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JPOV

Four hours into Bella's change, and the pain that I was feeling from her was not what I had expected at all. I have witnessed many times over the pain of the transformation, the screaming and agony that comes with it. But I felt none of that from Bella. There was mild pain and confusion, but more discomfort than anything.

When I made the final bite into her ankle, I had laid down beside her prepared to take away as much of the pain as necessary. But I felt useless. She hadn't opened her eyes since I made the initial bite into her neck. She had given me a loving gaze, and then closed her eyes tight as if preparing for the onslaught of pain. But when I didn't feel the pain from her, I had hoped that she would open her eyes, let me know that she was ok. She hasn't. Bella has lain on the bed as still as can be, not a sound or movement from her.

After about an hour of that I had finally gotten up off the bed and was now pacing the room, stopping every couple of seconds just to kiss her forehead or hand, and let her know that I was here. Thirty minutes into her change Carlisle had left the room, to go tell everyone how well I had done, and that Bella seemed to be doing fine. Which was of course an understatement, comparatively she was doing great, I just wish I knew why she was doing so well. Carlisle promised me that I had done everything correctly, and that she seemed to be progressing well, that maybe this was just an upside to changing a witch.

I didn't want to argue with Carlisle, knowing that Peter had experienced all the normal pain, and agony of the transformation, so I just let it go, with him anyway. I could hear everyone downstairs talking, preparing to go out hunting, or play games, in Emmett's case. I tried to listen to them, while monitoring Bella's emotions, to try and take my mind off the worry a little. I sat down on the edge of the bed and took her hand in mine. I searched deeper into her emotions, as I have done every thirty minutes since she started the change, just to see if maybe she was somehow able to hide how great her pain was from me.

But as with every other time before, all I could feel was the usual pain from her. I… Oh Fuck!

"Carlisle! Carlisle!" I called for him loudly and quickly. I could hear him flying up the stairs, and then he flew into the room. Thank goodness we have vampire speed on our side, I couldn't have waited more than the half a second it took him to get up here.

"Jasper what's wrong?" He asked me frantically after giving Bella a quick once over and not noticing anything.

"I can't feel her Carlisle, her emotions are gone! I feel nothing from her!" I explained in the only way I could think of. How it was possible I wasn't sure.

"Her emotions are gone?" He questioned me. I was so scared and honestly dumbfounded, because this had never happened before, and for it to happen with Bella during her transformation… "Well she still looks ok. Her heart is still beating… I don't know what to say Jasper. This is the first time I have heard of anything like this happening." He stopped and we both stared at Bella.

"Asana…" It was just barely a whisper on her lips, but I knew I had heard correctly. What I couldn't figure out was how. She only ever saw Asana in her dreams, she was only ever with Asana in her dreams. She couldn't be dreaming now, could she?

BPOV

I had woken up when Jasper bit into my neck. The pain was not what I was expecting it to be, not anything like James's bite. The venom which I had expected to feel like fire rushing through my veins was cold as ice. It was an unexpected shock, but I held in my gasp. Instead I opened my eyes to look at Jasper one last time before succumbing to the pain of the transformation.

I closed my eyes tightly sure that this cold sensation wouldn't last for long. But again I was surprised. I expected the pain that I felt with James, the fire that I had heard about from everyone, the pain, intense as if being burned from the inside out. But so far that was not what I felt. With each new bite that Jasper made, the cold intensified. The cool venom filling my veins and feeling like it was freezing my blood, freezing my body. Was this just a weird side effect that would wear off after a little while, making way for the pain? I wasn't sure, so I kept my eyes closed and mouth shut just in case.

I knew that once the pain hit, and surely it would, it would take everything I had in me to keep quiet. There was only one vampire that I knew of that had managed that, and that was Carlisle. I hoped for Jasper's sake that I could be as strong as Carlisle. So that even if he had to feel the pain when it hit, he wouldn't have to hear it.

I waited, though I wasn't sure for how long, for the pain to come. All I have felt so far, is a little pain from the intense cold that I felt from the venom, but it was more discomforting than anything. I knew that a good amount of time had passed, I wasn't sure exactly how long though. I couldn't figure out why I wasn't feeling the pain. I could tell that it was disturbing Jasper as well, I could hear him pacing the room, stopping every time he neared me to let me know that he was still here. I had heard him speak his concerns, and mine, to Carlisle, but he didn't seem to be worried about it. He seemed to think that maybe it had something to do with me being a witch.

