This is my very first story like this so I hope you enjoy!
Sorry for the first upload, I'm still trying to get used to the website.
Prologue
Sandy POV
The battle for the control of the Earth is over. But the war for Earth has just begun.
Very few know of the future and even fewer can tell you how exactly the events will come to pass. I am one of those people.
As you probably know, in one of the first few confrontations with Pitch, he struck me with a Nightmare arrow and it consumed the purity of my magic. I faded into the darkness as I heard the cries of my fellow guardians far below me. I did not merely disappear and reappear as it is told in the movie adaptation by the humans.
During my time in the world of nothingness, I felt the emotions and saw the actions of my fellow guardians from above. I felt their pain and guilt at my loss. I saw the friendly bonding between Jack and Bunny. I saw when Jack was fooled by Pitch, which in turn destroyed Easter because Jack was not there to fight off the nightmares of children. I ached with each of them, but I could do nothing; I was invisible to both the human and supernatural eye. However, I knew I had to do something, especially when Jack lost hope in himself and was about to separate himself from the rest of the world forever. So, I decided to visit the one place that I swore I would never return to: the afterlife.
That place is horrible for me, draining my power and strength with every passing moment. Since nobody had even repressed dreams in there, I was not believed in and therefore was at my weakest when I was there. But I knew that in order to help Jack, I would have to give him some sort of extra hope and the only person in the universe that I could talk to about Jack was the Man in Moon. While he himself was not in the afterlife world, it is there where it is easiest to communicate with him in my condition.
Long story short, I managed to speak to Man in Moon where he reminded me that Jack did not remember his human past. His knowing smile said more than he actually said: if Jack was able to view his memories, he would somehow regain the confidence in himself to rejoin the fight against Pitch.
After I returned to Earth, I found that Jack had Baby Tooth with him, and she stayed regardless of the fact that she was clearly extremely cold. I touched her mind briefly and gave her the inspiration to show Jack his memories which he had in the pocket of his sweatshirt. While I did not see the memories that he re-experienced, when he regained consciousness I could see his eyes widen in pride and joy. He repaired his magical staff and flew off to Jamie's home. The movie pretty accurately displayed what happened after that, with the exception of my return.
When Jamie created the first strand of dream sand from the nightmare sand, I felt a small part of my power return. I rejoiced because I knew that I would soon be reunited with my friends, in peace, hopefully for the rest of time. However, just before I appeared on the snowy hilltop, I heard Man in Moon speak to me once more, "Sandman, beware the descendant of Jamie, the new guardian, the one who will love the man who thought he was alone in the world. She will help to bring the world to a second darkening," Before I could ask what he meant, I felt mostly solid again and I could see Pitch in front of me. I called on my sand into a whip and wrapped it around Pitch's arm, dragging him towards me. The rest you should know because of the movie.
It has not been very long since the battle of Earth and since then I have told the guardians through dreams and images of what I learned of the future. Well, not completely. I decided not to tell them of the allegiance of the new guardian, especially after I saw Jack's look of hope and almost desperation. Everyone knew that he was the guardian that once thought that he was alone in the world since he spent around 200 years without being visible to a single child. At least the other guardians were believed in and were visible to children. If he even has a chance at love, he will take it. Besides, it has been said for centuries that the future in not set in stone, perhaps we can change her fate.
I know that this secret could cause the guardians problems in the future, but for now I will keep it this way. For now I will watch Jamie's family with the other guardians. For now, I will hope that for once, Man in Moon was wrong.
