READ: So sorry for the 'five paragraph chapter' thing. Something has been going on with my computer lately. Anyhow, it's been fixed and if you read what looked like there was a LOT missing, go back a chapter and reread. It should be fixed! Special thanks to MakinaCZ for pointing it out.
Shout-outs:
Darkblade County: Wait really! I actually was a bit scared of how people would like the chapter and the battle. (Heck, I didn't even edit! I'm such a last-minute writer) Haha Can I just say, that review made my day? THANK YOU!
AlexJohnD: Really? There are a few where they post everyday 2000+ words and I just can't keep up with that! I always got really frustrated with those that take more than a week to update, so I decided to not put people through my pain of waiting to find out what happens to your favorite character.
I know, I've been really slow to updates and now is not the time to delay between chapters. So here you go. Enjoy:
Seeing Tooth with a wolf about to rip out her throat triggered something in Jack that flamed through. How dare those things attack his family? He would not allow it, not as long as he was breathing.
He found his staff lying not too far from he stood at the entrance to Pitch's lair in the ruins of the castle. He needed to relax though. He shot an icicle at the wolf with its teeth just inches from her face. He watched as the spike left the tip of his staff and embedded itself into the nightmare.
He swung his staff, a magical aura leaving it as he did, and froze the wolves that were surrounding Tooth. With her eyes still on him, the tooth fairy stumbled to her feet and ran to Jack. That's when he noticed she wasn't using her wings.
At first, he thought she had lost believers again, but when she turned, the reason of her using her legs instead of her wings became obvious. Her left-wing, though bother were tucked low behind her, one stuck out slightly, revealing that it was not its original shape.
Jack had no time to say anything about her wing for she wrapped her arms around his neck and jabbered far too quickly for him to follow on to the words she spoke.
That's when Jack saw the embodiment of his fear staring at him with a scowl on his face.
"It appears Pitch is weaker than I thought?" Shadow Jack spat as if he was disgusted by the mere words.
Though cringing from the other boy's voice- a painful reminder of the past he had moved on from,- Jack quickly pulled the tooth fairy from him and ready his staff, the object fitting exactly for his grasp. "Something tells me you two don't see eye-to-eye?"
"Ha! He lost his touch. He was valuable a few thousands years ago. But now he's just dead weight to the world of fear. My dear friends, the nightmare men, are no longer following his orders which means children will deal with more than just fear.
Jack stared with astonishment as the shadow boy smirked.
"Listen, the world before- back before the Golden Age- was chaos. There was no control. You really want to repeat history?"
Shadow Jack chuckled. "Oh, it will only cause a bit more fear. Imagine, a world where not only the children feared, but their elders as well. Just think of the amounts of fear that will pour from them when their parents, the ones they looked up to, are just as afraid as them. It is a time for the nightmare men to reign once more, to practically drink the humans' fear and watch as chaos thrives through the land, a never ending nightmare."
Jack shook his head at his dark sides belief of a 'perfect world.' How could this thing- a thing a part of Jack- being so conflicted? Jack, the boy who only wanted to bring fun to the children, to bring a smile to sad face, to protect a child from fear- he had a part of him that wants nothing more than destruction. Had this part of Jack always been there? Had it now just surfaced?
The boy was pulled from his thoughts as a shuriken impaled into the ground where he once stood.
Jack glanced at Tooth. With her zulfigar sword and stern glare at Shadow Jack, we was quite intimidating. The perky, energized tooth fairy Jack had grown to know has his sister or mother was now promising to not go down without a fight. This was a side of Tooth Jack had never truly known.
The two stood ready against Jack's other half. Three shurikens tinted with frost formed between his fingers. In his other hand his nightmare staff morphed into a long sword, a spatha.
"It's time for a new Age. The Age of Nightmares."
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Pitch watched as his anger filled him, though watched intently at the scene that played in front of him.
The thing crept closer to his wife and child, the only things that Pitch had recalled when he turned into the nightmare king. Though, his memories of his human life had been hidden away in his mind, his family was at least a far off memory of his life as a good man.
