And I'm back from the grave. I hope you didn't lose interest for the late update. So here it is and read to your heart's content this short chappy.
1 Before you read the chapter, please open 2 new tabs and search "Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology OST - Under the Yggdrasil", it's on Youtube
2 In the second tab, search "SoundSnap" and type on the search bar 'wind chimes sounds'
3 Scroll down until you find the title 'Wind chimes tinkling hard' from the library 'Big Room Sound'
4 Play 'Under the Yggdrasil' and you can start reading
5 When you read the part where "time decided to stop", please pause "Under the Yggdrasil" and play 'wind chimes' (*the idea came from Midoriko-sama's Becoming Lithbprasir(just search her name) of HTTYD2, I suggest you read it 'cause it's informative about Viking culture and another HiccupLeftandReturnAsAwesome AU. You might want to prepare a tissuebox for some chapters and oxygen. It has drama too.)
Many thanks to my beta Bookworm1756 for editing! And in celebration to Death Can't Sever Their Bond reaching its 1st year on FFN!
Chapter 7: Brown Girl
The brown blob continued to grow as it drew closer.
An octopus.
At first she thought it was an octopus with a handful of seaweed that was tangled on its body trailing behind. But the nearer it approached, the more she could make out the blurry outline of limbs. Limbs not flexible as those of the invertebrate, sculling away from its body before rounding in towards the blob's body in a breaststroke manner.
But no.The blob was actually a human with hair she mistook as seaweeds, not the boneless over-sized underwater chameleon with tentacles.
And curiously—like the human was trying to remember where it saw her, the fairy—looking at her is an innocent tiny face that the fairy might have seen somewhere but she's not sure where. And when…
Brown girl.
That's what the fairy will address the swimming girl from now on because everything she was—the hair, the eyes, the clothes—was brown, and it was the first thing she thought as the girl switched to a flutter kick with her arms on either side of her body as the distance between them was reduced to less than four strides.
The brown girl perked up in recognition and she beamed lopsidedly—the left side of her lips curled higher than the right—like the girl considered her a long-time friend whom she hadn't seen for ages.
The smile triggered a shuddering sensation in the fairy's soul. It felt warm and welcoming; she wanted to cry, though tears can't be seen underwater. The smile was calling some unknown part of her that was hollow, and she felt complete.
Complete
Light from above the surface shined on her face. The brightness made her scrunch her eyes shut.
Then the light disappeared, and when she opened her eyes, the brown girl was gone. She gaped and looked around in the water, wondering where the girl went.
"Up here."
A voice echoed from above.
A shadow fell upon her and she looked up.
The brown girl was floating on her belly above, her hair spread out like halo in the water while the sun outlined her form.
The brown girl looked down at her; gone were the childish spark those eyes held replaced by wisdom beyond her age. Her eyes looked too old to justify a girl like her. Brown eyes that looked tired but peaceful, smiling she said, "Time to wake up."
And the world ended.
The girl's voice was reverberating everywhere until it was reduced from a ghostly whisper to no more. Silence reigned and time decided to stop everything from moving except the fairy. The girl's smile was frozen on her face, and the fairy couldn't feel the water's current dancing around her. She felt nothing but thin air.
Silence.
Then the sound of windchimes from below.
She looked down.
Cracks—instead of spidery lines running from the center, they were diamonds similar to her mother's symbol—appeared on the sandy floor where the shadow of the girl's (and hers being overlapped) was. They make the sand looked glassy, like mosaic.
More appeared, and for each dozen of diamonds the sound of tinkling windchimes became louder and louder to hear. The diamonds kept spreading out when the one on the center gave away and fell.
It was immediate; a domino effect. One diamond fell and the others rained down, revealing a dark void.
The diamonds multiplied. Hundreds of windchimes chimed and everything around her, even the water, crumbled into the said shape to join its siblings in the never-ending pit.
Only the two of them were left. But no...
Diamond lines trekked towards the unmoving brown girl, who was unaware of what impending doom her fate will lead to. Her hands and feet were the first to be lined in, then the next thing the fairy knew, the girl's hair and body became a part of the artwork.
The girl's mosaic limbs fell and the rest followed until a pair of eyes were left staring at her, until they too fell.
And the girl was nothing more but pieces of darkness.
The fairy felt gravity pulling her down as soon as the girl was gone. Like her feet were tied by an invisible line connected to the last shard that fell.
She was dragged down; she flapped her wings but they wouldn't move in her will. Air rushed through her feathers, when she heard the brown girl's voice screaming.
The scream was loud, and with it the fairy knew the brown girl was still nearby.
But no.
