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Announcement: Okay everyone, here is the refurbished version of chapter one! I'd like to thank my Beta: Im..In., she did a great job with the editing!
Enjoy!
Eighteen Years Later…
Grumbling in annoyance, a large, muscled man with dark brown skin and thick, black hair walked towards the home of the Denali vampires. His rank as beta had put him in this position; facing down a coven of vampires all by himself. It's not like I want to be here! The man murmured in his mind.
He had parked his car a long ways back—for protection—so he wouldn't be attacked. He'd heard rumors that the vampires that lived in the home in front of him liked to feed on stranded humans.
The man shivered in fear.
Fright was crawling all over his body as he reached the door, what he wouldn't give for a candy bar right now. Slowly, scared out of his wits, he reached for the doorbell… Only to stop himself when the door was thrown wide open and a tall, strawberry blond woman with amber colored eyes stood in front of him.
"Werewolf," She sneered at him. "What do you want?" the blonde motioned for him to come inside, but he shook his head fiercely in denial. The fear began to grow in measure when multiple vampires appeared behind her.
He was so screwed.
Trying to gain control of his emotions—mainly fear—the man took a deep breath before he spoke.
"My name is Rufus Damager," the blonde woman shrugged nonchalantly. "My Alpha has sent me to request the use of your land for a training session."
The vampires came closer.
A dark haired, pixie-like woman stepped into the sun; her perfect mouth was pinched in a unhappy smile and her body glittered as if hundred of diamonds were embedded in her skin. She ran her delicate—hardly—fingers through her hair before she spoke to him. "Interesting," The other vampires nodded in agreement. "And why, tell me, do you wish to use our land?"
Startled by how serene they all appeared at his presence; Rufus began to calm down. "Well," He began, only to be cut off by the obnoxious ringtone from his cell phone.
Rufus knew instantly that it was his Alpha. He must have been taking too long.
Opening the phone Rufus said a terse "Hello," and then waited for his Alpha to respond.
"What did they say?" Said the annoyed voice of his Alpha.
He ran a shaky, almost nervous, hand through his hair before answering. "I just asked them, Bella." Rufus blew out an intense breath. "You interrupted us…" He trailed off. Rufus may have been Bella's—his Alpha—beta, but that did not give him the right to talk back.
Rufus could hear growling from the other end of the phone, and then a few male whimpers.
"Make sure they comply, because we will be using their land with or without the vampires say in it." His eyes locked on the vampires, noticing how certain few had confused frowns marring their imperfect features.
"Yes, Alpha."
The line went dead.
Rufus shut the phone quickly, shoving it into his pocked he stared at the vampires heatedly before he spoke.
"Will you allow us to use your land?" This time there was a little bit of force behind the question. They better say yes, Rufus thought; there was an answering growl from one of the vampires- a bronze haired, amber eyed man.
"This woman," The man began. "Her name is Bella?" He completely ignored the question that had just been asked, seeming as though his only focus were on Rufus' Alpha. Almost like the bronze haired man and Rufus' Alpha may have known one another at some point.
"Yes," Rufus answered immediately. There was something about a few of these vampires; maybe, if he broached the idea of them being able to watch—and hopefully meet his Alpha—his curiousness would be solved. "She is my Alpha, and today has not been a good day for her, so I am slightly on edge." He ran a large hand through his hair. "Look, if you let us use your land you can fucking watch."
"Yes," The dark haired woman said stepping forward, her sickly sweet stench scaring the living daylights out of Rufus. "You can use the land."
"Alice!" The strawberry blonde snapped at the dark haired woman, now dubbed 'Alice'. "You know that the right to allow them to use our land is not yours to give." A low hiss came from the woman's throat. "You better learn your place."
"Enough," A cool voice said from inside the home. In the blink of an eye a tall, platinum blonde haired man stood between Alice and the blonde woman-who were now both crouched down in defensive, attacking postures. "It is not your place either, Tanya. It is Eleazar's or Carmen's, but both of them have gone out shopping and will not be back for some time."
"Carlisle-," 'Tanya' protested only to be cut off by the man.
"Thank fucking god," Rufus said gratefully. "I do not want to be on Bella's bad side today."
