Chapter 1
My name is Isabella Swan and I am 16 all most seventeen and I have long mahogany hair that is soft and wavy with deep dark chocolate brown eyes. I am 5 foot 9 and still growing I have the figure that most girls my age would kill or die for and I do not even try to have it. I have to move since I can no longer stand the heat and have not seen my dad in five years.
Here I am going to live with Charlie, my dad. I do not want to leave this city but I just can no longer take this heat. I love Phoenix and will miss living here but when your body temp is 108 degrees it is not a fun place to live. Why is my temp so high you might ask? Well you see I am a shifter I can change into a giant panther. Now I have no clue as to why or how I can do this but I have a feeling that I can find my answers where my dad lives in the small town of Forks. I do believe that somewhere in that area I will find the answers I am looking for if not then at least it is colder there than it is here. Renee, my mom, does not know and cannot find out about it at all since I found out that her family has never been animal fans so I do not think the ability to become one is from here family. Even as I sit here I think about how she wanted me to stay and travel with her and Phil since I am on summer vacation. They are planning on hiking in the some of the hottest places around here and going to Texas so no I cannot go with them and they have yet to have a honeymoon so this can be a late honeymoon for them.
So here I am in a plane that is about to land to see my dad and stay with him until I finish school and since I am starting my junior year this fall then that means two more school years here with him. Then there is collage I will find something in the north as well maybe in this area so that I can visit on break and he can see me more as he works most days and some nights. He is Chief of Police of the small town and takes his job to the extreme he even had a state of the art security system in at his house and on his cruiser and truck that he has, I hope he lets me drive the truck to school and not drop me off in the cruiser. I remove my headphones from my ears as the plane lands and put my iPod in my pocket. As soon as I can, I get my carry-on bag and get off this death trap they claim to be safe. I hate flying and no matter how safe they claim it to be I will never be happy when flying. I collect my bags and go to find my dad. He was not hard to find as he drove the cruiser to pick me up. We do not talk much while we put my things in the trunk and head home just the regular stuff like; you look taller, wow I see you got over that klutz stage, and how have you been these last five years.
That all changed when we got in the car. "Bella I think it is time for you to hear some of the Swan family legions," he said as soon as the doors where closed. "Family legions why now I mean is there any reason for now?" I ask him.
"Yes there is a reason and I think you should know since you might become part of the family secret if so then I need to talk with Billy Black to see if there are any Wolves to help you. He does not know that I know his tribes legions and know that there is in fact three Wolves right now and you might become a feline shifter and as seeing as I am not a shifter then you will need someone to help you and there is no Swan shifters alive right now to help you," he answered.
"I am one already Dad see last year during Homecoming at school I was walking out behind our house like I always do when I caught wind of some weird scent that made me explode and become a huge panther. I had no clue what was going on but a lady came and told me that her mother had been a shifter but a wolf shifter and she could help me understand what had happened and since then I have been trying to figure out how and why I am a shifter. So can you just tell me the legions and not have to tell Billy about me unless you want to let him know that is since I do not plane on causing and trouble while I am here," I tell him and he laughs.
"You not cause trouble have you forgotten that trouble finds you? I think it is time for him and his people know that there is other family's out there that are shifters and not all are Wolves. By the way I think Jake will be one in a year or so he is starting to show a few tall tell sings like the amount he eats for one," he jokes. I cannot even think about my old childhood friend Jacob Black becoming a shifter he was too nice to be one he all most never got mad and anger is how most phase for the first time. For me I had caught wind of a cold one or vampire the natural enemy of shifters and that triggered the shift not my temper. I can now phase at will and I love it to tell you the truth I really do. There is nothing like feeling the wind fly by and feel the dirt under your paws I love the feeling and love to run.
"I just hope he does not give in to the anger that comes with the change I had a hard time with that I all most shifted in front of my school once and it was not fun knowing that I need to take anger management classes. I told Renee that I wanted to learn how to help people that got angry easily and learn to control what small temper I had as well. So she paid for the classes and I now have extreme control over my shifting," I told him.
"That was a smart thing to do Bella. I know that anger was one of the triggers of the change but did not know that once changed the temper will flare more and that anger came with it. I knew that some would shift more and they had less control over their temper but more control over their actions as a feline when phased. See there are many forms you could have become all most every big feline was a possibility for you to become. Your great grandma the one you are named after was a panther like you as well. So it seems you are more like her than we had thought. She had kept her last name and had her husband change his name since he was the youngest of seven boys and she was the only Swan child at the time and she stayed the last until she had three sons. Sadly only you and I are left of our family of shifters and I cannot shift," he said.
"So what can I expect with being a shifter that lady only helped me find out what I was and how to return back to human form. I do not know much but I would like to learn and I really want to run when we get to the house is there any one that live in the woods behind the house? If not then I can run there and let off some of the energy that I have built up form not running in a few days," I tell him and I am not joking I have not been on a run in a few days. Since mom would not let me out of her sight until it was late and I could not go out.
"Not for a long ways in for there is one house in those woods and a doctor bought it last year before school started and he and his wife have five adopted children. So as long as you stay away from their house then you can run all you like I would not like the have to hunt down my own daughter just because she was spotted near someone's house as a panther. It is strange though they move here and the Wolves appear in the area I do not know what that means but I am not that fond of the family since I know that Billy does not trust them and he has a good judge of people," he said. Could it be that they are vampires?
We get to the house and I unload, unpack, and tell dad I am going on a run and he tells me to be back by dark. I laugh at that, head into the woods, strip, and place my clothing in a bag that I tie around my back leg and shift. When I am done, I run and run fast. This is the first time I have ever ran in a forest and I love it more than back in the bush with cacti at every turn I hate it I would be running and then ouch a cactus turn in my paw. As I am running hear I come across a scent that gives me chills, vampire. I slow down and follow it until I get to an old Victorian Manson. It is a beautiful home and I smell seven vampires living there and can see three of them right now. So there is three females to this clan of cold ones. I would love and see how many females there are but a forth one just came out and he is the size of a bear and I do not wish to be found hear on the edge of their yard, so I leave and continue with me run. I find a beautiful meadow in the woods just outside of town and smell vampire hear as well. I shift back, get dressed, and walk into the meadow. I sit in the middle and start to eat some of the food I had packed back at the house.