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hey legit tho, if I can figure out my streaming setup for it, I think it’d be fun to do a baking stream on twitch sometime
this depends on a lot of things ofc (streaming software running on my old laptop, for one) but I have Evil Plans™ that I’ve been thinking about for a while, and hopefully somehow I can get them to happen
#remember that cake I said I was going to bake...#👀#personal#see my problem is I have too many hobbies#things I would love to do on stream:#embroidery‚ cooking‚ putting together a puzzle#pinning insects‚ doing something with perler beads maybe? (I have a bunch of them)#reading books to you because I've got fun books that are hard to find (like the gay lighthouse keeper one)#(I do see your asks about that one‚ I just haven't had the brainpower to word a response sorry)#like idk I just love making things and I'd love to do stuff sometime because I think it'd be fun#but baking is the priority atm#gotta get a kitchen setup somehow#hmmm
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Random Legend Headcanons that haunt my brain at stupid hours <3
He has a big sweet tooth, but less so for sugary things and mostly more for fruits
greatest seemingly "irrational" fear is dogs, he has never liked them even since childhood, and the only dog he can stand is the old sheepdog his grandparent's kept to keep track of the goats
Sky is his favorite. Sky is real with him and doesn't dismiss him as an asshole = automatic favorite. They also share a lot in common
he and Sky like gossiping when no one is paying attention to them. Not about the other heroes necessarily, they just both find it fun
oral stims: he likes his hands free, but chewing/sucking on things helps him focus better and stay calm. He refuses to admit how many times he's found himself chewing on his medallions
he loves puzzles. You'd think he'd gotten enough of them in his adventures, but nope! Hes been doing this long enough that going WITHOUT puzzles to solve actually makes him feel bored. He likes the challenge of it, it keeps his brain ticking
history nerd. A lot of Hyrule's culture/history/tradition was lost because the people were just trying to survive after Ganon killed the hero, so Legend really likes trying to hunt down the pieces of the past to put together what it was like. It's a big puzzle for him, and he loves talking about it if he feels he'll actually be listened too
he knits. He doesn't know many patterns, but he knows some basic stitches and the repetition calms him down
good at most needlework, sucks at embroidery. He likes it, it's just too stressful for him. He's in awe of the fact that Sky's so good at it.
he actually loves the sea I know most writers have him scared of it, but he's got far more happy memories than bad ones, so while it's bittersweet, he still enjoys being near the water (as log as it's not storming)
hates lightning storms with a passion. Storms in general make his arthritis worse, but the lightning trauma sucks a lot more
actually enjoys light rain showers. it still effects his pain levels, but not super bad, and it's worth it to him
has the most un-attractive laugh ever. He tends to snort and cackle like a madman. He does have a "polite laugh" but it's far less genuine.
he CAN cook, he just doesn't care to. Food is an annoying requirement and necessity for him most of the time, and more of a chore than he's willing to admit
he has the biggest soft spot for kids, partially because of Gully, partially by nature
the most susceptible to Baby Therapy (the effect of feeling at peace, content, happy, or relief while holding a small child) Ulli figured this out early on and now abuses it.
he loves stargazing. Stars are a constant no matter where he goes and they're like old friends (got this from the manga)
he's an artist and a perfectionist, his preferred medium is paints, but he does carry a sketchbook
loves physical contact, but is hesitant about others boundaries, so he rarely initiates or maintains it
I have more, but yeah, this is getting pretty long :')
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Godsides Ref Sheet
I've been working on my own version of the godsides idea (sanders sides as gods), and this is what I've got. (kudos to @thegoldenduckie for helping! I couldn't do this without you!)
This is going to be a long post, so here:
First up we've got the characters themselves! (this does include Remy and Emile, I know that they aren't sides, but I love them)
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Logan
God of: intelligence, wisdom, strategy, memory, time, and space
Style: like an ethereal, noble, starcore, gay ass bitch
Age (as of Thomas): as old as the universe itself
Interests: poetry, science, mathematics, astronomy, Patton
Animal counterpart (+features): Raven, he has the wings of a raven
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Patton
God of: emotion, empathy, health, animals, life, justice (morality)
Style: dad x kid core gay x that one nice librarian you met when you were five and have never seen since that one fateful afternoon but the memory of them has stuck with you forever x flowery cottagecore dresses
Age (as of Thomas): as old as there has been life on earth
Interests: baking, cooking, sewing, knitting, hanging out with the other gods (and Thomas!), gardening
Animal counterpart (+and features): dog, specifically a golden retriever, and he has the tail and ears of one (you fucking furry)
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Virgil
God of: fear, instinct, paranoia, anxiety, monsters, weather (especially storms)
Style: a 2005 emo, but make it fancy
Age (as of Thomas): as long as humans have been around, is our best guess
Interests: watching horror movies, baking with Patton (don’t judge, okay?), keeping up with his anonymous tumblr blog (shh, the mortals don’t know it’s him), embroidery, cosplay, shitposting
Animal counterpart (+features): spider, multiple eyes/limbs?
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Roman
God of: creativity, love, passion, the arts, honor, pride
Style: pretentious fuck at a ren faire
Age (as of Thomas): since art could be found (wow, so fancy you flamboyant little shit)
Interests: acting, poetry, writing, cosplaying with Virgil, dnd, fashion design/putting together outfits, pottery, photography, fencing
Animal counterpart (+features): lion, has a tail, ears, mane like hair?
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Janus
God of: deception/deceit, puzzles, riddles, tricks, theatre, outcasts
Style: Victorian-era conman outlaw (now with added capes!)
Age (as of Thomas): since the first lie fell from a human’s mouth
Interests: fucking with the other gods, chess, gardening, witchcraft, winetasting, turning into a snake at zoos to freak out mortals (remus is with him obvi)
Animal counterpart (+features): snake, has his lil scalies, snek tongue, and eye.
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Remus
God of: creativity, sex, the abandoned, chaos, mischeif
Style: fancy, alternative, androgynous, grunge
Age (as of Thomas): same as Roman (they’re twins, what’d you expect)
Interests: fucking with other the gods and mortals (but different), pole dancing, cooking/baking, solving cold cases from decades ago because he can, acting, drawing, painting
Animal counterpart (+features): octopus… (please help, what features should he have?)
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Remy
God of: sleep, night, dreams (kinda)
Style: he looks like the vines and only that. No joke this god came into existence thirty minutes late with a Starbucks in hand
Age (as of Thomas); the first time someone slept ig???
Interests: going for walks/drives, stargazing, listening to podcasts, chatting, drinking coffee, talking with Emile
Animal counterpart (+features): raccoon, he’s got the bags under the eyes, but he chooses not to have any other features, and those are just cause he’s an insomniac
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Emile
God of: the mind, illustrative arts, language
Style: similar to Patton’s, but a bit more masculine(?)
Age (as of Thomas): since humans evolved their mind enough to speak words everyone knew
Interests: watching cartoons, animation, pet care, crocheting,
Animal counterpart (+features): ram, he has horns!
<<•>>
Thomas himself is a mortal in this, but the gods have chosen someone to speak through every lifetime, and they chose Thomas. He's honestly pretty much the same as he is in the videos, though.
Ships include: Logicality (kinda going to be the focus), probably prinxiety and dukeceit, but there might be a bit of princeit. Logan acts as the "main character" seeing as he'll be around the longest, but all of them will be a focus.
That's most of what I've got for now, but I'll keep you updated as things progress.
#godsides au#sanders sides au#ts sides#sanders sides#logan sanders#virgil sanders#patton sanders#roman sanders#janus sanders#remus sanders#ts remy#ts emile#god au#my aus#logicality
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If you’re still accepting prompts, I’m curious how much chaos qin su!wwx was able to subtly cause at jinlintai without being caught? bc i don’t think he could go that many months without doing Something to Someone lol
(brief author’s note: this au is entirely prompt-based, so please reblog if you can for future updates!)
Three months into his stay at the Jinlintai, Wei Wuxian discovers that he dislikes Su She even more than he dislikes his husband.
It’s not even that he falls all over himself doing Jin Guangyao’s bidding, because he doesn’t, he reflects, observing the two in conference at one of the Jin sect’s private banquets. Su She’s really loyal to him, and that’s even worse.
Before her death, Qin Su was almost certain that Su She had taken part in Jin Rusong’s murder, simply because Jin Guangyao could never have done the killing alone. She maintained that Jin Guangyao would not have been able to go to the guest kitchens, poison the plate intended for him, and visit He Su’s private quarters with time to spare; and Wei Wuxian agrees with her, if only because plotting the murder of a young sect heir in public would require a like-minded accomplice.
“Poor A-Song,” Wei Wuxian sighs, laying down his embroidery as his two handmaidens hurry to his elbow to comfort him with tea and snacks. “Yongpei, what will I do?”
“Nothing will bring our A-Song back,” the elder maidservant says, with tears already welling in her eyes at the mention of her mistress’s son. “But Mistress, just because it hasn’t worked in these last years, you mustn’t give up persuading the master to give you another baby! Mistress hasn’t said anything about it this last year, and A-Tai and I feared you’d lost hope--but Mistress, you are so pretty, and you love your husband so dearly, so how long can he resist favoring you even if he can’t bear the thought of losing a second child? Mistress gave Sect Leader a wonderful baby boy, it wasn’t any fault of yours that our xiao-gongzi passed away--and surely the same horrible tragedy can’t happen twice! You can’t give in, no matter what the master says about it.”
“A-Pei,” Wei Wuxian says gently, “this mistress is grateful for your faith, but in the end, I am A-Yao’s wife, and in matters such as these, I must respect his wishes. What kind of shameless woman would I be if I forced my husband to my bed, when I know he wants nothing less than to have another child with me?”
“A woman should have a child!” Shao Tai cries. “Mistress, it’s not the same at all! When Sect Leader first stopped favoring you, you never said a word, and it was all right before we lost A-Song--Mistress only wanted to be a good mother to her baby, and obey Sect Leader faithfully in all things! But now, even though it’s been more than ten years since xiao-gongzi died, he still...”
“Do you really think it’s unkind of him?” Wei Wuxian murmurs, glancing down at his half-embroidered handkerchiefs and pretending to blink back a few tears of his own. “He says he’s afraid for my health, but...”
“Yes, he is being unkind! Mistress shouldn’t be afraid to ask for what she wants!”
Wei Wuxian chews on his lip for a moment. “Do A-Pei and A-Tai really think I should go ahead with this?”
The two women both nod forcefully, setting the tea and cakes down on the desk so that they can kneel by his feet. “You have served Sect Leader without a word of complaint all this time, so why shouldn’t he grant you this one wish?” Yongpei says. “Mistress, if you leave it to us, we will see to all the preparations!”
A-Tai gives a timid cough. “But jiejie, if Mistress acts too suddenly, won’t he be suspicious?”
“Well, what else is she supposed to do?”
“No more of that,” Wei Wuxian scolds, barely keeping his lips from twitching as he finally thinks of another way to approach his plans to escape the Jinlintai by seducing Jin Guangyao. “Yongpei, A-Tai, you know this mistress of yours is a skilled cook?”
For once, Wei Wuxian isn’t actually pretending; he is a good cook, having learned the art at Jiang Yanli’s knee, even if he ruins all his dishes at the last moment by pouring chili oil into them. “Yes,” A-Tai replies, clearly confused. “Do you want to cook for your husband, my lady?”
“Not for my husband,” he smiles, brightening up like a summer sun cresting the horizon at daybreak as he looks at his fine-featured reflection in the mirror. “I’ve cooked for us often, so doing it again won’t mean anything much. But he has a dinner with Su-zongzhu and Zhang-zongzhu scheduled for the end of next week, so I’ll tell him I mean to cook all the dishes myself.”
“But, Mistress...!”
“Nonsense. I’ve made up my mind, and that’s what I’m going to do,” Wei Wuxian says briskly, putting away his embroidery needles. “And you two ought to get to bed, you know. It’s nearly eleven o’clock!”
It goes without saying that Wei Wuxian has no interest whatsoever in cooking for any of Jin Guangyao’s associates.
However, he does have access to a small store of hot Yunmeng spices laid aside for Jin Guangyao’s personal use, and he knows well enough that Jin Guangyao likes them--and that Su She, whose clan is native to Lan Zhan’s Suzhou, will not be able to tolerate so much as a speck of it.
(The plan goes off without a hitch, and Su She’s mouth and stomach fare so badly after eating a dish Wei Wuxian swore was meant for his husband that he has to take three rest days in the guest house to recover.)
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“No way!” Jin Zixuan crows delightedly, as Wei Wuxian finishes narrating Su She’s unfortunate encounter with the mighty trifecta of Sichuan peppercorns, horseradish, and the spiciest chillies that Lanling gold could buy. “I wish I’d been there to see it. Who knew you could be so sneaky, Wei Wuxian?”
“It had a greater purpose,” Wei Wuxian shrugs. “I didn’t just do it for fun. I had to keep making overtures to Jin Guangyao so that he wouldn’t have any choice but to send me away when I finally tried to seduce him.”
On the other side of the campfire, Lan Zhan goes still. “Seduce?”
“Yes, of course. How else did you think that Jin-furen, wife to a zongzhu and xiandu all at once, could ever manage to get away from the Jinlintai without her husband noticing? He tried for months to placate me when I cooked him dinner and dressed in the colors he liked and proposed building a temple in Meng-furen and A-Song’s names, and then I finally had my handmaidens prepare me to receive him in my chambers and gave him the fright of his life. Smart, don’t you think?”
Lan Zhan’s face pales. “You ought not to have taken such measures,” he says hoarsely. “What if something had happened to you?”
“I’m his wife,” Wei Wuxian replies, bemused. “What could possibly have happened to me? Everyone thinks Qin Su must be barren, so no one would even try bumping me off to make sure Jin Guangyao could never have another heir. And he does care about her, you know.”
In answer, Lan Zhan only lets out a small scoff and turns his back to the fire, facing out into the night while Wei Wuxian and Jin Zixuan exchange puzzled glances over his head. “Rest, both of you,” he says quietly. “We will have to ride on towards Yunmeng in the morning, just in case that courtesan Mo-gongzi mentioned in his letter might be there.”
And then, as the three of them have done for the last month’s worth of nights they spent traveling together, Lan Zhan drifts off to sleep first, and Jin Zixuan and Wei Wuxian follow into a mist of uneasy dreams.
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What are your character’s hobbies? Anything we could do with them?
Van likes exploring abandoned buildings and seeing how they were put together; he's also a big fan of technology as a whole, he's always amazed by how mortals put things together! Take him to an arcade and you'd probably end up there for hours.
Cass's main hobby is causing a horrible ruckus wherever he goes, but he also enjoys drinking expensive wine, going to the theatre, and he'll try most art disciplines once. The two of you could probably spend a pleasant time sketching one another.
Constance likes customising dolls, and dollshouse miniatures; she also likes dressing up, and very much considers fashion one of her biggest hobbies! She also loves antique markets, so expect to spend a lot of time with her shopping.
Lucas is a pretty simple man; he likes listening to music, cooking, and spending time in the great outdoors. The first two he'll happily do with you, but you'll have to earn the third one.
Percy likes reading old books and researching; he also collects and repairs old clocks. Those are all fairly solitary, but he makes his own tea blends and would love to have someone to try them out!
Teddy loves musicals, and he will dance with you and sing with you - he also loves reading trashy werewolf romance books. He doesn't really realise that they're badly written. His main hobby is wandering into abandoned buildings under the guise of urban exploration and waiting/hoping to be kidnapped. He never manages to take many pictures of his explorations because his phone is generally almost always out of battery.
Rose generally prefers hobbies that can be done alone; they bake a lot, and they sew a lot (generally cross stitch and embroidery), because they find things that are repetitive with clear instruction soothing to their brain! They also do a lot of jigsaw puzzles; you're welcome to help with those, but they are a big fan of 'sitting in the same room quietly doing your own thing' as a language of affection!
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Dinner for two
A Kristanna one shot fanfic
Rating: F/M
Relationship: Anna/Kristoff (canon verse)
Words counting: 2401
Summary:
On the evening of the great thaw, Anna provides Kristoff with a gallant dinner at his new accommodation. This is about coming home and getting first steps into friendship. Some feelings... Because I can´t help it getting them together in an innocent way...
Hope you enjoy!!! :)
So, the villain was thrown overboard and put to the castle jail for the time being.
There had been great cheer and laughter once the party of three plus a reindeer and snowman riding between the animal´s antlers had got down from the boat to get into the harbour on a transport vessel.
Then, everything happened in a rush over… The moment they descended the boat, people came running up greeting and questioning them with lot of excitement.
Elsa first talked to Kai, then turned to Anna “I will have to talk to the ambassadors and guests of honour to explain. You will make sure to take a rest before tonight´s dinner, will you?”
“But Elsa,” Anna intervened, “you need a rest, too.” Elsa waved off and explained, that she would rest later, for sure.
“All right,” Anna smiled and then gasped, leaning closer to her sister, whispering, “I would like to take care, Kristoff and Sven get a suitable accommodation for the time being. But for that, I will need Gerda´s help. Is that okay with you?” Elsa nodded happily, that was a great idea. She then left towards the castle. The people would not come to close near her, after all she was the queen.
Anna turned to Kristoff, who stood surrounded by some customers from the marketplace. He got questioned on what had happened and he shrugged, not really knowing what to say.
Anna wanted to step up, hooking herself into Kristoff´s arm kind of protecting him from the friendly attacks. But then a thought struck her mind ´you just kicked your false fiancé overboard and now you go for the next one? ´ She felt a bit forlorn and silly. But then, the ice harvester was her friend, was he not? He looked like he desperately needed some help, it was her turn now to step in for him. So, Anna came along and stood next to the man who had raced down the hills with her. “Ah, you must know, it is all rather complicated. We will explain in time, I promise. But will you please excuse us, we all need some rest.”
The chatter ebbed and the people apologetically moved out of the way and smiling they went off.
Kristoff sighed and glared at Anna “thank you. That was spooky.”
“Ehem, nearly as scary as Marshmallow on the north-mountain…?” She giggled and then added quickly, “don´t worry, I will show you and Sven a safe place.”
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A bit later, Olaf sat on Anna´s bed and looked around in amazement. “Oh Anna, your home is so lovely. I like it.”
“Glad you do,” Anna smiled at her little friend, “you are welcome to stay with me if you like.”
“Oh, I don´t know. I promised Sven to come over for a visit.” Olaf mused. “Do you think, Kristoff will stay forever in the stables? Should he not rather be sleeping in a bed like other humans?”
Anna glanced to the window, that gave free sight towards the old stable department and hoped deep inside he would feel comfortable right now.
She had offered Kristoff a guest room within the castle. But he had been so reluctant, at the end he confessed he rather stay with Sven in the super nice stables, she had just shown to his best friend. Anna had understood that after all the excitement, the man appreciated the solitude with his companion. She than had promised him to come over later with some dinner.
On Elsa´s request Kristoff had been invited to dine with them and the other guests. That was worse to him than her offer of the guest room in the first place. Anna had chuckled, nodding understanding, and had then excused him for the occasion.
Now, she was about to get ready for the evening dinner. As much as she had ever wished to dine with her sister, to be surrounded with people for chatter and laughter, she now felt kind of uncertain of how to feel about all those people seeing her again. She still felt silly, childish of the late event. She had thrown herself at that betrayer´s neck practically publicly. Gossip would rise for sure… But then, she did not want to leave Elsa alone that first evening back at home.
