Chapter 1- The New Guardian

All of the Guardian's, minus Jack, were present and North crossed his arms as he huffed, "Where is Jack?"

"He's finishing up for Jamie's snow day tomorrow, so he'll be a little late," smiled Tooth.

North just sighed as he rolled his eyes, "Is fine, let us get down to tacks of brass." Bunnymund, Sandman, and Tooth Fairy just rolled their eyes at how the big Russian never seemed to get the phrase right, "Man in Moon has chosen new Guardian-"

"What?" exclaimed Tooth as she held her hands to her heart.

"Again?" asked Bunnymund as he moved forward a couple steps; Sandman just had a question mark above his head, "Pitch is gone, hasn't done anything in five years! There is no danger!"

"If Man in Moon has chosen Guardian, so be it! We cannot argue with Manny!" North pointed out.

Tooth nodded and put her tiny hands on North's broad shoulders, "Of course…" she looked up at the other Guardians, "Whomever this new Guardian is, we must welcome them with open arms. We don't want them to be treated the same way, or feel the same way, as Jack when he first became one of us."

Everyone hung their heads in shame at the remembrance of their actions and North spoke, "Tooth is right… must make new recruit feel welcome."

A window opened and everybody shivered at the cold air that was brought in as a voice was heard, "Sorry, I'm late! Had a little business to take care of!" The white haired teen flew down from the rafters and landed next to Sandman, "Did I miss anything?"

"Yeah, you did, Mate." spoke Bunnymund as he crossed his arms, Jack looked at him, "We have a new Guardian…"

Jack's eyes widened, "Really? There's no danger, though…"

"That's exactly what I said," nodded Bunny.

Jack looked at North, "Where is he, then?"

"She should be here in… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1."

Right on time, the sound of heavy rock music could be heard as they heard a women's laughter that could be described as evil, but sexy. Jack gasped as he looked down and saw a shadow slithering across the floor, he jumped on top of his staff and watched as it slithered over to Bunny and up his body. Bunny just rolled his eyes and Jack watched in amazement as the shadow turned into a human's shadow, then it turned into a girl. The raven-haired, lilac-eyed beauty wrapped her arms around Bunny's neck, and her legs around his waist. Jack squinted his eyes at her, unsure of what to think, and it only got worse when she kissed Bunny's cheek, then nuzzled her cheek against his as she giggled.

The music stopped and Bunny shook his head as he rolled his eyes, "Always gotta make an entrance, don't you, Shadow?"

She smiled, "You know me, Bunny." She gasped and flew off of Bunny, Tooth flying towards her at the same time. Jack saw that Shadow's shadows gathered around her from the hips all the way down as she flew. Jack watched as Tooth and Shadow crashed into a hug, her shadows still around her as she floated, "Tooth!"

"Oh, my Shadow!" smiled Tooth as she squeezed her in their hug, "It's so wonderful to have another girl on our team!" She let go of Shadow, "Let me see those pearls!" Shadow smiled a big toothy grin and Jack continued to squint his eyes at Shadow as Tooth held her hands to her heart, smiling as she sighed, "Beautiful… I think your teeth are as white as Jack's." She made a face at Jack, "But he never lets me see, like you."

"Jack?" Shadow turned her head and floated towards Jack, "Jack Frost?"

Jack continued to look at her skeptically, "Yeah…"

"I'm Shadow Walker, but you can call me Shadow like everyone else does."

Jack scrunched his nose at her, "What exactly are your powers?"

"Well… why don't you make it snow in here and I'll show you." Jack did as she asked and music started as she smiled at Sandman, "Help me out here, Sandy?"

