Here is the next chapter, as promised. Told you! I hope you all enjoy this, it was fun writing it. It is a very inventive title, isn't it? Ah well. Enjoy reading it ;)

Frost: Here you go ;)

The Battle

Stella's POV

Jack and I zoomed through the air, heading towards Burgess, where the last light was sitting in his bedroom, talking to an old stuffed rabbit.

"Ok look, you and I are obviously at what they call a crossroads, so here's what's gonna happen." I was already perched on Jamie's windowsill, and Jack came to join me, sitting opposite me. "If it wasn't a dream and if you are real, then you have to prove it. Like right now." Jamie waited, looking around expectantly.

"Jack. Nothing's going to happen." I told Jack softly. He gently took my hand.

"I've believed in you for a long time, ok? Like my whole life in fact. So you kinda owe me now." Jamie picked up his stuffed rabbit and held it close. "You don't have to do much, just a little sign so I know. Anything. Anything at all." Jamie waited. I squeezed Jack's hand tight. "I knew it." Jamie let the stuffed animal fall to the floor. The last light was losing faith.

Jack opened the window and climbed into Jamie's room. I followed, shutting said window behind me. Jack paused, placed a finger to the windowpane, and began to draw. I watched as the pane of glass began to freeze over, the image of an Easter egg beginning to appear.

"Jack..." He glanced at me and grinned. I leant on the wall next to the window, making remarks now and again.

"He's real." Jamie said. Jack, excited, drew a bunny, and was trying to bring it to life. He succeeded; the frost bunny coming leaping off the window. "Whoa..." Jamie said in amazement. The rabbit hopped around Jamie's room, bursting like a snowball over Jamie's head, the snowflakes sprinkling down on him. "Whoa!" I smiled as the two boys grinned in wonder. But Jamie's amazement turned to confusion. "Snow?" A snowflake landed on Jamie's nose. It glowed a magical blue - that is, the snowflake, not Jamie's nose - and in that moment a light came into Jamie's eyes. "Jack Frost?"

"Did he just say-?" Jack turned to me in astonishment. I nodded.

"Jack Frost." Jamie stood up on his bed.

"He said it again. He said- You said..." I watched as Jamie turned around and his eyes went wide.

"Jack Frost."

"That's right! Bu- But that's me! Jack Frost! That's my name!"

"Yes, Jack, we know that." I sighed to myself.

"You said my name!" Jamie's mouth dropped open. "Wait, can you hear me?" Jamie nodded. "Can you.. can you see me?" Jamie nodded. "He sees me. He sees me!" Jack leaped for joy, and the room suddenly exploded with snow. Jamie couldn't believe it.

"Don't get too excited, Jack. We don't want him to get hypothermia." Jack grinned sheepishly at me.

"You just made it snow." Jamie exclaimed.

"I know!"

"In my room!"

"I know!"

"You're real?"

"Yeah! Who do you think brings you all the blizzards and snow days, and you remember when you went flying on that sled the other day?"

"That was you?"

"That was me!"

"Cool!"

"Right!"

"But what about the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy I mean-"

"Real-real-real! Every one of us is real!"

"I knew it!" I heard a voice coming from down the hall.

"Jamie, who are you talking to?"

"Um... Jack Frost." There was a little chuckle.

"Ok." Jack had been looking at me, and now said:

"Jamie, do you know there is someone who controls the night?" Jamie looked confused.

"The night?"

"Yes, like I control the snow." Jamie shook his head. "Well, there is, and she's here with me right now." Jamie looked around the room, his eyes passing over me.

"Where?"

"Standing right by your bed."

"What does she look like?" Jamie asked curiously.

"Well, she's very pretty, with long black hair and an awesome cape." Jamie still couldn't see me.

There was a sketch pad by Jamie's bed, opened to a clean page. Bending down, I created a small picture of myself, using different coloured stars. Jack had come over to stand by me, and Jamie could obviously see the stars, and so was gazing at my picture with great interest.

I finished, and Jamie gasped as the picture slowly came out of the pad, leaving no visible mark. It floated in front of Jamie, and he gawked at it, wide-eyed.

"I... I do believe..." Jamie said. "What's her name?"

