I would like to start off by asking, why will nobody review my story? Is it not good enough or what? But anyway, here's another chapter, somebody, pleas review this one. O, and ps, remember this is Capp telling the story from the current time, all of this has already happened, but that might change as we move forward in the story, but I'm not telling. :)
Chapter 7 The first fight
We all decided that we would take my ship to Burgess instead of North's sleigh; North didn't like that idea but it sure made Bunnymund happy. All of us got onto my ship and I went straight to my controls, to my surprise, Jack had already flown up there and had everything ready to go.
"Dang it Jack" I said, trying to make myself sound mad, but he could still clearly tell I was joking , "I am the captain of this ship, hence my name, Capp, so why do you think that it's your job to drive my ship?"
Jack looked up at me and said, "Well, it's a nice boat so I like running it."
"What do you mean, boat." I replied. If there is one thing that can tick me off it is calling my ship a boat, there IS a difference. I mean you can look at it like this; it's kinda like when Jack calls Bunnymund the Easter kangaroo.
"All I said was that you have a nice boat." Jack said.
"It's NOT a freaking BOAT" I was about to yell at that point, "It is a SHIP, not a BOAT. Have you ever seen a boat that weighs ten thousand tons empty? Huh!".
Looking back at this moment I feel a little bad for Jack, because I will admit, I Really over react when it comes to my ship, but that was and is the first and last time I have ever been mad at Jack, we consider ourselves brothers now. But anyway, back to the story.
Jack looked up at me and said in a shaky tone of voice, "I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you or your boa… I mean ship."
At that moment I realized how harsh I had been, I looked down and said, "I guess I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have gotten that pissed off over nothing, after all, all you were doing was complimenting my ship, you didn't know not to call her a boat. We still friends?"
Jack looked at me and grinned, "Yap, we're still friends, and I will make sure to say ship from now on" he said laughing.
When all of that was over Tooth came up to the control deck and asked us if everything was alright, I guess they heard everything from the lower deck, we told her everything was fine we just had a little issue and we left it at that. Then the rest of the group came up and Bunnymund asked if we were going to go fight Pitch or have a dinner party, he was being his typical self, a smart-aleck.
I looked at Jack without saying anything and grinned; he looked back, laughed and shoved the accelerator as far forward as he could. I wasn't even expecting him to do that, even though that was what I was thinking, I thought he would only pres it half-way or something, but no, he went all or nothing.
I was standing behind Jack, and that's exactly what I mean, WAS standing behind him. I was thrown about twenty feet, almost off the back of the ship, Bunnymund was quick to land right on top of me and we were accelerating too fast for either of us to get up. North, who was in the dining room trying to find some cookies, was thrown back into my china cabinet which fell on top of him so that he couldn't even move; he found the cookies though when they landed on him after they went flying off of a shelf. Swift was down on the lower deck mopping, when he was tossed back against the outside wall of the captain's quarters, and his mop bucket then hit him in the face, soaking him from head to foot with dirty mop water. Tooth and her fairies were the only ones not affected, just because they constantly float above the ground, so she was just floating there watching all of this, laughing so hard that she's about to fall over. And Jack was just sitting in my chair at the controls with the biggest grin on his face that I had ever seen.
When all of that was over and the ship was leveled out at a constant speed and altitude, we all got back up. Swift came up the stairs and said, "That was rougher than the storm that sunk us to begin with"; I looked at him and agreed. Bunnymund walked up and smacked Jack upside the back of his head and said, "Never do that again wile I am on this boat, I-I mean ship." He looked back at me to see if I had heard him, I acted like I didn't, but I did. Tooth had just now stopped laughing and then we heard North yell for help. Bunnymund went down to help him. When he finally came up to join us he said, "Your dining room is mess, but I found cookies." We all laughed at that, then Jack looked at us and said that he was going to teleport us to Burgess now so we should all hold on. We all looked back at him and said that it would have been nice to have that warning earlier and as we said that, Jack hit the button and the next thing we knew, we were in Burgess.
It was almost midnight, and of course everyone was asleep, the bad part was that every single one of the kids was having nightmares. They would start off with Sandy's golden dream sand floating above them and then it would all turn into a black nightmare; it was horrible to watch all of those kids suffer with fear. That is when I decided that as soon as we fixed this problem that we had right now, and got back to North's castle, I would agree to become an official Guardian.
We looked around for a second and then Sandy got started on fixing the dreams. Really there is nothing that the rest of us Guardians can do to fix dreams directly; when stuff like this happens we just have to protect Sandy while he works, because that is when he is the most vulnerable.
We were doing pretty well, there wasn't a sign of Pitch except for the nightmares and Sandy was about half-way done when I heard something. I looked at Swift and motioned him to follow me. We walked for awhile following the sound, we had just walked into the park and that's where we saw them, it was Pitch and Satan.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't Capp and his trusty first mate Swift" Satan said, "What might you both be doing here on this fine night?"
I looked at him and said, "O, well, we were just out for a stroll and we noticed all of the nightmares, so we thought we would come fix them, and after that we were just going to find you Pitch, and give you a little lesson about why you shouldn't give nightmares to children, but it appears that you have saved us the trouble of looking. And I would like to know Satan, why are you here?"
Pitch started to chuckle a little and the Devil grinned, that's when we heard the fighting going on in town.
"It sounds like Alastor and Grim have met the Guardians" Pitch said. Than Satan looked at me directly and said, "Your dead" than lurched forward at me. Swift turned to try to help me when Pitch grabbed him by the throat and flew into another part of the park.
