Temptation of the Sea: Chapter 11

Everywhere I turn I hurt someone

But there's nothing I can say to change the things I've done

Of all the things I hid from you I cannot hide the shame

And I pray someone something will come and take away the pain

There's no way out of this dark place

No hope, no future

I know I can't be free

But I can't see another way

And I can't face another day.

~ Phil Collins

I stare blankly.

No...

No.

NO!

I fall to the floor. Strong, too strong arms grab me. No. Too cold. Too strong. Too vampire...

He holds me to his chest, I cry into his ice cold chest. I wish for him to be warm. I wish for him to be human. But no... I was too late...

He looks as if he would cry too, if he still had the ability too. He kisses my head repeatedly, but his lips are far to cold to comfort me. I sob loudly, almost in agony. I should have known. I shouldn't have left and gone so far for so long.

I'm able to look over his shoulder and seen the Maid's daughter. I always forget her name. Aba? Ada? Ava!

Edward must have been turned a while ago, he was resisting my blood, his mortal enemies blood, and that of a little girl. I reach my hand out to the little girl and she immediately comes and comforts me. She's young, but she's smart. She knows. I kiss her head, as if she were my own daughter and cry on both. Ava's warmth is a great comfort when held against Edward's hard, cold chest.

I think this is the first time I've truly cried. I'm not just crying because I failed. My tears are sadness, longing, my wishes and soon they become hate. I look in Edward's eyes. I see them starting to turn a dark brown. They're starting to go like Dr. Cullen and his family.

My sobs stop all at once. My tears evaporate as I feel anger corse through me. I stand swiftly but carefully, making sure Ava doesn't get hurt. I'm out the large door and on my mare's back before even Edward can move. I'd been trained to go against vampire's now, that meant you had to be faster than then. Stronger than them, more flexible, have more endurance. You have to be the living undead.

My wings come out and help my mare to gallop faster to the Cullen mansion. My wings had grown and strengthened in the few months is been gone. It was impressive just a few short months of all kinds of extensive training can do. I'm glad I hadn't bothered to change out my armour when I got home to an empty house. Speaking of which.

I untied the knot around my neck and my ripped cape caught on my wings and folded itself down to under my dress. I love charms the little odd charms the ancients made that just come in handy everywhere.

I have two swords tied on my belt. They don't have sheaths, I prefer to feel the blade itself on me. I have two sets of twin daggers on my back, along with two smaller ones keeping my now extremely curly hair up. There was also several blades and guns hidden in my boots and under the long sleeves on my dress. My dress was built for carrying daggers, swords, gun, axes and there's even a few places for whips, but I didn't plan on becoming a torturer anytime soon. My belt was wide and covered most of my stomach. It was very thick and it would take several bites of vampire teeth to get through it. All my weapons had been prepared for killing vampires. You didn't think I'd gone to fight a coven of vampires with pathetic human blades, did you?

I sense Edward running behind me and without even asking her to, my mare gave a good kick to him and sent him flying. We got her special hooves and I put a temporary charm on her so her bones would be as hard as vampire skin for 24 hours. I thought it'd be more necessary on the trip home...

I heard Edward hit the ground and sigh. The last thing I needed was a newborn vampire getting in my way. I lean forward and free my mare's back more so she can run as naturally as possible.

Cullen mansion is in my sights and I propel of my mare's back and we both race toward it. Me in the air and he on land. She's a war horse now, and a heck of a good one! I don't think she fears anything as long as I'm around...

Both of us know she will get hurt her, but she's staying by my side even though I gave her the chance to run.

I hover in the air in front of the Cullen mansion. My

mare burst right through the doors while I smash all the windows with my strong wings. I look through them and see my mare bravely kicking the doctor himself, then bucking as his wife jumps on my mare's back and tried for the reins. With a swish of my arm, all of my mare's unnecessary equipment fell off. The wife went flying.

I swopped in and landed in front of Dr. Cullen. My ears picked up running steps. I ducked and knocked over the man who tried to attack me.

"Faster than a vampire." I say.

I roll the man over and recognise Jasper, the boy who comforted me after his sister left me with burns. I still had a scar on my actual eye that is kept hidden from the two all these years.

I turned around in time to kick the biggest vampire square in the face and send them flying.

"Stronger than a vampire."

I walk to this one and recognise Emmett. I used to play with him sometimes. But he changed them.

Something darts at me and I see it in my peripheral vision. I flip backwards, twisting and getting away from the vampire. Before I landed, I spun ad kicked her hard in the back.

