Hello! This is my first published story on , and this is my first twilight fanfiction I have ever written. I hope you like it! Please review and give your feedback. Constructive cristisim wanted but no flames.

I sighed as I walked around the baggage pick-up area looking for my suitcase. I just arrived in Port Angeles Airport and am supposed to be picked up by my aunt, who I've never met before.

"Excuse me are you Tala Foster?" said a female voice.

"Yes I am, would you happen to be my Aunt Koko Connweller?" I asked.

The woman, looking to be about her late 30s or early 40s came up and gave me a hug. She was a few inches shorter than me, probably about 5'4" or 5'3". She had midnight black hair with just a few strands of grey cut off in a short bob. Her eyes were a deep chocolate brown, just like I had seen my dad had from the pictures my mom had shown me.

"You're so beautiful, just how I pictured you would be."

Why do me and my aunt not know each other? Simple my parents ran away together when they were 18 to get married. Neither of their families approved of their wish to get married, especially not at such a young age. A year later I was born. We all lived together in Denver, Colorado until…it happened.

"You've got your mother's eyes." She said getting a little choked up. My mother had absolutely beautiful ocean blue eyes, with a thick black ring around the iris. That was one of the things I inherited from her, the other her figure, skinny as a bean pole without having to try at all with enough curves to be sort of attractive. The rest of my appearance I got from my dad, tan skin, dark brownish black hair, almond shaped eyes, and high cheek bones.

"Well let's go get you home. I'm sure you're tired from your long trip."

We got into her car, an old Ford pickup, and started towards La Push, my future home.

"So where's Kim?" I asked, Kim is Koko's daughter, she's a year or two older than me.

Aunt Koko sighed, "Off with her boyfriend, again?"

"Ooh, who's the lucky guy?" I asked.

"His name is Jared. Kim's always had a crush on him, but he never took any notice. Then all of a sudden they're dating, very seriously I might add." She looked displeased yet completely supportive at the same time.

"Is that a bad thing?" I asked.

"No," she admitted, "Actually it's very sweet to see the two of them together, it's obvious they're made for each other. It's just they're both so young, barely out of high school. Kim was so full of potential but she's decided she doesn't want to go to college." You could tell that was the big sticking point with Aunt Koko.

"So when do I get to meet the man who stole my cousin away from you?" I joked.

"For dinner hopefully, I told them both to be there, but Jared has urgent things to do all the time. Kim says she know what he's doing is important so she doesn't mind, but she won't clue ME in to what those things are." This Jared guy started to sound like shady character to me. "Oh that probably sounded bad to you. He's a really great guy, he absolutely adores Kim."

We finally reached the reservation. We turned into the driveway of a nice little house. It had white siding and black shutters on all the windows. The right size for 3 people.

"Oh I should probably mention that Jared's moved in with us."

Scratch that 4, three girls and one guy living there.

"Why does he live here?" I asked extremely curious, this guy has gone from shady to just a bum.

"His parents kicked him out. Said he was acting strange, sneaking off in the middle of the night, sleeping in real late. He had nowhere else to go and I knew if I didn't let him stay with us eventually Kim would move in with him, and I just want to hold onto my girl a bit longer."

We got out and she showed me around the house, lastly to my room. It was a nice size, not small but not a huge room either, midnight blue paint on the walls, and the sheets on the bed a light sky blue. It had a large window overlooking the ocean with a window seat.

"I'll let you unpack Tala, dinner will be ready in about 2 hours." She left me to do my own thing.

I unpacked in about 15 minutes. I changed out of my sweats that I wore for the plane ride and put on a pair of holey jeans and one of my many black tank tops. I left the house and towards the cliff. The salty air was soothing and peaceful. I found a little foot bath that led to a beach, there were other people already there but I kept to myself just walking and looking out onto the ocean. Finally I got bored, sat down on a piece of driftwood and started people watching. The beach started to clear out until I was the only one there, that is until about 3 cars pulled up to the small parking area. Stepping out came the most gorgeous people I will ever see in my life. The all had the palest skin and the most fashionable clothes, they looked as if they just stepped of a runway. It looked to be about 4 couples, a little girl about 10, and one other guy. The guy was the only tan one out of the group and he was spending all his time with the little girl. It was almost comical because this guy was huge, about 6'7" I'd guess and she was so tiny. The girl ran over near me, she had long brown hair that hung down in ringlets. I could all of a sudden feel the gaze of all the adults of the group as if they felt I was a threat to the little girl. The gaze made me go into a sweat, I felt so hot all of a sudden. Then out of the blue I was so unbelievably angry at them for being so rude. They don't even know me I wouldn't do anything to the little girl. I started shaking, the heat started to spread. The guy ran over to me, a knowing look in his eyes.

"It's ok you're going to be ok," he told me, "but we gotta get you out of here. Can't have you phasing in public."

"What the hell is phasing? Who are you? Why should I go with you?" Anger, that's so unusual for me I'm never angry.

"Just come with me and I'll explain everything," he said, "My name is Jacob, Jacob Black."

We got into the woods and the shaking got worse, the heat spreading fast and fast till… POP!

Everything seemed so much clearer and I could hear everything!

"It seems like she's one of them" I heard one of the people from the beach say.

