The entire group moved to Pitch's layer so that they wouldn't disturb the busy fairies, and they'd have more space.

Jack sat up in the new room, unwrapping the cloth from his arm that much to his surprise the wound had disappeared completely, leaving behind nothing more than red spots where the teeth had punctured. If Pitch hadn't forced him to take the potion most likely such a wound would have left scars.

Sighing, the bored male stuffed the black cloth into his pocket and pulled on the bloody hoodie. Deciding the bloodstains on the sleeve clashed with his blue hoodie he tore the sleeves off. After checking in a broken mirror, Jack made his way up a spiral staircase by freezing the rail and sliding upwards. His loud whoo hoos reverberated from the walls and kept echoing all the way up. "PITCH IS A JERKFAACE" He shouted to hear it repeated, the 300 year old Teenager was having way too much fun.

An old black door made Jack stop, he could hear the others talking behind it but it had no handle. Knocking on the door, he listened as the chatter ceased and suddenly the door slid open. "JACK!" Tooth cried, tackling him to the floor. Bunny was healed up, and Sandman was in the middle of a training session with Shadow Krampus.

"Hey Tooth" He softly replied, though his lips were being assaulted by a barrage of kisses.

Sandman managed to find Krampus's blind spot, though he looked really tired and beaten up. The blind spot was located in between his shoulderblades, and was really hard to stay there for very long.

"Well done sandman." Pitch complimented, with a slow, almost sarcastic clap.

The shadow Krampus disappeared giving Sandy a chance to breathe and take a break. The fight had done alot of damage, he had a bloody nose, a black eye, and was gasping for air.

"You are up next Jack."

Looking around at the unfamiliar room with curiosity, Jack twisted his staff and smiled. He was gonna give it his all, and have fun with it as well.

The creature reappeared, refreshed from his previous fight and let out a hiss at his opponent.

Tooth sat next to Bunny nervously twiddling her fingers. She wouldn't be able to stand seeing Jack hurt again.. Bunny reached over to give her a pat on the back, but then decided against it when she glanced over at him. He blushed benieth his fur and pretended he was going to just scratch his neck. He felt so pathetic, not being able to comfort her. The walls flashed bright blue as bolts of ice shot from Jack's staff, and he jumped onto Krampus's blind spot, confusing the hell out of the shadowy figure that frantically looked around trying to find him, but the creature was getting alot smarter now, and began to figure out what was happening. Whipping around and catching Jack by surprise, the ugly scrunched up face turned into a nasty grin and a claw slammed into his cheek, making him fly back into a wall.

Damn this thing was annoying. It caught onto his little strategy quite quickly and was now charging at him with its curled horns pointed his direction. "Jack!" Tooth cried and stood up only to have her path blocked by Pitch's arm. "HE IS GOING TO GET HURT PLEASE.." She pleaded

"Shut up and sit down" Pitch snarled at her making Bunny want to knock his lights out.

Barely missing Jack's head, the horns imbedded themselves into the wall deeply. If it had been a moment sooner, Jack's guts would have been at the receiving end of those razor sharp horns. Panting, the pale boy rolled between the wide gap in-between the spread legs. Stomping, he expected the creature to freeze like bunny had before, but it didn't work at all this time. Again, he stomped, a bit harder this time, but still nothing.. What was he doing differently?

After wasting precious moments trying to replicate his stomp, the creature freed itself from the wall, sharply turning its head to the confused male.

Pitch facepalmed, after watching the weird stomp dance. Everyone else just stared at him like he had lost his mind.

For hours, Jack continued to struggle with the beast, and finally he managed to slice into a tendon in the monster's leg with an dagger-shaped icicle.

Pitch withdrew the shadow Krampus and gave Jack a sarcastic clap as well.
"Well-done Jack." He complimented dully

Jack's aching joints and muscles were so relieved once the brutal training session was over.

Tooth quickly flew over and wrapped his arm over her shoulder.

Pitch made a sound of disgust that a child would make when told to eat vegetables they hated and sunk into the floor.

They both stumbled awkwardly to a wall laughing at themselves for walking as if they were drunk.

"Hey, Jack.." She said in a shy little voice

"Hm?"

"I love you.."

The words hit him like a speeding train and took away whatever breath he had left in his lungs..
strangely as he heard those words flashbacks of Pitch played in his head..

Looking up at the speechless man, she decided to kiss him softly.

"I realized today, that I really, really love you Jack.. I... I'm not expecting a reply from you today of course.. But I just want you to know how I feel.."

