Only a pure heart can fix a broken one..

{Ashleigh's POV}

I smile at Cammy and hug her. She must have so much distrust with people. I go to say something, but she slaps one of her hands over her mouth, scaring me. Bujezus woman.

"Shhh!" She tells me and I listen to her, I also hear shouting and yelling. My ears perk up as I look in the direction of the sound. I see people running all over the place, giving orders and generally getting pissed off at anyone in a 3ft distance.

But what stands out the the most are two people, my friends to be exact. Jax is leaning down hugging oh my godTigger from behind comforting her by the looks of it. I can't help but feel a pang of sadness and pity in myself. But they look so cute. I feel that Caroline has dropped her hand.

I pull out my phone from my jeans pocket and take a quick selfie with Caroline, then a zoomed up shot of Jax and Tigger. I'm going to pester them for the rest of their lives. Just as I take the photo Tigger gets up and runs away, while Jaxon chases her. I hear a faint sigh come from next to me. I look over to Cammy and ask if she's ok.

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's just that I must be going, if they catch me here I'll possibly face terrible consequences." I nod at her in an understanding way, then hug her.

"Will we ever see each other again?" I ask eagerly. She laughs at me and nods.

"Of course you will.." She smiles softly. She gets up waving at me and runs off into the forest.

She gets up waving at me and runs off into the forest. I sigh and play Minecraft PE on my phone before putting it away. I look over in the direction of where Cammy ran off in. I wonder, what could be beyond the forest?(Heh heh, get it? Ok fine *walks over 2 Tamaki's Emo corner, with loads of chocolate in hands*)

I look back over to the village and just observe everyone in general. I slowly get up and walk over towards where everyone is, that was a god damn mistake.

As I come into the light of the village, I can't help but notice EVERY SINGLE PERSON staring at me. Talk about creepy. I look around a bit creeped out and most people have their mouths gaped open a little. I feel like I'm on a stage performing alone, as everyone stares. #Embarrassing.

"Uh, hi? Has anyone seen Jaxon around at all?" I say this in a complete monotone voice that hides any emotion. Out of know where (JOHN CENA!!! I'm sorry that's getting old...) everybody starts smiling, cheering, and sighing in relief. Oscar comes over to me with an exhausted smile and relief aswell. He gives me a hug. Aww, hugs.

"Oh Ashleigh! Thank goodness, Paris and Jaxon were going to rip my eyes out if I didn't find you!" I smile a little but then frown. Wait..

"Wait, where Tigger and Jax?! I need to see them!!" Oscar then nods once and turns around. He grabs my wrist and pulls me over to the castle. We walk in and go up a really long staircase. Once at the floor we needed to be on Oscar pointed to a giant door with gold coloured detailing. I bolted to the door, since it was the furthest and I needed to see my friends.

I open the door, to realise that it was the dining room. I carefully peeked my head in and saw people gathered in a group consoling someone. I go to walk closer but freeze because my heart just shattered after hearing the last sentence that was spoken.

"She's g-g-gone...? B-but.. our clan.... w-we aren't strong enough to survive on our own. She w-was the only thing that kept my hopes high enough to keep moving forward... AND NOW S-SHE'S GONE....a-a-and it's our fault...."

"No, no, no, Tigger it's not... I promise..." said another, strained voice.

I was now in tears, shivering. My tail went between my legs and my ears drooped straight down. I walked another step and cupped my hands together. I finally got the courage to talk. Firstly I took one or two steps forward, then spoke.

"Jaxon? T-Tigger? P-Paris? What's going on?" I felt like having a meltdown. All their heads shot over to my direction with happiness shown in their tear filled eyes and red cheeks. Tigger was the most ecstatic. She literally jumped on the dining room table and then jumped into my arms, sobbing into my shirt.

Oh my god. I almost suffocated with all the people hugging me. Tigger is still clinging onto me, Jax wrapped his arms around my neck and hugged me from behind then Paris bombarded all of us in a HUGE group hug. I was startled for a moment but then hugged back while I silently cried happy tears. Someone then broke the comfortable silence.

"OOH ASHLEIGH!! I'M SO HAPPY YOUR BACK! I WAS SO WORRIED THAT WE HAD LOST YOU FOREVER!!! NEVER WANDER OFF ALONE ANYMORE, GOT IT?!?" A relieved Tigger had said, I nodded and got a bit overwhelmed. Then Oscar walked in, ruining the moment, but anyway.

