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Did I Mr. Snookim? (Talking in a baby voice at a cat)

Nope. You didn't, sorry…

Ahh, a talking cat!! (Runs away)

A/N: Gah, I'm so sorry for the long wait on the updating. Got caught up on other stuff. I'll try harder to update more. Now read on if you want to know what the fuck is up with Victoria.

Chapter Four

New Diet

BPOV

I was running at fast speeds. Running into the forest towards the animals and trees looking for my next feed, I smelled something amazing first though. I had no clue what it was, it was foreign. I had spent all my time in the forest, I've never left because Victoria said I wasn't ready. I moved swiftly trying to locate it. Victoria was right behind me. It had been three months since she told me about myself, about my past.

Flashback

"Y-you're my mom?" I asked. I wanted to believe her. To believe that I had someone with me that knew me.

She stepped closer staring intently at my eyes. "Yes….you really don't remember, do you?" she replied.

I shook my head. "No. But maybe you could tell me."

She looked away. She seemed to be contemplating something. "Alright but first things first..." she said turning back to me. "Are you thirsty?"

As soon as she asked my throat felt like it was burning. With such intensity that I could no longer stand it, I clutched my throat. She nodded, most likely to herself, and grabbed my hand.

She led me outside the room and out of the cabin. As I stood out in the forest, the sounds amplified. I was able to hear the birds chirping, the water trickling down from miles away, the leaves being crushed under the weight of an animal walking around. The sounds of nature were open for my ears.

My ears picked up on the sounds of deer drinking water. As I heard, I seemed to be concentrating on its heartbeat. The rhythm of the heart beat made my mouth water.

Thump, thump, thump, thump….thump, thump, thump, thump…

It kept going and I felt myself moving naturally towards it. Victoria released my hand and I moved so fast that I almost didn't see the trees that disappeared behind me. I moved gracefully, dodging the obstacles in my way and rapidly made my way to the animals.

I couldn't control myself. My body moved instinctively and I felt my throat burn even more making me thirsty.

I slowed down as I got five feet between myself and them. I crouched down and stared. My mind was thinking of ways to take them down, of how many to take down or let live. The ideas of how to snap their necks came into mind and as I tried to cast them away, knowing it was weird to be having such thoughts.

My body however ran up to the herd of deer and I snapped the neck of one. It was the one farthest away from the rest and the others didn't hear me. I stared in horror in what I had done. Knowing that I killed a creature had upset me but the fire in my throat had not lessened. Without having knowledge of doing, I sunk my teeth into its neck.

I wanted to pull away but as soon as the blood poured into my mouth the fire diminished a bit. Going on instincts I began to suck the blood, wanting to stop but being unable to. I sucked and sucked until there was nothing left. Not a drop was wasted from the deer; I had taken all of it.

I pushed the carcass away from me and got off the ground. Against my body was not communicating with my mind, which was screaming at me to stop while a voice in the back of my mind said to let things happen…to let nature happen.

By the time the fire was completely gone and my mind was back in control, I had killed 5 deer, 2 antelope and 1 mountain lion. I stepped back in horror I looked at what was in front of me. The carcasses were all piled up, completely drained of their blood, their necks snapped almost all the way off and they were nearly all ripped to shreds.

I was disgusted with myself. I looked behind me and there stood Victoria. "I ...I-I... didn't mean to–" I tried to explain. My mother shouldn't have seen this, shouldn't have seen me kill eight of God's creatures. No one could understand this, not even me.

"It's alright." She said soothingly, trying to calm me.

"How? I just killed–" how was this alright? Was this my normal behavior? Was I some freak that liked raw meat and killed innocent animals?! I just didn't understand this at all…

"Let me explain," she held her hands up. "But first we've got to get rid of these bodies before someone comes and finds them." she ran and scooped up all the bodies taking them away.

I stood there stunned for thirty seconds before she came back. She was wiping her hands on her jeans as she came from behind a tree.

"What did you do?" I honestly wasn't sure if I wanted to know. The fact that she didn't freak out with what she saw and she even helped get rid of it was still on my mind.

