Faceless Queen 8

“Queenie where are you?”Rosalie called out trying to find her cat. It wasn’t in her room or it’s usual hiding spots and Rosalie worried it left her. Hearing a meow coming from Edward’s music room she sighed in relief. That sigh turned into a gasp of shock once she stepped into the room and saw the cat. The cat was sitting on the broken remains of Edward’s piano looking quite pleased with itself. Rosalie would have thought the cat was the one who did it if it weren’t for the large broadsword sticking out of the middle of the rubble with a letter attached to the handle. Making sure no-one heard her Rosalie shut the door to the room and made her way over to the sword and grabbed the letter. Opening it caused a debit card to fall to the floor. Picking it up Rosalie noticed it said the name Isabella Volturi.

“What the hell is going on?”Rosalie looked to the letter hoping for some answers.

Rose,

I figure it is alright to call you Rose as you have named, collared and claimed my cat.

“Shit.”Rosalie couldn’t believe that she put a collar on Isabella’s cat. Going back to the letter she hoped for good news.

I have to say I’m very impressed as not even the queens are brave enough to try and collar her. I do enjoy the name Queenie so I think from now on that is what she will be called. I want to thank you for taking such good care of her. I have never seen her so happy. Having Edward and Carlisle to mess with has also lightened her spirits so please keep telling her the best ways to upset them. You may have noticed she thrives on destruction.

“Oh I noticed alright.”Rosalie had seen the happy gleam in the cat’s eyes after it destroyed something.

Speaking of the cat. It can give you one of the things you most crave in life. That is privacy. How it can do that is you need to look it in the eyes and count out loud to ten. While you are counting you will feel a pressure on your head. Don’t fight against it. If you do it will be painful. All you need to do is relax and the cat will put a block around your mind.

“What the fuck? You can put a block on my mind?”Rosalie asked the cat who nodded in reply.”You just nodded. I’m fucking crazy aren’t are?”

Rosalie took a moment to think through everything that had happened since the cat showed up. Nothing about the cat had been normal. So many weird things happened around it. Like when it high fived Emmett and was known to attack anyone that said a bad thing about it, Rosalie or the queens. Yeah there was definitely something not quite right with the cat. Then again its owner was said to be born well before the first civilization was documented. Of course she would have some kind of supernatural cat.

“Alright let’s do this.”Rosalie sat on the floor and stared at the cat that sat in front her. She took a deep breath and started counting out loud. As the letter said she felt a pressure on her head but didn’t fight it and by the time she reached ten the pressure was gone.”Is it done?”

The cat nodded again and then made it’s way onto Rosalie’s lap and laid down. Rosalie figured it must have tired the animal out. She stroked it’s fur as she went back to the letter.

I ask that you please tell no-one of how it was done. Many would do drastic things to gain the ability and I don’t want my cat targeted. Even though it can take care of itself. Speaking of taking care of themselves. I’m sure by now you have noticed the sword. It is my personal one that I would like to loan to you. I cannot personally interfere in things right now but I still wish for you to stay safe. Something you are not with Edward and Carlisle around. I want you to promise me never to be alone in a room with either of them or both of them at the same time. I will explain it all in the future when I have finished collecting the evidence but please don’t trust anything they say. Queenie will do what she can to keep you safe but when she is not there rely on the sword. You don’t need to know much to use it as it’s main purpose is to slice things off of a body. It doesn’t matter what type of body if you slice off the legs it can’t go after you anymore. Once it’s got no legs slice off the head.

Another thing I’m sure you noticed is the debit card I put in the letter. I know for a fact that Carlisle controls all the coven’s money so that you have no means to leave the coven. This is my personal card. There are billions of dollars connected to that account. Take all your siblings minus Edward of course and go shopping. But all the frivolous things you always wanted but Carlisle told you no. I know that you a thinking that you wouldn’t be comfortable doing that but let me put you at ease. I hate Carlisle with a passion. What better way to hurt him then take away the thing he uses to control you. So go spend as much money as you want as that card is just one of many linked to more money than you could ever imagine. The pin is your birth year.

Once again thank you for taking care of my cat and keep the sword with you no matter what,

Isabella Volturi

P.S. Here is a man named Tom who is a talent agent who deals with gamer’s phone number. He is expecting Emmett to give him a call. He knows about vampires so Emmett won’t have to lie to him.

