"Ahhh!"
The usually quiet throne room was filled with a loud screech. A tiny 4 year old looking body ran to the throne on the left. The very small 6 year old crawled under her father's throne, hiding. Adriana curled herself into a tiny ball. Her eyes were shut tightly as was her lips. Tiny pale hands were shielding her ears from the sounds. Tears gathered up in the young child's eyes as she heard a loud roar. There was a ground rocking crash near the throne that had Adriana cringing in fear. A pale hand grabbed her ankle and pulled her out from under the throne. Adriana opened her eyes to looking into vicious brown eyes.
The werewolf shape-shifter glared down at the young girl. He brought he face close to the upside-down vampire's face and growled. Adriana whimpered in fear and looked to the middle of the stairs and cried out once more. Demetri laid in pieces in front of Aro's throne. Demetri's red eyes looked into her purple orbs before he smiled at her. She nodded fearfully and closed her eyes. She tried to focus her power like Demetri taught her when she was three. She felt the rush of power fill her small body and let it go.
Sharp icicles fell from the ceiling and went through the werewolf's tanned skin. The man dropped Adriana as one last icicle pierced his skull. Adriana crawled over to her broken mate as the man's dead body crashed onto the marble floor.
"Demi, are you okay?" Adriana's voice held no fear now that the evil man is dead. The young girl doesn't even realize that she is the reason the man is dead. She doesn't understand that she killed someone. Adriana just sees it as protecting one of her mates.
"Im fine, Baby. Just hold my head closer to my neck." Adriana quickly listened to her older mates' instructions and helped her mate become one. Demetri cracked his neck as he sat up on the marble steps and brought Adriana onto his lap. They watched as other Vampires bring dead werewolves into the throne room but nowhere near the one Adriana killed.
Adriana watched as vampires she has seen once or twice bring in more evil people but she hasn't seen anyone from her family. Adriana perked up a little bit as she saw Alec and Jane drag a body into the throne room. But it wasn't good enough for the young child.
Demetri, who watched her intently, hugged her close and kissed the top of her head.
"Felix and your parents are fine, Princess. I was just with them." Santiago spoke as he dropped a female on the building pile of bodies.
Adriana felt much better as the old vampire told her that. She felt even better as the three vampires; Adriana wanted to see, walked into the room. Adriana rushed out of Demetri's arms and into her father's
"Daddy, you're okay!"
Caius laughed before kissing his daughter's cheek. "Of course im okay, my princess. This isn't the first time I fought werewolves."
"I was worried. Demetri was all in pieces. I didn't know what to do." Adriana sobbed into her father's dress shirt since her mother was wrapped up in his cloak. "I was scared." Adriana pointed to the man she killed with a sob. "I did that!"
Everyone besides her father and her mates gasped at the dead wolf. There were icicles sticking up from various places in the man's body. The floor around him was a mixture of melted water and blood. Dull brown eyes stared up at the ceiling with a permanent grimace on his would be handsome face.
"Oh my." Athenodora gasped with a hand over her mouth. She looked up at her mate and daughter. "Caius, how can she do this?"
"It's one of her powers, Athenodora." Aro stated as he walked into the room with Sulpicia on his arm. Marcus and Didyme walked in behind them. "I thought you didn't want her to learn about her powers yet, Brother?"
Caius sighed and placed Adriana in his mates' arms. "Me and her mates have been helping her learn control, that's it. We just wanted her to have control over her powers and she does. We didn't try to advance them and we are not. Not until she is ready and older." Caius wrapped an arm around his mate and looked back at Aro. "Have we lost anyone?"
Aro shook his head at Caius's change of subject but said nothing about it. "Sadly, we lost four lower guards."
The tense silence was broken by a tired yawn coming from inside Caius's cloak. Athenodora looked down to see Adriana sleeping peacefully in her arms. A smile soft smile formed on her lips as fire erupted behind her. As the dead werewolves burned, Athenodora walked out of the throne room with her daughter's mates on either side of her. This little girl sleeping peacefully in her arms will be one of the most deadliest vampires in the world.