Felix watched the small female's enraged form follow Demetri's scent. It was no doubt days old but it sang to her strongly. He hated tracking, that was Demetri's job, and a skill he never bothered to learn so he allowed her to lead.

"You don't stand a chance if you go after them alone." He spoke hoping to make her see some sort of reason.

"Then what do you propose Felix because any longer and his trail will fade." She snapped back, clear irritation in her voice as they headed for the boarder to Albania.

"Why do you think they took him?" The giant asked stopping the Greek with a heavy hand on her shoulder.

"I don't know." She growled shrugging his hand off.

"Think Andy, you're letting your anger get the better of you." He replied to his friend's mate. "They must've taken him for a reason."

"He's my mate, that's reason enough." She bit out walking over to a tree that had been snapped in half. The ashy remains of a fight littered the area

"No, it's more than that and you know it." He snapped back trying to help clear her head. He'd seen Demetri lose his cool like this before when something angered him, his mate was no different, but admittedly the stakes were considerably higher now.

"They took him because he's the only vampire on the planet that would ever be able to find me. They took him to find me." She said realisation hitting her.

"If you continue to follow him, you'll walk straight into a trap." Felix stated.

"Good, if I can get close enough I can teleport him out."

"Andy they've no doubt found a way to stop your gifts, especially if they're serious about catching you. They already have their bait." He said lifting the black rose crest from a pile of ashes. "They're just waiting for their prey." He sighs crushing the metal in his fist. "We need a tracker."

"The only tracker I know that is good enough to find them is currently in Cauis's torture chamber." She replied taking a deep breath as she thought of Mathias.

"I know one." Felix pulled out his phone and dialled a number as Andy gave him a curious look. "I need a favour." He spoke into the mouth piece.

"That's new." The voice was very young, soft and female. "You've never asked me for anything before Kitty." She teased and Felix growled at the nickname as Andy refused the urge to snicker.

"Your mentor has been kidnapped."

"You lie, he's like the best fighter on the guard."

"I'm not lying Carina, I'm standing here with his mate right now."

"Ooh Andy, is she pretty?" The girl asked with excitement.

"How soon can you get here?" Felix asked ignoring her previous comments.

"Um, I'll swing by the masters first and leave before Alec wants play twenty questions. Shouldn't be too long." She replied.

"Who was that?" Andy questioned Felix who looked a little stressed.

"Carina, she's relatively new." The giant looked around to see if he could pick anything up. "Demetri's been teaching her, he sired her."

"Interesting," she replied unsure what to make of this new knowledge. Andy had never sired another vampire and she never intended to.

"She'd been with us since she was a human, and it was supposed to be Alec that changed her but there were unforeseen circumstances."

"She's a tracker?"

"No." Felix shook his head, "Better, she's a mimic."

"Impossible," Andy shook her head in surprise.

"She has to form a kind of connection with the person she mimic's first."

"And because Demetri sired her, she should be able to track like him."

"Yes but there are downsides."

"It's not as powerful and she doesn't have a thousand years' experience behind her." Andy replied as it was Felix's turn to look at her in shock.

"How'd you know that?"

"I'm not just a pretty face." She grinned.

*****

Aro watched as Carina sped out of his office. She didn't ask for permission to leave, she had just waltzed in, placed her hand in his and relayed her conversation with Felix. She never even gave him a chance to reply before rushing out of the room.

"What are you planning?" His brother Marcus asked as he followed Aro's gaze.

"Demetri has been taken." He informed his brothers. "The Cult I suspect are using him as bait. They're trying to lure Andromeda into a trap."

"She's not a fool." Marcus points out.

"I know, but if she doesn't go to them, they will use him to find her. Either way there will be a battle."

"It is not our concern." Caius sneered.

"It is." Athenodora snapped at her mate. "Their goal is to wipe out the Greek coven, their next target will be us."

"Your wife is right," Aro responds before his brother could respond.

"She has her allies."

"It won't be enough for what is coming for them." The lord mused his thoughts on the creature he glimpsed in the spies mind.

"Then what do you propose Aro?"

"We go to Greece." He said simply.

"What?" Caius said ignoring his wife's grin.

"A common enemy unites us, this is our only chance to end them." Marcus said slowly to his brother who just sneered.

"Andromeda respects the alliances of old, so should we." Aro nodded to Athenodora who wore a happy smile, "prepare the guard, we leave immediately."

*****

"Here kitty, kitty," sang a sweet child-like voice as a small vampire skipped into the clearing. Felix audibly groaned from his spot at the base of the tree Andy was perched in.

She looked at the young girl curiously. She was small, and could've been mistaken for an immortal child. Her hair was darker than the night sky, all her features delicate and petite. Her lips were stained red from a recent meal a stark contrast to her snow white skin. Andy looked her over and found her attitude and innocent nature a reminder of what she was like a thousand years ago. "How old are you?" Andy asked the girl who just smiled up at her.

