"What is it?" Andy asked Edward knowing that if her mate was picking up on a mind out there, Edward would be able to read it.

"There's another vampire, I can hear their thoughts." Edward replied.

"We're being watched." Demetri elaborated his crimson eyes spotting movement.

"I don't know who it is, only that they've been ordered to observe." Edward tells the vampires closest to him.

"Felix, Demetri." Aro commanded the pair to apprehend the spy. The largest began to move only to be stopped by a flash of blue that appeared directly in front of him.

"Sorry Felix, but you're too slow," Andy spoke to the giant and nodded to her mate to continue.

Demetri made his way to her and gently took both her hands in his ignoring the inquiring gaze of those around them. "South East." He told her and she followed his gaze in the right direction. She took a deep breath and focused on their destination.

"Duck," Demetri shouted pulling his mate down as a large boulder was fired in their direction.

Andy spotted a male vampire with crimson eyes glaring at them. Had a lithe build and rusty coloured hair, his skin almost as white as the snow they stood on. He wore a simple white shirt over grey pants, the only thing that stood out was the heavy black chain and crest around his neck. He snarled lunging to attack Andy only to be met with air. Confused he glanced to the side where she had appeared with a smug grin.

The male spotted the two vampires from opposing sides of the fight he was ordered to observe communicating with their eyes. They seemed to know something he didn't, and he didn't like that. One wore blue and silver, the other red and black, but right now they seemed to move as one.

Andy chuckled at the man. She didn't attack head on, instead she chose to circle him, Demetri mimicking her actions on the other side. "Remember when I said we should play hide and seek?" Andy spoke over the vampire.

"I thought we were playing who's the better hunter?" Demetri inquired in his own playful tone. "And I believe I won that."

"I still don't think it was fair." Andy replied as the vampire between them stared at the pair like they were insane. "How about we hunt the same prey and even the playing field."

Demetri's eyes lit up with the prospect of a hunt, and a competitive one at that. He stopped circling the vampire and grinned. "Tell you what, we'll give you a five second head start." Demetri said with a casual smile.

She grinned widely at the terrified look on the vampires face. "One," she counted closing her eyes taking a taunting step into the clearing. "Two," she could hear the movements of her prey as he began to run. "Three," she sang listening for any other movements. "Four," she knew he wasn't stupid, he couldn't go back to his master now that he had been caught out, they would kill him. "Five," her crimson eyes opened sparking with glee as a smirk made its way onto her face as she shared a look with her mate. "Ready or not, here we come."

Demetri had the vampire's tenor and took off after him under the knowing eyes of Andy. He was quick and knew exactly where the man was heading. At that moment he realised his prey didn't know the full extent of his gifts. Water will wash away his scent and make him difficult for Andy to track, but Demetri already had a taste of the man's mind. He could find him anywhere now. His prey was already caught in his web.

Andy smirked and began to think like her prey. He most likely wasn't aware of who was hunting him, which meant he would head directly for water. She'd been to the cliffs before, so without a second though teleported herself there and braced for an attack. Her enhanced senses picked up the movements of her prey heading directly into her trap as he ran away from Demetri.

Her legs bent at the knees as she crouched low a snarl on her lips waiting for the pair to break through the trees.

She spotted a head of rusty hair followed by her favourite shade of dirty blonde above the foliage and propelled herself in the direction of her prey taking him off guard. Her body tackled his to the ground resulting in a loud clash that sounded like thunder building at sea.

Her prey snarled and attempted to sink his teeth into the arm she had wrapped around his upper torso only to have his chin grasped in the dangerously tight grip of the Volturi tracker. He smirked at his mate as she took one of the arms and viscously removed it from his thorax. Demetri copied her actions on the other side chucking the offending limb into the dirt at their feet as the vampire spy was forced to his knees.

"You're not going to tell us anything are you darling?" Andy taunted picking up his arms.

"Go to hell." The spy spat on the ground at her feet.

"I've been, they kicked me out." She replied gripping the vampire's neck tightly in her hand. Her mate recognised she was about to travel and wrapped his own arms securely around her waist.

She gave a final smirk and teleported back to the clearing.

It was silent once again as all present waited for the Volturi lord to come to a decision. His eyes were locked on the spot where his tracker had just disappeared. He remembered Alice's vision clearly, how easily Andromeda tore through the guard her only real opponent was her mate, and he wasn't stupid enough to order Demetri to go against her. The only vampire that stood a chance at incapacitating her was Alec and she was too quick for him, she needed to be caught off guard but that proved to be an issue as well. She'd been around long enough to accurately predict the movements of her enemies.

She intrigued him, how someone that old and consequently powerful had managed to escape his notice easily. Though she never made a move against the Volturi, the old ways of the Greek coven still present in how she acted around them. She respected him and his coven, even knowing what their motives were. She didn't seem to have an issue with it, as she had with no doubt experienced the same first hand under the rule of Aegeus. Although her loyalty to the Cullen's is quite commendable, why did she chose today of all days to present herself to them? Why hadn't she run already?

"She was making allies." Edward spoke directly to him answering his question. "She was under the impression there is a greater threat and that we shouldn't be fighting one another."

