"Please" Axel begged Aro once they were away from common ears. "I beg you to reconsider, kanna is my only child, please do not take her from me" begged axel.

"I am sorry my friend but I am not the one making the decisions" Aro looked at Caius who seemed rather pleased he was causing so much misery.

"Please-"

"You are not prepared to hold up your end of the deal?" Asked Caius with a taunting voice and Axel sighed. He never thought that when he signed the agreement he would one day have a daughter of his own.

"Of course I am-"

"Then I shall marry her" Caius said bluntly.

"She is human Caius" Axel tried. "I thought you loathed humans?" Be reminded.

"She is pretty, for a human. She will look even prettier once immortal" He smirked.

Kanna listened outside the door and hoped she had completely misunderstood the conversation. Was she going to have to marry one of these strange new visitors? Would they take her away from the home she loved so dearly?! She considered for a few seconds running away but banished the idea. It was obvious that these visitors could outrun her and were much stronger than her, plus her father was in no shape to fight.

"When will you leave?" She heard her father ask wearily.

"Later today"

Her eyes widened. Today?!

"Today?! That barely gives her anytime to say goodbye" her father said angrily.

"We have much more pressing matters at home" caius snapped.

"Then, perhaps you would prefer to take her once everything has been sorted? Then-" axel stopped. He knew he was fighting a losing battle by the looks he was receiving.

Kanna ran out of her beautiful house towards her only friend in the coven. Kai, a young half vampire who was blind, his head turned towards the sound of Kanna rushing in.

"Kanna?" He called to nowhere in particular, recognising the footsteps of his best friend. He was sat alone at a large table made from a slab of ice.

"Kai, Kai they're going to take me away" Kanna sobbed.

"Who?! Kanna who is going to take you?!" He exclaimed. Kai was not particularly tall but had the best hearing known to vampires. With stark white hair and large, jagged scars across the top half of his face

"Strange men, they came here earlier this morning. They are not human Kai" she paused. "I think they are vampires, you know real ones like my father"

"Kanna, I'm sure there's a misunderstanding. We're the only vampires alive, your father, my grandmother. They always told us that" Kai recalled. Kanna could not say anything, her mind was reeling.

"Kanna, how do you know they want to take you away?"

"One talked of...marriage" she managed to choke out. Kai had nothing to say to this. All the time his hands continued to carve the ice sculpture, although he was blind he seemed to have a gift for practical art. "I don't want them to take me Kai" she whispered quietly. All the times she had ventured out to try and find him fossils. The times she had held his hand when walked down an icy slope.

"I won't let them take you Kanna" Kai promised as he fumbled to hold her hand. "How will I get down those slopes without you?" He questioned with a smile and she laughed.

"What do I do Kai? They're so fast, I saw them from behind and they were gone in a blur. They'd be able to track me down if I ran away"

"Just refuse to go with them" Kai shrugged.

"No, no I can't do that. You couldn't imagine the way that that guy looked at me. He looked like he was just itching to start a fight, to kill someone." She stared at Kai's hands as he carved into the ice with his small knife.

He had curved a polar bear.

He hadn't always been blind, a gruesome bear attack had left him blind and caused the large scars across his face. She found it sad how he always made sculptures of the last thing he saw, the thing that took his Vision...

"Kanna?!" Called Axel around their house but their was no reply. He smiled awkwardly to the volturi that stood patiently (though caius's was wearing thin) "I know where she is" he admitted and stepped out to get her but aro caught his arm and gave him a look that said it all. Axel nodded, knowing if he tried to run with his daughter the consequences would be dire.

He headed straight to Kai's house and knocked on the solid ice door and waited. On the inside Kanna looked at the door worriedly but Kai's head snapped up quickly.

"Who is it?" He called, placing the figure and knife on the table with one hand and ushering her away from sight with the other.

"Kai" called Axel and Kai got up slowly, making his way carefully to the door.

"Sir how can I-"

"She's here, I know she's here Kai she'd never go anywhere else" Axel said bluntly. Kanna loved Kai dearly but if there was one thing she would change it would be that be was better at lying. Kai opened his mouth but gaped like a fish whilst trying to make up a lie. Axel stepped in and cautiously pushed Kai to the side carefully.

"I'm not going" Kanna said strongly though she could feel tears. She didn't even know what was going on.

"Kanna-"

"What's going on? Who are those people?"

"Kanna calm down and listened to me. Those are the volturi, they are in charge of all the vampires that exist in this world, they keep the balance and justice-"

"You told me we were the only vampires that existed" Kanna butted in and Axel nodded awkwardly.

