Now.
Jack woke in agony. Again. His hands and feet were chained up so he was vertical and star shaped. His head drooped as his neck was still too sore to move from the kick Pitch gave him. Pitch had taken his hoodie off, for some reason, and dropped his staff out of Jack's reach in front of him, teasingly.
Pitch was nowhere in sight, thank God. He had been telling Jack all about the things he would do to him when his friends arrived to save him. He had taken his time, telling him how that when his friends showed up, he would trap them with his nightmare sand and chain them up, too, forcing them to watch while he tortured Jack, and eventually killed him.
And all of it was a warning to the other Guardians to leave Pitch alone forever. Jack just hoped his friends wouldn't show up. But, deep down he knew they would.
All of a sudden, there was a crash overhead. Jack knew it was his fellow Guardians falling into Pitch's trap.
"No!" He shouted. There was only one entrance to the giant room Jack was in, even with Bunnymund's tunnels. And Pitch had formed a barrier of invisible nightmare sand over the entrances.
1,2,3,4 bodies fell to the ground, deeply asleep. North, Tooth, Bunny and Sandy. Jack began to sob. His friends' arrival had pleased Pitch very much, and he immediately began chaining up Jack's fellow Guardians, completing the circle around Jack.
What felt like an hour later, his friends began to stir. Tooth first. She was confused, obviously, but as her eyes came into focus she spotted Jack. He gestured madly for her to be quiet, but it didn't work with his hands chained up.
"Jack!" She was happy he was alive. But now she might be the cause of his death if Pitch had heard.
"Shhhhh!" He croaked as loud as he could. After all, he hadn't spoken for two days. Unfortunately, his 'shhhhhh' had woken all the other Guardians, too, and, like Tooth, they all praised Jack's alive-ness.
Jack would have face palmed himself if it weren't for the chains. He struggled for the millionth time to get free, quick, but it was too late. Pitch strolled casually into the middle of the circle of Guardians.
Jack murmured hopelessly, only things that Bunnymund could pick up, like "Please," and "Don't" and "Anything else but this..."
"Hello, Guardians!" Pitch exclaimed. The Guardians looked at one another, except Jack, who had begun to sob silently.
"Jack!" hissed Tooth, who was closest to him. "What's going on? What's he doing?!"
Jack only shook his head solemnly.
"As you know, your friend Jack here has been missing for a while!" continued Pitch. "Don't worry. He's been safe here with me. Only a few cuts and bruises. But the real fun starts now."
Pitch made his way over to Jack and pulled a long shiny knife out of his jacket.
Wow! 106 viewers! Thanks guys for reading it! Well, I'll have to post more tomorrow, because I've just realised it's twenty past one. But I might post more tonight, but it's doubtful. But maybe.