Thank you all very kindly :D I hope you're enjoying where the story has picked up, its about to become quite the roller coaster my dears. The Native content in these next chapters is a mix of simple fantasy to fit my story rather than authentic Native chanting or ceremonies, considering that the First Nations are a sacred people with a beautiful culture, I do not want to tarnish it with this story by using a mix of real things as I believe them to be rooted in something too special. I pray that I do not offend any Native or First Nations people with what I am writing here, it is with the utmost respect and admiration that I keep this fictionalized so as not to disrespect any sacred teachings. With that, I think we should just jump right on into her.

Chapter 11: Paper cuts

BPOV

We had been in La Push going on a week now, ever since Jake's massive revelation about my being the 'Chosen one' We had collectively decided that it would be best to learn all there was to know about what this meant for me. Somehow our presence had been kept secret from the rest of the wolves and I figured it had something to do with the fact that since being there, my temperature had stayed hotter than my usual freezing. Jake never mentioned anything about it, we did stick to a certain area and hunted far away from the border; still I couldn't help but wonder why the wolves didn't appear during the time we had been here. Perhaps somehow we were shielded, whatever the reason I was thankful that nothing had happened as of yet anyway.

I had noticed since being here, I was starting to feel an anger build up, a heat, a desire to dominate and while the last one was making for some amazing night time adventures for Alice and I, for the first time in a long time; I was nervous about what it all meant. My calm, cool and collected demeanor wasn't so calm anymore,

I could feel myself slipping into something I didn't recognize, was this the bad wolf er black blood rather, making itself known? I was pulled from my inner conversation by Emmet, whining his voice out in my direction.

"Yooo Bell's you gotta let us know if you're gonna be having long conversations in your head with yourself, like should we leave and give the three of you privacy orrrr…." Ah Emmet, always the voice of blatant stupidity but in an endearing kind of way.

I propped up my head on my hand looking lazily across the fire we were sitting around.

"Sorry there budzo, my mind ah she wanders on with all the thinking you know?" I say in my best Russian accent, bringing a laugh from the group as I turn around to fully face them. Jake stokes the fire and sits down, holding a brown leather bag in his hands.

"What's with the purse dude?" Emmet asks in between sips of mountain lion blood, a fresh kill we all so desperately needed we were polite though, drinking the collected blood out of mugs. Jake shot a look of offence at Emmet.

"Its not a purse its a satchel, Indiana Jones has one!"

Emmet stares, amused at the answer. "Its a purse for a doll by the looks of it there Fido."

Jake rolls his eyes, puts his hand into the bag throwing whatever contents now in his hand onto the fire, it sparks and changes colour.

"Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society…." I burst out laughing.

"Wait a minute, stop the game, time out, traveling" I sputter almost choking on my delicious mountain lion blood. "You are not about to start quoting 'Are you afraid of the Dark' without me are you?!" I ask incredulously, feigning a deep wound being shot into my side. Alice and Emmet look at us like we're nuts. "Ugh and you two can be so uncultured, it was an amazing show from the 90's like Goosebumps but better, scary stories and shit?" I wave my arms for emphasis but they just keep staring, seriously so uncultured. "I mean, if you guys don't even know what Goosebumps is, you should really sort yourselves out."Alice moves closer to me plopping herself in my lap, oh she playing a dangerous game if shes going to sit here and think I'm not going to touch her…oh she smells so good, I could just reach my tongue out and taste…

"I'll have you know green eyes." Her voice brings me out of the gutter, looking at her, my face glazed over biting my lip. "I am much older than your nineties baby ass, I am far too sophisticated for such childish things." She trails off rubbing her nose on mine giving it a peck before she settles further into my lap.

I bite back a moan gesturing to Jake. "I have a feeling you've got more than just scary stories in that little purse…." He gives me a glare. "Sorry, 'satchel' so what is it?"

