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Pups and Tykes
Chapter 24
Fusedtwilight: Thanks to purpleranger for betaing, thanks to everyone who reviewed to, normally I name you all but I am in a hurry to update this chapter. It has been a long time coming, you have wondered who the brothers three are, this chapter they finally meet our heroes and we learn where they come from and how they came to be, their story is amazing, epic and ends in tragedy, like any good Greek story.
The tribes I mention in this chap are real life tribes, to learn more about them and all the other tribes of America here is a wonderful sight I recommend.
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Jake P.O.V
“So what’s the prognosis?” I asked Merck.
He had drawn symbols on my chest with ink and murmured a few things in another language. He opened his eyes and looked at me. “I am not certain, something has changed. Your spiritual power has increased greatly. It must be because of the spirits possessing you; maybe you got some remnants of their power as well.”
“So what does this mean?”
“It means your alpha voice has grown stronger, you must be careful, anything you tell your pack to do, whether you mean it or not they will do.”
“So if I tell them to jump off a bridge they will find a bridge and jump off it?”
“Most probably.”
“Shit!”
“Indeed.”
“Well what do I do? How do I control this?”
“I’m not sure,” he shook his head. “I have never encountered a wolf with this level of spiritual power. The best thing you can do is not talk.”
I frowned at him. “That isn’t much of an option.”
“It’s the best I have for you. I suggest you go home, you have much planning to do, lots of work tomorrow.”
I thanked him and left. Leah, Embry, Seth, Sam and Chris were waiting for me. “We heard,” she said.
“I know the spirits warned me but shit! I don’t want to accidentally say something and wind up hurting one you,” I said.
“Just watch what you say man,” Quil said.
I ran my hand through my hair. “This isn’t going to be easy.”
“So who is all going with you?” Embry asked.
“Well Carlisle, Edward and Jasper. Carlisle’s negotiation skills and Edward and Jaspers powers will help us with the brothers.”
“Which of us is going?” Embry asked. “You can’t go and not expect some of us to go too.”
“Who wants to go?” I asked.
“I do?” Leah said.
“You’re the beta,” I said.
“Sam and Chris can stay behind, their alpha material. Plus I am tired of running the pack; I’ve been at it for two weeks now, a change of scenery sounds nice.”
“I would go but Tony needs me,” Seth said.
“I’ll go,” Embry said.
“Me to,” Quil said, “Isn’t like I have anything to do around here.”
“Alright then, Quil, Embry, and Leah will come with me to meet with the brothers after the wedding tomorrow. The rest of you stay here and look after things.”
“We obey, we obey!” Quil said doing a mock imitation of the Makah’s.
Chris growled at him.
“Alright, lets all go home.”
They all looked at each other. “We obey, we obey!” they said laughing smart asses.
We broke up and I headed home. Lots of things were going through my mind. The memories of my ancestors were still in my head, but it was all like a giant puzzle, broken into pieces. Some were slowly revealing themselves, others were still fuzzy.
But as time went on they began to clear up. I remembered people who lived generations ago, I remembered loved ones who were not mine to love, I remember children who were not mine that I missed all the same.
I arrived at my house and saw the lights were on. Rachel’s car was in the drive way. She must have come home early. I walked in and found a surprise, not only was Rachel there but so was dad.
“Jake!” Rachel cried running forward to hug me.
“Hey Rach,” I said.
“Oh my god, we thought you would never wake up!”
I was looking at dad; his face was black and blue, still healing from his crash. His arm was in a sling. “Jake, damn boy its good to see you.”
I walked up to him and hugged him very gently. “I missed you too dad.” I remembered my dream. His bones still attached to his chair even in death nothing like seeing your father’s corpse to make you remember how much you love him.
“Jake what’s wrong?” he asked.
“Lots of things dad, I need your help.”
“Talk to me son? What’s wrong?”
We all sat down. I told them about my meeting with the spirits of our ancestors. How I met grandpa, Ephraim, all the previous chiefs all the way to Taha Aki. I told them how they all entered my body, how some of their memories were still in me, how they told me I would have to stay in La Push until Rachel and Paul had their child, my dream, dad dead, our home burned to the ground and the one who caused it apparently me.
“No, why would you do that Jake? It can’t have been you, that vampire must have been messing with you!”Rachel said.
“I don’t think so Rach. It was me, it phased and it looked just like me.”
“...Jake…you said me and Paul would have a son?”
“That’s what the spirits said, they said it would be a boy and in sixteen years he would become the new chief.”
She put her hands to her mouth. “Sixteen years? Same age as you…could it be?”
“Rachel?” dad asked.
She looked at us with a smile. “I am late; I didn’t think much of it, its happened before…but now, maybe.”
I took her hand and gave her a gentle squeeze. “It’s okay.”
“Wait, can’t you smell it? You did with Leah.”
“Leah is a wolf and I wasn’t able to smell it until a few weeks.”
“Its okay Rachel, we’re here for you,” dad said taking her other hand.
“I think I need to go lay down,” she said standing up.
I walked her to her room and tucked her in. “Don’t worry Rach, you’ll make a good mom,” I said as I pulled up the blankets.
“I’m not worried about that…Jake what if he is born with the gene? What if he becomes a wolf like Paul? This fucking werewolf vampire shit almost ruined us. I don’t want my kids having to go through what Paul did.”
