I couldn't sleep last night. After I posted Chapter 11, thoughts passed through my head so quick that I was to active to sleep. I only had 6 hours, by it feels like I've had 10. What the hell are you guys doing to me?

I heard on the news that it snowed in the North of Britain and I'm just all squeaky and: 'THEY'RE COMING!'
Seriously, I've lost two teeth, it's snowed, and Rise of the Guardians has just hit cinemas. Coincidence? HELL NO!

Molly Grace 16: Well, that's what happens when you watch so many Youtube videos and featurettes of the film. God, I might not even need to watch the film!

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Andrea lied. She didn't find the stick. Jack was looking through the chest and Andrea got really paranoid. Was they really going to Pitch's realm? Or is this another one of Jack's jokes. But the vision was so real that Andrea agreed with Jack, they needed help.
'Huh...' Andrea thought, 'Days ago you said you didn't want to be part of a war, and now you're volunteering to through enemy lines...' Her thoughts were interrupted when Jack passed a leather shoulder bag at Andrea. Andrea raised an eyebrow at Jack about the leather accessory.
"Wear it, if anything happens you smash the snow globe on the ground and think of the North Pole" Andrea nodded but a part of her brain wanted her to shake her head and run away. Jack was being serious, Andrea felt very sick. She was a mortal, a mortal that Pitch wanted. He already has the Guardians, what can Jack do? If Jack gets caught and the Snow Globe doesn't work then Andrea couldn't defend herself. She left her branch in her room.

Then she almost yelped as a large object was caught in her hand. It was her branch, it came from thin air. Luckily, Jack was only just turned around after Andrea calmed down.
"Where did you find that?" Jack questioned
"It was by the door..." Jack gave her a curious look but it hardened as they remembered the events taking place.
"Andrea, this is important" Jack said with a serious tone as he took hold of Andrea's arms, "If anything bad happens, anything at all, go. Don't think about the Guardians or me, just go"
'We're actually doing this'
"Do you get that?" Jack asked. Andrea wanted to back down, step away, but...she didn't. A part of her brain she wasn't familiar with took control of her, making her nod.
Jack stepped away from Andrea and threw a snow globe from his hand on to the smooth, iced ground of the tunnel. A portal of swirling colors appeared from the shattered remains of the snow globe. Andrea gulped, she couldn't do this. Jack took Andrea's hand, making Andrea calm. Before Andrea could speak her thoughts, Jack walked through the portal making Andrea go through the tunnel of tumbling, swirling colors that slowly faded to darkness...


Andrea's head spun, staggered but a hand kept her balanced. The hand was cold yet had a warm feeling about it. It was also Jack's hand, which made Andrea release her grip and pull her arm to her side. Small fragments of light made Andrea see past the shadows creeping around the place.
"Jack..." Andrea spoke with a troubled, hushed tone, "You really meant it, we're really here"
"Stay beside me" Jack's voice echoed across the walls that were invisible by the shadows, "Keep and eye out, and don't be scared."
"Why would I be scared?" Andrea replied, "I've met the man of this realm, face-to-face, and I'm still standing"
"Follow me." Then Jack crept into the shadows. Andrea followed, her feet barely making contact with the ground as they journeyed through the realm.

Andrea stepped through, what looked like, a large, slim archway. As Andrea lurked underneath the arch, she stepped on a pathway of dark marble. But beside the pathway, was nothing. The pathway was like a long, dangerous bridge that towered over the ground with such height that the land below was covered in darkness.
Andrea looked at the ending of the bridge, another large archway filled with shadows rested at the end. Jack turned towards her, already crossing the pathway.
"Come on" Jack said in an encouraging tone as he offered his arm to Andrea, "It's only a bridge."
Andrea quivered, it was such a long fall...
Andrea cautiously walked across the bridge, keeping her eyes on Jack. She remembered when she was on the globe not so long ago, it made the bridge seem less terrifying. She reached out to Jack until their arms linked.
"For once, you idiotic games have good use" Jack smiled at her, the shadows seemed to grow darker as he did. Then again, it wasn't a place for grins and comfort. "Come on, we're almost there." Jack spoke as they continued creeping through the shadows. They reached the end of the pathway. As their feet reached more stable ground, Andrea let out a large breath as she released the tension in her limbs.
"I wouldn't let you fall" Jack said.
"Because the Guardians would kill you?"
"Lets go with that" Jack's grin made it seem that the realm wasn't real. Like it was another vision and she'll recover and still be sitting on the globe, yelling at Jack for his stupidity. Jack looked away from Andrea to the archway.
"You still have the snow globes?" Jack asked, Andrea's hand went to her shoulder were the strap of the bag laid.
"Yes."
"Then let's go." They walked through the archway, Andrea forgot about the terror she had about the bridge as a new fear of what lies before her replaced it.


