Author's Note: Hey, everyone! Welcome to my first ROTG fanfic. Okay, so this fanfic is based on the fancomic "Rise of the Guardians: SHIFT" written by LivingAliveCreator. If you haven't read it yet, I highly suggest that you do that first because this story is going to be FILLED with spoilers. I'll post the link in the description below so you can check it out. The story takes place after page 156 and ends on page 194 of the comic while the story's events take place in Burgess. Hope you all enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own anything here. "Rise of the Guardians: Shift" belongs to LivingAliveCreator, who gave me permission to write this story, and the characters of the movie Rise of the Guardians belong to Dreamworks.

A Recap and…A Chew Out

Chapter 1: The Recap

Sandy was beyond confused at the moment. He was the wisest and the oldest out of all the Guardians, and yet he still couldn't comprehend what Tooth was saying. First, he suddenly woke up after—how long, he did not know—in North's Infinity Cell at the Pole, and now Tooth was saying something about a shifter putting them all—he and his friends—to sleep and in the Infinity Cell and Jack not having North's coat anymore.

So many questions ran through the Sandman's mind, but the ones that really stood out were…"Weren't shifters supposed to be extinct?" and "Why would Jack…Jack Frost…the winter spirit need North's big red coat?" This was one of those times where he wished that he had the ability to speak to ask Tooth all these questions, but unfortunately, all he could do was create a question mark with his golden dream sand above his head and shrug his shoulders hoping that Tooth could comprehend it.

She must've thankfully because she breathed a sad sigh and hung her head down in shame. What did she have to be ashamed of? Sandy wondered.

"Oh, Sandy, it's a long story," she said as she looked at him again. "All you need to know is a shifter survived the fire."

Wait…what? A shifter? How could that be? The shifters were extinct. There was no way one lone shifter could have survived that fire all those years ago. North checked and confirmed it himself. He expressed his shock by creating an exclamation point over his head.

"Yeah, I know," Tooth said looking down on the ice cave floor. She stared into her own reflection in the ice as she remembered all the events that led up to this point. Even she was confused as to how all of this could've happened, and she was there with North the whole time witnessing it all. "It's all our fault. Jack tried to tell us, but we didn't believe him. As if that wasn't bad enough, now the Moon seems to have betrayed us."

Sandy arched his golden eyebrow at the fairy. How could Tooth be blaming herself? What could've happened that made Jack come to the conclusion that a shifter was alive? More importantly, why wouldn't she believe Jack if he had this crucial piece of information? And what was this about Manny betraying them? He was their friend. How could anyone, especially Tooth, think that the Man in the Moon would betray the Guardians? He was about to make Tooth tell him more, but he stopped himself when he remembered that North and Bunny were still asleep with their backs leaning against each other just a few feet away from him and Tooth. He floated over to them to wake them up, but as he did, he began to notice something else. Tooth kept mentioning Jack, but…where was Jack? He quickly glanced around the Cell and saw no signs of the winter spirit he had come to love as a little brother, but then he shook his head bringing himself back to reality. He had to get North and Bunny to wake up. Then he could start asking questions.

Tooth noticed her small friend going over to North and Bunny and gave him a sad smile. She had never been so happy to see her friends—or at least three of them—together again. She wanted to go up to them and hug them, but she couldn't… Not yet. She turned back to the small window that gave them a full view of the Moon allowing the determination to flood into her small petite body.

"No, you're right, Sandy," Tooth said as she kept her eyes on the Moon and watched the Earth's shadow begin to cover it signaling the beginning of the eclipse. "Right now, we need to focus." She then turned back to Sandy, who was already working on bringing North and Bunny out of their slumber. "Let's wake the others up, and once the eclipse comes, the Moon won't be around to protect the Cell. We can all escape then. If I'm right, the eclipse should completely cover the Moon in a few hours… We're running out of time."

Sandy furrowed his eyebrows in concentration as he focused on the Guardians of Wonder and Hope waving his arms in a circular motion focusing on the dream sand that kept his friends in a deep sleep. Soon enough, the dream sand followed its master's silent command and left the big man and the Pooka. As soon as Sandy was sure he had gotten rid of the dream sand, he let it disintegrate and waited for North and Bunny to wake up.

