"Hey Haze! Bet you can't jump down that balcony!"
Never did Hazel think those words could change her life. It was the dark ages when Hazel, a teenage adventurous girl decided to take the jump of a life. There was no building you could find that Hazel couldn't jump, or no forest thick enough for her to get scared. She could sneak into the villagers homes, and no one would notice.
So when Hazel didn't emerge from the chilled winter sea after jumping from the old rusted balcony, no one worried. They knew she was playing a trick, and so they all left. Sadly, she wasn't playing any sort of trick, she was gone.
Or, well, she thought she was gone. As she sunk into the depths of the crystallized sea, she couldn't function. Her brown hair looked silver to her for a second, but then she blanked. Nothing could be saved. Her memory was gone.
When she awoke, nothing seemed real. Dark sand covered every inch of her body, burning as she tried to escape. She felt something enter her chest, as if it was entering her soul. A rainbow feather, golden sand, a candy cane, an easter egg and a snowflake had been put into her soul. The black sand was soon to follow, but just as some fell in, the Hazel screamed.
The enchantment broke, and she soon found herself hitting the ice water again. Yet, it didn't feel so cold this time. It was as if the coldness was welcoming her. She rose to the surface with ease, gripping on a rock.
Suddenly, the rock was covered in frost. She quickly removed her hands from the rock, but reattached them as she realised she was still in the water.
Suddenly, she heard teeth clattering. It was as quiet as a whisper, but she could hear it. She stretched her head to the other side of the rock, to see a pixie-like figure curled into a tiny ball.
She should have been startled by the tiny pixie, but instead she reached out for her, holding the tiny fairy in her hand.
"Don't worry," She said, "You are safe with me."
The globe was covered in lights as Santa's yetis wrapped up the gifts. Christmas was only a week away, and the Guardians were having another one of their famous meetings.
"I say blue."
"Red is better."
"Blue."
"Red."
"Blu-"
"Will you two stop arguing for the love of pristine teeth?! Christmas is only a week away and we still need to help North with the gifts!" Tooth shouted at the bickering Bunnymud and Jack Frost.
"Fine." They both mumbled.
North chuckled at how Tooth could control them so easily, while Sandy just shook his head.
Suddenly, the alarm bells rung, and a flying figure zoomed past the large windows.
"What happened?!" Jack yelled over the noise.
"Theres been a theft." Tooth explained.
"The thief flew out!" The yetis exclaimed in their own little language.
"I'll get em'." Bunny said, but Jack was already a step ahead, flying out of the large pole windows.
"That was a good one!" Hazel said, zooming through the skies of the North Pole with her little fairy friend. "Did you see the face on that yeti? Priceless!"
The little fairy laughed, a bell-like sound coming from her mouth. Most people wouldn't be able to understand fairy language, but Hazel could. They flew faster than anyone could through the winds of the Pole, or so they thought.
"Come back here!" They heard a voice shout behind them.
They turned around to see Jack Frost speeding towards them, and immediately panicked.
"In there!" The fairy said, pointing to a cave in the snow.
Hazel momentarily blinded Jack with a beam of light as they flew into the cave, making Jack lose their path completely.
"That was worth it for these biscuits!" Hazel said, munching on a tree-shaped biscuit.
Iris, her fairy, nodded as she munched on a tiny biscuit for herself.
Hazel was quite beautiful in her own way. She had a very pale complexion with golden-honey eyes, with freckles dotted around her cheeks. She had long slightly curled silver hair that ended just above the elbow, and always wore an icy blue dress with separate sleeves, starting from the shoulders to her wrists.
She always carried a pouch strapped to her thigh, carrying mostly some magical sand she had found a few days after her 'Big Change'. She also never wore shoes; instead, she had a number of anklets and chains going up to her knees.
She usually wore a cloak, trying to cover up the small clear fairy wings from the other immortals. It wasn't entirely normal to have wings, nor wear a headband with blue roses on it.
Her favorite item was the pendent she had. It had a multi coloured moon-like jewel in it, which she had no idea where it was from.
Being the spirit of adventure had its ups and downs. One of these was that she was free, but no one could see her. She would give kids all over the world the chance to never back down, but no one had ever seen her.
Who knew how old she was, 400 maybe? Give or take, she was still just like a kid. She could climb, she could dig, but there was one thing she couldn't do.
She couldn't swim.
She also couldn't understand many things about herself. For example, she seemed to have a trait from each Guardian. She was as graceful as Tooth, as strong as North, as fast as Bunny, as caring as Sandy and as friendly as Jack. She also developed powers associated with those traits.
Yet, there was one thing that scared her.
She had the same eyes as Pitch Black.
"What could Moony want at this time of night?" Bunny asked as he entered the workshop, followed closely by Tooth and Sandy.
Jack had already arrived, due to the fact North insisted he stayed at the workshop in one of the guest bedrooms. He looked up at the globe, watching as the lights increased by the minute.
"This better be urgent, do you know how many molars need to be collected?" Tooth asked.
Jack was about to say something, but suddenly, the ground shook beneath him. He quickly jumped out-of-the-way as the blue-tinged crystal on the stone pedestal rose up, signaling only one thing could be happening.
"A new Guardian?!" Tooth exclaimed.
The crystal glowed as Bunny started praying for it not to be the Ground Hog. It projected a picture of a girl, with a cloak around her and her hood up, and so masking her face.
"How are we meant to find out who this is?" Jack asked.
Sandy took a closer look at the projection, then pointing at something no one else had seen. The Moon pendant.
"I think we have our mystery solved here." North said, "Who else do we know has such a special pendant?"
"Oh no..." Muttered Tooth.
"Not Hazel Haze!" Bunny shrieked, "Anyone but Hazel Haze!"
"Whose Hazel Haze?" Jack asked, earning weird looks from the yetis nearby.
"Oh I'll tell you who she is alright." Bunny said, "She is the most annoying trouble maker I have ever seen! She burnt my tail, and ruined my 75th Easter Egg Hunt by drawing maps for the kids! And don't get me started on what she did to Tooth."
"There is no possibility she could be a Guardian." Tooth agreed, "She hasn't even ever been seen! She created chaos without anyone catching her!"
"Shes a special one then..." Muttered North, before clapping his hands together, "Everyone, our new mission is to find Hazel Haze!"