"Stella." I made my little me disappear, waiting to see if Jamie could see me. As he reached out, and touched me, I smiled.

"Hi." Jamie said softly, his eyes round in incredulity.

"Hello." I bent down next to him. "I'm Stella." Jamie nodded, touching my hair. I chuckled softly.

I spun around and stood up in one smooth movement as I heard a crash from outside.

"It's North." I turned to Jack. "You go. I'll take Jamie." Jack nodded, heading for the window. I crouched again next to Jamie. "Now, Jamie. How do you like piggy-backs?" Jamie's eyes lit up and he stood on his bed. He clambered onto my back, and I stood up.

"Who's North?" Jamie asked.

"Santa." I could feel Jamie bouncing in excitement.

"I'm going to meet Santa!" I grinned, walking to the now-open window. "How are we going to get down?"

"We're going to fly."

"You can fly?" I nodded. Standing on the windowsill, I surveyed the scene for a moment. North's sleigh had crash-landed outside Jamie's house and the reindeers had come unattached and ran into the woods. A dishevelled Tooth and North had emerged from the wreck. I saw Jack talking to Tooth, and felt the stirrings of jealously in me, but I pushed them down. Jack nodded to something.

"Hold on!" Making sure Jamie was secure on my back, I gently leapt into the air, coming down slowly next to Jack, Jamie laughing all the way down. North hadn't noticed me yet, and asked Jack:

"What are you doing here?" Jack replied

"Same as you." And looked up at me. I landed gracefully beside Jack, letting Jamie down from my back.

"The last light!"

"Wow! It is you! I mean it is you! I knew it wasn't a dream." Jamie grinned up at Jack and I.

"Jack! He sees you!"

"And Stella." Jack said, putting a protective hand on Jamie's shoulder. "Wait, but, where's Bunny?" North sighed.

"Losing Easter took its toll on all of us. Bunny most of all." Jack's face went pale. North bowed his head in sadness. Then a twitchy-nosed little bunny appeared on the sleigh.

"Oh... no..." Jack said. Jamie chuckled.

"That's the Easter Bunny?" I grinned.

"Now someone sees me! I mean, where were you about an hour ago, mate?"

"What happened to him? He used to be huge and cool! And now he's cute." Jamie gently tickled Bunny under his chin. Bunny began to involuntarily thump his paw.

"Oh, that's good." I attempted to restrain my smile. Bunny caught himself and pushed Jamie's hands away. "Did you tell him to say that?" Bunny hopped over to Jack. "That's it! Let's go! Me and you! Come on!"

"No!" Jamie quickly said. "Actually he told me you were real. Just when I started to think that maybe you weren't." Bunny stopped.

"He made you believe? In me?" The moment was broken by bangs of thunder. We all looked out to see Pitch, enveloped by dark clouds, as he stared down at us from atop a writhing mass of Nightmare sand.

"Get Jamie out of here." I turned to Jack, my worry evident in my eyes. He gently put a hand on my shoulder, then took off into the sky.

"Be careful, Jack!" North yelled after him. Bunny hopped off, wanting us to follow him. I gently pushed Jamie in his direction, and rounded up the other two. North stopped by the sleigh, rummaging around in it.

"North, we can't stop!" North brought out my staff. "Oh. Thank you." North nodded, and nearly collapsed, so I put his arm around my shoulders and half-carried, half-dragged him after Bunny.

We tried our best to avoid the patrolling Nightmares.

"Quick, this way this way!" Bunny shouted. He lead us down an alley, but- "Dead end. Other way other way!" I heard a crash from behind me. Spinning quickly, I saw it was Jack, but wasn't quick enough to keep him from smashing into the ground.

"Jack!" Jamie cried. I ran over to Jack, helping him up.

"That was good try, Jack! 'A' for effort!" North said. I grinned, despite the situation. Jack groaned in pain.

"He's stronger. I can't beat him." North looked at me, concerned.

I heard a menacing chuckle coming from above us. A Nightmare shadow streaked across the alley.

