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Pitch had returned to his hideout in the hole under the bed frame. Jack was standing, but he wasn't conscious. His eyes were open but they were darker and dull like they were lifeless. His face was expressionless.
Jack was now a more advanced puppet. He would do what he was told without consciously knowing. His mind was else where. Trapped without knowing. Trapped in a world of his fear.
He had done a few tests on his own nightmares to see if his new puppet could function well. He proved himself well for Pitch's expectations. But he couldn't figure out how Jack had the boost at the lake.
His attempts failed at trying to make that happen, but he knew Jack had enough power anyway.
Pitch was circling Jack, he finally had him and the guardians could do nothing about it. If they did try and intervene he could just use Jack as a shield or leverage. It was time for his plan to come into action.
"This couldn't be more perfect." Pitch made Jack follow him out.
"What are we going to do?" Tooth asked for the third time as she flew around not being able to be still. No one had an answer. They had discussed what was happening over and for hours they went over every detail and couldn't find even a hint to what exactly Pitch was planning.
"At least we know he isn't hurtin' Jack." Bunnymund was trying to remain calm in situation.
"And what he's doing to him is better?" Tooth snapped.
"Tooth we're all worried but you have to calm down. It's not going to help Jack." North replied. He hated the fact he couldn't protect Jack, but there was nothing he could have done.
"Sorry." Tooth piped down listening to North. She was letting the worry get the best of her.
"Damn Pitch! When I get a hold of him he'll be crushed into nothin'." Bunnymund couldn't hold that in any longer after Tooth had her out burst. Sandy nodded in agreement and looked like he was getting pumped.
North sighed and spoke in a dark tone, "When I get hold of him, he'll be lucky if you go through him first." Sandy had a bit of a 'wow' expression on his face trying to imagine that.
"What would he be planning with Jack?" North asked them changing the subject away from their anger towards Pitch. They had no idea. Pitch had never been completely predictable. But this time he really had them stumped.
"Where do you think he'll be?" Bunny asked North. If they could find Pitch, they would find Jack.
"We must look around world to be sure."
They then went looking around the world in the darkest areas. North got his globe and got back to his sleigh and searched all of Europe, Asia and Antarctica.
While Tooth and Bunnymund searched the rest. Sandy stayed at the North Pole just in case something happened.
"Burgess. Is a lovely place to start. I bet the guardians wouldn't think that I would start here." When Pitch mentioned the word 'guardians', Jack's fingers twitched. Pitch didn't notice.
The two were outside the town, it was a clearing with no trees. Pitch went up to Jack and told the nightmare sand within him what he wanted Jack to do. Pitch stood back and Jack tapped his staff on the ground.
The pattern it made on the ground looked grey, his ice powers were infused with the nightmare sand.
An orb of ice surrounded Jack and from the orb a large amount of winter power was zapped into the sky. The moon was covered by clouds coming in from different directions and a powerful wind began to rise.
It had been many hours and the yetis were finally done cleaning up the mess the nightmares made. Sandy was playing with a dream sand yoyo as he waited for the others to return. They were already gone for a few hours, so he was expecting their return at any moment.
Suddenly the moonlight began to shine down from the opening in the roof. Manny was talking to him and was trying to help.
Sandy ran over and hovered a question a mark over his head to say, what is it? To Manny.
He watched as the moon created an image of it snowing. It then changed to a house, half buried in snow.
The moonlight retreated back to nothing. It was all Manny knew and what he could help with. Sandy tried piecing it together.
Snowing. House buried in snow.
'Snow storm?' Sandy thought. He looked out of a window. It would be sunrise in an hour. That's when Sandy realized they had really wasted a lot of time on trying to figure out Pitch's plan.
Tooth and Bunnymund returned and Sandy frantically waved them down.
"What is it Sandy?" Tooth asked. Sandy was about to explain what MiM had shown him but North came walking in.
"Any luck?" Bunny asked.
North shook his head and he took from Bunny's question that he and Tooth had no luck.
Sandy beckoned North over and rushed images above his head.
"Sandy slow down." North advised as no one was able to see an image he showed. Sandy pointed to the moon.
"Manny? He told you something?" North asked. Sandy nodded and hovered an image of a snowflake and a house half buried in snow.
"Snow storm?" Tooth guessed. Sandy nodded.
"What about a snow storm?" Bunny asked. Then it hit him, "Pitch is usin' Jack to make a snow storm?" It was a question rather than a statement. Sandy nodded.
"What good can a snow storm do for Pitch?" Tooth asked. Sandy shrugged. The sunlight began to come through the windows.
Jamie awoke to the sound of chirping. He opened his eyes to see a familiar fairy hovering around him waiting for him to awake. It was really early but Jamie didn't seem to mind.
"Morning little tooth fairy." Jamie didn't know her name. But Baby Tooth didn't mind because Baby Tooth wasn't really her real name either.
Baby Tooth was with Jamie the morning after almost drowning. Jamie got a cold from that, but it wasn't to bad though thanks to North's hairdryer. But Jamie wasn't allowed to go outside.
Jamie knew that Jack must have asked Tooth to send him the little tooth fairy to keep him company. Baby Tooth was near the window chirping. She sounded alarmed.
Jamie slid out of bed and looked out the window. He gave a small gasp as he saw that it was snowing hard and the snow was beginning to bury his house. It was a beginning of a major blizzard.
"Something must be wrong." He said to Baby Tooth. He knew that Jack wouldn't make a storm this harsh or allow for a storm to come. A bad feeling washed over Jamie and Baby Tooth.
He remembered he wasn't believed in and people would walk straight through him. The question 'what am I here for?' crossed his mind everyday. And his name was Jack Frost.
The worst part was being alone. He was never acknowledged or noticed. No one saw him. He didn't remember how he got to the snow and he couldn't fly. His powers weren't working.
He kept walking and got nowhere. Nothing but an isolated place of snow and the cold. He sat down in the snow and curled into a ball. He clutched his brown cloak around himself.
This was Jack's cage. Locked in a time before becoming a guardian, before Pitch, before anyone believed in him. Just a time of pain. He didn't realize that his mind was locked in this time of his life. So all the memories of the guardians and Jamie were buried deep within himself. Jack felt like he needed to do something, but he couldn't figure out what.
In the place Jack was, all he heard was the howling of the wind. Even though Jack was such a happy and sarcastic trickster, no one would have guessed what pain and loneliness he's held inside for centuries.
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