Days later Anna was back in her study, trying to figure out once more what the identity of their assailant was. She had gotten back to the part in the old book about the Volturi and their guard. She slammed the book in frustration, it named the Volturi leaders, but not any from their guard, only stating that they were made up of vampires with extraordinary powers. She felt more irritation that her parents only seemed to teach her and Paz about defending themselves and killing vampires, than about the bloodsuckers' world.
Anna was irritated for the rest of the day, Paz seemed to sense her cousin's frustration and decided she could use a day out of the house. Paz ended up pulling Anna down the main street of Forks an hour later.
"Come on!" Paz laughed pulled Anna along looking around, "When have you actually taken the time to take a look around our new home?" she questioned.
"I've been busy," Anna muttered stubbornly.
Paz scoffed, "Well live a little!" She joked.
Anna did admit that Paz had a point, the small town had a charm about it that Anna hadn't noticed before, but it also had a mysterious feel over it, like it wasn't just your normal small town. People walked by smiling and greeting others, most people that lived here seemed to know each other, Anna was sure if they lived closer to town, that Paz would be friends with the high school kids here, instead of those guys on the rez; Anna didn't know which one she preferred.
They had stopped several places, and Anna even found herself wanting to go back to that café on the corner -the one where Seth and Paz met- to have their coffee. And the bookstore in town was Anna's favorite, the store owner even remembered her from her last visit. The sky was very cloudy, the sun didn't seem to even peek out from behind the clouds. Anna and Paz walked side by side, just enjoying being outside in society, when a tall man around Paz's age, maybe a little older, walked right between them. It was so abrupt and unexpected that Anna's shoulder collided with the guy's arm, coldness shot through her. Even without skin to skin contact, she had a sort of built in vampire radar and any sort of contact with one had the hair on her neck standing on edge. Her eyes widened with surprise as she turned suddenly looking after the boy; looking at him now he was pale, so pale he was almost translucent, but what was even more strange, was when he looked back slowly at Anna that his eyes weren't red, but an amber gold-ish color. The boy seemed to look at Paz and Anna with curiosity before facing forward once more and continuing on his was at a slightly faster pace. Paz looked at Anna with wide eyes, she had felt it too. Anna grabbed Paz's wrist and the hurried back to where they parked, and headed back to the safety of their home.
Anna paced the living room floor trying to think about her new discovery.
"That was a vampire...right?" Paz questioned.
"I'm sure of it, but his eyes weren't like regular vampires, and he didn't seem to recognize that we were hunters like most do." Anna answered frustrated.
"Well...what do we do?" Paz asked the more wiser of the two
Anna collapsed on the leather couch with a frustrated sigh. She ran her hands down her face and groaned.
"W-what do we do Anna?" Paz asked
Anna thought for a second sat up to look at Paz, "We can't do much, Paz," She said helplessly, "We don't know exactly what kind of vampire that was, but from now on, no hanging out with Seth at night," She gave Anna a pleading look.
"I'm serious Paz, no hanging out at night anymore, I don't trust these things with them living around here. You can bring him over whenever you want, at night too I don't care, but I don't want you leaving this house after sunset. Understand?" Anna asked
Paz sighed, but after a minute said, "I understand."
"I just don't want anything to happen to you."
"I know, I know."
"Do you know anyone in town?" Anna asked Paz suddenly
"Umm, I sorta know this girl that works at the café, her name was Angela." Paz answered with a curious tone.
"Good, I want you to go and find out anything about that guy we saw today from her, ok? This is a small town, someone is bound to know who that guy is." Anna said rubbing her chin.
Paz nodded, then put on a smug smile, "I'll be like a detective!" She pumped the air with excitement. Anna just shook her head with nothing to say and fell back onto the couch.
The next day Anna was hunting through her family's history books when she heard Paz come through the front door three floors below her. She wasn't alone this time though, Anna heard Seth as well. Anna smirked to herself and shook her head.
Paz came running up the stairs, "Annnnnaaaaaa" Paz whispered dramatically
"What?" Anna turning around and looking at her oddly
"I found out who that guy was!" She whispered excitedly
"Okay...why are you whispering?" Anna asked strangely
"Because I don't want Seth to hear!" She whispered with a "duh" tone.
Anna rolled her eyes but motioned her to continue.
"His name is Edward Cullen, he lives here with his family, not too far from us actually." Paz said, Anna started thinking as she continued, "He went to the town high school, he graduated last year, and Angela said that he only hanged out with his siblings that also went there, and well this girl named Bella Swan." Anna thought that part was interesting, vampires don't hang out with humans, unless they are using them as blood pets. Paz continued still, "Angela also said that the Cullens are all unnaturally beautiful, and always happened to miss school every time the sun is out. And get this, Edward, is marrying this Bella come spring." Paz stood back with her arms crossed, looking proud of herself. Anna on the hand was completely stunned, she has never heard of a vampire marrying a human.
Anna took off the glasses that were perched on her nose and rubbed her forehead while trying to process this new wealth of information, "Good work Paz, I will look into this." she said dismissing the younger girl.
