First chapter

Okay, so I've had this idea for a while, or rather I've had the idea of making a RotG fanfic for a long time, but I haven't really had a good plot, but I think i have one now, so let's see how it goes!

Anyway, this chapter is told in first person perspective, from the view of my OC Temperance Jones/Tempora, and the next will be from Jack's perspective, and then it'll go to third person telling.

My name is Temperance Jones. I'm currently lying on the bottom of a lake, in the middle of the park. I'm not scared; in fact I embrace the thought of dying. Not that I didn't have a happy life, but the life I'm going to hold in my death, will be so much better. I look up at the hole in the lake. The ice broke under my feet and I fell in. nobody even knows I'm here and they won't find out until they search the lake as a last resort for my body. Then they'll find me, cold and frozen, with blue lips and white skin. They'll try and move my body to the surface, but won't be able to. I can tell already now, that I'm too entangled in branches and weed here at the bottom. At some point, they'll give up and this lake will be my grave.

But… this isn't the first time I've died. The life I'm leaving is my third, granted by the man in the moon. He gives me the chance to be reborn every 150 years. I don't know why he allows me a new life, but I have accepted two times before none the less. Maybe I hoped to learn all there is to know, or maybe I just hoped to see him again. A boy, whose name I have long forgotten. I only remember his face.

I also remember the day of my first death. It was a perfectly normal day, and winter was at its end. In fact, the very first day of spring was to come the day after, along with my birthday. I had been playing all day in the woods along with the boy and some of our friends. I remember his smile and it feels me with warmth for a short second. Then I say goodbye to all of them. I start walking home and feel like something's wrong. The animals were starting to wake up after the long winter. Then it happened. I could hear loud footsteps. At first I thought my friends were playing tricks on me, but the footsteps sounded too… loud. Like a trunk of wood being dumped on the ground. The sound got louder, and I heard a low growl. I turned around and saw a bear staring at me. We had all heard stories of a man eating bear residing in the woods, but I had myself never believed in it. But there it was, just like it had been described. It looked at me with hungry eyes and I started running. I still had a long way home, and suddenly I tripped over a root that was sticking out of the ground. I landed on the ground with a loud thump and turned around quickly. The bear had caught me. It made me feel strangely at ease. I felt it claws shred my skin, and screamed. I became the hungry bear's first meal after a long winter.

I woke up a few months after that, in early fall. I had no idea what had happened, but I got up and looked at my body. It was whole again and I looked up at the moon. It sounded like someone was talking to me. 'You, who love each season equally, I have given new life' the voice said, and I realized it was the man in the moon. My mom used to tell stories of the Guardians, where the man in the moon had been the very first. He kept talking to me, and I realized that it was autumn. I looked back at the moon, and he spoke his last sentence 'you who love all the seasons, shall be granted the power of all four. You shall be able to change according to each season' the moon stopped talking and I looked around. I touched one of the trees and was amazed when it froze. I realized I was in what I call 'winter mode' now, and started running around, making it all into real winter weather. I called myself 'Tempora' and it stuck. Mother Nature took me in after I ran into her near my home town. She even helped my family's land get better and I was able to live on without fearing for them.

Second time I died was 133 years after that. I know because it was the day before my birthday again. I was walking in the woods, looking for berries, when I heard a loud bang, then felt something penetrate my chest. I had been shot by a stray bullet. The people who shot me quickly came to my aid, but the bullet had hit me right in the heart. It didn't take long to become Tempora after that, but memories of my past life had disappeared, except for my day of death and the boy's face. I want to see him again, maybe in my next life.

I was revived again 17 years ago. This was my most eventful life. But also the one I had most problems with. The pain from my first death started to come sometimes. I held in the screams of pain when I was in school or at a friend's house, telling them that my heart was hurting again if they started to worry. I remember nearly everything from this life. My mom, my sister and my school. I even had a boyfriend, his name was Kyle. His loss will be the biggest. For I never truly loved him. Not that he was unlovable, for he truly was. He was amazing, and one of the last gentlemen on earth.

I feel my heart slowing down and a smile appears on my face. I'll miss everyone from this life, but I can't help but feeling happiness here in my last minutes. For my real life, one I'll hold for 150 years after dying or longer if I don't want to be revived. I'll be Tempora again, and I'll finally be able to do magic again. I have tried multiple times in this life, but to no avail.

Suddenly the thought of why I went out on the thin ice goes through my head. I try to think about why I did it. Then I remember it was because I saw his face, standing there on the middle of the lake. Maybe it was just my imagination, but I walked out to him anyway. I wasn't freezing, even though I'm only wearing skinny jeans and a t-shirt. I fell through the ice when I reached out for his face. I wanted to touch it, after dreaming of him for almost 300 years. But the ice cracked under my feet and I fell in. and now I'm here, dying.

I don't fear my next life, or fear about my body. I know from the last time that mom, or Mother Nature will see to me getting a new body. Now my thoughts start to fog up, and I see the moon through the hole. I remember my sisters Night and Day and smile a little more, for I know they'll be so happy to finally see me again.

But one thing concerns me. When I wake up tomorrow, covered by a thin layer of snow, I'll only be visible to those who believe in the guardians. Not that I am one of them, but I am a spirit, just like the guardians themselves. And it means that none of my friends will see or hear me. They might even think I drowned myself on purpose. But it was an accident.

My name…. Is Temperance… Jones… and in a few… seconds… I'll be… Tempora… wielder… of the four seasons...

End of chapter.

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The picture for this chapter is up on DA

Just search Rise of the Guardians Tempora, and it should be there.