Hi everyone, I know some people are asking about an update and schedule, but unfortunately the schedule is just when I get some free time. I am working on getting ahead so I can be consistent, but I will update when I can. Sorry again, but I hope you enjoy this short chapter. None of the characters are mine or anything just a reminder. Have a good rest of your week!

Chapter 18

IPOV

The phone rang before I could go interrogate the others. I looked at the screen and saw the name of my big brother. I answered and the first thing I heard got me rushing out the window.

"Run straight to the place you go for peace. Hurry."

I vaulted over fallen trees and ran faster than I ever had. The gift of forever having newborn strength and speed coming in handy. I started to take in my surroundings as the red cleared from my mind. The general did not think the anger was helping.

I smelled my mate faintly, but what worried me was the influx of smells from the wind. There had to e 65 different scents and that was never good.

All of them were vampires. I could tell from the sweet smell. Unfortunately they were so commingled that I could not distinguish one from another. Just that the strength indicated multiple people.

I ran as fast as I could seeing evidence of others, but with the Cullen's and their relationships with the guardians I couldn't tell if it was a problem. I need to get my head out of my ass and be the person I know I need to be to survive. As I approached I finally recognized the scene before me.

There were trees downed all over the place and Jasper's scent was very strong around here. There was a fight. And a big one at that.

How could I have been so stupid. I just sent him back even though I knew there would be trouble. I should have come with him and not gotten scared. I know that the Major will love me and be okay once his ego was back.

I darted off into a direction to try to catch up with those that had him. There were a lot, but I could also see the remains of some vampires that lost extremities. In the wars those were always yours to collect or go without. It looked like several people would know that pain for the rest of their lives. I picked up those that I found and went in search of the owners.

As I was looking for the scent searching with my gifts I got a hint about 30 miles to the west. I took off in that direction and almost caught up with them, but when I got to the location it was only a group of human hunters in the woods. I tried again and got a whiff 20 miles North.

This turned out to be a dead end. My gifts were unreliable with my mind in this state of flux. All of the power usage was draining me of the energy from my last kill. I also realized that I had crushed my phone in my frustration, so I couldn't even call Peter and ask him what to do.

Sure I had his gift, but for me it was silent as could be. Those damn voices need to get on the same page. To make all matters worse It had started to rain. The scents were gone and so was my mate. I stood with my eyes closed searching in my soul for the connection that would draw me to him. I just needed to calm down so I could get a hold on the feelings for him.

I opened my eyes as I heard a twig snap to my left. There stood the woman responsible. I just knew it.

"Where is he Alice?" My voice was stone cold. My eyes danced with barely concealed rage and the flames flickered. She took a step back in fear. I could feel it from Jasper's gift. SHe was terrified of me, but I was the only one that could get her what she wanted. Power.

"He is gone, and you won't be able to find him. He has been dismembered to make the bond more difficult to locate. He will stay alive if you help me. Maybe you can see him some time, but for now you are going to do what I say, or I will have him burned right now." She held up a phone with an ongoing call, so I could see she meant business.

"What exactly do you want me to do?" Without seeing Jasper or his captor I could not know how serious the threat was and I did not want to risk my mate. I could get out of this situation and find him, but not if he was dead.

"Oh it's simple you are going to turn around and follow Edward. Any funny business and I will say a simple word and your precious mate will be burned to ash. Then in a few weeks after we have completed the planning, you will take on the Volturi for us and we will be the rulers. I will finally get to see myself in the jewels and be respected as a queen." I could hear the longing in her voice. The complete desire to be loved and cherished and adored, but what I never got was the way she went about it. I mean she is cute enough.

"Now walk to the cage" She did now those can't hold vampires right. I still did as she asked though. I can get out of this and find my mate. Plus, I know that Peter knows that Jasper has been taken he will look for him when I don't report back to him. He will help us. Him and Char.

I walked through the woods slowly, taking in all of my surroundings and trying to keep track of where we were. I was reading the thoughts of my captors, but they were not giving me much to go on right now. Alice was going through the construction of the cage and Edward was thinking about how he might finally be able to get some girl he was infatuated with to go out with him. He is ridiculous.

We approached a cabin about 200 miles from the Cullen mansion in the middle of the Olympic Forest. There is little chance I would be stumbled upon out here.

The cabin looked normal from the outside. Typical run down hunting shack that looked like it had been forgotten decades ago. Walking inside I found out just how wrong that assumption was. The inside was reinforced with steel bars and electrodes. There were distinct smells of Werewolf and vampire.

"You can try to get out Isa, but I wouldn't waste my energy if I were you. These bars were forged from the ash and venom of vampires and the bone dust of werewolves. Caius Volturi himself came up with the design and mixture for his own dungeon. Carlisle helped him once upon a time and once he found out shifters saliva was toxic to us he used that as well. Caius hasn't learned that fact yet though.

There was a chain that was drug across the floor to attach to my ankles and wrists. I was going to trapped like an animal.

"These will only hold me for so long Alice. You better be prepared when I am free."

"Is that supposed to be a threat? Cause I think I hold all the cards right now."

"Right now you may, but I am the General of the Southern Wars. I have fought in battles around the world in situations where i was grossly outnumbered yet here I am. You have taken my mate, and I will get him back. When I do it will be your pyre. That is not a threat, it is a promise and I intend to keep it." I held still as the chains were attached to me.

What I hadn't realized was that there were spikes on the inside, well teeth actually, shifter teeth. The one thing that could pierce our skin so easily. They were coated in the saliva of their past owners and as the shackles closed around my extremities it took a lot not to hiss and scream in pain.

The saliva started to work its magic by making me lose more venom than usual. This was going to be the worst few weeks of my life and I lived with Maria so that is saying something.

"Okay Isa, you stay here and I will be back to collect you when the time comes. No funny business though, I will see and your mate will die. Ta ta Bitch." She laughed as she walked away. It was a tinkling laugh that held so much crazy I was amazed.

I heard her thoughts as she left, she was going through all of the visions she could. Edward was silent as he left. looking at his feet and avoiding any contact. "Don't worry Eddie, I won't forget your part in this either. I have you on my list, just not as high yet." With that I clenched my teeth as I moved to the wall closest to me and sat down. The pain was intense but I wouldn't show that.

I closed my eyes and thought of my mate, how pissed he must be that he was beat by anyone. Well he is a survivor as I am and we will make it through this separation though the tug in my chest flared up now that I was seething in anger instead of raging.

I have always had some trouble with keeping my temper under control when I was scared and upset and today it impacted the effectiveness of my gifts. I sat and meditated on the problem. Waiting to be released. Luckily I knew it wouldn't take long.

You see Alice got lucky today. I was too focused on other things to get around to her, but now I am preparing myself. The next time she comes this way I will be ready and she will go down.

I centered myself and started working through the problem at hand. I started using every gift I have ever came across and I cross checking with similar gifts to get all of the information. Today was the last time I would ever be caught off guard.