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Pups and Tykes
Chapter 25
Fusedtwilight: Thanks to purpleranger who betaed even when she was sick.
Now this chapter we delve into la push history, I should tell you all right now the names I made up for certain Characters are not real La Push names, they are my own horrible attempt at naming. Also I am not an expert at the history of La Push or any of the tribes of that region, so if I am making any errors forgive me.

Leah P.O.V
We stared at Jake in shock. "Jake that's impossible!" I said.
"No its true! I recognize his face, the memories I got from the spirits."
"But Taha Aki crushed his spirit, remember the story?" Quil said.
"Idiot," Akakios said. "You can't kill a spirit. No more then you can give birth to lightning. Souls are a form of energy, you can disperse them, you can divide them, but you can't destroy them. Souls are the one true thing in all the worlds that are truly immortal."
"But where is he? What is he still doing around? Why hasn't he shown himself before?" Embry asked.
"Who is this man?" Carisle asked. We gave him a quick run down.
"In order to understand your future you must understand your past," Ekion said. "There is more to the story then you have been told, your people have forgotten. The story of Taha Aki and Utlapa is more complex and heart breaking then you can imagine."
"But what does this have to do with the nexus?" I asked.
"We don't have time to tell you, I am trying to hold on, but it hurts…me…head," Ekion mumbled.
"You must rejoin the circle," Aristide said. "He won't be able to last much longer."
We all rejoined the circle. I felt the brothers enter my mind, felt them connect me to the others, even the Cullens. With the speed of thought I was no longer in the cave in Alberta Canada, I was no longer in the here and now. I was back in La Push a long time ago.

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La Push
A long time ago
Utlapa P.O.V
I stood with the other twelve boys in front of the elders. The shaman was testing us for spiritual power. I stood next to Taha Aki. He was my friend. He was like a brother to me. I am glad we are here together. I would have no one by my side besides him.
The elders stood in front of us. My father was among them. I prayed to Q'wati that he would let me be a spirit warrior. He had been training me so hard for the past three years. I did not want to disappoint him.
Taha Aki was looking at his father, Taha Loki. I know Aki will make it, he is of the Taha's. They are direct descendants of Kaheleha. They are the Taha, their blood is the strongest in the tribe. His father was smiling at him warmly, showing his son support.
I looked to my own father Utloopa. He looked at me but it was a stern look. I looked away unable to keep meeting his steely gaze. I know he will talk with me later about looking away. He was always so hard on me about being strong and tough. He will call me weak again for not staring right back at him.
"Open your hand child," Ta'longa said.
I opened my hand and he placed a white stone on it. The second it did it turned beat red. Like a little blood drop.
"Pass, you shall be a spirit warrior child," he said.
The elders clapped as they had for the others who made it. My father nodded and I felt my spirits soar. I had made my father proud this day. I saw my mother behind him, she smiled at me to.
Ta'longa went to Aki next who already had his hand open and ready. "Like we don't know what will happen," he said.
A ripple of small laughter ran through the room. Only Aki could get away with making humor in this moment. Being the chiefs son and all. Had it been anyone else they would have been chastised. I envied him that. It is good to be future chief.
Ta'longa placed the white stone in his hand and I swore before it even touched his hand it turned deep black. The blacker a stone the more power you have. Of course Aki would have the most power. He was of the Taha.
Ta'longa turned to the others. "Destiny has spoken! These seven children will be the next spirit warriors!"
The hut filled with claps and applause. I held the stone in my hand. As soon as I get home I will make it into a bracelet to wear proudly.
Taha Loki stepped forward. "Congratulations all of you for passing." he looked to the other boys who had not passed and were looking sad. "Do not fret young ones, there is no shame in not passing."
Tell that to my dad.
"Being a spirit warrior is a great weight to bear, remember everyone has a purpose, from the chief to the smallest child, you can still hunt for whales, make art, go hunting in the woods, trade with our brethren or study to be medicine, life is full of choices, do not be discouraged."
Everyone clapped and the boys who failed all relaxed and smiled. I admired Taha Loki. I wish he was my dad. My dads speech would have been more like 'You have no one to blame but yourselves, had you studied and practiced harder you would have succeeded, I suggest you take time to reflect on your mistakes.'
There was a commotion outside. A woman's voice was raised, I could hear the guards trying to hold her back. A woman stepped in. I knew her. She was the elder Mohatas wife Pika. She was from Hoh. Their marriage had been arranged to stop the war with the Hoh.
In her grip was her daughter Pititchu. Named after the moon. They both shouldn't be here. Normally women weren't allowed to be here for the ritual unless they had a son being tested. Mohata and pika had no sons.
"I demand assistance!" Pika said as soon as she stormed in. I noticed in her other hand she carried a bag.
Pitichu looked scared and nervous. I don't blame her, if my mother started acting like a mad woman I would be deeply embarrassed.
"What is the meaning of this Pika? How dare you enter here!" Mohata demanded.
There was no love lost between Mohata and Pika, this was a well known fact. In all the years they have been wed only Pitichu was born. No more daughters and no sons. It was a rare occurrence to not see them bickering about something. Father said the day they stop fighting and get along is the day people sparkle in the sun.
"You know why I am here! The same reason you forbid me to come."
"And yet here you are!"
"Yes because I love my daughter."
"Enough," Taha Loki said. He looked to Pika and smiled. "What is the problem Pika? What causes you to storm in here?"
"I want my daughter to be tested," she said.
The room was silent. Surely she wasn't asking her daughter be tested for spiritual powers? It was forbidden. Girls aren't spirit warriors. Men are. Women with strong power can be medicine women, or wise woman. If their really strong they can be shamans, but the last female shaman was three generations ago.
"Tested for what?"
"Tested for spiritual powers of course. Taha Loki my daughter is strong. She comes from a long line of powerful women. I have some of the gift passed from my mother and from her mothers mother, and now it has been passed onto my daughter. I am sure of it, I know the signs, I dare say she is stronger than me."
"Enough, go home Pika, right now!" Mohata said.
"I am your wife, not your slave," Pika hissed. "I am your equal and I will have my voice heard, since you will not listen I will go to someone with a bigger ear."
"Calm down now," Taha Loki said. "Pika, what signs are there?"
She opened the bag she carried and pulled out a weave. She showed it to everyone and gasps filled the room. The weave showed…us. Looking at a weave the Pika in it was showing to us. It was looking at the room from a different point of view. Everyone was in place, it even showed the looks of shock on our faces. "Pitichu weaved this yesterday. It has happened before since she was small. She would draw something. Whether a weave, on the ground, or on pots she painted, what ever she drew would happen soon. Good things and bad. She drew us making our large catch last moon, she drew the children being attacked by wolves and we lost one who was playing in the forest with his friends."
"Did you know of this Mohata?" Taha Loki asked.
Mohata looked angry. "Yes, but I did not think of it as anything special."
"Of course not! Had she been a boy you would have had her here today."
This was awkward, seeing adults fight like this was very uncomfortable. Pitichu was looking at the ground. I had seen her around before. She was an odd girl. The others didn't really play with her much. After the war with the Hoh her mother was offered as a sign of peace. There were still some hard feelings towards the Hoh and Pitichu felt most of it.
"Taha Loki I beg you, let her take the test. Her powers are starting to affect her life. She speaks to things that don't exist yet she claims there is something there she is talking to, she glared at a dress I wanted her to wear she did not like and it burst into fire!"
"Enough!" Mohata yelled.
"No! Not until she is helped."
"Quiet!" Taha Loki snapped. They both shut up and looked at him. His face was stern, a leaders face. He steeped up to Pika and kneeled in front of Pitichu. He smiled at her and she hid her face behind her mother.
"Child it is okay, let me see your face."
Pitichu looked at him shyly. "Sir?"
"There we go, no need to hid a pretty face." she blushed. "Now, is it true, what your mother says? Did you set fire to a dress?"
"Yes Taha Loki, I didn't mean to, it was a ugly dress and I did not want to wear it. I remember wishing it would go away and it burst into fire."
"And who do you speak to that no one else sees?"
"I don't know sir…I can't see them, but I know they are there. They whisper things to me. They tell me things and I laugh. Sometimes…they are real nice to me, sometimes they bring me things."
"Explain."
"Well one time I was in the woods alone. I know I shouldn't have been but one of my friends were with me, she…I think it was a she, was with me and I saw an apple and I couldn't reach it, but she plucked it and gave it to me."
"Is there anything else?"
"Well…one time one of the girls called me a stinky Hoh half breed. I told my friend I wish she would shut up then the girl fell to the floor like someone struck her."
"Yes, I remember that. Ta'longa I think we may have found the reason for the spirit infestation. Now then tell me child, what of these things you draw?"
"I don't mean to Taha Loki. I just draw, and before I know it I have drawn something I did not plan to, its like something is guiding my hands, telling me what color to use, what direction to move in, what pattern to use."
The others began to murmur to themselves. Taha Loki got up and patted her on the head. He looked over to Ta'longa and nodded. Ta'longa went up to Pika and Pitichu. Her mother nudged her and she extended her arm and opened her hand. Ta'longa dropped a white stone in her hand. She caught it and clenched it in her fist. When she opened her fist the stone had turned dark red.
It wasn't the black of Taha Aki's but it was definitely darker then mine.
I clenched my stone in anger. How could this girl have stronger spiritual power then me? I was a boy, boys are always stronger then girls. I looked at my father and saw he did not look pleased. I know he was upset I had been beaten by a girl. I cursed Pitichu for doing this to me.
Ta'longa turned to the others. "From what I can tell she has the strongest power besides Taha Aki. Utlapa is weaker then her."
Weaker! Why not tell the whole blasted village you old goat!
"You see! She needs to be trained, she needs to be a spirit warrior," Pika said.
The hut broke out in angry outcries. Taha Loki silenced them. "Pika, Ta'longa can train her to help control her powers, but she can never be a spirit warrior. Perhaps a wise woman but never a spirit warrior, it is forbidden for a woman to be one."
"But I want t o be a spirit warrior, I want to fight and protect the tribe with the others," Pitichu said.
The boys all laughed at her except the adults. A girl as a spirit warrior? Please. Her face flushed red in anger at being mocked.
"I am sorry child, the law says so and we must follow the law."
"The Makah's allow women to train in magic, my people have a history of strong spirit warriors who were female. Please don't deny her this, it is her dream," Pika said.
"I am sorry, this is the way of the Quileute's. Ta'longa will train her to be the next shaman if he so wishes."
"It would be a delight, I have not seen a girl with this much power in years,." Ta'longa said.
"But being a shaman is limited in its art, she could be so great as a spirit warrior."
"Taha Loki has spoken woman!" Mohata spat. "Be thankful he is not punishing you for your disrespect."
She glared at her husband. "Crushing our daughters dreams is punishment enough. Come Pitichu we'll think of something."
