Rise of the Guardians 2

Chapter 6

I chuckled as I flew. Jack had no idea who he was up against. I was the master of mischief, the monarch of mayhem. Most major spirits had alarms and guards set up just because of me.

I had already gotten The North Pole and The Warren, so my first stop was the Sun Palace to visit Sulis. She and I had a love-hate relationship. We were both warm spirits; she was the spirit of light and healing. We were both assigned to work together sometimes and everyone expected us to get together well. The problem was that she is one of the older spirits. Like really old. She's even older than North if you can believe that. She looks and acts like my grandmother.

Needless to say, Sulis and I don't get along very well. She, like Bunny, doesn't approve of my pranks and jokes on other spirits. I don't like her stiff, formal, go's by the rules all the time attitude. She is really fun to prank though. She has 2nd best reactions, topped only by Cottontail.

I got to the Sun Palace and immediately noticed something was wrong. 492 years ago it was always glowing a golden light and was buzzing with activity. Right now it was as dark and silent as the grave. Which isn't a very comforting comparison. The closer I flew towards it the worse it looked. It was not only missing the sunny glow it was in ruins as if there had a battle there.

From what I could tell, all of Sulis's pixies were still there and physically they were fine. They seemed to be unconscious but instead of Sandy's golden dreamsand above their heads there was black sand. I couldn't wake them so I picked them up off the floor and went to look for the Sun Spirit. I almost wish I hadn't. I found a girl spirit up in the highest tower. It was very much Sulis and she was unfortunately very dead.

I had no idea what to do with this bit of information. If I had arrived as the battle was happening Sulis would have been still alive and she would have know what to do. While I was technically over 600 years old I had only been awake for about 200 of them. I was still quite young for a spirit as many others were fond of telling me.

I was saved however from figuring this out as the very next second a sack was shoved over my head and everything went black