A/N: Sorry about my spelling and grammar… I didn't know it was SO bad… I use a spell check through my word processor… if anyone would like to be my beta, I would be much obliged. (I would really like one!) Thanks for reading, even if it's painful. I'm glad for those of you who are enjoying it :-) (I received my first scathing review… it was a blow, (maybe that's why it's been almost two weeks since the last update) but I'll keep writing for you who have expressed your love of this story, and I have begun revisions.) A special thanks to a new reviewer Polly2010. Thank you for your reviews on almost all the updates you have read. You're sweet!

**Joy Ride**

Finding Jake, Josiah and Xenia just as Josiah was about to strip down, Emmett ran up joining the little group. Josiah stood behind a bush that came up to about his waist and waited. "So, I uh, I don't really know what I did before…" he admitted.

"For the most part until you learn to control it," Jake began, trying to mask a smirk, "typically it will be triggered by your emotion… usually its anger or alternatively, possessive protection…"

"Hey guys, what'd I miss?" Emmett asked.

"Nothing, Jo is about to phase," Xenia informed Emmett bidding the bird on her arm to fly away.

"Well that's a good reason for him being naked standing behind a bush… I was about to say…" Emmett said snickering sitting down on a felled tree covered in moss.

Xenia's soft laughter filled the space as she noiselessly leapt from her position onto a tree trunk and up into a neighboring tree. Jacob encouraged his son to take his time and not to try to force his transformation, while mentally noting his daughter bounding through the treetops.

"How do I phase on purpose?" Josiah asked.

Jake thought about it for a moment and tried to explain, "Feel the heat in your body, then concentrate on it. Try to bring it all together, using your heart as the focal point," he said trying to put words to an action that no longer required thinking on his part. "Watch me," Jake said joining him behind the brush (for his daughter's sake), and removing his jeans. The concentration was evident on Jake's face as his form slowly began to blur and he folded in slow motion to his four legged self. Josiah watched in amazement.

"That is so weird…" Emmett murmured prompting Xenia to drop from the tree top silently next to her uncle and land a punch on his shoulder.

"Hey!" he protested. Jake barked a laugh while Josiah frowned in concentration.

"You're thinking too hard," Xenia said casually, "just feel the heat come to the center of your body, then spread though you to your limbs."

"How would you know?" Em asked.

"I can feel it in daddy's mind… duh!"

They both watch on in awe as Josiah's form began to blur and disappear from his legs, his torso, shoulders and finally his glowing eyes faded into nothing... while his thoughts faded from her mind.

Emmett couldn't believe what he had seen and asked Xenia if she had witnessed the same thing. Xenia on the other hand, was in wonder as to why she could no longer hear Josiah's mind in her own. She called out to him if he could hear her but was only answered by a rolling thunder above.

"Whoa, that's awesome," Emmett said standing up, smiling looking around for any sign of his young nephew.

Xenia had to admit out loud that she could no longer hear her brother so she called out to him. However accompanying the second roll of thunder was a creeping mist into the forest.

"Whoa, Xeni, what's that?" Emmett asked stepping backward from the mist that was encroaching at his feet.

Jake sniffed at the mist but remained still, are you controlling the mist? He asked his son through the subliminal connection they had.

I guess so… I'm not trying to… Josiah replied and as soon as he became aware of it, immediately the mist began to rise gradually forming a dense fog. The same occurred when Josiah thought of movement. Mentioning it to his father, a whooshing sound began to move through the skinny trees of the woods.

"That wind is him, daddy?" Xenia asked out loud.

"Wait, can he talk to you when he's a wolf?" Emmett asked Xenia.

"Yea, the same as grandpa can," she said, meaning Edward.

"Can you talk to your brother too?" he asked still looking around for any sign of Josiah.

"No, which is really strange," Xeni admitted.

"Guess he's completely invisible then…" he mused, when to his utter astonishment in the light haze of the fog, something began to form in front of his eyes like a figure in smoke. "Whoa," Emmett hollered, jumping back from the apparition.

Jake trotted over to the spot making the mist swirl with his approach while Xenia inquired as to what had happened.

"You didn't see that?"

"See what?" Xeni asked frowning, still slightly bewildered that she was unable to have any realization of Josiah's presence.

"There was a figure in the mist," replied Emmett, again eyeing his surroundings. "Was that you Josiah?" he called out.

A deep rumbling in the heavens sounded again as flashes of lightning shown through the trees. Xenia smiled as she jumped through the trees looking all around but finding no physical sign of her brother. "What's with the lightning?" she asked dropping back through the canopy near her father and uncle.

Lightning crashed above their heads, causing the earth to tremble, as the wind howled loudly through the forest like the sound of crashing waterfalls.

Jake disappeared momentarily and returned with his legs sheathed in jeans in awe, "He can be completely invisible to you, but still connected to the pack while in spirit form. It's amazing…"

"Can you see him?" Xeni wondered.