He came over and whispered something in Paris' ear, she gasps in realisation and has this look on her face like 'Aww yeah!' She looks at Tigger and Jaxon, as they both nod with smug looks.

"Wait! How's my hair? Is it ok? Do I look ok? How's my outfit? Do I have anything on my face? What abou--" I cut her off as I sigh and put a hand on her shoulder. I look her in the eye and tell her:

"You're hair is beautiful, it's fine. You look gorgeous. You're outfit is stunning. No, you do not have anything on your face." I smile at her.

"But I do have one question." Everyone looks at me with anticipation.

"What are you guys planning? Come on! Tell me, tell me, tell me! Pleeeaaase! Please, please, please tell me! Is it about me? What?" They all look at me with a look like 'I can't tell you, it's a surprise!' (Don't know how that works)but then Jax breaks out into laughter.

He walks over to me, Jaxon that is, and pulls out a piece of cloth, I give him a confused look while he looks into my eyes with the biggest smile ever. Surprisingly, he chuckles a bit and then says:

"Your so cute when your confused, Ashleigh. Now, trust us." I nod and he ties the cloth around my eyes as a blind fold. You sneaky little thing. I laugh and 'follow' him as he pulls my hand behind him.

"You know, I could have just covered my eyes with my hair like I do anyway." Paris giggles.

"We know, but we thought this would be more interesting." My dear Lord, my friends are strange, but their my strange friends.

{Jaxon's POV}

As I tie the blindfold over Ash's eyes I grab her small hand and pull her along behind me. I laugh internally at her thoughts. 'You sneaky little thing.' Oh yeah I haven't told her about that yet. How we mind link that is.

I tell Tigger through our mind link that we need to tell Ash about it, she agrees obviously. But later. Maybe when we show her the plaza, or when we go back, it needs to be soon in case of emergencies though.

"You know, I could have just covered my eyes with my hair like I do anyway." I hear Ash say. Oh, I didn't think of that, anyway. Then I hear Paris telling her it's more interesting.

"True. It's more fun guiding you around. Haha." I say, engaging in the conversation. Oscar chuckled at my enthusiasm, trust me, I had a lot of it to share around. I can't wait to show her, she's going to be so pleased!

{Tigger's POV}

I basically can't contain my excitement! That's how thrilled I am that we're throwing a surprise party for joining us. Oh my god I can't wait to see her face!! She's so baffled at what's going on but it's cute!

Jaxon then mind-links me that we need to tell Ash about it. I agree, duh I have to, and I just engage in the conversation being said.

"I'll be back in just a sec!" Paris starts walking faster. since she's wearing heels she can't run, and asks Kyle if everything is set. I see him nod and I then turn to Jax with a smirk. I see a little tint of peach on his cheeks, I shake my head and roll my eyes with a smile. This is going to be the best day ever.

{Ashleigh's POV}

Ok, honestly I am so damn confused. Firstly, I meet my friends for the first time in like 30minutes and they're acting literally crazy. Secondly, I have a blindfold tied around my eyes so I can't see. THIRDLY, I have no idea where I'm going because Jax is dragging me around the village with a blindfold on.

This is just great. I have no idea what's going on, and I'm blind for now. I'm basically being held captive for all I know. But whatever, I guess. I sigh irritated which catches I think one of the guys attention because somebody says:

"Almost there Ash, calm your farm." Calm down? Calm down? CALM DOWN?! Ok fine, but I own a farm?

"I own a farm?" I say stupidly. I can feel that they are all looking at me with annoyed faces. I hear a quiet voice that mumbles:

"Knew she was gonna say that.." I then hear two sighs, followed by one 'Oh my God Ashleigh.' I then hear Paris explain to me, like its the most obvious thing ever:

"Ash, it's just an expression, ok?" I nod. (I feel like the scene in Big Hero 6 when Hero is explaining stuff to Baymax) Jaxon stops walking and I bump into him making me fall on my butt. Yeah. I hear a giggle and a chuckle. Paris and Jax, duh. They are the easiest to make laugh I swear.

I feel my hands being pulled up by someone to help me stand. I'm not a baby, I could have done it myself, but no! Anyway, I stand up with the help of someone and then feel everyone's presence fade.

"Guys? Where'd you go? Don't leave me here! Please? Anyone?" I start to tremble at the though that they abandoned me, alone. But thankfully, to my liking, someone calls out to me.

