Chapter 8

Tooth

It would have been better if Billie Valentine had cried. Instead, she dropped to the floor and shrieked with pain and sadness. Her head dropped into her lap, and her hands clung onto her crimson red hair. Jack was by her side in seconds, consoling her and telling her that everything was going to be okay.

"It's all my fault," she sobbed, wiping the tears away from her pale face.

"No, no it's not," Jack told her, whilst putting his arm around her.

She turned to look at him, "Yes it is!" She cried, "if I hadn't stood up from behind the bush, Draco wouldn't have started a fight and Myrnin would still be alive!"

North placed a hand on Billies shoulder and said, "and if you hadn't surrendered, we would have never found you."

Billie turned to face North, "Why was finding me so important to you guys?"

"Because you were chosen, like we were all chosen, by Man in Moon," North responded, pointing up towards the Moon.

Billie stood up and gazed at the moon before asking, "Chosen to be what?"

"Chosen to be a Guardian," North answered, taking a step towards the girl, "we protect the children of the world, and keep them safe. We bring wonder, hope, dreams, memories and fun. For as long as they believe, we will guard them with our lives."

Billie didn't say anything for a while, but when she did, she took a step forward so she was standing underneath the shining beam from the Moon.

"What do you guard them from?" She asked, "the children, I mean,"

"Pitch Black, the Bogeyman, and fear," North replied, sternly.

Billies white eyes widened at the sound of the Bogeyman's name.

"Pitch," she whispered to herself, "he's the person who Draco and Darcy were talking about."

Jack stood up and walked over towards where Billie and North were standing.

"What did they say about him?" Jack asked, gingerly.

"Nothing important, they just mentioned his name a couple of times," she replied. A couple of seconds after, she turned back to face north,

"Why was I chosen to be a Guardian?"

There was an awkward silence as no one answered Billies question, so I decided to answer her.

"In your past life, before you were chosen by Man In Moon, you must have done a good deed," I began, "Man In Moon wouldn't have chosen you unless you had something very special inside of you."

I could tell that Billie was thinking very deeply about what I had just told her. She was one of those people who you could see thinking from their facial expressions. Her eyebrows furrowed together, and small creases appeared on her forehead.

"But..." She started talking, but she stopped unexpectedly, "hang on! Did you just say that I had another life back then? Before I was chosen?"

Me and Jack exchanged a glance.

"You don't remember, do you?" Jack questioned.

Billie shook her head, "I only know my name because the Moon told me it. It's been driving me insane! I thought I'd lost my marbles!"

Jack chuckled, softly.

"Will I ever remember my past life?" Billie asked.

"Of course you will!" I exclaimed, "I can give you your memories now if you want?"

Jack shook his head and mouthed, "Don't,"

Billie gasped with excitement, "Really? How?"

"I'm the Guardian of Memories," I told her.

"But you're the Tooth Fairy," Billie said.

"Yes I am, but that's why we collect the teeth. They hold the most important memories of childhood. I keep them in my Palace, and whenever someone needs to remember what's important, me and my fairies help them," I answered.

Billie was about to say something back to me when Bunny carefully got up, gripping his bandaged arm tightly.

"Billie," he said, "can I have a word?"

Billie

There were too many questions running through my head: Who was I in my past life? How did I die? Did I have a family? A home? Friends?

I needed to find the answers desperately because maybe, just maybe, I might understand why I was chosen to be a Guardian. But there was another question that I needed an answer to badly: how did Myrnin die?

"Okay," Bunny started to say, "you're probably gonna hate me after this, but it's not your fault that the fox died."

Bunny had taken me to a small alcove far away from where the other Guardians were because he wanted to talk to me about something.

"What do you mean?" I asked him, suspicious as to why he had told me this now and not before.

I waited a while for him to answer. He looked really guilty and hurt, and I could tell that he was hiding something from me. He swallowed and said,

"It was my fault, I'm really sorry."

I felt my heart break, and I could feel my eyes welling up with tears.

"It can't have been you, you were fighting off Draco and Darcy," I replied.

"I was, but I sensed that there was someone else behind the bush, so I went over to see who it was, "Bunny told me.

"It was Myrnin who was behind the bush, wasn't it?" I asked.

Bunny looked at me with a sympathetic expression, and nodded slowly,"Yeah, yeah he was."

"I don't understand," I murmured, "how was his death your fault?"

There was a moment of silence before Bunny said,

"Because when he saw me he ran away. I chased after him but something sliced my arm open," he looked at his wound before saying, "it was Draco. I was about to throw one of my boomerangs at him, but I was so weak that I fell over."

I could tell that Bunny was trying to hold back tears, but he didn't let them loose.

