Author's Note:

Hi EVERYONE. Okay, so I'm sorry that I have taken so long to start uploading again. BUT I have Chapter 13 Below and hopefully it will atone for keeping you all in suspense for the past few months. I have more to say but I am sure that you want to read first... so I will just see you at the bottom.

Chapter 13- Surrender

"Where is everyone?" I asked looking out the window of Alice's bedroom.

Though the town seemed to be going about its normal activities, the house was quiet. I'd only seen Alice and Jasper since I had woken up, and now Leah, who had popped her head in only to see if I had wanted anything to eat.

Now, she was trying to dance around my question with half-truths. "Well, a few of them went hunting with Jabril, the rest have all just …. Gone out."

"They're going to look for Zach aren't they?" I questioned looking out the window down at the cobblestone streets below.

"I have no idea." Leah shrugged.

She was a horrible liar. I tried not to smile and give away anything, because I was certain that my family had told her to not say anything to me. I suppose they thought that I would be upset, and would react negatively, but in all honesty, it was the opposite. I knew they would try to find answers, and they were all brilliant and determined enough to succeed. I just hoped it would happen before I got too bad.

"So, did you want something to eat or not Nessie? I'm about to make lunch for the kiddies." She demanded looking putting a hand on her hip pretending to be irritated. I couldn't help but smile at her at that point, because she was the happiest she had ever been, and irritation just wasn't in her demeanor anymore. "What?"

I shook my head, "Nothing Leah. No I don't want anything, but I'll help, I need to stretch my legs and spend some time with the Rosabella."

I could hear her voice from downstairs with crystal clarity; she was plotting with Ciyan about how to argue ice cream as a meal to Leah. Leah would never go for it, but they were set on trying.

"Where is my favorite girl?" I asked peering around the first corner coming downstairs. Alice and Jasper were sitting on the couch. I could smell the acetone in her nail polish as she painted her nails; Jasper reading. He looked up from his book cracking a smile at me, at me as Rosabella answered.

"In here mother," She announced as I walked around the corner. She was sitting on a stool next to Ciyan, just as I knew she would be. Phillip was at the table in front of a checkerboard, I could only assume that Leah was the other player.

"You didn't move cheat did you Phillip?" Leah asked looking at her pieces on the board.

Phillip looked down at the board, answering almost too innocently, "No, I didn't touch anything."

Leah looked over the board, raising her eyebrow, though it was hidden by her bangs. She cracked a grin moving a piece making four moves and removing his pieces from the board. "King me."

Phillip gawked with his mouth open and then slammed it shut.

"Cheater," Leah accused laughing. "That's what you get. How about lunch now?"

Ciyan looked through pantry and came out looking disappointed. "There's no tuna."

"Well maybe we can have—"

I interrupted my only daughter kissing her forehead. "Don't say ice cream."

"It's in the fridge." Alice called over Jasper's chuckles from the next room.

Leah looked in the fridge and pulled out the bowl. "Nice try you two."

"You can have it after." I promised whispering in her ear.

"You joining us Nessie?" Leah offered again and my nostrils widened.

I shook my head covering my nose apologetically, the smell was pungent, and on a normal day I couldn't understand how all of the kids could eat it but today it was stronger than I had ever noticed before. "I'm going to go talk to Alice and Jasper while you kids eat." I announced walking briskly out of the room holding my breath at the same time.

I walked past them both opening the window and taking in a few quick breaths of fresh air before taking a seat by the window. Alice smiled at me sympathetically, her nose wrinkling at the smell as well. "Your senses must have heightened than we thought."

"I don't see how you guys can stand it," I muttered keeping my nose in the direction of the clean air.

Jasper chuckled closing his book. "It gets easier."

"Good because I'm about to go insane." I groaned resting my elbow on the window sill and leaning my head further out. Neither Jasper nor Alice responded, which made me turn and face them. They were having one of those silent mental conversations, and that caused a brief flicker of irritation. "What?"

Alice hesitated for a moment, and then stood up from her spot on the floor, walking towards the door. "Come Nessie, let's get some fresh air."

I stood up to follow her. "Alice…" Jasper hesitated, an anxious look causing the skin between his eyebrows to pucker.

"Oh don't worry Jasper; we won't go outside of the gates." She soothed linking arms with me. "Come, come Nessie."

