A.N: Hey! im going to post a new chapter hopefully every five days. R&R!

Masks.

Filled with a terrifying emotion

Taunting me. Laughing at me.

Screaming at me.

They hovered towards me.

No bodies attached

Blood. Blood was everywhere.

Was I the blood? Was I the holder of the blood?

I looked down only to see a reflection

A reflection of a mask.

My eyes burst open. Sweat had drenched my body, my hands were clammy and pressed against my face. I sighed, letting my arms fall to the flush grass. It was a dream. Just a bad dream. The nightmare crept back into my mind causing me to shiver, the masks were terrifyingly familiar. I looked up into the starless dark sky. There was no moon tonight and it was all together dark. In a distance I saw my animal friend striding my way. The doe licked my face as if she could tell something was wrong. I smiled and hugged her, she came at a perfect time. As the deer realized I was comforted she laid next to me and placed her head on my lap, like she usually does. I pet her and smiled, trying to get the dream out of my head "you know, I should probably give you a name." The doe looked up at me and then went back down. "How about... Daisy?" I looked at her but she seemed displeased. "No? Ok, maybe.. Lily? That ones cute" She didn't look happy about that one either. I sighed and ran my fingers through my long red hair. The deer kept on nudging me with its head as if trying to get my attention. I looked at it questionably, and that's when I saw it. There were two little antler stubs slightly behind its ears, I quickly caught on. "Your, your a boy!" I burst out in laughter. He stared at me annoyed and laid down, waiting for my laughter to subside. I wiped a tear from my eye and patted him. "I'm sorry, your stubby antlers were hidden and so you looked more female!" I felt like an idiot but the deer was still young and didn't really show a lot of male properties yet. I chuckled a little more, mostly at my stupidity and got back to business. "So a name, what about Chester?" He still seemed annoyed but gave me a look of approval. I smiled and then yawned, it was still too early to wake up. I cuddled against Chester and allowed myself to be engulfed in his warm fur. We both fell into a dreamless sleep like that.

I woke up with the morning sun sprinkling my skin, Chester must've been getting his own breakfast because his furry little head wasn't on my lap anymore. I stretched out and yawned, only to find myself curling up next to my tree again. I sat there for a moment, debating wether I should get up or not. Before I could make the choice I felt a cold wind that was strong enough to push my small body from the tree. I pouted and stood up and stretched again. This time the wind knocked my down onto my stomach. I groaned mostly in anger when I heard a familiar laugh "Get up! Your worse than sandman!" I shot a glare at Jack and stood up again, bracing myself for another strong wind. He laughed some more and jumped down from the tree he was on. "i thought you'd never wake wake up. But it looked like sandman was giving you a good dream so I left you alone." I looked at him for awhile, I was a bit confused but at the same time humored "you were watching me sleep?" Jack seemed too busy looking at my flower handprints on the tree "uh, yeah why?"

"Why were you watching me?" I asked with a little giggle. "Cause I still have to introduce you to all the other guardians, remember?"

"Oh, right now?" I honestly didn't want to meet anybody else right now, in all truth I wanted to go to the nearest river and bath. Without even answering me, he scooped me up bridal style and jumped into a new current of wind. I yelped and grasped jack, burying my face into his chest. I hated being in the wind, and he knew it. Once we landed I jumped out of his arms and pounded my fists against his chest like a child. Jack just laughed "Ok, ok Im sorry, but look around." I stopped hitting him and looked at the scenery and gasped in amazement. The grass had an extraordinary color and the river that flowed by it was mixed with a magical purple, blue and pink. Little white eggs were jumping into the river and some got lost and just wandered around. The place was absolutely beautiful. "Dawn?" I snapped back to reality, I looked at jack to see he was looking at me with concern. I smiled at him, "yeah?"

"I've been trying to talk to you, and you just stood there in a trance." He laughed and ruffled my hair.

I just smile and then pointed to the gleaming stream. "Why are there eggs and what's up with the river?"

