A RotG and Ben 10 Crossover where Lea meets a few of the Grant Mansion aliens and family members...Along with a few other secrets. ;) Co-Writtened by Redbat132, Steelcode, and myself. Enjoy and no flames please.
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It was another Winter day at New York City. Around the streets was Lea Thompson, a teen girl that has met her favorite myths and legends one day and could not wait to tell her bestie about it.
She was skipping on the sidewalk path that would lead her to the Golden Goose Bookstore. It was already close to a late morning. Everyone was up, walking around the park plus streets, dealing with their pets' barking/meowing, and loud honking cars trying to get through traffic. With this much noise, it would drive a person crazy. Good thing it didn't bother Lea, considering she was used to loud noises in New York over the years. That, and she wasn't paying attention to what was around her.
She hummed her favorite holiday songs, twirling with happiness as she continued walking. Lea truly was over the moon on what happened that fateful night. She had to remind herself to thank Katherine for giving her the book to learn more about Jack Frost and encouraging her to create a gift for him on his anniversary.
Not really in a rush, Lea kept walking and daydreaming about what her day holds with the next time she sees Jack Frost again.
This is so awesome! I got to meet Jack Frost and the rest of the Guardians of Childhood! Lea thought to herself, unable to stop grinning happily.
As she stopped for the pedestrian and wait for it to turn green, Lea soon noticed a strange black bird sitting on the power lines behind her using the glass reflection of a store on her right. She turned around to see squat. Believing it was her imagination again, Lea shook her head and rode the bird off as nothing.
Probably a raven passing by, she figured in thought, already moving.
In less than a few minutes, Lea arrived at the Golden Goose Bookstore. The familiar bell sound was heard after Lea opened the door and closed it to come inside.
"Hey, Kate! I have some exciting stuff I want to share with you!" Lea said with a little cheery singing in her tone at the end.
Just then, Lea looked around to see that Katherine was nowhere to be seen in the store. She walked over to Kate's working desk to find a note with Lea's name on it, a thick olive-green book opened, and a golden colored snow globe that had nothing inside.
Lea grabbed the note and read it:
Lea, I'm out of the store to handle an important emergency. I should be back in a couple of hours or so. You may stay as long as you want. Please make sure you put everything back where you first found it. -Katherine
Although slightly disappointed about her bookworm friend not here, Lea decided to keep herself entertained and wait until Kate returned.
"Not a problem. I could always pass the time with a little reading," Lea shrugged, already walking behind the desk to see what story Kate left open. "And I can show her my bracelet later,"
Lea ruffled up her left jacket's sleeve to see her crystal bracelet that was given by the Guardian of Wonder. Ever since her epic adventure, she wanted to add a few touches to make it more special. So, Lea made a few jewels around it. Each symbolled jewel and shape represented the Guardians that Lea met. Red square with a present is Wonder, green upside-down triangle with blue decorated Easter egg is Hope, purple diamond with a white tooth is Memories, yellow circle with golden colored sand is Dreams, and blue hexagon with a white snowflake is Fun.
Smiling, Lea parted from her little creations to get a better look at the opened book. She lifted up the front cover to read the title of the book was 'The Grant Mansion: A Home for All' in golden colored letters, written by the same author of the Jack Frost book, M.G. Joyce. Not many people know about the author. All Lea knows is that he prefers releasing his work only in the Golden Goose Bookstore instead of anywhere else. Which still perplexed the young teen.
"The Grant Mansion? I think Kate told me about this story before," Lea said out loud, putting the book down flat to read the opened chapter her friend last left. "Yeah…it was about different tales involving two human women that own a mansion where both humans and creatures from outer space live together as one big happy family."
Although it sounded strange that actual aliens would exist and mate with humans, there was something about the tale that intrigued Lea. As different and unusual the creatures looked from the outside, residents that live there love them for who they are from within.
"Man, I can't imagine what it's like to live in a big crazy family with a few of them as different creatures," Lea muttered, placing a hand on the snow globe that was on the desk.
Unbeknownst to Lea, the snow globe she was touching started to reveal a picture of a spooky mansion covered in snow.
Suddenly, a book from the one of the shelves fell and slammed into the ground, causing Lea to jump in startlement and accidentally knocked over the snow globe off the table where it shattered.
