The golden tendrils of sand wrapped around your lower legs shift with you as you and Sandy change direction, keeping you safely aboard his dream cloud. The both of you are flying quickly over a Middle-Eastern city after leaving Shanghai (which you cannot believe), and he is spreading dreams while the both of you are on the lookout for teeth. Over the past twelve hours, you've learned that the Sandman is the best multitasker you've ever met. The cloud suddenly slows to a stop, and the sand tendrils around your feet unravel so you can move freely about the surface of the cloud.

Sandy spreads his arms, and about a dozen streams of sand reach out and into the city. Baby Tooth emerges from your sweatshirt's pocket and hovers next to your ear. "You know, I've always wanted to see the world." You shake your head with a smile as you gaze down at the city. You turn your head and smirk back at Sandy. "But I never thought it would be like this."

He smiles and extends another tendril of sand out of the cloud. Something quick moves by on the rooftops below, andyou look down to see Bunny and Jack zipping down below. You laugh softly and shake your head. Their "race" has gotten a little out of hand.

Tilting your head to the side but never taking your eyes off of Jack and Bunny, you yell, "Hey, Sandy!" He's next to you in an instant and he laughs silently down at the two racing individuals. You giggle as Sandy circles his finger by his temple in the "crazy" gesture. "What do you say we join the race?" you ask.

He grins, and suddenly the cloud is moving again until it hovers over an apartment building. A golden tendril of sand extends right in front of you, and it materializes to form a rope with a loop at the end. Looking at Sandy, he gestures at you to take hold of the rope.

Instead of just wrapping your hand around it, you put your (dominant) foot through the loop and stand up with one hand wrapped around the rope by your chest, and the other by your head. Sandy understand what you're doing and slowly lowers you down so you're about one hundred feet below the sand cloud. Up ahead, you see a bright flash of blue light and then Bunny sliding down a rooftop on a sheet of ice. Jack leans casually on the patch of roof without ice, and plucks the tooth right out of the flailing pooka's hand.

You tilt your head up and yell up to the cloud, "Hey, Sandy, speed up!"

The little man complies, and you wrap your hand tighter around the golden rope for security. Jack holds the tooth out in front of him, waving it tauntingly down at the still-cursing Bunny. He doesn't even see you coming. Perfect. Once you're close enough, you lean to the side and pluck the tooth right out of Jack's hand. His eyes widen in shock, and he looks up to see you flying away on the rope, waving at him merrily. "Wha-(y/n)!"

"Bye!" you yell, grinning at his playfully angry face. A trail of sand comes down in front of you, and the end of it morphs into a hand. You place the tooth safely inside, watching it clench its fist before retracting back up to Sandy.

You and Sandy collect teeth for the next hour, and you'd like to say you'd collected a lot (you've filled quite a bit of one of North's magical sacks). Baby Tooth is a big help, adding to your bag every time she finds one. You're glad she's taken a liking to you. Not only because of that, but because she's good company.

A while later, the five of you plus Baby Tooth are in New York City. You stand on a rooftop, holding up your bags proudly for Tooth to see. You can tell that she's overwhelmed by your collective effort, which makes your smile even wider. Her violet eyes practically glow with joy and hope, which only increases yours.

"Wow!" she praises. "You guys collect teeth and leave gifts as fast as my fairies!" Jack, North, and Bunny cringe collectively from next to you, and you look over at them.

Jack locks eyes with you guiltily, and you sigh. "What did you guys do?" All three of their heads' sink in embarrassment. You can't help it—you burst out laughing. "You guys are so stupid!"

Sandy's cloud glides over Burgess, and you smile at the familiar rooftops. "Drop me at 433 Fremont ST," you say. "The boy I babysit lost a Tooth today."

Nodding, Sandy turns the cloud southwest, and you glide in that direction until you're above the Bennet's house. Once again, Sandy lowers you down to the window on the golden rope. You balance on the windowsill carefully and open Jamie's unlocked window as quietly as possible before stepping inside. Jamie is smiling in his sleep, revealing his brand new gap. Tooth sits on the edge of the bed, smiling softly down at him.

"Left central incisor, knocked out by a freak sledding accident." Tooth smiles up at you knowingly. "I wonder how that could have happened."

You smile and sit on the other side of Jamie's bed, brushing his bangs back just like you had earlier that night. "Jack saved his life today, according to what I could gather from Jamie's story. Pretty sure he was also part of his near-death experience."

"You know him?"

