Hey there! Here is the second chapter of my RoTG Fanfic! Thanks so much to Skyfire Earthrain and Arwin Fred for reviewing. You guys are great. And sorry about the "Fenix" thing. :( I'll get it right next time! Thanks again! -AH
Waking Up
I can hear voices but my eyes won't open yet. I try to think about what just happened but it comes back in flashes thanks to being half-asleep. Free Fall. London. Jack Frost. Running. An Ally. Did I kiss Jack! Oh wait I was messing with him. Sandy. Damn it.
"You had no right to do this to her!" I recognize that voice! Ember! Ember is here!
"It was not our fault we ask her but she say no. As a Guardian she needs to be part of meetings." North says is his heavy accent.
"She is not a Guardian! And you can't force her to be. I'm taking her home." I feel Ember's heat come towards me and try to smile at her. but then a blast of cold blocks her off.
"You're not taking her. North is right as a Guardian it is her duty to help." Stupid Frost let me leave!
"Do not think that you can stop me. You're just a little boy." Ember's voice has always carried a threatening edge that I love in situations like this. If Fever was also here they would be unstoppable. I felt it get a little colder signalling that Frost was feeling threatened. Luckily the cold fully awakened me.
"It's okay Ember don't hurt the gutter-puppy." I sit up my eyes open and look at my other best friend. Ember of course has the same gold eyes as Flare but instead of curly red hair Ember has short straight ink black hair that cut off at her shoulders. She was wearing black skinny jeans and a black tank top with a red salt marching band coat and black combat boots. I've always loved her sense of style.
When she sees i'm awake she pushes past Frost and kneels down next to me. She puts her hand on my face moving it a little to check for injuries. I swear I have the greatest best friends ever! I catch her hand and return it back to her smiling all the while.
"I'm okay Ember." I tell her. Then I stand up and walk a few steps before turning to look at the Guardians who were all looking at me and Ember with somewhat unhappy faces. Tooth comes forward though.
"Hey Summer. It's been a while!" I give her a hug which she returns. Despite the whole Guardian thing i've always had a soft spot for Toothiana. I smile at her as we pull back.
"Way too long Tooth. They should have sent you we may have been able to stop all that dream dust buisness. By the way thanks a lot Sandy." I look at the gold man who just answers with a halo appearing over his head. "Yeah right." I say giving him a no no look.
"Well since i'm here you may as well tell me North, what is it this time?" I cross my arms over my chest and look at the not so jolly St. Nick.
"Summer you don't have to-" I cut Ember off.
"They got me here you know how Flare would feel if it was all for nothing." She nods and stands behind me eyeing the Guardians with mistrust. I can't exactly blame her.
"I have heard from good source that... Pitch is planning something. Something big." I sigh but no one can really hear it over the exclamations of surprise and outrage from the others. But one voice rings out over them.
"Pitch cant be back. We sent him back to his dirty little cave where he belongs." The pure rage in Jack's voice peaks my interest a little. I hadn't heard the whole story of what exactly happened last year but from what I had heard there was some kind of legendary showdown between the two.
"It is true Jack. I have trustful source. Plus, I feel it in belly." This time my sigh is heard and everyone turns to me.
"Pitch again? Why in the Mim would you need me for this? You guys had it handled last time without me. Hell you even got a new Guardian out of the whole thing! Let Frosty the snowman take care of Boogeyman Black." I say feeling like my time has been wasted. Something in my speech must have struck a chord with Jack because he advances towards me.
"Did they call and ask you to come last year?" It could have been my uninterested stare or the fact that I was playing with my nails but he seemed to think I answered his question. "Why in the hell wouldn't you help?! Sandy died fighting him! Almost every child in the world stopped believing! Tooth's Palace was ransacked and all the fairies and baby teeth were taken! Some Guardian you are!" He was actually in my face now and Ember made to step forward but I hold up my hand to stop her. I look right into his ice blue eyes.
"I am not a Guardian. I never have been and I never will be. Because I don't want to be. It is my choice and I said no." I say in a cold voice that would send shivers down the spine of a fully grown man.
"It's not something you have a choice in. I didn't want to be a Guardian either but The Man in The Moon Chose me just like he chose you. Although from what i've seen I don't know why." Out of the corner of my eye I could see that Ember was fuming by this point. I was pretty angry now too. How dare he criticize me! Who does he think he is, God? I step towards him making him take a step back.
