;hello everyone! Here's the second to last chapter :/ sorry it's short. None the less enjoy!;
"Jack I only have till I'm 18!"
"You do know the risk you are taking by stay here?" "And I'm not changing my mind."
"Happy, happy, happy 18th birthday, Maeve."
Words seemed to echo through Jack's head. "No, no, no, no..." Was the only thing he could think as he stared at Pitch with pure horror. It couldn't be Maeve's birthday- she had to have more time! "No... no no!" Jack exclaimed turning and flying into the sky. "Jack! Vhat iz going on?" North's voice called. "Jack!"
"You'll never reach her in time, Frost!" Pitch's laughing voice called after him. "She only has till the sun fully rises!"
Jack looked behind him. The sun was already starting to peek over the horizon. "No no no no... Come on, Maeve... Don't be gone..." He muttered flying to the only place he could think of.
XXXXXXX Maeve's POV XXXXXXX
Maeve easily learned why her mom killed her off before recreating her. It was aggravatingly painful.
Daughter Nature bit her tongue and squeezed her eyes shut as the dark green vines slowly ran out of her skin and down into the earth. So far both legs up to her knees and half way up her left arm's elbow was underneath the earth's surface. Using her free hand she had managed to keep surfaced, Maeve fiddled with her snowflake/butterfly necklace. She was fighting every nerve in her body not to wail out in pain.
"Maeve!" She heard someone yell. "Maeve!"
"Jack." She instantly thought. Maeve looked around her favorite tree that her back was leaning against and opened her mouth to yell back but stopped herself. Leaning a little farther she saw Jack was standing on the lake where they had first met. He was still yelling her name over and over again as he turned in circles. "Maeve please!" He yelled. "I can't loose you like this!".
Maeve hid back behind the tree. Tears flowed freely down her cheeks as she hid her face in her hand. Or at least she tried. She had kept her free hand to close to the ground and the vine had rooted itself.
"It's better this way... There's nothing Jack can do... And I don't want him to watch this..." Maeve assured herself under her breath. Lowering her head, Daughter Nature continued fighting the temptation to yell back for help.
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Several yards away, 2 figures stood watching Daughter Nature.
"I do not know why you torture her like this, Seraphina." Father Time snapped. "The girl has shown courage beyond anything I've ever seen. Especially when you compare her to how she used to be 400 years ago. But even then she was brave."
Mother Earth looked annoyed at The Lord of time. "Do not question my parenting, Hortatius." She snapped back.
"I will question them if I please to do so!" He snapped back before gesturing a hand a Maeve. "Look at her... Your only child, sobbing with a broken heart. She's fighting with all her will power not to wail out of pain and your sitting here with a front row seat enjoying the show!"
"Do I look like I am enjoying it? And I love my child more than anything! I just want what's best for her." Seraphina countered angrily.
Hortatius shook his head as his bread slowly grew longer. "You are blind to what you are doing to her! She defeated your father by herself! Something not any of us or the original four Guardians have ever achieved! And her reward? Get dragged back into the earth and decomposed into a new body with no memories of who she is." He exclaimed.
"I would know you'd be against me." Mother Earth said angrily. "You did admit to giving Maeve the ability to view her past." "Only in the girl's dreams and only when Manny started taking her memories 400 years ago after you so foolishly took her away from the mortals."
Mother earth's pale face flushed a little. "She had been hidden for 140 years already. I thought my father may have given up on trying to kill her... well he did... He just tried to possess her..." She trailed off before starting again. "And what of the paintings of the Guardian's homes? How do you explain those?" Father Time only smirked a little. "Seraphina I know everything happening in the past, the present, and the future. I knew this would be the life in which she faces Pitch from the moment you gave her to the Bennetts. I merely gave her a simple warning if what was coming."
Seraphina scowled at him then turned to the full moon still barely visible in the sky. "You agree with this as well?" She asked. Mother Earth and Father Time could hear Man in the moon's voice inside their mind.
"Of course I agree with Hortatius! He's only making sense!"
Mother Nature sighed with annoyance. "And I take you sent that Frost boy after her as well?" She asked crossing her arms. Jack Frost may be a guardian, but he is reckless and uncontrollable and insincere and not at all the ideal match she wanted for her daughter. But Manny, being himself, chose him as a guardian anyway. That was probably the only reason she didn't blow up on the trickster.
"They do make such a cute couple, don't you agree?" Manny teased.
"This is not a game, Manny." Seraphina snapped with annoyance while glaring at the moons surface.
"Oh, but life is full of games, Seraphina! You're just to stubborn to play them!" Manny replied. She could of sworn he was smirking.
Father Time patted Mother Earth's shoulder before she could reply. "What Manny and I are trying to explain is: Maeve deserves better than this. She deserves the chance to settle down and start her life over in this body. I do believe she has earned that privilege."
Seraphina looked at the ground then at her daughter. Maeve's waist-down was completely pulled under the earth's surface by now.
She was doing the right thing... Wasn't she?
;so about Manny: I have this headcannon that when he wants them to they can hear his voice in their heads XD silly I know. Thanks for reading and please leave a review!;