OK so this is the next chapter.
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I'm glad you all like this! Ok so Pipe Dream asked if this was going along with the actual movie or if their were changes. Answer: This is going along with the movie but there will be a few changes because of the idea's going into this change. You'll notice little changes to the actual movie parts with the added parts of my mind!
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Death scowled. He hasn't seen his little angel in a while now and he didn't know where the boy was but he at least knew the Seasonal's didn't have their hand on him. However, that didn't mean he wasn't worried. If anyone else could gain his loyalty, then the boy would be open to the Seasonals and the fact that he didn't know where his angel was meant anything could have happened to him. He looked up to see the moon shinning as if in glee at his frustration. That man knew something, of course he did! MiM better not try to take his angel from him, that boy was his servant. He was his to control and torment as he wanted! If that moon man did anything to ruin his hold over the winter spirit then he better watch his back!
Before the Angel could react, he was being ushered after North who led him and the other two Guardians through the workshop. He thought he caught Tooth flying away through one of the windows but he didn't get to watch for long as they moved swiftly down the halls. Jack tried to stop from following him but if he stopped he'd end out bumping into one of them. So, he just went along until he found a chance to escape before he caused anything bad to happen.
They came into a large room of ice and the Angel watched in awe as a large sleigh with magnificent reindeer pull in. North caught the wondrous look inside the luminous and chuckled as he boarded the sleigh. "Everyone loves the sleigh."
Sandy got on without hesitation while Angel and Bunny stood off to the side. Oh how badly the want to ride the sleigh claw in his chest, but Angel knew if he sat in it he'd be forced to stay with them, and he didn't want to put them through that. He started backing away as Bunny spoke.
"Uh…I think my tunnels might be quicker mate, and safer." Bunny said, tapping the contraption with one of his feet.
North laughed. "Bah! Get in!" He grabbed the strap of the holster, throwing the rabbit into the sleigh. He caught sight of Jack trying to sneak away and quickly grabbed the spirit's cloak and, like Bunny, threw him into the back. "Buckle up!"
"Wait, where are the bloody seatbelts?!" Bunny exclaimed frightfully.
"Just expression!" North responded. "Here we go!" He snapped the reins and the reindeer took off down the tunnel. North laughed joyfully, Sandy threw his hands up in the air, and Bunny was trying not to throw up. Angel, he didn't know how to react. This was fun, he'll admit, silently, that but he didn't want to give that away. However, when he looked over at Bunny, he couldn't help the very small laugh that escaped his lips. Thankfully, none of them seemed to hear it.
He watched as the sleigh neared the end of the track and watched with awe as the sleigh took off in the air. The wind whipped past and he felt her cares the side of his cheek beneath the hood. He smiled at the touch, seeing she was one of the only two people who could touch his bare skin without feeling the frigid temperature. The other was Death, but that should have been obvious.
His wings shifted beneath his cloak and he was prepared to let them out and to fly away but when he looked around to make sure none were looking, warm eyes locked onto his. His own widened when he found the dream-weaver staring at him, the message in his eyes easily translated. He didn't want Angel to go. In response, the cloaked spirit tried to convey his response through his own eyes, showing his distress at being near all of them. It must have worked because the other's eyes, somehow, softened even more in understanding but they still pled for him not to leave. Oh how badly did Angel want to turn away from the kind eyes. It was to strange for such emotions to be directed towards him, it was almost painful. He just wanted leave this behind, but at the same time, it was hard to.
Then, before he could take the chance to take off, a shout was heard from North and a swirling, colorful portal opened up before them and the sleigh flew into it. Angel blinked the dizziness away as they left the portal and he saw the Tooth Palace before his sight. He gasped softly when suddenly North spoke up when black streaks came rushing towards them.
"What the-" North's comment was broken when the streaks of black were before them. North tried to evade them but a few went past them and they all stared in confusion at the black sand that lay in Sandy's hand. Angel looked up just in time to see what looked like a black-sand horse chasing after mini-versions of Tooth. Without thinking he sprung out of the sleigh and caught the fairy before going back to the sleigh. He looked down to see the shaking fairy cupped in his pale hands, and, thinking that the shaking was his fault and not from fear, quickly placed her upon his cloak.
