A/N: I know, I know. I exceeded my one week hiatus by one day. Very sorry but if you have to blame it on somebody, blame it on my stupid Social Studies teacher who wanted me to write a newsletter in one night on child labor and then send it to him by email. Including pictures. Yes, he is idiotic but I can't say that too his face lest he fail me. The world works in strange ways.

Anyway, hope you guys like this new chapter!
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Chapter 11

Morph

Jasper POV

I believe Rosalie pushed the boundaries of our friendship with the winged ones today. After they left, Carlisle immediately counseled her on her rash behavior. It was shocking news, to hear of such things going on in the world; what happened to them. Although nothing can be changed now, the Rides will forgive us in time.

"Jasper!" Esme called me from the living room and I sped towards her.

"Esme," I nodded in her direction while acknowledging everybody's presence.

"Alice is having a vision," Bella stated while staring worriedly at Alice and Edward who was watching it through Alice's thoughts.

That's when I noticed their blank stares. I ran to Alice and held her shoulders tightly.

"Alice!" I growled and she snapped out of it.

Alice POV
I saw blankness. Total white when I searched for the future. The shape-shifters.

Then, Jasper was in front of me. One second I saw nothing and then it was him.

"Get Jacob!" I yelled frantically while Bella had a look of horror on her face.

"What's happening?!" Jacob was already here.

"You forgot to tell Sam about Max and the others, didn't you!" I yelled angrily. Jacob was going to get us into deep trouble if the Rides stumbled on the Pack and the Pack attacked.

Jacob swore under his breath and then abruptly ran out the door. There was a shiver in the air as if somebody was phasing and then he came back in.

"I can't do anything, Sam hasn't shifted so I can't talk to him," Jacob was panting.

I frowned thoughtfully, "I don't know if the blank future was because of the shape-shifters or because I just haven't been with the Rides long enough."

"Why don't you just go down to La Push and tell them?" Jasper observed.

Jacob shook his head, "Remember, there are sixteen werewolves including me and my Pack. The other werewolves joined Sam's Pack making eleven in Sam's Pack and they're probably already on patrol. Sam just isn't with them because he had to do something. It would be almost impossible to track them that way and I don't know when they'll return."

"We'll have to warn them not to go down to La Push tomorrow, just in case." Edward said.

Next Day...

Edward POV

We were going to warn them not to go to La Push, but we didn't see them in school today. Not even during lunch or classes.

We assumed they had just stayed home for the sake of ditching but we had to warn them soon before the werewolves mistook them for a threat.

Max POV

I feel like crap. I do not want to go to school. I am not going to school. Too tired. Ugh.

Yesterday we stayed up late. Why? No reason.

"Max!" Angel jumped onto the bed between me and Fang and started to shake us and jump on the bed. I groaned loudly and she just kept shaking. I pulled a pillow over my head but she kept going.

"Angel!" Fang groaned and sat up in bed.

"It's 10:00 in the morning! We're late for school!" Angel kept jumping and shaking me so I sat up with Fang.

"Who cares?" Gazzy ran into the room with Iggy and Nudge behind him and Total came too.

"Can we do something?" Gazzy asked.

"Where do you want to go?" Again, probably something I shouldn't have done but whatever. Too late now.

"I heard there's a beach like a mile away. Can we go there?" Angel was now excited. Oh no.

"Why don't we?" Fang smiled a little and then got out of bed. We got ready and unfortunately, I had to wear a swimsuit now. Greeaaat. How the heck do I wear a bikini without showing my wings?

"Max!" Nudge pounded on the door and when I let her in, she came in with a different type of bikini.

"It's a tankini. It's basically a tank top and bikini bottoms so that it can cover your wings. Nudge was wearing her own already so I quickly changed into it. The top was polka-dotted pink over brown and the bottoms were striped.

"By the way you'll probably need this," After I came out of the bathroom, Nudge was holding out a blue dress for me to put on over my tankini. Fang grabbed a couple of beach towels and then we headed out to the beach.

