The demonic horse lunged at Jack, transforming into a slender thread of coarse black sand whilst dragging the spirit through the streets. It circled and twisted around the immortal, lifting him from the ground and blowing him backwards as it stretched seemingly towards the frozen lake. The slightest feeling of dark sand brushing past his skin instilled fear in the teen's cobalt blue eyes.
"S-," his voice was reduced to a gasp of fear rather than the shout he had planned to make.
"Sa-", he reached out a hand as he was being pulled farther away from the Guardian he wished to call…his voice was manipulated by fear…it wouldn't come out, yet as fear gripped him harder, the more he struggled harder to be heard, the hostile sand was quickly wrapping itself around his right arm where he was holding his staff stubbornly. Being surrounded by darkness, it was while fighting back the indescribable horror he felt that he knew that it must have been like this too…that time…
The golden Guardian felt disturbed, the cold hush of the wind that lulled children to their peaceful slumber had stopped abruptly. All there was still air. Of course this meant something bad, the short yet wise Guardian wasn't assuming the worst when he glanced over to the roof Jack was walking on. No one was there. His look of puzzlement was overshadowed by a wide gape of fear as his attention was quickly drawn to Jack being whisked through the streets by familiar opaque particles.
Sandy wasted no time to give chase, his face deformed in a pained and panicky expression, mouth wide open as if in a silent scream. He threw out his arms to summon two glistening whips that stretched and snapped at the opposing sand. The floating matter promptly scattered, dropping Jack on the ground… but it didn't disappear.
Jack sat on the snow-covered street, gasping for breath as he clutched at his chest. He could hear his voice as he breathed in and out rapidly, shakily trying to get up with his staff and other hand, but only managing to stumble forward as Sandy quickly descended to support him. The short man glanced up at him worriedly, behind them the sand was starting to reform.
The white haired boy shook his staff, confused and frustrated that it wasn't responding to his thoughts at this crucial moment, Sandy seemed to understand the problem and nodded determinedly. The Nightmare had completely re-materialized by now, glaring at them both with its fiery yellow eyes. Sandy clenched his hands and shot back an equally angered glare, stepping in front of the junior Guardian, he was more intimidating than he was a while ago…not a jolly short man on a cloud anymore.
Triggered by Sandman's hostility, the Nightmare charged into battle. Sandy whipping out his whips and snapping them at the horse, determined to tame it back to the good dream that it originally was. If not…then oblivion was its only choice. The equine creature swiftly split in two, the one on the left jumped above the two Guardians and tromped to Jack's side.
"I'll take this one…", Jack wheezed as he grabbed his magical weapon with both hands. Sandy could feel just a bit of confidence in his voice, but he was shaking, so no. Instead of saying that out loud though, he shook his head sternly and grabbed the boy by the hoodie and blasted them off from the ground. The menacing creatures gave a quick chase upwards, streaks of black sand following their path and eating away at the pure gold sand that was used for thrust.
A chase was being held vertically, the horses of doom galloped in a circle around their targets. Sandy , however, wasn't going to let go of Jack this time, much more now that he couldn't have the wind aid him in flying. The Nightmares quickly caught up despite Sandman's efforts, Jack crossed his arms in front of him to shield himself from the sand that shot at them.
A short scream of fear and pain.
The Sandman felt it too, and he felt like his powers stopped working for a while. They lost momentum; the Nightmares took this opening to thrash them with another wave of fear, this time successfully prying Jack off of Sandy's grip. For a moment, the latter watched in fear as his comrade flailed helplessly in the air, only to be scooped up by the sand...not his sand…nightmare sand. The Nightmares acted upon this victory and charged over, forming a black whirlwind around Jack and swirling him towards the lake once again. Sandy reached desperately as Jack held out his hand in front of him.
"SANDY!"
And we're done with the cliffhangers- oh. I want to thank everyone who reviewed Chapter 1, I love you! I'm super inspired! I hope you're not disappointed with this chapter!
Ayaka helped review this before this was published VuV I dedicate this chap to her. I think I'll ask more viewers to review the beta of the next chap, I appreciate criticism and compliments alike, review this please and volunteer for future chaps maybe?
P.S. I'll be drawing a cover for this fic! I hope you'll like it!
