Gwen's Pov

"We shouldn't trust him." Caius explains.
"It could most likely be a trap."

"Can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with Caius."  Edward says.
"It's highly suspicious. Why say all of this now?"

"I think we shou...." Their voices fade out as I'm pulled deep into the back of my mind. I see myself in a forest, beautiful white flowers all around on the ground. The entire atmosphere and surroundings, overwhelmed me with it's peace.

A beautiful woman stood in front of me, her back facing me.

She turns around, a big smile coming unto her face.
"Gwen Benedict."

"Who are you?"

"I am Romona, The First Wise one." She says. Her words spoken very airy but held so much authority.

"You're young." She giggles.
"How old are you?" She laughs more.

"I'm 24 as I last remember. But immortality has it's perks." I stare at her confused.

"Wise ones are not immortal." She smiles.

"This one is, but let's get off of me."

"His ways of doing things are not right, but his motives are not ill. His desire solely for the Clan to be destroyed." She comes closer, standing at arms length.

"When a battle happens, the possibility of loved ones dying is... possible." She stares directly into my eyes. Her gaze not wavering.
"They're not the enemy. I know you feel it. That they tell the truth. I mean, they would have to be good liars to make up that story." She chuckles.

"Romona, are you related to Steven?" Her eyes widen slightly, a smile taking over her face.

"I'm his many greats grandmother, if you should know." She says turning and walking away.

"Control of the Elements, means control of the very source of nature itself." She stoops down, picking up a flower.
"Control of the weather is a whole other thing." She stands up, turning around looking at me again.

"Yet, there's an essence of power, that has not been revealed yet."

What does that mean?

A beautiful smile appears on her face once again. The wind blowing a little stronger now, but not to the point to frighten you.

"It'll be ugly at first...but it'll all be beautiful in the end." Is the last thing she says, before the strength of the wind increases, circling around me.

She does a small courtesy, before turning and running away. My mind slowly draws back to reality. The entire room for a second, was frozen before it all started moving again.

She stopped time?

"Guys but really, what should we do?" I hear Jewel ask.

"I think we should go." I say.

I watch as all of their heads snap to me. Carlisle, looking down to me.

"Are you sure love?"

"I am."

"I agree with Gwen." Marcus says.
"He said that he will offer his hand to Aro, meaning he knows of his gift. However not of Edward's. We're not going there naive, neither are we weak. If it comes to a fight, we can handle ourselves."

"So we're going?" Jasper asks.

"Yes."

•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•

"Renessmae, Henry, James. You guys will stay with Wilma at their house, along with Jacob, Seth and Leah." Carlisle explains.

"Jewel and Ms. D you guys will have to stay with them also. We can't have you guys in danger. I'm sure Aro will assign his guards to Jewel." Carlisle states, and Aro nods.

"Javier will you be coming or..."

"I'll stay with my darling." He says and I smile at that.

"Wilma and John's house is highly gated and guarded. You'll all be safe there. You will have to close down the bakery for now Ms. D."

"Oh she already did." Jewel states.
"She had left a notice on the door, the day before Aiden was taken. Told the customers that if they came by and they found the bakery closed, know that she might not open for awhile." She goes to stand next to Aro, who wastes no time to put his arm around her waist. Kissing the side of her head.

"Aww JewJew is blushing." Edward teases.

"Don't call me that Edward. It sounds like some kind of Voodoo."

"Then stop calling me Edwardo!"

"Are you two eight? I tell you Carlisle. Aiden is not the only child you have." Zeke says.

"Hey!"
"What's that suppose to mean!"

"Stop talking while I'm talking Edwardo!"

"Don't tell me what to do!" He bites back.

"Imma hurt you!!" She tries running to him, but Aro holds her back chuckling deeply.

She lets out a huff, stomping her foot. Settling with giving Edward a very heated glare, as if trying to set him a fire.

I swear the two banters like siblings.

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While we waited for Anderson to contact us, Ms. D and Esme had finished cooking, and some of us were now eating.

I've decided to keep my encounter with the wise one a secret between me and her. There's already so much we're worried on, I don't want to add that into the mix.

And if you're wondering, for lack better words, the Volturi was rendered speechless when they tasted Ms. D's cooking.

Felix literally started crying, and the others were in complete shook. Aro however, was very much amazed by the powers of a cooking Fai.

"Now!!" James shouts, bringing everyone's attention to him, standing up from the dining table, his plate of food in hand.

"I've been meaning to ask this for a good while now. Now I know it's not only me who's thinking this but what EXACTLY happens to the food we eat?" He says taking another bite of the macaroni pie.
"Cause..for...humans.."

"James I taught you better than to talk while you're eating." Wilma sternly tells him. He quickly swallows, apologizing to her.

He rests the plate down.
"Right. Cause for humans you know it goes through their digestive system, then it comes out as too too. I know this, because I learned it in school.

But we're vampires. Our blood is venom. Do our stomachs even still work? Like we can't cry, can't sleep. Y'all said that food use to taste like dirt to y'all before. I know for a fact we don't use the bathroom anymore. So what's up with that?"

You could hear a pin drop in the room before everyone began laughing, some of the men chuckling.

"Though I'm still studying the full functionality of the phenomenon of us eating. I once thought our digestive systems do not work, but then how would the blood that we consume enter the necessary tracts to supply us the nutrients we need." Luis explains, a particular type of excitement in his tone.

