So i won't have internet access til Sunday so this is the chapter that i would have posted on saturday. Enjoy!

Oh, and remember Bella is only 10 but very mature as you'll see in this chapter.

The guard didn't have time to react before I was next to him.

I grabbed him by the throat-which lessened his grip on Aaron which let him escape-and slammed him down onto the floor.

The moment he hit the ground he burst into ash.

I turned back to Aro-who looked positively freaked.

I didn't know what my eyes looked like but I'm pretty sure they were no longer brown.

Some of the Female Vampires were cowering behind the nearest male ones.

Others were frantically looking for a way out.

"Don't bother leaving. It will only make me angrier."

They all froze.

Aro's muscles were twitching in fear.

My power was flowing through me at its fullest and its peak.

I was ticked.

I stalked up to Aro who immediately fell to his knees in a sign of submission.

All the others followed quickly-except Caius. Felix had to actually go over and push him to his knees.

I snarled at Aro's bowed head. "You will never, ever, threaten his family or mine. Ever. I will find you a painful death and you will be begging for it long before I give it to you.

He is not my mate but he is mine. Any actions taken against him will go through me first and I will decide the final outcome or punishment. Do you understand me Aro?"

He nodded quickly but kept his head down.

I strode to the middle of the room.

"I don't know how much information you have been given so I'll go over it just in case. Volterra is not the center of the universe. Neither for the humans, nor for the vampires who know better. The reason you exist is to keep the conspicuous vampires in line but you are not the top law. You are secondary and will always be secondary.

There are others with much more power than any of you hold here and they can crush you and kill you before you have time to blink or react in anyway.

They are called elementals. The strongest are four elementals.

I am part of them.

We hold the power and we are the law. You've had your fun the for the last couple millennium but its time to give your power back.

Here is how it goes.

You can either give it back and we will let you remain as secondary rulers and get your fix of daily power. Or-"

The doors opened and I didn't have to look to feel Aly, Scott, and Alex come and stand behind me.

"-We take it from you and you are killed in the process. But the fact of the matter is you are no longer top Vampires. We are. And it's time you realize that.

If not you'll end up like that guy." I said gesturing to the vampire I had just turned to ash.

Scott touched my shoulder and stepped forward to take my place as spokesperson.

"I'm sure you all realize it by now, but Bella here is the new fourth member of the four. She will be treated as one. We do not expect you to drop to your knees every time you see us but we will be treated with respect or we will enforce the submission."

"We are power and you are not. Are we understood?" I asked stepping forward again.

"Yes, mistress." I didn't like it, but I knew better than to dispute the mistress thing.

"Good."

"Mistress Bella," Demetri began still on his knees. I nodded at him to continue.

"If we ever need to find you what are we to call you?"

I made my decision in a second. "Isabella McCarthy. Find Aaron and he'll direct you to me."

"Yes, mistress."

We turned as one-with Aaron in tow-and walked out the door.

But I paused in the entrance as something occurred to me.

"Oh, and Aro?"

"Mistress?"

"The girl I came with. Her name is Angela Weber. She will not be harmed and I expect you to protect her if she ever comes to Italy again. If she does not survive, you will pay the price."

He bowed. "Yes, mistress."

I nodded. "Good."

And then we swept out of there.

The other Elementals wanted to go out and celebrate and I almost agreed until I remembered that I had a class that I had run away from and had been missing from for the last 2 hours.

"Uh, maybe when I get back to the US. I've got a fieldtrip to get back too. I've been missing for quite a few hours. And-"

The shrill ring of Aaron's cell phone broke me off. Aaron glanced at it.

"Hush." He told me. "It's your mom."

I focused on the cell phone so I could hear her too.

"Hello, Renee."

"Oh, Aaron it's horrible!"

"What is, Renee? What happened?"

"They lost her! They lost Bella! My baby girl is stranded and lost somewhere in a place where she doesn't know the language and knows no one!"

"Renee! Calm down! First off, Bella knows Italian. Second, I just found her a few seconds before you called."

"You're in Italy!"

"I'm the big brother she doesn't have remember? You really think I'm gonna let her go off to Italy alone? I just got here today."

"Oh, thank you! Let me talk to her!"

He handed the phone to me and mouthed 'you got lost.'

I made my voice meek. "Momma?"

"Oh, baby are you okay?"

"I am now. I got lost and I couldn't fine anyone. Aaron's taking me back."

"You're sure you're alright?"

"Yeah, momma, I am. But I have to get back to the class. I'll call you later okay?"

"Be more careful, baby."

"I will momma. Love you."

"Love you too, honey."

I shut the phone.

Aly smiled at me. "You should get a career in acting."

I rolled my eyes at her. "Come on Aaron. We have a frantic class and Angela to get back too."

The class and teachers were frantic. Angela was up in the room crying in fear but we had to pass Aaron by the teachers.

So we had to call mom again.