“What in the world have I gotten myself into?”Rosalie asked herself. Reading the letter over two more times she still couldn’t believe everything it said. Everyone told her to be afraid of Isabella but here the woman was helping her and her siblings. She wondered about the part of the letter that warned her about Edward and Carlisle the most though. That warning plus the comment about her turning made her realize that Carlisle hadn’t been truthful about her turning. She wondered what really happened. It must have been something big if Isabella was telling her it wasn’t safe for her around him or Edward. What Edward’s roll in it she wasn’t sure.

“Let’s see this sword.”Rosalie moved the cat off her lap, stood and pulled the sword out of the wood. It was a lot lighter than it looked. She didn’t know what it was made out of as she had never seen black metal with specks of silver in it before. Taking a few swings she was surprise to find how easy it was to wield. She predicted after a little practice she would be able to take out an opponent easily. Especially if she used Isabella’s method of take the legs then the head. Putting the sword back in the sheath Rosalie marveled at the intricate patterns and symbols that had been burned and stitched into the leather. They were similar to the ones on Isabella’s armor and Rosalie wished she knew what they meant.

“Come on Queenie let’s go take the family shopping.”Rosalie said. The cat jumped up from the ground and trotted after her as she left the room and made her way to the living room where all of her family were hanging out waiting until it was time to train with the wolves.

“Whoah what’s with the sword?”Emmett asked.

“The sword is on loan to me from Isabella.”Rosalie told him causing the room to flood with the sounds of multiple questions being asked.

“Everyone calm down.”Carlisle yelled getting everyone to be quiet.”Now Rosalie what do you mean Isabella loaned you her sword?”

“No why can’t I read your mind anymore?”Edward would deal with the sword later now he wanted to know how Rosalie was blocking his gift.

“I don’t know what you are talking about.”Rosalie lied. She was very pleased that the cat was actually able to give her the block.

“Yes you do. Now tell what you did.”Edward flinched back when Queenie climbed up Rosalie’s body settled on her shoulder and hissed at him.

“I think you need to watch your tone.”Rosalie told him.

“I will use whatever tone I want with you. Now tell me what you did right now or I will force it out of you.”Edward threatened.

Rosalie immediately reacted when she felt the cat nudging her sword by drawing it and pointing it at Edward.”I dare you to try to force me to do anything.”

“That’s another thing. You are to give me that sword. You don’t deserve it.”Edward wasn’t going to let Rosalie keep such a powerful object.

“I’m giving you one warning. You are to watch what you say and how you act around me and toward me and my cat and if you don’t I will slice off a piece of your body for every insult.”Rosalie was going to take Isabella’s warning to heart. Edward was dangerous and she needed to protect herself from him.

“You think I will let you get away with threatening me!”Edward was going to make Rosalie pay for speaking to him like that.

“Son enough. We need find out how Rosalie came to posses the sword.”Carlisle didn’t want Edward fighting with Rosalie when she had possession of the sword as he knew what it was capable of and because he knew he would be getting it from Rosalie later. It may be the only way he would make it out of this situation alive.

“Yeah how did you get the sword Rosalie?”Emmett asked.

“I went looking for my cat and found in her in Edward’s music room sitting on top of the remains of what used to be his piano.”Rosalie was immediately interrupted by Edward.

“I will kill your cat!!”Edward was going to make it very painful.

Rosalie ignored his outburst.”Next to the cat was the sword and a letter. The letter was from Isabella thanking me for taking care of her cat.”

“Wait Queenie is Isabella’s cat?”Alice hadn’t seen that coming.

“If you think about it it kind of makes sense. I mean who else would have a cat like that.”Fran could easily see the cat belonging to Isabella.

“What does the sword have to do with the cat?”Jasper asked.

“She said that I could borrow it to deal with the upcoming danger.”That was as close to the truth as Rosalie was going to be.

“So that means she knows about Victoria, the newborns and the wolves.”Carlisle did not like her knowing at all.

“If she knows why hasn’t she stepped in yet?”Edward was still pissed about his piano and Rosalie blocking his gift but he needed to know everything he could about Isabella so when the time came he could beat her.

“She didn’t say anything in the letter.”Rosalie once again lied. Isabella said she was still collecting evidence and Rosalie figured that she would make herself known once she found it.

“Let me see the letter.”Carlisle wanted to see exactly what Isabella said.

“No it’s private and she asked me not to show it to anyone.”Rosalie wasn’t going to show it to anyone least of all Carlisle.

“Give me the letter.”Carlisle was now positive that Isabella said more than what Rosalie told them in the letter and he needed to know what. Especially because Isabella seemed to know things Carlisle didn’t want other people to know.

