Cash took the kids inside the Cullen's house to play, and Darius, Jayson, Jayme, Zakree, and Myself stood outside in front of the gathering of mythical creatures. I smiled at that thought and took my position at the head.
"As you all know I came to live here five years ago when most of my pack perished, including my parents. What ya'll don't know is how my pack was destroyed. This is a complicated thing for me to tell so please refrain from speaking until I have finished."
I looked at each remaining member of my pack they nodded to me in encouragement and patiently waited for me to begin my tale.
"It all started around my sixteenth birthday. Everything was going perfect for me. Darius and I were betrothed, I was alpha. My pack was flourishing and everyone fared well under my command. As ya'll are the La Push Tribe we are the Rushing Water Tribe. We shared Montana with one other pack vicious packs that are like the werewolves you see in movies. They killed humans for sport did crazy things during the full moon.
There was a peace treaty in between our two Tribes. Big Mountain Tribe would not come onto Rushing Water land as long as the members of Rushing Water stayed on their side of the line.
There was a young female that was expelled from the BM tribe. Bailey. She was small for a BM hunter and kind hearted unlike the others. She sought to become a member of our pack and I allowed her to. She swore her loyalty to me and began serving the tribe. Running patrols, sitting guard. Darius imprinted on her when he saw her.
Darius and Bailey resisted the imprint at first but finally Darius spoke to me. I believe the words he used was "Cade I love you, and I always will. But, my bond with Bailey is not something I will give up for you. Your not worth it." His words were harsh, and not needed I had been planning on releasing as soon as I found out about their imprint.
The packs continued to live in harmony for the next few weeks. Cash, Jayson, Zakree, Jamye, and Darius were gone when it happened. I was planning on moving the pack to a more secure location. I still remember the screams of terror my pack made when BM stormed through our reservation. I gathered my warriors and we stood ready to defend the village. We were quickly conquered. They killed everyone. Every man, women, and child. Except me. They left me bleeding and broken in the middle of the shattered village. I managed to pull myself to my feet and set everything on fire. I ran through the blaze and burned parts of my body and a good portion of my hair off. I would have given anything to save my pack. A few months later after several investigations turned up nothing, I sent Darius and the boys down to find a suitable location for us to live. I had no choice but to live with a family member. Somehow the BM tribe has found out our location and will stop at nothing to ensure that every last member of my pack has been killed. Which by default includes Jade, and Chase because they are both under my protection. They have Seth, but they won't kill him. They'll lord him over us. Try to provoke us into making rash decisions. We are going to need help. We won't be able to conquer them alone.
I turned and walked from the group. I picked up Jade and Sara. "Can I go to?" Little Chase ran up and looked me pleadingly in the eyes. "Ask your Momma Sweetie." He came back a few minutes later with an affirmative.
I loaded them in the car and drove. Edward and Renesmee knew what I was doing. I stopped my car, which I had left at the Cullen's last time I had been there because Jade wanted to run. I got the three children out of the car and led them through the terminal.
Chase handed me a manila envelope and I smiled at the contents. I extracted from the envelope four passports. One for each of the kids and myself. "Alice." I whispered and bought four tickets. We sat down and waited until our flight number was called. As I settled us into the seat Chase looked at me. "Are you going to stay to?" I shook my head and looked into his expressive chocolate brown eyes. "No Chase. I have to go back. They will take care of you three until I can retrieve you, and if nobody comes back they will ensure you are well taken care of." He nodded and the three children drifted into a deep sleep as the plane took off.
We landed and I rented a car. We drove for awhile, before entering a pair of gates. I looked at the clock tower and smiled as a hooded figure met me. I embraced the scarred figure and looked into her baby blue eyes. "Welcome to Volterra, Cade." I smiled at her warmly. "He's fine. I still think you should go back, but I will never break our oath." She smiled through the bandages on her face. "If all goes well I will be after the bandages come off. If not I'll stay here. They kids will need a werewolf to help them along the way anyhow." I shook my head and thought of the one she left behind. "Let's get this over with." She nodded and took us to the dark tunnel that would hopefully lead us to my children's protector.