Hello everyone! I'm so glad that you could join me for another Aussie Friday might posting of Heaven Sent.

I just want to thank Pien and Fran for their help. I tweaked it a little after Fran played with it so I hope it's okay.

DISCLAIMER: All things Twilight belong to SM. I just wanted to give them a different life.

Let's see how Aro and Caius are going to take this hmmm...

Chapter 25 – Harder to convince

Their shocked silence didn't last long.

"Us…End the world? Oh that's laughable." Aro scoffed.

"As if that's possible. You believe the tripe these people are spewing?" Caius demanded of Marcus.

Marcus stood there stoic and let them talk and yell at him, while Didy started crying at all the commotion. I watched as the ladies comforted Didyme including my Bella.

I watched for a few more minutes as they berated Marcus, I could see the reason why he was so quiet and why he didn't believe that they'd take this laying down.

"Enough!" I shouted, scaring the ladies. They all jumped and looked to me. "Forgive me, ladies, I apologize for my loud outburst."

'It's okay, my love. They were getting out of hand.' Bella thought.

"Bella, why don't you go and get something for Didyme to calm down. Anthenodora and Sulpicia, please take a seat there with Didyme while I get these three knuckleheads sorted out."

I waited until they were seated before I turned to look at the three so-called leaders of our kind. "You three make me sick. Your egos are too huge, considering that you've only been in charge for a couple of years. The fact that you are arguing about this instead of talking about it means that you think you're invincible. Guess what, you're not and the only reason that you won that fight against the Romanians is because the Gods let you.

"If your ideas had been against what they stood for or weren't good for the world as a whole, you would have lost. They would have stopped you."

"Who are the Romanians?" Caius spat.

Oops. "The Romanians are what you call the Dacians. The world has changed, as have the names of some places. The region now called Dacia will become Romania in our time. To alleviate the confusion, I'll call them the Dacians."

"Yeah, right." Aro grumbled under his breath.

Bella came back out to give Didyme something to settle her nerves because she hated confrontation. After what she'd been through I wasn't surprised. What did surprise me was an extra "voice" I heard listening in to the conversation.

'What does he mean the Gods? Who is this person talking to them like that? If they won unfairly I need to tell Vladimir and Stephan.'

I looked to Bella in alarm that we were being spied on. Why had they never been detected by the Volturi guards before?

'What is it Edward?'

'In the scrub over there.' I motioned with my head. 'We're being spied upon for Vladimir and Stephan, the Dacians.'

'I got it.' Bella stated before walking off.

"Oh that's rich. Like the Gods can control what we do, they couldn't stop us if they tried. How do we even know they exist?" Caius spouted off.

"And who do you think you are talking to us like that, anyway. You are just like everyone else here on this planet. We are your leaders and there is no possible way you have come back in time – it's not possible." Aro yelled.

"And I suppose that there are no such things as Angels either?" I asked in a hard voice.

That shut them up. They couldn't argue that angels weren't real because they had one in their company.

"Where's your little helper gone then, hmm?" Caius sneered. "I don't believe she's one and I still don't believe she or you have come back in time."

"No, you wouldn't Caius; you were always the more hardheaded one. We will prove it to you, just as soon as my mate has come back from capturing a spy." I retorted.

"What spy?" Marcus wondered.

"The one that has been working with the Dacians. Who are trying to find a way to bring you down. How have you not noticed?"

"That's not possible. We would have known if there was a spy hanging around!" the yelling commenced again from both Aro and Caius. I couldn't believe their childish attitude toward a threat.

"Is that so?" My Bella asked coming back into view with a vampire. She'd frozen him with her powers. He came willingly as soon as he felt the power emanating from her. He knew that she was more dangerous than anything he'd come across and at that moment she radiated fierce.

I could see from the look on my Bella's face that she was ready to explode due to the behavior that had been displayed. Her thoughts betrayed her, for an angel who was usually non-violent; she was ready to tear them apart.

The little kids, playing at being the world leaders, stopped arguing with everyone around them at once, not just because Bella had caught a spy—a vampire they'd never seen at all—but because they could feel the air charge with what she was capable of. She was radiating power and it caused them to cower, not something they were used to. Not even before they took on the Dacians.

