"Alright, and in the meantime, Nimbus, if you could go and cause a thunderstorm in..." I was walking alongside Nimbus, Bram, Adara, and Emily when suddenly she started clutching her stomach, groaning and grunting in pain. Then we all heard liquid falling to the floor.
"Her water just broke! Get her to her room at once!" Adara told me, and quickly shooed away Nimbus and Bram, who were both extremely worried in that moment.
"Is she going to be alright!?" I heard Nimbus ask as I started getting Emily back up the stairs, and thankfully we were only one level down from our room.
"She will be fine, but the only ones allowed in the room will be myself, Mesi, and Jack. Now, please, will the two of you go find Mesi...QUICKLY!"
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"Alright, Emily, one more push and she'll be out!" Mesi shouted with determination and excitement.
"I can't...I'm so tired, and I hurt so much." Her brow was sweating, her face was flushed, her eyes were drooping, and there were tears falling from her face, because of the pain. It hurt me so much to see her like this, but I had to try and convince her to try.
I kissed the side of her head with as much love that I could muster and I touched my forehead to where I kissed her. "You have to try. If not for me, then try for our daughter."
She nodded her head, and gathered what little strength she had and pushed just as she was asked to. I saw Mesi crouch down and look as if she caught something in her hands, and my heart began to pound fiercely against my chest. Then, I heard it. I heard our baby's first cry, and I instantly began to cry as my heart became so full in that instant. "A beautiful baby girl! Jack, you were right, and my oh my...so much hair, just like her mother." Mesi took her to clean her off while Adara came forward and finished what she needed to do with Emily.
Once they were both clean, and Adara was done with what she needed to do, Mesi brought over our baby girl and carefully placed her in Emily's arms. "I assume you remember what we told you about feeding her?" Adara questioned carefully.
"Yes, I remember." Emily sighed joyfully as she looked at our daughter. "My goodness, she does have so much hair, and it's ebony like my own hair. She'll need a name..." She looked up at me and I nodded my head.
"Her name should be Eira Olivia Frost." I told her as I gently ran my hand through my daughter's soft hair.
"What a beautiful name." She beamed at me, just before she turned to Eira. "Your name is Eira Olivia Frost." The second Emily told her what her name was, she opened her eyes, and they looked just like mine. "My goodness, she has my hair and skin color, but she most certainly has your eyes, Jack."
"I can see that." I whispered out in awe at the small baby in my wife's arms as she started to breastfeed our daughter. "She's so beautiful, Emily...but I do have to ask...are you still in pain?"
"No, I think my nature and healing magic kicked in once Adara was done with everything else. I don't have anymore pain, and even if I did..." She looked down at Eira who was thankfully latching correctly, and she smiled softly as she continued. "...it would've been worth the extra pain."
"When do you want to let the others in?"
"After she's done eating, and after I've burped her."
We did as she asked, and she had just burped Eira. I got up from my seat and moved to the door to go and look for everyone else, because Mesi and Adara were still in the room with us, and they had just come back from getting rid of all the medical equipment, and after they gave us many clean blankets and sheets in order to keep my nest as a nest like it's supposed to be. However, when I opened the door, I noticed seven other worried faces sitting along the wall. I cleared my throat and they all looked up at me with even more worried expressions. "Is Mother alright!?" Nimbus asked quickly as he stood, and the others started to stand as well.
"What about the baby?" Abungu asked, his usually calm demeanor taking on a concerned and worried expression.
"What color is the baby's hair?" Bram asked with genuine curiosity in his eyes.
"What gender is it?" Isla wondered as she seemed to try and put away the worried look in her eyes.
"What color is the baby's eyes?" Autumn questioned curiously as she tried to stand up straighter, but I could tell that she was just as worried as the others.
"What's the baby's name?" Summer asked as calmly as he could.
"Can we see them?" Flora questioned carefully as she tugged on my shirt.