"I may have not told the entire truth" he admitted. "A long time before you were born there was a fight for this land between us and another coven. It was undiscovered by human so it was a place where vampires could wonder freely without fearing a human would venture out." Axel explained but Kanna still did not feel as though the fog had lifted.

"That's lovely pabbi but why are they here?"

"In the scrabble for the land I called on the help of the volturi. They agreed and said we would work out payments later. A few years after that we agreed that when the time came their youngest member could marry a young woman from the coven" he sighed in shame.

"So you were just going to give away another poor girl?!" She exclaimed.

"Kanna listen-" Axel tried but Kanna was crying now.

"No! Are you just going to give me away?!" Kanna ran out quickly as her father tried to grab her but she was too fast. As soon as she had picked up speed however she ran smack into a body. From the ground she looked up to see the dark haired man from before looming over her with a strange smile.

"Kanna, yes?" He offered his hand and Kanna took it. His hand felt like ice.

"Yes" she confirmed quietly though she wanted to run. Soon Axel and Kai emerged. At the touch of her hand Aro could see all of Kanna's fears, memories and thoughts. "I am Aro" he introduced politely. "With me are Marcus and Caius"

"That's nice" she tried to back away but Aro still held her hand.

"You are very frightened" he remarked. "Your heart, it's racing" his smile broadened as he spoke. Kanna could not reply. Her eyes were transfixed by Caius's as he smirked smugly. She found everything about him beautiful. His eyes, his face, she could even smell his pleasant scent from here.

"Time is pressing I am afraid my friends so we must be off." Aro said casually as if he were talking about the weather.

"But I have things to pack" Kanna panicked.

"New clothing will be bought on your arrival" Aro began to walk.

"But-" the piercing look of Aro made her stop "Could i at least say goodbye to my friend?" she asked, digging her heels in.

"Very well" she hadn't expected him to be so willing. She ran Kai's house and flung her arms around him

"Kai" she whispered "I will come back" she hugged him and felt her throat swell.

"I'll miss you" he admitted and squeezed her close.

"Don't forget about me" she begged and he shook his head. Kanna pulled away and looked at her father. He looked ashamed and regretful. She wanted to hug him but could not. She could not hug the man that was giving her away without a fight.

"Kanna-'' he started but she turned away, biting her lip to keep the tears away.

"Are you ready my dear?" Asked aro as Kanna hurriedly brushed tears away with her sleeve. She could only nod. Last night she had been eating fish with Kai, this morning she had been sketching but now...now she was being taken away from it all. She continued to look at Kai as she was forced to walk with the volturi. She craned her neck until she could not longer make him out.

She had to be careful now. She was surrounded by full vampires that (if the mood took them) could rip her apart.

"Are you ready dear?" Asked Aro and Kanna nodded, not sure as to what she should be preparing for.

"Then you may want to hold on tight" he smirked and before she could questioned what he had meant she was being lifted up by caius and they raced off at inhuman speeds Kanna had never experienced before.

He finally put her down when they were near an airport and kanna writhed to get out of his arms. People looked curiously at Kanna and her strange dress as she looked around at the civilisation she had never experienced. She yelped and cringed when the sound of an airplane taking off hit her ears. Caius smirked as she stared at the plane fly over head.

"It is much more interesting when you are ON the plane" he sighed when she did not budge.

"We're...we're going on one?" She asked, there was fear plain in her voice.

"Our own personal jet" he gloated smoothly.

Although Aro and Marcus found it somewhat sweet and entertaining that Kanna stopped at stared at every other thing they passed at the airport Caius did not. Caius grabbed her arm and yanked her (none to lightly either) to get her walking. She tried to pull her hand away but he was considerably stronger and so pulled her closer so his hand was on her waist.

"Get off" she wriggled angrily but he squeezed her waist, giving her a silent warning. She walked moodily through the airport under Caius's arm the whole way. She soon forgot her discomfort however when they reached the Jet. She had never seen anything so magnificently big. A guard bowed to the volturi as they walked up the steps to the jet. Inside was luxurious and fancy, nothing that Kanna had seen before. She admired and studied everything as the volturi watched her, amused.

"I do hope you enjoy the ride my dear" Aro smiled politely. She could only bow her head slightly, she did not feel comfortable smiling at this red eyed man. She sat close to Caius during take off (mainly because he had yanked her down and told her to stay) but as they took off her distant and cold shouldering changed. The plane shook and began to tilt and she grabbed into Caius's arm out of pure instinct. It was only when the plane levelled out that she unlatched her nails from his arm. If he was human she was sure he would be bleeding.

"Do tell me if you require any more...comforting" he whispered teasingly and stroked her cheek with a feather light touch but she recoiled away. She got up and sat two rows behind him and stared out of the window whilst Caius smirked to himself, he loved causing discomfort.