He nodded and twisted his hand at the falling snow, turning them into dancers as it continued to snow, then the shadows around Shadow's lower body turned into just something underneath her to hold her up. Jack watched, the look on his face turning to amazement as he got a good look at her. She had cloth bits on her upper arms, her forearms, her chest and ribs, her upper thighs, her calves and feet, and buckles, like belts, holding it all into place; but what she had covering her most private area looked like a skirt and looked like the loincloth that Tarzan wore. She also had cloth wrapped around her neck, loosely, like a hood or something like that, and her hair was teased up, she wore a fuzzy lilac colored headband with long raven feathers sticking out of it, and a tribal mark in white across her forehead. She also had a bow and arrows on her back and a sword at her side, but she waved her hands over herself, making her weapons disappear.

Jack watched, his electric blue eyes widening as she started to dance, making the dancers that Sandman had made out of the snowflakes dance as well. Her shadows continued to stay under her feet as she danced, her movements mimicking the grace of the falling snow as she danced what the humans called Ballet. Shadow twirled around Jack and he followed her in her circles around him.

"How do you feel, Jack?" she asked, her eyes shut as she continued to pirouette around him.

Jack thought about it and realized… she was making him feel something, "Calm… safe… like nothing can harm me."

"Exactly, Mate," grinned Bunny.

She continued to dance, then a short while later the snow dancers disappeared and Shadow stopped dancing as her song ended, then she waved her hands over herself to make her weapons come back. Jack made it stop snowing and lowered to the ground, watching as Shadow landed next to Bunny. She smiled at him and he smiled back as he put his left arm around Shadow's shoulders, making her lean into him and sigh in comfort. Jack suddenly got very nosey as to why and how Bunny and Shadow were so close. To be honest… he was quite jealous…

"Is good to see you, Shadow," smiled North.

"I'm glad to see everybody, again," Shadow nodded, "I've missed everyone so much…"

"I still don't understand why the Man in the Moon chose you to be a Guardian," spoke Jack, drawing the attention of everyone in the room, "What exactly do you do?"

"Has no one told you?" she asked as she looked at everyone to find them looking around, not meeting her eyes.

"You showed up before we had a chance to explain, Love." Bunny told her as he rubbed her upper arm.

Shadow nodded and looked at Jack, "Well… you know how Sandy makes the dreams?" Jack nodded, "I protect them… Little children are always afraid of the dark, so it's my job to make sure that there isn't anything in the dark to frighten them. That's how I get my name: Shadow Walker, I stand guard in the shadows. I control the shadows…"

"What if the children wake up?" Jack asked, obviously interested.

"Now, that's where my music comes in! I sing to the children as I hold them, or I make an instrument out of my shadows and play music. I just start singing or playing whatever my heart tells me, even if I don't even know the song, if it is a specific one that I am playing."

"How?"

"How does Sandy know what dreams to send to the children? How does North know what to give the kids for Christmas? That's just it… we don't know. It's the children, Jack… it's always been the children. Whatever they want, whatever makes them happy is what will be… Just like I didn't even know the song that I was dancing to, much less that I was going to dance! It was all you, Jack…"

Jack smiled a little as he thought about it, then it faded as he got a serious look on his face, very stern and very cross, "We could've used you five years ago…" He glared at the moon, "I don't know why he didn't make you a Guardian instead of me. You would've been more of a help than me…" He glared at her, "Where were you?"

"Alright, simmer down, Mate." Bunny stepped forward a bit, his arm still around Shadow. "There's a reason why she couldn't."

"And what could that reason possibly be?" Jack glared at him.

"They're just reasons, Jack," Shadow told him, "Just like the Man in the Moon chose you for a reason, then, and he chose me, now." Jack continued to glare at her, but she shook Bunny's arm off of her, not stopping until she was eye-to-eye with Jack, "If I could've fought then, I would've… you've got to believe me, Jack."

Jack's face softened as her lilac eyes looked deep into his electric blue eyes, "I do… I'm sorry I got angry with you."

Shadow smiled and wrapped her arms around him and Jack's eyes widened, then he hugged her back as she spoke, "Thank you…"

Jack watched her go back over to Bunny, he took her back under his left arm and Jack asked her a question, "The kids… they see you?"

