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Jack let the wind carry him far, far away. But he knew where ever he was that he couldn't escape his problems. He went to the only place where he felt he could truly be alone and not having to worry about anyone else. Antarctica.
The wind carried Jack further, until he saw a familiar sight. He let the wind drop him as he stared at it. He had looked at it not too long ago, but now when he saw it, he only felt a powerful rage building within..
The black nightmare sand infused with the ice. Pitch asking him to join, the memory kept repeating in his mind as he continued to stare at it.
His eye began twitching as all of his anger was rising at once. The man that was to blame for his death, asked him to join. What really bothered Jack was that he actually considered. He had considered joining his murderer, even though he didn't know at the time, he began hating himself for it.
Jack exploded. He let the rage within him take over. His eyes began glowing blue and he shot out his winter magic everywhere.
It began to harshly snow. Powerful winds came from different directions and caught snow in its way as it began swirling around him. Ice spikes began rising from the ground and ice began to grow upwards around him. He started attacking the nightmare sand and ice sculpture that he and Pitch once created.
Jack's attempt to cause damage to it, only made a new layer of ice. Until the wind became so powerful and sharp around Jack that it sliced the ice in half. As the top half of the ice came off, the sound of it landing and shattering, snapped Jack out it and his eyes stopped glowing and everything began going calm.
Jack dropped his staff and gave out a large and long yell. The frustration and anger poured out of his voice in the yell. Jack fell to his knees and panted. The fatigue from using all that power finally caught up with him.
He felt a familiar presence, watching him from above. Jack looked up and glared at the moon shining over him.
"You knew, didn't you?"
Manny was silent.
"That Pitch was responsible for my death." Jack spat as he got to his feet, while grabbing his staff.
Manny remained silent, the only response he gave was a slight flicker of light, which to Jack meant nothing.
"Yeah, just stay quiet. That's what you're good at." Jack sneered and turned around and stormed off. He leaped into the wind to get as far as possible from the watchful eye of the man in the moon.
He found a chasm and flew into it.
It was the perfect for being alone. Just like he wanted. It was away from everything.
After a few minutes the rain lifted and they all walked back to sleigh. They left, there was nothing else to do. The guardians returned to the pole in silence. They all silently decided that they would leave Jack alone and not pursue him, he had made it clear that he needed to be alone. How Jack was acting just made them wonder more what happened to him and what Pitch had done.
They got back to the workshop and went back to the globe room when Tooth asked Baby Tooth, "Do you have any idea what happened?"
Baby Tooth started to tell Tooth what she saw and knew. The others waited for Tooth to translate. Baby Tooth chirped something more and Tooth gasped and asked, "Really?"
"Well?" North asked slightly worried by her end reaction.
Tooth translated, "She said that Jack looked like he was following something and she got caught by a fearling right under his nose. She then remembered being in a dark place. The next thing she knew, they let her go and Jack was on the ground. She tried to make sure he was okay, but he..."
She struggled to find the right words to explain it, "Snapped at her."
"Snapped? Like he did at us?" Bunny asked leaning against a pillar, he still wasn't too impressed by Jack's behaviour, regardless of not knowing.
She looked hesitant, but finally explained, "No worse. He yelled at her...with his eyes glowing. She flew off and soon after found us."
The last part made the others look at her with surprise.
"So what are we gonna do now?" Tooth asked.
"Shouldn't we go looking for frostbite?" Bunnymund asked.
"I think it's best we leave him alone." North replied. "He'll come back when he is ready."
The others looked surprised, besides Sandy who was nodding in agreement. They expected North to search the whole globe to make sure Jack was okay, but he wasn't planning or going to.
"For now we must get back to our jobs, protecting the children. We must do what we can do find Pitch." North stated.
He was right, Jack would comeback eventually. But for now they had to keep doing what they needed to do. Which was protect the children and find Pitch.
The guardians joined the search parties when they could, and tried to search for Pitch. They had no luck, no one even spotted a fearling. It was liked they vanished off the face of the globe.
They all met back at the globe room. After searching with separate search parties.
"My fairies and I found nothing." Tooth informed.
"Same here, me and my eggs found squat." Bunny stated.
"Have you searched his hideouts?" North asked.
Sandy made a dreamsand '4' above his head, saying that he had searched them both four times.
"Where could they have gone?" North thought aloud.
"It's a good thing, right? I mean the lights haven't been going out like before. If anything we gained back the children that we lost." Tooth tried to see the brighter side.
"He's definitely up to something though, Tooth. He wouldn't be in hiding if he didn't. I mean besides hiding from a winter spirit's wrath." Bunny replied.
