;eh I'm just laying around and figured I'd post chapter 17. Look at the final authors note please!;
Maeve had to give Jack credit, he knows how to tick off a Yeti.
Phil returned with a now clean North and plopped the infant into Maeve's arms. If a yeti could curse, She was pretty sure he was.
The spirit of winter merely sniggered at Phil's anger. Jack was playing with Sandy to keep him busy and to make sure he didn't put any more yeti's to sleep. The Sand-baby was making mini-sand dolphins and stingrays fly around the room and when he got bored of them he would make them disburse into thin air.
A sand tooth formed above Sandy's head as he smiled. He pointed a little hand at the Tooth fairy herself as she and her fairies floated into the Pole.
"Tooth!" Maeve greeted while setting North down in a crib. "Your back! Did you find Father Time?"
Tooth's gaze dropped while she thought of how she was going to tell them the news.
"No. I didn't. Bunny's still looking for Pitch as well." She started. "What do you mean you didn't find Father Time?" Jack asked setting Sandy into a crib. "I think- We think Pitch may have killed him." Tooth said looking at the floor.
The atmosphere instantly turned from cheerful and warm to tense and cold. Maeve looked at Jack wide-eyed. Mythical creatures can still die?
"How could have Pitch killed him?" Jack asked breaking the silence. "I don't know. But his entire palace is gone with out a trace." Tooth replied looking up teary eyed.
"And... There's something else." She said looking at her fairies for back up. "It has to deal with you, Maeve."
"What?" Maeve asked sitting on a table.
Tooth hesitated. How exactly did she explain this?
Her fairies flew to a shelf North kept lots of large books on. The squeaked and pointed to the largest of them all. Tooth's pink eyes lit up as she flew strait to the book and opened it to the page of Daughter Nature.
"What's that?" Maeve asked while Tooth flew over to her. "It's a book Manny gave us when we first formed the guardians. It has record of every mythical creature on the planet." She answered handing Maeve the open book.
She looked at the photo. It was of a pale, beautiful woman with dark eyes and floor-length hair blacker than night. Her cheeks and hands showed small moss looking green stuff slowly spreading down. she was wearing a bright green old fashioned dress with transparent green veils that draped around her arms a waist.
In her arms was a baby girl with the same wavy black hair. She was even in a similar light green dress, but her eyes where different. Even though its just a drawing you can tell the infant had multicolored eyes that constantly swirled different shades of brown, blue, and green. Just like Maeve's...
"This is a great drawing." Maeve said look up from the book. "But what does it have to do with me?"
Tooth flew up a pointed at the photo. "That's Mother Nature and her daughter, Daughter Nature" she explained. "Creative names." Maeve joked. "But I still don't understand."
"When you and Jack went to view the toy factory, Manny contacted us-" "what?" Jack, who had been silent till now, jumped in. Just because he's still the newest addition of the guardians they still don't tell him anything? "Why wasn't I allowed to stay or told Manny contacted us? I'm a guardian too."
Tooth played with her hands nervously and continued as if she hadn't been interrupted. "And told us Daughter Nature had been found after 540 years of hiding." "I still don't understand where your going with this." Maeve said setting the book down next to her on the table.
"Manny told us that... That you are Daughter Nature." Tooth finished.
The three of them sat in silence while Maeve tried to process what she had been told. She's Daughter Nature? She, Maeve Bennett, was the daughter of Mother Nature?
"That's... That's just... That's impossible." Maeve said shaking her head trying to find words. "I-I can't be... I'm not. Thats... I can't be Daughter Nature."
She looked at Jack for back up. The spirit of winter didn't say anything. He just studied Maeve like it was the first time he had ever seen her.
"You don't actually believe this do you?" She asked standing up.
Jack hesitated to answer. Yes he did believe it, Manny was never wrong about these things or anything for that matter, but he didn't want to tell Maeve that.
Maeve sighed with annoyance at Jack's silence. "Come on!" She exclaimed slightly desperate now. "I don't even look like her! Ok, we have the same eyes but- but that's just a..." She trailed off as she stared at the photo.
Yes, they didn't share any other physical traits, but the infants eyes looked almost exactly like Maeve's, like someone had used hers as a reference. If this was made over 500 years ago...
"Maeve, can you ever think of a time that something... something unexplainable has ever happened to you?" Tooth asked.
