A/N- Hey everyone! So I wanted to update for a few reasons… One because I just wanted to. Two, this story is 1 review away from 300 reviews! Three, I just wanted to again and I had a lot of time! Plus, I left a cliffy in the last chapter and didn't want you guys waiting for long. Enjoy!
EmeraldLace- Yup, Alice and Jazz are making an appearance for a little bit! This is just one stop on their mission to find witnesses.
BirdieInABox16- Yes way! Fast enough update for you?
Romance4ever- I'm glad you like it, especially since I took a major event and moved it around! Thanks for the review!
DazzleMeLaLa- He was a very good friend, almost like a big brother to Cerys. But it needed to happen for the rest of the story to go on…
MainlyMaddison- Updated!
Superdani- True, they probably don't need a speaker, but it's also just nice to do so, especially letting Eleazar know. They will get married, but that's towards the end of the story…
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"Do you know how hard you two are to track? If James didn't make such concrete decisions I never would have been able to find you!" Alice huffed.
"Why were you trying to find us in the first place?" James growled. I knew he was thinking of Laurent. Neither of us were sure how the Cullens would react with us since Laurent seemed to switch sides and go after their human.
"We need your help." Alice admitted after a few seconds of silence.
"What?" We both said simultaneously.
"Seriously?" I asked.
"We're in more trouble than you can believe." Alice started. She looked up at Jasper nervously. "You'll find out pretty much everything when, well if you go back to Forks to help. The Denali clan are already there and have agreed to help, well most of them anyway."
"Alice, what are you talking about?" I asked.
"The Volturi are coming for Bella. I don't have time to explain why, but we need your help. We need you to be witnesses for us. They're going to try and find any reason they can to fight and kill us, if not take some of us back with them to Voltera."
"They're still coming after you and Edward?" I asked.
"Ya, and a few others. Anyway, we have a group coming to witness for us. We were hoping that you would as well."
"Just witness? Or fight as well?" James asked.
"We just ask you to witness, but if you wanted to fight we wouldn't stop you. Carlisle will never dare ask you to do so though." Alice replied. I watched Jasper suspiciously. He hadn't said a thing and I could feel him controlling the emotions around us.
"Jasper, we're not going to attack you." I said.
"Sorry." He muttered. "You must understand…"
"We do." James said curtly.
"Please, call Eleazar or Tanya if you have to, but please come witness. You'll understand everything if you go to Forks."
"We'll call Eleazar and see what he has to say." James said. "We will not decide now."
"Thank you." Alice said with a big breath. I could tell it took some weight off her shoulder, but didn't take all of it off. "Um, Cerys, could I use you for a bit?"
"What do you mean?" I asked skeptically.
"I can't see my future, I can only see others. I was hoping I could use you, or your mirror, to see our own?" Alice asked.
"Of course." I replied. I wasn't sure how Alice's power worked exactly and I stood still, waiting for her to do whatever she needed to do. She let her eyes remain open as they seemed to fog over. Jasper caught her effortlessly as she fell back slightly, holding her as she had her vision. When she came back to reality, she started to smile.
"Thank you Cerys, thank you so much." Alice jumped over to me and wrapped me in a hug.
"I don't know what you saw, but your welcome. It seemed to take a bit of your stress away."
"It did. It gave me more hope. We'll be seeing you later hopefully." Alice said as she stepped back with Jasper. "O, by the way, have you seen any of the Amazon coven? There should be three of them, Kachiri, Senna, and Zafrina."
"I'm afraid we haven't. We've been traveling around the coast mostly. We haven't made it to the forest quite yet." James said.
"Alright, well I think I know where they are if they haven't moved lately. Thank you for everything!" Alice said as she started pulling Jasper back the way they had come. Jasper nodded to us before running into the distance with Alice.
"That was interesting." I said. When I turned to James he had already dialed Eleazar's number and was waiting for him to pick up. Once more he put the phone on speaker so I could hear as well.'
"I assume Alice found you two." Eleazar said as soon as he picked up.
