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Author/Note 1: This story is the sequel to Our Dawn 5. For the ones who don't know anything about Our Dawn Series, you can always read Our Dawn 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and Our Dawn Series Specials but if you don't want to bother I have a resume on my profile page. As it would be expected this is a next generation story and as such, it's focused on Jake and Leah's children.

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A/Note 3: I'm not a native English speaker so I'm sorry for my grammar and spelling. Thank you for reading.

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Book I – The Third

Isaac Black

79. The Vessel and the Sealer

Sophia had disappeared into thin air. And I had been the last person to see her.

"I've just told you all I know. When I heard your car pulling over, I went to my bedroom's window and I saw her coming to the house. I went back to bed and that's all. When I woke up today, mom and dad were already looking for her."

When they didn't find their oldest daughter that morning, Jesse and Calleigh Felton went to the police, but the authorities claimed that she had to be missing for 48 hours before they could file a missing person report or put agents on the field. So, the Felton returned home with their minds set on finding Sophia by themselves.

Caden suggested calling all their friends and form a searching party but I couldn't have that. The fewer people knew about this the better chances I had of finding her on my own. After all, I was the best tracker of all the packs combined.

"You were the last person to be with her," Caden added. "If something happened to my sister it was either you or your fault for leaving her alone!"

She was on the porch when I left. What else could I have done? I wanted to tell him that Sophia was perfectly fine when I left, but I opted not to. He was already upset, and I didn't want to pull a William on Sophia's brother. For now.

"Stop with the accusations!" Calleigh raised her voice so her son would understand she was being serious buy Caden didn't care. "Isaac has nothing to do with Sophia's being missing."

"How can you tell?" He asked defiantly. "The first time he comes here and Sophia's gone."

"He brought her home." Mr. Felton said. He was calmer than I expected Sophia's father to be. "Look, Cade... you're worried about her, but you can't lash out on other people."

"I can't believe you're actually considering letting him do all the work!" Sophia's brother exploded. "We're her family! Not this high school boy! What can he do, anyway?"

Before Caden started accusing me, I had suggested the Feltons let me handle the situation but in exchange, I had asked them to keep quiet about it. I was going to use my wolf abilities to find Sophia, and if my abilities weren't enough, I would summon all the packs and together we would find her. It was just a matter of time.

Calleigh Felton knew about wolves and vampires, and she knew I could find her daughter faster than any police officer or federal agent out there. And I had a theory that her husband also knew about us, though I couldn't tell for sure. Opposite Caden, both of Sophia's parents wanted me to act. Her brother was less receptive though. Luckily, I didn't need his permission.

"Isaac's mother is a good friend of mine."

"Yeah... she's such a good friend that I never heard of her until a few weeks ago and she never bothered visiting us!" Caden pointed out.

"We lost touch over the years. Do you keep in touch with all your school friends?"

"I don't care what you say... I'm not going to let a boy do my work!"

Caden took the keys of his parents' car and left.

"I'm sorry about my son." Calleigh apologized. "He was always very protective of Sophia. Especially after the accident. He still blames himself a little."

"Maybe you should go after him. Having your son telling people about Sophia's disappearance won't help me. Actually, it will turn things harder for me."

"Don't worry. He'll run out of gas before he'll leave town." Calleigh said. "So, do what you have to do, Isaac."

"Can I have her phone, please? Your son said earlier that you found her purse and her phone on the porch this morning."

"I hope my wife is right about you." Mr. Felton handed me his daughter's iPhone and went home.

Calleigh looked at me attentively as I searched for Sophia's last phone calls and text messages. There was an unknown number that had called her a few seconds after I left her home. I tried to call but it was disconnected.

"It was Dana." Calleigh and I watched her youngest daughter step forward. "I heard her call Sophia."

"Who is Dana?" Calleigh asked. "Is she one of Sophia's friends?"

"I don't know. All I know is that she called her and told her to go somewhere."

"Are you saying that someone named Dana called Sophia last night and told her to go to someplace?" I asked.

Valentine was silent for a while and then she left running.

"I don't know what's wrong with this kid!" Calleigh confessed. "I'm sorry. I think she just wants some attention."

I didn't have the same opinion because I knew someone named Dana. I just needed to know if Valentine was talking about the same person.

"I'm going to talk to her, okay?"

Calleigh nodded. I found Valentine on the swing, in the back of the house. She was trembling slightly as I approached her.

"Your sister told me you're the best student of your class," I started. In order to gain her trust, I would have to make Valentine feel that she could trust me and it would be hard to do that since we had just met. "She also told me you want to be a doctor."

