The floor I woke up on was cold, rough. My head was throbbing and my body felt dead. I felt dead.
"Momma." Renesmee? "Momma."
I gasped and sat up, staring into the dark. "Renesmee, Renesmee!"
"Momma," I turned and found her sitting just a few inches away with tears in her eyes. I crawled over and took her in my arms, squeezing her as I sighed with relief. "Are you alright?"
She nodded. "Momma I'm scared. Daddy's not here. My Jacob's not here."
"I know but it's alright, we will find them." I stood up with her still in my arms and took a better look around.
The room was large and empty. The walls were made of grey bricks with paintings of different scenes. One I recognized as a painting of the Black Plague but some of the people in it had fangs and blood dripping from their mouths. Also on the walls were small torches that lit up the room. There was no furniture and the door was large, wood, and locked shut. Was this the castle? What did they want with us?
"Momma, when can we see daddy and the others?" Renesmee asked.
"Soon, soon." I wished Isabella was here.
The door opened and the woman from before appeared. "Follow me Bella." I glared at the back of her head but that was only until I took my eyes to look at all the medieval decorations. The halls had golden sashes hanging down and down one hall there were a line of silver knight suits all equipped with the helmet and swords. Renesmee stared in awe at them. It really did feel like we were taken back in time. "Centuries have passed and yet we still look like we belong in the Stone Age," she chuckled. "The decorations were much better back then."
"Please spare my child. Do what you want with me but please take her home," I spoke. It did not matter what happened to me but Renesmee did not need to be in all this.
She stopped in front of a large door and pulled the large metal hatch open. Inside the rest of the council members were there with one new body whose face was not visible. The room we were in looked like the one I woke up in except the light came from a large, crystal chandelier and there were old fashion table and chairs with papers on them. The Council members were scattered around the room.
"Neither of you can leave. Your daughter carries your blood therefore carries the blood of our future. She applies to this as much as you."
"The blood of our future? What does that even mean?"
They did not answer when I hissed as I was stabbed with a small needle. Miranda did not look at me as she drew enough blood to fill the needle. She took the needle and walked out of the room. "Why do you need my blood?"
"To finish the resurrection of course." Resurrection? What the hell were these people doing? "We have her blood she should leave." The Head Council member spoke, still not showing his face.
"They cannot leave until he allows them to you know that. If you want them gone yourself then you go talk to Sullivan." Cain shouted back, clearly annoyed with the Head Council. I was a bit curious to see his face instead of the blonde hair. Renesmee touched my cheek and I saw a man's face; Isabella's grandfather.
"Yes sweetie, we need his approval." Though I didn't understand how she knew his face. "So what do you want with us?"
Romulus rolled his eyes, "we already told you."
"But I don't understand. Blood of our future? Why is my blood needed and why does my daughter have stay?"
"I'll explain," the Head Council shouted and turned my way. My eyes went wide as I knew his face perfectly. "Delix."
He walked towards me with a glare on his face before stopping just a few inches in front. "Isabelle was dead at birth but Sullivan had the devil bring her back alive by making her half Original. But when he made her half Original he also put it in her that the survival of our species. If Isabelle dies then all the Originals turn to dust. Isabelle knew this and that is why she made you. Her death meant the death of Anabell and Ashton. And then you went and had a daughter which then makes it her responsibility not to die as well. But Isabelle was ignorant and knew something was missing in all this. She herself did not know the full truth and so when her father came for Isabella, she killed her, but Isabella never died. Isabelle did." What? "Isabelle awakened Isabella's true Original form before she killed herself, letting her burn in the barn. Isabella woke up in that burning barn not an hour later and left it, leaving her mother's burning corpse."
"That doesn't make sense though. Where has Isabella been this whole time?"
Delix smirked. "My daughter forgot who she was and became Isabelle and lived on for many years before dying in 1776 after being killed to save the children she created, Anabell and Ashton."
If I was not holding Renesmee I would have fell to the ground. The secrets Isabella said I couldn't handle; the ones she did not know but found out. It never was Isabelle all these years. Not the one they called the Queen. Not the one who gave me half her soul. Rubio was right. This was what he was telling me.
It was all Isabella.