Chapter One

Immortal Life

"You may have won the battle, but you haven't won the war!"

-Unknown

Mary Cullen

I look back on my last six months as an immortal and sometimes it seems so strange how I got to this point, the point where I was turned into a vampire to stop me from dying. I was turned into a vampire after my neck was snapped by a vampire seeking vengence after we had destroyed all of his comrades. This is how I remember it in my dim human/witch memories:

The world is dark, so very dim and dark compared to my new vampire world yet I remember it almost clearly, we had just arrived at the battle scene, everybody was fighting and moving so fast that they literally blured infront of my eyes, I couldn't see them, I could bearly hear them, but what I could hear and see was the colossal fire that was crackling away as the smell of burning flesh filled the clearing and the light illuminated the area bleeching everything red and yellow in its pressence.

I looked over to Madison who was staring at the scene with her sliver/Grey eyes. It was strange, her eyes were always so grey before, but now it was as if the fire within them had been unleeshed and they we a smoldering sliver that burned brightly.

She looked over to me and said, "This is what you want me to do? Fight all these people!" She said alarmed, but after one second I realised that she was actually not alarmed. She had a smile on her face, a genuine smile as she watched her family fight. Recognition shot in her eyes as she said, "Renesmee! Eddie! Mom! Dad! I remember, Mary!" She laughed a little, and I smiled back at her and then realised my best friend was back.

"We have to do this, Madison, right now." I said to her, I saw Leo's hand shoot out and grab my arm as he did so.

"Where do you think you are going? You might be a witch or necromancer or what ever but you are almost as defensless as a human. Do you think I'm letting you go out their to your death?" Leo barked at me. I growled slightly at him, trying to imitate him when he growled.

"Madison!" I yelled as she confrounted Leo, she stood infront of him and raised her brows at him.

"Okay, I remember now and I remember that you were both my best friends, but if you're gonna be a protective jerk then I could quite easily kick your ass with my new shade powers, understand, Leo?" Madison warned Leo, he gulped as he had always been afraid of Madison's temper.

"Okay! But be careful and watch her!" He snarled at Madison as he bolted into the clearing to take down a vampire. All at once, Benjamin, Zachariah, Judeyah and Freeyah in their wolf forms due to the full moon bounded over our heads, leaping easily four meters into the air and each taking down a line of vampires.

Seth and Charlotte were next to jump over me and Madison into the full thresh of the fighting hords and then I saw Madison turn to me and she smiled almost evilly.

"Come on, let's go kick some Voltouri ass!" She said to me, and with out a second glance she took my hand and we jumped into the fight head first. I saw that what Madison meant by her new shade powers almost instantly. It was like her power before had been emphisized and had grown to unbelieveable and catastrophic proportions. She held in her hands literally the single most powerful weapon that I could imagine possible. Herself.

She ran along and took down three vampires just with the touch of her hand, each one dropped spasming to the ground as if a deadly lightening bolt had pierced through their skin and then they just stopped moving presumably dead.

"How are you doing that?" I asked in awe.

"I have no fecking Idea!" Madison laughed as she took down another large male vampire with only one touch of her index finger. I could not believe this as she ran through the hords killing vampires with one touch of her hand. It was mesmerising and I couldn't believe it even though I was with her.

Soon enough the numbers were evened out as we picked off the voltouri one by one it was clear to see that we had no casualties on our vampire side. Supprisingly only three werewolves had lost their lives, that had been it. Just three lives lost on our side.

As we all gathered to celebrate, Madison ran into the arms of her parents and I did the same with mine, running into their awaiting arms and burying my head in my fathers chest as he whispered in my ear, "I swear I'm going to give you the sex talk later young lady." I giggled nervously, knowing that he knew me and Leo had made love only once on our quest to save Madison.

"Yeh..." I muttered as my mom hugged me again.

Then it all seemed to happen quickly. Edward was yelling that somebody was still alive, one vampire. I saw the blur as a vampire pushed Bella aside and lunged for Renesmee. Renesmee blocked him and Jacob lunged for the vampire but the vampire punched Jacob in the skull, smashing it and then all I knew was the pain of having the vampire grip my head and smash his fist into my spine, irreparibly breaking it before I dropped to the ground. That's when my world went blank and the next sensation I knew was the burning of the vampire venom in my system.