Jasper said nothing more, and I followed willingly. I didn't care if we only went as far as my house, I would comply willingly. The more I sat there, the more trapped I felt. "Thanks for springing me Alice, I was getting restless."

"I know." She answered walking a brisk pace, her feet making no noise on the cobblestone beneath her.

I smiled at her omniscient tone. "You know everything Alice."

She was silent as we passed a few people in the town. I waved at a few, just before we entered the market. They greeted me with smiles that I graciously returned before noticing that Alice was still quiet. I looked down at my pint size aunt seeing a wrinkle in the bridge of her nose and a pucker between her perfect eyebrows. "Not everything." She corrected before I could ask.

"What-" I started to ask, but stopped when I realized what she was thinking, "Oh. You're upset that you can't see what's going on with me."

She nodded darkly. "But, I'll find out."

"I have no doubt of that." I answered looking at the water falling down the rocks into the pond below. It didn't take us more than a minute or so to walk through the small market place at the pace we walked. "Hopefully sooner rather than later so I don't require baby sitters. It gets rather old when you have a child of your own."

Alice rolled her eyes, her dark mood lifted momentarily. "Leah, Jasper and I are looking after the city not you. Jabril and the other are gone after all."

"Uh huh and where are they?" I asked with dry skepticism.

Alice shrugged innocently. Too innocently. She started humming sweetly as she pranced on her tiptoes matching my stride with ease.

I shook my head feeling another flash of heat rush through me. Instead of snapping at my aunt, I unzipped my hooded jacket and tied it around my waist, letting what little breeze there was make its best attempt to cool my skin.

"Hot?" She asked, stopping her humming for a brief moment. I nodded. "It's going to rain soon."

I waited to respond until I felt more like myself. "Yeah, I know I can smell it. Want to head back?"

She nodded, "We can take the longer route, around the fields if you prefer. Carlisle, Esme, and Jabril should be back in a few hours. Then if you'd like we can go for a run, along the beach if you'd like."

"That would be nice. I haven't spent much time with Rosabella." I noted. "I'm sure she'd like to run with me."

Alice nodded. "Yes, I'm sure that she would."

Just as we passed the field of fig trees the first drops of water fell from the sky. We didn't run, for shelter, we didn't increase our pace, just continued to walk. She was more silent than she normally was, and I couldn't help but feel it was because she didn't know what to say. My mind wasn't safe. No one knew how often Zach entered my mind, but it was safer to assume that all the time wasn't too far off.

"Does it hurt?" Alice asked interrupting my thoughts.

I looked down at her, little beads of water dripping off of her hair. I could see her eyes on the spot on my shoulder. "Where he bit you?"

She ran her cold fingers gently across it and I flinched. "Don't do that Alice." I hissed pulling away from her. The members of the town were walking more quickly to their homes, before the sky really opened up. So they barely gave a second glance at our exchange. She pulled her hand back looking at me apologetically. I felt bad. "I'm sorry Alice- It's just- I don't want to provoke him."

"Nessie." She groaned walking behind me making no effort to keep up with my brisk walk towards the house. "This is what he wants. To drive you away from us. We're your family."

"I know that." I sighed. "But it's not your mind and body that's violated every single time he's mad. I'm not strong enough to fight it or him so le least I can do is stop pissing him off."

Alice blurred from behind me, passing me, and stopping in front of me, and within a half of a second halting me in my tracks before opening the door. "Well we are Nessie. You need to understand that. Us together. What is stronger than that?" She was right. She waited until I silently conceded before she stepped aside letting me open the door. "Don't forget that Nessie."

"I won't" I nodded sighing in relief that the smell of tuna was long gone. Jasper didn't move from his spot on the couch, even when Alice bounded over to him.

When Rosabella rounded the corner I was unable to not jubilation. "You're back mother!"

She wrapped her arms around my legs a bit tighter than normal, and it hurt me, because it was proof that I hadn't been there for her as much lately. "Of course I'm back sweetie." I grinned picking her up and burying my head into her black hair. Her smell, stronger than I normally could recall. "I'm going to take a run on the beach later, what do you say to hitching a ride huh?"

He chocolate colored eyes beamed at me. "Really?"

"Of course really." I laughed at her. "We just have to wait for Carlisle, Esme, and Jabril."

