6. Tainted Blood
After Fen was finished being scolded by his grandmother, Sue walked up the steps quietly and looked at the talking owl. Fen had sat down as far away as possible from everyone on the deck rubbing his head vigorously at the onset of a migraine and Leah sat beside him. His grandmother turned towards the elders and sighed. "It may be true that grandson doesn't put his wolf in a cage, but…it was a sacrifice given so that my grandson isn't put in a cage on full moons…both literally and metaphorically. Luckily for you his temperament doesn't change much on those nights" she said before she looked back towards him.
"He doesn't like being around people nor does he trust them. He may be a handful, but he's a good kid. Just give it time and you'll see. You know, sometimes he's just too smart for his own good…" she mumbled. She looked back at the Elders and hopped on over to them with her wings extended keeping her balance. "My name is Ruth, I look after the supernatural affairs around the Salish Sea. We are a partners with the collaborative who are comprised of many supernatural beings and gifted humans. We had encountered a couple of Romanian Vampires not too long ago, which they informed us that there were rumors that the Volturi were going to cleanse La Push of all shapeshifter genes. We had all our operatives tied up with making a Soylent Green bust, so our resources are stretched a bit thin. Since we are dealing with a collection of the most gifted vampires, we couldn't have just anybody come here. We needed our best. My husband said that Fen was the one to deliver the finishing blow" she said before Paul interrupted.
"You're lying! You said that Taha Aki sent him"
She looked towards Jacob, Sam, and the others. "I did didn't I? You know it's rude to interrupt people especially your elders" she said.
Sam and Jacob stared at her dumbfounded. "So what you're saying is…You're married to Taha Aki? The Fourth Wife? But then why is he not like us?" Sam asked.
She grew annoyed with them interrupting her with their questions and lack of respect to an elder. "If you want to know why he's not a shapeshifter like you…it was because his father's experiment in making the perfect werewolf. He has bitten many before my daughter became his tamer" She raised her voice with disdain. She sighed heavily before she got lost in thought. "It can't be helped, what's done is done…his father hasn't bitten anyone else since" she muttered.
"The Perfect Werewolf?" They all muttered to each other looking towards Fen.
"Tch, what makes him so damn perfect?" Sam muttered.
Fen glared back at Sam and Jacob. "Nothing in this world is perfect, you dumbfucks…" he muttered. Leah slammed her fist into his chest and growled at him. He looked at her still annoyed then at the others and crossed his arms over his chest and sank down low into his chair. "Well they are…" he grumbled even more.
Leah got up and sighed heavily going over to the table where Tabitha and Seth sat, which his food and medicine remained there untouched asides from a couple of yellow jackets that she waved off. After she grabbed a mountain dew from the cooler, she came back and slammed it and the plate down onto the table. "Just shut up and eat! And take these pills!" she shouted.
Fen stared at the can for a couple seconds and reached for it grimacing as he clenched his fist. He stopped and looked towards Seth pushing the can to the end of the table. "Hey Seth, can you show off how strong you are and open this can for me? My hands are really messed up right now"
"Oh! Sure thing buddy!" Seth said without hesitation. Leah looked annoyed that he did not ask her to open the can for him, but the reason became apparent once the can exploded into his face. Leah and a couple others started to snicker. Seth yelped after having managed to get some spattered into his eyes, and he started to tear up from the burning sensation from the acids. He sat the can down and rubbed his eyes with his arms wincing.
Tabitha went to his aid and pulled his arm away. "Are you okay hun? Oh my goodness! Your eyes!" she said before noticing they had turned red.
"Yea, I'm fine! It just stings" He muttered keeping his eyes closed.
"You knew it was going to do that didn't you?" Leah whispered into Fen's ear.
"Heh, heh, he did watch you slam it onto the table didn't he? Why didn't he point it away from himself?" he commented.
After Seth sat back down, Fen started to eat while the meeting continued. Sam and Jacob remained in the yard staying in the shadows while their imprintees sat on the tables on the well-lit deck staring at the talking owl believing the premise that magic and the supernatural existed.
