ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢ, ᴏɴᴇ ᴍᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ʀᴀᴘᴇ.

While the end of the trial was nearing, the beginning of a new era was upon us. With my little boy in my arms, I had no reasons to carry on with lecturing my former friends on how to act during a trial. Doing so would do more harm than good on my reputation and on the ears of the two young hybrids in our midst.

"Is that?" Edward questions, looking at the prince in my arms, "A hybrid?"

Many people in the crowd let out a gasp as they got to see the newest addition to the royal family. Quite a few of the vampires took a few steps forward, wanting to get a better look at Helios as he smiled awkwardly at everyone while being carried back to his fathers.

"Hey my boy," Caius greeted as I allowed him to take him from my hold, propping him up on his leg before getting him better situated. "You were so good, Heelie," my mate praises.

"Thank you daddy," my blonde mate kisses Helios' head before turning back to the very confused Edward and Bella. In fact, everyone but our own coven was shocked at the discovery. Finding out that the reason behind a governmental lockdown was a young child was not something that happened once a century.

"That isn't possible," Alice says, "I should have been able to see!"

"Well, it seems that we have been able to prove your gift quite unreliable, Alice, as well as Edward's. I think that I have found a nice way around those invasive powers of yours once and for all," I give them a sadistic smile as I take my stand in front of them. "Helios Volturi is your prince, my and my mate's son, you will do well to show him all of the respect that someone in his position commands."

"How did you survive having a hybrid child? Who is the father?" Edward pesters us.

"Our son is our soul child, not biological. I have never been pregnant and I never will become pregnant. We found his mother when dealing with the infestation of Immortal children. As she gave birth she asked me and my mate Marcus, who had come to investigate the disturbance with me, to give him love and to take him in as my own," I explain to the vampires around us, "We have kept this news from you only so that we could get a grip on what exactly we were dealing with. Keeping a secret like this forever was never our intention."

"Taking him from his father-" Bella starts.

"My brothers and I are his fathers, not some filthy Romanian that raped a human woman," Marcus seethes, "Anna and I watched him being born and we are the parents. Whoever his father was does not matter because I would have torn him apart for what he did to Lana."

Alice turns to me and gives me a half-hearted smile, "The child isn't even yours, Annalise, he needs to be with someone who knows how to give him the love he needs. You're a cruel queen with a lot of issues. You'll ruin him. His mother wouldn't have wanted this for him, this pressure of being a prince. She didn't know that you were a queen or that you were even a monster as she lay dying."

"Bold of you to assume that we did not tell her that we were a king and a queen and that she was not smart enough to recognize one of the members of the species that kidnapped and impregnated her," Marcus argues. "Lana knew what was to become of her child. All that she wanted was that we kept him happy and safe. As we have done just that, we made her dying wish a reality."

"Still, Annalise is not fit to be a mother," Alice fights back against the notion. "Look at her, she's a killer and she gets off on the fact that people suffer. A monster-"

It was my little boy that spoke up this time, "You don't know crap about my mother, bitch. Sorry grandpa, but it had to be said."

"Forgiven," Carlisle comes up to the scene, looking at his former daughter, "My grandson is right in every way. My daughter is a kind person who loves her son more than anything. You should be ashamed of yourself for suggesting that someone else take her child away from her."

"As a matter of fact, I should kill you for implying that you are going to take my baby boy away and make him your own. Get your own hybrid child from somewhere else and leave Helios alone," I take my son out of Caius' arms and kiss his cheek, easing his anxiety about the situation at hand.

Bella gives Renesmee over to Edward and marches up to my son and I, pointing a finger at my face as if she were the child on the field, "You're a monster. You've become a monster! You act like this is okay! Like threatening to kill us is okay! It's not. Anna, you're a monster who doesn't deserve the right to the title of queen or mother. Your son should be with people who know how to raise a hybrid, not with monsters like the Volturi who are likely doing experiments on him in Italy."

She takes one more step, getting far too close for me to be comfortable. I let out a loud growl. "If you come any closer or even think of attacking me or anyone that I love I will murder you infront of everyone here."

"You would kill me in front of your own child?" She questions judgmentally.

"I'd be the one to do it if mommy let me down," Helios hisses at her. "Mess with my family and my coven and I will end you, you whiny little brat."

Where Helios had learned to speak so venomously was quite obvious, afterall he had been near Afton the last few hours and for the entirety of his life. I'll have to figure out what the hell they are playing and what kind of language that boy is using in front of his brother. Ah, hell, he could have learnt it from watching Jane talk to the guards during training. Girl doesn't know how to not cuss out her family.