"She did. What is going on?" James asked.
"You need to come here to see yourself. It's amazing, James. Just simply amazing." It was interesting to hear Eleazar just so enamored with whatever was in Forks.
"So what is it?" James asked. "What's so amazing that you're awe struck and has caught the attention of the Volturi."
"It's… it's hard to explain. How quickly can you be here?"
"Considering we're in Argentina a few days."
"Do what ever you have to, but get here as soon as you can." Eleazar said. "I'll see you two soon."
"See ya." We both said.
"We'll get a plane." James said after a few minutes. "It'll be faster and will allow me to spend some of that money."
"If you're sure." I replied.
We did indeed find a plane. Since James felt like splurging he bought two first class tickets. Since it was last minute the ticket cost more than usual, but James didn't flinch when he saw the price total. He just handed over his credit card and was given two tickets in return along with his gold credit card.
They were quickly seated on the plane and started to head back to the US. They would first land at LAX and then change flights to Seattle. From there they would be able to run to the Cullens house within a few hours. We watched the short in flight movie before talking quietly about nothing. Finally we landed. As we got off the plane a thought struck me, we needed passports. Before I could start worrying, James pulled two blue passports from his jacket and handed me one.
"What? I took the liberty of getting us passports a while ago." James muttered.
"You think of everything." I said. James just smiled. We passed through all of the security that seemed to take over the airport and found our way to our next flight. We had a bit of time to wait, but eventually our plane boarded and we were in the air. The flight was quick, quick enough that we would have barely had time to sleep if we were human.
Again, once we landed we were quickly off. As soon as we were out of the public eye, we were running. It was only about three hours to the Cullen's house and that caused me to think how much did they hunt or how slow did they walk when I first joined James and his group?
There were already plenty of vampires in the Cullens' home. But it was the smell of wet dog that annoyed me instantly. James and I both stiffened at the smell, but continued to the house. Carlisle welcomed us in and showed us to the living room where a surprise waited. On the couch sat what looked like a tall human boy, but the stench coming from him told us he was a werewolf. In his arms was a child, a toddler by the looks of it. Bella was sitting next to him and Edward was next to her. All three of them were looking at the child lovingly.
"James, Cerys, it's good you two finally came!" Eleazar exclaimed. He had been in the room as well, watching the family. At our names, Bella's head snapped up and her arms went wide. She grabbed the child of the werewolf's arms and protected it with her body. What was it her child? That's when I really looked at her. She was paler than usual, and far more beautiful. She had been turned. She was a vampire like me. Edward had turned her earlier than expected. If she was a vampire then, how did she have a child?
"No! You are not allowed around her! I thought he was dead!" Bella screeched. "Edward, you said he was dead!"
"You didn't even tell her after the whole Victoria affair?" James asked. "Or when I called Eleazar and he asked me to come." James was rubbing it into Edward's face. He was absorbing the fear in the room, something he hadn't felt probably since he hunted Bella.
"No, I didn't." Edward said calmly.
"How the hell can you guys be so calm?" Bella screeched. "He tried to kill me! I thought he was dead! Why did Victoria think he was dead if he really isn't!"
"Bella, calm down." Edward said. He wrapped his arms around her, that's when I noticed the pair of rings on their left hands. They were married? Since when? Why didn't Tanya tell me about this? "I think we should go to the cottage so I can explain things."
"I'm not leaving Renesmee here with him!" Bella yelled.
"This is the leach that tried to suck you dry?" Jacob asked, starting to growl at James.
"I think you should take all of them with you, Edward." I said, trying to stop the tension, it was starting to give me a headache.
"You're probably right." Edward said with a shrug. He led Bella from the room, along with the child, who looked back at curiously, and the wolf. When they had disappeared the atmosphere calmed down and everyone was able to breathe again.
"So would someone tell us how she has a child?" James asked eventually. Carlisle stepped forward and asked us to follow him up to his study. We followed him, along with Eleazar.