Maeve furrowed her eyebrows and looked at the floor. She did have some memories she never understood.
Like when she was 10 and didn't want her Aunt Sophie to go to Georgia to meet Mr. Rada's parents instead of staying and painting with her. She got angry, really angry. Only seconds later an entire storm front came from no where with loud thunder and thrashing lightning. The storm was so bad, the airport had to cancel all flights for three days.
And not even a few months ago, she had a science lab project where she had to do the exact opposite of what is needed to keep a plant alive.
Maeve had tried everything. Not giving it water, no sunlight, kept it locked up in a closet, and it still was budding. She had even tried pouring four kinds of soda into its roots. Heck, she had resolved to smashing it with her fists. None the less, when she pulled it out of its box the day it was due, it was in full bloom with thick, healthy roots and bright pink and yellow petals.
Maeve looked back up at them wide-eyed, as if confirming Tooth's theory. After getting looks of concern and shock, she looked back down at the drawing of Mother and Daughter Nature. She just couldn't be...
"Come on, I need to show you something." Tooth said resting a hand on Maeve's shoulder. she tore her gaze from the book to the Tooth Fairy who was holding one of North's magic-portal snow globes in her free hand.
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After the quick, sickening 360 feeling, Maeve landed foot-first in the same mural area she had first seen when she came to Tooth palace. It was hard to believe she had only last been in this place a few hours ago. Felt like a life time.
"This way." Tooth said flying down a path hidden away behind a rather large rock.
At the end of the path was a large wall with more murals on it. But these where different. Instead of just symbolizing what Tooth does, it told a story. Like a story board, each frame taking up the same sized circle that was surrounded by painted vines. In the very center was a large green leaf painted onto the wall.
"This is the story of Daughter Nature." She explained. "I was told it when Mother Earth helped me create this place a couple hundred years ago."
Tooth floated next to the first of the murals and started the tale:
"Long ago, deep inside the earth's core, Mother Nature grew constantly weary of the loneliness of her work."
The small mural she was pointing to had a woman, one who looked like Mother Nature from North's book, surrounded by grass and flowers. Even surrounded by the happy atmosphere, she looked depressed.
"Tiered of her loneliness, she created a child from a single flower. From the plant, a beautiful baby girl was born."
The next mural was of a blue petaled plant that slowly turned yellow towards the inside. along with several flowers surrounding it, the same infant girl from the book sitting above the petals.
"The Man in the moon, Father Time and Mother Nature rejoiced at her birth. Unknowingly, hidden below in his chamber, the Boogeyman was having his own celebration, celebrating his plans for the baby."
This picture had two men, one was short and round wearing a suit and only had a single thick strand of hair that curled over his head. The other was a lot taller and thinner. Maeve couldn't put out his age or anything other than that he was carrying a staff with an hour glass on it.
They must of been Father Time and The man in the moon. They where celebrating with Mother Nature and the infant with the moon in the background. While below them a black figure grinned up at the celebrating group.
"A Great War broke out between the two forces. In the end, the boogeyman was forced back into hiding."
At the top of this mural showed Father Time, The Man in Moon, and Mother Nature with a full moon in the background charging head on at Pitch who had a giant army if darkness following him. Below that showed Pitch retreating back into a dark cavern.
"Even with The boogeyman defeated, Mother Nature wasn't satisfied with her child's safety. For she knew the Boogeyman would return for her beloved child."
This painting showed Mother Nature holding her daughter close while glaring at the swirling back spiral surrounded them.
"In a last attempt to protect Daughter Nature, Mother Earth hid her child in a way no one would have expected. She gave her only daughter to two of the mortals of the earth. When the time was right, Mother Earth reshaped her daughter and repeated the process again."
The second to last mural showed Mother Nature leaning down over a group of people who must of been the "mortals". She was handing them a bundle that must've been daughter nature.
"Reshaped?" Maeve muttered.
"So forth, Mother Nature has kept her daughter hidden among mortals for generations, in hopes that one day she could return home."
The last mural was right above the centered green leaf. It was the exact same painting as the drawing in North's book. But this one looked more... dark.
The colors where more faded and the atmosphere around them was dark and gloomy. Humans where on knees and dark creatures flew above in the sky. Unlike the book, in which had brighter colors and a beautiful back ground of trees plants and animals.