I kissed her on the head. “Things will be different; I’ll make sure everything will be safer for him.”
I left her in her room and walked back to my dad. I sat down and sighed. “Being the chief is harder then I thought,” I said.
“Life is rarely easy son Chief or not chief.”
“What am I going to do dad? Why would I do that? I could feel the ashes on my feat, I heard the silence in the air, and I smelled the death. Why would I do that?”
“I refuse to believe you would do something like that son. I know you, I raised you, and I know I did not raise a monster.”
He looked at me with his good eye and there was that look of wisdom and knowing in his eye I had seen so many times before.
“Thanks dad. Will you need help getting to bed?”
“No, I’ll just fall asleep in the chair tonight; I am in no mood to deal with trying to get to bed with all these bumps and bruises. The pain medicine they gave me will help me sleep.”
“Alright, night dad.”
“Night son, sweet dreams.”
I walked into my room and closed the door. I fell on my bed and within seconds I was asleep.
I dreamed I was in darkness, a deep everlasting darkness that had not seen the light of day for countless generations. I was not alone. Something was in the darkness. Something moved in it. How could something live in this darkness?
I felt it, moving around, it was restless, so many years alone, so many years in the never ending darkness. I could feel it looking at me even though I could not see it, feel it looking at me and into me.
A shape began to form in the darkness. Something humanoid like, a someone I think. It was a male I think, yes a man. Long dark hair kept his face hidden but I could feel his eyes on me. There was something familiar about this man.
“Soon,” he said. “Sooooooon.”
I woke up with a start. Sweat was pouring off my body. There was a knock on my door and I jumped. “Jake get ready, the wedding is in a few hours!” Rachel said.
“Alright, I’ll be ready in a few.”
I wiped my face, my sheets were positively soaked. I walked up to my dresser and began to find my fancy cloths. I saw my tie and shirt I wore when I crashed Bella’s prom no way that would fit me.
I picked out the best cloths I could find and looked at myself in the mirror. I should have been looking at my chest or legs; instead I stared at my face. My body and face were on the thin side from being in my coma; I wasn’t able to pig out like I usually do. But my eyes…there was something different about them.
They were still brown like they always had been, but there was something…different…something that hadn’t been there before. Was this the beginning of my transformation? Was what I was seeing the beginning of my transformation into that evil creature I saw in my vision? What was with that dream I had?
A part of me wants to enjoy tonight, but a bigger part wishes I could just look for these blasted brothers now. I want to know what’s wrong with me. I need to know how to stop the nexus from opening.
But today is Emily and Sam’s day. Today is a well needed day. A day where we can for a while forget the looming fight and the scars left from old battles a day where family and friends bond and look forward to the future. No matter how bleak it is.

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Tristan P.O.V
I sat at the table with the leaders from the other tribes. Elders, chiefs and other important people were here to discuss the Nexus and their role in its opening.
The Quinault, the Kathlamet, the Couer d’alene and the Nez Perce. They had joined us in our cause. “Hello my friends,” I said.
Josiah, leader of the Quinault began first. “Is it true? You have found the nexus?”
“Yes, we have,” I grinned.
“Impossible”h Eric said. He was the chief of the Nez perce. “How did you succeed after all others have failed!”
“Let’s just say a reliable source gave us not only the location, but the exact details to open it, so we need not wait for the stars to be in proper alignment,” I said.
“And who is this source?” Jordan of the Kathlamet asked.
“It’s a secret. But we are not here to discuss our secret helper; we are here to discus strategy. The Quileute’s know of our plan, but they do not know that you all exist. They think because they took many of my wolves that they have an advantage. They do not plan on you all helping.”
Peg, one of the elders of the Couer d’alene spoke. “Maybe we should just leave it alone. We know nothing of magic. The season of spirits and monsters is over, now is the age of metal and fire. Opening the nexus may throw the balance of the world out of control. It is the combined power of dozens of tribes.”
“We have the right, had we not given up our most powerful magic we would have sent the pale faces packing,”Jordan said.
“We had to,” Peg said. “Our ancestors saw what the power would do to us if we used it in such a war it would have changed us.”
“They were fools,” I said. “Look at what they did to us, we live on reservations the white men put us on, they came with their white god and when their words would not civilize us they used their guns. The economy is in a low and we suffer for it. They use our children in their wars.”
“That is why you are doing this isn’t it?” Eric asked. “our son died in the Vietnam War and now you seek to punish them all for it.”
“We all lost family in the wars. That war was pointless and it was lost. My son was forced to enlist and he died as soon as he got there, yes I hate them, not just for my son, but for my people and our land.”
“Believe me, the thought of our people being in charge of everything is something I have fantasized about many times,” Jordan said. “But you are talking about banishing millions of people to countries that may not even allow them to enter.”
“I won’t banish all of them, the Asians, the blacks, the Latinos, they may all stay, just not the whites.”
“That’s murder,” Peg said.
“What goes around comes around. Power makes the world go round Peg, it’s the only way we can take it back, our land, all of it, enough power to take it back and use it to make us prosper as we should have.”
“And you will be the one to lead us? I think not. Big chief Tristan does not appeal to me,” Eric said.
“Not me, is, all the chiefs and leaders, the nexus will go to all its proper owners. All of us have a right to it.”
