A/N, I have rewritten this story. it is fairly the same as the original for those returning, just a bit more mature in the writing style and a bit more detailed in general. This story is written for fun. By all means fee free to comment suggestions to making this better. I am no English major nor do I take this story so seriously that I feel like it needs a Beta to go over. no one ever really reads these notes, but chapter updates will not be promised. I will update them as I complete them and no sooner. Enjoy :)

This is rated M for its implied jokes along with curse words and eventually sex scenes.

for this chapter:

words and dialog as so are memories

words and dialog as so are present time/narative

Disclaimer: I own no familiar characters, plot lines or locations. The plot of this story is of my own and is not being produced for money.

The Run

Bella's POV

I've always been like this, okay not really always but it's been a very long time. It's been long enough for me to come to the conclusion that it's who I am, what I am. I never thought anything of it. Two years in this form, in this once foreign body, is nothing but normal to me now, running until sunrise, sleeping during the day, feasting during twilight hour. Even if two years is technically not enough time to be considered a long time, it is to me a 17 year old.

How'd I get like this you ask? I'll tell you, but I warn you now things always manage to happen for a reason.

13, that number has always been associated with bad luck with those who believed in superstition. There is such a huge stigma behind it, that hotels or any large skyscraper buildings refuse to have a '13'th floor. I always found it to be completely stupid, and an irrational fear that somehow has encircled the world. I'm no believer in that. just how i don't believe that there are vampires, and werewolves and dragons and chimmychangas... Point made. I eventually made it just fine out of my 13th birth year with the normal whines and grimes about the world and life. Made it out of my 14th birth year too just as a safety precaution, because you know I'm a non-believer but I had to just double check. I thought I was in the clear. I was wrong 13 weeks after my 15th birthday strange things were happening to me. In the couple weeks prior to my change my reflexes increase by tenfold. Considering I'm one of the clumsiest people you'll ever come across that was saying something. My strength was increased but not by an insane amount it just became a lot easier to help Renee, my mom, with bringing groceries into the house. But there was one thing in particular that i noticed, my temperature. I was always hot, I was so hot that the thermometer read above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. I never actually felt sick so there was no real reason totell mom about it and have her take me to the doctors.

the most obvious change happened on a Thursday, the last day of my miserable 8th grade year. And to top it off with a pretty little cherry my mom decided that she had enough of bright, dry, hot sunny Arizona and was aiming to move to muggy hot, sunny Florida with her 'hot' boy toy. Of Course I didn't know this until I got home that evening.

I had barely made it through the front door closing it behind me before my mom bustled around the corner with a giant smile on her face.

"Bella we're moving." Simply summarized. She went on and on about how she hated being in Arizona and blah, blah, blah, a whole bucket of crap served with whipped cream. That didn't bother me though; I was also tired of being in of the sun, tired of the kids tired of the people in general. I thought, how silly of me, and briefling getting excited about the idea that I could start over we moved to Florida, but that wasn't going to happen; no not on my mom's watch she, not surprisingly, was still talking:

"When I say we, I mean myself and Phil." freeze frame.

This was a first. She had always made an effort to include me everywhere she and her boy toy would go. It's quite possible that she's finally realized shes not exactly mom material. oh man please oh please don't tell me I'm going the the god forsaken place in Washington.

"You're going to live with your dad up in Forks, Washington."

Whoop there it is. She continued to ramble on with that giant smile on her face while mine turned into a sour frown.

"You'll love it up there. The sun hardly shows if ever, so no more complaining about how bright it is outside. It rains almost all year, you like the rain don't you Hun? You'll get snow in the winter so you wont have to save up for your snowboarding trips anymore. and you haven't seen your dad in years, its about time you spend some good quality time with him!"

I only hummed at her in reply. Come to think about it I hadn't spoken a word to her that day and I didn't change that factor either as I walked quickly around her so I could go down the hallway to my room. I grabbed my green iPod Nano placing it in shuffle and stuffing the ear buds into my ears. Swiftly I made my way out of my room and around my mother again to go through the front door that I was standing by just a moment ago. Slamming the door shut. I started walking, I walked for maybe five minutes before it started to turn into a pathetic excuse of a jog so I started to run.

