DISCLAIMER: A NUMBER OF THE CHARACTER'S IN THIS BOOK ARE NOT MY OWN, THEY BELONG TO STEPHANIE MEYER, WITH EXCEPTION OF THE MAIN CHARACTER SEAN AND A FEW OTHERS.
Chapter 1; Awakening
My heart beat faster than a hummingbird's wings as my head burned and I remained paralysed. It was the day of my funeral. I was unwillingly being lowered into a grave while still alive...well kind of...My family were crying over my 'dead' body as the first shovel of soil was heaved on. I could hear them leaving and it broke my heart; was I just supposed to lie here until I did die? I tried to scream out for help but the venom said no to that. I was paralysed in every which way and form.
It had started a few days ago as I was walking home from school. It was twilight and the city was darkening. It was mid-winter; the sixth of December and the cold was nipping at me relentlessly. I breathed into my cupped hands to try and give them heat. Then a shiver ran down my back, but not the ordinary kind. I knew something bad was going to happen. I couldn't have been anymore right...
My heart raced as a dark figure sprang from the shadows and approached me. I blinked and it was gone. My imagination was never good so this couldn't have been that. Where had he gone? Beads of sweat sprang to life on my forehead as a pair of cold hands gripped my neck. My muscles tensed as I lashed out in an attempt to injure him. He laughed and spoke in an old rasping voice, 'This will be over fast. ' He rasped in my right ear. My foot collided strongly with something and a bone cracked. I smiled and waited for a scream of pain to come from him. He laughed again, that deep throated, raspy laugh. I screamed in pain as I realised with a shock it was my ankle that had broken. I tried to think who would try to kill me and why?
He whispered as his hands tightened round my neck. 'There is no reason except that I am vampire and you my prey.' I screamed feebly as he drove his teeth into my neck. Where they penetrated, the veins started to burn as if in a forge. The pain was excruciating; like venom being thrust into my blood and boiling it. It felt odd to have the blood removed from my body by someone else sucking at a hole in my neck. I went limp. It WAS venom, used to immobilise the prey. My eyesight failed and I entered into a half dead state. My heart was so feeble, for all intensive purpose, I was dead. But my hearing was sharper than ever as I heard a lady's voice scream through the air. 'Leave him Jason! I kicked your ass once, don't make me do it again! As a senior vampire in Ireland, and under the volturi law I order you to LET...THE BOY...GO!' Jason's grip weakened by stayed firm around my neck. At this stage, I was nearly dead to the world entirely. I focused and strived to stay conscious long enough to hear whether this unusual woman was about to save my bacon. 'Jason! I'm warning you! Liam is on his way as well. You can't handle me let alone us both. Now I'll give you a final chance. LET. HIM. GO!'
Jason hissed and gave an exasperated sigh. 'Siobhan,' he rasped at her. 'No one has the right to hold me from my food. So I will be getting back to it now.' His fangs were driven back into my neck at ten times the strength as before. I heard Siobhan whisper, 'idiot' as I slithered out of the vampire's grip, actually on the brink of death. I screamed pathetically as I fell. Siobhan's cold vampire hands caught me in her iron grip before I hit the ground. I heard a slight noise and a blast of wind as another vampire arrived on scene. The last thing I heard before I went unconscious, my head still burning, was 'Don't worry, it'll be ok. Liam is going to take care of you.' With that she muttered, 'foolish Jason.' And as I slipped into unconsciousness, Jason squealed in pain as his legs were snapped and he was torn limb from limb...
Now I was conscious again in a coffin as my family left, thinking I had embarked on the final journey. The venom had reached its stretch of the marathon round my body; my heart. A fire gathered in my chest, so painful it made the last three days pain look relaxing. My heart fluttered faster as the fire burned everything my heart held. How could I survive this? The fire was slowly burning the last of my humanity away...
It had been hours, the fire burning ever hotter. Eventually, it tore upwards, pulling my chest up with it and arching my back. I screamed, yes the paralysis was fading but no one could hear as I was now covered in six foot of soil. Suddenly, it was cold and my sight returned. My heart finished with a feeble beat. I could see everything with poignant clarity although there was no light. I started to panic as I realised that even if I was awake, I'd suffocate down here. Then, like a tonne of bricks to my chest, it hit me; I wasn't breathing because didn't need to breathe.
About an hour later the scrapping sound of someone digging began above. Who was this? Had they realised that I wasn't dead and had come back to save me? I heard Siobhan shouting angrily at Liam and someone called Maggie. 'Dig faster you louts!' I was saved. My only comfort with being buried alive was that I would suffocate and die eventually. Now I was saved. Siobhan soon yanked the lid off the coffin and muttered, 'Good to see ya kiddo!' in a rich Dublin accent. My eyes hurt with the intensity of the light after the coffin. I lifted my hands to pull myself from the coffin and noticed; where the sun lay on my skin, it lit up like a thousand diamonds made up my skin. I gasped. Siobhan laughed and hauled me from the coffin. Her eyes were a rich brown her long hair fell around her face as she smiled. As I stood and flexed my muscles, I felt power surge through me. Siobhan started to run and moved faster than anything should be able to. Liam followed, then Maggie, taking off into the distance. I soon started after them and quickly caught up. That was it, I was awakened as a vampire.