"You can take off the blindfold when your ready, Ashleigh." I gave a thumbs up in some direction, then sniffed the air to see if I could smell Tigger, or Jax's scent.(she's part tiger now which increased her senses) They're close by, but not too close. I nod confirming the information.

Hesitantly, I untied the blindfold from the back blinking a few times before I noticed the blindfold is orange with black stripes. Awesome.

"Hey! This is cool!" Yes, I said that out loud. I realise that in the distance I hear someone's muffled laughter. Yes, I know, I'm easily amused. I look up from the blindfold to see all the tables from earlier crammed closer, sparkles everywhere, different shades of orange coloured flags and everyone in the village in front of me, looking down at me since I'm so short. I cry inside.

This startled me a little, and I fell backwards. I put my arm up with a thumbs up to show I'm fine. I rub my head with my other hand and slowly get back up. I felt like a baby deer or giraffe learning to walk.

"Every single time." I say more so to myself than anyone. But they heard me, and laughed. But I laughed along with them while I looked around to take in my surroundings. I looked at everybody with a confused face and questioned some things.

"What's all this for?" I saw Kiara and noticed that her hands are at the ready to sign something. #Puzzle face engage. Huh? I skim my eyes over everyone else there but still have no idea, I'm slow.

"Welcome to the Clan Ashleigh!!" Everybody shouts at the same time which makes it incredibly loud, except for Kiara, I cover my tiger ears. But I noticed that Jax and Tigger didn't even react to the loud noise. I stormed up to them with an annoyed expression, and I bet they thought it looked cute.

"Hey! Why didn't you just completely have your ears die inside from that!?" I exclaimed at them, they exchanged glances and snickered. Both then pulled ear plugs out of their ears. Are you serious right now??

"Bruh! You could have given me a pair!! That cheer was deafening I swear." I looked away from the both of them and crossed my arms and pouted. But all they did was glance at each other again and laugh. Ugh. Rude much.

Anyway, they hug me and the party starts. There's music, people dancing, food, decorations, more food. But last but not least A FLIPPING CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN WITH STRAWBERRIES!!! YUMMO BA GUMMO!! I am so tempted to go over there and suck out all da chocolate.

I walk around a little; talking to people, dancing, having fun, etcetera, etcetera. Until eventually I make it to the food table and take a cupcake. I take a bite and my tail sways back and forth in delight, my ears perk straight up and I sigh with ecstasy. I hear a giggle and turn around to face the person, it's Kiara. I smile at her and wave.

"So, how's the party? Oh, most importantly how's the food?" She signs, I give a thumbs up because my mouth is still full of Heaven. She smiles happily and gets her hands ready.

"That's good! Because, I made the cakes and cookies. Also the Fountain." I look at her with wide eyes and an expression like 'Really? Oh my god!' I finish my bite and tell her:

"Wow! I have compliments so be ready. Ok?" She smiles, followed by a giggle. Also a nod.

"First off, this cupcake is HEAVENLY amazing. Secondly, this fountain is like one of my absolute dreams; and THIRDLY, there's cookies?" She nods and points to the cookies, while I make my way to them.

I grab one for me and for her, and take a bite. Also heavenly! Oh my god! Why can't I have any of these skills? Once again my feelings go off like fireworks and my tail sways.

"Also heavenly, and they're still warm to! Wait, let me guess....... Double Chocolate with Chocolate chips?" I ask her, I just had to! She looks at me with a relieved expression and a nod.

"Yep, they are my favourite kind of cookie and are delicious. So I made them. I knew you would like them." She starts to eat her cookie with a delighted sigh.

"Let's go somewhere." I say, she ponders but nods. We walk around for a bit until we find a free table to sit at. We sit and start talking about things. As we finish our conversation we both hear a loud, booming voice. I snap my head in the direction it came from just to see someone on a stage with a microphone.

"Attention, attention please everybody!" The guy says, everyone goes quiet. I look over to Kiara who has a smirk.

"Thank you everyone. Uh, I welcome you all to tonight's event with open arms. Now I would like Jaxon and Tigger to come up to the stage. Please." I see out of the corner of my eye both of them walk up. As they stage the guy starts talking again.

"I hear that this celebration is for you finding your Empress? Oh, who am I kidding? We wouldn't be here if that wasn't the case!" Everyone starts to laugh and turn their heads my way. I look down at my hands with a pink face and started to play with my fingers.