Her mouth twisted into a pout for a second. "But it will take them forever."

Jasper and Alice laughed at her reaction and I did too. "No it won't little one." Jasper assured. "A few hours."

Rosabella thought over for a moment and Tink giggled already seeing what she was going to say. "A few hours are enough time for a movie and ice cream?"

"Ahh, the ice cream." I laughed because my daughter had no shame. "Yes ok, ice-cream it is." I agreed putting her down letting her down to grab her hand and let her drag me towards the kitchen.

I pulled a bowl from the cabinet and sat it on the table. I searched through the drawer for an ice cream scoop, as Rosabella pulled the ice-cream from the freezer. "I want chocolate this time." She declared aloud sitting the carton on the counter.

Rosabella's sweet chocolate pools stared up at me sweetly, and I felt an odd feeling twist its way up my spine. The feeling was a mixture of anxiousness, alarm, longing, and above all barbaric. Ice cream wasn't going to happen. The minute I got a hold of myself I grabbed Rosabella as gently as I could, turning into a semi blur as I bolted up the stairs. "Mommy?" My daughter's confused voice called as I raced around the room grabbing her backpack and emptying it out. She didn't need the things that were in there, books, activities, and dolls were the least of my worries.

Alice always had clothes for Rosabella but they were all to frilly, I mumbled several low curses to myself as I searched for the only pair of jeans and a few shirts she had since I didn't have time to run home. "Mommy…" She called to me again, but I didn't respond to her.

I couldn't afford to be thrown out of my trance. "Ciyan, Phillip, come here." I requested low yet urgently.

Asima's daughter and son stopped their laughter in the play room Esme designed for all the children next door. They came at an infuriatingly human pace, Leah following behind them. If my face didn't alert her, the bag in my hand sure as hell did. "What's going on?"

"We need to get them out of here." I answered bluntly.

I wasn't sure if it was Leah's voice that tipped them off of or my own declaration of leaving, but the soft wisps of wind that were Alice and Jasper were darting towards the bedroom we were all standing in. "What is it Renesmee?" Jasper asked anxiously.

"He's coming." I snapped only loud enough for the inhuman ears to understand. Rosabella and Ciyan, though confused, were now talking amongst themselves. Phillip on the other hand, was more alert. Him being only six meant nothing as I observed his tall, lean teenage sized body ridged and awaiting instruction, unsure of what the danger was but knowing there was some.

Alice's head jerked up. "That's impossible."

"No it's not."

Leah's smooth russet skin wrinkled around her mouth and forehead, a scowl drawn in her features as she sniffed. "I can't smell anything but humans and you three for miles."

"I can't smell anything." Jasper concurred, still alert.

I ran my fingers through my hair in frustration. "But I can feel him. Please trust me."

Alice scurried from her wardrobe with money in her hands slipping it into the bag in my hand. "Well we aren't taking any chances. How close is he Nessie?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "He's along the coast, on the opposite side of the dunes. At least that's what I saw."

Leah stared at me blankly. "You saw?"

"Then we'll meet him at the gates." Jasper nodded going into strategic mode not caring for an explanation at the present time. He paced back and forth with his hand on his chin. "I don't this won't end in a fight, so Nessie, you'll need to get them out of the city."

I nodded. "I'll take them to the caves, we can wait there."

"If something goes wrong…" Jasper cautioned.

I didn't need him to answer that, "I'll take the three of them somewhere safe." I wasn't worried about Rosabella, Ciyan, nor Phillip. I could protect the three of them with ease, but the townspeople. We were responsible for them until Sami, Rami and Jabril arrived back. "What about the town, we have seventy something odd-"

"We won't let them get into the city." Alice promised putting a hand on the small of my back and urging us forward. With time of the essence we needed to talk and walk.

I put the backpack on my back and took Ciyan and Rosabella's hands. "Let's go."

"Why are we going to the caves?" Ciyan inquired extending her other hand for her older brother's.

He was too focused on what was happening to take it. His "Uncle Jabril always said that if there was ever trouble to-"

"Get them to the main hall. It's big enough." Leah agreed.

Phillip nodded volunteering. "I'll do it."

"No you won't." Alice, Leah and I all said at the same time.

