Jack walked around the darkness slowly, "Hiccup!" he called, "Merida! Rapunzel!"
Pitch's chuckle soon rang out, "Pitch!" Jack yelled, "Where are you!?"
"You want answers, don't you, Jack?" Pitch appeared in front of Jack, "You want to know why you only have a handful of believers while the rest of the Guardians have the entire world."
Jack went wide eyed, "What? No…" Jack said backing away slightly.
"You also want to know why," Pitch said, "Why you? Why were you chosen…to be like this?"
Jack looked around for his friends, "Well, fear not," Jack turned to Pitch in shock, "For the answers to all that," Pitch was now in front of Jack holding his drawer of baby teeth, "Is right here…"
Jack's eyes widened at the sight, "Do you want them, Jack? Your memories?" Pitch asked almost teasingly.
Pitch held the teeth out to Jack. Jack just stared, fighting the impulse to grab them. He closed his eyes, struggling to make a decision, but when he opened them again, Pitch had disappeared. He looked around for Pitch in the darkness, "Everything you wanted to know..." Pitch's face moved in and out of the shadows, "...in this little box," every time Jack turned, Pitch disappeared.
Multiple Pitch shadows appeared in the wall of darkness around Jack, "You want the answers so badly. You want to grab them, and fly off with them. But you're afraid of what the Guardians and your friends will think," Jack's breath quickened, "You're afraid of disappointing them," Pitch smiled, "Well, let me ease your mind about one thing. They'll never accept you. Not really. Not even with those three you call friends."
Jack grabbed his head, "Stop it! Stop it!" he yelled, "You don't know them!"
Pitch appeared before Jack, "Oh really?" he asked, "Think about it Jack. All they have to do is have even the slightest bit of doubt and poof you're invisible and alone again. After all, you're not one of them."
Jack aimed his staff at Pitch, "You don't know what I am," Jack hissed.
"Of course I do. You're Jack Frost. You make a mess wherever you go. Why, you're doing it right now…" Pitch tossed the box to Jack, who instinctively catches it.
Jack looked up in terror, "What did you do…" he said in horror.
"More to the point Jack, what did you do?" Pitch asked then merged into the darkness making it disappear as well.
Jack's entire body turned colder than normal, "No!" Jack yelled, "Merida! Rapunzel! Hiccup!"
Jack was breathing heavily then realized he's in the Warren, "Happy Easter, Jack," Pitch laughed, "I hope you enjoy it alone…"
"No!" Jack yelled and fell to his knees.
"Jack…" Jack didn't look up, "Vhere vere you?" Jack didn't answer, "Ze nightmares attacked ze tunnels. Zey smashed every egg, crushed every basket. Nozing made it to ze surface."
"Jack!" Tooth yelled, and yet Jack still does not look up.
Tooth notices the box in his hands and gasped softly, "Where did you get that?" she asked.
"I was...it's..." Jack still didn't look up.
"Oh, Jack, what have you done?" Tooth asked betrayal clear in her voice.
"Zat is vhy you veren't here?" North asked confronting Jack, "You vere viz Pitch?"
Jack mumbled things and the Guardians were only able to hear, "...I didn't mean for this to happen."
"He has to go," Bunny said slowly standing up.
Jack didn't answer or lift his head and started mumbling things that the Guardians couldn't hear, "We should neva have trusted ya!" Bunny yelled, "Easter is new beginnin's, new life. Easter is about hope…" Bunny was glaring, "And now it's gone!"
Jack slowly stood up with his head still down, "Don't ya have anythin' to say ya Frostbite?!" Bunny yelled.
Jack lifted his arm to his face and moved it as if wiping his eyes, "Jack…are you crying?" Tooth asked.
Bunny was confused, "My fault," Jack said just loud enough for them to hear, "They tried… and now…"
"What?" Bunny asked still slightly angry.
Jack looked up glaring at the Guardians, but with tears in his eyes, "Is this all you care about!" Jack yelled causing the Guardians to flinch, "Your stupid holidays or these…" Jack looked at the teeth, "Stupid teeth!" Jack threw the box at Tooth, who instantly caught them, "I don't want them!" he yelled causing the Guardians to go wide eyed, "It's because of them that Pitch took them! He took them!"
Tooth gasped finally realizing, "No…" she said.
"Cricky…" Bunny said finally feeling bad.
