Royal Game

Two months, six weeks, 3 days, six hours that I have been in this god forsaken place. Alice seemed to be enjoying herself here, and I do not know why. When I'm not even enjoying myself, she would make it as if this place was the greatest place on earth to be in. I just don't see the point of listening to screamers whenever Heidi would lure them inside the castle. Yes, since the plan for Alice to stay here involved Heidi, Dimitri and Felix, and after me knowing the whole thing, Aro didn't have to pretend that he would punish the three for 'Alice's sake'. And she hasn't broken any promises that she had made for me after that day, so I'm quite happy about that. I'm just not quite happy to be here, of all places. I want to be somewhere else, somewhere that would not smell like human blood most of the time. Well, in every royal palace/castle/thing, there would be some sort of a game that they all would play. I've been here for such a short amount of time, that they dumped all the information on my poor newborn brain, and surprisingly I had store all of them without much of a headache.

So here I am, accompanying by all of the members of the Volturi, including the human Gianna. I understand why she wants to be just like us; vampires. She just wanted to be beautiful, and live for eternity I am sure. There's no point in living for eternity if there was no purpose behind it. I bet her purpose behind it would be looking eternally beautiful. A lame purpose, I must say.

"You all know why you are all gathering here, I hope." Aro started. We all nod, and even though I don't want to be here, I did the same. "Good," He paused, turning to face Caius. "Caius, my brother, would you do me the honor of telling them the rules?"

Caius stands, and looks down to us all with a little smirk. Note to self: That smirk is creepy.

"First of all, I expect all of you to not to cheat, that would mean no using your other abilities apart from your enhanced senses and strength and agility." He spared a glance at possibly half of the people in this hall, and they all chuckle nervously, even Alice is giggling beside me.

"Now, the rules are simple. We will divide you up into an evenly number, and there will be no complaints about this. There will be four teams, and you will have to work as a team in order to survive. If four of your team members died, you are out of the game. I, Marcus, Aro and our wives will be assessing the four teams. When we've decided which team has won, we will signal you by having a human screaming; you wouldn't be able to miss the sound. However, even if you've won and Aro would find you cheating during the game, you will be disposed of." He spoke with such sinister tone in his voice that got all of us to shudder.

"Any question?" Aro inquired.

"Well, I do have a question." I started. From the corner of my eye, I see Alice flinches. Now I'm curious.

"What is it, Bella?" Aro asked sweetly, and by now I have successfully learned to suppress my shudder of disgust.

"How would we know that the human's scream is different than their normal scream?" I'm allowed to be curious, right?

Aro smirks, his lips twisting up into a very maniacal smile, and I regret for having to ask the question. "Their scream of horror first, and pain afterward, you would notice the intensity of it as it will increase in volume. Not only you would notice the scream, you would be able to smell their fresh blood. But not just any fresh human blood, we will be picking the best blood scent for you all to focus on the scent only, and come to us. Now, is there anything else you are curious about?"

I quickly shake my head. Just the thought of them torturing an innocent woman is making me sick already. Aro chuckles and the game begin, the first part of it. The team consists of fifteen members, so only having eleven members to survive is a little bit harsh. I have a decent team, even though that Alice is not with me it is still decent. I know for a fact that Alice couldn't shut down her precognitive ability even if she wanted to, so there's no way that she'd be the first to get killed. Either way, those those are more powerful without their second best ability would make it out just fine. Those are of lower ranks would surely die, since I know that we would be targeting them. No one would dare to target me, Alice, Demitri, Felix, Alec, Jane, Chelsea, Renata and Heidi. Alice and Heidi are in one team, and I'm group with Dimitri. And of course, Dimitri has to smirk about it.

"Now, spread out into the woods. When you hear a cracking sound of a tree falling, that is the signal for the game to begin."

Everyone disappears in a blur, at least the good part is that we have to be in a team. Well, most of the members in my team don't even think of that since they spread out and their scents mingle with the others' scents. Now I can tell that my team is going to be the first one to lose, for sure.

"Mmm, should I go and retrieve them?" Demitri mused, and I shrug. I really could care less about this game.

"Whatever, I don't really care. I'm sticking with you guys because I don't want to kill anyone that would approach me, when I'm alone." Which is true. I know that as soon as I'm going to be alone, weaklings would come and try their luck on killing me, and would definitely end up being killed by me.

"Mmm, I'm getting them." Demitri set off in a flash, and the rest of our members turn to me as if I'm leading the team now. I sigh, well it isn't going to hurt to order them to stay put, and not wander around.

"We'll stay here and wait for him to drag the other three back." As soon as I finish that sentence, the loud cracking sound echoing throughout the woods, signaling the start of the bloody game. I sigh again, before my senses heighten at the sound of rushing leaves. "Be cautious, and we have to work as a team. Help each other, unless you want to lose."

