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Please read on because this is where Nekolai reveals all about him and Celeste. Please review!
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All vampires in the room were quiet, either awkwardly or surprisingly, or even confused. The ones closer to the thrones backed up thinking something was about to go down between Nekolai and Caius.
"Junior? Did they just call him junior?" Alice.
"Yes Alice they did." Nekolai answered fiercely making everyone shudder.
"I knew you looked familiar…" that was Carlisle. "I remember some time back, I came across this picture in the library during the time I was here. It had a picture of you and Celeste as children, but when I asked everyone here about it they said they weren't sure."
"That was my sister's power, we made sure before we left no one would remember us so as not to search for us." Not one of the Volturi would speak, they were too stunned to say anything.
"What exactly is going on here?" Eleazar of the Denali coven asked. "He called you son, are you his real son or his adopted son?"
"Biological…unfortunately." That seemed to strike a nerve in Caius since his eyes twitched in pain almost. "Athenodora gave birth to me and Celeste over 1000 years ago, as strange as it sounds she was the only female vampire who could conceive children. After we were born though, Aro here made sure it wouldn't happen again since apparently something went wrong and all three of us almost died."
"That's impossible…" Rosalie.
"Hard as it may sound, the resemblance is remarkable. He looks almost exactly like Caius…" Nekolai stamped his foot into the floor leaving a deep footprint.
"NEVER say that again!" Eleazar shook for a second. Everyone backed away but for a second Carmen was about to move in when Eleazar stopped her.
"Junior please don't be rash!" Athenodora tried to get to him again but he pushed her away.
"Don't call me that, my name is Nekolai." Caius looked distraught.
"Nekolai?"
"It's Romanian for 'victor of the people'." Marcus pointed out. "Nekolai…it's good to see you again." Nekolai looked at Marcus and gave a small smirk.
"Guess it won't hurt to say the same to you Marcus." Marcus smiled a little and then Aro stepped forward.
"Nekolai…would you mind explaining where you've been all this time?" he asked but of course Caius butted in.
"His name is Caius Ampelios Volturi II; he is my son and will go by his birth name."
"YOU BE QUIET!" Nekolai shouted. "I dropped that name centuries ago, I refuse to be addressed as one of you."
"But why? Why did you leave, didn't you like it here?" Sulpicia asked coming forward from beside Aro.
"You have a lot of nerve asking me that Sulpicia."
"Show some respect son!" that was it. Nekolai walked up to Caius, stared at him for a few seconds, and then punched him in the jaw. Everyone jumped back a few feet, but all Caius did was slowly turn back to Nekolai and glare.
"As I seem to recall, attacking one of the Volturi is punishable by death. So what old man? You gonna kill me or not?" Caius looked over to Aro and he just shook his head.
"You're the victim here, it's up to you." Caius stayed quiet.
"Just like I remember, all bark no bite. You can't even stand up and bully me like you do everyone else around here." Everyone ooed at that. "Well since your memory is back why don't you tell everyone why we vanished in the first place? As a matter of fact you were the one who told us to leave in the first place weren't you?"
"Wait what…?" Caius seemed speechless, and looked away in shame. Athenodora went to his side and looked at him curiously and suspiciously.
"Caius what's he talking about?" Nekolai turned to her and glared.
"Your memory seems a little shot 'mother', think hard enough and you'll remember. All of you Volturi bastards think hard and you just might see why." All were silent, and then it was the gasps of all three Volturi leaders and the two wives that filled the room. "Now that you remember, why don't you elaborate for everyone here?"
"Aro what's he talking about?" Carlisle spoke up. Aro had a saddened look on his face, almost shameful, heartbroken.
"You see everyone, when the twins, Caius Volturi II and Ocarina Volturi were born, we had sheltered them for most of their life."
"More like imprisoned from the looks of it." Neko mumbled but they still heard him.
"We were all overjoyed when they were born, but when we almost lost them, Caius and Athenodora both decided that the children would never leave the castle. I had my doubts but they were the parents, and they decided to hide them."
