DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE TWILIGHT SAGA OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS! All Ownership and credibility goes to STEPHANIE MEYER!
I do however, own Sonja and all the Characters in her Coven. I also Own the Character Helena.
I wasnt planning on doing another Volturi chapter but this is just so you can really get to know Helena. The reason I keep switching from the Cullens/Sonja to Volturi is because while The Cullens are debating to join Sonja, Helena and the guards are on there way to Forks. It is all happening at the same time. But next chapter will be back to Sonja/Cullens.
ENJOY! :D
The Umbra
Chapter 9: Masochist
(Felix POV)
We had been running for 2 hours straight all the way from Italy to Madrid, Spain. But right now Demetri, Jane and I were waiting outside of an isolated house, There were no houses within 5 miles of this one. The house was more of a rather large cabin, and the property land was about 5 acres wide in diameter. What made the house so Isolated was the woods that surrounded the whole property. I can see why a vampire would live here, the privacy is very fulfilling, and it was magnificently peaceful.
Helena had ordered us to stop here and made us wait outside of the house while she went in. Before we had left, Aro had given Helena a folded up piece of paper. It had an address, 2 names, and an order on it. To retrieve one of the vampires whose name was written on the paper. We were at the address but the vampire we required was nowhere to be found, However the other one was home. So Helena was inside talking to the vampire, trying to find out where the other one was. Well… I guess plain "Talking" wasn't exactly the appropriate word for what was really going on in there.
We're not supposed to be waiting outside, On official business we're all supposed to stick together but Helena ordered us to stay outside. This was so unacceptable. Jane was standing on the grass about 15 feet away from us, Isolating herself. Jane's not really one for conversation unless it's with her brother Alec or the masters. She wasn't used to going on long distance missions without Alec so she was rather agitated. Best not to bother her. Demetri was walking along the property, looking around and smelling trying to see if he could get the missing vampire's scent.
I was standing in front of the entrance door of the house with my arms folded, looking as if I was guarding it. I've been a guard for so long that now even my normal stance looks as if I'm guarding something. I WAS trying to enjoy the peace and quiet of the setting until I hear a loud blood curdling scream coming from inside the house. I sighed as I close my eyes in slight irritation. The scream didn't come from Helena, but from the female Vampire she was in there with. I had never really seen Helena in action when it came to interrogation, Martially I have. She flipped me on my back on the first day. I have to say she's an excellent fighter, fast and exceptionally strong for a woman her size.
The vampire in the house would scream again just as loud as the last time, then just seconds later she would scream again, Then she would repeatedly do it. Finally Jane turned around to look at me and spoke in a bored tone. "Go see what's taking so long Felix." Without a word I would turn around opening the door and enter the house. When I walked in I was at the beginning of a long hallway with many doorways along the sides of it. I would hear the scream again and aggressive whimper right after it. It came from the very end of the hall where the hall would turn off to the right. I ran down the hall, only take me a quarter of a second to reach the turnoff, where it opened up into a large living room. What I saw next was a bit shocking.
The Female vampire was on the floor laying on her back while Helena was on top of her pinning her hands down. Helena was hunched over with her face on the side of the Female vampire's head whispering her in the female's ear. "Things will go a lot smoother for you if you just tell me, I know you know where he is now tell me!" Helena would say starting out in a whisper and ending in an angry yell. Helena was truly literally insane. Anyone could see it in the way she spoke, looked, and acted. The female just laid there and whimpered like a terrified child. Helena is pretty frightening but Not to the point where a vampire would scream and cry in such a terrified way. The female stayed quiet refusing to answer Helena, which made Helena snarl aggressively.
She would lift her head and push back her hair out of her face with her fingers, putting her face right above the female's. Suddenly Helena would snarl again and her tiny pupils would grow so big you could barely see the red around her eyes. The moment her pupils grew the female she had pinned down would look into Helena's eyes and scream in pure terror. I looked at the two curiously and confused. The female must being seeing something in Helena that I can't. Maybe It's Helena's gift. I know she has a gift but I never found out what it was. It seems like a damn good one because not only does the female look terrified but she also seems to be paralyzed and in physical pain.
