Little Tooth squeaked nervously at Toothfairy as she pointed up at the moon upon her return home. "Calm down little Tooth! What is it?" the feathered beauty asked looking up at the moon.
Blinking, she flew up to closer examine it.. There was something off about it.. It looked.. Plastic..
"Wh-what?"
The fake moon began to rot in the center turning into a black eclipse. Tooth's hands covered her mouth as she let out a loud gasp. The lights on her globe began disappearing at a rapid speed, it was Christmas eve, yet there were no presents under the tree, but none of the other guardians had been notified or summoned, what in the world was happening?!
Tooth flew down to Santa's workshop and swung open the doors. "N-no.."
Her feathers rose as panic filled her entire body when she saw Krampus's hooves were clearly engraved in the floor, and his horrible stench burned her nose. Her worst fears had been confirmed so she pulled the switch to summon the guardians, all she could do was wait for them to come so they could form a plan..
Jack rubbed a big wedge of ice to his sore temple, the blow to the head seemed to have scrambled his common sense and personality. He would have put alot more of a fight if he could've thought more clearly. This was a man who tried to kill his friends, and tried to cover the entire world in darkness and fear, not to mention that he broke his precious staff before.
Surely that was just the bump talking when he was wishing to be Pitch's. Cringing with embarrassment, he let out a growl. If he were to ever see that man again, he'd beat him up for constantly messing with his mind and body. The sky lit up drawing his attention, and the black moon shocked him. He quickly froze a trail and slid to Santa's workshop.
Bunny's nose twitched as he noticed the moon turn black and the northern lights stretch across the sky. He hopped out of his cave with lightning speed, leaving a trail of flowers behind him.
When he arrived he tried to warm his frosty fur and his numb toes, he was really,REALLY sick of snow now. He hopped into Santa's workshop where Jack, Tooth and Sandy were all assembled.
"Where's Santa?" He asked, looking around.
"That's the problem! All the children are loosing faith again! Krampus is back!"
Tooth was talking so quickly, plucking her feathers, and swirling around the dimly glowing globe.
"But s' only Christmas eve." The confused rabbit replied trying to calm down the mad rambling of the Toothfairy.
"Yes, Santa starts delivery today, but he hasn't! And- and even if we managed to deliver all the toys, we need to find santa- A-and we need to defeat that-that MONSTER! A-AND THE MAN ON THE MOON! A fake moon is covering the real one so he has no way to contact us! And he chooses the guardians, we need help! I-I-I-" She squeaked, nearly fainting from the lack of breath.
"Tooth! Calm down!" Jack said grabbing her face gently, pressing his forehead against hers. Panting, she began to calm down looking deeply into Jacks beautiful crystal-blue eyes.
"What is.. That?" She asked pointing to the deep red hickey on his neck.
With a furious blush, he quickly covered it with his hood. "B-bug bite.."
Bunny hopped over to him, pulling his hoodie down. His sensitive nose sniffed Jack's neck. "That aint no bug-bite.. It smells like Pi-"
A hard push sent him flying before he could finish. Tooth's wings flickered and her face filled with confusion at the sudden assault.
Jack frowned at the oversized Rabbit with an obvious warning aura. Bunny opened his mouth to snap at Jack but was stopped by the distraught Fairy.
"We are not her to fight over some bug-bite! We need a plan!" She cut in before they could continue.
Sandy knew exactly what bunny was going to say, but didn't want to touch the subject until after the main problem was solved. They needed to save Christmas and defeat Krampus. He took a spare pen and notepad laying on the desk and began to scribble.
He lifted the pad, and all their eyes glided to the short golden man.
Lets get started It said. That was one thing they could all agree on.
We could use the Toothfairies to deliver the gifts?
"My poor Fairies already have enough work as it is, what about the teeth?"
We have all collected teeth before, I don't think we will have a problem doing it again. Your fairies are alot faster than we are and we need to have speed on our side.
It was the best stradegy they had so far and it made alot of sense, after the gifts were delivered they could track down Krampus and save Santa.
"Alright" Tooth agreed, flying out of an open window.
The short chubby man pointed at the two males that looked like they were going to attack each other at any moment then to the door. They both decided to put the matter aside until after the gifts and teeth were taken care of, and obeyed the Sandman.
Once they stepped outside they could see the swarm of fairies already grabbing gifts. Tooth tossed each of them bags full of coins. "Lets go!"
