I hope you like it! Enjoy! By the way! I forgot to mention! The spells I used in this story so far are from the TV series Charmed! Just in case anyone asks!
We followed North and soon enough we reach a door. North pushes through everyone and several Yeti's rush by as they prepare the hangar for launch.
"Boys, ship shape. As soon as impossible." North told the Yeti's.
"North! North! I told you, I'm not going with you guys!" Jack yelled.
"Yeah! And there is no way I'm climbing into some rickety old..." Our jaws drop as we see a cool hot rod of a sleigh. Damn...I take back what I said. "Sleigh..." I breathed out. "Okay...one ride...that's it."
"You might want to close your mouth there Jackie...you might catch flies." Jack teased.
"I just turned Bunnymund yellow...I wouldn't piss me off right now if I were you snowball." I then smirked at Jack's slightly scared expression.
"Oh yeah...speaking of your little spell, think you could reverse it or something?" Bunny asked me.
"I dunno...you ready to apologize for what you said to Jack and I earlier?" I glared at him.
"I'll apologize to you since you're not a pain in my neck like frostbite is." Bunny grumbled. "Jacqueline, I'm sorry for saying what I said to you earlier. It was uncalled for."
"You're damn right it was..." I got out my wand and began to reverse my spell. "Guided spirits, hear our plea, annul this magic, let it be."
Bunny's fur then changed back into its normal color. I almost got trampled by reindeer, but before that could happen I got pulled away by Jack.
"You should learn to be more careful, Jackie..." Jack scolded me.
"Hey! Moi deti! Moi deti! Quiet! Quiet!" North tried calming down the reindeer. I walked over to the sleigh and hopped in.
"THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME!" I squealed. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at me in surprise. "Sorry...just a little excited..." I smiled sheepishly.
"Everyone likes the sleigh." North chuckled.
North got on and grabbed the reins. He gets ready to take off as everyone got on...until he saw that Bunny was the only one not in the sleigh.
"Bunny, what are you waiting for?" North motioned for Bunny to get on.
"I-uh...think my tunnels might be a little more faster, mate...and safer."
North chuckled and hoisted Bunny into the sleigh.
"Nonsense! Get in! ...and buckle up." North wraps the reins around his arms.
Bunny looks around desperately and saw nothing to hold on to.
"Whoa, whoa, WHOA! Where are the bloody seat-belts?!" Bunny cried.
"That was just expression!" North laughs.
In several seconds we all take off. I see how scared Bunnymund is and I started feeling bad. I used to hate flying too! Jack teased Bunny and pretended that he fell off the sleigh.
"Bunny, look at this view-AAAH!"
Bunny panicked and he slowly looked over the side of the sleigh only to find Jack leaning against the sleigh's skid.
"Aw...you do care."
"Ah, rack off you bloody show pony!" Bunny yelled.
I then put my hand on Bunny's paw noticing how scared he was.
"You alright Aster?" I asked him.
"I feel sick sheila...I hope North likes carrots..."
"It's gonna be alright Bunny...you'll be fine." I assured him.
I put his head on my lap and began scratching behind his ear in attempt to calm him down. The sleigh jolts when we go through a portal to Tooth Palace. There's nightmares everywhere. They were taking the teeth and all of the little tooth fairies. So I take it this is Pitch's doing? I never heard or even seen Pitch. I guess I'll find out who he is now. North gives Jack control of the sleigh after Jack came back with one of Tooth's fairies. I then put my fingers to my mouth and whistled really loudly. In seconds my broom is flying over to me. I jump off of the sleigh and mount myself on my broom and started trying to free the other fairies that the nightmares had kidnapped. They were all gone by the time I had gotten to my broom though...I felt so upset that I had let them get away. I hovered over to the palace and saw how upset everyone is. Especially Tooth...
"They took my fairies! And the teeth! They took all of them...everything is gone! Everything..." Tooth cried. Baby Tooth flies over to Tooth and she hugs the little fairy right away. "Oh thank goodness! One of you is alright!"
"I have to say, this is very, very exciting." I jump at the sound of the unfamiliar voice. We all look up to see who I guessed was Pitch, standing high above us with a satisfied smile."The Big Four, all in one place. I'm a little star-struck. Did you like my show on the globe, North? Got you all together, didn't I?"
