Darkness Rises
Disclaimer I do not own Rise of the Guardians but I do own Autumn Pines and my OC's. This is the sequel to Snowflakes on Autumn Leaves and this story will may be even darker than the rest of my stories, for now I will keep it at Teen. I really hope you will enjoy this story! I was so nervous to write this because I didn't know if I will ruin it for you guys and blow everything over. I hope you will enjoy.
Summary: The Guardians have become stronger because all of the belief children have in them. There is less fear in the world and people are happier. However, fear isn't completely gone. Fear really never goes away, or disappears forever… As Jack and Autumn's relationship grows, evil steps foot onto Earth once again and it is up to the Guardians to stop it.
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Many things changed over the years… New technology, cars, science and fashion styles changed pretty quickly in the past 20 years. Jack and Autumn never changed much, nor has the other Guardians, but Jamie, Pippa and Sophie are another story.
Jamie is now 35 years old with two children, a boy named Connor Bennett, who is eight years old, and a little girl named Amelia Bennett who is only six. Jamie married Pippa when he was 24 and had a beautiful wedding. You may think that because they grew old and began a family they stopped believing the Guardians, but that's not the case. They still believe in all the Guardians and tell their children all about them. The Sandman who brings you good dreams at night, the Easter Bunny who spreads hope to children with a single colorful egg, Santa Clause who brings wonder to children every year on Christmas Eve, the Tooth Fairy who collects baby teeth at night and return children's memories when they need them the most. However, they talk about two Guardians more than all the others. Jack Frost, the young Winter spirit who brings fun everywhere he goes and Autumn Pines, the beautiful Fall spirit that shows her courtesy in every smile.
Sophie, now 27, became an English teacher in Burgess elementary. She married a man named David Burkhart, who is an officer in the Navy. Jamie always watched out for Sophie and told her no dating was allowed when she dated in high school, but he respects David because he knows David really loves his baby sister. She too, still believes in the Guardians and always talks about them when she is with her nephew and niece.
Claude, Caleb, Monty and Cupcake, unfortunately, stopped believing in the Guardians by the time they gone into college. This really hurt Jack and Autumn, for they had lost some of their first believers. They knew children will stop believing when they hit a certain age, but they know Jamie, Pippa and Sophie will always believe.
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Jack and Autumn sat in the Bennett's living room with Jamie, Pippa, Connor and Amelia. Pippa was leaning against Jamie on the couch, while Jack and Autumn told the children their adventures long ago.
"That was when we became Guardians, we proved to the Man in the Moon that we can protect the children of the world."
"Wow, Jack!" Connor exclaimed. "You and Autumn are like super heroes! You can be like the super heroes in Marvel!" Jack and Autumn laughed at the boy's imagination.
"Tell us about how you two fell in love!" Amelia demanded.
"Okay, okay, hold you're horses!" Autumn put her hands up. "Let's start from the beginning… I found Jack in Burgess playing in the snow with some kids. I thought they could see him but the kids just ran right through him. So I followed him and found that he is just like me, a season spirit. I taught him how to control his powers so he could control winter. We would always spend time together and we became best friends." Autumn smiled at Jack and let him continue the story.
"One day, as we were watching the sunset, I started to look at Autumn a different way." Jack smiled as he explained. "I thought Autumn was the most beautiful girl in the whole world, and that's when I fell for her. Then soon we just fell in love with each other."
"That's so romantic..." Amelia smiled while Connor looked bored out of his mind.
Jamie laughed getting up from the couch and picking up Amelia. "It's time to go to bed kiddos."
"Aw!" They both said in unison.
"No 'aw' its way past you're bed time!" Pippa scolded the children. She got up, kissed her children goodnight and let Jamie take the kids to bed. Jack and Autumn stayed downstairs as Jamie put the kids to bed. As Jamie came back he sat on the couch next to Pippa.
"You know…" Jack spoke up. "Connor looks a lot like you when you were a kid."
"Really?" Jamie asked.
"Yep!" Autumn and Jack exclaimed. Connor had Jamie's style of brown hair and dark eyes. Amelia has a lot of her mother's features, like being tall for her age she was almost as tall as Connor!
Jamie chuckled and smiled, "I never noticed." Something flashed in his eyes and he looked over at Jack. "Hey remember that time when you took us on that sledding ride with all my friends when we were younger? It was with Pippa, Monty, Cupcake, Caleb and Claude?"
Jack thought for a moment then smiled wide when he remembered. "Oh yeah, it was the year after the first battle with Pitch! That was so fun I made you guys a large snow pile and you claimed it to ride your sled down on it."
"I remember that!" Pippa exclaimed happily. "I also remember falling off the snow pile and you had to catch me so I wouldn't hit the ground!" They all laughed but quiet down remembering that the kids went to bed.
"Man, good times…" Jamie muttered.
"Well it's time for us to leave, we have to get back to the North Pole, see you later you two." Jack said and walked to the door with Autumn behind him.
"Have a good night you two." Pippa called out to the two spirits as they walked out the door. Jack and Autumn jumped in the air and flew to the North Pole.
