Disclaimer: Twilight is all Stephanie Meyer, I own nothing.

AN: This chapter there will include a legend, I hope it explains better how things are, with Nadira that is.

Also will there be mentioning of some wolves you might not know, I've tried to write them into the story with explanation. But you can also find some information on my profile page, concerning the pack and their imprints. We're gonna do big time jump too, sorry if things are rushed, they'll slow down soon! If you can't find something you want to know, just send me an IM or something ;)

Also, things are still fluffy, so if you like it, enjoy!

Yes!

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POV: Jacob

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Life was good! Never in my life had I been so happy as I am now. It was almost as if I was dreaming, especially if I thought back on how miserable I had been only a couple of months ago when Nessie didn't even want to talk to me.

Things had changed a lot since then, Nessie and I were closer than ever. Our relationship had progressed a while back, after we had experienced a hilarious first date. We had made love for the first time, and despite the fact we had both been virgins at the time, it had been so perfect, I still reveled in the memory of it.

Now she would be at my place every weekend the entire weekend, having ridiculous phone conversations on the nights we couldn't be together. But of course just when you think things are too good to be true, it turns out they are…

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"Do you smell that?" Seth was already running in the direction of the sickening smell. Vampires!

"Hold on, there's more than one!" sniffing out the trail, we were able to smell five. I howled loudly to call upon my pack brothers, letting the ones on back up duty know we were in need of their assistance. Meanwhile we kept following the leeches cautiously, if they became aware of our presence they would easily be able to overpower us.

"What are they doing?" Seth asked confused.

"This doesn't make sense" they're scents were all spread and coming together out in illogical patterns.

"What's happening?" Embry and Quill had phased and were wondering what was going on. But before we were able to show them, the remaining two that were 'on call' phased in.

First Kyle, another wolf that had phased under the threat of the Volturi. Next were the youngest of our pack, Taylan and Logan, the twins would be turning 17 soon. They had phased last year, there hadn't been a new wolf joining our pack for four years, so their change had been unexpected.

Last summer I had taken over Alpha duties from Sam, he wanted to stop phasing and grow old with Emily. He along with a few others had now retired from the pack life, they were now functioning as Elders along with Sue and Billy.

Quil's grandfather had passed away a few years back, and Sue and Billy had taken a few steps back. So now the tribe elders consisted of Sam, Jared and Paul, Billy and Sue only getting involved in case of an extreme situation.

Nathan Cooper, Paul's younger brother, had been my beta since then, true, he could be a total jerk as a human sometimes. But he was a fierce wolf, one you would be glad to have watching your back. As little responsibility he had when it came to relationships, he took his pack duties very seriously and wasn't suffering the distractions of an imprint.

"Leeches on our land!" I thought and I showed them everything.

"Let's go and get them!" Logan was excited, this was the first time they would actually be confronting a vampire.

"Don't do anything rash Logan" I warned him. Now that there were seven of us, we outnumbered them, so it would be no problem at all to take them out. We gained on them and surrounded them when they stood close together in a small clearing.

"Logan don't!" Taylan saw his intentions a fraction of a second before us and ran after him.

We attacked immediately when Logan recklessly rushed forward at one of the female bloodsuckers, snapping her neck . A male hissed loudly and lunged at Logan teeth bared, but Taylan jumped between them and took the hit. The sound created by the crushing of his bones was deafening, we whined when the flash of pain shot through our bodies.

Logan lost it and flew at the male, ripping him apart. In his rage he was careless and the leech managed to slash open his face, but managed to decapitate him nonetheless. The others were finished off within no time. After piling the pieces together in our human form, we set them on fire.

Taylan still hadn't moved and was clearly unconscious, worry grew inside of me when I saw the right side of his skull split open. He wasn't showing any signs of healing, which he should by now. We quickly took him to Leah's house, it was fairly close to the border and I knew we were gonna need Carlisle's help.

Most of the pack members gathered in the backyard, all except for Embry and Logan. Leah was tending to Logan's injuries, who appeared to be in some sort of shock. When she was done he slumped into a kitchen chair, staring ahead silently, while Embry went to pick up Nadira from school. She was a junior in high school and had a lot of classes with the twins, usually she got a ride back with Taylan and Logan.

Before Embry had left, we had decided not to tell her everything, afraid that she would blame Logan. We were afraid that this wouldn't end well, Carlisle was genuinely concerned and I knew he wasn't telling us everything. If Taylan wouldn't survive, Logan would be feeling guilty enough as it was, Nadira accusing him wouldn't help anybody.