“So do the Quileute’s but I don’t see them here, or the other tribes that have magic in the nexus.”
“The other tribes have nether and remains of their magic or shifters. They will be of no use to us, but once the nexus is opened it will be shared. As for the Quileute’s they made their opinion on the subject clear.”
“You mean when they stole your wolves?” Jordan asked with a smiled.
“Yes they have, which is why I need your help, all of you. Help me open the nexus, help me take back our land.”
“The Quileute’s will try to stop us if they find out,” Josiah said. “I do not wish to fight them, our tribes are like family.”
“Our tribe was like family with them to. But we are willing to do what must be done for the greater good. But if you all want to continue to watch as the white men’s religion wipes out our culture, as their drugs corrupt our people, as their wars kill our children, then by all means go ahead.”
One by one they looked at one another. They all nodded. “We stand with you Tristan,” Josiah said.
“Good, now I will let you know now, in order to open the nexus we need to weaken the seals that keep the magic enclosed.”
“How do we do that?” Eric asked.
“First we need to give blood. The chiefs must give a little blood, just a little, the five of us will do that, but we need seven to give blood.”
“Who will be the seventh?” Peg asked.
I smiled. “A very special someone but if we are to make him corporate we need a special someone. Have any of you ever heard of the Cullens?”

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Leah P.O.V
The wedding was perfect.
All the wolves, the elders, various family and friends attended. It was the largest wedding in La Push history. And it was beautiful.
Alice out did herself. All the suites and dresses fit perfectly and were amazing. Nessie looked like a little angel as she walked down the isle tossing flowers. They found a little cousin of Sam’s to bear the rings.
I stood next to Emily and watched as Sam stared at her like she was the sun. I felt no envy or jealousy, just a sense of peace and happiness. Soon they said I do and kissed and sealed the deal. Emily was now Emily Uley.
And just so you know, when it was time to catch the flowers I made damn sure I caught it. I sent Embry a meaningful look and he blushed, Jake and Quil nudged him and laughed.
The Cullens didn’t mingle much. The humans avoided them and the wolves just growled at them, but Jake’s order kept a fight from happening. Plus Jasper and his emo power. He seemed to be enjoying himself, in fact he seemed (gasp) giddy. Must be the happy waves he was getting.
We all ate and we all danced. I enjoyed it while I could, soon we would leave, but right now I just wanted to enjoy the moment.
“Everything is going great,” Embry said.
“Yeah, it seems surreal, I dreaded, this day for so long, now its here and I could care less.”
“You worried about what’s next?” he asked.
“You mean the brothers? A little. I think we should bring Bella but after what happened to her in Makah Edward refuses, she can’t get him to budge.”
“We’ll be fine; the spirits wouldn’t have told us about them if they were dangerous.”
“Yeah, but you know life, it’s full of surprises.”
I tried to be happy, to feel confident. But after that dream last night a dream of a man in a deep never ending darkness, how can I not feel a little worried?

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Seth P.O.V
“Their staring at us,” Tony said.
“Let them, we have every right to dance,” I said.
“I’m sorry, I’m just not sure if it’s because were boys or my arms, or lack of,” he said.
I think it was a mixture of both. Some people watched us with disproving, even hostile looks. Others seemed freaked by Tony not having any arms. I didn’t care though; I wanted to dance with my boyfriend.
“Sorry I keep on ruining the moment; I’m just not used to being open.”
“Its okay, just don’t worry about it.”
He rested his head against my shoulder. “This is nice.”
“Yeah, it is,” I agreed.
“Seth…when its time to fight…I’m going to fight too.”
“What?”
He looked me in the eye. “Do not think I am going to sit by and watch as you and the others fight.”
“Tony…you can’t.”
“I may not have my arms but I am still a werewolf, I will not, I repeat I will not watch you fight without me.”
“Tony, we out number your tribe now, there probably wont be a real fight any way,” I said.
“You don’t know Tristan; he will find a way to make it into a war.”
“You gave your arms to protect me, how can I let you fight and possibly lose your life next?”
“Please Seth, don’t let them put me on the sidelines.” he begged.
I sighed. “We’ll talk about it later, let’s just enjoy the peace we have now,” I said.
He nodded. “Okay.”
We continued to dance to the music. Forgetting about wars, magic, vampire brothers. All we cared for was the peace and serenity you can only find with someone you love.
Tony yawned. “You tired?” I asked.
“Yeah, I didn’t get much sleep last night.”
“Why?”
“I kept on having a nightmare?”
“What about?”
“Oh it’s stupid. I dreamt…I was somewhere dark. So dark. I thought I was alone but someone was in that darkness with me. It was scary...Seth? What’s wrong?”
I stared at him in horror. Horror that I had dreamt the same kind of dream.

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Jake P.O.V
We had left the wedding three hours ago.
We said our good bys and I love you’s and left. We ran North West just as that jerk Akakios said all the way to Canada until we reached Alberta. By the time we got there a nasty snow storm had come in. The snow made my fur look extra redder then what it already was.
“So I had this dream,” Embry said. “I was in this dark place an-”
“Embry!” Me, Quil and Leah said.
In an instant we learned the truth. All four of us had the same dream!
“But that’s impossible!” Embry said.
“No its not,” Edward said.
“Edward what are you talking about?” Carlisle asked.
