"Fulmen!" Kachi yelled as a bolt of lightning struck the being. It retracted its hand back in pain. "Cronus, hardly a God, a Titan brought down by its own children, Nihil, and soon, by myself." He raised his book into the air, pages moving, words flying around him.

"Voro." He said, the words flying around him moving to the Titan. They clung to Cronus, shining brightly. The Titan yelled in pain, trying desperately to scrape them off his body. The words covered the Titan entirely, all shining brightly, then, they flashed, blinding all that looked. When I finally was able to see again, the Titan was gone. We all turned to face Kachi, who was standing there, his eyes closed, as calm and composed as ever.

"Kachi… th-" I tried to speak

"Be silent Jack." He said, very shortly. Now was not the time to talk, and it was time to let Kachi handle things. He was right, he is the only one that can deal with Nihil. He walked off the platform we stood on, flying into the nothingness.

"Nihil" He said into the nothingness "Show yourself, stop hiding."

Nihil laughed "You are giving me orders?"

"Yes, now do it."

"Fine… I will comply… this time."

The darkness, the nothingness, began to take shape and form. It pooled in front of Kachi, and slowly, a figure began to emerge. The Darkness was dripping off its form which was nothing more than a lump at first. Slowly and surely, however, the Darkness began to become defined. Legs, a torso, arms, and a head… it was shaped like a human. Long hair cascaded down the head of Nihil. The body was slender, very slim, but after some time armor began to take shape. The black darkness chipped off Nihils body, revealing Black armor from its feet to its neck. Finally, the darkness on its head chipped off, revealing a very soft, white face. It was… female looking. Black hair, but soft, white cheeks and pale lips, her eyes however… her eyes were black, completely void of all color. She straightened herself out in front of Kachi, her void orbs staring at Kachi.

She opened her mouth "Hello… dear Brother."

"Hello, my Sister."

Brother… and Sister? How? What?

"What is meaning in this?" North said aloud, vocalizing my confusion.

"S… sister? That's your sister?" Tooth said, pointing at the armor clad woman.

"Oh, Brother, you didn't tell them?" Nihil asked.

"It's a fact I'd rather not tell people." Kachi said, still staring at Nihil. "We were siblings in life. Now…"

She spoke up. "Now you are nothing but a bother to me, brother, filling the voids I create with knowledge, with hope and inspiration, desire, why can't you just leave me alone?"

"It is my duty to suppress you."

"Just as it is mine to destroy your efforts."

"You're the one out of the two of us who has it out for the other, sister."

"Oh? How do you mean? Don't tell me that you aren't frustrated with my work, my destroying of all you create? Don't tell me you're okay with the task in life given to you by Luna. There was no way we wouldn't turn bitter towards each other. I'm sure the Guardians were upset with Pitch when he destroyed their work, ruining Easter, kidnapping Tooth's fairies, killing Sandy. I'm sure they weren't shrugging their shoulders and accepting it, saying it was part of their work. No, brother, they were mad at him, hated him, and worked against him, as you and I have done since the beginning of our creations. Do not think of yourself above me."

"The Balance… we were created to balance each other out Sister. You are to empty the cup I fill so that I can fill it more, fill it so you can empty it… balance…" Kachi trailed off.

"Yes, yes, the whole balance thing that Luna set out of us. I can never defeat you, brother, but you can never defeat me, lest we both die. Look what I've managed to do though." She said while spreading her arms. "I've devoured the House of Words, sucked it all into the void… into me, and you know, it was quite delicious. All that work, all that effort you put forth to keep me out and keep this place safe, wasted, gone, lost forever now, because of your… momentary distraction. Yet, this is still a small victory for me, for this was simply a storage place of your knowledge, not the actual source… however, it hurt you in the end, and that's all that matters to me." A sword materialized into her hand. It had a short hilt, white and pure, but its blade, its blade was long, black, as black as the void. "Now brother… now I want to end things." She walked slowly to Kachi, moving her blade, holding it at eye height and pointing it at him. Her movement was slow, but Kachi didn't move. Her blade was but an inch away from his face but he stood there, unwavering, no fear on his face.

"I will not fall for your petty tricks dear sister." He said calmly. "You will not attack me."

She laughed, "Maybe…" she looked down at us… at me. I looked into her eyes, which were staring at me. They were… drawing me in; they were so much different from Kachi's eyes. They had no warmth; there was no curiosity… only nothingness. I was too afraid to move, all of the other guardians also stuck in place.

"Can you say the same for them though?" Kachis eyes widened as she said this. She disappeared, vanished. She appeared before us, her sword raised, ready to strike. She let her blade fall before me, but before it made contact, Kachi appeared before me.

"Duro!" He yelled, blocking the sword with his book. It didn't cut through, the blade struggling against the book. She drew back her sword and aimed for me once more, Kachi once more blocking the blade with his book.