"So you never once let them out?"
"No Carlisle, but since Aro's just drawling on like this let me explain it to you a little more thoroughly."
Flashback:
"CJ do you hear that?" a faint sound of screaming was heard by an eight-year-old Celeste (Ocarina) and Nekolai (Cj).
"Yeah…mother what's that sound?" Athenodora turned and smiled awkwardly at her two children.
"It's just the people outside dears, must be another festival. Now finish your reading I'm going to find your father." She left the twins' study room and shut the door behind her. That room, their bedroom, and their nursery were the only rooms the two were allowed in. The room was set up like a classroom, with only three desks, bookshelves, stationary, supplies, even paint sets and pictures.
"There's no festival today." Little Ocarina stated pointing at the 'calendar' on the wall. They'd heard the screaming many times before, only this time it sounded slightly different.
"Let's check it out." CJ closed his science book and Ocarina closed her mathematics book.
"Where're we going to go? We can't sneak out the room?"
"Um.." CJ looked around and remembered the passage behind the largest bookshelf. "The passage behind that shelf, here I'll lift you up." He lifted Ocarina onto his shoulders and she searched around but forgot how to open the passage.
"Which book?"
"The big blue one in the left corner of the second shelf. Just pull on it…" she reached her small hand up grabbing the book and tugged it making the shelf move to the side. "Now you go first I'm gonna close it." She went through the passage and the bookshelf closed behind them.
"Where does this go?"
"To a room just above the throne room, I found it when I was out exploring one night."
"Exploring when? How'd you get past the guards?"
"Not too hard when most of them are in one area. I did it that week you and mother were taking those dancing lessons."
"Oh yeah, I hated those lessons."
"Me too now come on." They walked quickly but quietly through the narrow passage and along the way there were a few small windows that showed inside other rooms, including their father's private study. As they continued down the screaming got louder, weird how it was drawling on slower than before.
"It's coming from that window there." Ocarina pointed to the small window in the front on the left. They slowly approached it and the sight was horrifying on the other side. The entire room was full of bloody corpses, and terrorized humans being held by the guard. The bodies of men, women, and children were all over the place, and the guards had blood dripping from their mouths and they were smiling.
"I call that one!" the large one named Felix grabbed a young woman who screamed as he bit into her flesh and drained her blood. The children watched as Aro smiled laughing at his guards having their meals, they never thought their family was this vile and distasteful. It was absolutely terrifying and horrifying to see the ones they loved devouring innocent lives.
"CJ…" Ocarina started crying and her big brother held her close to him. As he was about to pull her away she spotted their parents kissing hard on each other as they held the dying humans in their grip with blood dripping off their faces. Ocarina couldn't take it, before CJ could stop her she let a loud scream of fright as the humans were devoured. The scream made everyone freeze and look over their way.
"RUN!" CJ shouted and they started running back to the study room, busting through the shelf with what little vampire strength they had and hiding in the small corner. Footsteps came thundering their way and inside the room stepped their two uncles and their parents.
"Kids…did you see all of that?" CJ looked up still holding his baby sister glaring at Aro.
"Yes we did uncle." He snarled. Ocarina squeaked a sob and Athenodora tried to comfort her but she flinched and pulled away.
"Honey…"
"Don't talk to her you don't deserve to!" CJ shouted at his mother and everyone's eyes widened in shock.
"Don't raise your voice to your mother junior!" Caius shouted and Ocarina squealed again.
"Stop shouting you're scaring Ocarina." Marcus tried to calm everyone down but it didn't do much.
"You're…hic…monsters…hic…you…you killed hic…those people…" Ocarina said through hiccups. Aro walked a little closer and CJ pulled Oca to him more.
"Look dear ones, we're sorry…no we're all very sorry you witnessed that. We didn't want to tell you until you were older. When you would be able to…"
"To what understand? Oh we understand alright, we understand why you keep us locked away and teach us so many lessons on intelligence, dominion, battle strategies, wars, anything to make us into monsters like you!" they all flinched at those words.