"So when we eat food it just remains there?" James asks, holding his belly, looking down at it in horror.

"No. As I said I'm still studying this. I did a short study on Emmett and the amount of food he has consumed," I chuckle. Emmett does eat a lot.
"I assumed he would of brought it back up by now, seeing as he can't pass waste but he hasn't. So that lead me to this conclusion.."

"It breaks down, but the need for fats, protein and any other essential nutrients for humans or other beings that do eat, mean nothing to us, seeing as we do survive off blood, which gives us the nutrients we need to live." Henry says and weak look at him.

"Indeed. Also that's why I keep inquiring not to eat as much seeing as we do not know the full extent of the phenomenon. Yet I won't disagree that the need to have such an experience once a while is something that one should pass up on." Luis replies, and Henry nods in understanding.

My eyes catch Aro, looking at Henry strangely, his head leaning slightly to the right, analyzing him.

I've realized the Volturi keeps to themselves. Whenever I'm the room, they are bundled together in a corner, while the rest of us facilitate the rest of the room.

"Have you figured out your powers yet young one?" He asks, causing all of us to look to him.

"Oh..umm..I didn't think I had any." He shrugs.

"Sometimes... qualities of your gift can be seen while you're still human." He says standing. I look to Carlisle and he reassures me, that everything is okay.

"What would you say is a common trait of yours Henry?"

"I can multitask well."

"May I?" I watched as Aro advanced Henry, with a smile on his face. He stretches out his hand to him. Henry looks to me and I look to Carlisle.

"You can say no. I won't throw a fit, as Jewel calls it." Hesitantly, Henry places his hand in Aro's.

"Hmm. I can't see anything, yet it doesn't feel like dear Bella's mind." A look of excitement, crosses his face.
"Think of a moment. Any moment."

"Arr okay." Aro focuses again, and this time he lets out a childish giggle, clapping his hands.

"I saw it. I saw it." I sit up straighter.
"This is fascinating. Can you see his future dear Alice?"

"Limited. Sometimes I do, other times I don't." Aro giggles again.

"And I believe it's the same with you Edward. One minute you hear, the next minute you don't."

"Why is that?" I ask.

"He's doing it unconsciously." Carlisle says.

"Exactly!!" Aro squeals, like a child who just found their favourite toy.
"You're subconscious mind allows us to only receive the information it wants us too." Aro, steps back from him, a very creepy smile on his face.
"Somewhat like dear Bella's shield, yet yours is different. So much more different."

"Mind protection?" Luis says, and Aro turns to him.

"Of a sort. To control his own mind, to allow others to see or in Edward's circumstance hear, what he wants them too. Unconsciously now, but one only knows what it can grow into with greater training."

"Should I be worried?" I laugh a little, but really should I?

"I don't believe you need too." Aro's short reply for some reason, only made me more worried.

"Well what about me? What's my gift?" James asks.

"Irritation." Emmett taunts, and they laugh. Yet my mind was still concerned about Henry.

I feel Carlisle take my hand in his.
"He'll be okay." I give him a small smile.

"I'm choosing to ignore you for my peace sake." He says flipping his imaginary hair.
"Seriously though.. What about me? I wanna have a cool gift too. I mean I don't think the whole mind thing is for me and I definitely don't want the seeing the future thing. What about Jasper's empathy, now that's really cool."

"You only say that now." Jasper says shaking his head.

"Exactly." Edward agrees.

"Not all vampires have a gift James-" Carlisle stops what he's saying, when he sees the share disappointment on James' face.
"Don't worry James, I'm sure you have a gift. If anything, I can contact a good friend of mines and see what he has to say about it."

"Okay." He pouts.

"Oh Jamesie, don't cry. It might end up being your gift. The only vampire that can cry." Winnie says holding James in a held lock, laughing.

"I'll kill you." A low threatening growl fills the room. We all turn to Henry in shock. His gaze was locked on James, who held his hand up in surrender.

"Geez bro. I won't literally kill her. I mean I might hit her-" he lets out another growl, taking a step forward, and my jaw drops.

"Joking. Joking. I won't hit your woman. " He chuckles, giving Henry a knowing smile. To which Henry just rolls his eyes.

"Anymore and you might actually become a tomato." He says, poking his sister's cheek.

She hits his shoulder lightly. Her eyes going to Henry, who is already looking at her. She lets out a small gasp, immediately casting her eyes to the floor. Her face becoming more red. Which honestly I didn't think was even possible with how red she already was.

James let's out another laugh, resulting in Winnie hitting him again.
"Stop."
He just laughs it off, saying Young Love.

I look at Henry seeing a small smile, so small if you don't know him well, you'll think he's not smiling. His attention turns to me, and I give him the look, and he shrugs.

Did something happen between the two and Henry told me nothing about it?

Did he forgive her?

Oh my gosh, are they dating?!

I look at him again, eyes wide.
"We're not dating Gwen."

"Yet." James mutters, but we all heard him.

I look to Winnie, who looked a little disappointed by Henry's words.

"Cut it out James."

"Why should I Henry?" He taunts in a feminine voice, smirking.
"That kis-"

"I said cut it out!" He shouts, and James only laughs.

Everyone looked back and forth between the two. My mind needing time to register what he just said.

K-Kiss?

"You two kissed!?" I stand to my feet, Henry glaring at James, who just laughs more.

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