As I looked down to the scene and got a good look at the female's face something about her struck me as odd yet familiar. I'm quite positive that I have never meet the woman before, yet something about her was familiar. Then I smelled blood.. Human blood but.. tainted with something else.. It was coming from the female vampire. Where do I remember this scent from?... Damn.. this woman is one of the hybrids.. Like the Cullen child and the hybrid man who convinced us that hybrids weren't a danger to our kind, when we meet with the Cullen's. If I remember correctly, I'm quite sure his name was Nahuel, And his Aunt was Huilen.
Nahuel said he had three half-sisters by his Vampire father who were all hybrids like him. This must be one of them.. It has to be.. She looks a lot like the man Nahuel.. Long black hair, tan skin, Spanish, and she had the same eyes as him. I remember his eyes because I remember thinking how odd it was for a vampire to have brown eyes. This hybrid woman had brown eyes just like his. Aro told Nahuel that we were going to track down his father for going around purposely impregnating human women as if it were some kind of sport and put him on trial. I didn't know this was there residence though. I didn't even know their names when I saw it on the paper. Aro made a promise to Nahuel that no harm would come to his sisters, And I can't just sit here and let Aro's promise be broken for him. Aro rarely made promises but when he did, he was bound by his word.
"Helena!" I would shout to get her attention, but she acted as if her and her victim were the only two in the room. "Helena!" I would yell louder to her. With a quick snap of her neck she was suddenly looking at me with an angry impatient face. I noticed once Helena looked away from the hybrid she stopped screaming in terror and Helena's pupils went back to being the tiny dots in the middle of her iris. "Get off of her. That vampire is immune to any physical offense by the Volturi until her father's trial has taken place." I said to her. Helena would chuckle in a maniacal way as she looked to me with insanity in her eyes. She gripped the hybrid's face from under her chin with her hand and pulled her up slightly then turned her face towards me so I could see the hybrid's face clearly.
"I don't know Felix, She doesn't seem very immune to me. I think all that screaming she was doing made it obvious that she's pretty vulnerable!" I hated when Helena did that. She knew damn well what I meant. "By Aro's word, we are not to harm her! Now remove yourself or I'll help you!" I would raise my voice slightly as I glared hard at Helena. Her crazed wide smile would very slowly fade to a grin as she pushed the hybrid's head back against the floor. She would keep her piercing eyes on me as she stood up to her feet and took three steps back. "Maybe you can get her to cooperate then." She said in a mocking way as she folded her arms. I was honestly surprised when Helena backed away. I was honestly expecting her to lunge at me for threatening her. She's very unpredictable.
I walked more into the room until I was in front of the hybrid who remained on the floor, looking as if she had seen all the evil in the world in a single glimpse. She probably did. I bent over grabbing her by her shoulders and picked her up off the ground then set her back down on her feet, standing her up though I did not let her go. She looked at me with fear but nowhere near as much fear as she had for Helena. "Jennifer." I addressed her, seeing as it was her name on the paper. "We can get out of here a lot faster if you just tell us where your father Joham is. We know he has been staying here with you." I could hear Helena take a step forward towards us, as she awaited an answer from the Hybrid Jennifer. "I don't know!" Jennifer said with a scared cry looking towards Helena instead of me. She was too terrified of Helena to even be intimidated of me. "You lying half breed!" Helena yelled in a tone I've never heard come from her mouth before. It sounded deeper and extremely angry. A second ago Helena was smiling, now she looked angry as all hell. Her mood swings were so extreme and unpredictable like everything else about her. And this was the woman in charge of us.
Jennifer cried out in intense fear looking to Helena. "No please! I don't know! He knew the Volturi were coming for him so he left a week ago! He went to America but that's all I know! Please don't do it again please!" Helena's angry expression quickly turned to extreme happiness. She smiled wide and would cackle in such a loud and creepy way. I had never heard anything like it before. By this time I was now holding Jennifer seeing as she was so scared her legs looked like they were giving out. I believed Jennifer, She was too terrified now to lie to Helena. She just wanted us gone, knowing the longer it took for her to finally answer, the longer we would stay. I sighed through my nose as I let go off her, letting her fall to her knees.
