Title: The Land of No Return
Authors Note:
EndlessWolves:
This is the chapter we have been waiting for! Kidnapped! With over 7, 000 words! In this installment we get too see what happens to Tala, and where she ended up! Please don't be afraid to leave a review even if it's only one. Reviews make us happy! :) Thank you for your favourites and follows!
Edit 1/7/2015: Since I wrote this Chapter before the one that my friend was writing was finished which was last chapter...I added something more to this Chapter of the Aftermath from last chapter. If that makes sense...and the Chapter is now called, into a more appropriate title of "Aftermath Kidnapping."Well enjoy! I am also happy to announce, this chapter is now at least 10,223 words now. With the authors notes and everything that is 24 pages in my word program. Keeping in mind with that, if you see any errors let us know...and sorry for the wait.
Edit: 4/6/2015: I should of really posted this chapter a long time ago, actually I wasn't planning on posting this chapter, until chapter 10 was finished however I have to post this now due to computer problems, so I'm not going to have a PC for awhile I think. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter and Happy Easter Monday! Bunnymund is coming to town!
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Warning: Some words may make you feel depressed and has a light mention of blood in this chapter. This chapter in Tala's life right now will have many sad and painful parts as well as others harming her. Her life will get better but please keep this in mind.
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"We had a normal life."
Chapter 9 –Aftermath Kidnapping
-Tala Wolf-
"It was dark...
It was cold, but it was the eerily cold. I felt as if something was going to jump at me. The cold was suffocating. I felt so alone. I had a great life. Why out of a million people in the world for it to happen too. Why did it have to be me?"
I don't know if this a dream or not. I just want to wake up from this messed nightmare.
The ground is metal and hard.
I don't know where I am anymore. All I see is dark. It doesn't matter if I close my eyes or not. It's just dark.
That's when something happened.
Whispers arose around me and I realised everything was true; my greatest fears.
"No one understands you."
"No one cares about you."
"You will always be alone, unloved from the world."
"Where's your hope now?"
I lied, I mean some of them were false, but others I just did not want to think about; my past burdened me like a wildfire and no matter how far I ran…the monster was faster.
Memories ran by me.
Yelling, screaming.
"I wish I was dead!"
Tears would fall down my face like rain and then there were those dreams again. Those dreams were a mixture of bad, and good...
I would never understand the dream. I would wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and my parents would comfort me until I stopped.
It happened a long, long time ago though but when Rise of the Guardians came out.
Some blurred images in my dream became clear.
Characters from that movie were in my dream, but the two characters I would see the most is Bunny and another person with that was not in the movie with bunny ears.
They would seem to be talking, hushed tones. They seemed to be in love and then...I would hear a bloodcurdling scream. I would see blood, death, and final goodbyes.
And when I woke up from the cleared images I would just think that I watched the movie too many times, and no matter how much I tried to remember the bunny ear person's name, I would forget the next second. All I know is that it starts with an R...
Flashback (Dream):
Flushed green grass lay all over the warren, trees and blue rivers with a beautiful side of hills. There were flowers, and eggs running everywhere. The sky was a light blue filled with white clouds, and on the side of a hill, there was a cabin. This place looked like the birthplace of spring so peaceful, and quiet. Little did anyone know, the outside of the warren was a dead place full of horrors, and this place was the last resort for the quiet.
There were two people in this scene that seemed to be talking…
The Easter bunny aka E Aster Bunnymund was a grayish, bluish tall, six to seven feet tall bunny with long blue ears. His chest was white along with some of his face, and paws. He was laid on the ground so his tail was hidden in the grass. His boomerangs were in his holster in a single strap around his chest. While brown leather strapping is wrapped around his feet. He also has leather bracers around his arms. His green eyes lit up like spring life but filled with hardships, while his dark blue markings all over him shinned in the sun through his fur.
The girl beside him looked around nineteen years old with her long flowing dark brown hair, brown and white long ears, and a brown and white bunny tail. Her eyes were green just like bunnies were, but filled with things that would make anyone think that she's been through a lot. She was pale skinned, and barefoot with a holster around her shoulders where her boomerangs were placed. She wore an egg shaped necklace around her neck and a purple shirt with blue shorts. Her pink sweater was wrapped around her waist.
"Aster? Do you remember the first time we met?" The girl asked the rabbit beside her.
They were embraced, hugging each other close and afraid to let go; afraid that the other might disappear as they gazed up at the clouds.
Aster smiled, and he stared lovingly into the girls green eyes.
"How can I forget R….?" Aster questioned her.
The girl smiled at him, laughing lightly, "Remember when I called you a mascot?" she laughed lightly making Aster laugh with her.
"Yeah, the good days Shelia." He told her.
"Yeah…" She trailed off as she looked at the white clouds above. Her expression becoming troubled, and this made Aster frown.
"Are you okay?" he asked her worriedly.
R…. shook her head, "To be honest I'm not okay. I'm scared Bunny, no I'm terrified, and dare I say it, I'm afraid." She told him.
Aster closed his green eyes before opening them staring at the girl as she continued to cloud gaze.
"It's okay to be afraid, I am too." He said to her.
R…. looked at him and then said, "E Aster Bunnymund, can you make me a promise?" She asked the rabbit. Her brown and white bunny ears pinned back as she looked at him.
Aster stared at her surprised, R…. never said his full name unless she was completely serious, "And that would be?" He questioned.
"That no matter what happens to us, were in this together. If something happens to me I-"she got interrupted.
"I won't let anything happen to you." Aster told her as he narrowed his eyes in her direction.
"I know you will but what ifs not enough Aster? I just want you to know if something does happen don't blame yourself. You know I'll do anything in my power to find you again, but if this is the last time were together, I just want to let you know that I-I love you Aster. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me."
Aster moved closer to her, and hugged her as Riana's tired green eyes stared at him, threatening to spill with tears.
Bunny laid his head on hers, and spoke six letters that she's been wanting to hear for so long, "I love you too, my flower."
