Yay! New chappie! *Does a happy dance*
I know, I didn't update. But I have a good excuse! I was at my grandmother's house for a sleepover! We played UNO! AND HAD PUMPKIN PANCAKES! Hmm, try saying Pumpkin pancakes five times fast. Pumpkin pancakes! Pumpkin pancakes! Pumpkin pancakes! Pumpkin pancakes! Whew! That was hard. So then when I got home and tried to get on FanFiction, my security system had a fit and wouldn't let me load the page. Stupid security.
Oh and one more thing, I rewrote the last few chapters, don't worry, I only added Bella into the whole story so if you want to go back and skim, you can. Nothing happened really. I added her in because I need her character for a later chapter. P.S This story would take place in the time period of New Moon, so yes, Edward will be leaving. *Sad*. But he comes back. So while this is happening to Sage, the beginning of new moon is happening with Bella. If that makes sense.
This way to the disclaimer; I own nothing.
And here is the story.
After Bella dropped me off at the Cullen's house, she went home to do her homework. Which is the same thing that I had to do. I sighed and sat on the floor, starting my math homework. When Alice got home, we did our homework together and she told me about the birthday party she was throwing for Bella, and of course, I was invited. I lived there. After school the next day, I faked sick so I could go back to the house for two reasons : One, Alice wanted to take me shopping. *Shiver* And two, I wanted to be alone in case Jacob called. I couldn't describe the feeling I got when I was near him, it was strange, but it felt…right. Alice went ahead and took Esme and Rosalie shopping again, Carlisle went to the hospital, and Edward, Emmet, and Jasper were still hunting.
So I was sitting on the couch in the empty living room---turning my cheap, silver cell phone, over and over in my hands. I didn't have anything else to do. "Stupid super-brain, made me finish my homework too fast, now I've got nothing to do." I grumbled to myself.
I was just about to go get a bowl of cheerios when the phone vibrated on my fingertips. I flipped it open and said. "Hello?"
"Hi Sage." The sound of Jacob's voice was almost a relief through the receiver.
"Hey, Jacob."
"Um, do you want to come meet me at the beach?" He ask.
"Sure." I answered a little too quickly. 'Why am I acting so weird?' I thought.
"Okay I'll see you soon." He said.
"I'll be right there." I said. "Bye." I hung up the phone and jumped up, slipped on my sneakers, grabbed my coat, and jerked the front door open.
"Aww, dammit." I cursed under my breath when I saw the dark, rain-drenched clouds. "Flying in those clouds will be hell." I looked to my right and saw a pair of car keys on the little table that sat by the door and smiled. "I don't think Edward will mind if I take his car for a drive." I said and grabbed the keys, running for the garage door.
The Volvo's engine purred to life and I started to edge it out of the garage carefully. "Woah!" I exclaimed when the car lurched forward at the small amount of pressure my foot was putting on the pedal (I am not used to driving fast cars…or cars in general.) I tapped the gas pedal a little bit and pulled out of the garage, getting the hang of the little car.
I got the car to La push fairly quick and hopped out as soon as the engine shut off.
"Sage!" I heard Jacob's voice behind me and whipped around, smiling.
"Hi Jake!" I called and loped over to him.
"Hey." He said and smiled widely, but as I approached him his nose wrinkled and he narrowed his eyes for just a second, then smiled again.
"Come on, I want to talk to you about something." He said quickly and took my hand in his rather warm one. He led me down the beach to the same piece of driftwood we had sat on before.
"Okay, what did you want to talk to me about?" I ask when I sat down next to him.
"Okay, how do I start this, I- Sage?" Jacob ask with concern in his voice. My face had gone blank and my vision was blurring like it had before, when Edward saved me from being crushed by a car.
"Sage?" I heard Jake's voice, but it was in the distance - like a T.V that you turned down so it is background noise and then his voice disappeared completely.
Again, I saw the red and gold feathers of the Egyptian bird that was in my vision before. "Hello, Phoenix." I heard a boy's voice say as my vision cleared. I saw the same house with the square doorways, and Benjamin was standing in the door again. The bird tweeted and Benjamin ruffled the feathers on it's head like a pet dog.
'Hey, maybe this bird is his pet.' I thought. "Here you go." Benjamin set a bowl of some kind of food on the ground in front of the bird. 'Yep, the bird is his pet.' The bird had started to eat when a voice yelled from behind it. "There it is! There's the Phoenix!"
'The Phoenix?! I thought that was a myth?!' I thought.
The bird's head snapped up and it spun around. A group of men were running toward the house, they had dark olive skin and black hair. The bird screeched and leaped into the air, flapping it's wings furiously as it rose into the air. It flew over the men and that familiar, red element ignited on the bird's feathers as it blasted fire down toward the ground at them.
The vision fuzzed and I drew in a deep breath. I felt exhausted! 'That must have been why I fell out of the sky the other day! These visions sure do take a lot out of me.' I thought.