"Draco got him," he croaked, "it happened so quickly, but it was sick. I should have gotten up, I should have saved him...but I couldn't."

I saw a tear fall down his furry face, and that's when I knew I couldn't hold my tears in any longer. I cried so much that it hurt my stomach. I had only known Myrnin for a short amount of time, but he saved me from being killed, and that's why I was deeply upset. I was also upset because Bunny was upset as well.

"No, it's not your fault," I told him, nearly choking on my tears, "you tried to save him, I didn't."

He gave me a broken smile,

"You didn't need to save him, but I did," Bunny said.

We didn't say anything else about Myrnin. His death was the past, and my being was the future.

Draco

"Where's the girl?" Was the first thing that Pitch asked me and my sister, Darcy, when we arrived back at the Lair.

"Where do you think?" I snapped back at him.

He glared at me before clasping his hands behind his back while strolling towards us.

"No need for that attitude, boy, "he snarled, "my patience is running short so answer me properly this time, where is the girl?"

Darcy gritted her teeth, "She's with the Guardians!"

Pitch's face dropped,

"What?!" He literally screamed at the top of his lungs, "I told you specifically to bring her here!"

"And we tried!" I shouted back.

"Not hard enough!" Pitch roared in my face. He turned his back to us and started to walk away, "You know what's going to happen now, don't you? The Guardians are going to make her a fully-fledged Guardian, meaning that they will be more powerful than me," he turned back towards us, "this is all your doing! I hope you're pleased with what you have done!"

"If you wanted her so much, why didn't you go get her yourself?" Darcy asked.

Pitch scowled at her,

"Because you were made for killing! And I thought that you would have a better chance of killing her than me!" He turned to me, "I'm ashamed of you boy, you could have killed the girl easily seeing as though you're the one who's equipped with a scythe!"

I felt my jaw tighten with anger,

"Well I killed the fox!"

"So what? It's the girl I wanted you to kill, not the fox!" Pitch growled, "now that she's with the Guardians it means that killing her won't be easy, and worse of all the fairy will give the girl her memories back meaning that she will remember the nightmare I gave her, and then North will find some smart way of preventing my nightmares again like he did last year!"

I wasn't going to reply to him because I didn't know what to say, but a few minutes after an idea came to my mind,

"How about we steal Billie's tooth box from the Tooth Palace?" I questioned.

Pitch slowly turned his head towards me, a smile creeping onto his grey face.

"That's not a bad idea," he said, slowly, "it's not a bad idea at all actually."

I grinned, feeling quite proud with myself.

"You can't do that!" Darcy shouted, "That's just sly!"

Pitch turned to her, "Do you have a problem with being on my side?"

"Yes actually!" She cried, "it's not like I had a choice to be like you!"

Pitch's face dropped from pleased to furious. He slapped Darcy across the face, sending her flying. She hit her head off the stone stairs, making her mask fall off.

"No! Darcy!" I shouted after her.

"Go after her, and I'll kill both of you," Pitch hissed at me.

I looked at Darcy, trying to see if she was hurt or not. Her messy, puffy ash coloured hair covered most of her grey face, but I could see her golden eyes. For the first time ever, I could see that she was scared. Her lip was bleeding and there was a massive cut on the top of her head.

"But she's my sister!" I shouted at Pitch.

"Leave it Draco," Darcy growled under her breath, "you were always more evil than me." She slowly stood up, holding her panda mask in her hand.

"I don't want to see you ever again, girl," Pitch snarled at her.

I couldn't believe what was happening. I couldn't just let my sister get hurt, and I couldn't just let her walk away without me.

Darcy didn't say anything. She just wiped the dirty marks off her black dress, gave me one last look and turned into a raven before flying out of the lair. And that was the last time I saw my sister.

Alright, alright

Before I start rambling on, I just want to apologize for this sloppy, short and quite frankly boring chapter.

I just really wanted to update this while I had some time to 'cause I've been awfully busy :(

I PROMISE that the next chapter will be bigger, BETTER... and not too bright lol... that just didn't work meh.

But yeah I'm super sorry!

I know the story's storyline is moving like a snail right now, but by chapter 10 (I think) it WILL get better!

I'm sure that some people reading my fic will be like "Hey gurl get this fic on the road yo before I leave" haha joking obviously heh :3

But if you are one of those people who like this fic then I wuv youuuu!

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Sorry this is actually getting tooooo long oml.

(It's Friday and I'm happy that it's the weekend so spare me pweese :P)

Right well chapter 9 should be out soon (fingers crossed) so yeeaah...

Hmmmm I'm missing something important...

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A few songs have helped me to write this chapter:

Mona Lisa- Panic! At The Disco

Zombie- Family Force 5 (IDK why xD)

Now- Paramore

Stranger- Katie Costello