"Whoa!" I laughed out, and my laughter seemed to calm them a bit. "Okay...in order of your questions...Emily is fine, she's just very tired, the baby is perfectly healthy, but she's rather small. Adara said that she weighs five pounds and nine ounces, but other than that, she's perfectly healthy. Now, what else...oh yes! Her hair is as black as ebony just like Emily's, the baby is a she, it's a little girl...her eye color is the same as mine in a very eerily similar way, her name is Eira Olivia Frost, and yes, you can all go in and see them, just be mindful of space, okay? Eira is new to the world."
They slowly followed me into the room, and I moved to sit on the bed next to Emily as she held Eira comfortingly in her arms. I looked at the others, and noticed that they all started gently crying with joyful smiles on their faces. "Mother...I...you don't have to say I can if you don't want to...but may I hold her?" Nimbus carefully asked with a shaking voice. Emily smiled brightly as she handed Nimbus our daughter, and he took her in his arms perfectly as he supported her head. I watched with proud fascination as Nimbus gently moved some of the blanket away from her face, and I saw her open his eyes to him. Then, she smiled at him with a toothless smile. "Oh...oh my." He sighed out as he seemed to hold her a bit tighter and the tears started flowing from his eyes again. "Mother...d-do you remember that oath and vow I gave to you and Father?"
"Yes." She answered simply with a proud and content smile on her face.
"Well, that oath and vow...my determination just increased a hundred fold. I will do everything in my power to love my little sister with all my heart and soul, and I will protect her from anything and everything I can."
"That's quite a promise." Bram mentioned with surprised eyes.
"Hold her, Bram and you'll see...and feel what I mean." He quickly turned to Emily and gave her a questioning look. "Is it alright, Mother?"
"You can all hold her, just mind her head, and be careful."
Nimbus nodded his head and handed her over to Bram, who took her as carefully as he could while keeping her head popped in the crook of his arm. He moved the blanket out of her face like Nimbus did, but she was able to squirm her arm out of her swaddle and she loosely grabbed his finger. "S-Someone...someone take her..." He stuttered out as tears began to fall from his eyes again.
Abungu took her into his arms next, and I was growing increasingly worried, because as soon as Bram saw that Abungu had her securely in his arms, giving him a concerned look as well, Bram collapsed to the floor on his knees. "Bram? What's wrong?" I asked quickly.
"She...she's perfect, and I...when she grabbed my finger...I...oh...my heart. I..." He swallowed what seemed to be a thick lump in his throat as he saw Abungu smiling down at her with a singular tear running down his cheek. "I...she..." Nimbus held out his hand to Bram, and he took it while looking at Eira in Abungu's arms, allowing Nimbus to help him up. "Oh...heaven help the creature that dares to hurt her. I understand Nimbus, and my determination has also increased a hundred fold."
"I'd have to agree." Abungu beamed brightly as he handed Eira over to Summer.
"I got her..." Summer whispered and he started bouncing her lightly in his arms as he smiled down at her. "Oh, you are quite beautiful, aren't you?" He whispered out, but it was loud enough for us to hear. "I must agree with your other brothers...I will love and protect you no matter what." He smiled down at her as he handed her to Autumn.
Once Autumn held her in her arms, she gasped in shock and held her a bit tighter. "My goodness...you're as stunning as both of your parents. However..." She trailed off as she smirked at me. "I do believe you look very much like your father, just with black hair. Father?"
"Yes?" I asked as I felt a sudden burst of pride in my chest at her words.
"She's going to be a Daddy's girl, I can tell."
"Oh, won't that be interesting." I laughed out as I noticed that displeased glare from Emily. "Calm down, Emily. We still have plenty of time to see who she'll favor."
"She shouldn't favor...she should love us equally."
"I-Is that a pout I see?" I asked with an amused smirk.
"Yeah yeah." She let out a giggle followed by a sigh. "For some reason I think I would have to agree with Autumn on this one. She looks like she'll be a Daddy's girl, and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the two of you working together to make me well again."
"We will see." I told her as I gently rubbed circles on her back.
