AN: Stephenie Myers owns twilight. No profit is made.

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for all the wonderful reviews. This chapter contains a little bit of strong content, nothing bad, but it might just gross you out a whole lot, so proceed with caution. He he he!

Thank you to my awesome and talented beta Beate73 for helping me with all my grammatical horrors! If you haven't done so already, please go check her stories Magnetism and The Roadtrip as they both have a lot of promise and are excellent.

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Forks, Washington 2010

EPOV

After endless days of searching for humans in Canada we crossed the border to the US and decided to head to a little town name Forks in Washington State. In Forks we had a home where we sometimes resided at and we wanted to take a small break and sort our minds out before moving forward with the search of humans.

We were a rather large group of vampires, all yellowed eyed due to our diet, and all bonded almost like family. The Denali coven had decided that they wanted to be with us for the remainder of the trip just in case we encountered a group of Blood Lust infected vampires.

We separated into smaller groups as we approached the outskirts of Forks. The town was small enough that we could get to each other quickly in case something happened. The first thing we noticed was that there was still a mild human scent permeating the air.

It seemed as if this town was full of survivors at some point not too long ago. For the first time since we started our trip we hoped to find something that could lead us to humans.

"Let's head towards Main Street," Kate suggested.

"Ok, but it's too quiet here. I really don't think there are any survivors left," I sighed.

"Do you feel anything, Jasper?" Alice asked.

"No, nothing at all. This place is empty," he responded in a resigned tone.

We made it to Main Street and we could tell that many humans had been decimated at the same place. The interesting part was that it looked as if another group of humans had stopped by and taken care of the dead. Where they survivors from this massacre? How was that possible?

"Another fucking waste of time," Emmett screamed in frustration as his group approached us.

"Did you guys find anything?" Carlisle asked from the distance, his group arriving almost at the same time as Emmett's.

"No, but there is something interesting about this place," I answered.

"What do you mean, Edward?" Eleazar asked.

"Well, we have found thousands of dead human corpses in the past, but they have never been buried like this," I said as I pointed to the shallow graves all over the place.

"There have never been any survivors to do that sort of thing before," Carlisle added in astonishment.

"It looks as though they buried them in a hurry too," Eleazar pointed out.

"Yeah, that's the most confusing part. I just don't see why a group of survivors would stop by and bury these bodies unless they were part of the same group and were here when the evil army came down on them," I said.

"How did they survive?" Emmett asked in confusion.

"There have never been any survivors. Could they have been attacked by something else?" Jasper asked.

"We need to find these survivors, I can feel that they are key to what's happening," Alice exclaimed.

"How?" I asked.

"I don't know, but we must find places were perhaps they could have hidden and see if we can get any sort of scent," Carlisle suggested.

"Gross, it smells like fucking mongrel over there," Rose said in disgust as she pointed to the far side of town.

"Wolves!" Carlisle and I said at the same time.

"We should head to the treaty line and see if they are still there," Carlisle suggested.

We quickly left town and went into the wood as we headed towards La Push. We walked around the edges of the treaty line trying to see if anyone from their side would come to greet us, but no one came.

"The smell is too faint, Carlisle. I don't think they are here any longer," I said in a frustrated tone. Every single clue or spark of hope we have had ended on a dead end and it was making me furious.

"I say we cross the line and head towards the reservation," Emmett said as he clenched his fists.

"I think it's safe to assume they are not here. Do you see anything Alice?" Carlisle asked.

"I don't see us disappearing any time soon, so no; I don't think there is any danger in crossing.

And there wasn't. We made it into the reservation in no time and quickly realized that it was deserted. There were faint scents from both humans and wolves, the wolf scent almost overpowering the rest. We searched all the small houses trying to find any clues, but once again we found nothing.

By twilight, we were bored of looking around both La Push and the wood area that separated La Push from Forks and decided to head out to our old home.

We were almost at the mouth of the long path leading home when I was hit by a stronger scent. This scent was like no other scent I had ever experienced. It was human, but it was also mixed with something else.

"Interesting," Eleazar whispered.

"What was that?" I asked in confusion.

The overpowering scent that you just picked up is very interesting, unique," Eleazar explained, bringing me back to that night when he told us the legend.

"We will encounter things that we have never encountered before. Scents that will question our 'vegetarian' nature. We will encounter unexplainable things, and we will know then that we are closer to our goal. Once we reach it, we most protect it from everything, even from ourselves…"

"Earth to Edward," Alice called out.

"Sorry Alice, what?"

"We should get moving, I can't wait to see the house," she said.

"Alright, let's go," I replied.

We continued to make out way to our old home, walking so slow, we could have been easily confused for humans. We were all reeling in the witch's scent as I wondered if she had come here for survivors.

