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this is kinda the Guardians meeting up and preparing to fight Jax.

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Jax held the elderly lady close as he waited for the ice to send her into an eternal sleep, slowly her body stopped shivering uncontrollably and she fell limp in his arms. He let the lady fall from his arms in disgust, repulsed that he had even held her, but as she had died she had wanted company and even Jax knew that a person's dying wish had to be fulfilled to the best of your abilities so he held the old woman in his arms as he killed her.

Pitch stared at the frost-coated woman's body lying ungainly on the floor and a shiver ran through him as he heard Jax's pleased laugh.

"When the foolish Guardians have been destroyed we will rule supreme, the world shall be commanded by ice-cold fear." Jax laughed again and this time the entire building seemed to shiver and cringe away from Jax, even Pitch's nightmares, which thrived on fear and hatred, flinched back.

A stifled sob came from the corner where the dead lady's daughter was tied in chains, preventing her from escaping, or even moving.

"Oh don't worry sweetheart you won't have to wait for long, it's your turn next." The young woman looked to Pitch and silently begged him with her big brown eyes. Pitch turned his head, his heart breaking even more that it already was. He couldn't help this girl, not yet anyway.

"Actually, sorry sweetie but you going to have to wait until after your son has had a turn." Jax smiled as the woman screamed and tried to fight of the ice-wolves that pulled her small son away from her.

The boy cried and fought the wolves as he tried in vain to get back to the safety of his mother's side, but to no avail.

Jax roughly pulled the boy to his feet and slowly the ice began to creep across the boy's wrists and up his arms, then along his chest until it started to climb up his neck. The boy stopped screaming and started crying pitifully as the ice crept across his face leaving small frost patterns as it did.

As the boy's tears started to freeze as they trickled down his chin, Pitch decided that he had had enough. He summoned all of the nightmares at his disposal and within seconds he had an entire army beside him all ready to trample Jax as soon as their master gave the word. Telepathically Pitch gave the order and immediately dozens of nightmares surged forward and surrounded Jax. Pitch quickly formed some nightmare-monkeys (a first for him) and new creations gently took the unconscious boy from Jax and freed his mother from the chains then placed the two of them on the back of the largest nightmare who quickly responded to silent commands from Pitch and vanished taking the mother and child to the Pole where they could be healed. Once the nightmare had gone Pitch turned back to where Jax was cowering behind his ice-wolves which were being rapidly overwhelmed by the older, stronger nightmares.

"Pitch, you betrayed me again!" Pitch restrained a laugh as Jax pointed out the blatantly obvious.

"Pitch, call them off and I will let you go unharmed.

Pitch decided not to grace Jax with a response and instead ordered his nightmares to get Jax staff anyway they could. Seconds later and Jax was buried underneath a pile of nightmares as every single one of them leapt at him, eager to be the first to get the staff and finally receive some praise from their master.

There was a frightening scream-whinny as one of the nightmares got a hold of Jax's staff and managed to pull it away from him. As the staff was wrenched from his grasp Jax let out a furious, blood-curdling scream that for a moment even had the bravest of the nightmares frozen in place, it didn't last though.

The nightmares' let out a collective scream and dived at Jax again who tried in vain to form an ice-creature to protect him, without his staff though he was next to helpless and for a moment Jax's face lost it's usual arrogant and uncaring look and the innocent boy who had once worn that face so long ago, shone through. But then the face of hatred and rage was back and Jax desperately flung his arms and legs about him in an attempt at protecting himself.

Pitch watched as his nightmares beat Jax into an unconscious heap of blood and broken bones before calling them back. In one hand he held the black staff of Jax's and in the other he held a snowglobe that would return him to the Pole the instant that he smashed it.

Pitch looked once at the mess on the floor that was Jax before holding the globe high above his head and hurling it to the floor. Bright lights filled the darkness of Jax's lair and then the noises of the Pole hit Pitch as he emerged from the portal into the very heart of North's workshop.

The noise of the portal and the shocked yells of the yetis brought North and Jack running, only to Pitch standing amid a crowd of irritated yetis.

"Pitch have you brought the staff?" North elbowed his way through the yetis until he stood in front of Pitch.

"Yes and my nightmares have injured Jax, when I left he was unconscious with several broken bones." North twisted his fingers into his magnificent white beard as he stared at the King of Fear.

"Jack will you go and summon the others, tell them that the time for training is over it is now time to fight!" Jack nodded then darted off towards the globe.

"So Jax is weakened then and he obviously hasn't got his staff so his powers will be dramatically less, unlike Jack who can now control the winter weather almost as well without his staff as he can with, this puts us at an advantage, but are sure that we can definitely defeat him?" North was anxious, not over his own well-being but over his adopted family's.

"If Jax is as insane as I think he is then he will be willing to do anything to defeat us, which means that will we have to draw him some place where he can hurt no innocents, from what Jack has told me, when he is away from his staff he feels a pull towards it and if it is the same for Jax than that is how we will get him to where we will be waiting for him." Just as North finished speaking Jack zoomed back, almost toppling a yeti.

"Whoops, sorry, North they are all on their way and will be here in few."

For the next little while the three of them went over the details of the plan as they waited for the others to arrive. First to arrive was Tooth and her army of mini-fairies.

"Hi, I brought as many as I could spare, the others are stretched to cover all the teeth but they can manage, these are all the ones who wanted to fight." Tooth landed in front of North while her fairies all landed wherever there was space, there were so many that when every fairy had found someplace to rest, the entire room looked as though it was underwater as the opaque wings fluttered and the rainbow bodies moved.

A few minutes after Tooth had arrived both Sandy and Bunny arrived and Pitch left to discover if Jax had awoken. When Pitch arrived with news that Jax had awoken and was searching for his staff the battle preparations really began.

Jack and Bunny (along with several sentinel eggs) left immediately away for Antarctica. Jack so that he could establish dominance over the strong winds there and Bunny so that he could set up traps and prepare the eggs for battle.

At the Pole, Tooth was going over some last minute battle details with her fairies. North and Pitch discussed how Jax would fight and how best to avoid his attacks and they should do their own attacks.

Finally, three hours after Pitch had first removed Jax's staff, the Guardians were ready to meet Jax in battle.

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Next chapter will be the last :( and will prob be up 2morrow :)

Thanks if you have stuck with this story from the beginning!