And then, Anna had mused if she should ask Kristoff why he had come back to Arendelle after all. Apparently, he had rushed to help her. Had Olaf been right, that he loved her? She decided to wait for a proper opportunity to talk to him. But not tonight. They all needed to settle in the first place, get a rest and especially no overthrown talking yet.
Olaf liked what he saw.
Anna had finished dressing. Her light green dress was simple cut, with some traditional embroidery in mix of dark green and black along the front buttons, that run the bodice. The skirt´s bottom seem was embroidered in the same style, just broader stitched. Her hair was combed in a bun, with two braids engulfing the round piece. A green sleeve was stuck decoratively in the right-side braid.
Together they went downstairs towards the great dining room. Olaf then left, to see Sven.
The dinner was a quite ongoing. Elsa sat at the head of the table; Anna was seated next to her at the top of the right length side. It was all so overwhelming to Anna, although she was exhausted from all the happenings of late. She would enjoy so much sitting next to her sister daily from now on.
Next to Anna sat Lord Dubois of Bourgogne. He was kind, with a fatherly way of conversation. Lord Dubois had offered to take Prince Hans back to the Southern-Islands, as they lay on his way back home. Elsa and Anna had thanked him for taking care of that misfortunate topic.
Before desert was served, Anna leaned in a bit closer to Elsa with a questioning look. Elsa looked puzzled, then understood. She smiled and nodded with her head for Anna to leave.
Anna quietly said goodbye to her table neighbour and got up. She nodded in the round and then left silently.
Once out of the dining hall, she hurried up towards the kitchen. It was not uncommon for her to show up there. Olina, the cook, had been informed before by Gerda, of the princesses´
request for the night. So, when Anna stood in the door, two baskets with food, dishes, and cutlery service were already packed and ready for her to pick up. Nobody would say a word or question her doing for tonight.
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Kristoff was laying cosily against Sven´s body. The animal had dozed off, after he had been offered a giant bucket of carrots that was delivered by a stable boy. Apparently ordered by the princess personally. The haystack in the corner had been multiplied as well and the water barrel freshly refilled. It was a nice place, dry, warm, and clean. What more could he ask for?
At this very moment, a kicking noise against the door startled him from his musing. Then a soft nock, the door opened slightly, and an auburn head peeped through, grinning “hello, disturbing?”
Kristoff pushed up from his position, unwillingly nudging Sven with his elbow. The reindeer startled up from the ground so fast that Kristoff nearly tipped over backward. Regaining his composure just as fast, he easily cleared his throat, “no, all fine. Please come in.”
Sven had already skipped over to Anna and pranced around, showing his happiness seeing her.
“I must say,” Anna chuckled, stroking Sven´s chin, “this is certainly a far more natural greeting than over there.” She nodded her head towards the castle.
“Why am I glad to have stayed out of that…?” Kristoff remarked with a grin and stepped closer to give Anna a hand with her bringing in the baskets. “Have you kicked the door just before?” he asked. “Yes, I thought it was loose and I could just push it with my foot. But it didn´t move so I still had to free a hand.” Anna shrugged and then explained, “oh yes, that´s your dinner. I hope you like it. I guess the cook has put in enough, hopefully.”
Kristoff stared at the baskets in front of his feet and asked, “but you got something to eat already, did you? Who do you think should eat that all up?”
“I thought you must be starving by now, so I wanted to make sure you get the best share of it!”
“Thank you,” Kristoff meant it because his stomach did rumble since a while, “that´s very considerate. Must you go back immediately, or can I offer the princess a … seat in the strow?” He gestured with a generous move towards the stables, where Sven had laid himself back down in the corner.
Anna grinned and then laughed, feeling so comfortable and honestly welcomed. “Oh yes, that would round up the evening just perfectly, thank you!” She followed Kristoff´s gesture and went over to the strow and plopped herself down into the golden bed. She patted Sven´s neck behind her, adjusted her skirts shifting around and then sat straight, ready to be a good company.
“Where is Olaf,” Anna looked around wondering where the little fellow had gone. “Oh, he went back to your room. He said that he had never seen a bed so comfy in his entire life and couldn´t wait to go get a good sleep. Honestly, how long has he actually lived?” Kristoff chuckled and grabbed the baskets, then placed himself opposite from Anna.
“True,” Anna sighed, “but I´m so happy we have him here.” Kristoff nodded, reassuring gently, “yes, he is unique.”
Going through the immense food offer before him he whistled, glaring at Anna in amazement. “Okay, that´s provision for a week. How long do you want to jail me up in here?”
Anna stared shocked. He felt imprisoned. No, that´s not what she had meant it to be… Panic rose within her and tears shot to her eyes.
Kristoff noticed her face going white and eyes filling with tears. Oh no, what had he said? “Anna are you, all right? What is it?”
“Is it so terrible for you to be here in town, at the castle´s environment?” She whispered, facing down, and fiddling with the fabric of the skirt with her fingers.
Kristoff´s heart skipped for a moment. She worried for his well-being and thought he didn´t like it here… How fond he was of her. She was so honest, so selfless. “No, Anna. I´m grateful to be here. That you let me stay in here with Sven and don´t rush me to sleep in a room I could not identify with right now. I was kidding about being jailed up, okay?” He tilted his head to get a glance at her face.
Anna looked up slowly when he was about to speak. She smiled uncertain of how to respond and then smiled at him, “you´re welcome. This place is yours for as long as you like.”
Kristoff sighed relieved to have her smiling again, “thanks. Sounds great to me. Besides, I could not go anywhere far for the time being. I will have to reorganise my stuff.”
Anna gasped, put a finger up as to mark the importance, “about that! Thanks for the reminder. Don´t worry, it´s all organised. Kai will take care of that. But we need an exact and clearly detailed list of all your belongings and supplies, that go along with the sled.” She started fiddling around in one of the baskets and pulled out a bundle of papers and pencil. “There, will you please set the list till tomorrow morning? That´d be great!” Anna beamed and laid the paper and pen next to Kristoff on the floor.
The man looked back and forth from her to the paper. “Are you serious?” he gasped. “You shouldn´t…”
“I promised you, forgotten? I would have totally understood if you had just walked off. But to be honest, I was so glad and thankful for your coming along. What would I have done without you?” Again, Anna´s eyes got moisty, but she composed herself, clearing her throat, adding conspiratorially “but still I understand it was Sven´s idea, right?” She winked and then put a sheepish smile, pulling up her shoulders giggling.
“Yes, absolutely, it was!” Kristoff laughed and waved a hand in defence.
“But now,” Anna nodded seriously to the baskets, “you should really do yourself some good and start eating, please.”
Kristoff had insisted she should have a little share, otherwise he´d feel foolish eating all alone. As she hadn´t had any desert yet, Anna gladly granted his wish and helped herself with some nuts and another glass of wine. Then she checked the sweets basket and cried out joyfully discovering some chocolate cake.
Kristoff tried not to stuff impolitely, but the diverse ingredients were delicious and so multiplied he could hardly decide where to start and how much he should enjoy. As he hadn´t eaten a lot the last days in the first place, he felt full very soon.
He rubbed his stomach and sighed contentedly. “Thank you so much. I think I have not eaten so well, since… I even can´t remember haven eaten so well ever before.”
“Don´t tell me you would not enjoy a vast food feast at your family´s place?” Anna laughed, but then gasped and stared at Kristoff.
He had not noticed still caressing his belly. “No, that´s all wonderful. Berries, mushrooms, and sorts, you know. But I still indulge from that delicacy you know.”
“Kristoff. Your family.” Anna put her hands to her chest, “don´t they need to know that we´re all fine and things have turned out to the best?”
Now Kristoff looked at her, grinning, “I think, they already know… But if you like, I will take you up there again as soon as I can. So, you will tell them personally okay? But no, maybe that´s a bad idea. I mean, they will surely love to see you again… Only, you never know what they are up to the next time you meet them… you know?” He looked kind of apologetical and then uncertain not to scare her off.
Anna smiled, shrugging she mused, “well, what if we just roll with it….?”
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Chapter five: Sakura Handkerchief
pairing: min yoongi x reader
genre: fluff, slightly mature, historical au; king au
warning: angst/slightly mature
words count: 1k+
Note: English is not my native language. (I’m not that good in writing angst!)
(Names, places and incidents are just based on fiction)
masterlist // Final ch.
Summary: Just like any other kids, King Min Yoongi also has his own childhood memories but his involved a mystery girl who he met once and was known as his love at the first sight. Will he gets any chance to meet her again? What will he does when he found her? Will the girl remember her too?
Three months into the marriage with Min Yoongi, you admit you have grown closer with him day by day. You learnt that he is such a gentleman who priorities his kingdom and folks. When it comes to Queen Dowager—his mother, he can become soft-hearted and pampered. Absolutely, he has added you into the list as you tied with him now or can the author say, forever? You can see it in himself when he let his inner child slip whenever he is with you. As we were mentioning the Queen Dowager, she is really fond of you, not because you are the woman of the kingdom but you always have your ways to win her heart—you will make sure to accompany your mother-in-law by finding any spare time to visit her quarter while bringing along her favourite tea. Then, you will always ask for her advice in life and offer help. Through her, you have more chances to know about his son. Overall, your personality make her feels warm and she knows you are the right partner for his son. At this point, she won’t be surprised if she will take your side rather than Min.
Subsequently, you have acknowledged about Yoongi’s close friendship with Kim Taehyung which made you realised that your husband is not like any other kings or princes from other kingdoms. Yoongi is that husband who never forgets to tell you a story about his childhood memory whenever you two cuddling on the bed and of course, his stories always leave your eyes teary from laughing too hard. Now, let’s talk about you in an apron, trying to cover those royal dresses and cooking in the royal kitchen. Yes, you still cooking for your husband but it only happens once a week. Since you are his Queen, he doesn’t want you to spend too much time in the kitchen. He rather has you by his side when he reads those endless appeals as he loves to listen to your mind regarding the kingdom and folks. However, there’s only one thing that still bothers your mind, his feline eyes.
You never lie when you say he loves for being pampered and can be needy sometimes. It’s just day time yet he got you here, sitting on his laps again but this time in his chamber instead. Usually, he will spend time in your chamber but now, it was your turn to cross his threshold. It’s been half an hour and he still murmurs the same sentence while burying his face in your neck, ‘I miss you so much, love.’
You smile at his action. “You are such a baby, Min.”
“Yes, I am indeed your baby.” he gave you a kiss on your neck. He stroked your spine, one of his signs to show that he is physically ready. You called his name and mewl. “I know whenever we are together, we never talk bout this but I want children, Yoongi.” you looked at him with pleading eyes. Within these three months, there were time Yoongi need to leave his kingdom and you to attend meetings in another country or runs his errands as a king. You would end up felt bored and lonely as you don’t have anybody to fill your time in the palace. Your words got his attention.
“Is it about my mother? You know I don’t want to force you. Unless you are—” he also wants a child or let’s make it plural, children, but at this moment, he doesn’t want to put everything on your plate. First, it just three months after the marriage. Second, you still need time to adapt to the environment. Last, you are young; you probably want to enjoy your time. “No, no! It’s me who wants a child and I am more than ready. Yes, I have a mother with me when you are gone, but to have a little you won’t hurt, right?” you grin sheepishly.
“Oh—So, you want a little Min…Won’t you scared if he or she turns naughty like me? Hmm?” oh boy, this is just another game of his—teasing. You giggled while shaking your head. “Alright, I will give you one. Now.” he growled, voice sounds so demanding. You gave him an audacious look as you feel his hand slowly stroked your thigh. His button nose bumped with yours and mouth just an inch from sealing a tender kiss.
“Your Highness, you got a visit from a finance minister in your throne hall.” that announcement froze the two of you from moving. Yoongi looked at the door and growled. “Really? This is about to get heated…Erghh!” You felt like laughing but went quiet when you see his eyes burning with fire. “It’s just noon, Min. Absolutely, they will find you,” you said and get off his thighs. However, Yoongi quickly pulled you back as he decided to stay, yet you succeed to persuade him. “Go…Once you settle the problem, I will give you what you want.” you tied his red robe and put the long forgotten ikseongwan on his head. With a pout on his cute face, he gave you a chaste kiss and walked away.You giggled and shook your head. ‘What a cutie big baby.’
As he left you alone in his chamber, you have stayed there instead of going back to your quarter. You looked at your surrounding and admired his chamber from the bed. To be honest, this is your first time to be in his. Nothing much in here—everything is neat and minimal. You let out a huff, started to feel bored. To kill the time, you went to his wooden bookshelf to have something to read. As you scan the books, your eyes landed on a small classic chest. You know, it’s wrong to invade his space but you feel something possessed you to reach for that chest. So, you did.
“Oh, a handkerchief?” you unfolded and have a look at it. The sakura embroidery caught your eyes and suddenly everything has fallen into its place. A mystery puzzle has completed! You smile widely, eyes sparkling when you touched the pink embroidery. You giggled and palmed your forehead, wondering why you didn’t even notice about this from the start. Butterflies in your stomach as you remind yourself about his eyes and that pale boy you met at the market eight years ago and now, you can’t wait to tell Yoongi about it.
“Y/n? What are you doing?” that voice startled you. “Oh, Yoongi! I found—” filled with excitement, you showed him the special handkerchief. But, his reaction is contrast than you as his vision fell on it. “Why did you touch this?” he grabbed it from your hand and furrowed his brows. “I-I just want to look at—” you became confused with his question. Did he forget about you, the mystery girl at the market? “You didn’t know how precious this handkerchief to me!” he shouted, voice filled with anger.
Tears pooled in your eyes. Never once you heard him shout, never once. You feel upset because he doesn’t want to listen to you at all. Like someone who was being possessed, epiphany hits him when he saw your red face, trying your utmost best to hold your tears from shedding. Step by step, Yoongi came at you and called your name softly. His hand almost land on your shoulder, but you pushed him and went out of his chamber. You were once Princess Y/n and everyone in Daeshin know that you are someone who never gives up in an argument when it’s literally not your fault but not this time. Your court ladies surprised to see you coming out with red eyes and tears on cheeks. You didn’t talk to them either and just walked away to your quarter.
What? King Min and his Queen bickering? It’s been two weeks since your argument with your husband. The news between Min and you have stirred around the palace as there are tittle-tattle behind your back. No one knows what was happening in his chamber, why it abruptly happened, and who to blame. However, based on their unnecessary observation; how Min always come and go to his Queen and how she dismisses him or run and hide at her in-law’s, it is definitely King’s fault. Min never feel annoyed like this before—how can these people keep sticking their nose in his personal affairs? Yes, it is very obvious by just a first glare but they don’t have any right to talk behind his back, he is the King of the kingdom!
What did you expect? Sure thing, the Queen Dowager get the memo even though you always avoid from answering her questions concerning that issue. She mentally faces palmed herself. Why his so-called mature and manly son didn’t succeed in comforting his Queen? He is such a slow man when it comes to women, and now she at least wants to play her role as your mother-in-law. King Min was summoned by his mother last two days and this action has stirred up another gossip in the palace. Will the Queen Dowager ask the King to abandon his Queen? Nah, please try again. After she gained all information from Kim, she definitely scolded him for doing something stupid like that. “Settle this misunderstanding as soon as possible. If you fail to do, then don’t dream for me to take your side again.” her scary glare was the last thing Min would like to remember.
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A Bloom In Time Ch 31
( Hey Guys. Sorry this chapter took so long. It's still my personal headcannon that the Twilight Bell takes you to the Horizon. The song Hattie is the unused song about the Moonjumper.)
How could she have not see all the thing's lining up with what he had said done, and what other's had said about him?! How could Poppy been so blind out what was staring at her before her very eyes?! Sleep didn't come to her that night, and she found herself staring at the dark ceiling. The final pieces of the puzzle fitting together as she remembered all the scenarios that gave away Snatcher's identity.
When she first glimpsed him at the manor. The brown hair was...P-Philip's. It was like everyone's voices and actions were being replayed back through her head with every moment of foreshadowing, hints, and puzzle pieces finally being put back together-
"Hey! I know who can help! Snatcher can!! He's really, REALLY old too and he should what to do!! Come on! He had to deal with being frozen and Vanessa just like you!" Hattie had given her the first major clue to it all. He had to deal with being froze to death AND Vanessa because he was the one who took the brunt of Vanessa's rage. "Hey! I know what can help a little bit. Y-You like flowers right?" He had a flash of panic fly over his face for a moment before he coughed and shrugged. "You said you had a flower stand before Vanessa sent her goons to take you right? O-Obviously you must've liked growing things then. Or at least flowers." That....THAT PECKING PECKNECK KNEW ALL ALONG SHE LOVED FLOWERS!! HE PECKING KNEW!! "We're all that's left and you should accept that's how it is now before you get hurt. Believe me the sooner you do the sooner everything starts to get better for you." "Hey. I can understand that. Believe it or not you're not the only one who's gone through that kind of thing....I'm certainly no stranger to feeling like that. In fact it took me forever literally just to realize my place after I got lost," "Ok. To make it in mushier terms..I DO want to help you ok. Believe it or not I do and I have my reasons. But you gotta know I can't change the past no matter what. Trust me I have TRIED and look where that got me. Stuck fused with a mushy corpse and having to lead a whole bunch of strangers through the forest like a tour guide." he glanced at her confusion again. "Uh..B-But that's not important. The important thing is that I can't change or fix anything that's already happened alright? I can't send you back. I can't give you anything from your old life......And I can't change what happened to you." Her face dropped and eyes widened even more- "But, I can help make the future easier and help you with whatever you need to settle down with alright? But you got to understand that it's NOT just going to be with a snap of my fingers. I know, I've experienced it for hundreds of years. Just know that...You're not going to be alone in any of this alright?" "No. You were right the first time. She was always a monster, it just took her a while to show everyone what was really inside. So don't give her any credit. She was never a queen, just a spider wearing a pretty mask." "I-I...I know exactly how you feel." He scowled. "Yeah. I know EXACTLY how that feels. Vanessa took everything from me too when she froze everything!" He growled and his grip on her became a bit tighter if he was being a lil protective. "I pecking didn't see it coming until it froze me right before my very eyes! I died before my life even took off the ground and now I'm stuck like this....But you aren't." He ...attempted a smile. "Listen, Poppy. I'm not good at this speaking from the heart stuff, but Im pretty good at speaking from experience stuff. So trust me when I saw you still got your whole life plus more ahead of you. It's....probably going to take a while for you to process this properly and start to move on like I did." "Look. I ....can't change the past no matter how badly I want to. But I can change the future, and so can you. Think of all the things you can do now without anyone to hold you back!" He might've been speaking from what he perceived as a positive but she gave him a funny look. "Uh...By that I mean vanessa of course. She's not holding you prisoner anymore." "I stumbled across him a few times coming up here to visit. Hmph! He's very rude and always steals any dish I make with bacon when he's around me cooking. Quite the oddball out if ya'll ask me." P-Philip ....LOVED bacon. And Vanessa banned bacon from their kingdom around the time she died. "Of course I can! I made the kids all those clothes and my minions their highly durable bodies." ""YOU painted all of these?" she asked gawking at him His smile widened more smug if that was possible. "Yep. And those." He pointed to the left wall wear there was five giant paintings behind the space cow mobile. He then pointed behind her. "And the ones right behind you." Now that Poppy thought about it hard, she faintly recalled Philip learning embroidery from his mother and taking a liking to hobbies like painting and reading books. Both of which he did and you can CERTAINLY learn to sew along with embroidery. "How do you know that?," she asked genuinely confused. "UH....I- Um-....I-I-I was there when he was killed." He still eyed her for a moment before looking to the floor unable to look her in the eyes anymore. ".......Vanessa killed him. Just like she did to everyone else....a-a-and y-y-you...." "Just like you. She locked him away until everything froze over. Vane-.....That MONSTER!'', he spat hand slightly tightening as he scowled at the floor, "She was pecking crazy. Thought he was....cheating on her behind her back when he was nothing but patient with her. She didn't deserve anything." "Because she was nuts! Always have been and always WILL be! She would've snapped sooner or later with the way she was back then, always so paranoid and thinking I-.....I THINK he belonged to her." His other hand was quick to shoot out and grab her shoulders accidentally making her jolt at the sudden grab but it was enough to get her to look at him. "Now you listen to me and you listen good." A claw poked her chest as he pointed it at her crying face with a deep frown of his own. "I have dealt with too many years of pecking guilt over whether or not it was my fault or if I could've stopped it! And I'm sick of it all! You. Are. Not. At fault!! Do you hear me?! Vanessa was always going to snap and it was HER fault for being so batpecking crazy, she couldn't tell the difference between fantasy and reality! There was no reason in her! We should've expected nothing less of her for anything! But I'll be just as bad if I didn't it now, and I'm saying it's not your fault. Least of all people you. All you did was sell flowers. Big deal. It would've been the same if she saw m-....him buying a necklace from a jeweler or a ham from the butcher. BANG!!" She flinched at the loud yell he made at 'BANG'. Tears running down her face as he spoke. "Ice. Death. Lots of ghosts. You get the picture. The point is, it's ABSOLUTELY! NOBODY'S PECKING FAULT!! BUT VANESSA'S!! .......You and me didn't do anything wrong." "So-...I take it this..'prince' friend of yours was a nice person? Not that I knew him, but it seems you two were close. Not that it's any of my business." He had an anxious feeling saying all of this as a stranger but he couldn't help but feel the need to get all this anxiety off himself by asking. "It just sounds like you cared about him a whole lot." "Yeah.....Hey. This might sound out of no where but do you blame him, your friend, for what happened between him and Vanessa?" "How did you die?," she found herself blurting out before she could stop but she instantly regretted it. "WHAT?!" Snatcher whipped his face to her wide eyed. "S-Sorry." She held up her hands worriedly. "Is it rude to ask a dead person that? I d-didn't know honest. It's just that.....You're doin' an aweful lot for me and I don't know a lot about ya, since you already know alot 'bout me from my rambling. I figured ya would return the favor." "Sorry. NO can do, Red. That's private information." She scowled again. "OH come on! Purple onion. Your contract paper thingy said I could ask for anything I wanted in return for helping ya!" "Within REASON!," Snatcher stressed, "Asking a ghost about their past is like asking a poor person how much money they spent on their shoes!" "Same as you. I died during the Great Subcon Freeze." "Oh. Well you said you saw what happened when Philip....p-p-passed away, right? Does that mean you were employed by the Queen?'' "Sorta. I just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time." Which wasn't really a lie. He couldn't have ever been in a more wrong place or time. "Another innocent bystander to a crazy curse." "Oh right. Dumb question. Then who wer-" "Next question!," "Ok! Well ya technically did, but I mean what made ya decide to help me? I just don't get it.". "Because I recognized you from the village." "I-...Sometimes saw you selling flowers in the square, and-.....I guess I was simpathetic to someone else in a similar situation as I was."
