Taken

Changing

Bella POV

Icy fire spread through my veins like daggers. I tried, and tried, and tried again to hold in the screams that threatened to ensue me, but I wasn't that strong. Yet. My tiny, human body was no match for the venom that now coursed through it.

Edward POV

I always knew that if I want to spend an eternity with Bella, this was the only way to make it happen. But as I watched her screaming in agony despite all of the morphine that Carlisle had given her, it hurt too much. I hated, no, loathed, seeing her like this. And it was my fault. Her hands were clenched into fists, her lips were pursed in treacherous pain, and her eyebrows furrowed in agony. How could I just sit here and watch my angel die, even if she would be alive again in a few days?!

Hours past, and her screaming grew louder. But in between her cries of pain, she was mumbling words, like she used to when she slept. Every once and a while she would say a few words together, so I spent my time with her trying to figure out what all of these fragments meant. And as always, I drew a blank. More time past, and finally we had made it through the first day. I watched as her skin grew paler, and her features became more angular. By the minute she became even more beautiful, if that was possible.

"No!! No…don't!! Stop it!!" Bella cried again. Lately her cries of agony had died down, and now she was screaming out nonsense. "Shut up, shut up!!" She cried for the millionth time. Curiosity burned throughout my body. What was she talking about?? Maybe I don't want to know. I thought sadly.

She'll be Ok, this has to happen, this HAS to happen!! Alice repeated to reassure herself. She wanted Bella to become a vampire with us, but she hated hearing Bella's pain almost as much as I did.

"HOLY CRAP!!" Emmett thought to himself. Apparently he was hunting, and about a second before he snapped a grizzly's neck, his ridiculous strength disappeared, and was replaced by the strength of any normal vampire. Not only did this surprise him, but it surprised me as well. This had never happened before.

Suddenly, his mind shut off, and everything became quiet. Odd. I thought. I decided to see what Alice was thinking, but her mind was shut off too. Oh no! There minds didn't shut off, mine did!! I didn't want to leave Bella, but this was important.

I jumped up and ran faster than the speed of light (literally) over to Carlisle's office. I threw open the door to find that Alice, Jasper, and Emmett were already in there. Each of them had on the same expression, worry.

"What happened?" I asked breathlessly. Alice and Jasper stared down at their feet while Emmett growled, annoyed.

"I missed the stupid Grizzly!!" Emmett cried angrily. "All because my stupid strength just dissolved!!"

"I know, but a second after that happened to you, my power was gone as well." I replied, more calmly now. Now everyone in the room looked at me like something terrible was happening, but for the first time in my life, I couldn't comprehend. Slowly, Carlisle stood and turned to look at the four of us. Even he didn't understand what was going on.

"So what you're telling me is that all four of your powers disappeared within about five minutes of each others?" Carlisle asked, trying to make sense of the situation. "Hmmmmm… I wonder who could possibly be doing this, and why they are doing this."

"Well, what if they decide to use our powers against us!!" Alice cried. The most horrified expression was on her face, and for the first time ever, she looked truly terrified. And she was right, how much danger were we in? This time, none of us knew. And we had no way of finding out. We sat there and stared at each other for several minutes, each of us feeling positively speechless.

Eventually Esme, and Rosalie noticed that we were all missing. They came up to Carlisle's office and found us. Apparently the expressions on our faces gave us away because they immediately knew that something was wrong. We explained everything to them, and in the end we all agreed that this was extremely bad.

"Well, before all of this happened, did you see anything that might have lead to this? Are there any other vampires in town that I don't know about?" Carlisle asked, returning to his calm and cool manor. I racked my brain to find anything that might possibly have a connection with what was happening, but nothing weird had gone on lately.

"I haven't seen anything in my visions, nothing even slightly abnormal." Alice said, clearly frustrated.

"I haven't heard anyone thinking anything abnormal, or any thoughts that could possibly be related. Plus, no one has been blocking out there mind to me lately." I replied thoughtfully. Now everyone was annoyed. How could this happen? All four of our powers just slip away within five tiny minutes.

"I mean really! There was no warning, it was like bada boom, bada bing, bada bang, poof!! And our powers were gone!" Alice countered, her voice full of animation. Obviously she was trying to lighten the mood. Especially since Jasper can't. I thought grimly.

"Well, obviously this is not good." Esme clarified.

"I think we figured that out a long, long, time ago." Emmett retorted. Esme looked as if she was going to scold him when suddenly Alice jumped and let out a whoosh of air in surprise. We all looked at her questioningly, and she smiled.

"I just had a vision." Alice said proudly. The rest of us checked, but we shook our heads, our powers hadn't returned yet.

"There is going to be a huge drop in the stock market," Alice said as she watched her vision play out, "and then it is going to….. and it's gone." She said, angrily plopping herself back into her chair. We all looked around at one another and sighed. So far things weren't exactly going our way, and it honestly, and truly, sucked.

I glared out the window in frustration. What did this mean!! Who was doing this, and why!! I glanced out towards the door and thought about Bella. Even as a vampire, would she be safe with us? Sure, she wasn't exactly on anyone's hit list any more, but still. I didn't want to put her in danger, but there was nothing left for me to do. Neither of us could live without one another, and really, there wasn't any other option. I wasn't leaving her again, it would kill us both. And now that some unseen force was threatening us, we had to leave, run away. It was our only option now.

"Carlisle, I think we only have one choice, we have to leave Forks." I whispered sadly. "We can't stay here and endanger ourselves and Bella like this, we need to leave."

"Sadly, I think your right. If someone is here and threatening us, and we don't have the advantage of your powers, it's the only thing that we can do." Carlisle agreed miserably. "Once Bella's transformation is complete, we will hunt and then leave immediately. We should be fine for about a week, but at that time we need to leave." He finished quietly.

And he was right, it was the only way. Despite how much Forks meant to all of us, we had to leave, there was no getting past it. I didn't want this to be the first thing I told Bella, I had wanted us to enjoy the moment and then, when we were ready, leave. But now, that was just a mere dream. She would wake up to find that we were all in danger and that we were leaving in a few days. I hated having to do this to her, it was truly terrible. I looked around the room, and though my power was gone, I knew that everyone here was thinking the same thing.