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Madylyn carefully walked through the doors to her house once more, this time with her body, though she was covered in mud to mask the scorches and blood. She turned and tried to silently close the door in hopes of not waking the house, and as it seemed luck was on her side this time. She tip-toed trough the dark house to her room slowly opening the door and walking in. She sighed as her door latched close and she turned on the light. She looked around her room and slumped against the wall. She looked to her left and saw the notebook sitting on her desk; she grabbed it and began writing down what she had been told by the creature.

"The master tried this once before and failed. She was a being of pure evil, the embodiment of chaos, oh she was magnificent. But jealousy was rampant among the others, so they trapped her in a world that she would never be able to get powerful in, and they separated it from yours. But she knew a way to bring them together, by creating a bridge. Years ago when last she attempted this, the spell was done wrong and the worlds never met. This time, the bridge was improperly destroyed, and here we are. And more importantly, here you are."

"Should have dropped his sorry cryptic ass in the water before I let him speak." She mumbled to herself as she stared at what she wrote. "I'm not any better off than before." She groaned before standing and walking to collapse on her bed a few feet behind her. A good night's sleep will help her figure out what to think of this.

Madylyn's eyes shot open and stared up at the sky, the moon stared back at her closely. She slowly rose with a groan and looked around, her eyes landing on the white hair sticking out not too far from her. "Jack?" She asked carefully as she slowly crawled over to the boy, hope rising in her that maybe she had just dreamt everything that had happened lately. But her heart sank when she reached him and saw the fear in his eyes, his chest rising and falling violently with his pained, gasping breathes, the life slowly fading from his body."Jack!" She shouted as laughter filled her ears.

She turned and was met with the sight of the woman who had done this, her dark cold eyes glued to Madylyn's form as she felt tears stream down her face. "See what happens when you are selfish?" She asked coldly.

"Tell me who you are." She demanded with a cracking voice.

Laughter was her only response as the woman disappeared and Madylyn looked back to see Jacks last breath and as her vision clouded with tears she looked at the area around her again and saw all the guardians lying dead, as well as her family, her little sister laying lifeless feet away from her. She felt a scream of agony and anger tear from her throat at the sight and as the sound deafened her ears her vision slowly faded into nothingness.

Madylyn shot up panting as she frantically looked around her room. Her heart raced as the images from her dream flashed in her mind again. She looked at the clock on her bedside table and saw the numbers brightly flashing the time. It was still before 5 a.m., way earlier than she would ever be up, but after that dream she certainly wasn't going back to bed anytime soon. She groaned as she threw her legs over the side of her bed and stood and slowly made her way to the bathroom to shower, trying not to stumble in the dark.

Her groggy mind struggled to catch up with her actions and she found her mind trying to drift off back into sleep as she stepped under the stream of water. She shook her head and turned the water onto the coldest setting and as the freezing liquid touched her she felt her mind jolt fully awake. She shook her head before turning the water back to warmer temperature and she leant against the wall as the water cascaded around her. The dream she had was replaying in her mind, the words that woman had spoken echoed in her ears as the images of her bloodied friends played heavily on her mind.

She wasn't sure how long she stood in the shower thinking about what was going on, but soon the water started to run cold and so she shut the water off and stepped out. She wrapped the towel around her head and tied her robe on as she heard her bedroom door open and her parents walk in. She groaned as she remembered that last night she had gotten home after they had gone asleep, and she was not looking forward to the lecture she'd be getting from her mother. She rubbed her temples before opening the door and walking into her now bright room and greeted her parents with a grunt. She yawned as she walked to her closet and began looking for an outfit for the day.

She stopped as she heard her mother's panicked voice speaking urgently, "Lyn. Lyn, wake up! Sweetie!"

She rolled her eyes as she turned to look at her mother, "Mom, I am awake." She said in an annoyed voice, but as her eyes landed on her bed and she saw her body she yelled annoyed. "Oh for the love of god!" She cursed as she walked back over to the bed and laid her hand on her shoulder, feeling her soul being sucked back into her body. She opened her eyes and looked annoyed at her mother hovering above her, "Mom, get out please." She said dryly and her mother's face filled with relief and she wrapped Madylyn in a tight hug and squealed, "Mom seriously, out."

"Oh, you wouldn't wake up, I was worried something had happened to you." Her mother frantically said as she held onto her tighter, "Don't scare me like that."