I looked to Helena giving a quick nod of my head gesturing for us to leave. I turned my back to them and began to make my way out of the room until I heard a shriek come from Jennifer, which lead me to turn around. Helena had grabbed her by her hair at the very top of her head with one hand and pulled her head back just enough so that Jennifer was forced to look at her. "If I find out your lying I will come back to claim you as my slave to torture for all eternity." Helena said in an aggressive whisper, making Jennifer cry harder. Helena then let go of her hair standing up straight now and lifted her right leg up, using her foot to push Jennifer harshly to the ground, landing on her side. I honestly almost felt sorry for this hybrid and I wish I could say I've seen worse from watching Jane's victims but I haven't. Helena was just ruthless, terrifying, unpredictable, and literally insane. It was as if she depended more On pain, torture, and fear than she did blood. Helena finally walked out of the room brushing her shoulder against mine as she left. I looked down to the battered hybrid who laid on the floor crying. No doubt that she would probably be scarred for the rest of her life from this. I sighed as I turned my back to her and made my exit from the room and seconds later from the house.
As I walked outside of the house I saw Helena at the very edge of the property tossing a black sweater to Demetri. "Hold on to that blood hound, It has Joham's scent on it." She said to Demetri. Blood hound? I walked until I was behind Jane, almost beside her when suddenly Helena and Demetri were now in front of us. "Were going to Forks first. Were already behind schedule so…" Helena would stop in mid-sentence as she looked to us as if waiting for something. Then she looked at us with like we were missing something that was hard to miss. "What am I talking to myself?! You need a friggin invitation?! Let's go! Honestly!" She shouted gesturing us to run as she kicked Demetri in the behind as if giving him a jumpstart to run. Within the second we were running and on our way to Forks.
(Caius POV)
As I try to read a book of ancient traditions of execution I am unable to focus for too long, for my thoughts continue to be penetrated by the woman who is the definition of my Perfect woman. And it makes me feel disgraceful to say that it is not Athenodora. Athenodora is a beautiful, kind hearted, and radiant woman, But such traits are not what makes my heart sing. The woman who never ceases to stop dancing through my heart is… Helena. Helena is cruel, vile, Masochistic, and beautiful. Everything that I crave in life is all bottled up into one woman. I have never in my life meet another Vampire such as her, And I feel as if her joining us was no mistake, but fate finally pulling us together.
I didn't realize as I was thinking of Helena that I had been staring into space for a while. Though someone else did notice. "Brother." Aro addressed me. "Is there something troubling you?" Aro asked while not taking his eyes off of his book. I shifted my gaze back to my own book. "No. I simply cannot wait for our chance to destroy the Cullen's. I can't help but fantasize ripping Isabella Swan's head off." I was forced to lie to Aro, even though he could easily find the truth in my thoughts, he wouldn't dare with out my permission. Same goes for Marcus. It was a matter of respect for one another as his fellow ruling kings.
"Your passion to execute in the name of the Volturi never ceases to intrigue me brother." Aro said with a proud grin on his face. He knew I wanted the Cullen's gone just as much as him. As I looked up I could see Marcus was staring at me in a strange way. As if he knew I was lying. The man could read the bonds between two people, and I'm afraid he knows my feelings for Helena. All I could do was hope he didn't.
I looked back down to my book to make it seem like I was reading,But my thoughts trailed back to Helena. How could I have fallen for a guard? Sure she was everything I've ever dreamed of in a mate, but it didnt take much to see that Helena was completely insane and she could not be controlled. She could easily ruin many of our plans, including the mission she was on right now. Perhaps it is best that I keep my feelings inside. No... I can't. I cannot deny my feelings for her, Which is a problem. She needs to leave the Volturi. But then would I be tempted to find her later? I would have to kill her. Leading the Vampire world is far more important than falling for an unstable Vampire... At least I think it is..