"Sorry." He whispered. "Are you ok, Baby Tooth?" The fairy nodded at his question, but was confused at the apology and why he had placed her down. Yes his hands were cold but it wasn't unbearable. She didn't get to think much on it for a nightmare flew over and she hid within the cloak of the spirit that saved her.
The Angel was about to protest about her going with his cloak, not wanting to freeze her delicate form, but North shouting at him attracted his attention. "Take the reins!" The leather ropes where pressed into his hands and North jumped up, sabers in hand, and began slicing at the enemies. One exploded over the sleigh and dropped its contents over the floor.
"They're taking the teeth!" Bunny exclaimed as he picked up one of the canisters from the floor. The Angel had looked back at the shout, curious about the horrified voice that came from the rabbit about simple teeth case, but had to look back when North shouted out-
"Watch out!" He looked back just in time to twist the reindeer out of the way from the one of the palace's structures. It continued to curve around each pillar until it finally landed roughly on one of the platforms. The Angel panted before looking down at the reins in his hands, finding frost inching along them. Reacting quickly, his hands threw the rope away and hid in his cloak.
He looked up to see Tooth float down and kneel sorrowfully on the ground. "Everything's gone." She whispered brokenly. "They took everything."
A tweet came from his cloak and Baby Tooth came fluttering out. The Angel watched, relieved the poor thing hadn't frozen to death, as she flew over to Tooth and the Guardian caught her in her hands.
"Oh thank goodness one of you are alright." She breathed.
"I have to say, this is very, very exciting." A voice rang from the shadows. "The "Big Four" all in one place. I'm a little star struck." Appearing high above them, a man with gray skin, black hair, and dressed in what looked like the shadows themselves grinned a sharp tooth smile down at them. His golden eyes glinted with malice. "Did you like my show on the globe North? Got you all together."
"Pitch!" Tooth screamed and she flew with anger. "You have thirty seconds to return my fairies-" He was gone before she reached him.
"Or what?" He interrupted appearing upon another platform. "You'll stick a quarter under my pillow?"
"Why are you doing this?" North asked as they turned towards him.
"Maybe I want what you have, to be believed in." He answered with a glare. The Angel's eyes widened at the response, shocked at the reason to cause so much trouble. Pitch continued. "Maybe I'm tired of hiding under beds."
"Maybe, that's where you belong." Bunny growled back.
Pitch suddenly appeared under their platform. "Go such an egg rabbit." He said vanishing just as Bunny swiped at him. "Wait a minute, is that the Blue Angel?" The Angel turned to find him leaning on one of the structures, head on his fist. "Since when where you all chummy with the Guardians?"
"I-I'm not." He whispered out.
"Oh? And here I thought they let a child killer join their group." The Angel flinched at the words. "Then, I'm just going to ignore you, but you must be used to things like that."
"Pitch!" Bunny shouted, jumping down and rushing at the Boogieman while also pushing the Angel out of the way. "You shadow sneaking rat bag, come here!" Pitch vanished to appear high up on a platform, but Tooth grabbed Bunny's boomerang and charged at the dark spirit. However, before she could get to him, a large sand horse appeared with a scream and forced her back. Pitch chuckled as he placed his hand on the large nightmare before taking his hands away to show swirling black sand.
"Look familiar Sandman?" Sandy looked down at his hand before clenching his fist and glaring up at the other as he continued. "It took me a while to perfect this little trick, turning dreams into nightmares." Tooth slowly floated back down and gave the boomerang back to its owner.
"Don't be nervous." Pitch continued. "It only riles them up more. They smell fear you know."
"What fear?" Bunny scoffed. "Fear of you? No one's been afraid of since the dark ages!"
"Oh the dark ages." Pitch sighed wistfully as if relieving a happy memory. "Everyone frightened, miserable; such happy times for me. Oh, all the power I wielded, but then the man in the chose you to replace my fear with your wonder and light, lifting their hearts and giving them hope. Meanwhile, everyone just wrote me off as just a bad dream. Oh there's nothing to be afraid of, there's no such thing as the Boogieman. But that's all about to change." Suddenly the walls started crumbling and fading to dust. "Oh, it's already happening?"
