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Ch2: Nineteen Teeth.

Fear comes in various tastes, different amounts of delicious power.

First there is an adult's fear, the taste is great, spicy really, but often is overpowered by adrenaline and rationality.

Then comes an immortal's fear, those who have lived the longest have seen the most and when they are truly afraid it's... intoxicating.

But never as intoxicating as child's fear- Nothing is so... empowering. So sweet tasting as a child's fear.

And now...

Pitch looks at the container- or more specifically at the picture or the brown-haired child with the large cocky smile, on the back of the container.

The nightmare king smirks, what could be greater than a immortal child's fear?

Soon he'd bring fort, the ultimate fear.

-ROTG-

So far he'd turned that blizzard into multiple smaller storms for Europe and send a cold chill to the Southern Hampshire, just to keep the spirit of Summer on his toes. The Winter teen closes looks at the sky to see if another flock of clouds is where it isn't supposed to be. He is about to leave England when he hears tweetering.

He isn't surprised when he spots Baby Tooth flying above his shoulder. "Baby Tooth," Jack laughs because he's never not happy to see his favorite mini-fairy. "how many times have told you it's not safe for you to be with me when I'm up bringing winter? It's too cold for you- What's wrong?" He asks when he can clearly see the worry shining in her eyes.

Baby Tooth twitters her voice higher than usual do to her distress.

"The nightmares brought the teeth back?" Jack doesn't know the language of the Sisters of Flight, but he can understand Baby Tooth and the other mini-fairies because he's technically still a child and children understand the tooth fairy. Though he doesn't always fully get what the mini-fairies say. "That's good right?"

Again the fairy chirps her reply and Jack nods. "Emergency meeting?" He smirks leaning his staff between his shoulders and resting the back of his head on it. "I was about to head to the pole anyway."

Hearing that Baby Tooth lets out a series of happy twitters before diving into Jack's hoodie.

"Hold on tight." Jack instructed before taking flight.

-ROTG-

Jack arrives at the pole at the same time North opens a window and the Winter child ends up crashing through the window. Still he somehow managed to get a soft landing. The reason why become clear the moment Jack recovered from the landing.

"Thanks Cottontail."

Bunny grunts getting up and pushing the teen of his back. "Why you little-" Before he can finish North grabs Bunny by his strap and Jack by his hood and puts them both on their chair at the meeting table where the Sandman sends the Bunny an unimpressed look. Bunny just rolls his eyes, figures the kid would get away with everything.

"No time for chat chit," The Russian says as he makes his way to his own chair at the head of the table, once again mixing up a saying. "eez serious business." He gestures at Tooth who nods before starting her explanation.

"Half an hour ago the nightmares all returned, with the stolen teeth containers." She informs them hovering over the table. "Most of them have nineteen teeth in them."

Bunny raised an eyebrow at that. "Nineteen teeth. So...?"

Whiping her head around to glare at the Easter Bunny Tooth looks scandalizes, Baby Tooth who'd crawled out of Jack's hood and is now perched on the boy's shoulder rolls her multicolored eyes.

"Each child had twenty baby teeth." Tooth says, her glare making even E. Aster Bunnymund nervous.

He tries to stay awake, Jack really does but he's been procrastinating his rest for a full week now.

Ironically the Sandman is aware of this, that's why Sandy and Jack share a look which then turns into a game of making weird faces at the other, which turns into a staring contest... Which ends with a ball of dreamsand hitting Jack in the face.

"There's a reason Pitch took those teeth." Toothiana continues.

At her words North, Bunny and Sandy are immediately on high alert.

North hands grip the table. "You mean-"

"Yes." Tooth nods her voice betraying her worry. "Pitch took the teeth that hold the things children aren't meant to remember yet." The words left her and that's enough for the fairy to let go of her restraints and start flying all over the room, her wings going amazingly fast. "They aren't ready!" The fairy shrieks.

North, Bunny and Sandy are processing the direness of the situation and Tooth's flying all over the place.

None of them notice the dreamsand above Jack's head slowly turning black...