That.....Night....The night she had her nightmare. THERE WAS SO MANY HINTS HITTING HER IN THE FACE AND SHE WAS STILL BLIND TO THEM ALL!!
"So....does that mean Philip is a g-ghost too?" "A ghost? Well that's not exactly easy to answer. Any ghost I know if they even became ghosts would be in the forest .....or another plain of existance. A-And like I said BARELY any of my minions remember who they were before they died."
He LIED!!....No. Not exactly lied. He did tell the truth but...BENT IT!! Without actually answering anything!! Or telling Poppy anything!! WHY?! What reason would he have to keep his identity hidden from her?! They were friends....Weren't they? ALL OF IT!! Everything he or anyone else had said lined up perfectly with what Moonjumper-....Or second Philip had told her.
"And you know I could always scare you out of any debt you got yourself into with those pecknecks down there." He offered genuinely. "I may not look like it, but I'm very good at legal technicalities. I did want to be a lawyer at once upon a time!" Philip studied laws to better his future kingdom one day. He always said he wanted to be a good king. And mentioned if he wasn't destined to be prince he would've liked to become a lawyer. And there was a bush cat in his home...Philip mentioned having a pet bush cat. A gift from his father. Moonjumper's echoing voice still rang around in her head with everything he said. "HA! That's rich coming from him! That halfling is lying right to your face!" "Why? Didn't dear Snatcher tell you?" He chuckled and gave a smile similar to Snatcher's smug one. "We're two halves of the same person.~ Split at death and now wondering through death two halves of the same person.~" "Oh! He didn't tell you did he?" He smiled and gestured to himself with a smile. "Well allow me to elaborate for you, my dear.~ Snatcher and I are both Prince Philip Snider Of the Kingdom of Subconette.~ When we died in the frozen celler we split personalities resulting in us becoming two very different ghosts. How I have no idea, but it's quite the sight isn't it?~"
"Are you sure about that?"
No. No she wasn't. She wasn't sure of anything any more than she ever fully did in her entire life. It-....IT DIDNT FEEL REAL!! IT FELT LIKE A BAD DREAM!! ALL OF IT!! THE THREE MONTHS SHE SPENT HERE AND EVERYTHING THAT"S HAPPENED ALL FELT LIKE ONE BAD ROLLAR COASTER RIDE OF A DREAM!! AND ANY MINUTE NOW SHE WAS GONNA WAKE UP IN HER BED, GET UP AS SHE USUALLY DOES, SHAKE OFF THE WEIRD DREAM, AND GO BACK TO WORKING HER STANDS AND SEE PHILIP AGAIN!! HER DEAR FRIEND!!......But it sadly wasn't a dream no matter how much it felt like it. As she stared at the ceiling from her makeshift bed, she was VERY aware of the ghost that happily still read the book about black holes like a dedicated reader. .....Was this really Philip? There was plenty of proof, but how could she know for sure? What was real and what wasn't? It's safe to say sleep didn't come easy to her that night but she guessed at some point she did give in to sleep because when she woke up Poppy was still tired and 'Snatcher was gone. Guess he left sometime after she fell asleep. It was weird after that. It was like Poppy was on numb autopilot for days after that. She still took care of herself and the girls. Still cooked for them, cleaned if needed, made sure herself and the kids were clean, played when they asked her to spend time with them except now they referred to Poppy as Mum. Which she didn't have the heart, focus, or energy at the moment to bother correcting. Her mind kept revolving back around to Mr. Moonjumper (philip 2.0) said and still couldn't figure out why. Why did he say that? Was it even true? Was Snatcher even who he said he was? She barely got any of the script read during that time of course. During that time she busied herself with learning how the new tech worked, mostly the washer, dryer, and the oven. Took a bunch of practice but she got.....decent at working them at least. But she found herself getting through half of the script at least when she got the second call from Mr. Grooves. She was just in the kitchen cooking eggs in a frying pan for her and the two girls waiting when Bow came bounding in and tugging on her dress with that giant innocent smile of hers.
"Mom. There's a call for you from Mr. Grooves."
"Hm what?....OH! R-Right. I'll be right there."
It took a quick turn off on the oven and walk(crawl) to the machine room to actually take the call as she held it up to her ear.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Darling," came the voice of the penguin as happy and calm as she first rememebered. "You're probably wondering why I'm calling you this early morning?"
"Uh...Yeah actually. Is something wrong?"
"Not at all!" She could feel the smile the penguin had on him at that moment. "We actually have fantastic news! All the sets have been set up and secured not to fall over anymore. We're all ready to start the first rehearsals first thing next week!"
".....F-F-First rehearsals?! So SOON!?," she asked feeling a wave of dread coming over her. She hadn't even finished the script!!
"Yes! That's not a problem is it?"
"U-Uh...N-NO! NO!! Not at all! Hehe." She smiled nervously despite being on the other side of the phone where he couldn't see. "N-N-Next week will be just fine! I c-can't wait to rehearse."
"That's great, Darling! Come to the studious first thing Wednesday morning sharp. We'll start the first run through first thing in the morning when you arrive, Darling. Get up bright and early bird. And don't forget that script now. DJ Grooves out."
"Bye..." Poppy said after hanging up before blankly looking back towards the door. Great. She needed to focus on that script and get it read quickly before next Wednesday!! She didn't even notice the burning smell before Hattie rushed in clutching her hat so it wouldn't fall off.
"POPPY!! THE EGGS ARE BURNING!!"
"OH PECK!!"
It was almost like a blink of an eye when Wendesday finally came for them. Poppy had spent so many hours worriedly reading and rereading the thing over and over trying to focus her energy into it instead of worrying about the Philip/Moonjumper/Snatcher situation and just read. She NEEDED to focus on something else besides thinking of that right now, and when the day finally came she got up to the sight of the girls shaking her awake for it, quickly hurrying herself to get her presentable and grab her trusty leather apron, stuffing her script into the breast pocket and an apple into her mouth for a swift breakfast. Nothing on her mind except how nervous she was and how SO NOT READY she probably was for this. Without Cookie to really escort them to the Moon City, the girls would have to teleport her using the two umbrellas and the magic telescope. She really, really wasn't thrilled at the idea of them carrying her through space, but seeing no other option she reluctantly agreed and after the two got their umbrellas, lead her to the machine room where the telescope apparently pointing towards the bird's studios. Needless to say Poppy held her breath and kept her eyes shut the entire way when Hattie confirmed they would about to take off into space. All she could feel after grabbing the little girls' hands was them death gripping her hard with almost inhuman life strength it almost hurt and the sudden lurch forward with the whoosh sound of two umbrellas opening and finally her body being lifted and pulled through the air like a kite. She didn't look the entire way there, just kept her eyes clamped shut the entire way. She would've loved to look upon the beautiful planet or the diamond stars as she passed but she was afraid she might relive the plummet into the swamp and didn't want to relive THAT near death experience again. So for now she would just hang on for the ride, it almost felt like forever just floating in air drifting like a peaceful kite, before suddenly she was whiplashed back and she gasped as she was suddenly suspended by nothing but her arms in the sky. Poppy's blue eyes snapped open and she suddenly blinked at the sight she was taking part in...and frankly almost lost her pecking mind. She thought hanging from that noose once was bad, try hanging about a hundred feet in the air above a desert town and only being held up by two little children holding her hands with an iron grip her hands were almost numb. Her blue eyes shrinking to pinpricks as her stomach flipped seeing the sight of her suspended.
"It's ok!, " Hattie tried to reassure her as they slowly floated down, "We got you!"
To keep herself from feeling anymore sick, Poppy closed her eyes and didn't open them until her feet connected with solid ground and she lightly gasped, for what felt like forever. Popping her eyes open and seeing the old desert town and almost falling to her knees on wobbling legs. Beside her both girls touched down and closed the umbrellas. Giving Poppy a concerned look.
"Are you ok?"
....After a few seconds of breathing and grounding herself, Poppy nodded and leaned back up with an inhale. "Yeah. N-Now...L-Let's get ta that studio, right?"
It was almost the same exact time when Poppy had come in to get measured for her costume, except this time without Snatcher present to tail her, which she was thankful for right now. She did NOT want to be thinking about him right now, but anyways- It was like the last time they came in, with Mr. Grooves pacing in front of the lobby looking worried and anxious but as soon as he saw them he was immediately smiling and racing over to them.
"DARLING!! There you are!!," the moon penguin boomed out happily stopping in front of them, "And not a minute too soon!" And like last time, he grabbed her hand and pulled her behind him towards the big doors leading to the penguins' side of the studios. "We have a rehearsal to perform and practice to be had!!"
Like the last time she entered, everything looked the same except it was now less busy and most of the penguins here were calmly carrying something around or checking the clipboards they were holding for something. Still pretty busy but was way better than last time in here opinion. At least she didn't have to worry about ducking under anything this time around. And like last time the two girls followed only, Mr. Grooves quickly lead them past the changing rooms, and down a different hallway further down the way from the last one. Poppy blinked and watched where they were going, this hallway was much better lit than the giant room outside and multiple props and what looked like painted scenes were printed all over the place leaning against the walls and ready to use at any given moment. Up a head a metal door was waiting for them that read: Back Stage Supervised Personal and Staff Only. They headed straight for that and the Moon penguin opened it with enough force to almost make it hit the other side of the wall. Poppy blinked as she was pulled onto a stage....A REAL wooden floored stage with curtains, and props behind said curtain, and other people waiting there but looked up when the two came in followed by the two girls. They were all there.
"So sorry for the hold up, Darlings," He apologised finally releasing Poppy and smiling at them all, "Thank you all for coming on such short notice to our first rehearsal folks. Now I know the Bird Movie Awards is still so many months away, but we need to practice, practice, practice before we actually start filming the play and editing the footage. Raw talent is the real pop behind the success!" he clapped his flippers together. "Now does everyone have their scripts in hand?" Everyone responded by saying some version of 'yes' and holding up their papers before Grooves nodded in approval and looked up to Poppy. "What about you, Darling?"
Poppy blinked. "UH! Oh r-right." She quickly reached into her front pocket and pulled out the slightly crinkled stack of papers. "H-Here!"
He nodded again, and turned back to the crew. "Alright, Darlings! You all have ten minutes to reveiw your places for the first five scenes before we start! Don't forget just because this is practice that doesn't mean to put the best into your acting! Pretend you're there! Feel the thousands of adoring watching as you all take the stage and dance away!"
"Hello, Miss." Poppy jumped at the sudden voice next to her and looked down to the mysterious owner of the voice it belonged too. Relaxing when she saw the smiling face of Timmy smiling up at her. "Sorry for giving you a fright, but I just wanted to say hello yeah?"
She sighed and smiled. "N-No. It's ok, sugar." She looked up and around a little bit. "Is Hazelle here with you?"
He nodded. "Yeah. She's just talking to one of the production managers about the spotlight keeping on shining in her eyes. ...But I do have something important to say-"
"Darlings!" They all turned and Saw Grooves looking in their direction. "Sorry my little stars. But no children are allowed on set during rehearsals." Both girls 'awed' in disappointment, excitement to see their story come to life fading but he still smiled. "But you little ones are more than welcome to have a front row seat in the audience while we practice." Both smiled again with happy little gasps making the penguin smile more and turn, motioning for them to follow him. "Come along, Darlings. It's this way."
Bow and Hattie of course obliged and happily bounded off after the director but Timmy lingered. Looking back up to Poppy. "Don't tell anyone this, not even Hazelle. But Moonjumper said to be prepared for me to come fetch you three days from now when it's your day off from work here."
Poppy snapped to him and blinked. "What do you-"
"Little boy! Off the set now. Come along!"
"Sorry. Can't talk now. Just be ready."
She didn't have the chance to say anything back to him before he turned and ran off the other direction, leaving her standing there mouth open and staring blankly at the direction Timmy ran off in. ...At least until there was a yell of someone from the other side of the stage.
"Five minutes people!! Actors for scene one get ready to come up for the opening scene rehearsal! Again five minutes people! Chop chop!!"
Poppy jumped, and with the papers in hand made her way towards the front. The first rehearsal didn't go that badly. In fact it could've been worse. When Mr. Grooves said he really wanted to go by the book he meant it, in fact barely anyone had barely any speaking roles outside the narrator for the play (who happened to be another moon penguin with a deep voice) and all she had to do was do the motions she read in the script and.....messed up a bunch. Stepping on the actor playing Starella's father's foot, tripping over the curtain exiting stage, and once accidentally making Hazelle fall when she nudged her without looking. Thank goodness Hazelle and the male actor was so understanding. It made her nerves rise higher the more they practiced especially with Mr. Grooves watching from a director's chair in the audience and his voice shouting at her or someone else every time something happened.
"CUT!! Darling! Let your body relax, you're movements are becoming too stiff. Once more from the top!!" "Cut! Clean up on center stage!" "Darling, be careful where you step! Don't step on anyone's toes." "Lights, camera, action!!" "Take Seven on opening scene in three!...Two!.. ONE!! Narrator, Darlin'!"
And a whole bunch of other things she kept getting nervous about, by the time they were done she just felt so drained mentally and physically from it all all she wanted to do was go back home and fall asleep when Mr. Grooves gave her the ok to leave. Which WAS exactly what they did, Poppy paid no mind to anyone else and only barely registered Mr. Grooves telling everyone they'll pick up again from where they left off tomorrow morning and for everyone to get some rest and practice. Sounded good to her. So when the two again grabbed her in their iron grip when she essentially shooed them out the door, she closed her eyes basically doing and feeling the same thing as before when she went down only falling on her stomach as soon as they reentered the ship floating in outer space and got herself some rest. Thinking about what Timmy had said kept rebounding in her mind and with all the stuff clouding it up she was almost like a robot with her actions in the next three says. Get up, dress, hygiene routine, take care of the girls, go to the rehearsals (which was Ok at best. she or others still messed up every often and had to restart a lot which was hard for her clouded mind and nervous feelings), and routine afternoon/bedtime routine before falling into an uneasy sleep. Rinse and repeat for the next three days. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. She had tried every so often to talk with Hazelle or Timmy about it, but Hazelle seemed genuinely busy with her role as the evil step sister reading that script, and Timmy just avoided any thing she asked if she could before running off to the audience seats to avoid her. And during ALL of this Snatcher had not appeared once which she was...still kinda grateful for. She wasn't sure what she was going to do or act around him now since what Moonjumper said was still echoing every moment of the day throughout her mind. In fact Moonjumper hadn't shown up either which what was bothering her a bit since she wanted to ask so many questions. But it all finally came to a head early Sunday morning when she was awakened by someone shoving her shoulder and calling her name. Confused, the red head groaned and pushed her head up from the pillows on the floor where she slept, pushing the long red hair out of her bangs groggily blinking.
"Poppy? Poppy! Get up! Timmy's here!", Hattie shouted shoving her again and she almost fell over back onto her stomach.
"W-What?," she asked sleep stilling hanging onto her. The red head yawned and blinked at the little girl in the dark. "Hattie? Sugarcube, what are ya'll doin' this late at night?"
"It's morning actually, but that's not important!," she insisted pushing upwards against the older woman's shoulder to try and get her to get up, "Get up! Timmy says he has to take you somewhere important!!"
She slowly rose with the child's pushing. "W-Who-...Timmy?"
"Don't tell anyone this, not even Hazelle. But Moonjumper said to be prepared for me to come fetch you three days from now when it's your day off from work here."
At the sudden voice in her memory spoke out, Poppy jumped up suddenly wide awake letting Hattie fall onto her stomach on top of the make shift bed of pillows. Timmy was-......Timmy was here! For her! So that meant he was-....Hattie shook her head and reached to push her giant top hat up off her face when she heard quick footsteps walking away from her, blinking she looked over and found Poppy briskly walking away from her towards the rising and falling platform leading from the attic and to the control room. She blinked and quickly jumped up and ran after her to catch up. Poppy was quick to reach the platform as it rose back up and stepped on it, Hattie right behind her quickly jumping on it too just a second before they began to lower into the much more brightly lit room. They could see everything from their spot on the platform, including the purple eyed boy who was sitting patiently at the control room's chair facing the control panel chatting with Bow about something but both looked up noticing the two coming down the platform and smiled.
"Well, well. Good morning, Miss Poppy,'' Timmy greeted from down below waving, "Sorry for the early visit but Moonjumper thought it was best I brought you as soon as I could to avoid suspicion from Snatcher, eh."
