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My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)- Chapter 24 by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
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My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)- Chapter 24
(Content/trigger warnings for this chapter: depression-like thing) Chapter 24: Since Night Falls --Ranya-- Now for the second part of the plan. I spent more time reading next to my bed to lower Tooth’s suspicion—her gaze darted to me every time I moved even a millimeter. But after a few hours, I strode downstairs to where Sandy and Zachary were. Tooth flew a few inches behind me, her feathers bristled. Sandy knelt on the white rug in the living room, Dreamsand spiraling from his hands to form small dinosaurs of all different species. Zachary sat in front of him, trying his hardest to squish all seventeen of them onto his lap with his pudgy arms. The toys kept falling off, and he growled. “Sandy!” I called, doing my best to make my voice sound cheerful amidst the still-present weight in my body. He and Zachary turned to me. I bent to their level on the scraggly rug. “Could you please make me one?” I pointed to Zachary’s dinosaurs. Tooth’s eyes narrowed, and she rubbed her
My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)- Chapter 23 by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
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My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)- Chapter 23
(Content/trigger warnings for this chapter: anxiety) Chapter 23: Before Night Falls --Ranya-- It was time to begin forming my plan. I typed in the Notes app on my phone. The first step was to tell Isabelle what she needed to do tonight. I probably wasn’t getting a private audience with her anymore with the Guardians’ new suspicion, so I needed a secret way to communicate. She didn’t have a phone or a laptop—I needed to do something in-person. I couldn’t even whisper without the Guardians hearing, though, so I needed some other way. Like a note. The only place I could write without Tooth seeing was the bathroom. It even had tissues I could use as paper, but I’d have to sneak a writing utensil in there, like a pencil from the pencil holder on my desk. My best chance would be if I sprinted into my room and stashed it in my pants before Tooth arrived. Then once I wrote the message, I’d have to get it to Isabelle. I couldn’t just clearly hand a note to her; that would be
My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)- Chapter 22 by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
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My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)- Chapter 22
(Content/trigger warnings for this chapter: anxiety, family member pressuring child to get over anxiety) Chapter 22: A Powerful Being **Isabelle** Anxiety is like a disease writhing just beneath the earth’s surface in the middle of a lush jungle. The disease snags roots and sucks the nutrients out of the soil, causing the flowers to curl and brown. And when the plants die, animals that eat those plants die from a lack of food, and then the animals that eat those animals die, and so on. There are many little ways anxiety can affect you, many little areas it can touch. Once Jack and I had ridden home in Zo’s mom’s car through the thick swirling fog, and I leaned against a wall in my house’s entryway, longing to sit back down instead, Ranya trudged down the stairs to greet me. Her clothes were damp and torn in jagged slashes with little wood shards snagged in her hair and sweater. Jack had told me what had happened at Ranya’s school, what Tooth explained to him while they worked
My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 21 by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
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My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 21
(Content/trigger warnings for this chapter: self-hatred, depression-like thing) Chapter 21: With No One Else --Ranya-- The church was not a large, cool-looking place with halls stretching to the sky, large glass windows filling the sanctuary with sun, and rows of shiny dark-wooded pews, but like the sort you might find next to an abandoned cemetery. The halls were drafty; the windows covered in crawling, scraggly branches; and the pews bare-bones chairs with scratch marks running across them. A Windshallow church. The staff present that day, mostly a few older ladies working behind creaky desks in a small office, had directed us to where everyone else was waiting in the large, empty lobby. Dakota and I soon joined the crowd of students and staff milling about and separated from each other. I should’ve been happy. I might have a way to help my sister. I knew of one way to kill Fear Angels, at least. And I had escaped the school with my consciousness still intact. But soon, I
My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 20 by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
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My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 20
(Content/trigger warnings for this chapter: self-hatred, mention of anxiety) Chapter 20: The Danger Beyond --Ranya-- Dakota walked through the doors on the other end of the band room, small gusts of wind picking up as she pushed the heavy things open. I was after her, my side and legs protesting, and made it through before the doors slammed closed. “Dakota, wait,” I said. “At least listen to this. Your powers only work with light and darkness, right?” I had only ever seen her control Fear Angels and try to control Pitch. She couldn’t do it to him probably because he was too strong. “So when you control people, you can only do it to light and dark powers, or creatures made from those powers, at least. Could you… shut someone’s off?” Her eyes widened, and she paused, glancing back at me. “Someone wants to shut off their powers?” She sounded… sad? I glanced around the dripping walls for any Fear Angels before replying, “My sister. She thinks it will convince Pitch she’s not a
