Authors Note: Wow! Thank you everyone for reviewing and either alerting this story or adding it to their favorites. Thank you so much! I know it's been a couple of months and I'm sorry for not updating sooner! It's just I would delete this chapter and rewrite it all over again cause I didn't like how it flowed. So please tell me how it went thank you! Also I was asked a few questions from "Ulster Gold" and "segir" I shall answer them now.

Ulster Gold's Questions:

1. Alice for now is not a Vampire, but she will be, I will explain later on in the story.

2. No she does not know Bella

3. Yes there are Shifters who were against it, again it will be explained in the story

4. Yes, we are going to met the rest of the Cullen's/Vamps. In the US though we call it Middle School. I don't know what country you're in but if its set at around the age of 12-15 then yes a Primary school :)

5. Yes I have seen the Spartacus series but only a few, I'm actually going back to them as a reference for the RacerWolf. You read my mind when Carlisle will be the Entrants doctor :). Some Shifters do get a kick out of being in the races/battles. It will be explained more when the story really gets going! Hint: Paul ;) lol

segir's Questions:

1. I'll explain how humans move up later on in the story :) but for now it's mainly based off of wealth and a certain "List" or either popularity. You will see soon enough!

2. Vampires are not allowed to grow. It is a set number, again it will be explained later on in much greater details

3. It depends, I believe I answered your question in this chapter if not let me know :)!

If anyone has anymore questions please feel free to ask. I don't bite at all! And as always due to copyright issues, I do not own any of the Twilight characters.

Anyways no more blabber talk on with the story :)

Chapter 1 Dreaded May 10

"Hey you, Get back on your feet!"

"Come on you stupid monkey get those coals in there faster or else you won't get your break!"

"Come on mutts! Pull!"

Yelling, shouting, screaming…that's all it was everyday he worked. Quil panted as he looked around him. It was getting dark, the sun setting to his left; his friends were all around him slowly pulling up a huge metal barrel filled to the brim with coal up a very steep hill that reached to a scary looking building. Quil shuddered as he felt someone being whipped behind him.

"Hey mutts keep pulling! I didn't say you can stop for a rest!" Quil quickly turned his head, his old friend Jared was whining, his tail tucked between his legs as the human glared at him. "Try and stop again and we will see what happens!" The human was sweating all over due to the large foyer in the building; it made the humidity in this sector unbearable. You can only imagine how it felt for the Shifters. The humidity making their body heat spike up, sweat dripped off of the fur making it look like they just jumped out of the water. Quil saw that the human was only wearing shorts and lightweight shoes, around his torso hung the whip he put back as he walked towards the front of the wolf shifters.

Around him were all his friends he grew up with his whole life, they were chained up to a 20 meter high barrel strapped down firmly by chain from the top of its cover by a loop all the way down to the base of the moving railroad. He himself was in gear suitable for the job of pulling such a large thing, a metal chest harness went across to his sides and down to the chains connecting him to another friend behind him, the chest harness also had two more straps that went to his sides but this time connected to another part of the tack he was wearing that went around his stomach and back, he had a head harness like a horse that connected to the tack around his stomach making it easier to pull.

They were lined up in three rows with 10 Shifters in each; he himself was behind 3 from the front. Quil panted and looked down at his matted legs covered in mud, his whole lower half was in it. His usual chocolate brown fur was nearly black from all the sweat and mud. "Let's go dogs! Pull!"

CRACK! The human whipped the air signaling them to start moving.

As one the pack tugged, Quil lifted one paw slowly as they felt the weight slowly shift forward. "Harder!" Some jumped forward to see if it'll make the job move faster. "Come on Quil!" He heard Jared yell at him in his head as he nipped his tail.

"I'm tugging as hard as I can J! Come on everybody tug as one! You three stop jumping around like that! It won't help us at all." He ordered as he tried to yell over the roar of the flames and all the yelling along with the noise the rest of the shifters were doing. The Gorilla Shifters were throwing large amounts of Coal bigger than them into the empty barrels that they were being handed to from the mines.

The mines were being tended from human criminals and Fox Shifters. The humans would start chipping through the tunnel and hand the coal to the foxes that in turn pull them out to the Gorillas. Quil looked up seeing the sky being blocked from a large cloud of black smoke. He crinkled his nose at the smell of everyone around him; he was surprised he hadn't lost his sense of smell down here. A wolf beside him lost his footing in the mud making the two up front tug harder.

"What the hell?!"

"Hoy! What's going on back there!?"

"I can't find my footing! The mud's too slippery!" The chestnut wolf dug his long black claws deep into the mud to try and get his bearings while the two tried to keep their heads pulled forward from being tugged back.