"Don't talk back or interrupt junior it's rude! Look we feed on humans because it's our natural diet, it's how we are. You don't understand now but by the law when the humans know of our existence they must die or be changed, and we…"
"You took those peoples' lives! You saying the law states humans must be changed or die…WELL DAMN YOUR LAWS! DAMN YOU ALL!" CJ had tears coming down his face. Everyone was shocked at such words from a young boy's mouth.
"ENOUGH! You two are never leaving your rooms again, you will stay in there unless you have permission from me to leave! You are to never talk back or interrupt me again, you will mind your manners and your language…if not then you both can leave when you're old enough!"
"Caius!" Aro and the others shouted in surprise and Caius stormed out of the room. Marcus turned back to the twins and leaned down to their level as everyone raced after Caius.
"Look children, I know you don't fully understand this yet but you will soon. We want what's best for you both that's all we want especially your mother and father." CJ was about to speak when Oca stopped him.
"How could you…how could you kill those people? We thought you were, the best one here…?" Marcus had a saddened look in his eyes after those words.
"We'll talk about this later, right now you two just calm down and dry your eyes. I'll go talk to your father…" after that he walked out of the room and shut the door behind him. Ocarina started sobbing again and CJ kept trying to sooth her.
"W-We can't do this…we can't kill innocent people…"
"Shh…shhhh sissy it's ok."
"No it's not, they'll make us killing machines like them. I don't want this life…I don't want this.." she kept crying again and this time CJ realized what was done, the damage to his sister's heart and his own.
"Then we'll leave, we'll leave this place." Ocarina snuggled into her brother's arms and he kept holding her until she finally calmed down.
End flashback.
No one said a word after Nekolai finished his story. Not even Aro had a word to say, he too was distraught by it all.
"Celli wouldn't stop crying after that, she spent so many other nights after that alone in her bed screaming and crying I couldn't stand it anymore. So sometime later we left this hellhole and made it on our own; we made sure no one would know we were gone, that we never existed. It's been over a millennia since, and there's not one day that goes by I don't forget that one day that made us see what these people really are." Little Renesmee was crying softly, and Bella kept holding onto her while Edward smoothed her hair.
"And so you renounced your names with them, your ties, your relationships, everything?" Carlisle and Esme asked together.
"Everything Mrs. Cullen, everything. After that we swore to each other we'd never set foot in this city again, but when you asked us to come along I knew it was only a matter of time before Celeste's power wore off so I made sure she wasn't seen or heard. If even one Volturi had seen her face her power would go off instantly, but now that she's not here to fix it it's already taken it's time away."
"Son…listen…what I said that day, I didn't mean it. I was just angry that my own child knew such profanity and used it against me. I didn't want to lose you or Ocarina…"
"Her name is Celeste! My name is Nekolai get it right old man!"
"Junior please let your father talk!" Aro said calmly but Neko wouldn't hear it.
"Save your apologies Aro, because once this is all done and over with Celli and I are leaving again and this time we're never coming back! You all can go back to your hellish lives of devouring the innocent and bullying the other vampires once we're gone and you can drop this act!"
"Son please we're not acting this is the truth…" Caius tried to touch his son but Neko smacked his hand away.
"Don't. Touch. Me." He growled. "I don't give a damn what you have to say Caius, after this battle it's over! Celli will use her power again and none of you will ever remember this! EVER!" Nekolai punched Caius again and raced off into the palace not bothering to hear his mother and family call after him.
Pretty intense I know, but don't worry I might lighten things up in the next chapter. I think I'll bring out where Caius and the rest of the Volturi realize their mistakes with the twins and will probably try to fix it. I'll also throw in a small bit of Celeste's part where she's been taken and a little surprise in store for everyone else.
Keep the reviews coming and I'll keep the chapters going!
