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Previously
"Edward is holding her" said Emmett scratching his head
It took a while for it to register for others and that shocked them
"Wait…what?" screeched Rosalie
10 minutes later
"Son...you mean, you imprinted on a swan? An animal?" asked Esme; treading carefully as she looked at Edward, the reigning heir of the Kingdom
Edward was hovering protectively over the swan, while the the Palace doctor was placing a bandage on her injured wing. Rosalie hadn't believed it and found it incredulous that Edward kept a bird in his bed. But the dangerous snarls that Edward gave at her comment, shut her up. Emmett had to hold onto his brother so he wouldn't attack his mate. Since then Rosalie held her tongue and stopped her snide comments.
"Yes, without a shadow of doubt" said Edward looking at Esme, his gaze gentling because he knew she was only clarifying
"But how?" asked Rosalie, this time her tone was sincere and no haughtiness as she had already seen the effect her callous tone had on her brother-in-law.
Edward didn't calmly looked at her and it was this time, that all of them noted the look of perplexity in his face. It was clear that he was mystified at this turn of events and they all knew that he, himself didn't understand.
"Carlisle?" said Esme, looking at her husband in question.
Carlisle Cullen was the oldest of them all and the most knowledgeable. Although he was a King and quiet busy, Carlisle read quiet a number of books and knew quiet a lot. His knowledge could even rival King Aro, the King of Volterra.
"I don't know, I've never heard of something like this before, imprinting on human is possible, but on animals, I'm frankly very baffled" said Carlisle
Rosalie then looked at Alice but was surprised when Alice didn't looked surprised at all.
"This is quiet shocking, how come you don't looked confused?" said Rosalie suspiciously
Alice rolled her eyes and answered "I had a vision of this just before Edward came barreling in"
When everyone looked at Edward again, he pinched his nose
"We can talk about this later, after I make sure my imprint is fine" he said with a finality tone and the rest obeyed
Finally the doctor stopped and looked up at the heir.
"Her wing is fine, it will be in few days it must have gotten injured during the storm" said the Doctor after which he bowed and he left.
"This is so abnormal" said Rosalie shaking her head
"Actually, now that I think about it, it is quiet plausible" said Carlisle, looking up at Edward
Edward quirked his perfect eyebrow, and looked at Carlisle
"We imprint on our soul mates. No matter what form or what body our soul mate is, we still imprint on them. So it isn't that strange. Just unfortunately, your soul mate was in a swan's body" said Carlisle thinking about it
"Wow, just our Eddie-kins luck" said Emmett
At which Edward glared at Emmett, at the nick name
"Wow, I guess that means I must start wandering in the forest and look at any creature. Who knows, my imprint could be an animal too" said Alice, half joking, but half serious.
Carlisle then noticed something strange on the swan and on his son's imprint. He walked closer and hovered over, which was pulling at Edward's instincts but he stayed back.
Just then his imprint opened her eyes and Edward looked at her eye colour entranced. They were hazel, brown eyes and that surprised him. He had never seen that shade of colour in any other creature, it was almost unnatural. He could see her emotions through her eyes, which were confusion.
As soon as her eyes fell on Carlisle, she seemed frighteningly alarmed and shrunk away from him, with a whine.
"Carlisle, what are you doing?" asked Esme, when she saw how Edward was glaring at her husband, because of the reaction his imprint did.
"It's just...I saw a little, crystal, maybe even a blue diamond, embedded on the swan's neck, I wanted to check it out but..." as soon as he said that and the closer he stepped, she shrunk away and that was the last straw, because Edward started growling and Carlisle stepped away.
Edward's growl alerted her and the swan turned to put it's attention on Edward. But to everyone's surprise, the swan stopped whimpering and stared, seemingly mesmerized. She went quiet, as she observed him. Not uttering a noise.
Edward sat on his bed and when he scoped up the swan, she didn't even protest as she was when Carlisle approached her.
"Fascinating, he has a calming effect on her. Even though she is an animal, she seems to recognize her bond with him" commented Carlisle, eyes practically sparkling with curiosity.
Edward smiled, while the rest of the family were trying to swallow their new family member.
"What are we going to call her?" asked Alice excited
Everyone looked at her incredulously
"What? She is Edward's imprint, we can't call her an 'it' or a Swan, she deserves our respect" said Alice, as a matter of fact
And Edward agreed, he indeed needed to give his mate a name. A name that justified her and was worthy of her. Because, no matter what others would see, to him she was breathtakingly beautiful and nothing else. It was just then the name came, jolting in him.
"Bella, her name can be Bella, that will suit her" said Edward
At this, strangely, Bella, whipped her head and seemed to look at Edward, her eyes seemed to swim with shock, which confused him. It was just then Edward noticed what Carlisle had first noticed. On Bella's neck, there was a tiny, blue diamond embedded, it was in pentagon shape. He tried to touch it, and that seemed to make Bella anxious, because Bella tried to pull away. He touched the diamond anyway. The diamond felt cold and he found it strange that someone had embedded a diamond on his imprint. Bella seemed shocked for some reason, which he found strange, but he then looked at Carlisle
"That is a diamond Carlisle. Who would be cruel enough to implant on her" said Edward enraged that someone was so cruel to her
"Perhaps, maybe some Doctor had experimented on her. They do use animals for experiments" said Rosalie scoffing and that caused another growl to erupt from Edward at the thought that someone used her.
"Let me see that" said Carlisle and touched the diamond on Bella's neck
Suddenly something occurred that shocked the daylights out of the Royal Family. As soon as Carlisle touched the diamond, he was flung away from her, electrified.
Everyone gasped and ran towards Carlisle, aside from Edward who was still holding onto Bella.
"Are you okay?" asked Esme looking at him worried
"Uh...fine, it is a good thing I am a vampire, other wise with that much electrocution I would be dead, honey" said Carlisle looking at her, while smiling reassuringly
"Are you sure?" asked Alice and Emmett in chorus, when Carlisle nodded, they relaxed.
"I can see why she was so anxious from letting you touch her crystal, Edward" said Rosalie "But why did that diamond electrocute Carlisle and not Edward. Actually, why the hell did that diamond electrocute in the first PLACE!"
"Maybe, it didn't effect Edward because he is her other half?" said Esme
"Maybe, there is certainly something wrong with that diamond. I will look and see if I find anything in the books." said Carlisle and prepared to leave.
After Carlisle left, Esme followed, as well as Rosalie, Alice and Emmett.
Leaving only Edward, with Bella in the room.
Edward then looked at Bella and smiled, while petting her head affectionately, at which Bella seemed to huddle closer towards him even more, at which he smiled. He had never felt so much in bliss and he loved it that Bella seemed to bond with him as well, which he had thought would be hard.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Enchanted Forest
A man, in the shadow of the trees frowned. He had worked so hard to bring the vampires towards the swan, so they can kill it. He had even injured her, after quiet a lot of effort, so that the blood will attract the vampires, entice them and they might eat her, officially finishing that nuisance but it didn't work. The vampire didn't eat her, but left with her, for reasons he didn't understand.
"I guess, I will have to think of something else..." whispered the shadow, annoyed
