Ughh, I haven't updated in FOREVER! Super-duper sorry, I just haven't really wanted to write anything. So, this chapter is going to have a 4,951 year time skip into modern day but it will have a flashy-back of what happened after the last chapter. Enjoy the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything

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"Bella, come on! We're going to be late for school!" I giggled as I finished putting the finishing touches on my eyeliner then flitted downstairs where Edward was waiting for me. I was wearing a flowing white skirt that went to my knees, similar to a toga I would have worn on the hottest days of the year when I was human, along with a bright yellow short sleeved shirt that clung to my figure nicely, accentuating my curves. On my feet I wore the same sandals from my human days, the kind that tie all the way up to the knee.

My hair was done in a series of intricate twists, piled on the back of my head with a string of beads delicately strung throughout it and my side-bangs swept neatly to the left side of my face. On my wrist I wore the bracelet with 12 14kt diamonds I got on my 16th birthday from my parents.

I smiled at Edward as he glanced uneasily at his cell phone, a touch screen Blackberry, the time too late for his liking. I grabbed my backpack off the unused kitchen counter and took my thin coat for cool days like this off the rack then opened the front door.

"Well then come on." I said literally almost flying to our car, a shiny red Ferrari 430 Scuderia, and slipping into the passenger seat and Edward sliding smoothly into the drivers seat then starting the car. I slid in a CD, a strange device I still cannot figure out how it works, then pressed play making the sweet sounds of 'Clair de Lune' come from the speakers.

In almost 5,000 years the world has come such a very long way, and in 1 century humans are on their way to destroying it forever. I remember the days when I was human, the water was clear and the air was clean, no talk of global warming and technology was far from being discovered. The best thing we had was the wheel.

I can also remember when I was changed, that memory will never be forgotten as it is the most painful and one of the most important ones I have. Those three days were the days where all knowledge of vampires meant nothing, only pain. Nothing except that terrifying, gut-wrenching pain.

Flashback

The pain burned slowly through my neck from the bite and I gasped in sheer torture as surges of fire crashed over me, suffocating and choking me. I cringed as it spread to the base of my throat, constricting it and making it difficult to breathe correctly.

Edward was stunned at the result of our experimentation and sobbed tearlessly and grasped me to his chest, holding me and rubbing his cheek against the top of my head. I was breathing in shallow gasps as the fire spread to my chest, crushing it and giving me the impression that it was caving in.

My face was probably deathly pale, maybe even a sickly gray color, all I knew was that it felt like it was melting off. Edward never stopped apologizing and telling me how much he loved me, and sometimes I was able to squeak out an 'I love you' before the pain in my throat overcame me.

For three days I squirmed and writhed in sheer agony until, finally, the pain slowly ebbed away until it was completely gone. My heart gave one last thump before the pain stopped and when it did I felt amazing. Better than ever before, the memory of pain was still fresh in my mind but I no longer felt its torturous grasp.

When I unclenched my eyes for the first time in what felt like forever I saw the most beautiful sight I could ever imagine… Edward. He was staring at me in awe, any traces of distress and sadness gone, he only stared at my face lovingly, his mouth slack at he gazed.

"Is something wrong my love?" I asked then gasped. My voice was much prettier and pleasant than before, more fluent and musical like. Edward gasped too and dipped his head, as though he was… bowing?

"Edward, what are you doing?" I asked in my musical voice. He raised his head, that awed looked still on his face along with amazement and wonder.

"You must be a Goddess, for your beauty is simply to great for any mortal creature that dwells on land." he told me, stroking my face to see if I was real, and grinning when it came in contact with my skin. My eyes widened when he touched me, his large white hand was no longer freezing but something close to warm, it was the same temperature as mine and my cheek didn't indent where he placed it, it stayed as still as stone.

I was a vampire. I stretched out my arm to marvel at the smooth white rock hard skin that apparently came with this 'transformation'. Would I be cold as Edward is? Well, I don't believe Edward or I will care, I didn't feel his body temperature when he touched me and he did not shiver either so we must feel the same to each other.

"Your skin is so soft and smooth, but it is no longer has the warmth of a human. You are also very pale, paler than before, which is strange for a girl who lived her whole life in Greece." Edward whispered staring into my eyes, "and your eyes! No more are they a gorgeous chocolate brown, but a fiery crimson! The color of spilt blood, how strange." Edward was astounding me with his words. My eyes are red?

