Previously:
"Emily don't you dare do it, let me help fight them!" My mom whispered with pleading eyes.
I turned around and trotted over to the end of the brush and started whimpering like a hurt pray animal. My wolf was upset at this wanting to fight but I needed to protect my family first. All the wolves instincts kicked in and there only thought was to kill me.
As soon as they got close enough I made a mad dash into the woods, I knew I was faster than Cody and I hoped that his wolves were slower than their Alpha. I glanced behind me and noticed that my hopes were wrong. One of the wolves were gaining on me. It gave me a wolfish grin as I turned back around and twisted through the dense forest hoping for a slight advantage. When I glanced back around again I smiled as I noticed the wolf falling back.
I continued weaving throughout the trees for what seemed like a hour and I was exhausted. I needed to find somewhere to rest or I would collapse and Cody and his pack would most likely find me and kill me.
Suddenly and strong scent of wolf hit my nose. I stopped at the wolves border, my eyes widened as I saw 8 true wolves come to the edge of their border. They were bigger than any of the true wolves I have ever met and they seemed surprised to see me as well.
I bowed my head in submission as I asked the black wolf who seemed to be the Alpha, hello my name is Emily, may I seek refuge in your pack? There are wolves after me and I am afraid that if they catch me they will kill me.
As I spoke to the Alphas mind the other wolves jumped back in shock. I saw as they spoke to one and other and I heard Cody's howl in the distance. I shifted from foot to foot in anticipation, before I saw the wolves move apart and the black male nodded in my direction. I said my thanks to him before I bolted into their territory hoping that Cody's pack wouldn't find me. Once I left the tree line I saw a group of humans waiting for me. I skidded to a halt and started to back away when one of them in a wheelchair raised his hands.
"Its alright nomad wolf. My name is Billy, Sam told me that you wanted a place to stay for a while, please stay at my home."
I tilted my head in confusion, who is Sam?
Billy seemed to read me because he said, "Sam is the Alpha male. The one you spoke to at the edge of the reservation."
I nodded and looked around for a wolf to so I can ask my request. I saw one dark gray at the edge of the forest line, who seemed to be glaring at me.
Is there a place where I can get cloths? I would like to shift. I asked.
The wolf seemed surprised that I spoke to him. What was wrong with these wolves? Have they not spoken to another wolf before? I asked myself.
The wolf nodded and then a white gray wolf stepped forward and dropped a pair of shorts and a shirt on the ground. I sniffed the air and found out that this wolf was female, yet she was bigger than me. I nodded and went to grab the cloths and trotted to the woods so I can shift and change. Once changed I stepped back to the clearing and saw that there were 4 out of the 8 wolves have shifted as well. They were all as tan as me but had much darker hair.
Finally one spoke. "Hello Emily my name is Sam Uley and this is, Jacob, Leah, and Paul." He gestured to each of them. I found out that the wolf that gave me cloths was Leah and the wolf that kept glaring at me was Paul, only knew this because he was still glaring at me.
"Where do you come from? Who are your parents? Are you part of the Quileute tribe? Who were the wolves you were running from?" They all started asking me.
"I come from a place in Canada, its a hour or so run from here. My parents Otto and Etta. They are the Alpha couple. Quileute? No, none of the elders spoke of that tribe. I was running from a wolf named Cody. He used to be part of my pack before my parents kicked him out."
"Otto? Etta? Those are old names, why would their parents name them something like that?" The one named Leah blurted.
I glared at her, "have some respect, my parents are over 100 years old!" I crossed my arms, "jeez I have never met more disrespectful werewolves ever!"
They looked at each other before bursting out laughing, "you think that we are werewolves? Ha!" Paul said.
I raised a brow and sniffed the air, "I can smell that you're not… I am actually very confused what you are. I don't smell werewolf here which is strange and you don't completely smell like a normal true wolf would… I mean I can smell a little here and there but is so strange" At the end I was just mumbling to myself. Suddenly I wanted Jaxson here to hold me and help me figure out these strange wolves. I wanted to go home.
"You're different than us. You're smaller than a normal shifter, yet bigger than a normal wolf. And you guys seem to have many more wolves than us." Sam told me. He thought to himself for a moment, "the gene doesn't kick in unless there are vampires in the area. Do you share your land with Vampires?"
I crumpled my nose at them, "Leeches? Hell no! We kill them when we see them! And we haven't seen a leech is months, they don't come near our land because how many of us there are."
They looked at each other before Jacob asked, "how many of you are there."
"In my pack and Jaxson's I am the only true wolf, but we have 37 werewolves and in Jaxson they have 42 werewolves."
"You said werewolves and true wolf's why do you call yourself differently?" Sam asked.
"Cuz I am the only one who could shift on command, the rest has to wait till a full moon… Which is in 5 days! I have to get home before that! Oh no I left Jaxson, he thinks I am dead! Once he shifts he is gonna look for me, and Cody's pack is-" I felt a hand go over my mouth. Paul.
He let go and smiled, "are you done yet? Who is this Jaxson?"
I frowned, "I have no idea what to label him as, we are supposed to get married to bring the two packs together."
"Do you want to get married with him?" Paul asked.
"That is non of your business, actually I have no idea why I gave you so much information about me." I looked at Billy, "If your offer still stands, I am exhausted."
He gave me a warm smile, "you look like you're going to fall asleep at the spot, come with me." I followed him into a quaint little cottage into a small room with a bed and dresser. "This is my daughter Rebecca's room, she is in college so she isn't here. Stay as long as you need." And with that he closed the door. I walked to the bed and collapsed into a deep sleep.
