GASP!

Chapter1

Max pov afternoon

Flying. There is no feeling quite like it. Yet all great things come with a price. Take my family for instance. I mean come on, we lost are child hood, watched things that not even a lifetime of counseling would erase, and were forced to undergo torture so terrible that… I STILL have not even told my best friend the full extent of.

But at the end of the day, at least I can fly. Sometimes its almost worth it… NOT! I would do anything to be normal!

I really wished there was more to life than this. These kids deserved better. They deserved the one thing I would never be, A parent. But I could sure as heck try!

Not that I really had a model, A figure to which I could compare my ‘parenting.’ I’m pretty sure at this point that Jeb’s my dad, since he said that I killed his son, and my, gulp, brother. I shuddered at the painful memories. I know Ari was an -- but I can’t help feeling bad. I mean, I have morals too ya know!

I was awakened from my thoughts when Angel (flying to my right) suddenly gasped. She looked down for a moment, almost… confused?

Angel? I tried to reach her with my mind, but it was like she could not hear me, or did not register the words.

I stopped flying suddenly. I just sat in the air willing my wings to keep me upright.

“Ange?” I could not erase the slight trace of concern in my voice. Oh well! This was my baby! Some thing wrong!

Max.. we need to go down to where those trees are. See them? She said in my mind.

It was just then I took in my surroundings and realized we were above a forest.

Voice…

Yes, max…

What is wrong? Where are we? Should we go down there?

Go with the flow max.

Sigh. The voice was always ssssoooo much help!

My bird instincts told me we where somewhere in Washington. Some place called forks? Or maybe its spoons? Ill have fang look it up.

It was then that I realized that the wind current was trying to get me to fly toward the forest. Go with the flow…

The flock stares at me and I ran all possible outcomes in my mind. I sighed and nodded once at angel and down we went. but nothing could have prepared us for came next.

Edward pov morning

Bella and I were on our way to school when I heard the ring of my cell phone in my pocket. I checked the caller id as we got out of the car and made our way up to our 1st class. Alice.

“Hello,” I asked unsure of what to expect. Its always that way with Alice.

‘‘Edward, you will never believe the vision I just had. It was so strange! All I saw was that we were talking to these 6 people and we asked them something and they froze up. we all turned to see what they were staring at and all the people kept quietly cursing and saying ‘erasers’ or something like that…”

As I absorbed that she began again, “the strangest thing is that they were inhumanly beautiful and yet they were not vampires. It was weird; they had this… unique smell about them. Almost like an animal, but they were not werewolves either. I can’t be sure if there a threat… but we should tell the wolves just in case..”

I hissed, but she was right of course. If something potentially dangerous was coming, weather I liked it or not, they had a right to know.

I sighed “your right,” I mumbled and I knew she would hear me. “meet me after school, I have to drop bella off first.” I sighed again. She’s not going to like that. The line went dead and I walked Bella to 1st period while filling her in on the conversation, and as I predicted, she wanted to come.

“please… how much harm could it do? I’d be safer there than home. There will be like 10 or more super strong people there. I would not be in danger.”

She had her heart set on going. We both knew who was going to win, and me resisting it was like fighting a losing battle.

“Fine, but if anything…” she rolled her eyes and cut me off.

“What could happen?” but that’s what scared me, I did not know.

After school and in the forest after Alice contacted the werewolves, about the time of max pov.

Sam looked from one vampire to the next then said, “why are we here again?”

Alice quickly told them about her vision.

“So?” asked Jacob, “we have dealt with vampires before. what makes them a threat?”

“ first of all” alice started, clearly annoyed that Jacob was questioning her visions, “there not vampires.”

Jacob and the other werewolves took a second to absorb that.

“but I thought you said they showed the sighns of your kind?” asked sam.

“they do, but don’t.” everyone looked confused so alice continued, “they were not white and they were breathing. Though it is strang that they were inhumanly butiful…”

“they could be one of us” stated sam.

“no, again that can’t be it. My visions don’t work on werewolves. This one was perfectly clear” alice was getting desperate now. We all wanted to know what we are up against, and I did not have to read minds to know.

All of a sudden we heaqrd a rustle in a tree about 25 feet above us. At first I thought it was just birds… until I heard there thoughts.

I wonder what they ment ‘one of us’ could there be more like us that escaped?

Escaped from what? I wondered

Oh no! he read my mind!

How does she know that…

Because I can read yours…

Crap!