Didyme had to be more disconnected from her roots than we'd anticipated; she never showed them her strength. Or at least before Bella had come to help her.

"You think you are the top of the food chain? Even though you have the proof sitting among you? You think that there is nothing out there stronger than you? You think that with all the power that you have around you that there couldn't be a more powerful being out there that can do the unthinkable?

"Edward, please hold this scumbag. I have something I need to do."

I took possession of the prisoner that Bella had captured, waiting to see what she wanted me to do next.

"Please, my love, stand with him over there behind the logs." She commanded with a smile.

Aro and Caius were incensed that she was telling me what to do.

I moved him over behind the logs that we had been sitting on, waiting to see what she would do next.

I watched with baited breath while she stood where I had been standing, spread her arms wide and let out that blinding white light. We all had to turn away to shield our eyes. When we were able to turn back around, she stood with her beautiful wings spread wide. I wanted to go to her, to groom the ones that seemed to be out of place but she turned back to me and shook her head.

I was torn from my thoughts by the gasps of Anthenodora and Sulpicia. "Oh wow." They breathed. "They're beautiful."

As a further show of her powers she turned around to the prisoner—who was in complete shock—and used her Earth Angel powers to make vines grow out from the ground, up around his legs and middle to hold him still. Pulled from his shock he began to fight the constricting vines. It didn't do him any good, though. For every vine he was able to tear off, three more grew in its place.

She turned back to Aro and Caius, crossed her arms while raising her eyebrows at them.

"Pfft," Caius scoffed. "Witchcraft."

"That's right; you're nothing more than a witch trying to play at being an angel." Aro accused.

Their wives were disappointed in their close-mindedness. They believed, even before all of Bella's proof.

"Didyme, have you never shown what you can do? Can they not sense your power?" Didyme had started to shake her head before Bella even finished asking. "Come here then and show them what you can do."

"No, Bella, I can't," she whispered. "He'll find me; he'll come and take me back."

"Please, Didyme," Anthenodora and Sulpicia begged. "Help us, teach us. Show us so that we may learn what we need to, to not end the world." Sulpicia continued.

"No!" Aro and Caius yelled. "You can't believe this nonsense." Caius finished.

"We can and we do." Dora countered. "We should have listened to her earlier instead of listening to your bigotry."

While they were talking, Bella walked over to Didy and pulled her up by her hands. She pulled her over to where she was standing before. I could see that she was boosting Didy's power through their joined hands.

'Granma hasn't used her powers in some time, my love. It's like when she got here she put away her wings and forgot all about who she was.'

'How can you tell that?'

'I sense a blockage in the pathways as I boost her powers. It's not complete, but with time it could have been. It's similar to when someone has a clogged artery; it's taking more effort to push the power to her than it should. I have to tell her something so she'll believe, give her something to release her from her fear.'

I nodded when she looked up at me. 'You do what you think is best, sweetheart. You know what she needs more than anyone else.'

Bella nodded at me, before she turned back to Didy. "He can't get you anymore. Balail has been stripped. He has no power over you anymore. He can no longer hurt you." She paused letting that sink in. "Help me heal you, bring them out and show the unbelievers what we can do. They don't believe because you don't, you haven't shown them that you are so much more powerful than they can ever hope to be!"

With that last statement I read in Bella's thoughts that she pushed a huge amount of power Didy's way.

We all watched with baited breath as Didy spread her arms while keeping her eyes on Bella. There was a muted white light, while not as bright as Bella's we still had to shield our eyes and when we turned back, there she was with her wings out.

"Oh," Didy groaned, "that feels so much better." She stretched them out and as she did that she turned and used her powers to wrap more vines around our prisoner. They were all the way up to his neck now, he wasn't going anywhere.

"Oh, Granma, your wings…" Bella gasped.

Turning toward Didyme, I saw that her wings were dull. The feathers were all over the place. Where the quills connected to the skin, it was red and in some places open sores marred the surface. The overall sick look was emphasized by the shining wings of my Bella.

The act of bringing out her wings healed her more than anything did before. Her mind sighed in relief. The step out of hiding, into the light connected her again to the earth, her source of power.

Marcus and Bella moved toward Didyme and started to preen her wings. Marcus remembered, from the list of things we needed to make the tattoo gun, that one of them were quills from an Angel's wings. Bella also took note of what he was doing with the ones he was pulling out and placed them on a pile too.

