I was the perfect weapon, created to cure the world of the creation that came with my birth, a twin pregnancy, ying and yang, good and evil, I was the balance to the vampire condition. My brother, Arius, the father of all vampires, the one born who started it all, and I the one born to end it all, a perfect battle for the human condition. One bite… and for certain, one of us should be dead. Arius counted on being stronger. He didn't count on the fact that I had been bitten before, each time more painful than the first, and yet… I stood… the perfect weapon.

Chapter Ten

I stood again, in the field, my breath cold and pained as I stood. The field was empty of the once powerful, now fallen Volturi. I wrapped my arms around myself waiting. Arius stepped forward, a smile on his perfect face. I yawned as I stood across from him, waiting.

"Did you have fun with the Volturi, Eva?" he asked me as he held out his arms.

"I did," I nodded. I stepped forward, stepping into his arms.

"And the Cullen coven? Did you get any takers?" he asked.

"Plan on changing them back?" I taunted as his lips brushed my neck, ready to bite.

"The Volturi? No. I like being the most powerful vampire," he laughed as he tilted his head back.

"I did change two, of their own free will," I murmured. "Rosalie and a more reluctant Emmett are in the process of changing as we speak. They thought I was kidding when I said that it was much more painful than converting into a vampire. They're nearly done. I think Jasper and Alice are contemplating it."

"You were always the kinder one," Arius said. He bit my wrist, tasting the blood.

"You're the greedy one, for sure," I murmured. He pulled his mouth away from me, laughing.

"You make me strong," Arius said. "You are the creature that keeps me so young and virile."

"You know, I will have to hunt you," I told him as he lowered his mouth to my arm again.

"I embrace it," Arius said. "Without me, there is no you though. Are you ready to give up that? Are you ready to give up that wolf-boyfriend of yours?"

"I'm not hunting you yet," I murmured as I pulled away from him. We both looked up as Jacob's pack surrounded us. I carefully walked over to Seth, his muzzle nudging my hand. "But I will hunt you. It will be the last thing I do, certainly, to bite you and end your life."

"And until then?" Arius murmured.

"Until then, I shall with hold from you my very essence, dear brother," I said. He looked at me in shock.

"You'd deny your own flesh the very blood we share?" Arius said in disbelief.

"The time has come, Arius," I said as I turned my back on him. "No more fountain of youth for you. It's time for you to age the way that vampires age. It may take me a few millennia to finally finish this, but I will finish this."

"Your humans and wolf-boy will be dead by then," Arius pleaded slightly. "Then all you will have is me."

"By then, I hope to have eradicated you," I breathed. I turned and looked at him. "Now don't come back to Forks or I will not hesitate to give you a head start."

"See you soon, dear sister," Arius said as he darted off into the woods. Jacob and Seth phased back into their human forms and looked at me like I was crazy.

"You could have taken him right there and ended this!" Jacob said angrily. I smiled at him.

"He and I have been doing this since the beginning of time," I told him. "Up until recently, I wanted nothing more than to finish this."



"What's changed?" Jacob asked needlessly. I looked at Seth. My face was already being cradled by Seth, our lips pressed together in an intense kiss. "Oh…"

"Mmm, oh indeed," Seth said.

"And Charlie?" Jacob asked. Bella entered the clearing, Edward behind her.

"I think for Charlie's sake, let's just pretend," Bella said. "Though when Eva doesn't get any older, we'll have to come up with something."

"Charlie isn't going to question it," Edward said.

"Soo…" Seth murmured. "Are we hunting vampires now?"

"Just as soon as we go up to see Rosalie," Edward said smiling. "She's thrilled to show us her new, human form."

"How's Emmett?" I asked. I knew he was less than thrilled about becoming an ordinary human, but he loved Rosalie and knew this fulfilled all of her dreams.

"He's with Esme," Bella said. "Rosalie's already planning the nursery."

"It's good," Edward said. He looked at me. "You made her very happy."

"The offer still stands for the rest of you," I reminded him. He nodded.

"One day, we may take you up on that," Bella said quietly. "I know Edward would love to have his soul back."

"Oh, and don't forget that lovely way you used to blush," Edward teased. I rolled my eyes as Seth slid his arm around me.

"Ok, so where to first?" Seth asked. "After we see Rosalie, of course."

"To the Denali coven," Edward answered. "Carlisle seems to think they'd be happy to give up an eternity of suffering for possibly seventy short years of life."

"Hunting vampires," Jacob laughed. "One of my favorite activities… present company excluded."

I laughed and cuddled up in Seth's arms as we headed back to see the newly born human Rosalie and Emmett. Rosalie looked ecstatic, her eyes twinkling. She grabbed everyone's hands and pressed them to her heart.

"Feel that?" she breathed. "I am alive!"

A/N: And so… the end comes. Thank you to all who read and reviewed. I do appreciate it. And now that the story is done, I can get back to my other fanfictions for which are now beckoning my attention.