When that happened, a glowing doorway appeared in front of Lea, right where the globe got smashed.
"What in the world?!" Lea exclaimed, moving closer to the mystical doorway standing before her.
She looked at the mysterious portal in awe. Never before has she seen a snow globe do that. Letting her curiosity get the better of her-not to mention loved a good adventure-Lea grinned and jumped through the portal. It closed within seconds after being used.
After taking a second to adjust her eyes from the blinding light she passed through, Lea found herself in a snowy forest that she didn't even recognized.
It was cloudy with the sun barely showing, two or so feet of snow all over the ground, and some trees in the same boat.
Huh? ...It led me to a different spot in Central Park? Lea wondered to herself, walking around in the snow. I thought it would take me somewhere, I don't know…exciting?
She continued looking around until Lea spotted some big dogs from a distance. One looked greyish blue with the other orange colored. To her, it looked like they were playing around in the snow with each other. Like a friendly tussle.
"Are those wolves or regular dogs?" Lea questioned herself, squinting on the far away perspective.
As if her question was answered, the two creatures sniffed Lea out and quickly pounced right towards her! Luckily, she ducked and moved out of the way from being pinned before running.
"Not wolves nor dogs! Something worse! Much worse!" Lea hollered in horror while not sticking around to find out what they were.
When she noticed that below her was a steep hill, Lea decided to use her creativity to escape. She grabbed a half-hollowed log and used it as a snowboard to ride down the hill.
Lea kept balance and turned left to right from hitting any trees coming her way, feeling the wind running through her curly held up hair. If she wasn't riding for her life, this would actually be fun.
Then, after seeing that those big beasts were still chasing her from behind, Lea took out her hockey stick and grabbed a few hockey pucks to take a few shots to slow them down. Of course, she doesn't plan on hitting the pucks directly at them. Such as on the face or anything like that. Lea wasn't the type of person to harm creatures. Instead, with the help of her hockey stick, she just ricochets the pucks on hitting the trees and quickly trips them from below.
"Oh, yeah! She shoots, she scores!" Lea cheered, looking backward instead of forward.
Unfortunately, her hollow board tripped on a rock that made Lea stumble forward.
"WHOA!" Lea hollered, only to hit her head against a tree that made her vision go dark.
Before losing consciousness, the last thing Lea saw was the two dogs catching up and getting close to her…
Moments later, Lea slowly woke up from a cushioned chair and rubbed her head.
"Ugh, man…What a dream," she muttered, sitting up to feel her forehead. "I must have fallen asleep while reading one of Kate's story books."
Of course, Lea soon realized that she was not in the bookstore nor her room. In fact, it looked like she was in a fancy living room full of creepy yet somewhat clean décor around. There seemed to be a chandelier in the center of the room, stairs on the left side, a soft rug and coffee table in Lea's view, and a fireplace.
Another thing Lea noticed was a blanket around her and a heating pack on top of her head. Along with her jacket, scarf, earmuffs, gloves, snow boots, and socks were taken off. She still had her scarlet long-sleeved shirt and long jade green jeans on.
Once adjusting herself, Lea took the blanket and heating pack off before standing up.
"Okay...either I'm still dreaming or I'm in someone else's home," Lea replied, feeling a little uneasy.
Suddenly, she heard a growl that did not sounded friendly. Slowly turning her head on seeing what it was, Lea found herself pinned by something big and ferocious. All she could see on the creature was the same orange fur and up-close razor-sharp teeth with black lips.
Lea whimpered in fear and closed her eyes, not wanting to see what horrible things this creature was about to do to her.
In less than a second, the growling stopped and was replaced with playful barks, along with some doggie kisses by a big, slobbery tongue running up her face.
Lea jumped in startlement from that but dissolved into laughter when the orange creature kept licking the blonde teen from her neck to her face. Despite it being gross, Lea was too busy getting tickled to even care.
"Heeheeheehahahaha! Down, boy! Or girl! Whatever you are! Just stahahahahap!" Lea giggled, gently pushing the creature away from her.
"Hey! Save some for me, will ya, Wildmutt?" a growling voice said from a distance.
Soon, Lea felt the creature stop and let her go…only for a different wolf-like creature to pin her down and lick-tickle her neck with his tongue as the first orange creature licked her bare feet.
"EEEEEEEAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! STAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAP!" Lea begged through her laughter.
If this torcher wasn't already bad enough, the grey wolf lifted up her shirt and use his fluffy tail to swish around her stomach that made the blonde teen laugh harder.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! NOHOHOHOHOHOHO! THAHAHAHAHAHAT TIHIHIHIHIHIHICKLES!" Lea laughed, trying to squirm out of their hold and escape with no veil.
Just then, a tall man in a black and green batty jumpsuit walked in, carrying a tray of two large bowls and a mug of hot chocolate. "Okay, everyone! The drinks are on me!" he called out, placing the bowls on the floor.
Once the two dog-like creatures heard that, they stopped torturing Lea and hurried to drink their refreshments.
Lea calmed herself down from all the laughter, taking a few deep breathes.
"I see that my friends were giving you a warm welcome," a Transylvanian voice replied, walking close to Lea.
When she looked up, Lea freaked out at what she saw. It looked like a vampire with green eyes, pale-blue skin, black lips and sharp yellow teeth. He wore a black and green jumpsuit, black gloves with green fingers that possess sharp claws, had green markings on his suit, and a green mask with spikes on it. His head spikes are part of his suit and they do not cover any part of his body. He also had green flaps under his arms, resembling the wings of a bat.
Whoever he was, the blonde teen only assumed that he haunts this place.
"AAAAIEEEEEE!" Lea screamed, moving away from the bloodsucker. "Y-Y-You're a v-v-v-vampire!"
The vampire set the mug down at the coffee table and approached his frightened house guest. He smiled his pointed teeth. "Good evening..." He laughed in his throat, giving Lea the chills.
Lea whimpered and scoot herself away from the vampire until she was close to her bag and took out her hockey stick in a defending way.
"Stay back! I know how to use a hockey stick and I'm not afraid to use it!" Lea threatened, standing her ground and getting up from the floor.
The vampire just smiled and looked directly at Lea. A strange swirling pattern formed in his green eyes.
Lea saw the odd swirling in his eyes that made her not look away. She stared. And stared. And stared...
"Ohhhh..." Lea felt her mind growing hazy, her grip loosening on her weapon.
"Look deep into my eyes..." The vampire said, moving closer. "You are under my command."
Lea nodded mutely.
"Now, drop the stick," he gently ordered, directing his finger to the ground.
Lea did exactly that without hesitation, letting go of her hockey weapon as commanded and let it make a noise when hitting the ground.
"Good girl. Now, try to relax and tell me about yourself. What is your name?"
"Lea…Lea Carolina Thompson," she answered emotionlessly.
"Why were you out in the middle of the forest?" the vampire asked, gently.
"I was just exploring around where I was until I ended up being chased by two dog-like creatures and tried to lose them down a hill," Lea explained, feeling a bit sleepy and could drop at any moment.
The vampire walked closer to Lea, looking into her eyes that were half-way closed from the hypnotic effect. "Do you work for anyone that knows us or wants to destroy us?"
"No. I don't," the entranced girl answered honestly, shaking her head on that question. "Whose 'us'?"
"I will explain everything as soon as I'm done asking a few more questions for you," the vampire assured, grinning while placing his right hand on her left shoulder.
During all that commotion, Lea's childhood toy, Nightlight, came out of the Lea's backpack after sensing that Lea was in danger. He became shocked when seeing a weird vampire being that was mesmerizing his human friend! Acting fast, Nightlight got out and used his speared staff to stab below the vampire's feet.
"OWWWW!" the vampire jumped, feeling a sharp pain on his right foot. He became a bit surprised to see that his attacker was a living toy. "Why you little-" the vampire grumbled in anger, as he kicked the puppet into a chair.
However, with his guard down, Lea woke up from her trance to see what was going on. She picked up her hockey stick and slapped the vampire with it when he wasn't looking.
"Leave Nightlight alone!" Lea exclaimed, giving another high-sticking that sent the vampire down on the ground.
Not wasting time, Lea grabbed her bag and hurried to Nightlight.
"You okay, buddy?" Lea asked in concern.
Nightlight rubbed his white hair before smiling and giving a thumbs-up, indicating that he was fine.