Tooth darts after Pitch, but he escapes into the shadows.
"Pitch, you have got thirty seconds to return my fairies!" Tooth yelled furiously.
"Or what?" Tooth follows the sound of Pitch's voice and finds him near one of her tooth box columns. "You'll stick a quarter under my pillow?" He retorted.
"Why are you doing this?" North asked.
"Maybe I want what you have. To be believed in." He snarled.
I looked at Jack and saw the surprised look on his face. I guess we could both relate to that. Pitch moves along the walls and shadows of the chamber and emerges from behind a column.
"Maybe I'm tired of hiding under beds." Pitch said.
"Maybe that's where you belong!" Bunny snapped.
"Ah, go suck an egg, rabbit..." Pitch rolled his eyes.
Bunny looks down past the edge of the platform to find Pitch upside down, staring him in the face like the creeper he is. Pitch disappears again before Bunny can get to him.
"Hang on, is that...Jack Frost?" Pitch laughs. I then felt this horrible feeling in my gut when he said my name. "And Jacqueline Lantern...since when are you all so chummy?"
"We're not." Jack said.
"Oh good. What about you my dear?" I jump as I realize that Pitch has his arms wrapped around me. Everyone looks so shocked and I'm just slightly afraid at the moment.
"LET HER GO PITCH!"
I felt myself disappearing and then reappearing with Pitch. Jack turns and sees Pitch and I standing in the middle of a column.
"Why is it that I know everyone's fears...except yours hm?" Pitch's mouth is by my ear. I'm afraid that if I move...that he'd hurt me."You're so dark and mysterious Miss Lantern...you should come and join me. With your magic and my darkness...we'd be unstoppable."
"No thanks. I don't want to get involved at all." I growled.
I then felt myself sinking into the ground and reappearing next to the guardians again.
"A neutral party. Then I'm going to ignore you. But, you two must be used to that by now."
Usually words like that didn't hurt me...but this time...they stung a little bit. Jack helped me up and held my hand, slightly afraid that I would get taken by Pitch again.
"Pitch! You shadow sneaking rat-bag! Come here!"
Bunny goes after Pitch, but he disappears and reemerges on an opposite column. Tooth spots him, grabs one of Bunny's boomerangs and flies at Pitch in a rage...
"AAAAAAAAAAH!" Tooth let out a battle cry.
Pitch looks at Tooth with a smile and before she can reach him, a huge Nightmare comes out of hiding and protects Pitch. Tooth falls back in panic and fear. Pitch then started petting the Nightmare.
"Whoa! Hey, easy, girl. Easy."
Pitch draws a wisp of black sand from the nightmare's mane, twirls it in his palm, and turns toward Sandy.
"Look familiar, Sandman? Took me awhile to perfect this little trick. Turning dreams into Nightmares." Pitch grins evilly.
We're all shocked at this point...especially Sandman.
"Don't be nervous, it only riles them up more. They smell fear you know." He told us.
"What fear? Of you!? No one's been afraid of you since the Dark Ages!" Bunny yelled.
Pitch looked furious at that moment, but then he smiles...
"Oh, the Dark Ages. Everyone frightened. Miserable. Such happy times for me. Oh, the power I wielded! But then the Man in the Moon chose
you to replace my fear with your wonder and light! Lifting their hearts! And giving them hope! Meanwhile, everyone wrote me off as
just a bad dream!"Oh, there's nothing to be afraid of! There's no such thing as the Boogeyman!"...well all that's about to change."
We all heard something snap and right before our very eyes...the palace walls...started to decay...
"Oh look...it's happening already." Pitch smiles evilly.
"What is?" Jack asked worriedly.
"Children are waking up and realizing that the Tooth Fairy never came...I mean such a little thing, but to a child..."
"You bastard..." I glared at him. He only laughs at my anger.
"What's going on?" Jack asked.
Tooth Fairy still looks upon the scene...she is still stunned.
"They...they don't believe in me anymore..." She barely whispered.
"Didn't they tell you, Jack? It's great being a Guardian, but there's a catch. If enough kids stop believing, everything your friends protect...wonder, hopes, and dreams...it all goes away. And little by little, so do they." Pitch explained. "No Christmas, or Easter, or little fairies that come in the night. There will be nothing, but fear, darkness, and me! It's your turn not to be believed in!" Pitch finished.