"Truso!" He yelled, a white light flashed and knocked Nihil back a few yards on her back. As she struggled to get up Kachi let go of the book, letting it float in the air. Its pages opened, unfurling, the words beginning to glow. He closed his eyes and stretched out his left arm, opening his hand to Nihil. "Ignes, comburas." As he said this, fire poured from the book, stretching to Nihil, clawing its way across the ground and air. The flames began to wrap around Nihil, she still staring at Kachi with a menacing look on her face. Just as the fires seemed to engulf her, I heard a noise… it was laughter.

A roaring laughter, it was from Nihil. Her sword pierced the flames, cutting through them and devouring them, sucking them up into the void. After mere moments the flames that wreathed Nihil were gone, not a trace to be seen.

She finished her mad laughter and looked back at Kachi. "Did you really think that would work, dear brother?"

"No, but it did buy me time." He said as he snapped his fingers. Unbeknownst to all of us, he slipped pages under all of us, a portal opening, beginning to send us back. Nihils eyes widened, angered.

"You will do no such thing! You will burn!" She yelled as she pointed her sword at me, the same flames she absorbed erupting from it, heading towards me at a rapid rate. I wasn't going to be teleported fast enough, and I couldn't block the attack, so I dodged out of the way, out of the portal. She continued her barrage of flames, lighting the land on fire. I evaded the fires, but couldn't fly for some reason. My frost wasn't putting out the fires, so I had to keep moving, but it got to the point where I had nowhere else to run. She saw I was trapped and began to calmly walk through the fire. She raised her sword in the air, ginning.

"I got you… Jack Frost" She said before swinging the sword. I closed my eyes, waiting for the blade to hit me… but it never did.

I opened my eyes, and saw Kachi standing before me, the blade in his arm.

The words on his robe began to flow into Nihils blade, causing it to glow. Faintly at first, but the longer it was kept in there, the brighter it glowed. After a few seconds Nihil pulled her blade out of Kachis arm. He grasped his wounded right arm with his left hand. His book appeared behind him, opening once more.

He raised his head to stare his sister down, glaring at her. "Don't… you dare… hurt him." He struggled to say.

She scoffed. "Oh? And what will you do about it?" She said as she moved towards me once more.

"… Scindite..." as he said this his book tore itself to pieces. The pages slowly began to fall, but before they hit the ground, he muttered "… Rend Asunder" at his command the pages glowed, and moved towards Nihil. Her eyes widened as she stepped back, but the moment she did so they picked up speed, launching themselves at her. She managed to block a few of them with her sword, but most sliced through her armor, cutting her. She screamed in pain as they did so.

I ran up to Kachi, who was now bending over in pain. I bent over and supported him, letting him rest on my body.

"Where did she cut you?" I asked

He pulled his left arm off his right, the wound was on his right upper arm. I placed my hand on the wounded area, chilling it down. It seemed to relieve some of the pain. He waved his left hand and called for some pages to wrap themselves around the wound.

"Thank you…" He muttered, speaking softly. "Sister…" He said, the pages stopped attacking her. She looked up. "Please… sister… stop your madness…"

"Never, brother… never…" She said, panting, clutching her wounds. "I will… destroy your joy, brother… you do not deserve it. I destroyed the belief in Jack, to spite you… to ruin your happiness… but you found a way around that, so instead… I'll just get rid of him!" She lunged towards me, but a wall of paper formed between us, blocking the attack. It exploded, paper rushing towards her, slicing through her armor. She screamed once more, her eyes still on me, full of such hatred.

What did she mean by destroying belief in me? Why does she hate me so much? I couldn't ask those questions now, I had to help Kachi, but how? How do we escape?

I looked up and saw that Nihil had stopped screaming, standing still, looking down at the ground, the paper still flying around her. "Enough…" she said. Her face cracked, her left eye breaking off… into herself. The cracks moved down her body, and slowly pieces of her began to chip away, falling into her own body. Soon, her entire body was consumed by this, and I could feel it. The Nothing, the Void. It began to consume the ground she stood on, then the paper that was flying around her, and soon it began to move towards us.

"It's hopeless." Kachi said, a portal appearing behind us both. It was North. He tried to pull me through the portal but I held onto Kachi, who wasn't moving. He moved his hand into his robe and grabbed something. It was… a cup? A gold cup. He held it out to the void that was slowly coming to us. "Sister." He said. "I'm sorry…" He dropped the cup onto the ground. From the void came two hands, reaching out. Instead of grabbing him, however, they reached down and grabbed the cup. I pulled Kachi through the portal, and just before the portal closed, I heard a noise… crying…

We were back at North's workshop, safe… at least I hope. I was still holding onto Kachi who was staring at the floor. He looked… well, upset isn't the right word. He wasn't sad, he wasn't angry… he looked disappointed, but why?

"Kachi?" I asked "Are you okay?"

He turned around and faced me. I looked into his eyes, they were not the same. They were no longer full of wonder and amazement, full of depth and knowledge, but hollow, empty, there were no tears, no feelings or thoughts to be read, there was just nothing. He leaned over and collapsed on me.