A.N.: Thank you so much for all the reviews, you guys are great, make my day everyday... Sorry for all the wait, I had a couple of set backs, but all is fix now. I want to thank KT08 and Lucyferina for the excellent help. Lucyferina has great stories you guys should go and check her out. Finally don't forget to let me know what you think. Hope you like it.

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WPOV (Taha Wi)

What am I doing here anyway? I should have never listened to father. It's just not possible. I do not even know if our tribe still survives. Father said that it is and that I would be needed in it one day.

But I just could not see that, how would he even know? He himself has not been with the tribe for centuries. Just like me, haunted by the ones we lost and gave in to our wolf side.

I do not think I could be human again, and I am not sure that I can help the people that reminded me of my beautiful beloved and my family.

After roaming the wilderness for centuries as a wolf, I felt lonely and more than anything else confident that I wouldn't harm or been hurt by anyone.

I always wondered why father came to find me those few decades ago. I think he was feeling the same as me, after losing his beloved also. He told me that there would be a time when I would be able to put all that I have lost behind me and start a new life. I did not believe him, but he assured me that the great spirits had shown him and he had seen that and so much more. And that also our tribe would come on a time of great need, and that I would be the one keeping it together.

I do not think that I could put everything that I lost behind me... is that even possible?

I remember the time of the great eagle, when I was finally happy, I had found my imprint and we were to be wed. She was a beautiful woman; she belonged to the Makah tribe.

The day before the wedding the son of the Makah's chief came, saying that some of their young women had disappeared. I instantly knew that my bride to-be was one of these women. I felt a panic run all through my body.

Father had ordered for a group of my brothers to go investigate and see what happened. I begged father to let me go, at first he told me that I would not be able to concentrate enough to lead the group. He said that he also knew the power of the imprint, and the need to protect her would be bigger than to look after my brothers. But after my assurance that I would do the best for my pack, he let me lead my four younger brothers to find what happened to the women.

After a day of running we came to a scent, it was so sweet that it made our noses burn from the smell. I sent the two younger ones back home and the rest of us proceeded to follow the scent.

We came up on a clearing where the smell was stronger and we also could smell blood in here, my first reaction was to find the source of the blood, thinking of my beloved. As soon as I found it I wished that I had not. It was her!

I froze, I could not move, the sight was horrible and I couldn't do anything. I was still frozen when I noticed three really pale faced people moving extraordinarily fast and attacking my other two brothers. Meanwhile I was in so much pain that I could not do anything to help them.

One of them started going me and spoke in a language I never heard before, it was almost mocking. When it moved right in front of me blocking the view of my bride, it was like I snapped back and focused on this monster. It kept talking but I would not even care what it was saying, all I could think was that one of them had killed her, destroyed her, and took her from me.

I launched at him, catching him by surprise, and ripped one of his cold hard arms off, it screamed, a piercing cry that hurt my wolf ears. I turned for a second to see how my brothers were doing, but it was not a good idea. There, lying on the forest ground, stood my now dead brothers and the monsters ripping parts off them. I was knocked down by the one behind me and it sent me flying across the field. I stood up as fast as I could and ran away. I could not face all the death behind me, or the disappointment from my tribe. So I ran, faster than I ever done before, not stopping until I was exhausted and weak from my injured back. I fell to the ground. I did not get up for a long time. I could not tell how long I was lying there or what happened around me. Finally giving in to my hunger, I hunted down an elk and that's how I have been surviving for as long as I can remember.

Not long after father found me, it was a surprise to both of us. I was full of shame to tell him how I had ruined everything and how it was my fault that my brothers were dead.

He told me that the cold ones show up at the tribe not long after we left and how he destroyed them. He also told me about his third wife who had sacrificed herself to give them a chance to kill the cold ones. He told me after spending some time with our great spirits that they told him his beloved imprint was waiting for him to join her in the spirit world. I wanted to do the same with my imprint, but he told me that the spirits had others plans for me, I had to come back to the tribe eventually, and that I would know when the time was right, and that I would also find a woman that would help me lead and she would also support me through the hard times.

She was not going to be another imprint, but somebody that I would love and care for almost as much as my imprint. At this knowledge I refused to betray my imprint, but he assured me that this was supposed to be and that my imprint was happy for me, that there was nothing that would cause her any pain.

