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Rise of the Vampire
Chapter One
Rose's point of view
It has been weeks since I had taken a shot in the chest. Life went by normally for a while. Lissa became the queen, and I'm her guardian. Dimitri became Christian's guardian. We were all living together in the bedroom next to Lissa's. We were the one next to her if there was an emergency, which I don't think will happen since I was now named the most feared dhampir by half of the Moroi population, although it just made me sound more bad ass than I originally am.

My parents decided that life was too short, after witnessing me being shot in the chest by a delusional Moroi, decided to get back together and start a real relationship. They didn't care if Moroi and dhampir relationships were unheard of, they just cared about themselves for once. My mother, who swore she was never going to quit being a guardian, actually quit and is traveling the world with Abe before baby number two arrives soon. Yep...I was shocked and a bit jealous that they were going to have another child, but those feelings quickly vanished.

Dimitri, my soul-mate, was actually more happy than he was in recent weeks. I think he had it harder than me. He was still in the process of recovering from his Strigoi depression. He occasionally had some nightmare about the victims he took during that time. He was actually having fun when we are off from guardian Lissa and Christian.

I thought everything would be okay in my life. I thought that all the evil that I faced in the last year was all I was ever going to deal with, not including staking the Strigoi that generally like to come after me more than the Moroi queen. But...everything changed in a blink on an eye. Lissa became to adsorbed into her queen duties, that she barely had any time to spend with Christian and me. She had Dimitri and I working more than we usually were.

Our relationship started to suffer severally. Hans, the head guardian here at court, who makes all the guardian schedules for the queen. Hans ending up making Dimitri's shifts when I had off, he had off when I have to work. We only saw each other when we were being leaving our room or in the queen's chambers.

It went that way for a while. I just thought that it was a just a mistake that Hans had to correct. But...I was wrong. Very wrong. I decided to do a bit of spying on my boyfriend and friends. Personally, I thought that I was going to get caught in the first twenty-four hours, but I didn't. I guess nobody questions my loyalty to the queen. Why would they?

I found something that I didn't think I would ever forget. I was so shocked that I just stood there in the shadows. In the Queens personal garden was Lissa, Christian, Dimitri, and some Moroi Woman. The Moroi woman had long curly brown hair. Her eyes were a very light brown. The Moroi woman threw her head back, letting out a laugh at the current joke Dimitri just told her. A smile was on his face, a true smile, not one of those half-smile that he recently has been giving me all the time. He looked really happy, happier now then with me. He leaned over and gave her a peck on the lips.

"I have a special announcement," said Lissa, to the other three people in the room.

"Yes, Lissa," said Christian.

A smile appeared on her face as she stared at her boyfriend, "The four of us will be going on a trip for three weeks to Hawaii."

"What about, Rose?" asked Dimitri, with a frown on his face. "I...mean...is she going to as one of your guardians for the trip?"

"No," said Lissa, outraged. She gave a dark chuckle. "No. She is not going to Hawaii with us, seeing she is now busy doing other guardians work to attend as my guardian or friend. She will be here at court for the next two weeks. She probably will worry about how jealous she will be of us for not inviting her."

"Good," said Christian, leaning back in his chair. "I would be thrilled to get away from the blood whore for a while."

"Why do you still hang out with her?" asked the Moroi woman. She almost sounded curious. "I mean if you all hate her, then why hang out with her? Why do you keeping her your guardian, Lissa? Why do you have her as your girlfriend, Dimitri?"

I would like to know that also, I thought.

Lissa groaned, "I knew that someone soon was going to ask that question. Long story short Abe bribed me to at least let her be my guardian for a couple of months. Something about keeping her happy especially with a new baby on the way. One they actually planned on raising together. They want to have her occupied while they will be living the life that she always dreamed about."

The Moroi woman looked towards Dimitri, "And you?"

