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Chapter One

Seventeen years later

"Mom! Dad!" Bella cried, trying to break out of her best friend's grip to get to her parents.

"Bella! Go! Swim and don't come back until it is safe!" Her father yelled as he tried to keep the attackers from entering their.

"Come on, Bella! We have to go!" Bella's best friend Rosalie called, pulling on her arm.

The place was a mess. The family, which included Bella's best friends Rosalie and Mary Alice, were in a panic as their home was under attack. It didn't happen all the time, but it did happen ever few centuries. The family was trapped in their parents "bedroom," where the secret exit was. The King and Queen needed to stay, and while they wish it wasn't a necessity, they needed their children to leave for safety.

"I'm staying!" Emmett, the King's only son said, swimming quickly to his parents side.

"No!" Mary Alice cried, pulling on Emmett's arm. "You can't! You could die!"

It was no secret to the family that Alice had developed some feelings for Emmett over the decades, but Emmett was probably the only one who had no clue.

"Alice, I have to. These are my parents and I can't leave them."

Instead of feeling hurt about the fact that Emmett subtly brought up the fact that Mary Alice was adopted into the royal family, as was Rosalie, she tugged on Emmett's buff arm, trying to pull him back.

"They're my parents too and I don't want them, or you, to face the same fate as my parents."

If she could cry as she had seen many land people do, she would be covered in tears. The whole family would. The King put his hand on his son's shoulder, causing not only Emmett, but everyone else to look up at him. Nobody in the room had noticed him move from the entryway.

"Emmett, you must go with the girls." Emmett tried to interrupt, but the King held his hand up. "They are going to need protection while they are among the land people. And if your mother and I don't survive this, you are the only one we trust enough to leave the throne to. Do us this favor, son. Don't fight it."

With a sigh, Emmett nodded, just as a loud boom sounded close by.

"Go!" Their mother yelled, pushing the kids towards the secret exit.

Moving the giant shell sculpture and pushing some sand away, the Queen lifted the giant clam shell half out of the way, ushering her children through the underground tunnel they built for emergencies.

"We'll find you soon!" She called, handing Emmett two large suitcases before covering the entrance once more.

The four of them swam through the three-mile long tunnel until they were outside of the city and didn't stop for a good half hour before surfacing the water. It was night time, so the sky was dark.

"Where do we go?" Rosalie asked, looking around.

They were in the middle of the ocean, no land mass in sight.

"There's an Island not too far from here. I saw it last two decades when I 'ran away.' We can go there. I see boats passing over us going towards the island all the time," Bella said, looking towards the west as if she could see the island from where they were floating.

"Well we need to hurry. We don't want the attackers to find us and try to use us to get to our parents. Lead the way Bella."

Bella nodded once before taking off as fast as she could. The foursome swam for about an hour until they saw a mass of land growing closer. Bella pointed before she pushed herself harder than before, the others on her tail.

Less than twenty minutes later, they reached a beach that seemed deserted for the time being. The second they were out of water, their bodies started to dry. They laid on the beach, exhausted. Emmett opened one of the suitcases, pulling out tightly sealed bags of clothes and towel. Breaking the seal, he handed the girls a tank and shorts, grabbing a set for himself. They pulled the shirts on, but had to wait for the rest of them to fully dry before pulling on the shorts.

It took about a half hour for their bodies to completely dry and when they did, their colorful tails transformed into two legs. Quickly, they pulled on their shorts. They didn't know how their mother had come upon these items, but they were thankful. The people on the island most-likely wouldn't appreciate them being fully nude.

"What do we do now?" Alice asked from her spot on the other side of Emmett.

"We wait for day light and then we look for people."