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(!) "Jacob rests on his bed while Fei watches over him. Leah finishes up telling her and Jacob's story to the tribe, at the end they all go back and find Jacob resting."


Chapter 8: Hero of La Push

First Beach, 11:30- Night

"When he wanted to take me to a diner in town, I told him I couldn't eat anything normal like he could because of what I was. But he took me anyway. I was hungry and he told me to try a French fry."

"Did you try it Leah!?" Shouted Cooper from across her.

"Yes Cooper I tried it and you know what I felt like doing? I felt like throwing up all over Jacob. But I ran into the bathroom to throw up. Let me tell you? It was like eating the worst rotten piece of food that had ever existed. All I wanted was blood, to tear into and eat more human flesh. I know our tribe is about protecting people, but the stuff I had to do was necessary if I wanted to stay alive- and I wanted to stay alive despite everything that had happened to me before Jacob found me in granite falls."

Everyone was so enthralled by the journey Leah was describing, everything from when she was dropped off to how Jacob beat the living crap out of the man who he thought wanted to rape Leah in the diner bathroom. Their journey was one filled with blood, violence, tender moments of friendship and a horrible discovery when Leah continued on with the story.

"Then they came and kidnapped him because they though if I knew they had him, I would give them their money. They were right, I gave them their money but then they did it…one of them wielding a rifle targeted the back of Jacob's head and…fired."

"WHAT!" Cried out Billy from shock. "They killed my Son!?"

"Yes Billy…my reaction wasn't what I expected it to be in that situation. I thought I wanted to go and kill everyone one of those bastards, but instead I chose to save his life the only way I could; I bit him. I changed him into what I was."

"What happened next Leah? What happened next" Seth asked her. Leah took a look around and saw everyone's faces staring right at her.

"He changed and became a gigantic black werewolf that went wild. He killed every last member of the mafia with very little effort. We were in a crater filled with so much blood, so many torn limbs and death. I looked into his red glowing eyes and cried, I cried so much because of the answer I got when I asked him…if he could change back into a human. He answered with such a deep raspy voice. Leah…I'm…Stuck…Like…This. it wasn't fair I said, I wanted to become like him if he could never return home. At least then neither of us would ever be alone. I heard three heartbeats inside of him as i cried on his sharp lap, one was powerful. Another was calm, and the last sounded like somebody humming."

"Who did the last one belong to Leah." her mother asked.

"It belonged to Ephraim Black, his great grandfather. Your grandfather Billy."

"How do you know this Leah, how can you be so sure"

"I'm not…but after I heard it, I wanted to change. That's where the man who ordered my kidnapping appeared…Michael Sheppard. I don't know what he was but he wasn't human, he only looked like it from the outside. He stopped me and told me to go with him, but this was Jacob's moment and those two got into such a violent fight it…it…"

"What happened!?" everyone seemed to be on the same page and asked her all together.

"It's where he died a second time…" everyone went even quieter, only the snapping of the logs burning was heard in that moment of pause.


Black Residence, Jacob and Fei

Resting on his bed covered with his bed sheets, Fei yen placed a cold rag on his head because his body temperature had risen beyond what was normal for them. She had removed his pants and shirt and left only his boxers on. She never left his side and just watched him sleep. That form that she saw him in, it was without a doubt that power that saved Leah and made him alpha of the pack.

She didn't know who he was or what he went through, all she knew was that she could get used to being at his sides at all times. But he was with Leah, she imprinted on him and he loved her. Maybe their could be room for something more with him, maybe.


Jacob's Soul

Standing before Ephraim Black, Jacob was in his full ascended wolf form. Ephraim inspected his great grandson new shroud of pure energy. It was more than he expected, that white long wolf pelt on his head which was created out of raw pure energy was Jacob's crown; the crown of La Push.

"What do you think? I can now go in and out of it more freely now that I made peace with my inner wolf."