Time Skip:
Darkness laid everywhere, nightmares and the smell of near possible death was everywhere. The moon was nowhere in sight. There was just the Guardians, Companions, Nightlight and Katherine against the darkness, with Pitch Black and his partner Secra Black.
There was no beacon of hope. It looked like the Guardians, Companions, and everyone else helping this war against the darkness were losing. Breaths and the sounds of war rang all around. Yells and screams rang out through the silence. Everyone was tired.
Especially R….. She was fighting against a nightmare, it was a black shadowed wolf. She was so tired, barley had the energy to fight using her arms to block every few seconds. The others weren't doing well either.
Another girl, who was right beside her with her yellow skirt, glittering golden sand jacket, skinny jeans, and white running shoes. Her golden eyes locking on to her targets, and her blond hair moving with the breeze as she grabbed at an object near her neckline, a locket as she shot out dream sand at the nightmares and fearling's everywhere she could, but it seemed to be no use. The more golden sand she throughout, the more it multiplied like flames that went on forever.
That's when it happened, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Pitch shoot a black deadly arrow at the Guardian of Hope's direction, however he seemed to pay no attention at the danger, but while she noticed this, she didn't see the arrow aiming at her from Secra. All she could see was the arrow, ready to pierce the one she just said I love you too only a few hours before the battle.
Her green eyes widened, and when the arrow flew through the air, she jumped away from her position in front of the golden eyed girl, who was now fighting the nightmare she left behind. She jumped in front of Aster, and the arrow flew, yelling out a startling, "NOOO!"
Pitch was startled at the change of events. Secra who's arrow was now flying towards the golden eyed girl instead of R…. The black arrows hit through their targets and R…. and the other girl fell to the ground. The whole fight stopped at that second including the nightmares and fearlings.
Bunny stared at R…. like she was a ghost, and Sandy wrapped up in golden sand, and his hair a mess, starring at the other girl with the most wide golden eyed, and terrifying look anyone has ever saw on him before, as they gazed at their falling comrades.
Aster fell to the ground beside R…, and Sandy beside the other girl.
"R…? Please get up, I promised I would protect you. Don't leave my flower, get up! Open your eyes please I love you!" Aster whispered in her ear as R… slowly opened up her green eyes, and weakly moved her hand to place on Asters cheek.
"Its o-okay, I know you love me, just don't blame yourself, its-it's not your fault, although I may be gone for a while, I promise we will find each other again…I love you so much my Aster, my loving Bunny. Keep spreading Hope for me okay?" she asked him.
"I will! Just don't leave me. "Aster murdered, hugging R…. close.
"I'm sorry…Just find the…" she said.
"Find what my flower?" he asked her.
"F-find the w-wolf." She shuddered before she closed her eyes, took one last breath before going still.
"R….?...R...!" Bunny screamed out as blood slid through his paws.
Awakening:
The scene changed as my brown eyes snapped open, I bolted up into a sitting position on my bed, and screamed to the top of my lungs. My heart beating against my rib cage as my door flew open, and a worried step dad and mother came into the dim lit room. My mom pressed the light switch to come on in my purple bedroom. There was two dressers, a nightstand, big chalkboard to draw on, a closet, a TV, a radio and other knickknacks laying around the room. They both came over to me, whispering reassuring words, but I couldn't hear them all I could hear is…
"F-find the w-wolf."
"Find the wolf."
Present:
And now I'm here…. In this sudden darkness, I hope Lola really is safe. I would hate if she were in this position but I needed to worry about myself now as much I hated it. I needed to get out of here.
I just want to go home...
"Tala..." A voice rang out.
I slowly lifted my head from my place on the cold hard floor.
"Tala..." The voice repeated.
My eyes snapped open, and squinted in the darkness.
I slowly put my hands underneath me, and lifted myself to kneel on the floor. I then grabbed the rails of the cage I was in, and stood up. Looking around the darkness.
Suddenly, the room lit up. The room was still dark but it was not the kind of dark you could not see in but what I saw made my blood ran cold...
Cages...
Black cages hung from the ceiling, as well as chains with no cages on the end, as if the cage fell from the ceiling and when you looked down, blackness would welcome you with dark gray hallways. On the other side of the room there was a globe filled with golden flickering lights...
I was in one of the hanging cages. When I realized that, my eyes narrowed in confusion. The last thing I remember is that I was at Jamie and Sophie's house right? So how did I end up here?
It was only a few seconds after that my brain became less foggy, and I remembered. I remembered hearing Lola's voice calling for me. I remember going outside where there was a girl and I slipped through some tunnel like thing?
I shook my head, wow I must be going crazy…
As I looked around I had the sudden creepy feeling of seeing this place before. Something I had seen on a television set. This whole place looked unrealistic. Maybe I was an actor in a movie, and no one told me. It was like in that "Truman Show" movie or something that I watched in computer technology when I was at school. If that is the case, an advertisement is going to come up, right?
But I'm not kidding, this place is so familiar, and as I looked at the cages, I could have sworn a flash of green, and blue creatures were in the cages. I blinked and rubbed my eyes. Green and Blue, Green and Blue? What creature is Green and Blue, some type of bird? A Humming bird like Tooth in….' my train of thought stopped right there. 'Tooth fairies in cages…like the movie in Rise of the Guardians.' I thought before shaking my head. There is no blue and green tooth fairies in the first place, and my eyes must be playing tricks on me.
Then I saw a flash of gold in a pile all around underneath the cages, and Jack searching through franticly before Pitch showed up.
It was like my brain was showing me a scene of the movie in Pitches Lair…..Pitches Lair! That is it! It looks like I am in Pitches Lair. See I am getting it, but why am I here? This place doesn't exist no matter how much maybe, I wished that that movie was real, so I must be on a movie set…and I'm in a cage kidnapped by a crazy girl that must love black and kitty cats during her description of "look what the cat dragged in."
Yippee!
I thought to myself, 'Yep Tala, nice to be happy in a cage.'
