Tooth flew around the room trying to find an opening. She didn't want to hurt Jack but under the circumstances She would rather hurt his body and bring him back to being himself that to lose him forever to Pumpkin Jack's insanity.
Jack threw several glaciers at her with a swing of his staff. Tooth quickly dodged and flew at jack. She punched him solidly in the stomach and grabbed his wrist and squeezed forcing him to drop his staff. Tooth let go of his wrist, spun a little and kicked the staff away before grabbing Jack in a tight hug.
"Jack. Listen. I need the real jack. Not this one. Please Jack." Tooth whispered in his ear.
"I'm trying but I can't….. Tooth Get away from me!" Jack suddenly said with his normal voice. Tooth didn't let go and instead hugged him tighter. Tooth felt butterfly's in her stomach and her heart beat faster. She was glad that Jack was still inside there. Somewhere. Suddenly Tooth felt a pain in her side. Jack kneed her in the side over and over before thrusting her back and chopped her neck with his hand. Tooth couldn't breath. Couldn't protest as Jack connected his knee with her face. Tooth fell back and looked at Jacks face which was back to it's emotionless gray form.
"Ah Pitch, Simon how was it? Did you entertain our guests?" Jack asked Simon and pitch as they walked in with Bunny and sandy hunched over their shoulders. "Eh it was alright but we didn't get to rehearse." Simon sighed as he laid sandy down next to Santa who was barely conscious. "I see you got things done here." Pitch said as he threw bunny over near sandy and Santa.
"Yah some fun here and there. But mostly just some swordplay practice. Now that I think about it…. I'm powerful enough to summon the sword of Halloween?" Jack half asked as he brought up his word and looked at it happily. "I see." Pitch said un-amusingly.
"Oh come on Pitch, you can't tell me that that was the most fun you have had in ages." Jack laughed.
Pitch smiled slightly before looking at The guardians sprawled all over the floor. "So what are we going to do with these guy?" Pitch asked.
"Ah I will just have Simon and his gay dulahan friend kill them at the edge of the village. I don't want blood on my expensive floor" Jack said.
"Sir…. The dulahan is a woman." Simon said after a while of silence. Jack looked at Simon with a blank face.
"Wha… really? It's a woman. Wow did not see that coming. Oh I see you couldn't get a real, live woman so you settled with a dead, decapitated, flat chested, one." Jack started laughing.
Simon felt the rage inside him start to boil as Jack continued to roll insults and jokes off of his tongue.
"Jack!" Simon yelled. Jack looked at Simon curiously. "Simon says shut it!" Simon said. Jacks mouth moved but no voice came out. Jack looked at Simon with surprise and a twinge of panic. "Now I release you Jack, only because you are my boss and I acknowledge you are greater than me. Simon says game over." Simon said.
"Ack. Point made Simon please don't do that again." Jack said with a frown.
Simon quelled his rage and grabbed the guardians one by one and placed them in the Dulahan's carriage while Pitch, Frost, and Jack left to the town.
Inside of the carriage Santa woke up next to Sandy, who was trying desperately to wake the others up but to no avail.
"Tooth bunny wake up." Santa whispered as he nudged them up. They both woke up, to Sandy's frustration, and wiped the sleep out of their eyes. Santa almost began to speak before he felt the pain in his chest. He looked down to see bandages covering his chest and part of his arm.
"Santa! Are you alright?" Tooth asked worried.
"I'm just fine. A couple of cookies, some milk, and some sleep and I will be right as rain." Santa said grabbing his chest and wheezing for air. "How are you all?" Santa asked.
"I'm fine although I did get a little bit of a cramp in my leg." the bunny said pulling up his foot to reveal a large amount of bloody bandages all the way from his heal to his thigh. "Just can't hop for a while." He finished sadly.
Sandy had a cast around one of his arms and an eye patch made out of wrappings.
"Tooth didn't have any bandages but she felt pain inside of her. For some reason she felt betrayed. Her head was filled with images of Jack frost looking at her with those grey eyes and that blank expression that didn't care fore anything. Tooth's heart sunk when she thought of it. "So what now." Tooth asked sadly.
"Now. I don't know. Maybe we will die as soon as this carriage gets to where it is heading. Maybe we won't. but one thing is for sure. We can't let jack get away with this. We must do everything in our power to protect the people of this world. Not just the children now, because whatever jack is planning it will involve the entire world." Santa wheezed between painful breaths.
There was silence for the rest of the ride while everyone waited for what would happen next. After an hour or two the carriage finally stopped. Simon opened the door.
"Alright everyone out." Simon said. The dulahan was right behind him holding a scythe.
The guardians filed out of the carriage. Simon took a step towards Santa who tried to jump at him the second he did. Simon simply dodged to the right and tripped the wounded man.
"Listen! my orders are to kill you all here. And I can at any moment I wish to." Simon said pulling out a revolver and loading it. "But I'm also a human. And as a human I know that Jack can't possibly have mankind's best interests at heart so I'm going to give you a chance to live." Simon finished as he pointed to the woods with his finger.
The guardians looked at Simon with surprise before hobbling along. Simon brought up his revolver and took aim. His enemies were easy targets, but Simon was a born hunter, he loved a challenge but after a while he had killed every challenge he could face. Simon had killed bears in hand to hand combat armed with nothing but a pocket knife, he had strangled lions with his bear hands, he drove several species to extinction, and he had killed a great white shark with his fists. But now that he had done all of these things nothing gave him the rush he needed to fill the empty void that his previous girlfriend had left in his heart. Now he had Zuria. She was a wonderful, smart, beautiful, loving, and promising woman that Simon thoroughly enjoyed being with. However When he fought Sandy He felt that Rush that he got when he fought those monstrous beasts. And He loved it. It would be a shame to kill them. Simon pulled the trigger six times and missed every single one of them.
The guardians looked at him shocked.
"Oops I missed. Ow darn I forgot my extra bullets, it seems that I can't kill these people." Simon smiled in a way that said. "Come back and fight me when you are healed."
The guardians shuffled through the forest leaving Simon and the Dulahan behind. It was several minuets since Tooth said the first words.
"I think Jack is still in his body. But he is just not in control." Tooth said.
"What are you saying?" Rabbit asked.
"Jack is definitely in there." Tooth stated firmly as she looked at the mansion in the distance. "Hold on Jack. I will be their to rescue you." Tooth said firmly.