A/N: So here's the fourth chapter in The New Guardian. I hope you are all enjoying the story so far, and I will be uploading more chapters as I think of them. Enjoy!

Chapter 4

New Guardian POV

"Good morning sleeping beauty."

My eyes fly open and I shoot up. Only to head butt a certain white haired boy. "Ow.." he groaned rubbing his head. "That's what you get for stalking, Snowball." I say as I lay back down on the couch, rubbing my own head.

"Hey! I'm not a stalker!" he called.

"Yeah yeah whatever. I'm going back to bed." I stated.

"I don't think so Munchkin." Suddenly I was lifted into the air by my hood.

"Do you really want to start this again?" I sighed, and flopped back down on the couch as I was let go.

"Well, someone's not a morning person." he chuckled.

"You have no idea." I sighed.

Then I heard more voices. "Aw she's so cute!" I heard a feminine voice say. "What did you do to the little ankle bitah?". Was that voice Australian? "She very small, no?" a Russian voice stated. I bolted up again, earning a gasp of surprise from everyone there. "Where am I?" I asked. I looked over to the people standing around me. "Who are you!" I yelled. The Russian voice chuckled before yelling "NORTH POLE". I probably looked so panicked, because Jack said "Calm down. It's okay" before I cut him off. I swung my legs around me, pushing everyone back with a strong gust of wind, and flew up to the rafters.

Everyone was standing around looking at me confused. Well excuse me for freaking out about not knowing where I am while being surrounded by strangers. My bad, so sorry. Then they all turned into a circle and started whispering, glancing at me every few minutes. Might as well get a good look at them. Well, first, there was a very strangely beautiful bird lady. She had a ton of multicolored feathers all over her body. There also seemed to be a smaller version of her sitting on Jack's shoulder. I'm guessing the bigger one was the female voice I heard earlier.

Then there was a very large man. He had a long white beard, and wore a lot of red clothing. He seems to be the one in charge. He also seems very loud. Next to him is a...is a...okay what is that? It's big, and gray with a pattern on it. It also has very long and large ears. Maybe it's a bunny? That would explain the little fluffy tail. Although it kind of reminds me more of a kangaroo. Especially with the Australian accent.

Next to him is Jack. Hmph. I already know him. Next one! Okay. There's a little golden man floating on a cloud. And, he's...making symbols above his head out of sand. Alright. Well compared to the kangaroo, that's pretty normal. Suddenly Jack huffed, snapping me out of my thoughts. Jack started flying up to me, and I tried to shuffle back, but no can do. I was already against the ceiling. He opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by a dark laugh filling the room. We both snapped our heads to the sound, and saw a shadow sweeping around the room.

"Pitch..." Jack growled. "Wh-who?" I asked. He turned to look at me. "Don't worry it-" but he was cut off by "Pitch".

"Oh who do we have here. Is this a new Guardian?" he asked.

My eyes widened with fear. It did not go unnoticed.

"Oh, poor thing. Scared to death." he purred.

He lunged at me. I screamed.

Next thing I know, he's holding me against him with his arm around my neck.

"Let go of me!"

"Oh no my dear. I think I'll hold on a little tighter." he said, and tightened his grip around my neck. Did he just call me his dear? HE DID NOT JUST CALL ME HIS DEAR! For some reason, I don't like being called dear. I narrowed my eyes. Apparently Jack sensed what was coming from the rafters, and tried to suppress a chuckle. The others just stared at me. "Let go of me you creep!" I screamed, and elbowed him in the ribs. He doubled over and let me go. I ran out of reach, and decided to teach him a lesson.

"I.." fireball to the side. He dodged it unfortunately.

"AM..." I gathered water around me and spun to the ground and did a coffee grinder type move while the water followed the movement of my feet before I launched it at him. Direct hit. Score!

"NOT..." icicles.

"YOUR..." arms up, one leg pulled up to my chest.

"DEAR!" arms pulled down, foot pushed out, sending a gust of air in his direction and launching him out the window. I jumped in the air "Woohoo! Direct hit!"

Then I remembered. I had an audience. I turned around to look at them. They all had their mouths dropped open, except for Jack who was smiling. I put my hand on my neck sheepishly. "Oh..um..hi" I said. I was still standing on top of the globe. A loud laugh filled the room, making me jump. I looked down. The man in red was laughing, but it wasn't mockingly. "I like this one" he chuckled.

"Thanks?" I said. I still had no idea what was going on, or who any of these people are. Jack hopped down from the rafters. "Nice one Munchkin." he giggled. He flew up to me and I said "Um.. are they okay?" I asked pointing to the other people, who still had their mouths open. "Yeah yeah they're fine." he said.

"That came out of no where, didn't it Sheila?" the Australian voice said. I looked down at the Bunny-er, Kangaroo? Bunnyroo? I shrugged. "Not really. I was being held hostage by a creep. I was bound to fight back."

"But you only freaked out when he called you dear. Why is that?" Jack smirked.

"I don't know. I just don't like being called that. Not that anyone's called me that before, but still."

"Oh, so you don't like being called that, dear?" Jack smiled.

I pointed an accusatory finger at him. "Don't even start Frosty."

Before he could respond, the bird lady interjected. "Well since we covered what you don't like being called, can you tell us your real name?" she asked politely. She seems nice. I think I'll like her.

"Mia." I said simply.

"It's short. Like you." Jack chuckled.

I opened my mouth, but the Kangaroo spoke instead. "She's just an ankle bitah, Frostbite."

"Hey!" I turned to him. "I'll have you know that I am 15."

I noticed the golden man flashing symbols above his head. "What's he saying?" I asked Jack.

Everyone turned the golden man. "Tell her our names?" the tall man said. "Sandy! Why didn't you say so sooner?" He chuckled. The golden man huffed as gold smoke came out of his ears.

"Great idea!" the bird lady squealed. She buzzed over to me. "Okay well, I'm the Tooth Fairy, but you can just call me Tooth!" she squealed and gave me a hug.

"That's Bunny," she gestured to the Kangaroo. "Oh sorry, wait, you're not a kangaroo?" I asked.

Jack burst out laughing, as Bunny's eyes looked like they were about to burst out of his head. "Did you tell her to say that?" He scolded Jack. "Why I oughtta," he said marching over to Jack.

"N-no! He didn't tell me what to say! I wouldn't have listened to him anyways. I genuinely thought that." I said.

He glared at me before leaning in close. "I'm a bunny. Don't forget that."

"Bunny!" Tooth scolded. He leaned back, and Jack whispered "He doesn't like to be called that."

"Gee I never would've guessed" I sarcastically whispered back.

"Um.. okay anyways, this is North, but most people know him as Santa Claus." Tooth said gesturing to the large man.

" And this is Sandy the Sandman." She said gesturing towards the golden man, who waved hello. " and you seem to already know Jack."

I rolled my eyes. "How could I forget."

"Come! Let us eat cookies!" North bellowed.

"Race ya there" Jack said, already flying ahead.

"You're on" I said forming an air scooter and laughing as we raced to the den.