The spirits also told him that I was supposed to find her before I reached the tribe, and that she would help me find my way in the new world, apparently there was a lot that I would have missed by being in wolf form.

I told father that I didn't know if I could be human again. That the wolf was too strong, but he said not to be afraid and that this woman would help me become human again.

I was getting close I could feel it and I also could smell it. By the scents around me I could tell that there were at least eight wolves, I was wondering what their reaction would be when they set their eyes on me. Being the first of Taha Aki's sons, it was my birth right to be the Alpha.

I was concentrating so hard on what would happen when I got back to the tribe that I did not noticed the yelling at first. It was a woman's voice. I did not see any danger, so I do not know why she was so upset. I could not understand her, she almost sounded like those monsters that killed my brothers and my imprint.

She looked fierce, I wonder what made this beautiful pale face woman so angry, and to whom she actually was talking to. I kept following her for while, she didn't notice me, she kept murmuring words that I could not understand. She looked sad at the same time and looking down at her feet, where was she going? A young woman in the middle of the night without company. I could not leave her.

Suddenly she spoke up a little bit louder and I looked up to see her holding her chin up high. I stood still not wanting to frighten the woman, but she was not scared at all. What kind of person would not be scared of a huge wolf in the middle of the night?

She started talking to me with an angry tone. And started walking again. When she walked past me, she brushed her arm on my fur, sending a strange shock through my whole body. Who was she? Why did I have this reaction to her touch?

I felt a weird pull towards this woman. I could not say for sure what it was but I felt it either way. Could this woman be the one that father talked about? Is this why she is not afraid of me? There were just too many questions to be answered but no one to answer them.

Father had said that I would find the woman before I reached the tribe, and that I had to learn the ways of this new world before making my presence known.

At one point when she was talking to me she winced from whatever she was talking about and it hurt me to know that this woman was going through a tough time. But then her voice got stronger and it made me smile at this strong woman, she reminded me of the Thunderbird.

After a while we reached what I presumed was her house. By the time we got there her mood and tone of voice changed so much, she was being nicer and kept talking to me, even if I did not understand her and wasn't able to answer her back. I wished I could be stronger so I could phase back into a human.

She went inside and started to cook something, whatever it was smelled different and really good, I was becoming really hungry but I could not leave her house. After little while she came out of the house holding what looked like a bowl with food and some water. She said something and waited, I guess for me to eat what she made for me. I did not want to scare her by seeing a big wolf eat in front of her, so I waited until I heard her fall asleep.

While I was waiting I kept thinking about her, I had so many questions; why this woman was not afraid of me? Why would she feed me without knowing me? Did she know about the other wolves? But she is pale face; it is obvious that she is not from the tribe. Yet she seems to know a lot about wolves. I also kept thinking about the way she kept moving her hand over my fur, it was really pleasant and without having any contact for a long time, I liked it a lot.

The more I thought about it, the more what my father said started to come back to me, and I did not have a doubt in my mind that this woman was going to be important in my life.

It hurt and scared me to imagine that I would love this woman, I mean I do not think it would be hard not to. But that she would not or could not be my imprint, or that she could replace my beloved.

She really reminded me of the legend of the Thunderbird, it is said that the Thunderbird is a bird large enough to carry a whale in its claws. It was said that he rescued my people from starvation by bringing them a whale to feed on. As the legend goes, the Chief at the time prayed to the Great Spirits for assistance, and they believed that the Thunderbird was the manifestation of this prayer. We regard the Thunderbird with respect as it was our savior in the time of need.

And I think that this woman who kindly fed me and kept me from starvation, she would be able to help me with the needs that I may have.

After finishing my food, I went to the woods to try to phase back. And I just could not do it, I have not thought about being human for really long time and I hardly have any memories of being human, much less a happy human memory. Obviously it's the one thing that I need to be able to do to phase back.

In the morning when the young woman woke up, she came tumbling down the steps and opened the door. She looked disappointed when she picked up the bowl and jar.

I watched her throughout the day trying to catch on to anything that the humans from this time seem to do. At one point she started to talk into some small box looking thing that she put by her ear and a little while later another woman that looked the same age as her came over in a vehicle and they parted towards her bigger and older one. After the women looked around the big machine, my lady used the same little box again and began talking to it again.

