Chapter Eighteen: The Whole Legend
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AN: Ok everyone this chapter is going to throw you for a loop so bear with me and enjoy the chapter. Let me know in a review please because I love reading what you think.
Embry's POV
The flames in the bonfire rose up and flew out but not far enough to touch anyone. In the fire, we could see the outline of a cliff and trees. There was also movement on the cliff silhouette of a girl and a crouched figure fighting. The figure lunged at the girl and they fell into furious waves bellow. Everyone watched afraid for the girl; I was worried and curious of whom the girl was.
I looked to Marie with a questioned expression. Her eyes were still the glowing crystal blue and that's when she spoke.
"That's where my story begins," Marie told us with an ancient undertone to her sweet voice. "That was me on cliff; I had been hunting a vampire that had attacked me on my way to visit some family. He cornered me on the cliff and the last thing I remember was him knocking us both over the cliff's edge over there," Marie pointed to the cliffs the Pack goes cliff diving on. "When I woke up, I was being carried by a man about eighteen," she continued and as she continued the flames in the fire changed to Marie being carried by a man in animal skins and wooden jewelry that looked like us but his hair was pulled back by a leather tie.
The man was walking away from the beach and into our small settlement. The flames moved with scenes that Marie was showing us. She was showing everyone her memories through the fire.
"Father, I found her washed up on the beach. What shall I do with her?" the man asked the elderly looking man who was sitting in front of the fire with an elderly woman next to him.
The man wore a headdress that showed his place as chief and the woman next to him must be his wife.
"Taha Aki, take her to the medicine men. She does not look well," the woman told him standing up.
The woman stepped up to her son and wiped Marie's wet hair from her face. Taha Aki did as his mother told him and the scene change to him laying Marie down on a knitted blanket. As soon as he put her down, she began to levitate. He jumped back real quickly surprised.
"What? Never met a witch before," Marie asked as she rolled over to look at him. "I sense something magic about you and the men here. What is that, young one?"
"Who are you calling young one? You look to be my age," Taha Aki told Marie confused.
"I may look it but I'm about a thousand years older," Marie told him as she sat up still levitating.
"What is your name?" he asked Marie.
"My name's Marie, Taha Aki. It's a pleasure to meet you and thank you for bringing me here," Marie told him.
The silhouetted flames went blank and everyone seemed to come out of a trance. Marie's blue eyes looked at us.
"That was when we first met of course, I sensed there was something unique and magical in your tribe," Marie told everyone. "We became great friends since then. I was there for him through everything and he was a very peaceful man. When he became chief, he named me as his right hand advisor though I spent most of my time with the medicine men taking care of the elderly and sick. My magic and spells helped with keeping them healthy and making dying less painful for them. Everything was good until the day Utlapa thought he'd take the tribe over," Marie finished telling us before the flames burst again and another scene began.
In the silhouette of the flames, Marie was seen waiting for someone at the bottom of a mountain. Taha Aki walked out from behind some trees. His expression was slightly off.
"Taha Aki, how did patrol go? Was there any problems?" Marie asked him.
He looked at her and she noticed that something in his eyes. Marie began to back away towards the tribe.
"You're not Taha Aki. What did you do, Utlapa, with his spirit?" Marie asked furious.
Utlapa lunged at her and wrapped his hand around her throat, knocking her to the ground as he pulled his dagger out. He held it at her heart and pressed it into the fur dress she was wearing.
"I can't kill you because it would look suspicious if I came back without you but if you say one thing to anyone," he threatened, putting the dagger to his throat, "I'll cut his throat."
"You'll never get away with this, Utlapa," Marie hissed at him.
Utlapa put the dagger to her waist and sliced her waist. Marie sucked in a sharp breath of hair and her hands flew to her waist as the blood began to pool from her waist. When she looked back at him, he had a sadistic look on his face.
"I've had worse," Marie told him as her hands glowed lavender and the cut sealed to a scar and the dress sealed.
"Oh, I think I'll take care of the tribe from here but you'll have to be by me for a little longer for show," Utlapa said as he stood up and Marie stood up.
They began to make their way to the tribe when Marie heard a whisper in the wind.
"Marie, help me," Taha Aki's voice whispered in her ear.
"Follow the wolves," she whispered.
Utlapa turned around then and glared at her then. He grasped her wrist roughly and yanked her towards him.
"Come, witch," he grunted.
I growled out when the silhouette faded and kissed Marie's temple to make sure she was safe in my arms. I held on to her waist when I felt the scar that was left from the dagger and lifted her shirt a little. The fire lit her skin to where everyone could see the scar.
"I'm alright. It didn't completely heal because it was too deep," Marie told us as I put her shirt down and kissed her neck. "You know the rest of what happened."
"You're the reason we shift? You gave him the idea?" Sam asked curiously.
"Yes, he had seen me shift once and asked what it was like. I told him it was like sharing a body with a wolf. You give your sense and instincts over to it but not your thoughts. You share a spirit with it and that's why witches and wizards call it a spirit animal but only masters have spirit animal," Marie told him.
"But doesn't that mean Bella has a spirit animal, too? You said she is the master of potions. What's Bella's animal?" Billy asked her.