"Edward and Bella were married shortly after their graduation. They went on a honeymoon to an island I bought my wife years ago. They were supposed to be there for a few weeks, but we got a phone call and they were back here within two weeks. They had crossed a boundary that we didn't think could be crossed between a human and vampire. They actually consummated their marriage.
"Anyway, when they returned, Rose was the first one by Bella's side. Apparently Bella had called her before they had left Isle Esme. When we found out why, we couldn't believe it. Bella was pregnant. She believed that it wasn't that we became sterile once we were changed, but the fact the female vampires' bodies couldn't change to accommodate a pregnancy. She was still human so she could.
"So we watched as her pregnancy went forward at a startling rate. She was having morning sickness on the honeymoon, so only days after Bella became pregnant. She was already showing by the time she arrived here. She was also looking like death had already taken her. I wanted to remove the child, as did Edward, but Rosalie wouldn't let us near here. Eventually Edward would stay with her, but Bella was dying because of the child."
"So she was changed?" I asked.
"No. We eventually figured out that the child needed blood to survive. That was why food wasn't helping Bella. I secured blood from different hospitals and immediately Bella started looking better. She could sit on the couch instead of being forced in a bed with machines hooked up to her. Then, near the end of the pregnancy, Edward started hearing the child. His mood instantly changed.
"When the child was eventually ready to be born, it nearly killed Bella. We delivered her, but as soon as she was out, Bella should have been dead. Edward made quick work of changing Bella. I believe that you two had a similar near death scare." James and I both shuddered, but nodded solemnly. We never talked about that day.
"Anyway, we watched as the child grew at an exceptionally fast rate. She drank blood, but could also eat food, although she doesn't like to. When Bella awoke from the change we wouldn't let her near the baby in fear she would end up hurting her. Instead, we found Bella was a shield."
"A shield?" James asked.
"She can block others powers from hurting her. She'll probably go through a similar training that you went through." Eleazar said. "However, Kate has also decided to help."
"Kate has a power?" I asked, completely surprised. If Kate had a power, then why hadn't she helped me train?
"She does. She didn't want to use it in your training since we didn't know exactly what you could do. If she sent a large enough shock at you it would most likely return to her, but it could have also gained energy by hitting your mirror or it could have deflected and it any of us. It was nothing personal." Eleazar said.
"If you say so." I muttered. I was going to have a little chat with Kate when this was over. "Back to Bella…"
"So we introduced Bella to her child. The baby and Bella were happy to be reunited. They named her Renesmee, but everyone seems to call her Nessie. Ever since then Bella has constantly been with her daughter and Edward has been right next to her. She's even starting to hunt, which is where the problem arose.
"Bella took Nessie and Jake hunting. Irina had come to apologize, but she saw the child. She thought it was an immortal child and immediately went to the Volturi who were just waiting for a chance to come and confront us. So now they're coming. But as you know now, Nessie isn't an immortal child and has broken no law. So we're asking for witnesses so that the Volturi will be forced to listen and hopefully let us keep our new family intact."
"Immortal children?" I asked.
"I'll explain later." James replied. "Why would Irina be offended by an immortal child?"
"You can ask Tanya that question. It's hard for her and her sisters, but she will tell you."
"What about the wolf, Jake? Why is he still here?"
"It turns out he's imprinted on Nessie and she's taken to him as well. Bella and Edward weren't thrilled to say the least, but they've accepted it."
"So she's the wolf's mate?"
"Whenever she grows up, she'll be with the wolf. So yes, she's the wolf's mate."
"This is a lot to think about." I said.
"If anything confuses you, ask Nessie. If Bella lets you near her, she can show you everything." Eleazar said with a smile. "That is what is so amazing about the child. Her gift is just so powerful. I believe it will stop Aro and his brothers in their tracks."
"Hopefully, we'll be allowed to meet her then." James said, genuinely intrigued.
"Hopefully you will." Carlisle said. We all stood and returned downstairs. Edward had yet to return with his family, but we waited anxiously for them. In the mean time I went to find Tanya and Kate and ask them my questions.