A/N: Sorry it is being posted late, I've had people hacking into my internet slowing it down to the point that it literally took around 30-45 minutes for a page to load, and every time I tried to upload this story, the page would end up lost cause it took to freaking log to upload. So.. sorry it's late. Hope you enjoy.
Previously: I became a little worried for a while, thinking that one day Jake would start to ignore me, and start to hang out with Sam and his gang as well. I barely made it when Edward left, I wasn't too sure if I could take Jake leaving me too. Jake laughed at me, saying I was being dumb, and that he would never willingly hang out with Sam. And for a while I believed him to, until, that is when one day he came down with a fever...
Chapter 2
Snapping her eyes open, shooting up to a sitting position in her bed, chocolate brown eyes dancing across the dark room, pocket knife gripped in her had ready to attack the nightmare that awoke her.
Sighing, letting her hand drop to her side, while the other came up to run her fingers through her straight hair, wiping the cold sweat from her forehead, she shook the images from her mind. "Come on Bella. He left, you aren't the same Bella anymore, why do you keep dreaming about him?"
She whispered to herself, looking at the clock next to her, she swung her legs over the side over her bed, walking to her dresser to pull out some sweats, and a tank top. After pulling the sweat on, and putting her tank top on over her sports bra, she threw her hair up into a messy bun, and slipping her shoes on, she grabbed her work out bag, throwing it over her shoulders she made her way quietly downstairs and out the back door.
Quickly finding the trail that had begun to form from her, she started into a run, heading into the forest, free running as she went, vaulting herself over fallen logs, dancing across the rocks to the over side of the river, flipping through tree branches, until she landed half an hour later in the meadow.
Dropping her bag she quickly started in on her stretches, going through the motions that now are habit, she immersed herself into her training. Before she knew it an hour had passed, and slowly her thoughts slipped to that of Jacob.
Just a few weeks ago Jacob and her seemed to be inseparable, much to her father, Charlie's, happiness as he had always liked Jacob. Then one day Jacob came down with a fever, and since then has thus ignored her existence. Whenever she called Billy Black would tell her Jacob wasn't home, and whenever she drove down Billy would send her right back home claiming he wasn't in, even though she knew he was there.
Finally a week ago she got tired of it, and went down to his house demanding to see him, saying she wasn't leavening till she spoke to him. Only to see him heading out the back door, she followed him confronting him, and he told her off. Saying that they weren't friends anymore, that he couldn't be around someone like her. He turned away from her, and just before she got back into her truck she spotted Jake by the forest life, standing with Sam, and his little gang.
She spent the next week filled with anger, throwing herself into her training, and since she now had more free time since she no longer saw Jake she spent most of her time in the meadow training. Before going home and falling to sleep, her dreams riddled with not only just Edward leaving, but now Jake's abandonment to.
Suddenly an image popped into her mind, making her stop in the middle of her training. The tattoo that Jacob now sported on his arm, she had seen that tattoo somewhere before. Picking up her bad she jumped home to her room, and with fluid motion stood in front of her now massive collection of books, her fingers dancing across the books spines until she pulled out the book on the Quileute Legends.
Quickly flipping through the book to the chapter of the cold ones, there stood the picture of Jacobs tattoo. The tattoo that represented the protectors of the Quileute tribe, the people that could supposedly transform into wolves. "No. What am I thinking? Jacob isn't some werewolf, things like that don't exist." She shook her head in disbelief. But a voice in the back of her head begged to differ.
'Why can't he be a wolf? Vampires exist, why not werewolves? And you exist, you who have inhuman power like something out of a fantasy novel. Why can't Jake transform into a wolf?'
Finally agreeing, "Maybe that's why he now has this hate for me, cause I was dating his mortal enemy? Still before I even accept this I need proof."
Thinking about how to get proof, Bella wasn't sure what to do, she could go down there, and assuming Jacob will even bother with seeing her, she'd have to find some way to get him to admit it, which isn't likely to happen. She could also spy on them, but being that if they exist and are able to take on vampires, they have to have super senses, so they would probably sense her before she sees them.
But maybe there was a way around this, if she was to find a way around these senses. With her training she was able to now move silently and quickly. With her powers she could lift herself into the air, effectively putting herself out of there sight, and though she wasn't very good at it could sort of walk on water, allowing herself to keep herself invisible as water couldn't hold a scent, and the air will disperse any sent left behind. And while she could always Push them into confessing, she always felt like that was sort of cheating. She just had to find a way to hind her sent completely, thus while not perfect will allow her to hopefully get close enough for proof.