They left the hut and everyone began to talk. "I apologize Taha Loki, I did not mean for today to be ruined."
Taha Loki looked at him sternly. "Maybe if you had been more attentive to your daughter this would not have happened."
He bowed in respect.
Taha Aki leaned close. "I thought she was cute, how about you?"
I looked at him and his goofy face. "You're an idiot."

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Alberta
Here and now

Leah P.O.V
We broke the circle. Ekion was looking bad. His eyes were wide and wild looking.
"Wait a minute, Taha Aki and Utlapa were friends?" Embry asked.
"Who was this Pitichu chick? I don't remember her in the story," Quil said.
"She is a character never spoken of, someone so important yet no one knew it. Her role in the story is integral," Aristide said. "Ekion needs some time to compose himself, we will try to help him as best we can, please feel free to look around, this cave is connected to a few smaller caverns, please feel free to explore."
He place his head against the side of Ekions and Akakios mirrored him. Ekion closed his eyes and seemed to relax.
I turned to the others. "Am I the only one freaked out here?" I said.
"Edward is this true?" Jake asked.
"Yes, its all true, Ekions power seems to allow him to view the past as well the future, I have never seen anything like it. It is similar to Max's power but so different at the same time. He reads destiny, its like a book to him. He can flip the pages to anytime he wants, were he sane I dare say he would be the most powerful seer ever to live."
"I wish we could get him to hurry up and tell us instead of having to wait," Jasper said. "One minute he is chastising us for delaying and the whole time he and his brothers were telling us their life story."
"We can hear you asshole!" Akakios snarled. "As far as I am concerned you and yours can rot, but I was out voted so sit down and shut the fuck up!"
"Akakios concentrate," Aristide said.
They went back to work, trying to help their brother. We waited but after a few minutes we went exploring. I went up the alcove with Embry and found a bunch of books. Sadly most of them were in Greek or some other language so they weren't any good to us.
Quil and Jake found a hot spring down a tunnel he had explored. Another room held a lot of deer and other animals. The Cullens grabbed a quick bite to eat.
We waited for an hour before they spoke. Ekion looked a little better, but his brothers looked a little strained. "Fuck trying to pull him back is hard."
"Lets not waist time, positions," Aristide said.
We all went back in the circle and joined hands and went back to the past.

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La Push
Twenty years later
Utlapa P.O.V
I ran with Taha Aki to our destination. The elders had selected us for this mission. It was not one of grave importance and hopefully would succeed, I would be very displeased if I was forced to kill a woman.
The woman we were going to see was Pitichu whom I have not seen in thirteen years. After that day Pitichu was trained by Ta'longa to be his successor. She was a good student, she rapidly learned everything he had to teach her.
Three years after that day in the hut her mother caught ill and passed on to the next life. Pitichu had been devastated. Less then a month after her mothers death her father married a Quileute woman who would later bear him three sons.
She grew up to be quit the rebel. I still remember being there to see their fights, it made the ones he had with her mother look tame. Such vulgar things they said to her, he even struck her a few times when she got real mouthy.
She continued her education and proved to be a powerful wise woman in the making. Then she began sleeping with boys in the tribe. When her father found out he kicked her out of his hut. She would leave La Push a few times every year to visit her family in Hoh. They said in Hoh she learned magic.
Every time she came back she seemed to know some new trick she never knew before. Eventually Ta'longa no longer taught her for she began to misuse her gifts. Using them to take petty vengeance on those who spoke ill of her or using it to cause mischief for her father and his family.
She continued to sleep with men, they even say she also slept with women. Normally people of two spirits are revered for their wisdom as they see the word with the eyes of man in woman. But Pitichu was sleeping with everything that moved, even married men.
She was constantly warned not to misuse her magic, the last straw came when we entered the spirit world and found her there. She fled as soon as she sensed us but it was to late. It seems she had been secretly watching us when we studied the art of spirit warriors.
Normally the punishment would be death, but Taha Loki took mercy on her and banished her. From what I know she went to Hoh and continued her education there. After a few years they banished her to when it was discovered she had born a married mans child.
Next she went to Makah and her troublesome ways got her banished from there too. Tribe after tribe to her in and they all banished her because she misused magic or slept with the wrong person.
She had many children as results from her illicit affairs and finally after fifteen years had made a home on the edge of La Push territory with her bastard children. Rumor has it people from other tribes come and visit her. Some for her knowledge and skill in magic, others to enlist her aid in taking vengeance against those who wronged them, others to know the pleasures of her body and help her continue to fester her fatherless spawn.
We had to do something. She may have been banished but she was still a Quileute woman using Quileute magic. Plus she was so close to our borders the other tribes were accusing us of using her to influence fights and the other tribes.
So Taha Loki sent us to give her an ultimatum. Either she stop or she will die. I have no love for her but I wish not to kill her.
"Stop Utlapa, let us rest."
We stopped and drank from our sacks. It was a long trip from here to La Push but we were almost there. "What do you think she looks like?" Taha Aki asked. "I heard she is a unbelievably beautiful."
"She must be for men to travel away from their homes and wives to fuck her," I said.
"You think she uses magic? I mean I have seen many beautiful women but I have never heard of one so amazing as to caused such an up roar as this."
"Wouldn't surprise me if she is using magic, she should have been dealt with a long time ago."
"Utlapa you are so harsh," he smiled. "I am sure we can convince her the error of her ways. I am sure she is just lost and confused. Had her father been more kind to her this would have never happened."
I rolled my eyes at him. "You are to soft Taha Aki."
"That's what she said."
"What?"
He laughed. We continued our way to Pitichu house. I could see smoke in the near by distance, we were close. We walked through the woods when I felt it. Magic. It tickled over my skin like warm water. We were alert instantly. We waited for something to happen. Nothing did.
"Look," I said pointing to a tree. We walked up to its trunk and saw something was carved in its trunk. It was a symbol in the shape of a spider.
"It is a warning. She has set up a net around her house. This is old magic, very tricky. Plus to have it set so far away from her house, it would help buy her time to be ready for visitors."
"Well so much for a surprise visit," he sighed.
"I don't like this, how do we not know if she has set traps for us?" I asked.
"I will go on ahead and check, watch my body." he closed his eyes and slumped forward a little. I felt his spirit leave his body and travel on the wind. After a few moments he woke up. "All clear. A few more sensors but that is it."
We continued to move forward.
"I sensed her. She is really powerful now Utlapa. Best not let our guard down around her."
"She is just a woman, what do we have to fear?" I asked.
He gave me a serious look. "Do not forget she is the one supplying spells to the other tribes to aid in their battles. I have seen some of her handy work, do not underestimate her."
We continued forward, we felt no more sensory magic as we continued. "So how are we to approach her? Do we work slowly to it or should we just go in and state our business and be done with it?" I asked.
"I want to talk to her first."
"Your father said just deliver the message and come back, he didn't say stop and chat."
He smiled that smile of his. "Yes but he didn't say don't stop and chat. I want to try and talk to her Utlapa, I think she can be reasoned with."
"She is a whore and a witch Aki, don't let your good nature cloud your judgment."
"So cruel Utlapa, I want to hear her story before I start judging her so harshly."
"Just like your father, always listening to peoples excuses."
"A good leader must care about what people have to say, a deaf leader is not a good leader Utlapa."
We broke through the trees and saw the hut Pitichu had come to live in. The smoke was coming from the top of the hut. There were children playing outside of the hut. They were chasing after one another but when they saw us coming they immediately stopped.
The gathered together. The older ones in the front and the younger in the back. The oldest was a boy. I had to wonder if he was her first born son. Kon.
"Who are you?" he asked hostilely. I knew he was definitely the man of the family. There were other small boys but the way he held himself and the way the others looked at him I knew what he said went.
"I am Taha Aki and this is Utlapa. We are Quileutes from La Puah," Aki said.
The boys face darkened. The other children began to whisper and looked at us a little more fearfully. "I am Kon, I am my mothers first born son. If you wish to speak with her you have to go through me."
I frowned at the boys arrogance. Aki just smiled at him. "May we see your mother Kon?"
"No."
"Why not?" I said.
He glared at me. "You banished my mother from her home. Your people have been coming here and harassing us, I wont have you come and threaten her or my family any more."
"Kon, maybe they want to trade with mother," a girl of seven said.
"I don't care, we trade with Hoh, we trade with Makah, we trade with Quinault, Kathlamet, Coeur d'alene, Salish, Nez perce, we do not trade with Quileutes," Kon said.
"Your mother does the trading boy, tell her she has visitors, we know of the sensor spells in the woods, she knows we are here."
"My name is Kon, not boy! My mother put me in charge of making sure everyone is safe. If you want to see her you have to pass inspection."
"Inspection?" I asked annoyed.
"You must let us check you for weapons."
"I will not!"
"Okay," Aki said.
"Aki!"
"Come on Utlapa, all we have to do is let them search us, Kon just wants to protect his mother."
Kon smiled at Aki. "You can go."
"But you didn't even search him!"
"Him I like, you not so much."
"Out of my way." I went to push them all aside. Kons hand moved to his waist, before I could react he had a knife presses against my stomach.
"One more move Quileute and I will gut you like a fish," he hissed.
"Boy I suggest you back away before something bad happens to you," I said.
I let lose some of my power. All the children shivered. They were all sensitive. Kon didn't shiver but his eyes dilated and Goosebumps appeared on his skin. He licked his lips. "Your strong," he said.
He let loose his power. I was surprised at how strong he was. His power beat at my skin like snow in a storm. He had potential this one. Then one by one all the children let me feel their power. Following Kons lead they let me feel their magic. Together their power were like embers burning at my skin. If I wanted I could unleash the full force of my power and it would be like lave compared to their puny flames.
"Enough," a voice said.
We turned to look and I saw her. Pitichu. She wore very little to the imagination. A showl that barely covered her breasts. A skirt that went down her feat in the front but left her thighs exposed. Her hair was the brown of leaves, her eyes black as the night. Her skin smooth and flawless, around her neck she wore a small red gem that lay between her breasts. She truly was beautiful.
"Mother?" Kon asked.
"It is okay Kon. I was expecting them."
"I haven't checked him yet."
"Yet you do not check his companion?"
His face flushed in embarrassment. "I am sorry mother." he pulled the knife back and put it away in its sheath. He stepped to the side and his siblings followed. "Greetings Taha Aki, Utlapa. It has been a long time." She examined us, looking us up and down. "I must say the years have been good to you."
"You to Pitichu, may we come inside, we have much to discuss," Aki said.
"Yes we do. Come inside, I have prepared a meal for you. But that is all I will offer you, food and drink nothing more."
She disappeared into her hut. I looked at Aki and he shrugged. He stepped forward and disappeared behind the flap. I went to follow him but Kon stopped me. "If you hurt her I will kill you Quileute."
I met his hateful eyes. "I mean your mother no harm this day."