Demitri returned with two after a short while, and of course Felix's team came to challenge us. It's quite funny to watch Demitri and Felix circling each other, while none of Felix's members would dare to touch me. So I'm left to watch them trying to kill one another. It's getting quite boring to just stand and stare, while Demitri and Felix are having fun, and the others aren't since they can't get a hold of each others' heads. So I decide to not stand here and stare, I'd actually finish this game as fast as possible so we don't have to waste our time trying to kill each other off. It's either the fast and easiest way, or the slow and hardest way and I'd prefer it to be fast and easy. I don't care if Felix would hate me for letting him lose, because quite frankly, he isn't helping his team out.

I move in for the kill. Since four of his members are so focusing on my members I'll take this as an advantage. I quickly close in on one, and pounce on him before he could even react. Putting both of my hands on either side of his face, I quickly twist his head before hearing a sickening snap. That isn't over though, not when I completely rip his head out and drop it on the ground as I jump off of him. His team is too shock to even realize that I'm already on the next target, killing off another member. Then Demitri decides that he'd help me out, but since Felix is blocking his way he can't even lay a finger on one of his friends' members. And right now they are all circling me, finding an open spot to kill me no less.

"Why do I even bother?" I mutter quietly to myself, knowing full well that they would hear me. All of them pounce at the same time, and I move out of the way but apparently I'm not quick enough for this one silly vampire. Silly, because she is mine

"You shouldn't have underestimated your opponent, my Bella." Alice purred into my ear while she has her arms wrap around my neck. I roll my eyes then focus on the vampires that are coming onto me, again.

"Since that you got me, why don't you finish me off?" I asked while keeping my eyes on the vampires. She makes a hmphing noise before getting of me. When her arms are off me, I take off to kill another two vampires from Felix's team, eliminating his team from the game.

"Now you can go and have fun with your mistresses." Demitri said with a teasing chuckle. Felix growls at him before disappearing into the night. I turn to look at Alice, then behind her, then back at her face again with a raise eyebrow.

"Where's your team?" I asked her. She frowns, and looks behind her shoulder as if that frown was aiming at someone.

"Heidi 'demanded' me to spy. So," She turns and grins at me. "Here I am!" Is there a switch off button to her enthusiasm? She's being enthusiastic about this sick game. So not right.

"Okay…" I replied back. She giggles and comes up to me, wrapping her arms around one of my arms and nuzzles her face against it. I look at my team, and it doesn't look like they're paying attention to us. Good, they can just go and kill off Jane's and Heidi's team. I bet that they're trying to kill each other at the moment.

"Let's just get out of here. I'm sick and I want to take a shower to wash all of these…dust off." Wouldn't it be nice if a vampire would bleed? It might not be their blood that they're bleeding, but it is still blood.

"Mmm, tempting, but I don't think it would make the superiors happy." Alice sighed.

I sigh. She's right. There's no way that we can just go back to the castle without their permission. "Well, since you're a spy, I guess I'd like to keep you captive."

"Mmm, okay!" She chirped, and I couldn't help but laugh at that.

After a short while, the winning team of the game is no other than mine and Demitri's team. Not only that Alice was spying on us, but she wasn't exactly doing anything to help her team. Perhaps that was the reason why Heidi 'demanded' her to go and spy on the other team. Aro and his brothers didn't look like they were upset about losing fourteen members when we met up with them. I had to hold my bloodlust in then, the scent of that fresh blood was quite overwhelming. We went back to the castle, and that is when they're going to pass out the 'prize' for the winning team.

"Your prize is your freedom to do whatever you want, except for breaking the rules, for two weeks. Fly off to somewhere. Have a little vacation to yourself. And you can only bring one person with you." Aro said, and I am quite liking this prize. At least it isn't some sick prize like; As a reward, each of you will have ten fresh humans to feed on whenever you like, or something like that.

We're dismissed, and as soon as Alice and I step out of the grand hall, and out of their earshot that I turn and look at her as she beams at me. Well, do I need to tell her that I'm taking her with me? She already knows that, I'm sure.

"I think I might take Heidi with me."

Her face falls instantly, and I fight back the urge to chuckle.

"Are you…serious?" She asked, and I lose control of my laughter. She gasps and punches my arm with a scowl. "Bella!"

I stop laughing and put my hands up in surrender, I know that my eyes would be twinkling in amusement. "Okay, I'm sorry, but you already know who I'm taking, and it will always be you."

She smiles and wraps her tiny arms around my neck, drawing me closer to her as I place my hands on her waist. "So, where to?"

"Forks, good ol' Forks."

A/N:

So I'm sitting here chatting to my best guy mate about his werewolf name. I told him to call his character Mufasa. Haha. And Simba and Kauvu. I can't think of a good name other than Foyloyn and that looks really weird. x3

Well, enough of that silly story lol.

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