Her heart beat wildly, as her face flushed, even more now that those words exited her mouth.

"Tooth I..."

Bunny sat painting one of his bomb eggs, listening in to their conversation, though at first he wasn't meaning to eavesdrop. He felt a strange pain as he heard Tooth's confession to Jack.

Closing his eyes he tried to shake the feeling off. What was there to be all sad about after all? He already knew this day would come anyway, so what was there to be upset about?

Sandy came in giving them all a small dose of sand so they could sleep. Jack and Tooth laid down holding hands as they began to drift off.

When everyone was asleep, Jack's eyes opened. He sudden had a deep urge to go to see Pitch for some reason.

The white-haired boy looked around to make sure everyone was asleep before uncurling his fingers from Tooth's.. "Sorry.. Tooth.. I'll be back.." He whispered with his cold lips against her forehead.

At first she made a little whining sound at his departure, but then drifted back to sleep.

His bare feet tapped down the steps as he skipped and partially floated down to the room they had been in earlier.

The door creaked open slowly, allowing Jack to poke his head in. Pitch was laying back on a stone slab, with his eyes wide open staring at the ceiling, his fingers were laced together. He almost looked like a corpse. "Jack..What is it?"

"I..." He began, but trailed off as the other's eyes made contact with his own.

Pitch stood up and pulled the other into the dark room, who looked to be in some sort of trance-like state.

"You what?"

Jack's head tilted up at the towering man before him and shook his head. "Sorry.. I can't remember why I came.."

"Then.. I'll give you a reason.." Pitch whispered, as he bent down and kissed the chilled pale lips, for a moment they trembled when Pitch pulled away.

All of Pitch's kisses had been forced and extremely rough up until now, so he didn't really think he was capable of giving Gentle kisses. It took a moment for him to come back to his senses after that soft kiss, but after a minute he snapped out of his trance.

Jack's eyes widened as he realized his was attraction to this side of Pitch. "Don't kiss me anymore." Jack demanded, wiping his lips violently.

This was wrong, he was with Tooth. And of all people... Why would he be attracted to Pitch?!

"I came here to tell you that... I am not your toy. I am with Tooth, so stop playing with me like this." He lied shakily

Pitch's expression darkened at the mention of Tooth.

"Very well." He almost growled, pivoting away sharply.

Jack's red face turned away as he made his way back to Tooth. He glanced back at the door for a moment and then bumped into something big and furry.

He paled as he looked up at the fuming rabbit that just witnessed everything.

"She trusts you.. And you sneak off behind her back to make out with Pitch?!" He yelled lifting the other up into the air by his hoodie.

"YOU DISGUST ME. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE ACCEPTED BECOMING A GUARDIAN, BECAUSE GUARDIANS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE TRUSTWORTHY." He yelled, slamming Jack against the wall almost strangling him to death.

Pitch swiftly rushed out of the room after hearing the rabbit's thundering venomous words.

The raven-haired man yanked the furious rabbit off Jack who gasped for air desparetly. Those words hurt him deeply...

But it was true..

He was being so unfair to Tooth.. She truly loved him, and yet he found himself feeling nothing when they kissed or hugged, but he did care for her deeply.

Whenever Pitch even touched him, it'd make his body feel a rush of excitement, craving more.. But it was clear Pitch was only playing around with him, after all he was just a little pawn in his little game. Why he had become attracted to that horrible man was baffiling to say the least.

Jack let out a sigh that hissed out of his clench teeth as he stood up.

Both men watched Jack asend back up to the room tiredly.

Pitch let go of Bunny who dusted the nonexistant dust from his shoulders.

"Listen well rabbit... Don't let me catch you doing such an idiotic thing again, or else I will personally make sure you are turned into a nice little rabbit stew."

The threat made the anthro cluck his tounge arrogantly as he hopped back up the steps.

Bunny entered the room to find Jack laying next to Tooth, holding her close. She sneezed a bit as the cold arms around her tightened, but soon relaxed as a happy smile spread on her face.

Sandy entered the room after he finished sending his golden dust to everyone and tiredly flopped onto Bunny's leg when he sat.

Everyone went to sleep but Bunny who couldn't put his racing mind to rest as the mix of emotions began to stur within him.

(Thank you for the kind reviews once again!*Moar gross happytears*
Sorry the training is taking so long, Krampus is strong and they really need it if they hope to have any chance of defeating him, but they are getting there :DD And omg I feel so bad for Jack and Bunny that are suffering with inner conflicts at the moment.D: PITCH. ITS. ALL. YOUR. FAULT.)