A/N- EXPLANATION! I am sooooooo sorrrrry for getting your hopes up that I FINALLY updated on my story... I'm just breaking this one into chapters instead of that huge long one... But because I must have REALLLY disappointed you guys and haven't updated in forever, I'll finish this up... I'll be up late tonight LOL oh well -^^-

Disclaimer: I do not own The Darkest Powers Series

Chapter One

CPOV-

How many movies have you seen of a werewolf or books you've read about them? I know that I have been doing a lot of research on this topic lately. Not for what I'm guessing you're thinking, not because I want to know more about Derek….. I mean don't get me wrong, of course I want to know more about him, he's so, I don't know, secretive about his past life, and its killing me not to know. But no, not for Derek, not just for fun, because…. Well, I guess I should say…. I got bit…. Yeah. It still stings two.

It happened like this, I was just sitting out in the woods outside of the safe house, down by the river when I totally black out. I wake up at least an hour later when it's dark out, with a flaming feeling inside me and an agonizingly painful cut on the back of my hand. With a closer look, it is a bite; I look around to see large paw prints trailing into the deeper part of the woods. It wasn't Derek; I know that for a fact, he still hasn't changed yet so that's impossible. I still don't know who it was, and don't think I know him/her, but whoever it is, I know that if Derek finds out, that person will not be trotting around with an evil brain much longer.

Okay to focus back to the present, I am sitting in the HUGE library in the safe houses basement, chatting with Liz. (Yes I can still do everything a necromancer can do) She is the only one who knows what happened to me. I can't really trust any one else, and I know I should tell Derek, but he would just freak out.

But thanks to Liz, I didn't have to worry about Derek ever finding out. She had found this little talisman like thing that totally hid the smell and everything from other werewolves. So Derek, Simon, Tori, Andrew, and Will (someone that was in the house before us) had no clue what happened to me. Good too, I don't need any more things for people to worry about over me.

"No, I still think that Owl City will always have a better sound in the background, any ways his voice is AWESOME!" Liz yelled we usually talked about random subjects like music now.

"Yeah, he is good Liz, I like the song fireflies, but you know who my favorite band is, and it will not be changing for awhile!" I said coupled with a laugh.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I still can't believe that you listen to that kind of music! I mean seriously, can it get much more emo than the song pain, I mean seriously," Liz starts singing one of my favorite songs by Three Days Grace, "pain without love, pain I cant get enough, pain I like it rough, cause I rather feel pain than nothing at all."

"THEY'RE NOT EMO!" I yell, loud enough for the entire house to hear. With what happened to mean how can I NOT listen to music like that? That bite changed me more than I thought...

"Okay, I do like some of there songs, like Riot."

"Okay, that is a good song." I said, smiling.

Liz laughed when a smell wafted down the hall, Simon. He smelt like soap and vanilla, sometimes that gave me headache, especially when I have to sit next to him in a car. Another way to know that it is Simon (and you don't even have to be a werewolf to know this one) is he is the loudest walker I have ever heard. I smiled to myself when I heard his feet hit a chair in the hallway, him swearing under his breath.

The door swung open and Simon walked in, wearing a worn out shirt and surfer's shorts, I could barely make out the logo on his shirt, it looked like some promotion for a band but I couldn't tell.

"Hey, Chloe, what's with all the yelling?" he asked, that usual smile on his face that said, I like you a lot. Ugh, I am not in the mood for another attempt at asking me out from him, defiantly no time at the moment.

"Oh, nothing, sorry, I was just talking music with Liz." I said

"Oh, well it was a pretty loud conversation." He said, trying to keep me talking.

"Yeah, well I'm going to go outside for a bit see you round." I bounded out of the library to fast for him to respond, and ran up the stairs on all fours.

I didn't have anything against Simon, but I just didn't have the same feeling as him, I liked him as a friend. I know that this is an annoying comparison, but, for me Simon is the Mike, in my Twilight story. I think Derek is my Jacob (and not for the werewolf thing) and I don't really have an Edward yet, but that's fine with me… For now that is. I'm not looking for a boyfriend right now, way too much other things going on.

I entered the living room silently, shutting the basement door quietly as possible. Tori was sitting on the couch listing to a CD player, I crept up behind her; apparently she didn't hear my yelling from the basement. I grabbed one of the headphones off of her and yelled in her ear, "HI, TORI!"

"Chloe, what the hell are you doing!" She yelled in surprise at me.

I just laughed, than put her music to my ear.

"Ewwwwwww, why are you listing to Hannah Montana" I said.

"Cause, I like her music, what kind of music do you listen to anyway, country."

