Hey, everyone! I am finally state side once again so here is a welcome back present to...you though it is me coming back... Oh well, you get the point. Here is the next installment of A Vampire's Soul!

You need to know these things before reading:

1. Anything that is in "italics and in double quotation" is Alex speaking in Delia's mind.

2. Anything that is 'normal and in single quotations' is thinking/silent speaking (ex. pack members speaking).

"Is that bad or something? He's been in me for a while now."

"That sounds so perverted." Alex smiles and wriggles his eyebrows.

'Only you would take it that way.' The coven stares at me. Then the brown hair girl's laugh rings through the clearing.

"I told you, Edward! We do have souls."

Copper, or Edward, scowls at the mention of being proven wrong.

'Am I like a freak or something? Do other vamps have this power?' I ask Alex silently hoping he has the answer.

"I really doubt it. Maybe this Edward guy didn't believe vampires have souls?"

I scratch my head. "So, ah, what do you guys want me to-"

"Hey! Bella!" I look to my left to see a guy at least six feet tall, toned muscles everywhere, and only wearing ripped up shorts.

"Close your mouth!"

"Hey, Mom!" A girl with curly brown hair steps out of the forest right behind the toned guy. She waves to the brown haired lady. She smiles and motions her daughter to me; though, it takes about a second for the toned guy to notice everyone's gaze is firmly on me.

I scratch the back of my head, feeling a little stupid for even considering him. 'I guess he's taken.'

"Eh, there's other guys better for you out there."

'Thanks Dad.' I smirk outwardly as Alex glares at me hating me for calling him Dad again.

"Who's she?" Toned Dude stabs a finger in my direction.

"She looks like a Hybrid." The girl watches me and I look back to "Mom" and Edward.

"She isn't like you, Nessie. She has a vampire's soul in her." Mom smiles at Nessie and both of the newcomers gape at me.

"Okay, not to be rude, but can you guys stop staring at me like I have a third eye or an extra head?" I frown. 'Hardly anyone looks at me like I'm a freak.'

"It's only 'cause you never let people close enough," Alex states matter-of-factly.

'Don't remind me.'

"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Nessie, and this is my husband, Jake. My mom, Bella." She nods to the brown haired woman or Mom. "Gave birth to me when she was a human. My dad was a vampire at the time, so, I turned out to be a hybrid."

"Makes sense."

"And you were not born like this?" She tilts her head cutely. I wish I could have smiled at such a cute gesture, but the grimace controls my mouth, too many hostiles in one area for anything like that.

"Born like this? No, I met Alex when I was sixteen."

'Right?' Biting my lip, I question Alex to make sure I'm right.

"Yes, you were sixteen at the time."

"Oh, so he's inside you right now? Like a baby?"

"No, his soul is really in me. We will share this body until I can find a mate and give birth to him." I frown as I repeat the bland textbook explanation Alex told me all those years ago.

"That is so interesting!" Nessie claps her hands and looks at Jake. I proceed to see the deep scowl on his face.

"Why did you guys grab her?" I look behind me to the wolves.

'Is he the leader?'

"It looks like it."

Collin looks to Edward; Edward nods and turns his head to Jake.

"When they found her in the clearing with another vampire, she screamed something and ran," Edward translates.

Jake nods his head. "Why don't I see the bite marks bleeding?" He glares at me.

"Because I'm not a full human right now," I sneer. "I have a scale of how vampire or human I want to be. Right now, I am human enough to have a faint, slow heart beat and feel pain, but I don't bleed and I don't really need to eat."

'Not that I would have to after that amazing burger we had!' I grin inwardly and find Alex smacking his lips.

"I agree completely!" I hear Edward stifle a laugh. Bella looks at him with a curious look, but he shakes his head.

I frown, 'He's laughing at us.'

"Show me that you can go full human." Jake challenges.

I smirk evilly, "You vamps might wanna stand back; there's going to be a lot of blood."

"I do not think you should do this! Stop taking such challenges! You're going to get yourself killed! You don't know how much the wolf hurt you!"