When the platform touched down, Poppy quickly got off it and began walking down the ramp towards him with Hattie behind her and Timmy stood up to meet her as she waltzed on over and stopped in front of him.
"Ya'll are...here to take me to Moonjumper?," he asked for clarification a lil bit of excitement coming over her at the prospect for answers.
Timmy nodded. "Yep. Thought you'd want to finally get some answers eh?"
She nodded. "YES! Pecking yes!"
"Oh good." He walked past her going towards the door leading towards the storage room. "Then we all better make our way over to Alpine Town then."
Poppy blinked and slowly followed after him with Hattie and Bow bounding up to walk next to him. "You're planning on using the Twilight Bell to get there?," she asked and he nodded.
"Yeah. I can't get there myself without Hazelle's magic and all of us have supernatural ties upon our souls. It should easily do the trick."
"What's this Twilight Bell?, " Poppy asked following following them still confused.
The door to the storage room opened with a whoosh sound and all three children walked on in throuh the hallway with Poppy going to crawl right after them.
"The Twilight Bell is this HUGE bell that's a part of the Alpine Goat City and can only be used by spirits or someone with really powerful connections to magic or spirits," Timmy explained, "Since all of you are bound to the purple noodle through contracts and I'm tied up with MJ, it should work for the whole lot of us."
"...You mean the bell teleports ya'll?"
"Sorta? It takes us to the Horizon. It's wear trapped spirits go and where I live. I think you'll like it. Not a lot going on but it's pretty peaceful and pretty majestic in it's own way."
The four of them walked(Poppy Crawled) into the storage room and instead of stopping they went over towards the ladder Poppy recognized from when they were cleaning as the ladder that lead to the boiler room. Hattie also mentioned that they stored her ships water supply in there. Without hesitation Timmy walked right up to it and grabbed the ladder, starting to climb up it in a swift manner similar to the two girls who went right after him. Poppy watched them disappear through the small kid sized doorway in the top wall there before she slowly began to follow after them. Half way up the ladder she heard what sounded like a loud thud and she rose a brow at that. At the very top, she crawled her way through the small opening and stopped upon seeing probably literally the only part of the spaceship she hadn't seen before. The area was certainly warmer than the storage room, and true to Hattie description. It WAS filled with lots and lots of water except for a small platform way on the other side lower than where she currently was and a GIANT boiler making a whirring sound as it worked with FLAMES peeking out from the open vents!! Timmy and Bow SOMEHOW got across the water and were waiting by the telescope which was pointing outta the windows also by the platform and Hattie pulled her trusty umbrella out of no where. Before Poppy could react something with the force of a hundred men grabbed her and she yelped when she suddenly found herself being held in the arms of the child awkwardly as Hattie aimed her umbrella at a metal beam above the water. The hook from the tip of the umbrella latching onto it with a metal clang. Poppy didn't have time to say a single word before Hattie jumped and swung them across the ship's water supply. The yelp that the startled woman gave almost caused the child to go unbalanced as she released them from the beam and towards the platform, Poppy instinctively latching onto her hat. Timmy and Bow watched as the two crashlanded on the small platform next to them. Poppy hitting her back against the wall and Hattie belly flopping with her hat over her face, Umbrella just barely missing falling into the water by some miracle.
"Dang pecking nabbit! Warn me next time ya decide ta do somethin' like that!," Poppy yelled from her sitting position, heart momentarily pumping from the sudden leap.
"Are you ok there?," Timmy asked pulling Hattie to her feet as she popped the hat off her head and blinking.
"Yeah. But I really don't like crashlandings." Poppy leaned off the wall and rubbed her back looking around the room. "Why did ya'll come in here?"
"To take you to the Alpine Alps." Timmy gestured to the lone telescope still pointed out the window and Poppy rose a brow at it as he walked back over to it. "This'll take us all straight to Alpine and from there to Moonjumper. We'll have to leave right now if none of us wanna get caught by Hazelle."
"More traveling with those umbrellas?"
"My magic's not strong enough to teleport me let alone all of us to Alpine all the way down there. I could barely teleport inside the ship from the moon. Unless you wanna wait for Snatcher or Hazelle to catch onto our plan and you never see Moonjumper, be my guest." Poppy said nothing and he nodded. "Then let's not waste anymore time yeah?"
Poppy stared at him a little longer before sighing and nodding. Well when he put it at that, he had a point. She certainly didn't think Snatcher would be very open to this idea. Not after what the girls had told her about what he thought about Moonjumper. And she certainly wasn't missing a chance for getting answers now, and what was one more umbrella ride since she's been sucking it up and using it to get too and from work for the past half week now. So with a sigh, Poppy pushed her self up to her knees and watched as Timmy grabbed Bow's hand as she held up her umbrella and walked over to the telescope. Taking Hattie's hand as she offered and shuffled over to the telescope after them, slamming her eyes shut when Hattie's iron like grip grabbed her hand like a pair of cuffs again. All she could feel after grabbing the little girl's hand was her death gripping her hard with almost inhuman life strength it almost hurt and the sudden lurch forward with the whoosh sound of two umbrellas opening and finally her body being lifted and pulled through the air like a kite. She didn't look the entire way there, just kept her eyes clamped shut the entire way. She would've loved to look upon the beautiful planet or the diamond stars as she passed but she was afraid she might relive the plummet into the swamp and didn't want to relive THAT near death experience again. So for now she would just hang on for the ride, it almost felt like forever just floating in air drifting like a peaceful kite, before suddenly she was whiplashed back and she gasped as she was suddenly suspended by nothing but her arms in the sky. Poppy's blue eyes snapped open and she suddenly blinked at the sight she was taking part in...and frankly almost lost her pecking mind. The first thing to hit them was the spine chilling limb numbing COLD!! It was like they suddenly got dumped in winter as the air blew wildly around them like a cold winter storm minus the snowflakes. The second thing she noticed was that they were IN. THE. MIDDLE. OF. THE. PECKING. SKY!!! In all directions was nothing but blue sky, greyish white clouds, and cold wind. She couldn't even see Bow or Timmy which is what made it worse for her. Did they get knocked out of the sky?! Were they blown away by the wind!? Were they still falling somewhere to their doom?! Her questions were answered soon enough. When she was about to ask Hattie(who was still gripping her with that strange alien strength) where they were, when something finally peeked through the clouds. Whatever it was was BIG and grey but still blocked by the giant clouds surrounding them as they got closer and closer to their destination being blown by the wind. Her red hair whipped around and she could barely see until they suddenly went down. Poppy gasped and a spike of fear went through her as they did thinking they would fall to her second death slamming her eyelids shut, but instead of falling through air Poppy soon found herself being put down on her knees on something she could only describe as cold bricks. Confused, those blue eyes popped open and they went wide at the sight in front of her. The wind was still blowing, making her shiver and sent a shudder down her spine from the brief flashback to the old clutches of the Vanessa incident before she quickly pushed it from her mind and wished she had a coat as her arms instinctively rubbed her arms. What stood before her was something else. What stood before her looked to be a mini mountain like structure jutting out somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the cold sky, the moutains was decorated with old forgotten torn flags with strange symbols unknown to her waving in the cold wind and a few small snowflakes made themselves present drifting into small piles here and there. It also looked like oddly big shaped ledges formed into a naturally formof stairs leading somewhere but her eyes weren't focused on the path right now. She was looking at the strange egg shaped like statues with goat horns surrounding them before stopping and staring at the MASSIVE two statues of Alpine Goats on either side of the path ahead on two seperate cliffs, almost like guardians from long ago. There was also some plants despite it being so cold, mostly small trees and bushes jutting out from random spots in the cliff but there was also some wild vines growing up the cliff sides here and there. A cough directed Poppy's attention to her left where Hattie had landed and was met with the sight of the other two children as well. THANK PECK they didn't get blown away from them.
''Welcome to the entrance to Apline Alps Ms. Poppy," Timmy said one hand on his hat to keep it from being blown away. "I hope the landing wasn't too rough on ya."
...She blinked shaking her head. "W-Wait. WHERE in tarnation are we?"
"Like I said the entrance to Alpine Alps." He then pointed up the pathway, the ride to Alpine Town is down that way a bit. It's best we get going before we can't yeah?"
She gladly agreed. If there was a town nearby then maybe she could find a shop or someplace warm to warm up a bit. Timmy nodded and turned to lead the way, running towards the stone ledges with the girls following and Poppy once the lady got up onto her feet. Well, she made it this far, might as well see it to it's end. And think. The answers her mind's been beating her over to get was so close to getting obtained. It was kinda tricky climbing up after the youngsters who jumped and ran up and over the ledges with ease, but it wasn't too hard thanks to her muscles from so much work in her youth, she was easily able to jump, grab onto a ledge if needed and pull herself up and over to as if doing pull ups. Guess she can scratch off mountain climbing off her 'Weird Things to Happen To Me After Coming Back To Life' list. When she finally reached the top, Poppy was exhausted and her hands and arms were cold and sore like she had been shoveling pounds of snow with her bare hands, but she stopped when she saw what was before her. Two torches with fire (in the middle of daylight no less) stood on either side of an archway that lead the way to a boarded bridge, said archway was decorated with colorful paper and a rope of holed stone was tied across it. Writing of a language she'd never seen before decorated a sign above it. When Timmy noticed her staring at it, he explained it was the Nomad language and said Welcome to the Alpine Mountain Range. Interesting. The three children ran across the old wooden bridge like it was nothing and Poppy hesitated a wee bit....Come on you scardy cat! You traveled from hundreds of miles from SPACE and the moon tons of times! She could handle walking across a bridge probably miles high off the ground too! Though it didn't ease the butterflies in her stomach, she slowly forced herself to cross trying NOT to think of the thosands of miles below her very feet and instead looking straight ahead. In front of her was some kind of wooden doors and a metal fence leading off to the left, next to the doors was a bell and as soon as the three children got near it Hattie pointed her umbrella, the hook shot out and latched onto said bell and she pulled. The bell rang out a few times and as soon as Poppy got near the thing, the doors automatically opened and they all ran through. Timmy pointing upwards as he did.
"C'mon, Poppy! The way's up there!"
Poppy looked up to where he was pointing and- OH. MY. PECKING GOSH!! A spiraling stone staircase spiraled upwards up another cliff which was bigger than the one she breifly climbed and the ones the two goat statues were on. Oh boy. Well..maybe all this exersize would help her clumsiness in her rehearsals. Sighing she turned her attention towards the start of the stairs and still shivering walked after them. Along the way upwards she noticed there was more of those weird horned, hallowed out, egg shaped statues, a few torches, and LOTS of moss covering the old steps. She tried looking around but saw nothing but more sky and clouds, and as she got to the top she noticed there was even more giant goat statues. When she got to the very top of the stairs however was when things got stranger. At the very top there was four what looked to be graves with SKULLS on top of them, more strange stone statues, a TALL stone piller between the four supposed graves, two GIANT stone cut structures that were purposefully carved to look like horns, and some wooden beams with red flags which waved in the wind which speaking of the wind it seemed to have picked up since they got there. How odd.
"What are those?," Poppy asked pointing a hand at the 'graves'.
"Oh those? Those are memorials to the four founders of Alpine Town, they were devoted to the Twilight Goat who first made their home here. Some say they found out the secrets of high end magic and ascended to the stars when he died," Timmy explained.
So they were kinda graves. She didn't wanna know if those skulls were carved stone or the real thing- A giant clap of thunder rung out as the ground beneath them all shook for a few seconds causing Poppy to fall to the cold stone ground as it did. The giant stone pillar in front of them sinking into the ground a little bit.
"WHAT THE PECK WAS THAT!?" Poppy wailed pushing herself back up and looking around wildly. "An earthquake!?"
Timmy shook his head no. "Nah. Hattie's just summoning one of the alpine skylines."
"The what?!"
She didn't get an answer as it happened again and she was knocked back onto her side again as the thunder clapped and the pillar lowered a little more too. Hattie ran past her over to the third lever sticking out of the ground and with her trusty umbrella started whacking it as it spun around like a screw into the ground and another clap of thunder and another shaking of the cliff knocking her over once the last level was buried into the ground. And Poppy was finally able to push herself up without having the fear of being knocked over. Something slithered forth from the white clouds before them and it took Poppy a moment through her moment of shock seeing the thing to realize it was a rope decorated with more of that colorful paper!! She watched in shock as it wrapped itself TIGHTLY around the stone pillar and stayed there, leading back off to the unknown through the clouds. As soon as it arrived Timmy and Bow stepped up to it, Timmy and Bow locking hands like before they teleported using the telescope, and Bow aimed her Umbrella at the rope. The hook from her umbrella shot out and caught onto it, and as soon as they did they were whiplashed off like someone had just grabbed them and yanked them away disappearing through the clouds. Poppy yelped in shock and ran over to the edge where they disappeared off from, staring at the clouds rolling past. Where the PECK did they just go?! Before she even knew or really processed what just happened at all, something like an iron trap grabbed her hand once again and another hook from Hattie's umbrella shot out and grabbed onto the rope. With a yelp she'll deny later, Poppy and Hattie were also shot forward. It was really similar to the sensations of when she was traveling with the girls to and from space, only this time she could see what was happening to her surroundings as she was once again pulled along by the little alien like a kite in the wind. Red hair whipped in every direction in front of her face and she had a quesy feeling in her stomach from all the pulling she was receiving now. Clouds. All she saw was clouds from her eyes squinting from the wind whipping her face, and the rope that never seemed to have an end as they flew. All she could hear was the whistling winds, claps of thunder from the clouds, and the distant sounds of bells-......Bells?! Wha- Another clap of thunder sounded out as they passed through the biggest cloud of all of them when FINALLY daylight broke through the other side and she could see something besides the clouds. And. Her. Jaw. DROPPED!! More cliffs. LOTS more cliffs. But all of them were MUCH MUCH more bigger than the few they had already climbed, making the ones they passed look like babies in comparison. As they zoomed by, they passed a pair of twin peaks standing side by side with more Alpine Goat Statues THAT WERE GINORMOUS!! Even bigger than the statues they had already seen! These were easily the sizes of a small castle EACH!! As they continued to zoom past those with the cold wind still seeping into her bones, There was yet ANOTHER set of twin peaks with more ginormous goat statues, and with each pair of goats statues there was a massive...rope?? And on said ropes was the BIGGEST golden bells she'd even seen. The giant things rang out from the winds pushing them and shined brightly from the sunlight. Poppy gazed up at them all in awe as they flew past. Well, that explains the distant sound of bells she heard. She was so in awe, it was unlike anything she had ever seen before! It was in a mystical way, beautiful! They were fast approuching the end of the rope's journey and Poppy looked around admiring the veiws. Was....Was that cliff spewing out LAVA!? It looked more like a volcano than a cliff!! And that one had some kind of giant structure on it. She wasn't sure what it was to be honest, but it was still so massive! She didn't see the end of the rope until there was a sudden whiplash and her body was sent forward shooting like a rocket, crashlanding into some green plants with a loud yelp!
"Oh no! Poppy!" Hattie quickly ran over to the red head as she pushed herself out of the roof of the small building she crashed into and coughed, spitting out leaves and shaking her head. "Are you ok?! Im sorry! I must've slipped! "
"Ah'm fine! *cough* I'm sorta used to this crashlanding bizz by now." She shook her head and finally got a chance to look around her. The way they came from was clouded by well clouds and she could barely see the back of the statues n cliffs they passed let alone the cliff they came here from. Looking around her she saw lots and LOTS of man made wooden platforms, houses with the roofs just covered in plants, more of those horned hollowed out egg statues, piles of firewood, bails of hay, and carvings of goats and paintings were plastered all over the available sights of what cliff she could see. Peck. Even the houses had strange carvings in them so details it must've taken someone a hundred years to even finish carving one of them. Odd ledges and stone stairs carved into the cliff sides to the right lead to farther up from the landing platform she crashed into....She blinked. "Where in the hey are we?"
"The town of Alpine Skylines." Poppy snapped over to her left and load and behold Timmy and Bow was just a few feet away from them all. He pointed up the roof she was still sitting on and over towards the path you HAD to climb said roof to get to. "The towns split into five different sections between all these cliffs here, you see. There's the Lava Cake Peaks, Bird House Peaks, Twilight Bell Path, Landing Peak, and Windmill Hills. Right now we're on Landing Peak where everyone who comes here first lands, yeah." poppy blinked and looked up towards the path he pointed at. Landing Peak huh? Well at least it made sense. She blinked again when Timmy suddenly jumped onto the roof next to her and began climbing his way up and towards the path. "There's four skylines leading to them, since we're heading home we need the green one that goes to Twilight Bell Path. Follow me!"
Poppy blinked but moved when both girls started to also climb up the roof and jump onto the path after him, once she set foot on the path and was able to meet up with them, Timmy gestured down the wooden platform path and she followed. The wooden path soon turned to giant stone steps befitting the giant Alpine Goats who lived there. Speaking of the residence they passed one or two goats on their way up, the goats shaking out their furred shelves every so oftten. And some Nomads. The smaller covered up residence of the peaks who lived in the smaller houses of the peaks. Poppy envied their heavy coats as she was still shivering from the cold air from being so far up and rubbing her arms following them. There was still everything she saw from her place back on the landing platform, only now she could get a good look at the other peaks. She could see how they got their names. Bird House Peaks had an actual LARGE bird house(or what she assumed was one since she couldn't guess what else it could've been). Lava Cake Peaks obviously had Lava. Landing Peaks was the center of the peaks leading towards them all. Windmill Hills had the BIGGEST windmill she had ever seen built into it!! As for the Twilight Bell Path- Poppy blinked and gawked at the HUGE silvery-green bell built upon the cliffs that was held up by more goat horn structures. So that was the twilight bell that would lead her to Moonjumper. Gotta say she was starting to find this easier than she originally thought it would be. She continued to follow the kids up, up, up until they finally stopped at this huge fancy carved house. She guessed it must've belonged to one of the goats since it looked too big to be a nomad's. Infront of the house was a giant wooden beam and from it a rope with green fancy paper decorating it lead from it towards the giant bell. Timmy pointed at it and Poppy understood it was the way to go. And so the same thing from before happened. Timmy took Bow's hand and they zoomed away towards the bell, and Poppy did the same again with Hattie. Before they took off though she noticed there was some very beautiful bright blue flowers shining brightly so much, the light made them look white. Poppy only remembered staring at the pretty thing before being yanked away towards the new path. This time the trip was MUCH shorter than the first one this time and she landed more decently on her knees when they reached the stone end, getting off and brushing her self off and looked as Timmy beckoned her down another stone ledge path which lead to more wooden bridged bewteen the peaks that lead to the bell. She could feel the anxiety and excitement grow within her stomach as they neared, but she came all the way here. It was too late to turn back now. Timmy lead them through an archway that he explained read The Twilight Path, so they were on the right track. Though the climbing she had to do against cold stone was NOT fun in the slightest. One Namad they past yelled out that the Twilight Bell was just ahead of them. Which was good since she was starting to feel sore from all this climbing anyways. Along the way she noticed there was stars and strange symbols painted on some of the cliff sides, as well as a few more of those really beautiful bright lit flowers. When she asked Timmy about the flowers he shrugged.
"Those are Twilight Flowers. They grow all along this section of peaks."
"Ah think they're beautiful. Wouldn't mind havin' some back home."
Twilight flowers huh? She'd never heard of those kinds of flowers before, but they were really beautiful to look at. Oh well. As they continued to climb, they FINALLY reached....Another green papered skyline.
