Hey Readers,
I'm so sorry for the extremely late update but I only have basic excuses, like major writers' block.
So please enjoy this as a sorry...
BPOV
The next day was the break day. No event was participating so we had the day to ourselves. The Cullen's and I decided to ponder around and explore the new terrain here.
The sun was bright, high in the sky; having never sat beyond the horizon overnight. It was a beautiful colour, a colour yet to be named.
"You like that colour?" Edward asked, softly in his velvet voice.
"Yes…wait…how did you know?" I asked confused.
"You were looking at it for a while. Not many people look at the sun for that long. It eventually hurts their eyes, you know." He smiled, holding back a smirk.
"Funny; real funny. Remember I am not longer human. I can do anything…" I stated, factually.
"Really?" He asked, like he was scheming something; something that was unlike him.
I wasn't going to give him a chance. "Okay, there are some limits but I'm only comparing it to before when there was like…not much you could do. I feel…free as a vampire." I admitted, smiling, just realising it was true; I did feel a lot more freedom now then ever before.
We continued walking south of the campsite along the deserted (go figure) ice-land called Antarctica as a big family.
"Let's call it 'Edla'?" Edward said out of the blue.
"What?"
"Edla? You know the colour of the sun. Let's call it Edla." He smiled, after naming the colour after us. I smiled.
"Really?" He nodded, which I didn't believe was serious.
"You're kidding, aren't you?" He shook his head, this time I could tell he was serious. Wow, he named a colour after me…I was quite surprised. I looked back at Edward. He smiled happily down at me; our lips locking tenderly.
"What's the occasion?" I glared at Emmett, confused.
"Oh, well, you just never do that!" He said, stupidly.
"Can't you ever butt out of our life?" I said, annoyed. He smirked, shaking his head. I rolled my eyes.
"Actually, the occasion is that I named the colour of the sun."
"Not helping, Edward."
"Really? What's it called?" Esme asked, eagerly.
"Edla." She nodded in approval.
"That's nice. A combination of your names"
"Edla." Everyone said together, looking up at the Edla coloured sun. The next minute became silent.
The horizon was clear in front of us. The white ice clearly separated form the deep blue of the cloudless sky. Nothing could be seen beyond the horizon; it just looked like we were walking into the middle of nowhere, except the fact that we did know where we were going.
Slowly, at human pace, maybe a little faster, we continued to walk, talk and overall explore.
For all of us, this was new terrain. Surprisingly, the Cullen's had never been to Antarctica in all their years.
That was when I realised another thing. This seemed to be my day of realisations.
Wow I thought. I slowed and explored and observed the surroundings a little more with a lot more fascination. Edward stared back at me.
"What's wrong?" He asked, worryingly.
"Nothing; It's just…I never ever thought I would be here, be in Antarctica, even anywhere near here. It's just so…weird." I couldn't think of the right word to describe this experience.
He chuckled, making me chuckle at my realisation too.
"And you only just realised that?" He smiled waiting for my answer.
I shrugged, confused. "I guess." I replied.
"Wow, today, you are as slow as Emmett." We both laughed at this and began running.
"HEY! COME BACK HERE! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" We heard Emmett yell from behind us. This made me and Edward laugh harder.
We ran for, what it felt like, hours when we reached the edge of the ocean.
We slowed right down to human walking pace, as Antarctic animals were surrounding us. Penguins and large, smelly seals huddled in groups, dipping into the slightly cold water or lying on the ice in the sun. It was an amazing sight; something I, again, thought I would never see in my lifetime. I looked at Edward, who, also, liked the new surroundings, something he probably doesn't do very often after 100 years of being able to see the world.
Suddenly, I heard a loud crashed next to me, which lead straight into me falling. I realised I was under water. The water was slightly cold, amazingly. I never thought I would survive a second in Antarctica waters. I laughed. I looked around trying to find Edward above the water, but he was nowhere to be found.
I felt a numb scratching down my leg. I looked down into the water, thinking it was an animal. Then I turned worried. If it was an animal, I couldn't hurt it and I could hurt it with just little movement. I stood as still as possible. When I hadn't felt it in a couple of seconds, I looked under the water, to see what it was.
I giggled. It was only Edward and Emmett fighting, again. They were holding their breath about 3 metres below the surface. So, they must have broken the ice I had wondered why the ice had broken before. I laughed. I jumped out of the little hole they created and back onto the ice, amongst the seals and penguins.
I could see the rest of the family in the distant, slowly running towards us. I waved and I could see a bouncing, excited figure, which was no doubt, Alice waving back to me. She was laughing; I assumed she had already seen what was happening.
While I waited for them to get here, I slowly creped over to the seals and penguins to pat them. I've always wanted to do that, if I ever got the chance. They jumped when I touched them and ran away, probably sensing the danger that was me. It didn't matter. I had already felt their strange textured skins, so my small dream had been successful.
Abruptly, Edward's head came out of the water, took in a deep breath and was pulled under again. I laughed. It looked quite strange.
I turned around to notice the rest of the family had gotten here. All of them were now laughing, noticing what was going on. Rosalie was also rolling her eyes. She'd probably gotten used to Emmett being in fights that she was just annoyed by them now.
Alice was laughing a little, but she had gotten over it by now.
"So, nice dip you had in there?" She asked, beaming her large smile. I looked at here annoyed. So she had seen me fall in too.
"Why didn't you tell me?" I asked her angrily.
She shrugged. "When I saw it, you were too far in front for me to catch up. I'm sorry." She walked over to me and gave me a hug.
"Don't worry about it really. It's some good entertainment though." She laughed at my comment. We both looked around and watch the fight progress along with the rest of the family.
Eventually, Edward got out of the hole and walked over to the rest of the family, when Alice starting walking backwards away from him. I followed her, assuming she knew something that I didn't. Edward made an annoyed face at Alice. I think he saw her vision and was annoyed by it. He turned around, just as Emmett jumped high out of the hole and bounced on Edward, which cracked and broke the ice again. Together, they fell in again, in perfect style. Everyone laughed again.
I walked about 3 metres away from the new hole and sat down on the ice. Rosalie, Esme and Alice joined me. Jasper and Carlisle separated from us and walked over to the new hole, trying to figure out a way to help with whatever the fight was about. It was obvious that it wasn't doing anything.
Alice, Esme, Rosalie and I all began ignoring the fight and chatted about anything and everything.
After, what seemed like a couple of hours, Edward and Emmett finally stopped and made a truce not to fight again in Antarctica, thanks to a strong wording from Carlisle. Thanks to that, I learnt a lot of things that I didn't know before about the Cullen's. It was a very interesting talk.
We looked at the time and all decided that we should start heading back. We didn't want to be late for the up-coming events last minute training session.
We all walked back to the arena area together, chatting and talking to each other.
Next time, I promise you that I will update 2 chapters next time...so if it does take a bit of time, look forward to 2 chapters...
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