At that time, as I grew angry or frustrated with something I would get a faint but annoying buzzing noise in my head, and when it stopped it left behind a splitting headache. I found that if I walked or ran that the headache would go away, but it didn't that time. So I kept running and I found myself in the forest next to the city of Phoenix, Renee and Phil would come here to camp and brought me along as well a few times. If I remember correctly I believe it's called Tonto but that's beside the point.

Something strange happened when I entered the forest. Everything about me changed, I felt everything in myself become alive. The buzzing in my head increased but I kept running, I could hear the birds clearly through my earbuds but I couldn't see any around me trough the thick branches. My eye sight changed as well. I could clearly see the detail in the bark of the trees as I passed them. I could see the different colors in the dead leaves on the floor, it was all so strange. But with all of the other strange occurrences I accepted it without much thought. I didn't stop to marvel at these new abilities that I've gained. I ran harder and faster, there was something inside of me that was urging me to drive myself to the fullest extent, there was something inside of me that wanted an out…

So I let it.

In the time between running like a normal human being to running like a mad animal, was and still is a complete blur to me, I can't quite come up with the right words to use to describe the feeling, besides maybe that I quite literally exploded out of my own skin. To say the change was painful is a complete understatement. I felt as though for a split second I had walked through a wall of fire. My skin was burning and felt stretched and pulled in places I didn't know I thought my body temperature was hot I was mistaken, I was burning up. It took me a moment to realize that I was on all fours. Trying to stand up I came to find out that it was virtually impossible to keep my balance and that's when I actually registered the fact that I had fur where skin should be and paws where my hands should white frost looking fur that magically appeared on my skin was hot as hell, I was afraid that I would die of my own heat. I stopped running at this point, the buzzing in my head stopped. Pacing back a few feet to see if there was any possibility I had walked through some magical force field that turned humans into animals. Nothing happened. what was i going to do about this. Its not like I could just run through Phoenix looking like some white furry thing. I especially couldnt waltz my way into the house looking like this either.

Turning around I noticed that my clothes where ripped into shreds as if an animal had attacked me, I thought maybe if I left it there it would be an easy explanation for my disappearance. There was no way in hell that I was going to stick around a forest in one of the hottest places in the United States. I went up to my clothes and tried to remember which pocket I place my Nano in, I decided that I would just shuffle my nose around my clothes not trusting my overly huge paws to do the work. It took only a moment for me to find it. after a frustrating moment I was finding it difficult to pick it up without damaging it. So I sat down with a huff, stirring up so leaves around me. I glared at the Nano debating if I should leave it or try and find a way to bring it with me.

Thumping my tail hard on the ground and the heat and the inability of using my thumbs were getting to me, despite the weirdness of having and controlling a tail, I got up, checked where the sun was setting and headed hopefully north.

It took me only 6 hours to get to my first large river, and seeing that was heaven. I jumped in it and splashed around awkwardly as I tried to understand how to properly do the doggy paddle. It wasn't so hard with my massive paws it just felt a bit uncomfortable at first. I spent a good ten minutes just swimming in a circle, occasionally diving down a foot or two to scare the native fish. After deciding that I was indeed much cooler I swam to the bank and shook all of the water from my fur and continued my journey. i stuck to following the river, it seemed to be the best bet.

I would occasionally jump back into the water loving how icy it felt to my burning skin, I didn't stay as long as I did the first time around, I knew that in about 2 hours the sun would be setting and I would have to rest and find something to eat. The thought of eating turned my stomach. I knew in my condition I couldn't just walk into, say a burger joint, and expect to get fed. No I was going to have to find some food out here. And the only thing out here besides trees, dirt and rocks were the wild life. And by wildlife I mean foxes, mountain lions, snakes, and other 'wonderful' reptilian species. But I could live off of that right? That one guy on TV did it all the time, what was his name Bear Grillisk or something? Drank his own pee once too. Just the thought makes my skin crawl. Whatever back to my point, I needed to learn how to hunt.

