Chapter 7: Recognition
I stood bewildered trying to compose myself back to reality. Meanwhile, everyone is in stance ready to attack, including the blonde. "She was, Rosalie." Carlisle responds. "Everyone this is Leah. Alice and Jasper left to seek Leah for a reason. She's here to help us to go against the Volturi."
"Actually I'm only here to help you train, nothing else." I corrected. I can sense the tension between one another. At this point everyone started to ease up, but still looked spectacle to see if whether I'm telling the truth or not. "Why don't we all head to the house and discuss everything," Carlisle suggested.
We all made our way back. I swear it's as if I can feel a hole burning on the back of head with all the glares of the vampires. The house started coming into view. You can see the shattered glass from the window spread across the lawn. My bad. We all took a seat, where we could, in the living room. Carlisle stepped in and automatically took over. He kept it short and sweet on my purpose of being here and my back story of being part of the Volturi. Occasionally, somebody would ask a question toward me, but for the most part Carlisle did most of the talking.
"Then if you're not part of the Volturi anymore than why wear the necklace still?" a man with a heavy Romanian accent asked. "Protection. I still come across leeches, even armies of newborns, it's mostly just so they know where there place is," I stated honestly. The room fell silent. Edward stood up, "Well with everything being cleared up. Why doesn't everyone just relax and enjoy the rest of the day until tonight." Everyone stood up and went their own ways. I stood and went outside for some fresh air. The full house of leeches is not quite the most pleasant scent. Reaching for the back door Esme approached me. "Leah, you're more than welcome to stay here." "Thanks, but I don't want to intrude unexpectedly like this." I said innocently. "By all means it's no problem. Plus I've already told Edward to start setting up one of our empty cottages so you don't get bothered with the smell. Besides, I wouldn't want you to be sleeping outside or in a hotel when we still have plenty of space here." " Umm okay. Thank you Mrs. Cullen." She did have a valid point. She nodded and headed back to the living room. I made my way outside only stopping toward the end of the porch and sat on the stairs looking out into the wilderness.
A flood of memories came rushing. The forest itself was like a home. I remember climbing trees trying to attempt to reach the top, all the kids who lived on the street playing tag or hid-in-go-seek, getting dirty and muddy while it rained, discovering new places, throwing secret bomb fires during my teenage years. Most of all remembering my times with Sam. Our first date was a picnic on a meadow surrounded by flowers beside was a waterfall concaving into a stream of water that lead to the ocean just a mile away. Not only was there plenty of good times at "our spot", but as well as bad times. Foremost where he dumped me before I found him in bed with Em-
"I've seen what you've done before, but that was just awesome." A huge muscular man took a seat beside me. "Umm thanks?" "I'm Emmett by the way." Shaking his hand you can tell he's every outgoing. "I mean a couple of years back my mate and I saw you in Brazil, I guess on one of your missions. Yeah you were having a beer at one of the bars. We sort of followed you and saw you destroy a newborn. You spotted us, but before we can present ourselves you disappeared out of nowhere. I'm assuming you probably phased." I don't recall any of this. "More than likely." I shrugged. We talked about a couple of my missions and what I've done to pervious leeches, eventually the conversation fell dead. I took this opportunity to stand up and dust off the dirt on my butt "I'm going to go for a walk. I'll be back soon." I turned around to head to the woods.
"I'm just curious, but have you ever ran into other shifters before?" he asked. Turning back, "Now thinking about it no. As of what I read there was several packs throughout the world a long time ago, but many died out throughout time." He looked at me weird, "Really? You never thought of why you phased in the beginning?" "No I just came to terms with what I am. I try not to look back." I responded. "Oh okay." He looked away with a grin on his face. "Emmett!" a call from inside. "I'll see you tonight."
I replied with a simple nod. He stood and headed for the back door as I proceeded back to the woods. A couples of minutes passed and I kept on thinking why I haven't looked for others like me, well the shifter part. I mean I remember stories of transforming into wolves and what not, but that can't be true. I mean if anybody that lived in La Push would know that was the most boring yet silent reservation compared to others around us. I recall doing a lot of things in secret since our family was always looked upon due to my father being consider one of the elders. The elders was always a bit more cautious on what happened on the reservation, especially if it was something tragic.
