Author's note:
Sorry it took so long to update this story. I didn't want to decide on the end, but all stories must come to an end. The way I ended it is wide open for a reason. Don't worry if you're unhappy with this ending I'm planning on a sequel to this story. Also, I want to do a prequel to the very first one. Let me know what you think comments are much appreciated. Thanks for reading this story and I hope you enjoy it. =)
Sarah walked down the stairs with Justin close behind her. The look she wore was one of determination Aro had hardly seen before. Aro grabbed her arm before she could leave the main room. "Where are you going?" Sarah pulled her arm from Aro's a bit stunned he'd stop her. "You know where I am going." Aro looked at her a moment his hand running through her hair. "Be careful, I promised him I wouldn't let you leave." Sarah nodded slowly before looking at Aro then at Justin. "Sam will come looking for me. Tell him I couldn't endanger the whole pack, and that I love him." Justin looked at her realizing he was no longer going along with her, but to the pack instead. "We will. You'll get to tell him that when you see him." Aro looked at Sarah before smiling slightly. "I have something for you. It's time someone has it again." Sarah nodded before following Aro into a side room.
A guard walked in carrying an outfit that was folded neatly. Aro picked it up from him then dismissed him hurriedly. He held it up for Sarah and smiled as she took it from him. Aro left her to change in privacy stopping when he returned into the room. She looked beautiful dressed in a leather dress with a sword drawn casually around her waist. It had been an old outfit of vampires that protected the Volturi. "You look beautiful; Victoria will definitely remember that outfit." Sarah smiled hugging Aro close for a moment thinking she may never get another chance. "Thank you Aro, for everything." Aro pulled out a small necklace from his pocket. "You are welcome always. Take this necklace and wear it always. If it enters my hand it again it shall be because you cannot wear it in front of me." Sarah looked down as she put the necklace on understanding. She removed all other pieces of jewelry forgetting her past.
"Tonight I shall no longer be who I once was Aro." Aro nodded looking at the jewelry she had thrown aside including the wolf necklace. He also noticed how she wore the black rose bracelet and two rings. "You remember only the ones left to love you. Tonight you are fighting for them and yourself not what was taken from you." Sarah nodded knowing he now understood why she had taken off her wolf necklace. "Revenge is an enemy fueled by hate that consumes everything it touches. Victoria is fueled by revenge and hate. I can't let my past conflict with what I do now." Aro smiled slightly before nodding. "You have learned so much from when I first met you." Sarah smiled before opening the door stepping out once again into the common room. The vampires eyed her seeing what she wore. No human had ever worn the seal of Aro himself around their neck before now. Sarah took off running following James' scent till it finally landed her outside the pack's territory.
Sarah rested as the scent became more apparent and then kept her eyes open. She didn't want to risk giving herself away too quickly. Though she knew that James would protect her she also knew Victoria wanted her dead. Finally she found James sitting alone and seemed unaware of her presence. She slowly walked over to him. "James?" James looked up at her surprised anger and worrying possessing him. "What are you doing here?" Sarah looked at him and sat next to him as he pulled her down to his level. "I came to help you to finally end all of this." James sighed looking around him wishing for once things had gone as planned. "I'm tracking Victoria here. You have to leave before she realizes you're here." Sarah shook her head hearing a few branches crunching in the distance. "James, it's too late for that. You've touched me gathering my scent on you, and she's close to where we are I can hear it." James stood up before seeing Victoria standing in front of them.
Sam heard that Aro and Justin had arrived and called the pack to meet them. They all sat down in the room waiting patiently for them to enter. Sam stood up too nervous to sit down and began to pace within the room. Finally, the door opened and he froze seeing Sarah wasn't with them. He forgot to act diplomatic and stared at Aro. "Where is she? If you harmed her in any way at all I swear to you." Aro looked at Sam and sighed. "She told us to bring you a message." Sam gritted his teeth while looking at them. "Tell me!" Justin took a step forward understanding most what Sarah had done. "She couldn't endanger the pack based on her own fault. Though she did nothing wrong no one in pack should risk their life to protect her. It's her wish that this be complied with. Also, she wanted us to tell you that she loves you." Sam looked at Justin and growled loudly unable to control his rage. "You let her leave!"
Sam grabbed his jacket from his chair and began to walk towards the door. Aro immediately stopped him and held him there. "You can't leave we need you here to decide Victoria's fate. I'll send Justin to go after her if you insist on someone going." Sam looked at Aro pulling himself free yet standing there reluctantly. "You would come here and hold me back in front of my own pack?" Aro nodded, looking at him. "Sarah is like a daughter to me. It's her wish you not go after her and I'll follow that order to the best of my capability, just as she would carry out orders for me." Sam gritted his teeth but looked up at Justin. "Don't come back without her even if you have to drag her here!" Justin didn't think twice about following the order and took off running unsure of where he was going. He waited then halted suddenly smelling the wind. Sarah's scent was faint but he knew what direction to run now.
