Helloooo! Again, I haven't read this chapter properly yet, but I sure enjoyed writing it! It's a bit more... hyper than the others. Funny, I hope. :P It might be the sorriest excuse for a chapter you've ever laid your eyes on, but I liked writing it, and I hope you'll like reading it. Bella goes off the rails, at last! xD Please R&R? I got like... 2 reviews for the last one, a long time after I'd written it, and i was worrying for a while :/ I really hope you like this! x
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As I travelled through the darkening water, I thought about the strange mermaid, Ivy. She really didn't make sense to me. She lived in the water, which was strange enough, but it seemed like it had changed the way she acted. The way she tilted her head, the strange hand gesture – wiggling her fingers at me – and the way she spoke. And what about me 'not belonging' there? She had clearly been warped by the water. Even her features had changed. And there were more of them?

I managed to get back to the shore, and up to where my towel was. I could hear the full party had begun, and they were waiting for me. I put my hands on my tail and wondered how much Jacob had seen. Would he understand, would he be okay with it? I shivered, imagining As my hands sat there, the water on my tail began to evaporate away, as though heated. I stared at it happening, too shocked to move. There was a cloud of steam all above me. I did that. I reached a hand out to the sea water, and willed it to boil. And it did. So I can heat water. What else? I shook my head in shock, and vowed to meet Ivy again, ask her all about the oddities. At least I was dry now. My clothes were back, dry as before. I put my shoes on, and rolled the towel around my hair, like only a girl can. Then, I warily sprinted back up the beach to where the fire had been set up. It still wasn't dark yet, but rather in that state where the sun is nearly gone, and the moon is nearly there.

"Hey, Bella!" Some of the wolves hollered, laughing and shouting amongst themselves. I went and sat down beside Jacob, who didn't look shocked, or confused. In fact, he looked animated. "Bella, did you see that fish? When you went, a purple fish jumped by! Well, a purple tail. It was sooo cool!" I smiled, and shook my head. I looked away, and rolled my eyes. I didn't need to worry about Jacob Black finding out the truth.

"Hey guys." I said, joining in the conversation. Well, there wasn't one anymore. They were all messing around now. "So... have you caught Laurent yet?" I asked, diving right in, enjoying the atmosphere change.

"Who?" Jacob whispered, though I knew they could all guess who.

"You know, about yay-high, dreadlocks, red eyes... French? Vampire?" I looked around at them, watching them freeze.

"You call it Laurent?" Quil hissed, rubbing a large purple bruise on his arm. "Thing nearly snapped my arm in half!"

"He fought you?" I didn't know Laurent to be the fighting type. Perhaps not with vampires. Maybe werewolves were different.

"Like a banshee." Paul snarled. "You know the thing?" I could hear, no, feel the suspicion in the air. They were wondering if I mingled with creatures like that. Well, I used to, only, the vampires I knew were better natured.

"Yes and no. I'm not friends with him... in fact, we're almost enemies. His coven leader was the one who wanted to kill me and tracked us all the way to Phoenix. I saw him the other night." Oops.

"Bella," Jacob laughed, forgetting his apology from earlier. "He isn't your enemy. He would be the Cullens' enemy, seeing as they fought for you. You were like the objective." I restrained my hand from whipping out and smacking his face, barely. He then registered the rest of what I said. "You saw him? Where? When? How?!" All the wolves leaned in, desperate to hear the information I had. I would have been coy about it, but it was hard to when they were serious, and dangerous. Most of them were already trembling, trying to restrain the change.

"I saw him in the forest. It was the day we argued. How I saw him? With my eyes."

"He meant, how did you see without it killing you?" Embry leaned in more, as though I was about to reaveal the secret to invisibility.

"Er..." I was too embarrassed to say I jumped in a pond, and that would suggest I'd been endangering myself, which Jacob did not like in the slightest. "I was just driving by, and I saw a figure in the trees." Bad excuse. Though that didn't seem vital. It didn't matter whether they believed me about that or not. They all shrugged, one by one.

"Doesn't matter. We'll get it soon enough." Someone mumbled, and there were other mutterings about murdering vampires.

