(A/N: I'm back!

And with a bonus chapter, set in the wish-verse, for Jokermask18 who suggested this lovely idea! I made a few tweaks, so this fits in with Jamie's time.)

All the peoples of the Constellations looked on with awe as the most beautiful craft of the Golden Age set sail.

This beautiful craft, called the Moon Clipper, was off on a mission to help a planet on the shoulder of Orion, a blue-and-green planet named Earth by its inhabitants. On this ship were some of the greatest fighters against darkness in the Golden Age, ready to take on the shadows almost consuming Earth.

The current rulers, from the House of Lunanoff, were along for the ride as well, because they wanted to see what it was like for those in the darker parts of the galaxies.

The Moon Clipper moved through the Milky Way, locating the star that Earth revolved around. Earth was one of the few planets without a natural satellite, and its blue-and-green sphere-like shape wasn't hard to miss. It had taken a few Earth years, but finally they were in our solar system.

Here, the current Tsar Lunar – who was the prince we had been introduced to – was shocked at all the shadows and darkness that was reigning in the planets. Many of them had attacked, but the crew and the passengers were able to keep them at bay. The battle in the asteroid belt was particularly nerve-wracking, and had left craters on the outer shell of the Moon Clipper.

At the end of that encounter, Tsarina Lunar had walked over to her husband, and had asked him if he wanted to carry on.

"Of course I should carry on," Tsar Lunar answered. "The people on Earth need us."

"But what if we get killed?"

"Then I'll find help."

"Where will you get help?"

"…From the Earth itself. If it's been able to stand for so long, even after being ravaged countless times by the Fearlings, then its inhabitants are stronger than what most think." He paced around the deck, thinking. "From what we know, they've already found out that stardust is a way to fend off the Fearlings. Now all we need to do is to help them make technology to fight them more efficiently, like what we have. After all, we have only so much time on this."

"Not to mention that we need an heir," Tsarina Lunar pointed out. His eyes widened slightly, and then he nodded. "Yes." He put his hands behind his back and stared out at the brilliance of the stars.

"We have to prepare the people of Earth for war."

Jamie Bennett tossed and turned in his bed, unable to sleep. It wasn't because he was afraid of the shadows that were currently creeping inside their house, in more ways than the nightlight in his room was shining on something and casting a shadow. It was because he felt that something was going to change. Something great would happen, and he felt that he was going to be a part of it.

He closed his eyes, ducked under his covers, and repeated his personal mantra.

"I'm not afraid of the darkness. I believe in the light. I'm not afraid of the darkness. I believe in the light."

Jamie clasped his hands together, willing the darkness away. Some of it seemed to slowly fade away, and it gave him more courage.

"I'm not afraid of the darkness. I believe in the light. I'm not afraid of the darkness. I believe in the light."

He needed these Fearlings to get out of his house. The boy felt that he was responsible for his family's safety – or at least what was left of them. He needed them to go away, leave him alone. He needed them to be scared of him.

"I'm not afraid of the darkness."

Jamie heard one of the Fearlings hiss. It was working.

"I believe in the light."

He felt it now, this was it. This was the night that everything would change.

Light seeped in his room, scaring away the Fearlings. But not just that, it extinguished some of them. Jamie looked up from his bed in awe. He knew that they were vulnerable to light, but only the Sun's light could do that to them…or was it that the sun wasn't the only fighter in the sky against darkness?

He slowly crept out of bed, towards the light, putting a hand in it. It wasn't as warm as the Sun, but it was bright, and it seemed to chase all the darkness away. Jamie looked at his window, and then gasped, running over for a better look.

There in the sky was a bright white orb. It was like a white glowing circle of cheese, and the boy could have sworn he saw a smile on the surface of the new satellite, a smile that said, "I'll keep you safe."

He stared at it, gaping.

Was it there for them…? Was it there to clear away the shadows at last?

Well, Jamie decided, they won't have to do it alone.

Before going to bed, he made it a point to collect as much stardust as he must.

This boy would become the first Guardian of Earth, and many others would soon follow.

(A/N: Woo! I can finally close this fanfiction! This was hard to write, but you pulled me through. That and two weeks of vacation, but I'll take the blame for my absence.)

(Hope you enjoyed it!)