even more as I said it out loud, " Then the rest of us will follow tomorrow morning."

"All right," he said wrapping his arm around my waist and pulling me towards the door, "lets go tell the others."

"Kay," I said, grabbing our bags as we passed them and headed down stairs to the family room.

I looked down at my watch to find it was already five O'clock. " Alice, Emmet, I suggest you guys start saying your goodbyes, your plane leaves in two hours." I told them.

"Okay" they said at the same time.

Emmet walked over to Rose and Brought her upstairs for a more private goodbye (a.k.a makeout) and Alice and Jasper followed suit soon after. Neither of them coming back down till it was time to leave.

A/N Okay so what do you guys think? I tried to put more detail into it as much as I could. I know that this wasn't the longest chapter but I'm getting to close to being done with this story. I'm thinking maybe a few chapter's in Alice's or Emmet's pov and maybe one more in Bella's before I finish. (don't worry I'm going to write a sequel, seeing as I still have to do the fight and the going back in time thing. I don't know the title of it yet though)

I know it took me a long to update again but that's how long it took for me to get six reviews! Only six! two away from what i asked for and that wasn't even a lot. I'm starting to wonder if I should even bother with the sequel.