"Allowing a child to speak this way?" Edward lets out a disgusted noise, "Do you not care about the use of profane language in your castle?"

Many of the guards let out noises of protest at the small jab. While not directed all at them, it seemed like Edward was insinuating that they were all uncultured, which was not what they wanted the world to think. To everyone else we seem stuck up at times, cultured to the brink of insanity.

"Helios is a good child who knows when and where to use profanity," I defend my son. "I think that it is perfectly fine for him to swear at you. In fact, he should be praised for having such bravery in upholding the image of his mother. All mothers everywhere should wish for a child who has the gut to call it like it is."

"Our son has done nothing wrong," Caius adds, "He will be rewarded for such fine behavior when we get home."

"Giving out rewards when a child threatens to kill someone. You have all gone mad," Edward says. "That child has to be taken from you all-"

Every single one of the vampires that had come to gather on our invitation growl at the telepath, some even coming forward, almost close enough to attack him from afar. Alexandros uses his speed to come to our side, glaring daggers into the leader of the Olympic Coven.

"If they don't kill you," the immortal laughs darkly, "I will."

"I would like to ask one question," Aro buds in, looking at the telepath in front of him, "The people you have brought with you, what are they for again? With any army of this size one would assume that your coven has waged war with my own."

"Witnesses," Alice says confidently, "To the fact that Nessie isn't an immortal child."

"Well yes that should be obvious," Aro chuckles, "But with the fact that you know how my gift works I would hate to say it but you just look like you want to fight with us. Such vitriolic words from your covenmate is enough evidence on our part. Why not just wait until we all got here? This would have gone a lot smoother if you had just brought one or two people. I can see multiple covens, nomads, and other hybrids in the distance."

"You come here with an army of your own and you expect us to not bring one as well? Do we need some legal permission to gather forces now? I thought you were all about freedom! You've never wanted the freedom of humans or vampires, you want to stay in control. That sadistic smile when you look at my daughter says everything," Edward exclaims.

"Your daughter doesn't compare to my son in my eyes," Bella shouts in protest, "Pretty, but not as beautiful as my mate or as darling as my Helios. It's nothing personal Isabella."

"She's the most beautiful thing in the world!" Jane lets out a maniacal giggle at this, looking over to me, her laughter unable to be held in anymore. "What's so funny? It's the truth, you evil little girl! You should be considered an immortal child by how young you look!"

"I think you should be considered an immortal child by how young you act," Helios snarks, causing me to let out a laugh of my own, kissing my baby boy's cheek as a reward for such an impressive insult.

"Afton is rubbing off on him," Marcus mutters.

"And Jane," Caius adds.

"None of you have the right to do things like this!" Bella snaps, "Hypocrites! You want my daughter dead-"

"First of all, I never said I wanted your daughter dead. I said that I wanted you dead. You are not Renesmee. She would be better off being with her imprint anyways, you're exactly like your mother with the way that you act right now. A shitty mom, I have to say. Did she never give you any rules? That may be why you don't like the Volturi anyways. Poor baby Bella doesn't like rules," I taunt her. Helios sticks his tongue out at her before rolling his eyes.

"If the hybrids follow the law we have no problem with them. I would like to speak to Huilen, I do believe that she raised a venomous hybrid like our own. It seems that the males of his species have a tendency to take after their immortal side in that respect," Aro says.

"Your laws are tyrannical."

There it was. There was what we needed him to say. Going out against our laws was something that the other vampires would never forgive him for. They knew that the law was what kept them safe while they lived their immortal lives. Without it we would all be screwed.

"Our laws keep us safe," Caius counters, "They keep us protected from humans. We may be at the top of the food chain but that could change. You were never alive to see the days when humans hunted us for sport. You never saw the days when most of us had to starve for months just to stay alive. I saw the best of people's eyes turn pink from their hunger! People died to make sure that the rest of us could live!"

My blonde mate had snapped. During the times of vampire hunters, many of his older friends had been butchered before being burned.

Even the Original Vampire was not at fault, rumored to have died during that time period as well. Whoever they were, they had been murdered by humanity just because of what they were. I don't care that they ate people, they also had a home and likely a coven.

The first coven.

"Never hunted, never looking around the corner, always knowing when you would find your next meal. Edward Masen, you are an affront to compassion and general morality," Caius rules. "After this, you will never be allowed in Volterra again. I never want to see you in Italy. If you hear that I am coming to a place where you are, you will leave. If I ever find you again I swear to whatever higher force is out there that I will kill you. If you see my face after today, I will be the last face you ever see."