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CHAPTER 11
The huge wolf before me wasn't like any other wolves I've ever seen – not that I've seen a lot but still- and it looks like it's more intelligent, too, compare to other animals.
Also, it wasn't alone.
I crouched down into my hunting position, ready to take out the huge wolf before me, and growled. It growled back at me. That's when I noticed other wolves stepping in the small clearing where we are. And they were surrounding me. I looked at my twins again. To my horror, two wolves were cornering them onto a tree. The wolves were colored grey and the other one had a patched color. (A/N: Sorry, I forgot what was the color of the fur of this particular one… )
The wolf in front of me was the color of the midnight sky. There were 4 other wolves in the clearing. One was a slight grey, a chocolate brown, a sandy one, and the last had a rusty brown color. The last one reminded me of someone…
I was cut out of my thoughts when the wolf in front of stepped forward. I stepped back automatically, but then I steeled myself. This is just a wolf… Why would I be afraid of a mutt?
But something was different about them. I tested the air. Ugh! Bad idea. The smell that I took a whiff of earlier with Rose was much stronger here. And it seemed to be coming from the wolves.
I stepped forward with a snarl and was about to attack the black one when it took a strike at me. Once again, I was plummeting into the air, but regained my balance. So you wanna fight, huh?
When I tried to attack it again, the four wolves joined the black but the rusty colored one froze when it saw me directly. I frowned. Its eyes really reminded me of someone…
The black one's eyes widened and he growled even louder, the others soon joining him. My twins cried out.
"Momma!"
The four wolves earlier took a look at my twins. The slight one and the chocolate one took a step towards them and I quickly ran to my twins, ignoring the fact that the bigger grey wolf and the patched one was with them. We're at least three feet apart.
Nessie and Carlie quickly moved behind me and hugged my legs. I can't comfort them now, not with this beasts, cornering us.
Bigger grey and Patches seemed to narrow their eyes at them and I hissed. They stepped forward and snarled.
I was preparing myself in fighting them when suddenly, I heard another growl. I risked a glanced to my right and, to my utter amazement, Edward was there, looking very dangerous.
That's when things got a lot more complicated… and somewhat scary.
Edward's eyes were furious – blacker than ever. The black wolf stood before him and snarled and he snarled back. To my utter surprise, he replied to it, as if it could understand him.
"We didn't do this."
Another snarl. I cringed while my twins whimpered. Edward looked at us.
"They're not like that…" The wolves in front of stepped closer. I narrowed my eyes at them.
"Step closer and I'll drain you myself." I hissed.
"Bella…" Edward warned. I looked at the other wolves – they were all stepping closer now. Oh, come on!
"I know. My apologies – " he was cut off by snarls.
He cringed. Just then, all the wolves turned to look at the russet one and the sandy wolf. They all let out whimpers. Edward hissed at the two.
Everyone seemed to have a silent conversation which is completely ridiculous to me. I mean, come on, they're animals.
Just then, the huge black wolf ran behind some bushes. After a few seconds, a half naked man emerged from it. My eyes widened. Where's the wolf?
"You broke the treaty. " he spoke, eyes narrowed at us. I glared at the wolves before I picked up my daughters. They quickly hid to my hair and I whispered sweet nothings to their ears, all while having a glaring match with the wolves.
The russet and sandy wolves ran behind the bushes and yet again, two half naked guys emerged. The other wolves followed suit and ran off. Seriously? What-
My train of thoughts was cut off when I realized who was one of the half naked guys from behind the bushes.
My best friend.
Jacob.
I gasped.
"Jacob? Is that… is that you?"
He gave me a strained half-smile.
"Hey, Bells. I see you've… changed."
"Wow. So you still know me. As for the 'change', that happens, you know. Especially when you're pregnant with… " I shrugged. "You know that, right? Oh yeah, I remembered. You said, You're pregnant with that… that leech?. And then you also said, I can't help you. You're not Bella. You're a leech." I snorted. "Here I am, Jacob, standing in front of you, holding my kids. Oh, and I'm a vampire, too, as you can see." I smirked.
I don't want to do that. But he deserved it. He was my friend, but that was before. You don't call someone a 'friend' when he rejects you when you needed him the most. It stings. Worse, he was the only person I thought that would've accepted me and help me…
I shook my head and focused to the fluttering heartbeat of my twins. Immediately, I calmed down. I looked back to Jacob to see a pained expression on his face. Seems like I'm getting that for quite a time now.
"I'm… I'm so sorry, Bella. I know that doesn't cover it, but still, I'm so-"
"Stop right there, Jacob Black. I don't need to hear that."
The first guy – a man already, it seems – who came out of the bushes stepped in front of Jacob and narrowed his eyes on me.
"You remember me, Bella? The one who found you in the woods?"
Woods… What-
The day he left.
Oh, right. He was the one who found my crippled form in the woods and carried me back to Charlie.
Edward flinched from hearing his thoughts, I guessed.
Deep breath. "Yes. I know you… Sam? Sam Uley?" He nodded.
"May I ask what have you been doing in our territory? Since you're with the Cullens, you probably know about the treaty, which you've broken."
Huh? "What treaty? What is going on here?" I looked at them. Sam raised his eyebrows.
"So you don't know? This is our side. No Cullen is allowed here."
I snorted. "And what's going to happen a Cullen did?"
A tall, built, guy emerged from the surrounding trees and smirked at me. "We kill you."
Tears were flowing down the cheeks of Nessie and Carlie. "Shh, it's okay, babies. Nothing's gonna happen. Shh."