"Humans!" Esme exclaimed as she took a deep breath.

"There were humans in my house," she continued.

"I can smell them, but the scent is almost as faint as the smell back in town," Carlisle said in a defeated tone.

"There is that other scent over the house," I said.

"Why here?" Jasper wondered.

"I think this is where they hid from the army," Eleazar explained.

"Why?" Emmett asked.

"Because it would have still carry our scent, and the army would not have ventured this way," Carlisle mused.

"But how could they tell it would be safe here? Humans can't smell our scent, it all smells the same to them," Rose asked.

"I don't know," Eleazar said honestly.

"This doesn't make any sense. It still doesn't explain why humans came here," Rose said.

"Well, the real question to ask is, were they here after the other humans were decimated or were they here at the same time, and if so, how did they survive?" Carlisle wondered almost to himself.

"Why don't we just go inside and ponder this further there?" Tanya asked.

We all took in the human scent as we entered the house. It was a little stronger inside as there was no wind to blow it away. The other scent was also present and was extremely overpowering. I was as if it was hypnotizing all of my senses and made my dead heart ache for something I couldn't figure out.

After everyone settled into their respective rooms, Emmett, Jasper and I decided to head to the woods for some wood. It's not like we needed light or heat, but it made us feel better to have those things. We never really stop acting our human charade. It was as if we thought that if we stopped, we would become the monsters neither one of us wanted to be.

We ran at full speed until we were on our former hunting grounds. Since the disappearance of most of the humans, the wild life had gotten out of control, and in no time we had secured prey for all of us, bears.

It looked as if Forks was infested with bears and they were killing other populations in the area, so we wouldn't have much trouble helping out other weaker species by feeding off them. I had a moment of intense joy as we forgot all about the war and bantered with each other just like old times.

We were back in our back yard when I noticed something red on the ground. It was a coke can. Curious, I moved closer, and bent down to pick it up, smelling it and then moving it around until I saw something that made me gasp.

A fingerprint.

"Carlisle, please get over here now," I called.

Carlisle was there in a flash and looked at me in confusion as I continued to stare at the lone fingerprint engraved in the can.

"What is it?" he asked, still confused.

"Look," I said in an awed tone.

"A fingerprint!" he exclaimed as soon as he found it on the can.

"Let me see it," Eleazar asked.

Carlisle passed the can to Eleazar, who took it with a huge amount of reverence.

"The clue," he whispered.

"Huh?" Emmett, who had been standing quietly next to me up to that point asked.

"This is not a human print," Eleazar said.

"What? It looks human to me," Carlisle said in confusion.

"Look at it closely," Eleazar instructed as all of us moved closer to the can.

At first sight it look like an ordinary fingerprint, but as the last of the sun rays graced the sky and descended upon the can, I noticed a mild spark, almost like the way our skin looks in the sun, but much softer.

"What is that?" Emmett gasped.

"Let me see it," Alice now in the back with us asked before abruptly taking the can from Eleazar's hand, only to drop it seconds later as her eyes moved to the back of her head and she zoned out into one of her visions.

I tried to keep up with her thoughts, but the vision was so potent and moving at such speed that I couldn't catch much. Alice's body started to shake as I saw a big fire, that unique vampire spark coming out of it. I fell to my knees as Alice left a strangled sob, everything moving much too fast for either one of us to get a clear picture.

"Alice!" Jasper cried out in fear as I covered my ears and let myself fall completely to the ground, the soft brown hair being the last image of the vision, and finally bring me back down to earth.

"We must find her," both Alice and I said at the same time as I was hit by another memory from the legend.

"The witches that had set the curse against the Volturi knew that a human was not going to be strong enough to carry the antidote. It needed to be one of them, so for years they were careful of whom they mated with in an attempt to find that special someone," Eleazar narrated.

"Why a witch?" I asked.

"Because they are the ones seeking revenge, they are the ones giving out the warnings, and they are the only ones who can break the curse," he explained.

"How will this witch break the curse?" I asked perplexed.

"Well she will have to…"

"Alice? Are you ok?" Jasper asked frantically as Alice continued to shake in place, bringing me out of my memories.

"Oh God Jasper, it was so horrible, and much too fast for me to make anything out of it," she dried sobbed into his shoulder.

"It's alright Alice, please calm down. It's going to be alright," Jasper tried to soothe her.

"It's NOT!!" she yelled in a very unlike Alice fashion.

"Why, what's going on?" Carlisle asked in a careful tone, as if he already knew what she was about to say.

"One of us is going to die," Alice whispered as she pressed herself harder against Jasper.