And hunt I did, I won't bore you with the gruesome details, but know that I ate and I ate well, and very messily. Oh well it was something new to me so tough luck on my part. Killing my prey was easy, I was fast and strong and not a single one of my prey seemed to be able to hear me or smell me. I just let my instinct kick in and I was off. It was the end of twilight hour as I finished cleaning the blood off of myself in the river. I was tired and had a full belly, what other reason did I need to find a spot to sleep? I found an old looking tree, a sycamore, if i remember anything from my geography and nature class, it wasn't very comfortable but it wasn't really uncomfortable either to lay in between the root arms but I was able to get some restful sleep.

This routine lasted until I got to the edges of the Grand Canyon. Stupid me I forgot how populated that place was during the summer months. Because of this I had to switch up my sleep routine. I was now sleeping during the day in an indent along the canyon walls and exploring the place at night.

I never understood what was so great about the Grand Canon, its a river, that broke took years and years to make these permanent gaps in the earth surface. people literally came here for a vacation to look at a hole in the ground that a river passed through. what I did find enjoyable though was that during the night all the animals came out to play. Play? Well not really play per say, more like hide and seek from Bella and her appetite. I'll admit, even thought it was a bit disturbing the local creatures didn't taste so bad.

After a couple of days shuffling through the canyon I came to realize that it was much easier and more comfortable to travel at night. It became a lot easier to slip past very populated places, and in the forests it was easier to hunt as well.

I went west from the Grand Canyon across Nevada and into California's Sierra mountain range. There was plenty of tree coverage and hardly any people in the higher altitudes that I kept at. I headed north from there, it took me a week and a half to reach California's northern border to Oregon.

I stayed about two months in Oregon with no problem of staying hidden from everyone. I stayed here due to the comfortable climate, abundance of food and fresh water. After being spotted by two men hunting I took my leave north again. I moved up to Washington a week later staying close the eastern border. I enjoyed my time that I had alone but it was becoming lonely. I never really had any friends in Arizona, but the human interaction that I would watch between people was contact enough.

Continuing further north I came to the border of British Columbia, Canada. I wouldn't be staying in British Columbia but I knew there was a Providence north of it were there was hardly any people. Thank you National Geographic channel.

It took me along while to make it up to that providence. Mainly because the Canadian bored is filled with people and cities. I had to be very careful moving around. I had to be tactical with my movements, something I was never great at, but maybe being a wolf would give me some advantages with that part of myself.

It took me three months to get to the northeastern part of Alberta. Mainly because of some heavy snow fall during the first two months, the snow didn't bother me at all, but finding food was the difficult part during the storms.

It took me a whole month and a half of slow moving to reach the border of Nunavut. It was here that I spent my two years of solitude. Within the first year of my residency I became one with my wolf form, and because of that I was able to communicate slightly with wolfs that I passed by as well. Most of the packs were frightened of me and my appearance.

There was one pack that took me in; the Alpha female circled me one day. Sniffing and checking me out, I knew she could tell that I wasn't a normal indigenous wolf or a wolf at all, but she wanted me to follow her. I guess at the time she could tell I was a young wolf and in need of guidance. I knew that I must have looked sickly finding easy prey up here had been more difficult then I had bothered to think about. She took me to her pack and communicated with them. At that time I didn't know at all with what was being 'said' to me. But as time passed and I became more in tune with the beast within me I started to understand, started to follow orders given to me by the older wolfs. The female alpha has the same shiny coat that I had and the alpha male had a more cream fur coat. And at times the Alphas would allow me to play with the newborn puppies; it was a way for them to recognize me as a part of their pack and family.

That year passed without anymore interruptions. There were of Course arguments among that pack as to who should be the new Alpha, and many even wanted me to be it because of my size and youth, but I refused every time.

Towards the early middle of my second year with this pack the Female Alpha confronted me, her wise spiritual voice encircling me as if I were in a dream:

"Adah." the name she had given me, she explained that it meant beautiful addition, and that I was a beautiful addition to her family.

"Although it is not uncommon for a black Wolf to be born of two white Wolfs, it is a terrible struggle for them to survive in a place like this." I had asked The Alpha male once why all arctic wolf were so light in color, and he had explained that the lighter the fur the easier it is to catch your prey, the dark you are the harder it is to blend into your surroundings. The pack did not consist of any darker wolves, because they have perished of starvation, or left on their own in hopes of a better place.

