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Chapter Four

Later that afternoon I found myself in the ballroom waiting for Edward to arrive. I had somehow ended up standing in front of the tank that had been occupied by the mermaid. Even if I did wish to have their help I could not because I did not know how to call them. "You shouldn't listen to the mermaids you know, they tend to lie." I spun around to see Edward standing in the doorway with two swords in his hand.

"Pot calling kettle black?" I replied walking away from the tank.

"Hardly, if you knew some of the things mermaids had done, you wouldn't want to know them so much, especially Gianna." I looked over my shoulder at the tank.

"I'm sure that your view is a little bias, after all if I knew everything about vampires I highly doubt I would want to be alone in a room with one. Yet here I am." I continued sauntering towards him.

A hundred years ago the Atlantic Ocean,

The Marianne sailed across the calm ocean, the sail cutting out a black silhouette against the orange of the sunset. On the ship that was captained by Captain Swan, the most sacred book of all time lay nestled in a barrel that originally contained gunpowder, it was on its way back to home to England. Underneath the bow of the ship the water rippled a little, what the crew and the captain did not know that this would be the last time that the book would ever be safe. A haunting melody travelled across the ocean towards the boat and in a few seconds every crew member was hanging over the railings. The mermaids would bring about the end of that ship and the end of the book.

I picked up the sword and immediately felt the tingling in my hand. "Who did this sword belong to?" I asked Edward who was sitting in a chair across from me.

"An ancestor of yours." He replied simply and went back to sitting in silence.

"Why do I have to learn to fight? I mean no-one uses swords anymore." I said swinging the sword a little in my hand.

"Because there are those like myself who are a little older fashioned." He stood up from the chair and in seconds his sword had clashed with the one I was holding. "Now let's see how much of that Swan instinct you have." And proceed to attack me again with the blade. After two minutes of our swords clashing and me blocking every attack, he stopped and began circling me like a hunter. "Good, I must admit after that fainting session I was expecting less." The circling was beginning to make me feel a little uneasy. He made an attack again which I swiftly blocked. "How much do you want to know who that sword belonged to?" He asked while still circling me, I had taken to turning my head to follow his path.

"Why?" I asked.

"I can tell you if you like….but I want something in return." I sighed and stopped following his movements.

"And what would that be?" I replied.

"Your necklace." The request caught me off guard, Edward would never ask for the key to book. This was all a test. I swung around caught him with my sword pushing him to the ground and pinning him there with my boot, my blade pressed to his neck.

"Please as if I would fall for that one, I might be a girl but I'm not stupid."

"If you weren't stupid then why would you think that I was the real Edward Mason?" He smiled and then morphed in another man. I screamed and dropped my sword, it made loud clatter as it hit the floor.

"Isabella, are you all right?" Edward stopped in his tracks when he saw the man lying on the floor and sighed. "Emmett, what are you doing?" The man, called Emmett, grinned from where he was lying on the floor then stood up.

"I came to see what all of the fuss was about. You've got yourself a feisty one here Eddie; she just tried to kill me." I huffed at the statement and picked up my sword again.

Five minutes later and we were all sat in the parlor together, Emmett and Edward were sat on two opposing chairs while I was standing looking out the window and down at the gardens. I saw a glimpse of scarlet fabric between the hedges near the bottom of the courtyard, my mother. I quickly moved away from the window and ran towards the door. Ignoring the questions that were being flung at me, I grabbed my skirts and raced through the corridors and out into the gardens, stopping to get my bearings then I raced to where I could see the scarlet silk. When I finally arrived there I realized that it was simply a piece of silk tied to the plant with a piece of parchment attached to it.

If you want to know what has happened to your mother then go to the Royal Opera House tomorrow night at 11pm. Bring no one with you.

I heard footsteps behind me and quickly folded the paper then stuffed it into my corset. "Miss. Swan why did you run off like that?" Edward said his voice laced with concern.

"Nothing I just thought I saw something but it was only a gardener." I smiled at him and linked his arm and began walking back towards the house.

Later that evening,

"There's something going on between you two." I heard Emmett whisper not so quietly from the card table across the room.

"There's nothing going on, you know me all business I'm simply training her." Edward whispered back. "Straight" I heard Emmett curse and I quietly giggled.

"Well I'm willing to bet £10 on the fact that by the ball next week you two will be courting." I shut my book and rose from my chair.

"Well goodnight Mr. Mason and Mr. McCarty." I curtsied and left the room with thoughts of my meeting tomorrow swimming around my head.

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