Jack griped his staff tightly, "If that's all you ever care about then kids don't deserve to believe in any of you!" he yelled, "Keep your stupid teeth!" Jack then flew off.
"Jack!" Tooth yelled.
Bunny looked down, "What have I done…" he said dejected.
"I believe ve've all made ze same mistake, my friend," North said.
Jack flew to the coldest spot on the planet besides the North Pole. He fell to the iced ground and just started punching the ground, "How could I have been so stupid!?" he yelled, "They cared about me, they were the family that I wanted, and I just forgot about them!"
Jack looked at the friendship necklace around his neck and gripped it tightly in his hand, "I'm sorry…" he said brokenly.
"They don't really believe in you," Jack turned at Pitch's voice, "Your friends, if given the evidence like the Guardians, will be the same way. I was only trying to show you that."
Jack growled lowly and threw frost at Pitch, "You don't understand anything!" Jack yelled angrily, "Where are they?!"
Pitch deflected the attack. Jack continued to attack and Pitch continued to block and deflect with nightmare sand, "No?" he shouted over the fighting, "I don't know what it's like to be cast out?" Pitch strikes back, putting Jack on the defense.
Jack jumped in the air. Their show of force escalated until they're shrouded in a blanket of snow, ice, and wind. As the wind and snow settled, Jack looked around stern and alert, "To not be believed in. To long for a family," Pitch said.
"I have a family!" Jack yelled angrily, "Now give them back!"
"And when they die off?!" Jack froze at Pitch exclamation, "They're human Jack," Pitch said gentler, "They'll die…and you'll be alone again."
Jack gripped his staff tightly, a look of realization crossing his face, "We don't have to be alone, Jack," Jack looked at Pitch, "I believe in you. And I know children will too. All the children of the world…"
"In…me…" Jack was hesitating slightly.
"Yes! Look at what we can do!" Pitch gestured to a fantastical ice and nightmare "sculpture" that was created when Jack attacked him, "What goes together better than cold and dark?" Jack looked at the creation, "We can make them believe. We'll give them a world where everything, everything is..."
Jack turned to Pitch, "Pitch Black…" he said deadpanned.
Pitch freezes for a moment, "And Jack Frost too. They'll believe in both of us," he said.
Jack stared at Pitch and, for a moment, thought about the offer. Jack placed his friendship necklace in the palm on his free hand, "No," Jack said sternly, "They'll fear both of us. And that's not what I want."
Pitch was shocked, "Now I'll say it one more time," Jack glared, "Let my friends go."
Pitch glared, "Fine…" he said, "You want your little friends, here!" Rapunzel, Merida, Hiccup, and even Toothless appear from nightmare sand tied up, gagged, and Merida's bow and arrow and Rapunzel's frying pan beside them; out of reach.
"No!" Jack yelled and ran to them, but stopped when Pitch held a sword in his hands.
Hiccup, Merida, Toothless, and Rapunzel's eyes widened like saucers, "No! Don't!" Jack yelled.
"The staff Jack," all four teens go wide eyed, "You have a bad habit of interfering. Hand it over," Pitch turned to the tied up group, "And I'll let them go."
Hiccup, Merida, and Rapunzel were shaking their heads and were yelling things, but were mumbled by the gags. Jack looked between his friends, Pitch, and his staff multiple times…before handing his staff over to Pitch. Hiccup, Merida, and Rapunzel were freaking out, "Now let them go…" Jack said glaring.
Pitch looked at Jack before releasing them of their binds, "And now…" Pitch shot Toothless' wing, causing Toothless to roar in pain.
"Toothless!" Hiccup yelled, but was soon thrown into a mouth of a crevasse with Merida, Rapunzel, Toothless, and their weapons, "Ah!"
"No!" Jack yelled and turned to Pitch completely enraged.
Pitch just smirked and broke Jack's staff over his knee. Jack's eyes widened in terror and held his chest in pain. Pitch then sent a burst of nightmare sand at Jack blasting and slamming him into the iceberg wall behind him. As the ice cracked, Jack came loose and fell forward into the chasm below with his friends, "Jack!" Hiccup, Merida, and Rapunzel yelled rushing over to their immortal friend.
A/N Yes, I know, another cliffy, but now the movie is off track. Please tell me what you think! Thanks for all the reviews last chapter! Now please do the same with this chapter!
