Chapter 1
Chapter 1
I walked down the beach by La Push waiting for the people from the Forks High School to come and have their annual beach party. I stopped and looked out into the ocean. It looked cold and it was cold out… supposedly. But I was a werewolf and as everyone knows werewolves' temperatures are always around 108.9 so we never get cold.
After a few minutes I decided that I would go for a swim so I took off all my clothes excluding my boxers and carried them into the forest. I dropped them off near an old tree and then went up to the cliff. I pushed my long black hair away from my right eye. Then I jumped off the cliff into the raging water below. Thankfully I was very strong so I was able to swim my way to the top of the water.
I was going to just float around for a minute but I heard voices coming from the beach as soon as my head hit the surface so I quickly swam to the edge of the water and climbed out. I grabbed my clothes and put them on and ran for the beach weaving through all the trees in the way.
When I was halfway there I hit my head on a tree branch. "Stupid height" I thought. It wasn't all easy being a werewolf because for one thing I was 6'7 so it was hard to duck under stuff. Once I regained my composure I started running again.
When I got to the beach I saw Sam Uley, Jared, Paul and Embry. There was one more person who should have been there with them but had run away almost a month ago. My friend Jacob Black. I hoped that they had all just come for the beach party but the look on Sam's face told me other wise. I walked over to them and asked.
"Is there something urgent going on in La Push or do u like looking worried for no reason?" Embry started laughing at my question but then Sam just looked at him and he immediately stopped.
"We don't have times for your jokes Quil. There is a very powerful vampire around but no one can tell exactly were it is. All anyone knows is that it was headed in this direction. So with our luck it will come and try to get Bella and we promised Jacob we would protect her." Sam said. Jared walked forward and leaned over to my ear.
"You and I were assigned to go over to see if the bloodsuckers who live in town know anything." He whispered. I turned to Sam when he finished talking.
"Why would you send JARED instead of EMBRY? THEY might feel more threatened because you're sending someone they DON'T know as well!" I shouted in Sam's face.
"Good point." Sam said. Then he turned to Embry. "Would you like to go instead?" He asked politely. Embry looked at him confused for a few seconds then he quickly looked at me so I nodded yes. Then he turned back to Sam and said.
"Sure why not." Sam looked kind of stunned at his response but once he regained his composure he said. "Okay so tomorrow after school Quil and Embry shall go over to the Cullen's residence and seeing if they know what is going on." He said. As soon as he finished talking all the people from Forks came crowding down to the beach. I automatically started looking for Bella.
When I found Bella she was surprisingly alone. I walked over to her. "Hi Bella, where is Edward?" I asked her. The treaty was off for the night because Sam had wanted to talk to Edward but didn't want to have to go to the Cullen's side of the border. "Hi Quil, He um couldn't be here because it's to bright out. He'll be down when the sun goes down though. I think." She told me. Then she started walking away. "Wait Bella come see the rest of us Quilleutes. Sam wants to talk to you really badly." I said as I put my hand on her shoulder. "Um well I guess it would be okay." She said.
I walked over to where the pack was. Every so often checking if she was following. "Hey Sam guess who I found all by their lonesome." I said once I got to the pack. He looked around me and saw Bella. "Bella, just the person I wanted to see. Have any of your precious vampire friends told you anything about a wandering vampire." He asked her. She looked at him kind of stunned. "No I, I, I haven't heard anything about another vampire around here. I Th, Th, thought that you ch, ch, chased them all a, a, away." She said sounding scared and crying at the same time. But Bella knew exactly what they were talking about. She also knew who it was and what they wanted.
The Volturi were coming to get her cousin Jonathan. He was only 13 but he was a new born vampire. "Oh well we need to talk to Edward as soon as he comes so we ask that you stay with us until then so that he has to come talk to us." Sam said. Soon enough it was dark and everyone was sitting around the campfire telling scary stories.
In the middle if a story Angela was telling about vampires Edward just happened to show up. He came over to where we were sitting. Sam turned around as Edward came up behind us and told him that they had to speak privately. Edward was obviously reading Sam's thoughts because he looked at him in disgust but finally he said. "Okay let's get this over with." Then he started walking into the forest with Sam following closely behind him.
Once they left I saw someone else come into the clearing. I had never seen him before and he looked to young to be here. He looked around for a minute. Then his eyes seemed to lock onto Bella and he started walking over to us. "Hi Bella." The kid said as he sat in between me and Bella. "Hi John. Um what are you doing here? I thought I said you were supposed to stay at home." She said looking back and forth between me and him. He looked at me at me then turned back to Bella. "Um Uncle Charlie said that there was something very important that you and Edward have to do back at home." He told her.
Bella looked around him at me. "Quil could you go get Edward for me. John here says there is something important at home for me to do." She said to me. "And who exactly is this John?" I snapped back. He smelled really badly of vampire. But it could just be from hanging around the Cullen's to long. I needed to make sure he was human. "He's my cousin come over from Canada to see me." She said. I could tell she was getting mad at me. "Ugh I'll go find him." I said. Happy to get away from the stench. I stalked off into the forest listening for voices.
I could hear Edward's voice but I couldn't hear Sam's. His voice seemed very far away. I figured Sam had phased just incase Edward tried to attack. I took off my pants and tied them around my ankle. Once they were secure I phased. Automatically I thought "Are there any other werewolves around." I waited for a 'voice.' When I finally heard one it was not the person who I expected. It was Jacob. "Hey Quil there are no other werewolves around so I have a message for you." His 'voice' said.
Jonathan's Story
Carlisle had changed Jonathan because he had been in a terrible car crash and no one had expected him to live. Bella had begged and begged Carlisle to save her cousin in any way possible. Even if it meant eternal damnation. So Carlisle had snuck into the hospital and grabbed him and went home. He changed Jonathan that night so that he couldn't change his mind. In the morning he had told everyone at the hospital that he had died in the night and Carlisle had cremated poor Jonathan because he didn't want anyone to see him in his disastrous state.