Going over to her laptop, she turned it on, opening the internet browser, she set about finding ways to through off a dogs senses. Clicking on a possible link, she found a herb that was used during the underground railroad that was so strong it throw off a dogs sense senses, effectively allowing slaves to escape to freedom.
Thankfully it was the weekend meaning she could hopefully find out if Jake was a werewolf before school on Monday. Finding out the name of the herb she grabbed some money and headed down to Port Angelus to buy a lot of it, as they didn't sell them here in Forks.
After taking a quick shower, and throwing on some cargo pants and a tank top, she raced out the door and into her truck. Heading out towards Port Angelus, in her painstakingly slow truck. While she could just jump there, one; she didn't want to appear in front of a bunch of people and have to explain. Two; if she wasn't seen, if she ran into someone she knew, she didn't want to have to explain how she got there without her truck. And three; she didn't want to risk the parliament finding out about her.
Arriving home 2 hours later, Bella went up stairs grabbing her dark green army camo cargo pants, and a black tank she went downstairs, with black booty undergarments, and a black sports bra, and threw them into the washer, along with a handful off the herbs, following by throwing them in the dryer, with some more herbs, thus making her clothes reek of the cinnamon minty smell.
While waiting for them to finish drying she took another shower using more herbs to wash her body and hair with making her smell like the herbs. Once out of the shower she threw her hair up trying some of the bright red herb into her hair giving her that exotic native look. Pulling on her herb scented clothes, and pulling a hang made, cloth army face mask to muffle the sound of her breathing, she grabbed a small back pack, stuffing it with herbs, an apple, and some water, as she didn't know how long she would be gone.
Pulling on her shoes, and stuffing her pocket knife in the side of it, and attaching a pack filled with throwing knives, that she was given by her sensei, to the side of her right leg, as she didn't know how the wolves might act if the find her, and she found out there secret. She headed out the door and into the forest in the direction of La Push,
Once a good distance away from the house she vaulted herself up into a tree until she reached the top, and from there either vaulted from one tree to the next, or if the distance was to great, Jumped to the next tree.
Soon she was well into the middle of the La Push forest, not sure which direction to go, she sat down in the tree, giving her view of everything but keeping her hidden from everything else. She didn't have to wait long before the sound of a stampede and dog like noises reached her ears.
Looking down her eyes widened, 6 huge wolves, the size of wolves appeared below her. Making sure to be a quiet as possible, and slow her breathing down. Bella gazed down on them in wonder. Each one was different, but she wondered if they were werewolves, who each were. She knew they had to Be Sam, Paul, Jared, Quil, Embry, and Jacob. But who, was who?
One growled in what seemed to be anger before suddenly he shifted before Bella's eyes, becoming Jacob. She blushed and averted her eyes for a second seeing as how he was but naked, Before looking back to see he had pulled on some shorts.
"This is bullshit Sam! Why can't I see Bella? I won't hurt her, and she wouldn't tell anyone about what we are!" Jacob yelled in anger at the dark black wolf.
The wolf shook his head before shifting to and becoming Sam, Bella having to bite her tongue in order to stop the growl that filled her. 'Wait. Why did I just growl?' Bella shook her head before lowering herself quietly to a lower branch to hear them better.
"Jacob, you are new at being a werewolf, you can't control your anger," at this Jacob started shaking, "See you are getting ready to shift right now. You have no control, and could end up shifting and hurting Bella, As for telling her, she may have kept the leeches secret, but she was in love with one, and they are our enemy, she might just tell everyone, because the leeches hate for us might have fallen on her as well."
Bella sat shaking in anger. 'How dare that asshole bring up the Cullen's, I may have loved them once, but I after they left I'm not so sure, and he doesn't know me, how can he be so sure that I will tell anyone. It is not my secret to tell,' Deciding it was best to get out of there she jumped to her meadow, The wolves looking up to where she sat in curiosity, but only finding a cinnamon mint smell that seemed to cloud their heads.
Bella stood in her meadow, her body shaking in anger, anger as Sam, Jacob, there little gang, Edward, and his family. Everything that has happened raced through her mind like a tidal wave, filling her with more anger.
Not noticing but as she became more angry, her powers slipped into her anger, causing the rocks and boulders around her to lift in the air, spinning around so fast before being crushed into dust, as her power crushed itself around the rocks.
Animals in within a mile radius of her, her anger pushed into them, making them scream with rage, and some even attacking each other, or just the things around them.
Bella's body at this point was shaking so much it was like she was beginning to blur. Slowly the feeling of needing to Jump filled Bella. The feeling as if her skin no longer felt like it fit with her, and with this feeling the feeling of needing to jump grew. Looking to the other side of the meadow deciding that jumping there would be fine, she jumped.
