I am walking home with my friend, Rix, when all of a sudden two huge, white, furry monsters pop in front of us. We both jump.

"Back off!" I yell. I transform and pull out my staff. "Don't make me use -hey, put me down! What are you-?!" A monster picks me up and shoves me into a sack

"Carri!" Rix yells. "You mess with my friend, you mess with me." She starts running toward him, yelling. "AAAAAAAAAA-!"

The other monster takes out a snow globe, says something in gibberish, and smashes it on the ground. It turns into a magic portal, which Jude runs straight into.

Then the monster throws me in after her.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" my voice echoes.


"OOMPH!" I grunt. "Uuuuunh…."

"SSSSSH!" a voice whispers. "She's here!"

"There's my staff,"said another. "Why does she have it?"

Something takes my staff out of the sack. I lunge for it and miss. A bright light blinds me for a second. I reach for it.

The bag opens. Standing in front of me are a dude who looked just like Santa, a six-foot rabbit, a lady covered in feathers with shimmering rainbow wings that looked like the exact replica of a dragonfly's and with miniature versions of herself fluttering around her, a guy dressed in golden sparkles, and a boy, about seventeen, who looked...familiar.

"Are you...sure that's her, North?" the boy asks, staring at me with a strange look in his eyes. What was it? Awe? Admiration? I couldn't tell.

"Positive," Santa-dude replies, with a strong Russian accent. "Don't you think, Tooth?"

"Of course!" the bird-lady answers.

"W-where...where am I?" I ask, confused. "Who are you people? What do you want from me? Where's Rix?!"

I jump out of the sack, then turn and give the boy a dangerous glare as I walk towards him and get all up in his face. "If this is some sort of game of yours, knock it off, or I will-!"

"WHOA, whoa, hey, slow down, little lady!" he warns, putting his hands up, surrendering.

"DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME THAT!" I scream. I am so red with anger, I could strangle him. And I almost do, when he begins to laugh. Instead, I punch him in the gut. He collapses at my feet clutching his stomach.

"You are so lucky I'm soft," I tell him.

"You call that punch soft?" he wheezes.

"I already like her," I hear the rabbit say in an Australian accent.


My phone rings, so I answer.

"WHERE THE HECK ARE YOU?!" Rix screams. (Didn't she go through the vortex of death?) "YOU MISSED THE ENTIRE MOVIE! I MEAN, WHAT KIND OF FRIEND OF MINE MISSES THE NEWEST TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES WITH ME?! AND I WANT THE TRUTH!"

"The truth?'" I ask her. " 'Cause it might sound pretty...how can I put this...insane."

"YES, THE TRUTH! AND ANYWAY, EVERYTHING WE DO IS INSANE, IT CAN'T POSSIBLY BE MORE INSANE THAN EVERYTHING!" she screams.

"Alright, fine. I'm at the North Pole...with five psychotic nutjobs, I might add."

"WHAT THE HECK DOES THAT MEAN, YOU-?!"

I quickly hang up.

"Who was that?" North questions.

"An awesome and extremely strange friend of mine," I tell him. "No biggie."

He gives me a confused look, but then says, "Allow us to introduce ourselves. I am North. This is Sandman, Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Jack Frost. We are Guardians."

"Huh," I mumble. I lean against the wall casually. "Cool. Weird, obviously, but cool. Why I think that, I have no idea."

"WHAT? DID I HEAR 'THE TOOTH FAIRY'? CARRI-"

I realized Rix had called me and was hearing the conversation, so I immediately hang up and shut off my phone so she couldn't call me even if she wanted to.

I spot a few elves and yetis putting presents in a pile. With a sly smile on my face, I walk over casually, whistling, and as I walk by, nudge a yeti. He turns to another yeti and pushes him into the pile, making the presents go everywhere. The yetis start yelling at each other causing a fight.

I grin and shrug. "Whoops."

Jack shows a small smile as though he's impressed. He walks toward me.

"You look exactly like me, except you have streaks of gray in your hair. You are wearing the almost exact same clothes as I am. And you have ice powers, like I do. Anything else?" He looks up at me, but I'm gone. Pretty much whatever he had just said to me went through one ear and out the other. "Where-?"

"Boo!" I scream in his ear from behind.

"OW!" Jack looks at me angrily and walks away muttering to himself.

"Differences," I tell him. "I'm a girl, I'm smarter, I'm mortal, I'm stronger, and you are a wimp."

He rolls his eyes, clearly annoyed. "Shut up, Sylver."

"Wait," I ask. "What? Who's that?"

"You are," the Tooth Fairy claims. "Aren't you?"

"Um...no?" I laugh. "I'm Carri."

No, you're not.

"What…?"

Hello, Carri.

"N-no," I stutter. "I'm going crazy. I-I-I'm hearing things. Th-this...this isn't real." I place my hands on my temples and close my eyes.

"Syl?" Jack questions. "You okay?"

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" I screech. "I-I want you out. Get out of my head, now!"

"Are you alright, mate?" Bunny asks.

I hear evil chuckles rattling in my brain.

"I said...get out...of...MY HEAD!"

Suddenly, I feel dizzy. My legs give out, and I collapse on the floor. My head has a splitting headache, and I moan.

The same laugh that was in my head echoes around the room.

"Well, you're more pathetic than the last time I saw you," a voice booms. Then a shadow appears on the wall. When it reaches a dark corner, a man steps out. He has black spiked hair, gray skin, a black robe, and golden eyes that seem to look right through you.

I shiver.

I look at the Guardians. All of them but Jack jump in front of me like a shield. Jack helps me get up. Then I realize this is the guy from the school that disappeared out of thin air.

"Who's that?" I whisper to Jack weakly.

He stares at the man, his eyes full of hatred.

"Pitch Black."