Chapter 6
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Sandy rushed into the workshop and in North's office without knocking.
"What is it?!" North cried, jumping from his chair. He looked down at Sandy and smiled. "Oh Sandy- just you; why are you here?"
"Nightmares are coming back into children's dreams...Pitch is returning." Sandy signed quickly. North sighed.
"How strong is he?" he asked. Sandy thought for a moment.
"Not very, but he is progressing."
The guardian of dreams paused, then added something else.
"Pitch is feeding off fear...children out in the world are still afraid."
North walked out from behind his desk and patted the smaller guardian on the shoulder reassuringly.
"I don't think Bunny will be happy if I call another guardian meeting, so I will tell him and you can tell Tooth and Jack!" he said. Sandy nodded, smiling slightly at how jolly he sounded. He picked himself up on a dream cloud and exited the room.
"Sandy!" he heard North shout from behind him and he turned around.
"When you see Jack, try and get him to rest a little- he looked very tired!"
"It's my job..." Sandy signed, smiling. With a little wave, he disappeared from view. North made his way back to his chair and collapsed in it, deep in thought.
"Two years...how has Pitch came back so quickly?" he muttered.
He's not that strong though, North thought, still, that must be some strong fear he's feeding off...
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Jack was sitting on a rooftop in Canada- not far from Jamie's town. He was clutching his shoulder, and his injured leg was dangling lifelessly. Some dirt was on his cheek, and tears were silently leaking from his eyes. Jack shifted a little and didn't react to the blood which had just dripped from his stained hand, onto the lower part of his hoodie. The spirit's eyes were slightly duller than before, full of fear and tiredness.
It was like all life inside the spirit was fading, and would keep doing so until only a ghost of what he used to be would remain.
Who's Jack Frost?
Just a myth!
Jack twitched slightly.
He doesn't exist.
"I'm real..." he muttered in a croaky voice, "I am..."
For a second, Jack fell asleep, his hand slowly slipping from his shoulder; however, the spirit snapped his eyes open again and sprang to his feet. He winced at the pain coming from his leg, and lifted it up a little, so he was standing on one foot.
"That was too close..." Jack said but his attention was soon turned to the dream sand that was spreading through the sky.
Oh no.
Sandy was the last person he could see now, in the state he was in. Jack looked upwards and stared at the dream vines again, then quickly left.
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A sharp wind whipped through the sky, and Sandy shivered. For a moment, he thought he saw Jack, but when he looked again he was gone. But as he felt the wind whip him again, he knew Jack had been here. So why did he fly away?
Sandy needed to tell Jack to look out for Pitch, but knowing the speed the spirit travelled it would be nearly impossible to track him down. He had already told Tooth; he found her pretty quickly. She reacted very calmly, and went to Tooth Palace to alert all the baby tooth.
"If you see Jack, try and get him to rest a little- he looked very tired!"
Sandy looked to the sky again, thinking of North's words.
So he wasn't the only one that noticed Jack's condition.
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Bunny sat in his warren, painting an egg blue. Suddenly, he heard some footsteps from the distance. The pooka's ears twitched, but then relaxed, realising who it was.
"Ya know, mate, tha' ya sound like a rhino walkin' through a china shop."
North came into view, carefully avoiding walking eggs.
"Why are ya here, anyway?" Bunny asked. North never came to his warren, unless it was serious. He preferred his workshop.
"Pitch is back." North said with a sigh, finally getting away from the eggs. Bunny straightened up and dropped his paintbrush.
"How did tha' one 'appen?!" Bunny cried, "How did he come back so quickly?" North shrugged.
"Don't know. Sandy saw some nightmares. They weren't strong, but they were there.
'Sandy has told Tooth and Jack, so we are all looking out for more signs that he is getting stronger. If so, then we must try and stop him before it gets out of hand."
Bunny sighed and let the egg he was holding go.
"Shit." He said angrily, not being able to think of anything else to say.
"It usually takes a good number of centuries for Pitch to come back..." Bunny said after some silence. North nodded.
"You must keep look out. I will go back to workshop, and tell yeti." He said and pulled out a snow globe. "I will also be calling another guardian meeting soon, as we must stay in closer contact."
"I agree mate." Bunny said.
"My workshop!" North cried and smashed the snow globe on the floor. It smashed and created a portal. With a little wave, North jumped through. For some reason, Bunny's mind drifted to Jack Frost.
"Poor snowflake..." he muttered, "only just became a guardian, and more trouble comes..."
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