"More flexible than a vampire." I go to this vampire. Alice... She used to braid my hair and teach me some things about make-up and dresses. Now she lay before me terrified, trying to crawl away, but crumble formed from my mare kicking around don't allow her past.

One more to go.

This is an actual battle. This female is fast, but she only knows basic stuff. The other's are too... Tired? They can't get up and fight.

The vampire and I do a dangerous dance, neither I us slipping or tiring. I'm only panting because she got a small blow to my belt while I got a hard one in her ribs. Finally I flipped and knocked her flying. My mare had the mother pinned with her two front hooves, thats my girl.

I stalk towards the doctor with my wings out wide. They were black now, pure black, and loomed out around me. I barely noticed it when something crashed into my back, my wings deflected it as if it were a charm.

I grabbed my twin swords and put them on either side of the doctors neck. "Why?" I demand, but he just dazed up astonished.

"WHY?" I demanded, my voice echoing in the remnants of the once proud building.

"You were growing strong, I needed numbers to take you down. Edward's mother and father had both died through the transformation because Emmett and Rosalie were being silly. I needed Edward to kill you!" I spit at him and see blood in it, but I don't care. It's one of the side affects of the no-period-for-nearly-two-years thing.

"Why? Why did you want me dead?" I knew the answer already, but I needed to here it from him.

He answers me and I move my blades so his neck is cut. It'll leave a scar like vampire bites, but it'll heal a little. I put my blades back and planted my foot hard into the doctors stomach. His arms are thrown upward and I set them both alight. His screams full the air. When his fingers are burnt enough, I extinguish the fire. "That is your punishment for taking away my life and leaving me with just my life task. You shouldn't have done what you did, you just ended you existence."

My mare helps me get away from that place. What hit my back... was Edward. I sighed and pulled him up.

Its funny how weak vampires are when they are unprepared. It makes me glad the time reader can't see me though. My uncle told me Alice and Jasper had extra powers, Jasper could control the emotions of lesser species and that of his own, but not his equal like me, which is why just burning Carlisle's hands has exhausted me. We are meant to fight hand to hand combat, not with our extra powers... The time reader can look into the future whenever she wants if she tries hard enough. I think I heard that it makes her head hurt if she did it too often and tried too hard. Another disadvantage for them and advantage for us- Er, me.

I take Edward home. He's just weak, and he may be a vampire now. But I still love him in some form. It's nothing like before. I know he and I cannot stay together, we're mortal, well, soon to be immortal enemies since in the next spring will be my immortality ceremony.

I decide not to tell him. I can't bring myself to tell him we can't be together. I just... I can't!

I place him on his side of his bed and anxiously climb under the covers beside him. I keep a hand on my sword since I knew he would recover soon and mentally fully wake up.

Its just like when he was human... He looks around, then wraps an arm around my waist and tucks behind me. Only, he keeps his other arm under his arm so I don't fell his cold breath on me.

I knew that whenever I shivered in the night, Edward would move away, but I would cling to him like I couldn't live without him. It's odd really. A vampire and a shape-shifter in love... I sighed to myself. I knew he wasn't going to be my true love, my mate, now.

It saddened my soul. If Edward couldn't be my true love, then who was? I didn't even know any men other than my father, my uncle and the bunch of vampires I just bet the shit out of.

Wait... I did know someone.

Jake...

No, he couldn't be. He was a bred shifter. He was part of a pack, or would be. Shifters of different kinds don't mix, do they?

No, they couldn't. It's been forbidden since the first shifters went away and abandoned their animal half to become spirit warriors. Then generations later, they returned to their animal half in a different way unknowingly. And then they bred. It was horrible. Disgusting. Kicking away the part of the wolf that was meant to look after his pups and mate, simply because of man rage. It was horrible, and then they thought they could rejoin us by not separating their spirits from their bodies, but it was already too late. They had killed their sons' and daughters' animal halves by making them tear away their spirit from their body. They were banished from us after that and any daughters of us married to the spirit warriors were disowned, which in those days was a big thing...

Anyway, so I don't know who the heck my true love could be... I wonder what our gods have in store...

Just before I fall asleep, I roll around and curl into Edward's chest. He may be cold. He may be a vampire. But he was still Edward. He was still my husband...

Sorry to cut this chapter short, but I thought this was the perfect place to end it!

Tell me if I missed any mistakes! Present and future chapters coming real soon! :)