3. The Big Bad Wolf

After a long making out session complete with biting and scratching, Leah had removed her shirt, but Fen had to put the brakes on anything going further. He stood up and looked off into the tree canopy to the east growling deeply but not in an erotic way like before. She looked up at him with great concern and immediately covered her breasts with her hands before standing up then huddling next to him. "Is there something wrong?" she asked before she noticed a vampire sickly smell. "How did I miss this?" she muttered to herself.

"I'm on my way!" Jacob told her telepathically.

The hairs on the back of her neck stood up, but he reached to squeeze her hand. She looked at him anxiously, but she saw confidence and an iota of indifference to the threat. "How can you be so calm right now?"

He shrugged and stood up. "We're being scouted not attacked"

She could not help but feel exposed and vulnerable with the enemy knowing a very intimate detail about her life. "How long have they been watching us?"

"A minute or so"

She got up and rubbed her arm feeling her skin crawl. "I thought they were all on vacation"

"They are on vacation…I don't know why he's not attacking 'em. That thing has information about you and him" Jacob told her telepathically.

"I trust his judgement, Jake. I don't need saving either!" She lectured him telepathically.

He looked up at her oddly and raised an eyebrow. "Vacation? You care filling me in?"

"What the Cullens'? They are nothing but trouble! They are the reason why we phased…"

"So did they sire all of those newborns then?"

"No, Victoria made them"

"So she's responsible then?"

"For what?"

"Drawing the Volturi over"

"What? No! They were drawn here by that Bella bitch" She muttered before finally she let out a frustrated scream. "Agh! Look! If it weren't for her being here, all of this wouldn't have happened!"

"I doubt that…Tch, I have no fucking clue who these people are I'm just really good at finding trouble, or it finds me. The point is…you cannot pit one thing to give you this result. It's an accumulation of little things that snowballed into this. You change one thing it might be a big change in one direction or the other, it might not make any difference at all. If not her, it would be someone else" he said before he stood up and placed a hand on her back. "Hey, but at least you got me out of it" He said cheerfully.

"Well that's true…but…I could do without smelling their stench?" she mumbled with her head down low.

"So those cowards have truly fled" the blonde vampire interrupted them with a Romanian accent. He and a brown haired gentleman with equally pale skin approached them. Leah clenched her fists and bared her teeth.

"Not you two again! How dare set foot on our lands!" She shouted pointing at them with rage.

The two held up their hands in the air watching Fen very closely uneasy as if trapped in an enclosure with a bear. "We have not come here to fight…we have come to give you proposition"

"Get lost! Before I rip off your heads!" Leah shouted.

Fen glanced over at her briefly making sure she saw his stern look. "What sort of a proposition do you have in mind?"

She gasped and stared at him in shock. "Don't! You'll just be making a deal with the devil! Are you listening!?"

Fen stared down the two vampires then began to smirk evilly. "Yes, but I don't think they heard you. Would you remind them who they're making a deal with?" he said, which the two looked at each other reluctantly before the blonde nodded. "Well?" he raised his voice at them impatiently.

"We're sorry…" The blonde one said.

"…You're behavior seems most peculiar for that of a typical child of the moon" the brown haired one said.

Fen closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Are you done wasting my time? Why the hell would you approach me if you thought I was like the rest!?"

"Well…we know your brand of transformation. It isn't quick like that of the shapeshifter over there" The blonde one said gesturing towards Leah who had already phased into her wolf form.

"Moreover, you don't seem to feel threatened by us; we know you're hiding something" The brown haired one said. Leah glanced over at Fen with her ears pinned back whimpering feeling an unsettling chill blow through her fur.

"Before we discuss our proposal, we first would like a taste of whatever makes you so confident" The blonde one said.

Fen glared at them and growled lowly. "I ain't showing you anything" he said before he paused contemplating to himself. He took in a deep breath and sighed. "Fine…before I unzip my pants you're going to need a yard stick" he said.

Everyone including Leah stared at him in shock and chagrin as approached the two vampires. "Excuse me?" They both muttered in tandem. If Leah could blush, she would be bright red right now. The two vampires looked at each other again awkwardly not sure how to respond to him as he walked past them.

"We aren't here to see you take your pants off!" The brown haired one shouted.

