I don't know if this was Dreamworks intention with this scene but I saw someone write about this and I thought it sounded interesting. It was either this or Pitch was pissed enough to scare the nightmare for no reason other than his own bad mood.

Enjoy.


Fear


"They're collecting the teeth?!" Pitch disbelievingly half turned to the messenger but was cut short from receiving any more information as the small fairies all twittered, excitedly hopeful at the news, and turned to share the joyfulness with their sisters.

"Shut up or I'll stuff a pillow with you!" Pitch snarled at them, making them settle down a little, he looked back down from the chirping fairies to the floor with an unhappy frown, insecurity reaching up to niggle in his thoughts.

They're were stopping children from not believing! This wasn't supposed to happen!

Pitch ground his teeth together in a brief grimace before glancing at the approaching nightmare who was sniffing curiously at him. He looked back at the creature and made such a vicious snarl in its direction that it backed off immediately with an alarmed noise.

He couldn't afford to show any insecurity now, his nightmares could pick fear out of any negativity, even he was not immune to that.

Pitch lifted a hand, transforming the mare back into swirling dream sand and beckoned it towards him, better to be safe than sorry to make sure it didn't alert any of the others to their master smelling of mild fear.

The boogeyman could adapt easily enough.

"Fine, have your last hurrah," Pitch spoke, his voice now calm and calculated. "For tomorrow all your pathetic scrambling will be for nothing."

He would not fail.


Thank you for reading.