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Chapter 3-The Bloodhounds

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Max POV

"Um...Max are you sure this is the right place?" Nudge asked looking up at the house. I looked down at the address on the paper Nikkie gave me. "Uh..yeah this is it." I looked up at the house. It looked about three stories. The house was faded white, and it looked old. Like the scary house in a neighborhood that everyone says in haunted. There was a leaded painted glass window above the door had bright beautiful colors of greens and blues in a design that I had never seen.

We all walked up the coble stone drive, and when we got to the door, I knocked on it and it echoed.

"Comin'!" A woman's voice yelled. I heard someone running to the door, and the door opened. There stood a woman maybe in her thirties with blood red hair, and bright green eyes. Wolf eyes. She was skinny, and on her hip sat a little girl. She looked about a year or two younger than Angel. "Hi there," She said in a sweet voice flashing her sparkly white pointy teeth at us. "Are you Maximum?" I nodded. "Come in, come in." She got out of the way for us to come in. I hesitated, but then I smelt something. It smelt like vampire and wolf. I had gotten pretty use to it being about the Cullen's.

We walked in slowly and on guard. The woman closed the door, and looked up the grand old stairs. "Elena! Ysabelle!" She yelled. "Scendere lei! La Passeggiata massima รจ qui!" We all just shrugged at each other. "She told them to get down here and that Maximum Ride was here in Itilian." Total peeped his head out of Angel's backpack. "How do you know that?" I whispered. He shrugged. "I get bored when your not at home. TV is good for learning foreign languages." I glanced at Fang and he shrugged.

I heard more footsteps and Elena and Ysabelle ran to the railing of the stairs. I gasped. The windows colors caught on their skin, and they shined with all the colors from the window. It reflected off their hair, their skin, their eyes. "We don't want a light show, now get down here their not getting any younger." I hadn't really seen Elena or Ysabelle because of all the magnificent lights, but they both ran down the stairs and stood before us.

Elena's bright orange hair was down her back now instead of short and spiky like Alice's. She was wearing a one sleeved shirt, and a ripped up black skirt with leggings under it that stopped at her boots. She squealed in delight and hugged me tightly. "Hi Max!" She said. I chuckled returning her embrace. "Hey Elena." I looked at Ysabelle. She had her white hair on top back, I guess the black came out some how. She had on a black and white top and black ripped jeans that also ended at her boots. I smiled at her, even though she couldn't see with her foggy blue eyes. "Sup Max," She said hugging me. "Oh the sky, the usual." I replied. She rolled her eyes and chuckled. "I'm gonna have to remember that one."

The little girl in the woman's arms scrambled down and walked over to me. She looked up at me with her green eyes that matched the lady's. "Did you bring Nikkie back?" She asked. "Um...no." I muttered. Elena's eyes got wide. "Oh I hope that's not why you were visiting. She's in Volterra. She won't be here until like two days from now or something." I raised an eyebrow. "Um...come again?" I asked. She looked at me confused. "...I said she'll be here in about two days or so." I thought for a moment. "When did she tell you that?" I asked. All of them looked confused now. "When she left about a week ago. We haven't talked to her sense...why have you? Did something happen?"

"Easy Lena," Ysabelle said. "Let the girl talk." The woman nodded. "Maybe you should sit down to tell us this." I agreed. She took us down a deep dark stairway that was lit by lanterns. I didn't question it, but I was a little confused. I hadn't really seen that many dungeons in to many houses. Ysabelle chuckled. "It ain't a dungeon. Some people could be watching us, so we come down here to talk about this kind of stuff so they can't hear us. Don't worry there aren't like cells in here or whatever." I laughed shakily. "Yeah, I wasn't thinking that." I said sarcastically.

When we reached the bottom there was only a raised stone that came around a small circular table with candles on it. No windows, no one could hear us, no escape. We all sat down on the raised stone and Elena pointed two fingers at the candles, and they lit. She took a small flame and danced it between her fingers before lighting the huge torches on the brick walls. "Alright," She said. "Now you can tell us what happened."

