Finally I got this chapter done. This is how I wanted to start my summer vacation off. No more school and now I can concentrate on my stories. I can actually update most of my stories now, YAAAAAA! Anyways I have drawn some pics for this fic and they can be found on deviantart page under the same name so go check it out

And now I will answer a question from one of my reviewers.

TheOneKyoCatLover: Kozmotis Pitchiner was Pitch Black's name before he became the Nightmare king, people know about his name because it was featured in William Joyce's Guardians of Childhood book series.

Now back to the story after this disclaimer

Disclaimer: I do not own Rise of the Guardians or Harry Potter just Abby.

Chapter 7

Abby sat on the edge of a hotel rooftop in Savannah as she stared out at the ocean. She allowed tears to slowly stream down her face. At that point she didn't care if anyone saw her like this. She was allowed to be upset every now and then.

She brought her knees up to her chest as she thought over the last few centuries with her brother. Her brother's attitude just didn't add up. He was always so open minded, willing to accept every new idea, and adjust in a flash. Now he's acting irrational, selfish, and quite frankly a jerk. He was acting like someone she would rather forget for the rest of her immortal life.

Abby groaned as she thought about how everything was so messed up. She just wished that everything could go back to normal where she and her brother would pull pranks and mess with Bunny. But she had to admit that the first time they pranked him was bit overkill.

With a sigh, she stood up from her spot on the roof and took off into the air. When did everything go wrong? Her birth family was murdered, the Guardians rejected the two of them, they left Pitch's home, and an extinct creature that could possibly end all life on Earth was on the lose. She was pretty sure she wasn't missing anything else.

This sucks.

"Abby." The teen jerked her head up at the sound of her name, and flew to a stop. She turned around to see Tooth and Jack flying towards her.

She groaned again and face palmed. They just had to send the frost spirit. The physical representation of the season that makes her job even more difficult. She felt a sharp stab of pain in the side of her head and knew that someone was about to die soon. She blew her lips out as she flew up into the air before she made a sharp dive.

Tooth made a surprised sound as she saw the quickly descending spirit. Jack raised both eyebrows at how fast Abby was going. He'll admit that he would fall at break neck speeds like she did, but never so close to the surface.

Jack tucked his arms and dived after the spirit. Tooth fluttered for a moment before she flew after him with her squadron of mini fairies following. Jack was quickly gaining on the death spirit, but when she was a least a foot away from the ground, she pulled up.

Jack pulled up as well but at least ten feet up from the ground. He saw Abby flying up the street and expertly dodged people as she flew over a park. Jack finally caught up to her as she landed on another rooftop. Jack landed next her as she peered over the edge.

Jack looked down as well and felt his heart clench.

Huddled between two dumpsters was a little boy of about eight years. He wore shirt two sizes too big and tattered jeans. He was also curled up in a large thin overcoat that he probably stole. He had his legs pulled to his chest and hid his face in his knees; all the while shivering horribly. The boy let out a pained whimper as he shifted a bit.

Jack felt his temper flare as he unconsciously made his surroundings colder. The boy shivered harder as he tried to curl deeper into the coat. Abby turned her head sharply to the winter spirit and punched his arm. Jack glared at the death spirit who returned the favor and inclined her head towards the boy. Jack's eyes widened a bit before he put a lid on his powers.

The boy stopped shivering and went back into a fitful sleep. Jack grinned sheepishly as Tooth finally caught up with the teens.

"What are we doing," she asked. Jack pointed down into the alley instead of speaking. Tooth took a glance and her small hands flew to her mouth in shock.

"Oh dear," she whispered before she pulled her hands to her chest. "What is he doing out here? Shouldn't he be at home with his family?"

"If you were quiet for a moment, I would give you an overview," Abby said sharply. She turned her emerald gaze onto the boy and seemed to focus. Jack was eerily reminded of how Pitch did the same thing to him to find out about his fears. But it didn't make sense, Abby was supposed to be a soul guider, a shepherd of the dead; she wasn't supposed to read minds.

Abby turned her gaze away after a moment as she sat back on her heels and sighed sadly. "Great, another one."