"Have you a mirror with you? I wish to see myself in my new skin." I asked and he quickly disappeared and returned only a second later with a silver backed mirror and held it to me, eagerness showing on his face for my reaction.

I held it up and gasped at the stunning face reflected back, I was gorgeous! My sisters couldn't even hope to compare to my new beauty. It was as though I wasn't even the same person, yet I was. This Goddess had my lips(the top one fuller than the bottom), my brown hair(only hers was shinier and more luxurious), and basically the same everything, only sharper and straighter and more beautiful.

"I-I can't believe it, I am stunning! I'm a vampire!" I laughed slowly and shakily but it soon turned loud and boisterous as I finally realized everything. I was going to spend eternity with Edward, looking like a goddess and him my god. I am looking forward to forever now.

End Flashback

"What are you smiling about?" Edward chuckled, turning to look at me smiling. I smiled, the tip of my tongue pushing out a bit in between my teeth as I looked at my intertwined fingers that lay on my lap.

"Just… thinking." I shrugged, looking nonchalantly out the window smirking and biting my lip to keep from laughing. He just stared at me, waiting for me to elaborate further and I sighed, before answering, holding back giggles.

"Just, ah, about what happened I woke up from my change, all those years ago, seems like yesterday." I told him, picturing his face when he saw me after I woke up. He blanched as he remembered that day, how he had bowed, thinking I must have been a Goddess.

"Well, it's not my fault you are just simply too beautiful, it was natural in our day to believe beauty of our extreme was because they were a God or Goddess, only you didn't grovel at my feet like other women I had the misfortune to come across." I chuckled and nudged him playfully in the side making him laugh also.

"Can you believe how much the world has changed though?" I asked and he nodded, agreeing with me, so I continued, "I mean, back in the day swear words were nothing compared to what kids these days scream at each other all the time, the only way we could communicate was by sending letters that took months to deliver. Not even Zeus knew what contraptions human would invent: cell-phones, cars, I-pods… it astounds me how quickly they were all invented too! All within 100 years, and we survived for thousands of years without any of the pleasantries humans seem to think they could never live without. I just have to say they have another thing coming, one day it will all be gone." I chuckled at the thought of humans scrambling when they had no more resources.

"Oh I know what you mean, Earth survived for billions of years and in such a small amount of time humans have created irreparable damage. The only way the earth could heal is if everyone left, the world completely devoid of human life." Edward said, liking the thought more than he should making me roll my eyes and shake my head while laughing.

"We're here!" I said, catching sight of the tiny school we had been attending for the past month. Forks High, home of the Spartans. That is funny, the Spartans are from Sparta(obviously) and Sparta is in Greece, my home country. Forks is the tiny town that is covered with clouds almost every day of the year, perfect for vampire.

When we moved here we told the humans our 'parents' were close friends so we all moved in together but our parents were constantly on business trips so we usually had the house to ourselves. Rumors flew around that Edward and I were sleeping together little did they know we had been together like that for almost 5 millennia now so… that did not really bother us in the least what they thought.

It has always been just Edward and I, ever since we left Athens as soon as I had hunted for the first time, we had traveled alone with only each others company and the two horses we had adopted as our own. Eventually we had to give them away when they grew too old to travel with us any longer, we planned to leave Greece and explore the rest of the world.

We gave them to a wealthy horse farm that had good reputation, the horses already boarded there healthy and well taken care of. It was painful to leave them, we had had them in our company for 4 years before we decided we had to use our own speed to leave the country, and it nearly broke my heart when they were lead to the stables, whinnying and trying to escape from the stable hands to return to us.

I was sobbing tearlessly when they disappeared from my sight behind the wooden stature, they loved us as we loved them and they weren't ready to leave us. I even saw one of the men fighting back tears as the horses expressed emotions animals were claimed not to have, the fierce reluctance to be separated from the two people who had treated them so wonderfully and lived the happiest days of their lives with us.

Edward had been so distraught having to be separated from his beloved Herakles as was I from Andromeda. The whole ordeal was painful and I often thought about it, only sometimes did I remember the exact scene as I try to keep it stored away.

All through our travels we had only met two covens that shared our lifestyle of drinking from animals, the Denali coven from Alaska and the Cullen's. The Denali coven had 5 members and all were very friendly and so were the Cullen's but the Cullen's were just so much more different than all the other vampires in the world we had encountered.

They were a rather large coven too, 6 members, two of them gifted with foresight and the ability to feel and manipulate emotions. Edward and I tell were equally gifted as this coven was, Edward with his mind reading and me and my "imagination" power. I guess since I was constantly imaging things as a human that it was brought over to this life and now I can picture something in my head and it appears moments later.

