Hey people! Like I said, I am going to do a Rise of the Guardians fic. This takes place after they defeat Pitch. It's told in the POV of a girl named Dara. (Dare-a) I had to rewrite this thing 3 times and I had a lot of people edit it, so I hope you like it and please review! :)
I've had weird powers since last week. I can make frost appear on everything, and I can pick up snow and form it into anything without it falling apart. I can make a snow storm when I want to.
It all started last Saturday...
It was the start of December, and the cold winds had kicked in. My window above the reading nook was open, letting the freezing air into my room. Winter is my favorite season, so I enjoyed the freeze. A gust flew through my window as I sat down at my piano bench, putting away some music sheets that I had practiced.
When I was done, I went over to the nook and leaned out the window. I had made the moon my friend, and I talked to him every night.
"Hey," I started. "Y'know...I've been wondering...What's my purpose here on the earth?"
You'll see. He responded.
"Alright..." I sighed. "Is there gonna be someone to, I dunno...help me out?"
Yes. I am preparing them. You have a big journey ahead. He explained. I nodded, wondering about what he meant and stood up to get ready for bed.
The next day I woke up freezing. I rubbed my eyes and sat up in my bed. My eyes widened. My blanket was covered in frost. In fact, almost everything in my room was covered in frost! I cautiously stepped out of bed and went into my small bathroom. The first thing I noticed was that I had a necklace on. It had a frost chain and a snowflake pendant. The second thing, my eyes were even more blue than before. Third, my hair was a light silvery white instead of a dark blonde. I just stared at myself, unable to move.
"What's happened to me?" I whispered. I hesitantly got dressed and headed downstairs for breakfast.
"Morning Dara," my mom said, smiling at me. She didn't notice my hair.
"Morning..." I said as normally as possible. "Mom?"
"Yes?"
"Is there something wrong with my hair?" I asked.
"Not that I can see, hon. Why?"
"I dunno," Only I could see the changes that had happened. Why? I pondered this all while making and eating my cereal.
That day I found out why my room was covered in frost, I had somehow done that all that night. I think. When I went out to the park, I ended up accidentally creating a blizzard. I've tried to ask my friend in the moon about it, but he won't tell me anything.
I sighed and pulled on my heavy winter jacket and my fuzzy scarf.
"Mom! I'm going out!" I yelled.
"Okay! Be back by dinner!" she shouted back. My parents were preparing to go on a three week trip to Mexico, making them miss Christmas. I didn't mind really, just as long as I didn't get myself into trouble when they are away. They're trusting me to stay home alone, now that I'm eighteen. I was excited to try staying home alone, I had done it before, but only for at least two or three days. My mom and dad are leaving in two days.
I walked to the park, one of my favorite places to go on a cold winter day. Some kids to my right were giggling about something, and to my left, some teens were talking about school. I headed towards a more...peaceful part of the park to concentrate on the things that were happening.
I reached a small clearing with a couple open benches; nobody was there. I sat down on one of the benches and thought. How did my hair just immediately change? Who gave me the necklace? I touched the snowflake pendant, it always sent a sizzling, tingly feeling into my hand when I touched it. But why? My friend in the moon won't answer any of my questions. All he'd say is, "you must be patient. Your time is coming soon, child."
You can imagine how annoying that answer got.
Time Skip: two days later, night
"Bye mom!" I hugged my mother and father goodbye, wishing them an early Merry Christmas.
"Love you!" she said before hugging me one more time and then turning away to catch their flight. I drove back home, thinking.
I had gotten used to my hair, but I hadn't gotten used to people not noticing the new color. My eyes didn't effect me much, they were kind of pretty being a pure, sapphire blue rather than a pale baby blue. All the necklace really did was add to my curiousity, as did my newly discovered powers.
When I finally got home, stepped in the door, and took off my coat, I realized how quiet it was. I went upstairs to my room, where I found a long-lost snow globe of mine sitting on my bed.
"Where'd this come from?" I laughed softly. I picked it up, something was different about it though. Instead of a plain white bottom, it was decorated with frost, and the top of the glass had a spiral of frost. I knew that I definitely hadn't done that, considering I haven't found that snow globe in years. I set it onto my nightstand and sighed, glancing at my window every few minutes. I was waiting for a moon's ray to shine through my window, telling me that he is ready to talk.
Finally, it came. I rushed over and threw the doors open.
"Hi!" I exclaimed.
Hello. He responded.
"Lemme cut to the chase," I hesitated before continuing. "I need to know what this all means. Why is my hair a different color, and how did I get this necklace? Most importantly, why do I have weird powers?"
