Saw Rise of the Guardians and had a few ideas for a fanfic. This is the one I wanted to do. I am really looking forward to writing this! This is going to be rated T for a bit of abuse and blood.

To my Avengers readers, I know I haven't put up Tyler's story yet but the muse is being...difficult. I want to start on his story but then my mind gets so full of RISE OF THE GUARDIANS! When I want to write his story The muse is like, "mmmm nah lets go this way". So I am doing this to clear my mind so I can have enough room for Tyler. But read the story anyway, I am still thinking of Tyler and all the rest of them!

I own nothing but Reap.

Prologue

He was at it again. Her Father was mad because her Mother didn't do what he told her to do when he told her to do it. Every night he did this, right after he got back from the tavern in the village.

"You little hussy, I saw the way you where looking at my work-mate." He yelled as her mother cowered, repeatedly saying she was sorry. "And you!" He yelled and pointed over at his daughter.

Aniu was about 15 years old, marrying age in this world. Her hair was thick and curly, the color of bark and red leaves in fall. Her eyes, hazel like her fathers. She cowered beneath her father's rage. "I didn't do anything!" She whimpered as she backed into a corner.

"Exactly, you should have been married off by now! Instead you are in here away from everyone!" He yelled as she migrated over to the edge of the lit fireplace.

"But you said you didn't want anyone else looking at me" She said in a small voice just before he slapped her across the face, causing her lip to split and her to cry out in surprise. She hit the rug in front of the fire, paralyzed by fear.

Her father, a very burly man, then walked back to her mother and pulled her up by her hair. "I will break you for making my daughter weak" He said in his slurred drunken voice. He threw her mother into a wall where she came crashing down on some broken glass.

Her mother was bleeding, she was in trouble. Aniu was sure he was going to kill her this time. Something snapped in her, some long lasting line had been broken at the sight of her mother's blood. She looked into the fire, her back scratches already scabbing and adding to her collection of whip marks on the pale skin of her back. There was a long curved stick, almost like a staff, that was half out of the fire. She picked it up, the motion making the fire blaze out almost like the blade of a scythe. She snuck over to her father just as he was about to hit her mother and brought the large staff down on her father's neck, breaking the part that was on fire off. The force dazing him but she didn't stop until he stopped moving. She fell to her knees, feeling hazy, and crawled over to her unconscious mother and closed her eyes as the house was engulfed in flames.

Chapter 1

Everything hurt, her skin felt like it was on fire, and the cold. The wind blowing against her, it made her want to scream or cry, but she couldn't. She felt so helpless and confused, so dark and alone.

You are not alone little one a calm voice said in the distance in her mind. I have brought someone who will take care of you

And then the pain was gone, the cold was gone. She opened her eyes to see the bright full moon, larger then she had ever seen it. She looked around, the reminisce of her house where just a few logs sticking out of the ground and the fireplace covered with black. She looked closer in the night and saw that flowers had been picked and placed around the edge of the house. People had mourned her family's death.

"Who are you? Am I dead?" She asked, looking up at the moon.

"That is the man on the moon, and he has summoned me here. And yes, you have died but you have also been brought back." Said a deeper, more menacingly, calm voice.

She turned around to see a giant cloaked figure holding a scythe standing over her. Her stomach hit the ground and her eyes bulged with fear. The figure reached down with its left sleeve. From that sleeve appeared a skeletal hand that reached down to her. She closed her eyes, anticipating for the Grimm Reaper to touch her and claim her to the afterlife.

Seconds go by, nothing.

Minutes go by, still nothing.

She slowly relaxed and opened one eye, looking up. He was still standing over her but with a staff that was curved like the wood of his scythe in his left skeletal hand, only this one was smaller.

"Stand up little one" The Grimm Reaper said, a puff of fog appeared from his hood as he talked.

She did what she was told and stood up, the top of her head right at his chest.

"You have been chosen by the man on the moon to be my partner. To help me ferry soles to the afterlife, but you will be taking-in children's souls. Taking care of them until they are ready to pass or taking them Down if they still hold much anger and distain." The Grimm Reaper said, offering the staff to her.

She reached for it before he took it back again. "This is your choice Aniu. You don't have to take this responsibility if you do not want it."

"You mean, I can choose for myself?" She asked, a little surprised and scared. The Grimm Reaper nodded once.

