Chapter 29: Volturi
Renesmee's POV
Why?! Why did the Volturi just have to show up now ?! It's like they are deliberately picking the worst times to show up!
"What are we going to do?" I asked my grandfather.
"You are going to stay here with EJ. I will go down there and deal with them myself" he said.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" I asked. I hated the idea of him going down there by himself to deal with the Volturi.
"It is the best idea. I will not have any of you in danger because of them" he said.
I took a deep shaky breath to calm my nerves. It didn't help at all.
"Okay gramps. Just be careful okay" I said.
"I always am Nessie" he said.
I gave him one last hug and kiss on the cheek. He wiped away a few tears that had escaped my eyes. Then he left.
I was very worried. What if something went wrong? What if they killed him? They wouldn't do that, would they? No, I came to the conclusion that they wouldn't do that, at least not here in front of all these humans.
My baby whimpered. He looked a little bit better, I think the medicine that Carlisle had given him was working. He seemed every bit as anxious as I felt. I decided to try feeding him again. Maybe a little skin to skin contact is just what we both needed. To my surprise he was more than willing to eat. The little guy was biting hard and sucking greedily. I hoped that this was sign that he was feeling better.
I did feel less tense, but only marginally. I didn't think that I was going to be able to completely relax until he came back.
I nearly had a heart attack when I heard someone knocking on the door an hour later. I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that it was Sarah, Mike, Noah, and Kimmie. Plus all of their babies.
"Nessie, what is going on here" Sarah asked. "We saw Carlisle"
"Yeah he came in this morning. Alice had a vision of the Volturi coming for them. So she sent him to find out why" I explained.
"So what's going on right now?" Noah asked.
"The Volturi are here somewhere. He went looking for them. I'm not sure what's happening right now" I said.
"What's Wrong with EJ" Kimmie asked. "He doesn't look so good" she said.
For a kid that's only like ten years old she's pretty damned perceptive.
"He's sick. He's got a lung infection. I wouldn't get to in case he's contagious" I said.
Right away everyone took a step back and shielded their babies as if that would stop them from catching anything.
"Lung infection? That doesn't sound good" Noah said.
"It isn't. Carlisle says that he'll die if he doesn't get what he needs soon" I said. I was trying best to hide the hysteria I was feeling at the mere thought of my son's possible fate. I had to remind myself to stay calm. Loosing my head wouldn't help anyone at all right now.
We all just sat and waited. Nobody was in the mood to talk or do much else. So despite the occasional cry of a baby, it remained relatively quiet.
My mind, on the other hand, wouldn't shut up for nothing. I was getting more and more anxious as time continued to roll on by without any sign of my grandfather.
"I can't stand this waiting" I said.
"Well what are we going to do?" Sarah asked. "We can't do anything. We're powerless"
I thought about it for a moment. "I'm just going to go outside. I can't stand being in this room much longer. If I stay here I will go crazy" I said.
"Well Nessie, we are going with you" Mike said.
"Yeah we can't stand to stay here either" Sarah said.
Everyone seemed to agree on this. We wouldn't go very far. Just outside the hotel. If we went any further we risked endangering ourselves and our children.
It was already dark and lonely by the time that we went down there. That made me nervous. Darkness meant that vampires were free to roam the city and attack. But I really needed to go outside and get some fresh air to clear my head.
"This is much nicer" Noah said.
"Yes, I agree" I said. "It's so much nicer"
"What was that?" Kimmie asked.
"What was what?" I asked.
"I thought I saw someone in a red and black cloak" she said.
I felt a chill that had nothing to do with the wind.
"Let's go back inside" I said. Maybe coming outside in the first place was never such a good idea to begin with.
"Just where do you think you are going?"
I spun around and was face to face with someone whom I assumed was part of the Volturi.
"None of you are going anywhere" he said.
"Who are you?" I managed to ask through the fear that I felt overwhelming me.
"Caius. I thought you children would never come out" he said.
"What do you want?" Noah asked.
"Your children of course. It was all part of the plan you know. Aro and the rest of us would lure Carlisle away from you. Leaving you all completely defenseless so I could kidnap your children" he said.
"Why? What do you want our kids for?" I said. I was very furious. You can mess with me but not my son.
Instead of answering he snatched EJ from my arms before proceeding to take everyone else's babies. He even took Calvin, the only baby who was completely normal. He did this in less than a fraction of a second. Before we could react he had disappeared into the night.
Noah and I chased after him as fast as we could, but even with our half vampire speed we couldn't catch up to him fast enough. Instead we circled back to where the rest of them were.
They went into deep despair when they saw that we had failed.
What were we going to do?! How were we going to get our children back?! We had to get them back! I needed to get my son back! He was sick and he needed me!
"What are we going to do now?" asked Sarah who was on the verge of hysterics.
"I don't know. We have no idea where he went" I said.
"Can't you try tracking him or something!" she all but shouted at me.
"We tried that, but he's smart. We lost the scent" I said sadly.
"Kimmie, are you okay?" I asked when I noticed that she was trembling very badly.
"I don't know" she said. "I feel weird" she said.
Now I was worried about her on top of everything else.
The shaking didn't stop either, it just kept getting worse and worse. That's when I realized what was going to happen. She was going to phase. This whole situation was obviously very upsetting to her and it was going to cause her to phase.
"Everyone get back" I warned.
They all listened to me just in time. At that moment she phased into a large white wolf. She wasn't nearly as big as the adults were in their wolf forms but she was still intimidating nonetheless.
She ran off in the direction that we had just come from. We ran after her, but quickly lost sight of her. It was a good thing that her scent was much easier to follow than a vampire's was.
Now I was worried about my family back home, Carlisle, our babies, and Kimmie. Soon I was going to combust from all the worries and the nerves. A normal person can only take so much and I was going to give myself a heart attack soon.
To make matters worse we lost track of her scent.
I had to stop because I felt like a full blown panic attack was going to happen.
Then we heard someone coming. I relaxed when I saw that it was Carlisle and Kimmie... with our babies?
"Carlisle. Oh thankgoodness!" I shouted before running over to him and throwing my arms around him.
He gently handed EJ over to me. I held onto him tight. I never wanted to let go of my baby again. Everyone else looked like they felt the same way.
"What happened?" I asked
"When Caius arrived I suspected that something was going on. He tried sneaking by but it didn't work. I realized what happened immediately when all of the babies started crying. He had them all stuffed inside a bag that he kept hidden underneath his cloak. He tried running but then Kimmie here caught up to us and stopped him" he explained.
"What are we going to do now?" I asked.
"They have endangered my family to many times now. It's time to end with them" he said.
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