Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction and Twilight is under the rightful ownership of Stephanie Meyer. However, I do own the plot and original characters within this work of fiction.
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Chapter One: Leaving Forks
The forest surrounding First Beach, near Forks, Washington had been transformed into a muddy quagmire. The sky was dark grey with huge rain clouds that continued to constantly dump more torrential rain on the small city. Everyone had been recommended to remain inside, the government fearing mudslides and overflowing rivers. However, there was a small group of teenagers stuck in this miserable downpour, their moods perfectly matching the heavy depressive weather.
"Where are you taking her?" Jacob asked, his usually tan face looking an almost ghostly shade of white. His hair was slicked down across his head, adding to his sickly parlor.
"Up north, deep into Alaska. We have a base camp there" Blue eyes examined the almost visually shaking boy in front of her. Kirby sighed "Don't worry son, we'll take good care of her. We've been doing this longer than your father's probably been alive."
A sudden loud guttural roar split the air, piercing through the heavy pounding of the rain. Jacob flinched and stumbled backwards, his fellow pack mates – the few that had remained-followed his lead.
Kirby cursed and turned her attention towards the green armored vehicle that blended into the surrounding foliage. The hummer had to be at least 10 feet tall and built with heavy reinforced glass and doors. Jogging towards the black tinted windows Kirby shouted "Everything ok in their Doc?!"
A petite Native American peeked out the window, eyes squinting "Don't worry, its just taking a bit of a higher dose than normal to calm her down." The truck rocked sharply to the side as something very big slammed inside of it "Well…make that a very large dose. We're going to have to hurry with this one. I can't give her too much and risk stopping her heart in the process." Dr. Malina Moore said, her almond shaped eyes widened in concern.
Kirby instantly noticed the look.
"OK team. You heard the lady let's move this along" Kirby shouted. Two men and one women, all towering over 6ft tall and wearing black SWAT- like uniforms that reminded Jacob of Law and Order nodded and jumped into the truck. Jacob watched with apprehension as the engine flared, fraying his already over anxious nerves. The other women turned towards him and he marveled at how large she was this close up. Perfectly matching his 6ft 3 inches build she still seemed to tower over him. Her icy blue eyes-set in a firm beautifully broad face- and olive tanned skin added to her overpowering demeanor. Her likeness to his favorite MMA fighter Gina Carano also wasn't lost on Jacob. However, the knowledge of what she was, and the powerful scent pouring off her had his wolf instincts flaring and it was all he could do not to turn and run with his tail between his legs.
Still he stood his ground and Kirby couldn't help but smirk at that. Little wolfie has guts I'll give him that.
"Ok, Jacob was it?" Jake nodded "We'll be in contact with you shortly. For family information and other info like that. But we have to go now before your people start getting curious enough to take a peek. You understand?"
Kirby didn't wait for an answer and within less than five minutes they were driving away, the loud roars that had been echoing only seconds before fell mercifully silent.
Jacob, Seth and Leah stood staring until they couldn't hear the engine anymore. Before the next raindrop could fall Jake fell to his knees, sobbing as the last few minutes kept repeating itself over and over in his head. Leah and Seth hunkered down beside him in their wolf forms, threw their large grey heads back and howled.
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30 minutes ago
'Bella Bella Bella' Jacob ran as fast as his wolf legs could carry him. He was soaked to the bone- his red fur now painted almost black. However his brown eyes were focused straight ahead, tunneling towards the bright light that seemed so far away. 'That's where she is, the meadow' Memories so long forgotten raced through his mind, remembering a then thin almost anorexic looking Bella asking him about a meadow- wanting to find it. They had tried but Bella had forgotten where it was and eventually as she got better and stronger the issue had never been raised again.
Every wolf subconsciously noticed as his reddish brown form easily overtook Sam's lumbering black wolf form. The singular purpose in his mind travelled among all of his pack mates and each wolf pumped themselves to the fullest, all focused on one target-one scent.
Bella's familiar vanilla and freesia scent was mixed with the sickly bleachy odor of a vampire. And not just any vampire- that of the red headed leech that had been skating the boundaries of the reservation for weeks.
'How could she have gotten past us?' Jake wondered, his large paws leaving ditches in the mud as he narrowed swirled around a large Douglas fir that came out of nowhere. The continuous blinding rain made running this fast precarious but no wolf could have slowed down even if they wanted to. Wolf loyalty and dedication had them racing after their fellow brother- the scent of his fear leaving a heavy depressive odor in the air.
A feminine scream suddenly pierced the air and Jake's heart almost stopped. Finally clearing the last of the forest Jacob practically leaped into the meadow, all snarls and bared teeth.
What he saw bent all fabrics of reality.
Bella was bent on the ground screaming, her eyes squeezed shut as tears still escaped. She appeared to be convulsing and her small form withered in the wet mud of the drenched meadow. The vamp, looking oddly confused stood over her. That was all Jacob needed to see and he leaped forwards, each of his fellow five pack mates following his lead.
They hadn't taken two steps before everything seemed to erupt in confusion.