"What are you thinking about, Mare?" Leo asked me as we sat at the caffiteria lunch table and I played with my plate of untouched food that I couldn't even eat because I was a vampire.

"Oh, nothing much. Just thinking about how I became a vampire, that's all." I smiled at Leo, he looked a little worried but then I saw Renesmee, Eddie and Tara heading for our table.

"Hey guys! Where's Madison?" I asked as they sat down.

"She's just at the drinks machine with Charlotte trying to get a bottle of fanta for her cause Lottie's money got stuck and she kinda got so mad she was gonna just punch a hole in the glass and get her drink out, but Maddie just got the technitians instead to come and fix the machine." Tara spoke with an amused smile as Eddie wrapped his arm around her waist.

"You know, you don't have to flaunt that you're a couple just cause our partners arn't here." I heard Madison's voice from behind me as her and Charlotte stood there, bottle of fanta in hand.

"I heard about your trouble with the drinks machine." I commented to Lottie, I heard Eddie snigger and Renemsee stiffle laughter as her eyes narrowed to dangerous slits.

"Yeh, the damned thing tried to take my money." Charlotte grunted and pulled out her chair, placing her butt on it and taking a chocolate bar out of the bag.

"Time of the month I see." Leo commented and for that I jammed my elbow into his ribs.

"Oww, Mary! Remember you're still only six months old! shit like that still hurts!" He whined and rubbed his ribs as I began to feel slightly guilty.

"So... what have you guys got next?" Maddie asked nobody in general.

"I have Art with Mr Maginty in room 8." Eddie told his sister with a smirk.

"Same." Tara grinned up at Eddie. I groaned a little at them both as they looked at eachother very lovingly. It wound me up a little really because at least me and Leo had the decency not to be so... intimate around the others for lack of a better term. It killed them to be away from those they loved so seeing Eddie and Tara been like that annoyed them. Alot.

"I have Preforming Arts." Charlotte smiled alittle at this fact, it was no secret that she loved acting. Her confidence was all Rosalie.

"I have Chemistry with Mr Rathbone." Renesmee groaned a little as she looked at her planner to check.

"I have Biology, but you probrably already know that seen as you have it too." Madison said to me, smiling alot at me. It was strange really, over the last six months me and Madison had gotten even closer that we had been before. She had taught me to hunt without killing the animals and in turn I had become a better person for it. We now understood eachother more, and it was nice because Madison was always the best out of us all, so if I could be anything like her that made me proud.

"Um.. I think Biology might be a bad idea today, Madison." Leo said to her, tilting his head towards me.

"Why?" Madison asked bluntly.

"They're blood typing." Leo stated and at that, me and Madison shared a look and began to laugh hysterically.

"Uh, guys, that's not funny. Mary's only six months old." Renesmee said to us. I touched my chest to stop my laughter and Madison tried to get herself under control.

"We know Madison could handle it, but we are worried about you Mary. Just, please skip class for today?" Charlotte said looking a little concerned for me.

"Of course I'll skip, I'm not an idiot." I rolled my eyes and Madison looked at me again.

"Yeh, well I don't really trust myself so I'll skip with you." Madison said to me and the others sighed a little at Madison's constant lack of faith in her abilities. "Besides, I said I'd stop at Benjamin's this weekend."

"Do you think tonight might finally be the night he give in to you?" Eddie teased, I saw Madison blush as her brother talked about what Madison had been trying to do for atleast a month now.

"He said he want's to be married first. He's old school like that, y'know." Madison smiled as she thought about Benjamin, "And besides, the girls could hear us so no."

"Marriage Smarrige." Leo said rolling his eyes, "Me and Mare will get married some day, maybe in the future but why would you want to wait? I mean, making love is great." Leo said to Madison who turned an even brighter shade of red. I elbowed him again in his stomach.

