~MAGIC UNDER THE SEA~

Summary: Bella, Rosalie, Alice, and Carlie (an OC) are all the daughters of the Sea King, King Triton and live in the city of Atlantis, the land of the Merpeople. Bella loves to go on adventures and exploring, and Carlie—the youngest—loves to go with her. Jasper and Emmett are supposed to be the guardians of the girls. One night, when their father tells them the tale about a great race that no longer exists, Bella decides she wants to go looking for it and she convinces her sisters to go along with her. What they discover is past of magic, secrets, and a young boy named Jacob who can't really remember anything—only Jacob isn't the only thing from the past that's back.

[Bella, Alice, Rosalie, Jasper, Emmett, Charlie, Carlisle, Edward, Esme, and later some of the wolf pack characters and Renesmee.]

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING, EXCEPT MAYBE PIECES OF THE PLOT, CARLIE, AND…THAT'S IT FOR NOW.


Chapter One: Origins, Bedtime Stories, and Protectors

"Rosalie, if you spend anymore time in the bath I won't have time to do your hair! I'm almost done with Carlie's!" Alice yelled as she tugged at Carlie's scalp one last time, and Carlie let out a yelp.

I, on the other hand, danced in front of the mirror, posing different ways and angles to get better glimpses of my hair. Alice had just finished it and it was beautiful, but no matter what she did I never felt that pretty.
Well, at least as pretty as my sisters. Rosalie was considerably the most beautiful mermaid in all the seven seas; she took after our mother the most. She had long, blonde curls that fell past her shoulders to her waist and eyes as blue as the water around us. She had mother's eyes, too. She was the tallest out of the four of us, and had a gorgeous ruby red tailfin. She was said red was her color. She was also the oldest, her 19th birthday just passed.

Next in line was me, the one who at first glance almost looked as if she didn't belong. Well, that is, in my eyes. I'm 18 and also the next tallest in line, reaching only a couple inches shorter than Rose. My tailfin was more of a bronze color, and though I feel it's a bit unimpressive everyone else disagrees. No one else has this color. My hair, which Alice just made wavy, is as long as Rosalie's except it's chocolate brown, the same color as my eyes.

Then there's 17 year old Alice, who I think has enough energy and enthusiasm for the four of us combined. Alice is very short, with a face that could only be compared to a water pixie. She has short spiky black hair, a chirpy voice, an excitable attitude, lavender eyes, and a beautiful lavender tailfin to match. Like Rose, she is very pretty, and loves to do all the shopping for all of us.

Lastly there was Carlie, she was 16 and the youngest out of the four of us. Since she was youngest she doesn't really remember mom, so when we were younger she used to ask us a lot of questions about her. She's the smallest, smaller than Alice (which says something), and she has straight red hair that's as long as me and Rosalie's. She has chocolate eyes like me, and a laugh that sounds like bells chiming—much like Alice's. She has pouty red lips like Rosalie, and can get anything she wants with her dimples. Her tailfin is emerald green, and shimmers in the light like the rest of ours. While I am close with all of my sisters, Carlie and I spend the time the most. It was my bed she would come and sleep in when she was missing the mother she barely knew. She's always with me when I go exploring, and she's always with me no matter what. Though she tries to act mature and has the intelligence of someone twice her age, she is still a baby to us.

"Bella, stop shaking your hair! If you mess it up I promise I'll feed you to the sharks myself!" Alice knocked me out of my reverie, and we all laughed. For her to be so tiny, Alice threatened like a 6'5 merman and cussed like a sailor at times.

Rosalie finally swam out of the bath, and dressed in her dress shells that Alice laid out on her bed especially for tonight. They were her normal ruby red shells, but with small rubies encrusted in them, only for special occasions like tonight. They would match her ruby red lipstick when she did her flawless makeup.

Mine were similar, my regular ocean blue shells, only with small white diamonds encrusted in them. Alice and Carlie's were the same, only Alice's were lavender with purple rubies and Carlie's were seaweed green with emeralds.

"There! All done!" Alice smiled brightly on the final curl in Carlie's head, and Carlie looked beautiful. Alice always does a nice job. "Now what accessories…" Alice mumbled to herself, and as if on cue six green fish swam to her holding headbands, necklaces, bracelets, and earrings.

"Hmm…" She said, tapping her sharp chin. She grabbed a beautiful gold encrusted hair clip shaped like a starfish, and clipped it to the side of Carlie's red curly hair.

