As the yeti went away again, the Easter Bunny led us to the others. The Sandman floated to us with panic on his face. Santa Claus and Jack Frost were standing in front of us.

"We have a problem, mate! Trouble at the Tooth Palace."

While we ran out, I placed a hand on Jack's shoulder and smiled. "Thanks for saving me back in the alley." He turned to me to smile, but blushed. I remembered what I was wearing and ran back to my room to put on my clothes. It wasn't much, but everything is good, for now.

I saw them standing under my window, so I just jumped out to save time. They didn't notice until I landed next to them.

"What the-!", said Jack.

"Sorry for scaring you.", I gave them a sincere smile.

"Don't worry about that. Frosty could use it, mate.", the Easter Bunny said.

"Ahh, I see you're awake. How are you doing, Miss...?", Santa Claus asked.

I looked at him, the confusion clear on my face. "You don't know who I am?"

"No, I have never met you before and I don't remember bringing you presents.", Santa answered truthfully.

I could see he's confused himself. "Then do you know of the children in the mountains?" Santa, the Sandman and the Easter Bunny looked a bit sad.

Santa nods. "Yes, they are a group of children that even we as Guardians can't reach.", he said sadly. "Could it be, you're one of them?"

"Yes I am.", I answered with a nod.

"Can I ask how old you are?", Santa asked.

I shrugged. "I'm 17."

"You, you are that girl, aren't you?", he asked with sadness in his voice. "You are Fi-"

"I go by Anastasia or Anna now.", I said. "It's a bit safer."

Santa nodded while the others looked like they didn't get what we said. Santa turned to them. "The survivor of that fire." The other Guardians got it, only Jack was still confused.

"I'll explain it later. I believe there are more important things", I said.

Santa nodded. "Right.", he said and turned to the yetis. "Boys, ship shape. As soon as impossible."

"North, North! I told you, I'm not going with you guys! There is no way I'm climbing into some rickety old..." The sleigh came out and Jack finished his sentence in awe. "...sleigh." As the sleigh came out, a reindeer almost knocked Jack over. "Whoa!"

Santa 'or is it North?', began comforting his reindeers. "Hey! Moi deti, moi deti. Quiet, quiet. "

The reindeers stop moving. "Okay, one ride, but that's it.", Jack said. Santa climbed in after Jack jumped in. "Need some help?", he said to me.

"Nope.", I answered while climbing in.

"Everyone loves the sleigh.", North said happily. "Bunny, what are you waiting for?"

"I think my tunnels might be faster, mate. And um, and safer.", he said.

"Scared?", I asked.

Bunny just glared at me and wanted to say something but is stopped by North. "Ah, get in.", he said while hoisting Bunny into the sleigh. "Buckle up!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, where are the bloody seatbelts?!", Bunny said while looking around. The fear was showing itself in his eyes, voice and actions.

North laughed. "That was just expression!" he turned to a yeti. "Are we ready?" The yeti shook his head. "Good! Let's go! Clear!" He cracked the reigns. "Hyah!" The yetis and elves scattered away as the sleigh began to move. Bunny gripped the seat very hard, looking terrified. "Out of the way!", North yelled. "Hyah" We neared the track and I looked around. Jack, Sandy and North are clearly enjoying it, while Bunny is fearing for his life.

"Ohhhhhh no!", Bunny said. "Slow down, slow down!"

The sleigh was going down almost vertically, but North pulls a lever and turned around in his seat. "I hope you like the loopty loops!"

"I hope you like carrots.", Bunny answered nauseously

"Here we go!", North said.

The sleigh reached the bottom of the ramp and shot up into the sky. "WOOO-HOOOOOO!", Jack yelled out. "Woah!"

Jack looked back at the disappearing view of North's workplace. Bunny took a peek from the side, but quickly leaned back. The fear was less now, but still obvious. Jack nudged me mouthed 'watch this' and called to Bunny. Bunny turned to see what Jack wanted to say. Jack was standing at the edge of the sleigh.

"Check out this view – EEEYAAAAGGHGHH!", he screamed as the wind blew him off the sleigh.

I wanted to roll my eyes but decided not to and let Jack have his fun. Bunny gasped in horror and looked over the side, trying to find Jack.

"Awww...you do care.", Jack said.

"Ah, rack off you bloody show pony!", Bunny said. Bunny glared at Jack while he got back in the sleigh.

North turned back to us again. "Hold on everyone, I know a shortcut."

"Oh strewth, I knew we should have taken the tunnels.", Bunny muttered.

North takes a snow globe out of his jacket and held it up to his face. "I say, Tooth Palace."

A tiny castle forms in the globe and he throws it in front of the sleigh. A whirlpool of colors appear as the snow globe broke. North flew us right into it and I had the feeling that my dinner wanted to come out again. When we got out of the whirlpool, a black streak passed us in high speed.

"What!?", North yelled.

I could hear the sound of things nearing us with a high velocity. I looked around and noticed black, horse-like creatures made of sand, chasing after a tiny tooth fairies. The feeling the black horses gave me felt familiar, but with a difference... I steadied myself when I felt the sleigh veer sharply but kept my eyes on the black creatures.

"What are they!?", North asked no one in particular.

Santa and Bunny just ducked out of the way while I tried to remember where I saw or felt them. I could hear Jack and the others talking and doing something else, but I was too concentrated to see what's happening. I stopped thinking when I a few fairies hid between my hair and a black horse was coming at me at full speed. Just as it was about to hit me, I whipped out a knife and slashed it in half. The fairies, thinking it was safe again, flew out of my hair, but got taken by another black horse. I gritted my teeth in anger; I couldn't do anything when they were too far from me. The fairies were all taken now, my eyes followed the horses and turned as the all passed us, heading to the Tooth Palace.

