𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐

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╰┈˚ · ° .  AS SOON AS THE TRUCK HIT THE ROAD, Mia had her cell ready in her hand, Sam's number flashing on her phone's display. But it only rang with no answer coming.

"Call Jared." I told her as I pushed on the gas pedal, probably going way above the speed limit.

Why wasn't my brother answering?

Amelia quickly switched the call from Sam to Jared. Fortunately for us and our quick rising anxiety, the boy answered almost immediately.

"Mia? Is everything okay?" The Cameron's boy voice came from the phone as Amelia pressed the button for the call to be on speaker.

"I don't know. Something happened." Amelia said "We were having dinner and then suddenly both Trixy and I felt something off-"

"Wait, are you both okay?" Jared cutted Mia off, his concern shining through his voice.

"We are fine, Jar." I replied as I drove "But we think a cold one entered the reservation, more than one. They are not on our territory anymore, though." I explained quickly.

"Are you kidding?!" Even through the phone call, it was clear his rising anger.

"We wish." Mia sighed. "They triggered one of our spells and our instincts are screaming at us to come back to the Rez." she said, her eyes glancing outside her window as tree after tree passed by.

"The Cullens?" He asked. I could only imagine how his hand were holding his phone tightly enough to break it.

"I don't think they would risk it."

"Do you know where Sam is? He is not answering his phone." I then asked, trying to keep my panic to the minimum. Having an emergency like this and him not answering his phone could mean a lot of things.

"He is with Leah. We decided to have a free night for once without patrol." Jared said with a sigh. "I'm going to shift now and call for him so we can check the perimeter and see if we can catch their scents."

"Alright. You two take the cliff part of the treaty line, we will take the road side. Let us know if you two find anything." I directed him. A more organized search would help in finding more results.

"If one of those bloodsucker is out there-"

"I will reduce it to ashes." I cut him off before ending the call abruptly. Him worrying about us was the last thing that we needed. Even if it came more naturally then phasing for every wolf.

"Do you think we will feel it if we come across where the cold ones have passed?" Mia asked just as we crossed the line between Forks and La Push.

"In the grimoire it is written that it is in our natural instinct to know. So I guess yes?" I answered her but I was still pretty much uncertain. Sure I had three more months on Amelia to learn how to use my element, but other than that, we were pretty much on the same level with spells, information and magical practice.

I stopped the car on the side of the road, not much further from the treaty line. With our jackets, gloves and hats on we stepped from the truck and into the dark street. Only sparse street lamps illuminated the area with weak light that was definitely not enough. And in the woods, it would be much harder to see anything.

"Glowing light spell or you make a flame?" Amelia asked stopping before she would enter the forest.

"The spell. It could be a very good practice having to continue to pour our magic into the light for the time we will spend in the forest." I said as I looked around us.

"Glowing light it is then." Mia smirked before joining our hands together.

It was an easy spell to create, only a couple of words to mutter, the difficulty was into keeping the spell going. Not feeding it too much magic or not enough.

As we started to add our own magic to the spell, a glowing orb of pure white light began to form until it almost looked corporeal. Stains of yellow and red were barely visible in the orb as they mixed themselves with the pure light. Those were our magic essences.

"It's beautiful." Mia commentedd, eyes focussed on the sphere of light with a mesmerized look.

"It really is." I replied with my own stupor.

Silently, we started our track into the forest, our magical light following wordlessly after us, staying above our head and illuminating as much as it could all around us. We walked for almost an hour, our senses completely in tune with the woods, and still we did not find anything. It was the howl of a wolf that stopped us in our tracks. One that was soon followed by another.

Sam and Jared.

Apparently, knowing shifters' different meanings of their howls came natural to us witches as we never had any problem understanding them. And this one said that they had found what we were looking for. The cold ones' tracks.

Traveling to the back of my mind, I opened the connection with Jared and Sam. Amelia doing the same thing as all of us appeared in the dark room with fire and tornados.

"Did you find something?" Amelia asked to the two wolves. The big black one was Sam, and the brown one with darker gray fur around his eyes was Jared.

"Yes. Three different scents." Jared answered. His voice came out like an echo in the room.

"Cullens? " I questioned, not knowing if to hope for a positive or a negative reply.

"No. The scents are different from any of them." This time it was Sam that answered the question.

"We can't do much about blocking them from our land but we could make a spell to see who it was. We could see their faces." Mia proposed. Her eyes shifted towards me with a question in them.

"Yeah. We could do that tomorrow. We don't have what we need for it now." I said while nodding my head at her

"Alright then. I'll see you later. Be careful." Sam said before he shutted the mind link off. Jared doing it just after his alpha.

Looking at the dark woods in front of us, Mia let out a sigh. "How I wish we could just teleport to your car right now."

I chuckled at that. She really was right. And so we started our trek of one hour back to the truck.

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╰┈˚ · ° .  "So you just got their faces?"

Mia, Maddison and I had just come back from the woods after us witches had performed the spell we had talked about the previous night, and now Amelia was explaining to the rest of the pack what we saw.

