Chapter 1

What is my story?

"Okay! Listen up everyone, quiet down please. I have a new assignment for you." Mrs. Katherine called out, clapping her hands to get everyone's attention. Everyone immediately stopped talking and turned their attention to Mrs. Katherine. "Good, now. Your first assignment for this semester is an essay." Tiny groans started to ring out through the room.

"Do we have to." A voice from the back of the class moaned.

"Oh come on, it's not that big of an assignment. Now stop your complaining." Mrs. Katherine demanded. "I want you to write an essay about how you got here. What is your story? Be creative! It doesn't have to be long."

The complaining stopped instantly. It was a rather easy assignment I have to admit. For some it might not be, not everyone is very fond of looking back at the past. But regardless, it would be an easy A+ if you ask me. So everyone pulled out some paper and their pens and began to scribble away as Mrs. Katherine went back to sitting behind her desk. She is always so care free, and beautiful. I always go to Mrs. Katherine when i'm troubled. She knows exactly how to comfort me, and her bright yellow dress always makes the world seem brighter.

I look down at my paper and begin to write.

" My name is Ivy Lovett, and my story begins only a year ago. It was a rather happy day filled with laughter and fun. My younger sister, Ashley, and I had just got back from a long day at school. Our parents weren't home yet, so we took the time to go exploring in the back yard forest. We loved to go climb trees and explore the forest from time to time. But we had never gotten to go exploring for several months, and curiosity was eating us away. The magic of the forest was calling to us, and we gladly followed.

"We explored for over an hour or so. It was the farthest we had ever dared to go before. But something was calling to us, so we continued forward. It was then that we saw the cave. It was craved into the side of a hill, and the closer we got to it the more it felt like our emotions were being drawn away. We didn't feel fear, nor happiness. It was a feeling i had never experienced before, and hopefully would never feel again. When we were at the mouth of the cave the empty feeling was so strong that it became hard to even will myself to move.

"Then... Then Ashley shrieked and jumped back, hiding behind a large oak tree. 'Ashley, what is it?' I asked. Ashley just pointed back at the cave, and quickly pulled herself back behind the large oak tree. I turn to see what she is pointing at and I see Purple eyes staring back at me. I shriek just like Ashley did and stumble backwards.

" 'Oh, what do I have here?' The man I see before me says towering over me. He looked inhuman. He was tall, but muscular. He had silver hair that stood out against black clothing; his eyes were a deep purple, and so blood shot that there were no white to his eyes. Only a demonic red.

" 'Who are you?' I manage to ask through the lump forming in my throat.

" 'You will find out soon enough.' The man smirked as he began to move closer to me. I wanted to run, I wanted to flee for my life. But I couldn't move, it was as if the life had been drained out of me.

" 'Ivy!' Ashley cried. Ashley, yes. that was what motivated me to move. I snapped out of my daze and quickly positioned myself in front of Ashley so that the man would have to go through me first to get to Ashley.

" 'Ashley... Leave. Now. Go back home to mum and dad.' I told my sister as the man was was less than a foot away from me now.

" 'But..' Ashley began.

" 'Go! Now!' I demanded. I heard Ashley make a sort of straggled noise, and she quickly ran back towards the house. The sound of leaves crunching under foot soon grew faint. It was the last time I ever saw my sister again. I still don't know if she ever made it back home alive.

" 'Your a brave girl, Ivy. Cute too... To bad you choose to save her life instead of your's when you had the chance' He smirked. He reached out to grab me, put before he could I dogged him and elbowed him in side as hard as i could. I started to try and make a run for it, but a strange black smoke wrapped around my stomach and pulled me back. I was brought face to face with the furious looking man. 'That was a mistake you will never make again darling.' He growled. It was the last thing I saw before a blinding pain ripped through my body. There was a bright flash, and then... then everything went dark.

"I awoke later by a blinding light. I didn't remember anything, I didn't know who I was, where I was, or even what had happened. All I knew was that it was the dead of night, and I was laying on the ground in the middle of a forest. The blinding light turned out to be a moon beam shinning brightly throughout the night. It was so bright that it illuminated every edge of the forest, casting dancing shadows from the trees.

"I decided to get up and walk around the forest to try and figure out where I was or how I got here. Not even a minute later I came face to face with a tall dark shadowy figure. It had bright yellow and silver eyes, and cloths that looked like they were apart of the night. I stopped dead in my tracks, petrified by the looming figure.

" 'You must be Ivy?' The man asked, cocking his head to one side in question.

" 'I... I don't know.' Was all I was able to stutter. I didn't know if this man knew me or not, but he seemed to.