Shake out of it Tala! Stop acting like some mary sue or something! I sighed and looked around, "Hello?" I called out as my voice echoed in this creepy place.
'Hello, Hello, Hello!'
"Anyone Here?" I called out
'Anyone here, Anyone here, Anyone here!'
"I must be dreaming..." I sighed to myself.
"You wish..." A female voice said right outside of my cage. My head snapped up in the direction of the voice, and I stared into those red eyes. The same red eyes I saw before ending up in the cage. I instantly went into a defending position.
"Who are you?" I yelled at her, "And why am I here? What do you want with me?" I asked her furiously.
The girl rolled her eyes at me not saying a word.
I growled out, "Answer me!" I blinked, did I just growl?
The girl laughed, "Oh common Riana I know you're in there stop fooling me with this nonsense."
I stared at her confused, "My names Tala I think you got the wrong person here." I told her.
"No, I definitely got the right person, but you know what, I'll humor you Riana, or should I say 'Tala.' My name is Secra," she said counting of her fingers at my questions, "Next you are here because we have to make sure Hope doesn't come back. I thought when we killed you, you would stay down, but no you just had to come back, didn't you Riana? And what do I want from you? Well, pain that's what. I cannot wait to see Bunny's face when he sees you trapped in here.'' She crackled.
I glared at her, "My name Is Tala, who's this Riana person anyway and why would you like to see a small bunny creature staring at me in a cage?" I asked her. She's nuts!
"Well 'Tala', Riana is your original which means you are the reincarnated version of her but somewhere inside you, The Companion of Hope still lives. I don't know what happened, you must have made a deal with the blasted moon, then went in the real world, reincarnated yourself to be Tala, and start your life all over again with that new Companion of Fun." She said before continuing, "Riana, Tala, it doesn't matter, you're the same person. You see your original, Riana died, or so we thought when she tried to save Bunny, and the rest of those blasted morons against the darkness. So because of your foolish love with Bunnymund, you died alongside Diana. You guys still won by that girl Tina Coin, but the matter still stands that you are still here, reincarnated or not." She said to me as if it was so obvious to the truth. "Oh and I was talking about your past Love E Aster Bunnymund, but you must know him as The Guardian of Hope, and the Easter Bunny." She shrugged, "He's not tiny yet, but right now he stands like a big kangaroo as Frost likes to say." She added.
I gave her that crazy look before saying, "I think you need to get to a hospital, and get that brain checked out. I'm just a normal girl that has been separated from her home, and then kidnapped." I told her before shaking my head "And the Easter Bunny doesn't exist no matter how much I want him too." I said to her.
She shrugged her shoulders, and squinted her eyes as if faking pain "Ouch that left a mark…I wonder what Bunny would feel after that." She told me.
"Look just let me out, no hard feelings?" I asked her.
She put her hand under her chin as if thinking about it before saying, "Nah I think you need to see how real this is. This isn't just a movie anymore. This is real life. I know no matter what I say you won't believe me. Trust me I was just like you Tala. I came from the real world as well, but the darkness gave me an offer so I came here. Tell me what does this place look like to you? I think you know. This looks a lot like Pitches lair is it not? That's the thing, this is Pitches Lair, and you know those two kids? Jamie and Sophie, the Bennett's? Well there in Rise of the Guardians as well. As I was saying, this is not just a movie. Some type of fate transported you here, and now you are here. Use your time wisely Companion of Hope." She told me before adding, "The Companions have been looking for years for a new Companion of Hope, but it looks like I found you first!" she laughed.
"Wait, wait!" I told her, "Slow down, your telling me? That I was reincarnated, and my past self-loved Bunnymund from the movie. I died, became Tala, who got transported here into Rise of the Guardians, and now I'm kidnapped? Is that seriously what you're telling me?" I asked her with unbelieving eyes.
She looked at me blankly, "Well, when you put it that way. That just sounds lame." She said sarcastically.
"I'm not believing this! This is just some crazy imaginative dream." I said to her crossing my arms.
She rolled her eyes, "Trust me, I don't think Sandy wanted you to have this type of dream, I think it's more of a nightmare." She said before shaking her head. Then added, "It does make sense if you think about it Tala, I mean don't you remember the flashbacks when you were little? " Those Blurred images you thought were dreams before turning into nightmares, and you wake up screaming? It's a memory Tala. It's not some dream, or nightmare. It was real, and when you saw that movie, what happened to you? You started dreaming about a girl with Bunny ears, and Bunnymund didn't you? And soon after there are two dead body's right before Bunnymund took you in his arms in a final goodbye? You think those are dreams? No they aren't, that is your Riana side telling you to wake up Tala! And stop pretending!" She gritted her teeth at the last part.
My eyes widened, "No you're lying. How do you know about this?" I asked her.
She just grinned at me, "I know everyone's fears Tala. Yours is that you will never figure out what those dreams are. Yours are that you won't figure out the truth. You will always be unloved, and forgotten in the dark. Poor little Wofy Rabbit, all alone aren't you?" she told me.
I shook my head, and looked away from her, "It's not true, it's not true." I mumbled to myself, hoping Secra would go, unfortunately for my luck she didn't.
"Ah, but it is true, look, let me explain about the Companions, Tala. I'll give you a refresh since your Riana side hasn't remembered yet. Companions help there Guardian with their centres. North has the Companion of Wonder Noel Clause, Tooth has the Companion of Memories. Jay Moments, Sandy has his daughter Companion of Dreams named Tina Coin since your friend Diana Dreams died and Jack Frost? Well he doesn't have anyone yet. He will soon, after all Lola is the Companion of Fun." She told me.
My eyes snapped back to her, "Lola?" I questioned her.
"Don't worry she's safe for now. She's with those Guardians, and Tina Coin right now. Tina got to Lola before Pitch, or I could even attempt to get to her." She said reassuring me the best she could about Lola's whereabouts.
"Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yes. The Companions help each other, there holiday, teeth collecting, dreams, I guess since Jack Frost is added to the Guardian group, that goes to seasons as well. However no one has been protecting Bunnymund, or Easter for a while and when the Companion of Hope does come back, she's clueless, and trapped like a caged animal. They sacrificed a lot of things in the dark ages making sure we wouldn't win. I would tell you the full story about what happened, but I think those memories of yours will resurface eventually." She told me like it was no big deal.
"I don't understand why you're doing this? If what I saw was true in my dreams, memories, or whatever, why would you put the world in darkness and pain like that?" I asked her.
"As I said, I had an offer Tala, and I accepted." She told me.
My eyes narrowed, "Why…Why would you accept something like this?"
She closed her eyes, "You, and me were like the same Tala. We both been through a lot of pain, but your also different by always seeing the light of everything, always fighting your way out of the dark while I welcome it. Riana your old self, and her buddies, they were from the real world too, not the movie one. I always harassed them all the time, all because you guys had something I never had, love. Therefore, when the darkness told me it would love me, that it would not abandon me like, my parents did. I took that chance. I was bullied, and alone, so I took this chance to hurt others so they would feel my pain. You're lucky I told you this much Tala. I already told you this once before when you were Riana. I do not wish to go through these memories any more then I have too." She said shaking her head, as her black bangs fell over her eyes.
"Your right…I would keep fighting." I told her, causing her to look up at me wondering what I was going to say.
I closed my eyes, "I still don't believe this is happening. I have not had my parents leave me before, but I have had abandonment. Thing is, just because someone abandoned me. Doesn't mean I'll abandon others. Just because others hurt me, doesn't mean I'll make the world filled with hurt. If you let the darkness corrupt your heart like you're doing, you're telling your parents, and everyone that has ever hurt you that they won. They won and you lost. You bully others because they bullied you. If you wanted to make sure they lost, you would do the right thing in your heart, and respect others good, then what they did to you. You could have made sure others did not fall in the same path you did, others who have felt abandonment, instead of kicking them, you could help them on their feet, instead of not helping at all. So yes, I would fight. I would try my best, and I would make sure I will not let the darkness win." I told her and opened my eyes too look at her, as silence filled the room. I didn't know where this came from, I just knew that my words are right. Maybe they were from Riana like Secra, keeps telling me about. I don't know, I just know it was right.
"And this is why we're different Tala. I want to make them pay." She told me.
"Then make them pay, but you're doing it the wrong way." I said to her.
"You will never understand," she said to me.
"Maybe not, but I'm sticking with what I believe in, and if you believe in this, this revenge, I won't stop you trying, but I will do whatever it takes to make sure others aren't hurt like you, so that others aren't hurt like me." I said to her my eyes never breaking away from hers.
"You're a goody two shoes alright." She laughed.
"Okay, so let's say if I do believe in everything you are saying about and I am in my favorite movie right now. What are you going to do with me, other than lock me up?" I questioned her.
She tilted her head. "There's two choices you can pick from Tala. One path leads to an easy way of less pain from us, the other tons of pain." She told me taking a blade from out of nowhere and fiddling with it.
I eyed it warily, "Those choices are?" I asked her.
"Join me and Pitch," She said as my eyes widened, "Or you will be used as bait for the others to come to try to rescue you. If you do pick this road, you will see your precious Lola shot in the head with everyone else. You will feel pain like you have never felt before. Remember when you first came here Tala, and you jumped to the highest branch possible? Well normal humans cannot do that, your awakening your power, same thing is going to happen to Lola." She said to me before adding, "However, your physical appearance, and powers are slowly coming to you the longer you're here. So, if you accept the bait offer, me, and Pitch will give you something to make the progress faster. That means more pain for you, and in the end no matter what you choose, the Guardians, and Companions will lose." She finished as I shook my head.
"How about I refuse both offers, and make one of my own." I asked her.
She rose up an eyebrow, "Your offer in getting out of here?" she questioned me.
"Yes, take me back to the real world, and leave me there, that way I'm not in this mess." I told her. My eyes narrowing at this sick twisted joke she just offered for me to take.
"You're going to leave Lola?" she said as she widened her eyes this time.
"No, I'm not, as you said before, this isn't just some movie. If you're telling the truth that is, you can take me, and Lola back home so we can avoid all of this." I said, very certain of myself.
She shook her head, and then laughed which caused me to raise an eyebrow, "Yes that would work, but you have one little problem about this plan of yours." She said as if she knew everything in the world which she probably did.
"And that is?" I asked.
"Lola has already met Jack Frost." She told me as If it answered my question.
"So?" I said not understanding what she's getting at.
"This means Lola has met her Guardian, and Jack has met his Companion, although they don't know it yet. They are already connected, which means if I try to take Lola, and bring her back to the real world, it wouldn't work because she's connected already from one of the movie characters. To separate them would not work well, which will cause Lola to possibly die alongside Jack in the progress, now not that it wouldn't be fun to kill them. I got different plans, then the easy way out. The same goes to you as well, however, you haven't met Bunny in your reincarnated form yet, so you two aren't connected yet. I can take you out of this movie, and put you in the real world, but I'm sorry to say I can't do much for your friend here." She answered me.
My eyes narrowed at her again, I still thought this was some funky unrealistic dream, but I could not help but wonder if really was real. It was too real, to not be a dream. If that makes any sense at all.
"If this really is happening to me right now, then where's Pitch? I'm guessing you're working with him?" I asked, changing the subject.
She just smiled at that sentence, probably thinking of Pitch at this very moment. "Don't worry he will be here soon, he's just sending some nightmares out as we speak." She then raised her knife, and in a flash it changed to a scythe, however that was possible don't ask me. "Anyway, so what's your choice, join me and Pitch, or well, the other one I wouldn't recommend." She questioned, getting right to the point.
"I think you already know my choice." I said to her gripping the rails and tightening my fingers around it.
"Yes…too bad too…oh well beggars can't be choosers." She told me right when the sounds of horses met my ears. Her eyes lit up like fireworks. "Oh that's Pitch now….I'll go get him. You stay right here Wolfy, Bunny." She smirked, and disappeared in black flames.
