Hey everyone, glad you liked the last chapter cuz this brings in another P.O.V., well not specifically but you get the picture as you read along. This takes place with the Romanians heading off to see some friends in Russia when they run into a mortal enemy of the vampires all around.
Enjoy!
Stefan's P.O.V.:
Vladimir and I were heading up to Russia to visit some friends of ours just three days after that 'battle' against the Volturi. We were upset there wasn't much of a fight, but at least no one else was hurt in the process other than Irina. We were just about to enter the Russian vampires' territory but a loud scream caught our attention along with crunching sounds. Vladimir ran ahead of me and when we reached the sounds we could see a huge beast tearing apart Valentina, one of the members of the Russian Coven.
"NO!" Vladimir stupidly shouted and the beast, a humongous werewolf, turned to us and leapt away dropping Valentina into the bonfire with the rest of the charred pieces of her family. We tried to run but the wolf was quick and caught Vladimir by the face and in one flick of it's wrist the wolf tore his head off his body and threw it towards the fire.
"No! Vladimir!" I cried out but before I could do anything at all the wolf threw the rest of my brother into the huge flames. As the beast leapt at me I prepared myself for the death I felt coming, but the beast never made it to me; I looked to see three other wolves standing in front of me, restraining their pack member.
"Hold it dear friends, it seems this one could be useful to us." A tall wolfish looking man came out and I noticed the others were shifting back to human form, I could see it would be dawn soon, the moon was setting. The man had a pointed face with harsh looking dark eyes that could almost match his beard and dark hair covering his face.
"Who are you?" he smiled a nasty grin at me and I shuddered just looking at him.
"We are the natural enemies of your kind, or as Caius Volturi would call us…filthy beasts, Children of the Moon at that."
"How? The Volturi nearly wiped out your kind centuries ago.."
"Correct my young friend, and the wolf that caused all of that to happen was very important to my pack. The Volturi annihilated half of our pack and our neighbors as well, so we owe it to them to take out those dearest to them, say maybe…Caius and Aro's mates? Or perhaps the entire Volturi and those Cullens?"
"You can't take them on, you won't win!" I shouted and my neck was gripped tightly by the man.
"I could kill you right now, but that would be too easy. So I'll let you live Romanian, if you'll pass on a message to the Volturi."
"What…message?"
"We don't want to start a full out war against them, but we will if we have to. We only want justice for our fallen. All we want is Caius since he murdered our leader, and we will have revenge. Go now to Volterra…and don't make any stops. Go!" without being told twice I raced off back towards the end of the country and ran West from Moscow, hoping to reach Volterra within the next few days. Unfortunately for me, I knew the Volturi would not like me being there in their territory.
'I'm so screwed.'
In Volterra, four days later:
I finally reached the Volturi's full on territorial grounds, but sadly I had not eaten in over four days and was dreadfully thirsty. That blasted rule of theirs would keep me from eating in the city, but since I knew a way around it all, I could only feed on a criminal whom no one would miss. Just as I reached the city lines I heard some noises coming from an alleyway, thank goodness it was dark; I went over and looked around the corner seeing a large man trying to rape a young girl, around fourteen or fifteen I think. I did feast on humans, but innocent children I would not.
"You there!" I called out and the man turned to me holding the tearful girl by her collar. "I suggest you let her go." He snarled at me and I could smell booze from his skin.
"What you gonna do if I don't buddy?" the girl looked at me begging me to help, so first I had to get her away from him. "She your girl? You don't mind I have some do you?" I felt anger boiling inside me, and at human speed I ran at him, stopped for a minute, and punched him in the gut. He let go of the girl and she ran behind me.