After the laughter died down and the guy finished his speech, everybody got up to start dancing and I was invited on stage to sing, ffff.........................fudge-stickles. I have a horrible voice so I'm thrilled to bits. Whoop de do. I slowly make my way up and take the microphone off the dude and he gives me a smile, and bows slightly.

Before I start I give a little speechy thing, cause why not. I felt all eyes on me as I straightened myself up. I'm so nervous, so nervous that my face flushed red.

"U-Uh, hello? Uh, yeah... t-t-this is me, Ashleigh and uh thanks for everything. Also thanks for making this the best day of my life so far. Thank you." As I finish everyone claps and chants 'Ashleigh!' over and over and over and over and over and over.(Yandere dev reference)

I sigh a little and hope I don't screw up. Knowing me, uhh I probably will. I start to sing anyway knowing that I would fail miserably,
(True colours by Cyndi Lauper)

You with the sad eyes...
Don't be discouraged,
Oh, I realise it's hard to take courage,
In a world full of people,
You can lose sight of it all,
And the darkness inside you
Can make you feel so small....

But I see your true colours, shining through
I see your true colours, and that's why I love you,
So don't be afraid to let them show,
Your true colours, true colours,
Are beautiful....like a rainbow.

Show me a smile then, don't be unhappy,
Can't remember when,
I last saw you laughing,

If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear,
You call me up,
Because you know I'll be there,

And I'll see your true colours, shining through,
I see your true colours, and that's why I love you,
So don't be afraid to let them show,
Your true colours, true colours,
Are beautiful....like a rainbow.

If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear,
You call me up,
Because you know I'll be there,

And I'll see your true colours, shining through,
I see your true colours, and that's why I love you,
So don't be afraid to let them show,
Your true colours, true colours,
Are beautiful....like a rainbow....

As I finish I hear multiple cheers and whistles throughout the audience. I laugh into the microphone a bit shocked actually. I blew kisses around the plaza from the stage then said into the mic:

"Haha! Was I really that good?" I say a little nervous. But then I'm bombarded by cheering and Yeah's and Woo's. I thank everyone and jump off stage and dab. Yes, I did, I dabbed. I managed to find Kiara and the others but once they see me they hug me so tight.

"Oh my god Ashleigh! You, were amazing!!" Oscar compliments me. I shrug and smile a bit overwhelmed with everyone surrounding me and all. But, after about another hour we start to head back and talk small talk about things and how 'good' I was blah, blah, blah.

Once we returned I felt so tired, and I have never been ever been so tired in my life. I just wanted to collapse, but sadly I couldn't. We entered the house and I went straight to my room grabbed my pyjamas and went to the bathroom.

I had a quick shower got changed, said goodnight and went to bed, I felt so safe and secure in here, with my friends. Then, all I remember is falling asleep once I had fell on my bed.

{Jaxon's POV}

Tigger and myself talked a little about the celebration and how spectacular it was, while Ash was in the bathroom. We both got so excited and baked a cake the night before. Or well, I somewhat helped.

Ashleigh came out of the bathroom said goodnight, hugged us both and went into her room. She must be so exhausted from tonight, but I bet she had a blast. I know she did, and the food was her favourite part.

I stood at her doorway, that was slightly open, to see that she had already fallen asleep. She looked so happy and peaceful. Not long after Tigger joined me at the door with a small smile.

"She's out like a light..." She mumbles.(I know, I know. That phrase is used way too much, continuing) I nod my head slightly in agreement. I don't know what would have happened if she didn't find us. I hugged Tigger from behind which I got a sigh from.

"We best go, she needs her sleep.." I whispered looking over at Ash as she rolled over. I nodded in agreement and we went to our room. I went over to my bed and fell on it with a sigh.

"Good night, Jax..." I hear Tigger murmur.

"G'night Tigger..." As I say that I fell asleep.

{Ashleigh's POV}

~Dream~

"Ugh, m-mummy? Are you there?" I hear a gasp and I can't really see but I hear shuffling and face movements. Where am I? What's going on? Why can't I see?

"M-Mummy? W-What's going on?" I scream a little loud.

"She's awake! Quick! Grab the ascetic!" I hear a man say a bit louder than hoped. I feel a sharp pain in my arm, a needle, that filled me with(DETERMINATION!!! No, no, sadly not)medicine. After a minute I hear a voice calling to me.