Jack turned his head sharply to his fellow teen. "What do mean 'another one'? And what was with the staring thing anyway?"

Abby raised both of her eyebrows. "You never heard of Legilimency?" She gave a deadpan look at Jack's incredulous look.

"... Is that a fancy word for mind reading?"

Abby let out a frustrated breath as she turned to the Tooth Fairy. "Seriously, do any of you Guardians teach him anything?" Tooth just smiled sheepishly as she shrugged.

Abby rolled her eyes. "Figures," she muttered. She turned back to the winter spirit. "I'm only going to say this once, the mind is not a book you can just open and read. It's delicate system that can drive a person to madness with one tiny misstep. Legilimency allows a person to enter another's mind and search for certain information. Not many people can accomplish this ability."

Jack scoffed though he looked a bit wary. "How hard can it be?"

Abby continued in a deadpan. "I remember I said that the smallest mistake can shatter a mind. I'm sorta surprised that Sandy didn't tell you. He does this every night after all."

No he didn't know that. He frowned as he thought about it. What else have the other Guardians decided not to tell him?

"Okay, that's enough of a lesson for today," Tooth said quickly. "How about we help the boy. Abby, what can you tell us?"

Abby sighed as she leaned back. "His name is Cody, he's eight years old about to turn nine next month. He came from an abusive family and ran away when he got the chance. He's been on his own for a week."

Tooth hugged herself as she stated down at the boy. "Why would his family want to hurt him?"

Abby stared down at the boy again and concentrated. When she first entered his mind, she felt something she hasn't felt in a while. The last time she felt this power was fifty years ago when she rescued...

Abby's eyes shot open as she jumped away from the edge. She stared down at the boy in awe before a genuine smile spread across her face. Without looking at her companions, and jumped off the roof and landed in front of the boy.

Jack and Tooth stared down at the teen spirit in bewilderment before they glanced at each other. They seemed to be thinking the same thing. What just happened?

The two shrugged at each before Jack jumped down beside his fellow spirit and Tooth fluttered over to them. She hovered over the teens as Abby shook the boy's shoulder. "Little one, wake up."

The boy squirmed a bit and started to whimper. "Please don't hurt me. I'm sorry for sleeping here. Just don't hurt me."

The three immortals looked at each other in shock, but it was Tooth who let out a gasp. Even though she has existed for over a thousand years, and seen many things, Tooth remained in the safety of her palace. Jack and Abby weren't as surprised since they seen many things in their years of solitude.

Abby quietly cleared her throat. "I'm not going to hurt you little one, but we want to help you."

The boy stilled for a moment before he lifted his head up from his knees. When he saw the three immortals, he cocked his head to the side and furrowed his eyebrows. In front of him was a teenager with long light brown hair and green eyes and was dressed like a biker. There was also a colorful bird lady with tiny versions of herself hovering around her. And another teenager with bleached white hair and shocking blue eyes; in his hand was a long stick that was curved at one end. Even though his family has continuously said that these beings don't exist, he knew exactly who they were.

"The Tooth Fairy," he said breathily. "The Grim Reaper? Jack Frost? You're all real?"

The immortals smiled and nodded their heads. Abby kneeled down before him and gave him a gentle smile. "That's right, we're here to help you. But can you tell us your name little one?"

The boy cocked his head to the side when he saw Jack furrow his eyebrows and whisper something to the tooth fairy. The grim reaper heard what he said and elbowed him in the stomach. The tooth fairy sent the wizard a scolding look before fussing over Jack.

The boy giggled a little and gave them a smile. "My name is Cody." His smile was suddenly replaced with a frown. "You're not going to send me back to my parents are you?"

Abby frowned. "If I may be so bold, but why don't you want to go back to your family? Don't you want to be with them for Christmas?"

Cody ducked his head. "My family always ignore during this time year and give my sister all of their attention. And they get mad at me whenever I say anything about you guys, they just don't like it. I think that they don't like it when I do weird things around them."

Abby hummed in thought. "What kind of weird things?"