Slow down! He chuckled. I am only able to tell you a piece of information tonight. It may not answer your questions, though.
"Go ahead," I said, eager and a bit scared waiting for his response.
Your journey begins tomorrow. You will meet someone who will grow very dear to your heart. But be warned, you cannot give into the darkness no matter how much you're tempted...
The ray of moonlight faded, and I was left with even more questions than before.
"Darkness?" I mumbled. "What darkness? And who is going to be very close to my heart?" I suddenly became very scared, but strangely, I felt comforted and brave at the same time. "Whatever it is, I think I'm ready."
Time skip: next morning
I woke up as cold as ever, it seemed as if Jack Frost had finally started making the cold, winter weather. And believe it or not, I was right.
I finished off my warm breakfast and was opening the door when I saw a boy about my age sitting on the porch.
"Whoa...who're you?" I asked. The boy wore a deep blue sweatshirt decorated with frost, brown pants that were rather tattered at the bottoms, he held some sort of staff, and was barefoot. Now who would be barefoot in winter? The thing that struck me most was his hair, which was a silvery white, like mine.
"Wow..." the boy mumbled, standing up. He was at least a couple inches taller than me. "I'm Jack." he smiled a warm smile at me.
"Jack Frost?" I curiously asked.
"Yup. I guess you're familiar with me," he said. "Anyways, I'm here to come get you."
"I'm Dara. What did you come get me for?" I held out my hand for him to shake, which he hesitantly did.
"Surprise!" he smirked playfully and whistled. Big, furry animals came lumbering down the sidewalk, one of them carrying a big sack. My eyes widened and I hid behind Jack.
"Don't worry. They won't hurt you." Jack chuckled and pulled me out from behind his back.
"Okay...? Listen...I hardly know you, and you want me to go somewhere with you."
"We're just going to the North Pole," Jack said.
"North Pole? As in, where Santa lives?" I asked, totally dumbfounded. He nodded. "I'd love to go! But I don't trust those...things."
"Those are yetis," he laughed. "And I do know that we just met...but you have to trust me. Okay?"
"Okay..." I said. It all happened so quickly! Jack and I were tossed into the bag, and we were suddenly in the North Pole. I wobbily climbed out of the sack, and Jack followed behind me.
"Wow!" I exclaimed. There were festive colors everywhere, and tons of yetis were crafting multiple toys while little men with red pointy hats pranced around doing absolutely weird and random things. A low, loud laugh sounded from behind me. I whirled around and saw the famous man with the long white beard, rosy cheeks, but I noticed he had the words 'Naughty' tattooed on one arm while the other had 'Nice'. "Santa?" I asked disbelievingly.
"Welcome! My friends call me North." North had a surprisingly strong Russian accent. A super tall bunny emerged from behind North, he was sort of freaky looking in my opinion.
"Elo mate. The name's Bunnymund," the bunny crossed his arms.
"But I call him the Easter Kangaroo," Jack interrupted, smirking. "You can call him that if you want."
"Oh, so you're the Easter Bunny!" I exclaimed. He nodded while glaring at Jack. "Dang this is all so cool!"
"Where'd Tooth and Sandy go?" North asked Bunnymund.
"Dunno. They're probably 'round here somewhere." he responded with an Australian accent. A spiraling vortex appeared by Bunnymund then, and a girl that looked like a hummingbird appeared to come through the portal.
"The Tooth Fairy?!" I exclaimed. I ran up to her and gave her a huge hug, no matter how awkward it seemed. "Oh my gosh! I've always known that you were real!"
"Whoa!" she exclaimed. "Oh yeah! I remember you! You're the one who lost her two front teeth while eating laffy taffy!"
"That is so cool!" I saw that all three guys were staring at us, my face flushed as I went back to where I was standing before.
"Am I late?" The Tooth Fairy asked Santa, aka North.
"Nope. Right on time, Tooth." Bunny said.
"There you are, Sandy!" North exclaimed. A man that seemed to be made out of sand came out of a different room and floated up next to North. He had a chubby, baby face and spiky golden hair, and he was very short.
"Ooh! The Sandman!" I gave everyone in the room an excited look. "So you all know each other?"
"Yes, yes of course!" North exclaimed.
"Wait, um, then why am I here?" I asked, suddenly remembering. I glanced at Jack, who was leaning on his staff behind me. Jack was staring at me, which sorta made me uncomfortable but I didn't mind at the moment.
"Where did you get that?" Jack pointed at my necklace, noticing it as I turned around. Everyone looked at it in shock.
"Um...you might think I'm crazy, but my friend in the moon gave it to me."