"Thank you so much for asking Bella." He looks over to Alice and Emmet. "It just so happens that this." He hold's up the purse….in my head it's a purse, he can't read my mind, so its a purse. I grin to myself as Jake continues. "This is used in story telling, for my people and tonight I'm going to explain a little more about you Bella and the choice you have to make, because it is a choice…which wolf you feed er or which side you feed…" He trailed off "I still am not sure if calling it a wolf is accurate but…" He shrugged his shoulders as I nodded solemnly, I wonder if he can tell that I'm starting to feel the two of them battling it out, its like being on this land has awakened something in me that I didn't know existed.

"You all need to be in the right state of mind to hear this so that's what the satchel is for, its a mix of herbs and a few other things, mostly for ceremonial purposes, for tonight what we're doing here, Bella will get a taste of what is going to happen to her, I imagine you've been feeling it a bit already?"

I looked up and only stared off, too proud perhaps to admit that I was feeling things I had not yet experienced in my immortal life. Alice gripped my hand and laid her head on my shoulder, she knew a little of what was going on, if our nighttime escapades were any indication.

Jake started chanting, walking around the fire throwing the mix of herbs onto it in four directions, as I watched him I clued into the fact that he seemed to be marking the north, south east and west. He was speaking, almost singing in a language we could not understand, we sat there watching him as he started to do a little sort of dance around the fire, as he chanted we all began to feel a peace wash over us, like a warm blanket embracing us on a cold winter night. I felt my blood start to heat up but in a comforting way, whatever it was that Jake was doing it was amazing to watch, a blessing to be honest, it was an honour to be there with him.

He sat down and began speaking of the two wolves and why they were important when it came to me.

"You have immense power Bella, to shake the very foundations of the earth…this blood of yours is gifted to you by the creator, as I told you before the last time you were here, it is because of us that vampires exist and it is for this reason I believe, that you were gifted this power, to free us all from the curse and bondage of our war with each other as a species."

I noticed Emmet and Alice listening with such attention to what he was saying, Jake explained it better than I ever could and with the fire, his previous chanting…the whole world seemed to slow down to pick up every sound of his voice, lulling us into a trance as we focused on his words.

"As with all things of the spirit though." He continued looking in my direction. "You have the freedom of choice, to either feed the good wolf or feed the bad wolf, what you choose to do will either be for the good of humanity or the destruction of all humanity, it is difficult to say exactly what that looks like because truth be told." He stood up now, walking around the fire as he spoke. "You are the only one of your kind Bella and for me, I only know of these things through the stories of my people, what happens now…its really up to you."

I sat back with Alice still in my lap, trying to wrap my head around what he was saying.

"I can help you, learn how to deal with the dueling powers but only as it pertains to the control of wolf power, I have no idea what this does to your vampire side…I suppose you're actually dueling with three powers eh?"

He smiled a little and spoke almost as if to himself.

"Vampire, the good and evil wolf all wrapped into one."

I pondered what he said for a moment before speaking. "So what exactly am I supposed to do? I cant just be here all the time, eventually." I motioned the the other two vampires. "Someone is going to realize that we are here and that is going to make this all the more difficult."

Jake nodded in agreement, pacing around the fire. "Well…I could simply come over to you, we could meet in the forest by the Cullen's and practice how you control all this."

Alice spoke up. "As lovely as that offer is, wont your pack know that you're beyond your land and ask questions?"

Jake shook his head. "Nah, they know I have always done my own thing and as long as I allow Sam to continue being the Alpha, what I do in my own time is up to me, plus I have some abilities of my own, I can hide myself even from them when I need to."

I nodded, furrowing my brow, wondering if I should ask the question that had been bouncing around my head since we arrived here.

"So…" I sighed trying to fine the words. "How do we go about controlling all this? Since I've been here…I've uh felt things." I trailed off as Alice pretended not to know what I was talking about, her facial expression was giving her away though, clearly she was now stuck in her own memory of us, gripping, biting…licking…I willed myself to stop, I was going to take her right here in front of everyone if I allowed myself to go any further.

