Chapter 3 About training, school and friends
I glanced nervously around the room at all the adults that were staring at me. On the right there was Harry Clearwater, Quil Ateara IV, Lucas Uley and his sister Sue Clearwater. On the left there was Allison Uley, Joy Ateara and of course mom and dad.
To sum it up, the Quileute council members and the once who knew about the legends being real, were all gathered here at two in the morning to hear what I had to say.
Let me tell you how I got in this situation. After my dream/vision whatever thing happened I woke up suddenly. Gwen had told me to tell the council about me being the "Spirit Guardian" (yeah, still getting used to that), so I jumped out of bed and ran into my parents room.
I jumped on there bed and rather violently shook my father awake. 'Dad, you have to wake up! It's important!'
My dad grunted and looked up at me with sleepy eyes. 'What is it sweetheart? Can't it wait until tomorrow?'
I shook my head quickly. 'Daddy, I have to see the council, Gwen told me so!' My mother sat up and looked at me strangely. 'Who is Gwen?'
'The old woman from my dream! She told me to talk to the council about me being a Spirit Guardian, or something.'
Both my parents froze at my words. There were both suddenly wide awake. My father looked at me seriously. 'Go put on something, we're going to the Clearwater's house.'
After making sure that there was someone to look after my sisters and Jake, who were still soundly asleep, dad called a few people and brought us to the house of Harry Clearwater's family.
'Now Freya' Harry broke the silence 'why don't you tell us what happened.' I took a deep breath and looked at him. 'I had a dream, and an old woman named Gwenelda visited me.'
Harry nodded. 'What did she tell you?'
So, I told him pretty much everything that Gwen told me, except for the whole 'old soul' thing, I still had to ask her about that next time.
After my story was finished, they stared to murmur under each other. My dad cleared his throat and everyone quieted down.
'Does this mean that the cold ones will be coming to Forks again? A Spirit Guardian only appears when they came.' Sue asked.
'No, it does not mean that they are coming now, it just means that they may come in the future.' I told her. I blinked a few times after I said that. How did I know that?
All the adults just nodded and accepted my answer, as if it was normal to listen to a toddler. But I suppose they didn't see me as a toddler anymore.
Gwen had been the previous Spirit Guardian, when Ephraim Black was an alpha. She told me that the current guardian always got to speak to the previous one. Something about reincarnation and foresight. Ironically enough for me, I was already reincarnated.
The Spirit Guardian was never questioned and always respected by the tribe, so that was the reason why everyone in this room just accepted everything I told them.
I was myself still getting used to this whole thing. I mean, I would be able so see glimpses of the future. I am not sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
My father had told me, on the way to the Clearwater's, that he had a feeling that I may be a Guardian when he saw that I was born with one silver eye.
'Well then, I think it would be good for you to start your training from tomorrow on.' My dad smiled at me.
Wait, training? What training?
'Aargh...you can't be serious..'
With a hard hit I fell on the ground, I breathed in and out and looked up to Brandon, who was looking at me with a grin on his face. He just loved seeing me suffer.
After the whole council plus family meeting, my father told me I would be brought to a teacher who, I quote "would learn me the necessary skills I would need", which turned out to be self defense lessons.
At least I think that is what Brandon is teaching me, some days he made me exercise and learned me how to defend myself and other days he made me meditate and "feel my inner strength" , whatever that meant.
When I asked him why he learned me all of this, since you know, I can't defeat vampires with this, he just smiled his mysterious smile and went on with his job.
Brandon was a Quileute man in the forties, who was a descendant from the Black family from a few generations back. I didn't really knew much about him, he was a guy with a few words and liked beating me too a pulp. He was a fantastic fighter and would probably had made an awesome wolf if he had been a shapeshifter.
My father had also started to learn me the Quileute language, which was no longer learned at our school, only the elders knew it these days. Although I don't know what I would do when I started school.
Oh and the explanation my father had given my sisters and Jake for me suddenly being gone for half of the day and having lessons with dad, was that the council had decided to choose me as the person who would make sure the legends and our language didn't die out. Jake and Rachel both just nodded bored, but Becca had just narrowed her eyes. She was probably suspicious because this had came our of nowhere.
'Alright, that's enough for today, don't have your first day at school tomorrow?' Brandon asked me. I signed and sat up.