"The Man on the Moon gave that to you?" Tooth breathed.
"Yeah. He also gave me my weird power and white hair."
"He talks to you?" Jack looked annoyed.
"What...weird power?" North asked.
"Um, I can create frost and use snow for different things...I even accidentally created a blizzard in the park last Saturday." I explained. North gave Jack a wary glance. Jack just stared at me, his annoyed glance fading.
"We're going to have to talk a lot more than I thought," North said.
"Uh, okay? What do we have to talk about?" I had a sickening feeling in my stomach that this...talk was going to change my future, forever.
"Come come," he motioned for me to follow him into a room that had an enormous globe and many twinkling lights on it.
"What's this?" I asked, mezmorized with all the pretty lights.
"It's the globe where we can see the children that believe in us," Jack explained from behind me. "If we aren't believed in anymore, the lights disappear and we lose our powers or kingdoms."
"So, um, what does this have to do with me?" This wasn't all fitting into place.
"Let me explain," North said. "We are Guardians. We protect the children of the world. Sandy here protects them and gives them happy dreams at night, Tooth collects the children's teeth and saves them for they carry memories of that child's childhood. Bunny keeps spirits high with his decorated eggs. I obviously take care of Christmas and Jack,"
"I give them fun snow days, blizzards to keep them home from school, and epic snowball fights!" Jack exclaimed.
"Were you the one that threw the out-of-nowhere snowballs at me the other day?" I asked.
"That was me," he confirmed.
"That was awesome!"
"Back to the point." North glanced between both of us. "Somehow, the Man in Moon gave you that necklace and your powers."
"But how are her powers the same as Jack's?" Tooth asked.
"That, I do not know."
"Did the Man in the Moon tell ya anythin?" Bunnymund asked, his arms crossed. I remembered the Man's words.
"Yes! He did!" I said.
"What did he say?" North asked.
"He said that my journey begins today, I will also meet someone who will grow very dear to me, and that I can't give into the darkness no matter how much it tempts me." North's eyes widened and a frown formed on his face. Bunny's ears perked up and his face had a 'I'm thinking' look on it. Jack looked bewildered, Tooth looked sad and Sandy had sand showing his emotions above his head.
"Darkness? You're sure he said darkness?" Jack asked.
"Yeah. That's what he said."
"That can only mean one thing," Bunny muttered.
"Pitch will return." Jack finished, his eyes blazing.
"Pitch?" I asked, my voice wavering. "Is he the..."
"Boogeyman? The one that hides under your bed? Your nightmares?" Jack said. "Yes."
"And if you say he's returning...that means he wants one thing," my eyes were wide as it all dawned on me. "Revenge."
"Yeah," Jack whispered.
"Did my friend give me the powers...to help you then?" I suggested.
"I don't know why else he would send you, so I suppose so," North admitted.
"What happened when you defeated Pitch?" I asked.
"Pitch had made up these things called Night Mares," Jack started. "And made them attack children's dreams to make them believe in him. Pitch wanted to rule with fear and darkness. But we didn't let him. In the end, I ended up defeating him and sending him back where he came from...but somehow he is going to return."
"Wow...you must have had to be brave to defeat him!" I admired all the Guardian's courage and bravery.
"Yeah...it was hard, but we all accomplished it." Jack finished. Tooth was darting back and forth, as if she were pacing.
"You should have Jack teach you about your powers! So you could sort of know what you can do when the time comes!" Tooth suddenly exclaimed.
"Oh! That's a great idea! Would you...Jack? But only if you wanted to..." I said.
"No worries. I'd love to teach you. Maybe we can prank some people while we're at it!" Jack stood up and came behind me.
"I love pranking people!" I exclaimed, my eyes shining.
"It's settled then. I'll keep an eye on the globe and on the status reports to see if anything unusual starts happening." North said.
"I'll keep watch and ask my babies to report any unusual behavior!" Tooth winked at me.
"I'll keep a look out too," Bunny said.
"Great!" Jack exclaimed. I could see his eyes pleading to go. North nodded. "Come on!" Jack guided me out of North's workshop/home without saying goodbye.
"So what are you gonna teach me first?" I asked.
"First of all, I need to see if you can fly." Jack said.
"Fly?" I asked disbelievingly.
Jack nodded. "Just take my hand and I'll get you started."
"O-okay..." I hesitantly took ahold of his hand and he started hovering over the ground. Slowly, we ascended into the air until both of us were flying.
"Looks like you can!" Jack grinned. I laughed.
