Chapter 14

A Definite Surprise

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Q: How much wood would a mermaid chuck if a mermaid would chuck wood? A: Well, if it were my imaginary mermaids like in this story I'd say, THE WHOLE ENTIRE FLIPPIN' FOREST! But if it's a real normal totally normal, but still awesome, mermaid then I'd say about one tree cut up into fifty pieces.

Q: Is Jake in this story? A: My answer to that is YES! And remember when I said only ONE mermaid will find their mate, well now it's two. Double the love, double the POWA!

Q: Why was Edward in bright orange trunks? A: He was wearing those, deary, because he had nothing else to wear. He had not gone swimming in a while and nor did he have a reason to. Alice thought that we would look HOT in them and that it would match his hair, and it does, but he is ashamed because he thinks that he looks like a small child.

DISCLAIMER TIME!

Alice: Due to the shamefulness of this situation, Cici has asked me to confess for her. Cici doesn't own a thing! She doesn't own me, or Jasper, or EDWARD, OR BELLA, OR CARLISLE OR- mmmmmmmm! MMM!

*Emmett holds hand on Alice's mouth and pulls Alice off stage*

Lily's POV (remember her?)

Havoc wreaked through the castle as everyone searched for the princess. I tried to act concerned over the disappearance of the princess, though I knew she was completely fine. Only a few minutes ago had I been in the Royal Meeting room discussing where she could've have possibly run off to. Of course, I didn't say a word.

Edward's POV

Bella kissed me ravenously and I responded whole heartedly. She had let the small jellyfish, Tick, swim around the water until she calls for him. We must have stayed there for thirty minutes until we decided we should swim together. Bella was impossibly even more beautiful with her tail. She seemed so care-free and happy and though I looked the same, I was stressing if this is what she would rather want than spending more time with me.

We swam and kissed and played hide-and-go-seek at the bottom of the river. While it was my turn to hide, Bella began to sing and it entranced my mind. Her voice was so heavenly, I couldn't resist and swam out to see her with her back turned to me. I swam behind her and hugged her around her waist.

"Your voice is beautiful, Bella. Just like you," is what I wanted to say, but we were under water so I settled for kissing her cheek. She giggled and it echoed through the water.

"Hello. I'm looking for Tick. We have been down here much too long," she told me looking around the rocks. I looked up to the water's surface and sure enough the sky was orange. I also spotted Tick watching me and swam up to get him. He stung me while I was holding him, though I can tell he doesn't do it on purpose, while I sunk back down slowly. I released him with care, I just wanted to yank back my hands but I didn't want to risk hurting him.

Bella slipped Tick back on to her finger and giggled and rubbed his head. She was adorable. We swam hand in hand back to the surface. Bella went frozen in fear as she looked at the many faces of other mermaids.

Didyme's POV

I cannot believe the princess has been acquainted with vampires. This is both good and bad. Good because I may have the chance to see Marcus again. Bad thing because I may see Aro again. The story I told back at the kingdom to the mermaids was only half true. When I wed Marcus, I was a vampire, not human. Aro wasn't married at the time and thought I would've married him instead. So he kicked me out of the Volturi castle and abandoned me by the river, and thus I was turned into a mermaid by the fish named Casama, meaning companion in Tagalog. Marcus thinks I'm dead.

Only one vampire here was familiar and he was here himself, Carlisle Cullen. He must have created and expanded a coven.

"Hello. Can we help you?" Carlisle asked. I must look different as a mermaid, for surely Carlisle would have addressed me by my full name.

"Hello, Carlisle. Do you not recognize me?" I asked. I jumped out of the water and stretched my legs. I haven't used these in over a thousand years. Princess Isabella surfaced, holding hands with yet another vampire. The Elders were out numbered, though we didn't plan to fight.

"I'm sorry Miss, but I don't think I have ever met you before. Of course, I would remember a mermaid," Carlisle said, looking down at his feet so he wouldn't see my naked body or of the other mermaids' coming out of the water. Princess Isabella came out of the water and changed behind a boulder. She came back out quickly in the same black bikini top and jean shorts.

"What do you want, Didyme?" The princess sneered. I was shocked. Did she not know the consequences of her actions?

"Oh it's not what I want. If it were up to me, I would've let you leave years ago and told the people of the sea that you left them. The mermaids will think you've abandoned them, and the Elders will take their rightful place as the rulers. No, this will be what you want. You want to come back, you want all the mermaids to forget about these past few weeks, and you want to stay princess!"

"No! Get yourself a new princess!" Isabella screamed at me.

"How ridiculous!" I spat, "Where would we find-" I looked at the mermaid with dark hair and a turquoise tail. She was frightened and hiding, but had the perfect look of a princess.

"You! You're coming with us!" I pointed at her but she didn't move away from the rocks. "Isabella, you want to be normal so bad? This will be your punishment! Your friend here will take your place," I hissed at the useless girl we used to call princess.

"Grab her! Get both of them!" I pointed at the tan girl and Isabella. Both of my guards and Lily's only guard went for the cowering girl behind the rocks, and Alaida's only guard and a castle guard went for Isabella.

"No! Let go!" Isabella screamed and lifted her hands in the air, curling her clawed fingers. The guards froze and walked back to us. They let the girl go slowly.

Against my will, I started moving towards Isabella until I was face to face with her.

"You will leave and find a willing mermaid to be your princess. If I find out that this girl is your unhappy puppet..." she trailed off and turned her hand into a fist, squeezing me until I felt my skin would crack and burst. My guards hissed and so did the other mermaids and vampires, "Now leave me alone! Don't come back!" She shouted. I tried to say something in response but her fist was still clenched and I couldn't move a muscle. I choked an answer, hopefully I looked scared and she would leave me alone. Truthfully, I wasn't at all afraid of this worthless brat, she was too sympathetic and weak to kill anyone.

She released me but still had a grip on my thoughts.

"Leave, don't come back," she spat again, furiously. I mutely nodded and ordered everyone to go back to Europe. But we weren't going back to Spain, no. We will go to Italy. Volterra, Italy, and Aro and I need to have a little talk about his dear friend, Carlisle and his interference with the mermaid world... (NO ONE knows about mermaids! NOBODY! NOT VAMPIRES, WEREWOLVES, HUMANS, FAERIES, PIXIES, GNOMES, NOTHING!)

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~Cici