I sat on the tire swing in the front of my small house and let myself relax.

I looked up at
the clear night sky, nothing in sight but stars and a half moon. There was even a nice breeze
blowing. I could probably sleep out her but the bugs were a son of a bitch. A howl erupted from
the woods, interrupting my silence. I gripped the butt of my gun.

I saw a dark shadow emerge from the woods but it wasn’t an animal, this was a man, I
shook my head. I should go in my house and lock the door but I wouldn’t. I watched as the tower
of a man fell over and landed face first in the grass.

As I drew closer to the mass of man laying in my front yard, I realized the man was
naked and white. I had a huge naked white man in my front yard. I shook my head again as I
took the safety off my gun, never could be too careful.

“Miki!” the voice cried as I got closer, I realized it was Conall, he lived in the next house
with Sara and Zach, a couple of miles away, well house wasn’t the right word to say when
referring to the mansion they lived in. I had only seen him once when I had first met Zach and
Sara about three years ago. His eyes were so haunted, his face seemed to be in a permanent
scowl but the man was beautiful.

“Conall?” I called and he didn’t move. I wouldn’t even try and move him, he was huge,
over 6’4 and a body packed with muscles. I pulled out my cell phone and pressed redial. Sara
and I had just had a screaming match over my property. She’s been trying to buy it since I’ve
moved back but there was no way in hell I was selling it.

“Who is this?” she was panting.

“Dana Williams.” there was a silence.

“Well what do you want?” she snapped and I pulled the phone away from my face so I
could exhale. She really knew how to work my damn nerves.

“There‘s a drunken over size naked man on my front lawn calling for Miki. You mind
sending the cavalry or should I just call the fucking police?” I wouldn’t.

“Why is he at your house?” her voice full of accusation.

“How in the hell should I know?” I snapped at her.

“Zach, get off me. Conall‘s at Dana‘s house,” she yelled.

“So what?” she hung up the phone.

“Nice friends you have there, Conall.” he looked up at me.

“Miki?” I frowned at him.

 “No sweetie,” I started to walk away to get him a blanket but he grabbed my foot, making
me fall and knocking the gun out of my hand. His naked body was on top of mines and the smell
of the alcohol was heavy on his breath.

“You‘re beautiful Miki,” I pushed at him, he didn’t even budge.

“I‘m not Miki, Conall. It‘s me Dana, your neighbor,” he looked at me.

“Not Miki?”

“No Conall, I‘m Dana.”

“Dana?”

“Yes.” I watched him struggle with the information. Then he brought his hand up to my
face and touched the side of my face. He brought his lips down to mine and just rubbed his lips
back and forward against mine.

“You smell different than Miki.”

“That‘s because I‘m not Miki, Conall.” I frowned up at him and he smiled.

“Dana.”

“Correct,” he pressed his hard dick against my mound and I moaned. I was so turned on;
it was starting to drive me insane. My pussy was so wet; I knew the white shorts I wore were
soaked through.

“I‘m going to kiss you,” I just looked into his lust filled eyes and nodded.

***

Why would he be over there? Sara asked her husband and mate Zach as they raced to
retrieve their friend.

Let’s see, only black girl in a ten mile radius he chuckled. It was only a matter of time
Sara. Zach looked over at his mate; her brown fur looked beautiful in this moonlight.

She was pissed, but in all retrospect, she didn’t have a reason. It had been ten years since
Miki had died and personally, he was tired of sick of seeing friend barely living just breathing.

She’s nothing like Miki. Sara spit out.

I never said she was dear.

CHAPTER TWO
 I woke up and something was different, a body was next to me, I opened my eyes then
and saw her caramel face, high cheek bones, full lips that were curved into a frown. I inhaled
deeply and smelled mangos and woman. She opened her eyes slowly; hazel green eyes stared
back at me.

“What are you doing in my bed?” I saw the confusion on her face as she rose.

“You asked me to come in here with you.” I stared down at my naked body.

“We didn‘t?”

“No.” I just stared at her then, she was actually very beautiful but I wanted her out of this
bed, on Miki’s side of the bed.

“I need for you to leave,” I saw the anger flash in her eyes then she got up.

“Conall, if I catch you on my property again, I will shoot you.”

“Your property?”

“Yeah that‘s right. My fucking property! Screaming out for Miki last night. If I catch you
there again, I will shoot you.” she was picking her shorts up, her ass bent over to me and I felt
my dick harden.

“Wait.”

“Fuck you!” she snapped as she walked to my window, I watched as she lifted the
window.