The red headed vampire snarled- her face twisted up in frustration- as she noticed the horse sized wolves barreling towards her and she turned to run.
She didn't get far.
Flushed red Bella's large brown eyes tunneled into Victoria's stunned face.
"Not leaving already are you?" The deep monstrous voice that echoed through the meadow stunned every wolf in shock. Bella's face now looked almost unfamiliar, her irises had dilated, her face appeared almost rose red and the grotesque smirk that painted her lips had each wolf tilting their heads. Which would have been funny in a different circumstance.
When they looked closer, Bella's body seemed to be pulsating, like something was shifting underneath her skin. 'What's happening?'
Even Victoria appeared confused "What are you?"
Bella laughed, a mocking ghastly sound.
"Your worst nightmare little leech." Bella taunted.
And then she screamed, a high pitched scream that had each wolf ear flattening in pain and fur on end.
Then it just cut off leaving a chilling silence.
Jacob was stuck in inaction, desperately wanted to get to his obviously pained friend yet his wolf instincts had him paralyzed. The urge to run was getting stronger and stronger as the silence continued. It didn't last long.
It started with a series of pops, and grinding sounds as bones shifted.
Then ligaments and tendons stretched and became more flexible.
Muscles bulged and hardened.
Everyone watched, vamp included, as Bella fell on her hands and knees. As her crouched form grew massive in size. As her chest expanded almost unrealistically. As her clothes stretched to its limit before eventually ripping into shreds. As her pale skin turned black before coarse brunette fur started to grow and eventually covered her entire body.
Next, thick ears formed on the top of her broadening head, claws sprouted from her fingers and a large muzzle with saber sharp teeth sprouted from her face. Fingers turned into large broad paws. Lastly a tiny tip of a tail grew from her pelvis. She was chillingly quiet through all of it.
Bella was floating in her own mind. The pain was unimaginable, leaving her almost delirious. Even the venom from James' bite hadn't hurt this much.
Don't scream
Bella knew if she started she wouldn't be able to stop. She would become lost within her own agony. So she struggled to remain silent as something else took control of her body. It had started with a building sense of awareness- of something other grinding at the fabric of her mind. It felt like something was constantly thumping against her head with a hammer, almost urging her to open up. She fought hard against the thing she didn't even understand but eventually something snapped and gave way.
Something changed then. She almost felt the foreign essence enter her mind.
A sharp series of pops echoed in her head and Bella fell face first into the mud. She couldn't feel the rain anymore. She couldn't feel anything but the sudden enveloping heat in her chest. She felt like she was on fire and clawed at her chest in desperation. Though she couldn't be sure if she moved at all.
And then, everything stopped – the pain, the heat, everything.
Bella grew scared at the silence, she couldn't hear anything and for a moment she wondered if she had died.
And then with a sudden wrenching Bella felt something tug at her and she was pulled into a series of emotions that even the best authors would never be able to put words to.
She felt everything – overwhelming pain, unbarring anger, intense confusion. They swirled around her mind and she felt the need to MOVE! To do something, vocalize what she was feeling. Logic had abandoned her – she wasn't Bella anymore. She wasn't anything anymore but this something other. A feeling mass of flesh and moving matter.
And so she screamed.
It sounded like a roar.
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The wolves took a collective step back as the large bear lumbered to its feet. At six feet tall at the shoulder and three times their weight-this was a predator that had each wolf drawing away.
Seth whimpered, sounding like a scared puppy.
'I don't understand' Sam rumbled 'I've never seen anything like this before. Bear shifters are almost unheard of.'
'But Bella is human!' Leah growled out, her lithe wolf form tense with apprehension 'Or at least she was.'
'She sure doesn't look human now!' Colin yipped, tail stuck between his legs 'I don't like this, her smell is wrong.'
Each wolf sniffed simultaneously like a pack of curious puppies and balked as the smell registered. The scent of musk, and danger over masked Bella's natural odor of vanilla and freesia so much that Bella smelt just like the walking embodiment of menacing.
'What should we do?' Seth whined, his smaller form hiding behind his sister.
As it turned out the decision was easily taken away from them.
Lost within her own mind Bella's instincts rapidly took over. Long buried animal instincts that's one main goal was survival. Sniffing deeply Bella started to growl as the scents of so many different predators registered. The raspy and guttural sound of it finally got Victoria-who had been a silent observer during the entire transformation-moving.
Finally recognizing the danger for what it was Victoria's gift flared as she turned to flee.
That proved to be a mistake.
Even lost in a rolling tsunami of conflicted emotions, Bella easily recognized the scent of the vampire who had tried to kill her not minutes before. With a series of deep warning pants, Bella lunged.
All of the wolves had to admire at how fast she moved. Fur rolled as her upper torso twisted to the left, head held high and ears pricked back on her massive head.
Victoria screamed as 4 inch long claws caught her in the hip. Trying to twist away, Victoria was too focused on the claws piercing her waist to see a large paw coming towards her until it slammed into her face. Looking like derailed ballerina her diamond hard body pummeled to the ground. Watching her prey fall Bella rolled her shoulders in victory and leaped. However, Victoria was rolling in the very next moment and the ground seemed to shake as the huge grizzly bear slammed aimlessly into the mud.
