I like this story, surprisingly. I know, I know, authors are supposed to like their stories, but...I sort of thought I would hate it when I first wrote. Rereading it, though, gave me a new perspective and now I like it. So I shall continue.
Disclaimer: I love ROTG, but sadly I do not own it.
North whooped as he held up another tooth.
"Oh, that's a lateral incisor." Tooth said excitedly. "Oh it's so pretty, look at how he flossed! And oh! It's so beautiful! So well brushed..."
Bunny bounded along the rooftops, his large paws making hardly a sound against the rough tiles. He leaped from roof to roof, sending a few tiles spinning downwards, checking under every pillow for a tooth.
Jack flew aimlessly through the night air. Did the Guardians want him to help? Or did they want him to stay out of their way? Or...or did they want him to go back to Pitch?
Tooth pulled up beside him. "Hi Jack! Do you want to help collect? Ooh, this is going to be so fun!"
She spun around and crashed into a billboard.
"A-are you ok-okay?" Jack asked, his voice small compared to Tooth's bubbly, overnethusisatic voice.
"I'm fine, I'm fine. It's just been so long since I've been out in the field!"
Jack was scared, but he had to go for it. "S-sorry to bother you, b-but do you th-think my m-memories still e-exist?" He whispered.
"Sweetie, the teeth always keep the memories. Pitch has all the teeth, which means he has your memories. Dont' worry though, we'll get them back for you." Tooth said, zipping through a window and grabbing a tooth, slipping a quarter underneath the pillow.
"Th-thanks." Jack said, his voice still soft and timid. Tooth glanced over at him and smiled reassuringly, her violet eyes sparkling with happiness.
"No problem! Now, do you want to help collect?" She asked, lilac eyes hopeful.
"O-okay." Jack stammered, internally cursing himself for his stuttering. It was true, Pitch had sort of made him do that, but he still thought that he shouldn't have broken down. He was too weak, too cowardly.
He timidly entered a child's room, reached under the pillow,and grinned with delight. There was a tooth!
He took it out, the white of the tooth looking practically gray against his pale skin. Then he realized he had nothing to give the boy, so he quickly made a snowflake and coated it with his magical, unmeltable frost and slipped it under the pillow.
Jack smiled and put the tooth in a sack Tooth had given him, a tiny lump at the bottom the only hint he had even gotten it.
He kept collecting, occasionally running into Bunny, North, Sandy, or Tooth as he flew around, checking under every pillow. After a while, he had quite a lot. He had also made a whole lot of snowflakes.
Finally, he flew into a room with a brown-haired, brown-eyed boy who was fast asleep. Tooth was there too, hovering over the boy with a tooth in her hand.
"Left central incisor." She said to him. "Knocked out in a freak sledding accident. Wonder how that could have happened. Jack?"
Jack winced. "I-I'm sorry, I didn't m-mean to, it was j-just that he l-lost control of his s-sled, so I guided him through the t-town and then it just c-came out."
"Oh Jack, no. I just meant that I knew it was you." Tooth replied.
Jack nodded, still staring at the floor.
"You know, this was the part I liked most." Tooth whispered. "Seeing the kids."
Jack said nothing.
"Why did I ever stop doing this?" Tooth asked, almost to herself. She folded her arms over her chest and stared down at the sleeping boy.
"Th-they'd different up close, r-right?" Jack whispered, not daring to raise his voice.
"Thanks for being here Jack." Tooth said, hovering to fly near him. "I wish I had known. About your memory...and Pitch."
"I could've helped you. We could've helped you." She continued.
"Oh well," Jack said softly. "It's not like I'm worth the trouble."
Before Tooth could say anything, North burst into the room. "Aha! There you are!" He announced.
"Shh!" Tooth scolded, gesturing at the sleeping boy.
North held up his hands in a gesture of surrender. "I'm sorry! Toothy how you feeling?"
Tooth smiled, her purple eyes sparkling. "Believed in."
"That's what I want to hear." North leaned forward, stage-whispering that at Tooth, who smiled and hovered a little higher in the air. Jack looked on, slightly envious of the bond they shared.
"Oh, I see how it is." A familiar voice with an Australian accent joined the party. "All working together to make sure the rabbit gets last place."
"Shh!" North and Tooth said. Sandy made a sign above his head: Bunny with a gag around his mouth.
"Come on Sandy. Bet you couldn't beat this bag, eh, mate?" Bunny asked, proudly presenting a bag full of teeth. Sandy frowned, then held up a bigger bag.
"Gentlemen, gentlemen." North said. "Ve are not competing against each other. But if that is the case-" he slammed a gigantic bag of teeth down on the floor. "-I WIN! Yeeeee-haaaw!"
North did a little dance and then his blue eyes widened, "Oh no," he whispered.
"Santa Claus?" The boy breathed, his flashlight beam resting on North's shoulder. "The Easter Bunny?" Bunny gave a grunt. "Sandman?" Sandy smiled at the boy. "The Tooth Fairy! I knew you'd come!"
Tooth smiled nervously. "Surprise! We came!" She gave a nervous laugh.
"H-he can see us?" Jack asked quietly, from the shadows.
"Most of us." Bunny corrected as the flashlight landed on Jack, but the boy gave no reaction.
Jack nodded and slipped further into the shadows. His hood was already on his head. Anyways, why would he be believed in? He was just a useless, cowardly, stupid, weak little winter spirit.
"You guys! He's still awake!" Tooth said, her eyes widening with urgency.
"That's right. Sandy, knock him out." Bunny directed. Sandy stepped forward, cracking his knuckles.
"With the dream sand, ya gumby!" Bunny said.
Before Sandy could react, a dog leaped up onto the bed, growling. It was facing Bunny.
