Here There Be Monsters
AN: Ok this is a Twilight/Pirates Crossover. I was thinking about how Bella and Elizabeth both have the same last names and I came up with this idea for a story. Tell me if I should continue or if it's a load of crap. Thanks!
Dislamer: I do not own any of the Twilight characters. Or the Pirates characters. They both belong to the Stephenie Meyer and the Mouse.
Chapter 1: Tradition
"BELLA!" I heard my mother shout. I have been hearing her frantic voice for the last week and I didn't even react when she now shrieked my name. It was August 11th and the -cringe- wedding was only two days away. The final touches were being arranged, like setting the reception up and organizing my make-up and hair crew (Alice and Rosalie).
My mom and Phil had been staying in a hotel near Newton's. There was just too much tension for her to be near Charlie and I knew she would be at her ultimate stress level with the effort she was putting into this –cringe- wedding. I had insisted she relaxed and let Alice take care of it but she wouldn't listen. She argued that it was the mothers' job to be organizer of the entire thing.
Charlie was taking this all very well. When Edward and I had arrived at the house, bearing the news, he stayed silent for a minute, his eyes shifting between the two of us. When he saw the determination in my eyes, he sighed and said that he had expected this sooner or later. With a tense handshake, Edward smiled and received a fathers' congratulation. Since then, Charlie had been staying out of the way, determined to avoid any decisions being made.
I still couldn't believe I was agreeing to this. But now, with fear, I also felt a bit of excitement. With this came everything attached. Edward, immortality, being with Edward for all eternity. It was a small price to pay compared to what I was receiving in return.
Walking into the other room of the hotel, I smiled thinking about how in five days I will be a vampire. I know smiling isn't something someone does when they think about their death but I wasn't dying, I was living.
"What are you so happy about!? Don't you have something to do? Dress fitting or something?" cried my mom and she shuffled through her bag. She was never good at unpacking and usually kept all her stuff ruffled in a suitcase. "I just can't find…ah ha! Here it is!" she smiled as she grasped something shiny and gold in her hand. She turned her back to me, hiding whatever she found from me view.
"Mom, what are you doing? Do you need help?" I said, walking over to help her. She answered that she didn't and that she had something to show me, once she got it ready. I stood there curious as she turned around again to face me, a big smile on her face.
"Now, honey. I know you're not fond of this wedding, but I thought we needed to follow all the old traditions." She stepped aside to show me what was on the bed. "Ta-Da!" She held out her arm.
Stepping closer I looked at the items arranged in a line there was a blue intricate hairclip next to a string of pearls. And ending with a gold, round coin, with a skull incrusted in the middle. It looked rather old while the other two looked new.
"Something old, something new. Something borrowed and something blue." My mother sang. She clapped her hands as I looked over the items. "Well the something borrowed and something blue are the same things but I though it would be ok. I borrowed the hairclip from Alice. It will look pretty in you hair. And the pearls are a present from me and Phil. They will look so nice with the clip and your dress. And that," she pointed to the medallion, "is an old family heirloom. It's supposed to be pirates gold handed down from your great-great-great grandmother. She moved here from England in 1702 or something like that. Had a run-in with some pirates and she made away with that. Her name was Elise…Eliza…Elizabeth! Her name was Elizabeth Swann. I got it from Charlie's mother." She said the last with a grimace.
I picked up the gold and brushed my fingers over the skull. It looked like some treasure from the Mayan temples. I liked it a lot. Slipping it into my pocket and putting the necklace and clip into my purse, I thanked my mother and assured her that I liked them a lot, even though she had bought me something. I knew it wasn't the time to complain so I told her I would see her in the morning and headed out to my truck. Edward was out hunting tonight, not having time to tomorrow, he needed all the strength he could get with what he was going to perform. A shiver of excitement coursed through me as I though about how Edward was going to be the one to change me. I hadn't even realized I was at the house until I walked though the door.
"Hey kid, were you with your mom?" Charlie had a pizza box on the couch next to him as he watched a baseball game. "Want some pizza." He lifted the box over his head toward me.
"No thanks dad. I had dinner with mom. I'm going to hit the sack. All this planning is making my brain hurt." I headed up the stairs as Charlie said goodnight. Heading into my room I placed the clip and string of pearls on my dresser next to my jewelry box, which was very empty. I pulled the gold coin out of my pants and sat on the bed as I looked at it again. It really was cool looking. I liked it a lot more that I thought possible. I placed the medallion on my nightstand and headed to the bathroom. After done in the bathroom and in my pajamas, I slipped into the covers. Once more I studied the designs on the pirate gold. There must have been quite the story behind this medallion. Thinking of the tale to be told I slipped into oblivion.