Shadow nodded, "Yes…"

"They don't call you Shadow, do they?"

Shadow smiled and chuckled, "No… they call me an angel. But, hey… it doesn't matter, just as long as they believe, right?"

Jack nodded and Bunny smiled at him as he spoke, "Right…"

"Come, let me show you your room for the night." Smiled North.

Bunny walked with Shadow, his arm still around her as North lead them through a big door, then disappeared. Jack turned to Tooth to see her instructing her little Tooth Fairies to different parts of the world, then she smiled at him after she was done.

"What do you think of Shadow, Jack?" She asked.

Jack sighed and looked back at the door that Shadow, Bunny, and North had gone through, "I don't know… she's definitely different."

Tooth giggled, "She reminds me of you…"

Jack looked at Tooth, "What?"

"You both are so free… you bring such joy to the children in your own ways."

"You do, too, Tooth."

Tooth shook her head as she smiled, "It's not the same…"

Jack put his hands in his pockets, "So, what's the story between her and Bunny?"

Tooth wrapped her arms around herself, "Bunny found her an inch from death…" Jack's eyes widened, "He watched the Man in the Moon change her into an Immortal like us. She was so frightened, so confused… So, Bunny brought her to North and North called Sandy to calm her into a sleep, then he called me because she wanted to remember what had happened to her to make the Man in the Moon choose her. Ever since then… her and Bunny have been very close. He's been a great friend to her, and her to him…"

"When was this?"

"Right after Pitch vanished down his hole… a couple months later, Bunny found her, but she had just been attacked."

"By what?"

Before Tooth could speak, the doors that North, Shadow, and Bunny went through burst open and black sand poured onto the floor. Jack floated up in the air next to Tooth and they flew over to the doors as the sand swirled around and made a funnel upwards as North, Bunny, and Shadow came bursting through the doors. Shadow stood in front everybody and panted as she glared at the funnel, her hands balled into fists, her knuckles turning white. All of the Guardians could feel her anger surging through all of them as the funnel turned into the source of Shadow's anger… Pitch.

Pitch smiled maliciously, "Well, well… look what we have here. All of the Guardians together… did you throw this party just for me?"

"What do you want, Pitch?" asked Jack.

Pitch chuckled darkly, "Only what you stole from me!"

"Your dignity?" smirked Bunny.

"No!" Pitch started going for him, but Shadow hopped in front of him, her bow and arrow at the ready. Pitch's eyes widened and he stopped in midair, "No…"

"Touch him and I'll release this arrow straight into your heart," Shadow threatened, "Touch any of the Guardians and you'll get more than just my arrow, Pitch."

"It's not possible…"

"That's right, I'm a Guardian, now."

Pitch continued to back up, making Jack smirk and cross his arms over his chest, his ego inflating, "Aw… is the Boogeyman scared of a little Shadow Walker?"

"You have no idea what she's capable of, Frost," Pitch shook his head as he backed up.

Shadow smirked and lowered her bow as she started singing, "LET GO!"

"No!" Pitch fell to his knees and held his ears as the music started.

Shadow stood over him as she continued to sing, "I'm burning up, I'm filling up, see! Forever plagued with this fire inside me! Deliver all, to live or die blindly. It's empty, it's bluffing, defining the nothing." Shadows moved around Pitch in the form of clawed hands reaching for him, against the floor, and he gasped as he tried to move away from them, "Interfering with the call of fate is crawling out of you, and now finding comfort in the smallest spaces have sold out. I know I said, 'I hope I don't upset the light you defend'. But this time it's different…"

"No! Stop!" Pitch told her.

Shadow was relentless, "Destroy my pain, then capture life again. Destroy my shame, can't live my life this way. Let go! Let go, and capture life again! Let go! Let go! Can't live my life this way!" Pitch turned into the black sand and flew towards a window. Shadow shot an arrow at him as he smashed through a window and shouted at him, "Coward!"