"Stop talking about our sex life!" I half hissed, half giggled at Leo as he shook his head. I was pretty sure if I was a human I would have been blushing like crazy at the mention of our sex life.

"You know what, don't listen to these Maddie. If you wanna wait, wait. That's what me and Seth are doing." Lottie smiled reassuringly at Madison who smiled back before Renesmee opened her mouth.

"It's not her who wants to wait though!" She grinned at her younger sister, clearly teasing her.

"Shut it Renesmee, neither do you, but Jake wants to." Madison countered as Renesmee began to blush.

"Yeh well." She muttered as Eddie and Tara began to giggle at her girlish blush.

"Aww, Nessie." Eddie said ruffling her hair, her now straightened hair.

"Eddie! Stop messing up my hair!" Nessie cried as she slapped away Eddie's hand with a laugh and then she ran her fingers through her hair trying to get it straight again.

"Your hair looks fine, Nessie." I told her as she patted it down.

"Your so lucky just to have nice lose wavey curls. My hair goes so frizzy in this weather it's unbelievable!" Renesmee said pointing to the window as I saw the sun coming out into the humid and very wet day.

"Shit, the sun's out!" Madison said as everybody realised what this meant.

It was okay for the hybrids to be out in the sun, even the witchblood vampires were okay out in the sun, they glittered slightly as if they had a little glitter powder on their cheeks, but me been a full vampire I had the full sparkle effect.

"Shit. I can't go out and I can't go to class! What am I meant to do?" I asked panicked as I stood up out of my chair and picked up my tray of demolished food.

"Leo, give her your cap. Lottie, give her your scarf and Eddie give her your hoodie!" Madison barked the orders as Leo placed the cap on my head. Then Lottie gave Madison the scarf which she quickly wrapped around my neck and my lower jaw and then she put the hoodie over my bare arms, zipping it right up and pulling the hood over my head.

"There. That should do." Madison said as she grabbed my arm. "We need to take you home, now. If not the sun will come out fully and our secret will be in ruins." Madison said to me as began to tug on my arm.

"Uhh, bye everybody!" I said as they all began to stand and wave and then the school bell rang and Madison pulled my down the corridoor and into the car park faster than any human would have been able to even run.

Renesmee Cullen

Jesus, that was interesting! I thought as I watched my little sister and my cousin run out of the door to Madison's mini. I had to admit, that was quick thinking and quite resourceful coming from Madison.

I walked along the corridoor and into chemistry before any of the other students had even arrived. Today was our first day back at high school in months. It seemd too suspicious to send us back to forks highschool after months of been away and ajusting from the war we had, so we had moved to a school just outside of forks in the larger city of Port Angeles. With our fast cars it took bearly no time to get here what so ever, less than an hour even to actually get to our high school.

I liked chemistry, I had to admit. It wasn't my favourite subject, that was art, but it was the only subject where I didn't have any of my siblings of cousins in so it was nice to have the alone time in this class and just feel like a normal student.

The other students started filling in and as they did so the teacher yelled, "Settle down class! Now, today we have a new student. Miss Cullen, would you like to please come up to the front of the class and tell the class your name?" The teacher asked. I could already tell me and this teacher would not get along. Good job that all of us were in out seniour year now having aged too much to be in any younger classes.

"Hey, I'm Renesmee, but you can call me Nessie! I've just come to this school with my adopted siblings, Eddie, Madison, Mary, Leo, Charlotte and Tara." I grinned at the class who was staring at me as if I was a goddess or something.

"Yes, well, thank you Ren... Renes... Nessie." The teacher said trying to say my name but resorting to my nick name. "You can go sit next to Drew Tourter." He pointed to a desk near the back where a boy who was pretty tall with strawberry blonde hair and grassy green eyes sat. The boy looked at me and smiled before taking out his glassed and putting them on his face to read his text book.

Drew seemd okay, he was actually a good looking boy to be honest, which made me weary of him at first but as I sat down, he seemed to make no move towards me or make any atempt at conversation or eye contact as guys had done in my other classes.

Maybe chemistry was going to be a good subject for me this year after all.

