Chapter 1

A female silhouette strolled along the breath taking seaside in the early mornings of the uninhabited tropical island. The sun rose eagerly, stretching to the far corners of the sky, taking all of the night sky that had just been there a moment or two ago, so making the sky a mix of oranges, reds and Blues. The noises only contributed to the strength of the calm feeling the beach seemed to offer as the seagulls soared in the sky gracefully calling to each other as they swooped in different directions far out near the sea which contrasted from the furthest out being vague kind of blue, to the waves sliding along the joyful sand which were a much lighter shade, tinted yellow from the sand. The waves made a rather muffled roaring sound, not an unpleasant roar that would be compared to a busy town but much softer than that.

The girl walked slowly along the sand staring out into the distance morosely, firmly clenching her slim, small and pale hands into fists then letting go again several times, the sheer anger on her face was as obvious as looking at two people and knowing who's older by looking at their aged faces. She was not old, but a young looking woman of her early twenty's possibly, her eyes seemed tired with the bags under her eyes seemed to resemble painful bruises, though her pain ridden eyes forced themselves to stare forward as if to concentrate on something in the distance.

Her dark brown hair blew around freely when the sea wind picked up every now and again, when it picked up it seemed as if the hair was dancing, or enjoying its partial freedom to be cheerful and express it unlike the body it was attached to.

"Bella!"
Bella turned her head swiftly, in the direction of the speaker.
"Alice? I told everyone not to follow me Alice, You know that"
Alice, the smaller, slightly younger girl of the two almost immediately got so close to Bella she was at her side. Her expression was pitiful, strangely, while Bella's hair continued to lightly dance in the cool breeze from the sea, Alice's stayed perfectly close to her head.
"Well I've clearly ignored you then haven't I?" Alice sighed; she seemed irritated, as if she'd had this conversation many times before. "Look Bella, you haven't listened to me many times before when we've had this conversation but I want you to listen to me now"
"As if I ever will Alice, I dont know why you try so hard"
"Bella, Please, if not do it for me or the family, do it for your husband and child."
"I just want to be left alone, I need time for myself to think I-I've been so worried I can't even think straight anymore"

Alice's eyes widened to the point where it may have been impossible for her to open them any wider, the concern on her face gradually growing as she took in Bella's words. "You won't tell anyone what you're getting so upset about Bella, you've been so cheerful the past couple of years of joining the family now you just seem to be wanting to get away from it more and more..."

"I think I may just be having late reactions about all this."
"What do you mean Bella?"
"I mean, I'll never see my mum again, I mean, she'll eventually want to see me in person, how do I explain what she see's if Im the same age as I was 30 years ago, that and the fact seeing her in the place she lives is dangerous enough for me as it is now" She angrily looks up at the rising sun and curses at it as if it were human. "Im damned enough as it is with the amount of grudges from some other vampires I managed to create along the way, that and the fact I've become bored stiff now that I've seen everything now twice over!"

"We did warn you Bella, Being a vampire isn't exactly the most fun of lives the majority of the time"
Bella sighed and folded her arms bitterly like a whiny toddler that didn't get their own way.

"Besides" Alice explained "I do believe something's cropped up that in fact will not bore you at all"
Bella's interest was caught instantly.

"What? What's going on?" Bella demanded forcefully.
"Its just a rumour Bella but if you insist I-"
"Just tell me Alice"
"Something seems to be killing off a few vampires around northern Europe, of course, no where close to where we are, but rumour has it whatever it is thats killing them off there is making its way to America anytime soon."

Bella seemed to be in some kind of delight from this news. Slowly a grin was forming on her ill-tempered face. "Tell me more, about the killer, it's intriguing me"
"Bella I don't think its much of a big-"
"Come on Alice! Please tell me?"

"Fine!" Alice snapped looking away from Bella to the calm waves of the sea rolling gently to the shore.

"It doesn't seem like a vampire killing other ones for extra land just for themselves, the cuttings haven't been clean enough for that, they've been torn apart in the messiest way I've ever seen them turn out, and I've been alive much longer than you have. But anyway, looks like whatever it was they used a hell of a lot of force to get the job done."
Bella clapped her hands joyfully, thinking of what she could do with this, take it and twist it so it gave her something she also found seemed to be lacking in her life rather than her parents presence, the thrill of danger. All of this Alice picked up on immediately.
"Bella don't you dare think about doing anything about this, we dont even have a clue about what it is yet!"

"So? If I find out what it is I can-"
"No! Seriously, it's as if you don't have any family to bother about instead"

"I know I do Alice! It's just... I-I don't think I really... how do I word this now?" she pondered, Bella knew what to say, just couldn't find the best way to describe it. "...When I was human, them very, very long 30 years ago, I had the excitement of there being danger on the constant. Victoria, James, Laurent, the Volturi! Finding ways to get out of being hunted down by the all was well, extremely exciting... We hear of nothing now, all except for when we- I mean- I go hunting."
"We were expecting you to behave like this somehow." Alice frowned.

"I'm sorry to be a disappointment"
"I didn't say you were"
"Sounded like it to me"

Alice sighed in frustration. "Then I'm sorry for making it sound like that."

Neither of them talked for a short while after, their eyes focused on the gentle rolling waves and the sun which was still rising higher slowly, luckily for them however, the shady green palm trees hung above them protectively. Though despite their eyes focused on something else, the growing sense of complete awkwardness from their previous conversation.

Suddenly, after a few short seconds that seemed like an agonizing few hours, Alice swiftly turned her small, pale and annoyed face to Bella.
"Right, just so we're clear, you dont go anywhere near whatever the hell that thing is if you ever see the damn thing. You run to us and tell us, it's best to kill it than have it pick us off one by one."

"Whatever."
"Bella. This is serious." Alice snapped at her furiously.

"Fine! Fine! I'll do it!" Bella said unconvincingly

"Bella. Promise me you won't."
Bella sneakily put one of her arms around her back and cautiously crossed her fingers. "I promise Alice." This gave Bella a few seconds waiting time to make sure that Alice hopefully never saw her crossed fingers.
Alice smiled at her finally. This made Bella smile too but for a completely different reason. She'd just gotten away with, what potentially could be, her most perfect plan of all to beat.

How could she not consider this almost perfect moment that now was occurring right near where she could sprint off to and back in at least a day or so from where she was exactly standing, to be something that would cause the tremendous thrill for a long time. The days in day out repeats of being a vampire with a teenage child were okay to Bella. But she deeply enjoyed the danger around her in her final human years with the husband she married and her best friend out to protect her from the spiralling dangers. Not that she wanted them to save her anymore after finding herself wrapped up in her own newly found strength.
But the prospect of another threatening danger over the horizon:
Wow!

It's as if all of Bella's prayers had been answered all in one.

How could she not refuse?

She then walked back with Alice to the settlement in which her and the rest of the family were staying for the week, just in the middle of the island which was a luscious green, alluring and vibrant jungle land consisting of a vast variety of tropical birds sweetly humming their delicate tunes and plants swaying softly from the sea breeze with freedom much like Bella's hair.

But all of this didn't concern her. The plan in her mind was only just beginning to take form.