The Volturi sat in the dungeons,
feeling quite unnerved. After the war was announced, they immediately
set to fighting and gathering warriors. Marcus, Aro and Caius sat on
the high chairs, thinking about tactics and moves. Their best
fighters, Jane, Alec and Chelsea were practising on each other. At
the moment, Jane and Alec were going at it, Jane hissing furiously as
Alec blinded her. "You're not as hot as you think you are, Jane,"
said Alec, to provoke her. It worked; she pounced on him, her
attempts at torturing his mind lost; she was gonna rip that smarmy
bastard to pieces. Alec ducked her easily – her chagrined scream of
anger was enough warning. He laughed as she sprawled on the
ground.
Marcus stood up. "Play nice, kids." He said. "I
honestly don't know why this is happening...it's very obvious
which one is better, so why?"
"Why, dear Marcus," said Aro
cheerfully. "It's because the side that knows it's worse won't
admit it! We must prove it to them, once and for all."
Marcus
mulled that over. "Agreed."
Pavarti and Padma sighed and sat
with Lavender, anticipation in the air. There were several months of
preparation [for, in the Twilight world, to make things simpler,
there was adequate time to practise and have kick-ass moves, and even
though your competitors were much more advanced than you and had
thousands of years to practise, you still scare them], but they felt
bored shooting spells at stone statues [since they were great
replicas of vampires], though watching them explode in thousands of
sparkles [also a great imitation] like fireworks, or crackers on
Christmas. Lavender sighed.
"Seamus asked what you were doing on
Saturday, Pavarti..." sighed Lavender dreamily, her mind obviously
elsewhere.
"Oooh...but no...what's-his-name from Beauxbatons
is still writing to me, he wants to get together as well...maybe in a
month or two, when I ditch him..."
Padma was staring at a
crystal ball. Even though Pavarti was the psychic [supposedly], she
was still interested in the misty shapes in the frosted sphere. Her
eyes glazed dreamily, she flopped her head to the side and shot a
spell without looking at a bottle, which promptly exploded. The three
girls shielded themselves from the shards, and sighed again in angst,
thinking about the eminent fight.
"Stupid, sparkly vampires."
They muttered in unison.
Alice bounced away from Jasper, who
bounded at her. "Nuh uh, I saw that!" she cried happily.
"Alice,
c'mon." Said Jasper sadly, feeling chagrined. "You're
wounding my ego!"
"Suck it up like you did that doe! Let's
go again." Jasper lunged at Alice angrily, but in a lightning quick
move, Alice dodged his attack and tripped him. She laughed as he
sprawled on the floor.
"You," said Jasper ruefully, "Have
been spending too much time with Rosalie."
Angela smiled at the memory of last
Saturday. She and Ben took her little brothers to the beach down at
La Push. She was happily anticipating the fight. She would not, of
course, hurt her competitors – she would simply incapacitate them.
Though she was slightly worried by the information delivered to her
by the slightly freaky Aro, who had strange creepy old man tendencies
and looks, but she had gotten used to the idea.
Sparkly
Vampires, she thought, practising her kick boxing. Who'd
have thunk it?