I get out my wand and blast a lightning bolt of my magic energy at him. He evades it quickly and disappears...for good this time.
"He's gone..." North says sadly.
I get angry and punch a nearby pillar really hard. Crap...my hand's all busted up now...
"Tooth...I'm sorry..." I apologized.
Tooth looks like she's given up hope. I saw that she was holding an empty tooth box in her hands.
"Okay, alright I admit it, you were right about Pitch..." Bunny mumbled to North.
"This is one time I wish I was wrong...but he will pay." North muttered.
Jack comes over to us and he crouches down beside Tooth.
"I'm sorry, about the fairies."
"You should've seen them...they put up such a fight." She barely whispered.
"Why would Pitch take the teeth?" Jack then asked.
"It's not the teeth he wanted. It's the memories inside them." Tooth answered.
"What do you mean?" Jack looked confused.
Tooth leads Jack and I across a pond, the water freezing under our feet because of Jack's ice magic.
"That's why we collect the teeth, Jack. They hold the most important memories of childhood." Tooth showed us a mural...which pretty much illustrated what she said. "My fairies and I watch over them and when someone needs to remember what's important, we help them."
We both looked at the mural and admired it. It was beautiful...
"We had everyone's here. Both of yours too." Tooth finished.
"Our memories?" Jack looked at Tooth in surprise.
"From when you two were young. Before you both became Jack Frost and Jacqueline Lantern." She explained.
"But, I wasn't anyone before I was Jack Frost." Jack thought aloud.
I was silent...I didn't know why, but...I kind of didn't want to know what my past was. I was okay with being Jacqueline Lantern, a witch. What if my past...wasn't so great?
"Of course you were. We were all someone before we were chosen." Tooth looked at Jack in confusion.
"What?" Jack looked interested.
"You should've seen Bunny." North chuckled.
"Hey, I told you never to mention that!" Bunnymund snapped. Well now I'm curious about Bunny's past. Was he a human before?
"That night at the pond...I just...why I assumed...a-are you saying...are you saying I had a life before that? With a home? And a family?" Jack looked hopeful.
"You really don't remember?" Tooth asked.
Jack's expression pretty much said it all. This was the key to all of his questions. And he didn't even know about it this whole time!
"All these years, and the answers were right here! If I find my memories, then I'll know why I'm here." Jack looked excited. "You have to show me."
Jack flew around the pond in excitement. He couldn't keep in all of his joy.
"I...I can't, Jack. Pitch has them." Tooth sighed sadly.
Jack floats down onto a rock and looks at all of us with determination in his eyes.
"Then we have to get them back!"
We all look at Tooth in worry when we see a patch of her feathers falls and disappears.
"Oh no!" Tooth cried. I was stricken. The mural was beginning to decay and disappear as well. "The children. We're too late!"
"No! No! No such thing as too late!" North yelled furiously. "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Idea! HAHH!" He cheered gleefully.
We all looked at North like he suddenly went insane...he DID look a little nuts right now.
"Uh...you okay there, North?" I asked.
"We will collect the teeth!" North suggested.
"What?" Tooth asked incredulously.
"We get teeth! Children keep believing in you!" North explained.
"We're talking seven continents! Millions of kids!" Tooth yelled at him.
"Give me break! You know how many toys I deliver in one night?" North laughed like it was no big deal.
"And eggs I hide in one day?" Bunny joined in.
North turns to Jack and I.
"Jacqueline and Jack, if you help us, we will get you your memories." North offered.
Jack looks to Tooth, who gives him a reassuring smile. Sandy gives two enthusiastic thumbs up while Bunny rolls his eyes and groans.
"I'm in." Jack replied with a smile.
They all looked at me for an answer.
"Is something wrong Jackie?" Jack came over to me.
I continued looking at the ground feeling uncomfortable.
"Hey...look at me..." Jack grabbed my chin forcing me to look at him. "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing Jack...let's get going alright? Wherever you go, I go too." I smiled sadly.
You really want to know what's actually bugging me? I'm not too keen on finding out about my past. What if it was horrible? What if I wanted to forget?
We all kind of managed to turn this into a competition. House after house across each continent, we were all racing to get teeth. I'd never seen Jack have so much fun honestly. His motivation was beating Bunny and getting his memories back. I just wanted to help Tooth honestly...she worked hard as a Guardian and never really took breaks. She worked all year round just like Sandy did.