Dimitri closed his eyes and hesitated for a moment, "I guess you can say it was the guilt that made me go back to her. What I did to her was far more horrific than any others. It was easier to try to make her happy than me because that's what she wanted, even though I don't love her anymore. Hell...I don't even sleep with her, and the last time I did was for her body."

"Guilt and being paid off," said the Moroi woman, whom I know recognized as Emily, Jill's mother.

I slowly backed away from the bush I was hiding behind. I didn't want to hear any more. I was upset that they only thought about themselves them someone else. Why did they do that to me? I gave them everything that I am. I jumped in front of a bullet for Lissa, I saved Dimitri from being a monster, hell... I even saved Christian in Spokane. I even found Lissa's long-lost sibling for her.

When we were on the run, she would always say, 'I wish I had an unknown sibling out there.' She also would say, 'Not, that I already don't consider you my sister, but I want family.'

I was not planning on staying here. I decided I was going to go out in the world and live for me for once. I decided I would do that when the others leave for their vacation to Hawaii. A smile came to my face, as I thought of how my life would be like. The small smile suddenly left my face, the doorknob to the room started shaking. It was a good thing that these rooms have separate locks on the doors. In walks Dimitri.

"Hi sweetheart, " I said, walking over to him with a smile on my face. But all I really want to do was cry. I guess I was really good at acting like seeing he bought my fake cheerfulness. "How was work? We finally have a weekend alone for once. I think we should spend sometimes together as seeing work has been so hectic for the past two weeks."

Dimitri looked panicked for a second. He actually looked like he was going to bolt through the door. "Um...Rose, please sit down, I have something to tell you."

"Okay," I said, sitting down on a brown leather chair in our room. I intertwined my fingers together. "So what do you have to tell me."

Dimitri looked at his shoes, "I can't spend the weekend with you. I got to guard Christian when he is on vacation with Lissa."

I pretended to look upset when he said vacation. I pouted while making a sad face, "I thought that you were going to spend the weekend with me?"

"Rose," said Dimitri, groaning. "Grow up, they come first. We will just have to spend some time with each other for the weekend some other time when we're not busy."

"Okay," I told him, looking towards the floor. Inside, I was slowly dying trying not to throw something at him as I really wanted to. "Go on, I understand, it was wrong of me to think you would for once put me first before your Moroi. I guess I can get rid of my wishful thinking."

"Rose..."

I cut him off. "Have fun, Dimitri." I walked over to him. I gave him a slow kiss on his lips. "Goodbye." He just didn't know that this was the last time I would say that to him.

I took a deep breath and hide my face behind a magazine while Dimitri was now packing his suitcase. I would have done that with a book, but then again he knows that I don't read for fun so that would have been suspicious. From the corner of my eyes I knew that he didn't pack any guardian uniforms, but mainly summer clothes and his swimwear.

Dimitri just zipped his last luggage closed. "Rose, I will see you when I get back."

"Have fun, Dimitri," I told him painfully. My heart broke as I saw him with a happy smile. Only he didn't know that I knew about him being unfaithful towards me.

He closed the door to the room, and I let out a sigh. That was the hardest thing I ever had to do. I was giving up the love of my life for the greater good as it seemed. Throwing the magazine on the coffee table, I decided it was time for me to decide what I was going to do with the rest of my life.

I ruled out calling my parents. Even though that I didn't know Abe very well, I will still hurt over the fact that he decided to pay of Lissa by keeping me away from them. If they didn't want me near them, while they are playing happy families, they could have just asked and I would have disappeared from the radar. I would have expected that from Janine than Abe, but then again people do stupid shit for the love even if it hurts someone close to them.

I decided not to contact Jill, Eddie, and Mia. Mia and Eddie just got together after weeks of flirting with each other. If I went to see any of my other friends some of them might not believe me that I caught Dimitri cheating on me. Jill, was also out of the question, seeing it is her mother that Dimitri sees behind my back.

