Summary: The Guardians are faced with a threat unlike they have seen before. This will bring them deeper into the world of myths and stories, or they will loose the children they fight so hard to keep safe.
Author Note: Welcome! This is the first multi chapter Rose of the Guardians I have done. Feedback is always welcome and please enjoy. This will follow events in both the books and in the film.
Dreamless
Prologue
The Black Forest of Germany, such as many other ancient forests of the earth, had always held its own power. Perhaps it was for this reason alone that it had been chosen as the prison. That was how the imp saw it, a prison.
Not his prison no. No mortal or immortal cage could keep him trapped.
A prison such as this would be called a treasure trove by an unknowing creature. These treasures held dark magic or tricky magic, which could be almost as dangerous. Others would say this is a fools errand. Not him. He was tired of being called a fool. Fool who had lost to a child.
Once he had the stone, and he would have it, no longer would he be a fool.
Gone would be the humiliation. The torment of losing. How dare a mortal get the better of him?
The guards had easily been avoided. They would never look for something as small or quiet as he was. Once inside the underground prison, he saw the carvings in the walls depicting the terrible tragedies the items within could bring. Dimly lit candles lined the endless hallways which did truly seem endless. An illusion of course and one they would not fool him with.
After a time of searching the imp found what he sought. These guards and the prison master had done well in securing it. Iron bars stood between him and the entrance to the cell. His prize also sat in an iron and glass box.
Iron wouldn't kill him yet it would still hurt, a pain that would be well worth the effort in the end to get revenge.
Taking a deep breath to steady his heart, the imp reached out and put his hands on the bars.