Sorry for the late update! I had a family thing yada, yada yada. Okay, so we see the Cullen's in this one! Yay! Please review!:)


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Chapter 4-The Howling

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Max POV

"Alright so first stop, Forks Washington," Nudge said as we took flight. I looked down and Alize and Myra waved up at us. Elena and Ysabelle were only glints and blurs below us. I only caught sight of their real figures when I stared for a few seconds, and even then it wasn't clear. "How far is that from here?" Gazzy asked. Fang shrugged. "Maybe a few hours. We should get there when the moon is the highest." I looked at the sun that was almost about to go into a sunset. "Which won't be to long." I finished.

Elena POV

'Can you hear her?' I asked Ysabelle through our mind link. It was always kind of fuzzy to hear her because she was only half werewolf, but she could hear me perfectly, me being a full werewolf. 'No,' She replied. 'I can't get nothing. Look, I know me and Nikkie are the same species, but it doesn't really help when you can't get a signal.' I chuckled, then my smile faded. 'You don't think she's...'

'No. Look, she's probably just sleepin' or something. Or maybe they gotta mind reader, and she doesn't want to let them know someone's coming to get her.' I shrugged and sighed. 'Let's just go get her, okay? And hope that we make it. Nikkie's capable of handling torture. I've seen her go weeks without blood or red meat. She can handle it until we get there, don't ya think?'

'She's the first vampire werewolf hybrid that we know of, she's a master. I'm sure she can handle Draco for a few days.' I nodded at her, and looked up at the V shape the Flock had made. 'Please come back Nikkie,' I thought. 'We'll be lost without you.'

We ran for about another hour, then night fell while the full moon rose. Ysabelle and I kept our heads down as long as we could, then the flock landed. We were in some woods that looked very familiar. Suddenly a howling broke out of the west. It made me lust for moonlight. My eyes rolled to the back of my head as I looked up. The beautiful full moon. My chest began to heave, and I looked at Max. "Get back," I growled. They did as I said, and I felt myself transforming, along with Ysabelle.

The time for our bonds to link was strongest for some reason when we transformed. The wolf breaks out of us, and a vive shoots off that all werewolves will feel. That's how they know if another wolf is in their area. Normally, Max and the Flock could stay close, but the times we had phased was by choice, not by force. We could loose control very easily because of meat and blood lust which was also strongest when we phased.

My skin ripped apart and fur over lapped it. My heart and brain got bigger, but I could only feel it for a second. No transformation was as painful as the first. The werewolves at La Push did not experience this kind of painful phase because technically their not really werewolves, their shape shifters.

'Nikkie?' I tried. 'Nikkie please answer me!'

With a whoosh I was on all fours in a few seconds. Damn it I had waited to long to try for her. I glanced at Ysabelle. She was a White/Grey wolf with piercing foggy blue eyes that matched Iggy's. I looked at Max who's hair was fluttering slightly from the burst of wind that came with transforming.

I crooked my head at her, and she nodded. "We're fine." She said. I looked up at the moon, and without us even thinking, a howl ripped from mine and Ysabelle's throats. Usually Nikkie was the first to howl, but I guess in her absence I would be. It was loud, and the Flock clamped their ears shut. No ordinary wolf or shape shifter could match a real werewolf's howl. It felt so good, like I had been holding it in for years. I could never hold in that restraint...but Nikkie could. That's it! She wasn't phasing!

When we were done signaling the La Push wolves I looked at Ysabelle. 'She's not phasing,' I told her. "What's that mean?" Angel asked. I looked at her. 'We can talk to Nikkie in our minds. We can get the best..signal when we transform. We can't get Nikkie, because she's not phasing.' Angel looked confused. "Well why isn't she?"

'They've gotta be torturing her,' Ysabelle said. 'The lust is to strong when she transforms, she'll go crazy if she doesn't get any blood or red meat. She's holding off phasing, which is very dangerous for her and she knows that. If she doesn't phase soon the transformation will be forced so bad it could kill her.' I shuttered. "How long can she hold off a transformation?" Max asked. Angel must have filled them all in. 'The longest I've seen her go is three days. If she was taken yesterday, then she has maybe three days. Even if it's not a full moon, we are real werewolves, and we need to phase.' She nodded slowly. "So three days, maybe?" I shrugged. 'They might give her blood or meat, or she might have already had some which means she can control herself for a little while.'

Ysabelle huffed and began to walk ahead. 'Elena you know the only meat they'll give her is a human. She's only been a vegetarian for so long.' I nodded. 'Well she can't help it if it happens.''

'Who are you?' A deep voice rang through my mind.

'Um..Elena and Ysabelle, you remember Nikkie's friends?'

'...Your kidding me! Elena?'

I laughed. 'Hey Embry missed you too.'

