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The last time all the guardian's where gathered at North's place for work related matters were when Jack had joined them and that was over 200 years ago. This time there was a totally different reason for them all to gather. Today there were going to get a visit from one of the oldest of guardians. The humans only saw her in the absolute last moment of their life when she came and retrieved their souls, and the only people that could see her was those who had died or guardians but those were an exception because they hadn't really died so the only reason they could see her was because Man in moon had decided to put one finger in the game and decide that all guardians could see each other. Though even if they could see her nobody really interacted with her, mostly because they thought she was weird and nobody really liked what she protected in life or rather death.
"I don't understand, you tell me that we are here to meat Damanah the guardian of death?" Jack was sitting in the window trying to understand what North was saying. He had no memories of meeting this person nor did he know there even was a guardian of death.
"Yes that's what I tell you." North said for the thousand times, he had tried to explain the situation to Jack since he first came here.
"But since when is there a guardian of death?"
"Well I don't know the exact amount of years but as I under stood it from Sandy this guardian is almost as old as Man in the moon." Sandy looked up from his placed in one of North's armchair and with a few signs above his head he tried to say something.
"We don't understand you." Jack said mildly. Sandy seemed to get a bit irritated but he tried once again.
"You mean to say that she is the oldest guardians that exist aside from the guardian of life?" Tooth asked when she had studied the images over Sandy's head for about four times. Sandy nodded approving and smiled as someone actually understood him.
"So if I got this right there is a guardian of death and that dude is older than anyone of us, and for some reason that person never showed up to me and I have never seen her and now she is coming here?" Jack was not so found about some random person coming here and spreading the feeling of death. That was probably the opposite of what he stood for. He was fun and careless while she was the fear for many people and even if they did not fear her they got depressed when they thought about death and Jack well he was all about the fun in life. That was his center as North would have put it.
"Well frostbite that's what they has been trying to tell ya. Though I have to admit it's hard to believe, I never met this person." Aster said with a bit of thought in his words, why had he never heard of this person? Though he couldn't figure out why North and Sandy would pull their legs at this matter so there should be a guardian of death.
"Well whatever you believe I think you will have your answer soon." Tooth said as she started to grow more and more curious about this person but to tell the truth she was a bit scared too, this was the guardian of death and she didn't really know what to expect.
Their thoughts were interrupted when a person walked in through the door looking around.
"I would never have guessed that your place was this complicated and well-designed North." A girly voice said. And her black eyes looked around in the room with an interest that most people got when the saw his place.
However Sandy could see it on her, she was not really that interested. He knew that she had seen much more amazing places and she only were pretending to be amazed. Probably because she knew that people was not that found of her and she thought that it would help her sake if they thought she was more social then she actually was, but Sandy knew when to be quiet and this was one of those times.
Damanah had it hard enough anyway; she was the most misunderstood guardian he knew of.
He unlike the other guardians had met her earlier and though she was the guardian of death she was actually really nice when she opened up to people though the only person she had opened up to the last 3,5 billion years was the dove sitting on her shoulder. She had started to speak with Sandy a little bit but Nuri was the only one that knew her thoughts and the only one she actually spoke with.
"I am glad to hear you say that. I designed it myself." North said too proud to notice the signs that Sandy had seen. Aster on the other hand saw the same thing as Sandy and well Asters were Aster and he had a hard time being quiet
"We know you aren't really that impressed so just tell us what ya want and then be gone." He was not that impressed with her and he did absolutely not like what she stood for and trying to flatter her way into their minds, he didn't like it.
"Well, looks like we were out of luck here too." Damanah said and looked at the dove on her shoulder.
"Maybe we should just tell them what we want and then let them decide what to do." The voice that spoke came from no one in the room and they all heard it in their heads.
"Who was that?!" exclaimed Jack with a high voice. Sandy was the first one that tried to explain it. The signs above his head actually made some sense to the group right now.
"Mouth…dove… thumb up" Jack said and suddenly understood. "The dove spoke!" he exclaimed a bit surprised. How the hell could that bird speak? Wasn't it just a bird?
Sandy couldn't help but smile; she was still spending every minute of her guardian life with Nuri and after all this years they were still in separable.
