Chapter 14: Wedding Day

INSECTOSAURUS

I was positioned in heavy cloud cover. Finding the cruise ship, I gave the signal. Nudge and Angel flew off from the top of my head, carrying Renesmee between them, all three of them holding bouquets. Gazzy flew after them, bearing the rings.

Susan slid from the top of my head to my face, looking like an absolute goddess in her flowing wedding dress. "Are we ready for this, buddy?" I nodded my confirmation. She gave me a tiny kiss on the nose and returned to my back. "Hurry before I start freaking out," she said over the gale of the wind.

I swooped down toward the ocean. The cruise ship was in an absolutely perfect void of blue, no land in sight. I landed in the water alongside the boat, which just came up to my shoulders. Susan stepped off my head and walked down the aisle. I waded to the altar end of the ship to join Susan's bridesmaids, Bella, Max, and Katie, the young California girl who originally discovered the robot.

The vows were exchanged. They had just gotten to the I-dos when I noticed something off in the distance. About three miles away, a large bronze robot was flying straight for us.

Edward looked at me from the line of groomsmen, between Link and General Monger. I quickly sent him a mental message not to follow my gaze—no need to draw any more attention to it in the middle of the ceremony. Edward nodded his agreement.

I kept half of my attention on the flying machine and the other half on the ceremony. About two miles off, it ducked down into the water. Of course. It was going for maximum speed until it got close enough to be seen, then it was going for stealth. Whatever it was hadn't counted on myself or vampires, who could see further.

"You may kiss the bride," the minister said. Susan bent down to pick up Dr. Cockroach, but he held up a hand to stop her. He climbed up her body and led the kiss.

"Will you love me forever?" Susan whispered.

"I can't be sure, darling," he said. "Ask me again in a million years."

They kissed again, this time Susan irrefutably leading.

I looked to the place that the mechanical thing had submerged. It would be here any minute. I wondered if the honeymoon would ever come.

...to be continued in LOVE AND WAR