She kept quiet, her eyes focused on the ground.

"Are you afraid of me?"

"No." She stated firmly, but she still refused to meet my eyes.

"Do you love your sister?"

"Of course," She finally looked at me. "I love Sophia as much as you love your siblings."

"How do you know I have siblings?"

"Sophia told me. We tell everything to each other."

"What else did she tell you?"

Valentine shrugged. "She likes you. She left her job for you but... she's scared because..."

"Because?" I pressed her.

"Because she doesn't know if you feel the same."

"I do." I didn't even hesitate.

"I know. If you didn't, you wouldn't be here."

"I need to know why you lied."

Valentine diverted her eyes again.

"I didn't lie." She said but her voice faltered, and she became nervous again.

"You said Dana called your sister and told her to go somewhere. But how could you hear their conversation when your bedroom is so far away from the front door?"

The teenage girl was mute.

"Did you really hear them?" I pressed.

Valentine nodded negatively.

"I dreamed about it." She finally confessed.

"You dreamed about your sister getting a call from someone named Dana?"

"Sort of," she said. "It was sort of a dream... I don't know... sometimes I have these feelings..."

I had been told that Calleigh could see the future. Unlike Alice, who had premonitions, Calleigh could read the future by touching our hands. She had told my mother that she would have five children. Back in those days, mom was pretty sure she was barren and could never have kids, so she dismissed Calleigh's words. But her guess had been right.

Could fourteen-year-old Valentine have the same powers as her mother? That was something I couldn't rule out.

"In your dreams, did Dana said the name of the place she wanted Sophia to go to?"

Valentine nodded negatively.

"Do you know anything about this Dana?" I pressed her. The Dana I had heard of was a sixteen-year-old girl who lived in the Makah Reservation and she also had a gift.

"No. I've never seen her nor spoke to her... but..." Valentine stopped talking as if she feared something. "I can feel her presence and hear her... when she's not Dana."

"When she's not Dana?" I asked confused.

"Sometimes, she's someone else. I can feel more than one mind. Dana's never alone."

Valentine was talking about the spirits' girl: Dana Hansen. And thanks to her, I knew where I could find Sophia.

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Dana Hansen lived in the Makah Reservation which was not far from La Push. It would be easy for me to go there. Unfortunately, I was in Astoria. It would take a while to reach my destiny.

After informing Calleigh that her youngest daughter could also be a psychic or whatever they called it these days, I left my car parked at the Felton's driveway and phased. In wolf form, I would travel faster. I was already entering the Olympic Peninsula when Harry reached me through the mind link.

'Where have you been? Things are pretty fucked up and we could really use your help right now!'

'I'm coming home. I was in Astoria. Something happened to Sophia.'

'Yeah, we know.'

'You do? So... Will you help me find her?'

'Finding her? She's at our place. She arrived like twenty minutes ago with that weird girl from the Makah Res.'

'Really?'

'Oh yeah... and let me tell you, some weird shit is going on... so move your ass and get here asap!'

'Where are you going?'

'To the Whites house.'

'Why?'

'Apparently, Rhea's mother caught Will in her house doing some PG stuff with her daughter. She called the Council. Dad is there but he's failing to control Will.'

'For the record, I told Will to go there and talk to her not sleep with her.'

'So that's how he knew she was home alone. Nice one, Isaac... You could've caused World War 3!'

'I only told Will that he should go and talk to her.'

'You can't be that naive! What do you think it would happen?'

'I thought they were going to talk!'

'About what exactly?'

'The baby... the house Will just bought... I don't know.'

I could feel Harry mentally rolling his eyes at me.

'Just get your ass home! Mom is having a hard time controlling your girlfriend.'

'Why?'

'Something about a gift that she doesn't understand.'

'What gift?'

Harry phased back to human in that precise moment, so I didn't get an answer. What gift was he talking about? Which kind of gift? Could Sophia be like her mother and her sister? Or was she something completely different?

With no one to answer my questions, I could only make assumptions. Calleigh Colburn, now Calleigh Felton was what we called a seer. She claimed she had the ability to guess people's future by reading the palm of your hands. Two months ago, I would have laughed if someone told me they could do this. Two months ago, I would have laughed if someone told me my whole family could morph into giant wolves. Now, I had to at least consider the possibility that Calleigh could do what she claimed she could.