"Bad day?" Alice asked. To Rufus, she seemed to have a knowing expression on her face, and her eyes looked as though they were able to see the future.
"Yes," Rufus said before he could stop himself. "It's my Alpha's father's birthday. She accidentally killed him when she phased for the first time." Gasping in shock, he smacked a hand over his mouth, appalled at what he had just said. "Don't tell her I told you!"
Carlisle and Tanya glanced at one another curiously, before they looked at Rufus, each raised one perfect eye brow at his dramatics.
Suddenly fearful, Rufus glanced behind him back at his car, almost as if his Alpha knew of his betrayal. "Okay, then!" He said suddenly, looking as though he wanted to be anywhere but with a bunch of vampires. "I'll be leaving now." He saluted them once before he took off like a bat towards his car.
"Weird," Alice commented, but her eyes were knowing; she glanced at the vampires around her. "Well? What are we standing around here for?" She took off in the direction the werewolf had gone, the other vampires followed.
I drove my Range Rover quickly; my senses scanned the vampires land owned area for danger. Why did I even recommend coming here? I asked myself, but I knew the answer. I wanted to know if Edward was here.
A whimper was heard from the passenger seat next to me.
"Please," The werewolf begged. He was a bulky man, which was surprising because of his species, with pudgy hands and a pig like face. "Please, don't kill me!"
Annoyed I growled out."Can you shut up?"
The man quieted slightly, but every now and then whimpers would escape his abnormally large lips. I could see my pack scattered in the field in front of me, and I grinned in happiness. Speeding up my vehicle until I was going well over one hundred, I sharply turned the wheel, stretched towards the passenger seat, opened the door, and slashed the werewolf's seat belt; I laughed quietly as the man fell screaming out the side of the car. A large thump followed in response.
Meticulously, I parked my Hummer next to Rufus' Range Rover and got out; the cool, Alaskan wind whipped my hair around my face almost instantly.
Snarling in annoyance when my shoes sunk into a pile of mud, I walked towards the pitifully, pleading werewolf.
"Get up," I murmured to him.
He began to beg for his life again. "Don't kill me, please!"
"God, you're dense." I grumbled as I reached down, slapping away his hands, and lifted him up by his shirt collar until we were eye to eye. "If you don't get up, I'm going to make you wish you had!" I dropped him and swivelled on my muddy heels to face my pack.
"Yes, Al-," He cut himself off before he could speak the traitorous word-Alpha.
"Rufus!" I griped. "Why is it that I can smell that you just now arrived here? When I told you I wanted you out here half an hour before my arrival?" I kicked at a large log that blocked my path, sending it flying through the air, landing close to a snivelling, wimpy, werewolf.
I threw my hands out wide, gesturing furiously at the dirty, dead tree filled, landscape in front of me.
"This area has not been picked up, Rufus." I scolded him. "I told you I needed a clean area to 'train'."
"My Alpha," Rufus began, but a look from me stopped his bullshit answer. "I was detained by way of conversation with the vampires." He bowed lowly to me, a move of respect.
One that I hated.
"Very well," I snapped, turning to face the werewolf a few paces away I squatted down in front of him. "I need answers, Benny." I flicked my chin length hair out of my face and stood back up, pacing away from him. "I would like for you to walk towards the centre of the field."
"Yes, Alpha." This time he spoke the word, and I smiled slightly, placating him. I knew he believed I was going to kill him, but I figured, if I acted kind to him, the pain I would cause him wouldn't be as big of an issue as my questions for him would.
Sighing in angst, I walked back towards my Hummer, opened the trunk, and grabbed out the handgun I kept hidden under the back seats. I shoved the gun in the back pocket of my black jeans, and then moved back towards Benny.
I saw a flicker of glittery movement from the corner of my eye and glanced up to see a group of vampires watching me curiously.
"Rufus," I looked at my beta, anger ran through my system quickly and I began to shake. "What are they doing here?"
"My Alpha," Rufus looked pleadingly at the ground, as if it held some sort of sanctuary for him. "The only way we were able to use their land, was if we allowed them to watch."
I ran a hand through my hair, gripping tightly to the strands. I could tell he was lying, there was some other reason that he had allowed the vampires to come. "Damn!" I nearly shouted. "Did you not think to ask me before you made that decision? You are only the beta, I am your alpha!"