I blinked at where she was, first minute she was there, and the next she was gone. I was on my own again in the silent darkness. I then shook my head, as I looked down at the floor of my cage. "It's not like I can go anywhere." I whispered to myself.
It hasn't even been a full minute before Secra appeared again, but she wasn't who I was looking at. It was the black robe guy behind her.
Pitch Black was just like how I saw him in the movie.
He was fear itself, with his long black robe that fell to the floor. I couldn't even see his feet, his hair was midnight black and sticking up, and his skin was a deathly gray, while his yellow, silver eyes pierced though the darkness, staring right at me. All an all he was pretty much a dark person.
He stared at me in the cage before his eyes landed on Secra, "So this is what you were doing when I was bringing out nightmares. I got to say you do a great job." He told to Secra.
"Well you know me, always aiming to please." Secra told him.
"Yes..." He smiled at her before his eyes met mine, and frowned at me which caused me to glare back.
"I'm guessing she refused the join us offer?" He questioned to Secra like I wasn't even there.
"You guessed correct." Secra said before putting her object behind her back, and holding it there with shadows, bringing up her fingers to pick at her nails in the progress.
"Well if she's anything like that rabbit, I wouldn't be surprised." He told her.
I rolled my eyes at them, "You do know that I'm right in front of you mate." I questioned them, before I blinked surprised. 'Mate? I don't talk like this, and where's this accent coming from?' I questioned to myself.
Judging from my bewildered expression on my face, Secra guessed right away, "You're going to have to get used to that, unfortunately for you Bunny's not English, he's Australian." She told me, which caused me to roll my eyes at her again for the millionth time during this conversation. I let go of the bars, and crossed my arms.
As I said, "Like I didn't already know this, Shelia." I said making me curse myself inwards.
'Stop speaking Australian!" My thoughts yelled at me.
"Since you're the Companion of Hope you're going to gain a lot of new ability's contained by him," She added speaking right through me.
"Well it's nice to meet you again Riana. I hope you like the show were about to put on." Pitch said as he smirked at me.
My arms uncrossed from their position, and shook as I molded one of my hands to a fist.
"My name is Tala! T-A-L-A why don't you guys get this in your thick skulls of yours!" I yelled at them both.
Pitch stared at me surprised, and took a small step back at my outburst, but it didn't last long, and he came closer. His eyes hardened at me.
Secra laughed, "Oh yes, Pitch I forgot, Riana got a new name change."
"I see well no matter, we got a job to do. I just saw those Guardians meeting up with those Companions…Which means are show is about to start very soon." He murdered to Secra.
"Yes, do you have the, you know what?" She questioned him. Her red eyes meeting his yellow, silver ones.
I took a step back when I heard this, my hand unfolded from being a fist. I knew this cannot be good, but the cage was not very big and there wasn't anywhere to go too.
"As a matter of fact I do, got it right from Olympics study myself. All I needed was Father Time's machine after all." He said to Secra.
Pitch whistled to a nightmare, and it trotted up to him tilting its head.
"Get the object I obtained from Olympics studies." He told the nightmare.
Right at his command the nightmare trotted away into the darkness, a few seconds later it carried a jar in its mouth.
Pitch grabbed the jar out of the nightmares mouth, as it walked over to Secra, and she pat it on the head.
"What are you planning on doing with that?" I questioned them, as I stared at the jar through the cage bars.
Secra laughed lightly, "Weren't you listening to anything I said before?" She asked me.
"Yes but there's one thing I don't get..." I said looking past them and into the darkness of the lair.
Secra rose an eyebrow in my direction, "Go ahead..." She spoke curiously.
"If this is the movie, or even if it's after the movie. Why are you here? There is no such thing as Companions In this movie either, so if I really am in the movie…Why are you here? Also why do you want to speed up my progress of my abilities of Bunny? Or so you say, that is. I get the bait part, but I don't understand why you want to speed anything up." I asked her as Pitch continued to look at the bottle, gazing at Secra, knowing she would answer me.
She took a step closer to my cage and away from the nightmare. This caused me to take a few steps back in the cage before I hit the bars with my back. I couldn't go anywhere, almost as if I was just a trapped animal, but I stared at Secra still wanting my answers.
"Tala, Tala, Tala, I'm very disappointed in you for not remembering anything at all about being Riana. I hate to explain everything again, but it looks like I have no choice. The movie or books don't tell you everything that goes on. I mean when Jack Frost was chosen as a Guardian, Sandy mentioned the Leprechaun, and Bunny the Groundhog." Secra started out before continuing, "This means that there is full other story's out there other then Jack being chosen as a new Guardian to defeat Pitch, which didn't last long mind you. The Companions weren't in the movie because they were searching for a new Companion to add to their team, and I wasn't helping Pitch defeat the darkness, because I was very busy trying to figure out how to get back home to the real world. The speed up progress of your abilities? It's nothing really, but you screaming, withering in pain will definitely hurt all the Guardians, Companions, Lola, and especially Bunny of course. I guess this is just for fun, if this answers your questions." She told me.
I closed my eyes, breathing deeply before I opened them, my brown eyes staring furiously at Pitch, and Secra, "And what are you planning on doing, what's your plan to defeat them? Why do you want to figure out how to get back home?" I asked straightforward.
Pitch smiled at me, but I knew the smile was fake, "Does it matter? The Guardians, and those Companions will be defeated, two worlds filled with Fear will take them down for good." He told me.
My eyes widened when I heard this, "You don't mean that..." I trailed off.
"Yes. Your world. The Companion's world, and the world that caused me so much pain. There won't be much light in it soon enough." Secra told me walking over to the glittering globe filled with golden lights.
"And soon, both worlds will have zero belief, which means no power for the Guardians, and since the Companions are linked to them, without the Guardians power there will be no Companions." She told me grabbing something off a table to the side that I now noticed was there.
I then thought about the movie, and how the Guardians were so drained out after the belief going out, but Jack seemed absolutely, fine.
