+Am I doing something wrong? I had only 3 reviews :(
I wanted at least ten before making the next chapter...
Whatever, thanks to all the reviewers and the follows,
This is the next chapter+
––– Sewer (unknown POV) –––
There she was, the queen of all Fairies bound to the ceiling and the floor by hardened nightmares...
The light in her eyes seemed to be fading quickly...
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¨No big help would I be if I left her there, another "Lesser Ohb'l" could come for her...
Sadly, it still not the time to show myself, also, delivering her to the guardians would be much of a problem to my plans just yet¨
Drawing close, I let my cloaked hand touch her forehead just as she slumped towards her much needed sleep.
"Not here, not there... Where should I leave you, pitiful faerie?"
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¨––– Toothiana's Mind (and POV) –––¨
*Reverberating voice* "Not. here."
I heard something...
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It was bright again, and my fortress was just starting to get the very first and beautiful rays of light...
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*Reverberating voice* "Not. there."
I heard it again, like it was coming from the walls...
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There where no baby faeries roaming around... So peaceful!
¨Why there are no faeries around?¨
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*Reverberating voice* "Where."
"Who is it?! Show yourself!" It was everywhere, but it wasn't scary, it was almost like I knew the voice.
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Punjam Hy Loo always looked Majestic above the clouds in this light...
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*Reverberating voice* "Should. I. Leave. You."
I could feel it, like it was searching for something, roaming the walls like a warm blanket invisible to my eyes.
And the voice... It was...
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"JACK! JACK! Jack Overland Frost!" I could feel it going away, It was Jack, his voice, his touch.
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He was holding me, and I was SLEEPING! "JACK!"
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*Reverberating voice* "Pitiful Faerie."
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––– Toothiana's Palace (and POV) –––
I woke up.
"Jack!"
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But there was no one...
He was here... I Felt him. his touch, his hands...
I ran my hands on my feathers unknowingly and felt the small ice crystals that had formed where he touched.
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I could still feel the strange mixture of sensations that his touch had in me.
Make it chilling on the surface of the skin, but warming inside my flesh like nothing else in the world.
¨Why wasn't him here? Why did he leave me alone? Why he left us?¨
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Nothing made sense, it was confusing, unnerving,
It made me want to yell at him,
and probably at myself.
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I was so bothered that I felt like I was gonna cry.
Then I heard a bang that woke me up from my misery.
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––– Toothiana's Palace (Normal POV) –––
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The door to Toothiana's Room opened, and a flock of baby faeries went in, surrounding their ruler and mother,
Her ears almost went deaf from all the pitched chirps from everywhere, the worried faeries sounds went from relief to a tone of confusion in a rush that not even Tooth herself could understand.
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"The last thing we know from you that you went missing on drain" Said a very worried North at the door.
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Bunnymund went in boomerang in hand, looking sideways and up as if searching for hidden enemies.
"Yea Bird', you went walkabout last night and only MIM knows how you got here."
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"The hummingbirds told us that no one came in or out the room" Looked North still wondering in his mind all the possibilities on how Toothiana's returned.
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"We're going after you on that blasted tunnel wen' the Thornbills said you'r 'ready here."
He looked at her pointing his boomerang as if wanting explanations.
"Sandy is still in tha' blasted tunnel looking fer' you"
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¨––– Toothiana's Remembrance (and POV) –––¨
"I don't remember... I saw the nightmare leaving and I went after it..."
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I only remembered going in the tunnel and the darkness,
"It was all black and I think I got lost..."
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My mind was starting to remake the pieces lost
"I found its lair, there were so many..."
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North and Bunny only listened even if I knew they were ready to fill me with scoldings, but I didn't let them speak a word.
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I could only remember the darkness and being stuck...
Until I saw again, in my mind, all those faces again.
My head hurt as I grabbed my hair feathers in pain.
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I saw him again, the snowy hair. the white teeth.
"JACK!"
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But it wasn't him, deep inside I knew it wasn't him. I doze off questioning if I was right or wrong, not even noticing I was already in deep slumber.
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––– Toothiana's Room (Bunny POV) –––
I couldn't do any thing, one moment she was remembering stuff about some of those blubs...
The other she is gripping her head and screaming... and not even scream back seems to work.
She just and quiets down, whispers Jack's name and sleeps...
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"Where in hell is that Trickster of a Snowflake!" I said infuriated.
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She frowns and move in the bed, and I ponder to wake her up.
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"Let the Girl sleep Bunny, she went trough enough today. I stay until Sandy comes to oversee her dreams" Said Santa, his wide eyes still ditching sideways in thoughts...
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"Kay' I'll get the SleepyHead because the tunnels are more easy for my kind of transport than your Bucks..."
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Two taps is all it takes, and the warren opens...
¨Perhaps someone got her here trough the warren?¨
I thought about it for a moment before slipping into the hole.
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––– Sewer Systems (Unknown's POV) –––
After leaving Toothiana in her room I went back to dispose of the little nightmares.
Those little evil blobs are very resistant, even if they are somewhat easy to kill, a nice stomp, some water and good thoughts... Apply dreams if they still resist...
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So I took a small bottle of my coat and made some bubbles with it, like a kid playing in a park.
"Those dreams can take care of it... I have more pressing matters to attend."