Jake smiled, possibly cluing into what I was thinking about, 'Whatever he's only guessing, he cant read my mind' I thought to myself as he sat back down again.

"Well first we need to hone in on what the strongest 'will' or rather 'need' you have, there are a few that affect all wolves and for you I imagine they would be similar. Anger is one that is big for us, we have so much boiling underneath us that its usually the most strong next to desire and the need to dominate." He said the last one looking knowingly at me. "So…what are you feeling the most?"

Ugh now I regretted saying anything, I didn't want to have this conversation with Emmet sitting right there but I guess he will find out sooner or later as will the rest of the Cullen's, I rolled my eyes and sighed.

"Well, anger is definitely there but desire and the need to dominate are stronger…" I trailed off burying my face in Ali's neck. "The desire to dominate is the strongest…to be in control."

Jake nodded, not saying anything for a moment, Emmet of course could always be counted upon.

"Ohh so like, you need to wear the pants all the time then?" Ugh of course he would relate it so something sexual which to a degree it was but so not the point right now.

"Emmet for the love of everything you hold dear.." I gestured to his crotch. "Don't make me angry." He chuckled and held up his hands. "Don't worry moody, wolf blood lady, I give."

"Anyway…" Jake piped up drawing attention back to him and thankfully away from me if only for a moment. "So your strongest desire is dominance and control, makes sense considering that you're a vampire, you already have a strong desire to dominate."

I nodded in agreement. "But.." I looked over at Jake. "What does this have to do with my powers, how is this 'need to dominate' supposed to break or save the world?"

"Well, basically you have the power to dominate all humanity, including us wolves, you're like the ultimate leader sort of, what you choose to do with that domineering power will either be for good or bad. I know it sounds kind of ridiculous to say the least as we all know." Gesturing to us. "Vampires and wolves are sworn enemies but as I've told you about the whole creation of our species, its kind of a twisted poetic justice that only a vampire would be gifted with the power to either heal the curse between us or destroy us. I feel like I'm kinda repeating myself here but I don't know how else to paint it, it's one big cluster fuck dude."

We sat in silence for a few minutes, mulling over Jake's words what he said didn't make sense and yet it made all the sense. It was stupid and brilliant all at once, definitely a poetic justice but why did it have to be me? I wasn't born a vampire, I was made and the one who made me wouldn't have any idea as to what my powers would be, what path of immortality I would take.

Alice yawned and stretched her lithe frame, bringing the hem of her shirt up enough to expose her navel, I sucked in air with a hiss…hopefully not audible to the boys.

"Well…" She drawled leaning her weight on my thigh. "I think its time we went back home, I gave Carlisle a lame excuse. 'We wanted to go exploring around the forest for a week' Or some other bullshit." She grinned. "He didn't bother to push me about it but before he decides to text me asking when we're coming back we should head out."

I waited for her to get up off my lap, her body shifting on me as she stood, girl you are so lucky the boys are here…I've already devoured you in my mind in seven different ways. Ugh she smells sooooo good….focus Bella! I smile to myself as she bounces up, I have the benefit of Charlie being totally chill with me hanging out with Jake for a few days, I suppose when you've spent most of your life not living with one parent, they tend to give you freedom until you abuse it; hopefully I wasn't coming close to that.

We all stood stretching our limbs as we got ready to leave. Jake and Emmet had some absent minded conversation while Alice sidled along beside me, hand in mine…our fingers laced together. It was almost enough to keep me from thinking about everything Jake had said, I was going to have to learn how to control all of these emotions and desires…as if it wasn't enough I was still a new born vampire, barely six months old and the world on my shoulders. Not to sound overly dramatic but seriously who else would have this kind of responsibility?! I crinkled my brow and swallowed a sigh, Alice gripping my hand a little tighter, I looked up to give her a wee smile…whatever happens, we're gonna be okay.

Alright I've got some stuff in store now, I'm in lockdown baby! Its actually quite irritating but I do enjoy being able to bring life back to this. Thank ya kindly for the Reviews, happy reading :D