She had been so upset, rushing upstairs as soon as Leah told her where he was. We could all hear the sobbing coming from the room, after what seemed like an eternity her breathing evened out, she had fallen asleep. Suddenly we heard Taylan's voice "Nady" and went rushing up the stairs.

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That night lying in bed with Nessie, today's events kept flashing through my head. So much didn't add up, the unusual behavior of those leeches and then Taylan going from being on the brink of death, to a sudden recovery.

"What's on your mind babe?" Nessie interrupted my pondering, so I told her everything. She was very understanding and kept going over options with me, helping me in every way she could.

"You'll figure it out eventually Jake" she assured me. I hoped she was right, but I didn't want to think about it anymore. Nessie seemed to sense how I felt, because a moment later she was on top of me.

Nessie's mouth was something I couldn't get enough off, her soft lips grazing mine gave me goose bumps. My lips opened for her when she requested permission to enter, by running her tongue over my upper lip. I gripped her hips tight and breathed in her scent.

That night she kept my mind fully occupied and wore my body completely out before letting me slip into a deep slumber.

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A few weeks passed, and another three wolves joined our pack, which only added to my already growing cause for concern. Not to mention Jared's little sister Mituna had phased, after Leah there had been no other females joining the pack.

We had always thought that Leah was the exception, that there had gone something wrong DNA wise. Only months ago Leah had retired because she and Tom were trying to get pregnant, which she was by the way, exceeding our expectations. Now there was another girl in the pack, although she wasn't nearly as unpleasant as Leah had been in the beginning.

This made me decide that it was time to talk to Alice, so I made my way over to the Cullen house after I had let Nessie know I was coming. However the conversation didn't leave me very satisfied. True, I had more information now, but I wasn't exactly thrilled with what I had learned.

Alice tried to see what was going on. She was in fact able to see, that the vampires that had crossed our lands a few weeks back, were part of a larger group. It wasn't really a coven and she wasn't able to see how they knew, but they would be coming for the wolves from LaPush.

"He seems familiar" Alice suddenly stated.

"Who?" what was she on about now, it wasn't horrible enough as it was? She had to add to it?

"The vampire responsible for initiating the decision, he's not their leader, but he was the one with the information" she said.

"I don't get it, how did that leech found out about us?!" I tried to refrain from using that term, but I was so frustrated right now.

"Sorry Jake, I can't see it" Alice said sadly, she promised to keep looking and to inform me if she had seen anything new. That night all of us were getting together to start training.

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Training had been in interesting to say the least. As soon as Alice had seen Nadira, she now knew that the initiating vampire was her father. Edward and her confirmed it and it became clear that he believed her to be some sort of 'gifted' one, descending from a mysterious woman from a legend. When Edward questioned Nadira about it, she apparently knew the story. Her father was Lebanese and had told her many times the story of the warrior and the seer, so she told us.

Long ago in the deserts of Arabia, a young warrior who had yet to participate in a battle, sought advice from a young but known to reliable seer. She was hideously deformed and blind as the night, the seer made him an offer, an offer she believed to be a fair one, she had no intention of deceiving him and hoped that the kindness in her voice would convince him.

She told him that he would be victorious on the on the battlefield many times over, he would be successful in business and guaranteed to be lucky in love, she could give him this in exchange for giving her a single child. For her body unable to hold beauty as his, along with the unique gifts that Allah entrusted to her

The daughter that would grow from her loins would posses his strength, beauty and courage as well as her psychic ,healing and magical abilities. Every daughter in her bloodline would posses his quality's, but within each daughter of every fifteenth generation, her mother's gifts would manifest themselves.

Every 15th daughter would inherit her ability's, unlike the daughters of the remaining generations, which would only be able to tap into a very small part of these powers, in those girls their presence would be no more than a fleeting experience every once in a while, perceived mostly as luck or strong intuition.

He agreed to her offer and gave her a child and therefore she kept her end of their agreement, he led a very long and prosperous life as she had predicted. His child grew in her belly for nine full moons, after which she gave birth to a beautiful, strong and healthy girl, she was named Heba, meaning gifted one.

She would be the first to fully grow into her mother's unique talents, upon reaching full maturity she would have developed her power to their full potential. She and all other gifted ones that would follow within the bloodline, bore a distinct birthmark in the shape of a crescent moon, just below her left shoulder blade.