I added a much needed, "Asima would kill me. You're not going to be put into any danger on my watch, you're coming with us."

He conceded silently and Jasper continued. "Alice will-"

"Be at your side of course." She snapped quickly

"We don't even know what this Zach, is. I can't put you at risk." Jasper argued.

Alice ignored him. "Leah, you'll get the people in the hall."

"Jake will kill me if I don't' get a swipe at this guy." Leah argued.

"Among the three of us you're a bit more breakable Leah." Alice explained.

I nodded in agreement, though I was starting to worry for their safety as well. We reached the back wall of Esme's garden and I was once again shaken by the feeling. "You need to get to the gates now, he can see the city."

"Over you go." Phillip said helping boost Rosabella up the wall before instructing her to sit on it and wait for him to cross over. "Your turn Ciyan." Without a dress to interfere her athletic limbs climbed the wall easier and she sat patiently at the top of the wall. It took Phillip less than a minute to climb the wall and leap over without any help. "Oh Rosabella you first, jump."

Once I was sure that he had them safely on the ground I turned back to Leah. "Leah, protect this city, please."

Leah nodded. I knew she would with her life, not only was this Asima's home, someone she grew to see as a sister, but Jabil's as well, and she loved him more than anything. "If this guy manages to breach the gates, I'm back in."

Jasper nodded in agreement, "Let's go Alice."

"Be careful all of you." Alice pleaded before I leapt over the wall myself, my aunt and uncle disappearing into a blur towards the front of the house. Leah did the same at her own pace and I took one more look back before leaping over the wall with a simple push from the balls of my feet.

Phillip was already running with the girls towards the caves. They were only a quarter of a mile or so away from the back wall and it took me no more than a few strides to catch up their human pace.

"Keep running ok Phil?" I requested grabbing Ciyan and Rosabella, putting them on each hip and sprinting as fast as I could with them. It didn't take me more than three minutes to get to the caves, where I sat the girls down. They were panting and slightly panicked. "You girls sit right here ok, I'm going back for Phillip."

I waited for them to nod in understanding before I disappeared. Phillip was able to clear a full mile before I was able to come back for him. If he grew at a slow enough rate to enter a real school, he would have been a track star, I was sure of it. "Ready Phil?"

He nodded slowing down, his breathing heavy as he came to a stop. I bent my knees slightly so that he could climb on my back. He locked his legs around my waist and his arms around my neck and I took him the remaining three miles.

As soon as Phillip's feet touched the ground he was as inquisitive as ever. "If there is trouble shouldn't we go find my mom and the others?"

"We can't leave where we are." I answered sitting on a rock next to Rosabella. I didn't want to lie to them, mainly because they were intuitive enough to notice. "It's my job to keep you three safe."

Rosabella looked up at me confused. "But what about everyone else mother? Who is going to protect them?"

"Alice, Jasper and Leah have it under control." I answered her, sounding not quite so sure myself. "It's one person." I added reassuringly, "The three of them can handle one."

My body flashed ho, the mark on my shoulder pulsing, and I got the burning feeling within me again. The same one I got minutes ago that alerted me to his presence. I wasn't sure if it was due to him being so close or just the fact that I really wanted to know what was going on to the point that it was the only thing I could focus on, but whatever connection Zach and I had, was strong enough to allow me to see into his eyes for the first time.

He was walking…. No running along the beach. I could hear the sound of the ocean, the sound of his breathing, the sound of his heartbeat…and something else.

What was it? Someone following him?

And as if Zach were being controlled by me, he unknowingly gave me the confirmation I needed.

He looked to the left and right of him, and I saw three other people. A woman with long blonde hair that blew as she ran, making her hair look more like a mane than hair, and three other men. Two of them looked exactly the same. Both with brown hair and muscular features, olive toned skin, and identical right down to the moles under their right eye. The last man, had a rich brown complexion, he could have easily been an Egyptian native, his all black hair holding two long blue streaks in the front, the rest cut short. They all followed him in silence, but with a smirk on their faces I saw so often Zach.

"Zach, we should slow down, don't you smell that?" One of the male voices questioned from behind him.

Zach chuckled to himself, that laugh gave me chills. "Why slow down when that is exactly where we are going?"

"I smell vampires." Another voice, male, though lighter, declared. "The smell is all over this place. It's hard to tell how many there actually are."