"You don't want to know." She whispered. I shuddered not wanting to think about it. Victoria led be to a trunk and silently told me to sit down. Something told me that what she was about to tell me was something I was going to want to be sitting down for.

"What I'm about to tell you…well, let's just say it's definitely not normal so you're going to want to take it easy." she said.

I felt worried. What something wrong with me? Of course there's something wrong with you! You just massacre eight animals and drained them of their blood, I thought.

I took a deep breath and told Victoria to continue. "Alright, let me have…am I sick or something?"

She let out a short laugh. "No. What you are, is a vampire."

What? She's got to be joking. Why would I be a vampire? How could I be a vampire? "What?" I choked out. It had to be impossible. Me a vampire?

She nodded and kneeled in front of me. "You are a vampire. You're strong, fast and a hunter."

I shook my head. "That's impossible. That kind of stuff just doesn't exist!"

She sighed deeply. "Open your eyes, Isabella! It exists! We're real." She said shaking my shoulders.

"How?"

"I turned you. When I first met you," she paused looking as if she was remembering it. "When I met you, you were in the hands of another vampire family."

"W-what?" I choked out. I KNEW vampires? How the hell am I still alive? Well, I guess I'm not anymore….

"Yeah," she nodded sitting next to me and petting my hair, "you see, when we first came here, there were three of us. Laurent, James and myself. James was my love. Laurent was a friend. We were looking for a child. As a vampire, I couldn't get pregnant because our bodies don't change, never wither, never die. We searched and searched, looking everywhere for the perfect child. One that could be a daughter to James and I, and a niece to Laurent. And then we met you. You were with THEM when we saw you."

"Them?" Who was I with? Finding out about me as someone to hang with vampire was…strange but I couldn't help but be intrigued to know more about myself.

"The Cullens." She spatted out, venom laced in her tone. "They are the cruelest vampires. A family of seven vampires. They feed on animals to make any human that finds out about them believe that they aren't dangerous. When they're exactly the opposite. They're monsters! They use people."

I stayed quiet letting her go on with the story. I don't know if I could even think of something to comment on. My mind was racing with thoughts of these people, no not people, monsters.

"When we first saw you we thought we found the One. The one that we could call our daughter, you know. Being just the three of us, we wanted someone to be there to experience everything we did, for the first time. We saw your face and it was like seeing…an angel. You were so beautiful and we knew you'd be perfect. But the vampire right near you was a mind-reader and he knew what we were thinking. He did everything to take you away from us."

They…wanted me. As their daughter? I didn't know what to say, so I kept quiet once again.

"They told you many lies about us, about how were we were going to kill you. How James was someone that liked to hunt humans for sport. They warped your mind, making you believe that they loved you. They were going to kill you long before we ever got here. Edward, the mind-reader made you falsely fall in love with him. It was all a trick to get you to willingly sacrifice yourself to him. To let him and his family feed on you and then kill you."

"We tried getting you away from him, but he sent you away. He promised you safety when really he was only refusing it. He took you to your human home in Phoenix. When I found out I contacted James. He ran as fast as he could. We feared they would kill you there, make it look like an accident or a burglary gone wrong."

I felt disgust for these Cullens. How dare they play with me?! How could I fall for it?! I was stupid…

"Laurent were going to go with James to save you but the other Cullens cut us off. Alice and Jasper were with you and James didn't have a chance to get you by himself. He had to be sneaky about contacting you."

"W-wwhat did he do?" I asked when I finally found my voice. I grabbed onto her even tighter.

"He called you when you were nearly alone. You only had one Cullen with you and he took his chance. Alice, another vampire with the Cullens, had the power of premonitions. She was psychic and James wasn't sure what to do. When he called you, you wee so scared of him and I knew that they had gotten to you. They had made you believe that they wee your saviors when in reality they were your executioners."

My breathing quickened.

"James told you to leave them, to get out in any way you could think of. You thought he was going to kill you and possibly the Cullens. At that point you were so brainwashed that you were willing to save them and sacrifice yourself. James had to get you to think that he had your human mother to get you to plan your way out. And you did. "She smiled.