In that split second that she jumped pain exploded all throughout her body. A ripping feeling as if her body was growing coursed through her, followed by what felt like her bones growing, breaking, and shifting raced through her skin. And the feeling like millions of red hot needles where viciously ripping through her skin tore down from her head to her toes.
Finally after that split second of agonizing pain, Bella collapsed on the other side of the meadow in exhaustion. Her anger quickly dissipated as she just tried to relax the muscles in her body to lessen the pain, her power pulling itself back in. What rocks and boulders weren't crushed in her anger fell to the floor quickly, the animals her anger influenced were once again peaceful, if not just confused.
For what seemed like hours, Bella slowly brought her breathing back to normal, and her body finally relaxed the pain evaporating. Slowly Bella decided to try and stand on her feet. Putting her paws beneath her she pushed up.
'Wait! PAWS?!!' Bella screamed in her mind, all but collapsing back to the ground. Looking frantically down at what should have been her hands now where black paws that faded into white as it went up. 'Why the HELL do I have PAWS?!!!' Bella screamed out, but the only noise that reached her ears was a growl like bark/howl.
'Okay Bella,' She breathed deeply trying to slow her breathing down, 'Stay calm. Think. You apparently have a new power. Making you an even bigger freak than before. But you can deal with this, you have two governmental organizations out for you, and with this new power you could probably kick there asses even more. Just need to find out what you became, how to control it, and above all else,... how the HELL to change BACK?!!'
Breathing softly till her body was no longer shaking, and she was calm, she decided what to do. 'Okay, Charlie is at work, so if I go home I won't have to worry about him shooting me cause some animal in his house, assuming I can still use my powers in this form I'll jump back to my room, where I can look in my full length mirror to see what I've become, before trying to figure out how to change back. If I can't jump, then I'll run home, shouldn't be too hard.'
Slowly getting back to her feet, and shakily walking over to her bag, as it was a bit different walking on for legs then just two, Bella grabbed her bag in her teeth, before thinking of the large empty space next to her bed in her room, before jumping into her room.
Opening her eyes to find she was back in her room, Bella dropped her bag from her mouth before taking deep calming breath before walking to her mirror. Her eyes widened in shock, standing before her mirror was a giant wolf, much like Jacob and the others, only her fur was a moon light white color that seemed to have a silver tint, all of her paws faded into black, along with the tips of her ears, and the tip of her tail. On the inner part of her right front leg was a vicious blood red circle, which she figured was from when James had bit her there.
What shocked her the most though was her eyes where no longer there warm chocolate brown, but a bright silver blue, the only part of her eyes that held what was of her warm chocolate brown was a ring that circled the black of her pupil.
After taking in every aspect of her new wolf form, Bella started to try and figure how to change back. Keeping calm she tried to see herself back as human, and everything else she could think of. After nothing worked she started to think of how she changed into her wolf form, she knew she jumped but seeing that she was able to jump to her room while still a wolf, something else was needed.
Deciding that maybe if she envisioned herself human while jumping, might work, Bella imagined herself human, and jumped to the other side of her room. In a split second, filled with pain, though not as strong as before Bella found herself on two feet on the other side of her bed. Only unlike Jacob, and the others, she was still fully clothed.
'Maybe since I shifted while jumping I retained my clothes?' She thought, but whatever the reason she was thankful, Having to shift to completely naked would have sucked if she was to do so in front of others.
Going back over to the mirror her jaw dropped. Her eyes were back to their normal chocolate brown, but surrounding the iris instead of the pupil was a silver blue ring, much like her wolf eyes. Her body had grown more muscles, and filled out more, showing a slim, fit, and perfectly curved new Bella. Sadly she'd need to by more bras, she noted. But what shocked her the most, was her hair was now a midnight black, and the streaks in her hair that were previously a light brown, now resembled the silver white of her fur.
White bangs framed her heart shaped face, making her eyes seem to stand out, and her face more defined. while streaks of white seemed to dance in random spots through her hair, mixing in with the midnight black. 'Well, I'll just tell anyone who asks that I dyed it.' She thought calmly. Even though a normal person would be freaking out, with how her life was, having 3 powers already, meeting vampires, and knowing werewolves existed before she changed, she accepted what she now was easily.
Over the next two weeks, Bella had gone down to Port Angelus to by better fitting bra's as her new body didn't fit her old ones, and toughing out her old bra's. Besides that Bella spent her time practicing shifting into her wolf form till she had it down to a perfection, and picking up new mediation skills, and she seemed, with her new form, could easily lose control, and it wouldn't do to shift in the middle of school, or in front of Charlie.