"Perfect! Thanks." The fish floated away, and Carlie jumped up to hug Alice. The sat in the seat in front of the next mirror as Rosalie sat down and Alice started on her hair.

I started to bite my lip, and Alice read my facial expression.

"Great idea Bells! Quick, check to see if the coast is clear!" She said, bouncing up and down in excitement.

I swam to the entry to our room and there was no one in sight. Sometimes, it comes in pretty helpful that we have our own wing of the palace. Technically, we each have our own wing but that would be too lonely. Besides, we have more fun together.

"The coast is clear Ali!" I said as I swam over to my bed. Carlie already beat me there, and she watched with excitement as I pulled the box from the hiding space under my bed. I believe this was her favorite discovery of ours that we've ever found while exploring. I remember what we had to go through to fix it and make it work. Rosalie had to swim up to the surface—that's right, you heard me the surface…wonder how red Dad would turn if he found out about that—in order to trap some dry air in her sea-glass bubble. She'd already fixed the little box—which a good friend of ours told us was properly named a snarfsinger—and Rosalie said it would work if it was wet. So she trapped it in the bubble with the dry air, leaving the dial outside of the bubble so we could turn it. Rosalie was so smart and so good with her hands, she could fix anything. She was a natural at tinkering.

I turned the dial three times and the box started singing as the small mermaid began to slowly spin around.

"I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue
And it's hey to the starboard, heave ho
Look out, lad, a mermaid be waiting for you
In mysterious fathoms below!"

I swam over to Rosalie and Alice as Carlie and I danced around and we all sang our hearts out.

"From whence wayward Westerlies blow
Where Triton is king and his merpeople sing
In mysterious fathoms below!"

When the song ended we all sank to the floor giggling together madly till there a knock at our door. We all froze and our hearts stopped.

"Quick! Hide it Carlie!" Rosalie whispered as Carlie swam as fast as her little fin could take her to put the box back in its hiding place.

Rosalie sat back in her seat and Alice started combing her hair, and I went back to fidgeting in mirror while Carlie sat on my bed making it look like we were up to absolutely nothing suspicious.

"Come in!" Alice chirped.

In swam Jasper with his hand over his eyes. Jasper was tall, taller than Rosalie and I, and very muscular yet lean. He had blonde hair that always fell into his eyes, and piercing blue eyes as crystal-like as ice with a crystal blue tailfin to match. But Jasper was really a kind person with such a warm heart. Though he was only 21, he was the head of the Royal Guard and one of the two charged with protection of the Princesses. He was the guardian of Rosalie and Alice. He was the youngest to ever have a position like that, but father always said Jasper had the charisma, intelligence, and cunning of ten men. While most girls swooned over him whenever we went out, he only had eyes for Alice.

He always said watching over all of us was a handful we knew that deep down in his heart there was no place he'd rather be. Jasper was a big brother to us, and we loved him.

He also knew all the rules when living with girls, which is why he swam in with his hand covering his eyes.

"Girls your father told us to have the Princesses ready by sunset." He said without peeking.

"The Princesses. When do get to be his daughters again?" I asked, annoyed.

"Not to worry Bella. Tonight will be fun!" Rosalie said with a smile.

"Yeah! It's going to be great!" Carlie said, swimming in a circle in excitement.

"Hold your seahorses Jazz, we'll be ready in time." Alice said with the voice that always got her what she wanted with Jasper, and he sighed heavily.

"Seriously girls, don't make me send Emmett in here." And he swam back to the door, hitting the wall before going out and we all laughed.

"Oh, what is that big whale going to do?" Rosalie called after him and I pushed her shoulder. "Oh come on Rosalie, you know Emmett could get you to do anything he wants you to." She sighed and looked back into the mirror with a lovesick expression. "And then some," She said sweetly.

I looked away. You see, Alice and Rosalie had boyfriends. No, they weren't princes, and yes, my father would melt an icecap if he ever found out, but at least they had someone. At least they were in love. At least they were…happy. I would love to have someone look at me the way Emmett looks at Rosalie and Jasper looks at Alice. To gaze into my eyes and make me feel like I'm the only girl in the world for them…to make me feel like they wouldn't be able to live if they didn't have me—because I would surely feel that way about them. I've never been in love before.

"Okay Rose you're done, now hurry up with the make up so we can go!" Alice said quickly before dodging the comb Rosalie sent soaring her way as we laughed.

