Song: Your Bigger then that

From: Rapunzel's Tangled adventure

Start song at (1)

Hi to all the readers of Tales of the Guardians. I am finally getting the last few chapters down! The Jack Frost book of the Guardians of Childhood series came out and actually held more like 3 stories in one. Mother Goose (Katherine)-the battle of the dark side of the moon, Nightlight's journey, and Jack Frost's Journey-Final battle with the nightmare king. So it took me a while to find the right songs to accompany each part.

I do have a question for all you, the battle with the nightmare king is more based after where the movie-Rise of the Guardians-would take place in the timeline. I plan to combine Jack Frost's story from the book and the movie together but do you want a chapter for the Final battle with the nightmare king? If I did do that it would be either based far in the future, to keep the theme of Kathrin's books being read, or it would have to be a different theme set up. What is your opinion?

Hope you enjoy the rest of the story, please favorite, follow, review and/or PM to let me know what you think.

After Sandy hosted Jack for Supper the 5th Guardian was just about to say his Good-byes when a "honk" sounded from the window. Turning Jack saw a gray goose with an envelope in its beak. Sandy came over and took the envelope thanking the deliverer with a kind pat on the head. The Sandman opened it, read it quickly, then handed it to Jack with a smile.

Puzzled Jack read it himself and almost gasped.

Dear Jack Frost,

My name is Katherine, also known at Mother Goose,

North contacted me and told me that you have been hearing the Tales of the Guardians and I wanted to invite you for a visit to hear the next tale. I fingered by now you had paid Sandy a visit and are on the edge of your seat to find out what happened next. On top of that I believe your own story is in need of writing. Please follow Golly, the Gray goose who delivered this letter, and she will lead you to my home the Ganderly.

Sincerely,

Katherine.

Golly honked as if asking if he was ready to go.

Sandy's sand created an arrow pointing to the goose and nodded with a smile.

Jack tightened his grip on his staff and floated into the air, as the goose flapped his wings and led the way Jack followed.

After some time traveling He could make out a complex building that could only be the Ganderly. Complex was really the best way to describe it for it seemed to be made of compromises and contradictions. Larger than a house but not a mansion, had several towers but wasn't a castle, grand in look but not to palace standards, rambling yet intimate, handsome and sturdy but also airy and graceful, definitely elaborate but in a simple uncluttered way. It had balconies, decks, walkways, and roofs; some with points and others rounded, all connected and even interwoven with several sycamore like trees-each a young sapling of Santeoff Clausen's magical tree Big Root-which made the Ganderly seem to be a tree house estate.

Golly alighted on a landing pad of sorts and Jack landed beside her. Instantly the Ganderly's local staff, the Raconturks came and greeted them. Tall and all dressed in Rushen attire these story loving people were by nature kind and attentive. Some looked to helping the goose after her flight while others looked to escorting Jack to Mother Goose. As he was shown through the Ganderly's halls he saw many Raconturk sorting books, bringing story ideas to be cataloged, and organizing adventures for both them and Katherine to take in search of new stories.

In the grand sitting room Jack laid eyes on Katherine. Something inside him stirred as he had only felt his human memories do once before. She looked to be around twenty with black hair kept up in a bun. Dressed in a gown that was elegant but plain at the same time with a cape of goose feathers. In her lap sat Mr. Quarky, the once bookworm-literally- librarian of Ombric turned book moth-a moth that is also a book with actual pages as wings- after eating Ombric's library in order to protect it from Pitch, with his cover closed at the moment.

She smiled at him and waved him over with a polite, "Hello Jack Frost, please come join me for tea and a sweet."

Jack obliged, taking the chair across from her and accepting the tea cup offered him. It tasted delicious, though he couldn't decide it's axact flavor. And the cookies, small tea cookies with cream filling, were a perfect companion. "Thank you very much!" He expressed, remembering his manners and not talking with his mouth full even.

"You're most welcome! Now I believe you have just finished hearing Sanderson's portion of the Guardian's story, am I right?"

"Yes! Sandy left off where he and Nightlight carried you to North's new workshop after Nightlight woke you with a kiss."

Katherine's eyes got a far off look to them and a slight gloss, as if tears were just beginning. "Yes, Nightlight and I were forever changed after that."

"I'm sorry! I didn't know that this would make you cry. I thought it was a happy ending."

"Oh, it is. But it also is a bit unfinished, or more accurately we don't know how it finished for Nightlight never returned to tell us the ending." She wiped her eyes and looked at him kindly. "But you don't need to worry, the story brings me more joy then sadness. She Reached for the nearest bookshelf and ran her hand over a very familiar looking set of book spines. "Unlike Nicolas, Aster, Toothina, and Sanderson, my story is much more interwoven with the rest. But let's start with my past and then we'll see where the books want us to go."

Book number one started off with a detailed charcoal sketch of Santoff Clasen. Mother Goose told of how Ombric had found her as a baby just outside of Santoff Clasen's magical ring of trees. Her Parents had, seemingly been trying to find the village and had died just beyond their destination. Whether the couple had been looking for a home or just the treasures rumored to exist in the village was unknown but Ombric took her in all the same. She explained her upbringing and the amazing power of Belief that was a staple in the Village. At the end of Book one the plot had shifted as the fearlings had just been released from their confinement and Ombric had been told by Mim that a protector, a Guardian, was being summoned.

