My eyes were closed as I concentrated on breathing in the incense deeply. This had been the first chance in a while I had to seek. I finally had been forced to do it as an intense pain had been pounding on the front of my skull. That usually meant a rather painful vision was going to be upon me. I couldn't avoid it any longer but I was still apprehensive.
I grunted in pain when it hit me like a train into my eyes. I dug my nails into the soil under me as the vision tried to force its way up into the forefront of my mind.
Black capes, black capes floated along. They crunched at the snow. Pure evil rolled off of the monsters and their stench was so strong my nose burned painfully from it. I could hear screaming. There was so much death. So much pain.
"Eyota! Eyota what is wrong child?" I was being shaken and I could hear a horrendous scream. My eyes shot open and I sat up quickly the screaming ending. Kota was standing over me looking quite worried.
"Kota?" I asked in confusion as to what he was doing in the tent.
"You were screaming, I thought someone was dying out here", my thoughts flashed back to the vision and I shuddered. "A bad vision?" he asked me and I nodded. I moved to start to stand and Kota caught under my arm. It was surprising someone as old as him was still able to lift me like nothing. "Do you wish to speak to me about it?" he asked and when I went to speak I paused. The strong scent of vampire hit me and then a loud howl filled the air.
"Gotta go" was all I told him as I handed him my glasses before I ran off. I shifted mid run my pace quickening as I went. My hair flew behind me as I ran toward the scent. I felt a shift in the air as Jeremy appeared on my right. Kane and Brad were on shift so we hit a mile in to the scent when they appeared next to us their thoughts a mile a minute to explain where they had been when he caught the scent.
I heard two other howls making me glance over, running alongside us was Sam's pack. I smiled slightly when I noticed Jacob's pack to their right picking up pace with the rest of us. The Quileute and Makah territories overlapped in one small patch of land that run along right to the ocean. Our packs were running on pace to one another, Sam and I keeping up fairly well but I could sense Jacob quickly matching us. A flash of dark hair caught my eye and Sam lunged tackling the vampire to the ground. I took a hard stop, my feet dragging deep into the soil. I caught a flash of the dark hair again realizing the cut.
"Stop!" I screeched lunging at Sam tackling him off of her. Sam growled and begin to fight against me. I could hear Jacob's growling and snapping. But I ignored it as I struggled with Sam, I was finally able to overpower him enough to get him on the ground completely. "It's Alice!" I yelled at him. He finally seemed to hear me because he paused in his struggle.
I stepped away slowly, fearing he'd attack her again. I twisted toward Alice who was still lying on the ground, Jasper appeared next to her pulling her up and keeping her close.
"Alice what are you doing here?" Alice made a smart choice running along this small patch of grass. The Cullens were probably the only ones who knew other than the packs about this grass that overlapped in our lands.
"We are asking for permission to cross through your lands to the ocean", I raised an eyebrow.
"Well you are sort of doing it already", I told her and she gave me a small grin but it wasn't her usual peppy attitude. "What's going on?" I asked and she glanced at Jasper before me.
"Have you seen it?" she asked me which I replied with a raised eyebrow for her to continue. "The black capes?" I stiffened immediately recalling my nightmare and the vision. I heard Jacob let out a whine before he nudged my hand with his muzzle.
"Yes, I have", I told her and she nodded looking grim.
"The Volturi are coming for Renesmee", I stiffened at her words. Jeremy growled behind me and even Kane and Brad shifted, Renesmee was a pack imprint so naturally any danger on her involved us. "We have to leave, is it alright if we cross onto your lands?" she asked me before glancing at Sam then Jacob.
"Wait, you're leaving them when they need you the most?" I asked stepping toward her and Jasper. It made no sense, Alice wouldn't leave just like that. I didn't know Jasper very well, but I was sure he couldn't be that bad if Alice loved him.
"We have to, do we have your permission?" I glanced back at Sam then Jacob. We spoke telepathically for a moment
"If you want I'll take them to the ocean", I offered to them both.
"You shouldn't go alone", Jacob replied to me.
"It's just Alice and Jasper, they wouldn't hurt me", I defended and he let out a growl of disagreement.
"We'll all go…all the leaders", Sam said finally speaking up. I found it a reasonable compromise I met Jacob's eye and he nodded, I glanced over at Sam and he nodded as well. I turned toward Alice and Jasper to speak for us seeing as I was the only one that could do that out loud.
"We will escort you to the water", I informed them. I turned toward Kane, Jeremy, and Brad. "Jeremy and Brad, your shift is over go home and get some rest. I'll be back soon Kane, hold down the fort", they all whined in confusion. I moved toward Alice and Jasper just as Sam and Jacob did.
"What are you doing Chief?" asked Jeremy worriedly stepping toward me. I ruffled the top of his fur like I would when he was human.
"Don't worry, the leaders are going to handle this", Sam seemed to speak to his pack for a moment before they all seemed to turn away warily. Leah was growling at Jacob as they spoke to them. They seemed to finally give up when Jacob growled at them. I met Sam's eye as Leah and Seth finally turned away before we walked over to Alice and Jasper. "Come on", I told them.
We took off into the forest, we stayed on the heels of Alice and Jasper. I could sense Sam's discomfort and Jacob's confusion with this but Alice obviously had a point to wanting to go through our lands to the ocean. Jacob ran close to me, my shoulder bumped against him as we ran. He was worried and I couldn't blame him. I smelled the salty air before I saw the ocean. We paused on a high cliff that could have been used for cliff diving if it wasn't for all the jagged rocks below in the water.
"Thank you…all of you", Jasper said and Alice nodded. They turned to the ocean but Alice paused.
"Can you please give this to our family", she held out a folded paper. I raised an eyebrow taking it from her, it was a page torn from a William Shakespeare book.
"Sure", I told her. She glanced at all of us till she met my eye keeping my gaze for a second.
"When the first snow sticks", she told me. My mind recalled the cold snow the black capes stepped on, I closed my eyes nodding feeling the chill of fear run up my spine.
"Yes", I told her and she nodded. With a jump they leapt from the cliff and into the water, I glanced down into the water for a moment.
"What does the paper say?" I turned around to find Jacob and Sam both phased. Luckily both of them had put their cut offs on, I didn't think I could handle blushing over a naked Jacob and it would be uncomfortable now that I was imprinted to Jacob to see Sam naked.
I lifted up the note opening it as Sam and Jacob came up behind me to read over me.
"Gather all your witnesses before the first snow fall sticks. That's when they are coming", I bite my bottom lip for a moment in thought. I turned toward the ocean again noticing the sun was beginning to rise above the ocean casting glorious colors on the sky.
"These Volturi…they really are bad huh?" asked Sam. I turned to look at him before glancing at Jacob.
"Yeah…real bad", I whispered. Jacob placed a hand on my shoulder. "We have to be ready", I told them both.
"Ready for what exactly?" Jacob asked
"An attack beyond any proportion we have ever considered before"