Chapter 2

Starting Out Normal

To MINIONS, I know I said I would post once a week, but instead I think I will post everytime I get the next chapter finished. I LOVES ALL OF Y'ALL MINIONS!

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Disclaimer: I think, therefore I am. And yet, when I think I am Stephanie Meyer, I NEVER AM! (C)

I nudged Misi with my elbow, and pointed at the mermaid. Misi got excited and decided to hum to tell the mermaid we won't be any harm. She looked over to us and looked frightened a bit. Then, she looked at our eyes and saw we drank from fish and relaxed. She had a shining white tail and unusual hair. It was brown in the beginning but as it reached down to her neck, it blended into blonde curls.

Smiling, she waved over to us and sang our song along with us. We followed her into a tunnel, and a very long one at that, until we finally got to our destination. She stopped at a dead end and looked over to us to see our confused expressions. She laughed a maniacal laugh, and Misi coward into my side. The white-tailed mermaid waved her hand over the rock, which controlled the water to move it.

I saw a bright light and covered my eyes. When it dulled, I followed after the girl with the white tail, down the hole and followed her up yet another tunnel that led up and out into a river that came through to the middle of the room that held a gigantic lake and continued off to another rock, probably the exit door to this strange place.

"Alaina! What have you done?!" I heard a loud and commanding voice bring me back from my observations. I turned my head wondering what happened.

A woman, probably changed when she was 25, nakedly stood on her legs at the edge of the river, yelling at the white-tailed girl named Alaina. Mermaids do not have clothes on...

"They don't mean any harm-" Alaina tryed in a small, pitiful voice. This voice sounded nothing like the maniacal laugh we heard before we entered this strange cave.

"You just brought in TWO travelers! Do you know how dangerous that is? They can kill one of our sis-" I interupted the woman, thinking if anyone would recognize who I am.

"Alaina did nothing wrong!" I said confidently, "We are just looking for directions to America, and she had as little clue of where it was than we did." When I was finished, I looked at everyone in this big cave. There was at least more than 100 mermaids here, maybe even 130. This was a problem, to many mermaids can easily expose us to humans. Though, I don't think any of these mermaids have ever been to the surface. All of their eyes were blue. Wonderful! Not sarcastic!

The woman must have noticed that I have blue eyes as well for she said, "Oh! You drink from fish, too? We can certainly help you! Not that we wouldn't help you if you weren't fish drinkers as well..." She chuckled nervously and called for a girl, Makayla, apparantly she was going to America, too. She was great at navigating. She brought four other girls with us who I was introduced to as Katie, she was very thin and small, whenever she moved it was like she was dancing! She had bright white blonde hair with brown highlights, she had a bright blue tail that matched her eyes. She was very pretty.

Morgan, she had tanned skin and cute freckles and brown curly hair. She was very short and talkative. Her tail was a dark purple that went perfectly with her complexion.

Lindsey, who was very tall and tan, she had dark black hair that glowed with a maroonish shine in the light. Her dark turquoise tail was very long and muscular. She was a bit intimidating, but was very wise and playful and pretty immature. She was easily the most beautiful creature I've ever seen.

Last but not least, Mackenzie. Light brown hair and a babyish face though she must've been around 27 years old! She had an orange tail. Mackenzie was not one for talking, more of an observer. She reminded so much of my daughter before it happened.

Flashback

I was running in the forest, clutching my baby to my chest. My fiancee, Brandon, was waiting for us by the abandoned treehouse we were hiding in for protection against them. I was about to hand over our baby when I heard it, a loud boom. I saw Brandon collapse, blood dripping from his thigh immediately and his black hair drawing blood from another shot. I wanted so much just to run kneel down to him and make him better somehow. Though I had to get away, 10 men were coming out throught the trees in black uniforms grasping guns and aiming, at me. I turned around and ran with my baby clutched to my chest, I stroked her thin hair as calmly as possible.

End Flashback

"Isabella! Isabella! GET UP!" Someone was shouting in my face. I shot up from the ocean floor. The sand that was clinging to my hair exploded around me in a murky puff. I was laying down?