Edward told them of our dream. “Wait, Nessie had that dream too,” Jasper said.
“Nessie?” I asked worried. Why was Nessie having dreams like that? She wasn’t a wolf; she was too young to be dreaming of something like that.”
“Last night Nessie woke up screaming. I saw her thoughts, I saw her nightmare. Jake it was worse, that thing, whatever it is attacked her.”
“What?!” we all thought.
“It attacked her, it had its hands wrapped around her throat and tried to choke her to death. If Bella and I hadn’t woken her…it would have killed her. She wasn’t breathing Jake.” There was anger in his eyes. Not at me. At himself for not being able to protect her, at the thing that attacked his daughter, angry he came so close to loosing Nessie.
“Why didn’t she say anything?”
“She feared if she told you, you would want to stay behind for her. She didn’t want to interfere with the quest.”
“She’s too much like Bella!”
He nodded in agreement. “Jake it’s not just you four…all the wolves dreamed it.”
“What? Why didn’t they say anything?” Leah asked.
“Same reason none of you did, you all thought it was a dream. Just a simple nightmare, a manifestation of the recent traumas. The funny thing is some of the humans had it to. The shaman Merck did, a few other humans did to.”
“Why? What was so special about them?” Jasper said.
“I think the humans who had the dream to are like Merck. I think they have enough…magic, enough psychic awareness or what ever you want to call it to pick up on it. Even Alice has been picking up on it; she keeps on seeing a man in the dark.”
“And you’re just telling us this now?” Quil asked annoyed.
He shrugged. “Seemed like the right time.”
The wind picked up and it began to snow harder. Where the hell are these blood suckers at? We continued to push forward, trying to pick up a vampire scent besides the Cullens
Another hour and we were deeper into Canada. “Fuck, where are these little fuckers!” Leah cursed. “I didn’t run from the wedding full of food and fun just to go chasing after a bunch of vampires!”
“Tell me about, thank god I got all this fur and a high body temperature or else my balls would be bluer then the sky,” Quil said.
“Quil we do not want to hear about your tiny blue balls,” Embry said.
“How do you know the size of my little Quils Embry? You been catching a peek?” he mocked him.
“Stop!” Edward said.
“Great now you got the vampire pissed,” Embry said.
“No! Something is coming,” Edward snapped.
“What is it son?” Carlisle asked.
“I don’t know,” Edward said. He closed his eyes and tried to focus. “Something…its mind is jumbled…it’s to chaotic, nothing makes sense.”
I smelled it then. The scent of a vampire. “Is it the brothers?” Jasper asked.
“I don’t know,” Edward said.
We waited. A light was shining through the dark. It got closer and closer. Soon I was able to see the figure holding the light. The light was a lamp, holding it was Akakios.
“It’s that vamp from your dream,” Leah said.
“...I don’t think it is,” I said.
Whoever he was he looked like Akakios. Physical. Same milky yellow eyes, same pale fragile skin, same jet black hair. But he did not have Akakios scowl. There was no hostility or anger in his eyes.
He looked…lost. With his lamp, his soft appearance and his eyes. He looked like a little boy who got lost in the snow storm and was trying to find his way home. His eyes seemed to be out of focus, like he was having a hard time trying to see everything around him. His face had a forlorn look in place of Akakios anger.
He looked so lost and sad, a part of me wanted to tell him it would all be okay, that he was safe and sound. He looked like one of those children you see on the news. The ones who have been beaten and neglected. The pain and sorrow beams out from their eyes and tears your heart to see such pain.
Giving Akakios temperament I had to wonder if he was abusing his brother. Something told me this was not Akakios. This was his brother.
“What’s wrong with him?” Quil asked.
Leah’s maternal instincts were kicking in. She was thinking about phasing and holding him close to her, protecting him like a mother would her child. She knew he was a vampire and he could kill her if she left herself open but the desire to hold him was so strong for her. I was feeling it as was the others; it just wasn’t as strong for us.
How can you look at a face like that that seems to have a deep inner pain and not want to give them some comfort?
“What am I seeing? Is this the future?” Edward asked. “It doesn’t make sense, he isn’t here with us, where is he? His mind, it’s so broken, it’s so confusing!”
“Edward?” Carlisle asked.
“He’s not right; his mind is on a whole different reality then us.”
We looked at the vampire. When you got past the lost boy look you saw what Edward meant. He was right; this kid wasn’t on the same level as us.
He looked at me and spoke, his voice so low I had trouble hearing him. “You should not have delayed Jacob Black.” he turned his back and began to walk. “Follow me.”
We began to follow him silently. Edward was still holding his head. “Where are those voices coming from? Who are they?”
We continued to follow the vampire, he did not speak to us and we did not speak to him, twenty minutes later he led us to the mouth of a large cave. We followed him inside; there was enough room for us all to fit.
He turned to us once again and spoke, still so quiet and delicate. “Almost home, please dress yourselves.”
“It might be a trap,” Embry said.
“I agree, this kid gives me the creeps. Its like he’s seeing things we can’t see, things that shouldn’t be seen,”Quil said.
“Edward, are we okay?”
Edward looked at me. “I can’t tell, his mind is like a maze, a maze that constantly shifts and reforms. How can he be able to speak or move?”
“I don’t sense any deceit,” Jasper said. “But his emotions are haywire. One minute he is curious and excited, the next he is depressed and manic, the next he is bored and lonely.”
