Authors note: I don't own any of the Twilight Characters. We have Stephenie Meyer to thank for bringing them into our lives.

Chapter 1 – Something is coming

'Would you get your hands off me Call. Geez,' Leah was fuming now.

'Well, you were about to fall flat on your face, Leah. But fine! Break your nose for all I care.' I let her go and she immediately lost her balance and fell off the branch and onto the ground. I couldn't help but laugh.

'Shut up! Whose stinking idea was it to climb a tree anyways'

'I never told you to climb it,' I jumped down and looked at her. She was pulling small twigs and leaves out of her hair and giving me the evil eye.

'Let's just go back to the rez,' she already turned around and run off, probably to hide before she took her dress off to phase. I didn't bother with that, just stripped my sweats off and bound them around my ankle. I ran and phased midstride, grinning widely. This would absolutely never get old.

I ran fast, back towards the reservation we called home. Home to the Quileute tribe, the wolf tribe. It was only last year we found out that the myths and legends were all true, and that's when we started turning, one by one. Sam was the first, big guy that Sam Uley, huge wolf too. Then Paul and Jared and I was forth, after that others followed as well, Jacob, Quil, Leah and Seth. We had a big pack now, eight wolves in total. The biggest a pack had ever been before this was three wolves. But never before was the area so swamped with leeches.

Yeah, I chuckled as I ran, leeches. Those bloodsucking monsters killed humans and we got to kill them. It was fun, would be more fun if they didn't stink as bad as they did though. But heck, it was a thrill. I wasn't complaining, even though it would be my job for years to come. But the perks! The speed and fast healing, the phasing at will, nice body heat and now I had brothers in the package deal as well.

Yeah, being an only child had never really agreed with me. Ever since I was a child, when I would go home with friends and see their big families, I would get jealous. Of course I loved my mom, but still, just the two of us could get kind off lonely. But now that had changed, wolves were tightly bound to each other, I mean we could read each other's minds. We were brothers in every sense of the word, even sharing genes.

And one sister. I looked at Leah running ahead of me, that was the surprise of the century. The legends spoke only of guys having the gene and turning once leeches occupied the area. Never before had there been a girl.

'Could you shut up!' Leah glared back briefly and snarled at me.

'Yeah Leah, just random thoughts is all.'

'Keep them away from me.'

That was Leah Clearwater for ya, I thought. The only girl in the history of the tribe to phase and boy, were we glad about it. It wasn't that bad that we could hear each others thoughts and worries and had no secrets whatsoever. But now we had to deal with a girl, who worried about her fertility! I rolled my eyes. Leah was worried about her fertility, really worried! Wolves stopped aging as soon as the gene kicked in and so she stopped aging too, and stopped bleeding monthly. All of it stopped, she was frozen in time like us. Although our swimmers actually worked.

'CALL! Quit thinking about me you big pup! Or I'll kick you where it matters and make sure your swimmers won't work anymore!'

I laughed loudly, it sounding more like a bark in my wolf form. At that Leah growled and sped up, widening the distance between us. Yeah, Leah was well, not that friendly lately. It had been only a couple months ago that she had phased for the first time and finally figured out why Sam had broken up with her.

Oh yeah Sam, our Alpha wolf and Leah had been together all through high school, they were tight. But when Sam's gene kicked in, he had phased and as soon as Leah's cousin Emily was visiting, he was hit over the head. Yeah he fell for her, fast too. Apparently it's a wolf thing, 'imprinting'. Like love at first sight- only way, way stronger then that.

Yeah that was the one thing about being a wolf I didn't like. I just didn't like the idea of not being able to choose who you loved. All my brothers couldn't wait to imprint, they thought I was being weird. They saw the love that Sam and Emily shared and it was really nice, they were so in tune with each other, so perfect. I could understand wanting that kind of connection with somebody, but with somebody I picked, not somebody picked for me.

So Leah was pissed about that, she had been pissed ever since Sam broke up with her so suddenly and knowing why didn't help. She was still pissed off. Although I understood that, she could look into his mind now and that couldn't be nice. I mean it drove us all nuts, it was like Emily's face was plastered all over his grey matter and seeing her through his eyes, didn't help neither. Giving us all a little crush on her.

We got to the edge of the reservation and I caught up with Leah, who was already phased back and wearing her dress again. I quickly phased and put on my sweats as I hopped to her.

'For crying out loud, is it necessary to flash me every time you phase. You aren't that pretty you know.'

I just grinned at her and walked up toward Emily and Sam's place, hearing my brothers inside already. I laughed as I walked in, seeing they were all watching 'Die Hard' again, like we didn't spend last night watching all three movies.

As we walked in Leah took an apple and stood near the door. I grinned at Emily as I took one of her famous homemade muffins and flopped on the couch next to Jared. As soon as I focused on the TV, Sam shut it off. 'Hey, I just got here!'

He smiled, 'It's a DVD Embry, we'll watch later. Tell us what the two of you found out.'