"This day, another day, I'm just letting you know, you hurt her and I will kill you."
"I am a spirit warrior, what hope do you have of killing me?"
"I'll find a way. Everything dies Quileute, something's may be harder to kill but they die all the same."
He ran off and his siblings followed. They continued to play there game, acting as if nothing ever happened. I went inside the hut and found Aki sitting by the fire while Pitichu prepared our food.
"I apologize for Kon, he is a good boy, just very protective." Her backside was more exposed then her front. The skirt showed of her cheeks more and her back was bear.
Did she know no decency? For a woman to dress like this was shameful. She handed us our plates of rabbit meat and handed us our drinks. She laid down on her rug by the fire. She stretched and flexed like a great cat relaxing. Her whole leg was bear to see, the glow of the fire reflected of her skin, making it glow a little. Her shawl fell down exposing her breast just enough where I could see a glance of her nipple.
"So what can I do for you? It has been so long, surely we have much to discus."
We said nothing. I found myself to interested in her body then talking. I wanted to touch her skin, to feel how smooth her skin was, I wanted to feel her brown hair and see if it was smell it, to see if it was as sweet as it looked.
"Do you recall why you were banished Pitichu?" Aki asked.
"How could I forget. Something about me breaking the law," she said and smiled. "It should have gotten me the death sentence, had you not whispered in your fathers ear to banish me instead."
"What?" I asked. I had thought Taha Loki spared her himself, I didn't know Aki had anything to do with it.
"Yes, Taha Loki was going to carry out the sentence himself. But Aki here proposed another idea instead."
"I hope you bear no grudge Pitichu, I did not wish you to die when you had so much potential."
"I bear you no ill will Taha Aki, you saved my life and did me a great favor. Being banished from La Push was the best thing to ever happen to me."
She began to trace circles on her hip. We watched her fingers as she rubbed circles on her thigh. "I have seen things, learned things, met new and wonderful people, had wonderful children. I have no regrets."
"But we do," I said. "The reek of your sins have reach La Push, we know all about your heresies and affairs. The elders have grown tired of explaining and apologizing for your actions."
"Why should they? I am banished, they have washed their hands clean of me, what I does not concern them."
"But you are still Quileute Pitichu, everyone knows where you come from," Aki said. "You use what you learned from Ta'longa for your own desires."
"How is Ta'longa?" she asked.
"Dead, died of age."
Her face held a hint of sadness. "To bad, I had hoped to see him one more time. He was the only one I missed when I left the tribe."
"What about Mohata?" I asked.
She took a sip of her water. "What about him?"
"He is your father. All your crimes have been a heavy burden to bear for him. Your actions hurt him. Do you not feel bad for making your family look bad?" I asked.
"There is no love lost between me and Mohata," she said. "He made his feelings clear on me when I was a child. Do you know why my mother hated him so much?"
I looked at Aki and he shrugged. "She loved him. What ever her reason she truly loved him. But love can become a potent rage if mistreated. He resented her. Your elders chose him to be the one to wed her and he took his anger and frustration out on her. In her final days she called for him, a part of her still loved him. But when she needed him the most he left her to die."
"Mohata was busy, he could not make it in time," Aki said gently.
"Hmmm, I wonder what he was doing away from the village? Was I the only one surprised how quickly he found a new wife so soon?"
We stared at her shocked. Adultery was a serious thing to accuse someone of, we took out marriage vows very seriously.
"I don't think you have any room to judge anyone about their vows. How many married men have you slept with?" I asked.
"Probably the same amount as married women I have slept with." she smiled showing off perfect white teeth.
"What magic have you used?" I asked. "I have never seen a woman as beautiful as you."
"Why thank you." she winked at me.
I flushed, she was purposely baiting me.
"He means your skin, your teeth, your hair. Forgive me Pitichu but I to must admit there has to be some magic here," Aki said.
"True, I used it to make my skin more soft, my teeth more straight and white. I may be a disgraced wise woman but doesn't mean I must look bad."
"This is what we are talking about, bad enough you sleep around, producing illegitimate children, using your wiles to make men and women break their vows but you also use you magic selfishly!"
"We know you assist other tribes in their wars Pitichu, we know you give them magical weapons and you help people exact petty vengeance. This is a poor way to use your gifts."
"I don't do it for free, they bring me food and fur. I have to think of my children, I am a mother, I may not take being a wise woman seriously but being a mother is at the top of my priorities. It is not easy being a single mother with multiple children."
"Then why did you sleep with all those men? Old, young, married, single, your hunger seemed to know no limit. Why do you disgrace yourself in this way?" I asked.
"Because I enjoy it," she smiled. "Because I chose to, because I found them attractive, and if they really cared for their spouses then they would have thought of them when I invited them to my bed. I put out the welcome mat, but they chose to enter the door."
She finished her drink and stood up. I caught a glance of her breast but it was quickly covered buy the shawl.
"All my childhood I tried to please others so they would accept me. Only one person in my whole life loved me for who I was and not what she wanted me to be. I know if my mother saw me today she would be proud. I live for myself, I make my own choices, people from all over the land come for my power." she rubbed her hand over her breast. "Or my pleasure, they bring me offerings and gifts for my favors, I have children who love and respect me. My life is my own, my power is my own, my body is mine to give as I see fit and no man or woman will ever tell me what to do, not ever again."
We stood up. She took Aki's plate and mine. "There is no shame in obedience. Order and control is how the land stays in harmony. If there is to be order all people must obey the laws. You are no different."
She smiled. "I should expect nothing less from you Utlapa, your own father stamped out any free will you ever had."
Hot anger hit me then. I grabbed her by the arm and shoved her to the ground. The plates and cups fell to the floor with a clatter. "Utlapa no!" AKi yelled.
"Enough! You will learn to obey! The elders have made a decision, if you do not stop your wicked ways you will die!"
She began to pick up the plates. "Then do it."
"What?" I asked.
She got up, adjusting her self. "If following your laws means I must return to my old life then I will gladly accept death. If I can not live my life with my own will then whats the point."
"What of your children?" Aki asked.
"I know you wont harm them. Your elders may condemn me but killing children is something even the Quileutes won't sully themselves with. I have taught them how to hunt, when to plant, how to control their power, if I die I know they will thrive without me." She spread her arms wide. "Well go on then, do it."
"Are you so eager to die? All the sins you have committed, what if Q'wati does not accept you for abusing his gifts?" I asked. I wanted to scare her. I wanted to make her fell fear for mentioning my father.
"If Q'wati had a problem with what I do he would have done something about it." There was no fear or doubt in her eyes. Only peace, calm, resolve.
"Enough. We will leave. Pitichu I wish no harm to you. Which is why I beg you to give up your ways, I can't hold the others back forever. The time will come when my father will ignore me and finish you."
"I thank you Taha Aki, of all the Quileutes you treated me the most well. Thank you for treating me well, but I am sorry, as I said before. I will live my live or I will not live it at all."
"I understand," he said sadly. "Come Utlapa."
We left. As I walked out the door she spoke. "Come again real soon." I ignored her and kept walking.
We passed her children and they stopped playing as we walked by. They said nothing as we passed. I stopped and spoke to Kon. "You know your mother is a witch and a whore right?"
"Utlapa!" Aki snapped at me, his voice out raged.
Kon looked at me and shrugged. "She is my mother, if it makes her happy and puts food in our mouths who cares."
They continued to play, ignoring us. We went about our way, Aki was angry with me. "Really Utlapa? Their children."
"They need to know what their mother is. Why didn't you ever tell me you convinced your father not to kill her?"
He looked ahead, not meeting my gaze. "Pitichu is not evil. She is just confused, lost. I can not kill someone who has not done something to warrant death."
We continued home not speaking once. The entire time we walked I could not get her out of my head. I kept on thinking about her. No matter how many times my mind wondered it always came back to her and her words.
"I will live my life, or I will not live at all."
What did she mean by that? All we ask of her is she stop being a whore and stop using her magic for wicked deeds. Yet she continues to fight us.
We arrived to La Push a few hours later. We gave our report to the elders. Taha Loki was not pleased. He said they would have to consider a new course of action with her.
Taha Loki was not looking well. He is our chief and a mighty spirit warrior but he is still mortal. One day he will join his ancestors. One day very soon.
Later that day we stood with our brethren. The other spirit warriors. Yut who was one of the older ones was there. As was Hot, Jakopala, Belnopa, and Toum where there as we told them what happened. "Really? That beautiful?" Hot asked.
"Truly," Aki said.
"To bad she is banished, I wouldn't mind having her keep me warm on a cold winters night," Jakopala joked. He motioned the air with his hands and thrust his hips around.
"Banished or not she still gets around, I doubt there is hardly a man or woman she hasn't fucked," Belnopa said.
"Taha Aki how is your father fairing?" Yut asked.
"Not to well, he puts on a brave face but his time is coming and soon," Aki said sadly.
Toum put his hand on Aki's shoulder. "Worry not, he will go to a better place. Then you will take his spot. You will be chief. Then you can marry Vakatel."
Vakatel was a girl in the tribe who Taha Aki had been courting for a while now. It would come as no surprise to anyone if they wed.
We continued to talk about Pitichu and Aki and Vakatel. Then one of the elders came rushing up to us from the woods. "Taha Aki! It is time! Taha Loki has begun to join the spirits!"
With out a word we all fled to La Push. Many people were outside the chiefs hut. Some were crying, others looking on quietly, tears in their eyes. "He has requested you sit by his side Taha Aki, he has one last thing to tell you."
Aki nodded and went inside. We all waited. For what seemed like an hour or an eternity. Then I felt it. It was like the air took a deep sigh, like a great burden had been lifted. I felt a large presence brush by me and disappear.
Aki came out, his face sad but stern. "My father has gone to join the spirits." He held his fathers ceremonial headdress. The headdress only the chief wore. He put it on his head and addressed us all. "I am Taha Aki, son and heir of Taha Loki. I am now chief."
The next day we mourned the passing of Taha Loki. We buried him on the island and we came back to begin to celebrate Taha Aki's rise to chief. It was no surprise when he asked Vakatel to be his wife, less surprising when she said yes.
Days passed and Taha Aki already began to work on new ideas for the tribe. He opened up negotiations with the Hoh and Makah for trading and alliances. It was a slow frustrating process. We had to travel a lot so Taha Aki and Vakatel did not have much time to spend together.
A month after Taha Lokis death I stood at the beach with the other spirit warriors. We were all practicing our fighting techniques and powers. I had my eyes closed and was fighting off the others. I had learned an age old power called Eagle vision. It allowed me to see from many miles away and through solid objects.
Even with my eyes closed I saw every move and blow the others tried to make, I was able to quickly dodge and move out of the way. I saw him coming before the others did. Taha Aki had returned with Yut from a visit with the Makah.
"How did the meeting go?" I asked.