I thought of how to make this quicker so we could get to the Cullen's. "Well to make it short, Nikkie called me and she was being chased by something. It was making these weird inhuman sounds. It was attacking her I think. She told me to shut up and listen to what she was saying. This is exactly what she said: I'm in Italy. Vampire named Maddalena. She's part of a group of vampires called the Lessers. Underground. I'm in a city called Tirrenia."

"What?" I turned to Ysabelle. "The Lessers have her?!" She growled. Elena patted her knee. "Easy, easy. They won't do that to her." I raised an eyebrow. "Do what?" The two of them turned to me. "Max, you don't really know much about us, or how we met Nikkie, do you?" I shook my head. She smiled almost sadly. "Well I think it's time you knew." She took some more fire out of the center and danced it in her palm until it made four little figures. "I came to Italy on a trip with my parents, and my little brother." She ticked off the figures. "I guess it was about in the 1500's. We had came from our home in London. It was very different back then. Orphans roamed the streets back then, there were thieves and drunken citizens on the streets. But to others, such as my high middle class family, life was filled with merriment and amusement. We took a trip to see the sights, as my father called it. Or first stop was a small town that pretty much had nothing in it called Cortona in Tuscany. One night I ventured off into the woods alone. I loved to explore. I heard something beyond me in the darkness. I remember seeing a pair of red glowing eyes, and they lunged at me. I woke up a werewolf.

"Very few werewolves are gifted. I however was bit by the alpha of the Children of the Moon, like Nikkie. When I woke up I was in a large old room, and another wolf was laying beside me. She had her head over her crossed paws and was watching me patiently. I tried to talk, but it came out as a bark. So I thought instead. 'What are you?' I whispered in my mind. 'Well your one to talk.' She replied." Elena chuckled. "She told me that she had found me in the woods on the outskirts of her old town. Hers, and the twins." Alec and Jane I assumed. Ysabelle nodded. "She told me that she took me to her home with the Volturi, a group of vampires that were a pain in the ass." The lady hit her on the back of her head then covered the little girl's ears. Elena shrugged. "Anyways, she taught me how to be a werewolf. Taught me how to control becoming a werewolf when I didn't want to, but I couldn't help it on the full moon. Still can't. But she can. She's a master at being what she is. She can control her thirst and control becoming a werewolf. I envied her a lot for that. She blocked my scent from the other vampires who hated werewolves. But not from Alec. He didn't really like me, but he didn't say anything.

"Well one day Nikkie and I were out one night on the streets of a city called Tirrenia." I listened harder. "Sound familiar?" I nodded. "We got to an open man hole, and heard screams from it. Nikkie wanted to go down alone, but I wouldn't let her without me. So we went down it, and saw that the sewers were dry, and clean. Like no one had used them for centuries. The screams became louder as we walked down a long hallway, dodging guards and kids. Vampire kids. We got to a big old door and the screams came from the other side. Nikkie went into mist and unlocked the door from the other side. She opened it for me, and we hid behind a huge fridge full of blood. I was impressed how long Nikkie could stand next to the blood so close. Above the chamber there was a hole where to moons light was shining down into the middle of the floor. There was a girl in a chair, her arms strapped down to the sides. Blood and tears dropped from her eyes. She had burn marks and whip marks on her everywhere except where we couldn't see because of her ripped up dress. 'Please...,' She whispered her voice chocked. '...what do you want form me?' There was a she vampire holding her right arm, and that alpha wolf holding her left arm with his claws. A vampire with short black hair that looked like the she vampire was standing in front of them, watching closely. He nodded at them. 'Do it.' He commanded.

"They both bit down on their arm, and the girl screamed. It was like an explosive went off. I had never heard such a scream. We all clamped our ears shut. As she continued to yell, the leader I assumed, called out to the others and made them retreat. They all left that girl to die or live as an experiment. We unlatched the locks, and we tried to suck the poison out of her arms, but we couldn't. It was to late. '...Who are you?' She cried looking in every direction. 'We're gonna help you,' Nikkie told her. 'Do you remember your name?' She asked." Elena smiled. "Ysabelle Artimise, she told us." I gasped. "Ysabelle," I whispered. "They tortured you?" She nodded slowly, gazing blankly at the flames. "What was it like?"

