BPOV

Chapter 10

"We cannot leave this shield until one has passed to the next realm. Mine being with my Goddess and yours being in Hell where you belong!" My voice was strong as the wind whipped around me. Her power was unlike ours I had picked light and been given the gift to use the air whilst she had chosen the darkness which was now in the form of shadows that caressed her body like a lover. Like I would have liked Edward to do to me but I may not live long enough to allow for that to happen.

"I have chosen power unlike you who has chosen to follow the path of your pathetic Goddess which has caused you to be weak and, after I finish you off I'll make sure to kill your pathetic mate over there and then carry on to kill that little coven of yours. I know that all of them against me would kill me but I will pick them off one by one and they will join you in the next world. With them I will kill them quickly, but you will beg for death long before I give that to you and your mate will suffer the same fate." I got down in a crouch and growled ferociously.

"You will die before you get the chance to take a step closer to him. Even you are not strong enough to kill someone who is protecting the one they care for, whether it is as friends, family or lovers. That's what happened with Rashel isn't it? She made it so you were too weak to come near us until you built up your powers as we did ours. I'll go one further I will kill you but, I wont beat around the bush. I will kill you as soon as I get the chance and you won't get a chance to think of a way out of it. The Goddess will forgive me for this because I am bringing forth that which she believes in. Justice. One life for another. Yours for hers. She was a better witch than you ever will be." My eyes pricked with venom tears and one or two fell from my eyes. Vampires cannot cry but I was a witch first and our powers develop with our emotions.

"Wise words, a shame you had to ruin them with the tears." I stood strong and tall before her closing my eyes and taking a deep breath picking up on the power in my soul, strengthening me and I started to raise up from the ground as the air picked me up and I floated higher and higher until I was a few feet up and the air stormed around me bringing my hair in a whirlwind of power, it blowing around me and I could feel my eyes darkening with my soul as a piece of me started to die. The piece that I had kept for so long. The one that stopped me from kill a mortal, she may be a witch but she wasn't like me, she could die as easily as a human but she had powers that stopped them from reaching her close enough to hurt her. Not this time.

"ENOUGH TALK! It's time!" I heard shouts and screams coming from beyond the shield but I couldn't waste the time to see who they came from.

"You're right! Darkness!" She shouted across the distance.

"Light!" My powers complied and the flash of raw dark power from her shot across hitting my own that burned with the brightness that I could only show the light at the end. They battled in the middle before she did something that I didn't expect she started conjuring something. Before I could name the spell shadows started to cover my body and where they touched me my clothes were sliced open and my skin did the same. My skin that was as hard as granite and pale split open as though it were nothing. I screamed in pain and dropped to my knees as her power hit me and I flew backwards. My vision blurring and I started to black out. She had won. Already. I hadn't a chance to stop it. I had no chance to begin win. I'm sorry Rashel. I'm sorry my family. I'm sorry… Edward.

I was in a field. There were flowers everywhere and the sky was so bright a blue that it shone like the sea. There wasn't a cloud in sight and the grass was a beautiful emerald green. Everything was so beautiful, it was perfect like there was no wrong or pain that could touch here. But something was wrong. I was dead, wasn't I? then why did it feel like I could still hear the shouting of threats and the screaming I had in the fight.

I looked across the distance to see two shapes. And they were coming closer. Naturally I would have bent down into a defensive crouch, especially after what I had just been through but, I couldn't help but feel safe in the presence of whatever was coming. Then in front of me stood a beautiful woman, with the blackest hair that shone like a ravens wings. Her eyes were emerald green, darker than the grass and they looked as if they had seen so much in there time, there was pain, sorrow, and yet happiness and love were a vibrant emotion held within them.

"Who are you?" My voice was different here. Louder. Clearer. But it felt like it belonged in this scene.

"I have many names, however you would know me as Hecate." My eyes widened and I immediately dropped to my knees in respect.

"Get up my child, you have made me so proud, and I am proud to name you as my daughter." This was Hecate, my Goddess, my mother, in this form it was clear to see she was the mother but she had two other faces which I was yet to see.

"How could you be proud of me when I lost, I was weak and allowed myself to be distracted."

"No! Bella don't ever think that! She tricked you just as she did me!" I suddenly looked over at the second figure and threw myself into her arms crying.

"Rashel!" she laughed but sobered quickly and looked into my eyes before shaking her head and wiping the tears from my face.

"It was too late for me to be brought back, I was mortal, you however are a vampire, you are strong, beautiful, and better than her. You can end her but you must have confidence in Hecate... but most of all you must be confident with yourself." What was she saying? I could go back? I could win? But did I want to go back? To the pain, to the loneliness? To the fact that Edward was disgusted by me? Hecate pulled me to face her.

"Come, child you must go back to your family they are lost without you. You are the glue that holds them together and you mean more to the boy than you can imagine. Even he doesn't know his true feelings for you yet." Before my eyes she had changed into a young girl, about the age I was when I was turned and smiled brightly at me.

"With the power, of the maiden I give you the strength and power of the universe that brings joy and love to others." She changed back into her first form.

"With the power, of the mother I gave you the strength to choose the right from the wrong." Then before my eyes she was old, a crone, and she had eyes that were pitch black and hair snowy white.

"With the power of the crone, I give you wisdom and awaken you, my child." Before I could say anything I was falling, through time and space I fell.

I was hurting all over and I reluctantly opened my eyes and stood face to face with the dark witch once more. Only this time I was more powerful, stronger and wiser. Her face filled with fear as I began to speak.

"I am the daughter of the Goddess and she will stand beside me, I will not die by your hand but you will die by not only mine, but the hand in which the Goddess has touched me! I summon the animal within to fight the creature without!"