"This is the last skyline before we reach the bell,'' Timmy explained before he was whisked off by Bow again.
Oh well that was good at least, her wrist was starting to get sore. So rinse and repeat yet a third time and Poppy was once again strung along, but this time she KNEW she was there. The last trip over felt like an eternity as she just fawned and awed over the large bell structure before her as they got closer and closer. Until finally she was there landing hard on her knees but she didn't care, she was too busy looking at the INSIDE of the thing! THIS BELL WAS HUGE!! PROBABLY BIGGER THAN THE GOLDEN ONES SHE SAW WHEN THEY FIRST CAME IN!! AND THE INSIDE LOOKED LIKE AN ENTIRE GALAXY ON IT'S OWN!! Black void painted the inside of it as beautiful diamonds sparkled brightly like stars. It was absolutely breath takingly pecking beautiful!! She still couldn't take her eyes off of it as she followed the children until they were all standing under it, giving her the best veiw of the inside. Unknownst to her, Timmy nodded to Hattie who nodded back and aimed her hook shot up at the bells lever. It grabbed onto it with a thump and away she went swinging back and forth on it like it was a playground swing. OH PECK!! The loud booming rings it made rang out and jabbed Poppy's ears and head with pain. Causing the woman to clamp her hands over her ears as Hattie continued to ring it and slam her eyes shut. Green flooded around the four, twisting the turning in every direction until they saw nothing and the surroundings COMPLETELY changed. ......Poppy SLOWLY opened her eyes and removed her hands when heard the ringing sto- She gasped and stumbled back onto her behind at the new sight.
"Welcome to The Horizon, Miss," Timmy said gesturing to the new world around them. "Or what I like to call it, home!"
IT WAS DARK!!....But somehow she was still able to see everything. She was surrounded by more strange statues but these instead of looking like regular statues, were a dark green-black that sparkled with somekind of otherworldly magic. Floating buildings of white marble statues with lots of pillars were EVERYWHERE she looked and someone of all things, some were leaking water. Water that went over the edge and down, down, down disappearing without a trace. There wasn't any visible source of sky, sun, moon, or stars. Just black void all around them besides the strange structures......Well when Snatcher mentioned some ghosts living on another plain of existance he wasn't kidding. In a strange way...it was all very beautiful and a sense of eerie calm came from it all.
..............She blinked and slowly pushed herself back to standing in her feet. "W-Where....Where are we?"
"I just told you. The Horizon." Timmy turned and gestured down a path leading off from where they popped up from, Moonjumper is probably waiting for us in the palace."
"The what?" Timmy pointed ahead and there was a big stone building just floating in mid air, it did quite resemble a palace in a topsy turvy way. Poppy blinked but slowly followed after the kids who showed no fear in this other world. As they walked she turned and suddenly gasped and stumbled back a few steps, pointing at something a little way from them. Big. Glowing. And MOVING!! "What the peck is that?!"
Timmy jumped at the sudden shout but looked to where she was and relaxed at the sight of the alpine goat ghost. "Oh that? That's just one of the ghosts that love 'round here."
"G-Ghosts!?"
He shrugged. "Why are you surprised? Snatcher's a ghost, and so is Moonjumper. There's just a few goats and a couple of Snatcher's old minions Moonjumper snatched up here. But they're all pretty harmless." they continued walking as he spoke. " They mostly just float around with they're little bells. There's nothing to worry about."
She hoped he was right about that. Poppy blinked seeing another familiar thing and pointed at it. "Would ya look at that? More flowers!"
"Oh yeah. The Twilight flowers and vines grow in this place too. No idea why, Moonjumper thinks they're magical or something. He likes to study magic sometimes if hazelle let's him borrow her books."
Just like Philip to study. "He....Sounds like a smart fella."
"He should be. People even wrote a song about him in legend."
"You're kiddin!" Philip? Having a legendary song named after him?
Timmy nodded. "Yep! You can ask Hattie to sing it for you. She knows the song pretty well."
Hattie smiled at the prospect of showing her superior knowledge about this place and what she could do. She didn't want to brag but after all she IS an expert in all things ghostly on this planet including the legend of the haunted forest and Moonjumper's tale. She still remembered when she first met the polite spirit when she first entered the Horizon going after one of her time pieces.
"Hello there little girl! Come wide, come far! I am the Moonjumper. Oh, yes. Indeed. I live and breath for this horizon, it's my home. Up here I can see everyone and everything. I am a silent.....observer. Ask me my child. What does my eye gaze upon? A girl in red? A village of the dead? A prize in a shed?.......N-Nevermind."
Hattie smiled again at the memory and like any little girl began dancing around as she sang. "Tale of a place! A deep forest dark with grace! There he lives blooming inside a wild field of big eye! And there he lives! Skin so blue! His eyes shot red! The Moon! The Sky! Tell him only lies! He doesn't know she waits inside! She lost her mind! Many years gone by!"
Poppy watched and listened at the little girl's funny singing. "What does that mean?"
"No idea!," hattie giggled out.
Timmy shrugged. "No one does. It's a mystery to everyone except maybe Moonjumper."
"Did someone call me?" They all froze at the sudden and distant echo-y voice that came from anywhere and everywhere. It seemed to echo more out into the void until slowly fading away and Poppy frantically swiveled her head around trying to see where it had come from. "Look upwards, my lady." Poppy did snap her head upwards and she let out a small gasp. Up way above floating just a few feet in the air above them was the ghost. He...still looked as sketchy and scary as he did back on the ship all that time ago and she couldn't help but take a few steps back when the ghosts floated down. He was even more weird looking than she remembered. The red markings on his face and those red eyes shining brightly against the dark void as he still lowered, eyes locked onto her as he desceneded and eventually stopped a few feet away. The only sounds from him was the eerie clanking of the chains still on his wrists as he stopped just beside Timmy who still smiled. A head pat was rewarded to the boy from the ghost. "I'm glad you all made it alright. Did you have a nice trip over? I know the journey isn't exactly easy."
Poppy blinked. So many thoughts from before but now her mind went blank at seeing the other spirit again. "Uh...Y-Yeah. I-It was alright."
"Splendid! Now." He clapped his hands together making the floating chains clack more. "Timmy told me you have some questions you wanted answered?"
Her mind came back to her as she blinked. "Uh YEAH! A whole bunch in fact!"
"Well lucky for you Im completely one million percent willing to answer each and everyone you may have." He turned and gestured her to follow him. "Come, come. It's rude if I didn't show you around my home." The children willingly followed when the spook started floating off down the path and after a moment she also started slowly stepping after them. The path contained the same thing they had already seen. Pure white stone marble buildings floating around, water falls disappearing down into nothing, and the occasional spirit who turned and fled the other way seeing Moonjumper. "Don't mind the residence. They do that with Hazelle and Timmy too."
"Right." Poppy rose a brow at the back of the ghost in mostly curiousity and a lil bit of suspicion. "So...Philip-"
"Moonjumper."
"What?"
"I'm afraid I no longer nor do I like going by my dead name. Please. Call me Moonjumper, or Moon if it's easier for you but please do not call Philip Snider." She shuddered. "That name brings back o-one too many bad memories I wish to forget."
"Oh, sorry 'bout that....Moonjumper?"
He waved a hand not looking at her. "That's quite alright. Now...You wanted to talk to me?"
She blinked..and she scowled. "Yeah! That's right! I got a few peckin' questions for ya'll!"
"I don't mind answering a bit, but I WILL insist you do not use that language in front of the children while you're here. I do not tolerate bad behavior."
"Right. So I can ya'll anything?," she asked crossing her arms.
He again waved a hand. "Ask to your heart's content, my dear.~"
"WHY THE HECK DID IT TAKE YA SO LONG TO TALK TA ME!?", her angry voice practically echoed loud throughout the entire void and the kids winced at the loud sound. Moonjumper seem unfased tho.
"Yes. I do apologize for that but I couldn't risk Snatcher finding out my presence otherwise he would've made sure I never had the chance to talk to you at all. You see I can only leave the Horizon when it's night on your world, but Snatcher is much more powerful than I am and would've sent me back quite easily. Wouldn't you agree that this is the safer route?"
Well that did make sense. Snatcher by what she knew and saw of him did have quite the temper on him that's for sure. "Ok. Then what about everything ya told me back on the dang ship!? Was that all real or ya'll jus' playin' with mah head?!"
"Firstly I would NEVER lie about myself. I find that self degrading. Secondly you are probably the last person I would lie to. Why ever would I lie about my oldest and dearest friend? Thirdly yes. Yes everything I told you was true." Moonjumper smirked in triumph and looked over his shoulder at her. "Every single bit of it was the truth."
"Explain it ta me!," She demanded.
His smirk widened. "I'd be glad to.~ Where would you like me to start?"
"The beginnin'!"
"Of course. How much do you know? I can start filling in holes if I know how much you know."
"I know you froze to death in the celler." Moonjumper stopped and as a result so did she and the children who blinked back confused as too why the adults did. Poppy stared at him for a few seconds and when he didn't respond inhaled and exhaled before continuing. "I know Vanessa killed ya both too when she locked ya down there, and I know she froze everythin' too. And it all happened a thousand years ago and you two..three??...Are all ghosts. And I-...I know she thought I was the one ya'll cheated on her with."
"WRONG!" She jumped at the sudden raise in tone and as Moonjumper snapped his head to her. "That is wrong. I had never EVER cheated on her with anyone ever! She may have thought I did but I certainly did NOT!!''
"O-Ok, ok! Ya didn't. She just thought we was a thing."
"Exactly. We never cheated on vanessa. I'll give Snatcher that much at least. He was always just as faithful til the very end."
"........Hey. I think you said ya'll were one in the same back on the ship right? Explain that ta me."
......He just shrugged. "There's not much to explain on that matter since I have no idea how we came to be. All I remember is waking up after we died in that DREADFUL cold prison cell and waking up here on the other side." He shivered and reached up to rub his arms chains clanking. "I will NEVER go back there even if it meant leaving this prison!"
"Still doesn't make much lick of sense ta me."
He looked her over for a moment before sighing and holding up his hands. "Alright. Allow me to tell you a story that will clear EVERYTHING up and help you catch up with recent events. Once upon a time a thousand years ago, there was two Kingdoms." He closed his hands behind his back again as he gave her a neutral look as he slowly started floating to her left. "The Kingdom of Subcon and the Kingdom of Subconette. The rulers of these kingdoms decided their children would get married and unite both these kingdoms in harmony. Their names were PRINCE Snider of Subconette and Princess Vanessa of Subcon. The princess was the most beautiful woman any where and the prince in my opinion was more better looking.~ But for some unknown reason the princess CRACKED!" He vanished behind her and Poppy had to turn her head the other way as he continued to slowly float in a circle around her. "She slowly descended into madness and became nothing but a controlling dictator that put me-..The prince through NOTHING but misery, and yet the prince still foolishly loved her and tried his best to make her happy! His only saving grace was when he had to leave for his studies and when he met YOU!!" Poppy blinked as he now smiled. "Poppy Rose Bloomington. A small time country girl who grew up on a farm and moved to town to sell her pretty flowers.~ Catching the eye of a prince with your understanding and very kind nature. Basically being everything to him that Vanessa wasn't or ever will be. But THEN." His smile turned back into a snarl. Like the kind of snarl Snatcher gave the Mafia Boss but she wasn't sure where his anger lied with now as he stopped in front of her. "Vanessa turned on me! Over nothing but a few measly flowers all for her!! After everything I sacrificed for her! All those years of pandering to every single one of her demands no matter how ridiculous and impossible they were! I gave her the best dam bloody years of my life and she repaid me for my loyalty and love to her by chaining myself in the dark abyss of the cellar and ending myself up trapped here for over a thousand years! Watching while others got to frollic free and Snatcher get to rein over our kingdoms!!" They. Were. Stunned. Not just her but the kids too. Even Timmy who lived her with Moonjumper seemed in shock from the sudden tantrum. But as soon as it came it left when he exhaled and leaned back holding up his hands. "F-Forgive me. My death...i-is a sensative topic. I just find it so unbareable when the old memories from how unfair it was was brought up....But that's the story mostly. I don't know how or why we ended up splitting on death but each of us are half of what made up our personality and thinking process." He held a hand to his chest. "I am, if I do say so myself, the much better half. The part with the actual manners and dignity and the proper way to actually behave. Meanwhile Snatcher is full of anger and resentment, stubborn an an Express Owl, gloomier than a graveyard, AND he lacks any empathy or positive qualities other than his own motives!!......I hope that answers your questions, my dear."
Poppy.........Still stared. Behind him both Bow and Hattie looked at each other...then they both looked at Timmy who blinked and shrugged with a just as confused face to their looks, before all three children looked back to him.
........She blinked again. "Uh....Yeeeaaaahhh." She wasn't exactly sure how or WHAT to respond with after that. Not that she was afraid. Just...taken aback. But then again she couldn't exactly blame the fella for feeling the way he does after a tramatic death like that. Peck. Even she has nightmares about Vanessa, and she didn't even interact with her for five minutes. She couldn't start to imagine how he could've spent years with someone as evil as that. "Right. Well...Thank ya for ....catchin' me up ta speed. I uh..Clears up a bunch of it actually....Except ah don't know why he didn't tell me this all sooner."
"Oh? You really haven't figured out that yet?" He tutted and rolled his eyes and shook his head. "Poppy. Let me ask YOU a question now. What would you have done knowing Snatcher makes deals with innocent souls who just stumbled into his forest unless they can very rarely defeat him or bargain their way out of eternal servitude and he harnesses all of their souls for his magic fuel?"
"AH ALREADY KNEW HE DID THAT DIRTY BUSINESS WHEN I-....Wait. Magic...fuel?"
He nodded smiling. "Magic fuel. Same goes for me.~ After all the more minions a ghost has the more powerful his magic is. I have a few loyal here to me as you obviously saw coming in. Now...the souls you use don't HAVE to be dead like you, but anyone loyalty of in Snatcher's case hundreds and counting. It makes him almost god like compared to someone like me or ...or HER. Of course he can't kill me. You can't kill someone twice...Uh.." He looked her over. "Or..in your case...Uh ahem or MY case at least, you can't 'kill' a ghost. But essentially coming back to the point. It matters not if your follwers are dead or living, what matters is their loyalty to YOU. Their devotion makes you powerful. I suspect he didn't want you finding that out for the same reason he refused to reveal his..or more like OUR identity and not tell you anything. He was either afraid or just annoyed at the consequences he would've had to face if you had been disgusted your old friend would do something like this."...His smile widened to that smirk again. "But since the owl's out of the bag now.~ He's going to have to deal with the fact that he LIED to you and deliberately kept the truth from you for so long because of a little fright ...I suspect you'll be having some second thoughts for our 'King' of the woods eh?~ Hmhmhm.~"
Snatcher KNEW!! SNATCHER HAD LIED TO HER!!......Well she already knew both of those things. She already knew he lied, and she already knew that he knew but hearing the words straight from his twin's mouth made. Her. PECKING. ANGRY. Angrier than when that yappity bird blamed her for the camera. Angrier when the Mafia was pushing around that poor old man. Angrier when Snatcher made her a babysitter against her own will(not that she was blaming or complaining about the lil tikes). This was a whole kind of next level of anger that she had never felt before even in her old life a thousand years ago!!! This was the anger of betrayel! the worst kind you could feel!! What did she do to EVER GET IN THIS MESS!? .....She had to stop herself and breath in when her vision went red. Now use throwing a tantrum in front of the person who at least answered all her questions so willingly and cleared everything up. There wasn't anymore holes or missing peices in this puzzle now and all the numb, butterflies, confusion had completely disappeared and she felt whole again knowing. Now there was still just one question on her mind that even Moonjumper couldn't answer. Why? And only Snatcher could answer that himself. Moonjumper said it was cuz he was scared or annoyed at the consequences but she wasn't too sure unless it came directly from his mouth. She was DEFINATELY to give the purple onion noodle one PECKING peice of her mind for sure!!
She nodded her head and looked to Moonjumper calmly. "Well. Ah sure do appreciate ya'll telling me all of this. Ah think I got what I needed. Thank you. But now.." She looked off back in the direction they came from with a scowl. "I got a few more questions ta git outta someone else."
He just nodded smiling. ''Im glad to have been so helpful to you. ...But there IS one more important thing you must know about.~"
She looked back to him with a raised brow. "And what is that?"
"This." He held up one of his hands and snapped his fingers. The sound echoing out eerily and Poppy flinched at the sound. After a few seconds a bright red string dropped from out of nowhere and stopped right beside his head.
She stared at it for a moment. "...What is that thing?"
"It's how I make contracts. You see Snatcher isn't the only one who can make those, the only difference is that the person HAS to willingly agree to sign the paper or he can't do anything...While MINE can be forced upon." His smile widened more. "And frankly I don't think he deserves someone as special as you!!"
His wrist that he still had held up suddenly went down in a slashing motion and in an instant the thing sprung to life on his command. Poppy yelped as it went straight towards her and on instinct brought her arm up to shield her face, the red string wrapped around her arm like a snake and proceeded to tighten like one Poppy was pulled forward by it and she yelped before digging her heels into the ground and pulling back, her otherhand clasping over the string. Moonjumper smiled and simply motioned his finger forward as it painfully tightened around her more.
"WHAT THE PECK DO YA THINK YER DOING?!," She angrily snarled at his smile.
"DAD!! What are you doing?!," Timmy asked just as horrified as the other two children. Obviously he wasn't expecting this to happen.
"Don't worry. They all fight at first but soon you'll forget any pain and be eternally happy." Moonjumper said in a reassurring voice. "Won't that be better? You'll never be in danger again, and be here with me."
"YOU'RE MORE CRAZY THAN SNATCHER!!" She stumbled forward a foot at a sudden yank, The red string glowing a bright red and her blue eyes widened at it.
"Don't worry. I promise it doesn't hur-"
At that very moment a giant burst of energy throbbed hard within the very core of her body. Temparaily knocking the wind outta her. Poppy gasped and fell to her hands and knees at the sudden tight feeling within her. Her body emitting a small purple light in the dead center of her chest and she stayed there gasping and blinking at the sudden sensation leaving goosebumps across the pale flesh and her shaking like a leaf again. Coughing and gasping for air like a drowning sailor, the red string absolutely disintagrated from the purple magic that glowed in a heart shape right in the middle of her chest. Moonjumper froze, staring at the woman on her hands and knees in absolute shock like the time he first saw her. Poppy's red hair went around framing her face as she coughed and faced the floor....Before slowly looking up through her bangs with the angriest more visious snarl on a mortal woman one could have.
"You can-...NO!" Moonjumper snarled back. "NO!! This can not be it! Y-You-....YOU DONT POSESS ANY MAGIC STRONG ENOUGH TO COUNTER MINE!! I-I-...THAT SHOULD'VE WORKED!!"
"Is THAT what that was?," she hissed out.
"How did you do that?! How you you have possibly have- No! Your will against it just must be stronger than the normal mortal!" He held both hands out and Poppy's face went back to panicked when near ten strings came from the dark and towards her. Timmy yelled at Moonjumper to stop but he either didn't notice him or didn't listen when Poppy was painfully suspended into the air. Most of the strings too tightly wrapped around her arms but some wrapped around her legs too and one around her neck, she cursed and struggled like a mad women being sent to the looney bin. Fighting and fighting before that still glowing purple heart sent out another energy burst and in an instant all the strings were destroyed. Leaving her to fall on the ground and start coughing and breathing again for air like a dying man. Moonjumper once again stood there stunned too shocked for words. Eyes going to the purple throbbing of her body....and suddenly absolutely fear wracked his face and form. "......N-No.....N-NONONONO!!!" His hands suddenly went over his mouth and he floated a few feet away. "N-No.." His red eyes snapped to her face when she weakly pushed it up. "Y-You signed it didn't you? Y-YOU SIGNED THAT CONTRACT WITH SNATCHER!?"