I nodded my large head to confirm that I understood what she was referring to, she continued:

"I feel that this pup has a high potential to be great in his years. But if he were to stay here he will surly parish. I am asking you, as your Alpha, to journey with him when he is old enough to leave the pack."

I nodded again to confirm that I understood what she had said.

"You will accompany him 6 moon spans from now" 6 months. "And from now until then you will become the only one to watch over the young ones." I whined at this news, but stopped immediately when I received a growl as a response.

"Quiet Adah, you should be proud that I want you to be the one to watch my young that is a very valuable job in this pack, must I remind you who it is that are our packs future?"

I shook my head no. I knew that being the 'sitter' was probably the most honorable position you could get besides being a Beta*. As the sitter the Alpha was putting the pup's lives in your hands. It would be your responsibilities that nothing would hurt the pups. You were in fact acting as their guardian. So I guess there really wasn't anything to complain about right? Pshh riigghhtt…

They were crawling all over me, biting my ears when that could climb to them, pulling as hard as they could on my tail, they were even pulling my fur. It was cute at first, but it's already been at least two hours. And the things they were doing to me were starting to make certain parts of my body tender. It was as if I was an indestructible unfeeling gigantic teddy wolf for them to play with! It was maddening and just the thought that I was going to have to do this for 6 months was a maddening all together. I love the pups, I really do. But their TEETH! They are all so sharp it actually hurts! Of course they couldn't do any lasting damage.

It was a feat that came to a surprise to us whole as a pack. Any time I would get a scratch or a cut or any sort of damage to myself, from the play fighting or accidental falls during hunts it would heal right before everyone's eyes.

One of the elder wolfs, who recently came back from going on a journey to search for better lands told me about my fast healing. Four months after being assigned pup sitter.

His old wispy voice made it impossible to believe that he could ever lie.

"I have seen others like you young Adah, but they are not in tune with their inner wolf as you are. They know how to go back into their human form. Something you must learn before you lose your human self altogether."

I never thought that that could be possible. The thought of changing back never actually crossed my mind at all. I don't understand why. I just felt, and still do, so at peace with myself and everything around me. I had nothing to worry about, nobody here judged me, no one here bullied me to do things for then that I didn't want to do, no one laughed at my abnormal pale skin. Why would there be any need to change back?

"I found these children of the moon on the western border of Washington, close to the city of Forks where there are hardly any people residing there. An ideal place to be, there are dense forests and a plentiful food supply."

Forks Washington, the place my father resides in. It seemed as if no matter what I did I was going to have to go to forks anyways...

"That's where my father lives." I replied in my best attempt to actually speak.

"Good." he replied a thoughtful look in his eye. "If you could reconnect with him once you have your body in control you could live with him. It would give the Alphas a piece of mind if you would try so this way you would have a place where you won't be helpless and alone in your human form."

The elder wolf walked away most likely to tell the Alphas of his tellings to me. He left me in the same sitting position and left me to my thoughts. Why would he, Charlie my biological father, bring me in after my sudden disappearance for so long? No doubt he's already moved on by now. How would he react if I just showed up on his front door step, stinking like I haven't had a proper shower in months and with a black wolf at my side? Oh yes he would defiantly NOT have a heart attack at seeing his supposed dead child and if that didn't get him to have a mild stroke I'm sure my 'companion' would do the trick just by site.I huffed at that thought.

Because of my deep musing I was slightly startled by four not so little and slightly heavy pups ramming into my side. Trying and failing to get me to roll onto my side. I gave them the wanting affect and dramatically rolled over onto my back. I was once again tackled by the chaotic four, one black Ciar and the 3 cream pups, Sandy, Mocha and Skye. I surrendered myself to them so that they could do whatever they wanted. Strangely though, Ciar the most active of the four stretched out and let out a large yawn as he made himself comfortable on my chest and fell asleep. The other three pups started whining at him, but they only received a swish of his tail in response. If Ciar were ever to be human I bet he would be just like me when it came to sleeping. If I was tired I would sleep regardless if it was the right place or time. And there was nothing anyone could do about it. But being on my back was an uncomfortable feeling and I didn't like it at all, so I rolled over. Ciar slid right off onto the cool ground, and got up annoyingly. He sat close to my maw and spoke to me.