"I guess we should star from the beginning. I'm Damanah and this." She said pointing at the bird "Is Nuri the guardian of life." Jack once again stared at the black haired girl. She was saying that the dove was the guardian of life, the oldest guardian that excited and he was a dove?
None of the other guardians beside Sandy seemed to accept this explanation.
"I have never met a guardian that's not a human?" Tooth said questioning. Nuri and Damanah looked at each other for a time and then Damanah shrugged and they seemed to think whatever.
"Me and Nuri are a little special we were the first guardians to be created and so we were created even before life existed we were created out of pure energy and as the time went on and more species of animals came we changed our appearance at first we was just pure energy and well Nuri liked the form of a bird and me…" she made a gesture over herself to end that sentence. All of the guardians accept Sandy seemed to be trying to take this whole situation in, but then there was Jack. Damanah got the feeling that he would be harder to convince then the others and she wondered if it was even possible.
"So… what exactly do you want? Because I guess you're not here only to tell us your life story" Damanahs guess had been right, it was Jack who said it and it would probably be him who needed the convincing.
"We actually need your help."
"Our help!? Our help!?" it was Easter this time, actually agreeing with his worst rival. "First of all why would ya need OUR help? Secondly Why the heck should we help ya?" well Damanah thought she might have underestimated Easters hate for her; it was about as big as Jacks.
"Well truth to be told, I'm dying and we need to find a cure for it and Man in moon said you could help" jack jumped up from the chair were he had been sitting;
"Ha that's ironic! The guardian of death is dying! And guess what! I don't care! The children will be much happier without you and seriously no one will miss you! Not even the guardians! I don't care what Man in moon said! I won't help you!" and with those words he left for the half open window. Though when he was half out of it he could feel someone grab him by the collar like you did with none obedient children, slowly he got pulled back in and a blond man was staring at him.
"When your guardian friends were dying you helped them even if you didn't like them and you gave them a chance to prove them self to you! But now when we come to you, you tell us to go to hell just because you don't like what part of life she is protecting." The whole time Nuri was speaking he kept his voice clam and he had that dangerous tone in it, the one that said if you so much as look at me the wrong way I will do something really terrible to you.
"Now I ask you. Why want you give Damanah a chance like you did with your guardian friends here?"
"Didn't I tell you, I don't care about her! I would be happy if she died!" He looked like a cheeky child and it was seriously going on Nuris nerve.
"Did you care about Easter when you helped him?" Now Nuri was getting a little scarier and he actually looked like he could kill Jack and suddenly Jack got the feeling that he was messing with the wrong guardian. Suddenly he came to think about something, this guy was pure energy and he could chance appearance on less than two seconds and if it would come down to a fight he would probably lose hundred times over.
"Nuri knock it off! If he wants me dead then that is fine by me, it's the same about almost every guardian and seriously maybe it would be better." She smiled a little sad and then turned away starting to walk away.
Nuri let go of Jacks collar and started to walk after her. When she felt that he was following her she suddenly vanished in thin air and after a second Nuri disappeared too.
"Well I guess there out of our hair now." Jack said actually feeling happy that they left. Though his happiness only stayed for a second before Sandy walked straight up to him and hit him really hard in his face.
"What was that for?" Jack asked holding a hand where Sandy hit him.
"You were being a total bitch, and she deserved at least a chance to explain herself!" Sandy said with pictures above his head.
"Why are you defending her? Don't you think it's better if she dies and no one needs to worry about death ever again?" Jack actually felt a bit betrayed because during all these years Sandy has never been this mad at him.
"If she dies it means that the person who takes souls from this world to the next will die and then all the souls will be stuck in this world making it into a place for chaos and fear to grow and guess who will come back them?" Sandy didn't like to speak with Jack this way but he needed to understand and grow up.
"But she is pure energy and she should not be able to die! She is just pulling our legs! It's all bullshit!" Jack was dead set in that he was right and he didn't want to admit otherwise though it was kind of hard to believe that the guardian of death was dying, she was dead right and as far as he knew people hasn't stopped believing in her. How could they when people died every day.
