CHAPTER 2
Twenty years since Jack's birth. Twenty years of Jack being alone. Twenty years of not being able to have any one see him, sense him, and touch him. And twenty years of bringing winter, and playing with the children that were oblivions to his existence. For Jack twenty years was a long time, he prayed and hoped that he could meet someone who could see him soon. He was however overly thankful to his life time companion the wind, but there was only so much that the wind could do. Jack desperately wanted a friend.
It was night time and Jack was playing with the wind, laughing and whooping with joy as the wind spun, twirled, through and cached him. For the long hard twenty years of Jack's life the wind has always been his companion and friend. His light I the dark, the only one in his life so far that proved his existence as more than just a snowflake in the wind, but as the spirit of winter. Although Jack longed to be able to hear the winds voice he knew from the wind that he had to wait. The wind was also the one to introduce the wonders of the world to Jack; he got shown different cultures and places where people lived. The wind was also the one to Jack to embrace the warmth of fire and the heat of summer, instead of fear it. When he asked the wind why the heat didn't affect him like it should, the wind said that he was special, and in some way he had gain the favour of the four elements. This puzzled Jack to no end he wanted to know why and how. Something the wind refused to explain to him.
Jack laughed and smiled in pure joy as the wind continued to play with him, tossing him around like a snowflake caught in the wind. To the winds disappointment Jack stopped playing as he saw what he saw every night. Streams of golden sand that brought dreams to the children of the world. Jack took in a deep breath and steeled himself, tonight was the night he found out where the sand came from.
With help from the wind jack followed a stream on sand until it leads him to a big cloud of golden sand that floated in the sky. Curious Jack flew closer and smiled when he saw a figure of a golden sand child in the dead centre of the cloud.
"Hi!" called Jack as he flew around the cloud not sure whether he was aloud n the cloud or not.
Jack was ecstatic when the golden boy turned round and happily waved to Jack, inviting him to come closer. Jack happily took the invite and introduced himself to the sand made boy. To this the golden boy smiled and clapped silently but enthusiastically.
{I am Sandman, the bringer and guardian of dreams. Please call me Sandy.} Communicated Sandy through the use of images that appeared above his head. It was now Jack's turn to clap happily.
"What is a Guardian Sandy?" asked Jack as he lent on his staff and looked at Sandy who stared in wonder at him in turn.
{Can you understand me even if I communicate like this?} Asked Sandy as hope and eagerness filled his face. To this Jack just shrugged.
"You're easier to understand than the elements, which is for sure besides languages have never been a problem for me. I have understood all of the ones I come across so far, and I have been all over the world. So what is a Guardian?" explained and asked Jack with a smile.
Sandy smiled happily, he had finally met someone who could understand him, and he thanked the moon who brightened a little in response, as if to say "our welcome".
The rest of the night was spent with Sandy explaining the roles of the other three Guardians, what they were like and a bit about Pitch. Jack however wanted to know more about sandy and his life and about the holidays he had seen or heard being celebrated. This made Sandy happy no one had ever wanted to get to know him. The other guardians were his friends but they never asked about how he had become a Guardian or who he was before being a Guardian. And Sandy knew that if they did ask they wouldn't get all the information correct because they wouldn't be able to understand him properly.
From listening to Sandy he learnt about the Golden age and how its down fall was caused by the fearlings possessing the man that guarded their prison. Jack learnt that this was how Pitch was born. However what he focused more on was what he found out about Sandy. He learnt that each stream of dream sand contains a dream which Sandman can transport to anyone on the globe. That Sandy also sends the dreams to children dreams to help their wishes come true, for a wish always begins with a dream. And that Sandy was the first guardian chosen by The Man in the Moon, and that he came to earth in a shooting star. And that it was from the shooting star he got his inspiration to make his powers come out in the form of star dust (even if it looked more like sand).
This meeting was the beginning of a long and strong friendship.
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