I didn't have any problem with country, but I didn't like it as much as the alternative rock that I listen to.

"No, I don't mind it, but I like different kinds of music, and why is the house going crazy over music all of a sudden!" I yelled the last part; Tori just stared at me blankly.

"I don't know." She said, getting up, taking her childish music, and walking away. I laughed; after how she treated us she deserved a little bit of a trick.

I went into the kitchen to go outside, than thought better. I ran up stairs and grabbed a sweater out of my room, on the way out I also got my iPod (which Andrew had got for me, after I was sitting on the computer listing to the Black Eyed Peas for a week, he finally got me one along with two gift cards for iTunes) I un-twirled the ear buds and stuck them in my ears. I hit the play button and some song by Shakira started playing, which was all I could see on it before I ran back down the stairs and out the door.

As soon as I was outside and at the edge of the woods I could make sense of the music blaring in my ears, I laughed to myself, the song She Wolf had been put on by Liz as a joke, I couldn't help but listen to it for a couple days, it was addicting.

I turned down the music a bit and went deeper into the woods surrounding the safe house.

A little deeper in I found Derek, he was just sitting there on a rock by the river I was bit at, I turned down my music till it was just a buzz and walked out to him.

"Hey, Derek, you ok?" I asked him.

He turned fast like he hadn't heard me coming, he probably didn't though. I two now have completely silent footsteps.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He said then turned back to the river.

Something was up.

I walked up to his side and followed his gaze over the river. There were just thicker woods on the other side.

"What are you looking at?" I asked, than I secretly smelt the air to see if he smelt the Edison group or something. Nothing, we were the only ones out here.

"Nothing, just thinking" he said, not looking at me.

Oh crap what was he thinking so hard about?

"bout' what" I asked him.

He sighed heavily and walked back over to the rock. What was he doing? Oh please don't tell me he knows what happened to me! I went over to him ready for him to tell me what was going on.

He was silent for a minute than he said, "Just worried about all this crap going on, this safe house doesn't exactly feel like a 'safe house'." He said, emphasizing the word.

By now Three Days Grace was buzzing on my iPod, I was half tempted to turn it up, but didn't.

"Yeah, I have the same feeling, but for now, relax a bit, we have beds, warm food, and time to plan an attack on the Edison group, plus TV's and music stuff, computers," I paused here, waiting for him to respond, when he didn't I continued. "We should be safe from any surprise attacks from the Edison group, not to mention we have Will on our side now two." I finished

"Yeah, I guess." He said, but didn't sound so convinced. Why did he always have to be so negative?

"I'm going to look around a bit more; you can come with if you want?" I ended the statement more like a question.

Derek searched my face for a second than said, "Nah, I'm going to go back, you should come with two, it's starting to get dark." He said, standing up.

Good I thought to myself than I can really look around.

"K" I said and started following him back to the house.

Once we were back at the house everyone was starting to yawn and get ready for dinner, I had no idea what it was, but whatever it was it smelled GOOD! Liz and I were back in the basement library, with a warning from Andrew and a laugh from Simon on the way in, we had our music playing quietly, Owl City: Fireflies, thanks to Liz, she wanted to listen to this song so bad.

"You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies, lit up the world as I fell asleep." Liz sang along with the song, I laughed and danced along with the song.

I really didn't understand her obsession with this band, but then again she didn't understand my obsession with Three Days Grace, so fair is fair.

Will came down as soon as the song ended, okay I'll tell you that Will is a vampire, and he is kind of cute, with long dirty blond hair swept off to the side, glowing blue eyes, and he was a little taller than Simon. Not only that, but he had the cutest smile, it kind of reminded me of Edward's in Twilight, the little half smile that showed his canines. Maybe it was a vampire thing. He was wearing ripped jeans and a plain black shirt that made his eyes pop.

"You two are so weird." He said with his smile on his face. Oh yeah I should say that vampires can also see the dead, or ghosts I guess I should say for Liz's sake, but they couldn't do all the stuff a necromancer could.

"Yep, you bet, what you expect from a dead girl and a necromancer/ were-" I cut Liz off glaring at her.

"Sorry" she mouthed.

"Chloe, I know your little secret, you're a werewolf and I know how it happened." He said, whispering werewolf.

I could feel my face pale

"Y-you-you didn't tell any-" He cut me off.

"No I didn't and I won't, I'll keep your secret." He said smiling again

"Okay, thanks, but I have one question, how did you know?" I asked frantic, still in shock.