Cody took a moment to think. "There was a time that I turned my mom's hair blue." He heard Jack let out a snort. "Oh there also the time that the glass case to an insect exhibit at the zoo vanished." Cody let out a laugh. "My mom screamed her head off when the cockroaches started crawling all over her."

The teens let out a couple of laughs, while Tooth looked disapproving but couldn't hide the smile that spread across her face. Abby calmed down after a while and looked back at the little boy. She tilted her head to the side and lifted her hand towards the boy. A flower bud grew from the middle of her palm and bloomed into a lily. Cody stared at the flower in awe before he looked at Abby in awe.

"You're just like me," Cody said breathlessly.

Tooth cocked her head to the side until understanding dawned in her eyes. Her hands flew up to her mouth as she let out a gasp. Jack looked at her with a raised eyebrow before turning back to the immortal wizard.

"Yup," Abby said cheerfully, "I've had my powers for over a thousand years."

"Wow, you're old." Was the blunt answer.

Abby grimaced while Jack let out a laugh and Tooth giggled. "Kid," Jack spoke up as he crouched down next to Abby. "Don't say that in front of a girl again. It's doesn't end well."

Cody nodded and turned back to Abby. "Are you going to take me back to my parents?"

Abby bit her lip before she looked back at Tooth. The fairy queen shook her head. Abby looked back at the boy with a determined look on her face.

"No." A smile started to spread on Cody's face. "However, you can't stay out here on your own."

Cody's smile faded. "But I don't have anywhere else to go."

Abby smiled gently. "Don't worry, I know the perfect place. Do you want to see it?" Cody thought for a moment before he nodded his head. Abby reached forward, took the boy in her arms, and stood up.

"You do realize this is kidnapping, right," Jack asked with raised eyebrows. Abby glared at him before turning to Tooth.

"We're heading to a hidden town twenty minutes north of Ottery St. Catchpole. You'll run into a ward that has a radius of ten miles, don't mind it. It's to keep those without magic and those with greedy hearts out."

Tooth nodded. Abby turned to Jack and gave him a hard stare. "Since I get the feeling that you're not going to let me out of your sight, you might as well come along with me. But I warn you, it's not a very pleasant form of transportation, so to speak."

Jack glared back at her. "I'm pretty I can handle anything you throw at me."

Cody snickered as Abby shrugged. "Okay, but don't say that I didn't warn you." She readjusted her hold on Cody and held her arm out. "Take my arm and hold on tight. Just try not to vomit when we land. That goes for you too, Cody."

Cody tightened his hold on Abby while Jack furrowed his eyebrows. "Why would I vomit..." He toke a hold of Abby's arm and it all went black.

North sighed as he leaned back in his chair. This was not turning out well at all. It was two weeks until Christmas, there were many presents left to package and wrap, and there was a creature that could destroy all life on Earth on the loose. He mumbled to himself in his native tongue.

Sandy just left to spread good dreams to the children, and Tooth and Jack have yet to return with young Abigail. Bunny decided to stay at the pole to keep an eye on Pitch and the still unconscious Harold. He was not happy to have his enemy in his home, but for right now he won't complain... much.

With a sigh, he got up from his chair, and walked down to the production levels. He watched as the yetis wrapped up toys and send them onto transporters that'll take down to storage until the big day. Elves ran everywhere serving milk and cookies, however some were playing with a couple of left over toys.

North nodded in approval when he saw his crew was ahead of schedule. This should be a good Christmas, production was almost done, and all they had to do was destroy the creatures.

"NORTH!"

North was startled by the frantic shout and turned to see Bunny bounding towards him. The pooka warrior skidded to a halt when he reached the former bandit king.

"Bunny? Vhat are you doing up here? I thought you vould be vatching over our troublemakers." A smile formed on the Russians face. "Vas Pitch able to scare you?"

Bunny gave him a confused look. "What? No, Pitch 'asn't tried anything." The rabbit seemed to fumble with his words, before he sighed in defeat. "North, ya 'ave ta see fer yerself."