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Dallas, Texas 2010

Jane POV

I was just a few years shy of turning fifteen when Aro and his Volturi army killed my parents and turned me and my twin brother into vampires. I watched in shocked silence as my mother was raped and then as Aro himself drank her life from her body in a slow, cruel motion.

Many of the guard members fed on my father like crazy vultures, and I watched all of it, afraid that if I made a movement they would also kill me and Alec, my twin brother.

Alec cried and cried as we saw the rest of our siblings and the people from our village in Moscow die in the same fashion. I didn't spill a single tear. Little did the Volturi know that I was a heartless, cold bitch. I hated that they had taken my family from me, but my time of revenge would come some day, and it finally had.

I had convinced Alec to join me on a little excursion after reading one of those silly Volturi legend books that no one believed in. I knew it was a long shot, but if it turned out to be true, I would become the most powerful vampire in the entire universe, and I would have everyone at my feet.

With some lame excuse about needing to clear our minds for a few months, Alec and I made our way towards Romania. There we started to search for a seventeen year old boy with a special ability. I wasn't sure how I would find this boy, but if he existed, I was going to make him into the most feared vampire ever existing and he would only respond to me, his mistress.

We spent endless nights visiting town after town in search of that boy. We were two months into our search and about to give up when we witnessed something extraordinary.

It was a rare cloudy day as we had come to Romania in the heart of summer and Alec and I decided to venture out around the city. We were at the outskirts of Transylvania when we noticed that there was a large crowd of humans surrounding a young boy.

The boy was tall, and had a nice muscular build. His hair was dark black and his eyes were the most piercing blue that I had ever seen. If I would have been into that sort of thing, I would have found him handsome, just like Alec found himself lusting for the boy.

We moved a little closer, trying hard to hide from the humans as we paid attention to what was happening. The boy was holding a rat and was telling the crowd that he could convince anyone to eat it alive. I stifled a chuckle at the disgusted look everyone gave him.

Slowly he opened a small shoe box and pulled out a large, disgusting looking rat. He then pointed at a well dressed lady in the crowds and declared that she would be eating the rat in no time.

The crowd snickered as the woman moved closer to the boy, only to laugh at him, calling him ignorant and stupid.

The boy closed his eyes before giving her a piercing stare, and then grabbed one of the woman's hand and placed the rat in it, causing the crowd to gasp in unison. People started to scream as the shocked woman licked her lips and moved the rat to her mouth, biting hard on it before taking a large piece of fur and skin of the squirming thing.

I couldn't help myself as I laughed in joy. This was the boy we had been looking for. I have Alec and quick glance and he began to send a thick fog towards everyone in the group as he understood that it was time to act. The still shocked woman continued to chow on the now dead rat as we approached the boy, his eyes now wide in fear as Alec surrounded everyone with darkness.

"Come with me young one." I whispered against the boy's ear before shocking him so hard, it left him unconscious.

We moved quickly out of town, careful of avoiding being noticed by neither humans, nor other vampires. It was critical that we kept our mission secret form the Volturi or I would be handing them the most feared weapon that ever existed.

Once we made it deep into a wooded area I bit into the boy, and watched in fascination as he screamed in agony, his body turning him into a vampire at a torturously slow pace. It took him four days, but as soon as he woke up and I made my presence and power known by shocking him over and over until he yielded to my power.

Once I knew that he saw me as his master, I decided to see if he indeed had a powerful power and I ordered him to bite Alec, who was too shocked to make any defensive moves against him. I watched in fascination as Alec lost all sense and became the first Blood Lust infected vampire in existence.

We followed him to a remote village and in a single night he consumed the blood of over fifty humans. Alec had lost sense of his own powers and his own personality. He was looking for one thing and one thing only, blood.

It wasn't long before I became the most powerful vampire in existence. With the help of Igor, my new vampire pet, we started to secretly build an army of blood lusting vampires. It was a child's play overpowering Aro and the rest of the guard as I unleashed my army onto the city of Volterra.

Now I found myself in America, hoping that we hadn't completely exterminated all humans. My army had started to grow out of control, and they had decimated the humans much too fast, not leaving me any choice but to start destroying the army, one by one.

With Heidi's help, and old ally from Volterra, I was able to keep many children alive, and we had constructed huge blood farms where we kept them, using them for our sustenance. Felix and Demetri were watching over our twenty facilities in Europe, each carrying over ten thousand human children, while Heidi and Vladimir took care of the other twenty facilities that we had placed all over America and Canada.

We moved fast, always arriving within minutes to spare from the Army to recover any children as we made our way towards the south. Once we hit Argentina, we would find a way to exterminate the rest of the Army, and the world would be completely at my mercy.