He chuckled. 'Man it's been forever since I've...we've seen you. Where you guys at? We just heard you. Nice howl by the way.'

'Thanks. We heard you from the west, we got the Flock with us.'

'...Dude something bad happen?'

I sighed. 'Yeah, we need your guy's help. Wanna help?'

He laughed again. 'Love to. You guys need to get the the Cullen's too right?'

'Correct. Now vamoose!'

'Alright, alright we're coming geeze.'

I nodded at Ysabelle who had a smirk on her face. 'Embry and Elena sitting on a tree. F-U-C-K-'

I slapped her in the back of the head with my paw, making her yelp. 'Damn 'Lena!' She whined. 'You know your one to tease.' She rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out, making the Flock laugh. Without notice, three large wolves emerged from the woods. In the front was a pitch black wolf. Sam. On the right was a russet color wolf that smelled of vampire. Jacob. And on the left was a Grey wolf with dark spots on his back. Embry.

'Elena and Ysabelle,' Sam said. 'It's nice to see you again.' I nodded. 'It's nice to see you as well.' Sam nodded at Max. 'Where is your alpha?' I guessed he was talking about Nikkie. 'That's why we are here,' I looked at Max. Angel looked up at her. "He wants you to tell him what happened," She muttered. Sam looked a little worried. "Right. Well I got a call last night from Nikkie, and she's been...kidnapped. I don't know how she got a phone, but she was being chased by something. She told me that she was taken by a group of vampires in Italy called the Lessers." Sam crooked his head. 'I see,' He muttered.'Max came to us so we could help them get Nikkie back. She has a craving for three things; Moonlight, red meat and blood. I don't know if she's getting that or not, and if she doesn't have it all in three days, she could die if the Lesser's don't kill her first.' I told him.

'Are you going to the Cullen's?' Jacob asked. I nodded. 'These vampires are capable of many things. We need all the help we can get. We might even have to go to the Volturi.' Embry shuttered. I would have smiled. Sam glanced at he other wolves. 'Perhaps...we could be of some assistance.'

'Really?' I asked a little to quick. He chuckled through our minds. 'Perhaps. We need to get you to the Cullen's first. Follow us.' I nodded, and looked up at Max. She and the other's already had their wings out. They took for the sky, while we all ran.

We got the the Cullen's rather quickly. I talked to Embry most of the way, telling him what all boring crap I had done and what he had done. Basically he had just been patrolling and a lot more boring stuff. I really did like talking to him though.

Max POV

It wasn't that hard to see at all. The moon was very bright and was the perfect spot slight for a certain vampire house coming up in the distance. "We're here," Angel told us. We all swooped down landing on the drive way with the other wolves. Sam looked at Angel, and she was nodding. "He said they'll be back in the morning and tell us if they are gonna help us or not." I nodded. "Thanks," I muttered. He nodded, and Embry and Sam went in one direction while Jacob went in another. Weird.

I looked up the stairs to the house and the door flew open. Alice pale and small laughed in delight when she locked eyes with me. "Max!" She said. She flew down the steps and was in my arms in two seconds. I chuckled. "Hey...Alice. Um..you know I kinda like..breathing." She giggled. "Sorry." She looked up at the door. "Their here!" She called then handed Elena something. "Here, you two can where these." It was a bag and Elena took it in her mouth. Ysabelle barked happily and they trotted for the woods. "Come on," Alice walked up the stairs.

We reached the open door and Alice stepped in. In front of us were eight other vampires. Jasper, Rosalie, Emmett, Bella, Edward, Esme`, Carlisle, and someone I didn't know but I knew was a vampire. It was a little girl that looked about Nudge's age. She had long red curls and porcelain skin and brown eyes. I gasped. "Nessie?" She looked down at Angel frowning. "Hi Angel," She muttered. Angel looked up at her with a crooked head. "Did you have a growth spurt?" Nessie chuckled. "Well...sorta." She looked worried now. "Cool!" Angel said. Nessie sighed with relief.

I was then hugged by everyone, then Elena and Ysabelle came in. Ysabelle had on a white tank top and ripped old blue jeans, while Elena had on a black baggy one sleeved shirt and black sweat pants. "I thought they matched your style. Plus with the werewolf thing.." Alice trailer off. Elena smiled. "Their perfect." Esme` hugged them both at the same time and stroked their hair. "I'm so sorry," She said. She released them and looked at their faces. "This must be hardest for the two of you."

"Well...it ain't really easy." Ysabelle coughed a laugh. "Edward and Alice told us all they could. But Alice doesn't know what's going to happen. I'm sorry." Elena shook her head. "It's fine. I'm grateful the Max came to us instead of going on her own. That would be way to dangerous as it is."