Adrian is out of the question. I haven't seen him or spoke to him since after I recovered from being shot. What I heard from Lissa and the others that he is quite happy traveling with the human Alchemist Sydney Sage. I didn't want to intrude on their happiness. Besides, it would be awkward for the both of us as seeing we didn't end on the right foot with Adrian. Sydney, I was afraid to see as seeing I got her into trouble with her bosses, which she now doesn't have a job with them.

Sighing, I took my laptop from out of the drawer next to my bed, where I keep it hidden from Dimitri. Like seeing, we both use the desktop in the kitchen. I didn't want any evidence of me ever living here. I didn't want anyone to find me. Browsing the internet, I found several pictures of warm places and decided that I wanted to go to Rio for a while.

Sighing, I grabbed my red suitcases from underneath the bed. If I was going to leave then, I was going to do it when most of the Moroi are sleeping. That was the only way I was going to get out of here alive. Going into my closet, pulling out all of my clothes and throwing them into the suite cases. I didn't care if they weren't placed into the suitcases properly. I didn't want to leave anything of mine here. I wanted it to look like I was never in this room.

An hour passed, and I had all of my stuff packed. I knew for a fact that Lissa and her friends already left, like seeing Dimitri told me the time that they were going to catch their private flight. Yeah, I said that they were her friend more than mine. They took Lissa side in all of this than mine. Hell, they didn't even say anything to me about Dimitri's cheating. So why should I bother staying friends with them when they knew me practically all of my life and Dimitri a bit under two years.

Taking one last look around the room which I shared with Dimitri. All of the memories started flooding back to me. The way he used to say my name during the heart of the moments. The way our, well now, his friends came over to have a friendly game night. This was the last time that I will ever be in this room. I didn't want any association with any more dhampirs or Moroi. I was fully done with everyone.

Grabbing all of my stuff, I went down into the garage underneath the building. I was going to take my car to the airport and leave it in the parking lot. I didn't want it or need it like seeing it really isn't my type of car.

The traffic to the nearest airport was nonexistent. Maybe it had something to do with it being four o'clock in the morning. Most humans didn't even get up this early.

Taking a deep breath, as I parked the car into a parking spot. I was actually going to go through with this. I haven't done anything reckless for a while. Some people might even think that I being reckless now by abandoning the Queen, but I really don't care. What they did to me destroyed my soul.

Edward's point of view

It was done. I couldn't believe that I actually did it. On the other hand, I had to do it, or I would have lost myself even further than I already did. Bella Swan, my ex-girlfriend, and the bane of my existence. It was a good thing that I did that. I broke up with her, right after school one rainy day. I didn't care that I was doing it in front of the whole school, or that it would be the center of gossip for a while.

After I broke up with her, I went home and told my family. Carlisle and Esme were disappointed in me. Rosalie was happy that the human was going to be gone, and away from the family. Rose did never like Bella that much. More like she hated her, and the choices that she made. Emmett was pissed off at me. He always thought of Bella as his annoying little sister that he could make fun of. Alice and Jasper, were with Bella, cheering her up. So I didn't know what they thought of me, and at this point, I really didn't care.

I was suffocating in that town. The rain was getting to me. I grabbed all of my clothes, the ones that I liked, and threw them into two suitcases. I was leaving this town for a while. I wanted to do something fun with my existence for once. I wanted to go to random places and meet new people. In reality, I was going through a midlife crisis. Do vampires even get midlife crisis?

I just took all of my clothes. I didn't need anything else with me, and if I did need something I have the money to pay for it. I wasn't broke. Nor did I always use money off of Carlisle, even though he was like a parent to me. My real biological parents left me money in their will. They also came from old money but never really flaunted it around.

I grabbed my passport from my dresser and the two suitcases, before making my way downstairs, where the rest of the family was. The family was all sitting around the living room, and their faces lacked any expressions. My eyes widened as I saw Bella sitting in-between Alice and Jasper. I thought that she would go straight home and not here. I didn't want her anywhere near me, but it didn't look like it. So much for me leaving peacefully.

