Writer's Note: Taking a bit of a break form my Once-ler stories, I happened to watch Rise Of The Guardians which is fairly new in Australia right now, and came up with this idea. Hope everyone likes!
The wind blew on her face as rain and snow slapped her face. The mountains were cold and the hill was high. Paulina was scared, there was no denying that. She clung to the fur coat as she made her way through the snow, it being the only warmth she had. She desperately looked for something, anything actually. Anything that wasn't here. She heard someone call out her name. "Hello?" She replied, she ditched the fur coat and ran faster, searching for the voice. She finally came to a cliff. She saw someone on the other side, but she couldn't quite make out who it was. They kept calling her, telling her it was alright. She jumped, but fell. She fell down and down, calling out one thing. 'Help.'
She finally stopped falling and couldn't feel anything. Everything was black. "Hello?" She called, a light flickered on and she went up to it. It was a lamp on a desk filled with plans and paper. She looked at it back hid in the darkness when she heard a door open. "It's all ready." Said the darkened figure. "All I have to do is put it into play." A hand grabbed her arm and forced her into the light. She felt very frightened. "What do you want with me?" "No, no, not you. Them." The figure opened a dusty brown book and on a page it had 5 lockets and five pictures. "Who are they?" She asked, they all looked like a variety of crazy. "Important. And dreamful." Said the figure. "Dreamful? What do you mean?" "Dreamful, important, Dangerous. You see, they all dream." A hand extended to the picture of a boy with white hair. "Even one who isn't truly a guardian."
Paulina jumped up with a start. That dream was intense. She felt her forehead, she was sweating. She shook her head and got up. As usual, he mother was out in the kitchen making breakfast and her father was at the dinning table reading the paper. She kissed him on the head, "See anything interesting?" He shook his head, "No, nothing interesting here." She smiled and shook her head, walking up to her mother, "Whatcha makin'?" "Pancakes. Topped up with golden syrup." "Mm, mm!" Her mother laughed. As usually, whenever Paulina was served something delicious, she kinda savoured it. She didn't really notice, but everyone else did. Her mother called her a nibbler. When she finished, she wasted her plate and headed outside with her MP3 player, and a small bag as usual. In it held her IPhone which she even brought a charger for, Her iPad which also had a charger brought, and a few good books. Not to mention her secret things including her knife, which her parents had bought at a carnival for her, a small portable torch, for when the lights went out, and a case for her sunnies.
She never left her house without 4 things; her phone, her bag, her cowgirl hat, which was just basically a brown wide dimmed hat which she also got at a carnival, and her sunnies. She went to the park and sat down, she absolutely ADORED summer and spring, summer especially. Mainly because it was close to her birthday in April. The old oak tree she sat under felt so special to her. Other kids never even went near it because it seemed almost evil to them. Paulina didn't think so though, she thought it was very shady and when it was nighttime, it would let you see the starry sky and the moon. "Pauly! Pauly!" Her little sister, Raven, came trudging up. Unlike Paulina, who was 17 and out of school, her sister was only 6 years old. She was curious and very much like her sister. The name Raven suited her because of her long black hair. Paulina's hair, however was also black, but it was long and curly when none other of her family members had curly hair.
She would often look in the mirror and wonder about herself. Her skin was almost deathly pale, maybe because she always wore protection on her face, her eyes were a sparkling green like fresh spring nature, her nails were long and could do damage when provoked, but that was probably because she never cut them. She and her sister never had a single fight, a slight disagreement sure, but fights, No, Never. Her canines she thought, were a little bit longer than most people's and tinge bit sharper, but she's just special that way.
Her sister sat beside her, gazing at her book. "What are you reading this time?" "Ha ha, very funny." She said sarcastically. "Actually, this is called 'Pearl Hunters' and its about two people finding each other in a strange situation. "Wow, sounds cool." She gave her sister a right armed hug, "Yeah, it's pretty good so far." Suddenly something knocked her book over, she looked up to see some kids holding stolen newspapers. ."what are you doing now, freak?" They liked to tease her, mainly because elf who she was and her usual spot which was the tree. "Reading, what's it to you?" She called back, and picked up her book. Back in school, she had no friends, but didn't care. She had herself, her books, and her sister. A newspaper collided with her forehead, she wiped it with pain and glared back at the kids her teeth clenched, which showed off her canines more.
Her sister put her hands on her sisters, "Wait, Pauly, don't do it. They're not worth-" a newspaper hit her face which caused a bit of blood from the very side of her cheek. Paulina felt her wound and used a bandaid that she also had in her bag on her sister. "What'd you say, Mini-freak?" They laughed, Paulina burned with anger. "O.K, That's It!" She got up and trudged up to the kids, all of them ran away except to thrower, who was getting scared. You could see it in his eyes. Paulina smiled, she didn't like scaring people like this, except for the people she didn't like, then she just enjoyed it. She leaned in close to his face, "Leave." He ran away fast. She so wished her nails could've helped.
