Here, Snow is 10 years old. She still hasnt figured out her center, but dont worry! She will.
Chapter 3: Calling & Choosing
I guess all the real craziness started with the call of the Northern Lights. I was playing with my parents, just a snowball fight, something my dad was known for, when both my parents just stopped. They were looking at the sky directly behind me. When I turned, I saw the sky was filled with beautiful colors. My parents had told me about these lights when I was younger but I had never seen.
Anyways, back to the lights. When I turned back to my parents, they had dropped their snowballs, picked up their staffs, took my hands and all three of us took off into the air flying as fast as possible to the North Pole.
When we got there, everyone else had beaten us. Bunny, Narain and their thirteen-year-old daughter, Aurora Borealis and Song, Sandy, Song's twins, Solar Flare and Cloud Whisper, and their youngest, twelve-year-old Dusty. Me, Dusty and Aurora walked off a little bit away from our parents so that we could converse to ourselves.
"Why do you think North called us here?" I asked, blowing my black and white bangs out of my eyes. My friends shrugged, looking as confused as I felt.
"Snow." I turned around as Dad called my name. He was looking at me and gestured for me to rejoin him and Mom. Shrugging, I obeyed the silent command, walking back and standing between them.
"What's going on?" I asked. Mom pointed up to North's skylight where Manny's moonlight shined down into the room.
"The Man in the Moon called us here." she said simply.
I honestly didn't understand why Mom and Dad respected Manny. From what I had been told, when my parents died, he revived them, wiped their memories and then abandoned them, Dad for three hundred years and Mom for two hundred and fifteen. You see why I didn't understand how my parents could respect him? Granted, Mom and Dad got their first believers, both of whom were about twenty-four now but still firmly believed in my parents and the Guardians. I'd actually met them a few times.
I watched Manny's light open a compartment in the floor and a crystal came out. When the light shone on it, five images appeared: They were of me, Aurora, Dusty, Solar and Cloud. Manny had chosen us as new Guardians.
"Why has he chosen new Guardians?" Narain asked.
"Obviously, something bad is about to happen." North replied.
"Like with Pitch Black fourteen years ago?" Bunny asked. North shrugged.
"Could be Pitch." North said. "Could be much worse than Pitch."
"What could be worse than Pitch?" Tooth asked.
As if in answer, the crystal sank back into the floor and an image appeared on the floor, an image of a woman with long hair and bat-like wings. All of the Guardians, save Song, Narain, and my parents grew silent.
"What's wrong?" Dad asked.
"Who is it?" Mom asked.
The Guardians all seemed to take deep breaths before looking up at their members of only fourteen years.
"That," Bunny said, pointing to the image on the floor. "is definitely worse than Pitch."
"Why?" Aurora asked, looking up at her father, her bunny ears drooped in confusion.
"That is Angel Moon, the Mistress of Deception." North answered.
"She was once a Guardian with the rest of us." Tooth explained. "The Guardian of Truth, but something happened and she turned to the dark side."
"Now, she's come back." Bunny said.
Song nodded slowly. "What do we do?"
The Guardians looked at me, Aurora, Dusty and the twins. "Man in Moon has told us what we need to do." North answered. Song, Narain, Dad and Mom looked at us.
"The kids?!" Mom exclaimed. "He wants us to send our kids into battle?!"
Dad put a hand on her shoulder. "Casey, they can handle it." he said calmly. "If Manny thinks our kids can do this, then we have to trust him."
Mom sighed. "Fine." She smirked and put a hand on my shoulder. I smiled up at her. Mom knew I was more than capable of taking care of myself. Honestly if I had to choose which one of my parents was more protective, I think that'd be Dad.
A voice behind us made us stop talking. "Is this a private party or can anyone join in?" Turning around, we saw a teenage boy standing behind us, a mischievous smirk on his face, his arms crossed with a staff in his right hand.
This was actually the first chapter i had typed up on this story, but i changed my mind on how to set it off after this chapter was done, so this became chapter 3. Yes, Casey's protective now. She has a 10 year old daughter who gets into almost as much trouble as she and Jack ever did. I say she has good reason to be protective.
A little insider on who the new guy is: I wont say his name, but he is a character thought up by my 10-year-old little brother.
Read and Review and next chapter, youll get to meet my brother's character.