SPOILER, KINDA. ITS LIKE A SPOILER WITH IN A CHAPTER.
SORRY IVE BEEN SO LATE WITH UPDATES, WILL BE DOING MORE NOW X) WAS WORKING ON SAM/OC
THINKING ABOUT DOING EITHER AN ARO OR CAIUS OR MARCUS/ OC STORY NEXT. OR JASPER/OC
YAY OR NAY?
(ILL STILL MOST LIKELY DO IT...SORRY. c:)
"A Ms. Irenta Mae Cullen will be coming here, Dahlia. I want you to try your best to keep her here. You will be picking her up from the airport at 3 AM today." Aro had called me to the throne room and I nodded. Wait...that name.
"Sir, Don't you mean Irenta Mae Swan?" I was the only one that really ever back talked to Aro and the other royals. I knew I was valuable, my powers of persuasion were hard to come by.
"Whichever, dear. She's very promising. She's a shield, amongst other things." Aro steepled his fingers and grinned at me. I raised a brow and nodded. I hadn't seen her in years, if this was the same Ira I knew. I turned, dismissed as he waved me off, grinning to myself. Interesting. If she did stay here, I might wind up finding my mate, I always knew we'd cross paths again.
Around a month had passed, the weird looks from Bella and Charlie has increased and eventually I figured out ways of getting food into me without actually doing it. It taste like sawdust and plastic and it was just EEEEEGGGHH. So much egh.
Alice wound up cracking and getting me an engagement ring, I wasn't sure how to process it at first but definitely accepted when she proposed in the middle of the forest. It had a thin platinum band with three stones in the middle, she'd told me each stone meant something different. The first being the past, middle being the present and the third was the future. Each was square and small and i loved it.
Eventually Spring break had come around, the same time the letter from the Volturi had come around. I asked Charlie and he agreed from the fact he wouldn't have to pay a cent, as it was an exchange trip put on by a school in Italy.
This meant for Spring break Alice and I would be in Italy, we wrote back and told them so. I'd been progressive in my shield stretching and figuring out how to wake people back up after the comatose state. Alice kept trying to be my guinea pig but I absolutely refused to do it, she'd even tried to get me mad enough to snap but I still refused. I was too terrified I wouldn't be able to wake her back up.
"Irene, it's going to be fine. Stop squeezing my hand, it will pop off at some point." Alice sounded off, jokingly, next to me and I looked down at our hands and gave an awkward grin. I patted it and let go, deciding to squeeze my own hands. She sighed and took it back, kissing it softly. People had been staring at us but I figured it was between the pretty pale people and the fact we weren't hetero.
"Sorry. I just get nervous." I said quietly, and she gave me a sympathetic smile. We were about to land, everyone on the flight looked tired or half dead while Alice and I were wide awake. Always awake. Sometimes I found it weird we didn't sleep, other times I was happy about it. It meant I could spend more time with Ali.
We got off the plane, grabbing the small carry on we'd had and continued on through passport control, baggage claim...etcetera. I came through the doors first, Alice behind me carrying the carry on and a small bag. We had enough clothes between us for a week, when you didn't sweat or eat the only thing you worried about dirtying your clothes was blood. Or tearing them.
"Hello." I looked up, partly recognizing that voice. We were far enough away from the welcoming crowd to not have them looking at us or hear Alice growl. I put my hand on her, quieting her down before they did hear us. I took in the flaming red hair, exposed pale skin and ruby red lips. Her eyes weren't green anymore, they were bright red and she wore a long black cape.
"Dahlia?" I asked incredulously and looked back at Alice with the question if she knew about this. She was glaring past me at Dahlia, who was just smiling pleasantly at me. This was going to be awkward.
"I thought you may be the Irenta Mae I was supposed to meet. Its an uncommon name, surprisingly." She responded merrily, turning and motioning for us to follow her. I grabbed Alice's hand tightly and walked after her.
She seemed to be a year or two older than when I'd last seen her when I was 15. She'd been older than me, she was 18 last time. Well. Now I know what happened to her. I immediately began to stretch the shield, covering Alice. I didn't trust Dahlia at all, much less anyone else. When we were human, she had the oddest way of talking you into what she wanted.
The ride over was awkward as hell. Alice spent it glaring at Dahlia who then spent it smiling at me whenever I'd glance at her. She was ignoring the hell out of Alice and it was starting to annoy me. We were shuffled into the underground caves, it was dark and damp and our bags were taken away to go to some room we'd now be staying at. GREAT.
"Hello! Welcome to Voltura, friends." The doors had been opened and I glared up at this deathly pale man with longer curly brown hair, he had a sickening grin plastered onto his face. I looked around to see a fucking legion of other vampires, all red eyed and blank faced, staring at us. Dahlia walked past us to join the legion, smiling instead of blank.
"You must be the Irenta Mae Swan I've heard so much about. Please to meet you dear." He was turning on the charm factor, bending down to take my hand and kiss it. As he did I felt something trying to poke its way in, it didn't feel malevolent so I merely tightened my shield and pulled my hand back warily. I gave him a tight smile at the look of interest on his face. I didn't like it.
"Lovely engagement ring you have there, Ms Swan." He said airily, turning around to go back to his throne. I watched as Dahlia's face darkened and she began to glare at Alice.
"Thank you." I responded carefully, watching the surrounding vampires.
"Fascinating. I've heard rumor that you're a powerful mental shield amongst other things, even to the point of causing a possible death. Pray tell, dear, how do you do that? And while we're at it, I'd like to test the strength of your abilities for myself. Jane, dear, if you please." Aro sat down in his throne and motioned to a little blonde girl then Alice and I. I felt Alice step in front of me and tighten her grip on my hand, it was like she was waiting for something horrible to happen.
At first I felt nothing, then slowly there was something there. It was cruel and it was directed at Alice, trying to tear into my shield and get at her. It angered me and so I decided to reflect it back at the user. How dare she try to hurt Alice. I glared at the blonde as she creased into a frown and gripped her head. Bitch. I may not have been a happy camper. Maybe.
"Wonderful!" Aro watched Jane's reaction and clapped his hands together, excited.
"Now then, may I take dear Alice's hand? Preferably without your shield over her?" He asked and leaned forward motioning to Alice. She sighed and started to go forward when I held onto her hand. I didn't want her to go, what if they tried to hurt her again?
"Do I have your word you won't try to hurt her again?" I asked, glaring up at Aro accusingly. He looked excited at this and nodded enthusiastically.
"Of course!" He said happily and held out his hands. I let go of Alice slowly, taking my shield back with me. He smiled at her and took her hand, patting it. A few seconds of silence passed and I looked around again, some had grins more so than blank faces now. Jane was simply glaring hard at me, I raised a brow in return.
"Well that is interesting. And very much dangerous. We'd appreciate if you could spend the night with us, Dahlia will show you to your rooms." He let go of Alice and looked back at his brothers. Dahlia stepped out of line as the rest of the volturi started to go on about their business, the show was over now. She still looked unhappy but she was at least acknowledging Alice now. Alice skipped back to my side and I gripped her hand happily stretching the shield back over her.