Autumn handed her to Isla, and the reaction was wonderful. As soon as Isla took her into her arms, her eyes widened and softened at the same time. "My goodness...how can you be small yet have so much beauty?"
Isla then carefully handed Eira to Flora. "Alright, you have to hold her head up with your arm just like we did, okay?"
"Alright!" Flora agreed with excitement and wonder in her eyes. She carefully took her from Isla, and held her just like Isla had, and her eyes seemed to light up even more. "Wow! She looks like Father, and wow...my heart...Eira, I promise to always be there for you when I can. I'll be the best big sister ever."
"Hey now!" Adara, Mesi, Isla, and Autumn all collectively scolded with amused smirks on their faces.
"Oh..." Flora giggled. "...well...I promise to be a good big sister at the very least."
Flora then walked over to me with Eira in her arms. "This will be the first time I hold her." I told her honestly.
"We held her before you did?" Nimbus questioned with a guilty expression.
"Yes, but it's alright. I kind of suspected that was going to happen." I took Eira from her and held her in my arms. She slowly drifted off to sleep with a smile on her face and she let out a noise that sounded like a sigh. The longer I held her, the more I loved her. I then turned my gaze to my other children in the room briefly before looking back at her. "You have such wonderful and brave big brothers and sisters. I believe you'll be one of the safest children on the planet."
"There's no doubt about that. She practically has her own little army, and considering I'm the Queen of Nature, that would make her the Princess of Nature...so having her own little small army is not only accurate, but amusing."
"And with the powers I sensed from her and possibly indirectly gave her...she'll be just as fierce as any army."
"She'll be as powerful as Father." Bram mentioned.
"She'll be as kind as Mother and Father." Isla smiled.
"She'll be as patient as Mother." Abungu grinned as he crossed his arms.
"She'll be as stubborn as Mother and Father." Mesi giggled out.
"She'll be as wild as Mother." Adara chuckled low.
"She'll be filled with as much laughter as Father...if not More." Summer hummed.
"She'll be a trickster child and adult just like Father." Autumn smirked with pride, because she too was a bit of a trickster.
"She'll be really smart like Mother and Father." Flora mentioned as she rocked back and forth on her heels with her hands behind her back.
"And she'll be as loving to others as Father was to us since the beginning and now." Nimbus smiled brightly as he looked down at Eira in my arms.
"How do you all know this?" Emily questioned before I could.
"I believe..." Nimbus started. "...it was the feeling we gained when each of us held her. It was almost like it seared itself into our heart what kind of person she'll be. It's a bit hard to explain..."
"...but that's exactly it, isn't it?" Bram finished as he looked at the others and they all nodded their heads.
"And she'll be well looked after." Abungu stated with pride, but then a look of concern crossed his features.
"What's wrong Abungu?"
"I am wondering...and I know this may sound selfish and horrible...but she is just an infant and there are so many evil spirits and those who would wish Mother harm...perhaps until she is old enough and strong enough to defend herself...perhaps others should not know about her."
"Not even our other brothers and sisters?"
"Not even them, and it's not like they've seen mother since eleven months ago. We're the only ones that keep coming back. The others have built their own homes over the years." Abungu stepped forward and rubbed the back of his neck. "The reason I am saying this...I do not want any harm to come to her. I know I am out of line, but if others knew of who she was and who her parents and siblings were...well, I can't imagine the uproar..."
"I'd have to agree with Abungu on this one." Isla sighed as she tilted her head sympathetically. "At least until she can defend herself. As she is right now, she is way to vulnerable."
I looked at Emily with a worried expression and I breathed out through my nose as I handed Eira to her. Once she took hold of our sleeping baby, I gently brushed the back of my finger against her forehead, getting a lock of hair out of her face. "Emily, I'm afraid they have a very good point."
"I know...but what of outings? What of the world? What of...?"
