Rise of the gaurdians-the guardian of bravery

chapter 9

   I woke up, breathing heavily and covered in sweat. I must have been having a nightmare, a theory is if the nightmare is really bad you might not remember it once you wake up. Just suffer in your sleep, not in real life. I looked around, not just for where I am but to see if the whole thing was just one of sandy's dreams gone wrong. But it wasn't.

  I was back in the cage, the exact same one. I sighed and lay down, only to find my head hit something. I looked up and saw my poor brother, crying silently by my side. "Farah..." He cried, diving into my arms. I cried with him, hugging him tightly, like I would never let him go. I pulled his chin up and looked into his eyes, I saw the thing I only saw once in his eyes, fear.

   "I want daddy!" He cried, hugging me harder. I stopped crying silently and started weeping. When ever anyone brought up my dad, this is what happened. I cried louder, then was silenced once my brother said, "Where's the guardians?" I sighed and looked into his sad, fear filled green eyes. "I don't know." We hugged each other, crying silently again.

   "Can you sing for me?" Gilan asked me quietly, I nodded and searched my head for any possible songs. Then I thought of it, Leave me alone, by the veronica's.

I'm getting tired of you pushing me 'round

Dragging me down

Making a sound because you wanna

I guess that's why I like messing with you

Putting you through

A lesson or two, because I'm gonna

Before I go my own way

I just gotta say

Leave me alone, get out of my face

I might give you a shove, feeling so misplaced

Time for you to go

You still know I'm better off on my own

Oh, leave me alone, this isn't gonna work

Don't call me on the phone, 'cause I'm all out of words

I'll face the unknown

Thinking about all the ways that I've grown

Oh, leave me alone, leave me alone

Leave me alone

   I felt Gilan go limp, I heard his soft snores. I watched as his dream popped above his head but ignored it, it wasn't a dream, it was a nightmare. I set him softly on the ground and crawled to the side of the cage, my wings were gone and no matter how hard I tried they wouldn't come back.

   I looked around and saw pitch walked over to our cage. Our cage was on the ground, unlike the other cages for some reason. I decided to be what I was reborn to be, brave. I quickly wiped the tears away and smiled, a cruel, fearless smile pitch's way. He grinned and shook his head, clearly not amused.

   "My little dark fairy," I snarled at him and he looked at Gilan, "What a lovely little brother you have there." My eyes showed no sign of fear, but I turned around, slid over to him, and sat him on my lap. "Why take me?" My voice showed no sign of fear, nor any emotion at all. He smiled and said, "Because you are a guardian, my dear." I shook my head and glanced at Gilan, "Him because I can blackmail you."

   I looked up at him and still had no emotion, just a dead pan look on my face while I said, "Bring it."  He laughed and tilted his head at me, as if... studying me. I growled and put Gilan lightly on the ground. I reached out and grabbed the two nearest bars. I watched Pitch step back a pace or two and watch. I got up, and started melting the bars. He wasn't expecting that at all, the expression on his face said it all.

   I melted the two bars and was skinny enough to fit through, I dived through and tackled pitch. Punching and kneeing him. He lost conciousness after what felt like hours, then I turned and picked my brother up. He woke up slowly and gave me a lazy smile, I picked him up. He wrapped his legs around my waist and his hands around my neck. I felt my wings trying to grow back but couldn't. I looked at my back and saw I was wearing my jacket. I tied it around my waist and took off.

I sighed as I tucked Gilan in, I turned to hop out of the window and go my seperate way, when he stopped me, "Can you sing me a lullaby?" I sighed and turned around, "I'll talk to sandy about your nightmares, don't worry." He gave me puppy dog eyes, I sighed of defeat and sat on his bed. I nodded my head as thoughts ran through my mind, then it came to me, children of the night,

come little child

I'll take thee away

into a land of enchantments

come little child

the times come to sleep

here in my garden of shadows

follow sweet child

I'll show thee the way

through all the pain and the sorrows

weep not poor child

life is this way

maurder and beauty and passion

hush now dear child

it must be this way

to weary of life and deceptions

rest now my child

for soon we'll away

into the calm and the quiet

come little child

I'll take thee away

into a land of enchantments

come little child

the times come to sleep

here in my garden of shadows

   I pass my hand through his hair and smile, he hasn't changed a bit since I became a guardian. Just like when we were kids. I got up and heard someone slip through the window behind me. I froze in place and my hair went up, bright red in flames. I turned and was about to advance when I realized it was only sandy. I sighed and smiled awkwardly as he looked at me, a mixture of horror and confusion on his face.

   "Another encounter with pitch." I whispered, sandy pointed to my brother, a question mark floating above his head. "He somehow got him to." I sighed and shrugged my shoulders, "Somehow I have to protect him and help you protect the other children as well, give bravery when I barely have any myself." Sandy shook his head and I sighed, "I cried my heart out. In front of pitch!" I whisper-shouted.

   He shook his head, the word believe appeared above his head. I nodded and said, "I'll try." He nodded and smiled at me. He was one of my closest friends, I just hope Nikki will continue believing me so I can be by her side throughout her life, like when I wasn't a guardian. "What's the regular age for a kid to stop believing?" I saw the numbers 12 appear above my head and sighed, I will lose my friends, and what little family I had. Nikki extremely soon.

   She somehow believes in me but... she probably lost belief while I was gone. Hopefully Leo won't. I have been a guardian for about 1 or 2 years now, 15 years old, a year younger than Leo. I sighed and wave goodbye as I fly out the window, I had to talk to Leo about this ASAP. I can't have him stop believing.