"As I was saying, my husband thought it would be a good idea that we train some of you how to utilize your spirit warrior powers. If it's alright with you, I would like for Fen to show Jacob and the other wolves how to utilize these powers fully in combat" She said.
"I've already seen what his powers can do! He doesn't have to show us!" Jacob protested.
"No…No you have not…you have only seen the tip of the iceberg. Any spirit warrior can summon a whirlwind if they are strong enough" She said before she looked towards Fen. "Do you have a blindfold?"
He stared at her with spaghetti hang from his mouth before he figured out what she was going to have him do. "Uh, now?"
"Yes now!" she raised her voice before he stuffed a bread roll into his mouth and went to his backpack inside. He pulled out bandaging and began to wrap it around his head covering his eyes. "Hey, a little help please?" he said with the bread roll muffling part of his speech.
Leah naturally came over to assist him while his grandmother flew over towards Jacob and Sam. "How about you two spar with him…since you two are obviously the biggest and strongest, I trust that you can give him a little trouble" she said rather sarcastically with her reasoning. "Though I'm pretty sure he's not gotten through being burnt out, so this should me more of a fair match up" she mumbled.
"If he's hurting, why do you make him fight?" Jared asked.
"He's used to much worse. His will is incredibly strong, and he can fight mid transformation if need be. Something that is more painful than childbirth only it's over your entire body!" She commented.
"How would you know a thing like that?" Jacob asked.
"I've given birth before, and I've had the displeasure of possessing his father one full moon…I can't describe it. I can only imagine that this is the same pain that he goes through…I've never seen him ever push himself past 30% though" she said before she drifted into deep thought.
Old Quil stroked his chin with intrigue trying to recollect on any oral stories passed down. "Are you watching this William?"
Billy nodded, and Rachel glanced over at them. "Is he going to only rely on scent and sound to fight?"
Once Leah got Fen blindfolded, Fen leaped over the railing of the deck and landed on his feet. Everyone immediately got close to the railing and saw Fen reach into his pocket for earbuds and placed them into his ear before plugging it into his phone. "Siri, play who's afraid of the big bad wolf remix" he told his phone.
"Ok!" His phone said as he walked out to a spot twenty feet away from the two who had already ditched their clothes and transformed; however, Fen was standing with his back turned towards them.
Jared looked towards Embry and nudged him. "Watch this! I bet Fen is going to open a can of some kind of Wolf fu whoop ass on them"
"Psh, He's going to get torn to pieces" Paul said while rubbing his swollen hand.
Charlie and Sue both walked up to the railing briskly with Emily tailing behind having a mild panic attack. "What on earth? Is he really going to fight them without his eyes and ears!?"
"Just watch…he'll be alright" Old Quil assured her.
"…but…this fight doesn't sound fair!"
"You're right, Jared and Paul might have to jump in…Seth might even" Leah muttered.
"No…I'm good. I like to keep my arms attached to my body" Seth said nervously standing beside his beloved Tabitha.
Ruth grew irritated with Sam and Jacob standing around, and she flapped her wings trying to get their attention. "Well? Are you going to go at him? He's waiting!" Ruth squawked impatiently.
Jacob looked at the owl confused not feeling right seeing that Fen was not even transformed nor facing the right direction, but Sam growled and immediately charged after Fen determined to see if he was deserving of Leah. When Sam got within three feet away, Fen jumped out of the way, and Sam missed biting his neck within a couple of mere inches. Sam swung around and slid to a stop before he charged again with similar result.
Everything looked like a comedy of errors for Sam instead of any real superhuman effort for Fen. It just looked like he was dancing to whatever music he had playing on his playlist. Jacob watched on baffled before he took a few cautious steps forward. "Yes, Jacob…he's capable in fighting back" Ruth assured him.
Paul growled and looked at his hand in anger thinking that maybe Fen allowed himself to be hit just to make him look like a wuss. Jared stared to laugh at Paul's realization that he was being baited into punching Fen. Leah watched from the deck smiling hoping to see if Fen would stop playing, but of course he could not hear them with his earbuds on.