"We can figure all of that out as she grows." I told her as I gently kissed her head. "Our nine children in this room know of her and have vowed to protect her, so perhaps when other spirits are visiting she can go with them on an outing where the other spirits aren't, and when the other spirits aren't here, she can run around as much as she pleases, and be taught about the world until she's old enough to go see it. Once she's old enough and strong enough to look after herself, and to where people assume she's just a new spirit, then we won't have to worry about it, because before then, she will know more about the earth, the elements, the people, the animals, and the other spirits that exist. You and I will train her as well as her loyal and devoted brothers and sisters."
"But even then..." Emily gazed down at Eira with a saddened, but understanding expression. "...even when she's old enough, she will need to be her own spirit. Only a very select few will be allowed to know who she really is, but other than that...she cannot be known as our daughter outside of this room or domain. If anyone should know, it would have to be people that are close enough to be family, and even then...it'll be a while before I'm ready for anyone to know."
"So...she has to remain a secret?" I questioned remorsefully.
"Yes and no. She'll be a spirit of Nature, I can sense that much, and she'll affect the world like all spirits do, it's just...she can't be known as our biological daughter. They may use her to get to us and her siblings or the other way around." She looked up at Abungu and Flora with an apologetic smile. "Can I ask the two of you to work together to see something for me, since I know you've done it before on Nimbus and Bram?"
"You want us to look into her future?"
"Yes. Abungu, you were a village healer and seer once..."
"Flora, would you like to help me?"
"I will!"
"Remember, only show me what I ask for, nothing more."
"We know, Mother." Flora said as she got onto the bed as carefully as she could, followed by Abungu. She placed her right hand over Eira's right side of her head, and Abungu did the same with his left hand on the left side of her head. "What do you want to know?"
"I want to know three things. One, will she understand about the need for her being a secret? Two, will she be upset about it? Three, will there be other spirits that I trust enough someday to know of who she really is?"
"Father, what three things would you like to know?" Abungu asked, and I was honestly a bit dumbfounded that I would be allowed to know something in the future as well.
"Um...Oh! Okay, so I only really have two, but um...One, what kind of spirit will she be, and what I mean is...what type of magic will she have...like I have winter magic, you have forest magic and so on. Two, what special or unique powers will she be able to use? I want to know in case she can use them before she can control them." I looked to them all and they grinned at my request. "So, how does this work?"
"Well, we're going to put our hands on your heads, and start with Mother's request first, then yours, and it will be shown like a vision, but it will be very real. It will be her future in regards to the requests and only the requests. It will be like you're there, but you won't be seen or heard or touched."
"No different than usual then." I rolled my eyes with a half smirk.
"Basically...sorry." Flora gave me a sympathetic smile.
"I'ts alright, I'm ready."
"Me too."
"Okay then..." Flora touched her free hand to the side of my head while Abungu did the same for Emily and everything went white.
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The white light dimmed and it settled on Emily and I talking with a beautiful young girl that had to at least be seven or eight years old, and my heart pounded hard against my chest, because that's my little girl! She sat on the bed, holding a pink stuffed rabbit that was well taken care of, and she looked like she had been crying.
"So do you understand, Eira? That's why others can't know about you being my biological daughter." Emily tried to soothe her.
"And why you can't be known as mine either." I offered.
"But that's not fair!"
"Honey..." Future me started. "...believe me, I know how unfair that is, but it's to keep you safe."
"No, I mean it's unfair to You and Mama!" She pouted and wiped away her tears.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I'm proud to be your daughter, and everyone should know that my Mama and Daddy love each other as much as they do, and so much so that they got married and had me! It's not fair! They should know! You both have to keep me a secret because of who I am, and I know it's to keep me and my siblings safe, but...I wish others knew."
"Oh, so that's what that fit about going outside was about." Emily scolded with a smirk as she crossed her arms.
"I'm sorry, Mama. It's just...it hurt. It didn't hurt me, I love staying in the domain and I don't want to leave until I'm strong enough, but it hurt when Nimbus told me I couldn't tell others who I am."
"I know, but trust me, someday you will be known. Someday we will tell a VERY trusted person or people about you. We may even tell them about your Mother and I." I told her as I placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. "Do you understand?"
"Yes, I understand."
