;as promised, here's chapter 14! I just want to say thanks a billion for all the support and reviews! It really encourages me to keep writing this story! As always I don't own ROTG, just the plot and OC's;
"Velcome to zee Pole!" North exclaimed waving his hands at the entrance. "Um...very nice... doors." Maeve commented while North lead the group further into the toy factory.
They walked up a large spiral stair case while Tooth and Sandy flew up ahead of them. Jack tapped Maeve's shoulder from behind her and whispered: "look up." She raised and eyebrow and lifted her head up.
As old as it seemed, Maeve couldn't help but whisper "wow." in complete awe.
Above them where hundreds of toy planes, helicopters, even things Maeve couldn't name flying above them in mass explosions of confetti and streamers.
When they reached the top, Maeve couldn't help herself but turn in circles and take in every detail she possibly could of the large space.
A huge fire place decorated with two large swords, candles and a large mural of North with hundreds of long haired creatures took up one wall of the room.
On the other side was a platform looking at a huge globe of the planet inside a large dome, similar to those domes they use for large telescopes. across the surface was little gold lights on the all continents. Every few minutes a light would go out and was instantly replaced by new one. On the platform in front of the globe was what must've been a control board.
Maeve looked down to see little elves, about a foot tall each, running around her carrying large plates of cookies and drinks. They looked like moving red hats with green belts and a bell attached to the point on their hat.
"Cookiez? Eggnog?" North offered taking a plate from an elf and holding it out to Maeve.
She noticed North had large tattoos on both arms. On one arm it said "Naughty" and the other said "Nice" in brown lettering surrounded but brown designs covering around his arm.
"Thanks." Maeve said changing her gaze while taking a cookie with red and green icing.
Sandy tapped North's shoulder. An arrow formed above his head while he pointed to the open sky light above the globe.
North looked to where Sandy was pointing. The moon was glowing more than it usually was with a beam of light moving in their direction. "Man in Moon." He muttered.
Sandy made another arrow at Maeve who was listening to Jack explain what the globe was meant for. North nodded at Sandy in agreement.
"Jack!" He suddenly shouted. "Vhy don't you take Maeve on tour, yes? I have zome -ah- thingz to zort out vith zee otherz."
The winter spirit furrowed his eyebrows. "Sure." Jack replied not satisfied with North's excuse. None the less he shrugged it off and lead Maeve deeper into the factory. "Wait till you see the toy factory. It's crazy busy around this time of the year." He told her while they headed down the hall.
"Let's just hope Frosty dosen't show off again and screw something up." Bunny grumbled while they walked away.
Maeve stepped into the toy factory and felt her jaw drop in amazement for the millionth time that day.
The work spaces where on balconies in a cylinder room surrounding a large stair case in the very center.
Toys of all sizes where being built and painted on large desks placed right next to each other. Life sized ice sculptures of the certain toys they where building stood on the corners of every table.
The toy builders are what confused Maeve the most. They where 6 or 7 feet tall and covered with long hair. Some was put into a pony tail on the back of their heads and two long strands went over their mouth like a mustache. They where a range of colors from dark blue, to dark violet to dark or light brown.
"Are those the yetis?" Maeve whispered to Jack, hoping not to insult any of the toy makers. "Yeah, cool huh?" He replied as a large yeti walked in between them carrying a large red doll house.
"Hey, Phil." Jack nodded at a brown furred yeti standing guard. Phil nodded back in greeting before getting back to work.
"Wow this place is busy." Maeve said stepping out of the way for three yetis then ducking as a fire truck went swinging over her head. There was so much going on she lost track of Jack.
Maeve looked around, slightly scared of being lost alone in a toy factory. And to top it off she didn't even understand a word any of yetis where saying. She was panicking slightly till something grabbed her by the waist and pulled her over to the railing.
"And really easy to get lost in." Jack added while he unhooked Maeve from the "G" end of his staff. She laughed. "Yeah I figured that out by myself, thanks."
They passed a yeti painting toy robots red when Maeve finally asked: "aren't the elves supposed to make the toys?" "They just let them believe that." Jack whispered nodding at a group of elves messing around with a light-up sign.
