Luna POV

Someone was knocking on the door, i frowned, not opening my eyes. The knocking continued, getting stronger. I growled under my breath, pulling myself up and then glanced at Paul. He was stirring in the bed, half awake, probably from my getting up so abruptly.

It was still pretty bright outside, so i assumed it was sometime in the afternoon. I threw open the door, glaring. The person who happened to be on the other side of the door only aggitated me further, "You know, generally when people dont answer the door it means get lost."

"Edward Cullen's at the border, he wants to see Isabel. He refused to leave until he talked to her."

I ran a hand through my hair, "Isabel!"

I heard movement upstairs, and a moment later she was standing next to us. "What's going on?"

"Edward Cullen wants to talk to you, he's at the border," i repeated, "if your going, make it fast, we need to leave tonight."

She nodded, slipping past Sam, pulling her shirt off as she passed the treeline and a moment later she wasn't there. Or at least i couldn't see her, the trees were to thick closer to the ground. "Is Paul still here?"

"I'm here," he said, walking down the steps shirtless, still half asleep.

"You missed patrol this afternoon," he said, giving him a lethal look.

"Oh? Sorry about that," he said, not a drop of sincerity in his voice. I left them to it and went to wake everyone else up. We might as hammer out the details before we take off.

When Bell got back we all sat down to decide who would go. Both Paul and Isabel wanted to go. It started an arguement. No one else had argued with me, they were used to me making most of the decisions, even after Joshua had become pack leader. It was in our blood to lead, despite my being a darkling. People looked up to me for years, even my brother, Tyler had. "Im not bringing either of you," i said calmly.

"But you'll need back up, and no one else can shift, you have to take me with you," Bell insisted.

"Im not letting you go by yourself, period," Paul said, not leaving room to argue. He didn't know me well enough to know i wouldn't back down just because someone told me. Werewolves tended to have both authority and attitude problems. Loyalty was just instinctive though, which is why treachory was intolerable.

"Your too temperamental and you dont know how this world functions. You'll get us into trouble," i said to Paul, shaking my head at him, turning to Bell. "And your not coming because i can't think straight when you in danger. I need you here. I'm taking Adam and Brandon, that's it."

"You dont have a choice, i'm your sister and what if something happens and your not here. Wouldn't you rather have me with you in case something comes up, or here completely defenceless?"

"Your not defenceless, your a freaking werewolf Isabel, and you have a coven of vampires ready to protect you and the La Push pack run patrols 24/7."

"Most of the Cullen's hate me right now, and La Push dont have to let alone want to protect werewolves, we are on their territory after all!"

"I said no Isabel and that's final!"

Isabel sat next to me on the plane. We had originally planned to do the spell at home, but it proved how out of the game we had been when we'd realized we didn't have any fake ID's for the glamour. Adam had pointed out it would raise a few questions when we showed up at the airport with an ID that looked nothing like us.

Samhain was a special celebration consisting of every species signed in the treaty. It was incredibly formal to the point of needing ball gowns. Everyone wore masks at these kinds of celebrations, so we didn't have to worry about anyone recognizing us. Not that they would, we weren't much of a politics pack. But with everyone thinking Isabel and i had whatever it was everyone was looking for, it was hard to tell whether anyone knew what we looked like.

Adam was getting off the phone when he came back into the hotel room. "We have a problem."

"What?" i asked frowning.

"There not using human sacrifices," i stared at him in disbelief. "Yeah, apparently they wanted to change it up a bit. They are doing something, but no one seems to know what."

"What now?" Brandon asked frowning.

"Do you know where anyone's staying?" i asked Adam thoughtfully.

"Were not posing as Council members," Isabel said glaring at me. "We'll get enough trouble just breaking in."

I ignored her and gave Adam a look. "Yeah, my sire, he got invites, but he doesn't go to council celebrations."

"Tell him that your going in his place, that your representing his coven," i said frowning, then turning to Isabel, knowing smirk on my face, "we need dresses."