(This is Capp's fight with Satan, all of these battles are happening at the same time but I am going to tell about them individually)
Satan had shoved me back about fifty yards and then tried to stab me with a dagger, but that didn't go to well for him. When he shoved the knife towards me, I was able to get out one of my swords and swing it at him, witch made him back up quite fast. I quickly got out my other sword and we were in a sort of stand-off, neither one of us had the guts to move towards the other, I'm kind of ashamed to admit that, but at the time I was still new to all of this power stuff. Finally, I made a move to the side and then shot a burst of light at him, he jumped over but the light still glanced off of his side burning him severely. And for those of you who are wondering, yes, I burned the Devil. He then shot a fire ball at me witch hit me right in the chest knocking me backwards. It hurt like hell, probably because it was the owner of hell himself that thru it. At that point after another fifteen minutes of fighting I had, had enough. I decided that I would try that same trick that I had done in Jotumhiem. So took both swords, raised them up as high as I could and when I did that Satan looked at me, his eyes got wide and he said, "No anything but that!" He must have somehow knew what was about to happen. I then brought both swords to the ground and I flew into the air as quickly as I could so that the blast wouldn't affect me.
Then a burst of light hit the ground and once again left a small crater, shortly after that all of the trees within a half mile radius were torn completely out of the ground and a few abandoned buildings at the edge of town fell over. I once more was able to completely destroy my surroundings, and quite frankly I was, and still am proud to have that ability. The Devil was nowhere to be found but he had left a note saying, "I'll be back you S.O.B" I had to laugh at that, then I decided to fly back to town and see if all of the fighting was over.
(Ok, now this is what was happening to the Guardians at the same time Capp was fighting Satan)
North looked around and noticed that Swift and I had gone to see what that noise was that we had been hearing. Sandy was almost done with his work when they heard clapping. It was Alastor and Grim, Alastor looked at the Guardians and said, "Very well done, you almost have every nightmare in this whole town gone, now, what are you going to do about us?" He said and started to laugh. Bunnymund then yelled, "Sandy you keep fixing those nightmares, we will take care of these intruders, and right when he was done talking they all ran towards there foe's and attacked. An epic battle ensued for about fifteen minutes and then Grim looked at Alastor and Said, "It's done" and they vanished into thin air.
Right then I flew in and said, "Awe, did I miss a good fight?" North said, "Yes where were you?" I looked at him and said, "I had a pretty intense battle myself, didn't you see the bright flashing lights?" Tooth walked over with an amazed look on her face and said, "Wow that was you?" I looked at her and said in a pretty cocky voice, "Yes it was". They were all pretty amazed, then Bunnymund looked at me and asked how I was going to cover up all of the damage, because even though the mortals couldn't see us, they will still have all of the damage in there park. And then there is also the matter of the bright light that woke half the town up. I looked at him and explained that after all of that happened I put a rock in the crater that I had picked up on Jotumhiem as a souvenir, so everybody will just pass this up as a meteor or something like that. They all agreed that, that would more than likely work, and then we realized, Swift was missing.
(Ok, this is the final fight in this chapter, this is what happened between Swift and Pitch while everyone ells was engaged in epic battle)
Pitch landed about five hundred yards away from where Satan and myself were fighting, throwing Swift down beside him. Pitch then pulled out his dagger and shoved it straight into Swift's chest, but then that swift disappeared. You see, Swift's power was the same as one Loci has, to appear somewhere but not really be there. The only problem was, was that the dagger that Pitch had used was really the handle of his magic staff. When Pitch shoved it into the clone he was able to pick up on Swift's power signature, therefore allowing him to see the real Swift. "Your power will not work on me now boy!" Pitch yelled. That is when Swift made a fatal mistake, he jumped off of a tree that he was perched on and went straight towards Pitch and yelled, "I am not afraid of you." Right then Pitch pulled out his bow and arrow and shot Swift right thru the chest. Pitch started to say something to the dying boy, but that is when I caused my little explosion. And they were within the blast radius. Pitch got away but he sustained major burns, cuts, and bruises, and the body of Swift was never found.
(You can insert a sad song right here if you want; a good sad song is "Mad World" by "Gary Jules")
We all arrived at the place where Swift and Pitch had their fight and quickly realized what had happened. Tooth had to fly away because she didn't want to let anyone see her cry. North and Bunnymund looked over at me and decided to leave me alone and then walked off, I could tell that they were extremely sad and mad to though, just like I was. Then only Jack and I were left standing there.
Jack stood beside me and put his arm over my shoulders and said, "Everything will be alright, you know that I'm here for you. I am your friend and that's one of the things that I'm here for."
I looked over at him, a tear in my eye, and I could tell that the usual upbeat, happy go lucky joker was really being quite serious. I glanced back down, then I turned and hugged Jack and to my surprise he hugged back, I really didn't expect that, I was worried that what I had just done would freak him out or something since we are both guys. I would say I probably grabbed him pretty tight too because I can remember I almost knocked him over. I started to back away and apologize to him but he didn't let go and then he said, "Don't worry your fine, everyone needs a good hug now and then, and your long overdue."
I just stood there and leaned on him, trying not to cry I said, "I will destroy Pitch for this, he will pay for what he has done."
Jack replied and said, "And you won't have to do it alone, I will help you and the rest of the Guardians will to."
Then we headed back to the ship and returned to North's castle, we had a lot to think about, and the loss of a very good friend to morn.