Rufus looked as though he were about to reply, but someone from our pack cut him off. "Cheer up, Bella." One of my wolves yelled. "At least you'll be eighteen forever." That perked me up slightly, the idea of living forever, but then I brought myself back down to earth.
"I wish it would last," I murmured to myself, I heard a scuffing sound and one of my pack pointed out to me that Benny was running away. When I turned towards the area I had told Benny to go to I realized he really was running away. He was actually a good distance away, but one leap would catch me up to him.
"Benny!" I chided him, waving to him slightly when he glanced back. "Get back here, I don't want to have to do something drastic!"
"Fuck you…" I heard him distantly call.
"You're not my type," I told him before I began to run. Glided really. I pushed hard, gaining momentum, and jumped hard off the ground, coming to land daintily in front of him. "Benny…" I chided. "I told you to wait in the centre of the field for me. Not run away."
He snarled something hidden to me, and his body began to rack its self with shivers, signalling that he was about to phase.
I was actually sort of surprised that he was able to react towards me this way. I was his Alpha after all, and seeing as he was a weaker dominant, almost a submissive, I was startled that he wasn't grovelling at my feet for forgiveness.
Excited at this feat, I laughed loudly and then grabbed him by his shirt and hurled him across the log ridden plain, causing him to land flat on his back in the centre of the field. Surrounded by my pack.
"Lovely to see you, Benny…" One of my pack murmured darkly. "We've been waiting for you."
"Enough," I chided everyone. "Benny," I said his name, waiting for him to look up at me, but when he did the anger and fear in his eyes made me want to wince, I held steady though. "You have information I'm in need of." I walked, more like paced, around his still form. "If you answer my questions, I won't hurt you."
He looked at me for a moment then, his deep brown eyes still held their emotions, but now they looked slightly worried. "I don't know what you're talking about." He said instead of the truth.
I shot him in the shoulder.
"Ahh!" He screamed. "You bitch!"
"Listen to me, Benny." I murmured. "I don't want to hurt you-," I cut myself off when he spit in my face. Growling lowly, and giving into my anger, I shot him in the opposite shoulder and then shoved my thumb in the wound, twisting and pressing into the bullet ripped flesh.
Disgusted I wiped his saliva off of my face, using my clean hand.
"Shit!" He screamed. I could feel his werewolf healing kick in, sensed the tightening of his healing flesh around my finger. But the wound wouldn't close until I took my finger out of it. "Okay! Okay! I'll tell you!" I pulled my finger out of the hole and waited for him to speak, watching as he panted from pain. "Your mother, she had an affair." I was startled by this.
But I wouldn't show it.
"Um, Excuse me!" One of the vampires interrupted. "But I thought this was a training session. Not a let's-kill-the-fat-werewolf session." I stared at her for a moment, noting how the sun made her glitter like a diamond and her flaming red hair stayed perfectly coifed even with the wind.
"Be quiet," Rufus told her. "And do not include yourself again."
"Now, Benny," I said gleefully, turning back towards the frightened werewolf. "Where were we? You said my mother had an affair, correct?" He nodded. "Who did she have it with, Benny? Phil? They're married, and met long after my mother and father divorced."
"No!" He panted. "There's this guy who lives in La Push, near Forks, Washington; his name's Billy Black, he's the guy she had an affair with."
I shot his right kneecap. He wasn't giving me what I needed. He cried in pain, and I could tell that he comprehended that he hadn't told me what I wanted.
He pleaded for his life again. "Please, please, stop!" I pointed the gun at his other knee; he flinched in response and then began to talk again. "Two years, Billy and your mother were sleeping together for two years. He wasn't aging and she was, so they cut it off."
I pulled the gun away and looked at him for answers. "Are you saying that Billy Black is my father?"
"Yes," He told me, and then smiled secretly to himself when he thought I wasn't going to shoot him anymore. He was wrong. I shot him in the chest, blood spattered over my jeans and shirt.
"Jesus!" He screamed.
"How did Phil get into office, Benny? And don't lie to me, I know Phil could never play politician, he's horrible at everything he does."
"He paid some people." Was the morbid answer.
"Who!" Rufus growled out, he looked like he wanted to take a chunk out of the werewolf. I was debating whether or not I should let him.
