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Carpathian Wolf

The Hunt Begins

Chapter One

I stand atop the La Push Mountains, trying to enjoy the beauty I knows surrounds me. The ocean and forest below that should be alive with color, eludes me, I feel my human side slipping further each year that passes into the soul of my wolf. It won't be much longer, a few years at most, and my humanity will be gone altogether. I will become all wolf. A savage.

I am a Carpathian wolf. Alpha of my pack, born to see only in black and white, and without the ability to love, really love. The only emotion I have ever felt is loyalty to my pack and family, and the need to protect the weaker beings that I have walked this earth with for over two centuries without their knowledge. The humans.

Protecting them from those of my kind that has succumbed to the beast inside them, instead of seeking the peaceful death. Choosing to become savages that hunt and prey on anything weaker. Humans.

The human fear give them power, their flesh gives them a false sense of peace, but only for a short while, from the darkness that has taken over their souls. However, in reality just pulls them more in the pits of darkness and destruction. They are beast, emotionless hunters of man.

I have been hunting one such as this for over a century, but he has always found ways to escape me. He was once a brother, a friend, now an outlaw of my people. We once played together as children. Fought side by side as comrades. Hunting the same kind of evil, he has become.

Bringing them in to face the justice of our people, not only for crimes against humanity, which is our main concern, but also for the threat their actions bring. A threat that will make the humans aware of our existence and more than likely, try to destroy us.

These beings fear what they don't understand. They would not care about our fight to protect them, that we are what stand between them and total destruction. All that would concern them is that we are different and look on us as animals or monsters.

Yes, the one I hunt now was once a brother, but no more, the darkness have claimed him and I will hunt and destroy him as I have countless others before him who had become a threat to the humans, to us. If only he had found his other half to ground him and keep him whole, he would still be fighting at our side, instead of against us.

Our other half, our blood mates. A woman who is born specifically for us. Born with a symbol on her back and the blood make up of the wolf that is destined to be her mate.

Until we meet and mate with her, we will not have the ability to see colors or feel true emotion. She is the light to our darkness and allows the man and beast within us to live in balance.

Her love tames the viciousness in our wolf, where it won't be able to take over our very souls and only with the need to protect the weak, will it be allowed to emerge, but the wolf will not protect more viciuously, or with more deadly blindness as when he is protecting his mate.

There is only one punishment for anyone or anything trying to tear our mate from us. Instant death. No day of court in front of the council of elders, no questions asked or answers needed. When they're caught, they're already dead, judged guilty and put to death in that instant.

Because taking our mate from us is like taking our very souls, the love of our lives, the one person that makes it possible for us to retain our humanity and not succumb to the darkness that would surely lead to our destruction.

I, Jacob black now stand on the edge, I will soon become all beast or choose the peaceful death, only in finding my mate, my curanna, will I be saved. Everyday the darkness creeps closer, the beast ready to take full control and like the one I now hunt, I will prey on the weak until I am captured and put to death.

Everyday I fight to hold on. I am strong, the strongest of our kind, fiercest hunter and the meanest fighter. My name is whispered through the villages of our people through out the world as though I am a legend, no longer in existence.

I creep through and with the shadows, when I am in pursuit of a prey. I strike before I am noticed and when I leave, no trace of me or my prey, the rogue wolves that I hunt, is left behind.

It is with this strength, this same relentlessness that I use to fight and keep my wolf from totally taking over my soul, leaving in its place a beast. Eventually I will have to give up the fight, and find a way to obtain the peaceful death. Only my mate can save me now. I refuse to dishonor myself and my people by allowing my beast to take over and destroy those I have chosen to protect. I need to find her.

My mate, my love, where are you? Make yourself known to me. Only with you will I be able to find peace and contentment. In your arms only, will I find true passion. I am no innocent, I have been with women, being over two hundred years old and a man with needs, it is to be expected.

However, I have never stayed with one too long, though I cared for them, they never touched my soul. I was never able to feel real passion in their embrace, or felt true sexual release with any of them, I can only find that with my mate, my true blood mate, so why bother.

It is not fair to these women, who looked for more than I could give them of myself , or in any relationship with me. I was always upfront with them, letting them know it could never be a permanent thing, and gave them the choice of a temporary allegiance with me or just walk away.

Those that agree usually ends up asking for more than I could give, even though they knew what getting involved with me meant. It always ends eventually. Some sooner than most. Therefore, for the last few years I have gone without having any woman in my life.

I didn't like what I was doing to these women and started hating myself for it. I was basically using these women for the release I needed while I searched for my mate.

I had to stop.

In my hunt for the rogue wolf that has brought hell to the humans, I have also been on the look out for my mate, in every city, every corner of the world, I have looked for her with no success. In between my search, I have build up my personal asset.

I have become a man of wealth. I am CEO and president for a chain of security companies through the world, where humans work side by side with us without knowing of our other form.

We provide security for the wealthiest to the poorest of people. I believe, a person's wealth or so called station in life means they are exempt or not worthy of the security my company provides.

Everyone has the right to be safe, to feel someone is looking out for him or her, when they are being threatened by forces they cannot hope to fight on their own. It is through this company and years of shrewd investments, that I have the means to live two life times without working another day of my life, but I still do.