"Mother says we will be leaving in two moon spans just the two of us. Do you know why?"

Ciar, as energetic and lazy as he was, always had such a great observation skill that his brother and sisters lagged. It made him sound so much older and wiser then he really was.

"She wants you to live. And having dark fur lessens that chance by a lot where we live" I replied

"But why would she make you go with me? I am quite capable of taking care of myself."

"It's not just you who she's trying to help. Have you not noticed my size Ciar? I am almost as large as the polar bears and not only that but I tower over our own alphas, with your observation skills I am certain that you have notice that something is not right." I was getting a bit defensive, I didn't fully understand why but I felt the need to defend the reason of leaving myself.

"I have, and out of courtesy I did not ask. But…" he drifted off. He seemed uncertain of how to ask or if he should ask. Instead of completing his question he once again stretched out on his tummy. And just watched what was happening across the field from us. Regardless I answered his open question.

"I was once human Ciar, still am." I told him about my life. We would be traveling together soon, so why not, I've known him his entire life but he knew nothing of me. We spent the rest of the next two weeks just talking and answering questions. And before we knew it, it was already time to leave the pack all together.

I promised the Alphas that I would try to reconnect with Charlie my father but I didn't promise that everything would work out perfectly. They understood of Course, because even in the world of wolves embracing a lost pup was highly improbable.

We said our goodbyes and well wishes were given, with one finally good bye and thanks to the Alphas we made our way southwest towards Washington.

Because of the summer season, we made it across Alberta in no time, I took us only two moths even though we were going at a leisure pace. With Ciar by my side the trip was quite fun, he was the friend I've always wanted and finally had. He was my new rock. Despite if he knew it or not. I had a deep connection with him and I would even consider him to be my own adopted little brother.

When we finally made it into Washington State he went off on his own just a bit ahead of me to become familiar with the new scents. He found a lizard commonly known as a western skink. I had seen some similar to these in Arizona but never bothered with them.

"Adah look! Look! It's a lizard! Do you see it?" he started bouncing around me in excitement, I didn't blame him to him we were in a completely different world. And seeing a lizard was not something common where we lived.

"Yes Ciar I see it." I continued walking the thought of a possible cold shower was sounding very nice, I wanted to find this pack of supposed werewolves so I could change back to being a human, it's been a long while.

We spent another 2 weeks traveling south west until we got to a highway. We got to that highway around midafternoon and there were many cars on the road at the time. So Ciar and I stuck to the forest nearby until very late at night. We crossed over the highway and continued west for another two days before we reached the next major highway. We waited until night fall again and spent our time cooling down by swimming in the nearby rivers. We crossed that highway as well and continued out journey west. It wasn't long before my enhanced smelling could pick up the sea salt that drifted through the air. I looked over to Ciar to see him sniffing the air as well, noticing the familiar sent of ocean water. He looked at me with his bright bronze eyes and his lips rose to show a set of pearly white teeth and took off towards the ocean. I laughed within myself and ran after him, catching up to him easily. We passed by two small towns before we reached the water. We stayed at the coast for a couple hours maybe, just soaking up the cool salt air as it whipped around our furs.

"This feels almost perfect Adah… "Ciar commented softly with his eyes closed and head tilted up to the sky. wind gently brushing his fur mimicking the gentle waves of the ocean.

"Almost Ciar, almost…" I replied just as softly. I sighed and opened my eyes and looked at Ciar's black silhouette against the rising moon, "Come on, I think were only a day away from Forks, let's hurry and stick to the coast as much as we can for now. The elder told me the moon children lived close to the beach"

" OK! Let's go!" He sprinted ahead of me with much enthusiasm, I let him go ahead of me for about 15 feet before I started running after him.

The sun started rising as we came across a saltwater river. Ciar had slowed down considerably and I decided that it was time to eat and sleep; I wanted us to be at full strength when we met these other 'werewolves'. I didn't know what to expect, and I wasn't going to put either one of us in danger.

The sun was in the midst of setting, Ciar and I decided it was time to go find these supposed moon children. We treeded lightly, fully alert of our surrounding. The last thing Ciar and I needed was to be attacked by surprise. We traveled South for about three hours before I started feeling a slight pressure in my head. It was the slight pressure that I was familiar with that usually signaled the beginning of a migraine.