"All this fuss over one little boy. And still he refuses to stop believing." A crack of thunder revealed the shadow of an approaching Nightmare as the sound of hooves clacking against the ground echoes from the opposite end of the alley. "Very well. There are other ways to snuff out a light." Bulbs started to burst as the arm of a shadow moved across the remaining lights in the alley. I protectively moved slightly in front of Jamie.

"If you want him, you're gonna have to go through me!" Bunny jumped in front of us. With a finger raised, the shadow arm glided across the floor, curling around the back of Bunny.

"Look how fluffy you are! Would you like a scratch behind the ears?" Pitch was laughing genuinely. Bunny leapt back into North's arms.

"Don't you even think about it!" Pitch came into view, riding atop his Nightmare horse. A gleeful smile was strewn across his face.

"I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see you all like this. You look awful." Jamie moved further away from Pitch.

"Jack, I'm scared." Jack didn't say anything for a moment. I glanced sideways at him.

"We're gonna have a little fun, instead. That's it. That's my centre." I gave Jack an odd look. Pitch rode closer.

"So what do you think, Jamie? Do you believe in the Boogiem-"

Boof! A snowball suddenly hit Pitch in the face. I couldn't help but snicker at Pitch's face. Jack looked around the alley.

"Now let's go get your friends." He said, talking to Jamie. Jack grabbed Jamie and I, yanking us over to a wooden crate.

"Jack what are you doing?" I whispered.

"We're going sledding." I shrugged, grabbing a trash can lid and handing it to North. I helped Jack get everyone equipped with various things to slide on, and shepherded them out of the alleyway. Jack grabbed my hand. "Since you don't have a sled, you can come with me." I shrugged again, smiling as Jack pulled me in front of the other Guardians. "Mind your feet." I obediently lifted my feet up, and Jack began to blast the ground with frost. I smiled, starting Jamie and the Guardians off on their sledding adventure by pushing them along (via the wind, obviously). Hard. They yelled as I pushed them faster and faster, giving them momentum.

"Yeah! Come on!" Jack shouted.

"Whoa! Cool!" Jamie yelled back. Jack threw a snowball at a little girl's window. I flew over to see her room, covered in snow. As the snow circled around her head, she sat up in bed and smiled. Jack grabbed Jamie, lifted him up into the air, and flew him to another house. Jamie knocked on the window, and another girl opened the window.

"Jamie, how are you doing that?" She asked in amazement as she saw Jamie floating in the air.

"Jack Frost! Come on, we need your help!" Jamie and Jack took off flying down the street. A snowflake landed on the girl's nose, and she blinked.

"Hey is, is that?"

"Jack Frost!" A boy shouted from across the street. I had an idea. Flying over to the second girl's window, I created a small star, and directed it onto her forehead gently. To my delight, she blinked again, and I saw myself reflected in her small eyes.

"Who are you?" She asked.

"Stella. I'm a friend." She nodded. "Come on, we need your help." I said, mimicking what Jamie said just a minute ago. She nodded again, running back inside.

I followed Jack, basically doing the same thing as he was, just so they could see me. It was a fantastic feeling, being believed in. It made me feel... kind of warm and fuzzy. As cliché as that sounds.

I caught sight of Pitch standing atop a building, with a confident smile on his face. I slowly brought the Guardians and the children to a halt near him. I flew down to join them as they all climbed off their sleds (or makeshift ones) and faced Pitch.

A small boy, late to the party, came running past us.

"Whoa, yeaaaaaaah!" He saw Pitch and made a U-turn. "Ahhhhhhhhhh!" I couldn't hold back a small smile.

"You think a few children can help you? Against this!" A Nightmare sand storm descended from the sky. North drew his sword, but the weight of it pulled him down. He could barely stand. I moved to his side.

"They're just bad dreams, Jamie." Jack said.

"And we'll protect you, mate." Bunny said.

"Aww, you'll protect them." Pitch smiled. "But who will protect you?" The children looked up at the sky in fear. All but Jamie. He stepped forward, taking a position in front of me.

"I will." Suddenly, all Jamie's friends moved to join him.

"I will."

"I will."

"And me."

"I'll try." That was the boy that was late. I smiled as the kids squeezed past us.