'Worry wart.' I take a deep breath. I feel my heart speed up and then the classic burning in my side showing me that I've been hit, 'Wow, this feels just like stupid White poison feels like.' My legs give way as I grip my side. 'Blood also feels the same.' I cough up some copper liquid and spit it out smirking a bit. "This good enough for you?"

The whole crew stares at me. "I don't care if they believe you or not! I'm changing you to full vamp, you need to heal!"

I feel my body cool. The blood stops gushing through my fingers. I look up and give a bloody smile. "Cat got your tongue, Jake-y boy?" One of the wolves growl behind me.

"Stop trying to piss them off. This may be your only place to live and be safe," Alex growls, admonishing me.

'That's a big maybe.' I sigh. 'You working on the holes?'

"Yes."

"Do you have any other talents?" Ed asks smoothly.

'Yo, there's a rabbit.' I spot one over on the other side of the clearing and smile. I love spur of the moment things. I hear Alex laugh and I feel myself shrink and my clothes disappear. I hop over to the rabbit. It seems to be fine with my presence so I sit and watch it while Alex escapes my body and talks to Ed.

When I am not changing into one form or another, Alex can take his soul out of me to a distance, I haven't figured it out yet, and act as one being, but he still has to come back to me because I am his life source. The only drawback to having Alex escape is that I cease being invincible as a vampire and I am stuck in whatever form I transformed into.

"I have the power to materialize things. If Delia was a vampire, she would be able to shape shift. The only way she can is by somehow getting the DNA inside her. Like a bite or eating it." Alex speaks through my mind as I continue to watch the rabbit.

Ed nods his head. "That means any type of animal, correct?"

"That means she could transform to be a wolf!" Jake glares at me in my rabbit form.

'Because I choose who chases and bites me.' I glare back as much as a rabbit can.

I hear Ed laugh. "She said she really didn't have a choice in the matter of getting a hold of your wolf DNA."

"Will you try it?" Nessie smiles at me. Jake scowls next to her. You know he could be nice enough to warm up to me if his wife likes me.

'Do you think I should?'

"I don't see why not. Jake just seems like he doesn't favor new vampires that much."

'Yeah, I'll give you that; though, I am no vamp. So? Pink?' Alex rolls his eyes. With the sudden gust of wind from Alex returning, the rabbit darts away.

I start to hop toward the group; however, I quickly change into a regular wolf. I smile at the pink fur I see around my eyes. Then when I near the group, I jump and feel myself become huge. "Whoa! There's so much room!"

I land on all fours and look at my paws, expecting to see a deep flamingo, but get a bright orange, 'What the hell?' I spin around and check my tail. It is mostly the same orange but have a tuft of white on top, 'Alex! What's going on?'

"Beats me. I don't know why you didn't turn pink."

'She…able…'

I spin around. 'Was that you?' I look over to Ed. He has a devious smirk going on, but that doesn't give me the answer I need.

"I swear. I don't talk like that, do I?"

'I…she can.'

I look over to the wolves. Two from before arrive and still look extremely hostile; there is a third that looks almost cheerful. The newest one is a sandy color. Like the sands in Arizona. A very pretty color, I must say. I smile wickedly at them, but it has no effect. 'I really like this form. It feels right somehow.'

"I know what you mean; all the other ones feel so stuffy. This one…has so much room!" I watch Alex swim around in the space we have. I begin to laugh at how childish this is but, hey, we don't get to do this much.

"Yo, Seth, can you hear her?" Jake speaks up, interrupting my laughter. I look over to Ed totally confused.

The sandy wolf looks away from me and to Ed. "Delia, stop calling me Ed." He glares at me for a moment. I roll my eyes and sit, waiting for him to continue. "He says bits and pieces."

'Delia's…name?' I feel a faint interest and look to Collin. I tilt my head.

'Delia! Can you hear me?' I jump as I hear a shout echo through my head.

"Dude! Loud much?"

'Alex, now is not the time to yell.' I shake my head and give a somewhat raised eyebrow to Ed… I mean, Edward.