"W-Wait! Big sissy! C-C-Come back!" I hear a little girl cry.

-Later that day-

I wake up in an unfamiliar room with a pounding headache, and pain in my eye. I soon realised that I'm in a Patient Ward. I look over to my side where someone is sleeping. Mummy and little girl with black hair and pale skin. The girl wakes up and looks over to me with a big smile, she then shakes mummy's shoulders until she gets up.

"Sissy! I'm so happy-dappy that your awake!" The girl cries loudly, I feel another headache and a hand on my leg. It's mummy's. She looks at me nicely and talks to me.

"How are you sweetheart? Does your head hurt?" I nod to her with water in my eyes and point to where it hurts. She looks at me sadly and kisses my forehead. I ask her where daddy is and she told me he's at...... w-worrk?(I purposely spelt it that way)

Mummy explained to me that it's where daddy and mummy go during the day and earn the paper stuff that we use to but things with. It's really, really complicated.

"I'm so happy your up!" She hugs me tightly, then continues her speech,

"Mummy and I were waiting for a long time for you wake up and we have a gift for you, Big sis!" I smile a little bit forgetting where it hurts for a moment.

"Really! Wow! That you mummy and...?" The little girl looks sad and angry at the same time. She giggled quietly.

"You won't need to know my name, because....*demonic voice* YOU'LL BE GIVING MW YOUR LIFE!! MWHAHA!!!" She then grabs a sharper thing than a needle from behind her back and puts it in my heart space.

"M..M-M...........Mummy?" I said with water going down my face. She looks at me with a scary face. And laughs really loudly and grabs another pointy thing and puts it in my brain. I scream so loud but nobody came to save me.

~Dream end~

I wake up, crying and gasping for air. My head hurt, and I was really sweaty, that dream....it was from my operation. Of course some things didn't happen, otherwise I'd be dead.

I pulled back my hair covering my eye and went to the mirror to look at myself. Disappointing. Disgusting. Freak. Monster. As well as many other words people described me as.

I went over to my bed and started sobbing quietly, I needed someone to talk to. But there was no one but them. My ears perked up and I heard footsteps in the hallway. I gasped and turned the other way hoping whoever it was would leave.

"Ash? Are you ok? C'mon.... I know your awake..." Someone called out to me, it was none other than Jaxon. I looked over to him, who was shirtless with pyjama pants.(0///0 with nosebleed idk how to make that face ;w;) He saw me crying and told me hold on.

He left for a minute or two, probably to see if Tigger was awake. But when her got back he came with a plate of cookies, the ones Kiara had made. He came over to me and sat on the bed next to me, and slung an arm around my shoulders.

I took a cookie and started eating it, he did the same. They were yummy. I looked up at him with tears in my eyes as he looked down at me with a sadish smile. When we both finished our cookies he put the plate on the bedside table and told me to lie down.

Once I had laid down, he lied down next to me and pulled me into his chest. I started blushing, but it comforted me, he started to stroke my hair with his hand. By now I was possibly asked as paint but I was feeling better. I snuggled closely to his chest because he was warm.

"Show me a smile then,
Don't be unhappy, can't remember when,
I last saw you laughing...." It took me a moment to realise he was quoting True Colours from when I had sung earlier. But I continued,

"If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear,
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there." I sung quietly then he took over.

"And I'll see your true colours, shining through.
I see your true colours, and that's why I love you." I joined him after that;

"So don't be afraid to let them show,
Your true colours, true colours
Are beautiful...like a rainbow..." We both finished together nicely and I felt sleepy. I yawned and I heard him yawn to. I look up and him to see him smiling down at me comfortingly.

"T-Thanks Jax.....sorry for making you get up." I murmured, he chuckled quietly.

"It's fine, I was awake anyway, Tigger snores." I giggled a little but then yawned again.

"G-Good night. See you tomorrow, oh, thanks for the cookies." He smiles and gives me a quick hug and leaves the room. Jaxon is the best comforter in the world. If that was an award, I'd give it to him straight up.

I thought to myself what would have happened if I never came to this amazing place. I wouldn't have met my incredibly awesome friends, that's what.

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Hey guys! Thanks for reading and I hope you like it! Sorry it took so long, I have assessments due for school and we haven't started ect, ect. But I hope I did good! Bye bye my little tiger cubs!~🐯🐯 (Word count- 4620)