"What about Jack?" I questioned.
Pitch crossed his arms and sneered at me, "What about Frost?"
I put my brown eyes on his yellow, silver ones, "Jack doesn't need belief in order to be strong." I told him.
Secra, who was coming over with the object, stopped hovering mid-air, and thought about this, "Since Jack has taken the oath. He has declared that he will use the belief off of the children of the world. He's stronger then the last time you saw him in the movie." She told me before continuing to fly over to my cage.
I sighed, 'well that's good information to know.' I told myself.
When Secra got closer to the cage I noticed the object in her hand was a needle, and I had a sickening feeling in my gut that it was for me.
"Well we will give you one more chance Tala, do you want to join us?" Secra questioned me.
I just looked away, down at my feet not saying anything. This seemed to satisfy Secra's question which caused her to sigh. I didn't look up but I heard her talking to Pitch.
"Do you want me to do the honors or you?" Secra asked him.
"You found her, you can do the messy work...I'm going to sort out the nightmares, and make sure this place is protected. I wouldn't want a Guardian to get in here easily." Pitch said as I before I heard nothing at all.
When I looked up Pitch was gone, but Secra was in my cage. I didn't even hear her open the door, she was so close to me now. She now had not only the jar Pitch had but the needle too. She opened the jar and put the needle inside sucking whatever it was inside of it. Before taking it out and staring at me.
"Well, I guess this is goodnight, and sweet nightmares, you didn't have to do this, but you left us with no choice." She told me.
Before I knew what was going on, Secra grabbed my arm, and pushed the needle through, putting whatever it was inside of me. I yelped in surprise, and struggled to get away from her, but she only wrapped her other arm around my waist keeping me still.
"Struggling only makes it worse, shh. Be still…there you go." She whispered into my ear as I stopped moving, but right when I did, pain burned inside me like a wildfire. I was shaking like there was no tomorrow. I was trying to keep my screams inside, but it was no use. Whimpers ran out of me with the screams, and I found out, I didn't have the energy to stand anymore, against my will. I wrapped my arms around Secra to make me stand up right, making her have all of the support. She slowly moved to place me on the ground as I kept gasping for air, and as she took the needle out, she said, "Trust me that was the easy part, you're not done yet." She told me.
I tried to get away from her, but she only inched closer, grabbed her scythe, turned it into a knife, and grabbed my arm again, as she sliced my wrist. Blood gushed out like a waterfall down my skin, I couldn't say anything as I was groaning over in pain. I knew if I tried to speak, nothing would come out. She seemed to notice this, and said, "I like to mark my victims, don't worry you're not the only one." She said to me as I glanced at my wrist in her hold. She was right about one thing, there was sure going to be a scar. It probably will never heal properly.
I was so tired, just wanted to close my eyes, but that's when I felt the most horrible pain of all, and I just screamed.
Secra let go of me, as my head hit the floor, as I withered, and shook. I couldn't remember when I felt this much pain. I felt like I was in the world war one or something. I just wanted someone to shoot me, even if I was going to leave everyone behind. My vision blurred in, and out, and I knew I was going to black out soon. I felt my bones changing everywhere, and found myself curling inwards, as things growled inside me, as my yelps, and human screams turned into whines a human couldn't have made. I just wasn't in the state of mind to think about that now. I barely had enough sense as I grabbed one of my arms. Red blood fur was growing everywhere along my skin.
That's when I remembered my dream. The dream that I had just a while ago. The vision of the blooded wolf, and I was staring at an image of myself. I didn't understand it, but I did now. The dream was coming true, and there was nothing I could do.
As I was closing my eyes I saw an image, but when I opened my eyes fully, out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw Secra, but she was nowhere in sight. I saw something. I know I did…and as I closed my eyes again, I had the vision…
Vision:
There was a girl with rabbit ears…what was her name again? It starts with an R…Riana...but that image slowly changed into me with red wolf ears, and tail in a black cage like this, as she looked down with blue eyes, and saw everyone fighting.
The Guardians, Lola, and other people, I tried, but couldn't recognize in the darkness below. Suddenly, the cage that I was in, wrapped itself in a bright light. The next thing I saw was me, only instead of red wolf ears, and a wolf tail; with blue eyes. I had brown and white rabbit ears, and a bunny tail with the sharpest of green eyes, taking a boomerang out of nowhere. Then proceeding to jump down to enter the fight, as the cage disappeared like there was no cage at all. There was just nightmares, and us.
Present:
As I blacked out. I heard a distant voice calling me.
"Don't worry, we'll be okay." A female voice told me in my head. I knew that voice, I knew it was her, Riana was speaking to me.
I took one last deep breath before I went still in the cage, and darkness ran over me as one last thought yelled at me.
'I really hope this is a dream, but if it isn't I'm glad Lola wasn't here to see my pain.' I thought as I closed my once brown eyes that were now blue closed.
"It was dark..."
"It was cold but it was the eerily cold. I felt as if something was going to jump at me. The cold was suffocating. I felt so alone. I had a great life. Why out of a million people in the world for it to happen too, why did it have to be me?"
-Tina Coin-
The forest was silent as we all looked over at Lola in concern, who was now leaning against a tree. I took a deep breath, as we already had to deal with Secra, and Pitch. Why did this have to get harder for us? I was suddenly angry at what was happening, that I didn't care who I snapped at.
"Is Lola going to be okay?" Jamie asked as he walking towards us.
But, before Jack could say anything, I replied with a "What do you think?" question, before I glared at him, and continued, "And what do you think you're doing out here? You could get hurt badly."
Jamie then narrowed his eyes, "I'm not a kid anymore. I knew what I was doing"
"If you knew what you were doing, I would have met Tala by now!" I yelled at him outraged.
"Hey! Don't get angry at Jamie, It wasn't his fault about what happened to Tala. Even if I agree that Jamie shouldn't be out here-"
"But-"Jamie protested.
"He's old enough for his own choices. You just need to be more cautious Jamie. I can't let anything happen to you, like what happened to Tala." Jack interrupted him, as he put a hand on his shoulder.
