AN: Hello and Welcome to my next story! This is actually going to end up as a book one day. I hope you all enjoy this journey!

Chapter 1: Introductions

I was born into…. Oh! Wait! I should probably Introduce myself, I'm Sharia and I'm here to tell you my story. I will explain more about myself later. Now as I was saying….

I was born into a small band, or as I like to call it a "pack", of hybrids. We are a cross between vampires and werewolves, and if you don't know what a werewolf or a vampire is then we have some problems. There are very few of us around; three packs of one hundred-fifty each, our small pack of thirty-two, and a few strays here and there. Unlike pure werewolves we choose when we change, or "phase", into wolves. We also don't need blood to live, unlike pure vampires, so we live on normal "human" food. My pack lives in a small Irish town, and we fit in perfectly with the humans around us because we look and act so alike.

Our pack consists of eight elders, who have been together from the start of our pack. There are six sets of parents, each have two kids…. I think. Then there's us kids, a total of twelve…. Six are complete trouble makers. Here let me introduce you to some of them. I'll start with the elders that I spent most of my childhood with, then I'll introduce you to my friends.

Our most important elders include; Granny Sharia, Papa Mitch, and Angel. Angel, or Angelica, is our most important elder. She is the one who brought us together and taught us how to coexist. She has also taught us kids many things, but we still have a lot to learn. Papa Mitch, or Mitchell, is Angel's twin brother. He spends his time looking after us kids.

Well my friends include Katrina, Trish, Kollin, Mark, and Matthew. Katrina's cool and all, but I don't like her very much. She's the preppy one in the group. Trish is a twin. She's ok, but way too quiet for my liking. Kollin is one of my closest friends, and I spend a lot of my time with him Mark is my favorite person in the group because I have a small crush on him, BUT now is not the time to get into that. The last friend in the group is Matthew, who is also a twin. He's cool, but I don't spend all that much time with him. Now that you know most of the people I spent most of my childhood with it's time for me to tell you a little bit more about myself.

They had settled in a small Irish town long before most of us kids were born. I would come to call this place home for only a short part of my long life. I was born March 18th, I was born a month early. I have long strawberry blonde hair and bright emerald green eyes. I was rather tall for my age, standing five foot five inches tall, I never did get any taller. I was also very thin for my height, weighing only a hundred pounds. I was the fastest in our group, but I was also the youngest. I was called Sharia by our parents and elders, but they only did that when I was in trouble though. I was named after my mother's mom, Granny Sharia. When I wasn't in trouble they called me Shy Shy. My friends call me Hope, well Mark calls me Lil' Hope. I'm told that I'm called that because I'm always hopeful for a new adventure, even though I had never really strayed out of my backyard. Well, at least not until my tenth birthday. After that I could go where ever I wanted.