"Not well, the Makahs are bickering with the Quinault. They want us to assist them should there be a war. They want us to use out power to scare the Quinault. In a few days I will travel to meet with the Quinaults and try to broker a treaty."
"Vakatel will not be happy, you have not had much time with her," I said.
"I know." he grinned. "Which is why for the next few days I will be showing her why they call me the big chief."
The others wolf whistled and laughed. I shook my head with a smile. The others decided to go home to their wives. Of all the spirit warriors only I was not married.
"I am going top stay behind," I told Aki as the others left.
"You work to hard Utlapa, you need to veer your energies to finding a woman, I know a few who would be honored."
"I am to young to be married old friend, maybe one day, but right now I am married to the tribe," I said.
He shook his head. "You don't know what your missing. Having a nice wife waiting for you, with your supper ready, rubbing the stress out of your muscles, the feel of her pressed against you as you sleep after a nice night of hot love making."
"If she hears you talk of that then you will be sleeping with the dogs," I warned.
"I know, that's why I love her, shes the only one who can tell me what to do. Good day friend, I will see you later."
He left me and I continued to train. Using my mind and will I began to move the sand. Forming it into shapes and shifting it. I felt a pang of envy for Aki. He had it all, a good wife, love and respect, talent and power. All the things I had wanted.
We had a very strong rivalry as children. Even through our teen years we fought to see who was the strongest, the fastest, who had the strongest abilities, who could woo the ladies better. He beat me at all of it. He even had something I always wanted, a kind and caring father.
My father was dead. Died years ago from an infection he caught. After that day in the hut father really proved how much of a bastard he could be. Every day I had a new bruise to show from his training. He never congratulated. Every time I did some thing right he always told me it wasn't good enough and I wasn't going to go anywhere in life with my attitude.
I shifted the sand and it took different shapes. First a beaver, then a deer, a wolf, then a hawk. I fell into a dark mood. Thinking about Aki and how everything was handed to him. I worked my ass off and had to work for everything I got. Another thing that got me was how he could break the rules and get away with it, if it were me I was punished harshly, thus my desire to follow the rules.
I began to think of Pitichu then. I thought of how in a way she was like me. We both had lousy fathers. We both were powerful people, we both were unhappy…but she wasn't unhappy. She was very happy with her life.
"I will live my live, or not live at all."
The sand shifted and changed. Soon it was a perfect replica of Pitichu. But it was just a sand creation. It didn't have her light, or her warmth. I stepped close to the sand clone and began to caress its face. My hands traveled from the face to her hips.
I began to lean in, my lips dangerously close to its. I realized what I was doing and I drew back. My concentration broke and the sand copy fell back to its true form. Why was I thinking about that whore? She was a witch and a disgrace.
What had she done to me? Had she put a spell on me? Had she poisoned me with some potion to make me enthralled with her? No I would not stand for this! I was Utlapa, a proud Quileute. No one had a spell on me!
Making up my mind I quickly ran to my hut and gathered what I needed for the trip. I left the hut and began to make my way to Pitichu's hut. Another few hours and the sun began to set. I checked for any surprise spells before I got close. I sensed the sensors in the woods, around her house were powerful defensive spells.
I was able to avoid all the sensors and made my way closer. I used my eagle vision to scout ahead and saw she was not home. Her children were all in the hut eating and being told stories by Kon. I searched for her and found her heading for a small stream.
I quickly followed her, quiet as the dead. Soon I found the stream and followed it down until I saw her. She was naked and in the stream. She was bathing herself and humming a small sound. I quietly crept down the stream, careful not to make a sound.
I drew my knife, ready for any trouble. "Is that a knife in your hand or are you just happy to see me," she said.
I stopped. "How did you know?" I asked. I wasn't surprised. She was a powerful woman after all.
"I made a weaving, it showed us together this night." she turned around and the air left me. She was fully naked, not an article of clothing on her body. "Is there a reason for you being here?"
She began to walk towards me. "Taha Loki is dead."
"I know, I felt him die."
"Taha Aki is chief now. I expect you will be safe…for a while at least."
"And you came all this way just to tell me this after a whole month?" she asked.
She stepped out of the water and it drizzled down her body. "Are you not cold?"
"I cast a spell to warm the water. Now why are you really here?"
"You answer was unsatisfactory, I think we need to go over your choices again."
She was so close now, all I had to do was reach out with my hand and I would be able to feel her skin on my fingers. "Why are you here" she asked, the words fell of her lips like honey.
"I…I don't know."
She placed her hands on my shoulders. "Yes you do." She reached up and kissed me. Her breasts pressed against my chest. I did not even bother to fight it. I wrapped my hands around her and pressed her closer to me.
She broke it off and I was in a daze. My mind was in a fog of want and need. She turned her back and walked back into the stream. She looked at me and with her eyes sent the invitation.
What I was doing was wrong, this was a person I should revile. But for some reason, I did not care. I took off my belt, my shoes, my leather straps, my necklaces and bracelets, finally my pants. I shivered as the cool night air hit my exposed skin.
Pitichu smiled, her eyes filled with a burning lust. "The water is warm, come join me, we can…talk more about my choices…which are looking better and better."
My feet had a mind of their own moving me forward. "Did you slip me a love potion?" I asked.
"Silly. You can't make love. There are potions that give you confidence, that give you the instinct to laugh, to touch, to kiss where other wise you would look away and sigh in want and need."
I finally reached her and she pulled me close. We kissed and caressed each other. I lifted her up and she guided me to her opening. After she lined me up I lowered her and I entered her. I threw my head back and hissed in pleasure, she was so warm, so tight!
We made love in that stream, I was no virgin, I had plenty of women grace my bed. Being a spirit warrior has perks. But she moved and touched with experience and confidence that made everything seem more intense, more powerful
"I knew this would happen," she gasped as I thrust into her. "I knew it would be either you or him."
I looked at her but did not stop. "You mean Aki?"
"Yes."
"But he had someone who loved him."
"I knew that, but I knew if I wanted I could have had him, instead I chose you."
"What did you do to me?!" I growled. I began to thrust into her hard and deep. She made sounds that were a mixture of pain and pleasure.
"Nothing! I just chose."
I felt a dark sense of satisfaction. She chose me! Not Aki. Aki who had everything good and wonderful handed to him. She could have had him but she chose me! I felt a dark sense of ownership over her. She was mine! Not Aki's mine!
Soon I felt the pleasure reach a pitch. She let out a deep moan and her walls clamped down on me. Unable to hold back I shot my seed deep into her. I stood on shaky legs, ready to give out at any moment.
I carried her to the shore, still in her, we continued to kiss as I walked. I found a blanket waiting for us, set by her earlier. I laid her down and pulled out of her. I was soft now and feeling a little tender. I had not been kidding when I said she was tight. She smiled at me, her eyes filled with warmth.
"How long before you must go back?" she asked.
"I should go back now," I said. "I did what I wanted, I have you out of my system."
"Wasn't it fun? To forget the rules and do what you wanted."
"Yes, it was really good. But I should go, this can not happen again, we are too different for this to work."
"I ask not for love or commitment. I have seen what love can turn into and I am not wanting. But surely just because we have different ideas and beliefs doesn't mean we can't have a respect for one another. Now that Taha Aki is chief I can guarantee there will be better relations between me and the tribe."
I looked at her darkly. "You fucking him to?" I asked. Had Aki given in to her as well? Had he been making pit stops to blow off some steam during his travels.
She laughed. "I swear, I have not known Taha aki, nor has he known me. He is a good man, more open minded then most. It will take him far."
I looked at her sullenly as she praised him. "Do you regret your choice?"
"Of course not. He is a good man, but he is not a dreamer like you, I like dreamers. Now lets fuck again. If you are going to never do this with me again I want us to use the time we have left to enjoy ourselves."
"But…"
"Please spend the night with me," she begged. "You can go back tomorrow, tonight you can spend with me. Or you can go back to your lonely hut."
"I'll stay here. But what of your children? Won't they wonder why you won't come home?"
"I told them not to wait up for me. They are well protected. I placed special protection around the hut."
"I know I sensed them, have you been threatened before?"
"From time to time. Men come and try to steal from us, others are men from tribes who want to steal me away and use me to fight their wars. I quickly show them I an not a tool to be used. I take my children's safety very seriously�c.oh look you've gone soft."
While she had talked I had lost all my hardness. She sat up and grabbed my man hood with her hand. A warm feeling enveloped my dick and before in knew it a ripple of pleasure hit me and I was hard as stone.
"A little trick I learned," she said. She laid down and spread herself. "Now lets fuck."
I leaned down and kissed her. The rest of the night we made love. By the time it was dark and the stars were out we both had endured multiple releases, our bodies were slick with sweat and fluids. We cuddled up together and watched the skies. Soon we fell asleep and for the first time in a long time I felt happy.

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Alberta
Here and now
Embry P.O.V
The memories broke.
"C-c-can't t-t-t-ak-ak-take mor I hurted too munch, da heab its hurting mad!" Ekion scream clutching his head.
His brothers consoled him, whispering to him in another language. Greek maybe?
"What the hell? Is this why you brought us here? To show us porn from the past?" Leah asked.
"Sorry, Ekion showed you that not us," Aristide said.
"I thought Utlapa was always a bad guy, he seemed like a normal guy to me," Quil said.
"Some villains started out as heroes. Lucifer was an angle before he fell."
"Why is he showing us this? What does this have to do with the nexus?" Jake asked sounding frustrated.
"We are not sure, all we know is what he is showing you is important. You have to see it all before you can continue your journey."
"Well lets go then!"
"Hold your horses!" Akakios snapped. "Ekion is in no state to do that again. He has already stretched himself thin showing you that much."
"What are you saying?" I asked.
"I'm saying its going to take a while before he is ready to show you."
"How long?"
"Who knows. An hour, a day, a year. Ekion no longer exists on the same reality as us. Its all sparkles and rainbows for him now. But he is trying, it hurts him but he is trying to commune with us. Just give him some time."
"But-" Jake began.
"I said…FUCK OFF!" Akakios growled.
We left them to care for Ekion. He seemed really bad.
While they tended to their brother we all spoke. "What does all this mean?" Quil asked.
"Obviously this Pitichu plays a role in Utlapa's downfall," Carlisle said.
"Why wasn't she mentioned in the story?" Quil asked.
"I'll call Sam and fill him in, see if there is any mention of her in the books," Jake said.
"So what do we do until then?" I asked.
"We wait. Ekion has information and we need to get it."
We looked over at Ekion. He was crying and holding his head. I think it was going to be a while.

Fusedtwilight: Remember at the top when I said I made up a bunch of names? Well only Pitichu if the only name I learned from Quileute, in that language Pitichu means moon. So we see how Taha Aki and Utlapa started out as kids, we meet new characters and begin to see how Utlapa began his fall from grace.
Next chapter we learn more of the history of Taha Aki and Utlapa, please review.