"That's where my eggs get colored, mate." I turned around quickly due to the unfamiliar voice. "Ah, Dawn, this is the Easter kanga-" Jack was quickly tackled to the ground by the huge fluffy rabbit. He laughed and tried to squirm out of the grasp, as the furry bunny forced a paw on jacks mouth to shut him up. "You can call me bunnymund if you'd like but bunny works too." He looked at jack with narrowed eyes "'cause I am a bunny." I tried to hold back a laugh as the British bunny sat on jack as he tried to move the fluffy mound. A strong wind suddenly came, strong enough that in made the bunny tumble off of the white haired boy. I couldn't hold it any more. I let out a whole hearted laugh as the others soon joined me. As we started to calm down I piped up. "So what are you coloring the eggs for?" The bunny stared at me for a moment, "haven't you heard of Easter before, mate?" I shook my head solemnly. He chuckled but it almost sounded like he was angry. "C'mon kangaroo, give her a break, she just became a protecter." Jack said with a bit of humor. The Easter bunny looked at him for a moment and then shrugged. "You can explain to the pretty girl, but I can't, I got Easter coming right around the corner." With that he hopped away, but stopped to pick up a few stray eggs every once awhile. Jack sighed and put his hands in his pockets. "Sorry Dawn, he's usually isn't like this. He's just stressed."

"What for?"

"Easter of course! He's gotta decorate millions of eggs and hide them all over the globe." I thought about it for a moment, it seemed a little ridiculous. "...why?" Jack looked at me with his eyes sparkling. "To give them hope." I stared in jacks eyes, I heard the answer, it just didn't seem important right then. His eyes, they were glimmering, they were beautiful. I blushed and quickly looked away, jack didn't seem to notice. "T-that makes sense I guess." Jack smiled and offered his hand "want to meet sandman?" I sighed, I kinda just wanted to explore more of the forest and relax with Chester. "How about another time?" Jack stretched and nodded in agreement, "yeah he's probably sleeping right now, we'll go visit tooth instead." Before I could explain to him I just wanted to rest, he grabbed my waist and we went into the air. I didn't like to be off the ground but I was a bit more used to it. Once we landed I yawned. "Aw, c'mon Dawn the day isn't even halfway over!" Jack complained. "Calm down I just yawned." I said, laughing at his childish remark. I looked at where he had taken me, it was like a floating castle. There were a bunch of baby humming bird like creatures flying around and chirping beautifully. I kinda like this place, it had artwork that I could only dream about drawing and the floor was decorated exquisitely. As I looked around I noticed a woman, she looked more like a larger version of the birds, she was real pretty though. She noticed us and quickly flew over to us. First she forced Jacks mouth open inspecting it thoroughly and patted his shoulder. "Oh jack, they get more beautiful every time I see them!" He didn't answer her but just adjusted his jaw. When she saw me she squealed with glee, "Your baby teeth are still my favorite!" She flew over and did the same to me she did to Jack. "Tooth, hands out of mouth." Jack said with a sigh. She quickly stopped what she was doing, "I'm sorry! They're beautiful." I laughed "your fine, ... So why do you collect teeth, do you just like them a lot?" She giggled, "that's part of the reason but they also hold a child's memory." I stood there in awe. All these individual teeth held a memory. "Um, do you possibly have my memories?" She looked at me sadly "I'm afraid I don't, they disappeared a couple years ago. Jacks face suddenly grew serious, "was it pitch?"

"No I would've found out if it were pitch" I sighed it was a bit disappointing but I didn't care too much. "It's fine, honestly, I was just wandering." I smiled and looked back at jack, "lets head back to the forest." He nodded and both said our goodbyes before taking off. Once we arrived at the forest I laid down on the plush grass, jack joined me soon after. We sat there for a moment in silence and I kinda liked it, the skies were starting to grow darker with large clouds. "So are you going to sleep out here even when it rains?" Jack asked looking me with his lopsided smile, I shrugged. "Why not?"

"It'll be cold and wet and you'll probably get sick." He said with a snicker. I sighed, I guess he was right, but I still wanted to be in the forest. "How about this, we can build you a little cabin." He sat up and used his hands to animate what he was saying. "Matter of fact we could easily build it right there! We'd just need the right stuff and I'm sure north would give us everything we need!" I giggled at the boys dreaming, it was kinda cute. "Yeah I guess that'd be nice." Jack beamed, "great! How about we start on it first thing tomorrow." I groaned, "how not the first thing but sometime in the day." He just laughed "ok, but we will do it tomorrow right?" I kinda like she sound of doing that, I liked the sound of hanging out with jack for awhile. "Yep. Most definitely." He smiled and stood up, "you sure you want to sleep out here?"

"Yeah, Chester has a good shelter"

"Chester?"

"Yeah he's a deer" jack burst into laughter, I frowned waiting for him to finish, "what's so funny?"

"Nothing, it's fine" be chuckled a little more and waved before he took off. I stared at his graceful movements in the wind until he disappeared, after that I went in search for Chester with a slight blush on my face.