Rosalie applied her own makeup in two minutes flat, before floating to all of us to do ours. She said I looked good with smoky eyes, whatever that meant, and she finished with me in under a minute. I swam to a mirror and looked myself over as she moved onto Alice. Wow, I did look amazing.

She gave Alice glittery purple eye shadow, because Alice wouldn't have it any other way. She looked to sparkle. She only gave Carlie some red lip gloss, because she was only sixteen. Besides, Carlie was beautiful enough to where she didn't need any makeup. She finished a few seconds later, and we were all dressed.

"You know, Rose is right Carlie." I said floating over to her smiling, figuring this was a good time.

"You only turn 16 once. So today is special." Alice said, joining us with a knowing smirk.

"What's going on guys?" Carlie asked suspiciously.
Rosalie floated over with something in her hands.

"We wanted to give this to you for your birthday, when we felt you were old enough to take care of it." She said sweetly.

Carlie's eyes lit up when she saw the large ruby amulet the size of a goldfish.

"Mom's necklace?" She asked breathlessly.

"We wanted you to have it." Alice said with a glowing smile.

"It's beautiful!" She said as Rosalie placed it on her neck.

"It suits you." Rose said gently.

At that moment we all shared a hug, and no words were needed.

Then Emmett swam in with his eyes closed hitting Alice's bed.

"Okay girls, Jasper says ready or not, it's time to go. The dolphins have already swam up outside." He said, trying to sound authoritative.

You see, Emmett was huge, even more muscles than my dad—which says something—and taller than even Jasper. He was Jasper's second in command, and charged with the protection of Carlie and me. Though his size was intimidating to everyone (including potential boyfriends), he was the sweetest guy ever. He had curly brown hair, deep dimples, soft green eyes, and a big bright smile. His tailfin was a darker shade of blue than Jasper's. They were best friends.

We all blew our tongues at him for ruining our moment. "Alright we're ready! You happy now?" Rosalie said angrily as she swam past him and he looked at her.

"What did I do?" He asked confused, as we swam past him and he followed close behind.

When we finally left the palace there were two chariots waiting, Jasper already holding the dolphin reigns in the first one. There were 3 dolphins to each chariot, and they squealed with excitement when we came out.

"Come on girls, the sun is nearly done setting!" Jasper said with a big smile, and we swam over. Alice and Rosalie climbed into his, while Carlie and I climbed into the second one as Emmett took the reigns. And we were off.


"You know for this celebration to be for my birthday, I'm not having a lot of fun." Carlie said in a bored tone. We were all seated at a long table, while people we didn't even know gave these long speeches putting us to sleep.

"We do we get to eat?" Emmett whispered from next to Rosalie and she elbowed him in the gut. We all chuckled.

The fanfare started, and I knew my father was getting ready to speak.

"His Royal Highness, King Charlie Triton!" He was announced as he made his way forward with his trident in his hand, and everyone started cheering.

"I would like to thank you all for swimming in tonight to celebrate such a wonderful occasion. My youngest daughter, Carlie Renee's birthday." Everyone cheered wildly again and Carlie blushed.

"Some of you have swum from all corners of the seven seas to celebrate with us, and for that, I could not be more grateful. Please stay in Atlantis for as long as you'd like, and know that you are always welcome. Without further ado, let the feast begin." He smiled brightly as the server fish swam out everyone's plates.

"Finally!" Emmett exclaimed and Rosalie thwacked his head, making all of us laugh even harder.

The night carried on and we began to have a little fun, till the music started. The band began playing and Carlie lit up like an electric eel.

"Oh my—dad! You got Sebastian and The Deep Blue Singers?" She squealed, before swimming over her plate to the dance floor. We followed her as the song started.

"The seaweed is always greener
In somebody else's lake
You dream about going up there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
What more is you lookin' for?"

We all began to swim and dance in a circle as we sang along with the lyrics.

"Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea!"

Rosalie and Alice whispered into mine and Carlie's ear and we both giggled. We swam over to Jasper and Emmett (who had food stuffed in his mouth) and grabbed their hands to try and get them to join us. Jasper just blushed and looked past us at Alice who he knew was behind this, and Emmett just shook his head to tell us no. We pulled harder and they finally got up, and started dancing with us. They wanted to dance with Alice and Rosalie, but they had to remember our father was here. That's why we had to be the ones to ask them in the first place.

