Sorry ya'll its taken awhile for me to update but ive been busy with school and i need to wrap up my fanfics so i've been working on then when i get the chance to. i have feeling this will be ending in one or two chapters tops then end of story. i've had fun writing this and thank you all for reading it! R&R! Enjoy!

Chapter 26

Meanwhile, Bella lay in anguish upon the forest floor with the massive amount of venom slowly spreading through her. She had returned state of semi-consciousness waking up to an intense burning in her blood and throughout her entire body. In response to this rude awaking, her body jerked involuntarily with the suffering never ceasing to die down but just increase rapidly. This drawn out suffering was brutal for her for she rather dies a quick and painless death than this. Her life flashed before her eyes, she reminisced on all the wonderful even the horrible times in her life feeling that she was dying way too early that it was a fulfilling life. Dread filled her, with her mind going through the faces she had met over her lifetime that would mourn her horrific demise especially Charlie and her mom, who would be most affected. Bella had no control of her situation and let the venom spread through her bloodstream as gradually one by one her vital organs stopped. Her breathing that was already shallow had become much more dangerously low that she barely drew air in and exhaled it. Breathing was becoming impossible as it hurt to inhale and exhale quickening the process. Her heart rate and pulse was so low and unnoticeable that you could barely feel it if you tried to find it.

Few months ago if you asked, Bella would have said she would gladly become a vampire in a heartbeat but after seeing her friend, Mike, get brutally murdered by James she altered that wish she had dreamed ever since she started dating Edward. She though it would be simpler and less difficult if he just turned her so then they'd be equal. Then, Edward wouldn't constantly be worrying about her safety due to her human fragileness and incident prone nature.

She could now completely understand the torture Mike when through as he progressively died in front of her own eyes. If it weren't for Edward by her side, she would have been a worse wretch of her all over the place emotions than she was that night. At that moment, she longed for Edward to be by her side holding her even if it was the most difficult thing for him to watch. She wanted to die in the presence of someone she loved, but it seemed she was wholly alone in the expansive forest and it being slim chance someone would find her in the denseness of the green forest in time to save her. Her ability to think became invalidated as a result to increasing reduction in oxygen levels in her brain slowly going comatose with her heart occasionally beating into her nearly dead life form. She became incapable of any movements or control of this inevitable decease with the large amounts of venom flowing through her body. Eventually, she fell into a deep, lasting oblivion. After half and hour, her heart completely stopped beating with her rapidly decreasing amounts of oxygen, which was already strained to start with, and the shutting down of her normal functioning vitals. Her naturally pale skin now turned to a sickly, lifeless pallor indicating her ill-fated causality. Her inert body lay with her hair half covering her deathly pale face dulling gaze in her partially open eyes, her arms lying motionless strangely positioned beside her, her clothes stained in by earth soil, and her skin showing every visible scar, bruise, and vampire bites. Especially the four vampire bites on the right side of her neck, right inner wrist, left inner wrist, and bit high above the left inner wrist.

Despite the sunny afternoon, the heavy forest canopy barely filtered enough light down to the forest floor which concealed her corpse in the most isolated parts of the woods. The woods seem so peaceful and colorful of green trees with a variety of life forms and animals dwelling in the beautiful, lush forest. Despite is sheer magnificence; the woods were the most dangerous place to be hanging around at night especially lonesome. Even people in the region there suggest to everyone that if you wanted to go through the woods always travel in a group of two or more.

The silver Volvo parked in the Swan's driveway at 10:29 pm. Edward sighed hoping Bella was safely back at home, instead of still out at La Push with Jake because it was late at night and wished he insisted on her hanging around Forks until he came to visit her later in the evening. Alice kept her eyes on the road the whole drive to Charlie's house, despite the fact vampires could reach their destination without paying much attention on the road or keep the suggested speed limit and never get injured. Edward seemed so out of it staring out the window hazily unable to focus on anything else except Bella. The moment the car came to a stop in the driveway, Edward speed out of the car towards the door ringing the door bell. Alice wanted to stop Edward from rushing out and reassure him that it was his own paranoia kicking in messing with his logic. Crossing his arms impatiently, Edward waited standing at the front door when the door slowly opened and a worn-out Charlie appeared.

"Edward? What you doing here?" Charlie wondered curiously.

"I was wondering if Bella was here wanted to take her out for a bit. I'll bring her back by 12 am because it's a school night and respect your house rules, sir."