We kept with the story of me getting lost.

We had dirtied up my arms and jeans and messed up my hair a bit to make it more believable.

We had a nurse come down and check me over and confirm I was okay so I was sent up to my room with a promise to keep a better eye on me.

As I headed up to my room, they were apologizing to my mom.

I unlocked the door to the room. "Angela?" I called out.

I was promptly tackled by a crying girl.

"I was so scared! It's been two hours and you just took off and I didn't know where you went and you didn't come back and it's like you disappeared and I was the only one who knew you had run away but I didn't know where too and all I could think about was the crazy people and how they're super strong and we're just kids and that you ran from them instead of too them and how you've been scared and-and-and-"

"Shh Angela. It's okay. I'm sorry I scared you but everything is okay now. Shh. it's okay."

I don't know how long I sat there holding her while she cried but eventually she calmed down enough to demand the story from me.

"What the hell happened and where did you go?"

"Well, you were right in the fact that it was the crazy people and I did run away from them. They eventually boxed me in and took me to the head of their organization or whatever. We talked for a bit and then Aaron appeared and we talked some more. There was some fighting but the casualty was to the crazy people not me or Aaron. Turns out the people here, are not so much crazy as power hungry and we're now sorta friends. Their headquarters is underground though so it was a long walk. That's why it took so long."

"Don't you ever do that to me again."

"I'll see what I can do Angela. I promise."

She looked at me for a long minute. "That's the best I can get I guess. Just be careful."

"I always am. Angela."

We hugged before she jumped and pulled away.

"Did you hear about the girl?"

My face scrunched as I moved to change into some now cleaner clothes.

"What girl?"

"They found a girl unconscious last night near where the crashes were. Did you see her last night?"

I didn't look at her but I nodded.

"Well, apparently she said that the guy that tried to attack her was a vampire."

Great. Now I had to tell Aaron to try and get someone out of the mental ward.

"A vampire? Why on the earth would she think that?"

"She said that he tried to bite her."

"Maybe she was delusional."

"Well, yeah. She's being taken to the hospital for testing to see if she's all right."

"Hmm."

I went to bed early that night and she slipped in with me.

Unfortunately, I couldn't sleep in peace.

Knock knock knock

Except it didn't actually make the sound because they never actually ever touched the glass. They were on the building across from us.

I groaned silently and slipped out from under Angela's arm.

I moved to the window and silently slipped out.

There across on the roof of the building next to us stood Jane, Felix, Demetri, and Alec.

I sighed before gathering the air around me and pushing off to land next to them.

"come on guys, really? It's been what? 6 hours? I know I'm powerful but I do gotta sleep."

Demetri winced. "Sorry bout that. But we need to talk to you."

I sighed but plopped down criss cross. "So, whats up then?"

They sat down next to me. "Well, we were looking in our library and we came across a prophecy about a human element."

I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. "Oh, you mean the one where it says I'll be the link that brings all supernatural together, I'll suffer many deaths and heart ache and I'll fight many battles before I get to my place.? Yeah, already heard it."

Jane laughed softly. "You make it sound so bleak."

"If you're a human, it is bleak."

"Well…anyways. You've probably got it under control, but we want to help."

"Help do what exactly?"

"help fight. Or help you deal with heartache and such."

"Okay, I get the help fighting but the other stuff? Why would you want to talk to me like that?"

Felix spoke up. "Because anyone who can make a fool out of Caius like that needs to stick around."

"And well, we kinda like you." Demetri said.

Jane held out a piece of paper to me. "What's this?" I asked as I took it.

"It has our cell numbers on it. This way you won't be tracked and our conversations are less likely to be overheard. If you ever need someone to talk to or a partner in battle, give one of us a call. Oh, and if you ever need something big done, go through Aro not Caius. He still hates you."

"Noted. Um, thanks guys."

"Not a problem," Jane said. "We know it's a little too soon to call you this, but we think of you as a friend. Maybe in time you'll come to think of us as friends."

We stood up but Demetri touched my arm when I turned to leave. "I read something interesting in the book. If you can't become vampire, how are you supposed to live forever and rule the vampire world?"

I smiled bleakly at him. "I have no idea."

When I slipped back in through the window, Angela was starring anxiously at it.

"It's okay. No fighting. We just talked. Sorry I scared you again."

She smiled at me in relief and we went back to bed.

After the fieldtrip and back in the US at the end of July

"to Bella," Aly said raising her glass of animal blood. Not that anyone besides us knew what was in there. "For making us true leaders and bringing them to their knees."

"For showing us how to be a true leader," Scott added.

"For showing us, that sometimes you have to make sacrifices to prove a point and to show that you are not to be ignored." Alex said.

"For being brave and standing up even when she thought there was no one else around." Aaron put in.

"To Bella!" They all coursed as we clanked glasses. Mine was filled with Vanilla Milkshake though.

"Thanks guys."

It was a good summer.

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