Chapter 21: A little fun.

Luna and Jack.

"Wow." Jack said. The lock thing was right in front of the two. They could hardly believe in what was right in front of them. Though it was evil it was still absolutely beautiful looking. "Ciana?" he guessed looking at Luna, and in reply Luna nodded at him. He was correct.

"Are you sure you're ready to go in there?" she said. He had his staff and she had her satchel and also what was ever was inside that satchel. Jack looked at her. They were both ready. As they took one step near it Jack heard something.

"Jack Help!" it sounded like Jamie. No it was Jamie. He was in there. And he sounded like he was scared or in trouble.

"Jamie!" Jack ran to the thing and jumped in, despite Luna shouting for him to stop. She sighed angrily and ran after him. But she stopped at the portal. She nervously looked at it.

To Luna of course, I mean who else could it be.

Time to braven up Luna. You need to do this. You need to get Ciana back inside of you. Just do it. I slowly stepped through it as everything turn a whole swirl of colours. No more fear. You may have held off the fearling, but I still might not be able to hold it off for that much longer. I wish i had told Jack that it wasn't gone forever. what if it tries to control me again? will we be able to stop it again, or will I be taken over by the moser that is my powers? I'm so scared to tell him. I feel the gravity of this place taking over as i start falling onto the ground.

No more focuses for now that is.

They looked at their surroundings. There were trees that were a mix of grey and blue and had plants growing off of it. They had dark green leaves that had a small circular lights coming off of it. They were absolutely bright and beautiful. And the two were in a whole entire forest of them. An entire forest of the little lights. They took mere moments to take all of it in. but seamed like those moments lasted for eternities.

"Wow. This is incredible." said Jack smiling. He was right. Amazing. It was all that either one of them could think of to describe it. Then Jack notice a particularly large one on top of a hill. An idea popped inside of his head. It was a rather playful one. He had to ask her about.

"Do you want to race to that tree." he said pointing to his target. She looked at him with an agreeing look on her face. "You know for fun." her eyes widened as he finished that sentence. and then she started hyperventilating.

"Luna is everything alright?" he came closer to her.

" Don't say that word!" she screamed right at him while hyperventilating even more than before. What word Jack asked himself.

"Fun?" he asked nervously. She screamed again. It was definitely that word. But why was it that one? He was the guardian of fun of after all. That kind of seamed hypocritical of him to never use that word again.

"Stop saying that word! Just stop will ya! Shut up!" she screamed once again. Even louder this time than the last time.

Luna.

Jack please stop saying that word! Just shut up! It only brings more pain to me. Don't say it! I hate that word. I don't want to hear it anymore! Just stop! Everything starts hurting all over again. You can't say that stupid word! don't say that stupid word ever again around me! I can't handle the sound of that stupid word!

I couldn't do anything. Up on that wall, stuck in those chains. After everything he did to me, he still wanted to do more. So much more. Everything i could think of was broken. The nightmares that he gave me were too real. I just couldn't shake any of them off. They just stuck with me. And what was more was that he mocked me all they way through it. Did he have no end to this. Just for a scream. Just for my fear.

Why did he want it? I wasn't going to let him have it. But what he did to get really terrified me. He had physically touched me a few times. It was nothing serious, but he was just so close to me. And a few times he shot me with his nightmare sand. It burned. And if it went into my skin then he'd definitely done something. He could get into my thoughts. Even when other people were there, it would be only i that could hear his voice.

But he just kept on doing it. And more mocking. So much more. Just to hear my screams he told me. I did everything, but i didn't screamed. I cried, but I didn't scream no matter how much it hurt. I didn't scream once. It was so hard no to. He would always say something about fun though.

"let's have a little fun shall we." i had grown to the word fun meaning pain. I didn't want to hear it again. Ever again.

"Look, I'm sorry. But why?"

To Jack.

"P-pitch. He always used that word. Always that one." she stuttered, looking as terrified as she could possibly be. There were even a few tears in her eyes. That little! He used element to cause her pain and fear. My element. He had hurt her. And he used my element to do all of it. She was crying.