One elf stepped on the circuit board and grabbed on of the wires of the sign. He instantly jolted with electricity causing the sign to light up flashing "Merry Christmas" in bright green letters.
"Great job, guys." Jack called over while taking Maeve by the shoulder and leading her away. "Keep it up!"
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Once Jack and Maeve where out of ear shot, The big four turned back to the moon. "It'z been a long time, my friend." North called. "Vhat iz newz?"
The beam of moon light moved to the large red book North had left on the control board to the globe. The pages flew open to the dead center of the book.
The toy builder walked to the table and lifted the book up into his hands. It was opened to the page of a lost spirit none of them have personally met.
"Daughter Nature?" North asked aloud looking at the photo of an infant girl being carried by Mother Nature herself.
"What about Daughter Nature?" Bunnymund asked. "She couldn't be up t'something could she? T'bloody girl went missing over 500 years ago when Pitch went after her during the dark ages."
"Do you think he found her?" Tooth asked hushing her fairies who where trying to get locations of lost teeth. "I mean, Mother Earth wouldn't make it that easy for Pitch to track her down."
"No, zhe vouldn't." North agreed. "Not after vhat Pitch almozt did."
"Then what's t'big deal?" Bunny asked. "No one is for sure if she's been found. For all we know she could still be hidden inside the earth!" "Bunny does have a point..." Tooth agreed. "We don't even know who, what or where she is. Nobody does."
"Tell uz, Manny!" North called to the moon. "Vhat do ve have to do vith Daughter Nature?"
Manny's beam of light moved to the center of the room. A black shadow formed in the center taking shape of a teenage girl with long wavy hair. She laughed with a familiar voice as the shadow turned to a side view.
"That looks a lot like... Maeve." Tooth said flying over the shadow to get a better look. "Maeve? You mean Frosty's girlfriend Maeve or another Maeve I don't know about?" Bunny asked even though no one paid him any attention.
"Maeve iz Daughter Nature?" North asked Manny. But the Man in the moon gave no response. The beam disappeared and the moon's surface stopped glowing.
The four guardians looked at each other with concern, not just for the situation, but Maeve's well being.
"What are we going to tell to her?" Tooth asked playing with her hands. "I mean its not like we can just walk up and just say she's daughter nature."
"Ve vill tell her nothing of thiz." North responded closing the book and putting it away on a book shelf.
"Nothing? Doesn't t'kid have a right to know who she is?" Bunny demanded. Sandy nodded in agreement.
"Ve are already putting her at rizk by having her here. Ruzhing her out or telling her zee truth vill only make thingz vorse." North explained.
"Should we tell Jack? He is a guardian too." Tooth asked.
North considered this for a moment before shaking his head. "No. He iz too cloze to her. No doubt he vould tell her." North said. "Ve have to act natural. If Pitch findz out Maeve iz Daughter Nature, zhe could be in grave danger."
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Deep in old dead winter woods a jet black horse with glowing yellow eyes sprinted in the air through the moss covered trees, its body still covered in frost and snow. It sprinted to an old, broken wooden bed frame over a deep black hole.
The horse shot down the dark hole into a dark cave.
Hanging from the ceilings where large metal cages, just as dark and gloomy as the atmosphere. In the very center was a large globe similar to North's but far more ugly and dark.
Sitting in one of the open cages was a black figure of a man his face hidden in the shadows. The horse ran up to him and neighed something before dispersing into a cloud of sand and disappearing in thin air.
The man smiled evilly. "So," he mused aloud. "The Guardians have found Daughter Nature. What a pleasant surprise."
He let this sink in for a few minutes. "She could be a valuable piece in this game..."he muttered to himself. He grinned as the pieces came together in his mind. "Well, this saves me so much trouble."
The man stood up in the cage and walked out. "Come." He said as more jet black horses walked out of the shadows. "It's time we paid an old friend a visit."
;GASP! Who is he going to see? Who knows? Oh wait, I do. Also, I know the time line might be off guys but I'm just going off my own story line. Any who, thanks for reading and please leave a review!;