They entered a large room. It's circular walls and small archways made the shadows shape in a way that made Andrea uneasy. Jack stopped in the middle of the room. He scanned the room, moving and twisting about to see every archway and the hanging lanterns There was five archways, all identical. "I believe they're through the middle archway." Jack spoke and pointed at the archway to clarify. Andrea wasn't paying much attention, she kept hearing a noise. It sounded like crackling, kinda of like wood on a fire but more dark and echoed. Andrea strained her ears to concentrate on the disturbing noise.
"Jack..." Andrea said as Jack walked towards the middle archway.
"Yes?"
"Do you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Andrea hushed him. He stood by the archway, his eyes darting about for the source of the noise. His eyes shifted to the floor and his eyes widened.
"Andrea..." Jack warned, "Don't move." His calm commands made Andrea gaze at the floor. Cracks were spread across the marble floor, the cracks spread out from her feet. Andrea bit back a scream and looked at Jack. Jack made his way closer to Andrea, staying away from the crack on the ground.
"Andrea...When I say so, you need to-" A loud clap broke Jack off. Before either off them can react, the floor gave way under Andrea. Gravity took Andrea before she can scream and started falling into the darkness. The falling turned into hanging when a weight clutched her wrist. Andrea looked up to see Jack holding her wrist. Jack started pulling Andrea out of the pit of shadows and darkness until Andrea felt the floor under her body. Andrea let out large, stammering breaths.

"I..I..." Andrea's heart raced, she could have died. Jack still had Andrea's wrist in his grip.
"Jack..." She got back on her feet and staggered away from the hole in the middle of the room. She looked at Jack to she his face full of shock and terror. Then dark sand erupted from the terrifying abyss. It sped everywhere, taking Jack and making him fly backwards through the dark archway.
"Jack!" Andrea screamed. The room shook and rumbled as the sand swirled around Andrea. Her sight was covered with sand. Her throat burned as she screamed Jack's name and inhaled fast-moving sand. The sand advanced towards Andrea, clutching her hands with a burning grip. Andrea felt her feet leave the ground and hanging on the broken chain of a damaged lantern. The sand cleared and crawled through the archway where Jack was taken.


"Jack!" Andrea cried and she thrashed to release her bindings, "Jack!" She continued yelling his name but no response came. Her feet swayed across the air as she hang from the ceiling, powerless. Was Jack taken with the rest of the Guardians? What is the sand going to do to him? What can she do? These questions went through Andrea's mind. Andrea moved her hands against the bindings, trying to slip through them. She gazed down, the floor was so far away from her. Andrea didn't care, she needed to be released. She made her hands move through the bindings. The sand tore Andrea's skin from her wrists and hands as she continued escaping them. The dark sand made the cuts on Andrea's hands burn as she finally released herself from the bindings. She fell through the air and landed on the floor, all fours. The impact of the fall made Andrea cry out. She attempt to push herself up by her hands but they burst with terrible pain as blood leaked through her cuts. She was finally able to get up and looked at the archway in front of her, the archway where Jack went.
"Jack!" Andrea yelled as she began sprint through the archway. A thought made her stop in her tracks.
'If anything bad happens, anything at all, go.' Jack's command echoed through Andrea's head, 'Don't think about the Guardians or me, just go.' Andrea gripped the leather bag, opening it to see the three snow globe laying there. She toke one in her hand.
'I can't leave him, No matter what he said.' Andrea mind spoke. She couldn't leave him, even if she promised she would. She sprinted through the darkness of the archway, crying Jack's name.

Entering a large pavilion, Andrea continued searching for Jack. Sand covered the walls and high ceiling, forming NightMares from its shadows. Jack was in the middle of the Pavilion, staff in hand. The sand kept attacking him, striking him while he tried to make them back away. "Jack!" Andrea cried as she ran towards him.
"Andrea!" Jack replied as he fought of a more sand and NightMares, "Go Andrea! Leave!"
"No!" She stood beside Jack, the snow globe still in hand.
"Go without me!" Jack said as he looked at Andrea. Andrea grabbed Jack's arm as the sand closed in the gaps tried so hard to make. She smashed the snow globe on the ground, the light of the swirling portal blinding her. She pushed Jack through the portal before he can react. She looked at the NightMares as she sprinted through the portal.

Andrea was spat out of the portal and hit the floor, the impact made Andrea's wounds scream and leak more blood. She breathed heavily and looked up to see Jack lying on the floor also. Jack got up and went towards Andrea. He looked at her wounds with eyes of horror. "I told you to leave me!" He yelled and helped Andrea up. Andrea shook her head. She took in the surrounds, glad to be back in the safety of the North Pole.
"I doesn't matter."
"Doesn't matter! You could of died!" Jack replied.
"Well..." A new voice spoke, "I believe we need to know what happened with your 'bonding time'." North revealed from the shadows. The other Guardians entered the room to see a terrified Jack and severely wounded Andrea, both battered and bashed. She looked at Jack, who was still supporting Andrea.
"Oh, we got some bonding time all right" Jack replied and directed Andrea out the room, with the Guardians following behind waiting for an explanation.


I wasn't satisfied with the chapter, but tell me your opinions of this chapter in a review.

Song of the Chapter: I guess, Falling through the Cracks by Skillet. It has good lyrics explaining this chapter but it has a great tempo and tune that process the feeling of this chapter.

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