"They're go-go-going t-to kill u-us, momma!" Nessie silently wailed.
I don't want to die… Carlie said through their gift.
"Shh… I'm here, I'm here… Shh…" It took everything I had not to sob with them. I'm so stupid. Why did I left them in the first place? Now, we're here, surrounded by humans-
Humans.
"Wait. Uhm… How, exactly, can you kill us?"
They all laughed but I think Jake's and the one who emerged with him was a bit strained.
"You're clueless, vamp girl." One of them said. Edward hissed at him. I nearly forgot that he was there in the first place. Now that I did, he's moved closer to us.
"You really didn't tell them?" Sam asked Edward. I was still confused and still comforting my shaken daughters.
"That's part of the reason I was here. Please listen to us first."
"You broke the treaty! That means war." They stepped closer to us. Edward quickly moved in front of us in a protective crouch.
"Leave them out of this." He hissed.
There was a combination of laughs and snickers.
"They were the ones that started this in the first place. Oh, wait. You started this."
"Yeah. Going through the border line, letting them hunt in our side, and let's not forget, biting a human."
"That's what the treaty was about, right?"
I tried to get their attention by coughing, which worked. "Excuse me. But can I clear something?"
"And the clueless vamp girl speaks." I narrowed my eyes at him.
"Paul…" Sam warned. (A/N: Okay, obviously, I'm getting tired of them being nameless…)
"Listen. I may not know what's happening now or what are you but I know something. The Cullens weren't the one who changed me. I just came here for a visit – actually, not me, my daughters needs to know… well, whatever. My point is, they didn't bite anyone. So that part of this treaty that you keep mentioning is still intact."
"Oh yeah? But that's just a small part, vamp girl."
"I have a name." I hissed at the one called Paul.
"Paul, can it." Sam glared at Paul then turned to me. "If the Cullens didn't turn you, then who did?"
"The Volturi. They're the higher class of vampires."
"So they have that, huh?" another one said.
"Embry…"
"Sorry." he said sheepishly and crossed his arms. I rolled my eyes.
Nobody spoke for a while. Somehow, Carlie and Nessie calmed down enough for them to stop crying. A lot has happened for this day. I'm a vampire but things are starting to get it's toll on me. Heck, we just arrived a few hours ago! My bad luck was really something. The day I returned to the family of my twins, is the day I end it. Nice. Just nice.
"So, what happens now? Are we going to be killed?"
Sam sighed. "To be honest, that was what the treaty implied. But you see…" He fidgeted, for crying out loud!
"This is confusing. First you get all lecturing us about this. Now, what?"
"You eager for death, vamp girl?" Paul taunted. I swear one more and I'm going to rip his head off.
"Geez, Paul! Can you stop that for a minute?" the gangly boy spoke.
"Sure, Seth. Sure. That is if you tell them what is really complicating things now, huh?" He waggled his eyebrows at him. As if my day isn't full of surprises yet, the gangly boy, not younger than I was when I was turned, blushed. In addition to that, the blood flow didn't quite appeal to me.
Edward growled. "What?"
Sam sighed. "I know. And they were the reason why…"
"Can anyone tell me what the heck is going on here? Before the twins shook themselves to death and all of you follow suit?" my anger was building up and if they don't enlighten me now, I'll explode.
Sam looked at Jacob who sighed. "I know you're mad at me right now Bella-"
I scoffed. "Mad? What an understatement."
"But do you remember the legend I told you when you were at the La Push beach?"
My brows furrowed in deep concentration. My memories were hazy but I remembered that. Of course. That story led me here.
I nodded my eyes narrowed at him.
"Well, you see…" He looked at the others, as if for help.
Edward was the one who answered. "They're werewolves, Bella."
"They're what?"
"Werewolves. The ones you saw earlier…" The only female of the bunch said.
"Werewolves are real…?"
"Obviously." She scoffed.
"Excuse my sister." The gangly boy interrupted and elbowed his sister. She in turn glared at him.
"Huh. Well, okay. So what's the problem? You can't kill us?"
They laughed. Edward shook his head.
"They can kill us, Bella. They just… can't. Or won't."
"What does that supposed to mean?"
"Imprinting is one of the abilities of the wolves to find or choose their mates. It's like love at first sight… Just that imprinting is more serious."
"Okay…"
Edward grimaced. Everything that has happened earlier made me forget about my earlier problems and thoughts… made me forget that Edward just came back earlier… that he left me… us…
I flinched and looked away from him. I can feel his gaze at me but I adverted mine. He sighed then shook his head, the grimace returning.
"Jacob and Seth… Well, they kind of… uh… imprinted on the twins…"
A/N: Here you go. That was chapter 11. In the previous chapter, I got a lot of reviews and thank you guys for all of that. The verdicts were divided though. Some said I sucked and some said that I don't. Thank you so much for giving your honest opinions/review about this ff of mine. =) I'm kinda bummed about the nega revs but I know that it's only natural or .
Sorry for the late update again. I'm known for being late... even in our class meetings, etc. and sorry for the "inconvenience". Also, sorry if the characters are being sooo OOC. I'm honestly having troubles staying true to the characters but at the same time, having my OWN plot... Oh, and also, someone said something about no imprints...I'm telling you this now, sorry for that. I needed it... =]
There you go. A long A/N. And a long confusing chapter. Please give your honest reviews again., I truly appreciate it!
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P.S. = Have you seen "I a number four" already? The guy playing Sam Goode is soooooo cute! The movie's awesome too, but like other book-derived movies, it's kinda different fro the book...still love it though! I3SamG.!