One weekend Bella stood in her meadow, she had just finished her training, aiding in her wolf form to it as well, when before she decided to head home, a sickly sweet smell, that burned her nose filled her nose. She knew this smell to be a vampire as Edwards smell hadn't yet left her room for some reason. Resisting the urge to growl Bella turned to where the smell was coming from.
"Bella?" And there stood a vampire she thought she would never see again. Laurent.
Wondering what he was doing here, as he should be in Alaska trying to go vegetarian, even though his eyes were the same blood red as before. Bella used her powers to peek into his mind. She had found a while ago that if she barley used her push power she could not only read the minds of those around her, but see their thoughts and feel their emotions.
Seeing his thoughts, Bella held back a snarl, it wouldn't do to give herself away.
"Laurent. How nice to see you," sarcasm evident in her voice. "The new diet not working out I see."
He chuckled softly, "I have to admit, I cheated some. I must admit I'm surprised to see you here, I don' smell your scent at all."
Bella had taken to washing her clothes with the herbs, and wearing the crimson flower like herb in her hair, much like how Native Americans wore feathers. She raised an eyebrow at the new information, apparently the herb not only blocked a wolfs senses, but a vampires as well.
"Yes well, with vampires always wanting to kill me, it's safer if I found some way to hide my scent, is it not?" she asked though not expecting an answer.
"Though you're not here for a visit, the Cullen's scent is long gone, so you aren't here to see them, so why are you here?"
Laurent nodded, though he seemed surprised that she knew not only that the Cullen's scent was gone, but that she knew he wasn't here to see them.
"I came here out of a favor for Victoria, she is animate on gaining revenge for her mate," He chuckled darkly, "Why aren't the Cullen's here? Weren't you like a pet to them?"
"Yes well, like all pets, they get boring, and i guess I out grew there interest in me." Though appearing calm, she was raging inside. 'So Victoria is still around and wants to kill me.' She thought darkly.
"I see." He suddenly appeared in front of me, taking in a deep breath of my scent, as the only way to smell my true scent was to be as close as he was. "Victoria will be disappointed in my, but I can't help it. Your scent is just so mouthwatering." He purred in delight, answering Bella's question of wither or not her scent had changed with her new form, cause she new Jacob's had, but she guessed it hadn't.
Bella could feel his breath on her skin, and before she could push her power she launch him across the meadow he backed off, his eyes widening in fear at what he was looking at over her shoulder. "impossible." he muttered, before racing away from her. Five giant wolves racing after him, giving chase. Bella turned her head to look at the chestnut colored wolf that she knew as Jacob slowly walking by her, looking at her wife pain filled, but shocked eyes, no doubt taking in her new appearance.
Bella stood there watching him before turning, grabbing her bag and vaulting up into the trees to race home, leavening a shocked Jacob, behind as he race off to catch up to his pack mates.
A few weeks have gone by, Bella had gone down to Jacob's the previous week to try and get Jack to talk to her again, but had run into Sam, and the rest of his 'pack'. Bella filled with anger towards him for making Jacob turn away from their friendship had confronted him. While resisting the urge to jump into her wolf form and tear him apart, Bella had ended up throwing a punch into Paul's face. Resulting in him shifting and revealing their secret to her, while still keeping her ability to shift a secret as well.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~FLASH BACK~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Bella stood before Sam, shaking softly in anger, though none of them seemed to notice. "What did you do to him?!" She roared at him, while knowing none of it was really his fault, he somehow still made Jacob throw away their friendship.
Paul stepped forward slightly, only to be held back by Sam. "Why? What did he say to you?" He asked shaking slightly in anger.
"Nothing, whatever you did, has him scared." Bella inwardly winced knowing the guys will tear into him for Bella's comment, she didn't want to reveal her secret to them, cause obviously she was different then how they shifted into wolves, and that would bring unwanted questions.
Paul and the others laughed, and Paul making a comment about how Jacob was a baby. Shaking slightly more with anger, and feeling the need to defend her friend, Bella's arm shot out, faster than humanly possible, and filled with a bit of her wolf strength behind it, her fist collided with the side of his cheek.
Falling back a step from the force that seemed to shock everyone, that she was actually that strong. No one seemed to realize that Paul filled with anger at being hit was about to shift. Bella knowing that she didn't want to reveal her secret she took a few steps back to avoid being hit by him once he shifted, but stayed facing him so she could have a reason to hightail it in the other direction like a scared human.
Once he shifted Bella screamed, and turned running in the other direction, seeing Jacob coming towards her, knowing she was to pretend she didn't know about him screamed. "Jacob! Run!"