"Are you upset?" I asked carefully.
"No...I guess not. I understand why, and as long as someday stays a possibility...I'm okay with it."
"Good."
The vision shifted to a very grown Eira, Emily, Bunny, and someone I could only assume was Sandy standing by my side. 'Well, this is strange...Bunny's standing at my side...' I thought quickly.
'Perhaps someday.' Emily thought towards me.
"My name is Eira. I am known as the Snow Queen." Eira then gave a polite curtsy. "Pleasure to meet you, Tooth Fairy."
"My goodness...there's no need for that." She giggled lightly. "So...I've heard of the Snow Queen, but never seen you. Why is that?"
"Tell me what you've heard and I'll tell you why." She gave Tooth a mischievous grin that resembled mine almost perfectly.
"Well...I've heard that you're Mother Nature's General of Winter and..."
"And you're already wrong." She chuckled out. "I'm not the General of Winter."
"O-Okay...well...I've heard that you can do some of the same things Jack can. You can control and cause winter phenomena, but that you can also communicate with Nature."
"Those are both true. Now...to tell you why you haven't seen me. I am usually traveling with the General of Winter, but I have a unique power." She snapped her fingers and she immediately became completely invisible.
"Oh you gotta be kidding me!" I groaned out and immediately took off after her. "Get back here!" I shouted as I flew towards her, and it was almost as if I was chasing nothing, but when I finally grabbed her, I caught the faintest glimpse of her translucent form that seemed to only be visible to me. "Make yourself visible again, now!"
"Jack!" Tooth squeaked in dismay at how I spoke to Eira. "That's no way to speak to a lady!"
"Alright." She chuckled out and made herself visible again. "Although, maybe you should listen to the Tooth fairy. That really IS no way to speak to a lady."
"Show me a lady, and I'll speak to her like one." I bellowed out a laugh as we landed back to where we were standing before.
"Jack!" Tooth shouted again. "Show her some respect!"
"Yeah, JACK...show me some respect." Eira stated with a laugh desperately hiding away behind her smirk as she crossed her arms.
"Not in this, or any lifetime." I shot back with a defiant expression. "Not with that attitude anyway.
"Jack, are you alright, son?" North questioned carefully.
'SON!? WHAT IN THE HELL!?'
'It's a part of your future too, love. You'll find out someday.'
'Why are they being so nice to me!? Why is Bunny by my side and not angry with me!?'
'Again, you'll find out someday, now shush and watch!'
"Yes, I'm fine. Why do you ask?"
"Because..." He started, but was quickly interrupted by Tooth.
"Because you're speaking to her like you're her...like...well...like..."
"Like her Father?" Emily stepped forward, faking a pissed off expression, but I could tell from the look in her eyes she was trying not to laugh.
"Well...yes! It's not right! That's no way to speak to another spirit! Especially a lady!" Tooth then hovered over to Eira and gave an apologetic expression. "I'm so sorry for his behavior. He's like a son to me, but apparently doesn't have enough manners!" She glared at me, and if I didn't know any better, it seemed as if Bunny was having to hold in his laughter at the situation, which only made the vision even weirder. "May I ask you...if you're not the General of Winter...then who is?"
"Jack Frost, of course." She beamed up at Tooth brightly, and both Tooth and North staggered back in shock.
"J-Jack...when were you going to tell us you've been the General of Winter!?" She shrieked in equal measures of delight and shock.
"Now seems like a good time." I shrugged with a slight smile.
"I'm sorry we never told you about his being my General of Winter." Emily apologized, but she still had to hold in her laughter.
"It's...it's alright." She replied in a calmer manner, but it quickly snapped again. "But Jack...you're behavior was not alright! Jack, you need to show her some respect! And then you chased after her and demanded that she return to being visible...that's no way to speak to a lady!"
I then turned to Eira while I rolled my eyes. "Not a WORD, Eira!"
"There you go again! Jack! I want you to apologize to her! She deserves your respect not your rudeness."