"No! Stop! That's the Easter Bunny! What are you doing, Abby? Down!" The boy on the bed said, frantically trying to calm down the agitated dog, who was now starting to glare at Bunny.
"Right, nobody panic." Bunny muttered.
"Bunny, that a greyhound. You know what they do to rabbits?" North questioned, his Russian accent becoming more pronounced because he was nervous.
Sandy tossed a ball of dream sand from one hand to the other.
"Well, I think it's safe to say he's never met a rabbit like me. Six foot one, nerves of steel, master of tai ch, and-"
His words were cut off by the alarm clock ringing. Jack had accidentally touched it with his staff. The greyhound's eyes widened, and then it leaped at Bunny.
"Right." Bunny said, falling backwards as the dog jumped onto him.
Sandy panicked and shot the ball of dream sand into the fray. It zoomed at North, who was able to doge it, but the sand hit Tooth, who was was right behind North. Tooth fell to the floor, golden teeth dancing above her head.
Sandy shot another ball, which richoched off of a picture and hot Bunny in the head. Bunny groaned, and then fell to the floor, golden carrots doing a ballet number above his head.
Sandy shot more and more dream sand. One ball hit the greyhound and the others hit North and the boy. "Candy canes." North muttered before falling to the ground.
"Whoops." Jack said, a slight smile tugging at the corners of his lips. Sandy set the boy down gently on the bed and stared at the sleepong Guardians and greyhound.
One of the golden carrots from Bunny's dream grabbed a candy cane from North's and began to do sword fighting moves with it, making little 'Hiyah!' Noises as it danced across the room.
"I wish I had a camera right now." Jack said softly, not wanting to offend the Sandman. Sandy smirked at him, and then golden eyes widened.
Jack turned around just in time to see the Nightmare disappear into the shadows.
He leaped out of the window without a second thought. "Sandy!" He said, louder than he had been for the past 130 years. "Come on!"
Sandy followed him on a golden cloud of dream sand as Jack swooped through the clouds, searching for the Nightmare. His cuff was getting uncomfortably warm.
Then a tendril of black sand shot out from beneath another cloud and latched onto Jack's handcuff, dragging him towards the cloud. Wide-eyes with terror, Jack was pulled away from Sandy.
"Oh, Jack. Stupid little slave. Making more trouble for me, now are you!" The Boogeyman tut-tutted. "Well, I guess you shall be punished later. First though, you get front-row seats to watching me kill the Guardians!"
Jack's eyes widened as slithering tendrils of fear slid their way along his spine. He bowed his head in submission as Pitch cackled above him.
The laugh was cut short as, out of the corner of his eyes, Jack saw a streak of gold wrap around Pitch's wrist. The Sandman appeared, floating on a golden cloud, his golden eyes narrowed and his mouth set in determination.
"Sandman." Pitch snarled, as a whip of gold encircled him.
Lines of gold flew across the sky as the Sandman flung attack after attack at Pitch, who barely managed to dodge them all. Finally, one of the sand whips grabbed Pitch and the rest helped throw pitch onto the road.
Sandy glided over to Jack, who was stunned. Sandy turned the Nightmare and the long chain into golden dream sand, which floated over to him and joined the golden cloud under him.
The twosome floated down to Pitch. "Okay, okay! It was stupid of me to mess with your dreamsand!" The Boogeyman said hurriedly. "Tell you what, if you want it, you can have it back."
Then Pitch turned to Jack. "Bow to me."
Jaxk dropped instantly, head bowed down and eyes closed. The Sandman watched in horror, wondering what Pitch could've done to this poor child.
Nightmares appeared everywhere, from the tops of buildings, from the shadows of the alleyway. Everywhere.
"Boo." Pitch hissed, his golden eyes gleaming with malice from the top of the Nightmare he was riding.
As the Nightmares charged, Sandy formed a golden funnel, which deposits Jack into a red sleigh that passed by at just the right moment.
Nirth winked at him. 'Hello there Jack!" Tooth said excitedly. Bunny gave him a curt nod and pulled out his boomerangs.
North brought out both of his swords, easily cutting through the creations of black sand. Bunny threw his boomerangs around everywhere, cutting though Nightmares like a hot knife through butter. Tooth had a single saber, which she used viciously. And of course, the Sandman was using his dream sand.
Tooth flew off into the middle of the battle and Jack followed, not sure what to do. Tooth killed one Nightmare, then another, then another. Bunny kept whirling his boomerangs, but a Nightmare snuck up on him from behind. Jack panicked. Bunny would die if he didn't help.
Jack shot a burst of ice at the Nightmare behind Bunhy. Bunny gasped, saw Jack, and yelled, "Thanks mate!" Before plunging back into the fight.
Jack stared for a moment. Rescuing a fairy was one thing. But he had just rescued a Guardian, the Giardian of Hope, and killed a Nightmare. Pitch was going to murder him.
While he was distracted, a tendrilpf black sand coiled around his wrist, looping into his cuff. He was dragged far away from the real fight, and onto a battlefield with only Pitch and Sandy.
Sandy was surrounded by golden sand, churning like a whirlwind. Pitch was now the one who was relentlessly attacking. Sandy kept deflecting, but the exhaustion was starting to get to him.
Pitch loaded an arrow into the crossbow he had and pointed it at Sandy.
"NO!" Jack screamed, hurtling through the air just as the arrow was released.
The arrow hit Jack straight in the back.
Sandy's eyes went wide as he saw Jack plummet down, down, down like a stone, right into the arms of the Tooth Fairy.
The end! Hope you enjoyed, I'll try to update like twice a week? Hopefully. Review and tell me if you have any ideas for where you want this to go. I am using the movie as a base and I will make a sequel about Jack trying to adjust to life with the Guardians after this is complete.
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