"Still think there's no such thing as the boogeyman?" Pitch's wave of Nightmare sand snakes its way through town, causing destruction wherever it went. It converged towards a single point as it began to head straight towards the kids.

"I do believe in you. I'm just not afraid of you." I started to step forward to help them, but North grabbed my arm, shaking his head slightly. Reluctantly, I stepped back, as Jamie put out his hand towards the Nightmare sand. His friends followed suit, just as the Nightmare sand smashed into them. As it made contact, the black sand burst... into streams of golden Dreamsand. I smiled in amazement. Dreamsand!

"Whoa... whoaaa!" The kids exclaimed. The Nightmares bucked and jumped as the sand made its way past them. Pitch watched, aghast, as his Nightmares transformed back into Dreamsand.

Tooth's wings suddenly fluttered, and she took off, flying past the kids who cheered her on.

"Yeah, Tooth Fairy! Whoaaaa!" North's eyes widened. He straightened his back and unsheathed his scimitars.

"Whoa, yeah!"

"No! Get them!" Pitch yelled. He gave a signal and sent another wave of Nightmares towards us. "Do your jobs!" Bunny ran off, being chased by some Nightmares. North reached into his pocket and threw two snow globes on the ground, from which an army of yetis and elves emerged.

"No way!" Two of the kids exclaimed. I glanced over at where Bunny had run off to, and grinned, seeing that he had returned to his usual size, and was having fun.

"Whoa!" The children, and two elves in a bike and side car, charged an incoming Nightmare. Only Jack and I were left.

"C'mon, we're gonna miss all the fun!" Jack said, lifting into the air in Pitch's direction. I smiled, and we both landed on the roof with a THUD! Jack quickly sent a streak of frost towards Pitch's Nightmares, taking out a few. I followed his example and soon enough, Pitch sent back his own attack at Jack, which I easily directed into one of his own Nightmares. He glared at me, sending another attack, which, again, I deflected. Pitch and I engaged in a full-on battle whilst Jack and the rest of the Guardians took care of the Nightmares. Jack was talking to me as he fought me.

"What happened to us, Stella? We used to be such good friends! Especially in the Dark Ages..." I froze in the middle of an attack. He was right. Pitch stepped closer. "What made you change sides?" I had aided him, and managed to escape unnoticed by the Guardians. I had never told anyone, and had all but put it behind me. Until now.

"Stella!" The moment shattered. I stepped back, but felt an excruciating pain in my side. My pained cry ripped through the night. I fell to my knees, and Jack was immediately at my side. I looked down to see a Nightmare arrow in my side. Pitch laughed.

"Young love. How sweet." Bunny suddenly came flying out of a nearby chimney, drawing his boomerang as he landed.

"Ho, ho, ho!" He said, throwing his boomerang.

As the other Guardians took care of Pitch and the Nightmares, I yanked out the arrow, and it dissolved in my hand. Jack helped me stand up.

"Are you alright?" He asked, worried.

"I'll be fine. I've had worse." I smiled shakily at him. Jack obviously didn't believe me, so I took his hand gently. "Really." I turned and watched as Pitch tried to escape us and slipped into nearby shadow, emerging through the side of the building. North jumped off the roof and met him mid-air. Jack and I flew to join him.

Jack's POV

I kept stealing sideways glances at Stella as we joined the other Guardians. She had been hit hard, and even though she said that she was fine, she clearly wasn't. Pitch was knocked to the ground, but got back up again, forming a scythe with the Nightmare sand, and began crossing swords with North. We surrounded him, and each of us had a turn to deal him a few humiliating blows.

"It's over Pitch! There's no place to hide." Pitch gave me a wry smile and quickly moved into the shadows, casting multiple versions of himself along the alley walls. I looked at them, trying to find the actual Pitch.

"Jack, look out!" I heard Stella yell from behind me. I turned-

-and saw Pitch with an axe in his hands, but with a golden whip around his hands. I followed the whip upwards, and saw Sandy in his cloud of Dreamsand. He gave Pitch a look, wagged his finger, and then uppercut him into the air.

"Whoa! The Sandman!" The kids cried. Sandy looked off to the side, formed a Dreamsand hat, and tipped the cap to where he was looking. "Man, this is so cool! Yeah, alright! Wahoo! Wow!" Sandy then looked to his whip and tugged on it, slamming Pitch into the ground and knocking him out. Everyone started cheering.