"The meeting was yesterday, not today. Today, we're here to party." Jacob said cheesily. "Oh, look, full moon." He grinned at all his other wolfy pals, and they all raised their heads and howled in corny werewolf impressions. I had my back to the sea, where the moon was rising, so I turned to look, rolling my eyes at myself. There was something about full moons, and things like that, that you had to see for yourself, no matter how many people told you it was true. Like being warned not to touch wet paint; you have to touch it, just to make sure. I looked over the sea and saw the large, silver white ball in the sky. It looked like a cracker emerging from a bath of black liquid. And it was beautiful. I wanted to stare at it forever, or get closer. As close as possible. If I swam to the end of the sea, it might have been there, waiting on me. It reflected off the water, too. Just as pretty; like a white, shining sheet covering the darkness. Maybe if I just got there, it would be enough. The water it touched must have been special. I stood up, and walked around the gathered party, always facing the magnificent moon.

"Coming swimming?" I asked, only faintly aware of my voice. The pitch sounded off, too high pitched, excited. Well, I would be excited. The moon!

"Uh... Bella? I think it's a little dark. And you just got out. In fact... how did you dry your clothes?" A foolish voice spoke. It wasn't coming with me. It wouldn't let me go.

"But we need to reach the moon!" I cried, pouting. "We'll miss the magic. If we go now, we'll be able to touch the reflections and the real moon! Come on!"

"Did anyone spike her drink?"

"She didn't have a drink...sea water... hypothermia... mental...?" I couldn't hear the words anymore, they all jumbled into a blurry noise. There was a face in front of me. Obstructing my view.

"Bella!" The voice shattered through to my mind, too loud. I frowned, glaring at the face, then laughed.

"It really lights up your long hair. Your girl hair." I giggled, grabbing strands of long, seaweed like black hair. "Girl hair. Mermaid hair." I amended. Yes, it made sense. These people could join me in the sea, and we'd be mermaids forever! No dry land. No more feet. I looked down at my own and sighed unhappily. "Feet. I hate feet. Toes. Nails. Skin. I want scales. I want a tail. Tonight it shall be yellow! Yellow is a happy colour, Jacob." I told him, recalling his name. It was of most importance that he knew that yellow was a happy colour. "I bet you'd be jealous. Jealousy is a green colour. You'd all be green!" I smiled, looking from him to my feet again. "And you could have tails-" I frowned, thinking. There was something I wasn't allowed to tell him. Though maybe I had. I should. My tail was beautiful, and there was nothing he shouldn't know. "I have a-" But I couldn't say it, no matter that the words had formed. I shook my head and ignored it. "Go away, if you won't swim, you landlubbers'!" I yelled, jumping out of the way of Jacob, into the line of the moonlight. It was also a pretty daisy head. A white lily. Looking down on a lightbulb. Some people might have believed it looked like cheese. "What do you think the moon looks like?" I asked, nobody in particular. But then I remembered; they didn't know it like I did. It hadn't given them its secrets. They wouldn't see what I saw.

"I see a rock in the sky." Jacob, the boy with the girly, mermaid hair told me, slowly grabbing hold of my arm, just as my legs tensed for a run. Damn, the creature was clever.

"Ivy shall miss us! She is alone, she will want your company, girl hair." I told him, feeling like I knew the clever mermaid's secrets. The sea's secrets. Maybe they were the same. I tugged at his arm, feeling the desperate need to bring at least him to the sea with me.

"She's lost it, Jake, let her go," Someone laughed from behind us.

"She might have something wrong, and I can't let her in the water, not at dark, not in this drunken state," He replied quickly, panicking.

"Relax, mermaid hair. The water won't let me down. The moon won't let it. Plus, they love me. They love their children. It has told me secrets. Too secret for you, apparently. We can be free, in the water. Safe. I am strong there." I patted his arm

"She won't shut up about the moon, and the sea, let her go, Jacob."

"I can't!" He yelled, and it was a disturbance in my mind. Annoying.

"There is no anger, either. Unless you are red. You might grow a red tail. Like I might do. Or maybe you have a favourite colour, like Ivy." It all made sense, hearing her secrets. She chose a colour, where I couldn't. She chose that icy blue. "What is your favourite colour, mermaid hair?"

Rudely, he ignored me. "Bella, what's going on? Are you okay? Maybe she's delirous. Guys, nobody saw her hit her head, right? Who is Ivy?"

