Finally got the next chapter done!
Oh, my dad got the Rise of the Guardians DVD and bluray last night so hopefully now updates will be quicker, as long as i'm not stuck doing chores. When we watched the movie, it was my little brother's first time seeing it and my fifth time. My bro loves it!
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Chapter 9: Teeth Collecting
After they had managed to calm themselves over Pitch's disappearance, the Guardians, mainly North and Bunnymund, began discussing what they were going to do now. Tooth had flown to a spot by herself and was looking at a teeth capsule in her hands with such a sad expression. Jack, Casey, Windsong and Narain walked over to her and sat down around her. Narain put a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm so sorry about the fairies." she said. Tooth perked up a little.
"You all should've seen them." she said. "They put up such a fight."
Baby Tooth fluttered around the four spirits.
"Why would Pitch take the teeth?" Casey asked.
"It's not the teeth he wanted." Windsong answered before Tooth. "It's the memories inside them." To prove her point, she held out one of the teeth capsules that held the teeth inside.
"What do you mean?" Jack asked.
"That's why we collect the teeth, Jack." Tooth answered. "They hold the most important memories of childhood." Tooth fluttered her wings and began floating above the small pool towards a picture on the wall. Windsong floated after her with Jack, Casey and Narain walking behind them, Jack freezing the water with every step he took. Narain followed Jack's ice trail slowly and carefully. Casey's bare feet floated on the water's surface. When Tooth and Windsong stopped, so did the younger spirits. Tooth continued talking. "My fairies and I watch over them, and when someone needs to remember what's important, we help them. We had everyone's here." She turned and looked at Jack and Casey. "Even the two of yours."
"Wait, our memories?" Casey asked.
"From when the two of you were young." Tooth replied. "From before you became Jack Frost and Casey Aqua."
Jack shook his head, both he and Casey looking very confused.. "But," he started. "We weren't anybody before we were Jack Frost and Casey Aqua." Casey nodded in agreement.
"Of course you were." Windsong said.
"We were all somebody before we were chosen." Narain interjected.
"We had no idea, I mean I guess we just assumed-" Casey stammered.
"You mean, we had a life before this," Jack questioned. "With a home, and- and a family!?"
Tooth looked at the two of them curiously. "You really don't remember?"
"All these years," Casey muttered. "And the answers were right here."
"If we find our memories, then we'll know why we're here." Jack said as he and Casey leapt into the air. "You have to show us!"
"I - I can't." Tooth replied sadly. "Pitch has them."
Casey and Jack turned around and landed on a large ledge. "Then we have to get them back!" Jack yelled, pointing his staff towards Tooth. Tooth was about to say something when something else grabbed her attention. Looking down, she saw that some of her feathers had clipped off and had landed on the ground.
"Oh no." she muttered as her fellow Guardians and the spirits looked at her with concern. "The children." They turned to the large picture and saw that it was fading. "We're too late."
"No!" North suddenly shouted. "No! No such thing as too late!" He got a thoughtful look on his face, then, with a shout of "IDEA!" and a jerk of his sword (which nearly hit Bunnymund), he said, "We will collect the teeth!"
"What?" Tooth questioned.
North continued. "We get teeth, children keep believing in you!." As he said the last word, he pointed to Tooth. Tooth didn't seem convinced.
"We're talking seven continents, millions of kids-" North cut Tooth off.
"Give me break." he said waving a hand nonchalantly. "Do you know how many toys I deliver in one night?"
"And eggs I hide in one day?" Bunnymund interjected, smiling smugly.
Tooth grinned as she understood the point the Russian and Aussie were making.
North turned to Jack and Casey. "And Jack, Casey, if you help us, we will get you your memories."
Jack and Casey looked at the others and saw Sandy giving North two thumbs up. Tooth smiled even more. Jack and Casey shared a look, then, both smiling, looked back at North.
"We're in." Casey said.
Not long later, all of them were off collecting teeth. Most of them were leaping and running across the roofs of houses, while the rest flew.
"Hop to it, rabbit!" Jack yelled as Bunnymund and Narain bounded across the rooftops. He and Casey were flying alongside them. "How are we keeping ahead?!"
"Yeah, right." Bunnymund yelled. "Look, I tell you to stay out of my way, but really, what's the point, cause you won't be able to keep up anyway!"
"Is that a challenge, Cottontail!?" Casey shouted.
"Oh trust me, you two," Narain said. "You don't want to race a rabbit."
"How about a team up then?" Jack shouted. Everyone readily agreed.
So, collecting the teeth became a team up race. Jack and Casey teamed up, Bunnymund and Narain teamed up, Windsong and Sandy were a team, and last North and Tooth teamed up. As they raced to collect the teeth, they ended up either sabotaging each other or stealing whatever teeth one team got.
Eventually, Tooth, Jack and Casey ended up at the house belonging to Jamie Bennett. As Tooth took Jamie's tooth, she smirked. "This was knocked out during a freak sledding accident. I wonder how that could've happened. Jack?"
Jack, who was looking at a picture drawn by Jamie illustrating the event, chuckled and looked back at Tooth. "Kids huh?"
Tooth put a gold dollar under Jamie's pillow and fluttered up, hovering above Jamie's bed. "This was always the part I loved most." She said. "Seeing the kids. Why did I ever stop doing this."
"They're a little different up close, huh?" Casey questioned, thinking about a little girl she had grown fond of, who was about Jamie's age, named Maddy.
"Thanks for being here." Tooth said, putting a hand on each Jack and Casey's shoulders. "Both of you. I wish I'd known about your memories. I could've helped you."
"Yeah, well," Jack started, looking away. "Let's just get you taken care of, then it's Pitch's turn."
The sound of grunting stopped them and they turned to see North struggling to squeeze through Jamie's bedroom window. "Here you are." He said as he finally squeezed through, followed by Windsong and Sandy. Tooth immediately shushed him, pointing to Jamie. The boy turned a little in his bed, but did not wake. "Oh!" North whispered then grinned at Tooth, Jack and Casey. "What gives, slowpokes? How are you feel, Toothy?"
"Believed in." she replied, flying in front of North.
North laughed softly. "That's good to hear."
"Oh I see how it is." Everyone in the room turned to see Narain and Bunnymund climbing out of one of Bunnymund's holes. "You're all teamed up to make sure me and Narain get last place." Everyone hushed him.
"Like me and Casey need help to beat a bunny!" Casey exclaimed softly as she and Jack pulled out their bag of teeth.
"Check it out, Peter Cottontail!" Jack said smugly.
"You call that a bag of choppers?" Bunnymund questioned then held up his and Narain's bag, which was bigger than Jack and Casey's. "Now that's a bag of choppers."
"This is about Tooth." North interjected. "It's not about the competition. But if it was," He threw down his enormous bag. "I win!" he yelled and began cheering. He was stopped by a flashlight shining at them. Jamie had woken up.
How was this?