"I was going to get you from the woods when I found you on the ground with a wolfish bite on your hand, so I kind of figured, you wouldn't want to tell anyone because that's how you are." He said, whispering any part that the other werewolf up stairs would be thinking about, or freak out about.

Now I knew that my face was pale, as pale as the dead.

"Oh," was all I could say.

He laughed, nickel back was playing in the background now, got to be somebody, and it was almost over though.

"Well, then you won't be freaked out if I do this." I said than pounced on him, knocking him onto the red velvet couch. He laughed; it was contagious enough that everyone was on the ground laughing now.

"What the hell is so funny?" I heard a gruff voice yell over the now playing muse uprising song that was somehow blaring and the roar of laughter. Derek.

"N-o-t-h-i-n-g!" Will said in-between laughs.

"Doesn't sound like nothing." He grunted, now that it was a bit quite.

"Sorry," I said, I kind of liked having Will know what I was, it was cool.

Derek looked at me and said it was okay, than he turned around and stalked out.

"OKAY," Liz yelled," TO FINISH THAT SENTENCE, THAT'S WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM A DEAD GIRL AND A NECROMANCER/WEREWOLF!"

I flinched when she yelled the last part, but remembered that no one could hear her. Will started to laugh again, apparently as he said from my expression.

Dinner that night was spaghetti and garlic bread, I have to say, Andrew is a pretty decent cook. I tried not to inhale my food, but it was so dang GOOD. I knew that Will and Derek were, but that doesn't mean I should. I laughed when Will had a piece of a noodle hanging out of his mouth. Everyone else busted into laughter after me. The mood was pretty light after that, except for Derek, he just stared at Will like he was crazy.

After dinner I decided I would sleep a bit before I ventured outside with Liz.

I got at least 3 hours of sleep; I got out of bed at midnight, and then ran outside as quietly as possible, which wasn't easy. When you're this excited, that kind of stuff just leaves your mind. I was about to open the door when Will jumped in front of me.

"I didn't know you could change yet." He whispered.

"Yeah, and I was kind of going to go outside, can you move?" I whispered back.

He was quiet for a minute than he said, "I'm going to come with you."

"Ummm, I don't think you should-" He cut me off.

"Come, on Chloe, I just want to help you, like you do for Derek."

I paled when he said that, I never told him that, I didn't advertise this kind of stuff, and I knew Derek didn't want it advertized either.

"I-I-I-I-"

"Chloe, I heard Derek talking about it to Simon the other night, he had said that he wanted to tell you that he was extremely thankful for your help, and that he felt better with someone there." He said.

I don't know why, but for some reason I liked that, the fact that he liked having me around when he changed, that he was glad I was there, and was more comfortable with me there with him.

When I was quiet for a minute Will started talking again, "So, I want to be there for you, to make you feel more comfortable."

I didn't really need him for that, the change for me was pretty quick and painless, but if he really wanted to be there, why not.

"Sure, what the heck", I said.

He smiled and said thanks.

I was just standing against the tree, bouncing in spot, I don't know why, and neither did Will, he was starring at me, especially since now I was in a tank top and extremely short athletic shorts, my choice of clothes for changing.

"Umm, Chloe are you going to change, or…"

"Yeah, just give me a sec." I said, halfheartedly, I was waiting for the wolf to come up in me; I was willing it to take control, to shift me into another form. I started to feel the familiar bubble of pain, a whimper escaped my lips. I bent down onto all fours, the wolf was close now, and I could feel everything starting to shift. I closed my eyes and pictured me in wolf form; this usually helped with the changes.

After an enormous burst of pain, shooting through all my limbs, and making me feel like I'd rather be dying, I was lying on the ground, as a wolf.

Will was silent for a second," Wow, you're beautiful." He said.

I snorted, than looked up at him, he looked different when I was a wolf, I don't know why, but he was almost like glowing, he stuck out a bit more than the rest of the surrounding woods.

"What you are Chloe." He said, smiling.

Okay than…. I thought. What does he mean by that? I stood up and started to back into the woods.

"Okay, well, I guess I'll see you later than." He said

I laughed the sound a weird sort of wheeze. Than turned and bolted into the woods behind me.

A/N- So again sorry for getting your hopes up, at least I'm going to finish this up... I won't be able to get it all up tonight... Sorry might be up by tommorow.. But HEY summer break iz comin REALLY FAST one week... I got my DP creativness back :D I gonna try to update :)

Thank you sooo much for understandin... You have no idea how bad I feel for all those people who probably came on here thinking 'OMG SHE FINALLY UPDATED A STORY!' Than just saw it was broken apart.

AGAIN SORRRRRY :\