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Chapter 7-Welcome to Volterra

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Max POV

The plane landed at the Galileo Galilei Airport in Pisa, Italy. From there the Cullen's, wolves and Bloodhounds caught taxi's while we followed them in the air, the fog covering us perfectly. We went all the way to the east side of Pisa province, which was on the border with the province of Siena. We kept flying until we were in the main plaza of the city, under a clock tower.

The vampires had no reason to hide, it was so..dark. It was evening, I guessed here. Everything was grey above, and there were very few people around to see the vampires sparkle, even if the Sun dared to shine.

I looked at Edward and Alice, who's faces were tight and consintrated. "What's happening?" Bella asked hissing slightly as she turned to the west. "I smell them." I sniffed the air. I didn't smell anything. I looked to the west, and in a tunnel stood to small figures, both in pitch black cloaks that fited in so well with the darkness of the tunnel. They looked like ghost.

"The witch twins," Ysabelle hissed. I knew who she was talking about now. The small person on the left was slightly shorter than the one of the right, and the full lips parted, and she pointed at us, and moved her finger towards us, then towards her. Jane wanted us to come to her.

"I thought you said she was Nikkie's friend now," I whispered to Elena as we walked towards them slowly. "She's Nikkie's friend. Not ours. But we will manage." Her eyes seemed to glow slightly with antisapation, ready for anything.

We reached the tunnels opening, and Alec and Jane came into viewing as they pulled their hoods down reveling the whitest skin and the bloodiest red eyes. Their eyes darted to every single one of us. Me last. "Alec," Carlisle greeted. "Jane."

"Carlisle," Alec replied with a smooth voice. "You really didn't have to come. This has nothing to do with your family." Carlisle smiled. "Well it was our choice." Alec shrugged and shined the same dazzling smile. "Your funeral," He said as Jane and him put their cloaks back on. He said it like a joke, but it made me tense slightly. "Come," Jane said in a small voice. "Aro wait's for you."

So we followed them, some human's gawking at how beautiful the vampires were. Some at how frightning they looked. I looked at the twins, who were talking to each other silently. I only saw their lips move a few times, and I caught, 'Nikkie...Draco...kill...sewers...Maddalena...Joanna...diffucult...to kill....Ash.' I didn't know what that meant, but I was defently gonna find out. I caught up to both of them and stood inbetween them, Fang and the others only inches away.

"I don't know why, but I keep thinking that you two know more about this than you'll say," I watched them both intently, waiting for my answer. "Define you, Maximum," Jane said. "Us, or the entire Volturi?"

"You two. I know that Aro won't tell us everything. But I think you two might tell us a few more details."

"What is it that you want to know?"

"When I talked to Nikkie before she was taken, she told me about a vampire named Maddalena. I just heard you talking about her. What do you know?" Alec glanced at Jane. "She's more observent then we thought," He chuckled. "Maddalena is Draco's younger sister. She's over three thousend years old, and is a leader of the Lessers."

"There's more than one? I thought Draco was the leader." He shrugged. "Technically I suppose he is. We actually don't know that much about her, honestly." His tone was in all truthfullness. "But what we do know is that she is capable of many bad things. As is Draco. Don't get it in your mind that Nickoletta is not harmed. We'll be lucky if she's alive by the time we get to her." I looked at him shocked. This was his mate, and he had already exepted the fact that she could, probably was, dead.

"Don't you have any trust in her?" I whispered so soft that I barly heard myself, and no one else could. "She's stronger than you think."

"I know she is. And no, I have not exepted the fact that she could be gone. I'm a good liar. I have to be." He smirked at me, as we walked into an alley going downward as it got harder to squeze in. There was a curve, that still went downward, and I didn't see dead end coming until we were at a flat, brick face.

Jane casually walked towards the wall, as if she didn't see it. Then she disapeared.

I blinked frantically as I looked at where she had been. There was an open hole in the street.

It reminded me of a sewer drain...sewer...Alec brezzed by me, and went into the hole, falling into darkness. I remained where I was, bewildered all of a sudden. "Well?" Jane called up impatiently. I backed up, waiting for the others to go incase. I wasn't leading my flock into the abiss. "I remember this," Bella whispered. Edward gave her a crooked smile. I had no idea what she was talking about, maybe she had been as timid as me the first time she did this.