"If he wants to make himself seen, he can. The figure in the mist was him alright, but he had been standing there long before Emmett became aware of him," Jake explained. "He moves as the wind, but at the same time the wind is obedient to him even the lightning. It's so much like the old stories… I hardly know what to make of it, except that he's perhaps an evolution of our species."

As Jake was enumerating the possibilities, Josiah appeared before them as his body began to take its form. "Oh my god Xeni, that's the most amazing thing ever… I can't wait till you phase and experience it for yourself," Josiah enthused.

"Do you think I'll be able to, daddy?" Xeni inquired.

"I really have no idea honey, I don't see why not…"

"I can't wait to tell Jasper this one…" Emmett laughed and was immediately gone from view as he was a blur of motion back toward the property.

Seth and Embry heard Emmett hooting with laughter with Jasper when Sasha sauntered down the hall to fetch them for the trip. "You boys ready?" she asked looking Seth and Embry from top to bottom. Their similar specialty denim was accented nicely by their shirts.

"Are you ready for all of this?" Embry asked pushing up his the sleeves of his skin tight black shirt grinning then received a swift punch in the shoulder from Seth.

"Let's roll," Sasha said turning around swaying her hips. Seth was certain that black jeans and a little leather jacket never looked so good. "Hope you boys know how to ride," she said smiling pulling on leather gloves stepping into the garage.

Sasha kicked her Harley to life inviting Seth to hop on the bike next to hers and Embry to one on her other side while Damian opened the garage door and joined them bedecked in denim and leather as well. "Try to keep up," he said, tossing the guys jackets then he straddled his hog and it roared to life.

"Race you," Damian challenged Sasha, pushing his glasses into place and revving the engine and speeding out taking the lead with Sasha following him. Speeding off into the eastern horizon the party of four disappeared from view.

"You totally cheated!" Damian complained at a laughing Sasha who was leaning against a Cobalt Blue GSX-R1000.

"You never stipulated any rules baby!"

"Where did you change bikes?" Seth asked pulling up.

"Montreal," she said smiling. "You're welcome to a rematch anytime you like big brother."

"You're gonna meet my other sister," Damian said changing the subject and dismounting his bike in front of a high rise in downtown Manhattan. After handing his keys to the valet, he signaled Seth and Embry that they should do likewise then after kissing his sister on the cheek he separated from her and crossed the street between traffic.

"I'll see your cute butt back here in an hour," Sash said to Seth checking him out once more and gracefully insinuated herself into the revolving door of the building opposite of the one Damian had headed for.

They all dressed for dinner and as promised returned to the lobby of Sasha's building.

"May I help you gentlemen?" the concierge asked the group of well dressed young men, "Ah, Mister Dantès, how are you this evening?"

"Very well thank you. We are waiting for my sister. I'll take my usual table in the lounge."

"Please, right this way. Will you have your usual drink sir?"

"Please."

"May I have drinks brought for your guests as well?" the man in the black suit asked. Damian motioned with his hand toward Seth and Embry who both ordered Captain Morgan and Coke.

Their drinks had only just arrived when Sasha appeared in the bar accompanied by her equally stunning sister. Damian rose from his chair at their arrival to the table, and the boys followed suit.

"Seth, Embry, may I present my sister Sofia," he said graciously. The women that stood before them rivaled each other in beauty. Sasha had her short black hair laid down with bangs hanging over her eyes, while Sofia's platinum hair fell in an identical cut. Standing at the same height, Sofia in a short red dress, Sasha in a short black dress their legs seemed to go on for miles in their glory to their sexy stilettos.

"Pleased to meet you, Sofia," Seth said with a smile but immediately turned his attention to Sasha. "You're stunning tonight," he said bowing over her hand. Embry tore his eyes away from Sofia's face to notice Seth's odd gesture, but only made a face in puzzlement. "I saw that in a show once and I always wanted to do it," Seth admitted with a smirk after kissing her hand.

"Well technically, you're not supposed to actually kiss my hand," Sasha corrected.

"Why can't you just take the compliment? Do you always have to correct everybody?" Sofia murmured to her sister.

"It would be nice if you'd follow your own advice," she murmured back.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Sofia," Embry said accepting her offered hand.

To his surprise she pulled him close for a touch of his cheek to hers then touching the other side of her cheek to his she met his smile with hers, "They do both sides in Europe. I just got returned from Italy."

"Careful," Damian warned whispering to Embry, "she's dangerous…she'll have you hypnotized before you even know what hit you."

Sofia tossed her head back with a quiet enchanting laugh, "Don't tell him such things," she chided her brother. "Well it seems we're a girl short, where's your date Damian?"

"She can't come to New York without her parents I'm sure, besides it's probably way past her bed time," Sasha said snickering.

Damian ignoring Sasha's remark walked up to the bar, whispered something in the ear of a pretty girl and returned to the table with her on his arm. "Everybody this is… Chandra," he said with a sly grin. "Are we ready?" he asked dropping a hundred dollar bill on the table and walking toward the exit.

Seth and Embry exchanged glances but said nothing as they followed him out arm in arm with their ladies to a waiting limousine.