Third Person Pov
Eve's smile dropped as her nose picked up something. The scent of suffer and fear. Her eyes widened as her ears twitched as the sound of grinding sand filled them. In a flash Eve spun to face the window. She and Sandy saw the Nightmare at the same time. It was hovering by the window, watching them with creepy golden eyes that had no pupils.
Jack turned to see what they were looking at. His smile dropped as he saw the Nightmare turn and fly away. Jack jumped to the window, Eve right behind him.
"Sandy, c'mon! We can find Pitch." Jack yelled as he leaped into the wind.
Eve mounted her broom and pushed of the roof flying after Jack.
Sandy paused, but then followed the two spirits.
Then two more Nightmares joined the fleeing one.
Eve bit her lip, if this didn't scream trap, she didn't know what did. Then the mares split, now Eve really thought this was a trap.
Sandy went to the left after one that was going to a child's bedroom window.
Jack went to the right after one that seemed to be trying to flee.
Eve kept going straight after the one that wasn't a nightmare upon further inspection. It was a Fearling. Her eyes narrowed. She readied an energy ball, knowing it would be one of the last ones for the day, then she wouldn't be unable to call one up again till she rested.
Sandy landed on the back of his nightmare and slapped a hand on the neck.
"Wahooo!" Jack whooped as he rode the wind after his nightmare and thrusted his staff forward as it glowed with an icy blue light.
Eve threw the energy ball at the Fearling with a yell of fury. The ball hit and with a yell of pain and fright the Fearling was no more.
Sandy's dreamsand corrupted the nightmare and the mare turned into a golden dreamsand manta ray that Sandy was riding casually.
Ice shot from Jack's staff and hit the nightmare as it landed on the roof.
"HAAAH! I got it!" He yelled with excitement.
He leaped onto the roof and prodded the frozen nightmare. It was frozen to the floor of the roof in a strange puddle, it vaguely resembled a beached jellyfish. He laughed.
Eve sent another ball at the nearly destroyed Fearling.
"Sandy! Eve, did you see that?! Look at this thing!" Jack yelled as he looked around then poked the jelly-mare.
Eve's ears perked at Jack's voice. The Fearling was gone so she flew in the direction she had heard Jack's voice and speed up when she heard another voice.
"Frost?" Pitch asked as he emerged from the shadows of the chimney.
Jack whipped around and shot a bolt of ice, but Pitch dodged into the shadows. Jack's eyes searched around him trying predict where Pitch would show up.
Pitch emerged from the shadows on another roof. "You know, for a 'neutral party' you and the witch spend an awful lot of time with those weirdos."
Jack turned as Eve flew to his side an energy ball ready for anything.
"This isn't your fight, Jack, Belleve." Pitch said his eyes looking from one to the other.
Anger surged through Jack as he gripped his staff tightly ready to strike. "You made it my fight when you stole those teeth." He yelled.
Eve's ears laid back on her head and her tail flicked back and forth.
Pitch's eyes narrowed with curiosity. "Teeth? Why do you care about the teeth?"
Eve then smirked as Sandy stood calmly next to Pitch, his arms crossed and a scowl on his face. Jack grinned as well.
Pitch looked when the two were looking and side jumped from Sandy. Then smirked. "Now this is who I'm looking for—"
Sandy sent a dreamsand whip at Pitch.
"Whoa-?" Pitch yelled with surprise but recovered quickly as he made a black sand scythe and swung at Sandy.
Sandy quickly grabbed Pitch with another dreamsand whip and yanked him off his feet, slamming him repeatedly against the tops of the buildings until finally throwing him off the rooftop.
Pitch bounced off a car setting off its alarm and then hit the ground.
Sandy dusted his hands off as if cleaning them.
Eve whistled. "Wow man."
"Remind me not to get on your bad side." Jack said agreeing with Eve.
Sandy nodded as if taking note of the comment.
They leaped off the building to where Pitch landed.
"I've got a bad feeling about this." Eve muttered and looked around searching for the ambush she was sure was coming.
Pitch looked up at them and cowered in fear. "Okay, easy! You can't blame me for trying, Sandy." He said as he skittered backward. "You don't know what it's like to be weak and hated." He said pleadingly as he stood up. "It was stupid of me to mess with your dreams. So I'll tell you what-" Pitch said and tilted his head down.
Sandy walked forward with a grim face.
Then Pitch lifted his head no longer scared. "You can have `em back!"
Eve's ears twitched as she turned to see Nightmares and Fearlings surround them. She readied her energy ball, but noted how little energy it had. She was really running on low now.
Jack and Sandy spun trying to not get caught off guard.
Jack looked at the numbers and looked worried. "You take the ones on the left, I'll take the ones on the right?" He asked Sandy as Eve slowly hovered higher in the air.
They turned to see Pitch on the back of one of the Mares.
"Boo!" He said and the fear army charged.
They were interrupted by the sound of sleigh bells and Reindeer. They turn to see the sleigh flying at them only to have it go over their heads. Pitch was confused. The sleigh hit a building wakening the passengers.
Meanwhile, Jack, Eve and Sandy battled the Fearlings and Nightmares.
Eve suddenly rocketed upward into the clouds and shot several magic missiles from her hands, but with each shot, the purple magic grew weaker and weaker, till her fingers sparked but there was nothing there.
Sandy grabbed Jack's arm and shot into the sky in the same path as Eve. Once Sandy is high enough, he lets go of Jack and continues up to make a dreamsand cloud. As Sandy let go of him, Jack quickly oriented himself and knocked an oncoming Nightmare with his staff.
Tooth leaped off the Sleigh, pulled out her swords, and started to sliced through several Nightmares to get to Jack.
Eve pulled out her wand and prepped for anything. She searched the skies for an enemy and for Jack. She was out of her personal magic, but she could use Wizzarding magic now with her wand.