It was not long until North and Bunny stirred finally coming out of unconsciousness. Tooth slowly fluttered over to the three of them and watched as the two large Guardians opened their eyes. Bunny yawned and smacked his lips while North rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

"North, Bunny," Tooth said to them, "wake up."

Both turned to look at whoever was calling their names blinking their eyes a few times to bring their visions back to focus. When they did, they saw two of their friends before them.

"Sandy…" North said drearily as he stared at the little golden man, who gave him a small smile, that North was sure he would never see again.

"Tooth…" Bunny said as he looked up at the small fairy.

Before either of them could say anything else, both North and Bunny noticed that their backs were leaning on something. So they turned around to see what it was only to come face to face with each other since they were leaning back-to-back on each other. They widened their eyes in shock and a little embarrassment and quickly yelped as they jumped away from each other.

"Don't. Ever. Lean on me. Like that. Again!" Bunny shouted. If he didn't have fur, one could probably see a faint blush on his face as he tried to weasel his way out of this awkward situation.

North rolled his eyes as he stood dusting himself off and adjusted his furry hat on his head to avoid eye contact with Bunny. "As long as you promise not to do the same and we never speak of this again," he said.

"Couldn't agree more," Bunny said as he stood as well giving North a faint smile.

North saw this and gave a small chuckle. He would never admit it, but it felt good to finally get a chance to laugh again after what felt like an eternity even though it was only a matter of days. Although, he wasn't sure whether it was because he was reunited with two of his best friends after they were missing for so long or because of the crack Bunny made. He was pretty sure it was both.

"It's good to see you again, Bunny," he said. Then he turned his eyes to the little golden man standing next to Tooth, who had an even bigger smile, "and you, too, Sandy."

Bunny and Sandy's smiles both faded away and turned into confused looks. They looked at each other and back at North, who didn't even seem phased by their confusion.

"Good…to see you, too, mate, but…wh-OOF" Before Bunny could finish, a flash of green, blue and gold suddenly came up to him and practically tackled him. Tooth had pulled him and Sandy into a tight bear hug.

"Oh, I'm so glad you two are alright!" Tooth cried hugging Bunny and Sandy even tighter. It felt so great to be able to hug the Guardians of Hope and Dreams again. She had never been so happy to see them. "We were so worried about you."

When Tooth finally released them from her iron grip, Bunny and Sandy both looked at her in confusion, then back at each other, and then at North.

"What are you two talking about?" Bunny asked. "You guys just saw us yesterday when North called us to help with the fire." The Pooka knew that they were all best friends…practically family, but this was a little ridiculous and confusing. Here they were in the Infinity Cell at the Pole, and North and Tooth were acting like they hadn't seen each other in centuries.

Now it was North and Tooth's turn to be confused. The shifter they encountered hours ago after…well, it happened made it very clear that he was holding Bunny and Sandy hostage somewhere…outside of Burgess just as Jack said, but both the Easter Bunny and the Sandman were acting like as if nothing happened. They looked back at their friends.

"Bunny…Sandy…what's the last thing you remember?" Tooth suddenly asked.

Bunny eyed her with even more confused, but nevertheless, he thought to the last thing that happened before he woke up in the Cell just now. That was when it all came back to him.

"Well…it's kind a blur," he began as the events began to replay in his head, "but I remember it was the day after North showed me the picture of the arsonist fleeing from the fire. I was in my Warren painting some eggs, and then I heard someone come in through the tunnels. I went to see who it was, and at first, I thought it was Jack because he was hidden in the shadows, and the figure looked like him." He could have sworn he saw North and Tooth visibly tense, but he continued his story regardless. "But then the figure stepped out, and I realized that it wasn't Jack. It was like this older version of him with black hair, green eyes, and I'm pretty sure I saw a tail. I asked him who he was, but he didn't answer and just opened up this small bag. Some gold sand came out, and next thing I knew, I'm waking up here in the Infinity Cell with you blokes."

North nodded as he let Bunny's story sink in as the pieces of this puzzle were finally coming together. Then they all turned to Sandy.

"Sandy, how about you?" North asked. "What do you remember?"

Sandy answered by creating an image of a calendar with one day marked off, followed by a fire, and then North talking to Sandy.

North furrowed his bushy eyebrows in concentration trying to decipher the images. "It was…a day after the fire…after I found you and told you about the picture…" he translated.