Nodding, you look up at Tooth. "I babysit him and his sister."

She smiles and flutters up from her seated position until she's hovering right above Jamie. "Why did I ever stop doing this?" she whispers. You smile softly at her words, and she looks over at you. "I promise, when we get the teeth back, I'll give you yours so you can see your brother again."

Your face falls briefly, and you look away from her and back at Jamie. Of course the Guardians would know, I mean, they're the Guardians. "Thank you."

Tooth smiles empathetically and nods, turning her gaze away from you. "Thanks for being here, (y/n). I'm pretty sure you're the only reason Jack agreed to help." You shake your head no at her words, and she smiles. "I see the way he looks at you. You guys have something special."

Sighing, you hug yourself tighter. "He's my best friend, and I'm his only believer. How could we not?"

Tooth opens her mouth to object and tell you her true meaning, but Jack interrupts as he enters through the window. "Hey, guys!" You both shush him simultaneously, and he raises his hands in surrender. "Sorry," he whispers. He looks down at Jamie and grins, leaning his staff against the wall before sauntering over so he's kneeling next to where you sit by the bed. "I remember you."

You snort, giggling at your friend. Tooth shushes you both again, but can't help but join in the laughing as she does. Before the three of you can get louder, a new whisper-yell sounds from the window: "Here you are!"

North squeezes through the window with his bag of teeth, closely followed by Sandy and Baby Tooth, who flutters over and lands on your shoulder. The large man walks over to Tooth, who is now kneeling on the ground, and grins at her. "How you feeling, Toothy?"

She squeals and flutters up to his height. "Believed in!"

North laughs. "That's what I want to hear!"

"Oh, I see how it is." You look over in surprise as Bunny hops out of a rabbit hole in the floorboards next to you. "All working together to make sure the rabbit gets last place."

You stand up when Jack does. "You think I need help to beat a bunny? Check it out, Peter Cottontail." He lifts up his sack of teeth, and you roll your eyes at his competitiveness. Boys.

"You call that a bag of choppers?" Bunny lifts a sack that's significantly larger than Jack's. "Now that's a bag of choppers." Jack's eyes narrow in annoyance.

North raises his hands. "Gentlemen, gentlemen! This is about Tooth. It's not a competition. But if it was . . ." He pulls out a huge sack of teeth. "I win. YEEEEEAAAHH!" He yells, dancing around the room in celebration.

You're about to shush him, but it's already too late. A bright circle of light is already cast on the Guardians. You whirl around to face Jamie, who is sitting up in bed, holding a flashlight. Wide awake. "Oh no . . ." you mumble.

Jamie's brown eyes are as wide as saucers, and he's beaming in disbelief. "Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? Sandman?" He trains his flashlight on each of them in turn. "The Tooth Fairy! I knew you'd come!"

"Surprise!" Tooth squeals, giggling awkwardly. "We came!"

Jamie looks around the group once again, looking past Jack so he catches sight of you. He frowns confusedly and tilts his head to the side. "(y/n)?"

You smile sheepishly. "Hey, Jamie."

Jack steps forward hopefully. "He can see us?"

Deciding you're not the most important thing happening at the moment, Jamie looks around the group again, smile growing wider and wider at each turn. His eyes significantly skip over Jack's place in the room, and you step up next to your friend, putting your hand comfortingly on his shoulder.

"Most of us," Bunny mumbles. You notice he almost sounds sympathetic.

Tooth shushes him. "You guys, he's still awake."

Bunnymund looks at Sandman and nods. "Sandy, knock him out."

Sandy nods and punches his fist into his hand, walking towards Jamie. The young boy looks concerned. "Huh?"

You let go of Jack and jump in front of the bed, arms extended outward as if to protect him. "You're seriously just going to knock out a little kid?" you whisper-yell. "I thought you were supposed to protect them!"

Bunny rolls his eyes. "With dreamsand, ya gumby." Suddenly, he flinches back, and you turn around slowly to see Abbey—the Bennets' dog—advancing on him, nostrils flared and fully awake.

"No, stop, that's the Easter Bunny!" Jamie yells. "Abbey, down!"

"Abbey!" you say sweetly, hoping she'll recognize your voice. "Do you want a treat, girl? Huh?" She doesn't even falter at your bait.

Jack grins, obviously enjoying this. "That's a greyhound. Do you know what greyhounds do to rabbits?"

You hit him on the shoulder. "You're not helping!"

