"San Diego, upper right bicuspid! New Orleans, lower wisdom tooth! Austin, Right Canine!"
Darting around in the central plaza of the famous Tooth Palace, Toothiana queen of the fairies and the daughter of Haroom and Rashmi, was conducting a world wide night of fetching the baby teeth of the children whom had lost them. The mini fairies zoomed in and out only pausing to get directions in the teeth they might have missed and to grab a quarter to leave the gift behind for the child to find in the morning. It had been ten months since Pitch vanished underground, dragged by his own nightmares, and the guardians had gone back to their normal days. Though with Easter fast approaching it being a much needed step for Bunnymund, Tooth was thinking of dropping by to help the pooka paint eggs for a while when her attention was snagged by four fairies flying towards with two teeth each in their little arms. Looking shocked, she listened to them carefully before beaming with a wide smile.
"Oh! Look at that~ Quadruplets! and look how well they took care of their teeth!~ All nice and shiny!~" As they were the very first of each child the teeth were taken to their appropriate child and placed within the special puzzle box that every child that had ever lived had. As those fairies went about to paint the children's faces upon the right box, she smiled brightly at the new memories being stored there within the palace even as she got the feeling of something was aout to happen. The feeling made her feathers ruffle, the sapphire blue and emerald green colored head-dress filled from the bridge of her nose and up into a lovely crown like point with a single golden feather going up the middle of the bunch like a crown decoration. Her body was covered with the brilliant feathers. Small golden colored feathers decorated either wrist and ankles like golden jewelry with a single golden feathers dangling there on either side of her head where her ears were situated like earrings. Three pairs of wings fluttered continuously to keep the female aloft within the air. Amethyst colored eyes were framed by softly tanned skin and long lashes which seemed to flutter every time she blinked her optics. Frame lithe but sturdy the only part about her delicate was her wings and even those could rip through a NightMare as if they were butter. The Queen was a warrior raised in the jungles and had seen enough hard times to make her want to cry, not that she ever cried... Ever. Tooth had never cried a single tear and has only came close once. That was near last Easter. Snapping from her memories once more, she shook her head as baby tooth came swooping up towards her carrying another golden quarter to give to a child and began to chirp chatter to her rapidly about not getting enough sleep and the likes.
"Yes yes.. I know, Baby Tooth. Alright!~ Alright. I'll go lay down for a spell." Backing up some, her hands having to come up to fend off her pushy second-in-command. She left baby Tooth in charge before Tooth swiftly moved to her bedroom where she felt the most at home. Walls decorated with purple silks draped from floor to ceiling, the round room was decorated much like the rest of the rooms in the palace with a single change. Toothiana's room didn't have a 'bed'. it had a hammock which she had filled with pillows of the softest kinds and a blanket of the thinnest silk so not to be caught up in the fabric. Removing the jewelry into a soft wood box she had found when she first moved into the space. It was made of a fine cherry wood with fairies etched over the lid and teeth over the sides in such an intricate detail she was always sure that at any moment the Fairies would spring frm the box lid and dance or go about to their work. Softly closing the lid, she took a soft look about her bedroom as she moved over to her bed. Three dressers in all were placed around the space against a pillar, the four pillar had her vanity settled in front of it. Each dresser held something important. The first, closest to the door, held her swords so that any moment she could dart out and grab them before leaving. The second situated near a window overlooking Asia, was her.. well.. her gowns for the parties North threw for random occasions. The third held a secret, stuff from her past and something even more secretive that she only opened in emergencies. Slowly, she climbed into the hammock and settled her head upon a rich purple pillow pulling a vivid green one to her chest to hold onto while she settled down for a quick nap for the first time in what seemed like days.
Meanwhile up at the Ice Palace, North was taking a break as well. His right hand holding a large mug of eggnog while his left held a sweet cookie he dipped into the cup before taking a big bite of it. Relaxing after a day of working on designs and different things for the Yetis to create for this coming Christmas made the large man feel good. Jack had come to live with him but was away for the moment creating snow and frost somewhere in the world. Sandy was also off doing his night time duties so Nicholas didn't really have anyone to talk to besides the elves and the yetis that were still bustling about the workshop filling the air with grunts of the yeti language and the soft jingle jangle of the elves scurrying around.