"I will not!" I shouted back as if she asked me to do the most ridiculous thing in the world, and honestly she did, because Eira is my daughter.
Suddenly Eira was doubled over, laughing, clutching her sides as she tried to breathe in between laughs. "Oh, by the moon! I can't! This is all too good!" She leaned up just enough to look at Tooth with tears of laughter in her eyes as she quickly laughed out, "Please! Say more! Tell him more!"
"Wh-Why are you laughing?" North questioned curiously. "Toothy is right. Jack was in the wrong. He should've spoken to you in a kinder way."
"Oh my!" Eira laughed out as she straightened herself as much as she could. Once she calmed her laughter, and wiped away her tears. "You have no idea how hilarious all of that was just now!" She chuckled out as she continued to try and catch her breath. She looked to me and started giggling some more, but quickly stopped herself. "Can I please!? I don't think I can take much more! Can I tell them?"
"Tell us what?"
I walked over to her and shook my head in a fond manner. Once I was facing North and Tooth I let out a heavy sigh. "Go ahead. I don't think I can take much more either."
"Wait...are the two of you...are you two romantically involved." North questioned cautiously.
"ABSOLUTELY NOT!" Both Eira and I shouted together in disgust at their words and that's when Emily started doubling over in laughter.
"Mother Nature is...she is laughing." North stated. "She never laughs..."
"Oh, but for this I do. Eira, go ahead and explain, please! They need to know if we are to help the children."
Eira gave a highly amused smile and nodded her head. "My name is Eira, I am known as the Snow Queen, and I..." She looked at Emily and I with an even further amused expression if possible, and cleared her throat. "...I am the biological daughter of Jack Frost and Mother Nature." Their reactions were almost immediate. Tooth stopped flying immediately and landed on her rear end, and North staggered back quite a ways. "Huh...I think I broke them, Father..."
"I think we all did." I smiled mischievously. "North...Tooth...I would like you to meet my daughter, Eira Olivia Frost..." I then motioned to Emily with a broad smile. "...and my wife, Mother Nature. However, I'm pretty sure you already know her."
The vision changed and this time it was a younger version of Eira. This one seemed to be about twelve or thirteen. "Alright, let's see what you've got!" I challenged her in the sparring area.
"Are you sure, Father?" She questioned with a risen brow and a mischievous smirk.
"Of course I'm sure!" I laughed. "Start!" At my word she immediately started making the ground frost with a stomp of her foot, and she ran around me in a circle. "Oh, my sweet daughter, I am the General of Winter, and you think you'll make me slip?"
"Never said I was going to make you slip." She chuckled low and went back to her starting position. She then clapped her hands together and suddenly my future self was surrounded with ice vines that came out of the frost she created, and it formed a prison.
'Winter...AND Nature Magic.' I heard Emily whisper out in awe, and I felt a swell of pride in my chest.
"Very good!" I cheered as I looked around my prison. I spun my staff and slammed the butt of it down directly in front of me on the ground, causing the frost from me and the staff to spread a much whiter and colder frost that ended up shattering the vines like glass. "But not good enough!"
"Oh, I'll get you at some point."
"In your dreams, Eira. In your dreams." I laughed out as I sent a wave of frost to her feet, causing her to lose balance.
Once she gained her balance again she looked furious with me, and she used her hands and her arms as if she was conducting and Orchestra, and suddenly it started snowing. She started to dance, and it turned into a blizzard, but only in the sparring part of the domain. I groaned and lifted my hand up to the sky, and flicked my wrist, making the blizzard not only stop, but lift back up until it formed a giant snowstorm cloud. I then brought up my staff, and forced the snow that had fallen, into the storm cloud. Once all traces of snow were gone, I used my staff again and waved it at the storm cloud, making it vanish. It always took a bit to do that, but I had a rough idea where future me had sent the storm, and it was always the same place I sent all of the snowstorms that weren't supposed to happen in certain places. Antarctica. "No fair!"