Bunny smiles, trying to keep his cool despite how nervous he obviously is. "I think it's pretty safe to bet he's never met a rabbit like me." Sandy begins to form a dreamsand ball out of the corner of your vision. "Six foot one, nerves of steel, master of tai chi and the ancient art of—"

You jump when Jamie's alarm clock blares to life behind you. Whirling around, you see Jack standing with his staff outstretched towards the dresser. He shrugs innocently under your accusing eyes.

"Crikey," Bunny whimpers. And then he's off like a shot running laps around the small room with Abbey right on his tail, barking like crazy. Tooth flies over to the dresser, doing her best to silence the alarm clock, while Jack is just leaning against the wall, barely containing his laughter. You hit him on the arm again, then see Sandy take aim at Bunny and Abbey, who are running circles around him. Abbey bumps into Sandy on the next time around, and the ball of Dreamsand goes flying. North ducks out of the way as the ball sails towards him, and the ball smacks Tooth right in the face, exploding into a shower of gold dust.

Tooth, who is right above you.

You barely have time to hold out your arms before Tooth drops on top of you, pinning you to the ground. The golden shapes of teeth take shape over her head. "Jack!" you yell, pushing at Tooth's heavy body. For such a small thing, she's heavy. It must be her wings. "I'm gonna kill you!"

Bunny is the next to get a whiff of the golden sand, and he falls right next to you, an image of dancing carrots forming over his head. Abbey falls right behind him. For a moment, you're glad you're on the ground, and not within the sand's range. Despite how tired you are, falling asleep at a time like this is not appealing.

North tries to scramble out of the way of the fatiguing mist, but there's no escape in such a small room. He teeters for a moment as Dreamsand candy canes appear before him, then falls with a huge thud on the end of Jamie's bed, catapulting him into the air. Jamie cries out, and you yell his name, pushing at Tooth's unconscious body to no give. Luckily, he lands in Sandy's outstretched arms. The young boy starts to get up again, but Sandy hits him with a fistful of sand, and suddenly he's out cold.

You let your head fall to the floor with a thunk, listening intently for the sound of Mr. or Mrs. Bennet coming down the hall. After a couple of seconds, you deem all is quiet, and you let out a sigh of relief.

As carefully as possible, you slowly ease Tooth's heavy body off of you and stand up. Jack is by your side in an instant. "You okay?" You nod, and he smiles.

Then you hit him for a third time—hard.

"Ow!"

"You idiot! Look at what you did!" you whisper-yell, looking around at the heap of snoring bodies. Bunny is snuggled up next to North, and a carrot and candy canes hold hands as they dance above their heads.

Jack rubs the back of his neck, smiling sheepishly. "Whoops . . ." Sandy floats down next to North and lifts his arm. It falls back down with a thump when he lets go—completely limp. The small man smiles at Jack and chuckles silently. Jack laughs back. "Oh, I really wish I had a camera right now."

Jack glances at you, and your angry resolve crumbles at the hilarity before you. You dissolve into laughter, covering your mouth as you do your best to laugh as quietly as possible. A warm burst of air hits the back of your neck and you freeze, all of your glee gone. Turning around slowly, you see a Nightmare standing right behind you.

It whinnies right in your face and you stumble backwards, screaming. Jack catches hold of your shoulders as you stumble into him. The black horse snorts once more before disappearing out the window. You rush to the window, gripping the sill as you look down the street after the horse. "It's headed to the center of town."

Jack flies out the window and hovers in front of it. "Sandy, c'mon! We can find Pitch!" He takes off down the street, and you pull away from the window for a moment to look at Sandy.

The little man shrugs and floats quickly out the window. He conjures up his cloud almost immediately, and then he's gone taking off down the street. "Wait!" you yell after them. But neither of them hear you, and instead you watch them fly down the street after the nightmare, before they disappear completely from your sight.

Your head pops up when you hear a bouncing sound behind you. You whirl around with your hands raised in defense just in case, only to see Sophie standing in front of one of North's portals, smiling dreamily. "No no no no no, Sophie!" you yell, rushing forward.

She doesn't even look at you as she walks into the portal. Just as you jump to grab her, the vortex sucks her in, taking her to who knows where. You land on the ground with a thud right where she disappeared, groaning at the sudden force on your elbows. Cursing silently, you stand up and look around at the room of sleeping Guardians—and Jamie.

Now what?

Chapter 7! Not really a fan of the ending of this one, but IT'S ALRIGHT! Let me know what you think, lovelies!