"W-What.." She wheezed and gasped a gulp of air while glaring at him with murder. " d-d-did ya p-peckin' expect?" Of course she signed a contract with Snatcher she he took her soul outta her body. Not like she had a choice there anyways....But she'd definately be having a talk about that with him too once her heart stopped ringing in her ears and her lungs evened out.
"T-Then that m-m-m-means t-that Snatcher's......"
"M O O N J U M P E R!!!"
It was the voice that shook the forest and sent everyone hiding. It was the voice that struck fear into every mortal and enemy ghost everywhere. The voice shook the very void and made every one-...Timmy, Hattie, Bow, Moonjumper, and any ghosts Moonjumper ruled over here stop in their peaceful home and turn to the terrifying scream that shook the dead down to the deepest hell and back again. Moonjumper whimpered like a pathetic dog. Kicked and looked ready to turn into nothing if it meant not dealing with that thing. Every ghost skidaddled and dove behind or through the marble stones for safety. Every goat ghost and dweller here. Which could only mean one thing.
The King Of Subcon....Had Arrived.
And. He. Was. ENRAGED!!
Poppy barely flinched from the sounds, the ringing in her ears making it hard to hear. She had just barely pushed herself up and around when a giant gust of wind whipped past her, making her red hair whipped wildly, and she could feel heat breifly fly by. As if someone lit a fire and swiftly threw it past her body. The dark shadow with the wind S L A M M E D into the horrified ghosts and it sent the two flying. Moonjumper found himself in the hands of the demon. The dark shadow was blacker than the abyss surrounding them, man of hair flared out crowding his face like a lion's mane, the fangs and eyes staring at him seeping with smoke and blue flames. A scream..No. Sound like the most hellish thing you could imagine screeched out from his mouth foaming with blue flames and smoke.
Moonjumper. SCREAMED!!
The three children stood there petrified at what just happed and watched from the ground as the thing that was Snatcher flew straight up into the air before literally throwing Moonjumper's form down behind the building and diving after him.
"POPPY!?" Hattie and Timmy jumped when Bow suddenly bolted over to the woman still laying on her stomach and brought her head up to look at the little girl kneeling in front of her. "Are you ok!?"
Two more appeared behind her. "Im so sorry, Miss! I didn't know any of this would happen!" Timmy looked almost ready to cry when he stopped in front of her looking at her. "I-I don't know what's gotten into them!"
"I-It aint...Y-yer fault."
"My, my. How do all of you get into trouble so easily?"
The children looked up and she slowly followed their gaze the best she could. "Hazelle!!"
The pink wearing witch tapped her foot and held a scowl as she stared down at the four..before turning to Timmy who looked even more scared under her gaze. "YOU are in BIG trouble! Ditching me and running away behind my back! What were you thinking?!..."She looked back up as a giant stream of blue flames shot out from somewhere behind the marble castle. "What were ANY of you THINKING!?"
...Timmy hiccuped and a small tear went down his face. "I didn't know! Im sorry, Hazelle!!"
...Her look didn't soften but she sighed and kneeled down next to Poppy. Her hands grabbing onto her shoulders and grunted as she pulled Poppy onto her back and then pulled her up slowly in a sitting posititon as she breathed. "Nevermind that now. Are you feeling ok?" She patted Poppy's cheek making the other woman look at her.
Poppy blinked seeing Hazelle's concerned face and nodded. "R-Real...w-winded and ...exhausted.."
"What happened?" She looked to the children for answers and Hattie spoke up.
"Moonjumper tried using his strings on her."
"HIS WHAT?!"
Hattie nodded. "But it didn't work. She signed Snatcher's contract."
".....So that's it. The powerful magics just overwhelmed you, you're going to be fine." Hazelle patted Poppy's shoulder before standing back up and sighing. Looking up as another screech sounded out. "Right. Kids. Stay here with Poppy ok? Im going to go break up the other two children fighting."
As she walked away, heels of her boots clacking, the three children looked at one another in worry. Not knowing what to think. Moonjumper on the other hand had a LOT going on through his mind at the moment, especially when he was slammed again with incredible strength in Snatcher's claws. The subcon ruler becoming frustrated when Moonjumper kept dodging his flames. The horrified face of the moon boy stared with fear when Snatcher charged him again, sharp claws out and aiming right for him- Until he was stopped when a bright red string wrapped itself tightly around his tail and stopped him mid dive. The beast snarled like a monster and turned on the red string in rage before another snagged around top half. And then more. And more. And more. .....AND MORE!! Until his entire body was red and thrashing within a cocoon made from hundred and hundred of Moonjumper's threads like a fly trapped within a spider's web. Enraged, the screeching and thrashing increased like he was a worm from hell. He was solely focused on Moonjumper for what he had done. He had felt something was wrong when Poppy the contract's magic alerted him to danger. But when he had instantly teleported into the ship he found no one. He made sure to thoroughly look in each room on the ship before bumping back into Hazelle who just magically dropped in with her weird pet in the middle of his worrying and the two locked eyes.
"YOU?!," he asked blinking at her.
She seemed confused. "Yes...Me. What are you doing here?"
He instantly scowled. "I could ask YOU the same thing, Witch!"
"Uh huh." She looked towards the doorway leading towards the girl's bedroom. "I'm looking for Timmy." She looked back to him with her own frown. "He ran off during one of our lessons and I looked all over for him all day so I've been having Shifty here follow his aura until we got to the moon train. I figured the only other place he could've gone is here with your kiddos."
"Well it looks like we're BOTH fooled!!" He hissed out with a glare crossing his arms. "There's no one here either!"
She hummed and rose a brow. "That is strange. Perhaps Timmy wanted a play date out with them, but why didn't he tell me??....It's not like him at all."
"MISStresS." The Shapeshifter gurgled out in that strangled voice of their's as the strange creature wobbled about slinking towards the door that lead to the storage room of the ship. Getting Hazelle's full attention. "i SeNsE THE bOY's AURa THaT way. FAINT buT TheRe."
It gurgled before crawling towards said door that opened with a whoosh sound and crawled down the hallway. Both of them looked at each other before Hazelle teleported to the other side of the wall and Snatcher's fazed through it. Both watched as Shapeshifter flopped itself to the next level of the floor before crawling towards the ladder that lead to the boiler room and hissed looking upwards.
"hE WENT Up."
"Impossible." Snatcher muttered. "There's nothing in there but water! You're blood hound's as useless as a statue!!"
"Well it's not a coincidence that my boy and YOUR girls are missing as well as that Poppy girl. You can't say we don't have an idea about where they went!"
"Oh please! Why in the PECK would they go in a room filled with water and a measly telescope!?"
Hazelle perked up at that. "A telescope? Don't they use those things to teleport places?"
Snatcher instantly shut up......OF COURSE!! He wanted to smack himself in that moment, but instead he shot himself through the wall into the boiler room and popped out the other side. Rushing up to the telescope and peeping one of those bright yellow eyes through the peep hole to see where it was pointed at on the planet. Hazelle popped a moment later magically teleporting beside him and saw him looking through it.
"Well? Where does this one lead?," she asked him and he looked up.
"Some place in the mountains with lots of clouds." He seemed confused. What kind of place was that to run off too?
Hazelle seemed to get a look of quick realization. "...Oh no."
"Oh no?" Instantly SNatcher was on her scowling. "What do you mean OH NO?!"
"Well, if Im not wrong, that's the long way home for Timmy before I got used to teleporting him everywhere....And Timmy lives in the Horizon."
With Moonjumper!? A shot of panic and rage overcame him at the very thought of Moonboy being all nice and barf romantic over her!! THAT FOOL HAD DONE SOMETHING!! But he wasn't sure what it was or how he was involved in this, but he WAS going to get there and find out! Hazelle offered to teleport them there since it'd be much quiker than taking the Twilight Bell and she was used to making big teleportation jumps with her advanced power. He instantly agreed and after Hazelle ordered Shifter to stay there(in case they came back) she teleported with him holding her shoulders. Once there he had to admit he was a little dizzy, it took a lot to make him feel a bit dizzy so Hazelle must've used a giant burst of magic to get them....Whereever they were real fast. It was almost too fast. But the dizzy feeling was short lived. He felt the second wave of the binding contact protecting Poppy from something and weird place or not, he took off in the direction of it much to Hazelle's protests and yells. If he had a heart it'd be beating a million times a minute as for one rare moment in his after life....He was scared. He knew his magic would be strong enough to counteract Moonjumper's but there was still the lingering fear of her becoming another lost trapped soul trapped her by him somehow. Or what else Moonjumper would do to her?! He lost her once, he didn't want to lose her again!! He couldn't!! Not after he made so much progress in finding her and getting her back!! But his fears were confirmed true when he find them.
Poppy was there...On the ground...She looked so weak. It was like the ghost smacked into a wall with how sudden he stopped seeing her. It was unmistakingly her!! The Purple magic from her soul was his alright and still calling out to him!! Poppy was laying on the ground weakly pulling her head up towards Moonjumper who looked angry and was snarling at her.
Something within him at that very moment SNAPPED!!
It was like the world around him began to blur and spin and the only two figures in his mind was the girl laying on the ground and the snarling person above her. .....What had be done? Poppy was.....hurt? Very possible. Moonjumper did something to Poppy...No. HE did something to Poppy. Moonjumper was a part of him!! A part of him that let Poppy get hurt once again! From that moment something began to bubble up inside of him and poor out in waves. HE HURT HER!! He let her get hurt!! After what already happened to her because of his mistakes!! HOW DARE HE LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN!! EVEN IF IT WAS JUST A PART OF HIM MOONJUMPER SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER THAN TO TOUCH THE WOMAN HE LOVED!! Fangs sprout. Claws sharpened. The flames of vengence and pain seeping out. And a cry of pain coming out of him. The only things he felt was sorrow and rage!!
The hunter had found his prey.
"M O O N J U M P E R!!!"
The smell of burning ashes and smoke filled the air as the red strings around the thrashing and snarling beast turned black and with an even louder screech the thing broke loose in an explosion of blue flames Moonjumper had to shield his eyes from. But when he opened them, they widened at the snarling charging claws and fangs covered in fire about to claw him. ...Before a loud smacking sound was heard and Snatcher slammed into an invisible wall blocking him off from the frozen Moonjumper. Enraged his prey wasn't in his claws the mindless beast kept clawing at the invisible shield attempting to seize it's prey within it's protective hold.
"SNATCHER!!" The snarling beast snapped it's head in the direction of the voice and coppery orange eyes glared up at him. "SNAP OUT OF IT!! POPPY NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW AND YOU'RE ACTING LIKE A RABBID DOG!!" The beast screeched in the woman's direction where she stood ontop of one of the many white marbled blocks. She swiftly moved her arm in a cutting motion and something invisible punch Snatcher right across the face HARD. "GET A PECKING GRIP ON YOURSELF YOU IDIOT!!!"
Snatcher froze. Slowly the rage from his mind with the flames and smoke in it started to uncloud and he found his world twirling back into sights and sounds of a normal person. He found Moonjumper looking at him with anger now, a lot like his anger. But not DARING to make a move towards him. He found Hazelle standing on top of the block too, looking even more angrier than Moonjumper.
"MAYBE NOW YOU'LL LISTEN TO ME!!" She screamed at him at the top of her lungs before pointing back in the direction of Poppy. "YOUR KIDS ARE SCARED!! POPPY'S EXHAUSTED FROM THE AMOUNT OF POWERFUL MAGIC FROM BOTH OF YOU IDIOTS GOING THROUGH HER!! YOU NEED TO TAKE THEM HOME RIGHT NOW AND TAKE CARE OF THEM!!" Her glare suddenly snapped to Moonjumper. "AND YOU!? WHAT THE PECK WERE YOU EVEN THINKING?! HOW DARE YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS?!" At the questiosn towards Moonjumper Snatcher looked back to him and snarled, claws balling into tight fists. "SNATCHER. DONT. YOU. DARE!! ILL TAKE CARE OF HIM!! GO TAKE CARE OF YOUR FAMILY!! NOW!!"
Snatcher still glared at Moonjumper for a few seconds, the claws still sharp. But Poppy was more important than this fool. The shadow turned and shot away, leaving Hazelle to do the picking up after him. The mane of his neck still bunched up but most of it toned down til it was just bristled like when he was usually irritated. The claws retracting on their own. Shooting through walls and walls of white marble until he finally got to the four of them. They all jumped in surprise save for Poppy who was so tired she felt like she was going to pass out any moment. Timmy looked away in shame as the tall shadow approuched and for a moment Snacther regarded the young boy for the crimes comitted tonight.
".......Hazelle's going to have a talk with you."
That was it. No threats to him from the older ghost, just a warning on what his mum figure was going to do once she got done chewing out Moonboy. Without anything to say Timmy just nodded to the older ghosts before he came to the girls and an instant frown adorned his face. the two girls were clutched onto the barely awake woman looking at him scared and not sure what to do about the situation. ...This was all his fault. He silently gathered the trio up in his arms, both girls immediately clutching onto his fluffy neck like he was going to leave them somewhere and Poppy in his arms blinking up to the one holding her as he teleported. The dark purple surrounding her as they did. He only told her one thing too.
"Rest."
Which she gladly did closing her eyes and letting her body go limp.
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only the moon shall know
For the wonderful @libbyweasley for your birthday. Happy Birthday!! I hope you’re having the bestest day which you deserve for being the bestest bean! Thank you so much for all you do and for being you! It wouldn’t be the same without you <3
Summary:
The memory of him turning her around that sunlit ballroom still haunts her dreams at night, the sound of the violins are what she wakes up to in the morning. It’s almost winter now, the sun is no longer here as much as it was, and it makes it easier to forget during the day. But her mind is not as strong in her dreams, it is much more careless, and it makes it easier to remember the feeling of his hands on her waist, or the way her looked at her as he gently spun her around and told her that he didn’t want her to go."
Jemma longs for Fitz bit maybe, finally, something can be done. A sequel to 'the last sunlit walk'.
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“The books you ordered have arrived, my lady. I’ve already had them carried to the library.”
“Thank you very much, Lucy. That will be all.”
Jemma watches the maid go and then turns back to the letter she’s been trying to draft for hours now. If she thinks about it it’s really been days. Over and over again she writes the beginning, but when she gets past that her mind goes blank and suddenly it’s like standing in front of someone and having no idea what to say, her mouth opening and closing like a fish.
Dear Fitz,
I hope
The four words, black ink on ivory paper, stare back at her, mocking her in their simplicity. What does she hope? She hopes that he is well, that he is not suffering too greatly from the breaking of his engagement and that he has found a way to help his family. It seems so simple to put that in a letter, to write what she has been trying to write for the past three months now, but it’s all going so terrible wrong.
It’s her own fault – she left writing the letter too late. If she had just written it as soon as she heard, as soon as the society whispers sent it across to her, then it would have been better. But she hadn’t. She had sat on the knowledge, stewed on it, and the weeks had passed and in order to escape her thoughts she had left her comfortable estate in Yorkshire and went to Hillfoot house which had a village and a farm, and was also far enough away from everything that might dared to remind her of Fitz.
The memory of him turning her around that sunlit ballroom still haunts her dreams at night, the sound of the violins are what she wakes up to in the morning. It’s almost winter now, the sun is no longer here as much as it was, and it makes it easier to forget during the day. But her mind is not as strong in her dreams, it is much more careless, and it makes it easier to remember the feeling of his hands on her waist, or the way her looked at her as he gently spun her around and told her that he didn’t want her to go.
She has come back now, to her estate and to her life. She must resume. Life could only be paused for so long. She has come back with many resolutions, and one of those is writing to Fitz. He has no fiancée yet, she understands, and if he did, she wouldn’t write to him. She couldn’t hurt him like that. However, while he is still free, before he is engaged once again, she wants to write to him and offer an arm of friendship. She wants him to know that she still cares.
This is why she is here, sat at her writing desk in her study as opposed to in the library reading the new books she has ordered. It is why she is not in her greenhouse, consulting with her gardener about how their joint fertiliser experiment is coming along. It is why, every night, she looks out her window at the moon and sends up a silent message, hoping that he’s looking up, too, and knows what she’s trying to say.
Except silent messages aren’t what’s needed here. It’s real words, real ink on real paper. Something to be held and for the words to be felt. Something that Fitz can hold and feel and understand that she didn’t have a choice when she left him on that summer night, and that she very much wish she did.
It would have killed her. It would have been like having her heart dug out of her chest with a spoon. His fiancée was vicious, with perfect black hair and piercing blue eyes and a grin that always seemed slightly feral. To see Fitz married to such a woman, knowing how unhappy he would be, and knowing how happy she and Fitz could have been together in another life would have frayed her every nerve.
Duty. Such an old-fashioned thing. A thing cooked-up by men to make themselves feel better as they plundered villages and made an Empire. It’s our duty she bets they cried. A notion that made its way into society and somehow became entangled with marriage. It’s not for love one marries, Jemma, Hunter’s mother had said during the summer, her eyebrows raised as she sat with her embroidery hoop. It’s for England. For the land.
People used duty as a way to make others miserable, to excuse the things they had done, and Fitz had been no different. Only she couldn’t hate him for it, couldn’t despise what she despised in others who used the same excuse. His father had died, leaving them penniless, and he wanted to ensure that his mother and his home were cared for. How could she hate a man like that? And he had made no secret of it, of the fact that he was looking to wed for money. Jemma had to admire that, as much as she had detested the vultures that has come circling when it was announced, all of them hoping to be the one so save the handsome Lord Leopold Fitz from financial ruin, and themselves become a Countess in the process.
It had been Hunter who had told her. Hunter who had come to ask her guardians if Jemma would be permitted to stay with his family for the summer, to make the whole thing more bearable. They’re animals, Jemma, he had told her on the train, sitting in their first-class compartment. The whole stinking lot of them. Animals. He’ll be so miserable. That’s partly the reason I’m bringing you to stay. I think you’ll make it better for him.
Jemma had wrinkled her nose, she remembers that, and had told her cousin very clearly that she would not be a pawn in some game. She had never met Fitz, though she had heard he was charming enough, but that was besides the point. She did not exist to make some man feel better and if that’s all Hunter wanted her for then she was getting off at the next station and going straight home.
She would have done it. Lately she’s been thinking about that moment often, when she was glaring at Hunter across the compartment, eyes narrowed. In that moment she wasn’t sure herself if she would have had the gall to do it but now she is and knows she would have. Hunter had just laughed and reached for her hand, and told her that having her in his house made it much more bearable for him, too.
It’s funny because it hurts, terribly so, and yet she wouldn’t take it back. Those moments she and Fitz had together over the long months she stayed with Hunter and his family. The walks they took, the expeditions in the large wood around his home. The knowing looks they shared over dinner. Even when his fiancée had come, with her unblinking eyes and porcelain skin, these moments had not abated. Rather they became more important. Fitz was sinking and these were the only life rings she could offer him before he was pulled beneath the waves.
She had to leave though, she did. He had to try and be happy with his marriage and he was never going to try if Jemma were there. She would have left soon, anyway, and gone back to Yorkshire when the weather had cooled and nobody was quite as much fun, but even before they danced together on that halcyon summer evening, she knew she had to leave before the wedding. Jemma considers herself a strong woman, but to watch someone she loves commit themselves to a lifetime of pain and heartache would be beyond what she could have borne.