Because of me. I feel so bad about it. I feel so angry. I grabbed my staff tighter. I pick it up a little and slam it down hard. I feel something cold under my feet. I look at them. There's ice underneath them. I look at Luna. There's ice covering her feet. She seams a little scared. He had made it so that when someone mention my element she would be terrified. That little! Terrifying her with my element. I had ruined his first plan when i became a guardian, and this was his way of getting back at me. And he had a pretty sick way of getting of doing it.

3d person time.

"Luna I'm sorry!" he grabbed her arms and pulled. The ice cracked. He pulled a bit more. He heard the ice crackle a bit more. One more pull and she slipped into my arms. She looked up at me and i smiled at her. It was for comfort. I hope it worked for her. She gave me a weak smile back. I think it did.

"I'm sorry for yelling Jack. It's just that Pitch has sand in my skin. I don't know what might happen if he uses it again." she looked at them as she stood up out of his arms.

"It's okay." and with that they both looked into each other eyes in comfort to each other. He moved his hand to hers. She didn't let go or loosen it. Her hand tightened gently.

"How about we go to the tree together." I said gently. She laughed a little. We took a small step forwards. She looked at me again. She still looked a little nervous.

The tree seamed so bright. Romantic. She's still a friend, but she feels like more. I wonder how she feels about me. I don't care. I feel so happy that she finally got a break. I can see why Pitch would want her so much. She's more powerful than him. I mean it was really terrifying when she used her shadow on me. I still have some shadow inside of me. He would need her. But he wasn't going to have her. Both her and I wouldn't let that happen. No matter how many times he tried. But he did have Ciana.

But she had created this place. And it was amazing. The lights underneath the moon. In the dark it was stunning. And the large tree was like a beacon of the moon. The lights on that tree were all white. Just like the moon. That was all it was. Like the moon. The other trees were all like stars and the big one on the hill it was just like the moon.

She looked at me again. Her name was Luna. I bet she didn't really care, all that matters is really that we're safe for once. From the cause of an enemy. I wonder how she feels about all of this. I hope she likes the lights too. They're very well i don't know just how to put it. There has to be something to make this more special. As if anything could make this better. Actually there is one thing i can think of to make this better. I just hope that Luna can really trust me after all everyone's done to her.

To Luna.

It all looks like snowflakes. And i always found that snowflakes look just like stars. Stars falling down to all of our Earths. And the trees were like the stars and snowflakes. But it's so beautiful. The complexity is just so amazing to think about how it's so complex yet so simple. Like how spirits lives. I'm not a spirit. I'm just a human that can use magic. Ciana's a spirit, but I'm not. It's okay. I'll still be Jack's friend.

He stopped. I turned and looked at him.

"Do you trust me?" he looked at me. Do i trust him? Of course I trust him. I mean why not. Well i guess this was like the time I took him to the library when we were in the forest that night. I guess i have the same answer that Jack had that same night when I asked him that question.

"Um y-yes." I answered him. He smiled at me. Oh boy, what's he planning in his little mind. He grabbed my other arm. I start feeling lighter and lighter. I looked down at my feet. They were going off the ground. Is he! Are we! Flying! I man I'm scared of heights, but this is amazing! Am I breathing too loudly. I mean this is just so exciting. It's amazing! Feeling a small wind on my body. I mean how could he have thought of all this. I looked at him almost laughing. I feel terrified yet so happy at the same time. I can't believe I'm flying! Actually flying!

"Jack!" it was all i could say. I looked at the surroundings. It's like we're above we're flying above the stars. In the heavens. It absolutely amazing. I mean there's no words to describe this feeling i have right now.

"I know right!?" he was so excited. It's so amazing that he gets to do this like just about every single day. I mean it's just so amazing that he thought of all this. It's wondrous. I mean the thought of doing this almost every day. I would love that. It makes my fears fade away. I know I'm still a little scared about all of this.

"This is just so amazing!" I looked at him. There was nothing else I could say about all of this.

No more focus.

The trees made being in air like flying above space. With the night looking as dark as space, and all the little lights on the tree gleamed like each and every star that you could be able to see if looked up at the sky. All the different colours made it more spectacular than it already was. It was all so spectacularly perfect.