"If you should ever face a real opponent...not me, your mother, or your siblings, but someone who wishes to genuinely hurt you or anything you believe in...they will not be fair. However, it's good to know that you can do more than just frost things and make ice sculptures. When you're allowed out of the domain, I'll take you with me, and you can help me spread winter if you like."
Her eyes lit up and she rushed towards me, wrapping me in a tight hug. "YES YES YES!"
"Alright..." I chuckled out as I returned the hug.
The vision shifted again and we were out in the sparring area again, but she was younger than the previous Eira. She seemed to be about five here. "Alright, sweetie, what did you want to show us?" Emily asked carefully, clearly noticing the look of fear on our daughter.
"I can do strange things...I haven't seen anyone do it before...and it's scary." She wrung her hands and fingers as she looked down to the ground.
"Like what, Eira?" I asked.
"Like this!" She said and suddenly there was a bright green and blue flash of light shined, and she was gone. "Over here!" She shouted from at least a hundred feet away, coming out of a similar flash of light.
'SHE'LL BE ABLE TO TELEPORT!?' I ran my hands through my hair. 'I can already tell that she's going to be trouble with that.'
"That's amazing!" I shouted in excitement. "Come back over here." She did as I asked, but she still looked rather upset. "Is there something else?"
"Yeah...I can do this too." This time without a flash, she disappeared, but it was extremely similar to the vision where she disappeared in North's workshop. I could see a barely translucent form.
"Eira! Eira! Where are you!"
"Can you not see her?"
"No, she was there, and now she's gone!"
"She's barely visible...right here." I said as I grabbed her shoulder.
"You're not holding onto anything." Emily told me with a vastly confused gaze.
"Yes I am, I swear to you...I guess...I guess I can see it, because we're both winter spirits, and I'm her Father...huh...Eira, can you make yourself visible again?"
She did as I asked, and I watched as Emily's eyes widened in realization. "Only you can see her...and she can turn invisible!"
"Just barely, and yeah...it looks like it. Is there anything else?" I asked as I looked down at her.
"Oh yeah!" She then lifted herself up into the air flawlessly and kept perfect balance as she floated in the air looking down at us. "I can fly too!"
"Oh my..." I blinked at her with a wide smile. "...this is going to be interesting...and troublesome...but I am so proud of you!"
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The vision went white again, and suddenly we were back in our room, and Eira was still sleeping in Emily's arms. "What did you see?" Nimbus asked curiously.
"That she's gonna be trouble." I laughed. "She will be an expert at a combination of Winter AND Nature magic. She will also be able to turn invisible, and teleport."
"What about Mother's request?" Bram asked with his arms crossed.
"That..." I breathed in deeply as I furrowed my brow, and then I breathed out. "...is the strange part, because it seemed to greatly involve my future...first off, she understood why, and she was upset, but she soon let it go and understood even further and wasn't upset anymore...but the people that were trusted with her identity...they were the Guardians."
"The Guardians!?" The Nine collectively asked in shock.
"Yeah, and you won't believe this...but Bunny and I are apparently friends in the future and although it wasn't uncommon compared to now, I had Sandy by my side. The other weird thing was...apparently North becomes like a Father figure to me, and calls me son...and I don't mind. There's also the Tooth Fairy who apparently also treats me like I'm her son. They were being nice to me...it was weird...and we were talking as if we spoke together often."
"So...let me get this straight..." Bram started as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "The Easter Bunny...who calls you just about every name in the book...becomes your friend...North becomes like a father to you, and the Tooth Fairy...like a Mother?"
"It seemed that way. It was...it was strange..."
"I bet." Abungu agreed. "Now, there's a thing about the memories...once the day that the memory is supposed to happen comes, you will forget seeing the memory as if you've never seen it. The events will unfold like they did, and you will have no previous memories of viewing them. It's so that you don't try and repeat or change anything."
"I understand." I told him with a grateful smile.
"Good. Now, we will leave you two alone with your new infant. Come everyone. She is new to the world, and Mother and Father are new with her."
"Alright." Nimbus and Bram chorused together as they, along with the others, followed Abungu out of the room.