I take a plane from Volturra Italy to New York City. From there I take a plane to Minneapolis, Minnesota and from there to Anchorage, Alaska. From there, I run.

I have been running for what feels like 100 miles through a forest, when a smell hits my nose. Vampires are close. I keep running when an awful stench overwhelms me. I gag, and I know I am heading in the right direction. I follow the stench, carefully concealing my real thoughts and putting to the front of my mind my false thoughts of "Run, just run. I think I've lost them." I even whisper these words to add extra strength to the thoughts.

I burst into a clearing in the woods, and since I am running so fast, I run smack into a grown vampire with a loud crack. I recoil, not used to physically touching another being, falling over in the process. I hide a self-satisfied smile at me playing the part of an innocent, bumbling newborn so well. Then I slowly survey the area, and stiffen at what I see. Six grown vampires stare at me warily. I eye them just as suspiciously. I was so not expecting this.

The one I ran into has blond hair and golden eyes, and he is gorgeous. Beyond male model looks; he is indescribable. I stare speechlessly, and trust me, I always have something to say. All of them are studying me, watching my behavior. I stare back, acting afraid and stunned. They seem to buy it. I know almost immediately who the mind reader is, he has messy red brown hair and the same golden eyes as the one I ran into. I can feel him trying to get into my mind. I block him from my real thoughts and only allow him access to my fake thoughts. What he thinks my thoughts are portraying is the normal scared lost thoughts of a young girl. As I look at all of them, I realize they all have the same eye color. Gold is not a color I am familiar with, in terms of vampire eyes. The Volturi's eyes are crimson, as are the normal human blood drinking vampires. My eyes are silver, because I drink a mixture of human and animal blood. Does that mean gold is an all animal diet? I will find out. The blond male (there is also a blond female, but she seemed a bit younger) has to be the leader. The others have a higher respect to him than they do with each other, though that is strong as well. He turns towards the mind reader slightly, and I see the mind reader give a minute nod. Some silent conversation I suppose.

"Are you alright? Do you need help?" The blond man asks. In my mind I scoff at the idea of anyone helping me, but quickly suppress the thought.

"No, I'm not alright. I've been attacked by a group of VAMPIRES. Somebody BIT me and I burned for three days. I'm DRINKING BLOOD from random humans and animals. I just don't understand!" I rant and even pace for good measure. I throw myself down on the ground dejectedly. Yeah, I know, I'm a bit dramatic.

"Edward, is this true?" The leader asks the mind reader. So that's his name. Edward. Edward searches my thoughts and I flood his mind with pictures I made up, but to him would look true. He nods silently. Does he speak? "What is your name?"

"Salem. Salem Whitlock." I reply without a second thought, but frown when I see the shock spread on every single vampires face.

"What?" I ask, wondering why they were surprised. Was it my first name? Or my last? Or that I remembered my name?

"Your last name is what concerns us." Says Edward. I start, angry at myself for not concealing those thoughts. So he does speak, I think sarcastically, and Edward shoots me a crooked grin.

"Why would my last name-" I am cut off by the sound of four fast moving creatures. Two vampires, a shape shifter, and a half vampire, I believe. I have only ever smelled two before, so the scent is still new to me. I catch their individual scents and… no. It couldn't be. My brother is running towards me?!

I snap my head around just in time to see a tan muscled boy (I think he's a boy, but man, he's huge!) rush through the woods into the clearing. He stops suddenly at the sight of me and studies me cautiously. Then a girl (the half vampire) runs through and halts beside the boy. Mates. He imprinted on her, I figure. And she would be Edward and his mates' daughter, which is interesting. I will have to find out more. A small pixy like girl surges through the woods and into the clearing.

"Is she here? Oh! There she is!" She says as she smiles at me happily. Not sure what to do, I look away quickly. Abruptly a golden haired boy sprints into the clearing stopping quickly next to the short girl. He sniffs and slowly turns his head towards me. Uh oh.

"You" He hisses under his breath. His face clouds with rage as he charges me. I dash away, knowing I am much quicker than him. I turn around to see where he is, slowing down in the process, when a foot comes slamming into my chest, and I fly backwards about 50 yards. I smash into a tree and fall to the ground. I jump up quickly and run straight at my brother. He was not expecting me to get up again, so I have the element of surprise. I use my elbow to shove his chin upwards, and while he is staggering I give him a roundhouse kick straight to the chest. Solid, good work Salem, I think to myself. He flies backwards and lands on his feet, like a cat. I growl at him, he always did have to be better than me. He growls right back at me and we charge each other again only to have Edward and the leader holding Jasper back, and the big burly vampire and the shape shifter holding me back. They are smart to have the strongest holding me back. Otherwise nothing would stop me from crushing my older brother to bits. I hiss at Jasper and struggle against the strong arms holding me. I could have easily ripped off their arms of course, but I decided that would have to wait.

