The Song of Twilight

Chapter 1: The Call

The thunderstorm that the town of Forks currently sat under was a loud and terrible affair. The lightning cracked like great whips, the thunder boomed like explosions while the wind screamed. A young woman was tucked firmly into her comforter sleeping soundly despite the storm overhead. A phone rang shrilly in the room jolting Bella out of her sleep. She reached over blindly groping for the phone, she grasped it and tugged it to her ear. "H..He..Hello?" She mumbled with a yawn. "Isabeau." The nickname and voice made her sit straight up, that voice had been her constant companion since her mother had left this town seventeen years ago. "Twilight?" Bella hadn't seen her best friend since she exiled herself here,but at that moment Twilight spoke up. "I need your help. I think someone is after me." Bella threw her covers aside and got out of bed. "Where are you?" She heard her friend take a breath. "Some place called Port Angelus, This was the first place I felt safe enough to stop and call you."Bella wondered what could have startled her so bad to flee phoenix like a bat out of hell. Bella told her how to get to the restaurant and told Twilight she would be there as soon as she could. "I be there." Bella said goodbye and finished getting dressed, before she knew it she was on the highway and speeding towards Port Angelus. When she arrived at the restaurant she noticed the familiar metallic black and silver Rubicon that Twilight drove. She saw a familiar outline in the dinner's shaded windows.

Bella entered the dinner, removing her hood and seeing the familiar eyes gleaming from the third booth in. "Isabeau, Its good to see you." Bella walked right up to the woman and hugged her, feeling a soft chuckle as the woman embraced her back. As they separated Bella looked carefully at her friend so see what had changed. Twilight had an intimidating figure, standing at nearly six foot tall and having blood red hair that when free touched the backs of her knees. She was half Indian, it was clear in her high cheek bones, tanned skin and high wide forehead. Twilight was neither skinny or fat, but sleekly muscled with a thin coating of fat to soften her angles. It was her eyes that had people in phoenix avoiding the halfbreed, they were an emerald green with a outer ring of silver. Twilight had told her once that her mother had icy blue-silver eyes with a green outer rim. "Its just something in our blood." was what she'd said. "What happened?" Bella said as they sat in the booth. "There has been a lot of attacks in phoenix these last few weeks, the den was nearly wiped out." Bella gasped 'The Den' was what Twilight's family lovingly referred to as their sprawling ranch home. Bella loved going up there during the summers to play and run on the mesa's, despite all the times she fell down.

As they talked Bella got more and more worried. "And the last few days I haven't been able to shake the feeling I'm being followed."Bella and Twilight left shortly after that, Twilight getting into her Jeep she followed Bella back to Forks. As they pulled up outside Charlie's house Twilight parked behind Bella's truck. Twilight got out of her jeep and something hopped out behind her. "Is that?....." Bella asked and Twilight nodded. "Navarre..?" The Wolf-hybrid panted and wagged his tail as she petted him. Bella hear the jeep's door shut and saw Twilight had a duffel bag over her shoulder. Bella snuck them up to her room and Twilight took the floor at the foot of her bed. "That way I can take you to school, and see if I can get a hold of the bank. And get some money sent up here." With a few more mumbles the two girls fell asleep, but as Bella slipped into sleep she wondered what Edward would have to say about her friend.