"The newt play the flute
The carp play the harp
The plaice play the bass
And they soundin' sharp
The bass play the brass
The chub play the tub
The fluke is the duke of soul
(Yeah)
The ray he can play
The lings on the strings
The trout rockin' out
The blackfish she sings
The smelt and the sprat
They know where it's at
An' oh that blowfish blow!"

Carlie bit her bottom lip and I knew she was up to something. I watched as she swam over to our father and pulled him out with us, making everyone giggle and awe.

"Carlie what have you gotten me into?" He chuckled as she danced with him, and we all smiled. It had been so long since we'd heard our father laugh, it felt new. He never has time to have fun with us anymore. At least, not like when we were younger. We used to spend time together all the time, and then when mom died, he just stopped.

"Under the sea
Under the sea
When the sardine
Begin the beguine
It's music to me
What do they got? A lot of sand
We got a hot crustacean band
Each little clam here
know how to jam here
Under the sea
Each little slug here
Cuttin' a rug here
Under the sea
Each little snail here
Know how to wail here
That's why it's hotter
Under the water
Ya we in luck here
Down in the muck here
Under the sea!"

And we danced the night away. It was one of the best nights we'd had in a long time.


Tonight must've been just full of surprises, because dad was here to tuck us in. He hasn't even been on our side of the castle for the longest, yet here he was tucking his daughters in. Tonight really was the best night ever.

He tucked Carlie in last and kissed her forehead. "Wait dad!" She said as he began to turn away. "Yes Carls?" He asked, and it had been so long since we'd heard him call her that.

"Could you tell me…a bedtime story?" She asked in a small voice, and we all giggled. We all wanted to ask, but me, Rosalie, and Alice were too embarrassed. My father told the best stories. His voice just…took you to the place he was describing.

"That is, if you can remember any old man." Alice said and we all laughed as he gave her the stink eye.

"Did you have one in mind?" He asked, and she shook her head no. He smiled, and pushed her hair out of her eyes. "I think I have the perfect one.

"Merpeople have always been a proud race, and we've been around for hundreds of years. The seas have always been ours, and since the beginning of our race, our existence has never been discovered by the humans. The seas we live in now today are peaceful, harmonious, and serene. But…it has not always been this way for our people. Our race has not always been at peace, and there was a time of war. Over five hundred years ago, when our species was still very young, there was a war between the merpeople and the Drinkers.

"The Drinkers were an evil race, named for the fact that they drank from the life forces around them. They possessed dark magic, and wished to conquer the Sea King and rule all the seven seas. They had dark red eyes, and pale skin.

"But the Sea King and his people had protection, protection like no other. There was another race, a race called The Shifters. The Shifters were magical beings who could take the form of humans, fish, and merpeople. The Shifters were charged with the Protection of our city Atlantis, and all merpeople and fish alike. When the threat against the Sea King arose, the Protectors gave their lives to keep the blue seas at peace. Merman and Shifters alike fought to keep our home safe. These Merman became the Royal Guard.

"The war lasted for years, and finally the last of the Drinkers were killed. Though there were casualties on all sides, hundreds of merman and Shifters lost their lives in the war. In fact, every last one of the shifters were murdered by the drinkers, and that's why their extinct. We know little about them, or what they looked like, all we know is from where they came. And all we have is the monument build in the middle of Atlantis in honor of the Shifters. They were proud, strong beings, with abilities beyond our wildest dreams."

"We were they from dad?" Rosalie asked.

"Well, the shifters were said to have come from a small cove in the Atlantic, what we call today Shipwreck Cove."

"But that place dark, and shark infested, and littered with sunken ships. How could anyone have lived there?" Alice said.

"I suppose it wasn't always that way Alice."

"There are no more Shifters in the sea? How can we be sure daddy? They could still be out there! We've got to find them!" Carlie said.

"Carls, if there were any out there, they would've been discovered by now." He kissed her head then got up.

"Goodnight girls. Sweet dreams."

He left they fell asleep, but I couldn't. I had so much going on in my mind? Shifters? How could I not have known about this? I took school, I learned about our history, but I was never taught this. That's what that statue was…I'd always wondered. It's just…it's not possible. It must be a legend. There's no way the Shifters could've actually existed.

Well one thing's for sure…if the Shifters really had existed at one point in time, there was bound to be at least some evidence of it. I knew the perfect place to start exploring. Shipwreck Cove.