It was quiet when they got back to the workshop so they assumed that everyone was in bed or at least resting. It was the middle of fall so North has time to prepare Christmas. Jack walked over and wrapped his arms around Autumn's waist.
"Tomorrow lets go out, just the two of us." Jack said, staring into Autumn's emerald eyes.
"Okay." Autumn smiled and kissed Jack's lips. "Goodnight Jack."
"Night Autumn," Jack smiled.
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Autumn woke up from the sunlight that was shining through her window. She looked down and saw the necklace Jack had given her shining beautifully with the sun. She smiled as she remembered they were going to hang out all day today.
"I wonder what we will be doing today..." Autumn said as she got up from her bed and walked out of her room. She walked over to Jack's room and opened the door to see if he was up. Jack was fast asleep on his bed, making his soft blue sheets rise up when he breathed. Autumn smirked as she thought of something to do to Jack.
She tip toed slowly over to Jack's bed and twirled her finger in the air making a large pile of leaves above Jack's head. Jack was awake the whole time and knew what Autumn was up to. He waited for the right moment to open his eyes and tackle Autumn.
"Ah!" Autumn screamed as Jack tackled her to the ground, she dropped the pile of leaves all over Jack's bed.
"Morning!" Jack said with a smile as he was on top of Autumn.
"Morning..."Autumn pouted at Jack, he tricked her again."Maybe I shouldn't prank you anymore, it never works for me."
"I think you're right, I'm a master at pranks I know every little trick!" Jack smiled and kissed Autumn. They completely forgot their awkward position while they were kissing and never realize North was at the door.
North cleared his throat loudly so they both can hear him. They stopped kissing and realized how awkward and bad they looked and stood up from the ground, looking at North with red faces. "Yes North?" Jack asked.
"I was going to wake you two up but I guess you already are." North smiled.
"Yeah..." Jack blushed. "We are going out today, so we probably won't come back until late."
North chuckled, "That's fine Jack, you can just go whenever you want and come back whenever you want."
"Okay, come on Autumn!" Jack grabbed Autumn's hand and walked out of the room with her.
They flew to Burgess first and landed by Jack's pond. He turned to Autumn with a bright smile, "Do you want to ice skate?"
Autumn smiled wide, "Yeah! Wait, I don't have skates!"
"Don't worry look!" Jack walked over to a fallen tree branch and pulled out brown skates from behind it. "North made them for me so I could give it to you."
"Wow, thanks!" Autumn took them and looked at them carefully. They looked exactly her size. She took off her black combat boots and slipped on her skates. They where a perfect fit!
"Do you know how to skate?" Jack asked.
Autumn nodded, "Yeah Eric bought me my first pair of skates when I was seven and he taught me how to skate!" Autumn said proudly.
Jack froze the pond with his staff and smiled at Autumn, "Let's see what you got!"
Autumn smiled walking over to the ice with confidence and took her first step on the ice. As soon as she took her second step, she slipped and fell on her butt. "You know, that was a long time ago..." Autumn muttered.
Jack couldn't help but laugh at Autumn. She glared darkly at him but started laughing as well. "Here Autumn, I'll re-teach you."
He helped her up to her feet and held his hands in her hands. "Now, kick off with one foot and then kick off with the next." Autumn did what he said and smiled when she moved without falling. "See how you got some speed there? Do the same again until you go as fast as you want," Autumn kicked off and went the speed she wanted with Jack holding her hands. She loved when Jack was with her so close, it made her feel safe. Jack started to move away from Autumn so she could do it on her own.
Autumn panicked a little, "Jack!"
"It's okay, try it by yourself." He smiled.
Autumn tired it by herself and it wasn't much different when Jack was holding her. She skates around the pond in a lap until Jack was right next to her. "Do you want to race?"
"Yeah!" Autumn exclaimed.
"Okay ready, one. Two..." Jack and Autumn got into a position to start. "Three!" Jack started off fast. He skates so fast even without ice skates!
"Jack, that's not fair!" Autumn laughed at how Jack was betting her in the race. "You are clearly better at this then me!"
Jack laughed and mockingly winked at Autumn. Autumn laughed and created a pile of leaves in front of Jack. Jack didn't expect leaves to randomly pop in front of him so he tripped over them and fell face first into snow.
Autumn started laughing hysterically. When she was done laughing she flew over to Jack. "Are you okay?" She asked, her voice cracking a little in chuckles.
"Yeah I'm fine, glad you ask after you stop laughing." Jack sat up with a sarcastic smirk on his face.
"Yeah, I will always ask if you are alright, after I finish laughing." Autumn smiled.
Jack laughed, "This is why I love you."
"You better!" Autumn giggled.
Autumn began taking her skates off and putting her boots back on. When she wasn't looking Jack threw snow into her face and quickly turned around to make it look like he didn't do anything.
Autumn whipped the snow off of her face and glared at Jack. "What?" He asked innocently in a straight face. He couldn't keep a straight face for that long and started laughing, earning a snowball to the face.
"Okay then..." Jack got up and formed a snowball in his hand. "This means war!"