That made Lea chuckle, already picking him up and running out the door.
"Thanks for the save, Nightlight. Now, come on! We need to get out of this Nightmare House!" Lea replied, not stopping.
But, before she could make it, the grey werewolf lunged forward and grabbed Nightlight in his mouth while the vampire pinned Lea to the floor on her stomach.
"NO! Let him go!" Lea shouted, not wanting to lose her wooden friend again.
"Then calm down and let us explain everything," said the vampire.
"Why should I listen to you?! For all I know, you're just trying to trick me and have me as your evening supper or something more twisted than that!" Lea argued, nearly close to crying and scared out of her mind.
Sensing her so distraught, the orange dog-like creature laid beside her right side and nuzzled her cheek, whimpering like a little puppy.
Lea looked at the strange creature and gave a tiny smile, appreciating the comforting nuzzle and returned one back.
The grey werewolf sat beside the other side of Lea, placing Nightlight gently on the floor, first, and then gently began licking her cheek while swishing his tail against the palm of her hand.
Lea giggled from all the licking, nuzzling, and tail swishing. "Heeheehee! Hey! That tickles!"
The vampire smiled. "It's what they do to establish trust."
Lea's giggles began to grow into laughter once more, feeling her sadness and fear disappear.
Nightlight tilted his head in confusement but just smiled and sat down, crossing his legs to watch from a distance. He could see that his friend wasn't in any danger.
"You see? We mean you no harm," the vampire said, releasing the teen girl and let the two furry monsters soothe her with cuddles as he stood up.
"Heeheeheehee! They sure are sweet, for a couple of creatures!" Lea tittered, unable to get away from these nuzzling beings.
Once the cuddling was over, Lea took a better look at the creatures beside her while sitting up.
The large orange dog had no eyes, ears, nose, or tail. His posture and movements were somewhat apelike. And his teeth were very defined and stick out of his mouth.
The grey dog's appearance resembled of a werewolf. He had grey fur, a long flowing mane, and a large bushy tail, with three sharp claws on each hand and foot. The inside of his mouth was green.
"Who...or what are you?" Lea asked, a bit curious and amazed.
"Well, to sum it up...we are aliens." said the vampire. "I am Whampire, a Vladat from Anur Transyl. The orange dog is Wildmutt, a Vulpimancer from Vulpin, and the grey wolf is Blitzwolfer, a Loboan from the same planet as I am," he introduced himself and his friends.
"Lea Thompson...Human from Earth," Lea introduced herself, although kind of figured that these guys already knew that.
"Nice to meet you, kid," Blitzwolfer waved a clawed hand and smiled.
Wildmutt just barked in greeting.
After hearing the names, Lea soon came to a realization. She had heard of this story before from her friend, Katherine. An alien vampire that's married to a human woman and lives at a mansion where all different types of aliens come together as a family.
"Hang on...Is this the Grant Mansion? The secret home for aliens and humans?" Lea questioned calmly.
The aliens looked surprised.
"That's...right!" Blitzwolfer said. "But how did you know that?!"
"Would you believe that I heard different tales about you guys?" Lea sheepishly questioned, rubbing her head a little. "I thought they were only just stories. Guess you weren't...Or I really hit my head way too hard and I'm delusional."
"Hmm...let's see if you are," Whampire sat in front of her, giving a mischievous grin. Then, he put his hand on her right side and tickled it. "Do we feel like hallucinations?"
"Hahahahaha! NO!" Lea laughed, trying to get away from the tickling alien. She wrapped her arms around her body to shield herself from any more tickles. "Okay! Okay! You're not hallucinations! This is really happening!" she nearly shrieked with giggles, unable to stop smiling.
Nightlight soon decided to move towards Lea and lifted his arms up to her, indicating that he wants to be lifted up. This made Lea grin, picked him up, and gave him a gentle hug toward her chest.
"I know, Nightlight. I'm surprised as you," Lea said. "Glad that we're not in any real danger."
"For real. So, what's your deal, kid?" Blitzwolfer asked. "And what's with the possessed toy?"
