Chapter One

Explosion

Bella sat in her truck outside of her house for a moment, her hands gripped on the steering wheel. The last week had been hell. She could feel her body changing and it was insane. She'd gained about half a foot of height in about three days. And Boy was it painful. She'd never felt so scared in her life, but of course she'd never let Edward know. He'd be too worried that it hurt. He thought it was just a growth spurt. So did Carlisle. Bella pressed a hand to her forehead, her skin was feeling hot. But she didn't feel hot. She sighed and turned to look out her window. She let out a startled shriek as she saw Edward standing there, like a stature of a Greek god or something.

"C'mon, we have to talk." said Edward softly as he opened the door. Bella's heart nearly stopped. It was about the Jasper thing. Of course it was about the Jasper thing.

Bella's birthday was two days ago, she had regretted trying to open any presents herself the moment she'd gotten a paper cut. All hell broke loose. Bella shuddered and wrapped her arms around herself for a moment.

"Alright" she muttered. She let go of herself long enough to only climb successfully out of her truck without falling. She slammed the door shut.

"Let walk." said Edward. His tone was serious, demanding and almost dead. Bella could already feel tears of fear building up in her eyes as she followed Edward into the forest; it was only about four so it was still light out. They wandered further into the forest.

"Okay, let's talk." said Bella her voice surprisingly calm despite the fact that her hands were shaking like mad. The only reason Edward didn't notice was the fact that they were clutched tightly together.

"Bella. We're leaving." He stated numbly. Bella's heart thudded in an odd off beat rhythm. It was painful at times.

"Well, did Alice see what excuse we're going to tell Charlie?" Bella waited in anticipation, she could hope right?

"No." Said Edward he shifted his weight and leaned against a tree, his big golden eyes staring straight into Bella's own, trying to read her to read her mind like he so easily did everyone else.

"Well what are we going to say, I mean I can just disappear, I don't think he – "

"You aren't going anywhere Bella."

"I'm going with you." stated Bella. She shaking was getting worse, she could feel a bubble of anger rising in her chest, and her heart was beating so loud.

"No you're not. You're going to stay here. We... I don't want you to come." said Edward standing up from leaning against the tree.

"You...don't...want...me?" repeated Bella. Her voice didn't seem to be her own. She felt her arms shaking, fear washed through her for a moment, something was happening. She could feel the skin on her hands get incredibly hot, hotter than before, it was like fire, fire that wasn't burning her.

"No." That was it. That was the final straw. Whatever had been building in Bella had finally snapped it couldn't take this kind of hurt. Her body ripped into a tremor, and she exploded.

Edward stood there frozen in shock.

Bella stood tall taller than she usually did, her body was huge and she was on all fours? She shook her head this wasn't the pressing matter. A growl ripped through her throat at the sight of Edward. She could see him much more clear than before. She inhaled deep through her nose to keep from attacking him, it burned. Oh god did it burn. She tried to scream, but her voice couldn't find itself; all that came out was a loud blood curdling howl.

With that Edward ran. He didn't hesitate. Bella growled after him, holding her breath for a moment. She wanted to chase after him. She wanted to just rip him to itty bitty bite sized pieces.

"-fair to you, I'm sorry Bella"

A voice had been talking. How long had it been there.

"Stay there, I'm coming to get you"

"We're coming to get you" said another voice. Bella turned around frantically looking for the sound of the voice, still careful not to breathe through her nose. Her heart was pounding quicker and stronger than before, but it didn't hurt. She continued pacing.

"I hear them but, where are they?" she thought getting really freaked out now. She looked down for a moment and caught a glimpse of something she didn't expect. A paw? She lifted her arm to reach and touch it, but she watched as the other paw lifted.

"We are in your head princess." said one of the voices. Bella took a deep breath. Was she going insane? Was she actually losing her – Foot steps? Bella immediately turned in the direction she heard the soft quick foot falls. Whatever the noise was it was coming up fast. It sounded like twelve feet, paws hooves whatever the hell was coming after her. Her first instinct was to run. Run as fast as she could away from here.

"Don't run Bella. We're not going to hurt you." The voice was strong and very powerful, it sent a chill down Bella's spine and she just couldn't disobey. She didn't move until the footfalls were nearly beside here, she backed up into a tree, at which she growled at. Out of the forest came two huge wolves. One was jet black and was very much bigger than the other, but not much bigger than her. The other was silver, it looked angrier than the other.

Out of the trees came a human, he was native and built, wearing nothing but track pants.

"Bella." said the human, reaching his hand out to her. "It's alright. C'mon. Relax, or you'll never turn back."

"Don't scare her. You'll make it worse" Snapped a voice in her head. The silver wolf growled at the human at the same time as the thought entered her head. It wasn't the smooth demanding voice that had willed her to obey.

"Bella My name is San Uley, you have nothing to fear. We'll explain everything once you've calmed down." His voice was willing her to calm down it was strange. She was sure the voice was coming from the gigantic black wolf. Her attention as pulled to the human who had made his way closer to her, his hand was pressed to the side of her face. He was, petting her? Bella was about to protest, maybe even slap him, but a wave of calm rushed over her. Her form shrunk back to her small human self. It took her a moment to realize that she was naked.

Almost immediately a blanket was thrown over her by the human.

"Bella, I'm Jared." He said a smile creeping onto his face. Bella gripped the blanket around herself.

"Hi." She muttered. She'd almost completely forgotten about Edward, she was too freaked out. The two wolves went back into the forest. A few moments later two built natives came out of the woods. Both of them, just like the other were only wearing some kind of bottoms.

"Bella." said the strong soothing voice. It came from the oldest looking one. He must have been Sam. "There's a lot to explain. Would you like to hear it?"

"Um, a short version would be nice."Bella wrapped the blanket around her much tighter. The smell of whatever had burned her nose was reminding her of Edward.

"You're a werewolf Bella. You have to be careful of what you do. If you get angry you could hurt someone real badly." started Sam.

"Yeah, when you're in your wolf form, we can hear your thoughts and vice versa." interrupted the one who hadn't introduced himself.

"Alphas orders are always followed." said Jared leaning against a tree.

"And our job is to kill vampires." finished Sam. Whatever had snapped before snapped again. Bella exploded and took off running, her mind filled with thoughts of Alice her best friend, Esme's kind heart, Carlisle's deep understanding of everything Emmett's booming laugh, Jasper's attempt to always make her feel better. Edward. Her heart seemed to burn at the thought of him. She thought so loud that what the others were thinking of her were mere mutters. She realized how fast she was going. She took a deep breath. That smell. That god awful smell. It had disappeared when Edward left. Was it him?

Bella immediately began to follow the painful smell. It made her nose burn and her lungs seem to be on fire. She didn't care. She had to find her Edward. The Edward that didn't want her. With that thought she had lost her footing and went crashing into a tree. She felt it snap and fall behind her. She didn't care. Her gigantic eyes were filled with tears. She lifted her arms to cover her face, but of course, being a wolf, she didn't exactly have hands. She gave up easily and just lied there till the others caught up. Their thoughts exploded into her mind. They were all thinking at the same time, she wanted it to all just stop. Her head was pounding, and she just wanted to cry, cry until every bit of liquid in her body was drained. She felt her body shrink as she fell into a blissful numbness.

"Bella." said a voice. It was filled with sadness. They had read every one of her thoughts. She felt something being draped over her, than she was picked up.

"We'll take you home Bella." said the same voice. It was Jared. She could hear the Sam's large wolf form following behind with the other guy. She wanted to protest, that it wasn't safe for Charlie, but her voice didn't seem to want to work as she drifted off to sleep.