"Run home little one, your family must be worried." She looked at me and ran without a word. I picked the man up by the collar of his shirt and leaned to whisper in his ear. "Pigs like you should know better than to prey on children, and I'm going to be the one to teach you a lesson." Without waiting for him to speak I bit down into his flesh and sucked the very life from him. He didn't even have time to scream as I covered his mouth and finished him off. His body dropped to the ground and I realized if he was found I'd be killed. I could smell gasoline in the corner of the alley, and I happened to have a match on me just to be safe on some cases. I put his body in the corner, and lit the spot where his corpse went up in flames. At that moment I ran straight into the city and made it to the front door of the Volturi palace. I entered the doors and made my way down to where I knew at least Aro would be in the throne room, but unfortunately I had to run into none other than Felix, the big flirt of the guard.
"What are you doing here Romanian?" he came up and got into my face but I had to hold my ground.
"I have to see Aro…it's urgent." He sneered at me and backed up a bit.
"Urgent eh? Not sure if I can trust you with that, where's your friend Vladimir?" I shuddered remembering the death of my brother and best friend.
"He's…he's gone."
"Gone as in left or…?"
"Dead. He was killed by a werewolf, but I have to speak to Aro. I have no other reason for coming other than the message I have." He didn't seem to believe me, but then again why would he; as big of a flirt he was he still followed orders.
"Follow me." He turned and I followed a few feet behind him. We went to the large double doors in the main part of the palace, but then Felix turned back to me. "Wait here." He opened the doors and went inside leaving me alone.
'God I hope they listen.' A few seconds later the witch twins came in and Alec searched me while Jane eyed me all over.
"Can't be too careful, now come Aro will see you." They led me into the throne room where all three of the 'royal' kings were seated on their thrones. Marcus looked bored, Aro curious, and Caius furious as their usual looks.
"What business have you here Stefan? You know you're not allowed in our walls." Aro.
"I come bearing a message, mainly for Caius but if you read my thoughts you'll see I come for no other reason." I held out my hand and Aro stood up to touch it but didn't get far.
"A message for me; from whom?" Caius stood up glaring.
"Russian werewolves." Those words made the entire guard stop in their tracks. Aro's face looked serious and he touched my hand before pulling away a few seconds later.
"What did you see Aro?" Caius went over to him.
"It appears that Vladimir is dead, just like Stefan said. A werewolf attacked the Russian Coven, and the final member was devoured by the same wolf that killed Vladimir. One flick of his wrist and he was torn to pieces." Caius didn't bother to hide the surprised look on his face.
"That's impossible…the only werewolf who could do that is…"
"Radovan's pack." Aro finished for him. "You killed him though, so we know it can't be him. His pack though…that's another thing."
"We only left a few alive, but they can't pull this off on their own. They're just mindless beasts."
"They're leader is intelligent." I had to speak up. "He said their leader was one of the best and they want justice for his death."
"I could see that in your thoughts Stefan. They don't want to start a war, they just want Caius but unfortunately we need to know more about this before we decide what to do."
"What are we to do Aro?" Marcus asked in a bored tone. Aro was quiet for a minute and then looked at the other two.
"For now we have to alert the other covens to keep an eye out for anything suspicious. We'll have to mention the werewolves since it could be anyone's life they could take after killing the Russian vampires. Get me the phone, I'll call the Cullens and the Denalis, Marcus you can call the others, Caius go to your wife. Just make sure she's alright, I'll be up there shortly."
"What about him?" Jane pointed at me and Aro looked at her.
"Escort him to the dungeons, he'll be kept there until further notice."
'Of course he'd recommend that.' Felix took me by the arm as did Demetri and I was led away into a cold metal room with thick walls and one window with hardly any sunlight. After dropping me off they left me alone, leaving me to ponder my thoughts. Vladimir would never forgive me for coming here, but I could only think that he was better off with our coven than being on earth imprisoned like me.
'Forgive me brother, I only wish I could've done more.'
It's a start but it's only a portion of what's coming for Caius. Next chapter goes back to the Cullens and they receive the call from Aro about the werewolves. Should I have Alice get a vision of it all, should the new twins accompany them to Volterra if needed?
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