Autumn grabbed a pile of snow and made a snowball. She threw it at Jack and ran to block his attacks. They played for a while until they both fell down on the ground laughing out of breath.
"That was fun!" Autumn exclaimed.
"Yeah," Jack said. "Do you want to go somewhere nice to watch the sunset today?"
"Sure!" Autumn smiled.
"Okay let's go then, sunset is only in a couple hours." Jack takes Autumn's hand and fly into the sky.
They stopped at a beach somewhere up north so Jack could be comfortable in the weather. Even though it was in the middle of fall, it's still pretty cold. That is because Jack is always with Autumn. The adults don't understand why it's so cold, but the children do and that's what really matters.
Many people where at the beach with their kids and some waved at the two spirits as they walked by. Usually they would go and play with the kids but today they just wanted to spend the day together alone.
"You know, I always wanted to take Emma to the beach." Jack spoke. Autumn turned her head to look at Jack, he had a soft smile on his face he always does when he thinks of his little sister. "I was going to teach her how to swim that summer but... Yeah."
"It's alright Jack," Autumn smiled. She knew Jack didn't like thinking about his death that much, heck she didn't like thinking about her death either. They both died right in front of their younger siblings and they couldn't bear the thought of what they must have gone through seeing their death.
As they walked down the beach hand in hand, Jack really wanted to ask Autumn something and thought now was the perfect time.
"Hey uh, Autumn?" Jack spoke softly.
"Yes?" Autumn looked at Jack with her big emerald eyes.
Come on Frost, say it! "I- I umm..."
"Are you alright?" Autumn asked worried about Jack.
Now is the perfect chance, I have to! "I uh, I really what to- uh..." Jack blush deep red as he stuttered for words.
"Jack are you okay, are you feverish?" Autumn panicked a little thinking he was getting sick.
"Um, yeah a little bit." Jack lied. "Maybe it's a little too warm for me to be walking around too much at the beach, let's sit down." Jack and Autumn sat down on the sand near the water. I'm such an idiot…
"Are you feeling better?" Autumn asked after a little while.
"Yeah." Jack smiled.
"What where you trying to tell me?" Autumn pondered.
"Um, nothing." Jack answered and watched the sunset.
Autumn shrugged Jack's odd behavior off and looked out at the sunset as well. It was beautiful! It was all golden and made the sky look red above them. They could hear the calm water ripple as it constantly moves in the sea.
"I don't know how Mother Nature can make this so perfect." Autumn said.
"Yeah," Jack chuckled. "It is fascinating."
They sat down on the beach together for hours, just watching the sun set without saying a word. It wasn't until they began to see the stars they realized it was getting late.
"I think we should head back to the North Pole." Jack said.
"Yeah," They got up from the sand and flew back to the North Pole.
They landed in the Globe Room once again and walked to their bedrooms. Before Autumn went to her bedroom, Jack gave her a goodnight kiss. "Love you, Autumn."
"Love you to Jack," Autumn smiled and kissed him back. "See you tomorrow."
"Yep," Jack smiled and walked into his bedroom. He yawned and just realized how tired he was. He scanned his room and stopped when he saw a large glass snow globe on his dresser. He smiled as he walked over to it and picked it up. Autumn gave it to him the Christmas she became a Guardian. It was the best Christmas gift he had ever gotten. Inside the snow globe was two ice figures of Jack and Autumn, they were holding hands. Jack shook the snow globe and snow swirled around the ice figures. However, that wasn't Jack's favorite part he loved the melody that played in Autumns voice. It was a song Autumn sang just for him.
"This is my Winter Song to you, the storm is coming soon its rolling through the sea. My voice, a beacon in the night my words will be your light to carry you to me... Is love alive, is love alive, is love... Bum bum bum bum, bum bum bum bum. Bum bum, bum bum bum bum. Bum bum, bum bum bum bum..."
Jack smiled and put the snow globe down on the dresser again, still letting the song play. He crawled in his bed and fell asleep to the sweet sound of Autumn's voice.
Millions of miles away from Earth, inside the small Prison Planet, there was Pitch Black and Ava Hollow discussing business together between cells.
"That is a perfect plan Pitch..." Ava smirked even though Pitch can't see her though the steel cell.
"I know..." Pitch creepily smiled. "Today shall be the day."
A young guard came in nervously as he stood in front of Pitch's cell. Now is the time… "Young one, do you think I can get some air, I was in here for 20 years without fresh air."
"Sorry, no can do." The guard said.
Pitch sighed, "Come on, I've been in here for 20 years, just crack the door open a little bit so I can get some air, I promise I will be good."
The guard thought for a moment, "Just a little air but don't do something you will regret!" The guard open Pitch's cage just a crack and that's all it took. Pitch lashed out and attacked the poor guard, turning him into a Fearling. "That was easier than I thought..." He walked over to Ava's cage and opened it.
"Got to hand it to you Pitch, you made it look like it was that easy." Ava smiled as she walked out of her cell. "He was a dumb rookie."
"Rookie mistake…People can be very foolish and that's why I take advantage of that." Pitch smirked and disappeared into the shadows with Ava.
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