We were in the livingroom of my house. Sam was standing, his arms crossed on his chest, Maddi was sitting in the armchair, Jared was sprawled on the couch, Mia next to him. With my back resting on the couch I sat on the carpet-covered floor. A sketchbook in my hand as I drew the three vampires as the best as I could.

"There were three as we already knew." Mia began explaining what we had seen thanks to the spell "One woman, two males. Each one of them had a set of red eyes."

"So they are not vegetarian." Jared concluded.

"Nomads by the look of them." I said still keeping my entire focus now on sketching the blond haired guy.

"Vampires who do not have a permanent residence anywhere and just travel the world and do as they like." Sam added, completing the explanation in a more detailed way.

"As soon as they entered Rez territory they went back to Forks. I don't think they even realize that it was probably your scents that drew them off our land." Mia said while looking at the two shifters.

"Is that them?" Jared asked, he leaned forwards before he snatched my sketchbook from my hands to look at the incomplete drawing of the three cold ones.

"Yes." I said with a bite in my tone taking back the sketchbook before continuing to draw. "You can see it once I'm done."

The beautiful, ethereal woman, with hair like of twisted fire. The man with dark chocolate skin and brown locks that fell onto his shoulders with a thin mustache framing his lips. And finally, the man with porcelain skin, that for sure held warmth once, but now, even from within the vision caused by the spell, I could feel the iciness radiating off of him.

Letting out a sight, Sam pinched the bridge of his nose "Did you two get anything else from your spell?"

My hand stopped, freezing the pencil inches away from the detailed look of the fur coat that the woman was wearing. I turned my head towards Mia, who in exchange, had already locked her eyes on me.

"Some things." she muttered trying to conceal a winch. " But none of them were good." She continued as she twirled the short strands of her shoulder-length hair between her fingers.

"Bloodlust. Hunger." I listed as I glanced up from the sketchbook in my lap. "But most of all, the desire to kill. They want to kill, they look forward to it. To the hunt. I'm sure that they have already killed, but if not, they will start soon."

"Do you think they could be a threat to us?"

"They are vampires, they are a threat to anyone." Mia scoffed. She glanced towards Maddison, before adding: "But I think the people of Fork right now are in more danger. The nomads clearly didn't like our land so I'm sure that they instinctively gravitated towards Forks."

"Good to know." The human muttered under her breath sarcastically.

"You smell like the dogs. You'll be fine." Amelia dismissed, waving a hand in the air before casually starting to create a controlled gust of air that danced between her fingers.

"That means they are a problem of The Cullens Clan." Jared said with a nod as he leaned backwards into the couch. "And hopefully they'll go by their normal pattern. Stay in one place for a couple of weeks before passing to another one."

"What if they decide to cross the border from Fork to La Push? What if they decide to hunt on this side?" Maddison asked. It was something that needed to be discussed. We all knew that.

"I'm not sure if we are not enough to take on a clan of three." Jared admitted with an annoyed eye roll. "Even with you two." he added with a pointed look to us witches.

"If it will come to that then we will find a way." Sam declared. "For now, we will make sure to double the patrol on the border."

"And what about Kim and Paul?" Maddi asked.

As soon as his imprint name fell from the girl's lips, Jared sat upright, a bright smile on his face. During this month, Jared and Kim started to spend more time together, during school hours, sometimes even outside, but Jared was still chickening out from asking her out.

"Oh fuck." I groaned. "We should probably focus more on them right now. The cold ones entered our land so it could probably accelerate the process."

"Okay, so new plan. Jared, you'll introduce us to Kim monday on school. It will be easier for us to keep an eye on her this way. We shouldn't have much problem with the new time for patrolling and keep an eye on the two until they don't show any symptoms." Mia said. We wanted to meet Kim already a month ago but Jared wanted to keep her to himself for a bit longer before he had to share her with us. His words not mine.

"Already?" Jared huffed. "I could keep an eye on her."

"No. She is a witch. Paul Lahote is your responsibility." I said with a clipped tone. I was still not very happy about him joining the pack.

"Fine, fine. But don't scare her away. She is not like you girls." He once again huffed.

"What do you mean?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"She is not a complete bitch." He simply replied.

"Maddison is not a complete bitch too but she tolerates us pretty well." Mia said as a matter of factly.

"If she could be easily scared off, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have been chosen as the earth witch and be part of a coven where both Amelia and Beatrice are, Jared." Sam told his beta. "She will be fine." He gave us a side glance before muttering. "Maybe."

"Sam!" Wide eyed, Jared shouted.

"I'm joking. She'll be fine." The alpha laughed, patting his second-in-command on his shoulder.

"Stop laughing, Sam. You are scaring me." Amelia told him.

Yeah, Sam was not a person that makes jokes, usually. But when we were together, a bit of that responsibility that we all carried on our shoulders as protectors of our land, reduced slightly. It made us feel lighter, and laughing was one of the easiest things that we did together. Well, other than bickering.

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˗ˏˋ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 ˊˎ˗

Hello everyone!

Chapter two completed. I don't really have much to say about this chapter, but still, I hope you enjoyed it.

Let me know what you think, and who is your favorite character so far!!

Anyways, thank you for reading this chapter, I'll see you on Tuesday!

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