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A/N: Thanks to my reviewers anonymous10100, twilightlover24, and Team TwiPotter Girl
"Bella? What's wrong with Bella, Alice?" Esme asked, extremely worried.
"She was standing there with a little boy. Then, she took a bite of an apple and just dropped to the ground for no reason," Alice explained in a slightly shaky voice.
"We need to go back home, now," Carlisle instructed.
"Yeah, no one messes with my little sister," Emmett exclaimed.
All the Cullens took off at vampire speed towards their cottage. When they arrived, Bella was laying there lifeless on the ground with an apple with a bite taken out next to her. They all gathered around her, and Carlisle went to examine her.
"Is she okay?" Nessie whispered.
"Emmett, can you go get a pillow and blanket and put them on the couch," Carlisle asked.
Emmett ran into the house without a word. Carlisle picked up Bella and took her inside as Emmett laid the pillow on the couch. When Carlisle had her settled, he draped the blanket over her still from.
"Um, Carlisle," Rosalie started, "why can't I hear her heartbeat?"
"Well, Rosalie, I don't know how to put this gently," Carlisle said with a somber expression on his face.
"You don't mean…" Jasper said worriedly.
"Yes, Jasper I do," Carlisle said softly.
"Oh Bella," Esme sobbed.
"I should have seen this. We could have been here to stop it. Oh, it's all my fault," Alice blamed herself.
"Now Alice, we all know you couldn't have seen it until it was too late. From how you described your vision, it seems that her decision to eat the apple is what set the vision off and caused this. You couldn't have known she was going to eat it," Carlisle consoled her.
As all this went on, Nessie stood there staring at the lifeless form of her newest big sister. She loved Alice and Rosalie, but Nessie had become very close to Bella in the past week. Rose walked up and gave her a hug.
"It's going to be okay, Nessie," Rose tried to tell her.
"No, it's not. Bella is dead. Nothing can change that," she said harshly and ran up to her room.
"Oh my poor girl," Esme sobbed. "How could this have happened to such a sweet person?"
Carlisle walked up and put his arms around her. Rosalie and Emmett went upstairs to their room quietly.
"We'll need to have a funeral," Carlisle said softly.
"Jazz, why don't you check on Nessie? I'm sure she could use your help right now," Alice told Jasper.
"Are you okay?" he asked her.
"I'll be okay Jazz. Go check on Nessie," she instructed.
As Jasper went upstairs, Alice went outside. She walked over to the apple and picked it up. Something isn't right. How could an apple kill someone? Alice pondered. As she held the apple up to look at it, she caught a scent that was off. It was unfamiliar, but she knew that apples were not supposed to have that scent. She took the apple inside to Carlisle.
"There's something off about the scent," she explained as she handed him the apple.
"You're right Alice. I don't recognize it though."
"Could it be," Alice started to ask but hesitated, "poison?" she whispered.
"It's very possible, but why would some little boy want to poison Bella?" he mused.
"Well, she did say that Aro had dark magic. Maybe he bewitched the boy?" she suggested.
"That's very probable. But it really won't do much now."
"Can't we go after him? He is obviously a horrid person. And it would be a public service to dispose of him," Rosalie said as she came downstairs, Emmett following behind her.
"Rosalie, I know it may seem right, but I do not want to corrupt any of our family by taking a human life. We aren't even sure that Aro was the culprit," Carlisle told her. "Emmett, go look outside and see if there is any other evidence."
"Yes sir," Emmett said as he walked out the door.
He began to look around. Nothing seemed out of place, except traces of an unfamiliar human scent.
"Everyone, there is a human scent that isn't Bella out here. I think we should follow it," Emmett said and everyone came outside. They followed it swiftly and quietly until they saw a boy with jet black hair walking through the forest smiling. The Cullens followed silently behind as the boy began to talk to himself.
"I can't believe she fell for it," he laughed. "Oh, I'm just an innocent little boy selling apples. They are the best in the land. Try one!" he mocked. "Now I never have to worry about her again, and I can be the coolest in the land! I, Aro, never have to deal with that ungrateful princess ever again," he laughed evilly.
"Why you little jerk," Emmett said as he ran towards the boy Aro. The rest of the family followed, enraged.
"How dare you kill Bella?" Nessie screamed.
"You are evil," Rose added harshly, as they reached a rocky slope.
"Stay back, vampires. I have garlic," Aro said menacingly as he stepped closer.
"Oh, please that's just a myth," Emmett said as he took a step closer and Aro stepped back and quickly scrambled to the top of the precipice.
The vampires all stepped closer.
"We won't degrade our family by killing you, but we will turn you over to the palace guard and tell them what you have done," Carlisle threatened.
"Why should I believe you? You all are monsters," Aro said as he picked up a large branch. "And monsters deserve to be destroyed," he added as he started prying at a huge bolder, trying to roll it down the slope.
"No, Aro, you're the monster," Alice told him.
Aro pushed harder on the branch, and it snapped causing him to lose his footing and stumble over the edge of the cliff, falling to his doom.
"Is it bad that I don't feel sorry for him?" Esme asked.
"Every human life is precious, but I can't even classify him as human. Alice is right. He was the monster," Carlisle stated.
"We should go back to the house," Jasper said, causing everyone to remember what happened to Bella.
A/N: The story is coming to a close. Only one more chapter and an epilogue. REVIEW for faster updates.
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