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Alena POV
I froze, my body prickled all over and I felt rooted to the ground. In other words, I was scared, very, very, very scared.
Suddenly, they stepped closer to me and I could see them clearly in the moonlight. They were vampires, two of them. Both were pale, as vampires were, one had blonde hair, his misty red eyes flicked over my body.
"Human, how utterly delightful…" He sighed in happiness. For some reason, the way he talked reminded me of the Volturi, the way they all talked- with such knowledge and age.
I bit my lip and watched the other vampire, with black hair and the same misty red eyes as he muttered something incoherent to the other one. Right at this moment, I wanted to be a vampire, to hear what they were saying and not seem too vulnerable towards them.
Finally I found my voice, "Who are you?" I asked hesitantly.
They both looked at me, a smile playing around with their lips.
"Before we answer your question, would you be so helpful as to answer ours first."
I was so afraid they were going to kill me; I nodded my head in hope to buy more time. What was I going to do, I couldn't run away, they'd catch up to me in the next second, I definitely couldn't fight them, I came to the conclusion that all I could do was hope that Aro had sent someone to see where I was or be at these two vampire's mercy.
The blonde smiled, "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
I laughed nervously, "I'm Alena Grayson, I'm with the Cullens and we're here for Caius and Athenodora's anniversary."
The black hair one let out a satisfied 'ah'.
"Well, since you answered our question, I think it' only fair we answer yours. We are the Romanian Clan. I am Stefan and this is Vladimir."
I gasped, I remembered Jane telling me about them on my first night in Volterra. The Romanian Coven used to rule the vampire world thousands of years ago. They told their city that they were vampires so the Volturi decided to come and wipe them out for so freely admitting a secret that needed to be kept. Their castles were burned and the rest of the coven was destroyed then the Volturi became somewhat royalty for the vampires.
"So you recognize us?" Vladimir observed.
"I…I… Jane told me about the Romanians." I stuttered.
Stefan smiled grimly, "I think we could use you as leverage, I overheard Eleazar talking to Aro about the power you would possess if you were to become a vampire. I hear you are very, very useful to the Volturi, a great asset, let us remember, Aro doesn't surround himself around second-bests. We could use you to help us gain power again, to overthrow the Volturi"
I frowned, "The power?"
Stefan laughed in obvious delight, "You do not know young one, ah… this is precious indeed. Come! You will now stay with Vladimir and I, not that you have any choice."
I gasped, "No! Everyone will be looking for me! You'll never get away with this!"
Vladimir laughed mirthlessly, "They don't know what they'll be looking for, and we'll be long gone before they ever realize that you are gone."
I trembled, I couldn't do anything! I felt so helpless and scared.
Stefan stepped closer to me, so close I could smell the sweet aroma that vampires had, so sweet you were filled with bliss.
"What are you doing?" Vladimir hissed.
Stefan smiled grimly, "Making clear to her that we aren't joking, and putting out some of my anger towards the Volturi, since she's so close to them."
I started to scream, but he covered my mouth with his gloved hand.
Suddenly I felt a sharp pull on my hair, I whimpered as he twisted and pulled. Out of nowhere I was thrown against one of the walls of the alleyway. I felt something crunch and I shrieked out in anguish as I felt Stefan grab my arm sharply, pulling on it so hard I felt it was going to come out of my socket. With horror, I remembered that this wasn't even a quarter of his strength.
"Why are you doing this?" I gasped.
He laughed, "For fun."
I heaved in a breath of air, for fun!? What?!
"Stefan! Stop now! We can't have her all broken if we're going to use her for leverage."
"Wait!" Stefan hissed. He threw me on the ground and stood on my arm, I heard an audible and clear snap! I cried out in pain and fear, I was going to die if he kept going.
"STEFAN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" I vaguely heard Vladimir yell.
"I can't stop myself, her blood! I want it!" He growled back.
I felt his cool breath on my neck, his teeth, they brushed my skin ever so lightly, I gulped, was the end near…?
"Stefan, stop!" Vladimir tried to force Stefan off me, but my blood was that- that entirely drove Stefan's wildness.
Suddenly, Stefan was thrown off me! I fell back heavily and I could hear a snarl and guttural growl right next to me. I tried to open my eyes, I was too weak and in pain. With my good arm, I gently probed my other, the slightest touch prove that it was heavily injured.
"AH!" I yelled in pain, my eyes bursting open from the adrenaline of the pain.
Demetri…
"Alena, get out of here!" He hissed.
I tried to move, I really did, but the pain racked through my body, every move I tried took a toll on the rest of my body. I tried crawling, but that seemed impossible with only one arm to help me struggle along.
"Argh!" I heard the aggravated cry from Stefan and I saw him heave himself off the ground, with the hatred in his eyes, he rushed forward, pushing Vladimir out of his way as he headed for Demetri who was directly in front of me. Oh, this could not end well.
