I am so very sorry for updating so late. Just school is being pretty annoying with all the work. Just a few more weeks and I'm free!
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Disclaimer: I do not own The Sisters Grimm, or the explanation to The Snow Queen's story. I got help from Barnes & Noble and Wikipedia for that. o.o Haha, yeah I know, I'm such a loser. :D
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Surprise, Surprise
I felt Trooper stiffen in my arms. The familiar ache of magic ran up and down my arms. I looked down as Trooper let out a loud bark, making me tumble backwards. My energy seemed to be sucked out of me as I saw a ripple in the air heading towards Briar. An invisible orb seemed to circle around her, the sign slammed into it. Briar fell to the ground as the sign skidded off to the side; the orb breaking. The last thing I saw was Puck looking at me wide-eyed, while everyone else ran towards Briar. I held on tight to Trooper as I slipped into the blinding darkness. (A/N: Haha, I've always wanted to say that)
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I felt like crud. I slowly opened my eyes, but quickly shut them. The light from outside was extremly bright. I opened them again and kept them open, letting them adjust. I looked around. I heard a grunt.
"Finally, not even Briar was knocked out for that long. And she's Sleeping Beauty." I heard Puck's usual annoying voice. I tried to prop myself up on my elbows but Puck pressured me back down. I frowned at him.
"Old lady says you gotta stay laying down." He said, I saw a hint of concern in his eyes. I tried to remember what happened. I felt around and didn't collide with a furry creature. I shot up.
"Where is he?" I seemed to go vertigo, everything spinned around me and I fell back. I groaned a bit as I held my head.
"Relax Grimm. Briar is taking care of him." He said scraping a dry stain on his jeans; then smelling his finger. I grimaced. "Little furball is getting all the attention." He grumbled. I tried not to laugh and tease him. He would surely get mad and leave. I settled on smiling at him. He looked at me and cocked his eyebrow.
"Take a picture, it'll last longer." He said. I bit my lip to try and not shoot an insult at him. I rolled my eyes at him as he posed.
"Oh, liebling! You're awake. How splendid." Granny came in. Now I noticed where I was. I was lying in one of the booths in Briar's coffee shop. The table had been moved, replaced by a chair, now being abondoned by Puck as he followed a rat scurrying across the shop.
"How are you feeling?" She said as she put a hand on my forehead. I frowned.
"I'm fine. We're wasting time, and where is he?" I asked, It felt weird being without him. Granny hesitated. "What? What's wrong?" I asked her, I slowly got up, ignoring her trying to lay me back down.
"Your Uncle is examining him right now. We're not sure, but we think he might be magic. Or have some in him." I looked at her confused. I slowly got on my feet and headed towards the back room. Granny tried to hold me back. I pushed open the swinging door. Uncle Jake was studying Trooper through a magnifying glass; I guessed that was magical as well. I quickly grabbed him.
"Mom told me to check him out. He's magical, 'Brina." He said, he looked at me concerned, knowing about my addiction to magic. "But don't worry, he's only magical when he wants to, like when he saved Briar's life." He said as he looked at him letting out a big sigh of relief. He must have been tortured seeing the love of his life have a brush with death. "We have to look through journals to see if anyone has met a, uh, magical dog." He tried to stiffle a laugh. I rolled my eyes at him.
"So is it safe for her to touch him?" Daphne asked, she looked at me worriedly.
"She's probably getting a kick outta him. Feel all powerful, Grimm?" Puck sneered. I turned on him.
"Keep it up, and you'll get a kick from me, fairy boy." I scowled at him.
"Bring it, pus face!" He said. I headed towards him. Granny came in between us.
"That is enough! We came here to help Briar, now you two get along." Granny said as she motioned for us to apologize. We both scowled at each other.
"Hug hug hug!" Daphne chanted.
"No way am I hugging that!" I said sneering at him.
"That's the last thing I'd want to do." He said looking away. I watched as Daphne went behind Puck and started to push him towards me. "What are you doing? I'm royalty, you could only dream of touching me, peasant!" He put all his weight onto his heels, crushing Daphne under him.
"Ahh! Help me!" Daphne said trying to push him off of her. Puck cackling the whole time. I frowned.
"Get off of her, you freak." I said grabbing his hand and trying to pull him off. He looked at me, and started to laugh more. I gave one last big tug, and he went flying into a pile of spilled coffee beans. I burst into laughter as he tried to crawl out of the beans. Daphne joined in.