"Sage?!" Jacob was crouched in front of me, his hands on my shoulders. "Ugh." I mumbled, closing my eyes and putting my hand on my forehead. And then, I was out like a light (I never really got that expression- wouldn't it be "on like a light"? Because lights are usually on, illuminating things- Oh never mind.)
Jacob POV:
I had met Sage on La Push beach when I noticed something strange, she smelled like the leeches (Vamps for those who don't know the Quileute term for them). 'Why the hell does she smell like one of them?!' I thought. My eyes narrowed for just a second but then I fixed my expression - I could talk to her about it later- and said. "Come on, I want to talk to you about something." Then I led her to the piece of driftwood that we had sat on the first day I met her, which was yesterday - but still.
"Okay, how do I start this, I- Sage?" I had just started explaining to Sage how I imprinted on her when her face just went blank and her eyes glazed over. "Sage?" She wasn't answering me. "What the- Sage?!" I crouched down in front of her and started shaking her shoulders but she just stared blankly down the beach.
I sat in front of her, thinking about what to do when Sage blinked. "Sage?!" I sounded really frantic, I felt really frantic. "Ugh." She mumbled and fell forward into my arms. "Oh god." I said to myself. Then I picked her up (she was really light!) and laid her in the back seat of my car. "Should I take her to the hospital?" I was asking myself questions the whole car ride back to my house. "No it's probably not that serious, she just passed out. Or is it serious?" I was so busy talking to myself like a crazy person that I almost hit a squirrel.
'Great now I am a crazy person who talks to himself and a reckless driver.' I thought as I approached my house.
I got Sage from the backseat and then put her on the couch in my little living room/TV room. "Dad?" I called to Billy who was probably in the kitchen…. "Yes?" I heard him call from the kitchen behind me - I was right. "Come here for a sec." I said nervously. "What? Oh." He said as he rolled into the living room. "What happened?" He ask.
"I don't know, she just fainted." I said.
"After you told her?" Billy ask with a laugh.
"No, I hadn't even started that part yet. She just got a blank look on her face, then fell over." I explained, sitting down next to Sage on the couch.
"Oh, I don't know what to do, should we-" Billy was interrupted my a loud knock on the door, followed by. "Hey Jake! Are you home yet?" Quil and Embry. "No!" I called back. The door opened and they immediately started arguing about something. Their banter (He he, banter. It makes them sound like chickens.) cut off when they saw the unconscious girl on the couch.
"Dude, what happened?" Quil ask.
"She passed out. Before I told her." I added before they could ask.
"Why?" Embry ask.
"I don't know." I said, looking own at Sage.
"Well shouldn't you take her to the doctor or the hospital?" Embry suggested. "No! No doctors, no hospitals! I'm fine." Sage yelled from her spot on the couch, making us all jump five feet in the air.
"What the hell!" Quil yelled angrily at her outburst - he doesn't like being scared.
"Are you okay?" I ask Sage.
"I'm fine." She said and proved it by standing up and spinning in a circle. "I'm fine, no hospitals." She repeated.
"Alright, then come outside I want to talk to you...again." I said and grabbed her hand. I led her out into the back yard, where Quil and Embry couldn't hear us.
"Okay, I promise I won't faint this time, what did you want to tell me?" I ask.
"Sage I am a werewolf." I blurted out. She blinked.
"A werewolf?" She ask with a contemplating expression on her face. "Your last name is Black." She said quietly.
"Yeah...?" I was confused.
"As in, Ephraim Black?" She ask.
"He was my great grandfather, how do you know his name?" I was really confused.
"He was a werewolf, right?" My mouth fell open.
"Yeah, he was a werewolf. How do you know all this?" I ask, shocked.
"First tell me why you are telling me you are a werewolf." She said seeming to get confused at her own sentence. "You know what I mean."
"I am telling you because I imprinted on you." I explained.
"Huh?" She said.
"Imprinting is something that a werewolf does when he finds his soul mate, but it's a lot stronger than that." I clarified.
"You...imprinted on me?" She ask slowly.
"Yes." She looked at me.
"I know about your great grandfather because I am living with the Cullens." She said quickly.
"What!" That's why she smelled like that!
"That is too dangerous!" I exclaimed. One of them could hurt her! "You have to move out." I said. I finally told her that I imprinted on her and we were having a fight, great.
"It is not dangerous, not for me anyway." She said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"How are you different than any other human, and why are you living with them in the frst place!" I was probably being irrational, I couldn't tell, I was too busy being irrational.
"I am living with them because I am not any other human!" I could tell she was starting to get angry at my tone.
"What is that supposed to mean?" I ask, calming down a bit. She sighed, reached into her boot, and pulled out a small pocket knife. She reached around and cut her shirt down the back in two places. "What are you doing?" I ask as she finished cutting slits in the back of her shirt. "This." She answered and rolled her shoulders back. My mouth fell open as I saw the pair of gold and red wings on her back. "Oh my god. What, how, why-" I stuttered. "I am an experiment. I was created at an Itex labratory." Sage said. "And that's not all, my name is not Sage, it's Phoenix." She explained. My brain was in shock, I couldn't form any coherent thoughts. "Itex?" I stuttered, Itex was a company that made anything and everything-including beautiful have-bird girls too.