“Where do you think you‘re going?”

“Minding my own fucking business,” she said back to me.

“The door is on the opposite side of the room,” she looked back at me with a flash of hurt
in her eyes. She looked as if she wanted to say something but decided against it then she jumped
out the window. My bedroom was on the third floor of the mansion, I quickly jumped to the
window and looked down but there was no sign of her. What the fuck? I pulled on a pair of
jogging pants and raced down the stairs.

I ran outside and inhaled, trying to find her scent but it was everywhere, I could have
sworn it was on the wind . . .

“What are you doing up so early?” I turned and saw Zach, my best friend, and pack
leader.
 “Did you see a black woman?” Zach laughed.

“A what?”

“I think I just had the weirdest dream,” I walked over to him.

“Dream?”

“I woke up with a woman in the bed next to me, I tell her to leave, she jumps out the
window and now I can’t find her.”

“You kicked Dana out?”

“Dana?”

“Yes.”

“Our neighbor? Why in the hell was she in the bed with me?”

“You went over to her house last night, she called us to come and get you. When we
found you two, you were on top of her, the two of you were damn near fucking,” I wiped a hand
down my face.

“How did we both end up back here?”

“We had to literally tear you off of her and when we were carrying you away, mind you,
you were fighting us the entire time. She said she‘d walk back with us.”

“Still doesn’t explain why we were in the bed together.”

“When it was time for her to leave you, you started crying for her to stay.”

“Crying?”

“Yeah, tears and all.”

“Fuck!” I yelled but that still didn’t explain how she just disappeared. “How long have
you been out here?”

“An hour.”

“Then how the fuck did she just disappears?”

***

The nerve of him, I threw another glass cup at the wall, if I kept going at this rate I was
going to be out of dishes. Kicking me out of his room like I was some common street whore, I
had to keep my emotions in check or I’d burn down this entire house. . . Did I forget to mention
that I was an elemental? What’s an elemental? I can control and become all of the four basic
elements, wind, fire, water and earth.

There aren’t many elementals who can control all four but I’m one of the lucky ones,
seeing how my father and mother were both elements, me and my three brothers are blessed to
be able to control all four. If my emotions aren’t kept in check, the elements would overtake
me. I exhaled, taking a soothing breath and continued washing the dishes.

My telephone rang and I frowned, I knew it was my mother with her daily call. I didn’t
feel like dealing with her but I knew better not to answer, she’d send one if not all of my brothers
down to my house to check on me and they wouldn’t leave for weeks.

“Hello?”

“Dana?” this wasn’t my mother but a man’s voice.

“This is she.” silence. “Who is this?”

“Conall.” I hung up the phone then.

“Asshole.” I spit out and walked back over to wash my dishes. The phone rang again, I
picked it up.

“Hello?”

“Dana, don‘t -” I hung up again and dialed my mother’s number because I was two
seconds away from snatching the phone out of the wall socket.

“Hello?” my mother’s singsong voice sang over the line.

“Hey ma.”

“Dana? I was just about to call you! Have you heard from Teddy? I‘m worried sick!” she
was going on a mile a minute.

“Ma! Hold on! What‘s going on with Teddy?” Teddy was my younger brother.

“Dear Lord! You don’t know!” I was starting to get worried.

"Mother! Calm down and tell me what the fuck is going on with Teddy!"

"We can't find him! All we know is he met a girl, who was a shifter."

"A shifter?"
 "Yes."

"What?!" I yelled.

"The girl could shift into an animal at will." What the fuck?

"What happen?"

"He told Terry that he was planning on telling her what he was and now he's been
missing for six days."

"Six days!" I yelled as I felt the flames starting to overtake my body. "Why haven’t
anyone told me!"

"We know how close you and Teddy are, we didn’t want to involve you until it was
certain." she was crying and I was losing control.

"I'm going to call you back mother."

"Dana, wait!" I was silent. "We are grouping together at Kyle's in two hours. Will you be
there?" I hung up then. You could bet your ass I would be there and I am there with loaded guns.

What the fuck was a shifter anyway? People could actually shift into animals at will?
Next someone was going to tell me there was a such thing as vampires.

The ringing doorbell brought my train of thoughts; I walked to the door and swung the
door open to find a smiling Zach and a scowling Conall.

“Didn’t I fucking tell you that if I found you on my property I would fucking kill you?”

“Did you hang up on me?” I cut my eyes at him.

