Chapter 2
Disclaimer: Hon, I'm in middle school. Does it actually seem like I'm the owner of Rise of the Guardians? No.
Author's note: OMG! I got a follower! Thank you, TimeLegend16! Anyway, sorry for the horrible first chapter. I was trying to get on with the plot, you know? So, yeah.
"Mom!" Jackie (Jacqueline) yelled, "My first tooth came out!" Jackie ran up to her mother, a white and small tooth in her hand.
Her mother smiled. "That's fantastic! You know what to do, don't you?" Jackie nodded excitedly as she glowed.
"I have to put the tooth under my pillow, and Tooth will come and get it!" Her mother merely smiled, thinking that Toothiana was just a name Jackie made for the Tooth Fairy. Oh, if only she knew.
"Now go along now, and don't forget that you have to do your chores," her mother said. Jackie ran to her room and placed her precious tooth under her pillow. Jackie poked at the gap between her teeth and giggled. Toothiana was going to come for the first time! Or, at least the mini fairies. Then she frowned.
How did she become like this anyway? Jackie looked at herself. She had a brown pixie haircut, and a couple of freckles. She was pretty short, although she was only five, so that was acceptable. She had green, sparkly eyes. And she glowed like a firefly.
She didn't remember what happened. The last thing she remembered about being Nightlight was dying after being covered in lead paint. Maybe she was reincarnated? Jackie shrugged. Well, she was Jackie now, not Nightlight. She sighed as her mother called for her.
It was night once Jackie finished collecting firewood. Her baby sister, Flee, was cooing and babbling in her cradle next to Jackie's bed. Jackie glowed brightly as she bounced on her bed. Tooth was coming! Jackie couldn't care less for the coins that she would be receiving. Tooth was coming! Wait, she said that already.
Her mother told her to sleep, but she found it hard to. She would usually just fall into a light nap, and then wake up again two hours later. And all Sandy's dreamsand did was to make her remember. Like, random stuff.
Jackie stared out of the window. Soon, a short chubby man garbed in clothes of gold appeared in the sky, flying on a cloud of sand. Streams of sparkling, golden sand formed out of his small hands which swirled and floated around. Gold dreamsand floated through the window and swirled around Flee's head. Weird images that only a baby would understand danced on her sleeping head.
Meanwhile, the golden sand swirled around Jackie's head as she sighed irritatedly. The dreamsand wasn't even working!
Soon, the dreamsand dissolved into the air. Jackie dimmed her glow to not wake her sister. When is Tooth coming? Jackie thought impatiently. Just as the thought passed away, a small hummingbird like fairy zipped into the room.
Wait, hummingbird? Jackie looked closer. The mini fairy was small, with a long thin beak and greenish feathers. It had a skirt of feathers, and had small rainbow wings that buzzed in the air. Tied to it's waist was a gold coin. Since when did the mini Toothiana's look like that? Jackie thought in puzzlement. The last time she remembered, the mini fairies traveled in groups of three, and were tiny winged humans.
The mini fairy realized that Jackie wasn't awake. The mini fairy looked like a deer caught in the headlights. Jackie waved, glowing a bit brighter to see.
The mini fairy looked a bit shocked at Jackie's glow, then flew a bit closer to her face. Jackie broke out into a grin, showing her teeth. The mini fairy squealed in delight and dived into Jackie's mouth.
"Wha-?" Jackie got cut off by the mini fairy in her mouth, swooning over her teeth. The mini fairy hovered there, cooing and poking at the teeth, while Jackie sat there uncomfortably, her mouth stretched wide open.
It seemed like the fairy was going to stay all night gazing at her teeth like it was the most beautiful masterpiece created by god or something. Jackie plucked the mini fairy out of her sore mouth.
The mini fairy looked abashed as it hung it's head. Jackie rubbed her jaw as the mini fairy crawled under the tooth, and replaced it with a coin. Clutching the tooth like it was the Star of India, the mini Tooth flew out of the window.
Well, that was weird, Jackie thought. Jackie lifted the pillow off and picked the coin up. The gold coin glinted in Jackie light. Jackie leaned over the bed and pulled out a box. In it were diamonds. Diamonds made from tears.
She tossed the coin into the box, hearing it clink among the diamonds. She placed the box back and layed back on her bed. I wonder if all the fairies are like that now, she thought. If that's true, then I wonder how much has changed. She snorted. Aster probably looks like a kangaroo now.