Every time the other woman called mine 'Bella', my woman would turn and talk back. So I assume that Bella was her name, it sounded pretty, really fitting.

Bella seemed to feel my presence around because once in a while she would turn to my direction expecting me to be there. But of course I was hidden and she could not see me, but nevertheless it lifted my broken heart.

Later that night, after she finally got her vehicle back to her house, which I learned it was called a 'truck', she went inside and started cooking.

An hour later she came outside with the same bowl and jar from yesterday filled again leaving it on the chair and went back inside.

I waited until I knew she was sleeping again and took a flower from a few houses over and made my way to the food. Leaving the flower next to the now empty bowl I went under her window and fell asleep listening to her breathing and heart beat.

Next morning I made my way to the woods again to try to phase, however I could not do it yet. Instead I watched Bella again; she came to the outside of the house again and smiled at the empty bowl and jar. She picked the flower and put it in her hair.

Through the day she sat outside and read from books and wrote things on paper.

I decided I wanted to see her close up that night, so I made my way to her steps and lie down until she came outside with the food and water again.

She opened her door and got startled at my presence but recovered fast. She said something that sounded like "You are back" smiling, I did not know what she said and I did not care.

She put the stuff back in the chair and sat next to me. She remained silent the whole time; she only ran her fingers through my fur. And it felt amazing.

At one point in the night I noticed that she was getting cold, I could also tell that she was in deep thought and probably did not notice herself. I nuzzled her side and it was enough to snap her out of her thoughts.

She lay over my shoulders and I put my tail over her thin legs as a blanket. She was so small and seemed so breakable, at the same time she seemed so strong that she could face the entire world and never flinch back from it.

I started to wonder what this woman had been through to make her who she is.

Her heart slowed down and her breathing became slower and soothing rhythm that sounded like a beautiful song. I watched her sleep peacefully resting on my body for the whole night. I was thinking how I could have feelings for this woman already, just knowing her for so little time.

She was a beautiful pale face; her skin was so white that you could see her veins. I thought it was funny that this white woman would be loved one day by a white wolf. She has big brown eyes that showed her soul and you could get lost in them. Those long brown locks of hair that have waves all through it. And once I figured out how to phase back into a human I would love to run my fingers through them.

I was so captured on the lullaby that her body made and this beautiful woman next to me that my last thought before sleep took me under was that I was truly at peace for the first time in a long time.

As the sunrise started to show in the horizon over the trees I began to come back from my sleep. I did not want to open my eyes yet. I felt tired and I did not want the night to end.

The first thing I noticed was that Bella was still with me, I could feel her heat through her clothes and I could hear her heart beat and low breaths. I also could smell her scent, a lovely mixture of flowers and strawberries with a small hint of musk to it. The second thing I noticed was that I felt uncomfortable, that was weird because with being a wolf, the fur and the big muscles made a perfect blanket around me at all times.

I slowly opened my eyes. The first thing I saw was my Thunderbird beauty around my arms. Arms? I looked around some more and sure enough I had finally phased back into a human.

She did it, I am not sure how but she did it.

At that moment all of my doubts about her and of what I was supposed to do with the tribe went out of my mind. I could not doubt the great spirits anymore.

I started running my finger through her hair like I thought about doing last night, and she began to wake up also. She turned around to face me without opening her eyes and started to nuzzle my neck. It felt so good that I started purring. At that she frozen and opened her eyes.

At first she showed fear through her eyes but soon it changed into understanding. She knew that I had finally phased back.

She smiled at me and then did something that startled me for a moment. She started to nuzzle my neck again, as an acceptance.

"Hach chi'i T'ist'ilal" I said to her and she just stared into my eyes and smiled.

"Hi" was the only thing she said.

It seem like we were under a spell of sort. Holding each other and taking in each others scent as much as possible.

A.N.: Hach chi'i means 'good morning' and T'ist'ilal means Thunderbird, so I meant as 'good morning my Thunderbird' I know I don't have the 'my' word but I couldn't find it anywhere. Also the legend of the Thunderbird is real Quileute legend; I found it in one of the Quileute websites. Tell me what you think...and if you like the idea of changing between Bella and Taha We POVs for each chapter.

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