"Edward," said Esme, with a frown on her face. "Where are you going?"

"Leaving," I told them. "I don't know where I will be going or how long I will be gone for. I don't even know if I'm wanted here, anymore?"

"Edward," said Carlisle, with a natural expression. "You are always welcome here. You're my son, in everything except for blood."

"Thanks," I said, with a half-smile. My hands tightened on the handles of the suitcases.

"Wait! Why did you break up with me?" asked Bella.

"We also would like to know that," said Alice, glaring at me.

"Does everyone want to know?" I asked, which received nods from everyone except Rosalie. "I'm tired of everything, from the rain, from repeating school to smelling Bella's blood constantly. I want a change. I want to do things that I never did before. I want to see everything that I would usually never see. All the experiences that I want to try are by myself. At least for now. I'm tired of acting and being like I was born in the early nineteen hundreds, even thou I was."

"So you're going through a midlife crisis," said Emmett. "Then get a different car. Die your hair different colors. Where clothes that you usually don't wear. You don't need to leave your family, and Bella, to do those things."

"Sorry, Emmett, but this is something that I have to do," I said, running my hands through my messy hair. "I need to do this. I have a feeling that I don't do this then something bad will happen to me."

"Will you give us another chance?" asked Bella, timidly. "When you come back?"

"I don't know," I told her. "I don't know when I will come back."

Two weeks later (Still Edwards point of view)

I ignored all of the phone calls from Alice, Jasper, and Emmett. All three of them were constantly calling me, and trying to get me to go back home and into Bella's arms. Bella, whom I left, apparently is going through depression, which the family has been taking care of her. Rosalie, Carlisle, and Esme are the only one who call me to actually talk to me, and not trying to get me to go back home. Those three never mention Bella, or anything related to her, which I'm actually happy about.

I did take Emmett's advice about getting new clothes. The car that I was driving was a rental. When I left the Forks, I decided to go to Rio. Alice would never come here to shop, so I was perfectly safe here. On the other hand, I was glad that none of them showed up here.

For the past two weeks, I have only been going out at night. During the day was too sunny for my sparkling ass to be seen. On this night, something happened around two-thirty. I was walking down the street, most of the stores were closed, except for the bars. When I heard something from five alleyways away.

"Well, well, well," said a male voice, that sounded sarcastic and cold. "What do we have here? A female dhampir is trying to be a hero. How lovely?"

"Drop dead," said a female. "Oh, wait, you will be very soon."

"Ah, so a blood whore is trying to do a guardian's job," said the man. "Interesting."

"What will be interesting is my fist in your face."

Whoever these two people were they weren't normal. I walked quickly to the alleyway that I heard fighting from. What met my eyes was something that I never have seen before. The female, who was five foot seven, beating the crap out of a man who was six feet and three inches tall. She was fighting him as a professional would. He also got some hits on her.

When his fangs...wait fangs? I shook my head. I must have hit my head somewhere along the line, or still upset about most of the family taking Bella's side, to think that I'm actually seeing someone with working fangs. Just before his fangs, were about to sink into her the flesh of her neck, I pulled him off of her and flung him into the wall. Why would he do that to a female?

The guy turned around. Her eyes were ringed in red, but they weren't fully red. "What are you?" I asked, clearly confused. He couldn't be a vampire. He didn't feel like he was made of marble. His flesh was soft, like humans, maybe a bit dirtier from the lack of having a shower.

"I'm a vampire," said the guy.

He charged forward. I easily picked him up with one hand around his neck. His eyes widened. "Sorry, buddy," I said, not really sorry to begin with. "But you're not a vampire. Your skin is not marble. While your eyes might be red, they're not fully."

While I was holding him in the air, the female walked right behind him and plunged a silver stake through his heart. The life left his eyes. I threw him on the ground and looked at her. She was standing there looking at me with wonder in her brown eyes. "What are you?" she asked.