Twirling Towards Freedom
Carbonated Tits
Prelude
Bella's POV
A hundred years I have lived this half life. A hundred years is really nothing to my kind. I've watched humans murder themselves in wars and in acts of violence. I've watched countries rise slowly to power and lose it within a couple years. I've watched but never participated. To the world I don't exist, I'm just another nameless and faceless person in the masses of society. I was warned what I would give up if I choose this life but this life was chosen for me.
I was walking through the forest looking for the meadow. When I finally reached my destination I thought I spied Edward in my peripheral vision. When I took a closer look I realized that it was Laurent. I knew as soon as I looked into his blood red eyes that I was done for. When Laurent bit into me I prayed to whoever was listening that my father would be safe.
In the next instant Laurent was across the meadow with some vampire I never seen before. She tore him to pieces before I could blink. She willed a fire and threw all the pieces into it. She raced back to me and explained that it was too late to save me but if she didn't add more venom I wouldn't survive the change. She bit me on both of my wrists and my ankles.
Most of what happened after that is a blur due to the burning of the change. When I woke up three days later I was in the living room of the Cullen mansion. I grew so angry at all of them for abandoning me in my time of need that I began to breakdown walls and smash furniture into tiny pieces.
A twinkling laugh broke me from my war path. I crouched and growled at the intruder. As soon as I realized it was my savior I straightened up. She taught me how to hunt and how to control my many powers. I discovered that I was a mimic. Any vampire that I've been in contact with I've absorbed their power. I found that I inherited a trait of my savior that human blood didn't call to me and actually smelled rather gross like a mixture between rotten eggs and a decomposing body.
My savior helped me track down Victoria and destroy her. When my vendetta was complete she told me about herself and why she had come to Forks. Her name was Nefertiti. During her human life she was a queen of Egypt. She was in a temple to the Aten (sun disc) when she was bitten by Aro. She became like a daughter to him. Her powers were the ability to manipulate fire and the sun. Also when she went out in the sunlight she didn't sparkle.
Nefertiti came to Forks to visit Carlisle. They had traveled together for many years and she had missed him. When she found out what happened to me she offered to bring me to Aro. I've been with the Volturi for about ninety-eight years now. I've never searched out the Cullen's because I know that I'll never be part of their family now that Edward didn't want me. The Volturi are my family and Aro is like a father that I never had. Even if this isn't the eternity I envisioned for myself I'm still content with the existence that I lead.
A/N: I Don't Own Twilight. This is the first story that I've written that I'm letting others read. Let me know how I'm doing!
I came up with the idea of Queen Nefertiti being a vampire when I was listening to my Egyptology professor drone on. I guess this is what happens when you're a history major. This idea has been swimming around my head for awhile now.
I got the title of this song from a Enter the Haggis song "Twirling Towards Freedom". It's an entirely musical piece and listening to it inspired this story somewhat.