+This is a piece I just felt like doing after years of not writing, and wrote it in no more than half an hour, so please forgive my mistakes, I just have to get it out of my mind.
I'm thinking of writing, five or few more chapters, it's up to you, readers, I'd like to know there is someone reading this somewhere in this vast world.
I like giving spoilers, but you'll have none.
I own nothing, even my OC, he owns himself+
––– Intro –––
After the events in Burgess, with the apparently ultimate defeat of Pitch Black and therefore all evil, the guardians celebrated their victory.
Jack Frost was officially appointed as The Guardian of Fun, and as Winter seems to be fading the village of Burgess, and with it, goes the spirit of Jack Frost, now occupied with his new task of bringing new fun and snow days to children around the world.
Since the nightmares themselves locked Pitch Black back into his lair, kids all around are slowly returning to believe in the guardians.
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Especially Toothiana, who quickly got back to her schedule, her work improving each day after remembering that nursing kids was part of her core, and how much it pleasures her to take care of the kids as close as she could.
Without Pitch it was easy to trace and turn back all nightmares he created.
Sandy had a lot to do after his resurrection, but in no more than a night most of them were gone or turned back to Dreamsand.
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Some moment in between the seasons, it was mostly hot in all the world, and from that day forward the Guardians lost contact with their new member. Jack Frost, much to the despair of all of them, but especially Toothiana.
Now, in the warmer nights of summer, new nightmares started appearing out from nowhere as nightmares should do, but they were different, as guardians soon discovered.
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––– Summer night –––
"What is wrong with these things?!" A very frustrated baby fairy asked the heavens in a loud chirp. It took a dozen baby fairies and some dreamsand they carried just for this to take down just one of the smallest creatures of this new kind, an octopus like nightmare.
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But as it finally dropped in shards to the ground, the gruesome pieces started to liquefy and try to escape into the drain.
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A beautiful figure came flying by, a beautiful and colorful Faerie, with long feathers in shades of green blue and yellow covering all of her body but her hands and face, with eyes in a deep violet/pink tone, usually expressing joyful happiness, though now she had a deep frown to her face.
The Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies arrived, just in time to see it flowing down the drain, her face was one of concern and anger as she looked around at her assistants, and remembered.
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––– Toothiana's Flashback –––
Maybe a week after Jack Frost disappeared, the toothfairy assistants found the first of those little gooey things slowly roaming in the air, and curious of the weird creature they started following it.
They were as slow and looked like Jellyfish, but made of a gooey dark substance like crude oil.
That little black blob, moved slowly, and shifted at the wind, but in a moment it found a sleeping child and attached to him.
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Unlike Pitch's nightmares who floated above in a stormy cloud, when these octopus like creatures got hold of a kid, they wrapped themselves around his mind, locking on the kid's face like a mask, sucking his dreams and life, bit by bit, and nothing seemed to free them from it.
The first one they called all guardians, and Sandy tried his best to take the gooey nightmare from the kid's face, he tried giving good dreams, he tried to pull it with his hands, even North tried with no success.
They couldn't even wake the kid up! Being as inventive as they could, Sandy even tried creating heavy machinery to try removing it.
A small chainsaw did the trick, but so it did to the poor kid's mind, it didn't actually hurt him, at least physically, but waking up in shards of deep black glass and with a Sand Chainsaw miniature very close to your nose wasn't good either.
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Unfortunately, that kid got more afraid of the Guardians than from the nightmares, and still he appeared to attract more of them.
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Only the mornings seemed make them leave, maybe they were afraid of the light of the sun, or maybe they were just full, maybe both.
Because at the first sunrays that came from the horizon, even before the sun showed up, the oily nightmares oozed out from the kids mind, looking larger than before, and quickly disappeared in the nearest shadow.
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The Guardians soon discovered that while airborne they could fight those small nightmares, it took time, but still it was better than the alternative.
Also, they were much more resilient to Sandy's sand than normal nightmares. Heck, they almost didn't seem to feel it.
The sand would be absorbed by it, even get soaked in it, as Sandy tried to get a grip, but only with massive quantities of sand, the nightmare became solid enough for handling, and destroying.
It was huge toll on him, and after a week of trying alone he started feeling ill and blacking out at random moments so he asked for the help of the other guardians.
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After that Easter when everything changed, the one when Pitch broke all the eggs, the Guardians forged a very strong responsibility to each other, promising to help whenever any of them needed, and as much as they could.
Like all the other Guardians assistants, Fairies had to help to not only find the nightmares and call the other guardians, but also fight as much as they could to keep it away from the children.
