I'm so excited about tomorrow I could run circles around my house, Rise of the Guardians comes out tomorrow, WooHoo! Okay about this chapter, I've had two people request the fight/ Sandy's 'death' scene, Kylemew and JaymeBell, which is the reason why it's in not just Sandy's POV. Mind you I won't do this often because the story is supposed to be in only Sandy's POV.
It was only after I had changed the nightmare back into my dream sand that I realized I had become separated from Jack and quickly retraced our flight path until I heard his voice calling for me to come and look at something. As I drew closer I heard him talking to someone else, speeding up once I recognized Pitch's voice answering Jack.
I landed right beside Pitch, my arms folded across my chest and a scowl on my face. 'You have some nerve turning my sand and using it for your nightmares.' I thought as Pitch jumped away from me in surprise then chuckled darkly stating that I am the one he was looking for making me bring out my whips in anger only to have him dodge every hit I aimed at him.
Not long after he brought out his own sand weapon I managed to wrap one of my whips around his wrists and tossed him around like a rag doll, making sure to have him hit the building we were on a few times before throwing him to the street below. I smile at Jack's words as we float or in Jack's case jump, down to where Pitch is and I advance towards him. 'That's right, beg for mercy you sorry excuse for an immortal, I can't believe you would actually think you thought you could get away from threatening not only the children but my friends as well.'
My anger turned to worry as the nightmares surround Jack and I, though I was more concerned for his safety then my own and brought out my whips as I, once more, turned to scowl at Pitch. 'I have to get Jack out of here.' Was my only thought as North's sleigh flew overhead, distracting Pitch long enough for me to grab Jack and fly high enough for the wind to catch Jack and let our, hopefully, youngest Guardian go continuing to go higher.
Up on the Moonclipper Silver was watching as her fellow Guardians fought their first battle with Pitch in more than three hundred years though she mostly kept her eyes on Sandy, worried about him the most. 'NO, SANDY!' She screamed on her mind as he was overtaken by Pitch's dark sand, her own sand swirling around her in a show of how upset she was. 'Sandy, not you please not you, come back, we need you... I need you. I love you.'
After Sandy's light vanished from his sight Jack lost all his hope as he tearfully turned to look at the three in North's sleigh mouthing the words "I'm sorry." Not seeing the wave of nightmares Pitch sent down towards them until it was almost too late but, even then, he didn't fight back much to the dismay of North, Bunny and Tooth.
"Jack don't you make us lose Sandy and you both this night!" Bunny shouted out to the child Guardian rousing Jack out of his sorrow and forcing him to fight the nightmares now hiding him from view but, after Tooth set him in the sleigh, he refused to talk to any of them, pulling his hood up and turning away.
The minute the sleigh came to a stop Jack was gone, flying for a place to hide in his grief not wanting the other three to be around when he broke down upon losing the one Jack looked up to the most and who had accepted him whole heartedly from the minute they met without judging him. "I'm so sorry I didn't make it in time to save you Sandy." He whispered brokenly as he dropped his staff and fell to his knees, frozen tears cascading from his eyes.
