Olay! Here is the next update. We have nana revealing more about the prediction in this chapter, I have named one of the characters after my first reviewer cathy29jes. She has reviewed all the chapters and after the re-post, since one cannot review twice, she PM'd me. I found it extremely sweet. And I hope you like my little present.

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Previously:

She shuddered and looked into my eyes and said "She does not care for life, only brings death"

I looked at my nana when she trembled and breathed out the name,

"Maria"

"Maria" I repeated.

"She wanted to recruit Michael and his pack to fight for her in these wars in the south. War for feeding ground." Nana said while dragging her forefinger over the hem of her shirt.

"For blood" I growled. Nana was not affected in the least by my growl; she did not even flinch and continued,

"She wanted the pack to fight against the other covens, so that her army had ample to feed. Michael's sister Cathy had seen that Maria would come to the res with a hundred other vampires. There was no way that the pack would survive against so many of them, most of the vampires would be restless and antsy with a lot of brute strength she had said. Cathy also foretold that Maria would offer Michael and the pack to join her and follow her orders for the life of their families; the others would be drained no matter what. She would be willing to spare only the immediate families of the pack members. The pack would obviously never agree and so she would kill everybody. 'A feast for the army' she had said" nana never once said 'has' only 'would', I guess thinking about it only as a prediction helped her keep her grief at bay. I held her hand and looked at her with no fear or pain, I tried to give her strength in the best way I could for her to continue. I guess talking to somebody about it would actually help her.

"That is all I know, she did not tell more of what she saw to all of us. Later that night she called the pack to her house and told them the rest of the vision. Michael never shared what Cathy had said even with me. Cathy had warned them I suppose but he told me later. After your twelfth birthday to be precise." Nana looked at me with determined eyes, now was her chance to keep me afloat. I was petrified, the vision somehow concerned me, I am supposed to end it all, but I don't know how or if I will be able to. I don't even have any gift.

"Cathy had said that one of the pack member would survive and thus would start her befall. The shape shifting gene would not die out and that the daughter of the surviving member would give birth to the child who would possess a gift like no other, the child would be able to transform into panther-form but would be extraordinaire even as a human. Strong-hearted and compassion-filled, the child will be able to kill the 'Queen of Death' with the help of her mate and family. She will have a warrior mate, with a gift most coveted by 'her'. Together you will be able to defeat her and thus end the war" she completed.

The only emotion that ran through me was Disbelief. End a war. Warrior mate. Gift like no other.

Surely nana is mistaken. The prediction was not about me. Yeah. That's it. Maybe it is about someone else. Maybe I am not Renee's biological child. Yeah. I must be adopted. I don't resemble her anyways.

Nana gently shook my shoulder bringing me out of my nutty thoughts.

"Extraordinaire human?" I snorted at my nana.

I don't think she appreciated it as she raised her delicate puckered eyebrow at me. How does she manage to stay so..so..primmed in such a situation is beyond me. She has been followed and threatened by vampires for crying out loud.

"Izzy" my nana called with a not-so-gentle shove to my shoulder.

I wanted to stick my tongue out and tell her that she has gone crazy and that somehow that crazy gene got transferred onto me too. Nothing makes sense.

Stupid. Nonsense. Ridiculous. And about every other 'crazy word' all this shit was.

I was feeling so restless and caged.

Does not make sense.

Out of control.

"ARGH" I screamed

Nana immediately held my hand and tried to pull me off the floor. "OUT"

"OUT" she screamed.

"ARGH"

"Izzy, not here" my nana held my face in her hand and looked in my eyes when she said that. Somehow I managed to stand and follow her out of the door, never breaking eye-contact.

Once I was out in the open I immediately felt better and walked to the middle of the backyard in my cat-like movements. I swirled my neck around and inhaled deeply, it felt like something was calling out to me.

I swirled my head once more and arched my back, resting my palms on the ground. I felt a shimmer go up my spine and then heaven. I felt so good, so free. I opened my eyes and everything seemed lighter, I felt good. I knew what had happened, so I looked over my shoulder at my tail and did a mental eye-roll.

I turned around and faced my nana, it looked as if she was paralyzed. There was so much shock in her eyes.

Is she scared? I wondered.

I slowly trudged towards her, not wanting to make any big movements that would give my fragile nana a heart attack. It looked like she was out of her trance.

"Izzy.." she breathed like a prayer. There was so much awe in her eyes. Awe for me.

But why? Judging from her beautiful and detailed sketches she must have seen granpa phase a number of times.

Shit! I must be a weird looking panther. Or maybe I was some other animal. I hope I am not a ass. Please god let me not be a donkey. I beg of you.

I felt like I needed a shock treatment. Hehe. Donkey?

I had reached nana and decided not to go any closer. I looked at her with questioning eyes, trying to gauge the reason behind her behavior.

"Soo beautiful…Izzy…how?" well now she did not make any sense.

"How?" she repeated again

'Yeah nana I can so answer you in this form. Apparently panthers can talk.' I mentally answered sarcastically. I even added a mental nose pucker.

What can I say? I am a funny little panther.

