ug, work is a pain and my Christmas fro hell has just started. I work from today until Christmas evening, split shifts. Kids be thankful you don't have to get up at 5 am for work.

Sooooooo, I do hope I am not going to fast for anyone and if you hadn't guessed I love descriptive writing. I feel like I am best portraying the character whe I discribe them or what they are doing or what they have learned. I could go on and on describing things but I wont.\

So enough of my babbling, I am going to put a ling to by DA account because I usually have pics of what my OC's look like there.

But enough of me, time to read on!

Once Reap was back in the real world, away from the magic of the guardians, she really began to learn about her abilities and not just the magical ones. The first 50 years was one of the hardest, what with the plague. Most of the children died slowly, fighting for their life only to die in the end. It took most of her patience to convince one of the children that they were dead, not to mention what she had to do for an entire herd of them. She excelled with her compassion and sense of understanding, she learned very quickly that every child always asked the same things, and because of her lessons with the guardians about different cultures, she could answer them in the best way to ease that child.

She would regularly make visits to her hometown to check up on Sarah and be involved a little bit with living people. She even had children friends who were alive, but eventually they would grow up and die or die as children. She learned that the best power she had was the power of patience and the gift of being able to keep her promise to be there and help in any way she could. The children that where still with her, who hadn't moved on, would always help as much as they could by talking to newly deceased children to ease their fear.

Unfortunately, there was one case where she had to take a child Down. It was one of the hardest things she had ever done because she had to witness the entire thing. The boy had been brought up by a very cruel man who spent his days hurting people weaker than himself, and in doing so taught his son to do the same. She had tried to help him change, there had been others like him and they had all turned out for the better, but this boy was different. She gave him 5 years to change and tried to help him, but it seemed that over time, he only got worse. With him being able to do things invisibly he took much joy in scaring people, making them terrified. She had given him many warnings but he ignored each one. She was left with no choice in the end.

300 years since she had been resurrected, many things had changed. There were not as many child fatalities so she didn't need to take care of too many children at once. Her style had changed as well. She didn't wear dresses any more. She wore mostly knee length skirts with pants and hip-hop dance type shoes. She normally wore a type of corset tank top with a see threw sleeveless jacket. The speech that GR had given to her about their job being gray had really helped her. Her colors where mainly black and grays with hints of green, red, and brown. Usually her tops and pants where gray with some dark green in them and her skirts she wore over her pants and her arm guards where black as well as her see threw sleeveless jacket. She had also decided to put the hair that always got into her face into two thick braids that outlined her face.

She had made friends with a group of misfits in her home town. Jamie and his little Sister Sophie where always her favorites to hang out with because of their wild imagination. They would ask her many questions, like if she believed in Santa and the Tooth Fairy. "100%" She would always say. Sarah had disappeared 100 years prior to her meeting Jamie, and she was a bit worried. Reap knew where Sarah was sleeping but she still didn't know how to convince her that she needed to pass. She had special ties with Jamie for some reason; she could feel what he was feeling most of the time.

Currently, Reap was up in Canada when she felt it, Jamie was at a cross roads. He was doubting himself.

"Reap; you know you should not meddle in affairs of the living, nor in the business of the Guardians. Everyone comes to a point in their lives where the magic of childhood is lost." GR said, as Reap described what she wanted and planed to do.

"But Jamie is different, he believes whole heartedly in every mythic creature and legendary figure. Besides, can't you feel it?!" She urged.

"Feel what?"

"The world getting darker. It almost seems like the light is going out somehow."

"It is, it's called night."

Reap stomped her foot and practically growled in frustration. "That's not what I meant and you know it."

"I have been feeling it too Reap, if that makes you feel any better" Grim said from under the pile of his black dog pack, now asleep on top of him.

"Thanks little G, but I am trying to convince GR that we need to help."

"Help who" GR asked, his hooded head turning to her.

"I don't know, but I feel like we need to help someone, and that if we go to Jamie we will find who that someone is" She practically yelled.

"No, and you can't change my mind" GR said, turning back to what he had been doing before she had interrupted him.

"Fine, then I will go alone!" She growled and then stormed out of sight, Aniu close behind her.

"Why didn't you believe her? Is she wrong?" Grim asked, struggling to get out from under the dog pile.