Fen stopped and looked back at them grinning. "You aren't? Then I guess I can't show you why I'm so confident now do I?" he said sarcastically before he glanced up at Leah and winked at her then held his hand up. "Give me five minutes…I'll have their asses clenched so tight they'll be shitting out diamonds" he said before he took off deep into the woods.

"Fen! Don't do anything stupid!" Leah shouted mildly panicked.

The two vampires chased after him, and Leah froze conflicted with her instincts and her pack mates wishing for her to follow, but she repeated Fen's words to Jacob and the others. "Five minutes…then I'll go"

Within that five minute time span bizarre occurrences began as the chill grew to an unsettling feeling in the pit of her stomach. Black clouds loomed overhead swirling and the trees above roared and swayed. Branches and moss fell all around with occasional popping and groaning. Thunder rumbled overhead, and Jacob grew very worried. "What's going on? It looks like the gates of hell opened from over here!"

"I don't know…the wind changed. I can't smell him anywhere!" Leah told him before she took off in the direction where Fen went. The farther she ran, the louder the wind got and the more crud fell from the trees. Eventually they were snapping like toothpicks and dirt blasted her eyes getting into her mouth making her choke. She stopped dead in her tracks disoriented not sure whether or not she was getting closer to him or wondering to her death.

The freak storm ended as quickly as it began, and what she saw in front of her was flattened timber oriented similar to that of a crop circle however instead it was with trees. In the center of the destruction was Fen with glowing eyes and looking much taller and more buff than he had before comparable to Jacob's stature. The two vampires picked themselves out of the debris. Their hair disheveled and caked with mud from head to toe. They stared at him speechless unsure what had just happened before they looked around dazed.

"Stefan, your arm is missing…" The blonde one said.

Stefan looked down at his stump then at his severed limb on the ground. "Did you see what happened, Vlad?"

"No…but I'm beginning to see how he could handle a handful of newborns, but I still don't know how" Vladimir said as he made an attempt to reach for Stefan's missing arm.

Fen crossed his arms over his chest standing in the blowdown menacingly. "So, do you require any farther demonstration…" he said in a monstrous threatening voice while brandishing his claws. "Imagine what I can do to a bunch of porcelain dolls when I'm just 30% transformed…or would you like me to finish quartering your friend at 10?"

Vladimir froze in his tracks and looked up at him timidly. "N-n-no, that won't be necessary"

Leah stared at him in horror watching him start to walk towards them slowly and menacingly while Stefan tried to repair himself. Fen growled lowly as he got up within striking distance from them. "Then what are you proposing?"

They both shivered wide eyed and struggled to form words. "The Volturi are only bringing their execution squad. With your help we can deal a crucial blow to their stranglehold over this world" Vladimir said before he reached into his pocket pulling out a picture of two young pale faced teenagers, a blonde haired girl and a brown haired boy.

"These two are your primary target. The girl induces a psychic pain while the boy has the opposite. With them out of the picture, the dominos will fall and…" Stefan said before Fen interrupted him.

"You've been following me haven't you?"

"Well we have heard about there being an unusual werewolf somewhere around this region they call the Big Bad Wolf" Vladimir said.

"We've left no stone unturned, no corner unchecked. We thought we had found him a couple of times. All have been disappointments, just the typical run-of-the-mill whiny melodramatic three nights a month monster" Stefan added.

"We were beginning to it were just a tall tale. Albeit it was just a stroke of dumb luck that we found you after one of our leads failed to produce. You have far exceeded all our expectations…and we know you aren't putting any effort in" Vladimir finished.

"A lead? You what do you mean? There's another werewolf somewhere around here?" Leah spoke up hiding her nudity behind a large toppled tree.

"It doesn't matter…he's a nobody. Just a dog who was nothing but bark and no bite" Stefan spoke up.

Fen reverted into his normal state. "What will you give me for my services?"

"We shall end the genocide on Werewolves. It is clear that the humans reproduce like rabbits…" Stefan said before Fen interrupted again.

"And?" He raised his voice with his arms crossed.

They looked at him confused. "What do you mean and? We'll leave you alone…what else do you want?" Vladimir asked.

"I want you to accept me as your Lord and Savior…" Fen added.