"How?..amazing" she said.

I felt like biting her. How the fuck does she expect me to answer her in this form. My entire family is nuts. I knew about Renee and me but now I will have to add nana to the mix.

I went towards her slowly and nudged her stomach forcing her to look at me. She fell down to her knees and ran her fingers through my hair with her fingers, it felt so good, I could feel a rumbling in my chest. Mmmm. I mentally moaned and tilted my neck, nana kept running her fingers, combing through my hair. Mmm. The rumbling again, it took me a while to realize that I was purring. I actually felt like curling up against my nana's feet and let her continue her ministrations when she suddenly stopped forcing me to open my eyes and look at her.

"Izzy, sweety you look so beautiful. So much like your grandpa, he would have been so proud" my nana said with tears in her eyes, she brushed them away and cradled my head in her hands and looked into my eyes and said, "you are extraordinary. How were you able to transform so fast? I barely registered it, even Micheal could not do that and you are extremely new. It was beautiful Izzy. This life suits you"

She laid a kiss on my head and resumed the combing and cue the purring, if I were in my human form, I would have been blushing ten different shades of red at my behavior but I am an animal now so don't judge me. Hmmpf.

I rested my head in her lap and decided to do my breathing exercises and calm down. I wanted to be back in my human form so that I could talk to my nana about what all this 'turning-in-to-a-panther-and-fulfilling-a-prophecy(I guess)' entailed, no sooner had that thought left my mind, I was lying face down on the ground in my human form, about a feet away from nana, her hands were in the air, she did not register my change I guess. I got up and brushed the mud off my body, thank God that it was not raining otherwise I would have been all mucky.

Why the fuck do my clothes not survive transformations? It's so fucking inconvenient.

After brushing off the non-existent muck off my body I looked at my nana, her hands were still in the air trying to hold onto my back-to-human-panther-self. Don't ask. My crazy way of describing things is understood only by me.

I circled around my nana thinking that seeing my naked self act all crazy she might snap back from wherever she went. No luck, so I decided to let her be and walked past her into the house and directly went up to my room to put on a sundress. I tied my hair in a loose bun and made my way downstairs to the backyard making a detour to the kitchen to fetch me something to eat. I picked up the packet of doritos and a soda before going back to nana, she was in the same position that I'd left her in, her mouth still open. I snapped my fingers in front of her face while my other hand was stuffing doritos in my mouth, not very nice but I was hungry. That seemed to draw her back to the present.

"Great your back" I squealed sarcastically while clapping my hands. I was a little miffed by her zoning out on me again and again.

"Isabella" she warned in a serious voice that made me gulp on my half chewed Doritos that in turn made me choke, I reached out for the soda when. Whack! All the half-chewed food was out of my mouth. I turned around; nana had her hands raised for another blow. I raised my hand and hoarsely answered "done"

After gulping down the soda and a very stern warning regarding my behavior from nana, all was fine.

"I am sorry nana, it's just that my emotions are crazy, I can hardly control my behavior. I did not mean to be rude but I don't understand what's happening and…scary…left…" I sobbed, I could hardly get any more words out.

"It's ok sweety. You're a newbie, give yourself a week and I promise everything will be normal. Your body is just trying to adjust to the change and when you are a newbie, your emotions are pretty volatile. It will all be alright honey. I have seen michael deal with newbies, they are usually never in control of their emotions and it takes them ages to shift back to human form when they transform for the first time. I was actually surprised that you were able to transform so smoothly and I did not even register when your transformed back to your human form. I have never seen it before and trust me, I know because your grandpa would always complain when a new kid phased for the first time. It is not very easy and it will be very di-orienting for you, but just give yourself a few days and you will be back to your normal self" she said while curling a stray lock of hair behind my ear.

"I love you nana and I pomise that I will try and control my attitude, I am just so overwhelmed right now that I can barely think rationally and I hate it" I honestly told her. I was seriously feeling out of control. My emotions have been haywire since yesterday. One moment I am calm, then the next I am mad for no fucking reason, then I am sad and then back to being mad again. It's really irritating.

"When was the first time you shifted?" nana asked.

"Well the first time I shifted was yesterday night I think. Doucheward broke up with me and took his family away from me and left a bloody note in my handwriting for Charlie" I said the last part in a single breath, my face must have turned red from the iron hot anger I felt for him. I had to close my eyes and clench my hands into fists to control some of the anger.

Stupid, Good-for-nothing Cullen's. I had accepted them so easily in my life, no qualms, no fuss and this is how they repaid me. Oh god, I hate them so much.

I understand now that they were no family, they were just a bunch of vampires who played 'family'. It must be something that mentally sick vampires do, like a game to see who can play 'human' the best, trick an unsuspecting girl to accept and fall for them and then just stomp over her heart and discard her like yesterday's trash.

I got up and walked away from nana a bit and let the tremors gain momentum while arching my back, I felt the shimmering feeling and opened my eyes.

I looked around at the tiny bits of my dress on the ground and growled. Motherfucker! I loved that dress. I should have removed it before phasing. Will have to keep it in mind the next time I phase.