Every five feet or so the pressure would push on my brain a little harder, but I shook it off, a migraine was not something I needed at the moment. So concentrated on pushing that feeling away, i almost missed a very distinct different in the air. It wasn't a putrid smell but it wasn't a very pleasant one either. It tangled between the natural wet forest scents and the smell of a wet muddied up dog. It was off setting and it made me even more paranoid of my surroundings, but I forced myself to continue on. I could tell by Ciar's posters that he too could sense the difference in the air.

Ciar and I stopped at this point almost simultaneously. We were surrounded by sky towering redwood trees, unidentifiable tall bushes and damp dirt under our feet. Ciar let out a whine of discomfort, his eyes shifting from side to side his ears back and tail between his legs. I caught a sound to my left it was the sound of quick running, and it sounded powerful for every time it made contact with the ground. A distinctive double thump would hit the ground followed by another two thumps. Whatever was coming was powerful and it had friends. I heard another two set of powerful thumps running coming from my right and the front of me. Just as I completed my observation a dark rusty colored wolf, only slightly larger than me, charged out of the tree line from my left skidding to a halt. The other two from right, blue* and white fur covered his body, the center a red-orange fur covered wolf, came into view as well. They too were also large but much smaller them myself but bigger than Ciar. It was three against two… but in reality it was three against one, Ciar was still considered a teenager in basic wolf years and these ones that were in front of us looked much older and built to be the warriors. I quickly threw my body over Ciar lowering myself so that he was hardly visible under my long white belly fur. I let out a low warning growl rumble in my chest. It was only successful to bring the third wolf lowered his ears and tail in a surrender motion, the second wolf and first kept their tense and paranoid position. I let out another louder warning growl but I was given the same result. A tense moment later the first wolf relaxed out of his stance which was soon followed by the blue wolf.

It was obvious that the first wolf to confront me was the alpha of this 'three man pack'. He backed up into the woods along with the red orange wolf and disappeared from site. I didn't relax my stance when Ciar began to push up on my upper belly asking to be let out. I wasn't letting him so I pushed down on him as a sign of no. The blue wolf looked at me curiously but I didn't waste my time on him as I was greeted with the sound of human footsteps coming from the directions of which the two wolves disappeared from. The Alpha was the first to come out of the tree line he had dark tanned skin, bulging biceps and pecks along with an ultra-defined stomach and body. He was tall about 6 feet 7 and had a tribal tattoo on his right shoulder. The other one had a more reddish tan to his skin. He was much shorter than the Alpha, he stood about 6 feet tall, he looked younger then the Alpha and his muscle definition was considerably smaller than the Alpha as well.

The Alpha walked up to me. I subconsciously lowered myself more on to Ciar more; he whimpered and scooted back to my lower belly and tried to make himself as small as possible, shaking slightly. The Alpha Spoke:

"I am in no means here to harm you or your pup. How about you phase back and we can talk."

I shook my head no. I had no other way of telling him that I didn't know what he was talking about. He continued

"My name is Sam Ulley, I am the Alpha of my pack. I've tried to communicate with you though our mind link that all shape shifters, that's what we are," indicating the two behind him and myself "have but I got no response back. In fact I couldn't hear anything coming from you. Do you speak English?"

I cocked my head the left just a bit and lost my aggressive stance, but made sure that Ciar was not visible. I nodded my head answering Sam's question.

"Alright some progress," he muttered but I could hear it clearly. "Do you know how to phase back?"

Again I cocked my head to the side, what did he mean by phase back? I think he understood my confusion and explained lightly.

"When I say phase back, I mean can you return to your human form."

I shook my head no.

"Okay, how long have you been in your wolf form then?"

At first I didn't know how to reply to him, after a thought I hit the ground with my paw twice. Just like the big furry horse I felt like. Maybe if I do well he'll give me a carrot while we're at it. I snorted at the thought.

"Two?" he asked. I nodded my head in response.

"Two Months?" I shook my head no.

"Two… Weeks?" Again I shook my head no.

He gasped as realization dawned on him "two years?" I nodded my head yes.