"Now, Aro and Caius, do we have your attention? Are there any more questions about our claim of what these lovely ladies are and what they can do?" I asked.

"Hmph," Aro harrumphed. "And we are supposed to believe that you have come back in time? That's impossible to do."

"Hmm, maybe for you. But let me show you what we wear in my time. Bella, my love, will you be alright for a moment?"

"Yes. Go and when you return I shall change into my clothes as well." She replied while she continued to help Didyme.

I ran into the tent and changed my clothes, returning just as fast so that Bella could go and change. When I came back I noticed that they had finished with the feathers and Didy was now sitting between the wives with Marcus behind her still soothing them down. Bella gave me a quick kiss on the lips before running off to the tent.

I had changed into a pair of jeans, my docs, a button down and a leather jacket covered in zippers. I couldn't have picked a more modern outfit if I tried. I listened in on Caius's and Aro's thoughts while waiting for Bella and found them trying to find ways to disprove what I was wearing. Speaking of my beautiful girl she came out in a stunning blue sundress, wedge sandals and a cropped jacket that gave her room to have her wings out behind her.

Once again they were speechless, but more so at how beautiful my girl was than anything else. At those thoughts I let out a fierce growl, I knew they were mated to their wives but disrespectful thoughts about my girl would always bring out that reaction around mythical creatures. I couldn't help it.

They were all shocked at the growl that I let loose.

But then Aro had to go and open his mouth, "As if a vampire couldn't make those clothes! If the right tools are available we can make anything!"

I sighed. "I don't see how that's possible Aro, the material for these pants and the metal teeth that hold them together aren't going to be available for another four thousand odd weather cycles."

He was about to start in on us again when a small but very strong voice spoke up. It made us all turn in her direction, "Aro, Caius do you think you'd be good leaders when your mindset is on what's best for your own glorification? Do you think such small mindedness can keep you in power? Think again, you need the big picture! True leaders lead through gaining respect not by spreading fear!" Didyme said, "I wish there was a way to show you that the Gods are always watching since Bella and Edward being here isn't enough for you!"

All of a sudden, Merill streaked down out of the sky, diving for Bella and I, we had to duck. When we started to stand up again, a disembodied voice sounded out of the sky. "Your wish is granted, Didyme."

A bush next to Aro and Caius burst into flames. They sprang away from it, eyes big and mouths hanging open. As soon as the whole bush was engulfed a small cloud appeared right above the bush from thin air and with a lightning bolt and a crack of thunder it unleashed a torrential downpour. Within seconds the cloud disappeared and the bush looked as if nothing had happened.

The same voice called out overhead, "You have your proof, Aro and Caius. Now open your minds and shut your mouths, listen to what is being told to you or we will correct your mistake. Didyme, Bella, you may release Constantine; he will be our humble servant from now on. Fill him in on everything you are about to tell the others and we will find a way to contact him later."

Aro and Caius sat down in shock over the whole ordeal, while Bella, Didyme and I turned around to our prisoner. We had all forgotten he was there. I listened to his thoughts while I told Bella to wait through our link, who then stopped Didy trying to undo her vines.

I was listening to all who were around us because there was a voice I hadn't heard before, it wasn't even Constantine's.

'Must protect them. They're mine. Must keep them safe. Even from above.'

I listened as the voice continued the chant until I narrowed down on where the voice was coming from.

My head shot up when I realized who it was.

'Edward? What is it? What do you hear?' Bella was looking around frantically while trying to figure out what had caught my attention.

I reached out patting Merill. He cooed pushing his head further into my hand. "It's okay, Merill. Nothing is going to happen to us. We're safe, thank you for protecting us."

'Oh, you can hear him?' Bella sniffled, with her hand covering her mouth.

I turned to her and nodded. Letting her know that I could. She rushed over to Merill and engulfed him in her arms. She sobbed just a little before she started cooing at him, patting him while he rubbed his head into her neck. It was their love for each other at its finest, and the best comfort they could provide each other.

Turning back to Constantine, I wanted to question him just a little before releasing him. Before I'd even asked the first question he started to talk.