Sandy nodded and continued to create more images that would help his friends understand what happened. He then created an image of himself on a miniature version of his sand cloud spreading dreams everywhere.

"You were…spreading dreams to children…" Tooth translated this time.

The Sandman continued and this time made a picture of a mini-version of the stranger Bunny described in his story sneaking up from behind and scooping up Sandy's dream sand while Sandy had his back turned. The mini-version of Sandy then turned around to face the stranger only to have the stranger throw the sand at Sandy before the Guardian of Dreams even had a chance to react.

"Then this stranger…the one who came to my Warren…snuck up on you and used your dream sand on you," Bunny translated.

Tooth quietly gasped. Someone had actually dared to use Sandy's dream sand against him. How was that even possible? Then again, it was impossible for a shifter to survive the fire…

Sandy then created a picture of him, Bunny, North, and Tooth waking up, seeing each other, and coming together in the group hug.

Bunny failed to notice North and Tooth tensing up and the fact that Sandy left a certain someone out of the last picture. "Now, here you are, waking up with North, Tooth, Jack, and m—"Bunny stopped in mid-sentence when a shocking realization struck him in the face.

Jack… He didn't remember seeing Jack once when he finally woke up. He didn't even hear one crack about him sleeping on North or not knowing what was going on, and Sandy didn't even bother to include him in the last picture. The Pooka looked around the small Cell only to find that it was just him, Tooth, North, and Sandy. Jack was nowhere to be found. That was strange. If the original Big Four were trapped in the Infinity Cell, then why wouldn't their newest member be in there with them? There was no way Jack would put them in here as a prank. The kid had limits, and even if he did, there was no way Manny would keep them in here with the door closed and probably locked.

He finally turned back to North, Tooth, and Sandy with a look of confusion. "Hey, where's Jack?" he finally asked them.

Bunny looked at Sandy hoping the wisest and oldest out of all of them would have the answers, but unfortunately, the only thing Sandy could do was shrug giving the Guardian of Hope the impression that he was wondering the same thing. The two of them then turned back to North and Tooth, and they became even more confused and a little scared when they saw the sad faces on both the Guardian of Wonder and the Guardian of Memories.

The both of them looked very ashamed and upset almost as if they had failed at something. North had his head down looking at his reflection in the ice, and Tooth looked away with tears forming in her eyes. Just from the looks on North and Tooth's faces, wherever Jack was at the moment it was definitely not good news.

"North…Tooth…" Bunny said trying to hide the fear ringing in his voice, "where's Jack? Why is he not in here with us?"

"North, we got to tell them," Tooth finally said avoiding Bunny's question completely. As much as she wanted to pretend that everything was okay, the Tooth Fairy knew that she couldn't…not after everything that happened over the past couple days.

"Tell us what?" Bunny asked, as he and Sandy both grew more impatient by the minute. "What are you two talking about? Just answer my question…where's Jack?"

North wanted to tell his two friends what had transpired over the past couple days before they all ended up in the Cell. The problem was…he wasn't sure on exactly where to begin. Everything had just gotten so out of control the very second he saw that picture of Jack…or at least what looked like Jack…in that fire. He managed to tear his eyes away from his reflection in the ice floor and looked Bunny and Sandy in the eye seeing the confusion and fear whirling inside of them.

He sighed in defeat deciding to just wing it. After all, the truth was going to come out eventually. "Bunny, Sandy, you should know that that stranger who kidnapped you…w-was a shifter…the same shifter who set my home on fire a few days ago," he began. "He impersonated Jack knowing that someone would see him and accuse Jack."

Both Bunny and Sandy's jaws dropped. None of the four Guardians dared to speak as the Easter Bunny and the Sandman tried to take in what was just said.

Bunny was finally the first to speak again after a few moments. "A shifter?" he asked. "B-But…that can't be right. They're extinct because of that fire, and the gumby didn't even look like a shifter…not even close."

To back up Bunny's statement, Sandy created a mini-version of a full-grown male shifter and a mini-version of the stranger, who kidnapped him and Bunny while shaking his head. There was no way a shifter could be alive after that fire, and there was no way it was the stranger, who kidnapped them. Shouldn't shifters only be able to mimic another beings? He had never seen a human like the mysterious stranger before.

"We can't believe it either," said North, "but it's true. A shifter managed to escape the fire and live all these years under our noses. He just wasn't in his true form when he kidnapped you both."