"Always under boot!" ,He chuckled to himself as he dropped the rest of his cookie onto the tray next to his elbow then got up to start up again to work. Since the designs were done on paper, he now had to go back and do them from ice so the yetis had a three hundred and sixty view of the toy they were creating. Six feet and four inches of Russian man, made Nicholas a man not to be trifled with. Running a hand over his chin and stroking his beard in thought as he moved through the workshop inspecting toys and watching out for the elves who had a bad habit of getting in the way of toy productions, North was thinking about his other guardians. Bunny was busy with Easter. Tooth busy with her teeth. Sandy with his dreams and jack was around here often enough but North was getting the feelings of being lonely. It happened every hundred years or so around the first month of a new century.
"Ah, what work to do. Maybe check on Tooth soon." Nodding his cranium, he had to smile to himself. The winged Guardian had a way with things, Being mother to a million fairies and working such long hours that she sometimes dropped from the sky and slept where she fell. It had happened on one occasion while North was visiting her. Luckily, he had been there and carried her to her room only to tuck her in for that night. Chuckling at the memory of the rather confused Queen after two days of sleeping to find herself in bed and a note from North to have a good sleep. That had been about three hundred or so years ago and North never failed to smile from the memory of it all. She had this way about her that made the Russian man smile as if he had eaten the best cookie of his life. Shaking his head lightly, he moved into his private workshop and closed the door after him so that he was not disturbed by the sounds and racket coming from the bigger work area.
A good few hours later he heard sand drift under the door and pausing in his intricate work upon five silver pocket watches, he opened his arms up with a loud and booming laugh echoing the space as a sleepy Sandy drifted into shape there in the work area.
"Ha! Sandman! Good night, yes?"
With a nod of his head, the golden rolly polly man drifted on over to North and took a peek at what the man was working on. As he examined the watches made of silver he noticed that two were done and set off to the side. Right golden fingers picked up a watch with such intricate detail it made Sandy's eyes widen and point to it with a large question mark floating above his head.
Noticing the mark, North nodded his head. "Yes yes. I carved it myself. " Looking to the watch in question it was the one for Jack Frost. A delicate looking snowflake was etched onto the top with the points hitting the edge of the outer case. The second one was for Sandman. This one was decorated inside and out. North picked up the watch, taking Jack's from the other, and handed him his own instead the golden man once more looked at the carvings. It was so intricate that he figured that North had been working for a long time on it. The picture depicted upon the outer shell was of Sandy himself in his most known guardian pose. Hands turned upwards and out to either side with his head and spiky hair to be seen. Curious as to if the watch actually worked, Sandy hit the small button on the top and opened it up only to come to another amazing sight. Not only did the watch work, but the inside of the top covering was also etched with a design. This one was of his biplane that he enjoys creating for himself to get to places nice and fast. Closing it up, he stored it into his golden cloak before making the watch appear above his head with hearts around the picture.
"Ha! I knew you would like it! They are to be an easier way to communicate with each other... So if one of us needs help but can not reach beacon. We call instead. Humans call them... Cellphones." North stated as he beamed over his work. At the moment he was working upon Bunny's and then his own. Last would be Tooth's for he had to ask a certain tiny fairy for help in the design for the Queens.
Pushing the watches to the side, he turned back to Sandy and they conversed for the rest of the night until it was well past time for them to either to get back to work or to bed for an early start in the morning. For that was when North was going to ask Baby Tooth to help him plan a surprise for Tooth.
At the Christmas party that past year, Tooth had presented the Guardians with gifts that she had hand made herself. Bunny had gotten a new paintbrush set. While Jack got an extremely long scarf knitted by her hands. Sandy had gotten an golden hourglass with emerald dust for the sand. North, however, figured he got the best gift around. Tooth had presented him with a massive blanket with his own idea over the front. The dolls that he had present Jack were out and reached from corner to corner in such details that he had to make sure they were not just glued there. With each picture was a word and there near the bottom was his center. "Wonder" spelled out in silver lettering under the small baby picture with its big blue eyes. On the back was a reindeer so realistic it seemed to be ready to fly off the fabric and take its place in front of his sleigh. Though through it all of her giving out gifts, no one had been prepared to give her anything back. They hadn't even been hinted at presents and North had decided that with all trouble of the past year just them being there was enough for everyone. The man stroked his beard as he laid in bed ready for sleep to take him thinking of things to make for tooth when Sandy's sand drifted in under his door and knocked him out where he dreamed of candy canes and eggnog.
So I hope you enjoyed this first chapter!~ I pretty much stressed during the entire typing process but it's finished and edited and read over then posted!~ Please review in the box Below and send me your comments or questions! Thanks and bye!~