"No she is not wrong, but she is the partial guardian not me. The legendary figures who deal with mainly children like North, Tooth, Bunny, and Sandy they are guardians and where chosen to be. She was as well but in a different way so she is not a full guardian. Besides, she needs to learn that she has to do things on her own, make her own decisions and mistakes and learn from them. Fallow her own intuition and not have to rely on someone else to tell her what to do." GR said, sounding defeated. He wanted to help her but he had to let her go out on her own. "But that doesn't stop us from keeping an eye on her" He said, standing up. All the Grims woke up and stood at attention.

"So are we going to fallow her?"

"Yes, but stick to the shadows, we don't want her knowing"

"Oh boy oh boy, a stealth mission!"

"You know, sometimes I question who is more mature, you or Reap" GR said before he began to glide into the forest.

Meanwhile, Reap was already in her hometown. Before she had gotten there however she had felt Jamie's faith fully restored. She still wanted to check it out. She landed on the top of a building only to find it shrouded in darkness, and not the normal darkness. Jamie was backed up into a corner with North, Tooth, a very small and cute Bunnymund, and a white haired teen in a bluish hoodie. She looked to the entrance to the little dead end and growled, so did Aniu. There was Pitch Black on a dark type horse made out of some type of dream sand. The Guardians looked awful. North looked like the old man he really was, Tooth was practically tripping over her wings, and Bunny was just that, a little bunny.

Jamie looked up and smiled at her. She put a finger to her lips and slowly glided down. Jamie's mouth hung opened and stared. Once she was right next to Pitch she rolled her eyes at the dark mans speech. The group of guardians was smiling at her.

"What are you all so cheery about?!" Pitch demanded.

"Oh nothing, just an old friend" Tooth said, waving.

Reap waved back, smiled at Pitch as he turned his head, and hit him right square in the jaw with the end of her staff. "Hi Pitch, I am Reap and I don't much like the way you are treating my friends." She said, walking over to Jamie, who ran over to her to give her a big hug.

"Oh, so this is Reaper, the Grim Reapers partner. Well that was a nice little trick, didn't hurt much." Pitch said, rubbing his pointed jaw.

"I wasn't really trying, but if you want me to I would be more than happy to oblige." She said with a big smile. Before Pitch could respond, the teen threw a snowball right at his face. Reap smiled "Oh that was beautiful, and very well timed."

"Thanks, now come on Jamie, let's go get your friends." Mr. White Hair said as he froze the street and everyone grabbed something to sit on.

Reap grabbed a plank of elongated wood and used it like a snowboard, riding the entire way right next to Jamie.

"Oh, and by the way. Reap this is Jack Frost" North boomed over the sound of everyone laughing.

"Introductions later, let's just kick this nightmares behind" She said, smiling over her shoulder. When she faced forward her heart skipped a beat and her stomach went right into the earth. They all stopped when they saw this enormous wall of black sand surrounding the town.

"Reap, can he hurt us?" Jamie asked. All the kids looked to her.

Somewhere in the middle of her visits she had become a kind of matriarch of the group. She looked up at Pitch as he laughed then looked back at Jamie and the rest of the kids. "Only if you believe he can. He's just a bad dream guys, and you know what I always say about them."

"They won't bother you if you don't let them." The all said in unison.

Jamie smiled. "Thanks Reap, you always make us smile and give us joy. It's hard to be anything but happy when you are around."

Reap smiled. That's all she every wanted people to be, happy and joyful, even when she was alive. She even wanted her father to be happy, which is probably why she did what she did around him and did as she was told. "Happiness and joy" she said aloud, then froze. "Happiness and joy, that's my center" She whispered, smiling to herself. She had finally found it.

"You will protect them?" Pitch said, laughing menacingly at what the blue hooded teen had just said. "Then who is going to protect you?!"

"I will" Jamie said, walking out in front. Soon the rest of the group fallowed.

"Still don't believe in the boogieman!" Pitch yelled, sending his nightmares forward.

"I do believe in you, I'm just not afraid of you" Jaime said, holding up his hand to the oncoming nightmares.

Reap held her breath as the giant wall of sand came towards them, and then a flash. Right as the black sand made contact with Jamie's hand it turned to gold dream sand bringing light back to the town and strength back to the Guardians. Soon the kids began to turn the rest of the nightmares to good dreams. Reap went over to where the guardians where fighting off Pitch. Just as she got there, a gold whip appeared and snagged around Pitch's hands, dragging him up and over to lay at the feet of The Sand Man.

