Hi this is the first story I have ever wrote so if you see something I am doing wrong just tell me, I'm all ears =D
(Disclaimer, I do not own Rise of the Guardians or The Avengers, or any other movie characters that I may use. All story characters go to there respective owners. I do however technicaly own my characters that I have thought of myself)
Chapter 1 "How Capp became immortal"
Hi, my name's Kyle, Capt. Kyle Anthony Frost to be exact, but you can call me Capp for short. This is my story, and it starts a very, very long time ago.
It is the year B.C. 89. My father owns one of the largest shipping empires of the time, The Frost Trading Company. So as you can imagine, we are pretty well off when it comes to money and having what we want. It is my 16th birthday (December 2nd) and I am finally getting what I have been asking for, for years, a ship of my own. Being in a family that has a shipping industry, I have grown up around them all my life and have always dreamed of being a captain of my own ship. Because my father was very rich, he was able to pull some strings and get me my captain's license 2 years early, by law in this time you are supposed to be 18, not 16, but when you're rich you can get around laws.
It was a rather cold and clammy day on the north coast of England, on the day my ship was to be launched. I had decided to name her the "Golden Guardian", because my father told me that I was to be hauling loads of gold and iron ore from England to the south tip of Africa, and return with loads of spices and other goods. It was very exciting watching her go into the water for the first time. Their was a big celebration with lots of people. The great general Kozmotis Pitchiner was even their (later he turned bad and is known as Pitch Black). My ship was the largest ship of the time, and even measures up to the supper ships of the modern day world, being 400 yards long by 45 yards wide and 55 yards tall. She was just plain massive, and she was all mine. She is made out of the finest quality wood and iron, and has beautiful railing and inlay designs on the wood. There is a two story captains quarters at the back of the ship that towers above the deck, the wheel and controls are on an open deck above that. Dad had fully furnished the interior with fine oak and walnut furniture, and a very elegant dining set and silverware made from the finest quality silver. Their is even a grand piano on the first floor of the captains quarters because I love to play music. She has three massive sails that toward above everything, the ones at the front and back are the same size and the one in the middle is slightly bigger.
I was given a crew of 18 men and I had chose a good friend of mine to be my first mate, his name was Kurt Clint, but I called him Swift because when I told him to do something he had it done before I could blink an eye. We were to go 200 miles to the north to get a shipment of gold and then turn around and go to Africa to unload the gold and bring back a load of spices. When we got to the port to get the gold the manager told us that another ship that was to pick up a load of iron ore was delayed by a storm and if we were to get the ore too, we would make double the money than we would by just hauling the gold. So of course I took the ore too, not thinking about how much heavier that would make us.
We left around six o'clock the next morning and headed south to Africa. It was smooth sailing for the first day and a half but then the winds changed and we could see a storm brewing in the distance. It was the worst storm I had ever seen, the winds were gusting well over 85 miles an hour and the rain was extremely heavy, and to make matters worse, it was freezing. Yes, we were in the tropics and yet it was freezing rain, it didn't make any sense to me at all. And something even more confusing was that every now and then I could see the moon thru the clouds, I mean why would a storm be this bad when the clouds were thin enough to see the moon. The next thing I knew, Swift was running up to me yelling that we were taking on more water than the crew could bale out, and that two of the men had been swept overboard by a rogue wave and could not be found (I had to admit, at that time I was getting pretty worried). I turned to him and told him to tell the men that we were going to have to dump the iron ore and maybe even the gold if it got bad enough. He looked at me like I was crazy but he quickly obeyed my order and told the men.
The next few hours seemed like days as the storm raged on, the men had dumped the ore but it didn't seem to matter because we were taking on so much water. and I could sense my ship getting lower in the water all the time as the waves washed over the deck. As I looked over my shoulder to the front of the ship I saw Swift running to me once more, when he got to me he was out of breath. I looked at him and said "What is the matter? You look as if you've seen a ghost" he took a while to respond as he caught his breath and then he said "A giant wave just washed across the deck of the ship and swept all of the men overboard, we are the only ones left Captain, sir". I looked at him but didn't say anything; I could tell by the way he was looking back at me that he could see the fear in my eyes.
We just stood there together for what seemed like forever, looking around us we could see the storm was only getting worse. And then we saw it, a wave every bit of 200 feet plus tall coming straight for us. I looked at Swift and told him to go inside my quarters immediately as I stood atop the two story structure at the wheel, awaiting my fate. I was only a captain for a few days and I was already going down with my ship.
As the wave reached my ship it completely overtook it, pushing my Golden Guardian down into the depths, and then I blacked out, I couldn't see anything. It seemed like it was dark for hours, but then I remember opening my eyes and seeing the moon. Or I should say, I saw Mim (which stands for, Man in Moon). He told me that I and Swift had both drowned but he had saved us, and made us immortals. He then told me that I was going to get some special powers but I would find out what they were for myself, and that Swift was going to be leaving me, because Mim had another job for him but he wouldn't tell me what it was. He then asked me if I wanted to be a guardian, and then he explained what a guardian does. I told him that maybe later I would but I wanted to figure out what was going on first, he said that was fine and than he was gone. I stood up, realizing that I was alone and the storm was gone, I was also back on top of the water and my ship was just fine. It had sustained a lot of damage in the storm but all that was gone. I was confused and worried. What would become of my family? Where would I go?