My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 19 by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
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My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 19
(Content/trigger warnings for this chapter: anxiety, mention of a child in peril) Chapter 19: The Protection's Faults **Isabelle** By the time the vision had vanished, bones were sprinkled across the ground in wide piles between the tightly-packed pine trees. The snow sat as soft gray slush beneath the bones. Jack stood near the foggy edge of my sight, facing me, panting. My eyes crossed over the landscape, back and forth, back and forth. Snow crunched in the distance, but no bones rattled, and no wings beat. Freezing wind rustled the pine branches and numbed my frigid, shivering body. It was quiet. Was it over? Was I safe? Where were the other children? Jack flew to me as I continued to scan the area, still finding no Fear Angels. How had he destroyed them? “Are you okay?” he said once he’d made it. “You stopped responding.” I turned back around to face him, my heart rate slowing, though my eyes still darted everywhere and I jumped at any sudden breeze or snow crunch, my
My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 18 by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
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My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 18
(Content/trigger warnings for this chapter: self-hatred) Chapter 18: The Battle Amidst --Ranya-- Bones clattered beneath me in the dark. Wind rushed past my body. I crashed into something hard, and then slammed into what felt like the floor, pain bursting along my side. But I sucked in a breath and after a few seconds, was able to pick myself up, sliding out my phone and turning the flashlight mode on. One Fear Angel, the one Dakota had commanded, reached out and paralyzed the others. Their mouths hung open and they clutched one another as they dashed out the doors I had come in through. The commanded creature raced after them. I shone my light around the large, tall gym and its potholed floor. Where had Pitch gone? Was he in the halls? On the roof? Outside? So I faced the only other person in the room. I still needed her help. Even if she couldn’t hurt Pitch, she could kill Fear Angels. “You saved me again,” I said. “Thank you.” Dakota rose from the floor. “You’re
My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 17 by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
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My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 17
(Content/trigger warnings for this chapter: anxiety) Chapter 17: The King's Threat **Isabelle** The wings of the Fear Angel behind me erupted into black smoke as its skeletal body fell apart to a heap on the ground. Cathey was still running toward one of the living ones, holding a red textbook, and before I could scream at her to stop, and just before an ice spike zipped into it, the skeletal being shot its arm out and touched her. Her eyes closed, and she fluttered to the ground, the textbook skidding across the floor. No! Two ice arrows shot into the remaining Fear Angels, and they also erupted. Jack passed through the window and landed in the center of the room, his bare feet splayed and his crooked staff aimed at the door. Slowly, the smoke cleared. Screams still echoed through the building, but the Fear Angels near us were gone for now. My mind still analyzed each sight and sound, though. Were the Fear Angels getting closer? My heart continued to pound hard. “We need to
My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 16 by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
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My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 16
(Content/trigger warnings for this chapter: self-hatred, Ranya is very mean™) Chapter 16: The Encounter Among --Ranya-- Now how was I supposed to get back inside, or even search the area? So many Fear Angels prowled the place! I glanced around for a possible weapon to at least knock them back with, but couldn’t find anything. Skeletal creatures marched along the school's perimeter at full towering height, swiveling their skulls back and forth. What were they doing? A few bricks fell off the building and thumped onto the snow, and the nearby Fear Angels’ gazes snapped toward the sound. But then they saw the bricks, and relaxed and kept marching forward. I had to find Dakota and get her on my side. She’d seemed pretty intent on killing the Fear Angels for some reason. Maybe she had gone back inside to kill more? Or maybe she would investigate the mist, too. I almost considered whether she had been the one to soothe Jack—it seemed she could control people, after all. But he
My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 15 by CaetlynoftheStars, literature
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My Sister's a Guardian (RotG Fanfic)-Chapter 15
(Content/trigger warnings for this chapter: anxiety) Chapter 15: The Sisters' Protection **Isabelle** I was the first to dart into the hallway. My classmates sprinted right behind, nearly pushing me. Before I had taken two steps, children burst out of other classrooms like floodwaters. My heart continued to pound, shaking my body with every rapid beat. Why had Jack had to leave me here alone? My mind desperately searched for any possible way out of the danger, but all my instincts told me to run. If I got out of the school, perhaps I could escape and hide. Within a few quick steps, the hallways were packed. Teachers tried to direct us, clear panic shining on their faces, but no one listened. Students screamed as the Fear Angels dashed from the classrooms into the hallway. My ears rang, and I screamed with them. The nearest skeletal being rushed and shot its arm toward me over the crowd. It was too quick for me to dodge. But then a girl with bright red hair tripped in front