Izzy Volturi

A/N: This chapter was written by XxX Fleur-Delacour XxX, I just made a few changes. The first 4 chapters are all written by XxX Fleur-Delacour XxX I hope you all enjoy.

Chapter 1:

(The new Moon quotes are in italic.)

We were in a brightly lit, unremarkable hallway. The walls were off-white, the floor carpeted in industrial gray. Common rectangular florescent lights were spaced evenly along the ceiling. It was warmer here, for which I was grateful. This hall seemed very benign after the gloom of the ghoulish stone sewers.

Edward didn't seem to agree with my assessment. He glowered darkly down the long hallway, toward the slight, black shrouded figure at the end, standing by the elevator.

He pulled me along, and Alice walked on my other side. The heavy door creaked shut behind us, and then there was the thud of a bolt sliding home.

Jane waited by the elevator, one hand holding the doors open for us. Her expression was apathetic.

One inside the elevator, the three vampires that belonged to the Volturi relaxed further. They threw back their cloaks, letting the hoods fall back on their shoulders. Felix and Demetri were both of a slightly olive complexion- it looked odd combined with their chalky pallor. Felix's black hair was cropped short, but Demetri's waved to his shoulders.

Their irises were deep crimson around the edges, darkening until they were black around the pupil. Under the shrouds, their clothes were modern, pale, and nondescript. I cowered in the corner, cringing against Edward. His hands still rubbed against my arm. He never took his eyes off Jane.

The elevator ride was short; we stepped out into what looked like a posh office reception area. The walls were paneled in wood, the floors carpeted in thick, deep green. There were no windows, but large, brightly lit paintings of the Tuscan countryside hung everywhere as replacements. Pale leather couches were arranged in a cozy grouping, and the glossy tables held crystal vases full of vibrantly colored bouquets. The flowers' smell reminded me of a funeral home.

In the middle of the room was a high, polished mahogany counter. I gawked in astonishment at the woman behind it.

She was tall, with dark skin and green eyes. She would have been very pretty in any other company-but not here. Because she was every bit as human as I was. I couldn't comprehend what this human woman was doing here, totally at ease, surrounded by vampires.

She smiled politely in welcome. "Good afternoon, Jane," she said. There was no surprise in her face as she glanced at Jane's company. Not Edward, his bare chest glinting dimly in the white lights, or even me, disheveled and comparatively hideous.

Jane nodded. "Gianna." She continued toward a set of double doors in the back of the room, and we followed.

As Felix passed the desk, he winked at Gianna, and she giggled.

On the other side of the wooden doors was a different kind of pale boy in a pearly gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely. He came forward to meet us. He smiled, reaching to embrace her. "Jane."

"Alec," she responded, embracing the boy. They kissed each other's cheeks on both sides. Then he looked at us.

"They send you out for one and you come back with two. . . and a half," he noted, looking at me. "Nice work."

She laughed-the sound sparkled with delight like a baby's cooing.

"Welcome back, Edward," Alec greeted him. "You seem in a better mood."

"Marginally," Edward agreed in a flat voice. I glanced at Edward's hard face, and wondered how his mood could have been darker before.

Alec chuckled, and examining me as I clung to Edward's side. "And this is the cause of all the trouble?" he asked, skeptical.

Edward only smiled, his expression contemptuous. Then he froze.

"Dibs," Felix called casually from behind.

Edward turned, a low snarl building up in his smiled- his hand raised, palm up; he curled his fingers twice, inviting Edward forward.

I laughed. "Now, I don't mind, Edward. I think it's kinda sweet that someone called dibs on me and doesn't even know me. Now, what do you call dibs on?" I placed my hand to my mouth, acting like I was whispering. "I won't tell Edward." I then laughed really hard, Edward was growling, Felix was smiling. Alice looked horrified.

"I call dibs on anything." he said, winking. I blushed. "Especially that." He said, pointing to my now beat red face.

"Awe. See, Eddie, doesn't Felix know how to charm a lady." I looked at Edward, and saw he was livid that I was flirting with someone other than him.

"Who said you were a lady?" Felix laughed. "I thought you were something more."

I blushed again, and laughed. "Thanks, but I think Aro, Caius, and Marcus are expecting us. I don't want to become a meal for anyone today, so, let's move." I said, seriously, which caused me to laugh again.

Jane nodded, smiling. "I think that would be a good idea, Bella." Hmm, weird, she wasn't glaring and she was smiling, at me? Interesting.

"Lead the way, Jane. "I said, smiling. Edward was still glaring at Felix, his crest rumbling from a growl.

"Follow me, "she stated, obviously, who else would we follow?

