A/N: Sorry it's been so long since I've updated. I had testing stuff to worry about. This chapter will be longer as an apology. Chapter summary; The pride, the pack and the Cullens all gather at the bonfire. Scarlette finally tells Alice about the imprint *gasp* and we meet the rest of the pride. As always I do not own twilight or it's characters I do however own the plot and any OC's mentioned. There will be a special guest this chapter promise.
Scarpov
When the others left I asked Jake if we could talk. He nodded his head and told me to follow him to the beach. Dawn said she would get the members of the pride that were in New York and Europe and would meet me at the river with them. I nodded and she vanished in a swirl of white lights.
"What was that?" I heard Seth ask.
"That was orbing. It's a magic thing, don't worry about it. She does it all the time." I tell them.
They all nod in acceptance and I start to follow Jake down to the beach. When we got to the beach Jake and I sat down on one of the logs.
"So what did you want to talk about?" Jake asks.
"The Cullens." I answer. He doesn't tense up like I expected him to.
"What about them?"
"You have a treaty with them. I was wondering what the details were."
"Right, well as long as they don't feed off or change a human we don't kill them. Some of them are allowed on our land but not all of them." He tells me.
"Which ones are allowed over?" I ask.
"Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie, Emmet, Kate, and Alice. Carlisle is allowed because, well, he is a doctor, Esme because she is Carlisle's mate, Emmet because he helps us train, Kate because she is Emmet's mate, Rosalie because she is Bella's imprint, and Alice because she is just fun to hang out with, unless your shopping with her." He tells me.
So all but three are allowed on the reservation. I can figure out why Jasper and Willow aren't allowed but I'm curious about why Edward isn't. I'll ask later.
"Now that that's out of the way, I have a favor to ask of your Alpha."
"You're looking at the Alpha." He says proudly.
"Good for you Jake. I didn't really like Sam anyway. He seemed to think that I was an incompetent Alpha because I'm female."
"Sam was an asshole that didn't care about what happened to the pack." He says angrily. "Now what is the favor you need to ask?"
"I need you to allow all of the Cullens over for the bonfire tonight. Before you say no let me explain why I'm asking. I found my imprint and not only does my pride need to know but so does her family which means all of the Cullens must be there." I say to him.
"You imprinted on Alice didn't you." He states more than asks.
"Yes and I would like her entire family's approval before anything happens between us. I have a plan it just needs some fine tuning from my daughter."
"Wait.. won't Alice know because of her visions?"
"No. She can't see you or your pack, so as long as I decide that you are there when I tell her she won't know a thing."
"Very clever on your part. How are you going to tell her?"
"That my friend, is a secret."
I smile at him when he pouts. I just shake my head and get up. Jake gets up and hugs me telling me that he'll see me soon. After he let go I ran toward the trees and shifted. I started to run to the Cullen mansion and let my thoughts drift off into song lyrics. I was half way through 'Just the way you are' when I bounded into the Cullen's front yard. I quickly shifted back and went up the steps to knock on the door. Before I could knock the door opened and Esme greeted me with a warm motherly hug.
"Hello Esme."
"Hello Scarlette. Are you here for Bella?"
"Yes and no. I actually need to speak with your family."
"Come on in. I'm sure they are all in the living by now."
"Thank you."
She stepped to the side and let me in. She quickly shut the door and led me into the living room and sure enough everyone was there. Well almost everyone. I didn't see Alice anywhere. I was about to ask where she was but her voice stopped me.
"I'm here Scarlette. No need to worry." She says before sitting down next to Kate.
I held back my growl because I knew that Kate was Emmet's mate. I saw Rosalie was curled up to Bella and they were both smiling in content.
"Now that everyone is here I can say what I needed to. My pride has been invited to a bonfire on La Push and they said imprints were welcome. I also talked to the Alpha and got his permission for all of you to join."
The resulting chaos of noise hurt my sensitive ears.
"I get to see my wolf buddies." Emmet.
"What could be so important that we all need to be there." Kate.
"Maybe I can convince Leah to go shopping with me." Alice.
"I was going either way." Rosalie.
"I hope no one is hurt." Carlisle.
"I should make some food." Esme.
"This will be a first." Jasper and Willow.
"NO WAY IN HELL AM I GOING OVER THERE!" Edward shouts.
"No need to yell." I tell him. "Now why do you not want to go over?" I ask him calmly.
"There thoughts are vulgar and they are nothing but overgrown dogs."
"Well you're going so deal with it and keep in mind I consider some of them my family. You speak wrongly of them again and I will end you." I tell him.
I look to Carlisle and see him nod his head in consent to the threat I made on his sons life. I look back to Edward and see him pouting like a child.
"Well let's get this show on the road. Dawn is meeting us at the river with the rest of the pride that was still in New York and Europe."