"All guardians can die even the oldest once, and there is more than one way for a guardian to die. Ether people stop believing in you, though that is not really dying because they just stop seeing you and you act from the dark or you disappear like I did, and then the oldest of guardians can die if you take away the energy they are crated from." Sandy gave them all a lesson of the guardians' history and lives.
"Sorry Sandy I don't care about her. If Pitch comes back we take him down and that's it so we don't need her." Jack said and this time there were no one stopping him from leaving through the window.
"Fool" was the only word Sandy had for him he was a blind foolish young guardian.
"I don't see it, I don't see why they need our help and I don't understand where they were when we were dying." Easter said and opened up one of his tunnels and disappeared too. Sandy shocked his head feeling disappointed in the way his friends' reacted. They all acted pretty spoiled and like they were seven years old. Not five hundred plus.
"I think we should help her." Tooth said to the two remaining guardians. "I mean look at her, she has lived longer than anyone of us and yet we hadn't heard of her before today which tells me that she doesn't really have any friends, and she actually came here to ask for help and we just refused to help. It was like when Jack was new, we were all a bit wondering but that worked out now maybe this will work out if we help her." Sandy nodded approving someone acutely understood her situation.
"I to think she needs the help and my belly tell me that she is actually nice." Sandy smiled a little and the thought, now we just need to convince Jack and Easter that they should help her to. He let out his breath that was going to be hard.
"Why?" Nuri asked "Why not stay and explain yourself?"
"Because they would not have listened, or at least not Jack or Easter, they are still young and they see everything in black and white. Sandy will probably get Tooth and North on our side but I think I need to shove Jack and Easter myself exactly why I should get their help. They are the kind of persons where words only can't convince them to help." She smiled a little "And I understand why they are pissed, we just shove up there expecting them to believe in something that they never knew existed and then we want their help."
"But you should not take it when he tells you that you are better off dead! Why didn't you defend yourself?" Nuri was irritated that she never spoke up for herself and just said that she understood why they wanted her dead.
"Sometimes I wonder if he and the others are right, maybe I should be better off dead."
"You know that it's impossible to create a new guardian of death, and if you die you will doom the whole world to Chaos. And well she is even more evil and irritating then Pitch, not to mention she is much stronger than Pitch." Damanah looked at Nuri and smiled a little,
"I know and I know that I can't die but there are times when it feels really tempting, and I guess this is one of those times." They were sitting just out of sight from North place in the snow though none of them were freezing, that was the good thing about being just pure energy.
"I'm at least happy that Sandy was with them. It should make this whole thing easier." Nuri knew that no matter how much Damanah wanted to die she would never take her life because she knew that it would put the whole world under the influence of Chaos.
"It should make the whole thing easier" Damanah agreed as she put her head to rest at Nuris shoulder. Feeling all little lighter inside when she once again remembered that Nuri would never live her side, they would live on even when the world died.
"So what did you think of Sandys' new company?" Damanah asked chancing subject which meant that for now she was okay, she would take it up again if she felt down enough.
"Well at least it will be interesting for him, the rabbit and Frost seemed to be an interesting couple." Nuri said.
"Now you take out things before they happened. You know that they only are friends, of the fighting kind I may add. And that is based on the one time we saw them when you were giving birth to that child. That doesn't count."
"They seemed to have a nice afternoon when Jack tried to learn Easter how to ice skate." Nuri smiled
"Well they had, they did have those big smiles on their faces. Though you can't say that their a couple. Not yet at least."
"So you admit that something is going to happen?" he smirked "do you want to bet on how long time it will take?"
Damanah smiled. She knew that there were better things to spend their free time with but she had lived far too long not to think it was entertaining.
"Well they seem pretty uninterested right now, though the upcoming events might change that. I would bet at least three mouths, you?"
"Well I would say you're right that things will change and pretty radical, but no one is that straight forward I would give it at least half a year."
"I still think these two guys are so straight forward so they will go for it right after they realized that they have chemistry." She smiled a little and made a gesture out over the landscape, "Do you want to go sightseeing?"
"Why not my dear, it is a long time since I've been here" he smiled and the both left, they let the wind carry them over the North Pole.