"Here we go, here we go..." Bunny kept racing along the roof tops.
Jack flew over and caught up with Bunny.
"Hop to it rabbit, I'm five teeth ahead!" He bragged.
"Yeah right, look, I'd tell you to stay outta my way, but really what's the point? Because you won't be able to keep up anyway." Bunnymund teased.
"Is that a challenge, cottontail?" Jack smirked.
"Oh, you don't wanna race a rabbit, mate." Bunny told him.
As we raced across the rooftops, North popped out of a nearby chimney.
"A race? Is it a race?" North looked giddy. North jumps back into the chimney, then shoots out of another across a different house. "This is going to be..." North disappears down yet another chimney and emerges out on top of another. "EPIC!"
Tooth darts around feeling completely excited. I felt happy for her.
"Four bicuspids over there! An incisor two blocks east! Is that a molar? They're everywhere!" She cheered. Tooth being overwhelmed forgot to pay attention where she was flying and smacked right into a billboard. "OW!"
I flew over to her on my broom.
"You okay there, Tooth?" I asked.
"Fine...sorry, it's been a really long time since I've been out in the field." She rubbed her face.
"How long is a long time?"
I jumped and turned around to see Jack smiling at us.
"Ah, four hundred forty years...give or take." She smiled sheepishly.
Tooth's attention goes to another house. We all saw a little girl with a glowing tooth under her pillow. We all smile as we fly over to the little girl's window and go inside. An hour later we're half way across the world. We met up on a roof top to see our progress.
"Wow! You guys collect teeth and leave gifts as fast as my fairies!" Tooth smiled at everyone.
Everyone's eyes widened except mine.
"You guys have been leaving gifts right?" I asked them.
They smile sheepishly and all of them leave. Wow...just...wow...
The next house I ended up in all by myself was...wait for it...Jamie's house. The kid I helped out last Halloween. It turned out he got hit with some piece of furniture from what I gather...and that's how he lost his tooth. It was nice seeing him again. Tooth then comes in and is surprised to already see me here with his tooth already. She flew over beside Jamie's bed and smiles at Jamie.
"Left central incisor, knocked out in a freak sledding accident. I wonder how that could have happened."
"I don't know...kids will be kids right?" I shrugged and put the tooth in my pocket.
"...this was always the part I liked most...seeing the kids. Why did I ever stop doing this?" Tooth seemed sad now.
"It's a little different up close, huh?" I asked.
"Thanks for being here, Jacqueline...I wish I had known about you and Jack...I could've helped you two..."
"It's okay, Tooth...you just worry about Jack...I'll be fine..." I walked over to the window.
"What about you though? Don't you want your memories back?" Tooth asked worriedly.
We stood in silence for a minute before I finally spoke up.
"You know...the only memory I have of myself...I-I woke up underground. It was scary as hell I can tell you that. I didn't know there was a Man in Moon. I just heard voices in my head...telling me my name and to remain a good witch." Tooth looked slightly upset and seemed like she wanted to hug me, but fought the urge. "Maybe I wanted to forget my past life...forget how I died. Why I became a witch..."
"But...don't you want to learn who you were before you became a spirit?" Tooth put her hand on my shoulder.'
"...I don't know...do I really want to know?" I asked myself.
"It's not my place, but...do what you think is right." Tooth whispered.
Just as we were about to leave everyone came into Jamie's room.
"Here you are!" North climbed into the window with a huge sack over his shoulder. After struggling to get into the small window for several seconds he finally got through.
Sandy and Baby Tooth climb in after North does.
"SSHHHHHHHH!" Tooth hissed at North angrily.
"Oh, what gives slowpokes!? Jamie is still sound asleep." Jack said. North shrugged.
"How you feeling, Toothy?" North asked Tooth.
"Believed in." Tooth smiled.
"Haha! That's what I want to hear." North chuckled.
Bunny then comes in through a rabbit hole in the floorboards. Oh boy...
"Oh I see how it is...all working together to make sure the rabbit gets last place." Bunny looked at us suspiciously.
"SSSHHHHHHHHH!" North held his index finger up to his lips.
"You think I need help to beat a bunny? Check it out, Peter Cottontail." Jack lifts up his sack of teeth. I can't help but chuckle.