"I dont want to wear a dress," Isabel said, pouting slightly.

"You wanted to come, and if you want to come, you have to wear a dress. Were trying to blend in Bell, not stick out like sore thumbs."

"I'm not wearing a dress," she said stubbornly.

"Fine. Then stay here and wait for us to get back," she just rolled her eyes, "you wanted to come, and now that this plan is out, it's time to move onto Plan B. You wanted to help, so quit complaining."

"You suck," was all she said.

We got a towncar to take us to mansion outside of town, i thought it might be frowned upon or get us noticed if we showed up in our taxi or rental. "So what'd you tell about what we were doing?" i asked curiously. She blushed, looking guilty. "You didn't tell them, did you?"

She said nothing and i rolled my eyes, "oh well, were going home in the morning anyways."

"You think your going to be okay to handle this, it could get pretty messy in there if we get caught?" i asked, still unhappy about her joining us. I'm not sure what it was. I knew she could take care of herself, she was a good enough actor. I just had such an unusual feeling about the whole thing. But then again, we'd never done anything like this. This could get us all killed. Breaking into a Council owned library and stealing, was probably one of the worst crimes you could commit in our world.

"I'll be fine," she said, though i could see the uneasiness in her posture. I shook my head, looking over the city lights. I wasn't too worried about getting caught because we were wolves, not there would be other werewolves there. I just didn't want us to accidently do or say something too weird. Everyone on the Council seemed to be so traditional, even there speech was weird.

The car came to a stop all of us getting out one by one. I hooked my arm through Adam's, and he gave the doorman his sires name, and the guard nodded, letting pass through. I could hear a band even before we made it to the hall.

Each of us ordered, drinks, people had been staring on our way in, but i tried to ignore it. I felt so uncomfortable in the material i was getting twitchy. We never went to things like this, nothing even remotely this formal. We were okay with the dancing, even though that was traditional, but people were still casting glances at us. It was making me nervous.

"I have to use the restroom," i said to Adam, after two dances. He nodded, taking my hand and led us out of the room silently. We walked through the halls, eventually finding the right door into the basement. We hadnt passed anyone on the way here, and i wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not.

We came to another door, and he gripped the handle and pulled. It clattered to the ground and we went in. A long shelf wrapped around the room, lighting with fire when we'd entered. "What are we even looking for?" he asked, as we looked over the shelves.

"I dont really know," he threw me a disbelieving look and continued searching. I hadn't really thought about what i was looking for exactly. I had mostly just planned on getting here and even then the chances of getting here were low enough, getting out without getting hurt, yeah, that was a different story.

We'd found three books when i got a weird feeling. "The music stopped playing," i said frowning. Both of raced up the stairs, moving down the hall and onto a balcony over the floor. I looked over it and held back a groan. There they were, Bell and Brandon standing frozen in the center of room, both of their masks on the floor. You just couldn't leave the girl alone for five freaking minutes without her finding trouble.

I turned to Adam, "go get a car," i breathed. He gave me a weary look, and nodded, "we'll meet you on the other side of the garden out back." He nodded again, moving towards the door before making a break for it.

"Isabel and Brandon, never thought i'd see you again, thankfully we can stop looking for you Isabel," a man said smirking at her.

"Well, you know me, i just cant pass up a party," she said sarcastically.

"Where's your sister," a woman asked. Neither of them said a thing. "You know, it's illegal to steal council property, and its punishable by death, so i ask one more time. Where's your sister?"

She pulled out a sword, and i struggled to pull off the dress. I growled slightly when i twisted it wrong and hit my head off a bar on the railing. I heard Bell cry out and as i finally just ripped it off i jumped over the ledge without a second thought, and as my body started the fall, i stepped over the sword she had in the her face and it clatter to the ground under me. I kicked it back up, holding it against her throat, before pulling out a gun and pointing it at the first person who moved to attack me.

"You two okay?" i asked, not risking a glance, but i could hear their sighs of relief.