“Yeah damn right I did!” I yelled at him. “Fucking asshole kicks me out of his bed then
calls me, the nerve of you!” he growled and I narrowed my eyes on him. “Get the fuck off my
property I have some animals to kill.” both of their faces shifted and I watched them closely.

“There isn't any hunting California.” Zach said carefully.

“I’m going to my brother’s house.” I walked inside, grabbed my purse, gun and keys.
“Now if you boys will excuse me.” I locked the door and head for my truck.

I walked into my brother’s place, which was packed with people. I stood in a corner,
with sunglasses over my face. I listened to the people argue back and forward about what should
be done.
 "Why don't we kill them all until we find him?" someone yelled out.

"We can't do that . . . right away."

“We‘ll need someone to penetrate in order to find Teddy,” someone yelled out.

“Too risky and besides they‘ve haven’t even bitten to anyone we have sent in.” my
brother yelled back with his wife at his side.

“Maybe we‘re not sending the right type of people,” a woman spoke up then.

“We will not send in a woman, none of you are strong enough to defend yourself if taken
hostage,” the room erupted into arguments.

I would just listen because regardless if they wanted me to or not I would be going to
where ever they thought he was and I would penetrate and I would find him, if it was the last
thing I ever did. I would get my little brother home.

“Dana?” my father called, when I looked up I noticed all eyes were on me. I walked over
to him.

“Hey daddy,” I wrapped my arms around his big muscular body and allowed myself a
moment of peace.

“We can send her,” someone yelled.

“No!” Kyle and Terry both yelled together.

“She‘s a female, she‘s hot and she controls all four elements. She‘s the best candidate for
the job.” my aunt Barbara said as she walked over to me.

“She‘s too young!” Terry yelled.

“I‘m doing it,” I stood and walked to the front of the room to the stack of files they had
formed on the matter.
***

“It was odd of her to say,” Zach said as we sat in the living room.

“Maybe.” I was still upset about her hanging up in my face twice.

“I didn’t even know women hunted.” he went on. First she disappears into freaking
nowhere then she hangs up on me when I call to apologize. This woman was going to make me
kill; she was waking up the beast in me.

“Where have to two been?” Sara yelled as she ran down the stairs with Carol and Avaya
in tow.

“What’s wrong?” Zach sat up and I followed.

“We have serious trouble.” Avaya said she and Carol were the two oldest members of our
packs.

"What is it?" I said.

"Someone has taken an Elemental and their taking it out on the entire shifter
community."

"Elemental?" Zach asked.

"They are a group of people who can control the four elements, wind, fire, water and
earth."

"Control it how?" I asked.

"Control it; they can become one with those elements. if my source is correct, they took
one of the sons that can control all four, some well most Elemental can only control one maybe
two of the elements but there are four of them who can control all four elements, three men, one
woman. Whoever the shifter who took the boy is, they took the youngest male." Was all this for
real? Next thing someone was going to tell me there was a such thing as vampires.

"What does that have to do with us?" Zach asked.

"These people will kill us all in order to find their brother."

"Arrange a meeting with them," Sara said. "Offer them our help to find their brother."

"The thing is," Avaya looked at her. "You'll have to wait for them to contact us because
no one knows who they are."

"Then how do we even know they exist and that this isn't some bullshit story?" Sara
snapped back.

"Do you want to risk it?"

CHAPTER THREE

As I sat at my computer in the living room to my house there was one thing that was
bothering me about this, most of these clubs I had been going to were owned by Zach and Sara . .
. could they be shape shifters? Could they have my brother? Could they know who and what I
was?

Go with your heart sweetie, it'll never steer you wrong. I didn't believe they were apart
my brother's kidnapping but that didn’t mean I would put it passes them either. Did I believe
they knew who and what I was really? No. Now as for the shape shifting part, that could be so . .
. only one way to find out. I grabbed my purse and headed for the door.

I got in my car and headed for their house and my mind went to Conall, that big sexy
man, the one who was invading my thoughts on a normal basis. I prayed I didn’t see him at all,
the less I saw of him, the better.

I grabbed my purse and gun and headed for their front door; I knocked on the door and
waited. An older woman opened the door, she looked down at me with a scowl on her face, and
seeing how I was 5'9, that wasn't an easy task. She had to be 6'1.

"How can I help you?"

"I'm here to see Sara and Zach Wolfe," the woman stared at me.

"Come in," she stepped aside and let me enter. "They are in a meeting but you can sit
here and I'll let them know you've arrived." she led me into their living room, I sat down in one
of the seats.