The feminine voice held an accent, a thick Scottish one. "Stop worrying, it's not like they'll be able to smell us. And the timing is perfect; Zach knows what he's doing."

"That I do Jinny." Zach laughed a bit more as they slowed to a stop at the sight of Jasper and Alice.

The gates were still about two miles away, just as I thought. Jasper had every intention of stopping them long before they got there. My uncle stood there, long leonine, and showing no fear. Though I had to admit I did see traces of confusion. Alice was dwarfed next to him, but she stood at his side regardless, for a moment not looking at them, but in their direction blankly, her face as she glimpsed into the future. When her face did come to focus there was a trace of annoyance, as if the group that came for me was an inconvenience.

"You have no business here, Zach. I suggest you take your friends and go, if you value your lives." Jasper warned through gritted teeth, his body leaning slightly on the balls of his toes. An advancing stance that prepared him for anything, whether it was just to talk, to fight, or to protect Alice if needed. It was a stance he mastered a long time ago, one so subtle that you had to know him to even see the threat in it.

Amusement never left Zach's voice when he spoke, "I can't very well leave without taking with me what I came for."

"Nessie belongs with us, so there's no way that we'll ever let you get to her. You're wasting your time." Alice reiterated.

"Ah, but Alice, time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time at all." Zach disagreed.

Alice sneered, and Jasper put a hand on her shoulder, attempting to relax her. "This is a joke to you? You've been putting my niece through hell, for the fun of it?"

"It's not a joke to me at all Alice." Zach disagreed, sounding hurt by the assumption. "The only reason she is in so much pain is because of your little Cullen Clan. Now look, you both are keeping me from something that is mine, and usually I kill anything that stands in my way, but Rennie seems to have such a soft spot for you all, and I don't want her to resent me for killing you."

"You think she doesn't resent you already?" Jasper snapped. " She isn't yours and trying to take her by force isn't going to make her yours. You're going to leave this place, and you're going to release whatever connection you have with her. I'm certain you know who we are, and I'm certain you know what we are capable of, so to pursue it any further would force our hand in making us sever it."

The woman laughed, which caused the other three men to laugh as well. Though it wasn't a hard one, it was insulting, as if to say that though they were amused it wasn't worth the effort. "You don't even know what we are. There's no way you'd know how to sever the link between them."

"I think killing him should just about do it." Alice snipped.

The twins seemed to start talking about at the same time, filling each out each other's phrases. I couldn't tell which one was speaking, but their voices were the same. "You vampires are always so asinine…thinking you're the most superior species on the planet….Completely unaware what else walks among you."

Zach chuckled again, I think this time to him. "You're the creation of war Jasper. Tell me what exactly would make the perfect soldier? The ability to be untraceable? Well that's in our column. I know it's driving you crazy that as much as you sniff away, that superior nose of yours can't smell anything but your past trails of familiar scents."

"The ability to be undetectable?" The woman asked. "To walk amongst human kind, and vampire kind, and know that they can never see us as anything other than human? No sparkling skin keeping us hidden in the shadows, no human inconveniences like fragility or mortality to hold us back."

Zach continued, "Or is it the supernatural immunity to vampire talents?"

That made me freeze. I knew that he would know about my family's talents, considering he was in my head more than I was, but I didn't know that he would be immune to them. Shock also crossed my Alice and Jaspers features as well.

"Yes, you can't see our future Alice, you can't manipulate my feelings to your liking Jasper, so let's not waste each other's time, ok?" Zach suggested, sounding a tad more irritated. He looked to the west, towards the ocean and setting sun and sighed. "Rennie, I'm growing bored with this now. Are you coming to me or not?"

I was thrown for another loop. He knew that I could hear him; he knew that I could see what he saw? This entire time I thought that I watched undetectable, only to find out that he was allowing me to watch.

My aunt and uncle looked at each other in confusion, but Zach continued to talk to me. "Of course I knew you were there Rennie, it's my connection. You clearly don't think too highly of me. " He sighed sounding somewhat disappointed and insulted. " Are you coming or not, I would hate to have to come to those caves and get you myself."

