Chapter 2: The Ancient Feeling of Dread...
As you possiblely could imagine, it was one of those times in storys that could be called 'the calm before the storm'. It was 20 years after the defeat of Pitch and life was normal for everyone. That was, until, the disapperances of the spirits started a little more then a week ago. Manny had been doing as he usually did when he noticed certain people disappear from everyday activity. He didn't think much of it at first, for they could have been planning something. But as a week passed by, he started to worry for the safety of the planet. That was when the Being let out a surge of power, sturing up the ancient dread that only a few on the planet had felt before. Manny felt this feeling of dread, his own also rising up as he realized what had just happened. With all the speed he could muster, he started summoning the Guardians together along with other spirits on the planet, they were going to need all the help they could get with this one.
On the green and blue planet, another spirit had also felt this familiar feeling of dread. Silver was just playing with the little light brown hair and blue eyed child of Jamie Bennett, Chriss Bennett.
"So that's why you want to try and catch snow on your nose?"
Silver asked the little girl as they went to sit down at a bench in the backyard that had been placed there.
"Yep, so I actually have a reason to try and lick my nose. Then father won't scold me for being rude."
They both started laughing at the comment when something caused her laugh to be cut short and a vision cross her sight. Black cloaked man with shining red eyes detectable through the front, nothing else identifiable. After the vision was over, Silver bent over gasping, seriously debating if it really was true.
"What's wrong Silver?"
Chriss asked as she bent to look at Silver's face. The little girl's face had a mask of worry as she tried to figure out what startled her friend so bad. Making sure she had control of the emotion in her face and breathing, Silver sat up and looked around. No one was there, so why was she panicking so much? Because he would be soon, so first get the other two to safety.
"Hey Chriss, why don't you go get your father? Let's go take a trip to the Pole.
Chriss made a small grin and nodded as she stood up and ran over to the house. Silver watched as she bolted inside and she just shook her head. That thing was back, how had it broken the barrier? How did the seal weaken? These would have to be questions for later, for Silver had things to attend to.
So after Manny had sent out the signals, everyone noticed and the feeling of dread also told them what was going on. So up at the Pole, North was in his little work space, making little working sculptures of ice. Then a rough knocking of a yeti came at the door. "Yes, yes, come in, what do you want?" But North was too busy envisioning the idea he had been making. After the yeti explained in a long stream of yeti though, North's eyes widened. Quickly getting up from his chair, North rushed to the Globe Room, forgetting all about the hunk of clay and tools. Another message from Manny? What would make all the yetis so flustered about it? Apparently this was something urgent indeed.
Sandy was getting worried, usually Nightstar would have been home by now. He knew that the both of them had jobs to do, but she usually would have told him if she would have been gone. There was something nagging him that made him think that the worst had happened. This didn't help that feeling much when the signal went up, also making his worry spike. Did this have to do with Nightstar going missing? He hurried towards the Pole in his dreamsand plane.
Another important spirit, going by the name of Esteia, or also known as Stella, was wish meditating in her palace way above the Earths surface. With the holidays coming up, there was quite a few wishes to go through. She wanted to make sure that each wish that came up was Activated richly. But a sharp image of Manny frowning, though, spiked her mind, along with the feeling she only got around her brother, Pitch. But Pitch isn't that strong yet, plus Manny wouldn't have a near panic attack dealing with Pitch. Her trance now broken, it slapped her back into consciousness quite roughly and she doubled over her crossed legs with sweat and panting. Quickly getting up and grabbing her staff, she gave a long wave before tapping the cloud underneath her and dropping down into the Gulf Stream, heading for the Pole. Please don't tell me that thing is back...
Now as for Jack, he was just lyaing in the snow by the pond he usually was at. But what he didn't know was that the wave of energy the Being had released was heading his way. Once it hit, Jack got the feeling he had when Pitch broke his staff, but much, much worse. Gasping, he sat up, snow still in his hair as he looked around. He had to tell North or anyone about this. Grabbing his staff, which was still in one piece, he took off and started flying towards the Pole.
Emma had already been at the pole, sitting in the large library, reading a book about a wizard with black hair and green eyes, and a scar in the shape of lightning on his forehead. She shrieked, unprepared for the sudden pain. It wasn't exactly pain it was just... horrible. Tingly and strange, and it felt like she had been torn apart.
Tooth had also gotten the message when she was in the middle of relying addresses to the mini-fairies. Seeing Manny poking, a spike of worry appeared, and that was when the power wave hit. That feeling of ancient dread spiked up and Tooth was distracted from her work. Looking around, she didn't see anything that might suggest why she felt that, but she knew immeadiantly that she had to leave. After making arrangments with the mini-faires, she took off towards the Pole.