"You call that a bag of choppers?" Bunny held up a larger sack filled with more teeth. "Now that's a bag of choppers." He smirked.
"Gentlemen! Gentlemen! This is about Tooth. It's not a competition! But if it was..." North threw on the floor a humungous sack full of teeth. "I win. YEEEEEHAAAHH!"
I rolled my eyes as North does a little Russian dance. I closed my eyes shut as a bright light hits us.
"Oh no..." North muttered.
"Santa Claus?" Jamie looks surprised.
We all look at Jamie in shock. Crap...
"The Easter Bunny?...Sandman...The Tooth Fairy! I knew you'd come!" Jamie jumps on his bed in excitement.
"Surprise! We came!" Tooth laughed nervously.
"He can see us?" Jack looked happy. I got excited too. The first kid to actually see me? Now that would be the day...
Jamie looks around, amazed that the Guardians are actually in his bed room.
"Most of us." Bunny mumbled.
My hand formed into a fist and I fought the urge to cry. Way to get my hopes up...
"Shhh! You guys, he's still awake." Tooth whispered.
"Sandy! Knock him out!" Bunny ordered Sandman.
Jamie then looks concerned as Sandman inches closer towards him punching his other fist and smirking deviously.
"Huh?!"
"With the Dreamsand, ya gumbies." Bunny rolled his eyes.
Out of nowhere a greyhound jumps onto the bed and stares Bunny down, growling, and ready to pounce.
"No, stop that's the Easter Bunny. What are you doing, Abbey? Down!" Jamie yelled at the dog is nose to nose with Bunny. Aw crap...
"Alright, nobody panic." Bunny moved slowly as he put down his sack full of teeth down on the floor gently.
"But that's a um, that's a greyhound. Do you know what greyhounds do to rabbits?" Jack smirked. He was enjoying this wasn't he?
"I think it's a pretty safe bet he's never met a rabbit like me..."
Sandy began to form a ball of sand and Jack's smirk grew as he noticed an alarm clock on Jamie's night stand.
"Jack...don't you dare-" Jack cuts me off and moves closer to the night stand.
"Six foot one, nerves of steel, master of tai-chi and the ancient art of-"
Jack used his staff and tapped the alarm clock with it. BRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNGG!
"Crikey." Bunny looked scared.
Bunny darts away quickly with the greyhound on his tail (Literally) and runs around the room trying to get away from the crazy dog.
"Stop! Sit!" Jamie cried.
Sandy throws the ball of dream sand and it's just flying across the room. North dodges it and it hits Tooth in the face. She dropped to the floor sound asleep.
"Down girl, down!" Jamie yelled.
We all get out of the way as Bunny and the dog run up the walls and over the bed. It's like a mad house all of a sudden. Dream sand is flying around the room.
"Ah, this thing's rabid! Get this dingo off me!" Bunny yelled.
Bunny then got hit with some dream sand as well. The image of a carrot quickly dances across his face.
"Oh no." THUD. Bunny is out for the count. THUD. There goes the crazy dog...
North tries to scramble out of the way, but it's too late and he got hit as well.
"Candy canes..." North fell backwards onto Jamie's bed which sends Jamie flying in the air.
"WHOOOOAAA!"
Sandy caught him just as he starts to wake up again, but Sandy is there with a fistful of sand. And just like that Jamie is out cold as well. I look at the scene in complete shock and Jack is just howling with laughter.
"You ass monkey! Why'd the hell did you have to set off that alarm clock?! Jamie's parents could have come in here because of you!" I practically yelled.
"I'm just having a little fun! You should do it sometime!" Jack wiped a tear from his eye and slung an arm around my shoulder.
"I can have fun!" I pouted.
"Oh yeah? Prove it..."
I leaned in towards Jack's face and he suddenly gets nervous. I then move my lips to his ear and I bite his ear lobe. He yelps and jumps away from me.
"What the heck was that?!" Jack's face is tomato red.
"I had my fun...you were scared to death weren't you?" I then smirk.
"I'll get you for that...I won't even tell you when...but be ready." Jack smiled deviously.
I saw something by the window and it quickly disappears. I ran over to the window. It was a nightmare...shit...Pitch is nearby.
I hope you guys liked the chapter! I barely almost finished it! I couldn't think of a good way to end it! I tried though! Review please! ^-^