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S: This is Sandy's image translation.:S

"This is speech."

'This is a thought.'

This is translating the moonbeams.

Manuel Lunaoff, MiM, or Manny to those close to him sadly sighed from his place in the room. It was a large room, simplistic in design to the point of being bland or uninteresting. That was mainly due to the centerpiece. It was a giant bowl precariously balanced on a single spike jutting from the ground. Made from pure onyx marble and covered in intricately designed runes that had been painstakingly etched into the smooth surface. Currently within the bowl was a viscous silver liquid that reflected Manny's face like a polished mirror.

Around the bowl were elaborate silver chairs that automatically changed height and comfort accordingly to whoever sat upon it. However, Manny didn't care to think of the complicated ruins that had gone into making his perfect chair or the design of the room. He only cared for the worrisome sight before him. Thanks to the collective strength, power, and knowledge of the moon guardians, they had successfully created a magical artifact to show the events of Earth. That's why the liquid began to swirl and then clear of color at Manny's whispered command, illuminating within to show the terrifying sight of Pitch slowly flooding the world with fear and darkness. Manny could tell that the man was grieving intensely, his eyes a dull brown instead of golden, lacking the sharp intellect and wit that once gleamed in his eyes.

"Bad news?"

Manny's eyes remained steady on the scene in the bowl, the only sign of recognition was the narrowing of his eyes.

"That Guardian of yours, always knew he'd be bad for the Earth, look at it. Already half of the world has been covered in shadows and nightmares, even the adults. That monster of yours needs to be put down." continued the monotone voice as the speaker hopped closer.

Manny slanted his eyes to the side as he watched the deceptively small rabbit leapt onto another chair, a wooden bowl filled with mochi in one paw and a wooden hammer in the other.

"You don't understand."

"I don't need to understand anything. I understand that this spirit, Boogeyman, has to go. Whether by death or stripped of power, that menace needs to be stopped. As it is yours, it becomes your duty as a Moon Sentinel to fix this. Now."

Manny said nothing for a long time, merely watching Pitch continue on his rampage and then at the increasing amount of frightened souls wandering the Netherworld and trying to find the Gate without sufficient guards, instead being consumed by malevolent spirits.

Finally, Manny stood up slowly, as if every move pained him.

The rabbit merely stared at him, the fwoop fwoop of the mochi being pounded serving as background noise to the tumult in Manny's head.

Searching within his robes, the blonde spirit withdrew a blank piece of parchment and a pure white swan quill. Upon the parchment, he quickly drew a series of sketches in silver ink, depicting both Merith and Pitch and the chaos they created. He continued to sketch out his plans to soothe and temporarily lock their powers. Done with his message, he tossed it gently into the bowl, watching as it softly glowed white before sinking to the bottom of the bowl where it will soak until the next full moon to disappear into the moonbeams that will relay his message to his Guardians. Still saying nothing, Manny gave a stilted nod in the smug rabbit's direction and walked out the room.

'I only hope that this does not end badly.'

North was in his workshop, yelling at elves and yeti good-heartedly as they started up work again for the Christmas season. However, the yetis (and some of the more intelligent elves) had noticed something off about their boss ever since his rather hurried arrival with his fellow Guardians from the Annual Spirits Celebration. None of them said or even looked at each other, taking their own exit from the workshop. Even North, who ignored everyone and locked himself within his office where not a sound was heard and the offer of freshly made cookies couldn't persuade him out.

That was merely a week ago and though the yetis wanted to find out what had happened that night, they wanted their boss happy even more. Plus, they did have deadlines for Christmas to meet.

North was worried; actually frightened.

Ever since that night, he had locked himself within his office, refusing to talk to anyone as he relived that horrible scene over and over again. He was filled with nothing but a deep loathing and disgust for himself.

Because of his concepts of superiority and the power gifted upon him, he lost sight of his center. He refused to look past his prejudice against the two spirits and see the wonder of birth, the miracle they had brought to the spirit world, the gift of new life. He was a failure and disappointment as a Guardian, he couldn't even look at MiM, the one who picked him out of thousands to hold and protect the ideals that he held dear. This was how he spent his time in isolation, wallowing in self-pity and the loss of his naivety until it hit him; what right did he have to pity himself when he was the aggressor, not the victim. After that realization, he knew he had to move on. He wasn't forgiving himself, no, that was for if they ever forgave him (he subconsciously pleaded for them not to, it was an atonement for his crimes), but he wasn't going to be a spineless coward fleeing punishment as well as a killer.

So, he resumed working in preparation for Christmas, stoutly ignoring the worried looks thrown his way, determined to put everything into his work. At least until he saw the summons from MiM for all the Guardians to gather.

