Oneshots

End of the Line

   "I ran as fast as I could away from Spinners Lane. I was free. "Juju! Where have you gone, you disgraceful rat?!" my stepmother snarled from her house on the lane.

Crud. I forgot, she wanted me to buy her bath bombs. I thought, cursing silently, And if Alsha's in distress...

I couldn't keep running like this, I would be caught. By who? My sphere of a stepfather of course. Running out in the open was too dangerous. I took a sharp turn, straight into the Eagle Forest. And that is where I met your mother for the first time. I thought she was going to eat me! Thank goodness she didn't!" Juniper Green recounted, smiling at Mawlly.

June was sitting atop a cliff in an enormous birds nest. Mawlly, named by June, was an enormous bald eagle, mother to most eagles of the woods. Mawlly gave her a respectful, almost content, nod, pointedly looked up and down, and flew off to go hunting. Caw, caw, caw. the young eagles called, whining for their mom. Juniper scooped them up in her arms, and hugged them. "It's okay, Lola, Pari, Kanda, Mowgli." she murmured, "It'll all be fine."

~~~

Boom. Juniper and Mawlly sat upright at the sound of a shooting bullet. As Mawlly tended to her now crying babies, June put on her father's old hunting jacket and went to investigate. June walked up to a large group of men boasting about their catches. She crept up behind them. "Hello," June said, trying to sound eerie, "I was wondering, have any of you fine men caught an eagle?"

" 'E 'as." a man interjected, "though I wouldn't call 'im a fine man!"

Many a man sniggered and gestured to a 15 year old boy in the middle of the group. He held a large net, and inside it was Mori, the youngest eagle of her generation. As Juniper gazed shockedly at Mori, the boy gazed at her, as if planning battle tactics. "A-hem. Hello, my name is Pierre, and this is my father." he announced.

She looked up to see Pierre gesturing towards her stepfather! Alarmed, she took a few steps back. Pierre chuckled and took a few steps forwards. In reaction, June ran away and yelled "You're a monster!"

~~~

After that encounter, Juniper spent many days setting traps for the hunters, warning Mawlly's prodigy and mourning Mori. All of a sudden, BANG! "They're back," June whispered, "I have to go."

"Hey! Where are the eagles!? Where's the eagle lady?! Where is everything?!" Pierre fumed, stalking through the trees.

Juniper smirked. They were walking right into her trap. She quietly leapt through the trees and prepared to lower herself down. "Hello boys...." June called softly, her words echoing, "Do you want to........" She leapt down without a sound behind them, "Play a game?" she whispered in Pierre's ear.

Pierre looked behind him and screamed. "RUN! Run and never return to these woods again!" June rang out.

They ran as fast as they could out of there and the eagles don't need to hide anymore.

THE END