Rise of the Sixth Guardian
I don't own any of the charters from Rise of the Guardians' or the book series The Rangers Apprentice just my OC, I know I have other stories I'm currently working on, but for some reason just don't feel like working on them right now. I hope you enjoy and I know there will be miss spells and some run on, so forgive me and I will try and fix them. And I don't know the exact time area for Jack when he died so I'm going to guess. Enjoy! ^^
The first thing I remember was the feeling of pain throughout my whole body, and it felt so heavy, the only warmth I felt, was that of my own blood pooling around my broken body. I was looking up at the winter night sky with the full winter moon that seemed glow a mysterious blue light right over my head. The pain racked my body with even breath I took and … I was scared. When the cold finally settled into my body, seeming to be the only balm for my pain, my eye never left the moon, it was the only thing that chased away the fear I felt.
My breathing, even though painful as it was, slowed down with my heart; as my eye started to close the moon seemed to start to glow brighter and brighter. My last breath escaped my lip and my heart beat its last time, but I felt a light fill my body. The pain was gone and I felt my bones start to mended, I still felt the cold though it was more comforting, I gasped as the feeling of air filled my lungs again. I opened my eyes finding myself looking at the moon once more, but I was no longer on the ground in a pool of my own blood. The light still filled and surrounded me like a mothers warm comforting embrace, a man's voice filled my head, so sweet and warm like a father trying to comfort his scared child during a thunder storm.
"Don't be afraid young one, I will not harm you. My name is Manny, I am the spirit of the moon, and I have chosen you to become a Guardian! There are many other sprits out there, but there is only one other I have made this same night that will be a Guardian like yourself. That is the same as you, you scarified yourself to save your lords son from falling of that cliff, and you willingly knew that one of you might die, as long as it was not the child you didn't care.
This is why I have chosen you to become a Guardian. He saved someone he loved, you loved that little boy as if he was your own brother, now we must part but don't fear I will always be watching you Caroline , you are now the spirit of Cleverness and Inspiration."
The voice left my mind as did the comforting light, leaving me floating in the air beside a ragged cliff. I looked from the moon down to the ground where I had landed, but nothing was there, my blood was gone. I slowly floated up to the cliff edge and landed on the snow covered ground, I took this moment to look at myself. I still had on my long leather pants that I wore during the cold winter to keep my body heat trapped, they were a dark tanned brown close to being black tucked into my knee high boots of the same color and material as my pants. My vest was no different from my pants and boots, nor was my belt holding my pants up with the silver emblem of an Oak leaf, another belt held different sizes of pouches. I wore a white long sleeve shirt under my vest, leather bracers tied just under my wrist leather half fingered gloves covered my hands the cuffs tucked under the bracers.
The wind picked up causing my gray cloak to flutter and wrap around me, looking at it I remember what master Halt, my teacher had said about our cloaks. To others it looked like a simple gray cloak, but if you looked closer you could see patterns of faded browns, greens, and blacks. These cloaks helped us blend into the shadows, and kept us warm on cold nights, it was cause of these cloaks and our mysterious teaching that people believed we held some sort of magic. I reached back pulling my hood up over my head out of habit as I started my ways to the village, but as soon as I took a step, I was catapulted into the air! I cried out in surprise cursing inside my head for forgetting my training, I prepared for my body for impact, but it never came, I opened my eyes and gasped as I saw I was once again floating in the air.
I let out a chuckle a feeling of freedom I hadn't felt in three years filled me, I tried to concentrate, trying to figure out how to move when my body dropped again, "Wwwwhooooaaaa!" I cried out as I fell through tree branches till my legs caught one causing me to swing back and forth. If I had done this when I was alive, I would have felt embarrassed, but again I started to laugh like I did when I was a carefree child growing up in my former lord's palace. I sat up and using the trunk of the tree stood up on the branch, I closed my eyes and smiled as the free feeling filled me again. I opened my eyes and shakily flew up into the sky slowly rising above the tree tops, I could see a moving group of yellow flickering lights making its way to the slop that might take them to the bottom of the cliff where I had lain.
'Must be a search party,' I sadly thought, in the short time, or it felt short to me as I had been learning to move through the air, that the spirit Manny was telling the truth and I was now a spirit no longer a member of the living. They would find no body and just assume that wild beast had found my corpse and dragged it away to their den to feast on, like so many unlucky souls before. I slowly made my way towards them, watching as they looked around to find any trace of my body, one of the knights took off his helmet and saw it was one of my old friends that had come to the village I had lived in.