"Well, okay, so a shifter is on the loose and for some reason caused the fire at the Pole, but what does that have to do with Jack being missing?" Bunny asked with anticipation.

North sighed. "After you left, Bunny, I left the yetis to set up a temporary base in this ice cave while I went to tell Tooth and Sandy about Jack being in that picture," he said. "Then I came back here to help the yetis finish setting up. I suddenly got a call on the Orb, and sure enough, it was Jack." Bunny and Sandy cringed. "He told me that he did some research on his Orb and found out that I lied to him about the picture."

"I still say you should've just talked to him about it, but go on," Bunny interjected.

"Right," North said raising a bushy eyebrow at the Pooka, "so then he said that it wasn't him and that the Orb told him it was a shifter. Had there been different circumstances regarding the shifters, I probably would've believed him…but…" He hung his head low as Tooth moved toward him gently placing a small hand on his broad shoulder, and both Bunny and Sandy cringed again.

"…but you didn't," Bunny finished for him. He couldn't say that he was surprised. It was a little strange that Jack would place the blame on a species that had been extinct for years, but then again, maybe he didn't know the shifters were extinct because the Orb forgot to tell him.

North shook his head. "No…I told him that he wasn't making me believe him anymore by lying to me and hung up on him."

The Easter Bunny's green eyes widened in shock. "Crikey…North, I understand that the fact that he's blaming it on an extinct species was a little far-fetched, but…that's…a little harsh, even for me," he said.

Sandy created an image of Jack hugging his knees to his chest with his head down all by himself looking very upset and alone.

"I know. I know!" North said throwing his arms and head up in frustration. "Believe me, I felt horrible for doing that to him, but what else could I do? If he was lying to me…"

"Alright," Bunny suddenly said, "finish giving us the briefing, and then we'll let you mope. What happened after that?"

Tooth sighed realizing that it was time to tell her part of the story. "Well, after North told me about the picture and I finished my rounds, I went to see Jack," she said. "I told him about North telling us about the picture, and he told me about his shifter theory. He then asked me to tell him about the shifters, so I did. I told him about the fire and how not one escaped like we thought. He was still persistent in proving that the arsonist was a shifter. I tried to tell him it was impossible, but he wouldn't hear of it. So we took off back to the Pole to get things straightened out."

"And while that was going on, the Pole went up in flames again," North added.

"Again?!" Bunny asked as Sandy created an exclamation point above his head.

"Four times," North replied, "and all witnesses have claimed that they saw Jack fleeing the scene." He barely noticed Bunny tensing up at the turn of events. "After the last fire was put out, I talked to you, Bunny, here in the cave. You came by and asked me if I had figured out if Jack caused the fire."

Now, Bunny was even more confused. He only remembered talking to North about the picture of Jack in the fire and then coming back to his Warren. "What? I didn't come over here. The only time I did was when you needed help with the first fire."

"From what you already told me, I now know that it had to have been the shifter disguised as you," North concluded. "He obviously came back to the Pole to see if I figured anything out, and because both you and the shifter had the same eye color, I wasn't able to notice anything different about you. I told you about Jack's theory, which according to you we both knew was impossible, and that Jack's eyes looked green in the picture. I was actually starting to believe him, but then you said that the only reason his eyes looked green in the picture was because it was taken in the middle of the fire and the person was moving. I knew you were right, so I sent you to go get Jack so that we could talk to him."

Tooth once again took the reigns in the story and continued, "Jack and I arrived at the Pole, but we couldn't find the ice cave. When we were starting to look for it, we saw you, Bunny, standing there. Jack sent me to go get Sandy while he went with you. He knew that all five of us were going to have to sort this out together. I left, but…" she looked at North sheepishly rubbing her feathered arm, "I don't know what happened after that."

North furrowed his eyebrows in thought as he tried to finish putting the puzzle together remembering what the shifter told him and Tooth after Jack…well… No, he didn't have time to mope. Bunny and Sandy still needed to here the rest.

"Since the shifter was actually disguised as Bunny the whole time," he finally began looking back up at the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and the Sandman, "I'm assuming that the shifter met up with Jack and kidnapped him without us knowing."