'Yeah, for me and Jake.' I would have Kim with me and Jake would have Quil with him, so we both had our friends. Doing elementary school all over again, yay.
Oh and Gwen had also started visiting me in my dreams all the time. For now, she only told me stories about when she was a Spirit Guardian and how she had lived. She knew I was already reincarnated, but she didn't ask me anything about my former life, which I was thankful for, since I didn't want to tell her I knew what would happen because this was actually from a book.
For now I didn't have any visions of the future, but she told me that I was still young and it would come after time.
Well, time to prepare for school.
It was...chaotic, to say the least. I mean all the children were loud and obnoxious and liked to go around in groups. Jake met up with Quil and I met up with Kim quickly, as we made it to our first class.
I'm not going to go in detail, so the lessons were really boring. I mean it was like learning everything all over again. Most of the time I just made it seem like I was listening. Since we were in the school of the reservation, it was only with kids of the Quileute and Makah tribe.
You have no idea how happy I was that I had Kim, she was the only one who wasn't afraid to approach me. Yes, the other kids were afraid of "the Black girl with the weird eyes". Even there parents looked at me weird. The adults didn't dare say anything to me, something told me it had to do with the Councils influence.
I made it a habit of glaring at everyone who would stare at me. Kim was a very shy girl and didn't speak to any other children but me, so I made sure the other kids didn't bully her.
But let's talk about Kim. She was a very smart girl. Always walking around with her nose in a book. She had an habit of telling me random facts about different things that she had read.
About history or mathematics and sometimes about the Quileute tribe. So when I told her that I was having lessons with the Council, about the tribe and learning our language, she got really enthusiastic and told she was happy that I was so interested in the topic.
'I mean, the Elders are the only ones who still speak the language, and all the rest have already forgotten it or just don't want to learn.'
I swear she talked like an adult. Way to smart for her age.
Oh and I forgot about the most important thing.
Her crush on Jared Cameron.
Since the first time she saw him, which was on the first day of school, she had a gigantic crush on him. She would get all red in the face if he would walk by us, so I'm pretty sure she would faint if he talked to her.
It took her a while to get used to his presence, probably when she found out he didn't even now she existed. Poor girl.
Oh, and Jacob and Quil met Embry so they had a habit at hanging out at our house all the time now.
Embry was more shy and reserved that Quil who was very loud and liked embarrassing people. I didn't talk to them often, but if I did, it was just small talk.
And then a year after we started school, Bella arrived.
I stared blankly at the girl in front of me. She looked exactly like I thought she would.
Brown hair, pretty face and big doe like eyes. She was feeling uncomfortable by my stare, but I couldn't help myself. She was the main character of Twilight.
If I may be so bold, I wasn't the biggest fan of her. Trough out the book she made some stupid decisions and sounded in one word...boring. She had no interest except Edward, it was her whole life was only about him. Like, what did she even do before she met him?
So I didn't dislike her, but I didn't like her either. She was like that random student in the class that you didn't saw often and just ignored if they did come.
'Freya, stop staring at the girl.'
My fathers voice finally went through to me. He was standing on the side with Charlie Swan, they were smiling at us while drinking there beer. Both Becca and Rachel had taken a liking to Bella so they were talking to her now. Jake was shyly looking at her from the side, and didn't dare approach her.
Maybe it's just me, but I did not feel like being friends with this girl.
I shrugged my shoulders and walked away from Bella. I'm sure Jake would be able to entertain her. Since his crush on her would start.
I had something to talk about to Gwen.
'And that's how I pretty much now everything.'
I waited for Gwen to respond. She had been silent through out my I-am-reborn-in-a-book-slash-movie-from-another-world story.
Gwen looked thoughtful for a moment. 'Have you read those books?' I blinked for a moment. 'Eh...not really, I read the first book because I was curious about it, but not the other three, I have seen the movies, if you want to know. So I do know what is going to happen.'
She nodded then. 'Those books or movies, did not mention a Spirit Guardian?' I shook my head. 'So that means that you being here, has changed the story.'
'Oh. So I have changed it? This means there are going to be other changes?' I asked.
'We do not know for sure yet, you are going to find that out by yourself.' she said.
'For now, you do not need to do anything, but if you see a change in the story, then tell it to me immediately.'
I nodded at her. It would take a while before the story would start.
So I would just prepare myself for it.
I'm alive!
Sorry for not posting this earlier, to busy with well..life.
Enjoy!