"Um, thanks."

"Your name."

"Excuse me?"

"I'll need your name to let them know who you are."

"Oh! I'm Dana, their neighbor. They'll know who I am." she nodded then waked away,
leaving me in the room alone. Zach and Sara Wolfe, if they were shape shifters, they sure were
obvious. I shook my head as the sound of someone crying caught my ear. I looked around the
room for the source, I found the little girl under the table crying, she was a small child.

"Hi there," I smiled at her and she turned her body away from me. "Why are you crying
little one?" she didn't say anything. "If you don't tell me I can't help you and I want to help you."
she turned to me then, the young girl was beautiful, long curly black hair, blue eyes that I had
seen before.

"Everyone makes fun of me because I'm different." she managed to huffed out.

"You know, people make fun of me too because I'm different she looked at me in the
eyes."
 "They do?"

"All the time especially when I was smaller," I help out my hand for her. "But you want
to know something?"

"What?" she sniffed as she took my hand.

"They were all just jealous because I could kick their asses," she giggled then. "Oops," I
smiled.

"Now I bet you can kick people butts," she smiled at me and nodded. "Well the next time
someone makes fun of you, kick their butts, I bet you they won't mess with you anymore," she
jumped her small body up and hugged my neck.

"Thanks" she said as she released me. "I'm Mykeo by the way but everyone calls me
Mickey Mouse."

"I'm Dana, no nick names." she inhaled.

"I better go, nice meeting you Dana."

"You too," and just like that she took off running. I sat back down in the seat and watched
the stairs as the tall older woman came back down the stairs.

"Sara said that if it’s important to come up the stairs and if it’s not to fuck off," I rolled
my eyes and considered walking out but I couldn't do that with my brother’s life on the line.

"You mind showing me the way," I followed her up two flights of stairs and through four
doors.

"They are in there." she pointed at the door and I nodded at her before I walked in.

Inside there was a giant round table, were maybe seventeen people surrounded it, some I
knew, some I had seen before in passing others I had never seen before but one stood out to me,
those haunted blue eyes.

"Dana," Sara call from the head, Zach sat at the other side. I looked at her. "What are you
doing here?"

"I have some questions I need answered." she looked at me as I made my way down to
her.

"What kind of questions?" Zach asked.

"They are regarding your clubs," everyone went silent. I laid the file down to Sara. "Have
you seen this boy before?" she picked up the picture and studied it.

"I've seen him at some of the raves we've thrown," she passed the pictures around.

"When was the last time you saw him?"

"I don't know, maybe a month ago." she looked up at me. "Why?"

"Do you remember who he was hanging with?"

"I remember him," the smallest woman at the table spoke. "He tried to hit on me but he
reeked of hyenas and I don't do humans." she looked at me. "No offense."

"What does that mean? Reeked of hyenas?" Hyenas? What the fuck? No one said
anything.

"Dana, who is this boy to you?" Zach yelled up the picture to me. "He has your eyes."
Fuck.

"He's my brother, and he's been missing for ten days now. I have a list of the clubs he's
been to and a lot of the clubs are owned by you two, which brings me to my next question," they
were all silent as they looked at me.

"Well what is it?" I turned back to Sara.

"Are you a shape shifter?" she smiled and her canines elongated. Holy fucking hell.

"I am."

"We all our and we've been awaiting your visit young lady," the tall woman from the
door spoke.

"Awaiting my visit?"

"Word has spread about your brother and we offer our Packs and Prides for your help," I
narrowed my eyes.

"You're the female Elemental?" Sara said in disbelief.

"You're a fucking shape shifter? All of you are?" they all nodded. "You said Packs and
Prides, what does that mean?"

"Some of us are wolves, tigers, lions, and we have some bears here." I frowned.

"They are different kinds? Jesus Christ? How many?"

 "Too many," Zach answered.

"And you people are telling me that hyenas have my brother?"

"We don't know for sure but we can help you look and lead you in the right directions."
Fuck, I needed to sit down.

"Can we see your element?" the man asked, his hair was colorful, like the colors of a
tiger.

"No." they all began to stir. "Prove to me you are, what you claim to be." at first they said
nothing. Then Sara stood and I watched her change right before my eyes into a goddamn wolf!
Soon others followed, there were lions, tigers, wolves, bears and some were humans. There was
one wolf that caught my eye though, a fucking white wolf with blue eyes, Conall. I really needed
to sit down and soon.

They all changed back into humans and looked at me. "Your turn," Sara smiled.