Chapter 9
The Call to Arms
Jack Frost's Point of View
I woke up with a start, to a pair of hands pushing me down on a couch.
"Easy, you shouldn't sit up so quickly." Raina said.
"What happened?" I asked as I started to catch my breath.
"Don't you remember?" She asked with concern on her face.
"I remember picking up the sword and then I started seeing confusing things."
"I tried to warn you, Valdran is different than most swords. Besides that it can destroy beings created by darkness, it allows someone to see someone else's memory from the distant past. What did you see exactly?" She states.
"I saw you in a field of shadows and you were fighting creatures made out of darkness."
"What you saw was me fighting in the Shadow Realm. That was the day when I stopped Barren, Fury, and Prism and sent them into the prison all those years ago."
"I never heard of the Shadow Realm."
"Not many people have and those who do, don't know who created that realm. It is a place of pain and darkness and those with a good heart can never survive there."
"You did." I state.
"Barely. I was so weak afterwards that Pitch used that as an advantage to get rid of me, but there was more to what you saw isn't there?" She replies.
"How do you know?" I asked.
"I can see that you're trying to hide something from me just by looking into your eyes." She answers.
I sighed, not sure if I wanted to tell her what I saw, but I did anyway. When I was done telling her everything, she had a look of confusion and worry.
"Did you become dark?" I asked.
"No, what you saw may be just the sword playing tricks on you, which is why I advise you not to touch the sword again." She answered with an order.
"Yes ma'am." I reply.
I laid down on the couch for a few minutes trying to get relaxed. Raina looked like she was disturbed by my vision and just when I was about to ask her about it, Bunny came running in.
"We've got a problem." Bunny said.
"What sort of problem?" Raina asked.
"Not sure, but something's going on with the globe. Santa thinks that you should get in there." He answers.
"I'll be right back." Raina says to me, but I got up and got my staff.
"I'm coming with you." I reply and Raina looked as if she was going to stop me, but then nodded instead.
Raina's Point of View
We went to the library where Santa and the others were and I noticed how the globe was acting. Quickly walking over to it, I began scanning what the problem was.
"What's going on?" Jack asked.
"I'm not sure, Raina do you know what's going on?" Santa replies.
"Somethings wrong in New Zealand, I'm gonna go over there." I say and run out of the room only to come back a few minutes later with my armor on and Valdran at my side.
"We're coming with you." Jack says.
"Alright meet me there." I say and took my staff out of it's place and used it to transport me to New Zealand.
When I arrived in New Zealand, something was definitely wrong there. The ground was shaking and cracks began to appear and once the cracks got bigger, creatures began to pop out. I looked at my staff and it started to coil around my arm like a snake until it was like a bracelet. I took Valdran out of it's sheathe and charged at the creatures.
Jack's Point of View
We flew on Santa's sleigh moments after Raina disappeared. Once we got to the mountainous parts of New Zealand, I saw Raina fighting these creatures that looked like they were made of stone. This was the first time I actually ever seen her fight and she definitely looked as if she could take all these creatures on by herself without a sweat, but I knew that wasn't true. We charged at the creatures and I turned them into ice statue after ice statue. One of the creatures looked like a troll and it started to throw a tree at Raina. I watched, in horror. But to my amazement, Raina created a giant shield of stone that floated in the air and once the tree hit that, it bounced back and hit the troll like creature and it broke into a thousand pieces. After that Raina again started fighting and I did the same. I didn't know who or what was creating these creatures, but I fought them since everyone's life depended on them being dead. Then I saw Raina looking up at something just as she got shot.
Author's Note: Alright next!