Bella took Nessie in her arms, and jumped into the hole, gracefully. Edward followed. Then Jacob, Embry and Seth went, leaving my flock and Elena and Ysabelle. Elena looked down at my scared Angel. "Maybe you and Max should jump at the same time," She suggested as she jumped down into the darkness after Ysabelle. I took Angel's hand. "Your okay," I told her. She nodded. "I know," I sucked in a breath. I wasn't scared of hights, at all, but it still seemed scary. I jumped down, and a few seconds later, my feet were planted hard on the ground.

It stung a little, but then it was over. I heard someone else jump, and Fang was holding Nudge by her waist when they fell. When he put her down, Iggy and Gazzy came down staggering. "Whoa," Gazzy whispered shaking his head. "I gotta do that again!"

It was very diffucult to see, even for me. Fang tugged me forward through the darkness. A few minuats later, the path went downward even more, and I got a little claustrophic. "Almost there," Fang whispered. He was as well. I kept my hand in Angel's, as we kept walking. Black ooze escaped from the cracks in the tunnel, and it got a lot colder. Then I saw some iron bars that were rusted over, but still thick. The door made of thinnder bars was standing open. We ducked through it and came into a larger stone room.

The door shut with a hard clang, and I heard it lock. I tensed a little more, and kept my jaw set. On the other side of the room was a large wooden door that also stood open. We walked through it.

The hallway was extremly lit with flurescent lights on the ceiling. It was a little warmer, and it made me feel a lot better being able to see than in the cold dark sewers. There was an elevator in the room, and the twins walked towards it, us all following.

The hoods fell from the vampire's faces as the elvator ride ended. We came to a reception office looking place. There were couches that becond people to sit and relax while vampires walked every corner. We walked towards some double doors, and on the desk in the middle of the room, there was a flier that had a picture of a woman with brown hair and green eyes. Above the picture read:

MISSING WOMAN.

The flyer had been torn and crumpled, and I saw that the womans name was 'Gianna.' The last name was torn off.

At an end of a hallway, the door was covered in gold, and looked ignored. Jane slid aside a piece of pannling that led to another wooden door. The twins held it open for us. I walked in first, even though it was dark and cold again. The room was round and huge. Long windows threw colors all over the room, and beemed off a few of the vampires in the room.

It was full of very familer people. Exept for two ladies in long dresses that were talking softly that sounded like singing almost. Everybody's face turned to mine, then the others. Jane and Alec floated across the room to Aro, dressed in an all black cloak. "I brought them back Master," Jane said smiling. "Just like you asked." Aro stroaked her cheek. "Ah, I see that dear one," He stood up smiling at her. "You never fail me." She smiled brightly like a child who seeks aproval constintly.

"Ah, Carlisle. It gives me such pleasure to see you again so soon." Aro mused.

Carlisle smiled, his lips a thin line. "The pleasure is mine Aro."

Aro turned his red blazing eyes to me. I tightened my grip on Angel. "Hello there Maximum," He said smiling. "It is a privlege to see you and your family again."

I tried to smile. "Thank. You." I said through my teeth. After everything that happened in Forks, it wasn't really easy to be around my enemy and not kick his pale white ass. Damn hippie.

I saw his eyes dart to the wolves. "I see you have brought your..intresting company..with you." He said softly. He looked at Embry, then slowly turn to Elena, who was standing rather very close to him. A low snarl ripped from Elena's mouth, and Embry grabbed her arm. Ysabelle hissed softly, backing up her sister.

I looked at Felix-still huge as Emmett, and wasn't easy to miss-who was rubbing his chin. "We've seen them before." He mused. Aro sniffed the air. "They smell like her...think like her...and react like her." I guessed he was talking about Nikkie.

"I'm taking that as a complement," Elena said through her teeth. I realized why she was so angrey: after all the things the Volturi had done to her leader, it was just as hard for her not to pounce as it was for me.

"Astonishing," Aro whispered ignoring Elena looking at Ysabelle. He almost pouted at her eyes. "Such an inconvince. But from what I can tell that is not what you..see it as." Demitri and Felix snickered.

Ysabelle smiled smugly. "It's more of a convinence thank you very much."