"This isn't a game you two." I told them seriously.
"Whatever made you think that we thought that way?" Jack questioned me.
"Because... You promised!" I yelled at him, looking down to the snowy forest ground. "You promised." I muttered to him.
Wind breezed through the forest, as snow lightly fell down from above. The cold breeze made me, and Jamie both huddle ourselves trying to warm up the best as we could with the weather. I looked up at the moon that shown down from through the branches to see Manny staring at us. His moonbeams was glowing through the trees, to the snow that was on the ground.
"What did I promise exactly?" Jack questioned me, as he gently put a hand on my shoulder.
I looked back to the ground, and swiped his hand off my shoulder. As I back stepped away from them, I spoke out loudly for them both to hear me, even though it was meant for Jack only, "Don't let her out of your sight Jack. That's the same mistake Bunnymund, and my father did. The reason why Riana and…."
I trailed off as I took a deep breath, trying to hold back tears. "My mother is gone…" I whispered but still loud enough for them to both hear.
I then looked back up at Jack, with him staring at me with wide eyes, as he took in my expression I had on my face. The pain I went through, with everything that happened to me from the past, shown at that exact moment. I told him this simple sentence, "And you let her out of your sight…"
"Tina I-"Jack started only for me to interrupt him.
"I don't want to hear it Jack! It's-it's all in the past now." I told him, taking a few steps towards them both.
"I need you to tell me exactly what happened fully Okay? Lola didn't really explain everything, but I can tell something happened, so start talking!" I tapped my shoe to the ground, looking at them both seriously all of a sudden which caused Jamie, and Jack to glance at each other.
"All I knew, is that Lola started to gain white hair all of a sudden, and she was glowing blue with this extreme power I never saw before, Tina. She came to me for help. I followed her, and then this boy stepped out of the darkness, and started to attack Lola and Jamie and he…." Jack trailed off at the end struggling to get the end of his sentence out.
I raised an eyebrow at his struggling, "And he?" I questioned him.
Jack finally got his sentence out, as he put his hand into a fist, "He may have kissed Lola without her permission." Jack mumbled, but it was enough to make Jamie, and me to step away from Jack with a look that said, 'Are you freaking serious?'
"Are you joking Jack?" Jamie asked him.
Jack just shook his head in a way that implied he wasn't joking.
"Okay, I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that. Who does he think he is?" I said in a unbelieving tone of disbelief.
"Apparently some big shot." Jamie said to me.
"Well it's settled; make sure crazy boy doesn't go near Lola, checked on the list. Is there anything else?" I asked them both, still thinking about what Jack had just said the boy had done.
Jamie shrugged, and said, "Beside's suggesting to kill me...no but Lola did put up a good fight, she made these ice wolves to attack him and this hurricane of snow appeared out of nowhere!"
I nodded, as Jamie told me this. 'That must be where the storm came from' I thought before I faced Jack.
Jack only replied with a shrug of his shoulders however, as he glanced to the snow covered ground and Jamie glanced at him in question, which made me look at Jack with narrowed eyes.
There must have been something else that he wasn't willing to tell me but if he wanted to keep it a secret for now. That's fine with me as long as he will tell me when he is ready. I nodded to myself in confirmation at my thought, before I sighed, looking at them and then I locked my gaze on Jamie. "You should go Jamie; I think we all agree we have had enough excitement for one day. It's late as it is, and I've dealt with your mom, so you shouldn't be worried about her. All of it will be a weird dream after all," I told him as I glanced at Jack who still didn't look off the ground.
Jamie sighed, as he put a hand on Jacks shoulder before leaving towards his house. I waited until Jamie was out of earshot before I slowly walked closer to Jack, and placed my hand on his shoulder, where Jamie just had his hand on.
"Hey, look at me..." I said softly to make Jack look up at me. "It wasn't your fault, I'm sorry I exploded like that." I paused … "We need to keep a lookout for this boy, and get back to the Guardians, and Companions for our report." I said to him.
Jack then put his hand up to where my hand was, and shrugged me off, taking a step back away from me. "Still your right, I wasn't watching her. I should have been more careful, he..." Jack closed his eyes, "I let him get to her, and Jamie. It's my fault." he said looking away from me.
I frowned at him as I took a timid step towards him, "While that may be true, we learn from mistakes, and I know that you're going to learn on this mistake, but it wasn't your fault of what's going on."
"But I could have-" Jack protested, but I cut him off.
"That's the point Jack, you could have. There's no going back now," I told him. "You, and Lola have to work together, and rely on each other. You need to learn with each other so something like this doesn't happen again." I added.
Jack narrowed his eyes as he looked at me, "Why are you trying to get me to take care of Lola, not that I mind but..." He trailed off, looking at me suspiciously.
"No, I want you to take care of yourselves because..." I closed my eyes before opening them, "I know your used to being alone, and...and maybe Lola could help with that."
Jacks grip on his staff tightened, as he looked at me with his blue eyes sparking with an emotion that I have never saw directed at me before.
"What does me having to be alone for 300 years, have to do with anything?" he questioned with his voice downright terrifying that would have made anyone run for their money, but I wasn't just anyone.
"And Bunny's been alone for thousands of more years," I told him.
"What does the Kangaroo have to do with this?" Jack said as he put his staff on his shoulders.
"He found Riana, Jack, Bunny wasn't alone anymore!" I yelled at him trying to get him to reason with me.
"Yeah, then where is she now?" He said to me taking a step towards me, threatening like, but I didn't back down, knowing Jack wouldn't hurt me.
"Which is why you shouldn't let the same thing happen to Lola." I said softly.
I wanted to break down in tears for just remembering what happened to my mother, and Riana, but I knew my words hit their mark. Jack was taken aback for what I just said, as he took a step backward, his staff coming off his shoulders where he could hold it properly. His tight grip on it then released a tiny bit.