"Go for a run. Trust me you will feel better" nana said smiling.

"Go" she said with a flick of her hand. Wow now she thinks of me as a pet. Fantastic.

I rolled my eyes at her but followed what she said and ran. Holy mother of God! I can run. So fast. Everything was a green blur as I streaked through the forest, not once tripping or hitting a tree. It was exhilarating.

I inhaled deeply and bowed my head, pushing myself faster. I was even faster than Edward and that 'girl' could run. He was the fastest according to what Esme had said.

Man I would give my left boob just to look at his face as he saw me run. I am sure he would shit bricks – again I know that it is not possible, but he can atleast give the right expressions - That would be so awesome.

I screeched to a stop as I reached a tiny pond. I inched slowly towards the water surface knowing that I will be able to see my reflection in the water.

I could hear the soft thump of my paws against the mud, it was very light and faint as my movements were extremely graceful. I could see a doe drinking water on the other side. It must have sensed my presence at it raised it head and streaked out. I actually found it funny.

There was so much left for me to comprehend and fully understand but I was going to enjoy this moment and not think about anything else. I had finally reached the edge and all I had to do was lean and see my reflection, I was so excited.

I was just about to lean when I heard a howl. I turned my head around listening intently for any approaching wolf. My senses was superb and I knew that there was no incoming wolf or any big animal for that matter. I turned my head around and growled loudly, some of the small animals which were hiding behind the bushes squeaked and scurried away.

I growled again, even more loudly. I wanted to see how loud I could growl, it was entertaining. Hehe. I was mentally doing a tap dance, thoroughly happy and enjoying my new self. I kept on growling and once I actually growled so loud that the ground around me shook, it was absolutely terrific.

I continued with my growling game for quite sometime and was actually quite sure that most of the small animals must have peed or fainted from the fright. I was about to growl again when I heard a howl and a low growl from two miles east, the wolf was nearing.

I did not know whether wolves could harm panthers. Damn! I should see national geographic more. But anyways I was not going to wait and find out, I know there would not be one but many of them.

Silly Bella. Came my mental voice.

Then it dawned on me, my ancestors were able to defeat vampires if they were not overwhelmed by their numbers; so any animal would be easy game for me. Normal animals compared to vampires, this will be a piece of cake.

I kept my eyes and ears open, I did not trust my strength so much, I was an anomaly even when I was a human, standing on two feet was difficult for me, so my panther-self will have to avoid unwanted risks for now. The wolf was now at the northern edge of the meadow near the pond, I was carefully monitoring its movements. I growled lowly in warning before heading towards the meadow, I was curious. I wanted to see the wolf, I have not seen any and now since I seem to be more durable and an animal, I can atleast see it, its not like I was going to do a cat dance in front of it and provoke it I mentally laughed. I am going crazier by the day.

I was now in the middle of the clearing with the wolf at the far end. Whoa. Fuck me running, that thing was huge. It was like a wolfy-horse. Wtf? I mean I have some idea as to their rough size but this one was HUGE. How can they be so big. It was brown in color and had pretty orb like black eyes, I could see every inch of the wolf like it was under a microscope. That clear. Super.

The wolf was staring at me with its head cocked. I stuck my tongue out and mentally thought that even if I was small compared to him, I would easily be able to overpower him. Fucker did not know that I was not a normal panther. I must have even stomped my back paw a little. I think I saw amusement in the wolf's eyes. I narrowed my eyes at it, eventhough it was a huge wolf, I was not going to let it find my smaller self amusing.

I narrowed my eyes at it and growled, more like squeaked. What the hell? Do panthers have throat problems like humans if they growl continuously. Fuck! I should really watch Nat geo more. I growled again, loudly and the wolf actually had the audacity to throw its tongue out and pant hoarsely, wait a second, was it laughing? Can wolves do that?

I growled loudly and that seemed to amuse it even more. "Stupid fucker" I mentally screamed at it, well now that seemed to affect him, he looked around wildly, here and there, not paying me any attention, the stupid wolf was now actually moving around in a circle, all it had to do now was wag its tail and I would seriously transform back and play fetch with it. Hehe.

All of a sudden the wolf started running away. It stooped at a distance and howled. Is he calling for more wolves? One was enough for me today, eventhough I look like an animal, my mind is still human and the idea of so many wolves scares me so I took off running towards my home. I reached in no fucking time and was thankful that the wolf did not follow, he would not be able to keep up with my awesome speed anyway.

Nana was nowhere to be seen, I listened intently and I could hear soft snores coming from the guest bedroom in the attic. I quickly shifted back to my human form and ran inside the house, bolted the door and rested my back against it and slid down to the floor panting. Phew. The run was freeing and I actually felt good.

After a while I got up and picked up a few fruits from the kitchen along with a bottle of water and made my way upstairs. I put on a baggy t-shirt and fell on the bed eating the fruits and downing the whole bottle of water. I was a little tired and in the mood for a nap. Me and nana could just order pizzas for dinner.

I snuggled into my blanket and was off to sleep in no time.

Like? What do you think about the wolf incident?..lol