It took some convincing for Jasper to let Alice take me hunting alone, it took even more convincing to get Edward to let us go. Now Alice and I were running through the trees. I plucked a leaf from the tree and fingered it. The texture was so much softer than I remembered as a human. I smiled.

"Raya, you've got to concentrate, come on!" Alice called. She took off running. I kept pace with her easily. Suddenly a scream resounded in my mind.

My head spun toward it and I ran the way it came from without hesitating. I vaguely noticed Alice was no longer close behind me now that I was actually running. The smells hit me soon after that. The first was an overly metallic smell that was in an abundance. It was completely repulsive to my nose. The other was a pure delectable scent. The only problem with that scent was that it was covered and tainted by the other scent. I crinkled my nose in frustration as I barreled on.

*No, I can't see her!* Alice shrieked mentally as she caught the human scent. I ignored her mental scream. I dove into the clearing anyway and flew at my prey. Together we flew out of the clearing.

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Alice raced after Raya. *She shouldn't have been able to smell the blood from where we were...* she thought. *I didn't smell it for another 4 miles. What are the wolves going to do...They're obviously on their way...* she growled at her cut off visions. She steeled herself mentally for what was about to come. She burst into the clearing to see the human she was expecting lying on the ground mauled, but Raya was nowhere to be seen. However, there was a large hole the shrubs where something large had just flown through, and the large bear that scent was very fresh was gone.

"No way." she grinned. It took a lot to surprise Alice, but this easily did it. Two wolves and a boy burst into the clearing. "Hey Jake, would one of your pack mind running him to the hospital. He got mauled"

Jake waved to Leah. Alice lightly placed the hunter onto Leah's back and she disappeared into the forest.

"Alice, why do I follow a vampire's scent I don't recognize and fined you and a mauled man in the middle of the forest?" Jake asked, irritation apparent in his voice.

Alice nodded toward the hole in the trees. "I'm on babysitting duty. Go see for yourself. If she didn't go for that guy she won't go for you."

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The bear ran dry and I noticed my surroundings again. I wiped the blood off my mouth and looked around. Alice leaned against a tree grinning and two other figures stood in the shadows with shocked expressions on their faces.

"Hey Jake! Hey Quil!" They're minds were odd, I noticed. Through Quil's mind I could hear Leah's and Embry's, as he sat on guard duty.

"...Raya?" Jake finally asked.

*I wonder how she managed not to attack that guy...all that fresh blood...* Alice was thinking.

"But it stinks" I informed her.