" The tall figure grinned and stretched out his hand for me to take. For some odd reason, I accepted it despite my fear and I was brought to the Guardian Academy. Here I was introduced to all the Guardians, and even helped by Toothina to regain my memory. Everyone gave me time to fit into my new surroundings, and I was quickly accepted into the school. I still don't know who the purple eyed man was to this day, or if my sister ever made it back to the house. But I can only hope that everything turned out fine in the end."

I finished my story right as the bell ringed. We all turned in our papers regardless if it was finished or not and moved on with the day. I was glad to be out of the class for once, I hated looking back at what had happened. It was still all to fresh in my mind. The purple and red eyes were still burned into the back of my my mind, the fear still ran fresh through my veins of that night. Even that horrible lifeless feeling still lurked when I thought back to it. It always made me shudder.

Thankfully today wasn't a very productive one. We only had to take a couple notes here or there, and listen to one of Bunnymunds famous lectures that came second nature to him. Even our intimidating gym teacher, North, went easy on us today and let us mess around. My friend Lauren and I shared a wild look and went outside to the school yard were we laid underneath one of the massive willow trees.

We talked about what we did today and shared some funny stories. The day was almost over, and we couldn't wait for dinner tonight. There was supposed to be a special surprise dessert from the Yeti's. But we had to make it through Pitch Black's science class first. No one was really fond of Pitch's class, probably because he was the scariest in the school. But he was the equivalent to the hardest and meanest teacher as well. Everyone was terrified of him, or either hated his guts.

I was rather fond of Pitch since he was the one who found me in the woods almost a year ago. He always taught the most interesting things as well, like how nightmare sand reacts with ice. Or how to create the sand in the first place. It was not like a normal school back at home. Instead of teaching regular science or history of America, they taught us magical things. Things you would never believe to be true, like something you would find in a mythological book. Even the number of our students weren't normal. Instead of having a couple thousand, we only had a hundred students or less throughout the entire Academy. I still didn't understand though why the Academy was here in the first place though, or why I wound up here. No one had never told me, but then again I had never really asked about it.

"Common Ivy! We need to hurry before were late for Pitch's class!" Lauren cried shaking me out of my daze. I quickly snapped out of my daze and jumped to my feet, I must have been so consumed in thought that I didn't even hear the bell ring.

We raced through the halls of the Academy, fear racing through our veins. No one was ever caught late for Pitch's class, not since what happened to one boy who was late for Pitch's class. He didn't turn up for weeks, and when he did he was so pale and scared that he refused to tell anyone what had happened to him. Ever since then everyone grew even more terrified of Pitch. Even if you were caught not paying attention in class, you might get chased out of the class by a fearling. If you fell asleep, well good luck. You would have the misfortune of having the worst nightmare of your life and wake up crying in front of the entire class. Pitch was certainly not one to mess with.

Lauren and I raced into the dark and chilly room right as the bell rang. If we had been one second later... who knows what might have happened. We both clutched our chest from the adrenaline pumping fear that kept us from breathing and got out our supplies for class.

"How nice of you to make it ladies." Pitch's voice rang out, making almost everyone jump. Pitch came out of a shadow beside Lauren's desk, making her shriek and nearly fall out of her desk. It took everything in me not to burst out laughing at her.

Pitch shot me a glance and I instantly stopped snickering and paid attention. His eyes were shinning a bright yellow today with only hints of silver, which usually means he had been scaring a lot of students today it seems. His raven black hair was still in its perfect spiky way. It was kind of impossible for me not to have the slightest crush on him, even though others might call me crazy for it.

After about five minuets of listening to Pitch talk about the elements of dream sand I couldn't help but start to zone out. The man with the purple and red eyes still seemed to find his way to the front of my mine. I went through the entire story again in my head, remembering every single detail. But when it got to the bright flash, i still couldn't figure out what happened. Was it just a bright flash from Tsar Lunar that night? Or was it from that man, or even me? But... but what if it was just me dying? I've always heard you see a bright light when you die. It was a most terrifying thought really.

"Ivy, I want you to stay after class." Pitch's voice rang out. I instantly snapped out of my daze and saw Pitch staring at me, along with the rest of the class.

Lauren gave me an exasperated expression, great, Pitch caught me zoned out. I was in for it now. I nodded and Pitch went back to teaching instantly, leaving me to feel guilty. Lauren nudged me with her elbow and passed me a tiny scribbled note. "Good luck, i'll save you some dessert if you can't make it in time." The note read. I shot her a thank you smile and started to jot down what notes Pitch had already written down and began to mentally prepare myself for the worst.

I hope you guys like this new story! Though I have to give credit to A Dragon Guarded Heart for helping me come up with some of the characters for this story :3 . If you haven't ever read any of her story's you should defiantly check them out! Anyway tell me what you think about this new story, I love reviews!