Rise of the Guardians: Another Tooth
Summary:
A few years has passed since Pitch was destroyed. But darkness hasn't stopped yet. Another threat to childhood has appeared, stealing children's teeth, memories, and good dreams, making their lives miserable and gloomy. This villain is very hard to track down and is a master of copying someone else, but only children who don't believe in the Guardians can see her true form, but how can children see the Guardians? Only one immortal being like the Guardians knows every child by heart and can see what they see. She helps them, but the villain is too sneaky. Can they stop the villain? Can the new Guardian find her true self and stop hatred from invading Earth?
Chapter 1
"No, I don't want to talk to you ever!" An eight-year-old boy shouted at her older sister. "I told you to leave me alone!" Anger burned up inside of him. His memories of his sister taking away his school awards, toys, and pictures of his memories with his friends and family flashing in his mind.
"But Joey, I never—" She was stopped midsentence by Joey's bedroom door being slammed shut.
"Leave me alone!" Joey shouted from behind the door. His sister frowned and left.
Inside the bedroom, Joey cried, throwing a picture frame of him and his sister at the wall. He felt so mad at her.
Too occupied in his anger, Joey didn't notice a faint figure of a woman with green clothes appear behind him and transform into a brown-haired lady. "Honey, are you alright?"Joey jumped and turned around to see who said that. "Oh, hi Mom." he said with an irritating tone.
"I know you're mad at your sister but she will be punished. Remember those times when she always got mad at you?"The brown-haired lady, who is Joey's mom, said.
"She sometimes got mad at me. But everything worked out after our fights."
"No, Joey. She's just pretending. Don't fall for it. I'm your mother and I know how your sister acts. You have every right to be mad at her."Joey's mom smirked when he looked away.
"She does get mad at me. You're right Mom. I should be mad at her." He stood up and opened the door and shouted, "I hate you, Brigit!"
Joey's mom, smiled. Happy to be able to swallow enough of his anger, her figure ceased and disappeared, leaving behind a quiet mocking laughter.
• • •
Jack Frost was having a fun snow day travelling from town to town, playing with the kids in Burgess who believed him now. They threw snowballs at him and eventually knocked him to ground. The children cheered since he always beats them at snowball fights.
"Hey, stop it. You don't want to turn into snowcones." He stood up and brushed the snow from his hair. He was happy that a lot of children believed in him. They loved to play with him and hug him when he gives them a snow day. Some older kids who believed in him waved and smiled. It felt good to be with them.
He was about to start another snowball fight when he saw the Northern Lights appear in the sky. He hesitated at first, but he knew he had to go.
"Bye kids, gotta go!" He waved goodbye at the children and flew to the North Pole. He arrived last. The other Guardians were already there, inspecting the snow globe which had a few dark spots on it.
"Any trouble?" Jack asked. The Guardians were surprised and turned to look at Jack. "It seems there is, mate." Bunnymund said, looking serious.
"What would that be, Oh Easter Kangaroo?" Jack said sarcastically.
"What did you call me?" Bunnymund glared at him. Jack repeated what he said, leaving out the "kangaroo" part.
"Childhood is in danger, Jack. I've never thought she'd be alive after all those years." North said in a strong Russian accent.
"Who's that?"
"Mardeena. She steals children's teeth, happy memories and dreams. Then she turns into someone who's special in their lives and tries to disrupt them, leaving only anger, hatred, and misery. Plus she's scary." Toothiana told Jack, hiding her fear of Mardeena.
"Why are you suddenly so scared, Tooth?" Jack asked, suddenly wondering why Tooth would be scared of someone.
"Mardeena possesses the form of an inland taipan, mate. She's from Australia like me but she can turn into anything she wants to." Bunnymund chimed in.
"That's right. Since she's a snake, Tooth is vulnerable against her. But that doesn't mean she can just attack her." North said, trying to make Tooth less scared.
"So how are you going to stop her?
"That's the problem. Only children who don't believe in us can see her transform if they look at her. But we can't talk to non-believers." Tooth frowned.
"Don't worry, Tooth. We still have hope." North said. Sandman made a sand figure of a happy face to comfort Tooth. He then made a figure of Tooth and Mardeena. Tooth was putting the children's teeth in their boxes at her palace while Mardeena is taking away some teeth and reading their memories.
"Mardeena is a sneaky one. She steals the teeth from my palace and looks at the memories. Then she goes to the child and tries to make their lives miserable, using the memories to her advantage." Tooth said, thinking about her precious teeth collection.
"Our only hope is to find Manny's new recruit from well, a very long time ago." North said, thinking hard.
"Who's the new recruit?" asked Jack.
"Her name is Lee. She knows every child by heart even though they don't believe in her. She can see what they see and she can even enter their memories." Tooth said.
"So let's go get her!" Jack said, wanting to stop the villain fast.
"That's the problem, ya gumbee," said Bunnymund, annoyingly. "We don't know where she is."