"Well, he is screwed" Reap said, placing her staff over her shoulders and letting her arms dangle from the ends.

"He sure is, especially after he turned Sandy into black sand." Tooth said, flying right next to Reap.

"Wait, he did what?" Reap asked, anger filling up inside her. She turned around to see Pitch running off in the direction of the little pond where Sarah was sleeping. She followed him, sticking to the outside of the forest before North stopped him.

"Leaving the party so soon?" North asked.

"And you didn't even say goodbye." Tooth said, tossing him a quarter before punching him in the face, knocking one of his teeth out. "And that was for my fairies."

Reap walked behind him and taped him on the shoulder, her staff resting on her shoulder. Pitch turned around to glare at her before she swung her staff, this time full force, right at his face, sending him sailing to the right and knocking out 3 more teeth. "Wow a full dollar" She said with a smile.

"Na he hasn't been good enough" Tooth said with a smile, hovering right next to Reap.

"My god Reaper what was that for! I didn't do anything to you!" Pitch complained, rubbing his jaw.

"Well I guess there is a reason for each tooth. One, for threatening by friend Jamie. Two, for messing with my other group of friend. And three, for good measure" She said, grasping her staff and leaning her weight onto it, smiling down at him.

"You can't defeat me, not forever! There will always be fear" Pitch exclaimed.

"So what" North said. "As long as one child believes, we shall be there to fight fear."

"Really" Pitch said in a hushed voice as she smiled. "Then what are they doing here?" He asked, pointing to the nightmares who where just appearing all around them.

"Can't be my nightmares I am not afraid" North said. Reap, Tooth, Bunny, and Sandy all shook their heads.

"Looks like it's your fear they smell" Jack said before the Nightmares came flying past him right at Pitch and before anyone could do anything about it, he was gone.

"Now that was a very impressive turn of events" GR said, coming out of the forest.

Reap glared at him then turned her nose up, not looking at him.

"I guess I disserve that." GR said as Grim came rushing out of the trees and practically pile drived himself into Reap. She slipped and fell onto the ice with a thud, as she tried to pull herself from Grims arms.

"Ok little brother, stop!" she exclaimed.

"But that was so cool the way to hit him, then you where all like 'oh you sooo disserved that' and he was all like 'oh I am afraid'"

"Grim it didn't go like that at all" She said, exasperated at his overly dramatic gestures. She marched over to GR, pointed her staff at him and growled out "I am not talking to you."

"Oh, that's a little harsh don't you think?" GR asked.

Reap just stood there, crossing her arms, shifting her weight to one leg, and tapping her foot while glaring at him.

"Ok so it isn't harsh but I had to do it Reap. You are your own person and you had to learn that you need to make decisions for yourself and in doing so also respect the decisions of others. It's not that I didn't want to get involved it's that I couldn't. I am not a guardian like you and the rest of the group so I cannot meddle in their affairs until Manny Moon permits me to. It's not just a code it's a law."

Reap stared at him then sighed. "I just can't hold a grudge. Especially after that explanation. Maybe I am too soft."

"Well I wouldn't expect anything different from the guardian of Happiness and Joy. I am glad you found your center." GR said, placing a gloved hand on Reaps shoulder

"It's kind of ironic that my center is happiness and joy when what I do is a bit depressing" She said with a smile.

"Reap" Jamie said, coming over to her. "Why didn't you tell us you where not human?"

"Jamie of cores I am human, I am just a very very special kind of human like the rest of the guardians. Besides I am still me and nothing can ever change that." She said with a smile just as a great cheer sounded from the large group. "Looks like Jack Frost just got initiated into the Guardians club"

"And now, for the introductions. Jack this is the Grim Reaper and his assistant Grim" North gestured to GR and Grim who each shook Jacks hand, GR with a glove hand. "And this is Reaper Aniu who is GR's partner, we call her Reap" North said, guiding Jack over to her.

Reap gasped as they finally got to see each other. Jack stared at her for a moment before his eyes became almost distant as if he was remembering something. His mouth hung opened as his eyes became focused again.

"Aniu, Aniu Aurora?" He asked, almost skeptically and surprised at the same time.

HOORAY! THAT HAVE FINALLY SEEN EACH OTHER! Now the fun stuff happens. Questions, comments, concerns? Hit me up in the reviews!

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