They all nod and we leave the house. Once outside Bella and I shift and then we take of towards the rez. We make it to the river and I see Dawn standing with 22 werecats and a male and female around her. I hear them start to growl.
(Pride mind: Scarlette Bella Rae ALPHA COMMAND)
What the hell are you doing with vampires?
Your question will be answered later.
YOU WILL ALL STOP GROWLING NOW. THEY ARE BELLA'S IMPRINTS FAMILY.Now we will go to the bonfire and act civil with the pack and the Cullens.
"What was with all the growling?" Alice asked.
"Some of our pride members don't like vampires. Scarlette had to use her Alpha command to get them to stop." Dawn explained for me.
Thank you Dawn.
"No problem boss." She said with a grin.
I rolled my eyes and continued to the rez. Once I got to the river bank I saw Jake waiting for us.I leap over to his side and my pride and the Cullens follow. We all follow Jake at a slow pace down to the beach and I see about a dozen guys and 6 girls. I recognize a few of them from when I was here when Jake was a kid. Once we get to the beach all of the werecats shift back to there human forms. We all gather around the fire with some of us left standing. Jake saved me a spot next to him because at gatherings such as this Alpha's must sit next to each other. It's a very old werecreature/shifter law. I noticed Alice looking for a place to sit so I just pulled her onto my lap. She gave a little squeak of surprise but got comfortable anyways.
"Before we start telling the legends of our people introductions are in order." Billy called out and everyone stopped talking. "Scarlette you are the only one who needs to introduce people seeing as the pack knows your pride but the Cullens do not."
I gave him a nod. "I am Scarlette Evans and this is my pride. We are known as the Shadow Pride. I am Alpha, you all know my Beta Bella, her twin sister Anabeth, and their father Charlie, next in line to be Alpha is my daughter Skyler, then there is Dawn, Sage, Chris Hale and his imprint Felicity Jade, Bre, Danny, Kylie White and her younger brother James White, Rae and Isobel Lightwood or as we call them the twins, Kyle Kennedy, Liam Morgenstern, Damian Johnson, River Phoenix and his younger brother Sean Phoenix, Amber, Alexa Kari Conners but you will call her Kari unless you want to get hurt, Shane Fulmine, Aurora Flora, Harmony, Rose, Kai Washington, Matt Black, and Tara Ravenwood and her older sister Aster Ravenwood. All but three of them are werecats. Dawn is a witch, Kari is half-god/half-demon, and Shane is a demigod." I introduce my massive pride.
"Now that introductions are out of the way I believe we can get started." Billy says. "We will start with the legends of our tribe. Long ago, the harbor was settled by the tribe. Although Spirit warriors before Kaheleha existed, he was the first noted as the first great Quileute Chief Spirit warrior. When chased from the harbor, the tribe would retreat to ships in the harbor and leave behind their bodies, using wind and animals to chase enemy tribes from their lands. They would then return to the ships and their wives victorious.
After many generations passed, Chief Taha Aki has assumed the role and was known for his wisdom and peace, but the tribe was betrayed by a warrior, Utlapa who was then ordered to leave and never return to Quileute lands. He hid in the forest to seek his revenge. One day, Taha Aki left his body to sweep through the lands, even in times of peace to watch over his tribe. He was then betrayed by Utlapa and instead of just killing the Chief, he stole the chiefs body and slit his own bodies throat leaving Chief Taha Aki with no body and no way to return to the human world. Taha Aki watched as Utlapa ordered no warrior enter the spirit world and as he assumed many unheard of changes to the tribe.
Taha Aki wandered aimlessly in the forest until one day a wolf followed him and he requested the wolf share his body with him, the wolf accepted and made room for Taha. Man and wolf returned to the harbor, but quickly retreated. An older warrior named Yut decided to disobey the false Chief's order and cross into the spirit world. But, the false Chief found his body before Yut could return and claim his body and warn the tribe, he died as the false Chief Utlapa slit his throat. As Taha Aki joined the wolf, his love of his tribe and his people rocked the wolf and turned the wolf into a man. He had a new form, not the same as his old, but reflecting the spirit of Taha Aki.
Taha Aki assumed his role as the Chief of the tribe and was regarded as Taha Aki the Great Wolf leading the tribe for many, many years and fathering many son's who could also turn into wolves. After many years Taha gave up his spirit wolf once finding his true love, but a threat loomed. Several young women of the Makahs a neighboring tribe went missing and blamed the wolves. Taha tried to assure the neighboring tribe that the wolves had no wrong doing, but out of fear this did not calm the Makahs. Chief Taha Aki did not want a war, so he appointed his oldest wolf son, Taha Wi to find the true culprits of the several missing tribe's women.
What Taha Wi and the five other wolves found would shape the way the Quileute tribe regarded the Cold Ones. After finding a strange sweet scent accompanied by a human scent and blood on the trail, Taha Wi sent half the pack back to the harbor, as Taha Wi and his two brothers did not return.
