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The main antagonist in Eclipse is Victoria. While she is suspected to be behind the newborn vampire attacks in Seattle, she stays in the shadows and Alice fails to forsee her in the attacks. Near the end, they realize too late that Victoria is coming after Bella to kill her to get back at Edward for him killing her love; a vampire named James. While she sends the newborns after the rest of the Cullens family and the werewolves to keep them occupied, Victoria and one other newborn go after Edward and Bella who are hiding a while away from the main encounter. After they find Edward and Bella, Victoria thinks that it will be very easy for her to distract Edward with the newborn and then go for the kill on Bella. Seth, one of the werewolves, comes out of nowhere and hurts the newborn and goes on to fight him while Edward takes on Victoria. The biggest advantage that Edward had over Victoria was that he could read her mind and so he could easily keep up and out manuveur her while they were fighting. In the end, Edward kills her after she makes the fatal mistake of turning her back to him. She is then dismembered along with the newborn that was killed by Seth and then burned so that she will not live again. Sad ending, especially considering that she was trying to get revenge for someone that she loved.

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Another member of the Cullens vampire family is Rosealie. Rosealie, or Rose as most of the family calls her, is one the oldest members of the family, made a vampire by Carlisle after Isme (Carlisle's wife) and Edward. She is said to be a very beautifule vampire and almost just as beautiful when she was human back in the 1930's. One of the things that Rose doesn't get is how Edward would fall in love with a human such as Bella and not even consider her. Back, way before the beginning of the first book, when Rose was just starting to become a more mature vampire, she made several advances on Edward, although none of them worked and she eventually fell in love with another man, Jasper, who she had Carlisle turn into a vampire after he was severely hurt in a car accident. Another record that Rose is very proud of is that she has one of the "cleanest" records out of the whole family; only 8 murders and no blood drinking. The 8 murders consisted of a rampage she went on after she was turned into a vampire to get revenge on her fiancee who almost killed her in the street while he was drunk with some of his friends. She tries a few times to discourage Bella from becoming a vampire, but is overall indifferent and thinks life for everyone in the family would be easier if Bella was a vampire instead of a fragile human that they all have to take extraordinary lengths to protect her from threats from the vampire world.

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Another friend of Bella's is part of Edward's family. Her name is Alice. One thing that Alice is good at is predicting the future of planned events. She has a foresight ability that comes in handy when the rest of the family needs to know something that might be helpful to avoid any unnecessary confrontations. Another funny usefullness of her ability is when she is playing chess or any other kind of board game; she is able to predict her opponents moves for every move that she makes and is able to counter every one of them giving her a completely unfair advantage. One weakness that is very annoying to the rest of the vampires and very useful for Jacob and the rest of his werewolf (we established that they are shapeshifters, but it is just easier to refer to them as werewolves) since Alice cannot predict what happens to anything that werewolves get involved in. Another characteristic of Alice is that she is very fashionable and loves to get involved with any kind of parties and get-togethers that they plan. One thing that really gets Alice going is a graduation party that she wants to throw for Bella to celebrate her first graduation from high school. Another time that really annoys Alice is when she sees that Edward and Bella are going to get married and aren't telling anyone about it. She begs Bella to let organize a more proper wedding and outfit everyone, which Bella finally concedes to.

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One of Bella's friends in Eclipse, and throughout the entire series, is a native american named Jacob. Jacob has an unusual power. He can turn into a wolf whenever he wants to. Most of the wolves that are dangerous to vampires are werewolves. The difference between what Jacob and the rest of his tribe are and what a real werewolf is that a werewolf cannot choose when he wants to turn into a werewolf. He has to be exposed to a full moon and has no control over what he does while he is a werewolf. The fact that Jacob and the rest of his tribe can turn into wolves is, according to the Volturi, just coincidence. The Volturi regard the tribe more as shapeshifters rather than werewolves due to the key fact that the can consciously choose when they want to become the animal they can transform into. Another difference between Jacob and his tribe is that one of the girls in his tribe is able to transform into a wolf. Not something you see everyday and it would be very awkward being the only female shapeshifter in your new group of friends. Jacob is a good friend of Bella's and got to know her right after she moved to Washington. Although he and Edward do not get along very well, they do cooperate very well and work together to make Bella happy.