"My Lord," he said bowing his head as much as he could while in the vines. "If it pleases you, may I be released?"

I tilted my head at him, trying to get a read on his thoughts.

"I would like to Constantine, I really would, but you worked for the Dacians. I want to know why the turn around?" I asked.

"Before I was turned into this…this monster," at that comment Bella growled in her mind. She didn't like that word to describe what we were. "I was a local medicine man…"

It was then his mind opened up and showed his life before.

He'd grown up in a village near the encampment that the Dacians had made their stronghold. He was indeed the local medicine man, using the plants and herbs grown in his garden and the forest to help when those around him had been sick.

He had believed in a higher power and that the weather had been controlled by the Gods. He was quite enlightened for those of his time. He believed that the storms were created by angry gods showing their displeasure for what was happening.

He'd gone out in the forest hunting for more and different herbs and plants to create more and stronger medicines. He'd been gone for several days, when he'd returned to the village, it was under attack by the Dacian monsters he'd heard about.

He'd run out to try and help where he could but had been snatched up by one of the leaders, they'd turned him and by the time he'd awoken from the torment almost everything he knew had been wiped or blocked out.

However, after he witnessed everything we'd done and shown, his human memories became unlocked. It made him committed to Didyme, Bella and me. He was unsure about the others until he'd heard what we had to say.

"My memories have now returned to me and I am willing to serve those who serve the Gods. That makes me loyal to you, My Lord; and to those two ladies who have come from the Gods." He finished.

I could not detect any deception from him. He had been humbled by the display here this morning, and he'd been since the moment Bella had brought out her wings. He'd only fought the vines because he hadn't known if they were going to kill him.

"Please, Constantine, call me Edward." I nodded to him. "Bella and Didyme, their kind are called Angels. Sweet girl, could you and Didyme please release him?"

"Of course, Edward." They both chimed.

We all watched as the vines sank back into the ground, releasing Constantine from his jungle shackles.

"Now, let me introduce you. My name is Edward Masen, these ladies here are my mate Isabella Swan, and her Granma Didyme. The tall one behind Didyme is her mate Marcus. On the other side of the fire you have Aro, Caius and their wives Sulpicia and Anthenodora."

He bowed low to the ground. "Thank you, Lord Edward and Ladies Isabella and Didyme. Good day to the others." He rose before continuing. "Lord Edward and the Ladies Isabella and Didyme, I am your humble servant. I will serve you first after the Gods. For now I will sit here and listen to your instructions."

He bowed again before seating himself on the ground near the log that Bella and I had been sitting on before. He was set on calling us Lord and Ladies because to him it was a sign of respect and that was as much as he was willing to give on the subject. My thoughts were interrupted by Anthenodora and Sulpicia. "That's how you are supposed to react to what someone is telling you!" Sulpicia said.

"How was it so easy for him to accept and not for you two?" Dora added and then turned around to Didyme. "We're sorry for dismissing you and your concerns Didyme. We should have paid more attention to what you were saying instead of listening to these two."

"I apologize too." Sulpicia took her hand, looking sincerely at her. "We have our own minds and we should have used them. Please say you forgive us?"

"Of course I do!" Didy spoke. "Please, though, let's sit and we can explain what has brought Edward and Bella here from far in the future."

Aro and Caius just sat on their log, having had everyone turn on them. They were now more open to hearing what we had to say. Not that they had much of an option, their wives had just put them in their place. The fact that their wives did that was a sobering lesson for them.

At least now we were ready.

"Right, now that everyone is listening, let's get to it." I started, looking around at everyone. "Bella and I were celebrating our marriage when we were approached by one of the Gods Angels, by the name of Gabriel…"

~*~HS~*~

"So until you can prove to Bella and I that you can maintain the diet that we have set for you and the others, we will be keeping how I eat a secret. Unless of course the Gods say otherwise.

"And we all know that they will have no qualms in contacting Bella or I as you have seen today." I finished.

The letter had been passed around and they had all read the words from the Gods. Aro's and Caius's minds had been converted; they had no problems with doing as decreed. Their wives were set before I'd said a word.

"What happens, Lord Edward, when we have proven our loyalty to your way of life? When you have given us the way to eat and save the world?" Constantine asked.

