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I finally finished the end of the semester for my school!:D YAY! Now I can get back to writing! And I know the story has pretty much been a back story for now BUT, it is going to get VERY EPIC after this chapter (or two). I finally know what I'm about to do with this story and it is going to be awesome people! Worth reading and staying tune for! Thank you: BelieveInYourDreams4Life, Rose, WEast, & FrostedFeathers for the reviews!:D
So yeah, here is the final encounter with the Spirit of Spring, Flora. Then this story is going to hit the epic mode! But I still hope you enjoy this chapter regardless! Enjoy!:)
A/N: Flora (the Spirit of Spring) is the younger sister of Glimmer (the Spirit of Summer). Glimmer looks down on Flora. Flora feels unappreciated, thus, creating her confused personality with Jack. And I am adopting Aisling from the movie "The Secret of Kells" good movie;) I just really wanted to give her a paragraph spotlight so please excuse me but enjoy:)
One more spirit to go, and I was determined to make this encounter work. It was all or nothing now. But this time, everything had to be just right. My approach, speech and what I say (how I say it mind you), how I act... everything. I was going to be different this time, it was bound to work. I was going to meet the Spirit of Spring, Flora.
I waited until my wounds were healed completely before I even thought about meeting the Spirit of Spring. Then I strategically thought about what she would do when I arrived and how she would act. How I would act and what I would say, hoping not to alarm her or for her to jump to conclusions. This was going to be risky.
Flora was the younger sister of Glimmer. Flora was often looked down upon by her own sister and everyone else due to her timid and calm persona and lack of power. (I found this stupid) All Flora wanted to do was please her sister, and she still tries by doing whatever her sister commands or thinks. The girl tries, but she has her issues... like mine. That's why I think I have a shot at this one, which gave me hope.
Flora lived deep in a secluded woods by a sacred pond in Ireland. Ireland was also home to another spirit, Aisling. The Spirit (but she was also considered a fairy even though she had no wings) of the Forest. The two girls were friends, yet enemies. Yes, frienemies. They were kind to each other, when they weren't fighting over who was more powerful by the laws of nature. Of course, Mother Nature (the mother of freaking nature) tromped us all. She was the queen of the spirits, but Flora and Aisling were powerful.
Aisling had red, long hair in contrast to her white body and gray frock with her tiny figure (she was less than five feet tall since she was in a ten year old body). She could transform into a white wolf with glowing green eyes (one eye was turquoise the other green when she was in human form) and also had the power to summon wolves at her command. She was incredibly strong, being capable to move a giant boulder that hadn't been budged for centuries. She was extremely swift an agile as well; being able to scale up a wall and tree like a squirrel (using a little bit of wind) and jump from place to place like a frog. She also left flowers wherever she walked or create some with her breath at her desire. And don't get me started on her singing voice, so young and pure. Beautiful. (But otherwise her voice was squeaky and snooty)
But enough of Aisling, here's Flora.
Flora, being the controller of the season spring, could control all means of nature (but not as powerful as Mother of course). Trees, roots, grass, flowers, vines, you name it, she could even control boulders, rocks, and the earth! That's power! She was young (being fourteen while we were all over fifteen) and was very inexperienced, making her weak. But she had power and potential. It hurt when she scored a hit on you and she knew how to defend herself. She wasn't as weak as everyone thought.
They were both Mother Nature's daughters or something, I don't know. But what I did know is that Flora was powerful but misunderstood, like me. Maybe I could get through to her.
So after healing 100 percent, skillful planning (to the best of my ability), I headed towards Ireland for the final encounter.
It was going to work this time...
Not.
I dashed through the woods, weaving in and out of the trees. Sunlight pouring in from above, guiding my way. After taking almost all daylight to get there, I finally made it.
Flora wasn't there like I had expected. It was now spring and (since it took me from the beginning of the year to heal up) and she was probably out and about, spreading her season throughout the world. She would probably be back at dusk.
I decided to sit on a rock near the enchanted, mystical lagoon. Her home was pretty. If honestly you could call it a home. It was the wilderness after all, like mine. I honestly think that's why I enjoyed it the most, I'm so used to living with nature instead of in a home, even if it was a tree or a cave. It was shelter, but Flora and I just lived out in the open.
Flora's home was basically in the heart of a thick forest in Ireland, a forest basically. A hard to find (when is it not?), secluded, sacred, but beautiful area. The closer I got to her home, the denser and more lush the trees became as well as the grass, along with flowers blooming and scattered across the earth. But the thing that made her home special was the pond. In the center of her home stood a pond. When it was nighttime, the moonlight will pour through the trees and reflect off of the pond making it glow a shimmering green and blue. The pond was home to lily flowers and some mystical creatures of all types.
In the distance, far into the woods and shadows, I swear I could see a wolf with green eyes prancing about with a person who had a bow and arrow in his clutches and some sort of sack on his belt. That was Johnny Appleseed.
I sat on one of the rocks that surrounded the lake (Flora created them decoratively no doubt) and looked around some more. Under the shade of a very big fir tree (but allowed moonlight through it's leaves), was a large flower bed that acted like a nest. A bed probably (it looked very cozy). I slept in a tree (which isn't the comfiest let me tell you, and try not to fall out of it). Near that fir tree was an oak tree with a hole in the middle that held some lost trinkets in it which Flora probably collected over the years.