"It's very impressive Jacob. But i need to explain to you everything that comes with this power of yours. I know you probably heard of stories of people accessing power in them when their in danger or are protecting loved ones. Like a baby is trapped under some rubble after an earthquake or a dog is trapped in a burning house. Every person has a fixed reservoir of power that they can tap into for the rest of their lives. But our people whose blood has magic in it- can reach power far beyond any super human. You can cure known and unknown sicknesses. Have access to abilities so rare that executing them will be as easy as breathing. "

"What kind of abilities Ephraim?"

"Teleportation, Telekinesis, Manipulation and Transformation of known and unknown elements. Sealing abilities and casting illusions. I have to confess something to you though Jacob, I told you before that my Ascended wolf form was just like yours except a little wild in appearance. That's not true. Before I died, I tried pushing more power out of me in a long lost ritual of our people. I wanted more power other than just to phase to keep vampires and outsiders out of our lands. I managed to get more…but it shortened my life and now I want to show you."

Jacob stepped back and watched a vortex of white energy surround and swirl around Ephraim. He was surrounded by so much Jacob had to raise his power level to keep from being weighed down by all the energy bearing down on him. What Jacob saw in front of him took the shape of a gigantic werewolf, Jacob could see the skeletal system of Ephraim's new form inside of all of that energy. It was just a heavy muscular mass of white unstable energy.

"The circumstances that surrounded us when our transformation happened determined how our forms would look and our strength level. My great grandson I offer you a challenge right now! Pit your perfect ascended wolf form against my imperfect one. If you can't beat me, then you can't defend the tribe should a greater evil befall it someday. If you can beat me, then you have earned your right to truly take over where I left off."

"A challenge? Right now?"

"Yes Jacob! Right now!" Ephraim shouted.

He charged at top speed towards Jacob, Jacob prepared himself for the fight of his life. Jacob's inner wolf watched as Jacob and Ephraim clashed in a battle that could have destroyed multiple cities. Jacob's fists, knees, shins and elbows met Ephraim's with equal force. Each time they created ultra powerful sonic booms which resulted in titanic blast waves that rattled his soul.


First Beach, 12:30

"I don't know what happened after he knocked me out, all I know was that Jacob was dead. And I would probably be returning back to that underground facility, I said my last goodbye to Jacob then and there. Then when I opened up my eyes again…it was his face that I saw, not Michael's. at first I though he had died and would never come back, but later on I discovered that it was Ephraim who had helped him by as he described it, pulling out the ability of resurrection from the monster that Jacob was in and used it to resurrect Jacob."

"He said he came back to life as something else, but I wasn't awake to see exactly what he meant. In a hotel in Lynnwood where we were staying at he showed me. He showed me his hand shrouded in white fire, even to this day I never seen what he looked like completely covered in that wonderful beautiful fire. Continuing on, it was only when we got back to his business in Seattle that we had a private moment alone."

Each time Leah described a moment when Jacob and Leah were together like when they first met, it made Sam rub his forehead like it bothered him. Emily never missed a thing.

"It was when I locked both hands with his while they were on fire…that I finally imprinted on him. And as the first female of our tribe to ever experience it…I was very, very happy about it."

"Did my son accept you Leah? I mean it's kind of a dumb question to ask now-"

"No Billy it's not a dumb question. He was shedding as much tears as I was. He flipped and broke his table when I told him what had happened. He never expected it to happen."

"That happy huh? Never thought I hear it." Billy replied.

Sam was the only person in the group to go walk off and take a seat alone further down the beach, Emily followed him. Seth and Leah both saw this. Billy took the center and spoke.

"I guess all of us could guess what happened next, my son came back with Leah came back home. And although they did questionable things, they were not in control of themselves. Their actions do no and should not reflect what our ancestors and past tribal chiefs have dictated and established what our tribe and people were and are still about. And as sad as it made me, to listen that my own son had to die twice to save Leah…he has proven something to all of us…La Push has it's first Hero!"