The task of collecting the children's teeth was alot harder with out the help of the Jolly old man's sled, and it took all night until dawn to finish. The toothfairies were down to one last delivery now, Jamie's house. The poor exhausted little ones were in a smaller group now and having trouble staying up high.
Toothfairy flew to the little group and took the mostly empty bag from them and smiled lovingly. "You've all done well, go rest my darlings"
Everyone was physically and mentally exhausted, but relief soon filled the air as they placed the last of the gifts beneath the sparkling tree.
"We did it.." Toothfairy tiredly clapped and hugged the three others that all smiled happily, though they were sore from running all around.
We should recuperate then find Krampus. Sandman scribbled sloppily on the notepad. The others nodded and they regathered in the Tooth palace.
The little ones were asleep with a golden cloud over each of them, and Tooth joined them, after all those panic attacks she needed a good rest, they would get right back to work once they recovered.
"You should be ashamed of yourself, y'know?" Bunny bluntly let out while carving a piece of wood.
"Listen, Pitch forced himself on me, but he only gave me this mark and didn't take it any further because he owed me for something. So shut it."
It was the truth, but Jack did feel guilty for actually enjoying it, though the bump on his head was partly to blame. The rabbit looked at the male from head to toe and snorted in disbelief.
"LOOK THEN." He insisted showing his bruised wrists. "Still don't believe me?" he said about to strip to prove his point that the hickey was all that Pitch had done.
"Woah woah, that aint necessary! I belive yah.. But still, if you hurt Tooth I swear I am gonna beat you black and blue mate." He replied pointing the piece of wood at Jack.
Sandy smiled as he watched the tension between the two broke, it was good that the two of them weren't arguing for once, and very relieving to know Jack wasn't cheating on tooth, especially not with a creep like Pitch Black.
Black sand slipped from the cracks of the door and snaked its way to the distracted king of sweet dreams.
Then it turned into a big hand in front of his face making him jump back. The black sand pointed to the door and then slid back into the cracks from where it had come.
Sandy gestured the others and cautiously went to the door. Bunny and Jack acted as his shadows behind him.
"I'm not here to bite." the Boogyman casually stated picking at his nails as Sandy approached. The scarred man looked down at Sandy who had his golden whips ready in case Pitch was here for a fight.
Pitch raised his hands in surrender as if the shortie was a policeman and he was surrounded. "I am mearly here to help you."
"Help us?" Bunny snapped, frowning at the boogyman like he was an alien, it was hard to believe those were his true intentions at all. It was such an obvious trick that no-one even considered he was serious.
"Listen. I scare children. But in a world ruled by Krampus, all would fear HIM and not me. And it wouldn't take very long until all life would be wiped out anyway. I never wished to kill anyone, just give them a little fear. He is even madder than I. He offered to let me rule by his side, but I want nothing to do with that smelly creature, so helping you out would benefit me in the end. Think of it as a temporary alliance based on a whim. Once he is gone, we can go back to old times yes?"
His little speech was quite convincing, but they all knew that the boogyman could not be trusted even if they had a common goal.
"You once worked with Krampus, so how do we know you won't betray us?" The distrusting cross-armed rabbit injected.
"You see, Krampus has a little.. Gift. Whatever he devours, he gains their abilities, and he wanted the world to be engulfed in fear, because he is in love with having power over others. The only reason I let that foul creature use me is because I am not powerful enough to stop him on my own, and anyone who fights gets eaten. And that's where you all come in."
The guardians glanced at one another, beginning to become persuaded by the twisted man before them. Jack's feet felt like lead, and anger began to burn in his chest as Pitch's eyes burned into his.
Licking his cut lip, Pitch smiled wickedly. "Besides, only I know where Krampus is hiding, you need me."
Sandy's frown became more intense as the long bony hand extended down to him. It felt like they were making a deal with the devil himself.
The small man raised a finger and scribbled onto a fresh page on the notepad.
You have to promise to not touch Jack.
The raven-haired man smirked at the words and looked over to Jack again.
"But he seemed to lov-"
A snowball smashed into his face, making the man stumble back a bit.
Jack's face was flushed as if someone blew an hairdryer in front of it on high.
Wiping his face, the tall man groaned annoyed at himself, for not predicting that reaction.
"I promise not to touch him, unless he does something like that again."
That was the best deal they were going to get from him so Sandy shook his hand with a sour expression of displeasure for having to stoop so low.
(A.N.: HEY, thanks for the feedback, I am really bad at writing and not butchering the characters, so sorry about that sweeties. Thank you for your reviews and opinions! It means alot to me! ;v; Hope I haven't disappointed too many people OTL)