I felt pain, that and panic was all I felt when I was thrown into the canal. The sheer force of impact must of surprised Demetri because he stumbled heavily back and I was push a far ways back- in the water. It was freezing! I tried to use my one good arm to keep afloat. It did no help! I would helplessly bob on top of the water and then sink back down. The times I was above water, I watched in horror as Demetri fought Stefan, they circled and struck, the throws and flips, both matched in strength, however, Demetri carried the upper hand when it came to experience. Soon his hands were on Stefan's head, Stefan was on his knees with Demetri ready to twist and break. Alas! Another force slammed into Demetri and I sunk under water, I flailed around helplessly and broke the surface, to see Vladimir and Demetri in fierce battle.
"Stefan! Let us go! We have no need for this battle!" Vladimir hissed as he tried to twist Demetri's arms behind his back.
Demetri flung him off, I gurgled and sunk, I don't think I could have kept afloat any longer so I called out.
"Demetri!"
He glanced at me, his focus momentarily adverted. Vladimir and Stefan saw this as their chance to get away and they took off! Fast into the night, far from my sight in mere seconds.
"Demetri…!" Another voice called out.
"Felix, get Stefan and Vladimir! Eastward!" He yelled back.
I looked wildly around me, I had far underestimated this canal thinking it was only a meter or so wide, and not to deep. Now, I knew I was wrong, so wrong. It was at least three meters in width and with a sinking feeling; I realized that my feet could be no where near the bottom.
Now, people know that when you panic, you sink. I can prove that.
As the fear overtook me, so did the water.
If I'd been afloat, I would have seen Felix come into view and zoom into the direction that Stefan and Vladimir had taken off in. I also may have seen Demetri take off his cloak and dive into the canal and pull me out.
I gasped wildly for air as he effortlessly found me and dragged me out of the freezing cold water. As soon as I was out, I was shivering like there was absolutely no tomorrow.
"Here, take this." Cool arms propped me upright and draped a long cloak over my shivering body.
I yelp as Demetri mistakenly caught a hold of my arm that was injured.
"What's wrong?" He asked, surprisingly, I detected a hint of worry in his voice that shocked me. I quickly shook this shocked feeling aside and groaned as he gently pulled my left arm again.
"Stefan! He stepped on it!" I gasped.
With concerned eyes, Demetri prodded up and down my left up, with quiet whimpers from me every so often. I looked deeply into his crimson eyes and shivers cascaded up and down my spine as his cool fingers prodded my arm.
"It's broken." He decided.
"Come on, let's get you back." He said, his voice somehow having a calm effect on me.
I nodded, shivering.
"Hey now, what's wrong?"
Suddenly, I felt his cool smooth porcelain fingers rubbing my cheeks. Only then did I realize that I was crying, oh great.
I sniffed, "I, I… I'm fine."
He raised an eyebrow, "Sure, now what's wrong?"
"Nothing… I just…" Something rustled in a bush next to me and I yelped in sudden fear.
His voice softened and he sighed, "I'm so sorry you had to go through that, what happened?"
I shuddered, taking a deep breath, "I just needed to clear my head and I found myself down by that canal, and then, they were just there. They were talking about taking me for leverage, something about regaining control of the vampire world. Then, I don't know, I think Stefan lost it or something, he started to attack me and saying something about my blood and it makes him crazy or something… I was so scared."
The last part left my mouth before I could stop it, now I felt like a fool, admitting that to some, especially Demetri. What was worse was the fact that I had tears running down my cheeks again, but I couldn't help it, I had never been so petrified and anyway of reliving that memory, even by telling- was too much… to talk about coming close to death.
"No, don't cry, it's okay, you're safe now."
Suddenly, he lifted me up, with any effort, without a grunt or heave. Silently, he hoisted me up, carrying my bridal style and hugging me close. I clung to his cloak that was securely and warmly tight across my body.
"Demetri, I lost them!"
A sinking feeling started to fill me up from my toes up to me head, my stomach began to feel queasy.
"…You what…?" Demetri literally hissed.
"I lost them, they were too far ahead! What? It's not like I had a tracker with me."
I looked up at Demetri, his eyes narrowed at that comment.
"They're there! I can feel them! They're--"
Felix frowned, "They're what?"
Demetri looked so confused, for a second, I thought that the lines on his face might be permanently etched in.
"I—they, what happened? They just disappeared, I can't feel them anymore. They're gone, or covered," He hissed, "This does not make any sense- Alena, did they have anyone else with them?"
I shook my head, slightly dazed.
"No, why?"
Demetri sighed, "Shield, like Bella… they may have one, founded or created…"
I narrowed my eyes; well… this was absolutely perfect.
Felix sighed, "Let's just get back, Alena's been through enough."