Shadow started to go after Pitch, but Bunny grabbed her leg, "You'll get your chance, Love."

Shadow snapped out of it and lowered herself to the ground, Jack just looked at her in amazement. Jack couldn't believe she had done that to Pitch… he thought her powers were only for good. He didn't realize that she also had the influence over other emotions, either. Shadow growled as she pushed Bunny's arms off of her and started heading for the doors she, Bunny, and North had gone through earlier.

She turned and looked at Tooth, "Show Jack! He won't understand my animosity towards Pitch until he sees my memories!"

Shadow turned back around and stomped out of the room, the doors slamming behind her, and Bunny hopping after her. Jack just watched, confused at what had just happened, and Tooth fluttered over to him.

"Come on, Jack," she spoke, softly, as she put her hand on his arm, "Let's go…"

"But… Shadow-" Jack was cut off.

"Bunny will take good care of her," smiled North, "Come back later, Jack."

Jack sighed and nodded, then North grabbed a snow globe and opened a portal to Tooth Fairy's place. When she got there, she instructed more of her little fairies to other parts of the world, then lead Jack up to a wall full of teeth towards the top.

Tooth whispered to herself as she searched for the right teeth, "D, D, D, D… Da, Danny, Daphna, Daphnia, Daphne, no… Darla… no… Ah-ha! Dawn…"

"Dawn?" asked Jack.

Tooth nodded, "You're the only Immortal that I know of that got to keep their first name."

"What was yours?"

"Margot…"

Jack smiled, "I think Tooth Fairy suits you better… what did you look like? You know… before you became a hummingbird type fairy."

Tooth smiled as she held Shadow's teeth close to her chest, "I had the biggest, bluest eyes you'd ever seen, I had pure blonde hair like the sun, and my skin was as soft and pink as a baby's. I was the life of my village, much like you were…" Jack smiled and Tooth cleared her throat as she handed Jack Shadow's teeth. "Here…"

Jack sighed deeply and put his hand on the right spot, opening Shadow's memories to himself.

(Memory)

Shadow, well… Dawn was running, her long raven colored hair whipping around her as she gasped for breath. Tears were spilling out of her emerald green eyes, trailing down her cheeks, making her eyeliner and mascara run down. All of her clothes were shredded and just barely there, just pieces of scrap hanging off her body. All that was left of her clothes were her jeans, a red jacket, red tank top, and a black bra that could be seen through the holes in her tank top. She tried to run through the half foot of snow covering the ground and look behind her, making her face plant in the snow. Dawn gasped as she scrambled to move further and get up at the same time, but she heard dark chuckling. Dawn turned onto her back and gasped for breath as she looked around frantically.

"Aw, what's the matter, Dawn?" Chuckled the voice, darkly. "Don't you wanna play?"

"No!" She screamed, "Stay away from me!"

"What's wrong? Are you afraid of the Boogeyman?"

A figure came out of the snow, from in between her legs and turned into the source of her fear… Pitch. Dawn gasped and tried to back away from him as fast as she could, trembling as tears continued to stream down her cheeks. Pitch's nightmares appeared and Dawn cried out as she found the strength to get up and run. Dawn ran away from him, but it only egged Pitch on more.

"Don't run away, Little Red." Chuckled Pitch as his nightmares turned into wolves, "The fun has only begun…"

The wolves howled and Dawn tried to run away as the wolves went after her. She was too slow… the wolves pounced onto her and started tearing her clothes and body apart.


Here's the songs I had in mind when writng.

Shadow's entrance: Trip the Darkness by Lacuna Coil

Shadow's dance for Jack: Breathing Winter by Brunuhville

Shadow torturing Pitch: This Time It's Different by Evans Blue


Author's Note: Hope you've enjoyed this so far. Let me know what you think! Review? :3