As Kathren put the book away Jack put in; "So that must have been right before North was given a dream by Mim's moonbeam and made a dash for Santoff Clausen."

"Yes, exactly!" She replied. The books on the shelf shimmered and book number 15 pushed itself forward. "Looks like that is the one where the story you haven't heard will begin."

"Wow, this is an amazing library!" Jack exclaimed, thinking the Ganderly had found the book.

"Oh, it most certainly is." Mr. Quirky said. "But the books themselves are the ones who know where you are in the story."

"Really!"

"Absolutely my boy. Haven't you ever heard the phrase 'this book has a life of its own.'? Katherine wrote each of the Guardian sets to coincide with each other. They are connected in a way only belief can create and so your belief in the story at large is showing us where to begin, end, and start again."

Katherine picked up book 15 and opened it to a picture of Katherine and Pitch being whisked away by the power of mother Nature.

She described the dark cave that they were dropped off at and the conversation she had heard between the once General and the once shooting star.

"I helped you on a whim for my own reasons. It won't happen again." Mother Nature told the man who used to be her father.

"I understand." Pitch had said.

"I am you daughter, no one else, and I will not stand for you to replace me with one of your fearling creations."

"I promise! I have other plans."

Those 'other plans' turned out to be a forever sleep plagued by the worst dreams to haunt anyone, on the slab of onyx nightmare rock that had been the resting place of Pitch for the many years that Nightlight had kept him dormant.

Another tingle of something like a memory came over Jack but it was faint.

Katherine told of how she didn't know how long she slept, it felt like years, but the warmth of Nightlight's kiss woke her and chased all the nightmares away. How the dream sand Sandy had been carrying them on was depleted by the fearlings and they had started to fall. How Nightlight took her hand and Sandy flew behind them as they left the rock to crash and headed for the Pole.

"The party to celebrate lasted long into the night but I and Nightlight took our leave and went into North's pride and Joy of his new building, a rocket ship spire that he Name "The Pole'. We were both exhausted, which was surprising sense Nightlight never got tired or slept- as his namesake intaled he was a guarding light against what the dark holds and therefore was always awake and energetic, and we found a comfortable place to sleep. That was how we ended up in the rocket when Pitch made his move and snuck out of the onyx and stole 'The Pole' on a trip to the Mooncliper."

She showed Jack a picture of her and Nightlight landing on the Mooncliper to the greeting of Mim. In the background he could just make out the form of Pitch making a sky dive to the dark-side of the moon.

Picture after picture of the Mooncliper's residents and the many activities Katherine and Nightlight partook on their stay on the moon were shown. They had no way back to earth because Pitch had created a cloud cover of nightmare infused storms, ones so thick and raging that there was absolutely no way to contact the Guardians much less pilot the rocket back. And he was busy on the dark side of the moon as well, building his strength/army/and weapons. When the moon mice and Katherine found out exactly what he was up to Pitch was already on the march.

"Nightlight knew that he had to go to sleep, to dream, in order for us to find the way to defeat Pitch. But he was afraid of what would happen as he knew that Pitch's relic powered weapon-which he built from North's sword, Tooth' s container, Bunny's egg of first light, and Sandy's sand all stolen the same night as he stole 'The Pole'-is still missing one piece. The last relic of the Golden age, Nightlight himself! Still he went to sleep, under Mim's protection, and slept through the entirety of the battle preparations."

The next picture showed the hideous spider-like mount that had only one cyclops like eye,and legs three hundred feet tall. Pitch rode atop it, dark matter protecting him from his own weapon.

Katherine explained how Nightlight glowed brighter than ever before as he slept and she had stayed by his bedside until the warning bells of Pitch being spotted on the warpath rang. How Pitch's forces were far too many for even the vast Moon mice, Moon bot, Glowworm, and Lunar moth army. Yet the fight was well fought. Pitch came within yelling distance and Min called to him swearing he would not get to Nightlight and Pitch responding that he feared no power Mim could throw at him.

" "Then Fear Me!" The voice of Nightlight called out." Katherine told him. (1) "He landed between Pitch's spider and us, looking over his shoulder to give us a smile. At that moment, before Pitch could use his relic weapon on Nightlight, the Guardians and all of their allies arrived. The tables turned and Nightlight vanished into the stars of space.

"Our brother Nightlight will not be yours!" The seven stars of the seven previous Nightlights shined down on Pitch. And in their light the relics fell away from the weapon Pitch had made them and back to their rightful owners hands. Pitch was beaten and he knew it."

The happiness one would expect at this point was not completely in Katherine's face. She closed her book, number 25, and put it back on the shelf. "Nightlight left right after that, the seven stars of the Nightlights guiding him as he flue with Pitch trapped in his dark rock. He no longer glowed and his uniform was gone, he looked almost like a human boy. He said goodbye, told us his Dream Journey had shown him more he must do, and promised we would see him again. That was the last we saw of him.

That was fun to write, but a bit longer winded than my other chapters. I tried to paraphrase where I could but I hope you all like it!