"The Man in the Moon has no say in what I do with my life. He lost that power when he didn't speak to me for almost 2000 years. And who in the hell do you think you are Jack Frost? You walk around the words with your the little snowflakes acting like you're a god when all I see is a stupid little boy who doesn't know when to shut up for his own good." I've made him take some more steps back and the smile on his face is almost gone. "Oh poor little Jackie Frost doesn't remember his past and he has no one to talk too. All those years whenever I saw you acting so cool and like you didn't care. You want to know the words that would come to my head? Pathetic, weak, pitiful, worthless. But I should expect that from a the Spirit of Winter." I spat out the last word like it was a bad taste on my tongue.
"Don't ever think that your words will ever hurt me Frost. I'm not just a pretty face. And i'm not always so nice." I turn around before he can say anything and join Ember. "Now I think that my point has been made. I don't care about this whole Guardian thing. Don't bother me again." I turn on my heel Ember following suit. I open the doors to the balcony when North's voice rings out.
"He is planning on waking him." I freeze my hand holding onto the door handle my eyes wide and unblinking I feel my body go as rigid as a board. and it seems like all the heat has left the room and my body at those 6 little words.
"That is why it was so important you be here. We need you for this. If only at least to warn the keeper of the keys. You know almost all the spirits. You must have idea or two of who the keeper is?" I take a deep breath to calm myself enough to turn around.
"How sure are you about this North. And if you are lying I will make your life a living hell you can be sure." Everyone was looking at me now with confused faces at my change in mood. I've known all of these people most of their spirit lives, not Jack of course but he wasn't so much of a moron that he couldn't tell when something had shifted. I do not show fear, it's what people look up to most. I'm the confident and easy going Summer who has a big bite not a scared and serious worrier.
"I am sure. Do you know the keeper?" I shake my head.
"No I don't and even if I did I couldn't tell you. Not to mention you would also have to find the keys which is a problem in and of itself. Six keys equals six people you would then have to track down not to mention the seventh key that we don't even know if it is a person or an object. Hell it could even be a word." I start to pace back and forth knowing that i'm not making any sense to the others in the room. North and Ember are the only ones here who know what i'm talking about.
"What are you all going on about? What keys?" Bunny asks finally fed up with our silence. I look up and decide after a minute to tell them.
"The Seven Keys Guarded by The Keeper of keys also known as the First Guardian or Guardian against the apocalypse. One day thousands upon thousand of years ago The Man in The Moon assigned one of his spirits with the task of taking care of and hiding the seven keys saying that if these keys were ever used together they could awaken the most powerful evil the world has ever known. This evil almost defeated The Man in The Moon but M.i.M. was smart and realizing that he could not truly defeat this evil he placed it in a deep slumber. A slumber which he could only awaken from if you fed him the seven souls. Or keys as they are now referred to as." I looked up to see all of them looking at me with rapt attention. Even Jack had stopped his death glares and had the good sense to looked worried.
"To keep the world safe the keys were spread out far and wide all over the world so that no one would know what they were. Of course since they were placed in human bodies they could die. The keys would then take the body of a newborn after their old bodies expired. This way no one could ever identify the keys. No one that is except for The Keeper. Now the Keeper's identity is also a secret but He or She has the powers to know where the keys are at all times. Except the seventh key." I pause for a second to catch my breath. Everyone was sitting down on the couches and I had moved over to stand in front of the fireplace.
"To make sure that The keys could never all be used The Keeper did something. Something horrible and against the laws of nature to make themselves forget where and who the seventh key was. To this day the seventh key is lost to everyone. But there is a way to identify the seventh key that the Keeper didn't count on. Once six of the keys have been used the seventh will awaken and once they know who they are it only takes a small amount of magic for the truth to come out. One act of pure power and it would all be over. The Key would be found out and The Beast will awaken after feeding on it's soul." I look up and stare into each of their eyes one by one.
"If the Beast is awakened unspeakable evil will be spread across the land, natural disaster will be a thing of the past. I'm talking Super Storms in every city, every country. Pandemonium through the streets, hope, memories, love, all will be forgotten because the Beast feeds on those emotions ripping them out of you until there is only hate and fury and fear. The human race will be reduced to savages and the world to ruin. Billions dead the streets lined with bodies. Until finally when the world is an empty husk of what it once was The beast will consume it then go onto the next world scavenging until it finds it's next meal." I finish the gruesome tale then with a small cold voice.
"Losing believers will be the least of your problems if Pitch Black succeeds. There won't be any children to believe anyway."
I know I kinda went overboard with the darkness in this chapter but I want to get the problem in here soon so I can start in on the good stuff!
Any way tell me what you think! Some serious hating going on between my two supposed lovebirds :( Don't worry Jack and Summer won't hate each other forever! But I thought that I should get the fact that they really are polar opposites in here and they are kinda meant to not get along. It'll all work out in the end though so bear with me!
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Lot's of Love -AH