With a smirk Victoria curled her body and leaped for a large tree on the opposite side of the clearing.
Mistake number two.
Sam caught her mid leap, her small waist caught between his two massive jaws. His pure yellow eyes glinted against his black fur in wolf glee.
Victoria didn't even have time to scream.
With a massive snap she literally broke in two.
'Nice catch Sam' Brady yipped, tailing wagging excitedly. The others echoed his sediments. Well…except one.
'Ugh…gross' Seth lolled out his tongue in disgust at the twitching torso and shook his head 'That's nasty'
As the others teased Seth about 'manning up' Jacob's brown eyes followed Bella. Something still wasn't right.
She kept aggressively swinging her head back and forth, huffing and thumping her huge front paws on the ground in agitation.
'Something still isn't right' Jacob warned the others. As if hearing him, Bella suddenly spring to her two back paws, towering over them by at least 2 feet now.
'She's gonna attack' Seth squealed and images of Grizzly Bear nature documentaries raced through each wolf's mind. Colin and Brady decided they would tease Seth later about his love of what they determined to be 'stupid tree hugger films' and focused on the problem.
It being the Bella turned grizzly bear that was dangerously posturing herself in front of them.
Sam growled, his large black form moving protectively in front of his pack. Recognizing the challenge Bella dropped back down to all fours and grunted before starting to slowly circle them. Each wolf had to squint to follow her movement; the rain still hadn't let up and instead seemed to have increased.
'We may have to draw back' Sam warned them, 'We can barely see three feet in front of us.'
'Why is she so mad' Leah huffed, annoyance showing in her tone 'We just took care of her little vamp problem.'
'You just took her prey away' Seth explained, drawing further in the back 'Grizzly bears are very territorial'
'Well she's on our territory!' Colin huffed, getting distracted for a moment as his breath turned white in front of his nose.
She was on them in the next second.
With a low growl Bella jumped on top of Sam. Which wasn't an easy feat considering she had to weigh over a thousand pounds.
Her large claws dug deeply into his unprotected back gaining purchase.
'Aghhhh!' With a pained howl Sam tried to throw her off but weighing at least half her size it was impossible. Forced to the ground Sam whined as the claw dug deeper. He shivered when he felt warm breathe across the back of his neck and howled to his pack for help.
Time slowed for Jacob as the bear (he still couldn't think of this monster as being Bella) reared her head back, massive saber teeth reaching for the back of Sam's head.
Making a swift decision he ran as quick as he could and jumped onto her back, teeth snapping at her flanks.
Growing more enraged Bella let out another challenging roar before swinging her paws at the rust colored wolf – as if swatting away a fly.
Leah jumped in just as the massive hit would have connected, capturing the paw between her jaws.
Distracted Bella loosened her grip and Sam sharply bounced back on his paws, finally dislodging her.
Colin and Brady saw the opportunity and pounced jumping on her massive back to keep her down. Colin dug into her hump to keep purchase.
'Good idea guys.' Sam said, cringing as the rain burnt his cuts 'Everyone dog pile her!'
Bella was unamused as wolf after wolf gained purchase on her back.
The constant growling turned into a terrifying loud roar that would be sure to attract attention soon. It was so deep it vibrated in each wolf's chest.
'Get off!' The loud angry voice blasted against their minds and in shock their grip loosened.
With a mighty shove everyone rolled off and Bella charged the first wolf she could sink her teeth into.
Brady probably cursed the probability of statistics as large fangs dug into his leg.
'Ahhhhhh! Get her off! It hurts!' Whining Brady tried to wretch his leg away, crying out as teeth dug deeper into his unprotected flesh.
Both Jacob and Sam leapt to assist their young pack mate but it proved unnecessary.
None heard the lone tranquilizer dart as it pierced through the meadow. With deadly accuracy it sink neatly into the vein in the large grizzly's neck.
Like that cliché ton of bricks Bella fell chest first into the mud, painting her already rain soaked fur – a nasty black.
'What just happened?' Confused Leah dropped the now limp paw in her jaws.
Before they could answer all hell broke loose once again.
Women and men in black SWAT like uniforms seemed to materialize out of the grey fog, surrounding them in a thick circle. Feeling justly intimidated the wolves backed up like a pack of traumatized sheep.
Another woman broke from the thick circle surveyed the scene, taking in the six stunned horse size wolves and the lone slumbering/aced bear face down in the mud.
"OK, what's seems to be the problem here?" Kirby smiled, holstering her tranquillizer gun.
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A/N So I started a new story in celebration of the American's Supreme's Court decision. If you don't know what I'm talking about, leave the rock you're hiding under and turn on your TV. Anyway, I've finally got back into the groove of writing again and promise to also attempt to continue my story 'Snow Angel' which has been on hiatus for far too long. I sincerely apologize for the dedicated readers I have left sitting in the dark. I shall offer no excuses however. Also, while I cannot promise quick updates but I will include a story status on my profile for interested readers.
Thank you,
Flame's Miracle