"That's unbelievable, "he whispered more to himself "I've never heard of someone surviving so long in their wolf form without it completely destroying you human way of thinking"

I was so into my conversation with the alpha that I forgot about the other wolf, who I might add was no longer to the right of me. Once again I was on my guard lowering myself to the ground. The alpha assured me.

"There is no reason to feel tense, I sent him away to get some clothes, are you a male?"

I shook my head no.

"I thought so," he continued "only a female would feel the need to protect a cub in such a way." He paused to think "Is he to a shape shifter?"

I repeated my earlier action.

"Good that works out much better, I will help you shift back if you like, and then we can talk face to face in a literal sense."

I nodded my head that was of course the reason for me to be in this god forsaken town.

"I will warn you now, when you do manage to phase back you will be stark naked. One of the flaws when it comes to phasing back and forth is that you will shred your clothes. Also when you do manage to phase back for the first time you will most likely be in a lot of pain, your muscle memory is used to you being in this form, changing back to your human form will cause your muscles to shrink and reshape. And you might not be able to become a wolf again for a good few days maybe even a few weeks."

I bobbed my head up and down a couple of times.

The blue wolf was on his way back, I could hear his paws dully hitting the muddy ground. As the blue wolf entered the clearing I spotted a bundle of clothes tired to a rope hanging from his mouth, and swung it to the Alpha. Sam then spoke.

"This is Jared, the newest to my pack; he will tend to your pup and his needs if any."

I moved myself off of Ciar and told him that the furless red one would be his sitter, and that he would take care of Ciar.

Ciar didn't like it, he whimpered again and made his way to Jared and lowered himself to Jared's feet waiting to follow his new sitter.

"Paul, the one still in his wolf form will stay here with me as we help and watch over your transformation" Sam spoke up. "Jared will be taking your pup to our lands where he will be safe and fed. Your transformation may take a few days to complete"

With that being said Jared turned around and walked a few paces, Ciar followed behind slowly, he looked back at me a couple of times before catching up to Jared. I heard him say "Goodbye Adah" right before he disappeared into the woods.

I felt a stab in my chest, he wasn't just saying goodbye to me, he was saying goodbye to the only form that I have been his whole life and one that I figured that he came to love as an older sister.

A sense of realization hit me. I was going to be human again, super white, and a complete outcast. Why should there be any reason to leave this structured easy way of living. Why go back to a world where I'm bullied? I don't exactly know, but there was a little push inside of me that wanted to be able to walk on two feet and to be able to go to a store and buy some potato chips. Man when was the last time I had a bag of chips to myself…

"Okay white Wolf" Sam interrupted my chip fantasy "first things first, you have to fully relax your body, and think back to how it felt to have arms and legs. Also if you can try to remember how your toes and fingers moved."

Arms and legs, arms and legs. I concentrated on the feeling of my awkward arms and long legs, but as I did I started thinking of my hands and the joy of having thumbs. I was reminded about my iPod that was left in the forest close to where I used to live, and I started to think about how long it was going to take for me to get back the 5,000 songs that I bought.

Not once during my musing of my iPod did I realize that I sat down, nor did I realize Sam as he was trying to get my attention. It wasn't until Paul who nudged my shoulder with his head did I recognize these things.

"I thought I lost you there for a second" Sam laughed " but before you concentrate I want to stress that the first time you phase back you cannot afford to lose your concentration."

I nodded my head and started to concentrate on what it felt like to walk to run to lose my balance. I lost my hearing and my sense of awareness as I concentrated harder, I felt something shift in me, I could feel my muscles becoming tense, and remembered what Sam told me, to relax myself. I started to feel my body shrink in size. It was an extremely uncomfortable feeling that was coming over me to a point where it was painful. I could hear a girl screaming in the distance. I didn't realize it was me who was screaming until I felt two arms wrap a shirt around my now bare chest. I had tears running down my cheeks. I knew this because I felt my face with my now human hand. I heard Sam whisper to me.

"You did very well. It took you only five hours, I was just about ready to call it off. for now I'll be taking you to my house so you can sleep and take a shower in the morning. We need to talk to the elders to see if anything like this has ever happened in the records so we can find a better way to help you… sleep now, your pup will be with you when you wake up."

Before I could even come up with something to say blackness took over my vision.