24

"What's going on out there?" - Bella whispered as she watched the stranger who had fallen from heaven enter the Volturi clan's camp. - "Edward, do you know him?" - She decided to ask her lover, because she had little contact with the Volturi and didn't know what kind of vampires were there.

"If I did, I would have told you a long time ago... back at the planning stage." - Edward answered, mentally tense. I wondered if the Volturi had someone new!

"What's he doing?" - Edward stretched out, watching as the young man shoved Aro aside, entering their peculiar circle.

"Carlisle, do you know what's going on?" - Esme, too, couldn't keep her puzzled face from asking her life partner.

"I wish I knew. Darling." - Carlisle smiled wryly, there was an unknown variable in the plan, so the outcome of this clash could end badly, for both sides.

"I like him already!" - Emmett almost laughed, watching Aro's face and then how it changed.

Some, which was the majority, just watched silently and watched the guy and his actions. Here the boy passed the Volturi, looked at Jane in a way that made her face seem even more pale; here the boy turned his gaze to the blond woman on her knees.

Everyone watched the next steps of this strange young man with a certain wistfulness in their heart.

***

Without paying any attention to those, I finally reached my target, Irina. This silly girl was still on her knees looking at this scene with a doomed look.

Stopping a few steps before her, I crouched down, bent my knees, and giving her a miserable smile, I asked:

"You don't know me, do you?" - Even though I knew the answer to that question myself, I needed to hear it from her.

"Who you are... I don't understand." - She whispered. Looking at her again, I realized that it was useless to ask her anything now, but from her words and the accompanying expression on Irina's face everything was becoming clear. She didn't know me. I could exhale now, because it was too much for me inside.

"Do you want to live...? What am I talking about? Of course you do. I can see it in your eyes." - I smiled encouragingly and stood up sharply, pulling Irina with me. With my newly acquired strength I had no trouble pulling the compliant body to me.

"Bye-bye!!!" - I grinned as I watched the other vampires around me tense up. I wanted to laugh again, but no one would understand, so I glanced over at Aro, who was ruffled with anger, and strode a little farther, looking in the direction where the Cullens were, thinking they would like my gift.

With a kindly grin, I cradled Irina in my arms and disappeared off the radar. I was in the same world, and in such a short distance, concentration was practically unnecessary here.

Therefore, such a pleasant darkness, to which I had already become accustomed, did not accept me in its gentle embrace, but literally threw me from one place to another. But I think it was all, worth it. And just looking at the dumbfounded faces of the vampires standing there, I was convinced of that myself.

"Take care of her while I take out the trash." - I decided to quickly get the vampires, frozen in shock and disbelief, out of here.

I was just about to leave when someone grabbed the sleeve of my sweatshirt with a firm grip. Why do they have to be like that, and who's that guy?

"Thank you..." - Irina's voice trembled, but her grip didn't loosen one bit.

"you're welcome, and now, would you please let me go?" - I answered her thanks a little too sharply. The sooner I got through this, the sooner I'd be back home. In the circles of my family.

As soon as I answered, my gaze involuntarily shifted to the other people who were standing there watching me with some bewilderment. I decided not to wait for the further development of the situation, and realizing that Irina did not seem to let me go, I gently unhooked her cold hand from me and looked ahead.

And for good reason, the Volturi crowd was stirring in a bad way. It was time to stir up this hornet's nest.

I tried the disappearing trick again, and appeared right in front of Aro. It was time to knock that eternal smirk off his face.

I didn't think twice about it, so I threw a big punch that struck the vampire's solar plexus. He only has time to notice my blow, but doesn't react to it in any way. The fist flew with great force and speed precisely into the target, creating a small sound wave and Aro flew like a feather in the wind dozens of meters away.

Not wanting to stop there, but having enjoyed the sight, I immediately disappeared from the rumbling and rustling Volturi, instantly appearing at the site of the vampire's fall, which formed a small crater of snow beneath it.

The head of the Volturi clan was still in that snow pit, and after waiting for him to get up, I approached him.

But a second later, the world seemed to slow down, and I noticed Aro moving slowly toward me, his eyes immediately flashing red. The wolf inside me fully shared my feelings and was in agreement with me, or rather with what I wanted to accomplish.

As I woke from my thoughts, I caught the moment when the pale vampire's hand reached for my neck. As I loosened my concentration, which was on automatic, the world returned to its original colors. And I didn't hesitate to intercept Aro's hand, first twisting it with a distinctive crunch, then separating it completely from my body.

"You... Who are you?! What I saw was impossible! It can't be!?" - he suddenly shouted, and only now I remembered that he can read minds when he touches them, but not only minds. Thanks to his tactile telepathy, he can go much deeper than ordinary thoughts, into a creature's mind and read its memories and feelings. And it seems that what he saw in there really struck him.

"It's time to finish with you." - I said aloud, all the more so if he'd looked into his memories, there was no telling what else he might have seen.

His body began to change, his bones to crack and warp painfully, his skin to grow fur, and his fingernails to grow long claws. All this metamorphosis took literally seconds.

I grinned viciously with my mouth, showing a row of sharp teeth, and moved straight at him. Aro seemed to turn even more pale, shaking and whispering something.

"Children of the moon... no, impossible, they've been extinct for hundreds of years..." - His teeth clattered, surrendering him to his guts. Aro is afraid, and I like that.