I didn't know what to think. All I knew what that this wasn't right. How could I feel the pain, the fire, with James, but not now with Jasper? Maybe Carlisle is right, that it is because I am a witch now, or at least that my powers are showing, I have technically always been a witch. Or maybe it is just because it is Jasper that is changing me. The prophecy foretold him changing me, so maybe this is why he had to be the one to do it. I just wasn't sure, and would probably never know the real answer to that question. But I wasn't going to get my hopes up that it would stay like this, that the fire wouldn't come at all. I kept my eyes closed, keeping myself prepared just in case.

"Isabella…" I heard her voice a whisper, quiet as the wind.

"Asana…" She was here as promised. I felt an absolute peace wash over me, and then I could feel nothing. I couldn't sense anyone's presence around me, I couldn't feel the venom running through my veins, there was nothing. I was so scared that I forgot that I didn't want to and opened my eyes.

I stared around speechless; I was no longer in the bedroom, lying on the bed. Where I was, I wasn't sure. But all around me I could see what seemed like clips of mine and Jasper's life, from the time that we were both born to just a few moments ago with him looking over me as I laid on the bed going through my change. What was this place? I tried to call out for Asana, sure that it was her who brought me here, but when I opened my mouth the words would not come out.

"I am here Isabella, do not be frightened of this place, it is a place of memories. What you see around you as you have already guessed is memories of both you and Jasper. They are not necessarily your memories, but ours, of watching you grow and change until now."

Again I tried to speak, to ask who she meant by ours, and why I was here, but again I could not get the words out.

"We are those who have watched over the both of you from the time you were born until now. There are those of us whose job it was to watch over Jasper, and there are those of us whose job it was to watch over you. We are your angels so to speak. Though the preferred name we give ourselves is guardians. You are here so that we may prepare you for when you wake."

How the hell did she know what I was going to ask? What is going on? Why can't I see her or these others that she spoke of? Jasper, he was going to be so worried, one minute I am lying next to him on the bed, and next I am gone. At least that must be what it seems like to him.

"Isabella, you must watch your language here dear, it is a sacred place. You cannot see me, as you are not meant to in this moment, nor are you meant to see anyone else. You are meant to see the past, the memories. Your thoughts are how we communicate in this place. Though it may seem to you that you are hearing me speak out loud, you are not. You are hearing me in your thoughts."

How is this possible, this is beyond my wildest dreams. "Asana, what about Jasper? I don't want him to worry." I actually thought my question at her this time, and waited on my answer.

"Look to your left Isabella. Look at the screen in the middle. That screen shows what is happening now. To Jasper you are still lying there going through the transformation. You physically have not gone anywhere. It is only in your mind that you have left that room."

I stared at the screen in front of me watching Jasper as he sat there beside me. He didn't seem to be overly worried, but there was concern showing on his face as he looked down at me. I couldn't tear my eyes away from the screen as I watched him watch me lie there.

"Isabella…" She brought me out of my trance of watching Jasper. "My dear we must get started. Your transformation will not take as long as they have told you, and we have much to share with you."

"It won't take as long? What do you mean?" There was so much about all of this that was confusing me. I was no longer scared, because I knew that Asana was here, but the confusion made up for that.

"Isabella, there is so much to explain. I know that you are thoroughly confused right now, but if you will be patient and let me start at the beginning, you will understand." I couldn't get any more confused right? And I trusted Asana. I didn't even get the chance to tell her this, and she started again.

"You are here in the place of memories. We have brought you here to show and tell you many things that you will need to know in the coming days, things that have great importance. You are going to be shown the full history behind the prophecy. You will also see the full history of those that we deem it necessary for you to know." She paused a moment letting this bit of information sink in. "What I need for you to do now Isabella, is for you to focus on the center screen again." I did as she asked and waited for her next instructions. "You will soon start seeing everything that has transpired from the moment the prophecy was seen. You will also learn spells that have been lost through time. When that is done, you will see yours and Jaspers lives up to this very day. It is a lot to take in, but it must be done."

As soon as she stopped speaking the images started flowing across the screen. I could hear what was going on, but everything was going very quickly. Just fast enough that I didn't have time to contemplate on what I was seeing, so there were many questions that were brought up. I watched as the scenes flew across the screen, images of people and places that I have never seen before, the conversations that they have had. I watched the images of Asana and everything she went through for her daughter to be born. I saw her daughter grow, and the descendants that she had. I got to see the Coven, I assumed, through the years as their numbers and powers grew. There were so many shocking and surprising revelations, things that many of the Coven members didn't know, or at least that they didn't share.