Rosalie shook her head.”No I’m not giving it to you.”

“As your sire I demand that you give me the letter.”Carlisle was going to get the letter no matter what it took.

“Are you seriously trying to make demands of the woman holding a sword that can cut though anything in her hands?”Fran asked.

“Rosalie won’t do anything with the sword. As matter of fact Rosalie that’s another thing I am demanding. You will give the sword along with the letter.”Carlisle ordered.

“No I’m not and if you even think about taking them from me I will defend myself.”Rosalie wouldn’t let anyone touch the sword or the letter.

“Give them to me now!”Carlisle shot a look to Edward and getting a head nod rushed towards Rosalie.

“Shit!”Emmett exclaimed as he watched Rosalie slice off both of Edward’s legs with the sword while her cat was wrapped around Carlisle’s throat. Emmett was in complete shock because the cat was actually leaving splinters across Carlisle’s neck and Emmett fully believed that the cat could take his head if it really wanted to.

“Help!!”Carlisle choked out through the little air he was getting in his lungs. He was trying with everything he had to get the cat off him but nothing worked.

“Rosalie please stop your cat.”Esme would have liked Carlisle to have his head removed after everything that had been revealed earlier but he was still her mate and his death would affect her.

“I don’t know if I can.”Rosalie said as she sheathed her sword and made her way over to Carlisle. She tried to wedge her fingers in-between Queenie’s body and Carlisle’s throat but the cat was holding on to tight.”Come on sweetheart he isn’t worth it.”

Fran couldn’t believe the damage the cat had done once it was removed from Carlisle throat.”Jesus. Two more minutes and it would have taken his head off.

“I think your cat was going easy on us in training.”Alice was happy that the cat held back.

“You’re going to pay for this.”Edward was going to get Rosalie back for everything she did and said to him. Then he was going make her tell him how she blocked his gift and take the sword and letter from her. First he was going to reattach his legs.

“Actually you just reminded me of something else the letter said.”Rosalie pulled Isabella’s debit card out of her pocket.”Isabella has given me access to billions of dollars and has requested that I take my siblings except for Edward on a shopping spree. She wants us to and I quote buy all the frivolous things we always wanted but Carlisle told us no.”

“Why would she let us have access to her money?”Fran couldn’t think of any reason that Isabella would buy stuff for them.

“She said that she thought it was wrong of Carlisle to try and control us with money and by giving us access to a whole lot more than Carlisle could ever dream of would allow us to break that control.”Rosalie explained.

“Well I don’t know about you guys but I am more than happy to spend her money.”Alice had tons of things she wanted to buy that she had been told no to.

“From everything we have learned about Isabella we know she doesn’t do anything she doesn’t want to so I think it’s alright to spend her money.”Jasper wouldn’t mind having a way to break away from Carlisle.

“Now wait just a minute. You are not going to be spending some stranger’s money any way you want. I will take the card and monitor your purchases so that we don’t take advantage of her.”Carlisle couldn’t let them have Isabella’s money because it would break their dependency on him and give them a way to leave.

“The only one touching the card is me.”Rosalie wouldn’t even let Carlisle see the numbers on the card let alone take control of it.

“I am your coven leader I decide what purchases are made.”Carlisle told her.

“Not anymore. From now on we buy whatever we want and you can’t stop us.”Rosalie suddenly remembered a part of the letter.”Oh Emmett you should invest in some high tech gaming equipment because Isabella called in a favor and gave your name to talent agent who represents gamers. I have his number and he is expecting your call. He also knows about vampires so you don’t have to lie to him.”

“What are you serious?!!”Getting a nod in reply Emmett grabbed Rosalie in hug and spun her around the room squealing like a little girl.

“Emmett put her down you’re upsetting the cat.”Fran was happy for her mate but didn’t want him to piss off the cat.

Emmett gave Rosalie one last squeeze before he put her down.”I can’t believe she did that for me.”

“How come she wrecked Carlisle’s cross and my piano but gives the rest of you money and Emmett employment?”Edward deserved everything Isabella was giving to his family not them.

“I think it’s because you have pissed off her cat.”Jasper said.

“What does her cat have to do with any of this?”Edward didn’t think the cat was important.

“I don’t think it’s just by chance that you two are the ones that she targeted. You have both been hostile to Rosalie who the cat is obviously fond of and the cat itself. Look at the piano. All it had done was pee on it. It wasn’t until you guys tried to punish Rosalie for not cleaning it that Isabella showed up and wrecked the thing. I bet after this incident that Isabella is going to do something even worse to the pair of you.”Jasper fully believed that Isabella somehow got information from her cat.