“Please hurry, I miss my brothers so terribly,” the vampire said. “It’s been so long since I saw them, I miss them so terribly, and we’ve been waiting so long to meet you.”
We phased. We quickly put our cloths on and waited for the vampire to continue. To our surprise and annoyance while we were dressing he was suing the lamp light and his hands to make a shadow puppet show. “Look I make a doggy. Woof, woof.” he changed his hands so the shadows looked something vaguely like a man. “Now I am a man…what sound does a man make? I know a sound one man makes, ‘Soon. Sooooooon.’”
A ripple of fear ran through us all. His eyes had gone from humorous to scary and mysterious in a second. The shadows on the wall and his quote were too much like the dream.
He looked at us and his face was sad again. “I see him you know, the man in the dark; he is very impatient right now. So impatient, he has been waiting a long time for this day.”
“Who is he?” I asked.
“The ghost of Christmas past.”
“What?”
He stood back up and grabbed the lantern. “Come now, they wait.”
“They?” Carlisle asked.
“My brothers. Akakios and Aristides. They have already prepared everything for you all, can‘t you smell it?”
Just then the smell of roasting meat came from deep in the cave. “Is that roasting meat?” Quil asked. Soon the cave was filled with the sound like a rumbling bear. In truth it was our stomachs. It had been a long time since the wedding and we had been running for a long time.
“Your tumblys are rumbling, time to eat.”
He continued to walk deeper into the cave. The deeper we got the stronger the smell became. “What is your name?” Carlisle asked.
“Ekion. My mother named me; she named all of us a long time ago. She was very pretty my mother, she was a witch, one of the Thessaly witch’s; they could call the moon from the sky. Their gone though, lots of things from those days are gone…including mother.” he sounded sad again. His shoulders slumped in defeat.
We arrived to a giant rock that was like a boulder. He extended his hand and with his hand alone pushed the giant rock out of the way. I was so busy feeling so sorry for him I forgot what he was. A centuries old vampire with more power in his pinky then a buffalo has in its whole body.
When he pulled the boulder to the side the sweet smell of roasting meat hit us in a wave, as did the smell of vampire, but it was well hidden with the smell of food and flowers. Roses I think.
We followed Ekion through the tunnel. Light shined from the end. “Please close the door on your way in,” he said.
Jasper closed the door. The sound of that boulder closing made me anxious. Being with a bunch of vampires in an enclosed space did not make me feel safe.
Ekion had gone on without us. The sound of humming was coming from the end of the tunnel. Someone was humming a song. We walked down the hall and we walked out the end of the tunnel and came in a large circular room. Paper lanterns and a roaring fire lit the room. Ekion was walking up a set of stairs on the side of the wall that curved, leading him up behind us.
We stepped forward and I looked up there was an alcove up behind us. A little platform was there and I saw Ekion put his lantern down.
“Hello.”
I looked and saw a figure walking down the other set of stairs that led to the same alcove. He looked like Ekion and Akakios. But I knew this had to be Aristides. He reminded me a lot of Seth. The way he moved, the bright smile on his face, the warm glow coming from his eyes.
Looking into those warm milky yellow eyes made me feel more at ease and a little better. He wasn’t like Jasper but damn you couldn’t feel anything but cheer from this guy.
“My name is Aristides, welcome to our home.” he shook each of our hands with much vigor and delight; someone was a very happy camper.
“Please come in come in, we made some food for you wolves, I know how you all get hungry. We have some live animals in the back for you Carlisle and your sons.”
“Have we met?” Carlisle asked.
“No, but we have been expecting you for a few years now. It’s been so frustrating waiting for you for so long. Please come sit down, the meat is almost ready.” He sat down next to the fire. There was a fur rug on the ground. He patted the ground; we all looked at one another and sat down in a circle.
“Well, well, well if it isn’t sleepy head,” a voice said mockingly. We looked up and there standing on the alcove was Akakios. He looked at us with a glare full of contempt. “You look dumber in the waking world then you did in the dream world.”
“Akakios!” Aristides snapped. “These are our guests, you will be nothing but hospitable to them!”
Aristides face was firm. I knew right then and there he was the leader of this coven. He may be a nice guy but he was no push over. The sternness disappeared in the blink of an eye. “I apologize for him. Akakios is very protective of us and he did not want to meet with you all.”
“For good reason,” Akakios jumped from the alcove and landed on his feet. “Last thing we need is to be dragged into any shit.”
“We do not mean to involve you, but we were told by…a reliable source,” Carlisle said.
“Yes the spirits of La Push. They possessed young Jacob here and through him told you of us,” he said. Akakios joined his brother, sitting down next to him. Sweet music began to play from the Alcove; Ekion came walking down the step with what appeared to be the back of a turtles shell in his hands. There were stings attached to the hollow part of the shell, making it a weird harp. He was good, the harp was very soothing.
“How did you know all that”h Leah asked taking her eyes away from Ekion.
Aristide smiled at Edward. “Edward knows.”
“He’s like me. Only he can read minds.”
“But you can read minds,” Quil said.
“No, not exactly. I hear the surface thoughts, what you’re thinking at the moment, he however can hear thoughts but he can also probe your minds. He’s like Aro only he doesn’t need to touch you to do it. Every thought, every memory is his to read.”
