Sutton Place Manhattan, New Volterra 4:00pm

Caius looked upon the gathered press and reporters from the international news networks, all crushing together as they set up cameras and microphones around the small oak wood desk his followers had brought in as he sat before them in a high backed leather armchair that had, until a few hours ago, been the property of the UN Secretary General.

He had no worries about this press conference, the first to ever be given by a vampire in history, at least, the first one where his species was known. It had been his idea, whilst his forces cleared the bodies from the burnt out UN Headquarters, to hold an interview to the whole world to give his version of events after the battle at the UN building in the official residence of the UN Secretary General.

As he prepared himself for this historic interview, his mind flashed back to hours before when he and Jane had emerged onto the roof of the main building, just as the Secretary General and his bodyguards had been clambering aboard a waiting helicopter. There, as Sky News and CBS helicopters filmed him, Caius had leapt forward, cutting through the leader's guards and held the man above his head, live on international news networks and screamed out to an audience of billions 'We are Volturi!'.

"We are almost ready my lord." Said one of the vampire's guards, a hulking American vampire named Bennet, as a pale faced human technician checked the bank of microphones in front of the Volturi leader.

Behind Caius stood Jane and five other vampires, all members of his new 'Praetorian Guard', along with two crimson Volturi flags, one still stained with blood from the battle hours before. In front of him gathered dozens of human reporters, all terrified but strangely excited by the prospect of watching the speech of the vampire who had taken New York City in one night and renamed it to New Volterra, driving out or killing thousands of UN and American soldiers in the process.

He could smell their fear, despite his repeated assurances that their safety was guaranteed. Caius had even torn apart one of his lieutenants, a vengeful South African vampire who had carried the Volturi flag in the battle at the UN Headquarters, without a second thought as he had attempted to attack a group of Chinese reporters from their state news network. Despite his hatred of the UN, Caius had nothing but apathy for humanity as a whole. They were but cattle to him, and soon he would be their ruler.

As Bennet gave him a nod Caius closed his eyes and brought to mind the speech he had created in his head an hour ago, after returning from driving out a particularly stubborn band of Ultra Vector troops who had barricaded themselves in the Wall Street stock exchange.

Watching the steadily counting down fingers of a nearby technician, Caius stared straight at the cameras and, as the man gave him a thumbs up, began.

"Humans of the world." He stated simply. "I am speaking to you now from the former city of New York, one of your greatest and brightest achievements as a species, and now the capital of my new Empire of the Fang. I will not speak down to you now as I wish to put your minds at ease and not to scare you. But first I must introduce myself. I am Caius, leader of the Volturi, king of New Volterra and, of course, a vampire."

As he said this there were muffled gasps of disbelief from the reporters in front of him. Despite the images of him and his followers punching holes through tanks and jumping up to ensnare low flying helicopters last night, they had still clung to the belief that Caius and his army were human but now, in front of billions of people, he had just broken the greatest of the Volturi laws and revealed the existence of his race to humanity. But the Volturi leader cared little for the old rules as he spoke to the world.

"I and my followers, and thousands, if not millions, like me, are all around you, but don't make stupid presumptions. We are not the monsters of myth and legend. You cannot harm or fight us. We will destroy anyone and anything that opposes us. For too long my race has lived in the shadows and, on behalf of us all, I am revealing myself to you."

He frowned.

"I do not come in peace though humanity. I come to bring war to your race. I come not to surrender or lay down and submit, but to watch you do just that. But fear not people of the world. My race do not wish to exterminate you, oh no. Unlike some of your race…" he added darkly. "…we are not genocidal or vengeful in nature. Day one. Year zero. New regime. As of today all governments, nations, militaries and races will submit to me and my people. Join or die." He said softly but with menace. "For any who have not laid down their arms and joined the Empire of the Fang will soon find themselves facing our wrath."

Glaring straight into the cameras in front of him, Caius' eyes blazed red.

"I am speaking to you Ultra Vector. I stand now on the ruins of your headquarters, ready to wipe you out. No mercy shall be given to you, since you gave us none. Humanity shall know of the crimes of the United Nations 'Ultra Vector' unit. They were responsible for the use of weapons of mass destruction upon innocent humans and vampires alike. They were the ones who raided our homes and killed us without trial or protest. We have committed no crime beyond our existence, which they seem to find an abomination. I have lived in this world for centuries and I have seen this kind of action time and time again by tyrants and despots and I vow to bring them to justice for their crimes."

As he said this two vampires marched into the room from a side door, a figure with a black hood over their head and dressed in nothing but a the blue remains of a UN flag between them, who they presented to Caius.

"This." He declared. "Is the face of a traitor!"

And with that he tore of the hood in one sweep of his arm to reveal the shocked face of the Secretary General, sweating and trying to hide his face until the two guards held his arms down.

"This man." Caius said. "He ordered the genocide of our race! He did not enter into diplomacy! He did not approach us with any terms beyond an atomic weapon dropped on our city! And now he stands before you to sign the terms of surrender on behalf of humanity."

Bennet appeared by Caius for a second, placing a piece of paper and pen on the desk before moving to one side.

"On behalf of the United Nations, and humanity, this man has handed over leadership of the world to me and my people. From this point on, I will be accepting ambassadors and envoys from every nation on Earth until all of you have submitted to my rule. And, if any of you are feeling rebellious…" he said as the Secretary General signed the treaty with shaking hands. "On your screens now you should be seeing the gathered members of the United Nations Security Council. They are in my custody and will pay for their crimes in due course but, for every day before the world submits to me, I will kill one of them and if, a week from now, humanity has not bowed to its new leader, I will not just kill them all."

He leaned forward, knowing all the cameras would now have zoomed in on his face.

"I will raze to the ground every nation that still stands against me."

He continued, sensing the fear of everyone in the room skyrocketing.

"Of course, you are a race of warriors and I know many of you will,foolishly, believe yourselves above my demands and I am talking to you now. Send out your armies, your soldiers and machines of war."

He balled up a fist.

"I will crush everyone who stands against me and, when the world is at my feet…"

He paused for a second, letting the meaning of his words sink in.

"I am coming for you Ultra Vector."