Being little and beautiful Hummingbirds, fairies had the worst of it, the poor things usually tried to attack the oily creatures as they flown, but unlike sand, oil is difficult to break apart.
They were mostly at disadvantage, the oil usually got them sticky and often took the ability to fly, making them crash painfully in the ground knocking them out cold, many of the Fairies even got ill from the evil substance they became coated in.
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––– Back to Summer night (NO POV) –––
So here we are, and that gooey substance quickly vanishes into the drain.
Being alerted by other Fairies, Toothiana herself came to help her pupils and got in time to see it escaping once more.
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+What would you do? Feeling helpless all the time, seeing your beloved helpers in shambles every time they encounter those monsters, some left unconscious, other coughing and hurt like they've gone through a war.
Well, Toothiana, being the motherly figure of the guardians, and her fairies being her BABY fairies, probably couldn't have had any other reaction.+
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The Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies lost it; she flew from baby fairy to baby fairy looking at the slightest damage in their feathers overreacting in swirl of panic.
Looking at the drain where that thing went, she forgot all her duties, her safety, and the need to warn others was she was about to do.
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She went straight into that drain, taking out the grate like it was made of paper, and diving into the sewer systems.
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––– Sewer Systems –––
She entered the darkness of the pipe and shot after the black oil flowing away, but almost if she knew what was to come, there was a cold ruffle in her feathers as if she was being touched by the very personification of fear.
She looked back and saw nothing, nothing and no one, and noticed she had followed the creature longer than she pretended and no light nor exit could be seen.
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She looked forwards and saw she had lost the trail she was following, and the only thing she found out was that she was lost.
She went flying straight ahead until she came to a dead end, she became frustrated but turned back.
That direction would leave her where she started, and she could come back with the others,
So she flew, and flew, and flew, for hours she went straight ahead, but she couldn't find the exit, not even some way to the left or to the right, as that pipe seemed to continue forever.
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She once more turned and went the opposite way, until her wings began to feel tired and she stopped defeated and afraid, the cold pipe touching her feet and her only company being the sound of water running somewhere.
The large pipe she was now had no side entrances and seemed like she had last seen a ray of light in ages, at every second the pipe seemed darker and darker even.
Darkness took to her like and old acquaintance, just like it was Pitch himself weighing on her shoulders and on all and each one of her feathers, she started to feel like the pipe was getting smaller from the darkness growing around her.
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She was afraid and she went down on her knees in despair, but guardians were always favored by the heavens, she got to herself in courage and believed in her friends and in herself, knowing that no darkness could stop her from seeing her friends again.
That moment, her courage and her faith made her powerfull and she started glowing faintly with her power, but what she saw almost flicked out her light for good.
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"Oh Moon Please No!" She screamed in terror, as the walls around her were covered in hundreds of those nightmare creatures of all sizes and shapes.
The thought of that horde of nightmares hurting her kids and her faeries quickly changed fear into Courage and will to protect, which fueled her like it was faith from her kids.
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In the next minutes she found easy to stomp and smash to pieces every single one of the infinity of monsters that seemed to grow from the walls.
The small creatures only knew how to eat and move and were oblivious to the attack as they got crushed to bits or smashed to pulp; perhaps this was what made the guardians so successful to this point as those creatures were so much more dangerous than just feeding of the kids.
The Queen Fairy didn't even noticed the mass of liquefied nightmares fleeing from her on the floor of the pipe, and regrouping out of her light until it was too late.
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Her arms where getting heavy and dirty with the nightmare goo as it was warm blood in her hands.
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Without further notice, one hand stuck to the wall, the liquid on her feathers and arm joining forces to a somewhat bigger nightmare in the wall she just delivered yet another punch.
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"Let me off you evil being!" She yelled in anger puling with all her might, only to get her feet bound to the same mixture that had made its way from the small splats that got in her legs and the liquid that ran in the bottom of the pipe that she mistake as water.
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She struggled as hard as she could, being smart enough not to try to use her free arm to help, knowing that it would only worsen it by getting it stuck too.
But it was in vain because not before long her free arm was also bound by a tentacle that shoot itself from the wall.
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The every part of goo that bound her to the wall began to move farther from the others until it stopped when she was as stretched to a point she could not move anything besides her wings and her head.
"TAKE YOUR SLIMY STUFF OUT OF ME!" She kept screaming until her lungs were empty, noticing that nobody answered and remembering that she forgot to warn the others where she was going, she started to mumble to herself.
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"What was I thinking! This is WAY worse than I thought! But, my babies… the children!"