He rolls his eyes. "Have you heard of the legends?"

'They were bedtime stories,' I state bluntly, looking a bit bored.

I don't think Edward liked that, but he continues, "These wolves here are that legend. The way they communicate is through the mind." He taps his head.

'Like the mountain lions?'

'Mountain lions?' Collin tilts his wolf-y head.

I smile. 'Yeah, I had a run in with these mountain lions in south Cali. They can do the same thing. Except its only thoughts, not feelings.'

'That is so cool!'If Seth was human, I would not have a single doubt in my mind that he would be jumping up and down. I smile a bit but turn serious after a moment.

'Why can I hear them? I am not in the pack. I had to join through a ritual with the lions.'

'Maybe your dad was a-'

'I don't want to talk about my family,' Frowning, I change back to a human. Alex materializes a white dress that billows out behind me. "So, what do you want me to do? Stay here or something? I don't think Silver will like that." I look over to the glaring wolf. He's the only one that is not curious at all.

"Well, he's not a leader of one of the packs, so he doesn't have a say." Jake chuckles.

"Should we talk to all the leaders of the packs then?"

"I think Jake is one of them with that smile."

I turn my glare away from Silver and look at Jake's grinning face. "So, who are the other leaders? Or are you just going to take me from them and not let them decide?" I grin a bit. 'He has a devious streak in him, does he not?'

"He has a wife!"

'Ugh, don't remind me.' I don't dare look at Edward, but I do feel his gaze burning some of my hair off.

"Can you hear both sides?"

"How am I supposed to know?" I raise an eyebrow with a small smirk, but no one really likes the joke so I just awkwardly leave it. "I'll change back." Within a blink of an eye I am back to that wolf form.

'Well, I'm from Jake's pack.'Seth smiles. I nod my giant furry head.

'And I am from Sam's pack.'A new voice echoes. I look to Silver, but he has a solid scowl on, so, I doubt he would talk to me. I look to White and get a toothy grin.

'Yeah, I can hear both sides.' I look over to Edward, waiting for him to translate, but I see a wolf where Jake should be.

"Does he have to tower over you? This degrades me too." Alex whines.

'Was that Alex?'I nod at Jake.

'Just ignore him when he makes comments like that. I do ignore him all the time.' I get a laugh out of Jake and a glare from Alex.

"That was rude."

I only roll my eyes.

'So are you okay with joining the pack? Will you be here for a while?'

'Well, it dep-'

"Dad? Where are you?" I hear a shout from the woods. Everyone turns to see who it is.

He has black curly hair with some twigs and leaves in it. This causes Alex to laugh, but I just can't laugh with him. The boy looks to be around five ten, maybe eleven height wise. His tan is not as dark as Jake's, but way more…stunning (is that even the right word)? When he looks up, I sit and then lie down. I have no idea why, I just do. His mahogany eyes gaze into mine and I feel my heart beat so fast, I think I'm dying. My heart shouldn't even be on right now!

'Alex…' I whisper in my head. I stare at my paws. 'What's going on?'

"What's his problem?" He asks, a bit annoyed and I feel hurt; and not because he called me a "he" either.

I hear husky chuckles and laughter fill the clearing. "Nick, that's a girl." Edward laughs at the boy.

"Oh, crap! I am so sorry!" He sprints over to me and touches my head. I instantly feel warmer and lift my head up more. He scratches between my ears.

"Next thing we know, you'll be trying to be his lap dog." More laughter fills the clearing. This time I don't care. I could care less as long as this Nick kid keeps scratching my head.

'Did she just imprint?'

'I think she did!'

'Well, this is new…'

'How can she? She only can transform because of her vampire thing.'I turn my head to look at the five wolves sitting at the clearing's edge. Then Nick starts to scratch under my chin. I flip over to show him my belly. He starts laughing at me! What is wrong with me?

"Wow, you must really like me!"

All I can do is gulp. I don't even know what's wrong with me!

So, is that a good second chapter? Is the format not as confusing now? Tell me what you think!