Spread Your Blue Wings

A/N: TADA! The chapter is here:D Sorry it took a while, but not as long that you're dying from waiting! lol I think, lol OwO;; Thank you for the reviews for Chapter Two, they were just AWESOME! Thank you so much! OwO Please review and tell me what you think of this one! The more reviews, the faster the chapter! ;P lol

Summary: Emily had turned a hundred years old in the Land of the Dead when a young girl by the name of Ivy comes down as new arrival. But Ivy is stubborn and she thinks she is still alive. Could Emily help her accept the change Ivy went through suddenly? Will Ivy admit the fact that she is already dead? Or will she deny the truth?

Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, though I dearly wish I do, even a half of it. But I guess not, lol. The only things I do own is my characters! Please don't steal! Thank you.

Wish Upon a Life

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." - Diane Ackerman

Ivy's expression softened as Emily helped her bring Ivy back to her feet. Still rubbing her cheek softly with the back of her hand, Ivy got up and straightened her shirt and jeans quickly. Her tears soon dried on her face as Ivy looked back at Emily silently with new emotion in her eyes. She brushed away the brown ponytail that kept whisking over to her eyes.

"What do you want… Emily?" Ivy questioned and Emily's lips twitched.

"I want to help you."

Ivy bit her tongue. Why was the ghostly woman trying to help her? She didn't need help!

"Then do me a favor."

Emily looked up to meet Ivy in the eye, and what she got was a stern child like expression printed on Ivy's face.

"Leave me alone..."

Emily froze and opened her lips to reply back, but stopped before a sound escaped. Perhaps Ivy was right for once. Perhaps Emily should leave the girl alone. Work it out herself. But somehow… she couldn't. Somehow the girl reminded her of herself. Not in a selfish, spoiled brat, but the way the girl was lost in a world she didn't understand.

"I can't," Emily replied dryly. Something inside her told her... Ivy needed her.

But Ivy didn't know that. She was too young to understand.

"Why not! Why can't you just leave? When I tell Anguis to leave, he leaves! When I tell Dad to leave, he leaves! Mom does the same! Why can't you just learn to leave like I say so? Why can't you do everything I tell you to do?" Ivy exclaimed, confusion in her tone as she stood her ground, her hands shaking with perplexity.

"I am not one to be easily brushed aside, Ivy," Emily said, her eyes turning cold now.

"Why…? All of it's so confusing!" Ivy shouted and crumbled to the floor, clutching her head as if in despair. A single tear rolled on her cheek again as Ivy swallowed down all the unsettling equations to the questions that swam wildly in her head. A minute passed where Ivy seemed to wander her thoughts and actually thought about them for the very first time in her life. Or from the time she had her supposed… 'death'.

Emily stepped forward to help Ivy back to her feet again, but this time Ivy did this on her own. A new determined look filled Ivy's eyes and suprised Emily.

"If what your telling is true, give me proof! If I am dead and not living anymore, then give me the proof! Tell me how to go back to see my Dad and Mom!" Ivy shouted, her eyebrows rising. You're so clever, Ivy! she congratulated herself inside her mind as she grinned for the very first time, a devilish curve etching her face.

Emily eyed Ivy carefully. Where was Ivy getting at? Of course, Emily knew how to go back to the Land of the Living, 'up there' as everyone called it, like a slang word that was made in the Land of the Dead to make it easier for people to remember it. But Emily knew the consequences of such a spell. Even if it was to show Ivy that she was really dead... it was still risky. Emily drifted off to the memory of Victor and herself going 'up there' to visit Victor's parents, which later happened to be Victoria Victor wanted to meet. Changing a future and past, both deeds have horrifying consequences... But… then Ivy will keep on believing she was kidnapped and trapped in a bizarre world to be ransomed by a mother and father who knew she died...

Emily's eyes narrowed. What did this mean? Did this mean... Is this what she thought it was?

"Well?" Ivy shouted.

"Ivy... Listen to me very carefully. Do you remember the cause of your death?" Emily said slowly and her eyes narrowed to find Ivy's expression waver. Ivy pursued her lips and looked into Emily's eyes.

"I said I'm not dead! The last thing I saw was Mom and Dad…and…" Ivy spoke confusedly, as if she didn't really understand what she was saying. But she immediately shut her mouth and denial appeared in Ivy's cold looking eyes. "Who cares what I last did! Tell me how to see Dad and Mom again!"

"Ivy, it matters! You might see something you don't really wanna see up there! I know the things you're feeling right now are hard, but you must push it back. Going up there would only hurt you!" Emily replied back, biting her lips. This was truly what she knew. When she had persuaded Elder Gutknecht to give her a spell to go back up there, the kind Elder had agreed. She had found herself watching her parents cry in fear and sadness over her disappearence. She was like a ghost watching through the heavens. Emily had cried so hard that day, she didn't even feel like doing anything for an absolute month. After all, she was dead.

Emily's memories disappeared into the oblivion of her mind as her eyes focused back to Ivy. Her lips were trembling angrily and her eyes were lit with determined fire that wasn't willing to give up.

Emily sighed. She wanted to protect this girl from doing the same mistake she was doing, but that was probably inevitable. Ivy needed to see it for herself.

"Fine, we will find a spell that would bring us up to the Land of the Living."

A/N: Did you like it? I know it must have been rather short, but the exciting part will come soon! Emily and Ivy are going to go to the Land of the Living:D lol Please review:)