"What's happening?" The Angel whispered out gazing in horror as he watch the place fall apart.
"Children are waking up and finding that the Tooth Fairy never came." Pitch answered. "It's such a little thing, but to a child…"
"What?"
"They…They don't believe in me anymore." Tooth whispered out brokenly. The Angel's eyes widened.
"Didn't you know?" Pitch asked directing his comment towards the cloaked spirit. "It's great being a Guardian, but there's a catch. If enough children stop believing in them, everything they protect goes away, and little by little, so do they. No Christmas, or Easter, or little fairies that come in the night. There will be nothing but fear and darkness…and me."
He turned back to the Guardians. "It's your turn not to be believed in."
The chatting was stopped abruptly when Bunny threw his boomerang at Pitch who hopped onto the nightmare and fled. The Guardians jumped after him while the Angel stayed back, hesitating. He leaned over the edge and when he saw them all panting on the ground, Pitch gone, he felt sorrow for them. His wings slowly came out and he flew down to kneel next to Tooth.
"I-I'm sorry, for what's happening." He whispered. He didn't really know how much comfort he could bring the female, but that didn't mean he couldn't try. To his surprise, she gave him a smile.
"It's not your fault that this is happening." She responded before looking down at the canister in her hand.
Swallowing down his nervousness, he spoke. "W-What's so special about the teeth?"
She gave another smile. "It's not the teeth, it's the memories they hold within them." She stood up only to fly over to a painting over the lake. The Angel followed, flying up next to her. "It's my job to collect and protect all the important memories of childhood stored in the teeth. We had everyone's, even yours." That caught him off guard.
"You should have seen Bunny." North spoke from behind them.
"I told you never to mention that." Bunny snapped back.
But he wasn't listening to them. "M-Mine?" He asked in shock.
Her brows furrowed and she gazed back into the wide eyes from beneath the hood. "Of course, from before you were a spirit."
"B-But I wasn't anyone before I was…this." He was frightened now. There was more to him?! Would it show how much of a terrible person he was before now?! He was scared of his past, but he had known something was missing and that made him want to find out what it was. Hands went on his cloaked shoulders and he found himself gazing back into the worried orbs of Tooth.
"You really don't remember?" She asked. He shook his head. Before anything else could be said, feathers fell from her body and she gasped. "Oh no, we're too late."
"No! Never too late!" North exclaimed before putting is hands up to his head. "Wait, wait, wait IDEA!" As he shouted that last part out, he swung his sword, nearly decapitating Bunny. "We will collect the teeth!"
"What?!" Tooth said in shock. "We're talking about seven continents, millions of children."
"So what, do you know how many presents I deliver in one night?" North said waving off her worry.
"And how many eggs I hide in one day?" Bunny smirked.
Sandy floated up and held up two thumbs up. They looked towards the Angel. "If you help, we will get you your memories back." North offered up.
The Angel bit his lip. "A-As much as I want them back, I don't know how much I can help." He whispered looking away.
"Please, we need all the help we can get." Tooth whispered sincerely. The Angel looked back at their pleading eyes. They didn't deserve this, unlike he would if this ever happened to him. They helped children and they needed to survive for them. But, how could he help them? How could he help if all he did was bring sorrow? With one last look at them he took a soft breath.
"A-Alright."
Four figures watched the group from the shadows. One was taller than the other three as they all gazed sadly at the cloaked figure with the Guardians.
"How much longer do we have to wait?" One of the smaller figures spoke.
"Not long, I believe." The tallest spoke.
"And how long is that!" Another smaller figure spoke.
"It feels like forever." The last sighed.
"Do not worry, MiM always has a plan. Don't fret, for your young brother will soon return to us, we must only wait a while longer."
"But why?! He is with them, can't we approach him now?!" The second exclaimed.
The tallest shook her head. "No, for he has not given his trust to them yet, he has not considered himself one of them."
"So he's still under Death's grip." The third sighed sadly.
"As I said, do not fret children. We must keep our hope that MiM will come through for us."
"Yes Mother."
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