Bunny gasped as the light bulb went off. That was why Jack wasn't with them. He must've run into the shifter thinking it was one of his fellow guardians, and the shifter kidnapped him! No wonder North and Tooth looked upset. They must've felt bad because they weren't there to help Jack out.

"So, that's it!" the Pooka exclaimed as anger and determination burned through him. "The shifter has Jack! Aw, crikey, we better get out of here and find the little bugger before the shifter gets any funny ideas!"

He immediately marched right to the door with Sandy right behind him. Sandy pounded his fist into his opened palm as sand streams came out of his ears emphasizing the death glare on his face. Neither of them cared that spirits weren't able to escape the Infinity Cell. Why? Well, because the Guardians were a family, and nobody messed with family. It was settled! They were going to get out of this cell, find Jack, and kick the shifter all the way to Kingdom Come.

"Actually, guys," Tooth said as she and North watched them, "there's a lot more to this story."

That got them to stop in their tracks and turn to face the Guardians of Wonder and Memories. There was that tone in Tooth's voice again sending a horrible premonition. "What do you mean?" Bunny asked carefully.

North sighed. "She means that we're not done just yet."

"There's more?" Bunny asked.

"I'm afraid so," said Tooth.

North took charge of the long recap this time. "Somewhere between when I sent you to get Jack and when Jack came to the Pole, the shifter must've taken Jack and stored him somewhere far away from here. About an hour later, the shifter came back disguised as Jack."

Bunny and Sandy furrowed their eyebrows together in confusion, looked at each other, and then back at North and Tooth. Something didn't make sense with what North just said. So far it sounded like a green-eyed shifter was harassing them, and from they all gathered from the research that was conducted on those creatures, it was impossible for them to change eye color, so…

Bunny scoffed as Sandy rolled his eyes.

"Well, that's pretty idiotic," said Bunny. "Wouldn't there be some differences you were bound to notice?"

Sandy smiled and created an image of a magnifying glass, a shifter, an eye, a snowflake and another eye. The shifter and Jack have different eye colors, and because shifters have to keep their eye color, there is no way a green-eyed shifter could have pulled off his disguise as Jack.

North sighed knowing that he originally thought the same thing, especially when he noticed that Jack's eyes looked green in that awful picture. "Unfortunately, this shifter is smarter than you think," he said. "Somehow, he was able to conceal his eye color and change his eyes from green to blue to completely match Jack."

Bunny was confused again. "How did he do that?" he asked. "Shifters have to keep their eye color, and last time I checked, they weren't magical creatures."

"I don't know," North replied trying not to yell at his friends. He exhaled as he continued knowing that there was still more to tell no matter how much he wanted to just skip it. He managed to push down the shame and guilt for a little bit longer. "Anyway, Jack came into the cave. I asked him where you were, and he told me that you went home. So, I told him about the fires and that I wanted to believe his shifter theory but only if he can prove it. He told me that he couldn't. That was when Tooth came in and told us that you and Sandy were missing. I then asked Jack again whether he did or did not cause the fire, and...and...he..." he took a shaky breath, "he confessed. He said that he used the shifter theory to convince us it wasn't him and that he did set the Pole on fire."

Sandy's jaw dropped in shock.

"What?" Bunny whispered. "Y-You didn't really believe that, did you?"

"No, we didn't, which is why we decided to ask Manny to clear things up," North quickly said.

Sandy picked up his jaw when North's last statement registered in his head. They didn't believe that Jack caused the fire and called upon Manny to help them out. Finally, something good was coming out of this story. Their leader and oldest friend would have surely cleared this matter up somehow. The little Sandman smiled and clapped his hands for his two friends proud that they did not jump to conclusions too quickly and did whatever they could to make sure that Jack was innocent.

"Oh, well, that's good," Bunny said smiling. However, it still didn't connect to how they ended up in the cell without Jack, but suddenly, something clicked again as he figured out the rest of the story…or so he thought. "Let me guess. He exposed the shifter. You two tried to attack him, and he ended up knocking you two out and placed all of us in here except for Frost, who—" he took one look at North and Tooth's faces and saw that they still looked sad, ashamed, and hurt, "and that's even close to what happened, is it?"

"It was the complete opposite," said North. "Manny said that...Jack was in fact guilty."

"What?!" Bunny shouted.

Sandy created an exclamation point above his head expressing the same amount of shock.