"There you are." Edward came toward me in a sprint. "Ready? I'll take you to get your gatherings. I already prepared the cottage." I nodded in response and followed him back to the house and into the garage. Inside was a Volvo. We headed off to the hotel gathered my things and proceeded back to the house. On the way making small talk. He informed me about everyone and their special gifts granted to them during their transformation to help me with tonight. He mentioned there may be some other guests, but he's not for sure. Nothing else. We arrived taking my stuff and settling my duffle bag by the door of the cottage. "If you need anything don't be afraid to come to the house and ask. We're meeting up like at 7 when the sun goes down." "Okay" I stated. He shut the door on his way out.
The kitchen was on your left once you walk in with stainless steel appliances with cherry wood cabinets and nice granite. In the middle of the kitchen lays an island with high chairs on one side. On the right is the living room with a sectional couch and built ins surrounding the large flat screen tv. Below the tv is a beautiful stone fireplace. Within each cubby is either books or some decorative flowers or statue. Heading further to the right you come across a hallway leading the bathroom and three well decorated bedrooms. Too exhausted I lay down on one of the beds and sleep immediately takes over.
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Looking out to the ocean really calms me down at times like this. Constantly going back and forth to Cullen's and onto the reservation is a hassle. Not only that, but it really doesn't help when majority of your pack doesn't agree on your decision. I head back into my car turning the engine on hearing that loud roar. Distorting trees pass as I made my way back to the reservation. I step out onto the gravel driveway and up the stair to the old house. Obviously without such a peep of noise, nobody is home. I went straight to the fridge and got a can of soda along with a bag of chips from the cabinet next to it. I plotted myself onto the couch and turned on the tv. After a good couple of minutes of channel surfing I landed on something decent to watch. I let out a yawn and stretched out onto the whole sofa making myself comfortable.
"Dude, are you ready?" My intruder entered followed with the door slamming against the wall behind. At some point during the movie I must have fallen asleep. The chips still laying on my lap with the soda on the coffee table. "Really?" He looked at me with the "are you kidding me" face. "Shut up lets go." We both head out the back door and toward the forest. After tying our clothes to our ankles we morphed into your giant wolves. Nothing like letting the wolf take over. The sense of freedom you feel while running. The adrenaline. Trees passed as a blur, the feel of the moist soil between your paws. From a distance you start see the Cullen's house. "Do you smell that?" the wolf beside me stated. I got a big whiff. The smell of vanilla hit my nostrils. "Yeah. It's the same smell I got at the dinner." A couple of miles more we can start to hear everyone outside chattering. All of sudden a loud screech come through causing birds to fly up into the sky. We proceed on pushing ourselves to go faster. As we approached the house we see everyone surrounding in position to attack. In the middle lays Emmett in which looks like agitating pain. Looking up I seen a figure in a black robe. As she looks up I see the pale face leech with her necklace tracing a glare due to the risen moon. I recognize her immediately.
Out of instinct I let out a loud growl getting her attention and charge after her. Within the last second of my teeth almost capturing her neck she steps back. With my paws still in front of me I'm still able to get her to the ground. As we roll around in the dirt trying to get the upper hand I slowly see her morph into something else. Soon her small frame begins to grow causing her clothes to become too tight. Her nose begins to convert into a long snout. Her short stubby legs and arms starts to extend outward and paws replace her hands and feet. Soon enough her pale skin is replaced with long strands of silver fur. After seeing her transformation practically in slow motion I took a step back and view the creature before me. What I thought was to be Jane is now a werewolf.
"What the fuck?! Jacob, what should we do?" the wolf beside me stated mentally. Looking around everyone begins to ease up and look at one another in confusion. The wolf proceeds to get up and flash its bear teeth. "I don't know, just step back Seth." All of a sudden the wolf has a look of uncertainty.
"Seth?" a female voice presents itself in our head.
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