“Great, another one,” Leah mumbled.
“Don’t worry, I haven’t taken any liberties. Like Edward I can hear surface thoughts, I can’t turn that off. But I can choose to read your minds if I want, I swear, I have not read your minds, I heard your thoughts.”
“How did you all get me out of that coma?” I asked.
“Well you can thank Akakios for that. We had to combine our powers to do it though.”
“Combine?”
Akakios sighed, like an adult having to answer a childish question. “Even as children we had strong powers, I blame our mother. When we were close to one another or touched our powers grew stronger. That stayed the same when we were turned. By being close our powers increase.”
“What is your gift?” Jasper asked.
“I am a medium; I can see and communicate with souls and spirits. But I can also traverse the realms of the dead and seek out the deceased to commune with them.”
“Like that chick from ghost whisperer?” Embry asked.
“No dumb ass!” Akakios growled. “I can actually travel to the resting places of souls. Heaven, hell, purgatory, limbo, Tartarus, naraka, yomi, duat, the after life, the spirit world, paradise, the summer lands, Elysium, Valhalla, olam habba. You name it I can go there.”
“Impossible! Those are all from different religions!” Edward said.
“Victoria and James send their regards,” Akakios said with a wicked smile.
Edwards face went blank. His eyes how ever betrayed him. What ever he is seeing in Akakios mind he did not like. We all stared at him in shock. What do you do when someone tells you they can travel to all the after life’s you were ever told about?
Akakios looked at Aristide with an angry look. Aristide said nothing, just gave him a look. “You’re the voices I heard in Ekion’s head!” Edward said looking at them in shock.
“What?” I asked.
“They have a link with one another, like you do when you and the others are in wolf form.”
We stared at the brothers, surprised. I had thought vampires only had one power.
“Me and my brothers were powerful psychics in our human lives,” Aristide said answering my question. “When we were human we always knew the others mood, we could always tell if they were safe or in trouble. When we turned it became a telepathic link.”
Ekion sat next to Akakios. He looked at Ekion and the anger and contempt disappeared. His face softened and for a second he looked a lot like Aristide. The look he gave his brother was one of affection and love. He scooted closer to the side to make room. I knew then and there if he loved anyone in this world it was his family. It helped me like him just a tad.
“How were you able to hide from Alice’s vision?” Jasper asked. “You’re vampires; she should have been able to find you.”
“A spell,” Aristide said. “When we went into hiding all those years ago we knew there were powers that could allow people to find us. The cave is littered with special symbols and magic that makes psychic sensory powers run right over us.”
“So that’s why I couldn’t hear you until we stepped in here,” Edward said.
“Wait a spell? You guys do magic?” Embry asked.
“Yes, our mother taught us.”
“How old are you?” Leah asked. “I mean you don’t look like the Volturi guys but you look more like those Romanians.”
Akakios hissed at her. “Don’t you dare mention them here!”
“Brother go get the plates, the meat is ready,” Aristide said.
Akakios glared at his brother, he got up and went back up the steps to fetch the plates. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to upset him.”
He smiled. “It’s not your fault, Akakios is just sensitive.”
“Blow me,” Akakios said walking down the steps with the plates. He handed us wolves the plates. He pulled out a long knife and began to cut chunks of meat out with the knife and put them on our plates. “To answer your question she wolf we are four thousand years old.”
We all gasped. “That’s older then the Volturi!” Jasper said.
“Yes. We were born on an island in ancient Greece. Our mother was one of the witches of Thessaly. Our father was a solider whom she fell in love with. He took her from her home to his village on an island. The villagers did not welcome her but father was a well known fighter so they just stayed clear of her. One day our father was called away to fight in war…he never returned.”
“Life was hard,” Akakios said. “Without our father to protect us the villagers were most cruel to us. Mother protected us and taught us magic. Even when we were young our gifts were obvious. She helped us learn to control of powers.”
“But then she died,” Aristide said. “She got sick and we were unable to find anyone willing to help a witch.”
They spoke fluidly and flawless, there was no pause when they switched. It was like they were one voice speaking out of two mouths.
“Without our parents the villagers were quiet cruel to us. We had to learn to fend for our selves. No one would take us in, fearing the witch children. We were forced to steal from the markets and steal sheep. We hid deep in the woods, which living on an island wasn’t very easy.”
“One year when we were of fifteen winters old the cattle began to die and the crops would not grow. The villagers came for us, they blamed us, and they said we offended the gods with our very existence!” Akakios snarled. “We tried to run but they caught us. Except for Agathon and Agape.”
“Who?” I asked.
“Our brothers.”
“Wait, your quintuplets?” Leah asked.
“Oh where are they?” I asked.
All three brothers looked down; their faces perfect mirrors of pain.
“Us three were captured,” Aristide said. “They planed to cut us open and burn our entrails to the gods. But before they did they wanted to have fun with us. Eat your meat, its getting cold.”
I had forgotten all about the food, that’s how into the story I was. I picked at it with my fingers and put it in my mouth. It was amazing! The juices and the spices made me moan in delight. The others loved it to.
“They wanted to wait a week before they sacrificed us, part of some ritual I guess. In that time they tortured us.”
“Why?” Leah asked.
“Because they could,” Aristide said. “Because they thought we deserved it, because watching us scream in pain made them feel better about themselves.”
