When Creatures Meet

Chapter 1

The little eight years old, looked up at her mother as she walked down the alleyway holding her hand. When she looks back she sees a red-haired man wearing ragged clothes with dirt all over his face, but something about this man kept her attention. Slowly the man smiles at her with pearlescent white teeth that almost shine in the dim alleyway. The emerald-eyed girl looks to her mom as she points to the man, only to see him standing behind her mother. She goes to scream in fright when suddenly she is shoved into the brick wall off to her right, gasping she looks toward the man that now has her mother trapped in his arms and biting down on her neck, seeing this and not knowing what to do she screams.

Aro had absolutely no clue as to why he decided to take a leisurely walk through Volterra, Italy. The sun slowly fading as the day turned to night. He sighs thinking that even after all this time the sunsets are still beautiful to watch and he never tires of seeing it, hearing a muted thud and the strong scent of fresh blood just off to his left he whips around as he hears a shrill scream and feels a dull pull in his heart at the sound. 'Strange, it feels like a dull mating pull.' he thinks as he rushes to the scream that establishes a pull in his chest. Once there he sees one of his kind feeding off a young Italian woman no older than 25, turning his head slightly keeping the feeding vampire in his sight still he looks and sees the small little girl screaming for the woman he assumes is her mother. Feeling the bond settle with a dull ache and a very strong protective demeanor from for the girl she quickly snatches her and runs back to his castle hoping to find his brother and fellow king, Marcus.

She is still screaming and is about to shout "Mommy" when all of a sudden everything blurs and she feels the wind rushing through her hair. She, Lily, suddenly starts to squirm and wiggle as she registers that there are arms wrapped around her. "Put me down." She shouts."Mommy help! Please! Put me down." She continues to shout as she struggles to hit the person carrying her; out of nowhere the wind stops and she appears in a round stone chamber with three carved stone chairs sitting on a platform and she is hit with a bout of nausea. Taking deep breaths and trying not to get sit she sits on the floor quietly trying to regain her senses. After her stomach calms she takes another look around the room searching for her mother only to find that she is alone in a big round chamber with three men that look similar to the man in the alleyway.

She whips her head around again as she frantically searches for her mother, only to find the three men quietly arguing with each other. "Ummm. Excuse me?" Lily asked, sounding upset and terrified at the same time. The three men turned to look at her at the same time. One second facing each other and then the next they are facing her one looking calm, one bored and the other angry. "Yes, miss?" the calm one responded. "Where is my mom? How did I get here? Also, who are you?" Lily asked in quick succession. "Ah... well, my name is Aro Volturi, this is my brother Marcus," he says pointing to the bored-looking man next to him. "This is our fellow ruler Caius," this time pointing to the man behind him and off to his left, "as for you got here well that is slightly complicated, your mother well I am sorry to say that she will not be joining us as the man in the alley has killed her." he says in a bored tone. "Interesting..." Marcus says monotonically. "She is your descendent, brother, mine also. It seems our sister had a child before she passed away." Aro looks at his brother stunned and holds out his hand to him. Marcus seeing this slowly extends his hand to his brother. Once Aro has grabbed his hand his eyes go glossy and look far off into the distance as his whole body stiffens, seconds pass and suddenly he relaxes and smiles at both Marcus and me.

"Ah... well, this changes everything, as to your other question as to how you came to be in this castle. Well, it is a long story which simply put is that Caius, Marcus and myself are what you would call vampires." Lily looks at them seriously for a second and then starts to shake, seeing this the vampires prepare for her to run away screaming, only to be surprised when she starts to laugh uncontrollably. They stare at her confused and unable to process what is happening. Lily sees that they are not laughing with her instead they look confused. "Wait... you're serious?" She asked confused. "Yes, my dear niece we are serious." Aro responded he then decided to show her his speed and the next she knew Aro was standing by her side looking down at her. "We are vampires, we have incredible speed, strength and we have enhanced senses that are ten times more powerful than that of humans. Some of us also have other gifts, I can see your every thought and memory with only one touch of our hands. Marcus, my brother can sense and see bonds between vampires. He has sensed a descendent bond between the two of us and yourself, meaning that our sister had a child before she passed away and you, my dear are one of her children's children. Jane come here please." Aro calls softly.

A teen girl with red eyes and long black hair appears in front of us and bows to Aro. "Master Aro, you called for me?" the teen asks. "Yes, Jane, this is my niece and she will be living with us from now on. It is now part of your duties to make sure she is comfortable and has everything she will need from here on out until she has come of age that we can change her." Jane nods and looks over to the small shocked girl. "Whhh-at... do you-u mean chhh-anged?" Lily stutters. "Well... since you know our secret now there are two choices, either become one of us or die. However, if you prove to be trustworthy in the future I could see you making a case to remain human if you so wished." Aro explains calmly as if he was just saying that it is sunny outside. "But... will that mess with my magic?" I ask Aro concerned.

"Magic? There is no such thing as magic." Aro responds chuckling. "Yes, my mother was teaching me wandless magic, she said it was easier to learn before you get your wand and makes learning spells easier." Lily argued. She concentrated and focused on the warm feeling that flows inside her. She then looked at Aro and pictured him floating, she then looked to Caius and focused on his hair and turning it a bright purple. Lily looked to Marcus and saw that he was trying to laugh at the now purple haired Caius and floating Aro; she smiles and then focuses on flipping Aro upside down in the air. Looking at Jane with a smile on her face she pleasantly asks "Would you like a turn?" Jane's eyes widen as she smiles and softly says "No thank you." to Lily thinking to herself that she is going to like this girl and all the pranks that they could achieve together.