Phoenix POV (Have I been putting Sage POV? I meant to put Phoenix POV because her real name is Phoenix. Sorry if I have been putting Sage POV!)
"What did they do to you?" He ask quietly as he looked at the bright red and gold wings on my back - I can see why, I must have a wingspan of at least fourteen feet, I haven't measured them recently.
"You don't want to know the specifics, but in general - I was created with four percent bird DNA in me. And now I am nintey six percent human, four percent.....other." I explained, blocking out the memories that sentence brought back.
"Other? Don't you know what kind of bird DNA they put in you?" He ask, he was still looking at my exotic wings.
"No one knows for sure. A crazy scientist went off on his own and created me without Itex's consent. I'm guessing they killed him and they never found any information on what I was. But they do have a theory - which I am starting to believe." I trailed off, looking down at the ground and remembering the bird in my vision today - with it's blazing feathers, it had to be the Phoenix.
"What is the theory?" He ask, I was surprised he was taking this so well. I was part unkown species of bird for god sakes! And of course his eyes were still glued to my wings.
"They think that I am four percent......Phoenix." I said quietly, looking up at his reaction through my long lashes. He blinked.
"Wait. Phoenix? That's your name." Ugh, he wasn't getting it.
"No, I mean my name is Phoenix, but they think that I am part Phoenix - the mythological creature from ancient Egypt." I offered, his face was comprehensive and then shocked.
"That's impossible! It's a myth." He scoffed nervously. "Why do you say you believe?"
"Because, I have these - um- visions." I said quietly, he looked surprised enough already.
"Visions...like one of those people who can see the future? What are they called? Umm, Clairvoyant? You're Clairvoyant?" He ask.
"No, but yes - in a way. Uh, I see visions of the past." I stuttered.
"Visions of the past? That's wierd." He said with a smile.
"Get used to it. Everything about me is wierd." I said, I couldn't help but smile back at him.
"So, what do you're backwards clairvoyance have to do with the Phoenix?" He ask jokingly.
"Well today, when we were at the beach - I was having one of my...backward visions. That's why I was all spacey. Anyway, I keep having these visions of this bird in ancient Egypt. In today's vision I saw this bird and these men were coming after it and it's feathers, like, lit on fire. And that's where the vision stopped. It will probably pick up where it left off soon." I explained.
"So, the Phoenix is real?" He ask, raising an eyebrow.
"I think it at least used to be." I said.
"You are really confusing." He said, shaking his head.
"Yeah. I know." I said quietly. And then he surprised me, he wrapped his arms around me in a huge bear hug. I hugged him back and then said. "Okay, you're choking me."
He laughed and let go. "No matter how wired or confusing you are, I'll always be right there with you. Because that's what imprinting is. You're my soul mate." He said with more emotion than I am comfortable with. And just as I was about to replya voice that has become oh so familiar over the years appeared behind us.
"Aww, isn't that cute? Soul mates. Just darling." My nostrils flaired and my lip curled over my teeth as I flipped around to face the devil herself - Chloe. Chloe was a snow leopard/human experient, used as an assasin at Itex headquarters by the Director herself. She and her fleet were specialized in killing pesky runaway experiment like me and destroying any humans that had found out about them.
Her eyes were golden colored and looked innocent to humans. She had white hair with grayish spots on it that were only visible in direct sunlight. Her body was tall and cat-like. When she was in full on leapard mode, those golden eyes turned into nasty, yellow, cat eyes with mean, black slits cutting through them, razor sharp claws would emerge from her long fingers, two sharp canines grew long from her sneering mouth, and - when fully morphed- she had white and gray spotted ears and a tail. And that's exactly what she looked like now.
Chloe has powers, too - like any other Itex experiement. Her's were not as special or powerful as mine, but they were still advanced and she was well trained in fighting. She always managed to escape in our battles but I didn't plan on letting her get away this time. Not after she had seen me, with my wings out, with Jake. No way was she coming out of this fight alive.
"Long time no see, Phoenix." Chloe sneered.
"Chloe." I greeted with malice in my voice, her fleet were nothing more than big robots with guns. Nothing that I couldn't handle.
"I see you've been getting to know the locals." She said wih a nasty, haggish smile. "You do realize we have to kill him now. Hm, I am dissapointed in you, Phoenix. Not once have you made me kill a human, and now your record will be broken."
"You stay away from him!" I moved so that I was blocking Jacob with myself, spreading my wings in a protective position.
"Phoenix what is she?" He ask quietly.
"That's Chloe, an assasin from Itex." I explained uner my breath, then he seemed to realize my position in front of him and the guns that the dog-robots were pointing at us. "Phoenix!" He objected and grabbed the tops of my arms to move me. "No, Jacob she will kill you!" Chloe laughed as he pushed me out of the line of fire. I heard a gun shot. "Jacob!" I screamed and jumped in front of him again, the speeding bullet heading right for me.