I watched as the images shimmered and Jasper's life flew by. The scenes that I watched from his human life were beautiful, filled with times with his family. The only thing that bothered me about those scenes was the person that I saw in the background of some of them. I wasn't sure who he was. I left it for a question to ask Asana later, and continued to watch his life until today. When the images shimmered again it was my life on the screen. I enjoyed seeing the good times with my mom, though many of them brought tears to my eyes. I watched as everything that had led us to this day transpired. There were things that I didn't catch before, and things that I enjoyed seeing again.

The screen in front of me shimmered and changed back to Jasper as a baby. "This is the day that Jasper was born, the day that we had all been waiting for. It was on this day that his path to becoming a vampire was set into place. If you will look closely at the scene in front of you, you can see someone looking into the window." I wasn't sure if she could see me or not, but I nodded, I had seen that man when the scene went by the first time.

"That person is a vampire, one of the many that worked in Maria's army at the time. He was a gifted vampire, with abilities similar to Alice's. Except he could see those that would be strong, and powerful from the day they were born. He saw Jasper, and Maria went with him to find Jasper. Once he was found, they kept watch as he got older." I watched as the screen flipped back through the many stages of Jasper's life, and always somewhere in the background was this stray vampire. I had seen him a few times, but not as many as they showed me. But if they had known that he and Maria were watching… no they wouldn't have just let it happen. "When Maria met Jasper that night on the road it was not by accident, it was her plan. She had waited, in her mind, long enough."

"You knew it was her plan? You knew and did nothing?!" I interrupted. I had been wrong, they did just let it happen. "You say you are the guardians, then shouldn't you have guarded him from that? He didn't have to go through all that torture, all that pain!" I knew it was rude, but how could they!

"Isabella! I know this fact upsets you, but you must understand…" She started, but I interrupted again.

"Understand what that you all watched him get attacked by Maria? That you watched her put him through hell? That you just sat up here and watched him get tortured and hurt, and almost lose his humanity?! How am I supposed to understand that?" I had never spoken this way to Asana before and though I felt a little guilty about it, there was no way that I could understand or accept that they had just let Jasper go through that.

"Isabella Marie!" I had never heard her that angry before, and that stopped all thought that was going through my head. "I know that this is hard but you must listen. We did not enjoy watching what Maria put him through, or the way that he became by being in her army those many years. But unfortunately we had to let it happen. If we hadn't he would never have become a vampire, would never have met Peter or Alice, never would have been able to find you! Before the day he met Maria on the road we went through every other option that we had or could come up with, but there were none that would put him on the path to you, on the path to fulfilling the prophecy. None except for the one that put him with Maria." By the time that she had finished the pain that was lacing her voice had caused my tears to overflow and run freely down my cheeks.

They had truly not wanted that for Jasper, but unless they gave up the prophecy, they had to let it happen. "It is true Isabella, it was not what we for Jasper, but we could not give up on the prophecy. We watched as he became a strong vampire, watched as he became the God of War, and protected him every time he got close to being killed. We made sure that as soon as Peter was able, he got the feeling to go to Texas. We knew that he would be the one to save Jasper from Maria's clutches."

It was so hard for me not to interrupt again, I had so many questions. But I knew that I needed to let her get through their story. "To say Maria was unhappy when Jasper left her would be an understatement. She went on a rampage, killing half of her army, and almost got herself killed. Though she is not the concern right now, we suggest that a close eye is kept on her. She worked very hard to make sure that she got Jasper in her army. We are surprised that she hasn't come after him yet. We cannot see her decisions, only what she is doing in the moment that we are watching her." I thought about this for a moment, but it only brought more questions to my mind. If Maria wasn't the concern right now, what is the point in telling me this?

"Jasper is a lot more powerful than even he knows. The vampire that led Maria to him felt it. Maria thought that Jasper had reached his full potential, so she didn't push him any further. This is where you must Isabella. Though he and the others will be training you, you must work with Jasper to build his gift, to help him reach his full potential. You must push him further than he has gone before. Push him as he will be pushing you." I looked at the screen with the present day Jasper as I thought about what Asana said. I wasn't sure how I was going to push him, but I hoped that when we started training that I would figure it out.

