[In the guide, Stephanie Meyer said that by 2006, there were 17 werewolves all together, but only 10 were named so . . . I had to improvise.]
October 1, 2009
I'm almost finished eating when I hear a howl out in the woods coming from the northeast. I quickly finish and leave fifteen dollars on the table. I run out of the building leaving the scent of the place behind me. As soon as I am in the bushes, I strip and tie my clothes around my leg with a large leather cord. I get a running start and phase before taking off towards Forks, more specifically the Cullen's.
Jacob? I ask.
I'm here, Seth. He answers.
What's wrong? Is Leah there?
Yeah she's here. And I don't know what's wrong, not exactly. Edward just said to get everybody together. Alice had a vision.
More vampires?
No, she would have seen them.
Wait a sec. Did she have a vision or not?
Yes . . . No . . . It's complicated! Do you remember when the other bloodsuckers were coming? And Alice could only half see the Brazilians?
Yeah.
Well, it's like that.
So, we need to start patrolling and preparing for the end again. I think sarcastically.
Ugh! Just get over here. He tells me and then I can't hear him anymore but other voices fill in his place. Embry, Quil, Aaron, Mark, and Derek. I give them all the basic run down of what Jake told me and soon we are phasing back into ourselves at the Cullen House.
Almost immediately, I am hit by the familiar smell of the vampires; overly ripe cherries, cheap car air fresheners and blood.
Renesmee is waiting for us at the front door. She has a smile on her face when she greets us but her eyes tell us that she's worried. She's grown since I last saw her. It's expected of course but rather than looking eight like last month, she could easily pass for ten. I ruffle her hair when I walk through the door and she laughs her sleigh bell laugh. It eases the tension in her elderly yet childlike eyes.
I follow the others up stairs to their main library where I see Jacob leaning against the wall at the far side of the room with Leah. Embry quickly takes his place with them finishing the Alpha-Second-Third triangle of power. To their right the setting is repeated with Sam, Jared and Paul. They're alone. The rest of his pack must have stayed at home. I stay by the entrance leaning against the door frame. In the center of the room is a long rectangular table. Alice sits at its head Edward on her left and Jasper (the Walking Chill Pill) on her right while Carlisle sits further down the table. Bella stands behind her along with Rosalie and Emmett.
The attentionis on Alice. Carlisle is the first to speak once we're settled.
"Alice, would you tell us what you saw?"
She blinks a few times and puts her fingers to her temples, before opening her mouth to speak.
"Two. Two then Three.-"
"So, five?" Paul interjects.
"No, two and then three" she says through gritted teeth. It's easy to tell that she's already frustrated and Paul's interruptions in her pattern of thought only annoy her more.
"A pair. Then a set. Silver and green. Red. A house, white and claret." she continued. "That's what I saw first it . . . it's still not clear though. Now I can see a fight with a girl and a man present, but nothing else. I don't know who they're fighting or why but, I think that someone else might be with them."
She sets her head down on the table and Jasper rubs a hand over her back the feeling hits me too, though much more subtly than it does Alice. Strength. Concentration. Tranquility. Confidence. During this brief pause, I feel Renesmee's hand slip around my ankle.
It was awful the first time. She kept sputtering and mumbling like she was in a trance. She broke another vase, too. I get a flash of pictures showing me exactly what she said.
I hadn't noticed her sit down next to my feet on a tiny ottoman. She let's go of my leg and leans back against the bookshelf when Alice begins to speak again.
"Humans . . . possibly. Two at least. The set though. I can't see them at all; I just know that there are three because of what the pair said" she explains the turns her eyes to Sam, "I do know that they are coming so they can't be wolves or even hybrids but I can not clearly view them either. The only explanation I can think of is that somehow they are connected to you all."
All of us tense up at these words. Alice sits up and glances around the room.
"With that said I'll tell you two other things I do know about them. All of them, the two, the three, the pair, and the set are dangerous. The pair will be here tonight. The three are harder to find but if all of them decide to follow the others then they'll be here in another six weeks."
My mind goes into a craze. Tonight? We'll have to go on patrols again. Monitor the perimeters around La Push and Forks too. I turn to talk to Jacob but Edward stands up and says in a clear smooth voice
"We will help you. Patrolling, monitoring, fighting, whatever you need. It is the least we could do after what you've done for us all these years."
Jacob speaks next "If that's the case then we'll start assigning post. Mark, Embry and I will stay on the outer borders with some of Sam's"
"Jarred, Brady, and I." says Sam
"Right. Along with Doc, Rosalie and Jasper. Then Seth, Leah, Aaron, Colin, Luke, and Paul will run after us. Edward can go with them"
"Robert, Nathan, and Derek can stay around the reservation with the big one and Bella."
"Yeah. Esmé, Nessie, and Alice can stay here. Just if she sees something else we'll know."
Edward runs out of the room and comes black in a heartbeat. In his hands, he carries a map, a blue sharpie, and a velvet bag. He spreads the map out on the table and spills the contents of the bag on than table; chess pieces.
"White for vampires and black for wolves." Edward says before picking up a king and a queen, which he hands to Jacob and Sam. The rest of us all walk up and retrieve our own pieces, placing them where they tell us to and paying close attention to their movements and coördinates on the map.
