One dark cold tunnel after the next, deeper and deeper Emily-Jane (Mother Nature) went a determined look on her face.
"Who are you?" some one asked in their ruff voice, getting her to turn around.
"I... Am Mother Nature," she said curtsying slightly to the Outcast Viking. "So now with that done, good day kind sir." she said turning around again only to get the man to catch her by the shoulder.
"Not so fast..." he said spinning her around, his hand still on her shoulder.
"I will give you precisely ten seconds to remove your hand from my shoulder, before I snap it off at the wrist." she said glaring at the man, winds starting to pick up through the tunnel.
"Oh yeah? And just how exactly do you plan on doing that?" he asked grinning.
"Five seconds," she said not answering.
"Let them come, I want to see how a pretty thing like you can snap my hand off."
"Ok," she said grabbing the man's hand and twisting it as far as it can go making him scream his mouth then being covered by thick vines blocking out the cries as she twisted it further and further until 'SNAP!'
"There," Emily-Jane said grinning to a now whimpering Outcast Viking giving him his hand back. "Told you I could do it. Now get out of my sight before I decide to do something to you."
Nodding quickly, the Viking got up, grabbing his hand and ran off back down the tunnel he came from.
"Oh... that felt good," she said smiling "Now I know why Daddy does this kind of stuff so often. But enough about that," she said cutting the dark thoughts off. "Because of that Blockhead, now my visit wont be a surprise... Oh well." she said shrugging and continued towards the Globe Room.
"I didn't know you could do that," someone said getting Emily's attention to the left, making her turn to see Merida in her new outfit.
"Merida!" she said running up to her and hugging the Scottish Princess "Oh thank Manny you're alright," she said pulling away motherly instincts taking over. "Are you ok? Are you hurt? Has Pitch or anyone else done anything to you?"
"Hey hey I'm fine," Merida said cutting her off "I can fight too you know. Not as good as you" she said nodding to the blood on the ground "But I can throw a pretty good punch."
"Do you know where Pitch is, Merida?" Emily-Jane asked quietly not looking the redhead in the eye.
"By that big dumb Globe of his praising Jack on that dumb storm he says he made," Merida said straight away "Why?" she asked looking into Emily's eyes only just noticing they look almost exactly the same as Pitch's.
"I thought he'd like to see his daughter before he's too busy ruling the world to have time for me," Emily-Jane said giving a nervous grin seeing Merida was making connections.
"So he... And you..." Merida said as they set off "Huh, did not think that would be the case..." she said a smile on her face.
"So... You're ok... with it?" Emily-Jane asked stopping "And not... amazed about it?"
"This is the girl who turned her mam and lill brothers into bears," Merida said smiling "It will take more than a bit of news like that to amaze me." she said shouldering her bow and leading the way to the Globe Room.
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"Oi Pitch..." Alvin's voice rang around the Globe Room as he came in.
"What now Alvin?" Pitch asked sighing, turning to see a really ticked off Alvin the Treacherous.
"One of me Vikings just came back early from patrolling the tunnels with 'is hand snapped off his wrist. Says some girl called Mother Nature did it." Alvin explained.
"Did she give him a time limit to let him get his hand off her?" Pitch asked standing tall.
"Yes, yes I did," a young women's voice said getting the men to turn to see Mother Nature and Merida coming into the room. "But sadly," she said acting all dramatic "He just wouldn't listen to me Daddy..." she said grinning and looking to Alvin.
"There you see," Pitch said getting the Chief's attention again "It was his own fault it happened. Now if you don't mind..." he said turning to the girls.
Now normally, Merida would of just let Alvin attack Pitch, since he was the leader of the badguys and all... But Emily-Jane's plan needed a live talk-able to Pitch, so when Alvin whipped out his sword and was getting ready to swing it, Merida, using her lightning reflexes, strung up her bow and fired it making it go over Pitch's shoulder and into the wrist of the hand that was holding the sword making Alvin drop it and scream.
"Try that again," Pitch said spinning around "And next time I will be the one shooting the arrow. And let me tell you, it won't go into your wrist."
Scowling, Alvin got up and rushed out of the room.
"I must, thank you, Merida," Pitch said turning back to the girls "If it had not been for you superior archery skills that man would of just killed me. But enough about him," he said turning to his daughter smirking "Why, my dear, are you here, when you are famous for being a neutral party?"
"Because I want my boyfriend back, Daddy," Emily-Jane said standing tall "And for that he needs all that darkness controlling him out of him."
"And what makes you think I want to go back to the side who ignored me for all my spiritual life!" Jokul's cry rang around the room as it got colder as the teenager made himself known, shocking Emily Jane at how much he changed.
"What makes you think I will give all this power, all this control, all this freedom, all this belief up, just for Jack Frost to turn those dials back to zero huh?"
"Because those kids out there," Merida said glaring at Jokul hand tightening on her bow "They're not believing in you. They're fearing you."
At that Jokul blinked and stepped back a bit nodding at the Princess to continue.
"With this storm you set off, Jack," she said not caring about the glare she got from calling him the wrong name "You're giving the kids a world where everything, everything, is pitch black and freezing cold. They're only believing in you because they fear you. And I know deep down, deep deep deep down, way down that is not what you want," she said hoping this speech she had been working on would work.
"You want to bring the children of the world and show them the FUN winter can have, you want to keep them safe, you want to be believed in for all the good reasons.
I know the people on our side, mainly the Guardians since we're new here, left you out for so long but I'm sure they're trying their best to make it up to you.
But the only one who can end this JACK FROST is you. Fight his jerk, shut him back to where he was... Please..." she finished eyes wide tears brimming them hands together in a begging position looking to Jokul Frosti.
A slow clapping was ringing around the room courtesy of Jokul Frosti who was also wearing a smug grin on his face.
"Well done Merida, well done," he said smugly "You put all your mothers lessons together and gave a marvelous speech. Heard every word and understood it all. Too bad it was all for nothing." he said loosing the cheerful act and glaring at the girl.
"I'll have you know Princess, I am not Jack Frost. I don't give anything to how those useless brats think about me, or how they believe in me. As long as I am seen, and have power, and control over this body... I don't care what's achieved.
Those imbecile hustlers (Guardians), and twerps up there only started paying attention to me because Pitch here came back out of the dark." Jokul said pointing to Pitch who was staying silent a smile on his face.
"For years... I was nothing but an expression, a joke, the one to blame when things involving the winter elements happened.
Well now. Everyone is going to know my name. And everyone is going to believe in me!"
"But will they love you?" Emily-Jane asked coldly looking to the boy she hardly recognized used to be her boyfriend. "Because I wont... Have fun with your new son, Pitch..." she said coldly snapping her fingers and vanishing.
With nothing else to say, Merida also left running out of the room to the cliff her brothers were at, tears running down her face.
AN : Sorry for the speeches being all bunched up like this... but hopefully you can read it.
Hope you're enjoying it, and thanks for sticking with it