"Who?" Caius asked his sneer unmoving.

"You know who." The mind reader replied.

"We are aware and we are dealing with it." Aro pointed out.

"Oh it will be good to see your empire fall." Vladimir's words rolled off his tongue like poison, "but unfortunately you are the lesser of two evils."

Their conversation was interrupted by the appearance of three vampires. The stranger was armless and had fallen to his knees before the two deadly predators that had captured him.

Andy stumbled a little as she dropped the vampire and his arms to the side, the only thing supporting her weight was the vampire behind her. "You need to feed." He whispered in her ear lowly.

"Not yet." She replied her obsidian eyes on her prey. She forced herself to stand upright and stalked to the vampire now being held in Felix's dangerous grip. His eyes were wide with fear as he looked to his arms that had been disguarded in the snow.

She willed herself not to stumble as she approached the vampire. Her hands reached out and pulled the black rose crest from around his neck and stalked over to Aro throwing the crest at his feet with a glare. "You wanted an enemy," she pointed to the spy, "there he is."

Andromeda backed up and stood side by side with the tracker, her bright blue coat standing out in the sea of black and red. She needed to know what the Cult were planning.

Aro never took to kindly to Aegeus' attitude, and Andromeda's wasn't that much different. He resisted a sneer and plastered a false grin on his lips as he approached the arm-less man. His hands grips his chin gently as his eyes glazed over and he looked into his mind.

"Mathias was a fool." Pius fought the urge to roll his eyes as he stood with the rest of the guard. "He should never had let that wench out of his sight." Pius turned his attention from is master to the door as Raoul, one of their trackers entered with a timid look.

"We- I can't find her." He stuttered as he spoke.

His master's deep crimson eyes stared down at the vampire before him with disgust. "What do you mean you can't find her?"

"My lord, she leaves no trace, not even her scent is present." He whimpered in fear pitifully.

"Then enlighten me as to why I should bother keeping you around? What use are you now?" His voice lacked any gentleness, the only emotion expressed was disgust.

Pius wanted to look away, he knew what was coming, as did the rest of the room. He wouldn't look away though, looking away showed weakness and he had to prove he wasn't weak.

"My- my lord I-" the Raoul stuttered.

"Tell me why the Volturi tracker can find her and you can't, hmm?" His master's entire form leaned forward from his throne his eyes gleaming dangerously as he tilted his head waiting for the man's excuse.

"His gift-" the man before him began but broke out screaming as cracks formed on his pale marble skin. The creaking and shattering sound echoed around them as the vampire crumbled to pieces.

His eyes didn't move from the scene as the guard member was reduced to ash. He feared his master like those around him, but he believed what his master was doing was correct. "Pius," the Master called and he took a step from the shadows making sure to keep calm in the presence of his lord.

"Master," he acknowledged.

"I have a task for you."

"Anything Master,"

"Word has been spreading that Carlisle and the Olympic coven of bunny eating fools is to face the Volturi on the charges of creating an immortal child." His Master spoke spitting each of his words accentuating the hatred in his tone. "I want you to attend, and spy for me."

"Yes master," Pius replied and backed up to the door telling himself he could do the job his master asked.

"Oh and Pius," he turned back slightly fearing the man's next words. "If they catch you, don't bother returning." He gulped, nodded once and continued out the door ready to complete the task set out for him.

Aro dug deeper, not satisfied with what he had learnt.

"Hello Pius," a soft female voice spoke. This female though, Aro recognised from Mathias's thoughts of the original members of the Cult.

"My lady," Pius greeted as the raven haired woman stood in his path. She, like all vampires was beautiful, and had curves in all the right places and knew it.

"Please Pius, you know you can call me Loretta." She flashed her white teeth at him. "How old are you now?"

"Four hundred." Pius replied and she nodded circling him.

"Wait until you're a millennium into this life, that's when the real fun begins." Pius hated being stuck with her, she scared him more than his master as his master would answer her every beck and call. He had been told that if the Queen did not like you, you're as good as dead. "You're still young, so you probably don't understand why we are doing this."

"Why are we doing this?" He inquired curiously.

"We want to live in peace like in the old days, where vampires were feared and not under the oppressive rule of the Italian and Greek scum." She sneered the last part her eyes narrow and dark but instantly they brightened as she looked back at him. "We're doing this for us."

An almighty roar ripped through the old castle that sent shudders down Pius's spine. He hated that sound, everyone on the guard did. It sounded dangerous, strained and tortured. "It seems my pet is awake," Loretta grinned at him. "Care to accompany me on a visit?" She asked and Pius knew she wouldn't take no for an answer.

He offered her his arm like a gentleman and she eagerly took it directing their path to the dungeons.

Pius could feel the fear oozing from him in waves as Loretta unlocked the heavy steel doors and ushered him inside. He swore he could feel his dead heart beat out of his chest as he held a torch for her, willing his body not to shake too much as they headed to the cage.

Five guards were posted outside, each holding a blade of some sort with unappealing almost tar-like blood dripping from the end.

"What is that?" Pius asked his eyes holding terror as he looked to Loretta's sinister grin.