He knew exactly where I was, driving me into deeper panic. Not just for the people in the city, for my daughter and my best friend's kids. All of these people could be hurt in his twisted version of 'retrieving what belonged to him'. Part of me wanted to run, but I clenched my fists and locked my joints. "No." I had to trust that Jasper and Alice would protect me, and Leah could control the city. These three were my responsibility, and I had to protect them.

"Fine, time is up, Reenie." He sighed disappointed, speaking aloud, though I was pretty sure if he thought it I could hear him all the same. "Anything that happens now is on you."

"Zach…" the twins called in unison, their voices sounding more grated and strange. "It's starting."

I could hear Zach's own heart rate speed up, his own voice straining. Was he hurt? It made me sad to think so for some odd reason, and torn also between hoping he was. "No biting and try not to kill the vampires, unless you have to." Zach ordered his face locking on Jasper and Alice, as he gave his orders.

There was curiosity in their faces, as several grunts and screeches of pain mixed with guttural snarls and the sounds of breaking. My family's eyes widened and I actually saw Alice take the tiniest of steps behind Jasper. That made me panic, and I wanted anything for him to turn his head, so that I could see what was happening.

Zach complied. He showed me the girl at his left, she was hunched over and tense at the same time. Her hands crumbling and contorting into themselves before elongating, her skin sprouting thick hair as it happened.

He turned away from her when a scream came from the opposite direction, the twins. I could only assume that they were the twins because that was where they were once standing, but massive claws seemed to embrace them on both sides as I watched one of the their perfect jaws to unhinge before reshaping itself. The other screamed in agony as their knees reversed direction and his clothing tore itself from his body as his muscles tripled the size of Emmett's.

"No." I cried to myself bringing myself to my feet. What in the hell were they? I wondered, because that transformation was nothing like I had ever seen or heard of before.

My mind wasn't quite the same as vampires, so I couldn't recall with crystal clarity, but there was a pang of familiarity in my memories. "Think, think, think." I demanded myself smacking at my forehead and pacing in the cave. Probably worrying the kids more than protecting them.

But I was vaguely starting to recall… I was asleep, barely conscious. The Volturi had left my family alone and though everyone else was still on edge and talking about it, I was happy. I was in the front room of the Cullen Manor and I could hear voices. Not all of them, the only ones that came in strong were the ones closest to me. Surrounded by my mom, dad, and well, everyone, my Jacob included.

And I could remember my mom asked my dad a question and it caused Jacob to laugh and ask her, "Real. Does that make me imaginary?"

What was the rest?

Full moon, yes. Silver bullets, no. My dad's words filled my head. Werewolf, Zach and his friends were werewolves. Real Children of the moon werewolves, and I unleashed them on Jenna. I tried to get inside his head again, but all I had were my own thoughts. "I have to go help them."

"But you said we needed to stay here mother." Rosabella protested confused by my sudden declaration.

I kneeled in front of her. "They need my help, baby. There is more than one."

"Then I'll come with you." Phillip suggested squaring his shoulders. "I can protect the citizens, that way Leah can-"

"-Absolutely not Phillip. Asima would kill me if you I let her oldest son loose in a werewolf battle." I sighed to myself, and then bit my tongue when I realized I said way too much for them to hear.

"Werewolves?" Ciyan asked unafraid.

"Like daddy?" Rosabella asked taking my hand, "Then we can go talk to them. Wolves can't fight other wolves, daddy said that-"

"No!" I snapped slightly pulling my hand away. The burning on my shoulder coursing through my entire body. Immediately regretted it, because Rosabella's face crumbled into tears, and my daughter wasn't one for tears. "I'm sorry baby. I can't help it. They aren't like daddy ok, so you can't come with me."

"I don't understand." A phrase that was rarely ever used by her. "Daddy said that-"

"I know what daddy said baby, but this time it's special." I tried to explain the best I could. I took my backpack off and handed it to Phillip, standing up. "I have to go. Phillip. I am leaving them to you. You know what to do if no one comes back."

Phillip nodded, and the moment my touch left Rosabella, Ciyan's replaced it, comforting her in ways that I couldn't at the moment. It broke my heart, but I had to be there, to help them fight. I blurred out of the cave, heading back towards the city.

I had been underestimated by everyone I loved at one point, and when my family fought the Volturi, when they needed me the most, I stepped forward without thinking. Yes I was at risk, yes I barely escaped death myself, but because of my actions, I had saved a life and proved my value. I couldn't be afraid anymore, and I couldn't run and let my family fight for me no matter how much they wanted me to.