"As far as your questions I will answer what I can quickly so that we can move on. Our abilities to help out are limited, we cannot do anything physical, but we are able to put thoughts, so to speak, in the minds of those we choose. As with Peter, he already had the power of knowing, we just had to push that a little, and give him the idea that he needed to be in Texas. We had known one such as him would be coming for a long time. We just had to wait until he was ready. Though Jasper did not need our help a lot of the time, because he truly is the God of War, on the few occasions that he did we gave those who might have truly injured him the thought to go after someone else. The reason the story of Maria was important, was to warn you of a possible fight with her in the future, when you get past this one. But it was also to make you aware of Jasper, and how powerful he truly is." Well that answered most of my questions, but still left me with a few. I assumed these were the ones that she couldn't answer and didn't ask about them.

"We now must talk about you my Isabella. As I said before your change is much shorter than any other. The reason for this, and the difference in what you feel, is that you will be very different than any other vampire in history. I cannot tell you what the full differences are, but you are special Isabella, though I would hope that you already knew that. You will have all the abilities of a regular vampire, the speed, the strength, and the eyesight. Your body will have the impenetrable rock hard exterior like others, but that is where the similarities will end. You will need to prepare for this, because you will be a shock to yourself as well as others when you wake." I was already in shock, so it wouldn't just be when I woke.

"Your powers are going to be beyond anything ever seen before. But you must trust, trust in those who are trying to train you, and trust in those that it may seem impossible to." What did she mean? The only person that I thought it impossible to trust in right now was Edward, surely she didn't expect me to forgive and trust in him again so soon. "Yes Isabella, I mean Edward. You will need him for the fight that is to come. I know that especially for you and Jasper it will be hard to trust him again, but you must. It is essential." I wanted to tell her ok, that I would, but there was just no way I could do that right now.

"Our time here is coming to an end Isabella, but I have one last thing to say. Look at the screens." I did as she asked, and I watched as the screens I saw everything that had happened since the first day I saw the Cullen's flash across the screen. Everything from the first day in the school cafeteria, to the one with Jasper lying on the bed with me. "Never regret any moment since that first day. Edward may not have always used the best judgment, nor did he realize the true role that he played in this, but he brought you to Jasper. Edward loved you Bella, he is finally starting to love you the correct way, but it has taken him time and a lot of thought."

The screen in the center flashed to Edward alone, in the meadow where he had taken me. I watched as he sat in the grass dry-sobbing a look of pure anguish covering his face. I honestly felt bad for him in that moment. I had truly not realized how hard this had been on him. I was blinded by my anger at him for leaving, and my anger for the way that he acted, I never thought about how he might have truly felt. But I had a right to my anger, I had no reason to think that he might truly be upset. He had told me he didn't love me, that I wasn't good enough for him.

"Every thought that you have had is true Isabella. Sometimes it takes seeing the whole scene to be able to have an unbiased opinion. Try to forgive and move on Isabella, it is what is needed for the future. "

"For the future? What do you mean Asana?" I had been trying not to interrupt, but I couldn't see how me forgiving Edward or not forgiving him could make that big of a difference.

"I cannot give you the full details, but trust me on this Isabella, it does make a difference. Now our time has come to an end again. I want you to remember something for me Isabella, something I told you a short while ago. Love is the Key. Have and share as much love that you can Isabella, and soon you will figure out the meaning to that. Love is the Key to all my Isabella. Now we must send you back for the last few moments of your transformation. But remember all that I have said, and all that we have shared with you. We will be with you always. We love you Isabella." She whispered her last words to me, and everything went dark.

I realized, as I felt the presence of Jasper and Carlisle again that I was back. The cold running through my veins was much more painful now, and I could hear and feel my heart thumping rapidly trying to accept the cold venom. It took all that I had to not cry out from the excruciating cold, and just when I thought that I couldn't take anymore the pain was gone, but only momentarily. My entire body filled with a heat so powerful I thought that I had been lit on fire. I clenched my fists and arched my back to attempt not to scream, but a gasp escaped my mouth. I managed to keep my eyes closed tight as the fire dissipated, and I fell back onto the bed. The pain left my body, and I knew that my change was complete. I was about to open my eyes when I realized there was a strange sound and feel coming from my chest. But that couldn't be right, my heart should have stopped.