"When Elena and Nikkie helped me out of the torture chair, they took me to the streets, then to the woods where no one would hear me scream. 'How long will it take?' Elena had asked. Nikkie didn't answer. She didn't remember all the pain that came with her transformation. My eyes shot open from pain, and I saw the moons light reflecting off of every tree, every rock, everything in sight. It only got brighter and brighter, and yet...everything became more exquisite. My vision became more sharper and clearer. The shape and color of everything was so altered it was staggering. It was all a shade of white. But yet still as luminous, almost mind blowing.

"The mind-blowing thing made me think of my brain, and the discomfort of it getting...bigger. My head felt like it would explode and I wanted it to. That way the pain could be over. I felt the veins in my head try to break out of my skin, my pulse getting faster. I was shocked I hadn't had a heart attack my heart raced so rapidly. I couldn't think, couldn't considerate on one single thought. Everything was rushed. When I tried to hold a train of thought for only two seconds I got a head-ache that drowned me in a pain so dreadful it felt like a million needles pin-pointing every part of me.

"I couldn't even hear my cries of pain because my hearing was also being altered at the time. At some moments I could hear someone's breathing get more defined and louder, but they were breathing at a normal rate. Then at some points I did hear my screaming and it blared through my ear drums, which made me scream even more and it was ear-splitting. And then my screams were no longer shrill girl like screams...they got..deeper almost and more muffled for a few seconds. I shot my eyes open again, and this time everything wasn't white, but blue and white. I figured it was the light of the moon and the dark blue sky. It seemed like days upon days that my brains and eyes alone had been entangled in a battle with hells fire.

"As I continued to yell cries of pain, I felt my vocals being scolded by something. Like I had swallowed a pain of boiling greese. I tried to cry out as if I could yell the grease back up, but it only made the combustion worse. Holding in the screams was a consequence making it like I was holding in a bomb that would explode inside me if I didn't yell out. Without warning my heart began to beat so fast and intent, I thought it would burst out of my chest, like my brain had. It was changing as well as the rest of me. I felt it shaping into something new, like it knew what it was doing almost.

"Then one huge burst of pain brought from Satin himself, my skin ripped apart and was over lapped by something that was soft and exuberant with texture and depth that was not a human feel. I kept my eyes shut. I didn't want to know what happened to me. It was a nightmare that I didn't want to see. I wanted to go home. But then I realized...I didn't remember my home. All I remembered was the lady vampire's face. She had bright white hair, and then I had it.

"I heard someone gasp. 'She did it,' They said. 'She lived through it.' Someone laughed, then I heard a whoosh from both sides of me. 'Ysabelle?' A voice asked. I didn't answer. Was that my name? It sounded familiar. 'That is your name Ysabelle.' That made me open my eyes. In front of me sat a dark wolf, and an orange wolf. They were both about as big as a lioness. They talked to me through my mind, and I talked back. They told me their names, told me what I was. Told me what they were. Nikkie had to go back to the Volturi, but Elena stayed with me, and Nikkie came pretty much every night. One night we were walking the streets, and I heard a scream. We ran towards it and I saw that same dark haired vampire. He held a woman to an alley wall. 'Werewolves make me sick.' He hissed at her. She cried as he tightened his grip on her. Nikkie whistled. He turned his head to us. 'Let the werewolf go. Or you'll have to deal with me.' He chuckled, and let the woman go. Nikkie glanced at the two of us. 'Get her out of here.' She was pretty much or leader, still is. We nodded at her, and backed away slowly, and dashed in two different directions. We jumped on the roof tops and jumped into the alley, where the werewolf was. Nikkie was slowly leading the male into the streets. We told the woman to go into the woods and hide, and we would be there soon.