Bunny was in the Warren doing as he usually did. He was in the middle of looking at his egg collection when the power wave hit the Warren. His reaction was almost the same to the others, except that he grew suspicious of one person right off the bat. Tapping his foot, a hole opened and he jumped through, landing in the Pole.
"North!"
He called out as the hole closed up. Tooth then also made it along with Jack, Jack going through the window and Tooth coming through the door like a normal person.
"North, what's happening?"
Tooth demanded as her and Jack came over to where North had bent down next to Emma, who was having trouble getting up from the pain. The pain...wasn't exactly pain...but it still hurt extremely bad. So now North was trying to help and find out what was wrong. Jack also noticed Emma and ran over, ignoring his own pain in the process.
"I don't know!"
North bellowed as he pointed towards the skylight. Even through the daylight, the Moon shone through it plainly. But then something struck North, if Emma had something wrong with her...and Tooth and Jack appeared without him summoning them... North stood up and pointed to a random yeti in the masses, which were apparently freaking out.
"Somebody check on my daughter!"
While North called this, another yeti came over to Emma and Jack, handing them a first-aid kit. He was just as agitated as the other yetis across the Pole. By this time, the cloud Stella was riding on happened to come through the window Jack had come in. But seeing all the hubbub, she made the cloud float to the top of the room to wait for it to die down.
Jack then hugged Emma, smoothing her hair down with his hand.
"It's all right, just try...to ignore it, alright?"
Emma nodded at this statment and hugged him back. But then she noticed the yeti with the first aid kit and let go, looking up at the yeti. Bunny, who had seen North's finger pointing to the moon, looked up and noticed then that Manny had called them together. So what was that feeling I felt earlier? He thought as he looked back around at the commotion. Now as the yeti tried to find what was wrong, he looked worried. Glancing back towards North, the yeti stammered in, well, yeti. North glared daggers at him and the North yelled for the yeti to get himself back together. He also had a growing suspicion that Jack might be in pain also...
The yeti that went to check on Sylvia, North's daughter, opened the door to her room. He saw nothing and he started getting worried. Closing it, he turned around and walked right back to North to report that Sylvia wasn't there. After a moment of jibber jabber in yeti, North stood up with an angry gleam to his eyes.
"What?"
Emma, who had been able to somewhat to able to get up by then, jumped at North's sudden outburst. North on the other hand, rubbed his head and paced a bit. Okay, okay, two spirits in pain, one missing, it couldn't be Pitch could it? He never showed signs of inflicting pain on someone. Well then, what was going on? He whirled around and looked at Manny sternly.
"Manny, what is problem?"
Manny didn't answer for he needed to tell everyone he had called at once. No one was going to miss what he had to say for it was something you couldn't repeat twice. Hopefully Sandy and Silver would hurry up and get there so he could explain the threat. But he also took note of when Sylvia had disappeared, North having brought it to his attention. North, who was waiting for answer, realized he wasn't going to get one and turned back around, muttering under his breath, towards Jack, who he had just asked to numb the pain.
"Jack, it work?"
"Sort of, it doesn't look like it's hurting her anymore."
Jack replied as he also made an ice sash like thing around himself. North grunted and nodded, turning back around to Tooth, who had been flying behind him, watching the whole time.
"Tooth! Any sign of Sandy?"
But right as he asked that, Sandy had flown into the Pole, having heard the yelling. He suddenly had a bad feeling that Nightstar wasn't the only one missing. They weren't the only ones missing, for Pitch also had the wave hit him, but it only made him realize that Lin wasn't around.
"Lin?"
He darted out of his lair to look around for any sign of his daughter. But instead, his eyes widened at the moons bright glow. Something must be going on, but should he go? Lin was missing, so he made the decision and started shadow traveling to the Pole. Now Tooth, who had been following North, now was just fluttering around the room, apparently nervous. Her anxious eyes darted from Jack, to Emma, North and then the yetis, to Manny, and back to Jack. Tooth's feathers were also ruffled, another sign showing her anxiety.
Now back at the Pole, Sandy went up to North and tugged on his shirt to get the Russian's attention.
"Huh, what now? Sandy! Oh, chjort, you wouldn't believe the insanity going on today!"
North said somewhat relieved at the sight of Sandy finally appearing. Stella though, tensed at the feeling of her brother coming. She gripped her staff a bit tighter just in case he wanted to cause trouble. Pitch finally made it and formed in the crowd, looking around to see much more spirits than just the Guardians. Emma, noticing Pitch, formed a scowl on her face.