He watched, unable to do anything, as the nightmare man reached its hand out, its witch-like fingers stretched, to touch the baby in his wife's hands.
He stopped in mid reach as he saw the mother stir just slightly yet kept her eyes closed. Her eyelids shift slighty from the eye movement beneath them. She would be awake soon. It was now or never for him.
A firepoker lent against the wall next to the warm fire. The metal object was held in his hand now as he stared at the woman and baby in front of him.
This was the moment- the moment he'd get his revenge on that man Kozmotis. Now, he'd bring indescribable pain to Pitchiner finishing off his wife and daughter. As pulled back with the firepoker, aiming it at the mother's heart as he stood in front her, the real Pitch screamed harsh profanity at the nightmare.
This can't be happening.
Not my baby.
Not my beloved.
.../\...
In the midst of the battle field, blood and black sand splattered the grass. The dark sky, still threatening to pour a great rainshower, added to the the scene's distastefulness.
Yetis were falling as well as wolves and nightmare men though at lesser numbers.
Sandy continued to flick his whips at a rapid paste. A nightmare man watched his brethren fall with each lash. Sandy hadn't caught sight of him yet. He took his chance and crept up behind the golden man.
The nightmare went unnoticed as it raised its hand, preparing to embed its claws into the sandman's back.
A flash of an object flying past Sandy and a crash caught his attention. He turned whipped around to see a nightmare fall and a toy robot with a leg pointed in the wrong direction bash into it. The nightmare man fell apart as it landed, its sand scattering on the ground.
Sandy's eyes traveled to where the deformed robot had come from to see a catapult manned by...
An elf?
Just now, Sandy realized the portals that had opened with elves pushing catapults and Tooth's fairies carrying toys that came out wrong while making them in North's factory. A dozen tooth fairies carried a train that if on a track would fall on its side and dropped it onto the waiting catapult that had shot at the nightmare man.
Other nightmare men and wolves as well as Bunny and North of the new arrivals. "My boys!" Shouted North as he cut through another nightmare man.
Bunny, who just stomped on a wolf's head, turned abruptly at the thought of the elves being there. They were known for being mischievous and not very bright either. In fact, they were more of like children without a care in the world. Now, they were fighting?
It was really happening. The elves were a part of the battle.
.../\...
The nightmare in Pitch's home brought down the firepoker but stopped just seconds before it touched her.
A voice- he heard it off to his left behind a closed door, specifically a woman's voice.
No matter, the nightmare thought. If there was a maid at the house, it would only take a moment to finish her off.
The nightmare's eyes widened even more as he heard a new voice. This wouldn't be good for him. If he was here, than there was no chance for an escape for him. He'd be dead within seconds.
Pitch- the past Pitch- spoke behind that door to the house maid who helped watch over his wife and child when he was gone for long assignments. But now- now he was back, and the nightmare would not survive the night if he touched the woman or baby.
But he couldn't just leave. It took him so long to track down the Pitchiner's, sneak into the house, and stand where he is now.
He looked back and forth between the window that would allow him to escape and the woman in front of him.
A smirk played on the nightmare's face now. He knew what he'd do. He wouldn't be killed by Pitchiner. He'd be long gone before Kozmotis would ever find out what he'd done.
Maybe, he'd never know.
Maybe, Kozmotis Pitchiner would never find out what he would do to his wife.
The nightmare man tugged at its wrapping, loosening one of them. He kneaded it in his hands until it turned to dust. He bent down in front of the girl, holding his hand up with the dust.
With parted lips, he blew the dust in her direction.
The girl's face contorted but then relaxed as she turned her head away from the nightmare man with eyes still closed and relaxed once more.
It would take effect soon.
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Hey, I posted before Monday!
New chapter as soon as I can finish it. Hopefully, by no later than Tuesday.
So, did any of you expect the elves to join the fight? I only really mentioned them once when Jack was roaming around before Shadow Jack was created. Anyhow, I love those creepy little things (if that makes any sense).
Hope you all had a good Singleness Awareness Day. Us single ladies (and guys) need to stick together!