"She is what the tribe called the Firebird, a phoenix; unstable, unpredictable and uncontrollable. She may not have her magic but she still has her spirit animal. All I have to say is don't piss her off. It takes a lot of my magic just to get her to shift back to human," Marie warned us.
Everyone was quiet after she told us this and so she continued. The flames flared out and showed an older Taha Aki and elderly woman. We knew this had to be him and his third wife.
Marie sat to Taha Aki's right, gazing at his lap anxiously while his third wife held his hand and rubbed it. Marie clasped his shoulder and rubbed it when two young men came up carrying one more man.
"Father, I am sorry but we've lost one of our brothers. We found what was taking those women Makah and Hoh tribes but don't know what it is," the young man told Taha Aki.
"Racu, can you describe it to me?" Marie asked worried as they laid the body in front of Marie.
She began to examine him and reattach broken bones and seal his skin up.
"Maybe you might know what it is, Aunt. It was a man but he was so cold with red eyes and hard skin," Racu told Marie.
"A vampire, some tribes call them Cold Ones. They feed off blood from their victims," Marie said to him and gazed at Taha Aki. "Racu, did the male have a female with him?"
"No, Aunt, it was just him. Why?" he asked.
"Just trying to make sure he didn't have a mate. Did you tear him apart and burn the piece?" Marie asked anxious.
"Yes, Aunt, the piece started moving after we started pulling apart and so we burned them," Racu told her.
She gazed down at the dead body of the man and said, "Rest in peace, young Bautra. Sanua, take your brother, prepare him for burial."
"Yes, Aunt," the youngest man said and picked up the body after Marie kissed his closed eyes.
The third wife kissed her figures and placed it on the body as the man passed her. She lowered her head as silent tears fell from her eyes.
The scene changed to an early morning sunrise, Marie stood in the opening of a tent. She walked to the center of the tents where Taha Aki and his third wife were when screaming began. They looked down to the beach where a woman was throwing some of the tribe people around and screeched. Racu and Sanua ran up to their father to see what to do and Marie's eyes became blue.
"Looks like that vampire did have a mate," Marie said.
"I'm sorry, Aunt Marie. I didn't know," Racu told Marie.
"I'll help you," Marie told them and Taha Aki and his wife looked at her worriedly.
Marie followed after the men that she called her nephews. She transformed into her wolf form soon after the men. We saw as they fought but lost and when Marie transformed back she crawled to her nephews to check on them.
"Racu," she said moving his arm as the third wife ran over to them. "Anya Su, I'm sorry."
"He's gone isn't he, Marie?" she asked as tears welled up in her eyes.
"I'm sorry, Anya Su," Marie repeated.
Anya Su began to cry as Taha Aki came up to see them. Marie looked at him with tears in her eyes and he became angry and charged at the vampire, transforming. Marie crawled over to Sanua and examined him. When she looked at Taha Aki, he was losing the fight. Her eyes turned blue as she began to use magic but then she became weak.
"Marie, let me help," Anya Su told her.
"How, Sister?" Marie asked as she turned her eyes to Anya Su.
"Like this, Sister. I love you and Taha. Tell him that for me please," Anya Su said as Marie looked at her clearly.
The dagger was in her hand and Marie went to say "No", Anya Su had already plunged the dagger into her chest. Her hands fell from the dagger as her body crumbled. Marie twisted her body around quickly to catch her. The vampire's head looked over at them and that's when Taha Aki killed her.
The flames went back to normal and Marie was crying in my arms. She was part of our history, created a lot of our history for us. Marie finally calmed down long enough to talk, she looked over at Sue.
"Mrs. Clearwater, your name has a meaning and only every few hundred years; a female child is named Su. It means bravery. Anya Su, Taha Aki's imprint, her name meant heart of bravery but I have yet to meet a woman that has been given the whole name. Your name is something to be proud of," Marie told her as tears came to Sue's eyes.
After saying that, Marie's body slumped into my arms and she became paler. Just like in her memory, she was weak from over exerting her magic use. Sam, Emily, Leah, and Sue jumped up to see what maybe wrong with Marie. I lifted her up in my arms and ran into the wood with Sam following behind me.
"I'll help you get her home, Embry," Sam told me.
"Can I help, too?" Leah asked from behind us.
"Uh, sure, you can lift her on my back when I shift," I told her confused a little about why she's being a little nice.
"Alright," she said as she put her arms out to hold an exhausted Marie while Sam and I shifted.
Leah backed up a little and situated Marie on my back to where she could hold on to some of my fur while she laid down. Leah quickly shifted and stood to my left while we took off. I had seen while Leah held her that she had whispered something into Leah's ear and I wondered what it was. Leah gave me a sad smile before showing me.
"Leah," Marie had whispered in a weak voice.
Leah looked down at her face and saw a worried expression but hidden in it was a sad smile.
"It's never too late to fix a broken relationship."
AN: I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter. It took me all day to type it and figure out how I was going to make it work. The meaning of the name I made up and the names I made up, I just needed to give it more character. I would really like it if you reviewed and tell me what you think. Like it, hate it; let me know because I want to know. It took me forever to figure out how I was going to do this chapter. If you have any questions ask me, and I'll answer it in the AN in the next chapter.