Things started to heat up when Jacob charged after him after waiting for him to dodge Sam's run. Instead of going for a bite, he whipped his tail around so when Fen dodged, Jacob's rear checked Fen in the shoulder knocking him off balance. Fen hopped around trying to slow his momentum, which Sam took the opening for an opportunity to go for another bite. Fen fell to the ground, which ended up causing Sam to miss a fourth time. Jacob jumped at Fen slamming his paw down to the ground. Fen rolled off to the side avoiding getting pummeled into the ground.
He noticed that Fen's body and muscles had grown larger as he got onto all fours and jumped back up onto his feet. This was when things took a horrific turn as Fen unleashed his aura and giving off a cyan and purple iridescent glow which took up his entire field of view flickers of black flames licked up all around him. The most disturbing part of his aura was an ominous shadowy figure of a wolf that was several times larger than Jacob looming over Fen. He could have sworn that he heard a growl coming from it and its eyes aglow an intense yellow. Everyone was awestruck and/or terrified to see such a tremendous beast. Sam and Jacob froze in their tracks briefly feeling a sense of dread hoping that whatever it was did not manifest itself into physical form.
"What the heck…is that?" Seth muttered.
"It's the wolf inside Fen" Old Quil stated.
"This is so freaky!" Rachel muttered.
"Fen! You're pushing yourself too far!" Ruth shouted.
The massive flare up dispersed like a ball of flame, which only his hands kept glowing. He rushed Sam and delivered a devastating palm strike to his chest sending a shockwave of debilitating pain rippling through his chest cavity. Sam instantly reverted into human form and fell to the ground screaming and grabbing at his heart, and Jacob went in to attack only to have Fen give a Nakadaka ken strike to his snout.
"Sam!" Emily shouted rushing to his aid. Sam clutched her leg white knuckling, and his pack mate started to think that he was in actual trouble.
Jacob yelped at the stinging pain searing through his nose bringing tears to his eyes. Jacob's pack mates could feel his pain, and most of the others could only imagine what he was going through. "Oh…that's fighting dirty!" Jared said rubbing at his nose.
Jacob reverted into his human form wallowing in pain while Fen wondered back over to the deck popping his earbuds out humming to himself. Sam was still on the ground in rolling around on the ground moaning in pain, and Jacob looked over at him very concerned. "I feel like my heart exploded. Am I going to die?" Sam told everyone telepathically.
"It's his heart!" Emily shouted.
"What the hell did you do to him?" Jacob muttered glancing back at Fen with disgust.
"I hurled my mana into his chest…isn't it obvious?" Fen said apathetically.
"You could have killed him!" Jacob shouted, which Fen started laughing at him. Jacob snapped ran up to him and grabbed Fen by the throat shouting as he lifted him off the ground, "What do you think is so damn funny about that!?"
"You lack of knowledge of mana is comical…but I could show you something more fatal if you want to experience it first-hand" Fen said before his calm relaxed demeanor turned homicidal.
"That's enough you two!" Sue shouted.
"Fen don't! You've done enough!" Ruth shouted before he delivered a mana charged kick up into Jacob's solar plexus causing him to immediately release Fen as a reflex and clutch his gut in pain then collapsed to his knees in agony. Fen removed his bandages and grabbed Jacob by the neck giving murderous intent.
"Don't you ever fucking touch me like that again!" his muttered in a very deep ferocious beastly growl. Leah ran over to intervene, but she stopped after Fen released Jacob on his own. "Your friend will live" he spoke less harshly. Sam sat up still clutching his heart and out of breath staring at him dazed. Emily knew that the worst had passed, but she glared at Fen for causing her husband so much pain.
Leah watched Fen noticing that he was walking in pain even worse than before, which she stopped him and looked up at him concerned. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine" he grumbled.
"You didn't have to push yourself that far" She said as she held onto his arm and noted that he did not have the strength to pull against her, and he actually winced with her touching him lightly. He jerked his arm away from her and continued up the stairs. "Fen…" she whimpered.