"Mark Walden," Benny was panting for breath, and blood was running down the corner of his mouth.
"What did Mark Walden do? How did he help Phil get into office?"
"He murdered some people," Benny growled and I waved the gun at him to continue. "He made family's watch while the father/politician burned to death in front of them."
"Okay," I hedged, I heard light footsteps from behind me, and knew that the vampires were now standing there.
"He killed them all," Benny whimpered as his head fell to his chest. "And then he was elected into office."
I shot him in the shoulder again.
"God, you bitch!" He spat at me again, but I avoided it. By now a few of the werewolves had put restraining hands on him and injected him with a tranquilizer, knocking out the change.
"Is that everything?" I asked, I inspected my blood covered fingers and frowned in annoyance. I had just gotten my nails done!
"No!" Benny growled. "You fucking bitch, the government knows about werewolves and vampires. They have a group of scientists creating a chemical induced drug for the U.S' military soldiers; it's supposed to make them unstoppable!"
"How did they find out about us?" I snarled at him. Benny breathed deeply for a few moments before he spoke again. "One of our kind took pictures.
"Our kind?" I asked him shocked, how could it be our kind? Did that mean werewolves…or both species?
"Where are they holding the information?" Rufus asked pressing on. He must have noticed my sudden withdrawal, but didn't want anyone else to see my weakness.
"It's at Phil's house, in the basement. There's a large steel door, the code to is two- four- seven- nine."
"Is this all?" I heard a familiar, warm voice ask. I knew it was Edward, but I didn't turn to look at him. I didn't want to.
"Yes," Benny whimpered. "Please, just let me go. Don't kill me, let me go!"
"Good," I told him. "I'm proud of you, Benny."
I shot him in the head.
He wasn't going to rejuvenate from that one. "Does anyone have hand sanitizer?"
"Right here, Alpha." Rufus said, I held out my hands, and he squeezed a fair amount into both of them.
"I hate blood," I mumbled to myself as I rubbed the sanitizer into my hands, but mainly into the finger I had shoved into Benny's shoulder. I turned around and shoved past the vampires; I opened up my Range Rover's trunk and grabbed out my leather gloves and a heavy pea coat.
"Bella?" Alice asked. "Is that really you?"
"Yea, it's me. Got a problem with it?"
"Watch it!" One of the vampires, a strawberry blonde, snapped out. Her fists were clenched, and her amber eyes held murder.
"Fuck off," I told her. Technically I wanted to kill her, but I rained in my werewolf instincts and instead instructed my pack to the vehicles they would be riding in.
"What's wrong?" She simpered. "Is it your dead daddy's birthday?" How did she know that? My head snapped towards Rufus, but he was looking at the vampire with his mouth hanging open. He'd told. "Did you kill him?" The vampire asked, ignoring how I was avoiding her eyes.
"Rufus," I growled. "If I catch you, you're a dead man."
"Oh, what's wrong?" The vampire pressed on. "Are you going to cry?"
I didn't phase completely then, I only allowed my hand to change like I'd practiced, and swiped my clawed paw at her head, cutting it off.
"I'm not going to kill her," I told the defensive, hissing vampires. "But, it'll take a few days for the bitch to get her head reattached."
"Bella…" Edward whispered. "What has happened to you? Why are you like this?" I looked at him then, seeing how he looked exactly the same. Save for a few dark highlights to his hair.
"You left." I snarled. "And Jacob didn't want to be my friend anymore."
"Alpha…" Rufus murmured soothingly, and I realized I had begun to shake.
"I'm fine Rufus," I told him. "Now let's go, we need to make it to La Push before Saturday, and then we have to visit my mother and her family." I snapped my teeth in annoyance, and then snarled at everyone; "Get in your designated vehicles, we're leaving. Now."
"Bella!" I heard a familiar, baritone voice yell. Followed by the sounds of crashing trees.
"Everyone get in their cars!" I yelled frightened.
"Bella! My wolf girl! Wait!" Emmett cried, only to arrive to see the werewolves speeding away like the hounds of hell were following them.
"Idiot," Rosalie snapped as she slapped Emmett on the back of the head.
"Ouch, babe what was that for?" He didn't receive an answer...