Under The Shade Of The Apple Tree

by Cookie-Monster39

Bella is a mermaid that Aro of the Volturi has been after for 5 centuries. After Aro nearly kills her, she has to leave the pacific where she was hiding. She decieds to live in a small river in Forks, posing as a human in high school. One day she notices a mansion not so far away from her river being reconstructed. What happens when vampires show up. (P.S. mermaids are immortal.)

1. Chapter 1

I was swimming fast as if swimming for my life because thats exactly what I was doing; swimming for my life. I had to escape the Pacific to save myself and the rest of my kind. Aro of the Volturi had been after for me for the past 500 years, and I had been hiding from him for the past 500 years. It had been okay up until two days ago when he and his brothers plus his guards had discovered our Casa de la Sirenas; house of the mermaids, hence the name.

Casa de la Sirenas is a small part of the ocean that dosent exist on any map ever created. No one knows because those whom have discovered it never made back on land or their ships. They always became our meal. Us mermaids feed on human men (their blood). There is always those couple of pirates that belive in mermaids, and they are quite right. Every time a ship is close we just sing and they become putty in our hands.

Aro was after me because he found out that the blood of a mermaid will make vampires invincible. Our blood is the sweetest thing a vampire can ever dream of drinking. They can drink for hours and we wouldn't die. The only thing that can kill us is a werewolf bite. Anyway Aro craving power and all was after my blood because my blood sings to him.

Thats another thing about us mermaids our blood is sweet but not to every vampire. There is about 100 mermaids alive today and each one of them appeal to different vampires. There was one mermaid whose blood appealed to 5 different vampires, and thats the most anyone has ever heard of. Its more common for a mermaids blood to appeal to one or two vampires, at most three, but thats mostly likely because we dont come across many vampires.

I had decided to go to Forks. It was a small town in the US and was univentful. I swam through a long river and into a small one where a decided would be my new home. I had already registered in the highschool here, and had money and clothes all set. I was ready to start my new life.

Anyway let me tell you about myself. My name is Isabella Marie Swan, and I am a mermaid. How I came to be what I am is a story for another day. I have been a mermaid for over 510 years. I was changed in 1497, on my 16th birthday. Its not easy becoming a mermaid. A female can only become a mermaid on the day of her 16th birthday; if a mermaid bites a female on her 16th birthday she becomes a mermaid for all eternity. Males can't become like us, they can only become our meal.

Its easy being a mermaid; unless we are at least 50% covered in water we wont turn into a mermaid if we are out of the water our tail turns into legs. A drop or a glass of water wont turn us our legs have to be in water for us to turn.