Chapter 1 – The Fluttering Lights on The Globe

A few years after Pitch, The Boogeyman, was chased by his own darkest fears, everything was back to normal. North, Santa, began to deliver presents again on Christmas, Easter Bunny hides Easter eggs on Easter, Tooth Fairy collects more teeth, and Sandman, sitting on his sand clouds all night to give the children the best dreams that they've ever wanted. And Jack, well, he usually sits idly on the frosty hills on the North Pole, waiting for his snow days to come every year, or visits North every time he gets bored.

It is fall. And winter is coming around again. North, in his ice palace, marching around with one of the yetis to the manufacturing room. He holds a piece of letter in his big hand from the yeti and take a look on it.

"Another letter? This is the fifth time I got this kind of letter. I bet one of the elves must have wanted a holiday or something." He said to the yeti on his side as he slices open the mail with a letter opener. He pulls the yellowish paper out from the mail and unfolds it.

"So much for today, fellas?" he looked up from the paper and greeted the guests. It was Sandman and Tooth Fairy.

"Why you two are here?" North asked.

"North, nice to see you again!" exclaimed Tooth as she flies around North with Sandman. A pair of sandy hands floats above Sandman's head and they shake together, and with a broad smile on his face.

"Nice to see you two too." Said North. "Too bad Bunny and Jack aren't here, otherwise, I'll arrange a tea party." He laughs.

"We've finished our jobs faster than we thought, so we were thinking about visiting you while we wait for the night to fall again." Said Tooth in excitement, "If you need a helping hand, we can help." Sandman nodded slightly.

"I've got thousands of hairy, helping hands to do the job for me, so I think I got enough." North sneered. "How are you doing these days?"

While North and Tooth are having a long conversation about their jobs recently, Sandman flew around on his sandy clouds and whooshes above the yetis' and the elves' heads. Twirling around in the air and observed Santa's helpers making toys for the children in he world, until he reached North's globe. It is mostly filled with dots of lights, which indicates the children who have believed in the guardians. But then, as Sandman is staring the Globe, the lights in front of him get dimmer and some of them have disappeared in a flash. Sandman pops a sandy exclamation mark on his head, surprised, and then jumps on his cloud and rushes back to North and Tooth, who are still in the middle of their endless chat.

Sandman pulls North's red cloak and try to get his attention. With sandy exclamation marks on his head, still they don't notice him. He tries to jump, but then he realizes that he is too short. He uses his sands to block on North's face, but North accidently inhales the sands and he gives a loud, booming sneeze, which make both Tooth and Sandman flew backwards. But he continues to chat again.

Frustrated, as the sand on his head forms to storm clouds, he sits grumpily on his sand cloud and thinks on how he can get North attention. He turns his head away from North and Tooth and then he sees the elves marching out the manufacturing room, with decorated trumpets in their hands. A sandy light bulb pops on Sandman's head.

Sandman rushes to the marching elves and blocks their path. A sandy trumpet pops on his head and the elves looked at each other, not quite understand what he's asking for. Sandman quickly points at one of the elves' trumpet, which now makes the elves understand and one of them gives it to him. Sandman shakes his hand in excitement to the elf and immediately speeds back to North.

Sandman stops beside North and Tooth and hops off his sandy cloud. He took a deep breath and blows the trumpet as loud he can! North and Tooth are surprised and they are taken aback. Both of them turn to Sandman, who is now smiling for his success to get their attentions.

"Sandy, what in the world was that?" asked North, "Ye'v almost give the old man a heart attack."

Sandman jumps, with the sandy globe floating on his head, and points to main room. North scratches his head and looks at Tooth questioningly.

"Maybe he wants us to follow him. What is it Sandy?" asked Tooth.

Sandman hops on his sandy cloud and flew to the globe, which was now has fewer lights than before. He points on the lights and slowly, some the lights are disappearing. Tooth and North gasped in shock.

"How could this be? Hundreds of children had lost their faith to us, what is happening?" North said as he puts his hand on his head in panic.

"I can feel it in my belly."

Before North orders his yetis to investigate the problem, the floor beside Tooth is sucked down and creates a deep hole. Sandman looks down into the hole and as he expected, the Easter Bunny pops out from the hole. He looks anxious and hesitant.

"Oy, ye big old lug!" said Bunny to North.

"Bunny! Where have you been? We have quite a problem here-"

"Unfortunately, North," he cuts North before finishing his sentence, "I think I have the same problem as you are." Bunny said with his eyes looks sharply as he sees the Globe with fluttering lights.

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Bunny hops out from his hole before the whole group shows up.

"Welcome back to the Eastern Island, fellas!" said Bunny before he hops to the middle of the grassy ground.

"This is it." He said. He points at the green ground, with a message carved on it.

North and the others stared at the carved message and they all drop their jaws in surprise.

"Good gravy!" North whispered as he sees the giant message lying on the ground. It says,

'Greetings, Guardians. I might be the one who is causing the current chaos. If you have the problem with it, see me.' Signed 'The guardian in the full moon.'

"No… It can't be!" North shutters and he looks back to the guardians. "Not now!"

"It's a trap, North! Don't look for him!" exclaimed Tooth with Sandman, shaking his head with a sandy cross above his head.

North glances to the crystal blue sky. "If we don't see him, we will perish. After all, 'he' is, a strong creature. Whatever happens, we need Jack."