"Edward, can you let go, you are kinda clingy." I stated, to a frustrated Edward. I mean, Edward is handsome, but Felix is GORGEOUS!

"No, Bella. You are not leaving my side." Edward growled, again.

"You can't make every decision for me. If you sometimes listened to what I said, maybe I would be a vampire by now," Everyone stopped talking, shocked.

"But noooooo, Bella has to keep her soul, she has stay human, she has to live a normal life. Well, you where that got me? Huh, Eddie?" I sneered his name. He nodded, tightly, once.

"It got me nearly hospitalized and sent to therapy. I was nearly forced to live with Renee. That was when I started hanging out with Jake. He started to mend the pieces of my heart together. We built motorcycles, he saved me from LAURENT! Victoria has been hunting me down, or did you forget that when you left me. Did you forget that you killed a sadistic vampire and caused his mate to want to kill me, too?

The only reason I jumped that cliff was so I could hear your voice. They were chasing Victoria, and I was bored, waiting for him. I decided to go early, and when I got there, I jumped and saw flamed IN the water. Only after I was on my way home, did I realize that WAS Victoria. She was in the water, ready to kill me. If Jake hadn't pulled me out, I really would've been dead. So, tell me Eddie, what made you forget about Laurent and Victoria?"

Everyone was speechless. He couldn't think of anything to say. Then, Felix spoke.

"You left her so that a vampire could kill her?" He shouted.

I laughed. "No, no. He left me, in the middle of the forest, watching me run after him, no doubt, until I collapsed and Sam found me. They had a search party looking for me until like, three in the morning. If Jake and the pack hadn't been there in the meadow, I would've been Laurent's dinner. I would've been dead because I wasn't good for his world." I chuckled darkly, looking at Edward's pained face.

"You should read Jake's mind. He would show you everything I went through, just to hear your voice, heck he didn't even know about the voice. I even forgot about you at times." He growled, I continued like it was nothing.

"And you know what, when I forgot about you, I was either doing something with Jake, or spending time with the pack. It was the best time of my life. Then, Alice came back after seeing me jump. I came here to rescue your life, and I remembered all the things you did, all the fun I had when you were gone. All the DANGEROUS things I did when you left. It was exciting. Heck, I even talked to my friends after what was months, the first time I remembered talking to them, was January nineteenth. That was the day we met, when I first moved here."

I smirked. "You know what, Jane," I said, turning toward her. She quickly composed her shock into a smile. "I think we should go ahead, I think Eddie-boy here is going to take a while to unfreeze." She laughed with me, and continued walking. Alice right behind me, not saying a word, with a grim expression on her face.

"Here we are." Jane said, after we reached the wooden door that looked as though it was ancient.

"Thank you, Jane. This should be interesting." Edward wrapped his arms around my waist again. I squirmed out of it. She opened the door and as soon as a dark haired vampire in the center laid eyes on us, he stood up and greeted us.

"Oh, what fun! Bella is alive after all, and you brought Alice." He greeted us.

I decided to play bold, "And you must be Aro. And your brothers, Marcus and Caius, I see. Pleasure to meet you all," Aro looked at me in astonishment. The, what I assumed was the guard, looked taken aback that I spoke to royalty like that.

"Hello, Bella, I have heard so much about you. Edward has fascinating memories. Now, Bella, would you mind if I look into your memories?" I didn't know what to do, so I said what I could have.

"I don't mind, Aro," and I grinned. He held out his hand, eager. Once I placed my hand in his, he frowned and his eyes showed amazement.

"I can't read your thoughts, Bella. Interesting. I wonder, Jane, dear, would you like to test your ability?"

"Master, in my defense, I don't want to hurt Bella. She has shown remarkable courage." She stated to Aro, in a whisper. There were gasps. "May I?" She asked, holding out her hand. Aro took it, and grinned.

"Remarkable. She can make a strong one of our kind. So much courage and nobility. Bella, could you explain to me what happened, since I can't see it?"

I nodded. (This is just a sum of from when Edward left to now, with a little sass) "Well, Aro, it all started on my eighteenth birthday. You see, I didn't want to celebrate and have a party, nothing to draw attention to myself, everything ends badly. So, I went to the Cullen's house and I opened a present only to get a paper cut. Long story short, Edward pushed me back and I fell on a pile of plates and went through my arm. That sent everyone except Carlisle into frenzy, and I got stitched up, while the others left for a while to get away from the blood because they didn't want to hurt me.

The days after my party, Edward seemed distant. I thought it was his way off coping, not him trying to break up with me. So, after about a week, he took me for a walk in the forest. We got about two steps in, I know, some walk, right? He told me he didn't love me, didn't want me, and that it would be as if he never existed. I tried to run after him, but he, like, RAN. So, me, being klutzy Bella, tripped and just didn't care enough to get up.