With a few blasts of ice, Jack hit and destroyed several Nightmares and Fearlings, then looked up to see Tooth cutting down several Fearlings with her wings and swords.
He looked a little to his left and saw Eve who had turned to look at him at the same time, each checking the others back. They looked away and continued fighting, happy to know that the other was safe.
Pitch give a signal and leaped into the sky joining the fight was another wave of his fear army.
Aster leaped out of the sleigh and landed on a roof. He sent both boomerangs at several Nightmares and caught the rangs as they came back.
North, back in the sleigh, was like a human blender. Drawing scimitars and cutting the Fearlings to bits. "Ha. Ha. Ha. Come on!" North yelled enjoying the thrill of the fight.
Jack evaded two Nightmares as he flew to the sleigh only to be blind-sided by one. The Nightmare flew passed him and knocked his staff out of his hands. "Aaaaaaaah!" He screamed as he started to free fall.
"JACK!" he heard Eve yell.
He panicky grabbed for his staff, missing a few times.
"Arresto Momentum!" Eve screamed pointing her wand at Jack.
His decent slowed a little, long enough to get his staff. Jack caught it and his descent slowed even more till he landed on the sleigh. He looked to his left to see Eve flying down next to them. Jack turned to look at Aster, who was looking up.
"You might want to duck." Aster said coolly.
Jack ducked as a boomerang hit a Nightmare and came back over Jack.
Aster caught it and smiled.
"Bombarda!" Eve yelled with a hard downward swing of her wand. The Nightmare that it was aimed at exploded into dust.
Jack was shocked. He had only seen Eve use small minor spells, nothing this big and let alone explosive.
Sandy was using Dreamsand whips against the fear army as he stood on a golden cloud of Dreamsand.
Pitch rose up from behind a group of Nightmares. He stretched his arms as an Arrow of Nightmare Sand formed in them, as if he were holding an invisible bow.
Sandy seemed to be getting overwhelmed by the army.
"We gotta help Sandy!" Jack yelled with worry for him.
North nodded and cracked the reins. "Hyha!"
That's when Pitch aimed the Nightmare Sand arrow at Sandy's back, and loosed. With a ripping sound the arrow cut through the air and hit Sandy square in the back, shocking him. Everyone was horrified.
"Noooo!" Jack yelled a leaped into the air, the wind propelling him towered Sandy.
"Jack!" North yelled as Aster grabbed Eve to stop her from going after Jack.
"No, let me go!" Eve yelled struggling to get her wand hand free.
Sandy slowly turned to look at Pitch as the Nightmare Sand from the Nightmare arrow spread a crossed his body.
"Hahahahaha!...Don't fight the fear, little man." Pitch yelled enjoying the look of horror on Sandy's face.
The Guardians couldn't help as a wall of Nightmares and Fearlings blocked them.
But they kept trying. "Hurry, hurry!" North urged his Reindeer.
Pitch was relishing in this small victory. "I'd say sweet dreams, but there aren't any left."
Sandy fell to one knee as he struggled to fight the fear.
Jack continued at his speed trying to get to Sandy and help him.
Sandy stood with a look Eve knew all too well.
"NO!" She yelled as she finely broke out of Asters grip, gripped her boom and leaned down low to get the most speed and flew after Jack trying to get to Sandy as well.
Sandy closed his eyes. He and his cloud where consumed but the Nightmare sand. When the sand cleared, there was no sign of Sandy.
"Sandy..." North said horror struck.
Jack paused briefly. "No..." He muttered horrified. He gripped his staff tightly and shot like a rocket at Pitch. "NOOOOOO!" he yelled with fury.
Eve was frozen to the spot as memories flashed in her mind. The brave face she had when she took her sister's place at the stake.
Pitch laughed at his victory, then he saw Jack flying full speed at him with his staff emanating a blue icy glow. Pitch glared and raised his hands in the air summing all the Nightmare Sand he could and sent the title wave at Jack.
Jack frozen midflight shocked at the wave. Eve flew at Jack, her wand out, a spell on her lips.
The remaining three Guardians where stunned. Before Eve even reached Jack the wave hit him.
"JACK!" Eve yelled and a memory seemed to unlock. She saw a flash of her and a young girl yelling for Jack as a boy fell through ice. Eve blinked stunned. She wasn't sure where that memory came from, and was shocked at what happened in front of her.
Pitch was smiling, but it faded as a bolt of what seemed like lightening shot from the mass of Nightmare Sand.
Eve's eyes widened as Jack emerged from the sand, his whole body glowing an icy blue, as sparks of frosted lightning fired from him. Jack thrusted his hands in front of himself sending a wave of ice and frost out.
A gust of wind blew past Pitch, quickly followed by the massive wave of ice and frost, sent by Jack, which rocketed back up the wave of Nightmare Sand toward him. It all culminated in an explosion of blackened ice and snow. This sent Pitch flying through the air down to earth.
The glow faded from Jack as he started to fall, unconscious.
"Jack!" North yelled in fear.
Eve flew at Jack. She held on to her broom with one hand and reached for Jack's arm with the other. Her body fell off her broom and her fingers closed around Jack's limp four arm.
"I've got you." She said her voice strained by, not only holding her weight on her broom with one hand, but also holding Jack's weight.
North guided the sleigh under them.
Jack groaned as he slowly regened consciousness. Eve slowly lowered herself and Jack onto the sleigh.
Tooth grabbed Jack and helped him into the sleigh.
"Jack, how did you do that?" Tooth asked as Eve landed on the seat next to Jack.
Jack opened his eyes. "I, I didn't know I could." Jack said looking at every one. Then saw Eve looking like she was going to cry at any second. Then it really settled on them. Sandy… was gone.