"Well I would allow Bella to go out with you tonight, but she isn't here at this moment. She left me a note saying she'd be out at La Push hanging with Jake. I'll tell her you came by today when she comes back. Thanks for stopping by Edward," Charlie said.

Edward frowned. "Thanks Chief Swan. Just tell her to call me when she returns." Edward walked back to the car sulking.

"Bella isn't here is she?" Alice asked.

"No she is still in La Push," Edward responded glum.

"Don't worry, Edward. I'm sure she is safe with Jake."

Edward didn't respond just stared at her blankly. Blinking, he demanded, "Just take me home, Alice! Now!"

Without further talking, Alice put the car in start and drove out of the driveway back to the Cullen house.

Gradually opening her eyes, Bella felt like she was waking up to an out of body experience with all her senses dramatically heightened. Her eyes felt like she was looking through a different set of eyes with the utter clearness of things around her from the slightly detail of the evergreen trees. Slowly, she rose from the ground blinking rapidly as the world started out blurry became sharp images that it gave her a sudden head rush. Thankfully the lush woods provided a good deal of shade and the bit that did manage to shine through wasn't significant amount of it. Bella absorbed her surroundings bemusedly pondered to herself, "Am I dead? Is this heaven? This looks vaguely similar to the woods."

Bella remained lost trying to processing her whereabouts. Where? How? Why?

James was casually swinging by the forest to find his next victim to drink dry. His blazing red eyes and evil smirk across his face showed his malicious ways. He took a huge waft of the woods for a trace of human presence to track. Stopped in his tracks, James paused alarmed at the sound of movement not too far away from him. He listened more carefully to hear the crunching and rustling of leaves on the ground. Curious, he followed the sound to find its source with it possibly being a human. The wicked grin widened the closer he got to the source of the movements.

Bella sat criss-cross on the ground focused trying to get used to her heightened senses. She listened to the sounds all around here being one with her woods. She could hear the creatures scrambling through the vast forest to the highways miles away narrowing them down to sounds only in the woods. Once, she accomplished narrowing the sounds around her she opened her eyes as a smile spread across her face viewing here surroundings and the serenity it brought with it. The smile quickly fades when she heard movement not too far from her, then moved into a defensive crouch prepared for anything. James avidly tracked the sound until he was less than ten feet away from the source. Bella head whipped around sensing the danger lurking nearby. She wafted the air to sense the predator letting out a low hiss when the waft was nothing like human in fact smelled like a vampire. James came into view shocked to find the source was none other than Bella but she smelled and looked different and couldn't quite put a finger on why it was. Bella still in her crouch glared at him hissing despicably at him.

"Bella, it's lovely to see you again," James remarked flashing a sly smile.

"Get the hell away from me you psychotic bastard! I swear if come any closer I'll destroy you!" Bella exclaimed passionately furious with rage burning in her blazing red eyes glaring at him.

James laughed manically. "You silly newborn think you can defeat me. Bring it" James taunted with a malicious laugh.

"Somehow out of all the vampires I've known have never been as cocky as you, James. I won't let you get away for you brutally murdering my best friend! Mike was an innocent guy damnit! How dare you kill someone I cared deeply about?" Bella spoke emotionally with anger in her voice.

Leaning against the tree trunk, James commented with a smirk on his face, "Well, I couldn't seem to strike a cord with you both who seem to have you vampire boyfriend. I though that killing this Mike fellow the only way to light the fire under him was to raise that monster he has been trying to suppress by blending in with human world."

"You son of a bitch how dare you use my own friend as bait!" Bella leapt into the air lunging towards James at exquisite vampiric speed that it slightly put her off. James launched towards her in resistance flying through the air with a gnarled facial expression. They collided in the air at lighting speed that it sounded like a loud thud when they did collide. Falling to the ground with such impact, they crashed on the ground causing it to tremble upon impact.

"You have surprising amount of strength and control for a newborn," James said shaken a bit.

Bella wrestled James with such fury she held nothing back placing him in a secure headlock that she could easily snapped his neck. With quick reflexes, James knocked her off of him sending her smashing against a tree making it creak a tad. Snarling angrily, Bella ran toward James, but he got the advantage moving aside causing her to fall to the ground. He had a firm grip around her throat propelling several feet from the air. Kicking and squirming out of his grip, Bella used all her might to get out of his grip around her throat. Not that breathing was an issue now since vampire didn't require oxygen like humans. His unbelievably strong grasp made it difficult to fight back and get her revenge on her dead friend. She figured out ways to get out of his clasp that was securely around her throat, not that she wasn't able to breathe since vampire didn't require oxygen at all it was unnecessary thing that still stuck around even when they were immortal. The grasp made it impossible to fight back and defeat him. A low chuckle erupted from his throat as he enjoyed watching her struggle dangling with his hand clutched around her throat. Bella gave up on trying wriggling out, but remained still pensive thinking of ways to get out.