Ruth flew back over to the elders as Fen leaped onto the deck. "As you can see…there's much Fen can teach them. I believe there's something you can teach him as well"
"How long will it take him to recover from this?" Leah asked her.
Ruth watched him struggle to sit down on a chair, and she too got worried. "I'm not sure…if he remained in his base state he can recover overnight…but…ever since he has merged with his wolf…he's been plagued with chronic pain…this may not even be his base form anymore" she postulated.
Fen gave her a look wishing for her to drop the subject, which Billy began to suspect that Fen was hiding something. Leah cozied up beside Fen and started massaging his back. Sam got up with Emily's assistance and walked back to the deck.
"How long will it take to teach us to do what he just did?" Sam asked.
"Years…for most, but we can teach you how to sense mana in a month or two" Ruth explained.
"We don't have a month…they will be here in a week! You mean to tell me that all we need is Fen and you all in order to beat them?" Sam said skeptically before he glanced over at Fen. "I know that he's strong! But how long can he last!? He can hardly move now!"
Fen growled and stood up defiantly ignoring the screaming pain going through his body. Leah glared at him and pulled him down into the chair. "This isn't resting, hun!" She said firmly. She rolled her eyes at Sam. "You didn't last that long against him! I of all people should know that he's got an overabundance of endurance and stamina" she said before she glanced back at Fen with a satisfied smile.
Ruth looked between Fen and Leah, and she started to get a feeling that it was not the vampires who got her grandson sore. "I would suggest you stay in human form when you sleep together…only until everything gets resolved" she said which Leah looked towards Fen and bit her lip snickering with a blush.
"Well that's a bummer" She muttered as she stroked his jawline. "I guess you'll have wait on ravaging me again" She said seductively while he shifted around in his seat.
"Will his powers be able to be passed down to their children?" Sue asked Ruth.
"Yea, if I bit them"
"You aren't biting our children, Fen!" Leah muttered finally getting him to sit back down.
"How about we leave it up to them?" He said before he scratched the side of his head when she shook her head at him.
"Their children will be very powerful…even without a werewolf boost" Ruth said.
"You don't eat people do you Fen?" Sue asked.
"Not recently" Fen said.
"What do you mean recently? How recent?" Charlie asked.
"Well, I killed a man who tried to rob me at gunpoint a few weeks ago. I wasn't going to let the body go to waste. I gave the bastard three chances to run away…wait" he muttered before he counted his fingers. "Whatever how many bullets were in his clip he emptied. I ripped his arm off, and he bled to death"
Jacob and the others were speechless, Leah took a deep breath. Sue shrugged this off and cleared her throat. "Fen, when was the last time before that?"
"Uh, about ten years ago. That time it was a poacher killing all my food"
Sue looked towards Ruth. "You know about this?"
"We've investigated it thoroughly…he does have a right to defend himself and livelihood" she said before Billy interrupted.
"Yes, well…if he's going to live here, he is forbidden to kill humans, under any circumstances!" Billy said making sure to put emphasis on the any part.
"Wait…live here? Why? I was only told to get rid of the Volturi threat. That's it…No one said anything about living out here"
"You're going to live here and you're going to like it! That shewolf beside you cannot leave here, and she has imprinted on you…your fate is sealed" Ruth raised her voice.
"We would be honored to have you stay and be a part of our family" Sue added before she looked towards her daughter smiling. "I haven't seen my daughter this happy in a long time" she said.
"We have a few additional conditions on top of your stay here…do not try to agitate or anyway antagonize the Cullens…" Billy shouted.
"Aww, that's no fun" Fen muttered before he gave them a stern look. "You know, they will seek me out, so…"
"No! As long as you stay on this side of the treaty line they won't. I don't care what fun is. I don't want the whole town getting destroyed" Billy said before he sighed wearily.
"We can find you something productive to do to keep you busy" Sue chimed in.
"I think in about nine months he won't have much time to be antagonizing anyone" Ruth added. Sue snickered as they both looked towards Fen and Leah whom she shifted around uncomfortably and she blushed diving her face into Fen's chest embarrassed that they knew she was in heat, and she trying to have a baby with Fen after only knowing him for one day.