Pups and Tykes
Chapter 25
Fusedtwilight: Thanks to purpleranger who betaed even when she was sick.
Now this chapter we delve into la push history, I should tell you all right now the names I made up for certain Characters are not real La Push names, they are my own horrible attempt at naming. Also I am not an expert at the history of La Push or any of the tribes of that region, so if I am making any errors forgive me.

Leah P.O.V
We stared at Jake in shock. "Jake that's impossible!" I said.
"No its true! I recognize his face, the memories I got from the spirits."
"But Taha Aki crushed his spirit, remember the story?" Quil said.
"Idiot," Akakios said. "You can't kill a spirit. No more then you can give birth to lightning. Souls are a form of energy, you can disperse them, you can divide them, but you can't destroy them. Souls are the one true thing in all the worlds that are truly immortal."
"But where is he? What is he still doing around? Why hasn't he shown himself before?" Embry asked.
"Who is this man?" Carisle asked. We gave him a quick run down.
"In order to understand your future you must understand your past," Ekion said. "There is more to the story then you have been told, your people have forgotten. The story of Taha Aki and Utlapa is more complex and heart breaking then you can imagine."
"But what does this have to do with the nexus?" I asked.
"We don't have time to tell you, I am trying to hold on, but it hurts…me…head," Ekion mumbled.
"You must rejoin the circle," Aristide said. "He won't be able to last much longer."
We all rejoined the circle. I felt the brothers enter my mind, felt them connect me to the others, even the Cullens. With the speed of thought I was no longer in the cave in Alberta Canada, I was no longer in the here and now. I was back in La Push a long time ago.

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La Push
A long time ago
Utlapa P.O.V
I stood with the other twelve boys in front of the elders. The shaman was testing us for spiritual power. I stood next to Taha Aki. He was my friend. He was like a brother to me. I am glad we are here together. I would have no one by my side besides him.
The elders stood in front of us. My father was among them. I prayed to Q'wati that he would let me be a spirit warrior. He had been training me so hard for the past three years. I did not want to disappoint him.
Taha Aki was looking at his father, Taha Loki. I know Aki will make it, he is of the Taha's. They are direct descendants of Kaheleha. They are the Taha, their blood is the strongest in the tribe. His father was smiling at him warmly, showing his son support.
I looked to my own father Utloopa. He looked at me but it was a stern look. I looked away unable to keep meeting his steely gaze. I know he will talk with me later about looking away. He was always so hard on me about being strong and tough. He will call me weak again for not staring right back at him.
"Open your hand child," Ta'longa said.
I opened my hand and he placed a white stone on it. The second it did it turned beat red. Like a little blood drop.
"Pass, you shall be a spirit warrior child," he said.
The elders clapped as they had for the others who made it. My father nodded and I felt my spirits soar. I had made my father proud this day. I saw my mother behind him, she smiled at me to.
Ta'longa went to Aki next who already had his hand open and ready. "Like we don't know what will happen," he said.
A ripple of small laughter ran through the room. Only Aki could get away with making humor in this moment. Being the chiefs son and all. Had it been anyone else they would have been chastised. I envied him that. It is good to be future chief.
Ta'longa placed the white stone in his hand and I swore before it even touched his hand it turned deep black. The blacker a stone the more power you have. Of course Aki would have the most power. He was of the Taha.
Ta'longa turned to the others. "Destiny has spoken! These seven children will be the next spirit warriors!"
The hut filled with claps and applause. I held the stone in my hand. As soon as I get home I will make it into a bracelet to wear proudly.
Taha Loki stepped forward. "Congratulations all of you for passing." he looked to the other boys who had not passed and were looking sad. "Do not fret young ones, there is no shame in not passing."
Tell that to my dad.
"Being a spirit warrior is a great weight to bear, remember everyone has a purpose, from the chief to the smallest child, you can still hunt for whales, make art, go hunting in the woods, trade with our brethren or study to be medicine, life is full of choices, do not be discouraged."
Everyone clapped and the boys who failed all relaxed and smiled. I admired Taha Loki. I wish he was my dad. My dads speech would have been more like 'You have no one to blame but yourselves, had you studied and practiced harder you would have succeeded, I suggest you take time to reflect on your mistakes.'
There was a commotion outside. A woman's voice was raised, I could hear the guards trying to hold her back. A woman stepped in. I knew her. She was the elder Mohatas wife Pika. She was from Hoh. Their marriage had been arranged to stop the war with the Hoh.
In her grip was her daughter Pititchu. Named after the moon. They both shouldn't be here. Normally women weren't allowed to be here for the ritual unless they had a son being tested. Mohata and pika had no sons.
"I demand assistance!" Pika said as soon as she stormed in. I noticed in her other hand she carried a bag.
Pitichu looked scared and nervous. I don't blame her, if my mother started acting like a mad woman I would be deeply embarrassed.
"What is the meaning of this Pika? How dare you enter here!" Mohata demanded.
There was no love lost between Mohata and Pika, this was a well known fact. In all the years they have been wed only Pitichu was born. No more daughters and no sons. It was a rare occurrence to not see them bickering about something. Father said the day they stop fighting and get along is the day people sparkle in the sun.
"You know why I am here! The same reason you forbid me to come."
"And yet here you are!"
"Yes because I love my daughter."
"Enough," Taha Loki said. He looked to Pika and smiled. "What is the problem Pika? What causes you to storm in here?"
"I want my daughter to be tested," she said.
The room was silent. Surely she wasn't asking her daughter be tested for spiritual powers? It was forbidden. Girls aren't spirit warriors. Men are. Women with strong power can be medicine women, or wise woman. If their really strong they can be shamans, but the last female shaman was three generations ago.
"Tested for what?"
"Tested for spiritual powers of course. Taha Loki my daughter is strong. She comes from a long line of powerful women. I have some of the gift passed from my mother and from her mothers mother, and now it has been passed onto my daughter. I am sure of it, I know the signs, I dare say she is stronger than me."
"Enough, go home Pika, right now!" Mohata said.
"I am your wife, not your slave," Pika hissed. "I am your equal and I will have my voice heard, since you will not listen I will go to someone with a bigger ear."
"Calm down now," Taha Loki said. "Pika, what signs are there?"
She opened the bag she carried and pulled out a weave. She showed it to everyone and gasps filled the room. The weave showed…us. Looking at a weave the Pika in it was showing to us. It was looking at the room from a different point of view. Everyone was in place, it even showed the looks of shock on our faces. "Pitichu weaved this yesterday. It has happened before since she was small. She would draw something. Whether a weave, on the ground, or on pots she painted, what ever she drew would happen soon. Good things and bad. She drew us making our large catch last moon, she drew the children being attacked by wolves and we lost one who was playing in the forest with his friends."
"Did you know of this Mohata?" Taha Loki asked.
Mohata looked angry. "Yes, but I did not think of it as anything special."
"Of course not! Had she been a boy you would have had her here today."
This was awkward, seeing adults fight like this was very uncomfortable. Pitichu was looking at the ground. I had seen her around before. She was an odd girl. The others didn't really play with her much. After the war with the Hoh her mother was offered as a sign of peace. There were still some hard feelings towards the Hoh and Pitichu felt most of it.
"Taha Loki I beg you, let her take the test. Her powers are starting to affect her life. She speaks to things that don't exist yet she claims there is something there she is talking to, she glared at a dress I wanted her to wear she did not like and it burst into fire!"
"Enough!" Mohata yelled.
"No! Not until she is helped."
"Quiet!" Taha Loki snapped. They both shut up and looked at him. His face was stern, a leaders face. He steeped up to Pika and kneeled in front of Pitichu. He smiled at her and she hid her face behind her mother.
"Child it is okay, let me see your face."
Pitichu looked at him shyly. "Sir?"
"There we go, no need to hid a pretty face." she blushed. "Now, is it true, what your mother says? Did you set fire to a dress?"
"Yes Taha Loki, I didn't mean to, it was a ugly dress and I did not want to wear it. I remember wishing it would go away and it burst into fire."
"And who do you speak to that no one else sees?"
"I don't know sir…I can't see them, but I know they are there. They whisper things to me. They tell me things and I laugh. Sometimes…they are real nice to me, sometimes they bring me things."
"Explain."
"Well one time I was in the woods alone. I know I shouldn't have been but one of my friends were with me, she…I think it was a she, was with me and I saw an apple and I couldn't reach it, but she plucked it and gave it to me."
"Is there anything else?"
"Well…one time one of the girls called me a stinky Hoh half breed. I told my friend I wish she would shut up then the girl fell to the floor like someone struck her."
"Yes, I remember that. Ta'longa I think we may have found the reason for the spirit infestation. Now then tell me child, what of these things you draw?"
"I don't mean to Taha Loki. I just draw, and before I know it I have drawn something I did not plan to, its like something is guiding my hands, telling me what color to use, what direction to move in, what pattern to use."
The others began to murmur to themselves. Taha Loki got up and patted her on the head. He looked over to Ta'longa and nodded. Ta'longa went up to Pika and Pitichu. Her mother nudged her and she extended her arm and opened her hand. Ta'longa dropped a white stone in her hand. She caught it and clenched it in her fist. When she opened her fist the stone had turned dark red.
It wasn't the black of Taha Aki's but it was definitely darker then mine.
I clenched my stone in anger. How could this girl have stronger spiritual power then me? I was a boy, boys are always stronger then girls. I looked at my father and saw he did not look pleased. I know he was upset I had been beaten by a girl. I cursed Pitichu for doing this to me.
Ta'longa turned to the others. "From what I can tell she has the strongest power besides Taha Aki. Utlapa is weaker then her."
Weaker! Why not tell the whole blasted village you old goat!
"You see! She needs to be trained, she needs to be a spirit warrior," Pika said.
The hut broke out in angry outcries. Taha Loki silenced them. "Pika, Ta'longa can train her to help control her powers, but she can never be a spirit warrior. Perhaps a wise woman but never a spirit warrior, it is forbidden for a woman to be one."
"But I want t o be a spirit warrior, I want to fight and protect the tribe with the others," Pitichu said.
The boys all laughed at her except the adults. A girl as a spirit warrior? Please. Her face flushed red in anger at being mocked.
"I am sorry child, the law says so and we must follow the law."
"The Makah's allow women to train in magic, my people have a history of strong spirit warriors who were female. Please don't deny her this, it is her dream," Pika said.
"I am sorry, this is the way of the Quileute's. Ta'longa will train her to be the next shaman if he so wishes."
"It would be a delight, I have not seen a girl with this much power in years,." Ta'longa said.
"But being a shaman is limited in its art, she could be so great as a spirit warrior."
"Taha Loki has spoken woman!" Mohata spat. "Be thankful he is not punishing you for your disrespect."
She glared at her husband. "Crushing our daughters dreams is punishment enough. Come Pitichu we'll think of something."