"Y-yeah," someone rushed at me, but before he got within touching distance the doors burst open. We all stared at the doors, having completely forgotten about what was happening around us.

In came dozens of hell hounds and i froze in horror. They were like big clouds of smoke in the shapes of wolves, rabid dogs even, with bright red hungry eyes. They started attacking people without hesitance and i looked around. I let off two shots as one ran straight for us, and i swung the sword on another one coming at Isabel and Brandon. I backed up slightly, and then turned and whipped the sword as hard as i could. It hit a few feet below the ledge was, but that was perfect.

I turned to Isabel, pointing at the balcony and i cupped my foot for her to jump up and reach the sword to get some leverage. I did the same with Brandon, only putting more pressure on him. He went flying over the edge, hitting the ground with an audible thud and i flinched. Something collided with me and we tumbled. I felt something bite into my arm and i cried out, before letting fire overcome my senses. I felt light blind me for a moment as i gripped the sides of the hellhounds head. Fire seeped into his core, before he burned up into dust. I lifted myself up, taking a deep breath.

I jumped back over the railing myself, and started running towards the back door, where Isabel and Brandon had moved to. We began moving when i realized why we were moving so slow. Isabel, she still had her dresson.

"Lose the dress," i said to my sister.

"All i've got on is underwear," i stopped, staring at her incredulously.

"Why didn't you put on anything under it?"

"You never said to."

"It's implied, you knew there was a chance something could go wrong and you didn't put anything under that?" i gave her a frustrated growl, taking her and running again.

We got to the glass doors when a hell hound and a man stepped through the doors. The hound leapt at me and we collided hard, falling back and into a marble post. It snapped crumbling over us and i barely rolled out of the way before getting crushed. I turned, to see the man already moving for me.

"Get her out of Vancouver," Isa started to object, and i turned a furious stare on Brandon. "Now!" He didn't question me, just grabbed Bell and shoved her out of the doors as much as he could. I wasn't too worried about myself, i could get out of any problem, but with Isabel, that would prove difficult. I needed to know she'd be safe and heading home at least.

I didn't recognize the man standing in front of me, but he seemed to know me. "Luna, funny seeing you in a place like this."

"Really now?" i asked, unimpressed. "And you are?"

"Impressed. Never would've thought a low life like you would even consider stepping foot in a place like this."

Then something dawned on me, "you can control the hell hounds," i accused.

He just grinned, "so i hear you have something for me."

"You heard wrong," i snapped, why does everyone think we have this magica? It didn't make any sense. Why would we have anything like that? They must've realized if we did we wouldn't be breaking in. If we did, our Pack wouldn't be on the run anymore. There was a lot that would be different right now.

"I think you do, in fact, i think your going to hand it over to me, or i'll take it from you when your dead," he said icily.

"You can try," was all i said. He rushed me and i side stepped, and hit him hard. He turned back to face me, moving impossibly fast and hit me twice as hard. I went backwards, through a set of doors.

I stood back up, how had he moved so fast? No one could move that fast. He rushed me again, but this time i'd grabbed a fire poker and hit him straight in the neck. He fell, holding his throat and i brought it down over him again. I turned to make a break for it when something collided with me from my left and we went flying through the marble wall. We rolled, straight into the marble railing and back into the ball room. I collapsed over a table and it broke under the abrupt pressure. I blinked, staring up at the ceiling and the world doubled for a moment.

I blinked again, and pulled myself off of the table unsteadily. I looked around, to find most of the fight was over and people were looking at me oddly. I tried to hold myself upright and felt a weird pain in my arm. I looked down, seeing something silver and thick sticking out of my arm. I pulled it out and frowned. It was a dart. "Oh shit," i whispered.

I looked back down at my arm, to find strange black lines coming from the spot the dart had been in. It was poisoned. When the hell had that happened?

I dropped it, hearing the metal meet the ground with a double clink. I swayed, as the world trippled this time, and then a wave of nausea swept over me. I felt my legs give out, but i didn't feel the floor. Instead i was falling into a sea of darkness.