Rise of the Guardians 2

Chapter 36

I was taken aback by this statement and couldn't speak. Once saved my from having to think of something to say.

"So are you guys Guardians like Mustache is?"

"No" I said grateful for the subject change "The Lorax is a Nature Guardian, which is a completely different group. Nature Spirits are chosen by Mother Nature, not MIM."

"So there's a whole bunch of Lorax-like creatures out there"

"Not exactly like him. Mustache is actually tame compared to the rest of them. The River Guardian-"

"Sirara?" Jack asked

"Yeah, her. There was this one time that I gave Mississippi a drought and she was ticked off. She yelled at me for 3 hours non-stop. Anyway, we are Guardians of Childhood. We protect important things in children. I protect laughter, Jack protects fun, Merida protects Bravery, Hiccup protects Peace and Punz protects Joy." I proceeded to explain Pitch and the problems that the Guardians were facing. I them told him the journey that we we're on.

"So North gave us a time travel watch to travel to the past and retrieve the new Guardians." I finished "Punz was chosen as the Spirit of Light and Healing, Hiccup was chosen as the Spirit of Fall, and you were chosen as the Spring Spirit.

"Me?" Right on cue a shaft of moonlight illuminated Once and lifted him up in the air.

"Welcome Once-ler, Spirit of Spring, Guardian of Optimism." The moonlight flared and when it dimmed, Once was 20 years old again. He was wearing his white shirt, vest, striped jeans and fedora. He was carrying his old guitar. He was put back down and then I was shoved down to the ground by an unknown force.

I heard Punz cry out and Jack shout. I raised my head and realized that we were under attack.

"Nightmares" I yelled. I was surrounded by the black horses, cutting me off from everyone else. I raised my staff and began to fight. Through the black sand I could see flashes of Punzie's light and Jack's ice.

I suddenly heard the most awful sound to ever reach my ears. It was a bad guitar chord, magnified 100 times. I saw some Nightmares explode from the sheer terribleness of the sound. Once had joined the fight.

The Nightmares seemed to have endless numbers and kept coming and coming. It took my a least ten minutes to reach Jack and we fought back to back. In the distance I could see Hiccup and Toothless making their way toward us, Hiccup combating the Horses with a flaming sword and Toothless shooting plasma balls. An arrow whistled through the air and hit a Nightmare to my right. Merida can running up to us, firing on Nightmares as she went.

There was a brilliant flash of light, a group of Nightmares vaporized and Punz and Once made their way over to us. Hiccup had fought his way over to us and we all joined hand and Merida set the watch and opened a portal.

I immediately noticed that something was wrong. It still had it's nasty dizzying sensation, but instead of being a swirl of bright color, it was black, with only the occasional swirl of orange and purple. We spun faster and faster until I felt like face was going to peal off. It took much longer this time and I thought that we were going to be trapped in the portal.

At that second it ejected us out, slamming us against walls and the floor. The Portal vanished and we lay there, unable to move, for fear of throwing up or falling back over. After a while, I heard someone move and decided to risk standing.

I swayed on my feet, but was able to remain upright. Jack had gotten up and was helping Punz to her feet. When all of us had gotten up, we all surveyed our surroundings. The watch had taken us to a wrecked wooden building. It had once been beautiful, but now lay in ruins, decayed and torn apart.

"Where are we?" Jack asked "Red, are you sure you got us to the right time" Merida glared at him, but checked the watch. She gasped.

"What! What's wrong." Once asked alarmed. She showed us the watch and I felt a sense of dread. The watch's face had been smashed, and it had a big dent in it.

"I fell during the fight" She said and she sounded close to tears "It must've broken. We were in a hurry to get out of there and I didn't notice. That's not the only thing wrong though."

"What else could possibly make this situation worse" I said

"If the Watch is right...we're more that 8 months in the future." She was pale and her shoulders began to shake.

"Mer, it's going to be alright" I said gently "Let's find out where we are and then we can figure out what to do" Punz conjured some light and we explored the place. It was completely destroyed and I couldn't think why the watch had sent us to this place. Five minutes later, however I bumped into something that made everything perfectly clear to me.

"Guys, you should come and see this" I called. The sense of dread that I had, was now filling every part of me. I had bumped into a sphere, that I recognized as North's globe. And every single one of the lights was out.