But that wasn't the odd thing about the coven, no, it was the fact that they were all so compassionate for each other. Usually covens of such a large number would have fights breaking out left and right but this coven actually acted like a real family.

We met them when we stayed in Maine, about 10 years ago when we had started school and the "children" also happened to attend that same school. We introduced ourselves, quickly becoming good friends in the 1 ½ years we stayed. They made many offers to us to join their coven but we politely denied every time, telling them we wished to remain alone as we were simply too much in love to be part of a family just yet.

They understood what we were saying and we were all sad when Edward and I moved away, telling the humans our parents got promotions and were off to New York for the big bucks. They all believed us as we already had enormous sums of money we had accumulated over our years. You see, you just can't go through living without making some money and since Edward and I have lived for so long we have gotten a lot of money.

But the Cullen's have remained close friends and I think I would like to look them up sometime, maybe I shall talk to Edward later about it, I bet he misses wrestling with Emmett and Jasper as much as I miss girl time with Rosalie, Esme, and Alice.

I was broken out of my thoughts by Edward's sarcastic voice.

"Ooh boy, another day with the humans." Edward said, grabbing his backpack and exiting the car. I giggled, all thoughts on the past stored back in my mind, and followed him, running to his side then grabbing his hand as we walked to first period. We had all of our classes together, courtesy of a little thing I like to call, 'Edward and Bella's Dazzling Team' which basically included him and I using the full force of our charms to get what we needed.

We reached the little building labeled building '3' and then took our usual seats in the back of the room side by side, me scooting my chair as close as it could go, like I always do, before leaning my head on his shoulder and gripping his hand tighter.

When class started I tuned out the monotonous voice of Mr. Mason the English teacher, I had already read everything that we would go over in this class, also written some of them. There is nothing about grammar, grammar usage, and anything relating to Language Arts I do not know of seeing as I was there when it was invented.

I took out my cell phone and started texting Edward, even though I said cell-phones were weird that doesn't mean I didn't have one and use it.

Me: I hate school, learning things over and over again gets on my nerves

Edward: Me too. Haven't we contributed to some of the things he is talking about?

Me: Yes, in fact we wrote this poem and then gave it to Edgar Allen Poe as a gift, telling him he could use it as his on work. I was referring to the poem the teacher was reciting, Annabel Lee.

Edward: Ah yes, I remember now

As I was about to reply Mr. Mason decided to notice our stifled laughter and the fact that we were looking down and our hands were underneath the table automatically jumping to the conclusion that we were texting, even though we were.

"Mr. Masen and Ms. Swan!" he thundered, slamming down the textbook and his face turning purple.

"Yes Mr. Mason?" we said simultaneously, our heads flying up at the same time to smile innocently at him, smoothly sliding our phones into a pocket after turning them off. I could tell we both were using the force of out eyes and smiles on him, making him stumble slightly in his next words.

"W-were you two texting?" he asked, somehow slightly calmed by our smirks and shining eyes.

"No, we were most certainly not!" we said together then started laughing at how we managed to say the exact same thing at the exact same time. Although we were extremely close saying the same exact thing at the same exact time as the other was still really strange even though we do it a lot.

"You better hope I don't catch you two with your phones out, I won't tolerate it. That goes for the rest of you." Mr. Mason growled as he stomped back to his book and continued with the lesson. Edward and I covered our mouths as we cracked up laughing, leaning on each other for support but sobered when the teacher gave us a stern glare.

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Once class ended we continued through the rest of the day until lunch silent and side by side, being even more isolated than we usually are. We got to our usual table located in the back corner of the cafeteria and sat down, not bothering to buy the food we used to keep up appearances.

Nothing was out of the ordinary, Edward and I sitting in silence, me laying my head on his shoulder and his arm around my shoulders, just sitting in silence and occasionally kissing. This is how it always is and always will be, terribly in love even after centuries together I still feel as though we were still just teens in love for the very first time not a care in the world. No problems, just love, always and forever.

The End

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It's done! Waaah! I'm not ready for this story to be done yet but I just can't keep going anymore, I have my other stories remember? I just thought this story was really cute, totally original and something I enjoyed writing. Wow, this was over 3,000 words, that's the longest I've ever written! Well, sayonara! Bella's Lion is officially… finished. There may possibly be a sequel, but idk. Please review and tell me what you think and also, please go vote on my profile! Thank you, I love you all!