"Bunny should have been watching for what happened with Riana. The same thing goes for my father. Don't make the same mistake. I'm not saying to shelter her, even I would hate that but you should always be on high alert." I told him with a serious look.
"Why me… Why not let Bunny look after her, or your father if you're so worried about her. Why do you want me to be there for Lola?" Jack questioned me being his curiously, little self.
"My father has to rely on me now. Tooth with Jay, North with Noel, and Bunny..." I paused, as I trailed off somewhat before continuing, "I think Bunny has a different fate with someone else."
"What's that supposed to mean. What other fate? What are you keeping from me?" Jack accused me.
I shook my head, "Think about it, there's a prophecy for a reason, Hope and Fun? I wonder why your centers are in there. I know without a doubt that you and Bunny are going to have a role in this. I mean look at the facts Jack, every Guardian has a Companion except you. Bunny may not have one, but he did, and that truth still stands." I told him.
"Wait, wait are you suggesting… What, I think you're suggesting?" Jack said in disbelief towards me.
"Come on Jack, what did you think I meant? Look at her!" I said pointing towards Lola. "She's changing Jack, you see the proof look at her hair! Not only that but I know whatever she did with the fight you guys were in was huge. She even has a staff like yours that appeared out of thin air? What else does this look like Jack?"
Jack was rendered speechless as he gazed at Lola with wide eyes, saying nothing. It was true though, and he knew it, yet he was still in disbelief. I knew it would take some time before he finally accepted what I was going to say next.
"I think she's your Companion Jack." I continued to say, even though he didn't make a sound, as if he didn't even hear me, but I knew he was listening.
"And as for Bunny, if my hunch is correct, I think Tala is his," I told him before I gazed at Lola soundlessly sleeping. Golden sand wrapped around her head thanks to my dream sand, with golden snowflakes appearing above her head.
"The Wolf and the Snow...It all makes sense..." I trailed off tiredly.
Jack began to turn away from Lola, and me, and started to walk away further from us into the dark woods beyond, which made me shout at him. "Where are you going?" I yelled at him.
"I have to think for awhile," He said softly, but I could barely hear him before he called the wind, and he was off flying away from Burgess just like that.
Even though me trying to get him to come back was pointless, didn't stop me from calling out, "Jack wait!" with my arm outstretched towards him, but he was already too long gone to hear me.
I sighed, and looked at the ground, 'it's dangerous,' I thought in my head, but I knew Jack could take care of himself. I knew I was a little hard on him but he needed to know the truth, and if that meant he had to leave, and think about it, then so be it. After all Jack would come back, he's a Guardian of Fun for a reason.
The only one that was still blind to the whole truth about gaining a Companion was Bunnymund, and I had a feeling Bunny wasn't going to take it well, and that he should figure it out himself unlike Jack who needed an extra push in the right direction. After all he lost Riana who would always be the first one that he loved, and I knew that it would be hard to find the love for someone else, but then again...
I didn't know…I didn't know Tala much like Lola did, and there may be a whole other secret of Tala that no one knew about. The prophecy stated, "Hope and Fun must find the other before it's too late." if Tala, and Lola were the new Companion's of Hope, and Fun, it would make sense. Lola needing to find Tala, since Tala was missing, but still, I felt as if something was missing from that whole sentence, but just what was it?
I walked over to Lola, wrapping my arms around her as it started to snow even more heavily from perhaps, Jacks leftover emotions.
I softly spoke to Lola knowing she couldn't hear me, "You have a big trial ahead of you Lola. I wish you, and Tala good luck." I whispered, before I looked over at Manny in the sky.
"Watch over Jack for me Manny," I told him as dream sand wrapped around me, and Lola carrying us to the sky, to fly north so I could report what had just happened to the rest of the Guardians, and Companions.
Unknown to her, the moon shinned a little brighter.
-? ?-
Far away from Burgess, and the North Pole was a girl with hair that was as white and blond, as a flashing light. She looked down at the world from a mountain ledge where tourists usually go to see the beautiful sights of the city.
The girl had her eyes closed, as if she was listening to something far away, her long hair that reached to her mid back, blowing behind her with the breeze of the wind.
She was barefoot with white leggings, a white long T shirt underneath a white jacket that was unzipped with black stripes fading at the end of the jacket. She had a bracelet on her wrist that looked like stars and a necklace that had a sun on it.
The girls head was titled towards the moonlight that seemed to be resting on her, giving her comfort in the silent of the night.
A tear drop fell from her closed eyes, as she opened the lids covering her starlight eyes. If anyone could describe what they looked like, they would say exactly that. Her eyes were the brightest white, and pale yellow gold, that would show the deepest of emotions.
"Where did we ever go wrong?" The girl spoke softly, but it was like she never even spoke because of how softly it was spoken.
"I miss you so much brother." The girl spoke with even tones, with not any sound of stuttering, that someone would get if they were crying.
"It didn't have to get to this Dylan...but it looks like you leave me no choice...I just hope you know what you're doing, and snap out of it." The girl said even though that this Dylan person was nowhere in sight.
"I can only hope that hope will bring you back. I wish you luck Riana." she said. A star then twinkled above her, then smiling softly, she looked up at the moon, "Or should I say Tala now?" she continued, as the grin on her face grew larger, before she disappeared in a bright light, like she was never there in the first place.
"You have a long road ahead of you, and your choices will be split with two roads, but you will find a way...I know you will."
EndlessWolves:
If you're reading this, this means you just read Kidnapped. I hope you liked the chapter, and I'll see you next time.
Edit 1/7/2015: Or should I mean, "Aftermath Kidnapping." That you just read...
I just wanted to say, that if your very confused in what's happening on Tina's Point of view, let's just say that that took place after Lola went to sleep, after the battle in Waking up to reality to when Tina goes to the North Pole. So it's pretty much a filler chapter on what happens during that time she's been a sleep. However Tina still needs to discuss what happened, to the Guardians and Companions and where exactly Jack went to, so that's another somewhat filler chapter for another day.
I do not have any deleted scenes for this chapter! Yay!
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