'Well, the sightseeing leech was right', I started giving the report of our recon mission. 'There have been a lot of different leeches in the area, their scents making obvious paths all eventually leading north. None of them led to the Cullen's place.'

'Most of them were going in circles, like they were trying to confuse us', Leah intervened as she walked toward us. 'But there was one trail that went north in a straight line, so we followed it and found an abandoned cabin. The trail wasn't fresh and nobody was there any more.'

I simply nodded, eating my muffin. 'Yeah, at least eight different scents in total.'

Jacob stood up and stretched, 'I'm going to the Cullen's to tell them what's up.'

He started walking out of the house when Seth jumped up and followed him and Leah rolled her eyes. The rest of us just laughed, everybody knew Seth admired Jacob like a big brother.

'Why don't I make you boy's some popcorn and you can finish the movie?', Emily laughed at the howls she got in response.

I settled on the couch, ready for the movie when Leah walked to the door and disappeared outside. Muttering a 'be right back', I stood up and headed outside after her.

'Hey! Leah! Wait up a second!'

'Call, I had to be in your head all morning, what is it that you could possibly want to say now'

I walked up to her and shook my head.

'I just wanted to apologize for all my thought this morning, I – I had no business pondering over the fact that you're the only female wolf.'

She crossed her arms and her nose wrinkled up, like she smelled something foul.

'Right, you had no business whatsoever! But then again you boys never do. It's not like I want to look inside all of your heads, it's not really a choice now is it. And I have to listen to all the degrading things you think about me! How I must be a freak to have phased as a girl, how I need to get over things with Sam and how you don't want me in the pack. I'm sick and tired of hearing your thoughts! I'm sick and tired of you!'

I couldn't do anything but stare at her after that last part. I mean yeah, Leah isn't the nicest person around. But to come flat out and tell me she's sick and tired of me, that stung.

Leah's face softened up for just a second, but it was over so fast I thought I must have imagined it. And then she turned around and took off towards her house.

What the hell was all that about? My fists clenched and I got pissed instantly, yeah it never took much to set off a young wolf. I took off running, got to the first lines of trees and phased right out of my shorts, cursing the fact that I hadn't taken a second to take them off. I ran, not that I hadn't been going at it all morning already, but now I needed the run, to shake off the feeling Leah had left in my gut. Christ! I thought, you know she isn't nice, why is this bothering you so much?

'Embry, man that you?'

'Hey Seth. Yeah, it's me, sorry, needed the run'

I could sense that Seth wanted to know the hows and whys and I made a habit of not trying to hide anything from my brothers, so I re-lived the last scene with Leah. Seth cringed, he knew his sister was still heartbroken and he was having a hard time dealing with her attitude as well. He felt responsible, he was always apologizing for everything she did.

'Embry, man I'm ….'

'Don't even think about apologizing,' I quickly threw it at him.

'Naw, I won't. I know how you can't stand that but still, she had no right to lash out like she did'

I laughed in my head, 'Well, that's Leah isn't it'

We were quiet for a while and I changed directions to run toward Seth.

'Hey, where is Jake btw?'

'He phased back, talking to the Cullen's in their backyard'

Seth showed me what he was looking at and again I thought this mind-sharing thing was so cool. I could see Jake standing in the backyard of the huge white house and he was talking to the Cullen's, Bella was there too. I could see it all as clear as if I were to stand there myself, I could hear them talking too, through Seth. Wicked, I grinned as I ran faster towards them, still wanting to be there for…well just in case. They were still a bunch of leeches after all.

'Embry I don't wanna pry, but why are you still being so nice to Leah?'

That was Seth for ya, always asking questions that I had no idea how answer. I mean, I know I wanted to be nice to Leah because she was the only girl, I figured it must be hard on her. And since she really didn't have any friends in the pack, except her brother, who I can imagine, you can't tell everything to, I wanted to be her friend. I wanted to be the one she came to and talked to and…what the hell was I thinking? Every shot I gave at being friendly, being her friend, being nice…she just shot me down. She gave most of the pack members a rest, except Sam. She was always lashing out at Sam.

'And she's always lashing out at you too,' Seth interjected

I nodded, only realizing that now.

'But I'm the only one besides you that tries to be nice to her, she has nothing to gain by lashing out at the others. They ignore her already, maybe that's just what she wants me to do. To ignore her'

I contemplated the thought for a minute before shrugging it off. I ran up to Seth and hit him happily on the head with one of my paws.

'Hey pup!'

'Shut up!'

I laughed a barking laugh and suddenly saw everybody in the clearing looking at me. Jake laughed and waved us over, so we both walked out into the clearing still in wolf form. There was no way all three of us were phasing back and being vulnerable, we didn't trust the leeches that much.

Jake grinned at us

'Guess what?' and he pointed to the little leech with the dark hair. 'They say just about three more weeks and we get to see some action.'

As Seth and I let out a happy howl and Jake laughed while the faces of the leeches turned sour.