“When they learned we could not be broken, they turned to Ekion.”
They both looked at their brother. Pain clear as day in their eyes. This happened thousands of years ago but they still felt guilt for not stopping their captors. Ekion continued to play his harp, never once stopping or faltering. He seemed to be more interested in playing his music then the story.
“They were so mean to me, I knew what they were going to do to me before they did it, I screamed and cried and begged, hoping they would take mercy on me, all it did was make them happy…they liked pretty boys, they liked it when we scream, they said I had a pretty face, they made my brothers watch as they loved me.”
We stared at him. Shocked at how emotionless he spoke of the torture. Edward looked positively ill. Poor bastard must be able to see what he was talking about.
“Why did they make you watch?” Quill asked. Embry punched him in the arm. “Sorry,” he apologized.
“Its okay, they made us watch because they knew the only way to break us would be to make us watch as they hurt Ekion. Ekion was always such a sensitive boy, they knew he would hurt the most, they knew it would hurt more to see him in pain then any torture they could come up with for us.”
“So how did you escape?” Carlisle asked.

“On the day we were to be gutted our brothers reappeared. But they were different. It was strange, somehow I knew they were okay, but three days before we had a sense they were in intense pain. We sensed them coming and despaired, thinking they were about to die with us. Then the appeared sparkling in the sun, their eyes red, they were accompanied by two more vampires. They went to work, killing all the villagers, leaving no witnesses. We watched in horror as they drained the blood from them.”
“What had happened?” Embry asked.
“Oh blast wait a minute!” Aristide turned to Akakios. “Brother! The offerings!”
Akakios rolled his eyes. “Do we have to?” he gave him a hard look. “Fine”
“Excuse us, we’ll be quick. They tore a chunk of meat of the deer they had cooked and tossed it into the fire. The clasped their hands and began to speak in another language. After a few moments they were done. “Sorry, forgot to pray to Hestia, always got to remember to give do to the gods, now where was I?”
“Agathon and Agape.”
“Oh right. Well as they escaped our brothers tried to figure a way to save us. While they were hiding they met Selene and Helios. They were a mated pair and they stumbled upon our brothers. The sight of our brothers so scared and terrified touched their hearts, they decided to adopt them. They agreed, but made them promise to come back for us.”
“Did they turn you?”
“Not right away. We needed to tend to Ekion. He was horribly traumatized. Selene and Helios hoped that the venom would help repair his mind you see, they thought it would make him forget what happened,” Akakios said. “And it did, for the first three minutes, then...he remembered everything, not only that but his power had manifested so powerfully it turned him into what he is today.”
“What’s his power?” Carlisle asked.
“He is like your Alice. Only much, much stronger. He can read destiny. He sees the past and the future. He sees what was, what will be, what must be and what must never be. He saw you all coming years ago, we’ve been eagerly waiting.” Aristide said.
“What happened to your brothers and your adopted parents?” Carlisle asked.
“Well after we turned our power increased, we had a connection to each other that allowed us to not only share our power but it also helped us keep Ekion under control. Being a newborn and his mind being shattered he was much like the immortal children. Agathon and Agape manifested powers as well. Agathon could see things that were happening hundreds of thousands of miles away, Agape what you would call a psychic lens, he was the most powerful of us.”
Akakios pointed at Jasper, “He was like a cross between you, Marcus and Chelsea. He could make a saint into a sinner and a murdering psychopath into the Dali lama. He could make your emotions or parts of your personality stronger or weaker. He could make Carlisle a mean spiteful man if it suited him, but the best part was he could increase the powers of others greatly, by a factor of twelve.”
“I can’t even imagine what my power would be like by twelve,” Edward said shaking his head.
“We became renowned for our power, for thousands of years we were the celebrities of the vampire world, covens would seek us out and ask us for advice, and they would pay us in fur, money, jewels. They called us the great diving brothers, Selene and Helios was so proud. They were great parents; they helped fill the void of our parents real well.”
“What happened?”
“Ekion ran off, little shit got away from us and went running around,” Akakios said giving Ekion a playful nudge with his shoulder.
“I found a kitty cat, I followed him hoping to learn the mysteries and the ways of the cat, all he did was lick himself and want me to pet him, he was really lazy. I dutifully watched him, keeping away from my brothers so they would not interrupt my feline training. I forgot to feed and was really hungry; I was holding my cat in my arms and went to give him a kiss. He made a funny sound meeooaaaaghhhhh.”
We stared at him in shock. What do you say to something like that? I mean shit! I’m sorry you ate your cat doesn’t seem to cut it.
“He stopped moving, and breathing and eating, soon he began to fall apart every time I pet him, but he did help me slack my thirst. He gave me the idea to kiss other animals. By the time they found me my eyes were a pretty yellow.”
“We were amazed by his eyes, Selene and Helios never saw anything like it. We experimented with it and found that animal blood could slacken our thirst and it helped us blend in with humans. After a decade we were able to bear to be around humans and saw how we had reclaimed our humanity.” Aristide got up and took out plates. After Ekion told us about his cat none of us were hungry.
“Thank you for the food,” Leah said. “This is a nice rug,” she said.
“Its wolf”h Akakios said.
“Oh, wow, must have killed a lot of wolves to make a rug this big.”