"Nothing is to dangerous for us Elena," I said smiling. She chuckled. I looked over at Nessie and Angel, and they were both sitting cross legged on the floor talking. It was a lot different looking, but then again they looked exactly the same as when we left. "So..," I said. "..Are you uh..gonna help us?" Esme` nodded. "We owe it to that poor girl. Although none of us know who the Lessers are. Not even Carlisle." He shook his head. "Never heard anything like them. Can we ask how you know them?"

"I don't know them," I said as I looked at Ysabelle. "To make a long story short Elena was changed by the alpha wolf of the Children of the Moon, in the town Nikkie and the twins lived in. Nikkie was there, and she helped Elena. After that they found me in a sewer pipe that wasn't really a sewer pipe. It was huge and clean. I was tortured by the leader of the Lessers. A man named Draco. He strapped me to a chair and brought his sister and the alpha in there. His sister, who I have no idea is, bit down on this arm," She pointed to her right arm. I looked closely and there was a small mark on her wrist. "And the Alpha bit this one." She pointed to her left arm. There was a bigger mark on that one. "They left me there, and Elena and Nikkie took me and helped me. We were walking the streets of Italy one night and smelt a werewolf. We saw Draco and he had a woman pinned to an alley wall and he said she was a werewolf. Nikkie told him to back off, and Elena shot him with fire. That's how she found out she had a power. We never saw him again.

"We think Draco wants revenge on Nikkie, being our leader. Maybe he thinks that he can drag us both in it as well. They are very dangerous. The very few people who do know them say that going to them is a death wish or suicide. Their just as bad ass as the Volturi. Draco created Aro." Bella gasped. "How do you know that?" Ysabelle scratched her head. "I think I heard him and his sister talk about him once, and he said he was his creation after all or something like that."

"Wow," Carlisle muttered. "You don't have to come if you don't want to put your family in danger Carlisle," I said. "We're use to being put in danger. So is Ysabelle and Elena. The La Push wolves said that they might help. We might need to go to the Volturi..." Esme`'s eyes locked with mine. "No, you can't go there alone." She looked at Carlisle. "We owe that girl a lot. And there is no way I'm letting these children go waltzing to Italy without us. Elena and Ysabelle know Italy, they know where to go. But if they get ambushed by the Lesser's or the Volturi," She shook her head. "We have to go." He nodded. "Kids?" He looked at his family.

"We're game," Emmett said popping his knuckles with a smirk on his face. Rosalie nodded smiling evilly. She could so be one of the Volturi. "We're going," Alice said looking at Jasper. Bella looked down at Nessie. "Jacob is coming," Edward said reassuringly. Bella looked up at him. "Are you sure?" He nodded a crooked smile on his face. She ruffled Nessie's hair. "Okay," She said looking up at me smiling. I nodded at her. "Thank you all so much," Elena said clapping her hands once. Esme` smiled. "You two need to hunt before you rest. Maybe you can try for Nikkie again?" Elena nodded. "We'll be back. You guys need to sleep a little." I yawned dramatically. "But I'm not tired." She laughed and they both walked out the door. I heard a whoosh again, then it was silent.

"Same room," Esme` said smiling. I couldn't get to my bed fast enough.

Nikkie POV

"Filthy," Hit. "Little," Smack. "Half," Whip. "Breed!"

I landed hard on my back on the concrete floor. I scrambled to the corner of the cage which was really hard with my hands and feet tied. I tried to see but there was to much blood splatted in my eyes. Draco bashed my head into the wall and I heard a crack. "Draco!" I fell into a ball on the floor and made no move of getting up. It hurt to bad. "That's enough!" I squeezed my eyes then opened them, trying to see. I only saw a figure and then white hair that looked like Ysabelle's. Draco chuckled. "Come on Maddie. I was just having a little fun with the girl." He nudged my foot. "She's still alive."

"Barely," She muttered. "But alive!" He defended. "...Hey," I coughed out. They both looked down at me. "..You..got any..you know.." Draco smiled. "No your dining in hell tonight." He said. "Yummy," I muttered grinning. He kicked my leg and I wheezed. "Draco, stop it. Let's go." She took his hand and pushed him out the door. She glanced at me before she left and the door locked with a click. I sighed and spit more blood. It was dark, almost black. Pretty much black. My throat began to burn as I stared at it. "Ugh." I muttered rolling my eyes as I pushed myself up so my back was on the wall. I took my forearm and bit down on it. Blood trickled down to my shirt, and I pressed my teeth into my skin, drinking my own blood.

It was never satisfying at all, but it made the craving go down to where I could try to get some sleep. It was hard because my head was throbbing on my arms, and my arm was throbbing because I bit it. I sighed shakily. "Get me outta here Max." I muttered before I fell into unconscious.

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Ouch. I was like flinching and wincing when I was writing Nikkie's POV. I've gotta graphic mind. I blame TV. Anyways, please review!:)