“How would she even know we punished Rosalie?”Carlisle didn’t think that Isabella’s cat had anything to do the situation.

“She was probably listening to the whole conversation. I mean two times now she has done some major damage and we didn’t hear a thing. We were at the end of the hallway and the music room door was open and we didn’t notice a thing. She could have been standing there listening to everything.”Fran wouldn’t be surprised if Isabella was listening to them right then.

“I would have known if she was in the house.”Edward said.

“Yes because of your all mighty gift that can’t be stop. Oh wait Rosalie is doing it right now.”Emmett was planning on asking Rosalie later how she was able to block Edward knowing she wouldn’t want to talk about it in front of him.

“I will be able to get through her block soon enough.”Edward knew it wouldn’t be able to keep him out forever.

“While you do that we are going shopping.”Rosalie didn’t want to waste anymore time listening to Edward.

“If you want to go shopping I will give you some money but you are not to use Isabella’s.”Carlisle couldn’t let his children rely on Isabella.

“If you can offer us more than the billions of dollars Rosalie said was at our disposal we will happily take your money.”Alice knew that Carlisle didn’t even have one billion dollars let alone multiple like Rosalie said Isabella had.

“You don’t need to waste money on such meaningless stuff.”Carlisle definitely did not have billions of dollars.

“Luckily for you it’s not your money and the fact that it is the most feared vampire on earth’s and she is telling us to spend it makes me think that bad things will happen if we don’t.”Rosalie didn’t think Isabella would be pleased if they didn’t use her card.

“I agree with Rosalie. We saw what happened when you tried to punish Rosalie. I don’t want to see what happens if we ignore Isabella’s gift.”Fran was to scared not to spend the money.

“Then we will come with you.”Carlisle figured if he went with them he could control their spending.

“Isabella didn’t invite you.”Rosalie told him.

“I am your coven leader. I can go with you whenever I want. Also Edward is your brother. If you are all going shopping together he should be there.”Carlisle needed Edward with him to help him control the others.

“He wasn’t invited either.”Rosalie wasn’t going to let either of them come with them.

“Is your cat invited?”If it was being left behind Edward would use the opportunity to capture it.

Rosalie looked at her cat that was wrapped around her neck sleeping.”Yes it is.”

“You can’t take your cat shopping.”Carlisle was of the same thought as Edward. If Rosalie left the cat behind he would capture it. If he could figure out how it was able to hurt vampires and shifter he may be able to harness that power and use it for himself.

“Who’s going to stop it from going?”Emmett knew he wasn’t.

“I will watch the cat while you are gone.”Carlisle would use the cat as a way to convince Rosalie that she needed to give him the sword and the letter from Isabella.

Rosalie laughed.”Do you have a death wish?”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”Edward asked.

“It means if I left my cat here with you it would kill the both of you.”Rosalie knew that Queenie wouldn’t hesitate to kill Carlisle and Edward.

“It’s not safe for the cat to be in public.”Carlisle wasn’t scared of the cat. It just got lucky when it attacked him.”As a matter of fact it isn’t safe to take the sword out in public either. So I will watch both of them while you are gone.”

“They are both going with me. Now if you excuse us we have some shopping to do.”Rosalie didn’t wait for a reply before she grabbed her keys from the hook.

“You are not allowed to drive Rosalie.”Carlisle called after her.

“I’m driving.”Rosalie told her siblings ignoring Carlisle and Edward’s screams as they followed them to the garage. Rosalie took the sword from her back, slipped into the car and situated it so that she could grab it easily. Then she put the cat on her lap and started the car. Once her siblings were inside she drove off seeing Carlisle and Edward gesturing frantically in the rear view mirror. The thought of being free of both of them made her smile. She wasn’t sure why Isabella went out of her way to help her. She didn’t think it was just because of her cat.  No something else was making her react this way. Rosalie wondered what it was. She also wondered what type of creature her cat was. It definitely wasn’t a normal house cat. Knowing that Isabella who was an ancient vampire owned it meant that it could be from a now extinct supernatural species. That would also explain why Rosalie was able to bond with it. Looking at the extraordinary feline who was standing on Rosalie’s thigh with its feet on the window, face pressed against the glass watching the scenery fly by Rosalie decided that it didn’t matter what the cat was. She loved it regardless and she knew that it loved her too and there was nothing more important in her life than that.