Trying to wipe out them by myself! Not even Sandy can't take them all by himself… If only Jack was here…¨ She thought to herself looking down to her feet.
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After a few minutes of just standing there, bound and restrained, she started to resign and believe that that was all, Her eyes went looking around for more nightmares other than the ones holding her and though first they had all seemed to have disappeared or ran away
¨At least I don't see any more of them, I just need to wait for resc…¨
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As she tried to look deeper into the darkness…
"Please Moon, don't let it be what I'm seeing."
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Her instinct said that, before she even knew what she was seeing, she searched her mind, and a memory deep inside struck her.
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––– Toothiana's Flashback –––
Long time ago, near the time they started working as guardians.
Sandy started looking sad and not being able to give good dreams, he spent weeks looking like he had seen something worse than Pitch…
Tooth: "Sandy… Please what is wrong? We know you're not telling us something"
Bunny: "There is a time for everything Mate, jus' say it when y'ready…"
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One day we saw the sand lights flicker and go out, we desperately searched for him, but before long, the lights went back on.
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Days passed by and he just seemed to get worse.
North: "Sanderson, you have to let it out… You are starting to look grayish around the edges…"
After lots of hot cocoa and worries from the guardians, he finally opens up and tells about some terrible nightmare,
A nightmare he fought countless times as he kept finding it on a very sad kid.
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The night the sand went out, was the night that Sandy found out that the kid had died.
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The creature in the pipe... It matched the symbol on Sandy's head as he described the monster…
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––– Back to the Sewer Systems –––
Just outside of her own glow of light, she could see what was just finishing to form, just as it finally started to slide into view.
Her mind screamed in terror with the image that passed now in her sight, it was worse than her innocent and pure mind could comprehend, actually maybe it was worse than any grownup mind could think.
It looked like an octopus, just like the others have been, but it was huge, it brushed at the ceiling of this very large pipe, but it was worse than just it size.
It was a monstrous nightmare shaped like a blister or a blob who seemed incapable of maintaining one stable form, but from it, grew all sorts of evil and gruesome sights, All those snakes, those heads, those tentacles, it all screamed to her, pain, suffering and Rape.
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What she saw was a nightmare of a child who had been sexually abused.
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Once it was close enough, it's snakelike tentacles started to roam the ground as if they had a mind of their own, going over themselves and bumping around as if trying to cover all the empty space on the floor as it conquered space into the pipe and into her fears.
They seemed blind as they got near moving very slowly as if they were uneasy to what they were searching.
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Just as one found her one of her bound feet, they all drew close in a frenzy coiling around her feet and ankles in less than a blink.
As they touched her skin she screamed as hard as she still could, and she felt like she would puke because of the gross feelings that the touch sent into her brain…
"AHHHHHH! LET ME OUT! SOMEBODY PLEASE SAVE ME!" She kept screaming, even though they had stopped coiling just a few inches close to reaching her knees. Not even moving anymore.
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*CRRAAAAACK*
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That abrupt sound woke her mind out of her panic, she opened her eyes and saw right in front of her,
The whole nightmare was frozen solid, and cracks could be seen in all the screaming faces of evil.
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Time would seem to stop, as every bit of the creature looked in pain and furiously ready to kill all it touched, Toothiana being the first living being it would like to tear in pieces.
What looked like a blink, became hours of memories taken from the Faerie's mind.
In small pieces of glassy dark ice, the whole creature began to crumble at the same time, it all came apart in an explosion of ice and snow, making a curtain of shards and broken terrors still screaming and still breaking in the still air, each scream burning in Tooth's ear,
The shards were so fractured in the fall, that as the pieces got to the floor, the whole creature had became no much more than dark snow.
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––– Toothiana's POV –––
Just as she could finally look beyond the cloud of snow that once was the creature,
There, she could see the silhouette of a man standing as her savior with an extended hand for her.
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She tried hard to focus but only saw snowy white hair glowing in the dark tunnel, and smiled.
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That smile was rewarded with sparkling white teeth showing in a comforting half of a smile, just as she began to speak.
- JACK! You've sav-v… – But it wasn't Jack Frost.
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That smile, the teeth, it wasn't the same.
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That man's sharp teeth looked more like a wild feral beast...
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––– End of Chapter –––
+Hey you all, you readers and writers, what do you think? It is good? Bad? Worse?
Can I spare some of your advice, or reviews?
Tell me what you think of it, it's been a long time since I don't write.
I've never publish anything. So please tell me.
PS. I'm not from an English language country, so expect some mistakes,
AND PLEASE, do point any misspellings or words that I misused.
Think of me as perfectionist, I kind of prefer corrections than normal compliments.