"Not your front, use your back legs. That's where you get you control from!" Jared yelled.

The wolf did as he was told and in no time the group was moving again. It took them another half hour till the first row touched the top. From up here Quil could see two more groups like his coming out from huge holes to get too the building. He snorted as his own paw reached the end of the hill.

"Almost done buddy!" Quil smiled wolfishly as he turned around seeing the barrel stop safely at the top. The humans quickly rushed to the wolves unlatching them from the harnesses as the Buffalo shifters came to take their place.

"Well, well…Quil you made it again!"

"Took longer than it was supposed to but yes." A 10 foot heavily sweated buffalo came into view from the heavy steam; you can see where the harness dug into his skin. He felt a human start to unclip his harness from around his stomach.

It looked like the buffalo smiled before waving his head around. "Oh please! You wolves are made for this kind of work! If my group tried this we would be dead before we even made it to the top! No matter how fast or how slow you go Quil; your animal will always do the job faster than any Shifter."

Quil stepped aside as he was finally unlatched from the harness. The lack of weight nearly made him fall forward when he tried to move out of the way for Harold. His muscles burned, as Harold took his spot in the line, steam rose from his body as his pack slowly walked towards the elevator that lead them out of this sector. He couldn't help but think as he looked up at the fake sky being projected from the ceiling making it look realistic, if following in his father's footsteps was a good idea.

"Quil! Snap out of it! You better get moving or else you'll miss the last shuttle to get home!"

"Good luck Harold! Hope you won't get any more cuts from those harnesses!"

"Speak for yourself young one! Make sure your mother looks after those or else they will get infected!" At that moment he looked down and saw a jagged line running across his chest. Blood slowly leaked down matting his fur even more.

"Ah fuck! Yeah I'll make sure it doesn't! Thanks Harold! I'll see you Monday!" He saw Harold give him a final nod of his head before he took off running towards the elevator.

This sector was 13. For all around there is nothing but huge buildings emitting heat and smoke, the smoke itself is sucked up by huge fans that transform the smoke into oxygen for the upper Sectors. The remaining materials like ash are deposited to the level above, 12. Quil just managed to slip between the sliding doors of the elevator.

"What did Harold have to say?" Jared asked when Quil opened his mind up too him. All Shifters have the power to mind link up to others no matter the animal. It's up to the Shifter himself if he would allow his own mind to open up.

"Just reminding me why we puny sized wolves have to tug such a massive barrel up a steep slope."

"It's because our bodies are able to withstand it much better than any animal. If the Buffalos were to try it they would've tired out too easily, they have the force yes but not stamina. Elephants have stamina and force but their legs can't handle the steep slope." Jared explained calmly as the view of Sector 13 was blocked from them. The air cooled significantly earning a few breaths of relief from the wolves.

Quil took a much needed breath as the elevator stopped in-between Sectors 13 and 12. This is where Shifters go to punch in for work, to shift and put their belongings away in small boxed lockers. The doors revealed a huge hallway that allowed 10 mammoth Shifters to walk side by side. Huge pipes ran along the walls as the people shuffled about. It was like a city, people going from one side of the hallway to the other. The pack split up the females going into their own private quarters to change from the eyes of the males.

Quil shook out his fur and growled when it made his wound sting. The showers were in the middle of the dark hallway, it managed to accompany any size of the shifters. He stepped in and pushed his paw on a button beneath him. The shower sprayed cold water all over him quickly taking off all the grime from work. He stood there watching the mud and blood wash down the drain between his paws as he enjoyed the freezing cold tempatures against his heated body.

The showers were only a wall in the middle of the hallway; there was no need for privacy for they are only allowed to shower in animal form. Once the grime was gone Quil stopped the water and turned on the dryer. Within minutes he was clean, well as clean as you can get without soap.

He stepped out and shook his fur out. Trotting to the left side of the room he entered an opened doorway that was for wolf shifters only. Inside were male shifters changing into their human clothes talking and joking around. He saw Jared; he wore a sleeveless black shirt, brown baggy shorts and white sneakers. He stood at 6 foot with red brown skin, cropped black hair and brown eyes. His muscles were long and round.

"Wonder where you went sweet boy!" Quil growled at him, he wasn't sweet! "Now, now need to growl pup. Hurry up and get dressed its almost dark and Billy told us to get home with the supplies."

A look of confusion crossed his face. Supplies? Where they building something? He kept his questions to himself for now and quickly shifted. He opened up his locker number 176 with his thumb print against the small scanner in the middle. It beeped before opening. He pulled out his tan shorts and boxers quickly slipping them on, his socks and black shoes came next. Finally he grabbed his wallet and nodded his head to Jared.