I could smell smoke, and it pushed my feet forward, over the back wall of the city, into the back yard of my family's house. The sounds of screaming and running thought the streets propelled me out the front door.

"Are you alright?" I asked Navia, the best seamstress in the town, as I helped her to her feet. She looked at me and nodded, too in shock to respond. I could smell blood, but the source of it was from the scrape on her leg.

She stared at the shops in the square, which somehow managed to catch fire, her own amongst the burning. "How did this happen?" Her old soft voice wondered, still staring in shock.

"Navia, you have to get to the main hall." I requested as clearly as I could over the chaos.

Sagi, one of the field workers was running towards us with several women and children grouped with them. I waved him down to get his attention. "Sagi, can you get Navia to the main hall please, and see to her leg so that it doesn't get infected."

Sagi nodded ducking under her arm. "Let's go Navia." He requested tugging her as gently as he could.

And once he was in her care I had no guilt about continuing on. I instructed the other to head to the hall as I ran, not stopping. I didn't stop, until I saw one of the wolves turning a house into scraps of wood with his bare claws.

It was taller than a human, at least seven feet, and it stood on its hind legs. Shaggy tangled strands of dirty blonde fur covered its body; the only uncovered part was its muzzle and face. I looked around picking up a copper pipe making it my weapon of choice.

I sprinted at the wolf and attempted to stick it as deep as I could into the hid of its back. It didn't get that far before the long arm flung me into another house as it howled in pain, sending me though the wall of the front room. "Shit." I groaned feeling disconnected and dizzy, but in no pain.

I looked around as I pulled myself up, suddenly glad that I was sent flying through the wall. It was the house of another person that worked in the fields. I knew, because there was a machete hanging on a hook. They were often used to cut down the crops during harvesting time. I grabbed it off the wall and launched myself out of the house.

I was sideswiped before I could even point out the wolf, it seemed to recover just fine as we did. I was pinned down wolf, the heat radiating from it practically searing my skin. The nails of one claw dug into my skin with ease locking us together and keeping me down. It swiped a claw at my face and I flung my free hand up to protect myself. There was a loud screech like nails on a chalk board that was soon accompanied by more pain.

I could smell my own blood, something that had never once happened to me before, but the wolf took another swipe at my head, and I forced my arm to take the abuse. The smell of my blood mixing with her sweat drenched fur started making me nauseous.

Her hand swung again, but this time missed because she was tackled on her side by another wolf. Both of them rolled in the streets and into a building and since my attacker's nails were buried into my arm, I went with them both. The impact was a lot more painful this time, but it separated us.

I recognized the other wolf at once. It was Leah. She was back on her feet and growling before the other wolf could recover. Her growls faltered for a second when she saw that I was hurt, but only long enough for her to grab me by my clothes with her mouth and place me behind her. Almost like a cub in harm's way.

"Nessie." Alice called running over to us, and I turned around to see Jasper tossing his adversary a few feet before he was at our side as well. She tore the sleeve from her already ripped shirt and tied it around my arm.

I didn't need to be taken care of at the moment. "I'm alright."

"No you aren't. Why aren't you in the caves?" She demanded as Leah and Jasper remained on defense.

"I saw that they were werewolves, I came to help." I explained.

Alice looked at me puzzled but didn't ask. "Yes, and I'm afraid that we're a bit out numbered. We're barely on even footing." She explained as calm as possible. "They even got me see." She pointed out to the tear in her pants to a thin line that came with the reattachment of vampire limbs. "It seems our natural defenses are nothing and they're just as fast as we are. Good thing I had Jasper there."

Japer didn't view it as optimistic as she did. Jasper was scarred on almost every part of his body, though it couldn't be seen with average eyes. No matter the altercation, he always protected Alice from harm in any way shape or form, and this time, he failed in his eyes. "Look sharply." He alerted us to the five beasts that came at us from all sides.

Alice tucked me behind her and faced outward with the rest of them, "Jasper… if you love me. You'll protect this place, and Nessie with your life, don't worry about watching me."

"You're impossible Alice." Jasper grumbled low as he readied his stance and everyone else did the same.