"Pitch, if you have anything to do with this, I-Ah!"
She grunted in pain as she doubled over, clutching her abdomen. Now clinging to Jack once again, she shyed away from Pitch. What was he doing here and why was no one else noticing? But it turned out that North had actually noticed, before he could make a remark though, Stella lowered the cloud and yelled out.
"No; it couldn't be him! We can't cause pain like that!"
"Well who else could it be Stella?"
North bellowed back, annoyed that she was trying to defend him. But Stella just glared back at North for a moment before turning her attention back to Manny. Tooth just sighed and got stressed out a bit more as more spirits started showing up, something was definatly wrong.
Pitch looked over, his eyes, instead of their usual cruel look held a hint of worry.
"Do calm down, I'm not here to fight. Nor do I have anything to do with your pain."
Sandy heard this, but didn't care at the moment. Making a question mark and then a picture of Nightstar above his head. North looked thoughtfull for a moment, rubbing his beard.
"Sorry Sandy, I haven't seen Nightstar anywhere around here...Sylvia is missing too."
Sandy frowned in worry, knowing that both spirits wouldn't have taken off without telling them where they were. But Pitch happened to hear this and spun around with a frantic looks on his face.
"Nightstar's missing too?"
He was extremely worried about what had happened to his daughters. Stella, who had been making her way to Pitch, also stopped in her tracks for a moment.
"What? Really? Are you sure?"
Stella bombarded the questions on Sandy as she asked. But before Sandy could answer, a cry rung out as Emma crumpled to the floor. Clutching her chest, the pain got worse the more she tried to move. Jack, now leaning on his staff from the pain, glanced down at Emma with a worried look on his face. Stella gasped and hurried over, propping Emma up, held the cup like end of her staff near her lips.
"Maybe this will help. "Drink, Emma."
Emma nodded, taking a few sips.
"You still... have to.. Jack... do something!"
She tried to push Stella back a bit, shaking his head. It still hurt, maybe just a little less.
It took a few minutes for Emma to realize that tears were streaming down her face, and she whimpered again. She didn't think she'd ever felt this much pain in her entire life- it was if some sort of fiery little creature was eating her alive. never before, not even in her human life, had Emma cried from some sort of physical affliction.
So let's go back a bit, while all that above was happening, Silver waited as Chriss went to get Jamie at the moment. Chriss, who had ran inside, called out to her still somewhat asleep father for he had just taken a nap.
"Father! Where are you?"
Jamie, who had been in the kitchen, looked over to Chriss. Curious now as to what she was calling for, he left the kitchen and walked over to her.
"What's wrong Chriss?"
He asked as he kneeled in front of her, listening to whatever she had to say.
"Silver says we are taking a trip to the Pole. All of a sudden she looked very serious and was looking around."
Silver knew that Jamie knew she usually never interacted with many people besides Chriss. So she hopefully gave Jamie the right message that something was seriously up when she had sent Chriss in there. And Jamie was given the right message, for Jamie stood up and went over to the door, opening it so he could see Silver.
"We need to get to the Pole."
His voice was coated with worry as Chriss followed behind him out into the yard. They walked up to Silver who sighed in worry, knowing it was a bad decision either way with these two.
"Don't worry, if you don't mind being carried by a cloud, we should have a way to go their."
She stated as she took Chriss by the hand and walked outside, a small fog surrounding the area, which was the cloud they were going to ride.
"Come on, something is afoot and Manny has called every spirit and all the guardians. I can feel the massive energy gathering at the Pole."
She stated as she helped Chriss into the cloud to sit. After making sure that she was sitting, she softly asked the wind to make another seat in the cloud for Jamie. Something bad would happen if she didn't take them both, she could feel that in her bones. Jamie nodded and followed both Chriss and Silver on board, sitting down in his own seat. The situation must have been really bad if even Silver was called, what had happened?
"Alright, we will be there in a few minutes, hold on tight."
She stated as seatbelts, that were surprisingly sturdy, went over all three of them. Then the cloud raised up into the sky and took off toward the Pole. It seemed like everyone she could think off was there, for even if she wasn't know well by them, she knew them all really well. It had always been her job to keep track off all the spirits on the planet. She had been doing a good job at it too, she was barely spotted when she checked in every once in a while. After a few minutes, like promised, the Pole was in sight. Now she could find out if her suspitions were true, about it being back...
Author's Note: Thank you to all those wonderful people still following me to this point. I would like to note that this is based of a roleplay.
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