Chapter 1-

"Come on Becks, don't be a spoil sport. It will be fun" I mock imitated my best friend as we walked towards the huge wooden antique doors of the Volturi Castle in Volterra, Italy.

My best friend, Jessie just rolled her eyes in return.

"No but seriously, we could have done some more sightseeing or gone shopping instead of travelling this far for a day tour"

"Becks this is also considered sightseeing" "We have come to Volterra for the first time"

"We were in Florence only for a few days Jess, tomorrow we leave for Rome"

"I really wanted to see Volterra, Becks and look it is not disappointing" she said with a pout and I sighed

Jessie Connweller and I had been best friends since the fourth grade and both of us had only one dream, to travel the world. We used to sit and daydream of going backpacking through Europe in English class and used to make plans of where we would stay and what all would we see. Living in a small reservation like La Push we often thought that our dreams would just remain dreams but we were hell bent on making them reality.

Growing up with a twin sister and a younger brother, I was pretty close to my siblings but even they did not understand why traveling and seeing new places meant so much to me. I felt claustrophobic living in La Push and wanted to grow up so that I could spread my wings and experience all what the world had to offer to me. My mom was the only one who understood and after her demise in a car accident when I was sixteen, living in that same house in La Push was difficult. The week after my graduation from high school, my bags were packed and I left with Jessie to fulfill my dreams. Coincidently Rachel left that same day too, for Seattle. Just like me she missed mom and La Push was not the same place without her. Though I missed Dad and Jake, dad assured me that they would be fine and I should go and pursue my dreams.

"Am I the only one who thinks that our tour guide is creepy?" whispered Jessie in my ear

"Nope, I think so too"

Our tour guide was a blonde woman named Heidi who looked to be in her late twenties and was extremely pale with crimson eyes. She walked with inhuman grace and had a dangerous aura around her.

We were a group of 35 people who had joined the tour from Florence, Italy and after paying a nominal fee had sat in a private bus which had brought us here to Volterra.

"And this is the Volturi Castle" Heidi said in a melodious voice as if she was singing a song "An experience I can guarantee you will never forget"

Somehow her voice was extremely menacing and evil despite of the sweetness in her tone.

So far we had been in Volterra for three hours and had seen the Roman theatre, the Piazza Grande, the clock tower and a beautiful fountain. Today was Saint Marcus's day in Volterra and so it was exceptionally crowded. Heidi told us a bit about this Saint Marcus and why he was so respected around here but there was a constant smirk on her face throughout the conversation as if she was hiding something.

After a quick lunch we were taken to our last destination of the day tour, the Volturi Castle. Apparently it was built more than two thousand years ago and was built with the finest stone. Heidi told us a bit about how it came into existence, who were the founders and how much time did they take to built it.

The current owners organized such day tours so that people from other places could see their rich culture and the carvings done on the walls. It was exquisite to say the least from the outside and the castle was spread across acres with four huge beams on each corner. One thing that I found weird was there were no windows or balconies on the outside. The entire castle was situated on a hill and was heavily guarded at the gate and only buses which had our tour guide on them were permitted inside the premises.

"Afton, Santiago" said Heidi looking at the two guards at the castle door. Just like Heidi these both were exceptionally inhumanly beautiful and shared the same crimson eyes.

"Heidi, is this the tour for the day?" asked the one named Santiago

"You bet" said Heidi winking at him

"Looks good Heidi" said Afton grinning at her

"I know, the master's will be happy"

"Becks, I am not getting a very good vibe from them" Jessie whispered

"I know, me too"

Even though we had whispered all three of them turned to look at us as if they heard us clearly.

The one named Santiago glared at us while Heidi gave a huge threatening smile showing her white teeth.

"So this is our last destination of the tour" said Heidi "I would request you to leave all your belongings here at the entrance. Nothing is allowed inside. You will get them back when we come out"

"What about phones?" asked a balding man in his late fifties

"Sorry Sir, you will have to leave them here. We cannot have anyone clicking photos of the interiors"

Afton came up to each one of us and took our purses, wallets and phones from us. I reluctantly gave him my phone though I would feel safer with it, inside.

"Now let's go inside for the best experience of your life" said Heidi clapping her hands

All 35 of us followed her in through the massive gates. If the exteriors were exquisite this was beyond words. It was majestic and the corridors were lined with paintings, carvings and sculptures which did not look to be of this millennia. Despite our tour guides creepiness I was glad that I came on this tour and I knew Jessie felt the same.

