Fighting Darkness, Loving Frost
Hello again! So! No more sad chapters like that! I mean, there might be some sad chapters, but nothing else sad involving family and the people I personally know because remembering that part of my dream(s) makes me want to cry. I almost cried while typing it up for you guys. See how nice I am to all you lovely readers? Almost crying so you can read this fanfic.
Jamie: Actually, you're nice besides that one point.
Alichess: *startled* Aaahhh! Okay! North, I get it; he has magical portal snowglobes. Jack can fly anywhere pretty much as fast as he wants to with the wind. BUT HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE?
Jamie: *shrugs* I don't know. Hey, what's a Disclaimer?
Alichess: Oh, you want to type it up? *mumbles* At least you're not as bad as the two of them. *thinks* So that brings the total number of people from ROTG that have been in my room up to... four I think. North, Jack, Tooth, and now Jamie. I wouldn't mind it if Sandy came for a visit. He doesn't talk. But Bunny... Oh, he's a way different story.
Jamie: Here, like this?
Alichess: Exactly like that! You're smart, kid.
Jamie: Thanks. Jack always tells me that.
Alichess: Well, that's one thing he's certainly right about.
Disclaimer: Alichess88 doesn't own anything Dreamworks does, including Rise of The Guardians. She does own her dream and herself and the plotline of this story.
FAITH P.O.V.
I wake up feeling refreshed as if I've slept for a very long time. I get up and get ready for the day, not even bothering to look at the time. I'm wearing something different than what I will now always call my 'regular clothes'. Today, I decide to put on a Sailor Moon T-shirt with sweatshirt pockets, black skinny jeans, my Natsu scarf from home, and fuzzy baby blue short socks. My hair, which is usually down, is up in two pigtails, and I add a thin black hood to the top-back of my shirt that goes up under my scarf so I can easily pull it up over my head if needed. Why would I need it? In case I get sleepy again.
I yawn once, walk out of my room, and close the door. I rub my eyes quickly, stretch one more time, and fly slower than normal down many hallways until I reach the breakfast hall, my hands in my pockets the whole time. But when I get there, there's no one in the room. At all. That's weird. I shrug it off and go to what I think is the back kitchen. I fix myself some eggs and french toast, eat up, down a glass of orange juice, and put my dishes in the sink.
I just kinda wander around the halls and I don't once run into one of my fellow Guardians. Yetis? Check. Elves? Check. But no Tooth, North, Sandman, Easter Bunny, Jack Frost, or even Tooth's mini fairies. I pause and look at a door covered in swirly frost designs. This must be Jack's room.
I keep walking. Maybe they're in a meeting and I just overslept. Wow, that'd be embarassing. I am a Guardian after all, I really should be there for all the Guardian meetings, shouldn't I? I start to walk in, but decide that if they didn't wake me up, it's probably not that important. So I start walking away. But not more than two steps away from my spot at the door, and I can hear Jack shouting.
"Something's gotta be done, North! So yeah, it might be just the events of a couple of days ago, but it might also be Pitch! Because no matter how many times we beat him back into the ground, the world will never be able to rid itself of fear!"
"What do you want us to do, Jack?" North asks in a stern voice.
"I don't know! But there has to be something to make sure she's okay!" He shouts something else, and they all start arguing with each other very loudly. I don't hear the extent of it though, because I'm confused and now lost in my own thoughts trying to figure out if I should walk around or go into the room. I'm not one for listening at doors, but you don't have to be close to it to hear them shouting at each other, and I've already heard enough to keep me up until I figure out what it is. Who knows? Maybe it's something I could help out with.
I take a breath, come out of my thoughts, and open the door. I walk into the room, but no one notices me standing there in front of them. They're too busy fighting with each other. I see Jack floating in the air with a snarl on his face, North waving his hands around, Tooth fluttering anxiously, Bunny snarling back at Jack with his boomerangs in hand, and Sandy standing there getting frustrated because they're all fighting with each other. I hear them all shouting (well, except for Sandy, obviously), but I don't bother paying attention to the words. I let this go on for another minute or two before realizing that this whole thing is going to continue onward until someone distracts them.
"Guys, what are you all fighting about?" I say it loudly so they can hear me. They all stop and look at me.
"Oh gosh, you're okay!" Jack strangles me in a hug and backs up again.
"Yeah," I say, dragging the word out a bit. "Why wouldn't I be?"
North looks at me with kind eyes. "Do you know what time it is, Faith?"
"Um... No."