"I fell asleep or something and the next thing I knew, it was like midnight and Sam was carrying me back to my dad and his search party. I don't remember anything that happened five months after that. I was a zombie. My dad threatened to take me to Renee in Jacksonville, but I refused. I went to Port Angeles with Jess and I thought I saw these boys from that night I was in Port Angeles and almost attacked, I assume you know?" he nodded,

"Right, so I started walking towards them," Edward growled. "And I heard Edward's voice. I thought I was going crazy, which was totally possible at the time. So, after that, I found some motorcycles and I took them to La Push, which is the Indian Reservation. He helped me fix my broken heart and over time it got better until I almost didn't feel it at all. He rode the motorcycles and I heard his voice again. I saw Sam and his 'gang'" I laughed," jump off the cliff and I thought it was fun, so Jake promised to take me.

"Days after that I wanted to find our meadow, " Edward growled again," But Jake and I couldn't find it. So we just hung out, and then he stopped calling after the movie with Mike." A feral snarl ripped from Edward's chest," Billy said he had mono, yeah, a bunch of crap that was. I set out for the meadow again, and found it. Just as I was about to fall to the ground in agony, Laurent found me, and I was scared to death.

There were reports of bear sightings and missing campers or camper's dry of blood, and then it clicked. He killed them. I heard Eddie's voice again, and he told me to tell him that the Cullen's visited a lot, so I did. Then, five of those bears, well they weren't bears, they were horse sized wolves. And, you know what, I trusted them. I felt like I knew them. A big russet one looked at me, and I immediately thought, Jake, and then Laurent ran away, the wolves chasing him. I ran home and told my dad that the bears were not bears but wolves, and he started to organize a hunt.

"Jake told me he couldn't talk to me anymore, and it was Edward leaving all over again. He visited me one night and told me to remember the story he told me last march. I remembered after having a dream. He was a werewolf, and I drove to La Push the next day and told him I knew. He stayed with me after that, and I met Emily and the rest of the pack. I loved them all like brothers. They are my brothers, I was welcomed right away, well except for Paul, good old Paul, tried to attack me and Jake saved my life, yet again.

Yeah, he was the russet wolf from when there was Laurent. He told me Victoria was back and attacking people after they killed Laurent. I was scared, shitless. Sorry for my language, anyway, Jake and his pack would protect the town from vampires and keep a watch on my house because I was the one she wanted, mate for mate, Laurent put it. So, I stayed in La Push for most of the time, and helped Jake in school.

One day, I didn't know that Victoria got in the rez, and she killed Harry, she killed him, he died of a heart attack, the wolves chased her into the water where she jumped and they lost her. I was waiting for Jake by the cliffs cuz we were going to jump that day, and I was impatient, so I jumped and there was a storm so the current was strong and I almost drowned, I heard Edward and saw flames in the water. Jake pulled me out and told me Harry died.

He took me home and opened the door but smelled vampire, so he started to drive, but I saw Carlisle's car and told him to go back. He refused to listen to me, but I forced him to. I walked in and Alice was there. I was so happy. We started talking and she stayed for a couple of days. Then, Jake came and Alice left to hunt. We started talking and he told me he loved me, and was about to kiss me," Edward's eyes bulged," Like you care, you left me. Anyway, the phone rang, and it was Edward asking if Charlie was there. He told him he was at the funeral, and Eddie hung up thinking it was my funeral. He came here, and Alice and I left to get him. And, here we are."

The Volturi were silent. I noticed Jane was crying into Alec's chest. He was holding her and comforting her too quiet for me to hear. I was a relief to tell someone all of this.

"So, Bella, these wolves, where can we find them." Caius asked.

Oh, no! "They never harmed anyone, they have to keep their kind a secret just like you do yours. They only know about vampires because of their ancestors. Please, don't kill them, they are the only family I have that sees me happy anymore."

"Bella, Bella, who said we were going to kill them. I just need to know so we don't run into them and get ourselves killed, promise!" Caius said, offended.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to jump to conclusions. They are in La Push. About fifteen minutes from Forks, human speed." I giggled, and Aro smiled, amused.

"Fine, now onto lighter topics, Bella, do you still wish to be one of us?" Aro asked.

I smiled, "More than you could ever possibly believe, Aro."

He clapped like a five year old seeing Christmas for the first time.

"Perfect, now would you like to join our guard, you have touched Jane's heart, and she is the hardest heart to touch of all, no offence, Jane."

"None taken, Master." she smiled.

"Aro, I would be honored to join your guard," I said before Alice could see it, and I heard two growls from behind me...

A/N: I hope you all enjoyed