"I can fly!" I exclaimed. He let go of my hand and I started swooping down and around the tall mountains; the cold winds whipped my face, but I didn't care. I finished my little 'routine' by ending up floating in front of Jack. "What's next?" I asked eagerly.
"You decide between storm making, ice sheets, and frosting." He stuck one of his hands into his sweatshirt pocket while the other held his now-suddenly blue, glowing staff.
"Ice sheets!" I chose.
"Ice sheets it is!" Jack grinned. "Follow me."
Jack zoomed off towards a patch of green on the horizon, I followed close behind him. We reached a green, wide, open valley.
"Okay, so what you're gonna do is..." his face fell into a frown. "Well, I always use my staff..."
"Oh!" an idea popped into my head once I realized what I was missing. I found the clasp of my necklace and undid it. I held the necklace out in front of me, and magically, the chain grew longer. I twirled the chain like a lasso and then let the pendant just barely touch the grass. A sheet of ice covered a small square of it.
"See? You're already a natural!" Jack laughed. "So to improve on that, try thinking of a certain shape or size and then try it."
I nodded and thought of a diamond shape, about medium size. I waved the chain like a lasso and tossed. The ice spread over the green with a light blue tint.
"Like that?" I looked at him.
"Perfect!" he exclaimed.
I then secretly thought of a pile of snow falling onto Jack's head, and guess what? It happened. A pile of snow came falling from the sky and landed on his head. His expression was priceless! Shocked, confused, laughter, and anger all in one!
"Ha. Ha. Very funny," Jack smirked as he wiped the snow off his face. I felt something pile onto my head, it was cold, it was freezing, it was snow. I burst out laughing.
"That was awesome!" I said inbetween giggles.
Time skip: 3 hours later
It was late at night, Jack had shown me everything I need to know from creating the perfect snowball to making the biggest snowstorm in history. We didn't prank any people though.
"Man, I'm pooped!" I ran a hand through my hair.
"But at least that was fun!" Jack snickered.
"I never said it wasn't!" I smirked and pushed him playfully on the shoulder.
"I know." Jack smiled and glanced at the sky. "It's getting pretty dark...we should get back."
"Yeah." My smile faded. I didn't want to leave! This place was so cool! Jack must've sensed my disappointment.
"You can stay at the North Pole if you want," he suggested. I loved the idea, the house was locked and I didn't need anything.
"That would be epic!" I exclaimed. We flew back in a hurry.
"Follow me!" Jack said. He climbed a staircase and stopped at two rooms. "This one's yours."
"This is mine?" I gasped. The room was a light blue, with tons of light coming in from the moon. There was a huge bed next to the wall, and a nightstand to the right of that.
"Yep!" he said, leaning onto his staff. I threw myself onto the fluffy-looking bed.
"It's so...big!" I giggled. I noticed a bathroom and took note that it was there.
"My room is right next door if you need anything, and there are pajamas in the dresser over there." he pointed to a tall, wooden dresser.
"Thanks!" I hopped off the bed and went to look for the PJ's.
"I'm gonna go talk with the big man. You can come down when you're ready." I nodded and Jack exited the room, closing the door. I found a pair of fuzzy reindeer pajamas that were miraculously my size and a robe with snowflakes. I put both on and went downstairs.
"Good job, my boy!" I heard North laugh. I entered the room that I had arrived in earlier today.
"Hey Jack! Hi North!" I said.
"You're fast." Jack chuckled. I stuck my tongue out at him. "She's staying here tonight."
"Alright!" North smiled at me and I yawned. Big. "Why don't you get some rest? You can explore tomorrow." North suggested.
"Fine." I nodded, I have to admit I was really tired from today. "Night!"
"Night North," Jack followed me up the staircase to our rooms.
"See you tomorrow, Jack." I yawned again.
"See ya." he ruffled my hair then stepped into his room. I went into my room and hung up the robe.
I climbed into the silky covers and soon found myself in a deep sleep.
-Dream-
I was surrounded by blackness. I couldn't see a thing. I heard a clopping of horse hooves, then a long, evil laugh. I shrieked.
"Scared are you, my little nightmare?" Something lightly touched my hair, I whipped around, terrified. A man emerged, drenched in blackness. "You can do nothing to stop me. You never will!" he hissed.
"I-I'm not afraid of you!" I choked out. The man walked over to me and touched my face, sending an electric shock into my body. I screamed and crumpled to the ground.
"You're so amusing to watch!" he snickered and towered over me. He made me feel weak, helpless, defenseless. His blazing green eyes burned a hole into me, while his horrible glare was intimidating and sent shivers through my body.
"Who are you?" I whispered.
"I," he smirked. "Am your worst nightmare."
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