A/N Almost a year ago, my first Rise of the Guardians fanfic, The Halloween Cat, was my most popular story, being the first to hit over 100 reviews. It was a huge honor :) I already had a few ideas for a sequel before it was even finished, but it took a while to bring them all together; plus, I like to leave a time gap between a story and its sequel. Even if this isn't as popular as the first (sequels usually have a hard time measuring up to the first movie/story) I hope it's enjoyable.

As always, I own only my two RotG OCs, Haley O' Eve and Mabella Amour. The rest, being the characters and mentioned plot of the movie, are owned by Dreamworks and William Joyce.

Prologue

The moon. The natural satellite of Earth, seemingly watching over said planet. Although modern man has accomplished flying to the moon time and time again, and even made eternal footprints in the dust, they could never truly understand the full power and magic of the moon. The full power and magic was more than bringing natural light during the night, or helping make tidal waves. The moon was the home to the man in the moon: Manfred Inn Moon.

Many different people have their own versions of the man in the moon, whether it's the craters forming a face, or even just that, a face on the moon. Some cultures depict him as a literal man living on or in the moon. But, just like the Guardians who guard the children of Earth, the man in the moon isn't quite what one expects.

Manfred sits in his stone throne in the deepest crater on the moon. He is a tall, thin man dressed in long, light-blue and light-gray robes that flowed down to the ground. He has pale skin, a long, white beard and hair, and pale, blue eyes. His robes have twinkling stars on them, and his eyes look blank and blind. Despite not physically seeing like a normal human, he is able to see all over the world, watching over the children and Guardians, with the help of the stars in the sky.

Manfred is rumored to be omniscient. This was only half-true, as he was only able to tell the future based on decisions made by the creatures of Earth. And he was given prophecies, by a higher being, to make decisions relating to the Guardians.

One of the most important prophecies Manfred ever received was about Pitch Black, the spirit of fear and nightmares, attempting to cloud the world in fear and darkness during the Dark Ages. To balance out the fear, Manfred created the Guardians to watch over the children of the earth, and spread and guard wonder, hope, memories, and dreams. They were able to tame fear and keep Pitch in check.

Another prophecy was when Pitch attempted to extinguish the children's belief in the Guardians, thus rendering them weak and powerless against him. In order to help the Guardians, Manfred was to create another Guardian. He found a young man who had a natural talent for making others laugh, and used fun to save his sister, sacrificing his life in the process. He changed this young man into the winter-themed trickster spirit known as Jack Frost, who was able to fulfill his destiny, help take down Pitch again, and become part of the Guardians as the Guardian of Fun.

But every now and then, there was a prophecy that took Manfred a while to decipher. One was a prophecy about Pitch Black himself, and a spirit that hadn't been created yet; one called The Keeper of All Hallow's Eve. When the holiday was created, Manfred create a spirit to guard the holiday. He found a stray black cat living in 16th century Spain, who had a kind heart, who wouldn't hurt a soul, save for in self defense, and was generous enough to let other cats, including kittens who weren't her kin, eat her food, even when very hungry herself. Despite being killed by heartless children, Manfred saw no hatred for them in her heart, and decided she would be the spirit of All Hallow's Eve.

So, he revived and changed the cat into a humanoid cat spirit, and named her Haley O' Eve, declaring her to be the Spirit of All Hallow's Eve. When she asked him to elaborate, he said nothing.

Though thought to be cruel by only telling a new spirit their new name and title, Manfred knew it was better that they found out their destiny for themselves. It shaped them better, and enabled them to make their journey of realizing who they were more wholesome.

Manfred watched as Haley O' Eve governed All Hallow's Eve, which turned into Halloween, met and befriended the Guardians, fought alongside Pitch Black against the Rogue Nightmares, and even tame and befriend the spirit of fear. Pitch had finally understood the full purpose of the Guardians, and because of that, and to make sure fear and nightmares were kept in check properly, Manfred made Pitch the Guardian of Fear.

However, Haley's destiny had only been halfway-fulfilled, though she and the others didn't know it.

With a soft sigh and smile, Manfred knew it was finally time to make the over five century-old prophecy known to the Guardians. He waved his wrinkled hands, forming a bright orb of light and electricity. He cupped the orb in one hand, and brought it close to his face. He whispered the prophecy, "Created on the Day of Love, from the Keeper of All Hallow's Eve, by the King of Fear, born on the first day of the eleventh month. And on the annual day of his birth, he will raise the spirits of the past, so that they may be reunited with their love ones once again."

The orb's light brightened, and the electricity buzzed louder. Finally, Manfred blew the orb away, like a child blowing dandelion seeds from the weed. The orb sailed towards Earth, leaving a long, white tail behind that slowly faded away starting at the tip.

Manfred sat back in his throne, still smiling. Though the prophecy won't arrive immediately, he knew it would reach the Guardians just in time that it would help make sense of past events.

A/N I wrote this a couple months ago, but didn't really want to post it right away because A) I like to try and proofread my chapters (even then, I tend to get messups ^^;) B) I wanted to write and post my RotG oneshot, Ma Bella Amour because I wanted that OC to be in this too, and so I had to introduce her, and C) I had other stuff I was writing (mainly Toxic Wings, my currently most popular fanfic in terms of reviews) But I think I've procrastinated this long enough, so here it is :)

In the few RotG fanfics I read, I haven't seen anyone portray the Man in the Moon as anything other than an unseen deity. I've seen how he was portrayed in the books, but since Dreamworks made the Guardians different from their book and real-life counterparts (in my opinion, they made them more epic) I decided to do just so, kinda like how I did with Mabella Amour, who's essentially Cupid. I kinda imagine Manny, or Manfred Inn Moon (uncreative name is uncreative :3) to be a wise old man, something similar in appearance to Dumbledore or Disney's Merlin. If I could choose a voice actor for Manny, I'd probably choose Tim Curry.

I know the prophecy doesn't rhyme, but just like writing fight scenes, rhyming isn't one of my strongest suits. Plus, I don't think every prophecy needs to rhyme, they just need to be mysterious, and need to foretell something to come, whether it's big or small. It took a while to complete this prophecy; I can't remember exactly how it started, but it wasn't quite like this. I thought it'd be neat to make the prophecy kind of like a comet or meteorite.

Writing might be slow on this since I'm still writing Toxic Wings, and it'll be hard getting back into the groove of writing for this franchise, since I've been writing about A Bug's Life for the past months. But I'll try my best to write as much of this story as I can :)