I sighed as Demetri hugged me very close, so I could once again smell the head-spinning honey-like smell. But this time, there was something different, with Demetri, there was a spice-y smell somehow mixed in.
In no time at all, we were back at the castle. Felix bade goodbye and went off in search for Aro to tell him what happened. Demetri had taken the role of taking me to Jane's room. As we neared the corridor that led to Jane's room, we were ambushed by Alice.
"Oh, Alena! I'm so, so deeply sorry; I don't know why I didn't see that before! I'm so sorry!"
I shook my head, quickly finding that even that hurt.
"No, it's fine, please, don't worry about it, I'm okay."
"You have a broken arm, a sprained ankle, bruises all over you and dried blood from your head. You are definitely not 'okay', also because Demetri is carrying you. If you were fine, he wouldn't need to. Who found you?"
I looked pointedly at Demetri who had a small smirk on his face, stupid idiot liked to annoy her.
"Are you serious? You found her?" Alice hissed.
"What's it to you?" He growled back.
I tried to beg Alice with my eyes to stop (the Cullens and Demetri did not have the cheeriest history) and it worked, "Thanks, I owe you one." She finally said grudgingly.
Demetri nodded and kept walking to Jane's room with me in his arms.
As he opened the door, I peeked inside, Jane wasn't in there, which was good thing… she had a small knack for asking too many questions.
He walked over to the bed and laid me down.
"How did you find me?"
He laughed, easing the mood, "Don't you know I'm the world's greatest tracker- I can find anyone."
I smiled, "I know that, but how do you do it?"
He shrugged, "By your mind, I find the, uh… how I explain this would be the question… Your, well, the flavor, I guess… no that's not the right word… ah, the tenor. I look for the tenor in the creature I want, human, vampire, shape-shifter… anything. Then I'm just drawn to it."
I nodded, "Anywhere in the world?"
He nodded back, "Anywhere."
"Wow… um, look Demetri, I'm sorry, really I didn't mean to go off at you like that, I don't hate you."
He smiled, "That's good to hear. I guess I'm sorry too, I don't take to well to the Cullens… it's an on-going feud."
I nodded, that whole Renesmee thing and everyone feeling threatened by him.
"Besides, it was my fault that this thing hadn't happened, if I had not have annoyed you, you wouldn't have taken off."
I smiled, "Its okay, it doesn't matter…"
Demetri's form was moving considerably closer, his face seemed to be studying mine. He sunk onto the bed, his knee making a valley in the mattress. He rested his whole body on the bed, so he was practically sitting on it. He reached his hand out, fingers slightly clasped together. Closer and closer they came, until they were about an inch from my face…
Suddenly, the door swung open.
"Alena… is Demetri—oh."
I swiveled my head around quickly, Demetri doing the same. Felix was there, the door open and a smirk on his face.
"Shit." I heard the ever so quiet mumble from Demetri as he pulled his hand back sharply and literally got up as quick as a flash.
"Felix, what is it?" Demetri asked politely, with quiet venom hidden in his voice.
Straightening up, Felix answered,
"Aro wanted to see the both of you."
Demetri gave way to a one nod and Felix winked at me and left.
Turning his attention back on me, "Come, we have to go."
I nodded as he helped me off the bed, "Yeah, hang on… I don't particularly fancy going there damp."
He nodded.
I hopped off to the wardrobe, pulling out some jeans and a silk top. I hobbled to the bathroom and painfully got changed. Quickly looking in the mirror, I brushed my hair.
"Shit!" I hissed.
Demetri quietly came in, confusion seeping across his face.
"I was bleeding?! How come I didn't know that?"
"Loss of blood can cause some damage to the brain, not that you need any help with that."
I glared up and him, and his face was a mask of no sentiment, I almost thought he actually thought I was partially stupid, but as I looked away, I caught one glimpse of his face again. I could tell he was fighting a smile on his perfect porcelain skin.
I quickly got a moist tissue and dabbed at the dried blood, successfully wiping it off. I found the cut on my head, just before my hairline, a deep cut by the looks of it.
"How do you stand it, my blood right now?" I asked in wonder.
He sighed, "I think the question is why you aren't dead by now."
"Not funny."
"I know."
We both walked out, very slowly due to my ankle. But with vampire strength and speed, and Demetri's ever blooming impatience, we arrived at the door in three seconds flat and went inside.
"Alena! You're well" A cheery voice called.
I watched dumbfounded as Aro swiftly strode up to me and embraced my hands.
"Oh… you poor dear little one, lucky that Demetri was there..." He crooned.
I smiled, "Yeah, lucky."
I was glad that Aro had touched me, because then I didn't have to go through the crucial pain of the story.
"…and what's this?" He delicately touched the cut on my forehead, making me cringe a little.
With a snap of his fingers, Felix was at his side.