Looking towards him I replied, "Then it will be your jobs as the ruling class to continue with making all of the creatures become the things of legends and maintaining peace with them all. You all have to make sure that they come to you for help with all the problems they are unable to solve on their own. You also have to rule with fairness, not cruelty and definitely not for the benefit of the coven. It's all stated there in this letter.

"But, Constantine, I think your talent will be the most handy in keeping an eye on the Dacians; like what you were doing for them. Or any other antagonists that happen to creep up over the coming centuries. Can you tell me what they are planning right now?"

He stood and bowed towards us. "At this point in time they are recruiting, trying to build a big enough army to take back what they thought the Volturi have stolen from them. They are not having a lot of luck, though. Word of the fight and their decimation has spread far and wide. If that is my task I will do it to the best of my ability, are you sure there is nothing else I'd be better suited for?"

Bella came to his side, placing a hand on his arm. "Thank you, Constantine, your loyalty will be rewarded. At this point I think it best to keep an eye on them, although, I am sure there will be more tasks throughout the coming years. Please, check in with us on a regular basis, so that we may be sure you are okay and that you are maintaining your diet. We want to be able to tell you when you are able to receive the change in diet."

He bowed again. "I will, Lady Isabella. May I get started now?"

We nodded to him and he left straight away.

Looking towards Marcus, Caius and Aro I gave them their first task. "Now you three are to spread the word through your encampment, tell them what you need to, to convince them and if they need further convincing let them know that Bella and I will be there tomorrow morning…"

Before I finished I was interrupted. "I shall be there also." Didy commanded. "They need to know that they will have one of us with them at all times. Here we have the inner circle, including Constantine, then there will be the most trusted and those will be the ones to earn the special way of eating. The others will have to maintain their animal diet. If they are unwilling to change then their time with the Volturi will be over. They can go on their way."

"Are we to tell them about the letter and about Bella and Didyme?" Marcus asked. I could read that his thoughts were concerned about putting them in danger.

Bella took this question. "I think we want to avoid that, if possible. You can let them know that I have the gift of foresight as does Didyme because we are related. Together we have seen what will happen if things don't change.

"I will pray tonight to see if the Gods will give me some information to prove our claim tomorrow, because we will be asked. Of that I have no doubt. I may even send Merill back with a note to Gabriel to see what he has to say." And with that she was up and off to where Merill had placed himself after making a side trip to get some parchment and a quill from our tent.

"On top of what Bella has said, it is now time to advise you of my talent. I will be able to tell if they—and you—are truthful and following the stipulations because I am able to read your minds."

At that there was outrage that I had kept it quiet from them.

"Enough!" I barked.

I waited until they had settled down.

"I am able to turn it off, and I have given you as much privacy as I could. I have had it on through this meeting because I needed to see if your thoughts were repentant and ready for the change. I will be keeping it on over the next couple of weeks to make sure that everyone is compliant. You will need it because I'm sure they are all aware of Aro's talent. I don't need to touch anyone, I can read them from a distance—they don't need to know that, so keep that to yourselves." I ordered.

"Now, you three off you go and do what you have to." I watched as the men left us. "Ladies, we have need of some things to help you later once the tasks have been completed. Can you help us gather them?"

"Of course, Edward. What do you need?" Dora asked.

I handed them a list of natural ingredients that we needed to gather and they left to go and round them up. I picked up Didy's feathers off the ground and walked over to the table to start preparing them for the tattoo gun.

I watched Merill take off into the wild blue wonder, praying myself, that Gabriel would help us with what we needed.

Hmm, did they live up to your expectations? Did you think they would be easy to convince? I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.

I'm going to rec a story and it's sequel that I just finished today. It's interesting, I thoroughly enjoyed them.

The first one is: Branded by Leelan Oleander FFN ID: 5036955
Bella Swan is living in a nightmare. Her parents are dead and she is hiding something too horrific to tell her older brother Emmett. When the secret comes out, they are shipped off to live with their godparents Carlisle & Esme Cullen. AU-Human

The sequel is: Road Maps. FFN ID: 5080128
Sequel to BRANDED-It's now six years later, Bella is graduating from Dartmouth, Edward is in Med School. How have their lives changed over the past six years and what's to come down the road? AU-Human, Rated M for foul language, abuse.

Can't wait to hear from you!