She realized that the scream came from her. It's impossible for a fairy to scream like a mortal, but she instinctively knew the scream was hers.
And it was a human scream.
And she appears! :B Imagine the diamond cracks from Jack's memories.
Sorry if the chappy is short. Maybe if I have time to revise chapters 1-3 (the grammar is bad and senseless) I would do it but I don't want to, I might lose my mus
e if I did (it happened when I revised Sealed Memories and after revising two chapters my muse filed a divorce paper so I'll leave people to tolerate reading my ugly grammar of those 3 chapters).
From January to March was the stressful time of my life, my class is the first that my school experimented on to do a thesis if we can do it and why the heck highschool students have to make one if it's for college only! I wish it is only applicable for courses involving science! I got more white bleaching my black hair. So many hours of sleep I LOST and I have to sacrifice my time to write. Then there were quizzes and tests the following week and I failed English and Physics. And I have to use the remaining week before graduation to draw group drawings of my classmates as remembrance(it's a tradition), especially with my girl friends and the Rottens. Sorry for the rant.
A lot happened and I'm now in college, which started 2 weeks earlier than to my highschool classmates', with my sister and her roommate. CSB-SDA is awesome and everyone accepts who you are. Weird people in CSB are the real normal ones. Normalcy is overrated and I am one of those weird people. Guess what, financial crisis is over! Well there's still a few to take care of but I'll be fine. Thanks to your concerns.
I can't wait to finish this Movie Arc.
Reply time!(In order of review)
Guest#1: I'm not sure if I want to put MN in the following chapters. It was hard to write her, at first I thought I can but it turns out she would look OoC whenever I think of her. I won't promise that I will make her appear in the future, but I might mention her once in a while.
Sht: Really a tsundere? Mine I saw MN as a mix of yandere and tsundere. She might be bipolar. Her personality is really 'unpredictable'.
Ladybug: Ohh isang Pinay! Thanks kung nagandahan ka sa uniform nya. And yes, that's her Overland family she unconsciously built.
Lampin: I hope the fire is still on and thank you for your review. Yes I know the great froggy. Hint, I'm the one who 'suggested' her to draw Pitch in Elsa's dress. I guess Frozen crossovers is the reason the ROTG fire is still on, mainly because of those shippers..…
Feelsofspringtim: She is. A sad girl inside the body of a biologically 16 year old who went through a temper-filled puberty for the reason of finding her daddy.
Radiantbum59: Yes and I hope Chris Pine's character will be a marauder!~
Guest#2: You're not the only one who gets bored on reading those kinds of fics. :3
Guest#3: Yeah my grammar in those chapters was like that because I was following the movie part and I kind of forget my writing style. Thank you btw. Equestria Girls because the obvious reason of ponies.
Guest#4: Yep by human standards, because she's not entirely a Tooth Fairy. Well 'cause every mini fairy carries a part of Tooth's soul in my opinion, like a Horcrux with a mind and personality that they developed, but BT on the other hand carries half of it or something. Making her half photographic in memory. But she remembers details if she concentrates or listens real hard to remember what she is reading/seeing. But when it comes to snippets of conversation for example, she doesn't pay any attention to it and forgets it after that. Like a kid listening to school lectures.
Cerealfreak: And I wonder why I'm getting anon reviews, is this some sort of prank you are making? I'll miss you in college buddy. Why u go to Baguio?! 8^8
Paradisepine04: I kept on changing my fic photo because the previous ones couldn't catch the essence of the story and I want something that really shows the bond of the two where the readers will see it because they prefer (as I observed) fics of it with Jack and his sister photo over the ones with BT only featured. But the latest photo was sort of edited by me adding BT. Oh thank you for reviewing every chapter that I will update, that was really nice of you.
Wafflerose: Never see the part of MK as Pippa's cousin coming? Wow thanks for the tip, I checked the credits, thank god I have a copy in full HD, and I really saw it. Even Dr. Bomba's first name! His name is Bomba Radcliffe the Third. So maybe MK's name before her parents divorced was Mary Katherine Radcliffe and her mom's might formerly been Susan Radcliffe. Meet the Radcliffe's.
Guest#5: Stalker? I never thought of that!
Guest#6: LSS with the same song that I hate? Sorry if I updated late. Ya know, the schoolwork part.
Fluffybunny: Why thank you Usa-chan! ^^
Thank you so much for your wonderful reviews, anon or not, even if I can't PM you all by remaining yourselves anonymous, I like your messages.
I still need voters in my poll so visit my profile and choose what name will be use for Jack's sister IF DreamWorks will make a sequel!
Review more and I will give you snow noogies! :3
