Disclaimer I do not own Rise of the Guardians or The Guardians of Childhood. I only own my OCs.

Prologue

Cold. That's all I could feel in this dark encasement that surrounded my freezing body. I remember nothing before this frigid feeling on my flesh. All I remember is the painstaking cold pricking my entire skin with its icy needles. I was wet, numb, lonely, and vulnerable.

A pale-skinned Caucasian girl about seven or eight years old was curled up into a small ball inside her snow cocoon that surrounded her underneath a tall dark tree. Suddenly, a ray of silver light shone on the icy prison that the girl was trapped in as the light slowly melted it. The girl slowly opened her dark emerald colored eyes when she sensed something different.

Light? Where's it coming from? Ahh, it feels so nice like it will melt all the cold and loneliness away from me.

The light melted all the snow away from the girl's body as the light magically levitated her up into the air. The girl took in a big breath of the cool air around her and sighed in the change of temperature in the outside world from her cocoon.

I saw the full moon in front of me. It was so huge and so peaceful like it would caress me in its soft rays and make me feel safe. And when it did, I didn't feel so lonely and vulnerable anymore. I stared up at the moon some more and basked in its light. My shoulders ached a little in pain as I felt something spring forth from my body in a loud 'whoosh' sound. Then I felt my body slowly being pulled down to the slightly damped earthy ground.

The girl's bare feet finally touched the earth and stumbled a bit to try and find her balance on the ground. Once she finally, albeit shakily, found her grounding, she looked back up at the moon longingly as if trying to hear what it has to say.

I never knew exactly why I was trapped in the snow dune for so long, or how I even got there in the beginning. A part of me wondered what I was going to do now since I was free. Deep down, I knew I was supposed to do something, but I don't know why or what for. I may never know the answer to my question.

The little girl then looked down at her cold, bare hands as if looking for something. Then she clenched her hands together before opening them back up again to flex out her sore muscles in her tiny fingers. Her giant black wings flexed out loudly before slowly folding to her back and sides neatly.

I looked back at the moon again for a very long time as a voice inside my head spoke to me.

"My dearest little child, do not be afraid," said a man's voice as he continued to speak to me soothingly, "I have broken you out of that cold snow den and given you new life once more."

"Who are you and what do you mean by "new life"," I replied in my mind.

Then I heard him reply, "I am The Man in the Moon, but you can call me Manny or MIM if you like."

"Alright MIM, what am I doing here and what happened to me?" I asked him.

The Man in the Moon simply replied, "All will be answered in due time, young one."

I looked down to the ground for a second before I asked him, "Do you know what my name is?"

There was a few seconds of silence as he replied, "Your name is Luna the Celestial Guardian Angel."

"Luna," I whispered to myself and asked him another question, "Do you know what my purpose is here, MIM?"

"That, I cannot say. You have to figure that out on your own, my child," he answered back to me.

I frowned a bit at how lost and confused I was about this new world I've been awakened into. My deep thoughts were broken when I heard his voice again.

"But I can say this," he started as he continued, "Darkness will threaten the lives of so many beings. Humans, animals, and plants alike are in grave danger of the coming evil, and you are the one who will stop it in its tracks, Luna."

"I don't understand. What am I supposed to do?" I replied in confusion.

"You will know exactly what to do when that time comes, child. For now, you must rest and regain your strength. I will lead you to a safe place for the night and in the morning your training will begin," he said to me.

A beam of light shone along a path into the forest. Luna took a few tentative steps forward and followed the moonlit trail into the woods.

That was all the moon said to me as I followed his comforting light deeper and deeper into the dark woods where my life begins.

A new Legend was born. The time passed on, and the door to a new adventure opened.