Chapter 2: Missing Souls

"What do we do boss?" Asked Zero. "I really don't know Zero" I said with a worried look on my face. "All we know is that someone came here and stole the souls while we were in England" said RC, taking charge. "RC's right, we need to look around for evidence and ask the hollows if they saw anything." I said, sounding more like myself. "I'll call the hollows." Zero says, as he chants a spell and soon transparent skeleton dogs with different colored flames for each one appeared right in front of us. "What did you see while we were gone?" Zero asks in a monotone voice. "There was a man, with horses, all in black..." said the deep, booming echo that came out of one of the hollows mouths.

"All in black...?" I repeated to myself. "Look around the room for anything you might find!" I order as everyone spread out searching the room for evidence. I came upon one of the shelves and my finger picked up something. "Black sand...this can't be good." I whisper to myself, the worries from before returning to my voice. "Hey! I found something!" I called out. The hollows, Zero, and RC rushed to my side upon hearing those words. "Black sand, you know what that means...?" I managed to say. "Pitch Black." Zero and RC answer at the same time.

"That bastard...!" said RC, anger radiating from her voice. "We don't have anything to do with Pitch and we don't have ANYTHING to do with the guardians! Why would he be here?!" Zero exclaims. "I'd like to know the answer to that as well." I mumble, mostly spaced out. "Why don't we tell the guardians? Pitch was defeated like, five years ago! He's their problem, not ours!" RC tells. "Your right... Pitch has no concern to us, but now I really wanna put the boogeyman back under a bed!" I say, just as irritated and upset. "I'm gonna go to the pole and tell the guardians about Pitch. They get our souls back for us, and Pitch is off my back!" I say while grabbing a bit of the sand and a portal gun. (A/N: not the one from the video game). I shot a portal on the wall and hopped in.

Next thing I know, I'm outside North's workshop. I should of thought this through more. What would North say if I just walked in? Wonder why death showed up that's for sure. Then there's the yetis... Now I know that I REALLY should of thought this out more! "Here goes nothing..." I mumble to myself as I push the doors of the workshop open. Elves, yetis, and toys were everywhere.

"Wow..." I say in awe as I look around the shop in wonder. I feel two furry arms grab mine as I looked up to see two yetis glaring down at me. "Oh hey guys, what's up?" I say as innocently as I can before they drag me to North's office. Great, just what I wanted...to be dragged by two yetis into North's office. One of them opened the door as they threw me into the small room. "Ow...!" I mumbled as I hit the floor. "Death! Vhat are you doing here?" Asks an angry, thick Russian accent...otherwise known as North.

"Listen, I'm not breaking in. I have to tell you something important!" I said as convincing as I can. "I don't believe you!" North says with an unamused look. "I found this in the soul room back in the underworld..." I say, taking out the small pouch that held the black sand. "Vhat's in here?" North asks. "Open it!" I reply. He does as I say and opens the pouch. His eyes widened in shock as he saw the contents of the bag.

"Pitch Black..." North says in a whisper, fear evident in hi deep voice. "Vhen did you find this?" He asks, obviously wanting more details. "I came back from England after I collected a soul. I walked into my soul room and all of my souls were gone. The only evidence there was was that black sand on every shelf!" I explain as simply as possible. "He's back! Weather you want to believe it or not you have to do something about this! Kids could be involved with his plan! Who knows what will happen to the souls that Pitch has! They have to be brought back and re purified by me soon or else your gonna have demons everywhere on earth?" I add in a worried tone.

"Your right, something must be done to stop Pitch. I never knew about the demons but, I'll call the guardians and do something about Pitch once and for all...!" North says mostly to himself in the end with a determined expression plastered on his face. "Thank you..." I say before turning to leave. But before I can walk out the door, North calls to me. "Grim...thank you." he says, a half smile playing on his lips. I nod and return the smile before heading to the portal and hopping in it to go home.