Landing on the ground I made my way to him looking at his face I could see fear and sadness, Will and I had helped him so much that our small group of orphaned friends became even tighter. I just hoped my death would not ruin that, I was about to go closer when one of the knights that was behind me began to run to him… and right through me. I gasped holding my chest where he passed through, I didn't feel it. Fear shoot through me, I looked to my friend and ran too him. "Bruce can you see me?! Can you hear me?!" I shouted from next to him, he just kept talking away to another knight the look of gloom on his face.
All their heads turned when the sound of a horse's baying caught them by surprise! I turned and looked myself, "Oh no." I knew that horse, I knew that horse all too well. It was the horse of my twin brother Will, the cloaked man on the horse jumped off running to Bruce in a frantic speed. "Have you found her yet?" desperation and a bit of hope where heard there, but Bruce just shook his head, "Nothing yet Will, maybe she is still alive, but badly hurt someone might have found her and took her to get help." Even I could tell Bruce was lying, but he was trying to give my brother hope, even if in that was cruel.
Will shook his head, "No we could always feel what the other felt, and I don't feel anything. She is dead Bruce; all we might find is her bones or her corpse. And now the only family I ever had is gone." Will fell to his knees before punching the ground, "WHY?! WHY DID SHE HAVE TO DIE?" I could hear his voice shacking with sobs his body shacking from the force of his anguish, kneeling down before his grief stricken friend and laid and gauntlet hand on his shoulder. "She was doing her job. She saved her lords son's life at the risk of her own. It's the same thing I would of done…that you would have done." I smiled a bitter sweet smile as I flew away I couldn't take seeing my brother like this.
I didn't know how long I flew, but soon I saw the first rays of morning turning to look behind me, I smiled at the moon. "Good night Manny sleep well." Before I turned away I looked back the way I came from a cold tear running down my cheek, "Good bye brother… goodbye my friends I'm so sorry, but Bruce was right I did my job and I have no regrets." Once more I turned around and flew towards the sun.
It was about mid day when I decided to land near a lake in the middle of a forest for a rest, walking to the water's edge I pulled back my hood to look down at myself. My eyes widened as I stared down at my reflection, leaning down onto one knee I touched my face watching the other me do the same, my eyes that were once sapphire blue were now ice blue, the tips of my chocolate brown hair were white like frost, my skin that had been creamy in color was now a pale ivory and my lips were pale as pink rose pelts.
It was also in my reflection that I noticed my weapons had changed too! I quickly pulled off my bow, only to find my quiver was gone. My bow had been made of strong Elmwood and my quiver a tough sturdy brown leather, where now made of smooth shinny black wood with the symbol of wisdom etched in to it with a silver draw sting. I scrunched my brows together as I stood and aimed pulling back the draw sting, as I did the wind circled around me and formed arrow where I drew. I smiled at this letting go the arrow whizzed through the air, when it hit the tree causing it to split in half.
"Whoa!" I stood amazed a small smile of amassment on my face, placed the bow on my back and pulled out my daggers, my daggers were more like short swords one had been fatter to fend off close range enemies the other thinner and lighter for throwing, but used together were even better. My new ones looked like a mix between them and normal short swords, but made of a blue like silver and black leather wrapped around the handles.
After testing out my new dagger I had connection, I seemed to be able to control air. Seeming satisfied I made my way to the sky again, I kept flying day and night, night and day, only stopping to sleep or rest something was telling me to head west to the villages near the sea. I had heard from travelers that the king had sent people to colonies new lands. Many people that had left were already thriving with help of the natives that had already been living there. It was a time of great change in these lands, and I began to wonder if I would still change with it.
A month later I made it to one of the largest sea side ports in all of England, I had become use to people not seeing me now, so as I landed and walked among the crowed, it no longer bothered me when they passed right through me anymore. I had begun to master my abilities in controlling the wind; I walked down to the docks where I could see people boarding ships. Quakers is what I believed that group of people called themselves. I decided to ride with them and explore the new world with them. Unknown to me that among these people that would make a home in the new world, that one of them would change my life for the better.
It has been almost nineteen years since I came to the new world with the Quaker people, the journey had been smoother and faster than any of them had hoped. I will confess I had a hand in that, only because there were so many children and pregnant woman aboard. I didn't wish to see them suffer any longer then they needed too, so I asked the wind to help the ship arrive faster I had become friends with the four winds and they were more than happy to help. I have spent all this time traveling along the coast seeing new towns and villages sprout up, it's about winter time now flying deeper into the forest to see this small group of Quakers that had begun to start a settlement.