She had never made a choice of her own in her entire life. What could possibly happen if she said yes or no? Many possibilities passed through her mind as she thought about this before she was brought back to the here and now.

"Yes Aniu, you can choose. I would suggest listening to your instincts, most of the time your gut feeling is the right feeling" He said, offering the staff to her again.

She looked at it, then back at him. "Why do you need a partner?"

"Because Manny Moon thinks I do, and for the same reasons he gives me I agree with him."

"And those reasons would be?"

"How did you feel when you saw me?"

"Terrified, and very confused." She admitted.

"Yes, and that is what children feel when they see me as well. But if they saw someone like you, soft spoken, kind, and protective then they would feel much better. For children who die, it is much harder for them to accept it because they are young. They have not yet been introduced to death or grasped the fact that they are going to die eventually. They fight it when they see me which makes things much harder on them. With you, you would be able to convince them and to help them accept that fact."

Aniu listened intently. She understood what he was saying. She looked at the staff again. Listen to your gut, well her gut was torn in half right now. She was afraid of failing, of disappointing the only person besides Jack and his family who really saw her as a person and not a possession. But she wanted the chance to do something, to help those who had passed to make it easier on them. She took a deep breath, her mind made up. "I will join you, and help you" She said, taking the staff, making sure not to touch his bone hand.

Thank you for accepting this great responsibility. You are now Reap Aniu Aurora, keeper of the soul just like GR The voice from before said.

"GR?"

"Short for Grimm Reaper. You also have a center that goes with your title, but you have to find it on your own. There is also something else about us Reap. We help and aid the Guardians when they need us." GR said, turning to the darkness. "Come, there is much I must teach you before you can start your responsibilities."

"Who are the Guardians and what do we help them with?"

"You will meet the Guardians within the day; they protect the children of the world from Pitch Black. You know him as the Boogie Man."

"So there is such thing as the Boogie Man. Mother said it was just a bad dream."

"And she was right. Pitch is the essence of everything evil and frightening in the world. Things that are black. What he does is makes children afraid, that is where he gets his power."

"Soooooo, kind of like what we do?"

"No Reap, nothing like we do. You must understand something." GR said, kneeling down to her, placing a gloved hand on her shoulder. "What we do, yes it is dark, but it is not evil as long as we don't let it become evil. Everything everyone dose is not only made up of black and white. In this and all worlds there are shades of gray in between. Dark is not always evil. What we do, yes it is dark I am not saying it is not, but it helps the people of the living find a sense of peace in dying. Because of you and me, they don't fear death like they did before me which makes Pitch weaker. We help take that fear away from him. What you do is you prevent children from fearing the afterlife. Even when people die, Pitch can still feed on the fear of their souls. What we do is dark, but it is also light." GR concluded.

She wasn't scared of him anymore. She could feel so much good in him, feelings that she had in life, feelings about other people's character and personality. He was a good, whatever he was, and he was trying to help her to understand her roll in this life. "So, what we do is gray?"

"Yes, if you want to look at it that way. Now we must be on our way." GR said, standing again.

"Wait, can I say good bye to someone?" She asked, looking back at the little town.

"They won't be able to see you, only people who have died can see you."

"I understand, but it's a personal thing"

GR sighed then nodded his hood. "Yes, but be quick, time has never, nor will ever bend to any one person."

"Thank you, I will be quick" She said as she ran down the path, her green and brown dress billowing behind her. She was running abnormally fast for some reason, almost like she was lighter than air. Just as she was reaching the edge of the town and thinking that this was going to take too long, a tingling on her shoulder blades made her look behind her.

Wings, black feathered wings had sprouted from her shoulder blades and where extending out. She looked forward and thought fly.

With one flap of her wings she was in the air and soaring over the rooftops of the houses. She indeed felt lighter than air, almost like she wasn't even there before she slammed into a tree.

"Ouch" She wheezed out before she climbed onto the branch she had hit. After catching her breath, she looked over the little town to the farthest part where there was a little frozen pond in the middle of a clear November night. She took her bearings before she spread her wings and glided down in that general direction.

She landed on the ice, sliding into the rock in the middle with a thud. Once she stood back up, her wings disappeared. She walked up to the small house and peered inside. Jack and his three siblings where sitting in their small room, looking sad.

"I can't believe she is gone. Why did she have to go" The little brown haired girl said. Sarah was her name.

