Rise of the Guardians 2

Chapter 25

I jumped into the air and quickly sped off toward the two. As calmly as I had spoken, I knew that we had to stop. I saw Punz out of the corner of my eye, leave the boat as well. When I got close I landed on the ice. I pulled Merida out of the water and grabbed her bow. I then quickly flew into the air, before I accidentally melted the ice. Punz had blinded Jack and taken his staff.

"Hey!"

"Give it back"

"She started it"

"Did not!"

"Did too, Red"

"You froze my hair so it would stand on end, Frosty"

"It was a joke! You started shooting arrows at me"

"You gave me a dunking!"

"You deserved it"

"I did not!"

"Guys, give it a rest, will you. We don't-" I was interrupted as an enormous dragon swooped over us and landed on the bridge of ice. Hiccup had followed us over.

"Hiccup!" Merida said startled "You're here. Come and help me impale this winter demon"

"Winter demon" Jack said offended "Winter demon!"

"Shut up, both of you!" Rapunzel yelled. We all looked at her. She flushed "I mean, we have bigger problems, right now"

"She's right." I said "We need to hurry"

"This is insane" Hiccup said "Spirits, Fairies, Jack Frost, what else is real? The monsters that hide under kid's beds." We all looked at him and he gaped at us.

"But-but that's not possible. I was kidding."

"Hic, this is real" Merida said "We're real. You and I died. We're Spirits now. We're Guardian's"

"What is a Guardian, exactly" He asked

"A Guardian is a Spirit, chosen by MIM, to protect an aspect of Childhood. My center is Laughter, so that's what I protect. Jack's center is fun, Merida's is Bravery, Rapunzel's is joy and your's is peace."

"Is that all a Guardian does?"

"No" I said "We also protect kids from..." I trailed off as something in the distance caught my attention. Glowing yellow dots of light were floating over the surface of the water. They were coming nearer and as they did they increased in size. And then I realize they weren't orbs. They were eyes. Great, just great.

"Not again" Jack complained "How does he keep finding us?"

"Uhh...guys" Hiccup said nervously "What do Guardians protect kids from? And what are you-What are those things?" The Nightmares had come into visual range and their silhouette was visible from what little light their eyes put out.

"Those are Nightmares" Merida said "They're Pitch Black's Followers. Pitch Black is the Spirit of fear and Darkness. That is what we protect children from." As they drew closer, the Night Fury barred his teeth and growled.

"We all need to join hands" I said urgently "We can travel through time, and we really need to get out of here."

He shook his head in disbelief and started to dismount, but then stopped.

"What about Toothless?" Toothless? I wasn't sure who he was talking about, until I remembered his dragon. Odd name, for a creature with lots of very sharp teeth.

"I dunno, just stay on his back, and it should work" I said. It was a little late though, the Nightmares had reached us. I readied my staff and saw and arrow fly by my head and hit a black horse. It was all very unnecessary as there was another blinding flash of light, that lasted for a minute before finally fading. When I could see again(Which wasn't for another good 5 minutes after), I saw the very few scattered remains of the pack of Nightmares.

"Punz...that was amazing" I said "How did you do that" To my surprise she looked frustrated.

"I was trying to make a weapon, like a sword or frying pan." Frying pan? That was a little weird. "I couldn't control it. It just burst out"

"Well, I certainly glad you did what you did" Merida said "You'll learn to control it over time."

"Yeah, it took me forever to control my ice powers" Jack said "I kept causing huge blizzards by accident. One time it happened on Easter Sunday and the Kangaroo got really mad and started yelling at me. He would believe that it was just an accident and so I got mad and that just made the storm worse."

She looked thoughtful "My cousin said something similar. She said that her ice powers were also connected to her emotions, and whenever she lost control, her powers would act up"

"Your cousin had ice powers?"

"Hey guys, I hate to interrupt." I said "but we really do need to go. Pitch could send more Nightmares after us, and if he does we want to be as far away from here as possible."

We all joined hands, with Hiccup on Toothless's back. Merida set the watch and we were off.