"You had gotten out and you followed the instructions from James. You ended up in the ballet studio in Phoenix that you used to go to as a little girl. When you got there..." she sighed, "you were so scared of him. You tried escaping. He couldn't let that happen. If you went back to the Cullens, then you would surely die."

"James had to somehow undo your brainwashing and he knew that hurting you would be the only way. He didn't want to hurt you, didn't want to cause you pain. But there was no other way. The Cullens and Edward, would surely know you were gone by know and they'd be looking for you. Alice would tell them where you went and then it'd be all over. He had to scare you and show you the truth of the Cullens, that they were monsters."

"What happened then?"

"Edward attacked James and tried to get you away, as if claiming to be saving you. James was just making progress and when Edward came and interrupted he lost it. He attacked back but Edward got the upper hand. I was too far away and I was late. He...h-hhe –"

"What…?"

"He killed him. Edward killed my James." She said angrily yet looking like she wanted to cry. "All of them killed him. James had bitten you because he knew that if he did it you'd be able to understand once you woke up, you'd be saved and the Cullens wouldn't be able to feed on you. Edward got pissed because he knew what the bite meant as well. He wouldn't get to feed, he'd have to start all over again and he didn't have the patience, he had a temper that one."

I gasped. James died..? And the Cullens killed him. How cruel could they be? I snorted internally, of course they're cruel. They're fucking monsters!

"Once they discarded James, they sucked the venom from your system. They weren't ready to let go off you just yet by feeding and in no way were they to let you live so they played with you a little more. They let you survive so they could make you believe that they "saved" you. You thought it was out of love but it was out of sheer selfishness."

I felt sad and extremely pissed. How could they kill James and how could they do that to me…to Victoria? They killed her love! Her mate!

"Afterwards, they took you back. I was alone. I had no idea where Laurent was or if he was still alive and James was dead. I had to look after you, to know that you weren't dead yet. For a couple months you stayed alright, you were 'safe', but only because I kept an eye on you. They didn't suspect a thing. They believed I left, but I could never do that."

She continued to run her hands through my hair and I laid my head on her shoulder as anger toward those monsters started to build.

"For some reason they left. Edward told you that he didn't love you anymore even though he never did to begin with, but again – lies. You were heartbroken. You cried and cried and that broke my heart. To see you like that, over someone that didn't even deserve your tears! I wanted to rip him to pieces! I knew that they may regret their decision so I went to find you because I had to take my chances. But when I found you well more like you found me…god, you were so – empty. Your brown eyes were dull, empty like there was no life left in you. You had a knife in your hands as if you wanted to kill yourself."

"You still thought I wanted to kill you along with James and you asked me to kill you. You cut yourself with the knife but I could see it in your eyes and your body language that you didn't feel it. You were numb. I felt like crying when you told me that you felt like dying, all because of him and his shit-ass family. The Cullens hurt you so deeply that I knew I couldn't let you do that to yourself. I changed you in hopes that I could help you heal. That you could start over without their interference and you could be happy…with me. I wanted to be your mother and you my daughter."

I felt like crying. But the tears wouldn't fall. "W-wwhy can't I cry?"

She looked sad. "We're vampires, honey. We have no tears, no blood, nothing, only venom. We can never cry, just like we can never sleep and never die." That made me want to cry even more. I felt like killing those Cullens. How dare they toy with me and then just decide they don't want me anymore?! How could they kill James like that…especially if it was all going to be in vain.

"I...am so sorry."

"Why?"

"They killed him. James. He was going to be my father and you my mother. We were going to be like a family if it weren't for the Cullens. And it's all my fault." She shook her head.

"It's not your fault. You had no idea what the truth was. You were wrapped around them and you were only human." She said. I nodded reluctantly.

I got up from the tree trunk and Victoria rose as well. "I promise you Victoria, they will pay for what they've done. They will regret the day they messed with me and the day they killed James. When we cross paths with them again, we will destroy them." I nearly growled.