"Mom, stop!" Madylyn yelled, prying herself out of her moms grip, "I am not made of glass, I am fine, stop treating me like I'm gonna die any second! God, this is getting so old." She ranted, "I'm gonna go, please stop all this." She finished with a pointed look at her mother as she got out of bed and ran to the bathroom and slammed the door behind her. She had too much to worry about without her parents constantly getting worried about her every move. She needed to figure out what was going on and how to stop it, but to do that she needed to know who that woman is. She needed to get to the library and do some research on her. She sighed as she looked in the mirror and smiled as she saw that her body had thankfully taken on the shower she had had earlier. She brushed out her hair and pulled it into a tight bun before walking out into her bedroom and pulled out jeans and sweater for the day.

She grabbed the notebook she had been keeping her notes about this in and stuffed it in her bag as she ran out of her room and quickly out of the house. It was a brisk day, and as she looked up at the sky she saw the clouds were thickening and she sighed as she wrapped her coat around her tighter, the bruise picking up and she swore she saw hints of snow in it. She made her way to the library as she ran through exactly what she needed to search to find who was behind this. She had the lava creatures to go off of, and what the one had told her, useless as it may appear. Beyond that she could search for references of worlds molding together and that whole bridge thing. How far any of that would get her was yet to be determined. She arrived at the library and got to the computers and began her search, starting with the lava creatures.

Madylyn looked down at her watch and groaned, she had been researching for four hours, gone through at least fifty books, thousands of websites and more lore than she ever thought existed and she had yet to find anything useful, she had crossed off multiple leads though. She looked down at her notebook and crossed off yet another lead; she had spent her entire day here and had nothing to show for it. But she had one more search to do, so she typed in a search for Jack Frost. She had to know what there was for that.

The search results came up with the fables of Jack Frost and of course the horror movie with the snowman, but no mention of the Rise of the Guardians. "Well at least the world hasn't had the knowledge of him erased." She mumbled to herself as she shut off the computer and gathered all her papers, shoving them in her bag and began her walk back to her house. She had her notebook out and was reading through some notes she had made as she was stopped at the crosswalk when something caught her eye. She turned to look at what it was when she swore she saw a flash of grey fur. She shook her head and turned back to her book as the light changed, but as she took a step forward something bolted in front of her.

"Hey what the hell?!" She shouted after it, following the thing with narrowed eyes. It wasn't a vehicle, which means… "It can't be." She mumbled to herself as she shook her head and continued her walk back home. She was now seeing flashed of the Guardians, she laughed to herself as she realized she might need to get some more sleep. When she arrived home she went straight to her room and locked herself in. She didn't want her mom to smother her anymore, she needed to be away from her for a bit.

For hours she sat up in her room before she heard her father calling for dinner, she sighed and slunk downstairs. It was a lovely meal, and for the first time since the accident her mother didn't coddle her during the meal and after dinner was done her mother simply retired to her office, intent on working on a case before going to bed. Madylyn sat on the couch as her father put Mary to sleep, eventually she got up and began looking over the books they had on the bookcase curious as to what was added when she wasn't paying attention. There was one book that caught her eye in particular; it was a lore book from her grandmother and had pictures of the lesser known deities of Babylonian mythology, but she remembered they never had names or anything about them; it was just a picture book for kids.

She began aimlessly flipping through the book, not really focusing on anything particular when she suddenly froze. There on the page was the woman staring at her, she had found it, she had found out who the woman was. She stood staring at the picture as her father came down the stairs, "Hey, what have you got there?"

"Hey, do you know who this is?" She asked her dad, holding the book up for him to see.

"I don't, that would be a question for your grandma, she's the one that knows about all thins Babylonian nonsense." He said with a smirk, "What's got you so interested all of a sudden?" he inquired.

"Nothing, just curious." She responded softly, still staring at the book. "Hey how long has it been since I've visited Grandma?" She asked and her father thought for a second.

"A year." He responded after a moment of silence, "Why?"

She smirked, "I think I'm gonna go visit her, alone." She said looking up at her father's confused expression, "Look, I'm getting smothered here by you and mom and everyone, I want to have some time away, and what better place to go than to spend some time with my grandma who I never get to see. And I have enough money to pay for a trip out to see her. Remind me where she lives again."

"Hawthorne, Philadelphia." He father answered, "Although lately, she's been calling it Burgess." He laughed and Madylyn looked at him shocked.

"Well, that's convenient." She mumbled, "Alright, well I'll find a flight out and call her to make sure it's okay for me to come out." She said as she walked up to her room and slumped against the door. Burgess, of course it is. Well, at least she was figuring out who was behind all of this and how to fix everything and make it go back to normal. She looked at the picture on the book once again and glared at the red eyes that stared back at her. She need to find out who exactly she is and what she wants.

Well, there you have it, I hope you enjoyed it! Please leave me a review and let me know what you think. Until next time my loverlies.

-Badjuju is out