"Another hybrid?" Caius's cold voice made me jump. He came to Aro's side staring at Ysabelle. She glared at him, but didn't say a word. Yet she continued to hiss.

"Dear Ciaus," Aro said. "Do not hold that against this child. That is not why we are gathered today." Caius hissed back at Ysabelle, and took his seat next to one of the ladies, who looked nothing as mean as him, and she placed a hand on his shoulder.

Aro turned his gaze to me. "We came here because...well okay, you know why. But we have no idea where the Lessers are. All I know is that they're in Tirrenia underground. Acording to my sources," I glanced at Elena. "Nickoletta can only go so long without blood and all that, if she can go through Draco. I need to know where they are, and I need to get my friend back alive. You dig?"

Aro chuckled. "Do not fret Maximum, we will let you retreve Nickoletta. However, we have some business to take care of with the Lessers, so you will need to follow our orders. But you will get your friend."

I rubbed my chin. "What's the catch?"

"There has been a problem with the Lessers, and we are simply going to take care of that problem is all. You will not see us. You won't even know we are there." I darted my eyes to Alec and Jane, who knew Nikkie the best, and wanted her back the most of the Volturi. "Are all of you going?"

"Alec and Jane know Nickoletta best, I think they deserve to go and retreve her. Plus, they are our destraction to Draco and Maddalena. Along with you." I thought for a moment. "Can they take us to the Lessers?" Fang shot me a frantic glance. What? I wasn't scared of them. We were all going for one purpose, and one purpose only. Getting Nikkie out alive. Aro nodded at me. "They know exactly where to go, and exactly what to do." I pursed my lips and narrowed my eyes. "Alright, deal." I held my hand out to him, sealing the deal. I knew he had wanted to read my mind, and if Nikkie was blocking my thoughts, then maybe she would feel something...

Aro reached eagerly for my hand, and when he touched it, it was like hard frozen granet on it. I closed my eyes in conintration. 'Block it, block it, block it...'

Nikkie POV

"..And then I ended up here." I finished telling Scarlet my story. She was sitting up on her knee's, with a worried expression now. "So..let me get this stright..you are a vampire/werewolf hybrid. I'm a vampire. A girl with wings is coming to save you, and were in a cell underground in Terrina." I nodded. "Yup, that pretty much somes it up." She sighed. "This is crazy. Too crazy."

I chuckled. "It usually is. So how'd you get here?" She thought for a moment. "My brother is a doner. A human, who gave these people blood." I made a discusted face. She nodded. "So I followed him here, got caught, got bit, and now I'm here."

"That sucks. I'm sorry. But hey, being immortaly damned has it's good side." She crossed her arms. "Like what?" I scratched my head, that throbbed in pain still. "Well...I mean you are a vampire. Doesn't that seem cool enough?" She shook her head. "Yeah, I didn't think so. I didn't think it was eathier." Scarlet scratched her back. "My back feels weird." She stood up, and stretched, then something came from her back, on both sides.

My eyes got so wide I thought they would pop out of my head.

Big black wings with spikes on the ends whooshed from Scarlet's back. They looked like a bats, nothing like Max's. They didn't have feathers...just leather looking skin. "Um..," I backed into the corner, and pushed my legs up to stand up, even though they were wobbly. "Okay, I wasn't expecting that." Scarlet turned around in circles frantically, then grabbed one of the wings, and stared at it shocked.

Suddenly I fet a jolt in Max's mind block. I saw a flash of Aro's hand, and Max's coming together. I smiled. "YES!" I cheered. She was here! She was with the Volturi!

Oh crap..

That wasn't good.

I consintrated rubbing my temples and tried to get from Max's mind to her eyes. She turned and I saw the rest of the flock, the Cullen's, some of the wolves..and my coven.

I sighed and shook my head, my vision a little blury from tears.

They were here...

They were coming.

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Yeah, I know not a very good chapie, but it was all I could do for now, so forgive me. So now you know why all the Lessers are special. They all have bat wings. Clever, huh? Haha, not really. I actually had New Moon beside me as I typed, it gave off a good vibe. Haha, and I had to look at how Volterra looked, and the Volturi's place. So please review. I'll take any opinion!:)