Chapter seven: Of Nightmares and Treachery

"Yes I agree Jack we should definitely talk to Pitch, but first can someone tell me exactly what on earth is going on." Tooth said with an exasperated breath.

"Jack has storyteller." North said excitedly.

"Really Jack! Oh my gosh that is so wonderful." Tooth said as flew to Jack and drew him into an excited hug.

"Yep, I've been told that having a storyteller is great already." Jack said with a playful eye roll. "But at the moment I'm worried about her. What happened before we came in?" Jack added as he instantly turned serious.

"Well I had just finished bandaging her stomach wound and putting a clean shirt on her when Sandy walked in."

Jack looked at Sandy.

"Then he showed me images of Pitch, sand, and the girl. I figured that he wanted to see if he she had any dark sand present on her or in her system."

Jack looked over at Sandy again, who nodded in agreement.

"So I stepped back to let him check the girl..."

"Alice." Jack interrupted

"What?" Tooth asked confused.

"Her name is Alice." Jack said as he pointed to the sleeping figure behind her.

"Oh. Alice is a lovely name. Anyway I moved so Sandy could check on Alice, but before he could touch her she was incased in a black shadow…"


Flashback: Following Sandy.

Sandy walked over to the sleeping girl. He was happy that Jack had finally received a storyteller. This would make him getting more believers much easier. But he was also worried about said storyteller. As soon as Jack mentioned the weird dagger that Pitch had used he was worried that Pitch might have managed to get some of his nightmare sand into the girls system. But wanted to see what else Jack had to say about the incident. The possibility of that dark sand getting into anyone was not good, but as soon as he heard Bunny say that the girl was a storyteller Sandy took off. Nightmare sand in a storyteller could be extremely dangerous. Sandy walked in just as Tooth was finishing redressing the girl. He quickly made images about was going on above his head. Thankfully she understood what he wanted and quickly got out of his way. However just as he was getting ready to send his sand out check her; a black shadow incased her. He was both startled and surprised. He was expecting a resistance of black sand. It seemed to one of Pitch's more favorable weapons lately, but this was different. For starters it did not feel like Pitch's work. It was darker. As the girl let a painful gasp her eyes opened, and Sandy could see she was in pain. This thing that was around her was malicious; most definitely out to hurt the girl before him. She jumped up off the bed and started to scream and try get away from the darkness surrounding her. Then Jack walked in with North and Bunny. The shadow remained only for a second after they entered the room. It reformed into the shape of a girl. "Till later, Aly." Only Sandy was close enough to hear this comment before the shadow girl fled


"And then you guys came in and know what happened after that." Tooth finished

"So you did not get a chance to deal with the black sand?" Jack asked.

Sandy shook his head sadly.

"Well; I think she may have thrown up most of, but could you check her anyway?" Jack asked quietly.

Sandy nodded to Jack and walked over to Alice and went to place a hand on her forehead, but once again was stopped from touching her, and this time was thrown back away from Alice.

"Now Sandman I can't allow you to do that I'm afraid. It took much too long to convince Pitch to use that dagger on her. I can't have you ruining all that work." A sweet voice came from behind Jack.

Jack jumped in surprise and turned to face the girl behind him. What he saw left him utterly confused. He could feel darkness coming from the girl, but she looked like an angel. Her hair was the same color as Alice's; dark chocolate; she was tall and thin. Her face was heart shaped and she wore a pink flowing gown. She did not look like the evil he was feeling could possibly be coming from her. At least that was what he thought until he saw her eyes. They were a similar color to Alice's eyes; looking into Alice's eyes Jack felt warmth and compassion, but this girl's eyes could rival any type of cold Jack could bring to the world, those eyes were hard and just plain old mean. And when she looked over at Alice he could see hatred and contempt in those horrible cold eyes. He had the overwhelming desire to put himself between Alice and this dark figure, so he did. The girl smirked at him.

"Oh please. If I feel like hurting Aly you are not going to be able to stop me Frost." Alice had been right whoever this girl was she did not like her. The venom that laced her voice when she referred to Alice made that fact very clear.

"How do you know Alice?" Jack asked.

"I would think even you could notice the resemblance between the two of us. We are cousins. In fact I am her only living relative." The girl said as she walked into the room.

"You're lying. I saw her with her mom earlier today." Jack said coldly. Jack could not stand liars.

"No nitwit. I'm not lying. Anna is not Alice's mom; well not in the biological sense anyway." She said with a sneer.

Jack just stood there dumbfounded.

"Alice's mom got knocked up with her when she was sixteen, but there were complications during the birth and needless to say she did not survive. Alice's farther was also sixteen at the time. But when Alice was four he took his own life. You remember that day don't you Jackie. Anna was his girlfriend at the time and for some reason beyond me she loved the little brat and wanted to adopt her. Alice's grandfather agreed because that had been the plan to begin with. You know after the 20 something's got married. Then three years ago her grandfather died." She had a satisfied smirk on her face the entire time she spoke.

Jack's stomach rolled as he realized why she was so happy.

"You caused all that?" Tooth asked the question Jack was thinking.

"Yep." The girl said casually. "You know I think Alice has tried to suppress all of this information. I need her to remember all of this, and some other things, so I can't allow Sandy to remove the Sand yet." She added.

Alice gasped and grabbed her head. Jack was quickly by her side. Sandy tried to get to Alice as well, but he was quickly pushed back away again.

"Who are you?" Bunny asked.

She rolled her eyes. "I already told you I'm her cousin.

"I know that, but I meant your name. I would like to know who I'm fixing to be throwing my boomerangs at." He said sounding annoyed

"Oh fine I'm…..

Authors Notes:

Okay I guess I should do one of these since I'm now all the way to chapter seven, and have yet to do one. So yeah just a couple things I want say, so here it goes.

To anyone who has been waiting for the next chapter I am extremely sorry for taking so long to update. On top of having a major case of writers block I've had to spend this last week moving. To that I add why do I have so much useless junk?

Okay wow over 400 views to this story. Have to admit I was not expecting that.

Thank you so much guys who have reviewed. I was so happy that you guys liked what I've done so far.

So sorry for the cliffhanger, but I have a reason I promise I did not do it just to be mean. I could not think of a name for the bad guy. Once I figure out a name I'll post the next chapter. I am open to suggestions if anyone has any.

I would love it ever so much if you let me know what you think of the story. So please review.

Also I am so sorry if Bunny or North do not sound right. I'm having a hard time writing out the accents.

Okay that was more than a couple of things; I guess. I'll try to update at least once a week. (hopefully more than once a week.) I pretty much know where the story is going, so it should not be too hard; right? I don't know how many chapters it is going to be. I guess it'll depend on how long you guys are interested in reading it. Thanks for reading the story and these author's notes.

- Light's-Embrace