Just an idea I had, very similar to the one of BellaNessieCullen about Bella & Edward 100 years after Breaking Dawn only they live on Isle Esme, so it's not exactly original. So sue me. . I really wanted to write this after seeing Nim's Island Two… there may be slight spoilers, but not many. Happy reading!
The Butterfly's Shadow
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
― Albert Einstein
Chapter One
Meet the Family
After the defeat of the Voltouri and all of the other events that had surpassed in our life, I guess I just wanted a peaceful life in the middle of nowhere, which is why I had moved to my island.
At first I had thought nothing of it, that it would just be me and Edward on the little island all on our own, but then the unthinkable happened and we came across a witch who needed saving on the mainland. In return she promised us anything we wanted, and all at once the realisation came to me that I would love more children, four was enough really, but I hadn't seen them for months and they all lived at different corners of the earth, so would having another child be so bad I thought.
Now I had three more children. My first pregnancy was planned of course, that's when I had the twins, Cory and Eliza, the second pregnancy was an accident a year later, much like Madison I estimated the dates wrong and we conceived Naomi. Not that I regret it in the slightest, now we had three children to look after and it was just like old times again, except that we were on a deserted, wild island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean with just our little family rather than all of our big family.
"Mommy, mommy!" Naomi ran up to me crying as Cory chased her with some kind of snake wrapped around his neck.
"Cory, stop trying to scare your little sister!" I told him as he sighed and placed the snake back down on the ground, he reminded me a lot of Madison sometimes with his love of animals.
My other four children were living in different corners of the world now. From time to time they would visit us and make contact; they called at least once a week to update us on every aspect of our lives. As of now, Renesmee was living in an apartment in New York with Jake and was a famous author and artist going by the name of Vanessa Black, she changed the name every twenty years or so to compensate for her not ageing so that she could quite easily carry on drawing and writing as that is what she loved to do.
Eddie was currently a famous actor living in Hollywood, he went by the name of Edmund Carter, he had been an actor for around 5 years now, he always found a new job to do after he had 'aged' past his age as he would put it. He had been a doctor, a singer and now he was an actor.
Madison was currently a world renowned zoologist, she switched her name and jobs every decade or so between a zoologist, palaeontologist and an Egyptologist, she went by the name of Madeline Racluse.
Winona was the biggest surprise though, I had not known her growing up, but I had presumed that she would be a dancer of some sort as that is what she seemed to love, but she was working with children in Africa under the name of Rachel Winona.
I was proud of my four eldest children and I could only hope that the other three would follow in their footsteps and one day make something of themselves, because that is all I wanted for my children, for them to be happy.
"I don't even know why you're scared of the snake, Naomi. You could hurt it more than it could hurt you!" Cory muttered to Naomi. Cory was physically eleven and a lot bigger than Naomi who was only physically four.
"They're poisonous!" She cried as the snake slithered near her.
"And so are we!" Cory rolled his eyes at her as she squirmed towards me, hugging my leg tightly.
"Only in our blood. Not our bite." Naomi began to whimper as the snake drew closer to her.
"Cory, take the snake outside our house. Naomi, I know you don't like snakes but they can't harm you. Your skin is too hard for them to even bite, darling." I tried to reassure Naomi as Cory picked up the snake muttering to himself about how not fun living on a deserted island was because he couldn't even play with the animals once in a while.
I wondered where Eliza was, she was always off and exploring the island, she loved the animals and wild life, she would go swimming in the reefs and bays, climbing the cliffs and she refused to ever take anybody with her, personally I thought she was hiding something but as she had the ability of being a physical and mental shield, more than likely inherited from me, Edward couldn't even get a look into her mind.
It was at that point that Eliza ran into the house wearing her swimming costume and flip-flops with a sarong tied around her waist. This was what she usually would wear all day, if Alice saw her she would have killed me as this is all Eliza liked to wear.
"Momma, can I ask you something?" She begged me, her brown eyes –mirrors of my human ones- boring into me.
"Yes, honey?" I said softly.
"Am I pretty?" She asked, cocking her head at me with a sad smile.
"Of course you are darling, why do you ask?"
"Momma, I have a friend on the island. He's a boy." She looked at me, willing me to understand.
"What boy?!" I said alarmed, my daughter was hiding a boy on the island?!
"He's a mermaid momma, and his sisters are so pretty… I go swimming with them all the time. I just wish I looked like them." She frowned and sat down on the floor besides the fire, her usual spot that she would take to read.
"So you weren't asking because you want this boy to be your boyfriend?" I felt my temper rising. No boy was going to claim my daughter's heart before she was grown!
"No momma! He's my friend! That would be weird!" She looked at me disgusted.
"What do these uh… mermaids look like?" I asked, her eyes began to twinkle as she told me.
"They are so beautiful, almost as beautiful as you momma. They have long blonde hair and bright blue eyes that shine in the sun… They are amazing Momma. Kailani is amazing my best friend." She looked at me wilfully, expecting me to flip out over her having friends.
"Good for you, they seem like nice people. It's a shame you can't invite this boy over for dinner." I announced, I actually wanted to meet them, just to see what mermaids were like, plus my children all seemed to like human food, so it would not be hard to make them a meal.
"They could come for tea momma. I'm sure Kailani would love that!" she exclaimed with happiness.
"But don't they have tails?" I frowned, a little confused at how mermaids could walk on land.
"Momma, Kailani is a prince of the Filii maris, if he wishes he can have legs, he's king in training, because his dad was killed last year. He's like us momma, Immortal." She smiled, and I was actually glad she had found a friend.
"What's the Filii Maris? I know Filii means children because *SPOILER ALERT, DON'T READ THIS LINE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO FIND OUT ABOUT A NEW SPECIES COMING UP IN FOREVER SUNSET* the children of the fire orb are called the Filii Hingis Orbem." I laughed a little.
"It means Children of the Sea, momma." She smiled at me and I couldn't help but grin back at my daughter.
"So why can he have legs on land but none of the others can?" I asked her.
"Oh, they can, but they are not allowed to come on land as the Maris demands it. Humans drove them into the sea thousands of years ago when they saved the witches with their magic, and the witches granted them access to the land using their magic. Human's saw the Maris as a threat and made them go back into the sea. They still have the ability to come on land but only from dawn till dusk. Kailani breaks the law to come on the land though because he loves it so much. The Maris are the control freaks of the world and kind of the equivalent to *ANOTHER SPOILER* to Izeya in our world, only Izeya's good. Right momma?" She grinned at me and I nodded.
"The Maris might be good too, and how do you know all of this?" I laughed nervously.
"Kailani told me of course, Momma." She rolled her eyes as if it was so obvious.
"Well, invite him over for dinner and his sisters too if you want." I told her, she shook her head slightly.
"His sisters won't come. They respect the rules too much, they won't come onto the land to see me, they always wade in the shallows while he comes onto the beach." She said rather sadly.
"Well maybe you should invite Kailani on his own then, hows about that?" I hugged my daughter, even though she was only a year and two months old, she was growing up so fast. In less than three years she would be an adult, and then she would lose her innocence and I would lose her as I had my other children, because they were now adults.
"That's great momma! Thank you!" She hugged me again and then ran out to go see her friend. I wondered if this was the secret she had been hiding from us.
"Eliza, can I come with you?" Naomi asked her. Eliza scooped up her little sister in her arms, looking strange as she was so petite, and looked at me for an answer.
"Be back before sunrise." I laughed and rolled my eyes before she was out of the door with her little sister firmly on her hip going to see her mermaid friend…
Next chapter will be Eliza's PoV What do you think?