When we got there, Nudge, Angel and Gazzy jumped straight into the water.

"It's called First Beach in La Push," Fang was reading a sign out loud.

"Let's go!" I called to him and he followed me.

We put down the blankets under an umbrella to protect us from one of the very rare days in Washington of actual hot sun.

We dived into the water with them and surprisingly, it was really warm.

"Max!" Angel called me from farther out in the ocean. I swam over to her and she was pointing to something.

"What are they doing?" Angel pointed to dark shapes on top of the highest cliff who looked like they were about to jump off. There were at least five shapes but I couldn't tell because some of them were near a fire that was on top.

"I don't know, why don't you read their minds?" I was also interested in what they were doing but I didn't feel like springing out of the water and trying to save them if they were doing something stupid. Or comitting suicide.

Angel concentrated hard for a second because of the distance and then her face brightened, "Oh! They're having fun. They're cliff-diving. Apparently, they always do that stuff."

I shrugged and we went back to swimming and playing around a little. At one point, Angel started talking with the fish and they started to swim around us and everything.

"I'm getting out. I want to get into the sun," I told Nudge and we headed out to the shore. I couldn't see the shadows on the cliffs anymore but I saw some new guys at the beach. They were all tan and really big. They looked at least twenty years old. And more importantly, they looked like erasers and M Geeks in disguise.

"I bet those are the Native Americans living on the reservation," Iggy said and I nodded in response, forgetting that he couldn't actually see it.

While they were playing volleyball I watched them set and bump it over the net. To any other person, it looked like I was checking them out (don't ever tell Fang that).

One of the guys spiked and I saw the muscles in his arms ripple with the force.

Soon after, they stopped and made a new fire on the beach while some other girls came to join them. They were immediately accepted in the crowd so I took them to be the guy's girlfriends.

They talked in hushed tones while roasting some food over the fire. They put a whole new meaning to wolfing something down. They maybe even beat my record, which says something.

One of them was so loud that I could hear him talk though.

"Did you smell those guys over there?" He looked younger than the rest but still pretty big while he waved towards us even though I don't think I was supposed to see it.

"You weirdo! Why would you smell them?" One of the other guys threw a hotdog at the first guy and everybody started laughing.

"I don't know. They just smell weird and they were underwater for at least five minutes, no other human can do that."

"Why don't you go check it out dufus?" A bigger guy sneered and the first guy suddenly stood up and walked toward us.

I put my sunglasses back on and started to look at the ocean at an attempt to look regular instead of looking I-was-watching-you like.

He tapped my shoulder and I turned around to face him while taking off my sunglasses, "Hi, I'm Nick. I was wondering what you were doing out here today."

The rest of the Flock turned around to face him as I watched him.

"We're just having some fun," I said.

"Yup," Angel ran up to him and nodded happily. His expression softened as he took Angel's hand and beheld it.

Evidently, her hands were still probably cold -because of the temperature the water had turned after a while-and his eyes widened at exactly how cold it was. The water droplets seemed to make her skin sparkle under the sun as she looked up at him.

His mouth formed a small 'o' and then he went back to normal.

"On a school day in the middle of the afternoon?" He raise in eyebrow and tried to look casual although it was an off-set to him trembling in either apprehension or fear. Without waiting for an answer, he loped back to the others quickly.

There was an exchange of words and then the rest of the guys came while the other girls faded into the background and, I assumed, left.

"Bloodsuckers!" One of the guys yelled at us and I stared at him in confusion. All of the sudden, the eight guys spread out and surrounded us.

Fang was now on his feet and so were the rest of the Flock.

"What is this about?" I calmly stood up and faced them with hands on hips.

"You're a threat to our people and we will exterminate you," the biggest one droned, or what it sounded like to me.

"And we will fight you to the bitter end," I scoffed and mocked his tone.

Then they morphed. Teeth turned to fangs, hands turned to claws and paws, skin became fur, and they were our worst enemies. The henchman. The demons and pets of The School.