Twilight Collision: Falling Into Pieces

The Quileute Boy

Jacob Black

Why me? Why couldn't I just be a normal teenager like everybody else? I was already happy. I had my friends, I had Dad and I even get to meet Bella again.

She was the only girl outside of the rez that I got to know. It didn't really matter that I spent every day trying to find a reason to hang out at Chief Swan's residence where she was now staying. I enjoyed being with her even though she seems to be all gloomy all the time. All the more that I wanted to be with her, seeing her smile made me feel good and I want to be able to see her that way.

We started hanging out and she even got to visit La Push again and then... the transformation happened.

Who would have thought the Quileute Legends would be true? I thought Dad was just a little bit too obsessed with the legends. I didn't know what was happening. First it was Sam and then some of the boys in the tribe where starting to gather around him and treated him like a leader. I hated it.

I hated that they were all over La Push trying to act like grown up men. I hated that the grown men, including my Dad, agrees to everything that Sam says like he has the final say on everything. I hated that every time I was around them, they would look at me like they were already anticipating for me to join their rag tag team.

I hated that my body started to burn up like I was a walking oven and my whole body would ache and it wouldn't seem to stop. I was angry all the time and it didn't help that Dad wasn't taking my condition seriously.

I couldn't go out because of the pain and it didn't help that Sam was always watching. If not visiting the house, I would see him watching from afar. I knew then that they all knew what I was going through and didn't even bother to tell me. When I finally had enough, everything just went from normal to supernatural pretty fast.

I found myself changing... in the most literal sense. Every part of my body, my bones, my muscles, morphed into something that was not human and when the transformation was complete, I realized, that I was not alone.

I was surrounded with voices and images of the tribe and those voices where talking at the same time that I couldn't comprehend what they were saying. It was too overwhelming and I ran.

I ran to get away from the voices but it didn't disappear, instead, it grew louder and I realized that I couldn't feel my feet when I was running. Instead, what I felt where paws underneath the earth and the trees sailing past me.

"JACOB STOP!" A commanding voice had barked and my body was immediately rooted to its place. I was unable to move.

I was still hearing voices even though I knew I was the only one in the middle of the forest but then I realized that the voices where starting to be familiar. They were from the other Quileute boys, Jared, Paul and Embry and the voice who told me to stop came from Sam.

With all the confusing things I was seeing and hearing, they slowly explained to me what was going on, what I was and what my role is in protecting the tribe. I realized that I had assumed the form of a wolf with strength and speed more than any normal human being to help us protect the people around us from anything that would endanger our people.

I didn't understand why it was happening and more so, what was so dangerous that teenagers had to become wolves to protect its people?

When I was calm enough to be able to "phase" back (that was what they were calling the transformation), I was able to finally get a grasp about the truth about the legends of our people.

As amazing as it may sound, it did not bring me any comfort that the only reason we were now phasing when my Dad's generation never even got to phase during their time, was because our enemies were close.