Sarah looked up at Victoria and stood up. Victoria eyed Sarah and noticed her outfit a little surprised. "I see the vampires have made you their pet. No doubt James' loving idea for you." Sarah smiled slightly at Victoria putting her hand around her sword. "Actually, they have become my friends and are most dear to me." Victoria laughed noticing Sarah's grip on her sword. "You really think they love you? All you are to them is a pet a measly dog kept for show." Sarah gritted her teeth growling slightly. "Is that what you told my father as you killed him?" Victoria eyed her surprised by the venom in her voice. "Your father was a measly person who deserved death." James took a step forward only to be thrown aside against a tree. "You loved my father so much that you left a vampire for him. Tell me was he the dog or was it you for not having the guts to simply love him." Victoria eyed her strangely her eyes finally catching Sarah's necklace.
"You are a fighter for Aro himself, a warrior for him even though you are not a vampire. Why?" Sarah looked up at her realizing now why Aro had given her the necklace. It was his last show of affection he could give her. A simple honor he could not bring himself to tell her. "He finds me worth more than you'll ever grasp." Sarah withdrew her swore pointing it at Victoria. "Get out of here and never show yourself again or pay the price for it." Victoria laughed and walked toward Sarah. "I choose not to leave. No lousy dog is scaring me from what I want." Sarah felt the sword plunge into Victoria's chest before she realized she had done so. Victoria gasped pulling Sarah to her biting into her neck in a final act to end the bloodline of the pack. Sarah collapsed to the ground the venom mixing with her blood this time no one alive to save her from the affect. She knew now that revenge for Victoria had been won the more painful it was with every breath, though Victoria would never see her dream complete.
Justin scanned the area before he caught scent of so much blood. It thickened the entire air around him and soon he found James passed out against a tree. He had a nasty blow to the head, but he would live. Justin heard soft breaths and found Sarah lying on the ground close to unconsciousness. He looked at her and saw the wound on her neck knowing what had happened. Gently he picked her up and brought her as fast as possible back to the pack. He forced the doors open and a few pack members got out of his way immediately smelling the blood on Sarah's clothing. It was not her own, yet the stench of it resembled Sarah's own serious condition. Sam saw Justin carrying Sarah in his arms and stood motionless sure that she was no longer living as he had always feared. Justin laid her gently on the table then looked at Aro his breath panting and uneven. "Victoria has bitten her; she'll die unless you make her a vampire. For her sake please do this or I'll try to myself."
Sam looked up at Justin realizing that Sarah was still breathing. "You can't make her a vampire!" Justin growled slightly looking at him. "Do you want her to die?" Sam took a step back realizing there may be no other choice. "Keep her alive, but do only what is need to do so." Aro looked at Sarah and sighed tracing his fingers along the necklace he had given her. It would now mark the beginning of a new age as he made a female cross between a wolf and a vampire once again. He slowly cleaned the wound on her throat before pressing his lips to it. Aro carefully sucked out the venom that raced through Sarah's blood consuming it. A soft groan escaped Sarah as she felt a fire spreading through her body as Aro's teeth sank into her neck. He drank from her tasting the sweetness he could never before imagine. Sarah's eyes shot open suddenly as if awakened from a nightmare. She looked up at Aro and then across the room everyone remaining silent.
Justin remembered the moment he had first awakened to the world as what he was now. He slowly went up to Sarah and hugged her tightly to himself. The match in their body's temperature alarmed him slightly. "Relax, the painful part is over. You'll grow accustomed to how life shall be now." Sam looked up at Sarah not knowing what to say. The moment he had asked for her to live was the moment she could no longer be with him. "I'm so sorry Sarah." Sarah looked away from him unsure of what to say. She was now part vampire and forbidden on the pack's land. "I did all I could. Was it not enough to change how you see a vampire?" Sam looked down and removed the ring on Sarah's finger. "There are simply traditions we can't break." Sarah looked away then stood up off the table with a new strength. "Aro, I want to go home…I want to go home to live with the Volturi." Aro wrapped an arm around her nodding wishing things were different. "Justin will see to everything you need." The three of them took off headed towards Sarah's new home away from the pack and the one she loved. Justin sighed to himself recalling his own same journey. "Not all endings can be happy ones."