Normally people would probably think it was complete bullshit, but we were creatures out of legends ourselves. According to Carlisle they were true, because she had been the one to heal Taylan, he hadn't been able to explain his recovery until now. We had all sat there staring at her, until she shrugged it off as nonsense and insisted we proceeded as planned.

To keep adding to the madness, Taylan's imprint was supposed to be Nadira's sister. She had moved here with her family a short while ago, she was adopted and it was obvious. She didn't look anything like her sister Romy, who Logan had imprinted on. My mind was spinning with new information that kept dripping in.

There had been some incidents due to Nadira finding out that she had a sister, which had proved that she truly was a gifted one. Now that we were sure about the blood relation between the two, apparently Fathiya was a gifted one, just like Nadira.

Nessie being Nessie had prodded and poked at her best friend, trying to find out what other talents she had. Nessie had almost gotten hurt in the process, but it had brought a piece of information to us. This time it seemed it actually was something positive, the magical sisters might be able to tip the scale in our favor during the fight.

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Months passed, filled with training and patrolling. Nessie and I spend as much time together as we possibly could. Now that we knew the leeches were coming in April, I wanted to get away for a while. So we did at the end of February, a week just the two of us, we went to Vancouver.

We had actually tested their flame shooting powers on a vampire and surely it had degraded the bloodsucker to a pile of ashes. Hopefully they would be able to perform under pressure and give us the advantage we needed. This conformation gave me the peace of mind to be able to relax as we left LaPush.

Our little getaway was wonderful, the first three days we didn't leave the hotel room. We ordered up food and ate in bed, enjoying the unique experience of actual privacy. The fourth day we had reservations to eat in Queen Elizabeth Park, it was known for its subliminal view.

As we were guided to our table, we soon saw why, Esmee had recommended it to us and she hadn't said a word too much. From where we were seated we had a perfect view of the skyline and the green below, it was magnificent.

I had some plans for this trip, the most important proposing to Nessie. Tomorrow we would have dinner at the hotel, I wanted to be close to our room! The hotel manager had made the arrangements for a secluded table, candlelight and champagne.

Before we left I had done some extensive ring shopping with Alice, we had found the perfect one. Now I know absolutely nothing about jewelry, all I knew it held a small diamond and wasn't too flashy. I had chosen it because I liked it, I thought it would be perfect for Nessie and much to my surprise Alice had agreed.

Quickly snapping the box closed when I heard her coming from the bathroom. An hour ago we'd returned from the restaurant, where we had enjoyed a delicious meal. Nessie wanted to grab a shower before getting in bed, all the time I had sat there daydreaming with the ring in my hand, which I was now hiding behind my back.

"What have you been doing?! You haven't even changed yet!" she exclaimed.

"I'll be done in a second, I was just thinking" I got up careful not to reveal the content of my hand. When she turned to rummage through her suitcase, I used the opportunity to shove the box into my bag.

I started undressing when a pair of small arms reached around me, Nessie plastered herself against my back. She sighed deeply and I wondered what she was thinking.

"What is it beautiful?" I asked when I turned, not breaking her embrace.

"I wish we could be together like this forever" she said between kisses she was planting on my bare chest.

"We will Nessie, eventually" I said leaning my cheek on the top of her head.

"I don't wanna wait anymore" she said forcefully while she pulled away enough to look at me. I waited for what would come next, because she clearly wasn't finished.

"Marry me" she stated.

"What?!"

"Will you marry me Jake?" she said softly while kissing my lips once.

"This wasn't supposed to be like this" I whined.

"You.. You don't want to marry me? Oh… I just… I assumed… You… But if you don't…" she was blabbering incoherently, unable to form complete sentences.

"Of course I want to marry you!" how could she think that I wouldn't!

"But, I don't… You've lost me" she finally admitted.

"I was supposed to be the one to ask" I sighed.

"Well, I guess you could still ask me" she said. I reached in my bag and got down to one knee, looking up at her wide eyes.

"Nessie, I've loved you all of your life and I will keep loving you as long as I draw breath. Will you do me the honor of being my wife?" and I popped open the box.

"You have a ring! I didn't know you were gonna ask me already" she said with a shaky voice while tears formed in her eyes.

"Was there an answer in there somewhere? Because I'm gonna need one" I smiled.

"Yes, YES! I would love to be your wife!"

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