"We go to the sea, and you will meet her. You won't belong, and she will most certainly drown you, but we need to see her. Show her I belong now. I feel the moon. The moon accepted me. And I belong!"

"How about we sit right here, and you explain to me, all about you belonging, and Ivy, and the moon and the sea? Sound good?" He smiled at me, and light reflected in his eyes, like he was being possessed by the moon, and how could I refuse the moon?

"Oh no, but I don't think I may reveal my secrets. For they are not only my secrets." But I was already wavering. What if this was a trick? What if this creature was here to make sure I really did belong? He had moonlight in his eye. I maybe had to pass a verbal test.

"That's okay. Tell me all about the rest, while we stay right here?" He suggested. I felt my eyes narrow, but accepted. With one condition

"And we'll go to the moon afterward?"

"Absolutely." He nodded. I sank to the sandy towel, still facing the moon. Some other creatures were there, too. They all looked at me with amused expressions and fire in their eyes. Should they be trusted? I reached a hand out and doused the fire with icy powers. The wood remaining had frost on it. The fire was gone from there eyes. I smiled. All was well. Water's enemy was vanquished, for now. I didn't read their strange expressions, it would only stall me, and I wanted to swim!

"When I went to the sea, I hadn't been accepted. I had not endured the moon, so I didn't belong. The moon is like a test. When you are accepted, the moon tells you all the sea's secrets, not just the special one, which it told me yesterday. Ivy told me I didn't belong. She belongs, she has endured the moon rise plenty of times. But now I do belong, and the moon and sea love me, as I'm theirs. Ivy is just like me now. I need to live where Ivy lives. The sea wants me to come home. I'm needed back home!" I yelled, and stood up again. I was followed by the one with moon in his eyes. He stared at me in awe. I remembered showing them the secret, just a little one. I needed to get rid of the fire in their eyes. It had made me nervous. He was clutching one of the pieces of wood, one with ice coated on it. "Oops." I giggled. "You're the one with mermaid hair, aren't you? You'd belong, if you'd let me take you." I told him, trying to distract him. He grabbed my arm again, and this time I was tired of it. If he just came, I wouldn't need to keep secrets. I pulled free of his strong grasp with hopes he would follow me. He did. Some more of them did, too. I needed to distract them now; I only trusted mermaid hair. I turned back to face them, having got a good distance toward the sea, and relight the fire with simply an outstretched palm. Perhaps fire wasn't the enemy. But they were. They all stopped, dumbfounded, and yelped when they saw the fire burst into flames. I laughed, almost hysterically, and yelled for mermaid haired moon eyes again. "If you don't follow me, you'll miss me!" I ran quicker once I was sure he pursued. My foot hit a rock by accident, and my shoe flew off, and I stood in a rockpool. Oh well, the sooner the better. I'd be able to get to the moon and sea quicker. "Ten! Nine! Eight!" I started counting down slowly, trying to reach the sea on time.

I looked over my shoulder to see mermaid hair was very close. Such a fast runner, but not as fast as a real mermaid. "Come on, slowpoke!" I laughed. "Seven... Six! Five! Four!" Not long now.

"Bella!" He yelled. I was nearly at the water. Maybe ten seconds away from it. Not fast enough. I sped up, kicking my feet up a little more. And he caught one. Like I said, I hate feet. And legs. Knobbly knees and thighs, feet and shoes. "What are you counting to?"

"Three, two one." I whispered, but he would hear. And then his grip became useless on my foot, for it wasn't there anymore. I turned around to look at my tail and smiled. Yellow, like I said. A cheerful yellow. The white light shone off the scales like they were gems. I laughed, wiggling it from side to side. "Didn't I tell you Jacob? Yellow is a happy colour."

Sorry for the double author bit... xD
Again, tell me what you think? I kind of enjoyed seeing Bella moonstruck. It's what I imagine she'd be like drunk... lol. Or maybe not. Oooh, so Jacob knows? Or did he know before? :S :P


I know basically my storyline, but I want to see if you guys agree, k? What do you think about the Cullens coming back? Or just, some more vampire association? Or none at all, just werewolves and Ivy? I mean, if vampires were involved, so would Ivy & the wolves. R&R, Tell me what you think! Ty, x
I kinda like Ivy. I like the name. & the character. She's not just a filler, don't worry :P

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