'What the hell? I'm up here how can I hear them?'

'You're a werewolf, or more correctly put a shape shifter.'

'Who's there?!'

'It's ok, it's me Jacob. Look to your right.'

I turned and looked to see a HUGE russet wolf staring back at me. I tried to scream but all I heard was a yelp. Wait that yelp was from me! I ran to a nearby puddle and saw a pure white wolf with my blue eyes staring back at me.

'What am I?!'

'I already told you, you are a shape shifter. Right out of Quiliute legend.'

'I'm only half Quiliute, and just moved here. I don't know any legends.'

'We can fix that but now's not the time. We have to get you to phase back.'

'How do I do that?'

'Pull the heat back to your center. I'm going to go behind those bushes and do the same just stay here though until I get back to give you a shirt to wear.'

I looked around myself to see what used to be my clothes in pieces all around the clearing we were in. The second voice in my head disappears and the guy comes back wearing a pair of sweat pants and holding the t-shirt he had been wearing earlier.

"I'll turn around and let you phase back." He turned around and I pulled the heat in with just a little bit of difficulty. I pulled on the shirt as quickly as possibly could.

"Now tell me what the HELL just happened."

"You are a shape shifter we exist to protect the tribe from the cold ones, vampires. But there are good vampires like the ones down there at the beach, we have truce with them. When the cold ones are near they cause anyone carrying the gene to phase into the wolf they are."

"Anything else I need to know? Are there others?"

"Yes there is more but it is not my place to tell you. You will find out tomorrow night at the pack bon fire. There you will meet the rest of the pack, there's 17 now 18 total now. You're the first add on since a huge battle that almost took place this past summer."

"Wow, so bon fire tomorrow. Do I need to be a wolf to get there or what?"

"It's on that cliff over that," he pointed, " And it doesn't matter, but the actual stuff that's going on will be done human, so if you do phase to get there bring clothes. I keep mine on a strap on my leg when I'm a wolf." He showed me a black band he had wrapped around his ankle.

"Cool, I gotta go though, my aunt will be expecting me back for dinner and I'm beat."

"Before you go what's you name?" he asked.

"Tala, Tala Foster. Kinda ironic now, my name meaning stalker wolf." I said with a huge grin.

"See ya later stalker wolf." He said and went further into the woods. I could hear him phase and then he howled. A minute later I hear multiple replying howls. 'Must be the pack.'

I walked back to the house in time to see who I'm guessing to be my cousin Kim and Jared walking towards the house out of the woods on the other side. Jared was just as huge as Jacob only just slightly less ripped, but still very muscular just the same. I ran in the back door and up to my room to put on a pair of shorts and a tank top before anyone saw me in only Jacob's shirt. I still felt hot but it was more comfortable now.

"Tala! Dinner's ready!" I heard Aunt Koko yell.

I ran down the stairs, I was starving.

"Tala this is Kim and Jared. Jared and Kim this is Tala."

Jared looked at me with wide eyes, "You're Tala?"

"Yeah I'm Tala."

"Do you know her Jared?" asked Aunt Koko.

"No but I heard of her from Jacob Black."

"When did you meet Jacob?" Aunt Koko asked me.

"I went down to the beach and I met him there."

Jared looked at me with a knowing look.

"It's so nice to meet you Tala, we're going to get along so well I can feel it!" she said and touched my arm. Her hand felt cold against my skin, I must still be running hot after phasing. She too then went wide eyed and the gained that knowing look. So she knows about shape shifters too.

Aunt Koko put the food on the table, a ridiculous amount for just 4 people, but when me and Jared started to eat I realized it was just enough or maybe not even enough.

"Woah Tala! You sure can wolf it down!" exclaimed Aunt Koko, which made me snort, "You would never be able to tell by the size of you. I was afraid my brother wasn't feeding you properly, but then again maybe he wasn't if you're that hungry."

"No dad's great at cooking." I said in between mouthfuls.

Finally when we were finished Kim and Aunt Koko did the dishes ,not excepting any help from me what so ever.

"Can I talk to you?" asked Jared.

"Sure," I replied. We headed out the back and sat down on some stumps that seemed to be put there as chairs.

"When did you first phase?"

"Today on the beach"

He looked at me bug eyed, "And you're still upright?"

"Yeah, I'm tired, but I'm fine. Why?"

"The first phase is usually so painful you pass out right afterwards. We all have except you."

"I guess I have a high tolerance to pain or something."

"What color are you?" wow way to be mister interrogator.

"Pure white. What color are you?"

"All brown. Most of us are some shade of brown, brownish red, grey, and then Sam is pure black."

"Who's Sam?"

"He was the first one of us to phase. He was our alpha but then the pack split in two with him as one alpha and Jacob as the other due to an issue that doesn't really matter now, but then just recently they recombined with Sam submitting to Jake being the alpha because by blood he is the rightful alpha."

"Oh, so Jacob's the head honcho?"

"Pretty much, what he say's go, but he never orders anyone to do anything they don't feel is right."

A yawn took over me and we went back inside. I used the excuse of jet lag making me tired and I headed up to bed. Tomorrow's going to be one eventful day.

So what do you think? Please review!! I'm almost finished typing out the second chapter so I hope to put it up soon.