I was still too focused on the horses to notice North handing the reins to Jack. As the sleigh got close enough to the building, I jumped out and took my special weapon out of a secret pocket in my jacket. Bunny yelled after me but I was busy with my weapon. It was a metal rectangular box with a hidden button. I pressed on the button and it expanded to a small bow.

Throwing knives were my best weapons, but they couldn't reach the farthest targets. The head of the School had this one especially made for me so it would be able to fire my knives. Of course, I wouldn't use my throwing knives, but I had enough smaller, but deadlier knives hidden. I reached into one of the belt pockets and drew out three knives. I carefully placed the knives and fired them one after one. The furthest horses fell down into a heap of black sand and I continued to fire. When the sleigh stopped on a platform, I skilfully leaped to them and walked to the Tooth Fairy.

The Tooth Fairy looked like a bigger version of the little ones and like the drawing my mother made in the Book. The vibrant colors of her feathers made me think of the oil painting mother had in the house. It's one of the things I lost during the fire and would never be able to retrieve.

"They, they took my fairies! And the teeth! All of them! Everything is gone! Everything." , she said. A little fairy flew out of Jack's hoodie to her. "Oh thank goodness! One of you is alright!"

A voice started to talk out of nowhere. "I have to say, this is very, very exciting." I rolled my eyes. 'Oh right, a voice suddenly start to speak about how exciting this situation is, you got turned on from...?' I wanted to say it out loud but decided to keep quiet and kill the person when I get the chance. I stepped away from them and stepped a bit back into the shadows, blending perfectly with them. The Guardians looked up and my eyes followed them to a man with ember eyes. 'Great. The villain is a dress wearing with no eyebrows. What kind of shit did I ended up in? Is this a joke or something?', I thought. "The Big Four, all in one place. I'm a little star-struck.", he continued. 'Really? Then why not squeal as a fan girl, run to touch them and ask for their autograph?' "Did you like my show on the globe, North? Got you all together, didn't I?" 'Yep, plus another Spirit and a teenage assassin.'

The Tooth Fairy flies towards him", but he's already gone. "Pitch, you have got thirty seconds to return my fairies!", she angrily said. 'Pitch? The Boogeyman? Seriously?! This is NOT how I thought he would look like...'

"Or what?", he asked. The Tooth Fairy and the other Guardians followed his voice. "You'll stick a quarter under my pillow?"

"Why are you doing this?", North asked.

"Maybe I want what you have. To be believed in. ", the voice answered. Pitch appeared again, but I could see him stare at Jack, who looked like he knew what Pitch meant. "Maybe I'm tired of hiding under beds."

"Maybe that's where you belong.", Bunny said. I grinned from my spot.

"Ah, go suck an egg, rabbit!", Pitch retorted.

Pitch disappeared in the shadows again. "Hang on, is that... Jack Frost?", he asked. Pitch laughed and continued. "Since when are you all so chummy?"

"We're not.", Jack answered.

"Oh good.", Pitch said. Jack turned and Pitch was standing not far from me now. "A neutral party. Then I'm going to ignore you. But, you must be used to that by now."

"Bastard of an asshole.", I said and threw a knife. I aimed for his face instead of a vital spot to scare him away.

Pitch dodged the knife but didn't prepare for another one aimed at where he now stood. Blood dripped of his left cheek. "Oh? You even brought a human with you? I admit, a very interesting one, but still human."

I gave him the finger and threw one of the almost invisible thin, poisoned needles I had. It had hit him without him noticing. 'Now hoping it works on Immortal Spirits...', I thought with a frown.

"Pitch! You shadow sneaking rat-bag! Come here!", Bunny shouted.

Bunny went after him, but he disappeared and appeared. The Tooth Fairy took one of Bunny's boomerangs and threw it, while flying after him. A black horse appeared to protect him.

"Whoa! Hey, easy, girl. Easy.", Pitch said to the horse. A wisp of black sand forms in his hand. "Look familiar, Sandman? Took me a while to perfect this little trick. Turning dreams into Nightmares." As he realized the fear of the Guardians, he continued to taunt them. "Don't be nervous, it only riles them up more. They smell fear you know."

"What fear? Of you!? No one's been afraid of you since the Dark Ages!", Bunny said with a snort.

"Oh, the Dark Ages.", Pitch said with a smile. He looked like he was having a flashback. "Everyone frightened. Miserable. Such happy times for me. Oh, the power I wielded! But then the Man in the Moon chose you to replace my fear with your wonder and light! Lifting their hearts! And giving them hope! Meanwhile, everyone wrote me off as just a bad dream! 'Oh, there's nothing to be afraid of! There's no such thing as the Boogeyman!' Well that's all about to change. Oh look, it's happening already."

"What is?", Jack asked.

"Children are waking up and realizing the Tooth Fairy never came. I mean such a little thing, but to a child...", Pitch answered.

"What's going on?", Jack asked.

The Tooth Fairy looked really desperate. "They, they don't believe in me anymore."

"Didn't they tell you, Jack? It's great being a Guardian – but there's a catch. If enough kids stop believing, everything your friends protect – wonder, hopes and dreams – it all 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! It's your turn not to be believed in!"

Bunny threw his boomerangs at Pitch, who quickly ducked out of the way as they flew around the chamber. Pitch then jumped onto the back of the Nightmare down into the depths of the Palace. The Guardians dove after him, followed by Jack. Bunny grabbed a set of egg bombs and launched them at Pitch, exploding seconds before Pitch hit the ground and disappeared.

It was then I realized how messed up this all was. If all children stopped believing, Fidelia would disappear too. 'No, I need to stop him!' The determination in my heart was set, there was no way I was going to back down now. I WILL stop that guy, even if I had to give up my life...

AN: Here is chapter 6, I hope you all enjoyed it! =)

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