A smile appeared on my face as the small village no more than five or six houses came into sight, I sat on the roof of one of the houses watching in amusement as children ran around laughing and calling out to each other as they played. Suddenly I heard an excited cry only fallowing a soft thud made me turn my head to where the sound came from. My eyes widened and my heart raced in my chest just getting up and dusting himself off was a boy eighteen or nineteen no less with hair white as snow, eyes ice blue like mine, and skin almost pale if not slightly more paler then my own.
He was wearing a brow cloak, with a white shirt under a brown vest and burlap pants tied with brown leather straps around the middle of his calves. He was bare footed as I had seen many people that way before; aside from his appearance was the odd staff in his hand with a G like shape at the top, but along the handle part from where he held it to the bottom of it was covered in frost. I hide on the roof in the shadows I had long learned I could travel through them just as well hide among out of habit, as I watched him try to talk to the village people who all ignored him.
I bite my lip watching a boy run right to him to see if what I guessed was right… and sadly I was, the young man kneeled down asking the boy something when the child ran right through him. He stood up with a shocked expression holding his chest, the look mixed with fear when more and more people kept walking through him. I watched as he made his way out of the village looking back at it mournfully, I wondered if I had looked like that I flew over behind a tree he was passing sadness filled me as I watched him. I went to step out from behind the tree when I stepped on a twig snapping it causing me to freeze, 'Damn twigs why do they have to be everywhere?' He quickly turned around holding his staff in his hands as a weapon. "Who's there come out where I can see you!" I smiled as I slowly came out with my hands up in a mock surrender, "Easy there I meant no harm." I kept my hands up till he lowered his staff looking at me wide eyed, my hood was up still out of habit so he could only see my pale lips smiling at him.
"You can see me?" he asked taking a step closer to me reaching out, but stopped retracting his hand slightly, narrowing his eyes he stared at me I could already guess what he was asking himself, "Pull down your hood…..let me see your face." I smirked shyly as I reached up and slowly pulled my hood back closing my eyes, I heard him move closer "Open your eyes." I slowly opened them flinching back seeing his face no more than ten inches away from my own, I looked into his eyes seeing myself reflected in their own ice blue depths his own widen again staring into my lighter ice blue ones seeing himself in them.
"Who are you?" he asked in a hushed whisper breaking the peaceful silence that had surrounded us under the bright light Manny was bathing us in, I stepped back to just give us more room, but he quickly stepped forward "Where you going?" there was fear in his tone, probably of being left alone when no one else can see you. "Don't fret young one I'm not going anywhere, I'm just not use to someone seeing me either." I hinted to him, before I continued "My name is Caroline, I'm a sprite like yourself."
It was his turn to step back, but only to jump with excitement causing burst out in a fight of giggles "NO WAY! Really what kind of sprite are you?" The wide blinding white smile of his made flutter in my chest, I could feel a light blush forming on my cheeks turning away to hide this from him I held my hands behind my back looking up at Manny. "I'm the sprite Cleverness and Inspiration, if I can ask who are you." I turn my head looking at him, I felt my blush come back slightly as I noticed his own cheeks pinking, he coughed and shook his head before smiling leaning on his staff, "I'm Jack Frost, sprite of ice and winter."
We talked for awhile till the morning sun came up, Jack watched me as I wish Manny a good night when I turned to look for him I saw him still on the ground. Making my way down I landed in front of him I tilted my head up since he was a head taller than me, "Jack what's the matter?" he looked at me with a look of just realizing something "Caroline do you have a last name?"
Smiling sadly I shook my head and leaned agents a tree watching the morning sparrows fly about, "My brother and I were orphaned when we were babies, no one knew who our parents were, but my teacher master Halt told us that he was the one who left us at our lord's castle after finding our mother had died after child birth. The only reason he went to our house to find our mother was to tell her that our father died saving his life, it wasn't till after we had turned fifteen and became his apprentices that he told this to us."
I looked at him he was watching me with a sad look in his eyes, it made my heart ache; I decided to change the subject. "So Jack want to practice flying?" his eyes light up with his smile, as we looked at each other we knew we always have each other never to be alone again.
Ok that's the first chapter ^^ please no burns and only leave nice comments. I'll try to have the next chapter up soon. Later!