Jack looked up, his eyes red. "I don't know. I can't believe she is gone ether. I keep thinking that she is going to pop up right outside and scare us, like she does every night, and then laugh her annoying…full and infectious laugh and say 'scared ya!'. I am really going to miss her" He said, taking a blanket and placing it over his sister. "Now get some sleep."

"Thank you everyone, for having me as a friend. And thank you Jack, for making me smile" Reap said.

Jacks head shot up "Did you hear something?" He asked urgently. He briskly walked over to the window and peered out of it, right past her. His brown hair in locks just to his eyebrow. His brown eyes staring intently out the window.

Reap smiled and then took off again. If she stayed here to long she would feel compelled to stay here forever. She flew back over to GR and landed on his right side. "Ok, I am ready" She said in a soft voice, her eyes tearing up.

"I know it is hard to leave your home, and I am sorry we asked this of you. But you where chosen just as I was. There is no one else more capable then you. I think I know how to cheer you up. I want to introduce you to a group of my colleges." He said, his own wings extending. "I could teleport us there in an instant but because you have never tried it and you just started we will save that for another time." GR said and took off, Reap right behind him.

"So who are we going to see?" She asked as they merged onto a jet stream taking them North.

"A group of my colleges that call themselves The Guardians. They were chosen by Manny Moon to be guardians and protect the children of the world. You have also been chosen but more as a helper for when they really need help. Every Guardian member protects something within children, and what they protect is their center. You have to find your center all on your own."

"Wonderful, so where are we going?" She asked as the green ground turned to white glacial snow.

She could hear him smile as he said "The North Pole. Manny Moon has asked them to group there to meet you" He then pointed to a speck on a large piece of mountainous ice. "That is North's workshop, but you know him as Santa."

Reap gasped, shocked. "I knew he was real. My father told me it was all bull…manure" She said, blushing.

"No he is real, as well as everyone else. Now" He said, landing on a porch. "Stay behind me ok?"

"All right" She said in a nervous voice. She wanted to make a good impression, not to embarrass herself. As they both walked in, she stuck very close to him, making sure not to step on his cloak. She saw glimpses of things out of her peripheral vision but focused on keeping calm.

"GR, there you are. Right on time as always." Said a man with a Russian accent.

"Thank you for coming together on such short notice. I hope everyone is well?" GR asked.

"It was short notice; I mean Manny told us it would be important. Me and all my fairies are doing well." A fast female voice spoke.

"Well, I am doing well, I don't know about the big guy here I mean it's nearly Christmas." Another male voice, in an accent she had never heard before.

She heard something else, like the sound of sand when you toss it in the air.

"Yes Sandy, I am glad to see you too and I know it is very irregular but I want to introduce you to someone" He said, turning his cloaked head over his shoulder. "Her name is Reap Aniu Aurora, and she has been chosen to be my partner and a partial guardian when you need help."

Reap, holding onto her staff for dear life, slowly walked out from behind GR. Her eyes downcast as she smiled. "Hello" She said in a soft voice.

"Oh my goodness she is so cute" The female voice said. Reap heard the sound of something almost buzzing. She looked up to see a face with purple eyes. She jumped back in surprise. The woman was flying on wings that buzzed, like a hummingbird. Every part of her except her face and hands where covered in bright colored feathers. "And look at this hair and those eyes. Bunny, look at her hair. It shines different natural colors in the light like gold and red" The woman said as she held up a lock of her curly hair. Her hair had changed, it wasn't just brown anymore, it did shine different colors and even when it wasn't in light.

"Crikey look at her eyes, they are the same thing. Is this what happened to you GR?" Asked a bunny type man with thick bent sticks on his back and black shapes in his fur.

"No I turned right into the creature I am before you" GR said in a clam voice.

Without warning, the woman opened Reaps mouth and poked at her teeth. "For someone who lived in this time, you have very strong and beautiful teeth. A bit yellow but we could fix that" The woman said. She taped a nail on each of the teeth and a tingling sensation went thru her mouth, she tasted mint when she closed her mouth again. "There, all fixed. Now you have teeth that sparkle like the stars" She said with a smile. A group of flying hummingbird/fairies flew over to her, all of them squeaking.

"Thanks but, who are you?" Reap asked, backing up a little.

"Oh, how silly of us for not introducing ourselves. I am the Tooth Fairy, but you can call me Tooth" Tooth said with a dazzling white smile.