And nothing could ruin any of it. It was all perfect. Absolutely perfect. They looked at each others' blue eyes in pure astonishment. As if they that they were to look away then their world would go into complete black as they would fade away from each other forever. Never to see each other again. As if they would fade out like lights to each other and they'd be stuck within all the silent stars that surrounded them.

Nothing could ruin it. Nothing at all. Jack brought Luna a little closer together to him. This wondrous time was coming to an end. Jack slowly landed trying to land the both of them properly.

They landed just near the tree. The perfect spot to land. Nothing could be more perfect. As if they were standing inside the stars. Pure beauty was surrounding them. All they had were each other. That was all they had for, just each other.

"I can't believe that Ciana made all of this." Luna stated nervously. Jack couldn't believe it either. He wondered how Luna felt about all of this. I mean, she was a her too. It was all so confusing when Jack thought of it. But she was her. He wondered if she could ever do anything as amazing like this.

The large tree of lights was a lighter colour than all the rest of the trees. It was also the largest by a long shot. All the light were white with a hint on the very edge of the light flowers, which was of lightest blue possible to see with human eyes. The lights made everything so much better than it already was.

Jack looked at the tree of light blooms. He had to touch the marvel. He reached his hand towards the tree. As his hand made contact with the tree it started phasing through. He could only look in shock as his whole hand passed through it. Luna reached out her arms to help him, but her arms only went through the tree too. Then Luna's whole body entered the tree.

"Luna!" Jack shouted. Then he jumped in after her hoping that what he'd see next was be as spectacular as the forest of tree lights. Well there was always hoping. But for now it was all white.

When he did come into the next place he definitely saw how it was different. It was all dark. Everything was very dark shades of black, grey, purple, and even small hints of blue. It was amazing though. There was black tall grass and other plants. Looking up he could see trees that were way taller than the grove of lights' trees. The looked kind of like mushroomed shaped with a thick vine wrapping around the trees. And the sky was a very very light grey. It gave the forest of shadow some more light, well it was pretty dark in there to begin with.

Now where exactly is Luna Jack wondered. She could be anywhere in this thick place. Than again, he didn't really know where he was exactly either. Jack stood up. The ground underneath his feet felt cold wet and soft. It was a little bit of an odd feeling underneath his feet. He took one step. All the grass moved away from his overly cold feet. Vegetation purposes of course. Like self defence, but for plants. And when Jack moved his foot up the plants grew back instantly. When he put his foot back down on the ground felt soft like a blanket and wet. The shadow plants looked incredible also.

He picked up a black lily with a few spots of a crimson colour. The flower grew back from the stem that was left on the ground where he plucked the flower from. He dropped the lily onto the ground as it disappeared when it made contact with the grey grass. He looked at the spot where it fell out of his hand. There was nothing there anymore. Just light grey grass. That's all.

Jack took a few more steps forwards. He touched the tall grass that was up to his eyes. Some of the black grass had one or two purple specs on the top. The grass felt rubbery and when he squeezed a strip of it it felt gooey. Jack stepped back away from it the goo on his fingers stayed on him like a web. It strung from his fingers to the black grass plant.

"Eww." Jack looked at the goo. Sticky and wet was how it felt. Jack shook his hand to try and shake it off, but it wasn't working at all. It was kind disgusting. The way it stuck to his hand was absolutely gross. As he stopped shaking his hand and calmed down a little he saw something that was just amazing as the lily.

The goo basically played backwards from when it burst out on his fingers. A little of the goo also wrapped itself the top of the plant to self itself back up. Then the goo dried itself to seal the wound that Jack had made in the rather fragile plant. Though slightly disgusting, Jack couldn't help but gaze in wonder as he watched the nature of this place work its wondrous magic.

"How did she!" Jack whispered. He couldn't believe that she was able to do all of this. He didn't know how she planned out every single detail of this place. She had such little time to do all of this, and she could do all of these details.

Then he thought a bit more about Ciana herself. She was just like North. Always looking into details. Whether it was protecting Luna or planning all of this she always looked into the smallest of details. Just like when North made those ice sculptures in his office. They were filled with as much detail as they could fit into it.