They both looked at him in disgust taking this to great offense. "You think we'd worship the likes of you!?" they both shouted at once.

Fen laughed evilly. "You don't have a choice. Either you admit that I'm bigger than you, I'll just catch and release those two darling little psychopaths for further fun and enjoyment. Afterall, if they come back, anyone with a trace of shapeshifter blood will have likely turned into a wolf once round two comes around. It be like a never ending cycle, But hey, at least you're immortal right…I guess would could wait another couple centuries?"

Leah's heart sank, but the two vampires growled and then shouted, "Enough! We'll do it!" they shouted.

Fen grinned. "That's the spirit…I knew that you could swallow your pride" he muttered before his amusement turned to a more serious matter. "Do you have information on when they'll arrive?"

"They will be here within a week…"Stefan said before they were soon joined by Jacob and Seth in their wolf form with Jacob baring his fangs at them.

"We shall take our leave…remember…you will have a week to prepare" Vladimir said before they both ran off and vanishing into the forest.

Jacob and Seth turned towards Fen extremely annoyed with him, and Fen stared them down unfazed. Leah came out and gave him a shove shouting, "What in the hell do you think you are doing!? How can you even say those things!? Would you really let them go!?"

Fen stared at her before he closed his eyes withdrawing a deep breath. After sighing heavily, he glanced over at Jacob and Seth. "I know what they want. I'm not anyone's attack dog. I take orders from no one…I do what I want" he said before he started to walk off.

Jacob reverted to his human form and shouted, "Well, you better learn how to take orders then!"

Fen stopped and looked back at him and laughed before he pointed towards himself with his thumb. "It must really bother you that you have zero control over me, don't it?" he said before Jacob took a step towards him.

Leah stood in front of him and blocked him off. "Don't…please don't fight him" she said nervously before she looked back towards Fen. "Your alpha voice is ineffective against a guy" she pleaded.

Two more wolves appeared from the forest and gawked at the destruction then towards Fen taking a few steps away from him as his lip curled. "What the hell are you two staring at!?" he raised his voice while he walked past them.

"Do you think that those two Dracula wannabes can be trusted!?" Jacob shouted.

"Of course not! I'm not stupid! I just wanted to see the little worms squirm. I've dealt with their kind before" Fen shouted with his back towards them. "I've got other things to worry about than a couple of reanimated cadavers. So unless you're not done being butt hurt, I would suggest you go back to the council and come up with a plan" he said.

"What are you talking about?" Jacob asked.

"It's that other werewolf they were tracking…isn't it?" Leah asked.

Fen stopped and looked back at her intensely. "Yea…I could smell one along my travels, but I don't know what business he has here"

"Is that why your family has been following you in astro form?" Jacob inquired.

Fen nodded before he turned away from them in deep thought. "Werewolves are very dangerous when they are in survival mode. If he's injured, he's going to be aggressive. Just keep in mind that all werewolves can transform when threatened. It won't be like those on full moons; however, the wolf inside them will take over in self-preservation. Don't seek him out…understood?" he muttered he will be took off into the forest towards his backpack. Jacob and his pack followed him.

Once he got to his supplies and Leah's clothes, Leah invited him to hop onto her back before she took off ahead of everyone heading straight for her mother's house with Seth trailing behind.

They both entered the backyard from the forest, which Charlie was in the dining room drinking a beer while chatting with Sue. He looked out into the yard at the two giant wolves and stood up muttering the words, "What the hell is going on now?"

Sue looked up out of the kitchen window noticing Fen jumping from her daughter's back confused but quickly grew excited rushing to the sliding glass door to greet them. "Charlie, go get them some clothes" she said shooing him off then she walked out onto the deck and immediately inspected him thoroughly. "So you're the one she has imprinted on? Where you from?" she asked.

Fen glanced at her with distrust initially and watched Charlie's movements through the glass door. Sue noticed him scanning the area, which she could tell he must have been through a lot. "Are you in the military?"

Fen shook his head, and Leah reverted into her human form coming up from behind and embracing him. "Mom, this is Fen. He's from the Puyallup Tribe…actually we imprinted on each other" she said before he glanced back at her and she smiled at him. "Right?" She asked before he nodded.