She rushed back to Raven who was on the verge of tears. C'mon, let's get you clean. She hitched a ride into town and blotted the wound with a small towel, that a connivence store owner had lent her, with water. The store owner also get Raven a small chocolate bar to get her mind of the wound. When they were riding home, Paulina stared out the window into the starry sky and put her hand on the window. They decided to walk the rest of the way home, and got off at the next stop. She carried Raven in her arms, who clung to her tightly. Both sisters loved each other very much, and would never do anything to hurt the other. Ever.
It wasn't really a busy night for Sandy. Same old, same old. But the joy of creating dreams for children was very enlightening. He looked down and spotted a bus. He fly next to it and saw a slightly sad looking girl looking at him. But she couldn't see him, it was a kind of cloaking device. Sometimes, when your in the sky, you don't want everyone to see what your doing. She placed her hand on the glass, to which he repeated. She was sad and lonely and by the looks of it, taking care of her younger sister. He followed them until they got off the bus. He went back to direct work after that.
Paulina looked up at the moon. It was so big and well...welcoming. It seemed like a friend to her sometimes. She felt like she could talk to it sometimes, which she did. Especially when she felt more alone than she already was, or when she didn't know what to do. She decided to ask it something. "What am I supposed to do? What am I meant for? How can Raven and I cope with people treating us like bad guys? Please, if you can hear me...help me." A tear escaped from her eye, to which she wiped away. She was sure Raven was asleep, but she didn't want her little sister worrying about her emotional big sister.
Something flashed past her, her heart skipped a beat. It went into an alley. Idiot, that's a dead end. She thought to herself a she kept moving. What was weirder, was that another one happened again in front of her and then behind her. She started to rush and then run, Raven started to wake up on her right shoulder. "What's wrong?" "Nothing Raven, go back to sleep." Raven was about to go back to sleep when she saw something coming after them, which made her scream. Still running, Paulina looked behind her left shoulder. A big dark horse was coming after them. She was close from screaming herself. She just kept running.
Back at The North Pole, North was not to busy. Just looking over progress in the workshop, when the globe started flashing. He rushed up, "What? What is happening?" The flashing red and black started to fade away, which was kind of relieving. But then when he looked again, the only place which wasn't faded was a small area on Australia. He became worried and looked to the moon. "What is happening?" Somehow, the answer was plain to see. Guardians. He nodded and called them altogether. Bunnymund, as usual, wasn't very happy about this. Tooth was generally concerned. Jack was a little curious, and a little worried about the answer. And Sandy...wasn't there. Everyone was a little cornered about that.
"Where's Sandy? It he usually here by now?" Asked Jack, "Yes, usually he is. But yet he is not." Replied North, "Do you think something has happened?" Bunny asked, "Help!" They jumped at the echoey scream, "Help us! Somebody!" It was only then that Bunny noticed the globe. "Hey, that's New South Wales. Why's it flashing?" Everyone shrugged, Tooth hovered in closer to it. "Help!" She gasped, "It's where the screaming is coming from!" "Well, we gotta get there!" "Hold on, Kangaroo, we don't know what's going on. It could just be a glitch or something." Said Jack, "No, no, no. This has never happened before." Said North, "It could be Sandy." Said Tooth. "One way ta find out." Bunny tapped twice and disappeared into a hole. Everyone else followed the slay.
Paul ran as fast as she could, the dark horse right behind them. She noticed something that might help them. "Hold on, Raven." They were just far away from the horse to climb up their tree. They got as high as they could on the most stable branch. "It's gonna get us! Pauly help!" Paul took her sisters arms, "Raven, Raven! Listen to me! As long as we stay up here away from it, its not gonna get us!" Raven looked like she was gonna cry. "I won't let it get you!" She hugged her sister close as Raven wept. The dark horse was a frightening picture below them. Still, Paul called for help.
Bunny jumped up a little bit away for the tree, but he could see the horse and hear the pleads. The slay appeared soon after and all felt scared for whoever was in the tree. "Oh! Those sound like girls screams!" Tooth was very worried. Thankfully, that's when Sandy showed up. "Sandy, where were you?" Asked North, Sandy pointed to the sky. "Does anyone else see this? I'm goin' in!" Bunny started off, "Hey! Wait up Kangaroo!" Jack called after him. They approached behind the horse. "Not these things again," Jack mumbled, "O.K, you distract it and I'll get whoever's in the tree." Bunny said, "Wait, me?" "Your the one with the staff, mate." Jack went in for it and provoked the horse, while Bunny jumped into the tree.
The too girls were perched on a branch. The eldest clutching the tallest, keeping her safe. Both were crying, the eldest one slightly. She looked up and was kinda generally shocked to see him. "Who are you? What do you want?" She clutched her little sister tighter. "I'm here to help you." Raven looked up, "Pauly, that's the Easter bunny." Paul looked at him, "Are you?" He nodded, "Now, I know you two don't want to officially meet that down there. So, are you sisters?" Paul nodded, "Well, give me your sister and I'll help you two." Paul hugged her sister, "I promise." She handed him the shaking Raven, "Take care of her." She climbed out of the tree and was instantly spotted by the dark horse. Her eyes widened as it approached her, it started to rain. The eyes glared into her, it's head turned to Bunny and Raven. She slapped it back to her, "Don't...touch...my sister."