"Sixteen." She said with a smile, "well I was, I'm actually twenty one."

Andy leapt from her position and landed gracefully her form uncoiling like a spring. She dwarfed the small vampire as she approached with her hand out.

Carina eagerly shook Andy's hand with a wide grin. "It's so good to meet you, I mean he talks about you all the time and it gets annoying at times but I can totally see why, and oh my god I'm shaking your hand too long." Carina clamped a hand over her mouth and stepped back from Andy. She would've been bright red if she wasn't a vampire.

"Felix tells me you're a mimic."

"Well yeah, but I'm not that great, when I copy someone's gift it's not natural to me, I need to be taught." She said as though she didn't deserve to be there. "But Demetri's been teaching me to track," she quickly tacks on the end.

"Is she always so-" Andy waved a hand gesturing to the girl.

"You get used to it." Felix replied turning to the girl. "We need you to track Demetri."

"Okay," she said closing her eyed tightly her fists clenched in concentration. Her ruby eyes flickered open, "this way," she said with a grin leading the north-east towards Bulgaria.

They trekked for a couple of hours behind Carina letting her blindly follow her senses. Until they came to a small hill. Andy tensed sensing the presence of other vampires first her steps faltering as she reached out and pulled the smaller female behind her.

"What-" the girl began and Andy quickly clamped her hand over her mouth tensing as footsteps approached. The older female looks to the tree beside her and pushed the young vampire towards it.

"Climb and do not make a sound." She hissed sharing a look with Felix as Carina's form disappeared into the canopy.

"It's a patrol." He murmured lowly. "We take them out they'll know we're here."

"They already know, I can feel them stalking us." She replied. "We're not staying, it's too heavily guarded and we won't get close."

"So we just leave?"

"No we take them out, then we leave." Andy grinned her need for vengeance climbing to the surface and nodded once to the Volturi member. In a flash both spun.

Felix latched onto the neck of a vampire and swiftly removed his head as Andy teleported behind the one who tried to sneak up on her, her sharp teeth sinking into his neck as she pulled his head off.

"Is that all of them?" Carina whispered from the tree as Andy scanned her surroundings.

"For now." She replied as Carina landed beside her. The smaller vampire openly flinched as Andy lit a match. Felix sensed the girl's distress and whisked her away from the flames as Andy dealt with the bodies.

The Greek caught up to the pair easily sliding into position beside the smaller girl. "So you're afraid of fire?"

"Ah no, um yeah," the girl muttered her eyes downcast. "It's not the fire, it's the burning."

"When we become vampires, everything is heightened." Andy explained to her, "our emotions, and specifically our fears, it makes us who we are."

"But you're not afraid of anything." Carina whispers looking up to the Greek in awe.

"Everyone has a fear, even me." Andy tells her, "it's not something to be ashamed of, never be ashamed of something that makes you who you are. When I was human all I wanted was freedom. I was supposed to be a lady, a prime example of perfection and finesse." Andy mocked herself and Carina giggled a little. "I hated it. I would take every opportunity to sneak away from that. I was friends with the local thieves and used to steal things for the street kids."

"So you were a robin hood?"

"Who?" Andy asked but shook her head and continued. "I had one fear and I died because of it."

"What was it?"

"A cage." She replied. "I was afraid of being trapped and tied down, still am. My father had arranged for me to marry a pig of a man. He was rich, but he was a monster. He had every intention of taking away my freedom and wanted me to bare him heirs."

"You didn't marry him did you?"

"No, of course not." She smirked. "I ran away the night before and hopped on a boat. It sunk and I washed up on a beach. I ran away from my fear and as a result I became a vampire. I will always be afraid of being trapped, but I'm not ashamed of it. Your fears are just another part of who you are."

"I had dreams," Carina explained, "when I was human, every night until I changed it was the same dream over and over. Every time I burn at the stake for a crime I never committed. I could feel everything. We don't dream anymore but I still see it every time I close my eyes." She glanced up at Andy who was looking ahead of them, Felix silently trailing behind. "He said you were closed off, that you didn't speak much."

"I don't know what it is about you kid, but I feel incredibly protective of you. I have a hunch though."

"What's that?"

"You're my mate's child. It's his venom that runs through your veins, and his venom that allowed you to live." She smiled down at her. "It's my instinct to protect what's mine. Demetri is mine, and you are his."

"We need to return, the masters no doubt know what has happened." Felix informed.

"Go to them, I need to get back to Crete." She said just as her phone started to ring loudly. She pulled the device and accepted the call not bothering to put the phone against her ear. "Hello."

"Andy you need to get back as soon as possible."

"What's happened Fred?" She frowned in slight confusion.

"We called your allies like you asked and heaps of people came but that's not all."

"Fred is everyone alright."

"We're fine, well sort of, we're just trying to keep them all from slaughtering each other. The Volturi and their guard are here Andy, they say they're here to help."

A/N: Everyone meet Carina, my new OC  :)