North and Tooth were not at all phased by Bunny and Sandy's reactions. So, North continued to tell them what happened after their friend was convicted.

"We asked Jack how he could betray us," he said, "and he said what he said to me when we had our fight...that he thought the world would be better off without the Guardians."

Sandy created an image of Jack and a question mark. Our Jack said that? The Guardian of Dreams would have expected the shifter to say that after what happened with the fire, but Jack? Jack was too good of a soul to say something so horrible to North. Then again, he was a teenager, and they do have unpredictable moods. Plus, it would explain the tension that he, Bunny, and Tooth felt between them when the Pole was set on fire and why Jack refused to talk to North when he went to see him in his tree.

"It was just out of anger, Sandy. I know now that Jack didn't mean it," North said putting his hands up to calm Sandy down. "Anyway, Manny put Jack to sleep so that I could put him in here and Tooth could take his staff while he thought of Jack's punishment. While Jack was in the cell, Manny told me that as a punishment, Jack was to have his Guardianship title removed from him and..." he swallowed the lump in his throat again before continuing, "to be turned back into a human to ensure that he could no longer harm us. Then we set out to try to find you two, and somehow somewhere during the time between Manny's verdict and when Manny punished Jack, I think the shifter managed to escape without us noticing and brought the real Jack here. Later that night, just a few hours ago actually, we took Jack out to the cliff not too far from here, and..." He, Bunny, and Sandy then looked at Tooth.

Though Tooth was still looking on the ground, she could still feel everyone's eyes on her as she remembered what happened merely hours ago. She then took a deep breath trying to muster the courage she needed to continue.

"...I asked Jack if he had anything to say."

"Well, did he?" Bunny asked.

"Yes, quite a lot," North replied. "He said that he fully trusted that Manny knew he didn't cause the fire and that Manny had a plan for him. Then he...he apologized to me for the fight we had and told Tooth to be strong."

Bunny raised his furry eyebrows. He knew that Jack was a good kid, but he didn't expect to hear that Jack was so calm and brave when all this was going on. The Guardian of Fun had the choice to either accept his fate or to fight back and be angry with his fellow Guardians, but surprisingly, he seemed to have chosen the latter. He trusted Manny, who ignored him for 300 years and then lied about him being guilty when he had the chance to expose the shifter. He apologized to North and even gave Tooth the time of day despite the fact that he knew that they thought he betrayed them. Then again, this was the same kid, who turned down Pitch's offer to join him despite having been sent away by the other Guardians, so the Pooka wasn't that surprised.

Sandy then created the question mark over his head again asking for North and Tooth to continue.

North took a deep breath for what seemed like the millionth time that day. "Then, Manny turned him back into a human. I don't know what happened. It might have been because he was never technically alive as Jack Frost and had no tolerance to the extreme cold, but Jack fainted after the transformation."

"We were just about to take him away from the Pole and bring him to Burgess when this...stranger appeared," Tooth added as shivers went down her spine from remembering how helpless and cold Jack looked, and it was all because of Manny, North, and her. "We didn't know it at the time, but it was the shifter who kidnapped you two. He then explained who he was and how he wanted Jack out of the way so that he could get to us in order to get to Manny, who now seems to have betrayed us."

"What's he planning?" Bunny asked.

"He's planning to kill Manny," North replied.

"How is he supposed to do that?"

"We don't know. All we know is that he plans to do it during the eclipse, and we didn't think to ask him more because we still had Jack to take care of." Father Christmas looked down in shame again as he remembered what happened after the shifter explained everything, and the guilt came back yet again. He couldn't look up at any of his fellow Guardians for this part of the briefing. "We were about to take him away from the Pole when the shifter used Sandy's dream sand to knock us out and move all four of us in here. I dropped Jack when I was put to sleep, so I don't know where he is now. However, I'm praying that the shifter at least had the heart to move him to some place warm."

There was silence…a deafening silence as Bunny and Sandy stared at their two fellow guardians. There was no emotion on either of their faces, but North and Tooth didn't realize this as they both kept their eyes on the ground feeling utterly horrible for what they had done to Jack.

"Are you two finished?" Bunny finally asked.

"Yes, we're finished," said North.

Ok, so that was the first chapter! Hope you all like it so far! I'll put up the next and final chapter in a few moments. In the meantime, reviews will much appreciated! :)