Everybody agreed, they cheered and clapped their hands while whistling loudly. Further down, Sam stared out into the ocean not saying much. Emily tried getting him to tell her what was on his mind, but all forms of sound were blocked off. The moon shining out tonight created a reflection on the surface of the water. standing in the ocean with fists shrouded in white fire was Jacob. Sam couldn't believe it, he just appeared there. Everything that he's heard was hard for him to believe. Why did all of this befall on Jacob and Leah? What if Leah never left his pack, then none of this would have happened. And why Jacob, why was he so lucky to acquire a power un-available to anyone else from their Tribe, Why Him and Leah. WHY!


Jacob's Soul

Back inside of Jacob, he clashed his fists into his great grandfather's face while he receive a powerful knee to his gut from Ephraim. They were both equally fighting as hard they could, and as much as it hurt the other to be hitting family- Jacob understood why Ephraim was challenging him.

"Impressive moves Jacob, but these punches and kicks are going to avail you nothing unless you're able to truly pull out your form's real power."

"What is it then…tell me."

"Your enemy won't yell you how to beat him, you have to figure it out on your own."

Jacob looked at Ephraim's form and then looked at his hands, they were equal in speed, strength, endurance and more. What could possibly be more powerful than what he already shared with Ephraim. Then, a though just hit him. He remembered when he was fighting Michael back at the quarry as a monster werewolf. He went and got in the same position in hopes he could replicate the Primordial Roar, what he got instead was something completely unexpected.

Taking up the entire space of his soul, a planetary size white wolf appeared behind Jacob and mimicked the same position he was in. This gargantuan wolf had a shroud of white frozen mist, completely opposite of Jacob's fiery white shroud. The giant wolf gathered energy that swirled, concentrated and compressed in front of it's mouth. Jacob was serious and Ephraim, despite his form equaling Jacob's could not protect him from this kind of attack.

"JACOB WAIT!"

Jacob was ready to attack but stopped on his grandfather's command. He stood back up and took a look behind him, he almost tripped backwards looking at how utterly enormous the mouth of this giant wolf was. It was almost the size of almost of all of Greenland. How could such a thing even be possible?

"That is what separates your perfect ascended wolf form from mine, that giant wolf behind you is literally the manifestation of the amount of power residing within you. Had the sphere of energy finished compressing and taking shape, if shot it at me…both you and me…would no longer exist."

"What!? Then why challenge me! Why put us both through all of this? Just to see if I have what it takes?"

"I already knew you had what it took to protect everyone Jacob. I just had to double check, and because my soul is fading…it's time for me to leave Jake."

Jacob's form went back to normal. The giant frozen wolf also disappeared. He went over to hold his grandfather in his arms. Ephraim grew weak, he was vanishing. "Ephraim please don't go, please don't!"

"Jacob…there aren't that many people in our tribe who have experienced an adventure like you and Leah have. They will now look to you for wisdom, because wisdom is for the future, Knowledge is of the past. You have bested me, now I can move on."

"Wait! I still don't know how to teleport or all that other stuff you mentioned…please we were just beginning to bond. I don't want you to go…stay…stay."

"Jacob…you're a smart man. Mastering those abilities will come to you naturally…with practice of course. But if and when your own son becomes chief or his son becomes chief someday, you will be in my position and you will leave knowing you have no more regrets. One more thing before I move on Jacob, it's about Leah…I spoke to our ancestors. She'll be able to ascend only after…"

Jacob held and hugged his great grandfather tightly, he thought he be used to saying the words goodbye by now, but instead he chose with something less traditional.

"I'll see you later…I'll see you later."

Ephraim's soul signature or soul essence left Jacob's soul. Jacob's inner wolf came to him and began to lick his face. "You're gonna miss him too huh, I promise you and me are gonna spend more time together from now on."

In the outside, Leah and Billy returned back from the bonfire meeting. Leah wheeled Billy inside and went straight for Jacob's bedroom door, she grabbed the knob and turned it. When the door swung open, she was surprised to see Fei sitting down next to Jacob.

"What the hell is going on here!?" she demanded.

Fei stood up, surprised. She tried to explain what was going on but Leah was quick to grab her by her throat. "I don't want to heat it!"


(!) "More chapters after I work on other stories."