"Nightlight is not possessed. He's my childhood companion that was accidently broken but was fixed by a friend of mine called North and also managed to put a magic crystal inside Nightlight that brings him to life as long as I still believe using the matching crystal on my bracelet," Lea explained, already bringing out her left wrist to show the bracelet with different colored and symbolled jewelry around plus the crystal in the center before putting Nightlight back down on the ground.
"Whoa. And I thought we had all the cool stuff," Whampire said, slightly impressed while looking at the bracelet up close.
Lea chuckled. "I'm sure that you do. Coming from a futuristic alien vampire, you must have your own kind of tools or tech that are as amazing as what I've seen,"
"So, who or what do you believe in to make this guy tick?" Blitzwolfer questioned, sniffing the toy from a few inches away.
Lea blushed a little. The first thing that came to her mind was the one and only...
"Jack Frost," Lea sighed amorously. Realizing what she just said, Lea covered her mouth and looked away in slight embarrassment. "Guardians! I-I meant to say the Guardians of Childhood."
"Really? Who are these Guardians of Childhood exactly?" Whampire asked, rubbing his chin and raising an eyebrow. "We're officially intrigued."
Taking a deep breath to calm down, Lea looked back up to explain. "They're protectors that look after children. Some that are from fairytales and holidays people have heard about. There's Santa Claus, or North, as he's called, the Guardian of Wonder. The Tooth Fairy, the Guardian of Memories. The Easter Bunny, the Guardian of Hope. And Sandman, the Guardian of Dreams. However, there's also another myth that not many people know or believe in much. And I sometimes feel sorry for him," she explained, still feeling a bit down on that last part.
"And I take it Jack Frost is the myth that few people believe in?" Whampire assumed.
Lea nodded her head. "He's the Guardian of Fun. I was always thankful for all the snow and blizzards he makes and wanted to show that he's just as appreciated and important as the other Guardians. It's why I made him a holster strap to hold his staff on when I first met him personally."
"Well, sounds to me that you really like to impress this guy, huh? Huuuh?" Blitzwolfer said teasingly.
Lea's face turned red as a beat. "What?! What are you implying?!"
"What are you implying?" The Werewolf grinned.
Lea opened her mouth, then closed it. "Never mind."
The aliens lightly laughed on Lea being flustered, making her more annoyed.
"Just so you know, whatever you were thinking, it's not going to work. Besides, he's an immortal being that's been around for three-hundred years. Jack and I are only just friends. I'm pretty sure that's all we'll ever be," Lea defended, folding her arms.
"True. But it never hurts to look at them. Huuuuuh?!" Whampire teased, nudging Lea.
"Will you just stop it?!" Lea snipped, covering her burning ears.
The aliens burst out laughing.
Lea groaned, already getting herself up and moving. "Come on, Nightlight. Let's go home and find the Golden Goose Bookstore. I'm sure it's somewhere close in this forest that could lead us back into Brooklyn or somewhere around Central Park," she said, grabbing her socks and snow boots back on.
Nightlight reluctantly followed, feeling worried about his friend unhappy.
The aliens looked perplexed when she mentioned about Brooklyn and Central Park being close by.
"Where exactly are you from?" asked Whampire.
"Um, Brooklyn, New York. Obviously," Lea answered, already tying her boots' shoe laces. "That's pretty much where I still am, right?"
"Uh..." The aliens said in unison, not sure how to explain.
Lea stopped and blinked. "Oh, no. The group 'uh' means no, right?"
They nodded.
Lea sighed, running a hand down her face. "I don't think I'm in New York anymore."
"I'm afraid not, Dorothy," said Blitzwolfer.
Seriously not believing this, Lea began walking around in frustration. "Just great. I went from staying at a bookstore in New York to ending up in a creepy mansion full of monster-like aliens that's who knows where. Me and my dumb curiosity."
"Hey, don't be so down in the mouth," Whampire said. "At least you're among friends here."
"Yeah. Friends who make fun of me for believing in Jack Frost and tease me about crushing on him," Lea lightly argued, gently smacking the back of her head on the wall, slowly going down on the floor to sit and cover her face in a fetal position. "I just want to go home."
Nightlight looked at Lea in sadness, trying to help cheer her up. The little puppet climbed up and hugged her left shoulder. The aliens decided to join in and gave Lea one big hug.
Wherever the blonde-teen was, she knew that she's far away from home.