"Welcome back, old friend!"

"Sandy." I said, slightly stunned.

"Oh, Sandy. You're alright!"

"Sandy, come here!"

"Yeah!" I cried.

"Mate, you are a sight for sore eyes!" Sandy shot streams of Dreamsand in every direction. Stella zoomed up to him, and gave him a massive hug. Sandy looked very startled, but went pink and returned the hug. Stella looked out over the town, and then descended to come and stand by my side.

Dreamsand animals began to appear everywhere; a unicorn, a dinosaur, and Jamie was watching a school of fish as they floated by. I made a snowball, and chucked it at the back of his head. I smiled as Jamie turned, and seeing me, he picked up a snowball, and threw it at his friends. Almost instantaneously, a snowball fight began.

Stella, North and I stood slightly to the side. We were saluted by Sandy.

"Your centre?" North asked.

"It took a while, but I figured it out." North tossed me a small item. I caught it, and it was a small Russian doll, similar to the one North had, only it looked like me. I smiled, and North gave me a wink in return. He went to speak to Stella, but he was hit in the back of the head by a snowball. I looked behind me to see Jamie's friends, and an elf, all pointing fingers at each other. There was a beat of silence, then North burst out in laughter.

"You're all on naughty list. Bunny, think fast!" North threw a snowball, which hit Bunny smack in the face. I grinned, and North turned to Stella.

"And your centre?" He asked.

"I've always know what it is." She said cockily. North grinned and gave her a small doll.

"What are you going to do now?" North asked. Stella looked him square in the eye.

"I think... I'd like to become a Guardian." I grinned. North stared at her in surprise, then broke out in a smile.

"If you're sure!" North enveloped Stella in an enormous hug. After a second, I noticed she was slowly going blue.

"Ok, ok." I said, pulling Stella away. "She's mine. Get your hands off her." North grinned and let go of her. Stella rolled her eyes at me but didn't protest. North's attention was captured by something else, and seeing this, Stella stood up on tiptoe, wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me, hard. I relaxed into her, forgetting everything else.

Too soon, I heard someone clearing their throat.

"Umm, guys...?" Stella and I turned to see Bunny standing in front of us, his cheeks pink. "We're going after Pitch." He continued hastily, before turning away. Stella buried her face into my shoulder, muttering:

"I don't care. Let the whole bloody world burn down." I chuckled, giving her one last squeeze before slowly letting go. She reluctantly also let go, but kept hold of my hand.

We all walked out onto the lake, where Pitch came crashing through the trees of the forest, straight into North's chest. Pitch slipped on the ice, and fell backwards.

"Leaving the party so soon?"

"You didn't even say goodbye." Tooth tossed something to Pitch which he caught. He looked down.

"A quarter?" Tooth punched him right in the jaw, and a single tooth went skittering across the ice. Tooth shook her hand.

"And that's for my fairies." Pitch scowled.

"You can't get rid of me! Not forever! There will always be fear!"

"So what?" North replied. "As long as one child believes, we will be here to fight fear!"

"Really? Then what are they doing here?" Hundreds of Nightmares emerged from the woods, surrounding the pond. I wasn't bothered, and it seems no one else was either.

"They can't be my Nightmares, I'm not afraid."

"Looks like it's your fear they smell." Stella told him. Pitch's eyes went wide with terror as the Nightmares began to move in on him. He backed up, but the Nightmares picked up speed as they charged towards him.

"Ahhh, no... AAAAHHHHHHH!" Pitch tried to run, but he faltered on the ice, and was swept up in the stampede of Nightmares. "No, no, nooooo!" Stella wrapped her arm around my waist.

"Finally. It's over."

Disclaimer: I don't own ROTG, Burgess, Sandy (sadly) or little Jamie (sadly again).

So, what did you think? I wrote 10 pages for you lot, so you better review or no virtual cookie for you. I'm crying. Literally. The next chapter is the next chapter :'( unless... there could be an epilogue if you want! If you do, then please please tell me in the little review box below ;) so peace out for now!