Mom had told me her friend's story. It wasn't a happy one. Calleigh's mother had died after giving birth. Her father wasn't a role model. He couldn't keep a job and had drinking problems. He turned abusive over the years, beating his daughter and grounding her for the smallest things. When she was fourteen, Calleigh told her paternal grandmother she had a gift. She told her she could read one's future by holding her or his hand. Her grandmother didn't believe her at first but the older population in Gold Beach swore that on her death bed, Carmine Colburn said that her granddaughter was special and that it was thanks to her gift that she had been able to live such a long life.

Nobody knew what she meant by that however Calleigh had told my mother that one day she touched her father's hand while he slept, and she saw him dead. Later that day, he went to buy some cigarettes and never returned. She never warned him about what she saw, and when he disappeared she didn't warn the police. One week later, John Colburn's body was found on the side of a road.

For some weird reason, Calleigh had told my parents that I would save her life after turning nineteen years old. That would be next year. Apparently, I would save her from a vampire. In a few months, I was supposed to move to Astoria to be closer to the Feltons. But now things were getting stranger.

Valentine Felton, Calleigh's youngest daughter claimed she could dream about things that were going to happen. Did that mean that all the women of the Colburn family had a gift? And if so, why had Sophia's gift only showed up now?

I was expecting screams and turmoil but when I got home everything was calm. Maybe because Sophia was sleeping in Sarah's bedroom.

"We didn't drug her." Mom told me while I watched Sophia sleeping form. "I just gave her a cup of tea."

"Tea?"

"Emily knows a lot about the relaxing properties of plants. She needed to calm down."

"So, I've heard."

"Put some clean clothes on and join us downstairs. We need to talk."

I complied.

"It's imperative that when she wakes up, we can provide all the answers Sophia needs to cope with this." My mom said when I entered the living room, now fully dressed.

Dana Hansen was leaning against a wall, her eyes focused on my mother and her arms crossed over her chest. That's when I realized that Dana wasn't really Dana because Dana Hansen was said to be blind and this girl wasn't. Valentine was right. There was more than one person in Dana's body.

"I don't know what you want me to do. I've told you, I've got nothing to do with this girl."

"You called her after I took her home," I said. The person in Dana's body looked at me and grinned.

"The Third." She whispered. "You do look a lot like your father, but you have softer eyes... like Seth Clearwater."

"You're not Dana Hansen, are you?"

"You're perceptive as well." She placed a hand on my shoulder and I felt her tremble. "No, I'm not Dana. I'm just borrowing her body. I'm her great-grandmother, Odessa Clearview."

"So, I guess it wasn't Dana who actually called Sophia."

"I wasn't me either."

"Then why are you here with her?"

"Because she went to my place and told me she wanted to speak to me."

"Odessa, we need you to stop with the bullshit." My mother said in a harsh tone. "Sophia didn't even know you or Dana."

"I'll tell you what I've told you before. I don't know what's going on. I didn't call her. Neither did Dana. We also didn't know her up until an hour ago. I don't know what she wanted but I do know she's a Sealer."

"A what?" I asked.

"A Sealer is someone who can seal souls in a body. Permanently."

"That's what you want, isn't it? To live in Dana's body forever!"

"You disappoint me, Clearwater. That's not what I want. I can use Dana's body whenever I want because we're blood relatives. I don't need a Sealer. Besides, a Sealer is useless without a Conductor."

My mother and I exchanged a confused look. Apparently, she didn't know what was going on any better than I did.

"The realm of the souls is a lot more complex than you think." She added.

"Well, you can start by explaining to us what is happening because we sure are confused as hell!" My mother stated. And she was frustrated, which wasn't good. Mom tended to be dangerous when frustrated.

"How many times do I have to tell you? I don't know what's going on! I didn't call this girl, I don't know who she is, and I don't have any use for her."

"You have to know something." I insisted.

The woman turned her attention back to me again.

"I like you, boy. I really do. You're not like your hotheaded parents." She stated more calmly. "If your girlfriend is a Sealer that's because she has Native blood in her and if her gift has awakened it's because something is about to happen."

"Something like what?" I asked.

"Do you know what my great-grandchild is?"

I assumed she meant the girl whose body she was using, so I tried my luck.

"A vessel?"

"Yes! That's exactly what she is. A vessel for souls. Do you know how rare vessels are?"

"No." My experience in supernatural matters was recent, so I knew little about this.

"Very rare. She's the first in two hundred years."

"We already know what Dana can do." Mom interrupted. "She can speak to spirits and she's a vessel. So, what?"

"Right now, she's only a vessel to the souls of her ancestors. I can take over her body because we share the same blood. A soul that doesn't share blood with her needs a Conductor and a Sealer to possess Dana's body."