Quil was a bit taller than Jared standing at 6'2, he had black curly hair, tanned skin and brown eyes. His muscles were much bigger than Jared's but was still small compared to the others. They ran out into the hallway dodging animals and human/vampire patrols. They couldn't help but crinkle their nose in disgust at the strong spicy smell being emitted from them.

Quil looked over quickly and saw a shifter being talked to by a vampire patrol officer. The patrols wore dark blue, baggy jeans with a gun holster on their left thigh. Black military boots, white, long sleeved, button up shirt with a black bullet proof vest on. Their helmets were dark blue with a black tinted visor showing him the information of the shifter he was talking to in blue text appearing in the visor. A dark blue cape hung on his shoulders barely touching the ground with a white logo on it.

The logo showed two fisted hands holding a long chain with the letter V behind it. The V stood for Volturi and the Hands were the humans, the chain was supposed to represent the Shifting community being bound by them.

He snorted in disgust before getting into a similar elevator as before that took them to Sector 10. This sector was where they lived. "Tell me Jared. Why are we getting supplies? I understand the need to get home before dark…especially today but.." Quil trailed off not knowing what else to say as he looked around the elevator.

"Your mother didn't inform you this morning?"

"No I left before she woke up."

"I see…," Jared looked around making sure none of the others were listening in before he whispered so low that even their enhanced hearing couldn't pick up what he was saying. "Renee is giving birth today."

Quil gasped. Today!? Of all days that child chose to leave its mother womb! He knew what day it chose…It was May 10. "Jared!," he hissed lowly, "This is bad for Harry and Renee!"

"I know! That's why we need these supplies for them before the Officers come!"

"What are they? If we split up we can save time."

"Here take this half of the list." Jared ripped the list in half and gave the top to Quil. "Get those items and run back to your mother's house, that's where the birth is gonna happen. Billy is already there helping Renee through it along with your mother." He nodded quickly looking over the list, it mostly consisted of water, medicine, and bandages, food and clothes…for the newborn. "Oh and here," Jared handed him a black overused duffel bag, "Put the supplies in here, we don't want the Patrols to know what we have."

Once he situated the bag over his torso, being mindful of his wound which was healing itself up nicely but he knew better, the elevator doors open and he waved to Jared as he took off. The doors revealed a rundown city, pipes rose out from the sectors below reaching to the ones above, steam spewed out from sewer holes. The houses were all clumped together allowing little room between them. The houses were built by hand during the beginning, most of the wood was slowly chipping, the metal roofing's were beginning to rust and have holes. In-between the houses were markets, children ran around laughing as they played with their homemade toys, parents talked to each other, buyers looked for things they needed to survive in the lower sectors while sellers yelled to get the attention of anybody around who has money…which wasn't a lot. 'Well…might as well get started.'

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The sun was almost done setting behind him, his shadow getting taller by the second. He jumped over broken down fences, puddles and annoying stray animals. 'Damn! Another Patrol Vehicle.' Quil skidded to a stop almost running out into the open street where a white vehicle was parked. It was bulky but sleek to handle the lower sectors tight spaces, a truck. Two human patrols with silver, sleek assault rifles stood guarding the vehicle and the building it was parked in front of. 'Have to find a way to go around them.'

If he tried to cross the street the humans will spot him and search through his bag…but if he went around it took much longer. The more time he wasted the less chance the newborn will survive…survive the dreaded fate of being born on this day. He continued to look around him…there was a ladder that lead up to the roof of a building, if he could make the jump without any noise then he should be fine...he didn't want to go around the whole block if he could take a shortcut.

He smiled and was about to walk forward to the very unsteady looking ladder when all of a sudden a woman screamed. Naturally his body tensed…freezing him at the corner, barely visible to anyone's eyes.

"Please! You can't take him! He is just a baby! My baby! My newborn son!" A sob escaped the scared woman.

'I know that voice,' Quil thought as he turned his head to the scene. He saw Tiffany one of his mothers' oldest friends. She was in a long white robe; her black, long hair was matted with sweat and clung to her russet colored skin as she fought in the arms of a vampire Patrol Officer. She was only human so she couldn't fight back at all. Her dark brown eyes were red from her tears and anger.

"Please! We don't even know if he is a shifter! So you can't take him…I'm begging you!" She fell to her knees sobbing as a new wave of tears spilled down her face.

"Ma'am I'm sorry. The law states that no matter if the child is born a Shifter or not we must take them away on this day May 10." The vampire explained calmly to her. It actually seemed he felt sorry for her.

