Behind The Walls

01. Hey, I'm Angel

Drapetomania

(n.) an overwhelming urge to run away

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I turned to face the door as I heard a knock. I nodded to my brother, Nathaniel, who walked into my room whilst clutching his wrist. Often a sign, a sign that troubles a brewing.

"What's wrong?" I asked

"Angel.......I just had a vision...." he trailed off

"About?"

"I think the Volturi are going to become a problem"

"Mother of hands!!"

The Volturi are the largest and most powerful coven of vampires. They enforce the laws of the vampire world. And are seen as the equivalent of royalty in the vampire world, the Volturi consists of 5 core members: Aro, Caius, Marcus, Sulpicia, and Athenodora. Marcus's wife. Didyme was also a member before she was killed by her brother (Aro). Aside from these head members, it also consists of a collection of powerfully imposing vampires, known as the "Volturi guard". The Volturi act as the unofficial royalty in the world of vampires and are an incredibly influential coven. They are also considered 'nighttime patrons of the arts' as, because of their inability to sleep. (All vampires can not sleep, or eat "human" food, as well as have an uncanny ability to swim or run, they don't need to blink and breath and have inhuman strength, unlike any human being. Vampires have an amazing memory but have an impossible time remembering their human life. Some vampires are born with gifts, and the Volturi often seeks out these powerful vampires to add to their impressive "guard" of gifted vampires. The Volturi study the arts at night. The Volturi act as guardians, keeping the secret society of vampires hidden from the human world as needed. They often send their agents to travel from Volterra to prevent overzealous covens from exposing vampires through mass eradication of every vampire (and any humans) present. The coven has existed for over 3000 years and is the largest coven in existence, followed by the Olympic, the Denali, and the Mexican covens. The Volturi were founded by Aro, Caius, and Marcus, along with Athenodora. They were later joined by Sulpicia and Marcus's wife Didyme, who was also Aro's sister. The coven originated in Greece and proceeded to gather vampires with useful talents to build up their power, and eventually relocated to Volterra, Italy. When the coven became strong enough, the Volturi usurped control of the vampire world from the Romanian coven, the original ruling coven, and presented the laws prohibiting vampires from being noticed by humans. After the Romanians were defeated in the century-long war, their next target was the Egyptians, with only two survivors from the demise, Amun and Kebi. Their power increased incredibly after recruiting Jane and Alec; two vampire twins with extremely powerful gifts, and subsequently made the coven untouchable. They presented the twins for the first time when the Romanian coven tried to regain control and defeated the army easily with their powers. At one time, Marcus and his wife Didyme grew tired of the coven's warring lifestyle and planned on leaving. Aro was upset by this, but pretended to give them his support; however, Aro later secretly killed Didyme to prevent Marcus from leaving, because he found his brother-in-law's power much more useful than his sister's. Marcus spent the majority of the time trying to find the murderer (he never realized it was Aro who did it), when he failed, he became suicidal. At this point, Aro met Chelsea and realized that she had the power to manipulate relationships and used her to keep Marcus loyal to Volturi. Death of Didyme, however, prompted Caius and Aro to ensure tight security surveillance to their mates. As Chelsea's power is the key to their civilization, Aro always gives her what she wants (for example, her mate Afton, who is far less skilled than her), but he also uses Corin's gift to keep her from leaving. With Chelsea on their side, they were able to easily recruit other vampires who did not wish to join them (for example, Demetri, Renata, and Heidi). Volturi has ruled the vampire world for 25 centuries by the start of the series. During that time, the coven did several things to ensure stability in the world, including outlawing the creation of immortal children, cleaning up after the southern wars in the southern parts of America, and creating their vampires to spread their laws across the world. At some point, Caius was almost killed in a fight with a werewolf. Becoming terrified of his people's mortal enemies, he pushed Volturi to hunt them to near extinction in Europe and Asia. Aro, Caius, and Marcus are the leaders of the Volturi. They command the Volturi guard and act as representatives when dealing with other covens. They rarely leave their city but will do so occasionally when the situation demands it. The guard, also known as the Volturi guard, is a group of vampires with powerful capabilities and serve as subordinates of the coven. Each member is given assignments fitting their useful qualities: while most guards are assigned with protecting the prominent members and acting as executioners, some are assigned with other useful tasks. The Volturi have been shown to invite mostly vampires with incredibly powerful gifts that the leaders see as useful to ensure that their authority amongst other covens goes unchallenged. Aro only allows the ones with the best of skills to join the guard. When a vampire is invited into the Volturi, he or she is forced to feel content about joining due to Chelsea's gift to manipulate emotional bonds, usually guaranteeing a swift initiation into the group. When the Volturi find a vampire more gifted than one of their guards, they would try to recruit him or her to replace the member, or at least to join the organization. If a guard member is dismissed, he is either released on his own or disposed of, depending on the threat he might impose if he joined another coven. The Volturi guard currently stands at nine permanent members and several worried more transitory guard members. Each guard wears a cloak, whose color is an indication of their status/ranking; the darker its shade is, the more valuable that a vampire is considered. The transitory guard members wear gray cloaks while the nine permanent members wear darker cloaks. Jane and Alec have the second darkest cloaks, while Chelsea wears the pure black of the leaders. Their most powerful members are the twin vampires: , who can cut off all senses of a person; and Jane, who can implant an illusion of pain into a target's mind. Though their talents are merely mental, they have made the Volturi untouchable. Though the Volturi guard mostly consists of gifted vampires, there have been exceptions. If a physically imposing vampire impresses the leaders, he will be invited to join them as a guard. There had also been cases where vampires wished to join the coven but were turned away because the leaders found them uninteresting or unreliable.

"What are their names?" I questioned

"The Cullens"

I sighed and nodded, bending over to grab my trunk from underneath the bed.

"Shall we?" I smirked

He smiled and shook his head, walking to the door but turned around just as he reached the doorknob,

"Let's try to be safe" Nathaniel hinted

I gave him the thumbs up as I threw in a dark blue, v-neck blouse.

I shut the trunk with a big SLAM,

"Is that everything? My brother grunted

I nodded and slid into the passenger's seat soon followed by Nathaniel.

I watched a drop of rain, bend in a pattern on the foggy car windshield. Looking to my left, I glanced to see my brother Nathaniel sternly watching the road, even though we both knew that he could drive blindfolded and upside down.

"How are you doing?" he questioned

I looked away and sighed,

"Let just go see what the big deal is about Forks" I replied sarcastically

He snickered and turned on the radio just as we crossed a sign that read; Welcome to Forks, Washington. Population: 3,862

"Ooh, ooh

Oh, oh, ooh

Oh, oh, sweet love, yeah

I didn't mean it

When I said I didn't love you so

I shoulda held on tight

I never shoulda let you go

I didn't know nothing

I was stupid, I was foolish

I was lying to myself

Never imagined I'd be

Sitting here beside myself

'Cause I didn't know you

'Cause I didn't know me

But I thought I knew everything

I never felt

The feeling that I'm feeling

Now that I don't hear your voice

Or have your touch and kiss your lips

'Cause I don't have a choice

Oh, what I wouldn't give

To have you lying by my side

Right here, 'cause, baby

(We belong together)

When you left I lost a part of me

It's still so hard to believe

Come back, baby, please

'Cause we belong together

Who else am I....." - (we belong together by Mariah Carey)