And this place had as much detail as North had put into his tiny little sculptures. And the pure nature of this place was absolutely beautiful. Jack walked a little farther as the tall grass moved away from him due to his overly cold skin. He decided to starting fly to make finding Luna a little less harder. The sky felt different from the one on well regular earth.

It felt thick like fog. It still felt like air though. But unfortunately for Jack this air felt rather hard for flying through. It was just like swimming a little. It felt wet and rainy, and yet he was completely dry. Jack looked down again. He saw a little black dot. He flew down towards it, hoping it was Luna. And it wasn't.

It was a small creature of the world that he was in right now. It was small and black. The round thing was below his knees except for three strand that looked like the tall grass from everywhere. It had a symbol on the front of it. It had a spiral with a line coming down the spiral. And on the top there was a line that was shaped like a hook that wrapped itself around half of the spiral.

Despite not knowing if it was dangerous or not, Jack thought it looked adorable. It was also a little shiny. But it still looked cute as could be. He looked down at it going on his knees to look at him eye to "eye." They both looked at each other for a few seconds. Then the small creature handed him a lily and jack took the lily out of the thing's hand.

"Cheebio." the thing squealed. Its voice was high pitched and very squeaky. Well, Jack had just found a name for the little creature. Cheebio. It sounded innocent and cute. Just perfect for the little guy.

"Have you seen someone named Luna?" he asked the small cheebio using gestures to see if he would understand what he was saying. The thing looked at him as it started to walk away as he disappeared into the grass. Then after a few more steps it turned around pushed some grass out of the way and turned then looked at him. It waved its tiny little hand to follow him. Jack stood up and followed him.

"So you do know where she is." jack said. The two just kept walking through the grasslands. And they just kept moving out of Jack's way, but the cheebio just kept on having to push all the grass out of the way that was in front of him. The two moved all through the land as they got closer to a tree. It was the very first tree that Jack had seen when he came here first. The mushroom tree.

The next portal! Jack thought. Ciana must like trees a lot. Both of the portals so far. He looked down at Cheebio. He looked like he was going to cry. He had been alone, now the first and last friend that he would have. Then he shaped his hand into another a lily. A small breeze flowed through the air as he handed the lily to Jack as he swallowed the lump in his throat. He wondered if after they beat Ciana if this world would go away then all of this would go away.

And if this went away, then Cheebio would die. Was this all he'd get to see of what Ciana could make. This may just be last time he see something like this. He might just be saying good bye to Cheebio forever. Cheebio would die. A few tears held themselves inside Jack eyes.

"I guess this is goodbye, friend." he looked at him, kneeling down once again to look at him. He slowly stood up slowly and looked down on last time, holding the flower. He smiled at it.

"Whee koa ibo,

Neebah schtay,

haw, haw, hoa,

Kiaboo." Cheebio sung, and Jack knew he would remember the little song. He held the flower tighter. As he turned his as he stepped through the large tree. This time everything went white. Jack placed the lily inside of his pocket.

He would always remember the small creature that helped him find his friend. It was the creature that he named after the one thing that he said.

"Jack!" he snapped out of his thoughts in the sound of Luna's voice. What was it! Was she in trouble! Everything started going into more and more colours. Only this time what he saw didn't put him in pure wonder, oh no. This time it was something that Jack saw something that he really didn't want to see. No Luna, but there was both Pitch and Ciana. And they both were very close to him that he could see.

A.N. Cliffhanger! Just saying, but this scene back there was really hard to write. and also Cheebio is a one-shot character for this story. and yes the lily will be mentioned a few more time in memory of this character, but will have no major plot element in what could be the sequal to this Fic. Oh yeah, there's going to be a sequal. heh heh. forgot to mention that little tiny detail. i haven't thought of a tital formit though, so maybe you guys can helpm me on that. Now at this point I'm starting to make a list of heart wrenching moments in this. Here's the list so far.

-Cheebio's goodbye/ the lily scene/ Cheebio's song.

This list may improve way later. But just thanks for doing stuff for this chapter, and this fic in general. Well i guess just R&R. And soon enough I will get the choice of faults person to read this. (Well that didn't sound creepy at all.) Well just R&R for now. BYE!