Quivering slightly as he flipped on the Aurora Borealis signal to quickly summon the others, he paced anxiously as he waited.

'Is this the punishment for our crimes? MiM doesn't usually call a meeting with all of us like this. What is he going to do?'

A hole appeared in the ground from which Bunny agilely leapt from. The usually arrogant and proud rabbit was reduced to skin and bones, his shiny blue fur dirty and unkempt. His sunken eyes dimly glared at North before he crouched in silence, eyes vacantly boring into the ground as they waited for Tooth and Sandy. Tooth arrived within a flutter of her workers, though she seemed to pointedly ignore their worried glances at her molting feathers and the presence of North and Bunny. Finally, Sandy arrived in a swirl of sand that burst upon the ground into a gloomy cloud that he sat upon, a fake smile neatly adorning his cherubic face.

Awkwardly, they stood in the middle of North's workshop, looking at the floor or ceiling, anywhere except each other.

"Look, North, as nice as it is to see you, I have things… to do. I'm very busy after all and Easter is such a delicate process requiring-"

"For you to hide away in a burrow filled with nothing but a pile of useless fur soaking in self-pity and selfish feelings. It's not all about you Bunny." interrupted North calmly.

Indignant, Bunny rose to his full height, slightly towering over the Russian.

"How can you say such things knowing what we've done? As if what we did was normal and okay, attacking a defenseless pregnant male and probably killing his child? Heartless bastard!"

"I have put it behind me. Anyway, MiM-"

"You put it behind you? Just like that and you're done?" yelled Tooth, her face flushed bright red as she went right up into North's face. "What gives you the right, any of us, the right to just put that night behind us when it's ALL! OUR! FAULT! Because of us, a child will never experience life, being loved by its parents, seeing the wonder in this world, or grow into their powers. Two parents will never know what it's like to be parents, to guide their child and show them what it's like to grow up and explore. They will never experience that with their child and that's because of us! WE took that from them! WE ruined that opportunity! And you just, you just forgive yourself for that?"

"I haven't."

"But-"

"I can never forgive nor forget the atrocities these blood stained hands have committed. Even if I didn't strike the final blow it torments me, though I know it must be a thousand times worse for you Sandy." He paused to look at a somberly nodding Sandy.

"However, as I forced myself to do nothing but sit in my office tormenting myself, I gained a revelation; I don't have the right to feel pity for myself. Not when we have caused those two to suffer as they have. I'm not the victim in grief, they are. What right do I have, to be whiny and mopey in my solitude, when it is they who are in pain, in suffering, so deep in loss and depression that they may never recover. That is when I picked myself out from my chair and barged out here to work. It's wrong to make more innocent children suffer from my actions, denying them my gift of wonder because of my misdeeds."

Stunned into silence, the other Guardians stared at their fellow comrade as thoughts rushed through their heads as they thought upon his speech, though Sandy appeared as though a weight had been lifted off his shoulders. Mentally shaking herself out of her thoughts for later pondering, Tooth was about to speak right until she saw the moonlight brighten and focus on the floor where MiM usually contacted them.

"North! Why didn't you tell us that MiM was contacting us? Oh der, is this our punishment, I don't know, what to do, what to do?" worried Tooth as she started working herself into a frenzy of panic. The frightened Fairy Queen worked herself higher into anxiety until Poof she fell to the floor amidst a golden shower of sand.

Two pairs of eyes turned questioningly towards Sandy who halfheartedly shrugged, a series of images rapidly flickering above his head.

S: What? She was panicking unnecessarily.: S

"That doesn't mean you go knock her out Sandy. Ya gotta calm her down." said Bunny.

S: I did.: S

Sighing in exasperation, Bunny carefully picked up Tooth, gently swatting away the little helpers that were fussing around her as he hopped over to where the moonlight was shining brighter. Between North and Bunny, they managed to gently wake tooth who, after a brief glare at Sandy, focused with the rest as the moon finally moved directly above them, images forming within the light. Before the images could even finish the four Guardians had huddled together, heavily debating about MiM's latest set of orders, missing the flash of a rather small rabbit with red eyes that concluded the rather odd order.

Separate and detain Pitchiner Black and Merith Black indefinitely.

AN: Self-edited 11 July 2016.

Note: The rabbit with the mochi was from Hetalia when China and Japan are talking about the rabbit on the moon either making mochi or medicine. This is seen through my research, rabbits are also sometimes mentioned as being the reason for craters on the moon. Basically in myths about creatures on the Moon will be part of the council of the Moon, thus the reason for all those extra chairs in the room, they are Guardians of this universe and particularly the Earth and its inhabitants, though they do so from a distance. Each has their own Guardians for the culture that believes in them and the Big Four, Merith, and Pitch belong under Manny guidance.