"We all got in a triangle around the man. He looked at all of us closely, and he laughed. 'What could two half breeds and a werewolf do?' I guessed he didn't remember me. He looked at Elena. 'Such a powerless thing, aren't you. Nice hair. That will match perfectly with the flames that will burn you all. So defenseless.' Elena hissed, and her hands came into fist. Her eyes went red. Next thing I knew she had the man in a vice grip around his neck. 'Do. Not. Call. Me. Defenseless.' She said. Then fire flames came from her hands. It was the first time we had ever seen her do that. She punched the man in the stomach with the fire."

Elena punched fists with Ysabelle, and I smiled for the first time in the story. "We didn't stop her earthier. She finally stopped though after about a minuet. Suddenly we smelt more vampires, and we fled. I looked back and I saw the white haired woman. She didn't see me, and we kept fleeing. We found the woman and we became friends with her as we helped her. She had just been turned into a werewolf. So we helped her, and me and Elena went back with her to her home, here."

I thought for a second. "Wait," I looked at the woman, and she nodded. "Elena, Nikkie and Yies saved my life. The least I could do was give them somewhere to stay besides the woods of Volterra. My name is Alize." She smiled. "I also had a child and they helped me. Her name is Myra." She nodded down to the sleeping dark haired child in her arms. "When she gets older, one day she'll be a little puppy I guess." She chuckled. I looked at Ysabelle. "Wow. That's a memorable history for five hindered years." They nodded. "Wait, how did you loose your sight?"

"We got attacked by some vampires called the Nomads. Some bi-" Alize cleared her throat. "Some bloodsucker, named Victoria attacked me, and so I'm just like this now. But I adapted, and I can pretty much see just as good as you can, in my own way." I nodded trying to understand. "That's why she called me," I whispered. "She didn't want to put Myra in danger. That's why you didn't want to be followed when you helped us with the Volturi!"

They nodded. "The Volturi saw us a few times, and we fled. If they would have got a hold of us, we'd be dead." Elena said. "Ysbelle learned her powers when Victoria attacked her. Made that bloodsucker," She glanced at Ysabelle who was smirking. "Fly for a mile." I laughed. "So basically Nikkie told you the Lessers took her?" Her tone was serous now. I nodded. "They probably want revenge." The blind girl muttered. "Draco's a vampire who experiments on a regular basis. I mean, look at me! They had vampire kids running around that place, who knows what else or who else is trapped under those streets of Italy that no one knows about."

"Should we go to the Volturi?" Fang asked softly. Elena shrugged. "Well Jane and Nikkie got to be friends again. They act the same as they did with kids. I don't know what Nikkie put in Jane's blood to make her think that way, but whatever." I rubbed my chin. "Well we know that some of the members will want her found." Elena chuckled. "Yeah, but some of them want her dead-"

"But Jane's on her side, everyone's scared of Jane." We all agreed. Total jumped out of Angel's backpack. "Total!" Elena said in delight. Total wagged his tail and jumped in Elena's lap. Ysabelle made a gagging sound. "Are you attracted to dogs cuz that's like a werewolf thing?" Elena rolled her eyes, and petted Total's head. "Your half," She muttered. "Alright, alright," Alize said. "So what is your plan for these girls to help you with Max?"

"Well I guess we'll go find the Cullen's and then go to Italy, find Nikkie and not get killed in the process." The two girls nodded. "Nikkie is our leader. We have to go and help her. The leader is the most important. We die when she dies, she dies when we die. Remember that." I nodded. "So when can we leave?"

"Tonights the full moon, so we should go tonight. The La Push wolves will probably be howling, and they stick around the Cullen's, so it makes it easier to find them." We all nodded. After we got up stairs I caught up with Elena. "Hey are you guys like a coven?" She thought for a moment and nodded. "Yeah, why?"

"What are you called?"

She smiled. "The Bloodhounds."

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Haha, get it? Blood means vampires, hounds means...well hounds? Yeah I know it's kinda cheesy. Wow I think this is the best chapter I have ever written. I don't know why, I just think I like the details. Okay, so please please please I need more than one review! I'll update sooner if you do!:)