They left the hut and everyone began to talk. "I apologize Taha Loki, I did not mean for today to be ruined."
Taha Loki looked at him sternly. "Maybe if you had been more attentive to your daughter this would not have happened."
He bowed in respect.
Taha Aki leaned close. "I thought she was cute, how about you?"
I looked at him and his goofy face. "You're an idiot."

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Alberta
Here and now

Leah P.O.V
We broke the circle. Ekion was looking bad. His eyes were wide and wild looking.
"Wait a minute, Taha Aki and Utlapa were friends?" Embry asked.
"Who was this Pitichu chick? I don't remember her in the story," Quil said.
"She is a character never spoken of, someone so important yet no one knew it. Her role in the story is integral," Aristide said. "Ekion needs some time to compose himself, we will try to help him as best we can, please feel free to look around, this cave is connected to a few smaller caverns, please feel free to explore."
He place his head against the side of Ekions and Akakios mirrored him. Ekion closed his eyes and seemed to relax.
I turned to the others. "Am I the only one freaked out here?" I said.
"Edward is this true?" Jake asked.
"Yes, its all true, Ekions power seems to allow him to view the past as well the future, I have never seen anything like it. It is similar to Max's power but so different at the same time. He reads destiny, its like a book to him. He can flip the pages to anytime he wants, were he sane I dare say he would be the most powerful seer ever to live."
"I wish we could get him to hurry up and tell us instead of having to wait," Jasper said. "One minute he is chastising us for delaying and the whole time he and his brothers were telling us their life story."
"We can hear you asshole!" Akakios snarled. "As far as I am concerned you and yours can rot, but I was out voted so sit down and shut the fuck up!"
"Akakios concentrate," Aristide said.
They went back to work, trying to help their brother. We waited but after a few minutes we went exploring. I went up the alcove with Embry and found a bunch of books. Sadly most of them were in Greek or some other language so they weren't any good to us.
Quil and Jake found a hot spring down a tunnel he had explored. Another room held a lot of deer and other animals. The Cullens grabbed a quick bite to eat.
We waited for an hour before they spoke. Ekion looked a little better, but his brothers looked a little strained. "Fuck trying to pull him back is hard."
"Lets not waist time, positions," Aristide said.
We all went back in the circle and joined hands and went back to the past.

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La Push
Twenty years later
Utlapa P.O.V
I ran with Taha Aki to our destination. The elders had selected us for this mission. It was not one of grave importance and hopefully would succeed, I would be very displeased if I was forced to kill a woman.
The woman we were going to see was Pitichu whom I have not seen in thirteen years. After that day Pitichu was trained by Ta'longa to be his successor. She was a good student, she rapidly learned everything he had to teach her.
Three years after that day in the hut her mother caught ill and passed on to the next life. Pitichu had been devastated. Less then a month after her mothers death her father married a Quileute woman who would later bear him three sons.
She grew up to be quit the rebel. I still remember being there to see their fights, it made the ones he had with her mother look tame. Such vulgar things they said to her, he even struck her a few times when she got real mouthy.
She continued her education and proved to be a powerful wise woman in the making. Then she began sleeping with boys in the tribe. When her father found out he kicked her out of his hut. She would leave La Push a few times every year to visit her family in Hoh. They said in Hoh she learned magic.
Every time she came back she seemed to know some new trick she never knew before. Eventually Ta'longa no longer taught her for she began to misuse her gifts. Using them to take petty vengeance on those who spoke ill of her or using it to cause mischief for her father and his family.
She continued to sleep with men, they even say she also slept with women. Normally people of two spirits are revered for their wisdom as they see the word with the eyes of man in woman. But Pitichu was sleeping with everything that moved, even married men.
She was constantly warned not to misuse her magic, the last straw came when we entered the spirit world and found her there. She fled as soon as she sensed us but it was to late. It seems she had been secretly watching us when we studied the art of spirit warriors.
Normally the punishment would be death, but Taha Loki took mercy on her and banished her. From what I know she went to Hoh and continued her education there. After a few years they banished her to when it was discovered she had born a married mans child.
Next she went to Makah and her troublesome ways got her banished from there too. Tribe after tribe to her in and they all banished her because she misused magic or slept with the wrong person.
She had many children as results from her illicit affairs and finally after fifteen years had made a home on the edge of La Push territory with her bastard children. Rumor has it people from other tribes come and visit her. Some for her knowledge and skill in magic, others to enlist her aid in taking vengeance against those who wronged them, others to know the pleasures of her body and help her continue to fester her fatherless spawn.
We had to do something. She may have been banished but she was still a Quileute woman using Quileute magic. Plus she was so close to our borders the other tribes were accusing us of using her to influence fights and the other tribes.
So Taha Loki sent us to give her an ultimatum. Either she stop or she will die. I have no love for her but I wish not to kill her.
"Stop Utlapa, let us rest."
We stopped and drank from our sacks. It was a long trip from here to La Push but we were almost there. "What do you think she looks like?" Taha Aki asked. "I heard she is a unbelievably beautiful."
"She must be for men to travel away from their homes and wives to fuck her," I said.
"You think she uses magic? I mean I have seen many beautiful women but I have never heard of one so amazing as to caused such an up roar as this."
"Wouldn't surprise me if she is using magic, she should have been dealt with a long time ago."
"Utlapa you are so harsh," he smiled. "I am sure we can convince her the error of her ways. I am sure she is just lost and confused. Had her father been more kind to her this would have never happened."
I rolled my eyes at him. "You are to soft Taha Aki."
"That's what she said."
"What?"
He laughed. We continued our way to Pitichu house. I could see smoke in the near by distance, we were close. We walked through the woods when I felt it. Magic. It tickled over my skin like warm water. We were alert instantly. We waited for something to happen. Nothing did.
"Look," I said pointing to a tree. We walked up to its trunk and saw something was carved in its trunk. It was a symbol in the shape of a spider.
"It is a warning. She has set up a net around her house. This is old magic, very tricky. Plus to have it set so far away from her house, it would help buy her time to be ready for visitors."
"Well so much for a surprise visit," he sighed.
"I don't like this, how do we not know if she has set traps for us?" I asked.
"I will go on ahead and check, watch my body." he closed his eyes and slumped forward a little. I felt his spirit leave his body and travel on the wind. After a few moments he woke up. "All clear. A few more sensors but that is it."
We continued to move forward.
"I sensed her. She is really powerful now Utlapa. Best not let our guard down around her."
"She is just a woman, what do we have to fear?" I asked.
He gave me a serious look. "Do not forget she is the one supplying spells to the other tribes to aid in their battles. I have seen some of her handy work, do not underestimate her."
We continued forward, we felt no more sensory magic as we continued. "So how are we to approach her? Do we work slowly to it or should we just go in and state our business and be done with it?" I asked.
"I want to talk to her first."
"Your father said just deliver the message and come back, he didn't say stop and chat."
He smiled that smile of his. "Yes but he didn't say don't stop and chat. I want to try and talk to her Utlapa, I think she can be reasoned with."
"She is a whore and a witch Aki, don't let your good nature cloud your judgment."
"So cruel Utlapa, I want to hear her story before I start judging her so harshly."
"Just like your father, always listening to peoples excuses."
"A good leader must care about what people have to say, a deaf leader is not a good leader Utlapa."
We broke through the trees and saw the hut Pitichu had come to live in. The smoke was coming from the top of the hut. There were children playing outside of the hut. They were chasing after one another but when they saw us coming they immediately stopped.
The gathered together. The older ones in the front and the younger in the back. The oldest was a boy. I had to wonder if he was her first born son. Kon.
"Who are you?" he asked hostilely. I knew he was definitely the man of the family. There were other small boys but the way he held himself and the way the others looked at him I knew what he said went.
"I am Taha Aki and this is Utlapa. We are Quileutes from La Puah," Aki said.
The boys face darkened. The other children began to whisper and looked at us a little more fearfully. "I am Kon, I am my mothers first born son. If you wish to speak with her you have to go through me."
I frowned at the boys arrogance. Aki just smiled at him. "May we see your mother Kon?"
"No."
"Why not?" I said.
He glared at me. "You banished my mother from her home. Your people have been coming here and harassing us, I wont have you come and threaten her or my family any more."
"Kon, maybe they want to trade with mother," a girl of seven said.
"I don't care, we trade with Hoh, we trade with Makah, we trade with Quinault, Kathlamet, Coeur d'alene, Salish, Nez perce, we do not trade with Quileutes," Kon said.
"Your mother does the trading boy, tell her she has visitors, we know of the sensor spells in the woods, she knows we are here."
"My name is Kon, not boy! My mother put me in charge of making sure everyone is safe. If you want to see her you have to pass inspection."
"Inspection?" I asked annoyed.
"You must let us check you for weapons."
"I will not!"
"Okay," Aki said.
"Aki!"
"Come on Utlapa, all we have to do is let them search us, Kon just wants to protect his mother."
Kon smiled at Aki. "You can go."
"But you didn't even search him!"
"Him I like, you not so much."
"Out of my way." I went to push them all aside. Kons hand moved to his waist, before I could react he had a knife presses against my stomach.
"One more move Quileute and I will gut you like a fish," he hissed.
"Boy I suggest you back away before something bad happens to you," I said.
I let lose some of my power. All the children shivered. They were all sensitive. Kon didn't shiver but his eyes dilated and Goosebumps appeared on his skin. He licked his lips. "Your strong," he said.
He let loose his power. I was surprised at how strong he was. His power beat at my skin like snow in a storm. He had potential this one. Then one by one all the children let me feel their power. Following Kons lead they let me feel their magic. Together their power were like embers burning at my skin. If I wanted I could unleash the full force of my power and it would be like lave compared to their puny flames.
"Enough," a voice said.
We turned to look and I saw her. Pitichu. She wore very little to the imagination. A showl that barely covered her breasts. A skirt that went down her feat in the front but left her thighs exposed. Her hair was the brown of leaves, her eyes black as the night. Her skin smooth and flawless, around her neck she wore a small red gem that lay between her breasts. She truly was beautiful.
"Mother?" Kon asked.
"It is okay Kon. I was expecting them."
"I haven't checked him yet."
"Yet you do not check his companion?"
His face flushed in embarrassment. "I am sorry mother." he pulled the knife back and put it away in its sheath. He stepped to the side and his siblings followed. "Greetings Taha Aki, Utlapa. It has been a long time." She examined us, looking us up and down. "I must say the years have been good to you."
"You to Pitichu, may we come inside, we have much to discuss," Aki said.
"Yes we do. Come inside, I have prepared a meal for you. But that is all I will offer you, food and drink nothing more."
She disappeared into her hut. I looked at Aki and he shrugged. He stepped forward and disappeared behind the flap. I went to follow him but Kon stopped me. "If you hurt her I will kill you Quileute."
I met his hateful eyes. "I mean your mother no harm this day."