I gave a grin. "Together." She nodded.

She smirked evilly, "Yes, together. They won't see what's coming. We will avenge his death."

End of Flashback

I'm keeping that promise. When we meet again they will pay. They hurt Victoria as well as me. She's my mother and mentor and no one will hurt her. I concentrated even more on the scent and ran full speed. I didn't get a chance to slow down as the scent got closer and stronger and I fully attacked. I sunk my teeth into its neck and began drinking. The body kept moving, struggling to get it of my grasp but I used more force and restrained it. The blood was rich and even better than anything I've ever had. It was sweet like honey and just, amazing. No animal blood was this great and I couldn't get enough of it.

I took large amounts of blood at a time and it wasn't long before I drained it dry. When I looked down below me I saw that I had fed on a man. He was about 6'6' tall and had blond hair. His pale skin now ghostly from the lack of blood. I got up and saw the blood smeared all over his shirt, on his hands and neck…I had gotten messy.

Just then Victoria arrived. She took one look at the body. "Human, eh?"

I nodded.

"How do you feel?" she asked.

"Like a killer. I mean, I killed a man." My eyes widened at the revelation. I had only thought of the blood, thinking it was only new animal passing by. Oh, god…

"No, Isabella. We're hunters, this is why we exist. We feed on mankind, because they're our main source of food. We know that they populate like rabbits. Places overpopulate, some will not be missed. Let it go because you've done nothing wrong. It is in our nature. It is our being. You must not feel remorse over the death of this human. He's lived his life."

I shook my head. "No,–"

She came over to me and grabbed me by the shoulders making me look at her right in the eyes. "You've. Done. Nothing, I repeat, nothing. Wrong. Do you understand me?"

I looked at her eyes, the red that swirled within them while mine had a topaz or golden color to it. I wondered why hers were different and she had told me that it was difference in food. I know understood.

The longer I looked into her eyes, the more her words sunk in and I understood her point. Humans were dispensable. Many died everyday yet nearly no one mourned for them. Why should one make a difference? I got what she said, and I agreed. The human race expands everyday and it ruins their world, in reality we're saving them by feeding on them and reducing their numbers. It is… the natural order of things.

I blinked. "I get it. We're meant to feed, why not feed properly on the prey that easily increases in numbers?"

She nodded smiling. "Exactly. You get it now. Humans are creatures that get greedy and horny, most have no feelings. They kill and we do the same. We kill…we feed… we hunt. But it is our nature. We can't go without it. But humankind kill because they get a sick pleasure from it. They like it, if we could we'd stop but the hunger does not stop for us. We feed because we must."

I nodded at the sad truth. "So, we do what we must to survive. Survival of the fittest."

"Yes," she sighed. "Now how did it feel, feeding from the human?"

"Amazing! Wonderful! The blood was richer, more so than animal. I couldn't get enough. I want more." I said eagerly. She laughed.

"Of course. Now that you're ready, you can have a go at it. I will teach you how to hunt in the populated areas without drawing attention to yourself. Even as vampire, we do not like drawing attention to ourselves."

"Okay. Let's go!" The memory of the taste of the blood was still fresh in my mind and I could feel the venom pour into my mouth. I wanted more right now that it was painful.

She chuckled. "Okay okay. But first things first, I've got places to show you and people to meet." She grinned and we ran off heading south.

A/N: Can anymore figure out what Victoria's power is? I can guarantee you that she does have one, maybe I didn't hint enough about it. Anyone who can guess gets a preview of the next chapter. It's just getting good. Also, anyone want to guess where they'll be heading? Hint: Jasper's past. Also the last word in the chapter.

OME!! Who here saw the trailer for the movie?! I almost died when they made out. Those were the best 2-4 seconds of my life. Lucky Bella! lol. My finger hurts from pressing replay so many times. I can't wait for November 21 any longer. I'm going to combust!

I'll be updating before or on the date of my birthday which so happens to be a week before Halloween. That's right, October 24 also nearly a month before Twilight comes out. I'll be wishing for many reviews…please?

Love you all!

– Elizabeth –