"Wow" says the shape shifter. "This kid can kick serious ass!" he exclaims, awed. I growl in frustration.

"I am NOT a kid" I howl and fight even harder, but they reinforce their grip so I give up. I should be saving my energy for destroying my brother, not them.

"Yes you are Salem. You're only 14!" Jasper shouts at me. I am shocked. He knows how old I am?

"How do you know how old I am? You disappeared when I was 12." I ask, wanting to know if he was keeping tabs on me. He hangs his head almost ashamed.

"I know how old you are, because I came back the night you were changed. I was there, I saw it happen. I was going to take you away because I knew the Volturi were after you. I was going to change you, train you to protect yourself." He says in almost a whisper. I am dumbfounded. When did this all happen? Did he know who changed me? "Looks like someone took care of that for me." He then says in a growl and my anger at him resurfaces.

"Alexandre was doing the right thing Jasper. He knew I would be safer with him, and I would be much safer if I could protect myself. The only way I could do that was if I was a vampire too." I say in a menacing voice. How dare he accuse Alexandre of doing anything wrong. He couldn't do anything wrong. He was… is… an angel.

"Was he really an angel? Or was he just a vampire?" Edward asks quietly.

"I don't see why you would need to know. And besides, Angels don't have fangs." I snap at him, earning me a smack from Jasper, who had gotten loose from his holds. "Hey! How come he doesn't have to be held anymore?" They answer my question by hastily grabbing Jasper away from me.

"Jasper what are you doing?! This is your little sister! I thought you would be glad that we finally found her." She says with a slight pout. She crosses her arms and glares at my brother. I smirk at the thought of my brother being reprimanded by a girl. Oh yes, girl power!

"Alice, look. Yes this is my little sister that I haven't seen in hundreds of years. But we have some… differences that need to be settled." He says glaring at me in the coldest way. I give him a fake smile then a scowl.

"You're such a jerk! You lied to me Jasper. I hate you! Ever since you left, I have never wanted to see you again. Except, of course, it was so I could rip your head off."

The leader looks at us in surprise. "Why is there so much hate between you too? What happened all those years ago?" Jasper and I stop struggling against our restraints and look down in sudden shame. The others become silent, looking at us, wondering who would be the first to speak.

"Carlisle, this is my younger sister, Salem Whitlock. She was 12 years old when Maria changed me and made me train the newborns. Meanwhile, Salem met and fell in love with a 16 year old vampire Alexandre De Luca, and he felt the same way.

When Maria's army was destroyed, and before I found Alice, I went back for my sister. I knew she would be angry with me because I made her a promise that I in no way kept.

I knew the Volturi were after her, because she was a powerful human, a perfect vampire candidate. Not to mention, she was Alexandre's soul mate. So I went back to take her and change her myself, but when I got there, my parents were dead, the Volturi were standing over her body, and Alexandre was nowhere to be seen. I thought she was dead, she didn't move for 30 minutes. But I heard them talking about what happened.

They came for her that night, her 14th birthday. They killed my parents because they were in the way. When they found her, Alexandre had just finished the bite. He jumped out the window and ran. No one saw him again.

Anyway, after the 30 minutes, she began to scream. And not just a painful scream like the rest of us had, but like she was being torn apart, set on fire and stabbed. It was terrible. She was crying and screaming and screaming. I was going to wait for them to leave, and take her with me, but they stayed with her all three days. They finally left, but not far away enough so I could take her without being noticed. I went to look at her, and I found out why she had been screaming so terribly. Alexandre had bit her neck. Aro had bit the vein in her elbow, Caius the same on the other side. Marcus had bit her side, Jane had bit her jawbone, and Alec had bit next to her mouth, almost like he had kissed her and then bit. I knew then that they were trying to kill her.

But what it did was make a 'super vampire'. She is more powerful than any vampire, her talent is so well tuned she can do almost anything with it. Astonishingly, she does not sparkle in the sun. Her eyes are silver because of a mixed diet that only she could live on, for some weird reason. She can also live on human food, but only a day at a time. She is everything you would want in a vampire, but she has some serious attitude. She is still a teenager I guess." He says with a smirk, and I allow a small smile to show on my lips. Everything he said was true.