North gave the rabbit a confused look but followed him nonetheless. It had to be serious if it had Bunny so nervous. The rabbit led the Russian to the room where Harold was place in, and saw that yetis were placed at the door.

"Bunny, Vhat is the meaning of this?" Bunny opened his mouth to answer, but a bone-chilling screech sounded from behind the door. Then following that was the sound of Pitch shouting and fighting.

"That's why," Bunny groaned as the two rushed towards the room. The yetis backed away from the door when frost appeared. However, everyone knew this was not Jack's creation. While Jack's had a fun and mischievous feel to it, this frost had a malicious intent.

The yetis had their weapons pointed at the door and glared at it. Bunny hopped forward and yanked the door open, only to duck when Pitch was thrown out. Pitch let out a pained groan when his back hit the wall and slid to the ground.

"Pitch!" North rushed forward as he drew his swords. He pointed one of his sabers at the shade as he moved to get up. "Vhat have you done now?"

Pitch gave North an annoyed look and pushed the sword away. "For once, this is not of my doing." The three spirits looked towards the door when they heard a loud growl and claws scraping across the floor. "Don't let it escape!" Pitch threw a stream of nightmare sand into the room and a second later they heard an angered screech.

The yetis growled and advanced into the room. North turned on the Boogeyman and Easter Bunny with an annoyed look. "Vhat is going on?"

Bunny gave him an annoyed look. "We just found the reason behind Harry's mood swings, mate."

"Bunny, this is no time for riddles!"

Pitch let out a frustrated breath and pointed into the room. "See for yourself, Cossack."

North gave him a suspicious glance before walked to the doorway and peered inside. What he saw made his heart drop and his eyes widen in shock. Things just got complicated.

Jack did not like this form of transportation at all, not one bit. He felt like he was being squeezed through a tiny tube and was slowly choking to death. And he did not like how it was dark all around him, it reminded too much of how he woke up as a spirit for the first time. The only comfort he had was the grip he had on Abby's arm.

Suddenly he felt his feet slam into the ground and the wind caressing his face. He opened his eyes to see that he was standing in the middle of an alleyway. He heard a slight hum and turned to see Abby staring at him with a curious look in her eyes. Cody was still clutched in her arms and had a huge smile on his face.

"I'm sorta impressed," Abby said after a moment. "Back in my day, people usually vomit their first time after apparating."

Jack took a deep breath and glared at her. "You don't say," he said between breaths.

She just shrugged her shoulders and looked down at the arm that was still clutched in Jack's hand. Abby gave the teen boy a pointed look and the winter spirit quickly let go. He gave her a sheepish smile and rubbed the back of his neck. Abby promptly rolled her eyes and made her way out of the alley. Jack quickly followed her and glanced around his surroundings curiously.

"So, where exactly are we?"

Abby heaved a sigh as she stopped at the entrance mouth of the alley. She set Cody down on his feet and held his hand. She chewed her lip as if debating with herself.

"I haven't exactly told you everything about my people. Not every single one of my people died in the genocide a thousand years ago. A few days after my brother and I became spirits, we found only six families wandering around what was left of my kingdom.

"We were overjoyed to learn that there were still a few wizards left in magical Britain. Not only that, but they were also able to see us. However, we knew that we couldn't leave them to fend for themselves so I traveled with the families in search of new territory while my brother performed our duties as the grim reapers.

"We had to be careful about where we settled. We had to make sure we didn't set up camp on a knight or nobleman's territory. After weeks of traveling across Britain, we finally settled down in untouched land. So we after we made sure that the families were settled, my brother and I left to perform duties. My brother and I have watched over the colony and protected it as it grew back into a civilization once more."

Abby let a genuine smile spread across her face as she led the boys out of the alley. Jack felt his mouth drop as he stared around the shopping district as wizards of ages rush around completing their Christmas shopping. He watched as a couple of teens rush past as they threw charms at each other. He heard a couple of kids laughing as they threw snowballs at each other in the nearby park.

Jack turned his gob smacked expression to Abby as she gave him a smug grin. "Welcome to the last Wizard colony on the planet."

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