"Now class, we are doing titrations today so if you would like to open your texts books to page 331 you can follow the instructions on there." The teacher told us before sitting in his chair and taking a news paper of his desk and beginning to read it while ignoring the class.

I raised my hand and sat their for a few seconds or so when the teacher sighed and said, "Yes Nessie."

"I don't have a text book, sir." I said to him and the teacher yawned.

"Well find one then." He rolled his eyes before reopening the paper and then he went back to ignoring the class.

"S'cuse me miss, but I don't mind you sharing my text book." Said a ginger boy to me who was sat infront.

"Cut it out, Ginger, you go out with Layla. Stop trying to get in the new girls pants." Drew said from the side of me suddenly coming to life before my eyes.

"And what you going to do you gay fuck?" The ginger boy said to Drew.

"I'll knock you out if you even try cheat on Layla. I know what you're like." Drew spat at the ginger kid.

"I don't give a hooting pussy what you think. I fucked your sister then left her, so fucking what? Get a life and let the lady decide." The ginger kid looked at me and I blinked once before looking at him properly.

"No thank you. I'd rather share not be mauled by some jerk trying to cheat on his girlfriend. Besides, I have a fian- Boyfriend." I said before slipping up and saying 'fiance'. Gosh, that was going to get some taking used to.

"I swear when we get out of chemistry, I'm going to stick my foot so far up your ass..." The ginger kid said but Drew countered by cutting him off.

"Well I'm so gay and had it up the ass so many times apparently that I probrably wouldn't feel a think." He smirked at the ginger kid and the ginger kid appeared so speachless that he just turned around and began to mutter to himself about 'gays' and 'idiot girls.'

"Thanks," I smiled and held my hand out to the boy.

"Hey, I'm Drew and unlike 99% of these jerks here I don't want to get in your pants." He said glaring at all the guys who were staring at me, they turned quickly in their seats and then looked at the front or their books.

"That's cool. I'm Nessie. But you probrabrly already knew that." I smiled at the dashing boy, he let go of my hand and sat back down.

"Yeh, I did." He smiled, "Not until you came into class though. I've seen your brothers and sisters around though. You're all very... beautiful." Drew said glaring at another guy who dare look our way.

"Umm... yeh. So what's your game then? Are you just like the protective guy who beats up jerks or-" I was cut off.

"Protective gay guy who's every girls best friend apparently. They guys here all hate me for it but I don't mind. I can't help liking dick y'know." He smiled cutely as he began to assemble the equipment. "So do you wanna help me and share my text book?" Drew asked.

"Yeh, sure." I smiled at Drew and held the titre stuff for him to clip to the clamp stand. "So, you're gay? That's cool. I've never met anybody who was gay before." I chuckled and his eyes widened.

"Never?" He asked as he let go of the glass tube.

"Never ever." I exaggerated which made him smile and join in with my laughing.

"Well that's cool, as long as you don't mind that is." Drew took a chemical and began to pour it into a beaker and prepare the burette.

"No! Of course I don't mind. What I'd like to know is why that ginger kid backed down so quickly." I laughed and then he answered simply.

"Well, honestly, I've been in prission so the guys here are shit scared of me. Rumor has it that it was armed robery though truthfully, it was just when I was thirteen and I had stolen a DVD." He whispered to me and I felt myself laugh again.

"So you didn't stop the rumors?" I asked him and he shook his head, "Encouraged them?"

"Nope. Not even that. I just let them go one and create a silly image of me. Not that I'm soft or anything but well, these jerks here needed somebody to fear and the girls needed their knight in shining armor, even if he was a gay one." Drew half smiled as he put the chemical in the burette and began to measure the liquid with expert handling.

"You're good at this!" I said as he measure another burette full of the liquid.

"Yeh, I'm not bad. My moms a chemist at Harvard so I kind of take after her." He grinned as he let the liquid go. "You gonna show me your skills then or what?" He asked.

"Oh, I'll show you skill alright!" I laughed and took the burette off Drew.

All I can say is, this was one of the best chemistry lessons I had ever had!

Thought I'd do a nice bit of family fun before the real shit starts brewing...