Sorry it took so long to update! Band has been crazy. However, I intend to have the epilogue typed up soon after I post this chapter. Maybe. So, this is actually the "last chapter" sad isn't it? Well, I guess not. There is only three reviewers…So to those very few, THANK YOU BUNCHES!
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"You what?" I said in barely a whisper. Mistral then started to walk forward. Something was wrong with her. Her limbs were changing, growing more animal-like, more barrel-like.
"So I was right. You are a werewolf." Jasper said calmly his eyes fixed on Mistral as her grotesqueness took over. A snarl left her now furry lips and she leapt toward us. For one, I didn't freeze, I didn't shrink back. Oh, no. Instead, I watched her hurling through the air as if she were in slow-mo. Funny things happened when you were in danger. Suddenly, I came to the realization that I had a gun.
"Jasper!" I grabbed his arm as he growled at Mistral. He wouldn't budge. With a low growl myself, I went around him and pointed toward the others. "Jasper, this is my fight. Go!"
Something made Jasper leave, whether it was the fact that werewolves were designed to kill vampires, or the fact I had ordered him, didn't matter. I felt a wicked smile twist my lips as he left. Mistral's fine brown hair shimmered in the moonlight like blood covered needles, her teeth shining a faint brown in the crimson glow.
"How could you kill so many of your own kind?" I stated, disgusted. A melodic chuckle left her as she began to circle, waiting to jump on me--her prey.
"You see, those special bullets were really just sedatives. No harm was done to my comrades." Somehow, I had managed to land flat on my back. When I opened my eyes, Mistral had pinned me down, her long brown fangs dripping saliva. "What are you going to do now girl?" She growled venomously. Every second she was getting closer to my throat. I had to do something
"Something that should have been done a long time ago!" I yelled kicking her in her soft underside with my boot. With a squeal, Mistral jumped back a cold glare set in her canine eyes. In this time she took to glare at me, I withdrew my switch blade and flipped it out. The strange sensation from before was slowly rising through me, the adrenaline running high, the heartbeat slowing, my limbs growing cold. "Well then, shall we dance?" I said in a surprisingly smooth voice.
Mistral launched at me, her teeth barely missing my arm. "You know why I killed your parents girl?" She asked circling to catch me off guard. When I did not answer, she tried to take a chunk out of my side. This time, she got part of my arm, the blood running heavily as she backed off for a while. "I killed your parents because they were vampires."
They way she said "vampires" sent a chill up my spine. Such cold animosity could not be possessed by those who were human. Still, I was shocked. I. Amber LeAnn McCormick, a vampire? She had to be mistaken. I was perfectly normal. I had no stunning beauty, no charm, no thirst for blood. So then, why me? "Then how come I'm not one?"
A chuckle escaped her as she circled. The blood red moon above was ominous, growing more so by the second. "Do you not know? Your mother was pregnant with you when she changed. Actually, it was three days before your birth. I had been tracking your mother and father for quite awhile then. Yes, little Halfling Amber. Oh how your parents were overjoyed."
"That isn't feasible. If I wasn't even born I would have died. I would be a vampire or something." I retorted. I really wanted to cut into the bitches flesh, to see her blood spill over the ground. The fact she was the one that made me suffer all those years was her. Now, the monster she was took place in a physical form.
"Ah, but you know that the fetus and mother do not share blood? Therefore, you are only half-vampire." I looked toward Jasper for answers who looked just as shocked as I did. Suddenly, he yelled, "Amber!"
In my shock, I had not noticed Mistral coming at me slowly, she had my arm in her jaws, the long, sharp teeth wearing deep into my flesh. In the corner of my eye, I saw Jasper try to spring to my rescue, but Carlisle stopped him. I'd have to thank him later.
With a sudden surge of energy, I fought Mistral trying to push her back against a tree. Her sheer size was overpowering as she shook my arm and slashed at me with her claws. Finally, I managed to get a good stab in at her chest, retreating, she pulled into the woods. I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder. Placing a hand on my chest, I pulled it away seeing the warn liquid of my body eternalized. My hand began shaking uncontrollably, rage and disgust taking over.
"Get off me!" I yelled stabbing my knife into the fleshy part of her nose. Once again, she squealed, backing off with a low growl. She then changed back, a machete in her hand. With an outraged battle cry, she sprinted toward me at full force. With a grunt, I blocked her. My arm wouldn't last long in this state.
For several minutes, we spent time sparring back and forth with quick stabs and slices. Neither of us were getting anywhere. The battle had us both bloodied and beaten. Finally, someone landed a hit. However, it wasn't me. I looked down to my chest, her machete stuck between my ribs. The pain lit me on fire. I knew I was going to die.
A hysteric chuckle left me as I pulled the machete out of my flesh. Tears of pain filled my eyes, but I did not succumb to them. Swiftly, I grabbed Mistral's arm as she struggled to back away frightened by something. "You forget, I don't respond well to pain." Finally pulling the gun out of my pocket, I aimed at her and fired. The gunshot rang out across the clearing, consuming silence then taking over. I did it. I had won. A sigh of relief washed over me as I watched the world spin dizzily around me. Falling to the ground with a thump, I felt my breathing growing heavier, the deep wound becoming bloodier by the second.
Within seconds, Jasper was by my side, propping me up against his knee. "Amber? Amber! Can you hear me? Amber! Stay with me." He pleaded. Was I really going to die? The tears I fought hard to suppress escaped me as the eyes I had come to love looked at me in a tear filled way although no tears were to be shed. Reaching up, I ran my hand down his marble face and smiled.
"Don't worry, I won't leave you. Just remember, I love you." Talking seemed to make things worse. After coughing up a small amount of blood, I felt the edges of things going fuzzy, black was closing in on me. "Amber! AMBER!" Jasper kept calling out, but he was getting distant. I couldn't hold on, my rope had been cut short on the climb to the top of the cliff and I was falling. Falling into a shroud of darkness that covered me like a blanket. At last, the pain subsided as I slipped into unconsciousness surrounded by a black void.
Communications down
I float without
A light to lead me back
I'm lost again
They say silence is golden
Loneliness never shined like this
Diseased the leper sits
The leper is me
Fireflies illuminate your eyes
The moon will lead me back to earth again
Caught between the stars
A well lit drowning
Darkness mocks me with
A broken compass
So I swim in a sea
Of distress
Broken down, and helpless
The leper sits diseased
The leper is me
Fireflies illuminate your eyes
The moon will lead me back to earth again
Floating all alone
Floating all alone
Fireflies illuminate your eyes
The moon will lead me back to earth again
Fireflies illuminate your eyes
The moon will lead me back to earth again
Fireflies illuminate your eyes
The moon will lead me back to earth again
Fireflies illuminate your eyes
The moon will lead me back to earth again