Aftermath and the Shadow Man

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Jack's dream

~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~

Almost everyone was still crying with the exception of Bunny and North. They had both lost someone and in their experience the person usually didn't like pity. Sure they liked people they could actually relate with on the subject, but if the person didn't actually have a first hand experience they ignored them. Everyone was trying to figure out how Jack hid this from them, he was always cheerful and ready to crack a joke. He didn't seem to have ever had a bad expeience in his life, but maybe that was the reason he was always tried to cheer everyone up.

Jack had found out that fun and laughter helped dull and block away the pain, he'd grown a complex that whenever he saw someone unhappy he'd do his best to cheer him up. It was at that moment everyone vowed to try to get Jack to open up. Seeing a memory starting everyone started watching.

Jack sat by the lake that he and his father always used to have fun in. He missed his Papa dearly, when they told Mama the news she started crying and then she stopped moving all together only staring blankly ahead, and rocking back and forth. Pippa being so young didn't understand, she'd ask where Papa was and when Jack explain Pippa seemed to understand. But she was sad that Papa had left to heaven and she wouldn't able to see him for a long long time.

Jack however hated the looks he'd get whenever he left the house, the villagers gave him pitying looks and they'd come up to him and say they we're sorry for his loss and that they understood. Jack would of course thank them politely, like he was taught, and went along his way. However he despiced those words, they didn't understand and they didn't know what it felt like, knowing that if he was a little faster he might have stopped the bear; and been able to save his Papa. Jack though was quiet about these thoughts, he tried to stay strong, he was trying to fullfill his Papa's last words. Tomorrow Jack was going looking for a job, his father had saved some money, but it would probably only last them for a month at the least. Jack feeling oddly tired decided to sleep for only awhile, curling up with his head on his arm Jack fell asleep not seeing a shadow of a man with yellow eyes looking down at him with a vicious smile on his face.

Growling softly Bunny curled a fist, he knew Pitch when he saw him, when they got back, he'd make sure Pitch got a well deserved beating. The other guardians were feeling slightly vengeful as well silently vowed Pitch would get a very bad visit. The Burgess kids just looked at the man he seemed vagualy fimiliar to them, they just couldn't place where they'd seen him before. Shrugging and deciding they'd find out later the kids watched confusingly as the sorroundings seem to change. Everything seemed to rewind when Jack was running towards his father. Except this time it seemed to be worse.

Jack tried shooting the arrow at the bear's back, but it seemed he was frozen. Jack could only watch in horror as the bear slowly killed his precious Papa. The bear seemed to be taking his time in killing John, it was torture and through it all Jack couldn't move he could only watch as the bear mauled his Papa. When it was finished Jack was openly crying and when he could move again, he instantly ran towards his father. When he got there he looked worse than the first time it happened. He was now missing almost all his limbs except his left leg and the left side of his face was missing the skin, so you could see the meat of his face. John looked at his son and screamed, " WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE ME?! I HATE YOU, YOU WORTHLESS BOY!" Jack still crying tried to apologize but his father just kept insulting him.

Screaming awake Jack looked around and saw he was at the lake, and that it was all just a nightmare. Trying to control his breathing, Jack took shaky breaths and tried to squash down his fear. Just when almost all his fear was gone Jack heard a shivering laugh looking up, this time Jack did see the shadow of a man with gleaming yellow eyes looking with sick amusement down at him. With fear in his eyes Jack looked at the man asking with a quivering voice, " Wh-What do you want?"

Smiling cruelly at the scared little boy Pitch Black answered," Why your fear little Jackson, after all it is so delicious." Pitch was delighted that this increased the fear in the little Frost boy. He wasn't lieing this little boy's fear was addictive, he had to have more. Calling to shadows Pitch, formed a nightmare that hadn't exactly come out perfect. Jack looked on a bit creeped out as a weird looking horse came out. Sure it looked like a horse, but it also looked like it had half a fish in it too.

Behind him Jack heard the pitter- patter of little paws coming. Turning around Jack saw it was Iarnă, the little kit had grown up and was now a fully grown fox, while still adorable it was still threatening. Iarnă had come when it sensed her friend was in danger cocking her head, she looked at the weird creature but still growled when it saw that it was threatning her friend. No one got away with that! Hearing the growling the fish-horse backed away a bit, nightmare or not it was still an animal and it sensed a predator, so it did the only thing it knew kow to do it ran. With Pitch still on his back, Jack seeing the weird fish-horse thing run away with the shadow man on his back started laughing. He couldn't help it, it was hilarous! The weird animal running, more like stumbling, away from Iarnă with the man on him who had by now fallen off him. Petting his friend, Jack lifted her up and headed home in a better mood than when he got here. Smiling Jack decided, that all he ever really needed to cheer a person up is laughter, and as long as he had that, he couldn't be sad.

Bunny was laughing at Pitch's misfortune, it wasn't everyday you saw Pitch fall off his own creation. But inwardly, E. Aster Bunnymund promised to never judge someone so quickly, after all you can't just judge a person by what you've seen. You have to dig a little deeper to find out things.

~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~Jack Frost~

A/N- Probably not my best work, but give me a break I'm still working out how to do this! So anyway thanks for reading I hope you review and if you have any suggestions I'd really love to know. Plus if you have any ideas send them to me I'll consider them and see what I can come up with.

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