We were taken through a few corridors as each one of us ooh and aahed looking at everything around us. The children in the tour were walking ahead with Heidi and she was telling them how each antique or artistic piece lined up in the corridor was obtained by the owners of this castle.

There were paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Monet, and Michelangelo among others on display,

"So where are you both from?" asked a woman walking next to us

"La push, Washington" said Jessie

"On a vacation" she asked

We nodded our heads

"Where are you from?" I asked her

"Philadelphia, my husband Bill and I with our kids Jeremy and Casey" she said pointing towards two children who did not look older than seven and five.

"I am Rebecca and this is Jessie"

"Gilda, nice to meet you" she said shaking my hand

"Same here"

"So this is our throne room and the most important room of this castle" said Heidi as the huge mahogany doors were opened by two guards. Before we could enter three people walked out of the room, two women and one man. The man was pale just like the others in this castle but his eyes were golden and he had reddish unkept hair. A pixie like girl was walking in front of him and had similar golden eyes. The boy had wrapped his arm around a brunette who was almost hidden by his side. I could vaguely make out the brunette's features but once I did I knew without a doubt who this was, Bella Swan, Charlie Swan's daughter. Charlie and my father Billy had been the best of friends and fishing buddies since even before we were born and after her parent's divorce every summer Bella would come to visit Charlie and spend the entire day making mud pies with Jake on First beach. Rachel and I never interacted much with her and she had Jake and his friends to keep her company. When I had spoken to dad last he had told me how Bella had moved to Forks after her mother remarried and was now attending Forks high. But what was she doing here, in Italy? Did Charlie even know that she was here?

Suddenly the golden eyed boy looked up and met my eyes giving me a sympathetic look. His eyes were showing his curiosity and mild pain.

They walked out of those doors and we walked in.

A group of forty people were standing by the walls in this hall and all of them had red eyes. Three men were sitting on a throne built on a podium in the centre of the room and all the people around us including the men on the throne were wearing these pitch black robes that looked like they belonged to a different Era. They also had pendants with the letter 'V' in their necks.

The man who was sitting on the centre throne looked like he was in his mid twenties and had jet black hair. He did not much of a physique though and had a childlike expression on his face as if he was a child in a candy shop. His eyes were black though.

The one sitting on his left had white hair and looked like he was in his late thirties. He had a permanent scowl on his face and was glaring at each one of us. His eyes were black too.

The one sitting on the extreme right also had black hair and black eyes but he had a forlorn expression on his face as if he had no reason to live for. He was gazing into nothingness.

From their looks and the fact that they were sitting on thrones, it looked like they were the current rulers/ Owners of the castle. Suddenly the man with the lost expression on directly looked at me and our eyes met for a brief second. Suddenly his eyes widened and his expression became hopeful. He kept looking at something in the air and then he would look at me as if he was seeing an invisible line that only he could see.

After a few minutes of staring at me he looked at Jessie and then at a man with olive skin and black hair who was standing next to Heidi with a surprised expression on his face.

"Welcome to the Castle of the Volturi" said the man in the centre standing up "I am Aro and these are my brothers Caius and Marcus" "We are glad that you have come to see our home" he said with a gleam in his eyes

He was about to say something else when he was stopped by the one named Marcus who stood up from his throne.

"Fratello, il mio compagno è nella folla" said Marcus and all the red eyed creatures turned to look at him with shock and surprise on their face. I recognized the language as Italian but I could not decipher the meaning "e così è di Demetri" continued Marcus and everyone now looked at the man who was standing next to Heidi and who Marcus was earlier staring at, who looked equally surprised.

"Splendid" said the one named Aro clapping his hands before he walked up to Marcus and took his hands in his hand, closing his eyes.

"You have any idea on what is going on?" whispered Jessie

"Nope" I told her honestly

All of us in the tour group were now murmuring and talking in hushed whispers.

"This is wonderful news brother" said Aro opening his eyes again "Sulpicia and Dora will be glad to have a new sister"

"Alec" he said before moving his mouth as if he was talking but no voice came out.

Suddenly I felt like there was a mist coming towards me and Jessie and the next thing I know my eyes closed and there was nothing except blackness.

A/N: Fratello, il mio compagno è nella folla- Brother, my mate is in the crowd

e così è di Demetri- and so is Demetri's

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