Chapter 1

Not as they seem

How did it ever come to this?

I looked down at the twin daggers that had pierced my chest from both the front and back. Those eyes, green, blue, green, blue... they won't stop looking at me... why are they crying? Was it because the game is over? But this had been the best game yet! They had caught me!

Lets play a new game Lexi! Jamie called out happily. I smiled as my vision became black. Yes let us play a new game together...

I jerked awake from my dream, always the same dream. I knew it was not the dream giver who had sent me this for I had asked him many times and he just shook his little golden head before flying off. I always wondered what would happen if I cut him. Would he bleed at all? Would the blood be golden or red? Red, such a beautiful and festive color for anything.

I looked around the cave I had slept in and from the entrance I could see the light shining into it. Perfect timing, the sun was finally out. Time to come out of hiding and fill minds with nightmares. I smiled as I stood grabbing my scythe. When I looked down at it my eye brows furrowed together.

Something was off about it. It was my scythe but it wasn't. Blade is too small Lexi! The child told me knowingly. How did Jamie know all these things? He was just a kid. But he was right, the blade was too small. I wonder why? Not big enough to bring red to the world.

Come on Lexi! Jamie called out from the entrance of the cave, already ahead of me. Time to play! I laughed at him, again he was right. It was time to play.

Jack

I sighed as I sat down into one of North's large plush arm chairs. I was exhausted! It seemed recently everything was falling apart on us. We all thought that since Pitch was gone and Trick replaced him that we would have a peaceful balance for a while. And for about eighty years we did, until that day.

We were all devastated when Jamie and Sophie passed away. We had been with them to the very end. I never felt like this since I became Jack Frost, this empty crushing feeling within my chest was over powering. I knew the others felt it too by the way they acted. Now I knew why they tried not to get too attached to one specific child, in the end they would be gone. But we stayed here for the other children of the world.

Trick had become the most devastated over this since she had been related to them when she was Lexi. For a long time she stayed at the Warren with Bunny and I stayed there almost constantly because I was so worried. For weeks she acted like she was just a shell, not caring about anything, not speaking. She would lay in Bunny's burrow and curl up into a tight ball, hating for anyone to touch her. At one point Bunny thought that she was going to fade on us. My heart clenched at the thought of her fading.

The two of us took care of her in any way we could. Tooth, North, and Sandy visited constantly as well to see if there was anything that they could do. But soon after she started to come back around. Slowly talking to us and after another week Trick seemed to be back to normal. What a hilarious joke that was.

Things started small, Trick would stare into space as if she were day dreaming. This would happen at any time. Non of us paid no mind to it though. Then she kept saying that she heard whispering, we told her it was just the souls that needed her help. Bunny said that Sammy said that he could heart them call out to him in whispers. The whispering grew till she told me once that Jamie was talking to her. Bunny and I then became very worried for her, Jamie was gone so why was she hearing him? Then came the hallucinations. Trick continuously saw things, especially Jamie interacting with her as if he were still a child and alive again. She would talk back to him and interact with her Jamie hallucination so much it scared us all.

"Jamie says it's time to play" Was when we finally realized how messed up Trick had become. I did not notice it before but after Trick left the burrow something had happened to her necklace the whole time she began to spiral down. The jack-o-lantern pendant was broken. It was as if the top hinge broke so the front of the lantern was lopsided. When we looked closer Bunny and I as well as the others could see that something like black smoke was leaking out of the locket.

When ever one of us asked Trick about the locket she began to freak out. She would scream at us not to touch it, bad things in there. If she touched it then she would howl in pain as if she had been attacked. Trick had scared us all, this was not the spirit we had come to know. This was something darker, more unstable than any other spirit we have encountered. I have had my run ins with a few that had gone round the bend but Trick was on a whole nother level.

Now she was invading people's mind and making them hallucinate and see their fears in front of them during the day. She said she was afraid of the dark, afraid of the keeper of it, and of MiM. I found Trick once in a small town in North Carolina. She was in a small elementary school terrorizing a few unlucky students there. Trick managed to terrorize even some of the teachers and it led to a mass hysteria causing the school to shut down for a week.

Teachers, parents and students alike were so afraid that there had been a chemical put into the air vents but after searching the entire school no one could find anything. Every teacher and student who had an attack went under so many exams and tests. This had been many months ago but they were still terrified to this day.

And things were getting even worse and we knew it.

The other Guardians, excluding Trick, soon arrived. No words were spoken because we were afraid of hearing the truth. We had to do something about Trick and soon...

Author's Note: What is going on here? Trick has become unstable and is interacting with a Jamie that is in her mind? What is going to happen to her and the Guardians? Doesn't seem like this is going to be a happy sequel here.

Please tell me what you guys think of this first chapter. If I have enough people liking it then I'll continue. I had planned for a sequel since the beginning but I am still iffy about it.

Thank you guys for reading my first story 'Life's No Fun Without a Good Scare' and now this sequel! Much love to all!