"Bring me Lia."
In a few seconds, a tall brunette was next to me, looking like she was 18. Her styled fringe and long swaying hair… though not as long as mine, framed her face exquisitely. She was dressed in a long and high boots, skinny jeans and a flowing tunic, but it was her golden eyes that surprised me.
"You called?" She asked.
He smiled and kissed Lia on both cheeks.
"Yes, we have a small problem here, would you be so as kind to fix it?" He said, pointing at me forehead.
She nodded, "Of course."
She stood in front of me, her eyes focused on my cut and lips in a straight line.
Suddenly, she smiled and straightened up.
"There, all done."
I felt my head, and sure enough, it was gone. No traces of it, I don't even think there was a scar.
"Thank you." I stammered.
Aro touched Lia on the shoulder in thanks, "This, is Lia. She's part of the Denali coven, it's such a shame and waste that she does not have any need to join the Volturi. She has the unique gift of changing a molecular structure."
Lia smiled and saw that she was no longer needed and soon, she was gone.
"Demetri! Come here." Aro ordered.
Suddenly, Demetri was beside me.
"Master?"
"A shield?"
He nodded, "It couldn't have been anything else."
Aro clasped his hands together, "Yes, yes, I believe you, however, I would like to run one small little test. Just in case."
Demetri nodded.
"Alec." Aro called.
I glanced at Alec, who was looking straight at Demetri. I looked back. Demetri's blood-red eyes turned white and he stiffened.
Aro looked at me.
"Pick a place, any place in this room. I want to see if Demetri can still find you."
I nodded.
Looking around, I saw Jane, emotionless, a few meters away. I walked over to her and stood next to her. We both smiled at each other.
"Alec, unblock his senses, expect for the blindness and smell."
Alec nodded and the air shimmered around Demetri for a second before his figure relaxed, but eyes remaining white.
"Demetri, go, find Alena. You have no sight and no smell. No cheating." Aro called out, somewhat amused.
Demetri nodded and flexed his shoulders.
I watched him as he closed his eyelids and a line creased in his forehead momentarily then disappeared as he straightened up.
I blinked and as soon as my eyelids uncovered my eyes, in that split second, he was there.
"Alec!" Aro called out again.
Demetri's eyes unwhitened and he took in a deep breath. He looked at me with emotionlessly.
I smiled back.
"You really do have a gift." Aro breathed out into the air.
Demetri turned around and in a second was back at Aro's side.
"Well done."
Demetri nodded.
"Take Alena back Jane, and please make sure that there are no problems this time."
I smothered a smile.
"Yes master." Jane nodded and led me out of the room. As soon as we were in the hallway towards her room, she pinned me against one of the walls.
"Alright, spill."
"What?" I asked, quite confused.
She narrowed her eyes and gave a grin, "What is up with you and Dem?"
"Dem… who is that?"
She rolled her eyes as if the answer was the most obvious person in the world.
"Demetri! Demetri Volturi! Who else?!"
I gave a nervous smile, "What about him?"
She smiled, "Something's going on, isn't there? Felix told me that he found you two on my bed. Wait, gross, that was MY bed! Oh my god! Nothing happened right?"
I gently pried her fingers off me, "Nothing happened, and for the record, nothing is going on."
She crossed her arms, "I bet something is. I mean, something's changed? I mean, didn't you two used to hate each other?"
I raised an eyebrow; did we, it seemed that those feelings had dispersed at the canal side, but he'd barely showed any emotion back in the room.
"No? Hate, no, immensely dislike, I did. I mean, he's alright now."
She laughed, "Whatever, I still think there is something going on."
I laughed, "Okay, well, you have fun with that.
She groaned, "Damn, I thought you'd tell me."
"Jane, Alena." A voice called out respectively.
We both swiveled our heads around to see Edward with his arms crossed at the beginning of the hallway.
"Edward, can you not see that I am in the middle of a conversation?" Jane growled. Oh god, I liked both the Cullens and Volturi, but I hated the way they felt about each other.
"Well you just finished. Alena and I need to talk."
I bit my lip, if he was daring enough to stand up to Jane Volturi, then it must be urgent, and important.
Jane's beautiful red eyes narrowed.
"Pain." I heard her say.
Nothing happened.
"Pain." She repeated a bit louder.
Nothing happened.
"Jane, I'd greatly appreciate it if you didn't try to hurt my husband." Another vampire came from around the corner.
"Bella, nice to see that you still have that shield of yours." Jane growled.
"Now, if you don't mind, Alena and I need to have a moment." Edward repeated evenly.
Jane growled, she stalked to her room and before she closed the door, she muttered to me.
"I'll be inside."
I nodded and walked briskly over to Edward and Bella who had stern looks on their face.
"You are in trouble missy." Edward reprimanded.
I gulped.