The end joke, just made everyone a bit more glum. It had to be about five days since Jack stormed off. They all figured out he was in Antarctica. The temperature there was far below freezing and a snow storm was raging, even from the rims of continent.
They knew to leave him alone though. The only good thing they found from that, was that it was too cold for anyone, even Pitch.
"C'mon guys, like you said North, he'll comeback." Bunnymund tried to reassure, but like the others, he was beginning to be unsure himself.
It was a fairly cold night in Burgess and it was late. Jamie awoke from his sleep, feeling nature calling. He yawned and rubbed his eyes after he flushed and turned off the light in the bathroom. The bathroom was across from his sister's, Sophie's room.
He was about to shuffle back to his room, until he saw a shadow move past in his sister's room. He blinked a couple of times, wondering if it was just a trick of the light. He knew it wasn't when he heard something move.
Jamie was now fully awake and took a deep breath, hoping it would give him more courage. He began to slowly push open his Sophie's bedroom door.
"Sophie?" He whispered as he pushed it fully open. "Sophie!" Jamie couldn't help, but call out as he saw a dark figure hunched over his sister sleeping on the floor, about to grab her.
Upon hearing Jamie, the dark figure quickly jumped at Jamie, he luckily ducked before it could hit him. When Jamie looked back up he saw it escaping out of the slightly open window. Jamie knew that the window wasn't open before they went to bed. He quickly ran over and shut her window and locked it.
Hearing the window being locked, Sophie awoke and rubbed her eyes, "Jamie?" She asked sleepily.
Jamie ran over to her. He helped her to stand as he grabbed one of her favourite plush toys,
"C'mon Soph. You come and sleep in my room tonight."
She didn't protest, being still half asleep. She was dragged by Jamie into his bedroom and she instantly crawled on top of his bed and fell back to sleep. Jamie pulled the blanket over her and placed her plush toy next to her.
He was surprised his mother and father didn't hear him, but he knew that their bedroom was down stairs and not up like his. Jamie knew what he had to do. He frantically went searching. He pulled open his nightstand drawers and dug around until he found it.
It was a little warm ice sphere. He remembered Jack's words, "This ice won't melt. It's special. Keep with you all the time and if you're in trouble, smash it and I'll come running."
Jamie didn't know if he was in trouble or not, but he did know what he saw was real and it was an emergency. Jamie held it up in the air and hurled it to the ground. It shattered instantly.
His powers were going crazy. He just let his power and emotions run wild as he processed everything. All form of time had escaped him. What was days only felt like hours to him.
Jack's staff began to shake from the extreme power it was trying to channel coming from him. Jack continued to grip it tight. His eyes were glowing and Jack in that power state came to a conclusion. He hated Pitch. He had never hated anything as much as he hated Pitch. Most of all Jack had a growing need for revenge.
Pitch needed to be punished for all he had done, but Jack was too lost in his anger, despair and powers to find a plan of revenge.
"No." Jack yelled at himself. "No." He muttered, much quieter.
His eyes kept flashing from his normal to glowing. Jack's powers instantly shut off and his staff returned to normal. Jack blinked a few times as his eyes stopped glowing. He snapped out it and took back control. He flew out of the chasm with his staff.
Jack looked around and saw that as far as the eye could see was waist deep in snow. He didn't remember anything after sitting in the chasm to be alone.
He knew that it was a break down. It wasn't his first. If he couldn't handle something emotionally, he would just let his powers run wild and it would link to the emotion he felt, which was usually something really intense. The last time he had a breakdown was over 45 years ago on a Sunday, in March. He managed to pass it off as a prank, but only he knew the real reason why.
Jack stood and shut his eyes. He took a deep breath as a calm breeze whirled around him. He knew that the time for thinking was over, it was time to take action. Even though he just let it all out, it didn't change that he was enraged and planned on revenge. All he wanted to do was find and end him.
Suddenly he heard as clear as day ping. It continued to echo through his mind. He looked out to the distance and remembered what the sound would have been.
"Jamie." Jack said aloud with evident worry.
Knowing it was what he had given Jamie to warn him if he was in trouble, all of the rage and hate Jack felt at that moment, drained away. Instead he immediately felt worried and slightly panicked about Jamie's well being.
Jack jumped into the wind and flew full speed for Burgess. Regardless of what he felt, he was still a guardian. He just knew that Pitch would be lucky if he didn't see him. Something he didn't know was how he would react upon seeing Pitch once again.
I don't know if any of you noticed when I talked about Jack's last breakdown *Cough cough* Blizzard of 68 *Cough cough*
Jack had his mini breakdown. Next chapter is gonna be better because, Jack 'might' see Pitch. *smirks evilly*
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