Disclaimer: I do not own Rise of the Guardians or any other material related to the movie (the books). Although, I don't think anyone owns the characters themselves

Again, thanks to all for reading!

As for the reviews...

To Jokermask18 - That's a good idea, that i may use! And now i'm officially SUPER-DUPER Excited (the caps are nescessary. If you don't read that with caps, it doesnt covey how excited i really am) for the next book. I hope they have FrostBite in it!

To Artemisgirl91 - I know! It's always annoying reading one of these fics when it suddenly dives away from the book storyline! Although, don't get me wrong, if they're well written, I still love them! (especially the FrostBite ones!)

To Dragowolf - If you can see Katherine as Mother Goose after just North's book, wait till you read the other two! And let me also suggest the two picture books that give MiM and Sandman's backstories I originally was going to have Katherine be somewhere "mysterious" (You'll probably understand why after reading the other two) but i decided against it. I figured that after several hundred years without Pitch around (as implied by the guardians surprise at seeing Pitch in the movie) that whatever would have happened to them in the past wouldn't have made much of a difference to to present.

To bedstories - Like i said, i don't want to ruin the books for anyone who hasn't read them yet, but i can understand your frustration. May i suggest getting them from Amazon? Or as audiobooks on iTunes? That's where i got my copies of the books. Also, I hope this explain's Nightlight for you until you can somehow get the books.

And a special thanks to reviewer lady of the wilds (whose review i caught literally ten seconds before posting this) - It'll be a chapter or two before i get to him, but i'm glad you like the story!


"The man in the moon has a babysitter!" Jack exclaimed.

"Of course! Who do you think took care of him while his parents were fighting Pitch?" Asked North.

"Wait, back up..." he said, waving his hands to stop North. "When did the Man in the Moon's parents fight pitch?"

"Maybe I should explain." A new voice said. "After all, it is my area of expertise."

Jack turned to the newcomer standing next to Nightlight. She was about the same height as him, and dressed in a white dress that looked like it was made of goose down. Although she looked about eighteen, Jack knew that she must be a lot older.

"Ah!" North exclaimed. "Katherine! I didn't know the two of you were coming today!"

"Well, we wanted to see if you need any help getting ready for Christmas. We weren't expecting to meet the new guardian, although it certainly is a pleasure." She held her hand out to Jack, and they shook. "My name is Katherine, although you probably know me as Mother Goose. North and I are old friends from before we were guardians."

"Uhh, hello." he said.

Nightlight chose this time to reappear, jumping down from the ceiling rafters, right on top of their hands. He gave Jack a brief suspicious glare, before Katherine patted him on the shoulder, and he hopped back into the rafters.

"You'll have to forgive him. He can get a little jealous sometimes."

She may have looked (and acted) young, something about her made Jack feel like he was talking to his mother. At least if his mother was eighteen and immortal.

All Jack could think to say was "Do you really have a goose?"

"Yes" she answered. "He's resting in the stables now. But did I hear you asking about the Man in the Moon's parents?"

"No need being to worry about that, I just have been explaining to him the whole story!" North said enthusiastically.

"I can imagine" said Katherine. She leaned in closer to Jack and whispered, "Let me guess. You have absolutely no idea what happened, do you?"

"Not a clue"

"It was being perfectly clear to me!" North pouted for a moment. Then he brightened, and said "Very well, I will not be interfering in your guardianship. Let us all hear the story!"

"Alright." They sat down and got comfortable, as she began. "A long time ago the universe existed in a golden age. It was a glorious place where every planet lived together in harmony. But then the darkness came. Pitch went from planet to planet, turning everything he touched as black and withered as his heart."

"But the great families stood against him; chief among them were Tsar Lunar and his wife. And for a time, Pitch was held at bay."

"It was during this time that the Tsars Lunar became parents. Their faithful robot watched over the child as he was growing up, and used a special magic to keep him from ever having a bad dream. But this was too much for Pitch. The moment he heard to the baby who had never know bad dreams, he decided that he would not stop until he had this child. It was now his mission to make this child into a dark nightmare prince."

One by one, the great families fell, until only the Lunars were left. To protect their child, they constructed a giant spaceship, and as Pitch closed in, they fled."

"They got away from his dark forces, but they were pursued."

"To keep from being detected, if Pitch's forces came too close, the ships massive fins and rockets would fold into the ship, and it would disguise itself as a moon. Pitch would pass right by it without noticing it. The tactic was succesful, but not forever. The Lunars arrived at an insignificant little blue and green planet, but before they could disguise their ship, Pitch attacked."

"Pitch was relentless, but so were the Lunars. Slowly the Lunars forces were weakened until there was only the Tsar and his wife were left to fight. The battle between the two of them lasted for days, but eventually Pitch got the upper hand and struck the death-blow, leaving only the child and his faithful caretaker."

"As Pitch approached the crib, the caretaker picked up a discarded diamond tipped spear, and flew at Pitch, channeling all of his energy into the spear. There was a great flash of light and they disappeared along with all of Pitch's forces."

"With the battle over, the ship was ruined. The fins and rockets had been destroyed, leaving only an unflyable sphere."

"The child grew up with only the creatures of the moon for company. As he grew up, he learned how to use his father's scientific equipment. Through the telescopes placed around the ship, he could see the Earth, and was surprised to find that there were children living there, and resolved to protect them from fear by sending out moonbeams to keep darkness away."

"But then, several hundred years ago, a moonbeam stumbled across a cave. Inside was Pitch, pinned to the wall by the caretaker's diamond spear, just barely clining to life. The curious moonbeam sensed something inside the spear tip, and sent it's power into it. The moonbeam was sucked into the spear,and the spear came out of the wall. Both Pitch and the caretaker, who was trapped inside the spear for centuries, were released.

"Pitch immeadiately went about to spread his darkness. The Man in the Moon's old caretaker had lost his memory, but once the Man in the Moon saw him flying about, he was able to slowly give him his memories back. He immediatly flew to Pitch's location, and saved the town he was attacking. That town was my town. The caretaker decided to stay nearby, to protect it. As North and I were chosen as guardians, we all grew closer, and learned the caretaker's name: Nightlight."

Although Jack had known from the beginning that the caretaker was going to turn out to be Nightlight, it was still surprising to find out everything that had happened. On one level, he knew that the Man in the Moon must have come from somewhere, but on a deeper level tried not to think about that. To him, he had laways just been... there.

All he could think to say was "Wow."


I'm glad to see that you all are enjoying the story so far! Please read and review!

Up next: Sandy!