"Only daughter nature can enter." Tooth said nodding at the green leaf. The tooth fairy attempted to place her hand against it, but was blocked a few inches away by some kind of small invisible field.
Maeve walked up to the mural. She studied the leaf before slowly reaching out and placing her hand against the cold rock.
Instantly, she fell through the wall like it had turned into gas and stumbled inside.
Maeve studied her hands in horror. She passed through the rock without trying. "Only Daughter Nature can enter." Tooth had told her.
"I am Daughter Nature..." Maeve muttered looking at her hand as if it where a foreign object. Shaking out of her shock a little bit, the new found daughter of nature looked around the secret cavern.
It looked just like the rest of the Tooth palace except sized down a heck of a ton smaller. Only a single tower stood in the middle. The paint was old and faded with bits and pieces chipping off. Large snake-like vines dangled from the top and moss seemed to grow wherever you could step. A large old bridge connected the tower to where Maeve was standing.
Without really thinking of how weak the structure could be, Maeve walked across staring in awe. The whole place gave Maeve a strange feeling. She couldn't explain it, but it was there.
Once across, Maeve tilted her head, slightly confused, slightly surprised.
On various shelfs where golden, half-circle-shaped containers. Each was about a foot long with the white, flat surface on top. The top surface had golden lining that took shape of 3 diamonds one on top of the other. The middle diamond had a blue gem taking up the entire inner space. The other two had two miniature green diamonds splitting the space. On the half circled side, was pictured head shots of the child whom the teeth must've belonged to.
One of them had a black girl with long curly, jet black hair. Another was a red headed girl with a pixie cut. The one next to it was an asian girl with long jet black hair and a round face. The one below that was a girl with dark brown hair and tough looking jaw. She kept glancing from one container to the next, she counted at least 30 total.
No matter which set of teeth Maeve looked at each one had the same brown, blue, and green swirling eyes. Every single one of them. same shape, same swirling affect. These... These all where her... But how...
"Maeve!"
Daughter Nature jumped and looked around for who had called her name. It was a males voice she could tell that much. And it sounded so familiar. "I know that voice..." She muttered looking around.
"Haha, Maeve!" It laughed again.
She turned around to see one set of teeth was glowing more than the others. Daughter Nature reached over and picked the box up in her hands. The picture was of a girl with long, curly blonde hair, pretty tan skin and a small splash of freckles going just across her noes.
The moment Maeve had touched the case, it stopped glowing and the voice vanished. She turned the object over in her hands before giving up and stuffing the case into her jacket pocket. At that, she headed back across the bridge. she needed to ask Tooth a few things.
XXXXXXX Lazy time skip weeee~ XXXXXXX
"Did you find everything alright?" Tooth asked once Maeve came out. Daughter nature nodded and furrowed her eyebrows while looking at the ground. "Tooth... Why do you collect children's teeth? What's so important about them?" She asked.
"They contain childhoods most important memories." Tooth answered while floating down in front of Maeve. "We collect them and guard them with our lives to keep them as innocent as they are when they're made. So when they needed guidance, we can help."
"That sure wasn't mentioned in "Mythical Legends"." Maeve thought while pulling out the teeth she had taken. "So these... these contain my memories?" She asked holding the container out for Tooth and her fairies to see. "About who I was before I was...what I am now?"
Tooth nodded. "That's why I hid them here. So if you ever came back, you could see them." "I... I'm sorry I shouldn't have taken these." Maeve mumbled handing the teeth back to the Tooth fairy.
She simply shook her head and closed Maeve's fingers around the case. "Keep them." She said. "That's why they're here. To help to you remember."
Maeve looked back down at the teeth container. This was way to much to process all in one hour.
Tooth caught on to Maeve's uncomfortableness and patted her on the shoulder. "I think you've had enough learning for today. I have one of North's snow globes back at the mural. It should take you strait home."
Daughter Nature nodded and followed Tooth down the path, pocketing the teeth as she went.
;HOLY CRAP GUYS OVER 50+ REVIEWS! Thank you so much your all so amazing. I hope I don't sound to calm cause I'm the farthest thing from calm that's existed. I made you all this: (you'll have to copy and paste the link. sorry that I ruined your images of Maeve) and thanks again for everything you do and please leave a review!;