The Beginning

"Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable."

*

I was dying.

I was dying and there was nothing I could do about it. I could feel the blood oozing from all over my body, my energy leaving me all the same. I was too weak to move, there was no escaping this car that would become my metal coffin. With the last of my strength I screamed for help. My voice cracked with desparation. Even though I was near dead, my ears picked up on footsteps. They seemed to circle the wreckage of my car.

"H.. Help.." I managed to choke out as I spit out blood. I jumped when something landed right by the drivers side of the car. He was beautiful in every single way. Even in death, I felt embarrassed in front of his perfection. His skin was pale in the moonlight and the rain seemed to fall off his skin. When my eyes met his I knew my time was up.. Red. Blood red, just like what surrounded my still living body. He crept closer and closer until his hand glided out only to tear the door off it's hinges. I tried to scream, but nothing came out. He stroked his hand against my face, his skin was like cold marble against mine.

"Shh.. it will all be over soon enough." he cooed to me. His voice flowed like velvet through the air and into my ears. I wished that I could do nothing but run away, but here I was stuck. The beautiful stranger smiled at me, his white teeth glistened and my veins filled with fear. "So beautiful, even in death." he said kissing my jawbone. Then I felt it in my neck. A sharp stabbing pain that felt like burning fire coursed under my skin.

I screamed out in pain, he perked up and looked into the distance before looking back to me with those blood red eyes. He stroked my face again, "I'll be back for you my love." he said before running off, leaving me to die from the fire. Oh the fire! How it burns!

Coldness against my skin, it felt amazing in contrast to the fire. Then it went away, my eyes closed tighter. "NO!!" I shouted, trying to reach out again. I felt it again, along with another voice like velvet.

"You are safe now." they whispered gently to me. I trusted them, they sounded friendly and as if they were genuinly helping me.. although I wasn't sure what there was to help when death was welcoming me with open arms. Then I fell weak, weaker, too weak to keep fighting.. so I let the fire consume me.

*

Though the fire did not decrease one tiny degree – in fact, it felt as though it increased. It was like each inch of me was on fire, blistering toungues of flames licked through my veins. But I did not scream, only in the beginning.. Now I could just lay there and beg for the cold not to go away. He never once left me, his skin was like ice against the burning fire in mine.

Then in an instant it was gone. My eyes fluttered open and I sat up, more quickly then expected.. I was waiting to get dizzy but it never came. I was in what looked like a kitchen, sitting on an island. I looked to my side where the person with marble skin never left me. He was the perfection of beauty. He had blond hair, roughly six foot and looked to be in his early twenties. I was almost expecting my cheeks to fill with a blush, but it never came. My hand traveled to my face and I felt nothing.. I was cold.

"W-What happened t-to me?" I asked, shocked at the sound of my own voice. I sounded different.. my own voice sounded graceful and elegant.

"She's awake?" questioned a beautiful voice, which sounded like my own new and improved voice. When I looked I was shocked by her beauty. She was tall, well she looked to be taller then me with caramel colored hair. Her skin was pale and her eyes were golden, but with bruise like circles under her eyes. Her heart-shaped face was full of care and compassion as she looked at me.

"W-Who are you? Where am I?" I leaped up (with ease) from the island in the middle of their kitchen. The beautiful man grabbed my arm, his muscles flexed and I didn't think I could pull away but when I tried I nearly knocked him off balance.

"I am Carlisle Cullen and this is my wife Esme. You are in our home, now please sit for me to explain.." He found my waist and picked me up with ease and set me once more on the island. Then his beautiful voice told me the story.. The story of my death. My eyes found his and suddenly my world went black..

A scream off in the distance, the deer I was once chasing got away from me as I listened. Her voice was so desperate and hopeless.. I decided to check it out. I ran faster and faster towards her. As the scene became visible I saw a young girl lying in the drivers seat of a mangled car and a vampire touching her face. No doubt it was Demetri of the Volturi, but what was he doing here? He must have sensed my presence because he ran away after whispering something to her, dispite my super-human hearing I couldn't understand what he said.

I approached her and touched her skin, no doubt he bit her. Her skin burned like fire in contrast to mine. "NO!!" she shouted as I pulled my hand from her. She reached out to find me again. Surely, the coldness felt like heaven compaired to the burning of the venom in her veins. I looked around, there was no one around and she could be mistaken for dead. I wondered if she had family, someone to miss her terribly. I wondered if she would hate me for letting the change take place, but I was in no position to suck the venom back out. Her blood was sweet and sang to my aching throat. Even I feared losing control once in a while. I couldn't risk breaking the treaty.

"You are safe now." I whispered to her, scooping her up in my arms. She fell limp as I ran back to my home, back to my family. As I carried our newest addition safely in my arms.

I gasped loudly as I saw my death right before my eyes, through Carlisle's head. My eyes scanned his onyx eyes for an answer, but he was unable to give me one. Esme approached her husband. She kissed his hand then took mine.

"Some of us are able to bring along a human trait to this afterlife, if you would call it that. There is time for explaining later, you need to hunt. Carlisle can take you, he's thirsty as well seeing he's stayed with you the entire time of your transformation." I looked to him, almost expecting to see him blush but he only smiled. "Your our daughter now and we take care of our family.." she said kissing my cheeks. I'm sure if I were able to cry I would. I've never had a family before and it took my death to bring me one.

Carlisle tugged at my hand, "Lets go. Esme, we'll return in a day or two please make sure everyone else is here." She showed her teeth through the warm smile she gave us. Her heart-shaped face nodded, she blew Carlisle a kiss and me as well. Then he started to run and I followed, running just as fast, if not faster.

*

Whoever I was..
Whatever I was now,
weither my heart beated or not I knew this was a changing point.
It was my transformation, my awakening.
It wasn't the end, it was the beginning.