*I am writing this during my mentor class since I have a strong dislike for everyone in this class. So I am sorry for the errors*

Jack paced around Jamie's room, mentally cursing. It is all his fault. Pippa look at the winter sprite, almost reading his mind,

"Jack it isn't your fault," she continued to rub circles on Sophie's back, " Jamie went to the lake himself. You had no way of knowing,"

"Yes, but I was the one who lost his temper and flew off. He figured I would be there," he continued to pace,

" What is it with everyone going missing lately?" Claude hung his head, but Jack stopped in his tracks,

"Wait! What did you say?"

" I don't know, I just think it is weird that kids keep going missing,"

" Then the show up a few days later, right?" You could hear the excitement in his voice,

"Yeah. I guess, what are you thinking?" Caleb shrugged his shoulders,

"Jamie tried telling me during second hour that Cupcake and Monty didn't answer their phones during the weekend. Is it possible that they were missing?"

"Where are you going with this?" Caleb asked,

"Then they started acting weird, and you guys said that the same thing happened to three other students," the teens nodded their heads, as Jack balanced on top of his staff,

" Jamie is going to be fine. We just need to find him before Thursday, the pattern seems to be three day. If we don't find him by Thursday, he will not be...well...normal," Jack took a gulp as the teens looked at him, " Right now, his light is blinking so whatever has him, is trying to stop him from believing."

"So, is it Pitch?" Pippa asked,

"I don't know, besides the black sand I haven't seen any sign of Pitch. Although, Jamie did believe he was behind it since Cupcake would never hang out with Isaac, willingly," the teens stood up, Sophie still clutching to Pippa,

"So do we go tell the other Guardians?" Sophie whispered, Jack put his hand on his chin, shaking his finger,

"No, not yet. Bunny will give me hel-" Jack stopped himself, noticing Sophie, "Ummm, Bunny will give me a hard time if they come all they way to Burgess to realize it isn't a threat. We will wait until we get proof,"

"How are we going to do?" Pippa crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow. The Guardian returned the look with a sinister smile.

"Really, you gotta be kidding me?" Caleb complained, crossing his arms,

"What?" Jack smiled, he was in his normal Jack Frost get up, staff included,

"You hiked us all up! I thought we were going to go to Pitch's lair and freeze everything! Not spying on Monty, Cupcake, Isaac, Aaron, and Stephanie," Claude huffed. It was Wednesday afternoon, only a half an hour after school let out, Jack and the twins were hiding behind a wall in the cafeteria keeping on eye on the quintet,

"Trust me, as soon as I arrived to Burgess I checked there; it was deserted. Besides, if the same thing at happened to those five, it is going to happen to Jamie, so we need to follow them to find where the are holding him," Jack's answered caused the boys to groan, wishing they went with Pippa to look after Sophie. Before they can protest, Mr. Larva walked into the cafeteria, Jack quickly put his hands over the twins mouths,

"Have you five seen anyone since school let out?" Mr. Larva's voice cut through the air,

"Yes sir," Isaac saluted him, "We haven't seen anyone. We can continue with the plan,"

"Good," Mr. Larva walked towards the boiler room door, the five teens followed. Once all six of them walked through the door Jack, Caleb, and Claude came out of their hiding spot,

"Mr, Larva working with Pitch. Surprisingly, that doesn't surprise me as much as it should," Caleb joked, Jack looked cautiously at the door then back at the teens,

"I am going in,"

"What?! No you aren't!" The twins grabbed the sprite, "You are not going in!" Jack reached around his neck, he then took of the Ad Credendum off and shoved it in his pocket, "Jack, what are you doing?" Claude asked,

"I know you guys are worried, but I need to go in there to find Jamie. So I have to take the Ad Credendum so only Jamie can see me, and I can get him out," the twins exchanged worried looks, "As soon as I find Jamie, I will fly out. Then we can go to North to start on an antidote for the others,"

"But how will we know if you are okay?" Caleb sounded concerned,

"Baby Tooth, where are you?" Jack wasn't as dumb as Bunny made him out to be, he know the Guardians sent Baby to look after him this morning. The three heard the sound of beating wings coming from the high window pane, Baby flew down, and landed on Jack's waiting finger, "If Pitch is really behind this and if you don't hear from me in an hour and a half, you have my permission to get the others. Understand, Baby, Claude, Caleb?" They all nodded their heads, each had a worried expression. Jack took a deep breath as he walked towards the door, gripping his staff a little tighter than normal, he gave the three a nod before walking in.

The stairway down to the boiler room was longer than Jack had expected. The farther he walked the darker it got. There was a coldness about this stairway, not Jack's version of cold, but more of a dark version that gave Jack the chills. What seemed like an eternity of walking down stairs finally ended.

Jack was shocked on what he saw. The room he walked into was dark. There were black cages hanging from the ceiling. A large chair that seemed to be fitted for a evil king, and in the center of it all was a single chair. The chair and bonds on it, to keep the evil king's prisoners from squirming. It was Pitch Black's lair. It had been slightly modified from the last time Jack had saw it, but it creeped him out none a less.

Jack examined the lair, he realized one of the cages had a body in it. As he moved slowing around the room, Jack recognized the body. It was Jamie. At first Jack thought the worst, until Isaac shook the cage and Jamie sprang to life,

"Did you have pleasant nightmare worm?" he hissed, the teen opened and allowed Cupcake and Aaron grab the fragile boy and strapped him to the chair. Jamie looked up, the normal joyful gleam in his eyes were gone, until he saw Jack. Jack saw Jamie look at him and put a finger to the lip to signal for him to be quiet.

Jack slowly floated to his friend, he was only a foot or two away from freeing Jamie when a gust of wind knocked him against the wall. Suddenly Jamie's scream filled the room. Jack looked up to see a vertex of black sand surrounding the chair Jamie was strapped to,

"JAMIEEE," Jack screamed as he tried to fly to his friend, only to be thrown against the wall again. When he looked up this time, the vortex was gone, and Jamie was still in his chair, but his head hung low. Jack floated towards Jamie as his restraints were released, he stumbled forward, but quickly recovered himself. As Jack floated closer to Jamie, he could tell something was off about him. He didn't realize until he was face to face with the teen; his eyes were dilated.

"Jamie," Jack tried to shake his friend out of it, instead his hand went right through him. Jack looked at his hand, then back to Jamie, "No," The next thing that happened will haunt Jack for the rest of his life, Jamie, his first believer walked right through him. Jack fell backwards and landed on his butt, quickly scooted backwards, until he hit something. Jack looked up, with tears forming in his eyes. It was Mr. Larva,

"Hello Jack,"

Suddenly everything went, black, pitch black.

*Sorry for the very bad pun :P So I wrote the first half in my mentor class, then finished the rest at home. So I am sorry if the chapter was bad. Today was my first day back, I am sorry to say, my school did not have a huge snowball fight :(

Nanu Kitty: A spirit is a ghost, and a sprite is a supernatural legendary creature. So Jack, fairies, elves, mermaids, dragons, and ghosts do count as well. Also Bunnymund would be the sprite of Easter, and so on I hope that helps.

Mystery Girl Who Writes: No what?

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