"Oh, you'll pay for this, Grimm." He growled. I could see the slightest of humor and amusement flicker across his face. Granny signed and went to help Puck brushing him off. He walked towards me with an impish grin, making my laughter die. He went into his grungy green sweater's pocket and brang out a glop grenade. My eyes widened.
"You wouldn't dare." I challenged him, before I noticed what I just did. I groaned in my mind knowing what I just did. His grin spread even more. Daphne jumped in.
"Puck! I have an even better idea. Why not get her while she's sleeping? She'll be so shocked cause she's too dumb to see it coming! Your awesome smart-itude will show!" Puck looked at Daphne quizzicaly, and then to me. He seemed to consider what Daphne said. She waggled her eyebrows at him and then at me. I rolled my eyes, knowing making him feel more important always worked. Puck put it back into his pocket.
"Better watch out, it'll come when you least expect it." He said still grinning. I looked at him and tried not to roll my eyes.
"No duh, I'll be asleep doofus." I said. He frowned, I was glad when Granny interupted.
"Briar, what was it that was stolen?" Granny asked her. I looked around the room. Boxes were thrown everywhere, bags of beans were ripped; spilling coffee beans everywhere. I noticed the little window at the far end of the room was shattered; but it seemed to small for anyone to escape through. Briar seemed to hesitate.
"Are you familiar with the story of The Snow Queen?" Briar asked. I groaned.
"I don't." I said. Daphne nodded in agreement.
"There was a mirror created, a magic mirror, not like Mirror though. This mirror made good and evil hideously distorted. Well, one day, it broke and its tiny peices flew all over the world." Briar sat down on a box of cups as she told the story.
"What does distorted mean?" Daphne asked.
"It means it was twisted. You know, false, kinda messed up." I said.
"Hans Christian Andersen told the story of a boy, Kai, who got a peice stuck in his eye and his heart. It transformed his vision, and turned his heart to stone. Everything he saw was ugly and horrible. He disappeared, his playmate, Gerda, went looking for him. He was under a queens power. She was the ruler of all the snowflakes; the snowflakes that looked like bees. Gerda found him in The Snow Queens land."
"Granny, isn't that in Mirror?" I asked remembering our escape training there once. It was incredibly cold, everything was frozen in ice.
"Yes, it is in Mirror. The little girl found him alone on the frozen lake, where the Queen's throne was. He had to spell the word eternity with peices of ice. The little girl's love melted his heart, and dislodged the peice of mirror from his eye. They danced around, making the peices of ice move until they spelled eternity. The little boy was released from the Queen's power, they left even without her letting them go. The queen wasn't there at the moment, she didn't really give them permission to leave, but she was obliged to let him go."
"But what was stolen from you that relates to the story?" Granny asked still confused like the rest of us.
"Well, I had a jar." She trailed off not sure of how to say what was coming next. She let out a sigh. "It contained all the peices to the mirror." I looked at everyone's faces. Puck was picking his nose, Daphne seemed to try to grasp what that meant, and Granny and Uncle Jake's faces were paler than paper.
"How did you get that?" Uncle Jake asked.
"It was before we came here on Wilhelm's ship. I was walking around a run down part of Germany. There was an old lady on a blanket selling antiques. It looked so cute, I went to see what she was selling. She was cloaked and I couldn't see her face; but you could tell she was elderly." Briar seemed to be deep in her thoughts. "She seemed to know who I am. She knew about everafters. She went into her cloak and brang out the jar. She told me to guard it with my life; and to not let it into the wrong hands." Briar finished, she slumped over. "I was going to go to your house today, so you could put it in Mirror. But it's too late now." Uncle Jake kneeled down next to her and stroked her back trying to comfort her.
"Oh dear. This is very very bad." Granny said. "Girls, you'll need to concentrate. Look for clues. Anything that seems out of place, put it in mind." I rolled my eyes, the whole room was out of place. Elvis started to poke around with Daphne right infront. I headed towards the small window. All there was, was spilled coffee beans and styrofoam cups. I almost didn't notice it. A tiny shard of ice, resembling a snowflake that vaguely looked like a bee; and a long white feather.
"Um, Granny?" I said still staring at the peice of ice.
"Yes?" She asked from across the room.
"Didn't you say The Snow Queen lived near Old McDonald's farm?" I asked.
"Why yes, liebling. Why? Did you find a clue?" I heard her coming over.
I gulped. "I think we found our suspect."
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