They couldn't fight this and win. Not without the others. These wolves were strong, but they weren't unbeatable. Everything had a weakness, and if I loved them… I would do what I needed to buy my family time to find it. "Stop, stop, stop!" I demanded before anyone attacked.

I stepped between Leah and Alice, having no trouble figuring out which one was Zach. He was taller and solid black. "Cease your attack on my family and this place, and I'll go with you."

"Nessie…" Alice growled grabbing my arm and attempting to pull me back, but when I cried in pain from my shoulder injury, and a growl came from Zach, she let me go. "Nessie, you don't need to go anywhere."

"We both know that's not true Alice." I argued. "Regroup and find me later" I requested before turning back to Zach. "Do we have a deal or not?"

Zach didn't do anything, but the three of the wolves howled and backed away slowly, not turning their backs until they were at the gate, they ran through the wall and sprinted back towards the beach in a move that I could barely see, let alone comprehend. The dirty blonde one however, stayed.

She waited until there was enough space between my family and I to take a lung at me, attempting to finish what we had started. Jasper jumped forward using his own open hand to smack her into a different direction and Alive grabbed him before he could pursue her any further.

Zach let out a loud howl as the female wolf righted herself, and she growled in response before turning her back to us and sprinting towards the fence.

"No one chase after me." I demanded when I saw the lady wolf disappear. For some reason I wasn't as afraid to take the next steps forward.

Zach's werewolf form walked forward and I heard a snarl come from him as he extended his own arm. Jasper took another step forward but halted when he swooped me up into his arms completely.

"We will come for you Nessie." Jasper promised as Zach snarled and turned to sprint towards the gate, just as the rain started to fall.

I sighed, noting how carefully he held me as he practically flew heading north along the beach and the desert. It was a feeling that I use to get when my dad would take me running when I was younger. He would carry me so gently that I barely felt like I was being carried at all. It must have been difficult for him to do, especially in this form, and I was more sensitive due to the fact that I was hurt.

Where we were heading I didn't know. What would happen to me when I got there, I didn't know either. I didn't know if more werewolves were at our destination, or if the five I've seen were all that were left. I didn't know how much time my family would waste, blaming the rest of them for letting me go. I didn't even know how they would find me. The only thing I did know is that my family was coming for me, and it would be enough to endure whatever was coming.

And...Scene. Lol.

I am going to do a small recap because it has been so long since my last post. Let me explain to you my werewolves.

*they have no scent to anyone but another werewolf

* they are capable of penetrating vampire skin even in human form

* they're immune to vampire talents for the most part (this isn't a talent, it is just something that they all have.)

*They change the last 3 days of the moon. The night of the full being their strongest.

and...

*they are capable of "enthralling" their potential mates by linking them together through bites. (This was something in Bramm's stokers version of Dracula. He put Lucy under his thrall and eventually lured her to her death. But when we see him, he doesn't look much like a vampire. But more like Zach and his friends. My own twist of novels thorough time I suppose. I mean some were bound to hold truth in our twilight world.)

Everything else you will learn about them in the upcoming chapters.

Hopefully it was worth the wait. Unfortunately when I get a book idea I it stays in my head until I get it on paper. Good in a way, but bad when you have FIVE books in your head at once. (All original works) It was easier to let Lunar adversaries slip through the cracks because the stats were so low and no one was really reading it so I didn't think people would notice it's absence much. But fear not. I have finally set aside time to dedicate to it. The outline is complete right down to the last chapter, so it's just a matter of drawing out the scene for you all.

I must RE warn you. This book is ALOT darker than the twilight tone. Even darker than Facing Dusk. Stephanie Meyer had a habit of keeping all endings happy for the most part. (the characters you love never die or seriously harmed, they never stray to far from the "good" path) Not saying that it is wrong, because I love her books, hell it fueled me to write my two, but it's just not how I write. So if that's what you're be prepared to yell at me, and if not, then remember that you have all screamed at the screen reading facing dusk only to realize that everything happens for a reason. :)

One more thing.

Please please please follow me on twitter if you have one. Dinisharob I need you all to yell at me to keep me on track. Not to mention I would love to hear the speculation on where you think this book is heading. I'll respond back to all of your tweets I promise and it'll be much easier to keep everyone posted, because I hate filling the chapters with Authors notes.

Until later

-DinishaRob