JPOV

When Bella's emotions came back, they came back with a vengeance. All I could feel from her was pain, it was excruciating, the pain I had been expecting throughout her entire change. I wanted to try and help her, but I was doubled over from the pain myself. There was a momentary lapse before the pain changed and was almost unbearable. I quietly called Carlisle and had just gotten to a standing position beside the bed when Bella's pain reached the high point and she arched her back letting out a small gasp.

It killed me that there was nothing that I could do, though it was only seconds later that I realized I was unneeded. As Bella fell back onto the bed the pain dissipated, and I could feel her relief that it was gone. I went to take a step towards the bed and suddenly felt her shock. I wasn't sure what could cause her to be shocked, but it was within seconds that I felt the same thing from Carlisle. I turned back to him, and as I did I heard it, a fast paced fluttering, like the wings of a bird, coming from Bella.

I couldn't form the words to ask how or why. It had only been twenty-four hours since I made the first bite, surely the change wasn't done yet, so maybe that was why her heart was beating so fast. But if the change wasn't done, where was the pain? Where was anything that comes with a change? I looked at Bella, trying to figure out what was going on, she still hadn't opened her eyes so maybe the change wasn't done yet.

As I looked her over, I noticed the changes that had already taken place that I was too worried about her to notice before. Even with her lying on the bed I could tell that she had gained a couple of inches, which only helped to fill out her already beautiful body more. Her entire body was more defined in areas that it shouldn't be possible. But what was strangely compelling was that any part of skin that was showing had a slight glow to it, not so much that it was distracting, but enough to add to her beauty. Her hair had also gained a few inches, becoming thicker, with a few natural curls added to it. But there was a surprising addition to it as well, there were gold streaks here and there mixing in just perfectly.

My eyes were moving to her face, I saved the best for last, when she slowly started opening her eyes. I was distracted by this fact, my mind still thinking that surely she was still going through the change, and I stopped all examining of her changes thus far. I could still feel the shock coming from her, as her eyes opened and she sat up on the bed. I wasn't sure how to react, not even sure if I could have moved to react, had I known how. I knew why Carlisle and I felt the shock, but I wasn't sure why she was. Neither of us had ever seen anything like Bella before, the small amount of time that she went through her change, her still having a heartbeat?!

She slowly turned her entire body moving fluidly as she moved, and our eyes met. A sound, I am not even sure what it was left my mouth as I looked into her eyes. I heard Carlisle let out a small "ohh" and I knew that he saw the same thing that I did. A newborn vampire usually had blood red eyes, but Bella, I just couldn't believe it. Her eyes as they met mine were the purest gold that I have ever seen. Ours may be considered gold by some, but they were nothing compared to Bella's. I opened and closed my mouth a few times, attempting to say something, but I couldn't form words to get them out.

I knew there were things I should be saying, hell someone needed to say something, but it didn't seem like Carlisle or I were going to succeed on that anytime soon. We both just continued to stare at her, completely befuddled as to how she was like this. Everything that happened next, I am sure that she instigated, I am just not completely sure how. She raised her hands which had been sitting on the bed beside her, and a smile broke out across her face. The way her face lit up with that smile I couldn't help but smile back, and I am sure Carlisle felt the same. But what I felt coursing through my body quickly wiped the smile off my face and left me confused.

Heat, that was the only way to explain what I felt, an enormous amount of heat, the likes of I haven't felt since I was human standing in a very hot shower, was coursing through my body. If it hadn't felt so strange, it would have actually been exhilarating to feel warmth like this again. It lasted for a few minutes, but when she let her arms down it dissipated. I looked to Carlisle, who seemed to have the same dumbfounded expression on his face that I felt, and turned back to Bella. In one swift movement she was off the bed and standing in front of me.

She took my hand and held it up to her face. The temperature of her skin, was not what I had expected, nor was it what I had expected. It was hot, at least ten degrees warmer than what it was before her change. Something had to have gone wrong, none of this was right!

"Jasper, my love, nothing is wrong. Everything is more right than you can imagine. What you and Carlisle felt moments ago, is what I feel. I wanted to show you what I felt, to hopefully help you understand. This is the way it was always meant to be, it was explained to me, in not so many words. I will explain to you in due time, but now I believe that you and Carlisle have many questions for me. I will answer the first one for you, in case you haven't figured it out yet. My change is complete." Her voice a trilling bell now, resounded through the room as we both just gawked at her, not even knowing where to start.


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