Speaking of years, how old was Flora? I mean, I know she's trapped in a fourteen year old body but as far as centuries go... I'm going to have to recap that (and I'm rounding): Red is 500 years old (18 years old), Glimmer is 400 (17 years old), I was 200, and Flora was probably almost 300. There were other spirits who were 'centuries' version older than us like Aisling (700-800 years old, 10 year old body), and Johnny Appleseed who was 900 years old, almost 1,000 I think (dang) in a 19 year old body.
It was funny to how they all were related to each other: Appleseed and Red were best buddies (Appleseed donated his bows to Red so vice versa). Red and Glimmer were a couple. Glimmer and Flora were brother and sister. Aisling and Appleseed were best buddies as well (maybe even something more...). And Flora and Aisling were frienemies. I was totally out of the loop here. The only entry into the loop was that everyone hated me here, unless if I don't screw up this one and last chance-
"Excuse me?"
I shrieked and fell backwards, off of the rock and fell hard onto the ground with a thud. I pounced right back up and faced the voice with whom had disrupted my thoughts.
"Jack Frost?"
It was Flora.
"Yes! Uh, Flora?" I said, coming out from behind the rock.
"What are you doing here?" Flora said formerly and sincerely as she stepped into the light.
One look at Flora and I knew she meant business. She actually looked like Mother Nature in a few of her features. Same black flowing hair, except Flora had a couple of her strands of locks naturally dyed blue and green to go along with her pretty light blue and green frock. Her skin was ivory, much paler than her sister's and her facial expressions showed utter regal status yet coolness at the same time. She was quite cute, she was little too!
"Hi Flora, I wanted to say hi." I began sweetly, hoping that I don't alarm her since Flora was a very paranoid and alert girl.
"Uh... hi." She said timidly with an awkward wave.
I thought things were off to a good start... until... suddenly, Flora shook her head violently as if trying to remember something. Once she stopped shaking her head, her green eyes snapped open fiercely as her face darkened and she got into a battle position. Vines erupted from the earth and spiraled into the air.
I jumped and backed off, my hands stretched out as a calm motion. "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" I repeated, baffled. "I'm not here to fight! I just want to make a friendly acquaintance, 'kay?"
Flora scoffed as her fists tightened, the vines slowly approaching moi. "Oh, friendly! Sure..." She moaned sarcastically with a roll of her eyes.
"What is it with you guys? Won't you seriously give me a chance? I'm not evil!" I said, trying to reason with the spirit. Things were looking up! 'Totally!'
"Not evil? What you do is evil! You kill people and make them starve! Therefore you are evil!" Flora said with anger. But it sounded forced and rehearsed, as if it weren't really coming from her intentions. Glimmer must have talked some 'sense' into her.
I huffed and began talking easy once more, "Look it, I don't want to fight you, and I don't think you want to fight me either. Did your sister talk some sense into you? Why do you listen to her? She doesn't even like you! I know you want to make her proud but Flora, you're just confused and mistaken. Stop letting your sister control who you really are..." I hope that got through to her.
Flora looked down for a moment as her face relaxed, as if taking my advice. But she looked back up once more, anger rushing to her face. Didn't work, dammit...
"She's my sister! She loves me and would never lie to me! She told me how foul you were! But I already know you cold blooded murderer. You even tried to kill her!" Flora yelled, the vines and ivy started to grow large spikes.
Oh boy. This wasn't working. I raised my hands in surrender and backed away slowly. I tried.
"You almost killed my sister!" Flora repeated, but this time, with genuine anger. "You really are a murderer!" She screeched.
Oh no...but she wouldn't hurt me...
"I'm not the one mistaken and mistreated, you are! As in, not punished enough!" Flora roared as her eyes glowed.
The spiky vines lunged at me. I didn't think she would attack, so I didn't bother to have my guard up and dodge, so I allowed the spiky vines to wrap around me and hoist me and thrash me into the air. Before I knew it, I felt something long and sharp pierce my side and slide right through my body. I cried out loud with agony. I sobbed as I cracked open my eyes and saw Flora on top of a tree at my level, her arms outstretched.
"Please..." I wailed and begged, a single tear escaping the corner of my eye.
I saw Flora's bottom lip tremble and her glowing eyes squint. It wasn't her nature to harm anything. That means she really must have hated me...
"Don't ever come back again or I swear to Manny I will kill you..."
Those were Flora's final words before the spiky vines flung me far, far away. And trust me, she meant that.
I accepted the fact of who I was and what I meant in this world. The fact that I was alone, unwanted, and unloved. No one wanted to know me, they just wanted me dead. I tried, I really did, but they didn't want to hear it. It hurt, but I sucked it up and dealt with it. I gave up on trying to meet anyone or be friendly. It was everyone for themselves-no, it was me against the world. I had to defend myself for the years to come because I knew they would be back, but I would be ready.
I don't care anymore what they think of me. I don't care for them either. That's how life is. You give what you get.
There you have it folks! The last encounter! I hope you really liked the chapter, I did lol! But NOW things are going to get EPIC. The story is FINALLY going to now kick off and trust me ladies and gentlemen, it's going to be awesome!XD So PLEASE PLEASE leave a review and tell me what you think and are excited for this story to begin!:) So stay tuned cause this is going to get exciting! Thank you all!:D Bye! Peace!3 Luv ya!;)
-SkatingDJ