"I'm so sorry Jack. I didn't know you were going to follow me. I didn't think anything bad was going to happen. I didn't know. I'm so stupid Jack. I'm so so stupid. You keep doing the right thing and I'm stupid. I'm an idiot and you're paying for it. What did I think I was going to find here? Ana? Krostoff? They're dead and I still haven't accepted that. I'm so so so stupid." She sobbed over his chest, the droplets hitting his shirt with little plops. Her hand was pressing against his wound trying to stop the blood pouring out of him. It was seeping through her fingers and spilling over her hand. It was dripping down his body and onto her lap.
"Elsa." Her eyes jump to his and she leans down and kisses him.
"I'm so sorry Jack. I love you. I'm so sorry." She whispers.
"Don't be. You didn't do anything wrong." He said reaching up to touch her cheek.
"I might as well have. The Guardians are probably dead now, and it's my fault. I let him get away."
"First of all you couldn't stop them, and second how are doing that?" She looks down at her hand and the blood around her hand is freezing. She lefts her hands and a trail of frost follows it.
"My powers. I have sorcery again! Jack is the frost helping?" She asked.
"It actually is. Somehow the frost is stopping the blood from running. Elsa, you're a genius on accident!" She smiled brightly at him and leaned down kissing him while freezing up the rest of his wound. His lips tasted like blood. "Now let's go stop Pitch!"
"Hans." She replied, helping him up.
"Hans? How did that happen?" He asked. She started to explain as she lifted him up and started walking to the front entrance. He was light, probably because he was mostly ice. "There's always a twist, huh?" He said wrapping his arms around her neck careful not to break the frozen blood on his stomach. "Where to first?"
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Elsa sat Jack down at the entrance to North's castle. "Stay here. Don't do anything stupid." Elsa said kissing his cheek.
"I'll yell hoot if someone comes in." He rolls his eyes.
"I'm serious. You barely escaped death just now. So stay here." Elsa ran through the rooms that led to the Guardian meeting room. Every room looked ransacked and destroyed, everything was out of place. Elsa ran faster and faster until she reached the meeting room. Of course it just had to be a meeting day, which meant it would take seconds for Hans to come in and destroy all of them. She threw open the doors and they looked over at her, all three sitting calmly in their seats. "Oh thank God. Go get Jack he is in the foyer. And hurry." Bunny and North didn't hesitate in running to get him, while Sandy led her to a chair.
A question mark appeared above his head. "Hans, I mean Pitch." Sandy nodded and sprinkled some calming dust above her head. She caught her breath and slowly laid her head down. "If Pitch isn't here, then why is the place a mess?" She asked. Sandy made some compass and map symbols above his head, then a question mark. "Of course north lost something. He always does." She rolled her eyes and chuckled for the first time in a while. North and Bunny brought Jack in and sat him on the table. "Can you help him North?" Elsa asked, taking Jack's hand.
"I can indeed. Bunny, go get me the blue box in my office. It's on my bookshelf." North inspected the spot on Jack's stomach carefully.
"Nightmare sand? Pitch did this?" Bunny came back and handed him the box.
"As always, it's a crazy and long story." Elsa said, as her, Bunny, North and Sandy began to sew up the unwelcomed hole in Jack.
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"Jack. I know that was quite painful but we have to get moving. Pitch ah, Hans knows we are here. It's not safe." North said to Jack, trying to get him on the sleigh.
"We have nowhere safe to go. My castle is obvious, Arendelle is so far out of the question It doesn't exist, it's not safe here-"
"What about my castle?" Jack asked softly.
"It's a castle of ice Jack, if it wasn't an obvious place anyways, then everyone would freeze to death there. So that's out of the question. And I don't want to risk Bunny's caves or Sandy's...clouds? Could we even sit on them?" Sandy shakes his head. "We have nowhere to hide." Elsa said beginning to panic.
"Look Tooth-Elsa let's just get in the sleigh and start moving. We can decide in the air. It's safer there." Elsa nods to North and they all help her place Jack in his sleigh. They take off into the air, keeping an eye out for nightmare sand.
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After hours of serious consideration, North decided we needed a place to stay immediately, his reindeer were tired. So they landed near an old-long abandoned castle and all picked places they could stay and keep watch. Since Sandy didn't need to sleep he took turns helping each Guardian rest between their watches. Jack slept more than anyone, and Elsa frosted his wound while he slumbered. Elsa was so worried about him she almost forgot to sleep herself.
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On the third day of relaxing and sleeping, Baby Tooth came through the window of the bedroom Jack and Elsa were sharing and quickly informed them of the news. Hans attacked the Tooth Castle looking for everyone. They attacked everywhere. No teeth were missing and nothing was too severely damaged, but the war was going to come quickly, especially with Baby Tooth coming to warn them. He was probably right behind her.
Baby Tooth brought a few small magical items with her, one for every Guardian. Most of the things in the bag she barely dragged with her, were plants to help increase their powers for the fight. All suggested by Manny of course. After distributing them to the people who needed them, the Guardians were ready for one more battle. And quite possibly, the last.