"So, what you're saying is that there's a soul that wants to possess Dana's body and it's because of that soul that Sophia's power has awakened, right?"

"Yes. That's pretty much it."

"Who wants to possess Dana?" Mom asked. It was obvious that she didn't trust this woman completely.

"I have no idea." Even though I knew Odessa could be lying, I had the feeling that this time she was telling the truth.

"You're in the realm of the souls! How can you not know?" Mom asked.

"Whoever it is, it can hide his or her tracks pretty well."

"Souls can do that?"

"You'd be surprised, Clearwater."

"What will happen to Sophia now?" I asked.

"Nothing. She's going to experience things differently, that's all. She has a gift and she'll need to learn what to do with it."

"What do you mean?"

"I'm not going to lie to you. It's extremely uncommon for souls to reach the living world through Conductors and Sealers. It's dangerous and it means that something very serious is about to happen. Unfortunately, I can't help you because I don't know what it is."

"Is Sophia in any kind of danger?"

"I doubt that."

"What about Dana?" Mom asked. She liked Dana enough to care about the young girl's wellbeing.

"Dana will be fine. Vessels and Sealers are rare, but Conductors are even more." She explained. "Now… about that other thing..." My mother huffed impatiently as if she had no will to discuss what they had been discussing. "I can help your daughter. You know I can. My knowledge goes way beyond knowing the properties of herbs. I can make Sarah get back to normal again."

"Why would you do that?"

"She can't stay like this forever, can she?"

"Carlisle and Seth are studying her condition."

"A filthy leech! I can't believe you're depending on the enemy to help your child!"

"Carlisle is a doctor."

"He's a leech." Odessa contradicted.

"He treated Jacob when he was crushed by a newborn. He helped me and Seth when we were injured. He helped my mother when she was sick. He's not our enemy."

"Your opinion about bloodsuckers changed." There was a critical tone in Odessa's voice.

"People change. Period."

"For someone who put so much effort in my birth, you sure have a weird interest in my sister." I pointed out.

Mom and Odessa looked at me.

"I share thoughts with almost everyone, mom," I answered my mother's silent question.

Apparently years ago, Odessa had told dad that Harry and Will were the twins who, accordingly to a prophecy made by his great-grandmother, would save the world. But she also warned him that one of the twins would kill the other in an epic battle for the alpha position. She convinced dad that having a third son would be the answer. But then she said that mom and dad had ruined everything when Sarah was born.

In fact, we had learned recently that she had lied. About the fight for the alpha position, that is. She just wanted to put the pack in a vulnerable position to make sure more wolves would phase, especially my sister, the first alpha female by birthright.

"You're a very interesting subject, Isaac Black. Your intelligence makes you the perfect candidate for the position of chief. I'm sure you have a very important part to play in the upcoming events but Sarah's one of a kind."

"If you think you're going to have a pack in the Makah Reservation at the expenses of my daughter, you're sadly mistaken! Sarah belongs here. With us." My mother said.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, Clearwater, but your daughter will leave La Push. And you will thank me for that one day."

Mom was about to say something when the young girl in front of us fell on the couch. The next moment she struggled to raise herself and then I noticed her eyes were white. I grabbed her by the hand preventing her from falling down when she tried to walk towards my mother.

"What did Odessa say?" The young girl asked.

"That she doesn't know what's going on. That she didn't call Sophia and that she wants to help Sarah."

"If none of us called Sophia Felton," There was a pause in Dana's words. "Then, I'm afraid I can't help you either."

"It's okay, Dana. It's not your fault."

"I've been trying to find a way to prevent Odessa from using my body but I haven't been successful so far."

"Don't worry. We already know what she wants. We just need to make sure she doesn't get it."

Odessa Clearview wanted my sister to take a Makah boy as a husband. She wanted them to have children and in the future, those children would turn into a pack and protect the Makah people against vampires. She was convinced that the offspring produced by a true alpha female would be stronger than any other offspring.

Personally, I didn't see anything wrong about Odessa's wish (who wouldn't feel safer with a pack protecting the Reservation?) except for one small detail: she was ready to force my sister into a relationship with a random boy just to have her way. That was wrong and no one from our family would allow that.

Dana nodded.

"Odessa wasn't lying about one thing. She really can help Sarah."

"She can?" Mom and I asked at the same time.

"Yes."

"I don't trust her completely," Mom confessed.

"You don't have to," Dana said. "If she can do it, so can I. I just need a couple of days to prepare myself. Can I stay here?"

Mom just hugged the young girl.

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