A/N: So, I've never really written anything before…so could you take it easy on the criticizing.

The legend of the First Shifter

Chapter 1

? POV (2014)

For years, we were told stories of the only known female shape shifter. She was the very first, so imagine our surprise when only males changed. I always thought it was a myth, since no one I know has ever met her. That was until she showed up in our dreary little town in Washington.

BPOV (1901)

I walked into my house in Biloxi, Mississippi.

"Karen? Are you home, I just got back from my run-"

I was abruptly caught off by the scene I just walked in on. My wife, Karen, was tied to the chair in the middle of the room with a gag in her mouth, passed out.

"Oh my God, Karen! Karen…..damn, what happened here?"

"Baby?! No, you have to leave, get out before they come back!" Karen shouted, though I couldn't really understand what she said with the gag, huh I don't remember her waking up. I walked up to her and pulled the gag off. Right when I was about to untie her I heard someone coming from the woods behind the house.

"Karen, I will come back for you, I promise."

"It doesn't matter, I'm dying, they took the baby out of me and I'm losing too much blood. I don't have much time, and we both know I'm not your mate. Just promise me you will find our daughter."

"I will, what is her name?"

"Alice, Mary Alice Brandon."