"Really?! It's nice to meet you! So why do you collect the teeth?"

"Because they hold the most important memories of childhood." She said

"Then I must not have any because all my memories are horrible and scary" Reap said, hugging herself.

"No, of course not or you wouldn't have lost your teeth." Tooth said in a cheerful voice.

"But I still have two baby teeth."

"What?! Really?" Tooth said, intruding on Reaps mouth again. "Oh why yes you do! Mirror molars at that. That is very strange" She said more seriously.

"Don't crowd her Tooth. I am Bunnymund, the Easter Bunny. Nice to meet you" He said, extending his paw.

She took it and shook it with a smile. "I loved the eggs you hide in the trees; Jack and I would always be in a race to see who could find the most up there."

"Well thank you, this is the Sand Man" Bunny said, gesturing to a gold, very short, floating man who seemed to be made entirely of sand.

"But you can call him Sandy" Tooth said. Sandy smiled and nodded to her. She smiled back.

"Thank you for sending thoughs good dreams. I always looked forward to them when I went to sleep"

Sandy smiled, it almost seemed like he was blushing.

"And this is North, otherwise known as Santa" GR said, standing next to a large man with ink on his arms. He was about the same build as her father and the same height.

"Welcome to the POLE!" He boomed, marching over to her.

She didn't know why she did it, but she found herself backing away from him cowering like she did with her father. She was scared, even though she knew that he was not her father she was still scared of this man. "Please don't, I didn't do anything" She said in a panic, falling to the ground and covering her head with her hands.

"What?" North said, stopping dead.

"Easy North. Her father was about your build and he was very, very abusive" GR said, placing a gloved hand on his friends shoulder.

North looked from him, to Reap who was still cowering in the corner.

"How could someone do that to her?" Tooth asked, placing a soft hand on Reaps shoulder, she jumped, scurrying over to another aria of the room. "Maybe that is why she hasn't lost all her baby teeth. Because she doesn't have enough happy memories to fill them. Aww, the poor thing."

"Crikey mate, wish we could have done something to help" Bunny said as North sat down and pulled something out of his pocket. It was a small ceramic/glass white wolf. He placed it on the ground and taped it.

The small ceramic wolf shook its head and body and trotted over to Reap. It sat at her feet and wagged its tail. Reap reached a shaking hand down to it and petted it. The wolf jumped into her hand and up her arm to sit next to her cheek. For being made of a type of glass it was very warm. It licked her cheek and the warmth spread threw her body. She smiled at the wolf and looked up, North had not moved from his spot.

"I can't imagine what you have been through to feel like this, but I promise you I will never harm you in any way Reap." North said in his thick Russian accent.

Reap looked at him for a while and slowly got up. She tentatively took one step, then another towards him. He never moved nor made any motion to move. Once she was 2 feet away from him, face to face, she extended her hand. He closed his eyes as she reached out for him, feeling his soft skin and thick wiry beard. She ran her fingers threw his whiskers when he laughed like a little child and fell on his side. She immediately backed away, afraid.

"That tickles" He said between breaths.

She smiled and walked over to him again, tickling him until she too was laughing. Once they both caught their breaths. She stood up again. "I am sorry that I did that. I don't know what came over me" She said squeezing the now still wolf.

"Do not say sorry for being defensive. It was how you learned to survive with that man. I will never push your boundaries Reap." He said, slowly standing up. A large Yeti came over with a big mug of hot chocolate. She took it and sipped. "Feel better?"

"Much thank you. It really is a big pleasure to meet you North, even if I did freak out on you." She said tentatively.

"And I am sorry for charging at you like that. I should have been more careful." North said with a big smile.

Reap smiled as well. She still felt nervous around him but not scared.

"Well we must be going." GR said, heading back the way he came.

"But you just got here!" Tooth complained as she flew in front of him, blocking his exit. "I mean when was the last time you actually said hi or relaxed a little. I know how working all the time is a big thing trust me, but you need some rest and relaxation."

"I can't afford to relax and rest, nor can the souls who would be lost without me. I am sorry Tooth, but we must go" GR said turning to Reap. "Come, your training starts now"

"Ok, thank you for everything" She said smiling to each of the four. She offered the wolf back to North but he shook his head.

"Early Christmas present, keep it" He said, winking and then laughing.

She smiled, thanked them all, and then fallowed GR out of the workshop and off to her training.

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