"Isabella! Your okay! Thank Poseidon! Princess, was your memory that bad?" Misi knew about my flashbacks and just how bad their affect can be on me. Misi was shouting and hugging me tightly.

"What happene-" I was cut off by Katie.

"Wait! What does Misi mean by princess?"

"It means that I'm, I'm-" I got nervous, should I tell them? Would they treat me different? Well, I guess I was going to live with them for the next couple of weeks, months, years maybe. Might as well.

"It means that I'm Princess Mary Isabella Swan!" I said confidently. Seahorses, where was all this confidence coming from?

Everyone looked at everyone but Misi and me until Mackenzie asked,"Than who is Misi? A servant?"

"Yes, actually, I am, or was, a servant for Princess Isabella," Misi answered happily.

"Can we please be going now? I will answer your questions during the trip." I said, wishing I could take back my words. I sounded a bit vain. But they didn't seem to mind because they all nodded their heads in agreement. Makayla took off first, then Morgan, saying she was the best fighter. Then Misi, me, Katie, Mackenzie, and Lindsey in a line, swimming side by side. They asked many questions.

"Hey, Isabella, how come you snuck away from the castle?" asked MaKayla, feigning interest.

"Oh, you guys don't know how lucky you are to just be free, go fishing whenever your hungry! I have to wait three times a day to be given a small portion of fish blood every day! And you get to travel and explore, I don't get to do that! The most I've explored the castle was when I found out that there is such thing as an underwater kitchen!" I exclaimed, they all laughed except Lindsey who just smirked.

Lindsey spoke up,"Do you have a power? Are you special?" After Lindsey said this she looked back down at her nails as if she never said anything.

"I honestly don't know. I can't practice if I do have one. The only powers I know I have are the ones a mermaid should already have," I said sadly. But, not wanting everyone else to get down, I perked up, "Now I have a few questions for you! Which state are we living in? Can we go to school? Not a school of fish, but a human school? Where are we going to live? Are we going to live in a house? An underwater cave? An apartment? A-" Misi put her hand over my mouth. I'm a princess I should have manners.

"Sorry," I mumbled.

"It's fine," Morgan called, in an all to happy tone of voice, "We are going to live in a small town called Forks, Washington, there's not many oceans close to that because it's in the middle of the state, but there is a lot of rivers that lead to the ocean. Yes, we are going to school! That is if you want to, I'm not because I remember school from when I was human. HATED IT! And we have a house that could fit all of us right in the middle of the forest! Our backyard has a river! AANND we all have cars! Except for Misi and Katie, sorry darlins." They nodded their heads in understanding.

"Now, how many want to go to school? Raise your hand!" Morgan continued. Misi, Katie and I raised our hands. Lindsey looked at Katie with shock and betrayel, but soon flashed her eyes at me and glared. She then went back to staring at her nails, with an uncertain look on her face, as if pondering why Katie would want to go to school.

Misi leaned in to whisper in my ear, "I'm going to make a cover story I'll tell you what it is, later." She swam off ahead of us to speak to Morgan and MaKayla since apparantly they wanted to become the leaders of this colony. Colony...

"Did we just make a colony?!" I exclaimed, excited. I was actually part of a colony! I'm so happy! I have a family of my own now!

"I think so!" Katie screeched. She hugged me tightly. (Dear minions, you HAVE to read at least the first paragraph of the Author's Note or you will not get the rest of the story even though this will not be a part of the plot until a lot of chapters later, THANK YOU!)

"Land Ho!" Lindsey proclaimed. We raced to the underwater cave we spotted and stayed there until we saw dawn break. I couldn't wait to get out of here!

First things first, I apologize to those who hate interupting Author Notes, but I HAD to! Some people would not read the Author's Note and sometimes I type really important stuff like this one in it. Okay, I don't think anyone got the first part of the chapter about Didyme the secret mermaid in the the tower by Bella's cave. Didyme was Marcus', from the Volturi, wife until Aro killed her, see where that takes it's place in this story? Also, I got a complaint about the mermaids calling Bella, Princess Mary Isabella but that will soon change, Emmett hates it trust me! I don't want to spoil the surprise. Unless you want me to of course, it depends.

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Happy Easter!

~Cici

P.S. Who is your least favorite mermaid traveling with Bella?