as jack was looking for winter he called out her but heard nothing, as he walked through the snowy forest he called to her again but again heard nothing. he took to the sky and started to look around until an uneasy feeling came over him making him feel cold inside, he didn't understand what this was but wasted no time and followed it only to come to his shock in an opening were winter was laying on the ground as roots started to cover her

WINTER!

jack shouted as he came to her side and tried with all his might to pull them off as he started to cover the Roots with ice but it seems to have a tight grip on her until they were instantly cut by North himself

"we got her"

he said as he saw the other guardians come to free winter when she has finally freed Jack held her in his arms trying to wake her. Winter slowly opens her eyes as she was happy to see Jack

"Winter, what happened?"

before she could say anything everybody heard a dark chuckle making them look around as they all Drew their weapons. Coming out of the Forest was a dark fog making everybody gasp when they saw pitch

"Hello guardian surprise to see me?"

"No, it can't be"

Jack said in shock

"How is this possible he's supposed to be gone?"

bunnymund said as they were all shocked by this and didn't understand how this could be possible

"I know it's surprising to see me alive but you better believe it I am back in action. and I was being nice of you to a handover what belongs to me"

"back off pitch, you're not getting winter this time I will fight you to death if I have to to keep you away from her"

Jack said holding winter as he pointed his staff at him as pitch only chuckled at this

"I knew you were going to say that but my so-called property already knows the results of that if you continue to fight me"

He said looking to winter as winter held on to Jack, north told Jack to get winter out of here as the others will take care of him, as much as Jack didn't think that was a good idea he did what he was told as he picked winter up bride style and jumped into the air flying away.

"I'm sorry that I didn't believe you"

Jack said while flying winter didn't say anything as he felt her hold on to him more, once he found a safe place to hide the two of them sat together

"I promised you that I wouldn't let anything happen to you "

"It's okay I expected as much that you wouldn't believe me from the start"

Winter said softly not looking to him,

The two of them stay together for a while not knowing if they were being followed or not but Jack didn't want then leave her side and risk her being captured, he already made that mistake once and didn't want time to repeat itself once again

"Jack you have to go help your friends "

"But what about you ?"

"I'll be fine, there are places here that pitch doesn't know where I hide"

"I don't want to take that rest you're too important to me for me to just leave"

"But your friends could be in trouble, the last thing I want is for them to get hurt because "

"We're Guardians winter We Protect everyone and that includes you."

Jack said taking her hand as she looked over to him with a smile. There little concerts I was interrupted when they heard a chuckle making jack stand up with staff in hand, the appearance of pitch formed and two black clouds

"You thought you could hide away from me? "

"You're not getting her this time pitch not without a fight"

Jack said as pitch told him to bring it on with open arms, jack Johnson blasting him with ice that went through him with either Jack was then knocked Away by your route and was chained down

"Jack! "

winter shouted as she tried to help him but she was grabbed by pitch

"Now to finish exactly what he couldn't "

Pitch said as winter seemed puzzled by what he said only to be forcefully Tied by him if she blasts them with us a blast of light that made his sand explode, once he was able to get free she ran over to Jack releasing him also with a blast of light that destroyed the route.

"It's not him"

Winter told Jack as Jack kept his eyes on Pitch ready for another fight

"What are you talking about?"

"That's not Pitch... Reveal yourself whoever you are!"

Winter shouted at him as pitch just chuckled

"You're a smart girl I see why he likes you so much and kept coming back come out how hard you ran away from him, oh well I guess the fun is finally over"

He said as he raised his hands in the air black sand covered him as his appearance change to a man that dressed in a black and white gentleman outfit with his hair slightly pulled back

"Who are you?"

Jack asked

"I'm surprised you don't know me but I guess my brother never really did mention me "

"Brother?"

"Please to make your acquaintance my name is kabus nightmare. "

"What do you want kabus? "

Jack asked him as he chuckled again and pointed at winter

"I'm going to need to borrow your little snow friend there, and before you even decide to ask me the reason why it's because I want to get revenge on what she did to my brother and blah blah this above all that so yeah she needs to die"

He said with a roll of his eyes as it seems that he didn't really seem to care about his real motive he just wanted it to happen.

"So kids we could do this the easy way or the hard way?"

kabus said as Jack stood his ground and charged at him, winter shouted out to Jack but Jack didn't hear her as he tried to hit kabus but got smacked with the black roots sending him flying across the snow ground.

"It's a shame you always take the hard way "

He said as he started to make his way to Jack who was trying to get up Winter Garden to the way and started using her light magic to Blind him as she ran over to Jack as the two of them got away. Both of them are trying to get as far as they could away from kabus but saw that he was following them with his own use of the Earth as black roots bursting from the ground. The two of them smacked into a trap of caboose and got separated as he came up from the ground

"That's enough playing I'm getting awfully bored with this game. "

He said as he started to ignore at Jack's insults telling him to let winter go he had they keep chat pinned hard enough so he could make off with winter who tried to stop him with her magic but got knocked out

"Winter!"

Jack screamed as kabus picked winter up I started to walk away but stopped as he turns to Jack

"It's best if you don't come after her because you will die this time"

He said as he disappeared from under the black roots that appeared and disappeared as the ones that were holding him rotted allowing him to break out

He screams out to the skies for winter and falls into his knees not believing that this was happening again. Later he met up with his friends that asked him what happened and where was winter, he told them what happened and who they were actually facing which none of them really knew who kabus was