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––– Sewer Systems (Bunny POV) –––
It doesn't matter how I got in here, but whats wrong in here
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Sleepyhead is trapped in a bubble and sleeping right in the middle of the damn pipe.
"Hey wake up you good for nothing drongo!" I yelled once.
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He moved a little but it was still no waking up from that lizard...
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I went bonkers and yelled at him again and again until he started to wake up.
But in a moment I felt peace and comfort, and yawned strongly as I felt like I went trough a warm shower.
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Blasted be the Sleepyhead, there is another bubble right next. to. me...
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*snore*
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––– Sewer Systems not so long ago (Sandy's POV) –––
As soon as I went in the drain, the fairies came to us and said something about hearing Toothiana scream at her home...
We know that she and her humming birds have some sort of telepathic connection so it could be that she WAS indeed at home, or she could be here and they were hearing her screaming through their minds.
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One could not know for sure...
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So North and bunny went to Punjam Hy Loo to investigate, and I stayed for safety...
I am the only one who actually succeeds in clearing this bothersome slugs...
So If they find her there she is saved or at least they have the faeries as backup.
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But, if she is still here...
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(later)
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I found clues, there are signs of battle and some of those precious feathers in here.
It looks like Tooth fought something here. Something big, or lots of small things.
There are dents inside the pipe as if force had been used from inside out.
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¨Oh. It was something Big...¨
The layer of dirt on the bottom of the pipe has been scrubbed as if something dragged itself or was dragged on it. the trail goes a little further, I will look at it.
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Just now I noticed, there is some sort of oil running in the water, but its only some stains of it.
I probably should take a sample.
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¨Stop MOVING!¨ this thing is kind of sentient, it flees my hand every time I try to pick it up... Wait there is more of it.
Lots of oil spots running under me fleeing fast, but I was faster and took one.
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¨I'm not moving. They still run but... what is that they run from?¨
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¨OOOH that tickles...¨ I just felt something warm touch my back, it feels like a bath?!
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I turned and saw something... Jack was there, right behind me... but just as I saw him I felt the urge to blink, but my eyes forgot to open.
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(later) (removed Scene)
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I heard Bunny yelling "WAKE UP!" and I opened my eyes.
in time to see Bunnymund falling asleep inside a huge soap bubble.
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I knew right then that those bubbles where something like my dreamsand.
Once it touches, it makes the target fall in deep slumber...
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As I created a ball of sand to blow the Bunny's bubble, I noticed that the oily creature that I had in my hand was no longer in sight...
¨Maybe I dropped it in my sleep...¨
Something wasn't right at all, I couldn't have dropped it, I still had my hand closed, even after awakening.
¨Oh wait, this is what they were fleeing off! Those Dreambubbles...¨
¨It killed the oily nightmares!¨
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I had to take some samples...
Oh I know just the trick...
¨Sand can be made into glass.¨
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Underside bunny and the dreambubble, I created a large bowl of glass...
And very carefully blew the bubble up...
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Bunny was going to fall into the bowl but I got him middle air,
The bowl actually got some of the Bubble liquid in it as I planned,
¨Easy Peazy¨ I morphed it into a very small bottle for safekeeping.
This has got to be useful.
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––– Toothiana's Room (Later) Normal POV –––
North was the first noticing that a hole suddenly appeared on the floor, even if it was Bunny's Warren, he had seen Pitch invade it, so he had his swords ready.
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It took some time,
more than usual...
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Sandy was first, levitating very slowly from the hole, yawning like he was very tired.
A few seconds later Bunny jumped up looking as tired as Sandy, and quickly closed the warren.
He seemed cautious of anything else to coming from it.
They looked tired or at least worried.
Bunny kept looking at the ground, where he just came from looking like he wanted to catch a breath.
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A frown turned his usually angry face into a more somber and serious mask.
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"We're gonna have to hunt that Frostbite wanker and take all the good oil off him"
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––– End of Chapter –––
+ So I'm trying to get the speech patterns of each character...
North is supposed to have a very strong Russian accent that forgets one or two words,
Bunny is supposed to have some sort of Aussie accent... But I don't know if this is going the right way.
Sandy given his communication problems should actually think more than he talks, so I'm writing his thoughts whenever he "thinks something out loud".
And I really can't write something like:
"!.⇩↺嘢⇕..."
(exclamation).(pointing down)(clock winding backwards)(something)(double arrow growing)..."
Which could translate as:
¨Oh. It was something Big...¨
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Dict:
Ohb'l (save it for later)
Punjam Hy Loo - Book location of Tooth's Palace (guardians of Childhood)
Walkabout - Australian Slang for go missing or leaving for unknown time.
Thornbills - Very Small Australian Bird
Drongo - Auss SL. Idiot or something like it (thanks for Lone-grey-koas-wolf)
Wanker - Australian Slang for Someone who is egotistical and likes to stir trouble, a generally dislikeable person.
Good oil : Australian Slang for useful information, the truth
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+ Well, I left some scenes out of it... Sandy's and Bunny's Dreams... nothing really interesting, just an humorous kind of scene, I can post it later if you want.+
+ Oh and the next chapter will be called - Hunting the "New Jack" - thanks to Seeker of Inspiration who first gave that name to him.+