Rise of the Guardians | NCT Dream

02: Christmas Came Early

"That's her?" Y/N heard someone say, but the sound felt muffled and hazy.

"Should we wake her up?" That was someone else. Y/N groaned, her head felt heavy and her bones seemed to be filled with lead.

Someone was shaking her shoulder. "Hey," the male voice said softly. Y/N opened her eyes and saw pointy green shoes. She realized she was lying on the hard ground. Her eyes travelled up from the shoes and she screamed weakly as she saw the same blue-haired man.

The shock caused her to overpower the heaviness and jolt up into a sitting position. "What the hell!" She shouted. The man held up his hands in defence. His wings fluttered, lifting him and carried him a few feet away from her. He was not a thief but a kidnapper?!

Y/N looked around and saw four other faces staring at her. Two of them smiling while one looked aloof and the other intrigued. The room she was in had wooden walls and floor. At the centre of the room was a huge globe, with twinkling yellow lights on the continents. It all looked too surreal.

"Where am I?" She decided to ask the tooth fairy.

"Why, you're at the North Pole!" He grinned, showing a set of perfect pearly whites.

"The North- what?" She asked angrily.

"The North Pole," said another guy and Y/N turned her head towards him. He had dark hair and tall, broad stature. He wore a red turtleneck that fit him like a glove, accentuating his muscles. Its sleeves were pushed up to the elbows, paired with black jeans and black boots. A brown belt went around his stomach and another across his chest obliquely. She could see the hilts of two swords peeking from behind his back. He offered a kind smile.

"Who are you?" She asked him.

He glanced down at himself and opened his arms as if the answer was written there. "I'm Santa Claus. But you can call me Jeno."

"Why the hell am I here?" She demanded.

"What?" Said an amused voice, almost teasing. A boy with brown hair squatted to her level, supported by a long staff with a curved top. He wore a dark blue hoodie with white snowflakes sprinkled at the top, paired with black skinny jeans and sneakers. "Is this your first time being tossed through a magic portal?" He tilted his head slightly. "I totally get it. That's how I got here the first time as well. But unlike you, I was shoved in a sack." He turned his head to glare at the boy who had introduced himself as Santa, who shrugged unapologetically.

"You would know him as Jack Frost," said a younger boy. His dark hair had strands of glimmering gold in them that levitated above his head as if by static electricity. He was clad in a sweater that seemed to be made of cloth of gold, but it not only sparkled but also radiated. He was sitting cross-legged on a disk made of gold dust that hovered a foot above the ground. "I'm the Sandman, but everyone here calls me Jisung."

Jack Frost shrugged, "well, then I suppose you can call me Haechan."

"And I'm more popularly known as the Easter Bunny," said the last boy in the room, proudly. He had a head full of white hair falling on his forehead that sported bright purple highlights. The oddest part about him was his two sets of ears. Human ears and large rabbit ears on top of his head. The latter were white, just like his hair, with purple tips. He wore a white-and-grey jacket with white pants and furry, grey boots. Several boomerangs hung from the belt around his waist. "But here, I'm Renjun."

"That leaves me," said the tooth fairy. "I'm Jaemin." He looked the same as before. Only this time, he had a couple of those small, green creatures floating around him, also looking at Y/N with excitement. Now that she saw him more clearly, he looked much younger.