A year later two Makahs tribes women went missing in the same night, the wolves were sent out, but only one returned the eldest son of Taha Aki's third wife, Yaha Uta. Yaha described the speed of the creature they found and that the Makahs women had been kidnapped to satisfy the Cold Ones thirst. Yaha Uta had not returned empty handed, he came with chunks of the creatures flesh and the horrified elders set the remains on fire.
Little did the Quileute's know, the creature had a mate. The cold woman entered the village with the sun shimmering off her skin, she was beautiful, but deadly. Yaha transferred to his spirit wolf and alerted the elders of the approaching danger and went to find the creature. Yaha was alone in fighting the creature slaying members of the village and his battle was quickly lost. Taha Aki screamed in defiance and shifted to the spirit wolf form, the wolf was old, but he gave a hard right. As the third wife watched her eldest son and now her husband fight, she grabbed a knife determined to do what she needed to protect the village. Taha Aki fought the cold woman, the third wife did something shocking and plunged the knife into her heart, frenzied by fresh blood she distracted the cold one long enough for Taha Aki to bite into her neck and kill her." Billy tells the story with a passion.
"I've never heard the full story before." Skyler says from where she is sitting with Angela.
"We try to keep it short but tonight is a special night." Jake says. "You're up Scarlette."
"My pride does not have legends we have just always been werecats. I can tell you about werecats but nothing more than that." I tell them. They all nod in acceptance. "To become a werecat you are either born one or bitten. Almost everyone in my pride was born a werecat and those that were not were given the choice to be bitten because they were dying. The first time you shift is under the full moon on your 16 birthday if you were born one and if you are bitten you first shift on the night of the first full moon after you were bitten. We heal faster than shifters and we are stronger. If you are an Alpha your eyes will be a shining bright blue in your cat form and if you are a beta they will be green in cat form. There are 2 different types of Alpha's. There are the normal Alpha's that can be fought for control of the pride and then there is THE Alpha. THE Alpha is Alpha of all werecats. It's the same for werewolves. You can usually tell if an Alpha is just a normal Alpha or if they are THE Alpha. It just depends on who they imprint with. While it is rare for werecreatures to imprint on those outside of their species it is not unheard of. THE Alpha will usually imprint on a member of a different species that has incredible psychic abilities such as telepathy, telekinesis, being able to see the future, or a mental shield." I finish with that last fact because they will find out soon why I am so feared by the Volturi.
"How do we know if you are an Alpha or THE Alpha? You haven't found your imprint." The shifter I believe to be Jared says.
"You are about to find out." I say. "Dawn could you get that thing I needed?" She nods her head and orbs out to get what I needed.
A few seconds later she orbs back with a beautiful black acoustic guitar that has a silver snow leopard etched onto it. I hear some people gasp and see Jake nod his head with a huge smile. Skyler gets up from her spot and stands next to me.
"This is for someone special." I strum the first few notes to 'Songbird' and I saw Skyler smile at Angela. I just hope Alice likes this song. I thought.
(A/N: Scarlette Skyler Both)
For you, there'll be no more crying,
For you, the sun will be shining,
And I feel that when I'm with you,
It's alright, I know it's right
I started to sing the familiar words and I saw everyone smile.
To you, I'll give the world
To you, I'll never be cold
'Cause I feel that when I'm with you,
It's alright, I know it's right.
Skyler sang with the emotion I knew she would because she had Angela.
And the songbirds are singing,
Like they know the score,
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before.
By now I had started to walk toward Alice and she looked shocked.
And I wish you all the love in the world,
But most of all, I wish it from myself.
And the songbirds keep singing,
Like they know the score,
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before, like never before.
As I started the last verse I knelt in front of Alice. When I finished all those that could were crying and those that couldn't had tears in their eyes that would never fall. None of that mattered to me though. I was completely focused on Alice.
"I'm your imprint?" Alice asked in a whisper.
"Yes, you are my imprint Alice and I will be whatever you want me to be but I have something to do before you tell me." I tell her and she nods her head. "As you all have figured out by now Alice is my imprint and I would like to ask for her entire family's approval before I pursue anything more than friendship with her. I can assure you that I will not pressure her into anything."
I hear Alice let out a tiny squeak. I see her family is surprised at what I said but they all smile and nod at Carlisle. Carlisle looks at me with a gentle smile and nods his head.
"We are fine with whatever you and Alice choose to do."
Behind me I hear my daughter and Dawn squealing and the next thing I know I'm on the ground.
"What did I miss?" I heard a familiar voice ask. When I looked up sure enough there standing in front of me was Faith Lehane.
A/N: Hahahahahaha Cliff hanger. I do not own Faith she belongs to Joss Whedon. Special guest in the form of a Slayer... How will that pan out? Review and let me know your thoughts.