"This day, another day, I'm just letting you know, you hurt her and I will kill you."
"I am a spirit warrior, what hope do you have of killing me?"
"I'll find a way. Everything dies Quileute, something's may be harder to kill but they die all the same."
He ran off and his siblings followed. They continued to play there game, acting as if nothing ever happened. I went inside the hut and found Aki sitting by the fire while Pitichu prepared our food.
"I apologize for Kon, he is a good boy, just very protective." Her backside was more exposed then her front. The skirt showed of her cheeks more and her back was bear.
Did she know no decency? For a woman to dress like this was shameful. She handed us our plates of rabbit meat and handed us our drinks. She laid down on her rug by the fire. She stretched and flexed like a great cat relaxing. Her whole leg was bear to see, the glow of the fire reflected of her skin, making it glow a little. Her shawl fell down exposing her breast just enough where I could see a glance of her nipple.
"So what can I do for you? It has been so long, surely we have much to discus."
We said nothing. I found myself to interested in her body then talking. I wanted to touch her skin, to feel how smooth her skin was, I wanted to feel her brown hair and see if it was smell it, to see if it was as sweet as it looked.
"Do you recall why you were banished Pitichu?" Aki asked.
"How could I forget. Something about me breaking the law," she said and smiled. "It should have gotten me the death sentence, had you not whispered in your fathers ear to banish me instead."
"What?" I asked. I had thought Taha Loki spared her himself, I didn't know Aki had anything to do with it.
"Yes, Taha Loki was going to carry out the sentence himself. But Aki here proposed another idea instead."
"I hope you bear no grudge Pitichu, I did not wish you to die when you had so much potential."
"I bear you no ill will Taha Aki, you saved my life and did me a great favor. Being banished from La Push was the best thing to ever happen to me."
She began to trace circles on her hip. We watched her fingers as she rubbed circles on her thigh. "I have seen things, learned things, met new and wonderful people, had wonderful children. I have no regrets."
"But we do," I said. "The reek of your sins have reach La Push, we know all about your heresies and affairs. The elders have grown tired of explaining and apologizing for your actions."
"Why should they? I am banished, they have washed their hands clean of me, what I does not concern them."
"But you are still Quileute Pitichu, everyone knows where you come from," Aki said. "You use what you learned from Ta'longa for your own desires."
"How is Ta'longa?" she asked.
"Dead, died of age."
Her face held a hint of sadness. "To bad, I had hoped to see him one more time. He was the only one I missed when I left the tribe."
"What about Mohata?" I asked.
She took a sip of her water. "What about him?"
"He is your father. All your crimes have been a heavy burden to bear for him. Your actions hurt him. Do you not feel bad for making your family look bad?" I asked.
"There is no love lost between me and Mohata," she said. "He made his feelings clear on me when I was a child. Do you know why my mother hated him so much?"
I looked at Aki and he shrugged. "She loved him. What ever her reason she truly loved him. But love can become a potent rage if mistreated. He resented her. Your elders chose him to be the one to wed her and he took his anger and frustration out on her. In her final days she called for him, a part of her still loved him. But when she needed him the most he left her to die."
"Mohata was busy, he could not make it in time," Aki said gently.
"Hmmm, I wonder what he was doing away from the village? Was I the only one surprised how quickly he found a new wife so soon?"
We stared at her shocked. Adultery was a serious thing to accuse someone of, we took out marriage vows very seriously.
"I don't think you have any room to judge anyone about their vows. How many married men have you slept with?" I asked.
"Probably the same amount as married women I have slept with." she smiled showing off perfect white teeth.
"What magic have you used?" I asked. "I have never seen a woman as beautiful as you."
"Why thank you." she winked at me.
I flushed, she was purposely baiting me.
"He means your skin, your teeth, your hair. Forgive me Pitichu but I to must admit there has to be some magic here," Aki said.
"True, I used it to make my skin more soft, my teeth more straight and white. I may be a disgraced wise woman but doesn't mean I must look bad."
"This is what we are talking about, bad enough you sleep around, producing illegitimate children, using your wiles to make men and women break their vows but you also use you magic selfishly!"
"We know you assist other tribes in their wars Pitichu, we know you give them magical weapons and you help people exact petty vengeance. This is a poor way to use your gifts."
"I don't do it for free, they bring me food and fur. I have to think of my children, I am a mother, I may not take being a wise woman seriously but being a mother is at the top of my priorities. It is not easy being a single mother with multiple children."
"Then why did you sleep with all those men? Old, young, married, single, your hunger seemed to know no limit. Why do you disgrace yourself in this way?" I asked.
"Because I enjoy it," she smiled. "Because I chose to, because I found them attractive, and if they really cared for their spouses then they would have thought of them when I invited them to my bed. I put out the welcome mat, but they chose to enter the door."
She finished her drink and stood up. I caught a glance of her breast but it was quickly covered buy the shawl.
"All my childhood I tried to please others so they would accept me. Only one person in my whole life loved me for who I was and not what she wanted me to be. I know if my mother saw me today she would be proud. I live for myself, I make my own choices, people from all over the land come for my power." she rubbed her hand over her breast. "Or my pleasure, they bring me offerings and gifts for my favors, I have children who love and respect me. My life is my own, my power is my own, my body is mine to give as I see fit and no man or woman will ever tell me what to do, not ever again."
We stood up. She took Aki's plate and mine. "There is no shame in obedience. Order and control is how the land stays in harmony. If there is to be order all people must obey the laws. You are no different."
She smiled. "I should expect nothing less from you Utlapa, your own father stamped out any free will you ever had."
Hot anger hit me then. I grabbed her by the arm and shoved her to the ground. The plates and cups fell to the floor with a clatter. "Utlapa no!" AKi yelled.
"Enough! You will learn to obey! The elders have made a decision, if you do not stop your wicked ways you will die!"
She began to pick up the plates. "Then do it."
"What?" I asked.
She got up, adjusting her self. "If following your laws means I must return to my old life then I will gladly accept death. If I can not live my life with my own will then whats the point."
"What of your children?" Aki asked.
"I know you wont harm them. Your elders may condemn me but killing children is something even the Quileutes won't sully themselves with. I have taught them how to hunt, when to plant, how to control their power, if I die I know they will thrive without me." She spread her arms wide. "Well go on then, do it."
"Are you so eager to die? All the sins you have committed, what if Q'wati does not accept you for abusing his gifts?" I asked. I wanted to scare her. I wanted to make her fell fear for mentioning my father.
"If Q'wati had a problem with what I do he would have done something about it." There was no fear or doubt in her eyes. Only peace, calm, resolve.
"Enough. We will leave. Pitichu I wish no harm to you. Which is why I beg you to give up your ways, I can't hold the others back forever. The time will come when my father will ignore me and finish you."
"I thank you Taha Aki, of all the Quileutes you treated me the most well. Thank you for treating me well, but I am sorry, as I said before. I will live my live or I will not live it at all."
"I understand," he said sadly. "Come Utlapa."
We left. As I walked out the door she spoke. "Come again real soon." I ignored her and kept walking.
We passed her children and they stopped playing as we walked by. They said nothing as we passed. I stopped and spoke to Kon. "You know your mother is a witch and a whore right?"
"Utlapa!" Aki snapped at me, his voice out raged.
Kon looked at me and shrugged. "She is my mother, if it makes her happy and puts food in our mouths who cares."
They continued to play, ignoring us. We went about our way, Aki was angry with me. "Really Utlapa? Their children."
"They need to know what their mother is. Why didn't you ever tell me you convinced your father not to kill her?"
He looked ahead, not meeting my gaze. "Pitichu is not evil. She is just confused, lost. I can not kill someone who has not done something to warrant death."
We continued home not speaking once. The entire time we walked I could not get her out of my head. I kept on thinking about her. No matter how many times my mind wondered it always came back to her and her words.
"I will live my life, or I will not live at all."
What did she mean by that? All we ask of her is she stop being a whore and stop using her magic for wicked deeds. Yet she continues to fight us.
We arrived to La Push a few hours later. We gave our report to the elders. Taha Loki was not pleased. He said they would have to consider a new course of action with her.
Taha Loki was not looking well. He is our chief and a mighty spirit warrior but he is still mortal. One day he will join his ancestors. One day very soon.
Later that day we stood with our brethren. The other spirit warriors. Yut who was one of the older ones was there. As was Hot, Jakopala, Belnopa, and Toum where there as we told them what happened. "Really? That beautiful?" Hot asked.
"Truly," Aki said.
"To bad she is banished, I wouldn't mind having her keep me warm on a cold winters night," Jakopala joked. He motioned the air with his hands and thrust his hips around.
"Banished or not she still gets around, I doubt there is hardly a man or woman she hasn't fucked," Belnopa said.
"Taha Aki how is your father fairing?" Yut asked.
"Not to well, he puts on a brave face but his time is coming and soon," Aki said sadly.
Toum put his hand on Aki's shoulder. "Worry not, he will go to a better place. Then you will take his spot. You will be chief. Then you can marry Vakatel."
Vakatel was a girl in the tribe who Taha Aki had been courting for a while now. It would come as no surprise to anyone if they wed.
We continued to talk about Pitichu and Aki and Vakatel. Then one of the elders came rushing up to us from the woods. "Taha Aki! It is time! Taha Loki has begun to join the spirits!"
With out a word we all fled to La Push. Many people were outside the chiefs hut. Some were crying, others looking on quietly, tears in their eyes. "He has requested you sit by his side Taha Aki, he has one last thing to tell you."
Aki nodded and went inside. We all waited. For what seemed like an hour or an eternity. Then I felt it. It was like the air took a deep sigh, like a great burden had been lifted. I felt a large presence brush by me and disappear.
Aki came out, his face sad but stern. "My father has gone to join the spirits." He held his fathers ceremonial headdress. The headdress only the chief wore. He put it on his head and addressed us all. "I am Taha Aki, son and heir of Taha Loki. I am now chief."
The next day we mourned the passing of Taha Loki. We buried him on the island and we came back to begin to celebrate Taha Aki's rise to chief. It was no surprise when he asked Vakatel to be his wife, less surprising when she said yes.
Days passed and Taha Aki already began to work on new ideas for the tribe. He opened up negotiations with the Hoh and Makah for trading and alliances. It was a slow frustrating process. We had to travel a lot so Taha Aki and Vakatel did not have much time to spend together.
A month after Taha Lokis death I stood at the beach with the other spirit warriors. We were all practicing our fighting techniques and powers. I had my eyes closed and was fighting off the others. I had learned an age old power called Eagle vision. It allowed me to see from many miles away and through solid objects.
Even with my eyes closed I saw every move and blow the others tried to make, I was able to quickly dodge and move out of the way. I saw him coming before the others did. Taha Aki had returned with Yut from a visit with the Makah.
"How did the meeting go?" I asked.