“Actually we only killed four, they were shifters like you”h We stared at him in horror. I mean come on! We were sitting on fur made from the flesh of our own kind! “Anyone you know”h he grinned, his old obnoxiousness returned.
“It was self defense!” Aristide said quickly. “They tried to kill us and well…they did have some nice fur,” he shrugged his shoulders. He sat back down and continued. “Now by the time we had control of our hunger the Volturi and the Romanians had begun their war. We had hoped that our findings could help solve the conflict. We met with them and showed them our eyes and told them what we discovered. We told them if we could get all our people to do this then we could live with humans side by side, become more civilized.”
“It failed miserably!” Akakios growled. They called us freaks, abominations, perverts, heretics. Before we knew it they fell on us. Selene and Helios fell first, they tried to buy us time to run but they were quickly cut down, we tried running but there were to many of the fuckers, Agathon and Agape stayed behind to buy us time to run, we tried to argue but Agape used his power to make us go...we felt them die, through our link we watched them be torn apart and felt the flames consume them...”
They all looked similar again. That same forlorn look you saw on Ekion’s face.
“Wait, if Ekion can see the future then why didn’t he see what would happen?” Jasper asked.
“I did see it,” Ekion said. “I told them I saw the wolves tear the lambs apart, I told them we should go for a swim in the sea instead.”
“The thing about Ekion is…since his mind is on another plain or reality, he doesn’t think like most people. He sees the world in a whole different way. He can think and act normal, if he really concentrates and pulls himself together, but it hurts him to do so.”
“All we get from him are a bunch of images covered in fog; we can barely see the timeline. We thought that there would be an almost fight, boy were we wrong, understatement of the fucking century.” Akakios said.
“What happened next?” I asked.
“We did what any good brothers and sons would do, we joined the Volturi. With us on their side it was easy as hell to take out the Romanians.”
“Wait! You helped put the Volturi in charge?” Leah asked throwing them a hostile glare.
“Back of bitch!” Akakios growled. “The Romanians killed our family! We tried to show them a better way to live and they killed our family because of it. The Volturi may be tyrants but they actually care about the rules. The Romanians ruled for the sake of ruling. They did not care about order and rules, they just wanted to be the top dogs, Aro at least had the sense to enforce the rules, hell the Romanians had no rules, they just said they were the rulers and did what they wanted.”
“After they fell we faked our deaths,” Aristide said. “We knew they were a lesser evil but we did not want to be a part of Aro’s coven. We knew he would not let us go, we were too valuable and we could one day turn on him, so on the day of the last battle we burned the Castle down and made it look like we perished inside with the other Romanians. We quickly went into hiding and have been ever since. That’s why we look like this, we rarely ever go out. But we move around a lot and sometimes we’ll go interact with humans.”
“That must be a terribly lonely way to live,” Carlisle said.
“It can be, but we have each other”h Aristide smiled warmly to his brothers.
“Look…I know you all got your own shit to deal with,” Akakios said. “But we swore a long time ago not to get involved with the world. All we want is to live together in peace and harmony; you guys bring trouble to our doorstep.”
“We mean not to,” I said. “But the spirits said you would help.”
“Well the spirits can go take a flying leap!”
“Brother,” Aristide said.
“Enough!” Ekion said firmly. Akakios and Aristide looked at him in shock. Ekion looked at me and the conflicting emotions were gone. Instead there was a knowledge and wisdom in his milky yellow eyes. “You should not have delayed Jacob Black, the hour draws close and the past is returning to haunt your tribe.”
“Holy shit!” Akakios said. He looked at us and there was a humorless smile on his face. “You guys are in serious shit!”
“What’s going on?” Embry asked.
“My god!” Edward gasped.
“Remember when I said if he concentrates enough he can be normal? Well when that happens we can see his mind and things make more sense. Right now he is fighting to speak with you”h Aristides said. “We know what he knows and we understand.”
“His power! He stands outside of time and looks in on it all! How can he bare it?” Edward asked.
“He can’t, haven’t you noticed? Or didn’t the incident with mr. kitty give you an idea?” Akakios said.
“What do you see?” I asked Ekion.
“You have dreamed him? The man in the darkness?”
“Yes who is he?”
“A relic of the past. You are not the only one who dreams him Jacob Black, people across the whole world dream of him. All the shifters, all the psychics, all the seers and all the people with just a little magical sight dream of him.”
The brothers joined hands. “Join us,” they said in unison.
We all grabbed hands and joined them in making a circle around the fire. “Now see what can not be seen.”
I felt them enter my mind. I saw the man again. We were back in the darkness again, the man looked up as if he could sense us. He smiled and his teeth seemed to glow in the dark. He raised his head and despite the dark I could see his face. The second I looked into his eyes the memories of the ancients moved in my head.
A memory returned, then another, then another and another and another. I broke the circle and the image faded. I gasped trying to catch my breathe, my heart beat hard in my chest.
“That’s not possible! That man is dead!” I said, my blood was colder then ice.
“Who was it Jake?” Everyone asked.
“It was him, it was Utlapa!”
Fusedtwilight: Don, don, don! What does Utlapa have to do with the nexus? How did he get there? Next chapter begins a new epic. You heard the story in Eclipse, but next chapter we see how Utalapa fell, his journey on the path to evil and the people and events that led to the making of the nexus. Please review.
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