Sorry about the delay.

With school, work, and a hurricane things have been kinda crazy.

Anywho.. time for disclaimers:

I do not own Twilight or any of its characters, but Annalise and Reina are all mine :)

A week had passed since Reina had made the phone call to Screech. She had hoped he would have called her back by now, and with each day that passed she became increasingly jumpy. She twitched and cursed each time she heard the wolves howling in the forest. They sounded so close, as if they were standing just outside waiting to pounce.

Reina felt silly for thinking this, she had dealt with things far scarier than wolves in the past, but being on edge about her sister's proximity to what could potentially be extremely dangerous creatures only increased her anxieties.

She was also beginning to run out of excuses as to why she could not introduce herself to Anna's friends. Anna had become even closer to Seth and talks about him incessantly. Rei could see the disappointment in her little sister's eyes each time she turned down an invitation to meet the boy.

Seth had wanted Anna to spend time with him over the weekend, but Reina had been able to pull an excuse out of her ass at the last moment as to why Anna could not go. Instead Rei took Anna shopping in Seattle, buying her clothes and taking her to shows and a fancy dinner. She kept the girl entertained and Anna had soon forgotten her sadness at being unable to visit Seth.

It was late Sunday afternoon when Rei and Anna pulled into their driveway. Rei shook Anna awake and laughed as the girl groggily sat up, unsure of where they were.

"We're home Anna." She shook her one more time, "Time to go inside."

Anna blinked herself back to consciousness, "Okay," she slowly edged her way out of the truck, but not before turning around and grabbing the painting Rei had bought her at an antique shop in Seattle. "I'm gonna go call Seth." She said as she ran inside, the painting secured under her arm.

Reina sighed, and then began grabbing bags from the back seat. She hadn't wanted to buy Anna the painting, but her sister's puppy dog pout was all it took for her to cave. The painting depicted a gray and tan wolf curled up underneath a pine tree sleeping. The wolf looked sweet and innocent and Anna had fallen in love with it, especially when she spied the chipmunk peering down at the wolf curiously, with no trace of fear in its eyes.

Anna had formed what Reina believed to be an unhealthy obsession with wolves. It seemed that Seth had been filling Anna's head with tales and stories about the wolves that live in the woods surrounding the reservation. So instead of fear, Anna had become curious about the wolves. Reina had caught Anna sitting up at night, listening to their howling.

The entire ordeal was slowly driving Reina mad. She couldn't tell Anna to give up her friends because that would crush her, and she couldn't logically explain to Anna her fears since she couldn't even logically explain them to herself.

Reina fully believed in the supernatural especially since she herself is completely immersed in the occult and it would be completely illogical of her to deny the existence of any type of creature, but her sister was a different story. Anna loved tales of vampires and werewolves, fairies and unicorns, witches and wizards, but she didn't believe in their existence. Fairy tales were simply what everyone believed them to be, stories made up to entertain or teach a moral, and that was exactly what Reina intended her to believe. Rei thought the world of monsters and magic were simply too much for Anna's kind, naive self to handle, and she would be damned if she would allow anyone to bring Anna into that world.

Rei went inside and walked up to Anna's room to bring up her bags from their shopping trip. She laughed as she saw that Anna was already curled up on her bed fast asleep with her cellphone clutched tightly to her chest.

Reina was putting away her sister's new clothes when her phone began to vibrate, indicating a call. Knowing who was on the other line she quickly made her way down the stairs and out the front door before answering.

"What took you so long?" she snapped at the caller who only laughed in response.

'Relax Rei-bear!' she heard some shuffling on the other end of the line. 'There was a lot to sift through. These Native Americans have so many stories and legends that it's just ridiculous.'

"Well did you find anything important?"

'I found a few references to 'cold ones' and I can only assume by the text given that they're talking about vampires, and then it goes on to talk about the men of the tribe transforming into giant wolves to protect their tribe from said vampires.'

"Legends about vampires are pretty common, but are they talking about werewolves or are we talking about something different?" she began to pace back and forth on her porch as they spoke.

'Well the back story is kind of long and boring, but it's not your normal werewolf scenario. It basically says that they have some kind of ancient magic running through their veins that allows them to turn into big ass wolves.' He paused and Rei could hear him typing something onto his computer. 'I really didn't think anything of it until I ran across some locals who had posted different kind of blogs and entries dating back to a couple years ago that talk about wolf sightings. They keep repeating the same things over and over, that the wolves were huge, bigger than horses, which runs right along with the tribe's legends.'

"That could just be some locals who take these legends too seriously, or some kids trying to pull off an internet hoax. You got anything else?"

'Actually it's those posts that really grabbed my attention. They showed up on my search engine but the links were no good. Someone got on here and deleted anything to do with giant wolf sightings. I can't even find any type of conspiracy pages about the legends being true. It's all blocked.'

"That definitely sounds suspicious. From what I've heard from the locals, the council of elders holds most of the power around here, and they run a pretty tight ship." She ran her hand through her hair as her mind wandered to her weapons collection and if she owned anything to take down a giant wolf, preferably from a distance. "Maybe they have something to do with it, but I doubt those old farts know how to even turn on a computer, let alone take down entire sites."

'They could have someone who's doing it for them.'

"They could," she said slowly as she thought out different scenarios explaining the internet mystery, "or it could even be someone from our agency trying to keep a lid on things. Think you could find out if they sent anyone out this way recently?"

'I can try. Just read through the info I sent you and see if you can connect anything. And Rei, keep Anna out of the woods.'

Screech hung up the phone and Rei sunk to the floor. She didn't have to read the files to know that what was in them wasn't just legend, and that Anna was far too close to the monsters than she would have liked.

I'm going to try and get the next chapter up by the end of this week
or the beginning of the next.
Thanks for reading!