Cara: *in the background* Nya! Don't take my carrots!
FW: Welcome ba-
Cara: FW! Pitch took my carrots! :'(
FW: ... here *gives Cara more carrots* now please don't interrupt anymore please.
Cara: =OwO= THANK YOU! HA PITCH! I GOT MORE CARROTS! ):3
FW: -.-' watch, in 20 seconds, she's going to come back to complian about Pitch stealing her carrots again. I don't own any Rise of the Guardians characters, just my OCs and all of the warnings are on the first chapter
Cara: FW! Pitch took my carrots again!
FW: -_-... told you.
Cara: Are the readers leaving again? ... NO! *gets froze by Jack*
FW: Thanks Jack.
Jack: You're welcome!
"What?"
"You're going to be the new-"
"I heard you the first time," I interrupted, "but why would you want me? I'm just an ordinary girl with some minor-" I stopped when I saw that my brother start to stir in his sleep. "Meet me at the base of the tree." I whispered closing the window leaving no room for argument. I tripped over our things that were still on the ground and when I finally found it my body was killing me, mostly my arm since I couldn't take the bullet out. After climbing down the tree and landing feet first on solid ground, I saw that there were more people than just Jack gathered around the tree.
There were three more teens, a tall woman in a green dress, a stocky guy with a white beard, a giant rabbit, a tall gray-skinned man, a short golden man, and a human-hummingbird hybrid. "Um. . . who are you guys?" The guy with a white beard answered,
"We are the Guardians," he gestured to the hummingbird, rabbit, and the gray-skinned and golden man, "and they are the season spirits," he gestured to the three teens and the woman in a green dress, "Jack is both. And you are the replacement for Mother Nature until she regains her strength."
"No." I said without any hesitation, they all looked at me like they never heard anyone say 'no' before, "I know that you have your own problems, but I have mine too." I started back up the tree, but a stern yet comforting voice stopped me.
"Like how your dad shot both you and your brother?" I looked back and knew that the woman - whom I'm guessing is Mother Nature - was the one that spoke.
". . . How did you know?"
"One: the back of your arm is bleeding and two: I saw you earlier when you were running through the forest." I stayed silent when she finished
"Is that true?" The hummingbird asked, I couldn't look any of them in the eye, so I just looked down at my necklace and nodded. We were all silent when a blood-curdling scream echoed through the forest.
"BRINA!" I snapped out of it and scrambled up the tree as fast as I could with an injured arm. I entered the tree house to find Zeph curled up in the corner of the bed, he saw me and tackled me into a hug.
"Hey, it's okay. I'm here. I'm right here." I sat cross-legged on the floor while rocking him back and forth at a slow pace until he stopped shivering, "can you tell me what's wrong?"
"You weren't in the tree house and I thought that dad caught you and took you away."
"I would never leave you, I was just at the base of the tree."
"I heard you talking to someone though, who was it?" He asked as he stared at me with curious eyes.
"No one ... hey there's a lake not far from here. Want to go?" I said, wanting to change the subject. Zeph's eyes lit up and - with the previous subject forgotten - went to go get his swimming gear together. While he was doing that, I went to peak out the window to see if they were still there and sure enough, they were. Wait a second . . . didn't one of my mom's childhood friend say something about them helping out the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, Jack Frost, Sandman, and the Tooth Fairy fight the Bogeyman?
"I'm ready!" I looked back to see that Zeph had gotten his favorite blue swimming trunks and shirt on and had sunblock in his hand and a change of clothes so that he wouldn't be in wet clothes when it was time to come back here.
"Cool," I said and made my way to the door, "hey Zeph? Do remember one of mom's childhood friends?"
"Which one?"
"The one that said that they helped the Guardians fight the Bogeyman."
"Uncle Bennet?" I chuckled slightly, Zeph had seen him so many times that 'Uncle Bennet' was all that he would call him.
"Yeah, I think it's Uncle Bennet. Do you remeber what he said the Guardians looked like?"
"Uncle Bennet said that the Bogeyman turned good recently but he won't tell us why and that. . . " He continued to talk as he climbed onto my back and as I descended down the ladder. Each Guardian that he described fit each one of them exactly. I made it to the bottom of the ladder when he was done, "Why do you want to know?" I didn't say anything, I just let him off of my back and made sure that they were still there - which they were - and turned him around. Even though I was behind him, I could just picture his eyes getting wider by the second. He stared at the Guardians and the Guardians stared right back in silence. I knew that he really wanted to run up to them but was unable to move his legs, so I nudged him forward a bit with my hand. And he shot off like a bullet, his first unfortunate victim: the Easter Bunny
"Your the Easter Bunny! That's so cool! Where do you paint your eggs? How do you get your eggs? Do you have chickens that lay them? What kind of paint do you have? Are those boomerangs? How do they work?" He was asking questions like there was no tomorrow, then he shot off towards Santa, leaving a shocked Bunny behind.
"What just happened?" Was the only thing he could say.
"You're Santa Clause aren't you!" Why do you have tattoos? Do you really have toy making elves? What does your sleigh look like? What's it like living at the North Pole?" He shot off again to the Tooth Fairy leaving Santa behind.
"Are you the Tooth Fairy? You're so colorful! Why do you collect the teeth? How do you collect the teeth in one night? Do you have helpers? Do they help you collect the teeth? What do they look like?" And the trend continued to Jack.
"Are you Jack Frost? Why do you have a staff? Do you use it to fight? How do you fly? Uncle Bennet said that the wind helps you to fly is that true?" Poor Jack didn't have time to ask him who 'Uncle Bennet' was since Zeph shot after Pitch who had tried to hide
"Are you the Bogeyman? Why are you called that? Why do you hide under beds and in closets? Why is your skin gray and your eyes yellow? Why are you wearing a dress?" Then he shot after the Sandman.
"Are you the Sandman? Are you really made out of sand? Why don't you talk? How do you give people dreams? Why-"
"Okay Zeph, I think that's enough questions for today." I said as I carried him away from the Guardians - even though I wanted it to continue since it was amusing to watch and I was trying really hard not to laugh.
"But I didn't ask the other four questions." Zeph whined. The season spirits eyes went wide as it settled in.
"He can see us?" asked the girl with blonde hair.
"Yeah, Brina told me stories about you guys." I paled as I felt ten pairs of eyes fell on me.
"Uh, Zeph. I don't think that we should talk about that."
"Why not? I think we should." Jack said, now sitting on his staff with a mischievous smirk.
"Yeah!" agreed Zeph, he looked at me with puppy dog eyes
Don't fall for the puppy dog eyes Brina, as long as his lip doesn't start quivering and he doesn't start crying you'll be fine. Zeph's lip started quivering slightly and a single tear fell from his eyes. I groaned, finally giving in to my brother's puppy dog eyes, "Okay fine."
"Yay! Can you tell the story at the lake?"
"Sure."
"Yes!" Zeph sped towards the lake with his stuff in hand. I looked back to see that the others were still standing there.
"Hey! Are you guys coming or what?" They seemed to snap out of it and started to follow me as I started walking towards the lake.
FW: Sorry for the delay in this story ^^'' hopefully the next chapter will be updated sooner
Cara: Why not now?
FW: Because this one's going up
Cara: Oh. . . bye readers! See you next time!