With amazing force, she kicked James in his face knocking him off guard making him loosen his grip around her throat. She crashed to the ground and quickly got up running at her newfound vampire speed in the opposite direction through the forest pondering of her next moved to eliminate him. She sprang up several feet in the air up the high branches of the lofty evergreen tree listening to James as he came closer to ambush him from above knocking him off his guard. Angrily, James stormed through the woods trying to locate Bella and finishing her off permanently, which seemed harder than when she was a frail human. She was going to pay for getting his mate, Victoria killed, and also successfully piss Edward off that he will turn to his animalistic, monster way and go after him like a wild, rabid dog on the loose. She saw a glimpse of him couple of feet behind from up in the tree branches and squatted low enough to give her enough impact when she'd land on him from above as she waited in anticipation. Her adrenaline kicked in as she felt a wave of newfound energy wash through her helping her situation. Cursing under his breath insistently, James searched thoroughly attempting to find her using his sharp tracking skills.

She carefully listened to his movements below in her defensive crouch ready to pounce also his mutters while scrutinizing every inch of forest tracking her intensely. When she sensed him almost under her as she hid discreetly in the tree several feet above, she leaped swiftly landing on his back with a dead-grip clutch her legs around his torso and firmly clasping her hand around his neck. This sleuth move threw him off balance while deeply concentrating on tracking her. He attempted numerous times to violently shake her off, but her extremely strong newborn vampire strength was overpowering in comparison to his old, mastered, improved strength. With enough pressure, a newborn vampire could crush an ancient vampire. Bella's overwhelming strength slowed down his time to react or counteract trying to handle the pressure of her strength as it weakened him slowly. This gave her enough time to rip off each of his arms while still with one hand grasped securely around his throat. He protested and put up a good fight, but was rendered powerless in his effort to fend for himself, while wrestling she gripped strongly onto his back. Letting out a vengeful laugh, she jumped to the ground kicking him facedown then proceeded to ripping off his legs and finally his head. When completely disassembled, James lay on the ground with is torso and ripped off body segments lying in a small pile next to his torso. Bella admired her witty skills in defeating James, and then pondered how to burn the parts enjoying the entire process destroying the psycho brutally murdered her best friend.

"That's what you get for messing with me!" she exclaimed spitefully at the body. She quickly adjusted to her immortal status realizing that remaining a human for those months with Edward, made her fragile and incapable of skills or power to fend for her life against vampires who preyed on her. The vampire lifestyle was perfect for her as she had a high level of controlling her newborn powers and she didn't even have any help. Usually, newborns became crazy with bloodlust and went on mass killing sprees to satisfy the constant thirst, but Bella was special and controlled her bloodlust so far the past several hours she has had them without hurting any humans. Smiling at her amazing accomplishments, she gathered large branches discarded nearby making a neat, big enough pile to burn the torso, legs, arms, arms, and head. The only way to officially eradicate James was burn every last part piece of his vile existence.

She gathered large pile of broken branches that lay randomly on the found ground within a short radius of her location and made a huge stacked fireplace in an open area away from the condensed forest area where she was. Flickers of light danced lightly in the fireplace growing slowly in size until it was a roaring flame, Bella placed the legs and arms into the fire watching pleasurably enjoying every moment of it. She incinerated every last dissembled body parts until it was completely ash in the fire. A beaming smile she wore the entire time as her red eyes glistened with satisfaction of his destruction with the flames of the fire dancing amid her red pupils also. Laughing maniacally watching the parts burn in the flame, Bella felt a new sense of power wash over her causing her to feel empowered. Being a newborn vampire, Bella felt superior and powerful compared to her weak, fragile human state when she could barely defend herself without the help of a guy. She enjoyed the feeling of being independent and strong staring into the fire with an evil glisten in her vivid scarlet pupils staring intently at the blazing fire. Bella stood there for an hour gazing attentively into the flame before she got out of her entrance state blinking rapidly re-focusing of her current location and of her next steps.

Reality set into place, Bella realized that her next step was to head straight to the Cullen household. They would immediately notice she isn't her usual self because she couldn't hide the fact she was a vampire with her bright red pupils. Sighing, she stated, "Now I have to tell Edward. I wander how he will take the news that I am now a vampire."