Author's note: All characters depicted below belong to author, Stephenie Meyer as from the book Twilight. The story here, however, is from the way I express the characters and their actions. Try to read and enjoy it, and give it a chance cuz I'm a new writer. Please review too, good or bad.

The Afterlight

Chapter One

It was late evening, the sun was already setting and the way the rays touched the horizon, it was hard to tell whether the sun was closer to the skyline or to the ground below it; it was Twilight.

I thought of Edward, though he was hunting with his family, and how I would have loved for him to have been there with me to watch the sun setting as beautiful as it was then. I pictured his solid, strong arms around me, comforting me within his grasp. His smell, like nothing remotely human, would be all around me and I would breathe in his scent as we laid there together. He would hold me close and whisper into my ear something like, "I love you, Bella", with his irresistible voice and I could stare into the melting sun carelessly, knowing that I would always be safe with him near me. I remembered when he had told me that this was the safest time for him as I slowly drifted to sleep.

Suddenly it was dark, and I was inescapably cold. I had forgotten where I was, having ventured to the far end of my father, Charlie's, back yard to watch the sun set beyond the less dense trees before it hid itself away beneath the boundaries of the small town of Forks. I shivered as I reached for my flashlight. It was stupid of me to have not checked the batteries before I left the house, but I knew my way back, it had to be less than a mile's walk.

It was unbelievably silent as I sat there, stretching my legs and trying not to let the darkness spook me too much. The atmosphere, though seemingly serene, was somehow unsettled. I held a feeling of uncertainty in my gut as I searched around on the ground beside me for my hoodie. Thankfully, I hadn't forgotten to bring that but it wasn't as warm as it had been when I grabbed it out of the dryer before I left. I noticed a dirt stain on the gray material as I threw it on over my head. It was an awkward stain, as though someone had pressed the end of a branch into it. But, I shrugged it off thinking that I probably just had laid on it strangely.

"Ouch!", I yelped as the inside of the sweatshirt caught on my earring. I was so impossibly clumsy it was questionable as to how I had stayed alive for all these years without Edward.

But I stopped myself from complaining further, for a twig snapped in front of me somewhere, where the forest met the edge of Charlie's back yard. I quickly untangled myself inside my sweatshirt and pulled my head through the hole as the hood came over my head like it always did when I wore a hoodie. Immediately I was less alarmed by the sound that had just startled me when I felt the warmth of the oversized hoodie draping over my shoulders.

But, after only a moment I heard the sound again, this time it was clearly the swift breaking of a small branch and shortly afterward there was the slight rustling of leaves in the same direction.

I instantly stood up, a reaction I couldn't help, though I was glad I could even move after such a fright. I was getting a little freaked and I decided to turn away from the sound and walk towards the house as quickly as possible. I now very much wished that I had not fallen asleep, even if I had been thinking of Edward before. I wanted more than ever for him to be with me.

"You shouldn't be scared", I told myself aloud, "it's just the wind". I tried to assure myself that it was okay, though thinking back to my feeling from earlier, I knew something was wrong. I was trying so hard to forget about the closeness of the sound now that it played over and over in my mind as my heart began to race. Chills ran up and down my spine and a I shivered again as the next twig snapped behind me, this time from where I had just been sitting moments before.

"Edward?", I was so stupid to have even thought it was him, how dumb could I be. I knew his steady, even, pace would never commit such a crime as breaking the ground beneath his feet.

I so desperately told myself that sounds were harmless, that there was nothing in the darkness that hadn't been there before. But, I knew better than anyone that I was wrong. Unwillingly, I turned to face what I knew for sure I had heard.

It was about twenty feet away from me, crouched down and sniffing eagerly the place where I had just been sitting. I gasped, yet another stupid move by me. It jerked its head upright at once, its yellow eyes glaring at me from the distance between us that now seemed so incredibly small; nearly insignificant.

In that same moment I saw four more brilliant pairs of eyes from just beside the creature. Though I couldn't see each expression, I knew that the thoughts behind their faces hadn't been entirely pleasant, and another thick layer of fear formed over me.

I let out a slight scream and I was running, though I knew I would never outrun them, they looked so fast compared to me, it was a wonder how I'd even gotten this far ahead.

I could almost feel them snapping at my heels, their desire for my flesh burning through them like hotwire. One of them was directly behind me, growling madly as two more were at my sides, the rest close behind. A disturbing thought crossed my mind then. I wasn't being chased by them, I was being herded through the huge yard helplessly as I ran, screaming wildly in fear. But I knew Charlie wouldn't hear me, I had gone too far away from the house.

I was pulled to the ground having only gained a few yards by that time and tackled effortlessly from one of the creatures as it forcibly dug its tremendous claws into my shoulder. I was face down into the dirt as the other animals approached me. Their snarls and barred teeth were so close to my face as the huge creature remained on top of me and waited for the rest of its pack.

The others were hovering near me, circling me in such a way that I had to close my eyes to shut out the wicked images that now took their place around me. I was their next meal, their enormous bodies would soon devour me whole.. I whimpered softly in fear as the creatures, now unmistakably werewolves, barked and made horrible sounds which came from somewhere in their throats.

A sound of bloody murder came from my voice as I felt the shear of pain that spread through my body as the first individual sank its teeth into my leg and tore away the skin violently. The next time I felt pain was when two other animals snatched at my legs simultaneously.

For some reason I felt my back being scrapped against something and felt helplessly around me only to find that I was being dragged by the two animals. I was going back the way I came, screaming defenselessly and taking bits of grass and roots with me as I tried to grab onto something that would keep me in place.

I turned to my stomach as we slid down a slope and into the dense forest behind me, all the way shrieking deafeningly as yet another wound made its way into my leg and the third wolf helped its brothers drag me along.

I could see the trail of blood that I was leaving behind and I wondered if Charlie had heard me screaming, knowing that he may soon find my mangled body and the blood that was left behind and I knew it was too late for a rescue. I was crying so desperately, and in so much pain that the tears seemed to stream down my face boundlessly.

I gave one last high pitched yelp as I was dragged into the darkness of a cave where I knew I would soon meet my death and my weak body scraped across the jagged rocks and into the limitless tunnel. I was now in a lightless place I had never even imagined of going, lying there in a manner I had never dreamed of dying.

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