"Not well, the Makahs are bickering with the Quinault. They want us to assist them should there be a war. They want us to use out power to scare the Quinault. In a few days I will travel to meet with the Quinaults and try to broker a treaty."
"Vakatel will not be happy, you have not had much time with her," I said.
"I know." he grinned. "Which is why for the next few days I will be showing her why they call me the big chief."
The others wolf whistled and laughed. I shook my head with a smile. The others decided to go home to their wives. Of all the spirit warriors only I was not married.
"I am going top stay behind," I told Aki as the others left.
"You work to hard Utlapa, you need to veer your energies to finding a woman, I know a few who would be honored."
"I am to young to be married old friend, maybe one day, but right now I am married to the tribe," I said.
He shook his head. "You don't know what your missing. Having a nice wife waiting for you, with your supper ready, rubbing the stress out of your muscles, the feel of her pressed against you as you sleep after a nice night of hot love making."
"If she hears you talk of that then you will be sleeping with the dogs," I warned.
"I know, that's why I love her, shes the only one who can tell me what to do. Good day friend, I will see you later."
He left me and I continued to train. Using my mind and will I began to move the sand. Forming it into shapes and shifting it. I felt a pang of envy for Aki. He had it all, a good wife, love and respect, talent and power. All the things I had wanted.
We had a very strong rivalry as children. Even through our teen years we fought to see who was the strongest, the fastest, who had the strongest abilities, who could woo the ladies better. He beat me at all of it. He even had something I always wanted, a kind and caring father.
My father was dead. Died years ago from an infection he caught. After that day in the hut father really proved how much of a bastard he could be. Every day I had a new bruise to show from his training. He never congratulated. Every time I did some thing right he always told me it wasn't good enough and I wasn't going to go anywhere in life with my attitude.
I shifted the sand and it took different shapes. First a beaver, then a deer, a wolf, then a hawk. I fell into a dark mood. Thinking about Aki and how everything was handed to him. I worked my ass off and had to work for everything I got. Another thing that got me was how he could break the rules and get away with it, if it were me I was punished harshly, thus my desire to follow the rules.
I began to think of Pitichu then. I thought of how in a way she was like me. We both had lousy fathers. We both were powerful people, we both were unhappy…but she wasn't unhappy. She was very happy with her life.
"I will live my live, or not live at all."
The sand shifted and changed. Soon it was a perfect replica of Pitichu. But it was just a sand creation. It didn't have her light, or her warmth. I stepped close to the sand clone and began to caress its face. My hands traveled from the face to her hips.
I began to lean in, my lips dangerously close to its. I realized what I was doing and I drew back. My concentration broke and the sand copy fell back to its true form. Why was I thinking about that whore? She was a witch and a disgrace.
What had she done to me? Had she put a spell on me? Had she poisoned me with some potion to make me enthralled with her? No I would not stand for this! I was Utlapa, a proud Quileute. No one had a spell on me!
Making up my mind I quickly ran to my hut and gathered what I needed for the trip. I left the hut and began to make my way to Pitichu's hut. Another few hours and the sun began to set. I checked for any surprise spells before I got close. I sensed the sensors in the woods, around her house were powerful defensive spells.
I was able to avoid all the sensors and made my way closer. I used my eagle vision to scout ahead and saw she was not home. Her children were all in the hut eating and being told stories by Kon. I searched for her and found her heading for a small stream.
I quickly followed her, quiet as the dead. Soon I found the stream and followed it down until I saw her. She was naked and in the stream. She was bathing herself and humming a small sound. I quietly crept down the stream, careful not to make a sound.
I drew my knife, ready for any trouble. "Is that a knife in your hand or are you just happy to see me," she said.
I stopped. "How did you know?" I asked. I wasn't surprised. She was a powerful woman after all.
"I made a weaving, it showed us together this night." she turned around and the air left me. She was fully naked, not an article of clothing on her body. "Is there a reason for you being here?"
She began to walk towards me. "Taha Loki is dead."
"I know, I felt him die."
"Taha Aki is chief now. I expect you will be safe…for a while at least."
"And you came all this way just to tell me this after a whole month?" she asked.
She stepped out of the water and it drizzled down her body. "Are you not cold?"
"I cast a spell to warm the water. Now why are you really here?"
"You answer was unsatisfactory, I think we need to go over your choices again."
She was so close now, all I had to do was reach out with my hand and I would be able to feel her skin on my fingers. "Why are you here" she asked, the words fell of her lips like honey.
"I…I don't know."
She placed her hands on my shoulders. "Yes you do." She reached up and kissed me. Her breasts pressed against my chest. I did not even bother to fight it. I wrapped my hands around her and pressed her closer to me.
She broke it off and I was in a daze. My mind was in a fog of want and need. She turned her back and walked back into the stream. She looked at me and with her eyes sent the invitation.
What I was doing was wrong, this was a person I should revile. But for some reason, I did not care. I took off my belt, my shoes, my leather straps, my necklaces and bracelets, finally my pants. I shivered as the cool night air hit my exposed skin.
Pitichu smiled, her eyes filled with a burning lust. "The water is warm, come join me, we can…talk more about my choices…which are looking better and better."
My feet had a mind of their own moving me forward. "Did you slip me a love potion?" I asked.
"Silly. You can't make love. There are potions that give you confidence, that give you the instinct to laugh, to touch, to kiss where other wise you would look away and sigh in want and need."
I finally reached her and she pulled me close. We kissed and caressed each other. I lifted her up and she guided me to her opening. After she lined me up I lowered her and I entered her. I threw my head back and hissed in pleasure, she was so warm, so tight!
We made love in that stream, I was no virgin, I had plenty of women grace my bed. Being a spirit warrior has perks. But she moved and touched with experience and confidence that made everything seem more intense, more powerful
"I knew this would happen," she gasped as I thrust into her. "I knew it would be either you or him."
I looked at her but did not stop. "You mean Aki?"
"Yes."
"But he had someone who loved him."
"I knew that, but I knew if I wanted I could have had him, instead I chose you."
"What did you do to me?!" I growled. I began to thrust into her hard and deep. She made sounds that were a mixture of pain and pleasure.
"Nothing! I just chose."
I felt a dark sense of satisfaction. She chose me! Not Aki. Aki who had everything good and wonderful handed to him. She could have had him but she chose me! I felt a dark sense of ownership over her. She was mine! Not Aki's mine!
Soon I felt the pleasure reach a pitch. She let out a deep moan and her walls clamped down on me. Unable to hold back I shot my seed deep into her. I stood on shaky legs, ready to give out at any moment.
I carried her to the shore, still in her, we continued to kiss as I walked. I found a blanket waiting for us, set by her earlier. I laid her down and pulled out of her. I was soft now and feeling a little tender. I had not been kidding when I said she was tight. She smiled at me, her eyes filled with warmth.
"How long before you must go back?" she asked.
"I should go back now," I said. "I did what I wanted, I have you out of my system."
"Wasn't it fun? To forget the rules and do what you wanted."
"Yes, it was really good. But I should go, this can not happen again, we are too different for this to work."
"I ask not for love or commitment. I have seen what love can turn into and I am not wanting. But surely just because we have different ideas and beliefs doesn't mean we can't have a respect for one another. Now that Taha Aki is chief I can guarantee there will be better relations between me and the tribe."
I looked at her darkly. "You fucking him to?" I asked. Had Aki given in to her as well? Had he been making pit stops to blow off some steam during his travels.
She laughed. "I swear, I have not known Taha aki, nor has he known me. He is a good man, more open minded then most. It will take him far."
I looked at her sullenly as she praised him. "Do you regret your choice?"
"Of course not. He is a good man, but he is not a dreamer like you, I like dreamers. Now lets fuck again. If you are going to never do this with me again I want us to use the time we have left to enjoy ourselves."
"But…"
"Please spend the night with me," she begged. "You can go back tomorrow, tonight you can spend with me. Or you can go back to your lonely hut."
"I'll stay here. But what of your children? Won't they wonder why you won't come home?"
"I told them not to wait up for me. They are well protected. I placed special protection around the hut."
"I know I sensed them, have you been threatened before?"
"From time to time. Men come and try to steal from us, others are men from tribes who want to steal me away and use me to fight their wars. I quickly show them I an not a tool to be used. I take my children's safety very seriously�c.oh look you've gone soft."
While she had talked I had lost all my hardness. She sat up and grabbed my man hood with her hand. A warm feeling enveloped my dick and before in knew it a ripple of pleasure hit me and I was hard as stone.
"A little trick I learned," she said. She laid down and spread herself. "Now lets fuck."
I leaned down and kissed her. The rest of the night we made love. By the time it was dark and the stars were out we both had endured multiple releases, our bodies were slick with sweat and fluids. We cuddled up together and watched the skies. Soon we fell asleep and for the first time in a long time I felt happy.

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Alberta
Here and now
Embry P.O.V
The memories broke.
"C-c-can't t-t-t-ak-ak-take mor I hurted too munch, da heab its hurting mad!" Ekion scream clutching his head.
His brothers consoled him, whispering to him in another language. Greek maybe?
"What the hell? Is this why you brought us here? To show us porn from the past?" Leah asked.
"Sorry, Ekion showed you that not us," Aristide said.
"I thought Utlapa was always a bad guy, he seemed like a normal guy to me," Quil said.
"Some villains started out as heroes. Lucifer was an angle before he fell."
"Why is he showing us this? What does this have to do with the nexus?" Jake asked sounding frustrated.
"We are not sure, all we know is what he is showing you is important. You have to see it all before you can continue your journey."
"Well lets go then!"
"Hold your horses!" Akakios snapped. "Ekion is in no state to do that again. He has already stretched himself thin showing you that much."
"What are you saying?" I asked.
"I'm saying its going to take a while before he is ready to show you."
"How long?"
"Who knows. An hour, a day, a year. Ekion no longer exists on the same reality as us. Its all sparkles and rainbows for him now. But he is trying, it hurts him but he is trying to commune with us. Just give him some time."
"But-" Jake began.
"I said…FUCK OFF!" Akakios growled.
We left them to care for Ekion. He seemed really bad.
While they tended to their brother we all spoke. "What does all this mean?" Quil asked.
"Obviously this Pitichu plays a role in Utlapa's downfall," Carlisle said.
"Why wasn't she mentioned in the story?" Quil asked.
"I'll call Sam and fill him in, see if there is any mention of her in the books," Jake said.
"So what do we do until then?" I asked.
"We wait. Ekion has information and we need to get it."
We looked over at Ekion. He was crying and holding his head. I think it was going to be a while.

Fusedtwilight: Remember at the top when I said I made up a bunch of names? Well only Pitichu if the only name I learned from Quileute, in that language Pitichu means moon. So we see how Taha Aki and Utlapa started out as kids, we meet new characters and begin to see how Utlapa began his fall from grace.
Next chapter we learn more of the history of Taha Aki and Utlapa, please review.
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