She heard Paz's footsteps as they descended back down to the ground floor of the lighthouse. Sighing, Anna got up from her seat and walked to the nearby window, looking outside she watched as the sun began to set. Time to do some recon.
Anna quickly went downstairs and found the two teenagers cuddled up on the couch watching a movie, a pang went through her heart, she wanted what those two had.
"Paz, I'm going out for a while." Anna directed to the girl who now looked up at her from her spot under Seth's arm. She looked alarmed for a minute, and made to stand up, but Anna held her hand up for her to stay where she was, "I will be back later, don't wait up for me; Seth, stay as long as you'd like, but behave you two." She warned playfully, before nodding in goodbye to her cousin and heading out the door, she heard Seth yell "Goodbye" at her as she went.
She headed to the other building, and once inside she dressed in leggings, tank top, black long sleeved cashmere shirt, oversized boiled wool coat with a draped collar, black hiking boots, black leather gloves, and a black beanie over her hair that she put in a bun, a few strands of hair framed her face. Grabbing her beloved twin blades and strapping them to her back, and the hand gun passed down to her from her parents, Anna headed out into the darkness of night. She took out her phone and made a phone call to a source within the hunter community.
"Anderson, its Coyote," She said once the other line picked up, using her widely known nickname given to her by the community for safety reasons, "I need some intel."
Minutes after hanging up, the phone rang again, and Anna knew the location of where the Cullens lived. She jogged at a steady pace through the forest, and it was about 15 minutes later when she came up to the home. She climbed a near by tree just as an expensive car pulled up into the driveway.
"Typical vamps," Anna thought to herself, "Always ones for the finer things in life."
She watched as not one, but five individuals got out of the car, and four others came from inside the house to meet them. "So we've stumbled upon a coven have we?", Anna noticed how one girl didn't move as gracefully as the other eight, "She must be this so called, Bella.".
With interest she listened into what they were saying. Something about the upcoming wedding, invitations, dresses, and then...hunting. This perked her interest. And then she watched as they turned to walk back into the large modern home that was most definitely under the radar by any means. But just before the last one walked inside, the one she and Paz ran into, Edward was his name turned around and looked out into the tree line. Anna wasn't worried, he hadn't recognized her scent before, and she was completely hidden from his advanced eyesight; her skills were confirmed as he turned and walked inside with a shake of his head.
Anna departed from the property with one word haunting her thoughts, "Hunting". She would have to watch the papers for any deaths in the surrounding areas, Anna had a feeling they wouldn't be stupid enough to kill within Forks borders if they've made a home here.
She was half way home, and steadily jogging through the woods when she reached a sort of clearing. She had just crossed it when she felt as though she was being watched. With her alarms raised, she slowly continued to jog. The presence seemed to follow her as she made her way home. A battle ensued inside of her, she didn't know whether to be frightened or comforted by this thing that followed her. But whatever it was, it made sure it was discrete.
Frustrated she ran with all her might, and then suddenly dashed up a tree. Below her a large, very large, wolf came into view. Her eyes widened, "what is that thing?" she wondered to herself. Then the wolf's head suddenly looked up the tree, directly at her. She stiffened for a moment, before her fight or flight instincts kicked in; and in this case, flight one out. She took off, jumping tree to tree, branch to branch, as fast as she could to get away from the strange creature.
She came to a gap between trees too wide to jump, and decided she would have to continue on foot. Jumping out of the tree, she landed on her feet with ease. But before she could go anywhere, she turned to face the same wolf that had been following her. It had not only caught up with her, but beat her to this spot. "Impressive" she briefly thought.
The wolf stood towering over her form, dwarfing her in size. She slowly grabbed the gun from the holster around her waist. The wolf backed up as she produced this weapon. But suddenly, she was surrounded on all sides by even more large wolves that appeared out of nowhere.
"You have got to be kidding me." Anna murmured to herself and she quickly unsheathed one of the blades on her back, "I'm just trying to get home pups." One to her right growled slightly and she whipped her head to it, it was a reddish color, and larger than most of the others. The wolf in front of her huffed and her attention went back to him. She noticed how though he was large, he wasn't the biggest, and his coat was a beautiful silver/grey color. "Did I just say beautiful?" she thought with bewilderment. The wolf was so close, and the moon so bright, his eyes seemed to glow. "They are so human-like."
After the stare off continued for another strenuous minute, the silver wolf in front of her lowered his head, almost in submission, and made to let her pass. She stood shocked. They were just gong to let her go? He was just going to let her go? She slowly walked forward, angling her body to look at him in the eyes at all times, before soon she was walking backwards, never taking her eyes off of the pack of wolves, off of him.
Ok I suppose this story is slight AU with me changing up the ages of Meyer's characters. You tend to forget that these beautiful natives are still in high school during the events of all the books. Sigh. Anyways the whole pack that is older than Seth are considered to be out of high school and Jacob/Embry/Paul etc. are like in their early 20's. I have more written! So favorite/follow, and especially review! Thanks! Love you all!