"It is -" he turns around to look at the clock behind him. "- 1:00 in the evening."
"Okay. Why is that significant?" I look around at everyone in the room.
"What's the last thing you remember?" Bunny asks me, arms crossed.
I furrow my brow. "I... I don't know. But I do know that you guys were about to start all-out fighting with each other before I got your attention. And you were shouting at each other about someone being in some sort of trouble."
"Yeah. Yeah, the person we were talking about wouldn't wake up." Jack looks at me, arms crossed like Bunny, then looks down again.
"For how long?"
Jack continues to talk to me. He looks back up at me. "Faith, do you know how long you slept?"
"What? I thought we were just talking about someone else...?"
"Do you know how long you slept for?"
"No. How long?"
"How many days have you been here? At the North Pole?"
"Um -" I think back, counting the days. I remember something along the lines of... "-three? This would be my fourth day here?"
"Faith, you've been asleep for four and a half days. You've been here for a week. Two and a half days awake, four and a half asleep."
I realize they were talking about me. "But - Why would I sleep that long? And why would you guys worry so much?"
"Really? You don't remember?"
"Remember what?"
He looks away from my eyes, and Sandy makes a little coffin and some figures that look like a family above his head with his dreamsand. Tooth flutters over to me. She takes my hands and looks at me with her big purple eyes. "Faith, on your third day here, you went to go see your family at your funeral."
I suddenly remember. Wow. Four and a half days of sleep can really make you forget stuff, huh? I look at Tooth, then slowly let my gaze shift downward to nothing in particular. I'm staring off into space and feeling that empty feeling again. Tooth hugs me, but I don't have enough mindpower to tell my arms to hug back. But I remember someone telling me something.
*Flashback
"Hey. I can't promise that it's ever gonna be alright. You're always gonna miss them. But I do know that you're strong enough not to let it weigh you down the rest of your life. And boy, would that be a long time, considering you're immortal now."
*End Flashback
I smile slightly and giggle a little. "Well, I dwelt on it then, and I got myself some sleep, so I don't see any reason to dwell on it now." And you know what? I genuinely mean it. I go around and give everyone a hug just because I can, and they all smile. No more fighting now.
"Welcome back, squirt."
"Glad to be back in the land of the living, Bunny," I joke.
"You did not have any nightmares or anything, no?" North asks me.
"Nope. Just a lot of time to spend at one massive mad tea party!"
"Huh?"
"Don't ask," Jack says. I giggle.
"Now come on, we've got things to do today!" Sandy makes a question mark above his head. "I don't know, Sandy. But it's gotta be something better than just standing here all day!"
The day is filled with fun, and I gotta tell ya, we all needed a day off to just have fun. Just one day. We play games, stay up late, and do all sorts of things together. We play card games and board games and run around the halls, sometimes laughing, sometimes screaming just because we can. We have pillow fights, and later in the night, we split up into boys and girls. Meaning me and Tooth have loads of time on our hands to do whatever! Whatever for the night includes makeup, face paint, drawing, singing, chatting, dancing, and fluttering around the room until we pass out on the pillow-littered floor.
Well, for being here one week, it certainly has been - well, mostly - a blast. Good dreams and fun times. Flying across the world spreading snow and beautiful frost, adding to the number of believers. Being a Guardian is the best!
The only thing that wasn't the best was not knowing what I was a Guardian of. Luckily, I didn't have a lot of time to think on it. The time I spent thinking was used for more important things in the moment, like what I should paint on my walls, how big the perfect snowball is, and whether Guardians celebrate birthdays. Because if they do, I want to know when everyone's is so I can make them something.
But that was last week. This is a new week. And I plan to have the same fun this week, and for every week after. Over and over again.
Okay, so Faith woke up. No Nightmares or anything relating to Pitch while she slept for four and a half days. Suspicious, right? Yeah. It is. Very suspicious.
Pitch will make an appearance in the next chapter, and from now on, if Faith is in a situation where it's just doing regular Guardian stuff, I will lump it all together as fun. Timeskips and place skips are going to appear more often, but I know that reading someone's life one day at a time can be especially boring, so now that she's been there a while and is getting more and more comfortable in her position as a Guardian, I won't be adding every day to the account of the story.
Yes, I know, I mentioned Pitch! So my mind still hasn't answered me on why I was crying, which means I'll be making something up unless it answers me today at naptime. You hear that, brain? Your answer's due today! So Pitch will be making an entrance before that scene, and I think that scene will be in the next chapter somewhere. Maybe. My point: He will becoming very soon.
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