Her parents died when she was small, and her father, beyond the times, arranged it so that it all went to her. The lands, the estates, the shares he had in various companies all came to his only daughter. Jemma does quite well for herself and everybody thinks so, even the guardians who must do their job until she turns twenty-five. Even still it’s not enough. She used to dream of using her wealth and status to help, she has more than enough, but successful though she is, she can’t help the one person she wants to with all her heart and it makes it hang heavy in her chest.
It was Hunter’s mother who let it slip, who told her that, if things had been different, there had once been a plan to marry the ‘Simmons girl and the Fitz boy.’ That was how his mother had described it. If the elder Lord Fitz hadn’t let money drip from his fingers as if it were water then one day, she may have married his son.
“She didn’t need to know that,” Hunter had told his mother, eyes blazing across the dining table. “You didn’t need to tell her that.”
“What does it matter if she knows now or not?” The woman had said, unhappy at being spoken to like that in her own house by her own son. “The time for it has come and gone and now the two of them must remain.”
The time for it has come and gone. Yes, Jemma supposes it has.
“My lady?”
Jemma looks up to see Lucy, one of her favourite maids, standing at the door once again.
“Yes? Is everything alright?”
“There’s a letter here for you, my lady. Delivered something urgent from the station boy.”
Jemma frowns. “Pardon me?”
“Apparently it was given to someone on the train who then gave it to the station master who then gave it to the station boy to bring up here.” Lucy looks puzzled as she recounts the tale she’s clearly not sure of herself. “Something about it being faster than the postal service, my lady.”
“A letter you say?”
Lucy nods. “Yeah, my lady. I have it here for you.”
She brings it in on a silver tray and bobs as she steps back. Jemma dismisses her with a wave of her fingers and the girl is gone by the time she picks up the letter. It’s Hunter’s handwriting, that much she knows, and the sight of it makes her heart seize up tightly in her chest. Hunter is a man who doesn’t believe in speed, and for him to send this letter with such urgency makes her quite afraid.
With trembling hands she gets her letter opener and carefully, so as not to tear the precious contents, she tears open the envelope. It’s not a thick letter, nor terribly long, but the handwriting only worsens as she unfolds the paper.
Jemma,
I have no time to write anything eloquent, and you should know that’s not how I do things anyway. I’m writing this with urgency, I’m afraid. He told me not to tell you, made me swear it, and I’m not a man to break my word but in this instance, I feel I have to, but unfortunately my decision comes what could be cutting it very close to ‘too late’.
He’s getting married again, Fitz that is. A rushed wedding but that’s hardly a surprise. They called the banns and planned it all with very little fanfare – I suppose the poor chap is still somewhat traumatised from what happened last time – but it looks set to happen. It’s the same equation, one gets money and one gets power. This one isn’t as awful, she is dull but has an ambitious family, very nouveau riche, and it’s caused quite the scandal amongst the mothers, I can tell you. My own is simply horrified. However, that is besides the point. The point is that she’s not terrible, and it’s why I have put off writing as long as I have but I can do it no longer. I have very little self-control.
You must come, Jemma. You simply have to come. You have to come and you have to stop him before he makes this terrible mistake. He’s going to be so miserable, Jemma. Absolutely bloody miserable for the rest of his life if I allow him to go through with this. He won’t listen, though. You know how he is. He won’t listen to me or his mother or his servants or anybody else who candidly tells him that he’s being a right pillock and doing something that nobody wants for him. He’ll only listen to you. You must understand. It’s only you.
You said it yourself, that duty is nonsense and is made up by archaic men to justify the horrible things they’ve done in the world. Well then come. Come and tell my stubborn friend that. Come and tell him that nobody wants him to do this. Nobody wants him to be in pain and alone which is what he will end up. Tell him that duty is pointless but love is not. Duty will not remember the sacrifices made in its name but love is enduring. Isn’t that what you said?
This letter has become a rambling mess but I have very little time, my own fault I can assure you. I have enclosed a train ticket so all that you need to do is hop on. You left some clothes here last time according to Mrs. Hallington, so there’s no need for you to pack. Just get on the train, Jemma, and stop the man you love from making this dreadful mistake.
The wedding is in two days but hurry still, please. Knowing the awful luck the cosmos seems to have for both of you it seems like a bad decision to dawdle.
Yours,
Lance Hunter
The ticket falls out of the envelope and Jemma stares at it on her lap and wonders what it all means. She only prepared herself mentally to write the letter and perhaps even have it posted. She was not prepared for this and if there’s one thing she detests in this world it’s a lack of preparation.
It’s only you.
It’s only Fitz for her. There will be nobody else whom she could ever love the way she loves him, that much she is sure of. But does she have the right to do this? Does she have the right to turn to Fitz and ask him to choose her above all else, knowing that she was the one who turned away?
But Hunter’s letter conveys surety as well as urgency, that Fitz is making a dreadful mistake, and she must ask herself if she could stand idly by and let it happen, knowing as much as she does now. Her cousin has asked her, begged her, to stop Fitz from doing this and could she honestly turn away once again and live with that for the rest of her life?
“Lucy?” She calls, looking down at the letter, heart in her throat, knowing the girl will be in the hallway somewhere. “Lucy? Come here a moment, would you? I need you to-”
She is cut off by the clearing of a throat that is decidedly male and looks up and sees it to be her butler. Trained by those in His Majesty’s Household, Mr Parsons is known for his excellent moustache and being decidedly stoic. No matter how long Jemma is gone these things never change. Yet today the moustache quivers slightly at the ends, and Mr Parsons’ face is uneasy.
“Excuse me, your ladyship,” he begins, the deep voice quivering slightly at the ends, too. “There are lawyers here. They wish to see you.”
“Lawyers?” Jemma feels her eyebrows pinch together, and her head swims. “What lawyers?”
“I do not know, your ladyship. They request to see you immediately.”
Mr Parsons’ tone suggests that they took a tone to him, unsuitable for a man of such an esteemed position in the household. Today, however, she cannot find it within herself to feel sorry for him.
“I have to go, Parsons. I’m terribly sorry but I have to go.” She breaks off helplessly as the man’s face doesn’t change, and she realises whatever it is must be of equal importance to this. She sighs. “Very well. Send them to the library and I shall be down in a minute.”
She places the letter down, trying so very hard not to betray her hurry when every cell in her body is screaming at her to go.
-x-
After her meeting, head still spinning, she tears into the study like a hurricane.
“Your bags are packed, my lady,” Lucy says, hurrying in after her. “There’s a car waiting to take you to the station.”
Station? Oh, yes, to go and rescue Fitz from saving himself from financial ruin. How funny that this isn’t the strangest thing to happen to her today. Not any longer.
“Thank you very much, Lucy,” Jemma says absent-mindedly. “I’m just looking for the letter. You haven’t seen it, have you?”
Lucy’s in the middle of shaking her head when a footman comes into the room, looking awfully harried, and Jemma hazards that he might have just been told off by her formidable butler.
“Eh, the car’s ready, milady,” he stammers, turning bright red. “’E says ‘e’s got to go right now.”
“Never mind then,” Jemma says, grabbing her coat and her gloves. “Onwards we go.” Her voice is a lot calmer than her stomach but she is a master of swallowing her emotions. With a tight nod at her two servants, she swishes on out the door.
The draught in her wake causes papers to fly off her desk, the letter soaring up and then settling gently on the ground like snow.
#aosficnet2#earth vs space#team earth aos#fitzsimmons#fanfic by moi#HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBBY!#thank you for being such a wonderful bean!#you're AMAZING!
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His Highness
Prince!!Todoroki X Female Reader
O.o Its so weird to switch from character x character to character x reader..
Warnings: None
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The birds tweeted their cheerful melody in the early, spring morning. Their song lifted (Y/N) spirit as she tied the last strings of her shoe. She wasn't a morning person, oh no! If anything, the sun was a wake up call for the young advisor who loved her sleep. If you gave (Y/N) an entire week off, you could expect to find her in the comforts of her soft, cozy bed.
As (Y/N) headed downstairs for breakfast, she smiled warmly at the maids who were cleaning every inch of the palace. Spring cleaning was a big event for the servants! The cooks served healthy meals to provide plenty of energy for the long day. If anything, Spring was a tiring season for both the servants and royalty.
"Advisor (Y/N)!" A maid exclaimed. She rushed up to (Y/N) and bowed respectfully.
"Y-yes?" (Y/N) had the position of the Prince's advisor for a couple months now, but it was still weird to be called "Advisor" or have people bow to her out of the blue.
The maid hesitantly lifted her head. "Uh... Um well, the young Prince is still in bed, ma'am."
(Y/N) groaned. "Please don't tell me he threw a paper plane at you?!"
The maid's eyes widen in shock before waving her hands, reassuring the Advisor that nothing of the such had happen. "Ma'am, I need to clean the Prince's room... uh so--" She bowed deeply. "Can you please kick him out??"
Taken aback, (Y/N)'s jaw hit the floor. No one had ever spoken about the young Prince in such a manner before! Usually, "kick him out" was changed to, "please excuse the prince from his room." This was a new experience...
With an amuse smile, (Y/N) said, "Mhm! But you have to wait by the door! I'll tell you when the coast is clear!" And winked.
(Y/N) approached the Prince's lair and knocked.
Silence.
Confused, she turned over to the maid who gave a puzzle expression in return. "Odd..." She pushed open the door and gently closed it behind her. The room was extremely dark with an exception of only a few strands of sunlight seeping through the curtains. Behind the red-velvet curtains were huge glass doors that led to a pristine balcony.
(Y/N) walked over to the plush bed. It was neatly made and the pillows were fluffed. She smoothed out a crinkle in the sheets, deep in thought. Where are you???
"Oh? Nice to see you, (Y/N)." A voice said behind her.
Spinning around, (Y/N) swiftly pulled out a sharp, silver dagger and pointed it, threateningly at the person.
It was Prince Shouto.
Shouto lifted an eyebrow in amusement at the terrified girl. He lean against the doorway that led from the bedroom to the bathroom and a bathrobe was wrapped around him, enticingly. Water dripped down from his dou color hair onto his pale skin, which then seeped into the fabric causing stains that only increased the level of attractiveness.
Embarrassed, (Y/N) tucked her dagger back from its hiding place and bowed deeply. She wasn't just embarrassed for pointing a weapon at his highness, but also because of his gorgeous appearance.
"Lift your head, Advisor." Shouto commanded. He then gracefully walked past her and sat on the lavish bed. He studied her, memorizing her appearance from head to toe. "Are you sick? Your face is disturbingly red..." He lifted a hand towards (Y/N) delicate face, but then thought twice and decided to put it down. Shouto cleared his throat, averting his gaze. "Its unwise to push yourself and further ruin your health. I suggest you take the day off."
(Y/N)'s eyes widen at how concern Shouto was. It was rare that the young Prince ever showed emotions towards the servants. She shook her head and gave a small, gracious smile. "I'm not sick. It's just a little hot in here..."
"Hm.... Alright." A mischief grin popped onto his highness face. "Then I would like for you to pick my outfit for today."
"You- wait what?!" (Y/N) was absolutely shocked. The Prince would like for her to choose his clothes?? What?! His expression didn't change a slightest. If anything, Shouto only got more serious. "Uh... I- I mean, of course, your highness."
She hastily walked over to his wardrobe and rifled through his clothing. There were so many clothes that ranged from simple cotton to elegant silk, a light t-shirt to a long over coat, and rough trousers to smooth dress pants. After careful consideration, (Y/N) chose a white button up shirt and a blue jacket that had golden embroidery. Along with an elegant beige pants and shiny black shoes.
"Here." (Y/N) laid them out on the bed. "I suggest you dress quickly so that you can make it to breakfast. If not, then I'll make it." She mumbled the last part and bowed, dismissing herself.
The girl practically ran out of the room and down to breakfast, not bothering to offer a smile or remove her frown.
(Y/N) sat down at the breakfast table and scarfed it down. The Advisor was permitted to sit at the table meant for royalty and had servants that attended her every need. Such as getting extra syrup, napkins, or another spoon. But, (Y/N) always dismissed the servants and if they didn't leave, she gave them a get-out-of-my-sight-look, which always left her guilty.
The moment breakfast ended, the servants threw it out and the cooks prepared lunch. This was when her duty as the Prince's Advisor began. (Y/N) would be in her study room, sorting out documents and answering letters all the way 'till the afternoon, while Prince Shouto is attending meetings, being tutored, and dealing with private letters.
"Advisor (Y/N)?"
Looking up, she smiled warmly at the butler who was holding the tea she ordered. (Y/N) took off her glasses ushered in the butler. She accepted the tea and leaned back, taking a sip.
Chai Tea.
"So, what's the tea this time?" The servants has taken into account at the unusual sentences that (Y/N) used that was called, "memes."
"Tutor Iida has been extremely lenient about his highness's lack of work, lately. But it seems that the young Prince refuses to work today."
(Y/N) spat out her tea and stood up, her ears could not believe what they just heard. The Prince was ignoring his education?!
The butler nodded his head rapidly, agreeing with her expression and added, "Not only that, but it seems that the young Prince refuses to even touch his work regarding the kingdom. He seems annoyingly stubborn."
He's even ignoring his princely duties?!
(Y/N) shook her head in disgust, and hastily shuffled her papers together.
"Wh-what are you doing, Advisor (Y/N)?!"
"I'm visiting the stubborn Prince and lecturing him! That's what I'm doing!"
Once organized, she rushed over to the library, shoving past housemaids, nannies, housekeepers, and gardeners. The moment (Y/N) saw the doors, she slammed them both open and angrily stomped over to the pompous Prince who was leaning against his chair, his feets on top of the table.
Ugh. How un-royal...
"What is the meaning of this, Shouto?!" (Y/N) placed her hands on her hips and raised an eyebrow.
"A- Advisor (Y/N)!" Iida bowed and pointed a menacing figure at his majesty. "The Prince has become an absolute wreck! His work is under-performance and incohesive. I suggest you do something about this, right now!"
Absolutely shocked, (Y/N) glanced at the young Prince who was examining his nails in a bored manner. Noticing that the attention was on him, Prince Shouto beckoned her over.
"...Your highness, what is it?" She leaned in, her ear an inch away from his mouth. The Prince's breath fanned her face, sending shivers down her spine. It was surprisingly minty.
"Sit on my lap."
(Y/N) jumped back in mortification, clutching her ear in disbelief. This was the second time the Prince had commanded her to do something improper! What had gotten into him?
Seconds passed between the duo, and (Y/N) finally gave into the command. She had to make sure the Prince received proper education so that he'll be fit for the throne, even if she had to sacrifice her dignity in the process...
Iida gave a sceptical look at (Y/N), 100% unsure of what's happening here. He didn't even know if he was okay with it! But, (Y/N) gave a small nod for Iida to continue with his lessons, and that was enough.
"So... Uh... The Kingdom has 4 classss. It goes from Lower Class, Middle Class, Upper Class, and then the beasts...."
The Prince shifted in his seat. One arm was wrapped tightly around (Y/N) and the other writing down notes. She looked back, face blazing in a deep red, at the Prince who simply gave a cheeky grin.
"What's wrong?" Shouto whispered.
(Y/N) quickly turned around and re-focused back on the lesson, giving it her all to ignore the sneaky soon-to-be king. She wasn't going to let this get to her! If anything, this was absolutely nothing! It was like a stick on her path, an insignificant obstacle... so why did it feel like (Y/N) was missing the big picture?
The lesson dragged on, switching from History to Foreign Language, and then Math. The occasional scribble of Shouto's pencil, the sound of pages turning, footsteps echoing and people shelving novels lured her to sleep. (Y/N)'s mind became foggy and her head felt 10x heavier than before. The bright lights above them became unbearably intense, causing her to shut her eyes to keep them out.
What was she sitting on? Why was it so comfortable? (Y/N) forgotten the Prince behind her and leaned back, her head resting cozily in the crook of his neck.
Shouto glanced at the girl, a small grin graced his lips. He twisted the girl on his lap so that they were chest to chest. His fingered drew soothing patterns on her soft back, a hopeful thought emerged but he quickly shot it down. Shouto wasn't going to do anything out of bounds, not unless (Y/N) was fine with it. Hm... But lately, the girl had let things slide. So... would she be fine with this?
Once the lesson ended, Iida quickly excused himself, not bothering to bow to the Prince or pack his things up neatly. It was honestly an amusing sight for the soon-to-be king.
"Mm.." (Y/N) stirred in her sleep.
Shouto couldn't help but chuckle at the adorable girl. She was honestly like a kitten... or would a tiger suit her better? Nonetheless, the girl had his heart trapped between her sharp claws, even if (Y/N) didn't realize it, Shouto was bewitched by this feisty cat since the moment she walked through the palace doors.
He'll make her realize it soon enough.
#bnha fanfiction#boku no hero academia#bnha#todoroki shouto#shouto x reader#mha shouto#shoto x reader#bnha todoroki#mha todoroki#todoroki x reader#mha#my hero acadamy#my hero academia#reader x todoroki
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020. What are their hobbies?
Connor:
I'm still learning different ones, but I have picked up on knitting, embroidery, wood-carving, small appliance repair, gardening, fish care, cooking, and calligraphy.
Seni:
I used to do woodburning, but when I started working as a technician, I poured all my time into perfecting my trade. I still play video games and put together puzzles in the winter and swimming in the summer.
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51 Activities To Do With Pre-schoolers That Will Keep Them Creatively Engaged
51 Activities To Do With Pre-schoolers
51 Activities to do with pre-schoolers
Are you looking forward for some fun activities to do with pre-schoolers so that you can help them grow better, smarter and keep them engaged?
Here we bring you some of the activities to organize:
51 Activities to do with pre-schoolers
Create a Bubble Painting: For this idea, make your kid paint a bubble sheet and then draw paintings on cardboard or a t – shirt.
Craft a Story Together: Help your child to craft a story through imaginations.
Create a Marble Painting: Help your preschooler to create paintings on a metal box or a shoe box with marbles and poster paint.
Cook Together: Cooking offers many choices from baking to teaching how to butter a slice of bread and cut or peal a fruit without knife. Be ready for the mess but happy faces.
Draw Pictures on the Walls: Give your kids some coloured but washable chalks and let them draw their imaginations on the wall. Kids love this one :)!
Family Tree: Help them making a family tree on a sheet of paper or on a computer using templates and let them go back to as many generations as possible.
Leaf Hunt: Pick an outdoor green area and collect leaves, fill them up in different containers and hand over to your kids and ask them to match the leaves they have with those which are growing on the plants.
Travel Alphabet: Play the game while you are travelling, especially long trips. Ask your kids to spot the letters that you give them and then the kid who spots the maximum of these wins. You can play several rounds of these.
Car Racing Track: Use a colored tape to make roads on the floor along with signals and stop signs and some special zones for the parking.
Hand made stuffs: Ask them to draw on a plain muslin cloth and colour with fabric pens and then you can bring their creation to life by cutting and making handmade stuffies of these.
Swimming games: Take them swimming and play find the coin by placing a coin in the bottom of the pool or just throw the ball game is fun too.
Room Cleaning Race: Get a timer for this activity, sit back and let your kid do the work. Give them small cleaning challenges Reward later for all the hard work.
Bowling Track: Use a wooden board on a flat surface. For bowling pins, use pencil erasers or fat crayon stubs and marble or a ping pong ball for the bowling ball. Keep scoring and have fun.
Hold a Car Wash: A perfect way to cool off on a hot day. Just park the car in the drive way and let your kids give it a good scrub with water and sponges.