Jacob ignoring her, launched himself over her shifting into his wolf form, and growled defensively at Paul. Soon finding them both tumbling into the forest, in a ball of fur, growls, and barks.
~*~*~*~*~*~End Flash Back~*~*~*~*~*~
After that Bella had been let in on their 'secret', meeting Emily, Sam's imprint. And told the whole story of why they turned into wolves. Even though she knew that already. Jacob was finally able to talk to her again, for which he apologized profusely for how he acted. Bella just brushed him off choosing to lay blame with Sam, and would glare at him at any chance she could.
Bella after finding out that they had run into Victoria a few times, Bella told them that she was here for revenge, but refused to explain more. Much to Sam's anger, but Bella felt that Victoria was her problem, and she should be the one to deal with it. But because of this, even though she and Jake were now on speaking terms, Sam had Jack and the pack patrolling so often, she never saw him.
Bella had taken to running patrols of her own, with her new heightened senses, allowing her to avoid the Pack at all costs. She had saw Victoria a few times, but thankfully due to the herbs that now were a permanent part of her wardrobe, and accessory in her hair, was able to avoid her picking up Bella's scent.
Bella while knowing she had the strength to handle Victoria, the fact remains that she never took on a vampire, and didn't want to underestimate her. So she was taking her time, devising a plan that would allow her to eliminate Victoria, quick and easy without cause of harm to her, or possibly anyone around her.
One day Bella picked up Victoria's scent, but what made her blood run cold was the fact that her scent, was right alongside the scent of her father.
Running as fast as she could with her new speed, Bella blurred through the trees, stopping at the sight of Victoria holding up Harry Clearwater by his neck, her father only several yards away from them. Before Bella could act Jacob, in his wolf form tackled Victoria, cause her to drop Harry.
Bella watched as her father raced to Harry's fallen form, feeling that her father would take care of Harry, Bella Jumped shifting into her wolf form and raced after Victoria, and Jacob.
'That's it, This was to close, she was too close to Charlie, No more waiting.' Bella thought to herself as she pushed herself to run even faster. Following Jacob and Victoria, Bella saw they were heading towards the cliffs of first beach in La Push. She raced ahead, feeling that she knew what Victoria was planning to get away.
Just as Victoria was about to jump off the cliff Bella launched herself from the trees and into Victoria's mid air form. Tackling her to the ground, snarling in anger, to consumed with rage at how close she came to her father, to even think of using her powers, Bella quickly ripped off one of Victoria's limps.
Jacob emerged from the trees, to stop in shock at the sight of Bella's black and white wolf form. Being slightly distracted by Jacob's appearance Victoria kicked Bella from her, her other arm, swiping across Bella's stomach, causing her to howl in pain as she slammed into a tree.
Jacob, snapping out of shock quickly howled for help, before attacking Victoria again, stalling her just long enough for the other wolves to emerge and finish tearing her apart. Sam shifting back into his human form, along with the others, quickly through the rest of the limps together and setting them on fire.
As the purple smoke rose into the air, Bella sighed in relief, at the fact that she was finally gone, but the sigh quickly turned into a painful whimper as she leaned against the tree for support. With her whimper gained the attention of the others, there cheerful celebration at killing the vampire, quickly turned into shock at taking in the sight of the giant new wolf before them.
Bella laid there letting them take in her appearance. Her black tipped ears laid back from the pain, her fur slightly long and shaggy from her long hair blew in the wind causing the braid of herbs tied into her hair behind her left ear where it had taken permanent residence. She laid awkwardly at her side as to avoid her wounded stomach from mixing into the dirt. Her blue eyes stareing back at them.
Sam snapping out of his shock stepped forward, "Can you understand me?" Bella shifted her gaze to him, giving a look mixed between a 'duh, you idiot.', and a glare, causing the others to softly chuckle. Sam ignored them, "Do you know what you are? Have you phased before?"
Bella assuming that phasing, meant shifting into a giant over grown wolf on steroids, nodded softly. Sam sighed in relief, "okay, I'm Sam, the alpha of the pack. Can you shift back? You'll heal faster that way, and I then we can introduce ourselves and we can talk about our jobs as protectors of the tribe."
Bella let out a bark like laugh, at the fact that he thought she was Quiltella, and that she would ever listen to him, though her laughter was cut short by a wince of pain. Sighing softly Bella slowly pushed herself to her feet ignoring the pain, and Jumped shifting into her human form, before quickly slumping back against the tree her shirt ripped and quickly being covered in blood. Bella looked up at the pack that was once again reduced to shock.
"Bella?"