"Do you have a name for your child Ma'am?" An elderly woman open the back of the truck…three humans came out and the cries of newborns could be heard from inside. Quil felt tears in his eyes. 'All those children…taken and being punished for something they didn't do.' "Ma'am?" The same elderly woman turned just enough to see a bundle in her arms as a baby tanned arm rose in the air.

"E-Embry…his name is Embry Call." Tiffany stuttered. Quil looked at her closely and saw blood seeping through her clothes. 'How can these leeches handle themselves around this much blood?'

One of the three humans wrote something on his pad and a thin bracelet came out from the top. You know the ones you get when you're at the hospital…those. He careful put it around the baby's arm as the second and third humans carried Embry to the truck to be with the other newborns.

He couldn't handle it anymore. Taking off at an incredible speed Quil silently climbed up the ladder making sure the leeches didn't hear him. He took a deep breath when he reached the roof and jumped it swiftly. 'Like an assassin!' Smiling he took off towards his home.

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"Billy!" Quil yelled as he slammed the door shut behind him. Jared rushed down the stairs with a bowl.

"Thank god! You're finally here! Billy! Quil is here with the bandages and medicine!" Jared handed him the bowl and took off with the duffel bag.

Because Quil wasn't prepared for anything to be in the bowl the contents spilled over the rim and all over him. Blood…Quil paled and rushed to the kitchen dumping the bowl in the badly used sink. He quickly turned on the faucet and had to wait a few seconds till water slowly started to come out.

"Quil after you're done with that I need your help in packing." Quils' mother came into view from down the stairs. He got most of his features from her except she had light brown eyes instead of dark brown. Her apron was covered in blood, again he paled. "Oh Quil! It's just a little blood."

"It's not that mother it's where it was…"

"Oh please! Act you age young man!"

"Yes mother…" Quil ducked his head in embarrassment.

Upstairs Renee was trying helplessly to not scream. The room around her was dark, the only light source was behind Billy and it was being held up by Jared. The flashlight pointed down towards Billy's working hands.

"Ok listen Renee you're almost done ok sweetheart…the baby is just about to pop out…" Jared was standing as still as possible.

'Think I'm gonna be sick…' Jared thought as he saw the top of the baby's head start to come out. Excitement welled up inside of him replacing the disgust.

"That's it Renee…one more push." Billy quickly replaced his hand to be able to gently catch the little one. Renee was panting; her body was in so much pain, especially between her legs. She was tired, so very tired but she had to give one final push for her child. She bit into the wooden stick that was between her teeth and took a deep breath and pushed with all her might. Sweat poured down her body, her robe clinging to her, blood was everywhere in the sheets.

"Woah…" Jared breathed out as the baby was finally thrown into the new world. Billy quickly caught the child.

"Jared the small tub quickly." He blinked and rushed out of the room.

"Billy…" Renee panted. She took deep unsteady breaths, with her head leaning against the propped up billow.

"Hang on Renee just one minute." Billy looked down between the baby's legs and smiled softly. Just then Jared return with a small metal tub filled with warm water. They gently dipped the baby in and wiped the child down from all the blood. Jared then handed Billy the scissors, who then cut the umbilical cord. "Renee," Billy stood up and walked over to the side of the bed as Jared began to clean up the mess, "It's a girl." He smiled as he handed the bundled up little girl to Renee.

"A-A girl…my baby girl." Renee smiled as she looked down at her first child. The girl was had dark brown hair, dark blue eyes from her mother and russet colored skin. "You're so beautiful. Billy…what name means beautiful?" Renee took her daughters hands and checked if she had each little finger.

"The first one that comes to my mind is Isabella."

"Then Isabella It is then. Do you like that Isabella?" The baby smiled as she kicked her little legs.

"Billy! Renee!" Quil ran up the steps and skidded into the room.

"What is it Quil?"

"The Patrol is here…" He looked at Renee who paled and pulled her daughter closer to her, Isabella feeling the shift of her mother began to cry as banging was heard downstairs.

"Open up! Patrol is here and by law you must let us in!" A female voice yelled. She couldn't lose her…not when she didn't have even a full minute with her. She promised to herself she would take care of her. Gave her everything she could, she will not let them take her daughter away! 'They won't take my Isabella!' She pulled her baby away just enough to look at her daughter her stopped crying for a bit and gave her mother a smile with a bit of a laugh. Renee's eyes started to tear up. 'My beautiful girl…I'm sorry, I hope you can forgive me one day.'

The door was suddenly busted down as shouts and yells were heard.

Isabella began to cry again along with her mother.

A/N: Please leave a review they always help me to write better! Thank you! Remember you can ask any questions you feel like asking me! XD Thanks a ton from Ulster Gold and segir for asking questions! You guys are great :)!