I feel it is my duty to protect those weaker than myself. It also affords me the time to answer the call of my tribe's council when the need arrives for me to hunt another rogue wolf. This why I am here today.

I had been in china, hunting the one that has eluded me, Edward Maeson, he had dropped off my radar. I was becoming desperate when I got a call from one of our elders, informing me that, Edward had brought his carnage here. A place he once called home. He's now preying on his own kind, not just the humans.

He has truly become the beast, devouring his own kind, allowing him to ingest the essence of their wolf making him stronger, more powerful, and harder to take down, but no matter how strong and powerful he becomes, he will never be able to beat me.

When we finally come face to face, his years of death and destruction, will end, swiftly and with no mercy.

After the call, I jumped on the first flight I could get on and was here within hours, on reaching here, I spent another few hours in meetings with our council members and elders. I was filled in with the latest developments and I discussed the best course of action to catching him.

He is now somewhere in Forks, Washington. He is getting some kind of depraved satisfaction and thrill in hunting and killing close to home, and still able to elude capture. He is living under a false sense of security. I will be leaving for forks soon.

Therefore, I came up here, to enjoy a measure of peace, an hour or two of serenity before I immerse myself in the hunt for this rogue, before I have to open my mind to his, and feel his depravity in some measure and witness the remembrance of the crimes he has committed against us.

Yes, There are I times I will have to connect my mind with his, to coax him to give his self up, to let him know he will be caught, to try and find any goodness that might be left in him, any unconscious need to end his evil ways, but I know it is a lost cause. Death is the only way to stop him now.

As I turn to make my way down this mountain, at the edge of which my silver SUV is packed and waiting. I pray to the spirits of my ancestors that on my hunt for this rogue, I would also find my mate, that somewhere in forks, she is waiting for me.

I will know her by scent alone. A scent that will only be recognized by me, No other of my kind will be able to smell it, because the scent she carries was ingrained in her system before birth, a scent that marks her as mine and a part of my DNA makeup.

She will not be able to find happiness or satisfaction with any other man or wolf. Having a child by any other, would be impossible for her, because of her genetic makeup to be the mate of a Carpathian wolf, her womb is infertile to any other seed , but mine.

Sometimes I curse this faith. Wolves becoming predators of the weak they swore to protect. Women not finding happiness or being able to bare children, unless they each find their mates. I pray the faiths show kindness and allow me to find her, before it's too late.

I already said my farewells and my second in command and partner in business, Sam Uley, went ahead to prepare our offices in Forks and the people that work for us, of my imminent arrival.

My home there is also being prepared. I was lucky to find a secluded woody area in forks, where I build my home. The seclusion of the area and surrounding forest, allow running in wolf form when the need arises without being discovered.

I have some of my security people watching the place around the clock. Not just for the protection of us, but also to prevent any humans trespassing and accidentally coming across one of us on our runs in wolf forms. It could be deadly.

Especially on full moon night. The one night we throw off all forms of our humanity where we hunt and live as real wolves. We are still of no threat to the humans, but if one comes upon us at this time, it could be dangerous. So I take no chances.

For those that have found their mates, the sexual need for them is heightened and more than likely a child will be created. On this night, those mated wolves are more dangerous than any other for a human to come across, because their protective instinct for their mates is also heightened and they will be seen as a threat and taken out.

Nothing like that has ever happened in my lifetime, and I will make sure it never does. That's why security is so tight at my home.

On reaching my SUV, I take one last look around. I hope to one-day build a house here and settle down with my mate, when I find her. To raise our children here, as I was raised here.

Until that time, I will continue to hunt the wolves that have gone rogue, and threaten the very existence of our kind and is a threat to the lives of all human kind.

I get in and start my truck to begin my journey. I'm not really looking forward to ending the life of one of my own, but I know it has to be done and at this point, I am the only one that is able to do it. I will have help though.

Sam will help me in this hunt, he is the second strongest of our pack and fiercely loyal, Edward was also like a brother to him. The three of us were best friends and very close in personalities.

I know it rips him up to have to hunt someone he was also very close to, but like me, he'll do what has to be done for the betterment of everyone. He himself almost succumbed to the darkness, but was saved.

He found his mate a few years ago. When he found her, he was on the brink of succumbing to the beast, it was Devine intervention that allowed him to find her in a small town in California.

She was working as a server in a bistro there. He had stopped in to get a bite to eat. he was on his way to Sacramento, to do an inspection of our offices there.

He said, when he stepped out of his car, her scent had hit him first, and when he began to see color on stepping in the restaurant, he knew she would be there, and she was.

The woman that was assigned to serve the area where he was seated, turned out to be her. She recognized him right away as her other half, so without much persuasion, she left with him and they have been happy ever since.

He was lucky, usually finding your mate is the easy part, and we all know that's not really so easy, persuading her to be with you and becoming like you is hard.

She is not born immortal like us and unless we find her and she becomes one of us, she will live a normal human existence and will die when her time comes, though her life span will be longer than normal, but not unending.

As I drive, two things are utmost in my mind, finding the other half of my soul and stopping the rogue wolf that has brought dishonor to our people. It does not matter which comes first, though finding my mate first, is my hope, but I am not sure if I ever will.

One thing I am sure of, the reign of terror brought by Edward Maeson will be stopped and his life ended.