Heh, took me long enough, right? Sorry. I've had all my other stories to work on, then all my extra-curricular activities and honors classes, and I'm just swamped. Updates are going to be few and far between, sad to say. But, read the chapter, and I'll do my best to get the next up as soon as possible!

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Chapter 8

Sighing, Maddie took a deep breath as she leant against a pane of glass in the green house. Her breath came out in a white cloud, and she shivered slightly, and rubbed her hands against her bare arms, trying to keep warm. Maddie was in green house G-14, and it was one of the more cool climates. This was the green house that her parents kept the plants they were trying to get to become resistant to cold climates in.

Taking a brisk walk through the aisles, Maddie decided to check on the plants seeing as she had nothing better to do. Most the plants were moderately healthy, so Maddie left them be. But, she passed one plant, and stopped and backtracked to it.

The poor plant was dying! If not dying, then already dead. It looked like it was already decaying to Maddie as she looked at the poor thing, tears in her eyes. Snatching up the tag, Maddie looked at the test temperature for the plant.

107.7 Degrees Fahrenheit. Maddie bit her lip, trying to think of the conversion of Fahrenheit to Celsius. She wasn't overly familiar with Fahrenheit, living with Celsius most her life. The equation was… C = (F-32)/18, so 107.7 would be there in place of F… It would be 75.7/18, which would come out to be… about 4.21 degrees Celsius? That didn't sound right…

Maybe the equation was C = (F-32)x5/9. With 107.7 in for F, the equation would be C = (107.7-32)x5/9, and the decimal of 5/9 was .5556, so it would then be C = (107.7-32)x.5556. 107.7 minus 32 would still be 75.7, reducing the equation to C = 75.7x.5556. 75.7 times .5556 was about 42.1 degrees Celsius… That didn't seem right either, seeing as the decimal had only moved over one place, but Maddie knew that it was definitely not 42.1 degrees in here- it was more like below 0.

So why was a plant that needed to be in green house A-03 down in green house G-14? Sighing, Maddie picked up the plant, fully intending to take it down to the correct green house in a pathetic attempt to save its life.

Maddie sighed as she began the long trek to A-03. Her parents could be so airheaded sometimes! Either that or they did it on purpose. But why would they want to intentionally kill a plant? Her parents weren't like that! They loved plants.

Sighing once more, Maddie placed the plant on an empty table in A-03. Turning her back to it, Maddie placed her head against the warm pane of glass of the green house. Why would her parents want to kill a plant?

"Mm-hmm I'm so tired." A high-pitched voice yawned. Maddie jumped, and turned to the voice.

It was the plant! Well, not really the plant, but something under the big… bushy… green? leaves of the plant? What was that about? Hadn't the plant just been dead?

"Hm? Who is this?" The voice tinkled, and the leaves moved revealing a small girl about five inches tall with a bright green dress on and pitch black hair and silver eyes. Dark brown sticks were coming out of her back, creating the illusion of wings.

"Who am I?" Maddie asked, a bit shocked. "Who are you?" The girl laughed, as it got to her knees, beckoning a small spider towards her. The spider came, and crowled onto the sticks coming out of the girls back, spinning webs onto them, creating wings. The girl tested them once before flying up in front of Maddie.

"I am Noemi, young overseer of the Great Garden." The Fairy smiled, dipping a curtsy. "Thank you so much for bringing me from that horrible place. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to keep the poor plant alive much longer." Noemi smiled sadly as she flew down and stroked the now-lush leaves of the plant.

"So, you look after a great garden?" Maddie asked, confused. "What type of garden?" Noemi laughed, her voice as bells.

"Please, don't flatter me." Noemi asked, dipping another curtsy. "A young fairy like me is nowhere near skilled enough to look after and handle the plants in the Great Garden with such finesse as yourself, young overseer." Maddie gasped and bit her lip.

"Me? You mean I oversee the Great Garden? Since when?" Maddie asked the fairy. Noemi laughed.

"It has always been your destiny to oversee the Great Garden," Noemi replied. "Once Kur reawakens and comes to full strength, it is the fairies duties to escort the young overseer to the Garden, so she may bring the Garden to life and start the apothecary back up, so we may prepare the medicines needed for the war." Maddie jumped.

"War?" She asked, frightened. "What war?" Noemi gave a sad smile.

"The war that will begin soon." She replied. "While Kur is a being of good, sealing himself away so the world can be at peace, there are people who want to use Kur for evil." Maddie scowled, face turning dark.

"Rookie." Maddie growled, but Noemi shook her head.

"No, Rook is just a puppet in the scheme." Noemi contradicted. "There is someone else, behind the scenes, that is controlling everybody."

"Who?" Maddie wanted to know. "Who is it?" Noemi shook her head.

"I am not allowed to say, young overseer." Noemi answered. "I must leave now. Keep the plant alive, and it will help you in the future." Maddie looked at the plant.

"How? And where are you going?" Noemi gave a soft smile.

"I'm due back in the Great Garden," Noemi answered. "I will be back, I just have things I need to take care of myself. Until then, young overseer." And Noemi disappeared in a flash of light.

Maddie sighed, and picked up the plant before resolving to take it to her room so her parents couldn't nearly kill it again, then planning on calling Zak and Jordan.

Maddie was barely three steps out of the green house before she remembered that she was grounded and not allowed to use the phone.

Growling, she stomped to her room, resolving to figuring out the lock on her TV and then watching as much Weird World as she wanted.

Stupid Parents.

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