Life Size Selfie: Making a life size portrait is a beautiful way to express. It helps kids to explore who they are and what they would like to become. Activities to do with pre-schoolers
20 Indoor Activities For Kids On A Rainy Day
16. My Turn, My Task: Divide groups in tow or more teams and start a relay game by keeping things ready on a table and dividing them amongst the players.
17. Spinning Top: Take your kids down to 90’s and let them play with spinning tops which are popularly known as ‘Lattu’ then.
18. Picnic: Take your kids to a picnic and enjoy fun activities outdoor.
19. Play UNO: UNO is one of the most famous card game which is played by people of all ages. Help your kids with the rules and teach them how to play.
20. Fly a Kite: A traditional Indian game which is liked by all. Help your kids in learning how to fly a kite.
21. DIY Paper Bracelet: It is a 2 for 1 activity because it involves painting poppy abstract shapes with watercolours and then cut it into strips and fold them in to wearable bracelet.
22. DIY Tie – Dye Art: Transform the salad spinner in the carnival style spin art machine. Fill the squeeze bottles with washable paint.
23. Window Art: Give your kids some coloured transparent sheets and let them cut different shapes and stick them to the wall.
24. Foam Paint: The 3 ingredient recipe is both art and science. Use paintable foam which hardens overnight into puffed master pieces.
25. Musical Chair: The best game to play with a group. Do not forget to reward. Best game to improve the listening skill and discern between sound and silence.
26. Sock Puppets Show: Let your kids make hand puppets with socks and put up a show with other kids.
27. Information Game: Preschoolers must know few basic personal information when heading into preschool. Help them learn full names, address and contact numbers. Use small cards and ask your kid to arrange it.
28. Notice Seasons: Share details of the seasons with your kids as it is an important subject.
29.Sensory Toys: It is an important and a messy learning technique. Use Play Doh for the help.
30. Grocery Shopping: Take your kids out for grocery shopping and teach them about various names of fruits and vegetables.
31. Funny Face Flip Book: DIY Funny Face Flip Book is not only fun to put together but it keeps kids creatively entertained for an entire afternoon. Use markers for sketching and clip the cards.
pic credit: Activities to do with pre-schoolers
32. Plan a treasure hunt: Go the old fashioned way. Hide goodies in different corners of the house. Give them clues when they reach a particular point to reach to the next.
33. Fireworks in a Glass: Use food colouring, olive oil and water mix to create a mesmerising result.
34. Gardening: Teach your kids about soil, water and plants and help them plant more trees and seeds.
35. Play Hide and Seek: In this idea, hide an object and give instructions to the kids to lead them to the hidden object.
36. Freeze Dance: Play the music, ask your kids to dance. Stop the music and let your kids freeze with funny faces and fun poses.
37. Indoor Obstacle Course: Push your furniture aside and practice motor skills like running, jumping and hopping without breaking anything.
38. Scavenger Hunt: Use patterns, colours and letters and hunt around the house.
39. Yoga for Kids: A perfect activity to increase their stamina, concentration and growth.
How To Introduce Principles Of Yoga To Kids: Yamas For Kids
40. Ice Cube Sorting and Pattern Making: Mix art, math and fine motor skills. Watch this video to know more.
pic credit: Activities to do with pre-schoolers
41. Playdough: Playing with Playdough your preschooler will learn to use their imagination and have an open-ended playtime.
42. Collage: Provide few items and let your kid arrange and re arrange to make a collage.
43. Music: Fix a time of the day and play music to which you and your kids can dance to. It’s great exercise and bonding.
44. Build a House of Cups: Help kids in making a house with the help of paper cups.
45. Go on a Walking Tour of the City: Take a tour of the city and help your kid learn the names of the areas and also the famous places.
46. Do a Puzzle: Play puzzle games like jigsaw puzzles to enable your kids gain fine motor skills. Puzzle games teaches patience. Use puzzle games having pegs to make it easy for little hands to use.
47. Crunch Snack: A delicious snack which you can make with your kids and always leave it out in various occasions. For example, you can prepare a reindeer crunch snack for Christmas Eve’s.
48. Drive a Train: Enjoy a rail ride in your city’s park for an outing with your kid. You can also visit National Rail Museum in Chanakyapuri in Delhi where a train ride around the place will serve as a cherry on the cake.
49. Spark Creativity: Hang out with your little ones to see, touch and understand the wider world of handicrafts, our country prides in. You can visit The Handicrafts Museum in Delhi, Delhi Haat or Chaukidhani in Mumbai to see and experience the impressive culture, embroidery, weaving and pottery.
50. Learn Phonics Basics: It is one of the most wonderful gifts you can give to your kids. Getting informed about the basics of phonics will prepare your kids for reading readiness and spelling.
51. Try Science Experiments: You might get visions of a chemistry lab while talking about a science experiment and the explosions related to it but now you need not fear of it. Try the basic volcano experiment. Your preschoolers can enjoy simple science experiments that don’t require much of an effort yet are jam packed with fun learning opportunities.
DIY Decoupage Happiness Jar: A Perfect Gift For Christmas
Hope this list has given you many ideas to keep them busy. Use these ideas and watch your kids grow smart and sharp.
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Bringing Up Bates Season 7 Episode 8: Fan Favorite Clips
A show that is just 25 of the most watched online clips. Yep. About as exciting as you would think.
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25)Kelly thanks Gil for what he did for did and gives him a gift. Inside is a bell and a golf getaway trip with Mama Jane and Papa Bill.
24)Gil calls up the stairs in the morning saying he has good news. They come down and tells them Brooklyn has arrived. He shows them pictures and video. They’re excited.
23) Zach says his best relationship advice is to be open and to be yourself. Michael says conversations and learning how to talk things through and understand each other’s thought process.
22) Driver’s Ed. Lawson is mansplaining driving to Katie. They don’t know what the purpose of neutral is in a car. They laugh. Gil tells her that neutral is for pushing the car.
21) Erin says growing up always felt normal and Erin said how her mom is so happy. Erin said this is a lot of work but it’s worth it. She says she really admires them because she know its not easy but the reward is so great.
20) In Chicago, Erin and Michael talk about how glad she can finally visit. They make granola together and enjoy it-it is economical and healthy. Kelly made it as a snack for Gil and now it is a family favorite. Michael was the one who eventually took charge of granola and it has died out now that Michael has moved out. Michael is glad Erin now enjoys cooking and they can do it together.
19) In West Virginia, the Bates are going white water rafting. It is raining and cold which means the river will be freezing and running high and fast because of the weather. Some of the Bates get nervous when they see this.
18) Gil, Trace and Carlin are out here looking for a venue for the graduation party. Kelly isn’t able to be here as they walk around to check the place out. Carlin and Trace joke that he can’t cry until they get married. Gil says his kids really are his best friends and he appreciates them.
17) Erin says Great is thy Faithfulness is her favorite hymn to sing with her sisters. Carlin says hers is “All Along” Zach says “When I survey” Whitney says “Amazing Grace”
16) Kelly takes the kids to an escape room. Kelly says she wants to keep the boys occupied. They get one hour to do all the puzzles. They struggle with the puzzles. Jud says they will never get out. The attendant helped them and they manage to escape.
15) In, Florida, Alyssa sees Allie out of bed. Allie wants to stay up and play instead of going to bed. Then Lexi wakes up and starts fussing as well
14) Michael was given a really nice sewing machine as a wedding gift. Emily,a friend, does embroidery. They start playing with the new machine and figuring out how to use the different functions it offers. Michael is excited with her nice machine.
13) It’s I Love you Day on the farm and they have an egg race- married women against unmarried. They guys have a stick house race. There is also a costume contest. Trace wins.
12) Zach jokes the family is serious. Chad says Erin did the most practical jokes. Tori says Erin once put an egg in her head and dumped mountain dew on her hair after a shower so she had to shower again and then she put another egg in the bed. Erin just to put salt in people’s drinks. Erin and Tori poured a 5 gallon bucket of water on this guy and then Alyssa covered him in flour.
11) Carson’s first birthday. Erin gives him a cupcake and Carson wants nothing to do with it. Erin says Carson doesn’t have a sweet tooth- he prefers greek yogurt. Bradley eats the cake from Carson. Lawson jokes that as a Bates Carson should know you can’t leave food in front of you for a long time.
10) Bates for a Day. Kelly shows the winner the renovation they’re doing. Kelly shows the interview room and talks about the interviews she’ll probably do during the day.
9) Kelly says she doesn’t really cook with measurements so recipes are hard. Kelly says Erin should do a cookbook if any Bates would do it.
8) After Carlin gets her wisdom teeth out, she is totally loopy. Tori tells her to stop talking because she’ll open her stitches. Josie is stressing about social media.
7) The story of Kelly Jo Bates- a hand drawn video by Brandon and narrated by Erin for her birthday.
6) Erin says her relationship advice is to make lots of memories. Erin says she has boxes of letters he wrote her in the courtship. They mean a lot to Erin even now that they’re married.
5) Kelly and Gil go on a double date with Bobby and Tori. Kelly says that’s special and they’ll get to know him for the year while he’s hear. Bobby jokes about Tori looking at rings and taking the surprise out of it. Tori says the plan is to wait until she graduates but plans can change.
4) Tori gets on a big swing with Bobby. Tori is stressed but Bobby is totally chill. Tori says it was intense but she starts enjoying it as it keeps going.
3) Nathan flies Bobby to Knoxville for the couples dinner for I Love You Day. This is the night before I Love You Day for a chance for the couples to get together.
2) Gil talks about the house. They started out with a girls room, a boys room and a master. They added to it so there’s a really big girls room and a little girls room and two boys room. They added 51/2 bathrooms so they now have 81/2 baths and 6 bedrooms. It’s a big house- too much to keep clean.
At Erin and Chad’s, Evan comes and Carlin is excited to seem him. Max greets him first. Erin has the two of them over for dinner. Erin says this getting to know each other is a very special time.
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imhohenschloss replied to your post: What was the first thing you sewed?
what do you mean you sewed that at 14 and it was also yOUR FIRST THING YOU SEWED WITH A MACHINE WHAT.
Yeah... That’s also the year I put my first 18th-century outfit together - which was completely handsewn - including the stays (corset) I still wear today. However, that will be retired soon because I’m working on a new pair.
WHEN I TELL YOU I’M STUCK IN THE 18TH CENTURY, I’M NOT KIDDING. Girls that age knew how to do what I did, so... it’s not that weird. It was just like a puzzle... putting together the pieces and voila, a dress! Domestic arts just aren’t hard for me. I enjoy them. Cooking, cleaning, baking, sewing, embroidery, flower arrangement, all of them. Yeah....
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51 Activities To Do With Pre-schoolers That Will Keep Them Creatively Engaged
51 Activities To Do With Pre-schoolers
51 Activities to do with pre-schoolers
Are you looking forward for some fun activities to do with pre-schoolers so that you can help them grow better, smarter and keep them engaged?
Here we bring you some of the activities to organize:
51 Activities to do with pre-schoolers
Create a Bubble Painting: For this idea, make your kid paint a bubble sheet and then draw paintings on cardboard or a t – shirt.
Craft a Story Together: Help your child to craft a story through imaginations.
Create a Marble Painting: Help your preschooler to create paintings on a metal box or a shoe box with marbles and poster paint.
Cook Together: Cooking offers many choices from baking to teaching how to butter a slice of bread and cut or peal a fruit without knife. Be ready for the mess but happy faces.
Draw Pictures on the Walls: Give your kids some coloured but washable chalks and let them draw their imaginations on the wall. Kids love this one :)!
Family Tree: Help them making a family tree on a sheet of paper or on a computer using templates and let them go back to as many generations as possible.
Leaf Hunt: Pick an outdoor green area and collect leaves, fill them up in different containers and hand over to your kids and ask them to match the leaves they have with those which are growing on the plants.
Travel Alphabet: Play the game while you are travelling, especially long trips. Ask your kids to spot the letters that you give them and then the kid who spots the maximum of these wins. You can play several rounds of these.
Car Racing Track: Use a colored tape to make roads on the floor along with signals and stop signs and some special zones for the parking.
Hand made stuffs: Ask them to draw on a plain muslin cloth and colour with fabric pens and then you can bring their creation to life by cutting and making handmade stuffies of these.
Swimming games: Take them swimming and play find the coin by placing a coin in the bottom of the pool or just throw the ball game is fun too.
Room Cleaning Race: Get a timer for this activity, sit back and let your kid do the work. Give them small cleaning challenges Reward later for all the hard work.
Bowling Track: Use a wooden board on a flat surface. For bowling pins, use pencil erasers or fat crayon stubs and marble or a ping pong ball for the bowling ball. Keep scoring and have fun.
Hold a Car Wash: A perfect way to cool off on a hot day. Just park the car in the drive way and let your kids give it a good scrub with water and sponges.
Life Size Selfie: Making a life size portrait is a beautiful way to express. It helps kids to explore who they are and what they would like to become. Activities to do with pre-schoolers
20 Indoor Activities For Kids On A Rainy Day
16. My Turn, My Task: Divide groups in tow or more teams and start a relay game by keeping things ready on a table and dividing them amongst the players.
17. Spinning Top: Take your kids down to 90’s and let them play with spinning tops which are popularly known as ‘Lattu’ then.
18. Picnic: Take your kids to a picnic and enjoy fun activities outdoor.
19. Play UNO: UNO is one of the most famous card game which is played by people of all ages. Help your kids with the rules and teach them how to play.
20. Fly a Kite: A traditional Indian game which is liked by all. Help your kids in learning how to fly a kite.
21. DIY Paper Bracelet: It is a 2 for 1 activity because it involves painting poppy abstract shapes with watercolours and then cut it into strips and fold them in to wearable bracelet.
22. DIY Tie – Dye Art: Transform the salad spinner in the carnival style spin art machine. Fill the squeeze bottles with washable paint.
23. Window Art: Give your kids some coloured transparent sheets and let them cut different shapes and stick them to the wall.
24. Foam Paint: The 3 ingredient recipe is both art and science. Use paintable foam which hardens overnight into puffed master pieces.
25. Musical Chair: The best game to play with a group. Do not forget to reward. Best game to improve the listening skill and discern between sound and silence.
26. Sock Puppets Show: Let your kids make hand puppets with socks and put up a show with other kids.
27. Information Game: Preschoolers must know few basic personal information when heading into preschool. Help them learn full names, address and contact numbers. Use small cards and ask your kid to arrange it.
28. Notice Seasons: Share details of the seasons with your kids as it is an important subject.
29.Sensory Toys: It is an important and a messy learning technique. Use Play Doh for the help.
30. Grocery Shopping: Take your kids out for grocery shopping and teach them about various names of fruits and vegetables.
31. Funny Face Flip Book: DIY Funny Face Flip Book is not only fun to put together but it keeps kids creatively entertained for an entire afternoon. Use markers for sketching and clip the cards.
pic credit: Activities to do with pre-schoolers
32. Plan a treasure hunt: Go the old fashioned way. Hide goodies in different corners of the house. Give them clues when they reach a particular point to reach to the next.
33. Fireworks in a Glass: Use food colouring, olive oil and water mix to create a mesmerising result.
34. Gardening: Teach your kids about soil, water and plants and help them plant more trees and seeds.
35. Play Hide and Seek: In this idea, hide an object and give instructions to the kids to lead them to the hidden object.
36. Freeze Dance: Play the music, ask your kids to dance. Stop the music and let your kids freeze with funny faces and fun poses.
37. Indoor Obstacle Course: Push your furniture aside and practice motor skills like running, jumping and hopping without breaking anything.
38. Scavenger Hunt: Use patterns, colours and letters and hunt around the house.
39. Yoga for Kids: A perfect activity to increase their stamina, concentration and growth.
How To Introduce Principles Of Yoga To Kids: Yamas For Kids
40. Ice Cube Sorting and Pattern Making: Mix art, math and fine motor skills. Watch this video to know more.
pic credit: Activities to do with pre-schoolers
41. Playdough: Playing with Playdough your preschooler will learn to use their imagination and have an open-ended playtime.
42. Collage: Provide few items and let your kid arrange and re arrange to make a collage.
43. Music: Fix a time of the day and play music to which you and your kids can dance to. It’s great exercise and bonding.
44. Build a House of Cups: Help kids in making a house with the help of paper cups.
45. Go on a Walking Tour of the City: Take a tour of the city and help your kid learn the names of the areas and also the famous places.
46. Do a Puzzle: Play puzzle games like jigsaw puzzles to enable your kids gain fine motor skills. Puzzle games teaches patience. Use puzzle games having pegs to make it easy for little hands to use.
47. Crunch Snack: A delicious snack which you can make with your kids and always leave it out in various occasions. For example, you can prepare a reindeer crunch snack for Christmas Eve’s.
48. Drive a Train: Enjoy a rail ride in your city’s park for an outing with your kid. You can also visit National Rail Museum in Chanakyapuri in Delhi where a train ride around the place will serve as a cherry on the cake.
49. Spark Creativity: Hang out with your little ones to see, touch and understand the wider world of handicrafts, our country prides in. You can visit The Handicrafts Museum in Delhi, Delhi Haat or Chaukidhani in Mumbai to see and experience the impressive culture, embroidery, weaving and pottery.
50. Learn Phonics Basics: It is one of the most wonderful gifts you can give to your kids. Getting informed about the basics of phonics will prepare your kids for reading readiness and spelling.
51. Try Science Experiments: You might get visions of a chemistry lab while talking about a science experiment and the explosions related to it but now you need not fear of it. Try the basic volcano experiment. Your preschoolers can enjoy simple science experiments that don’t require much of an effort yet are jam packed with fun learning opportunities.
DIY Decoupage Happiness Jar: A Perfect Gift For Christmas
Hope this list has given you many ideas to keep them busy. Use these ideas and watch your kids grow smart and sharp.
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Full Name: Simone Inès Hartman
Born: 22nd July, in Gotham. Currently 19 years old.
Zodiac: Cancer
Pronouns: She/Her
Nationality: American
Height: 5’5”
Weight: 139 lbs, lighter without her prosthetics
Hair Color: Black. It is long, in dreadlocks, and usually kept together in a ponytail.
Eye Color: Dark brown
Languages: English, French. Also knows a variety of ciphers by heart.
Romantic Orientation: Asexual Aromantic
Relationship Status: Single, not interested
Education: Very high grades through high school, received a scholarship from the University
Occupation: Student at Gotham University, Computer Science
Criminal Record: None currently.
Vices: No notable vices aside from her caffeine addiction.
Interests: Coding, ciphers, hacking, game design, playing video games, drawing, painting, symbolism, making jigsaw puzzles - especially making her art into jigsaw puzzles, baking, fashion, reading, collecting books and cool-looking bottles
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Full Name: Modesty "Mads" Anne Knight
Born: 21st September, in Brooklyn, New York. Currently 19 years old.
Zodiac: Virgio
Pronouns: She/Her
Nationality: American
Height: 5’0”
Weight: 91 lbs
Hair Color: Golden blonde, kept short and styled
Eye Color: Bright blue
Languages: English
Romantic Orientation: Bisexual
Relationship Status: Single
Education: Excellent grades through high school
Occupation: Student at Gotham University, Geology
Criminal Record: None.
Vices: Drinking is her only one.
Interests: Going to the shooting range, geology, sewing, knitting, embroidery, making jewelry, singing, playing electric guitar, music, fashion, fencing with an arming sword, dancing, cooking, video games, makeup artistry and nail art, collects stuffed animals, rocks, and perfumes
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