Parallax

Chapter 8

"The Quileute's?" Eleazar asked nobody in particular and it was Carlisle who explained to his friend.

"They are a native tribe just outside of town. Their strongest men can turn into wolves to protect their people."

"Werewolves!" Carmen exclaimed in fear. The rest of the Denali's were looking at each other in apprehension.

"Please, there is nothing to fear." Carlisle tried to assure them "They are unlike the werewolves that we know of. They are civilized and in fact, there is a treaty in place with their elders that allows us to coexist as long as we don't harm any humans and this extends to our extended family as well"

"I don't know Carlisle... But it is a concern that you have made an alliance with our very enemy. If this information reaches the Volturi... Cauis would not be pleased" Elezear stated his distress and Bella knew what he was talking about right away. Cauis had an ugly history with the Children of the moon and he had ordered to eliminate them a long time ago but they were a different species altogether.

"The Quileutes are different from the Children of the moon" Bella felt that she needed to defend Jacob and his tribe. It wasn't their fault that their ancestors had magic in them.

Everyone was all eyes on her and she continued, needing to explain exactly what the Quiluetes were. It wasn't about betraying the tribe by sharing information about them to their "so-called" enemies but Bella believed that knowing what they really are was a step to understanding the tribe and their people.

"They are shape shifters that carried the magic of their ancestors. It just so happened that the first shifter took the shape of a wolf so the ability was inherited by the next generation and only those that were from the bloodline of the first shifters would be able to gain the ability, not all of them."

Everyone was silent, trying to process the information that Bella just shared.

"Interesting..." Carlisle was the first to speak. His curiosity was clearly showing.

"How do you know all of this?" Irina asked suspiciously.

It was an easy question for Bella. "I was exposed to the tribe's legends so they were able to share their history when I found out about them". She was telling the truth because that was how she had found out more about the pack. Of course, she didn't know if it was the same thing for this Bella, but they didn't need to know that. Irina seemed to accept her answer.

"Wait... 'They'?" Emmett suddenly asked. "Wasn't there only just one when we left?"

Bella thought of the pack and who have already shifted. Sam was the first one and Jacob and there's been two more before him in her timeline. She wasn't sure about how many had shifted in this timeline though but she'd seen Jacobs's two friends in his car a few days ago. That makes four of them already.

"I've met four of the pack members" She informed them and this caused alarm to the vampires.

"Don't you think it is a cause for concern to have so many of them in an area?" Tanya voiced her concern in behalf of her coven.

"They are meant to protect their people so as long as we don't do anything to harm humans, they will not harm us as well" Carlisle also seemed surprise by the number of the pack members growing but he still assured them, then continued. "For now, it is not the pack that we should be concerned about, but Victoria. If she's been causing trouble, we can't let the pack be burdened by the situation"

"The wolves can take of themselves right? Since there are already many of them" Rosalie's nose scrunched at the mention of the pack.

"I'm sure the wolves are more than capable enough but Victoria is our problem. We couldn't just put them in harm's way" the patriarch announced.