Chapter 49
Treat
Falling, very fast I'm falling. Idiot! You got caught! Idiot, idiot, IDIOT! Still falling, where am I going? Dark, really dark. Where is Pitch? I need to find him now! But I'm still falling.
My mind screamed this as I felt the darkness take me away. A laugh caused this chatter to stop within my mind. I looked around, great the one place I was not supposed to be, Pitch's lair.
Pitch walked out of a shadow and smiled. "Now we can talk and not worry about the Guardians coming down here." He knew?! If he didn't then it was a damn good bluff.
I glared at him as he started to walk around are me his gaze never leaving my right eye. He knew not to look at the other, but I needed him to.
"I have been a rather patient person Treat. Waited for you to come back, waited for you to trust me so I could have what I always wanted." He spoke softly but I could see the wolf behind the sheep.
"And what would that be?" I ask as I kept my scythe up and ready incase he tried something.
"A daughter, I never had one." My eyes widened at his answer. This was too perfect for me, the timing, the locket, all of it. MiM had known from the beginning and he was giving me clues to what would happen. I resisted the urge to touch the golden chain which the locket was on, it would give it away and my little trick would be exposed.
"And you want me to be you daughter?" I looked at him as if he were trying to eat the macaroni and cheese colored crayon.
"Of course! It would be perfect! I control nightmares, you are the personification of death something everyone fears. With your power we could turn the tables around." He came to stand in front of me again.
I chuckled and shook my head. "You idiot. I am not death, nor the bringer of death, he has his own little way of things. But if you want, I could help you meet him!" I swung my scythe down on him. He slunk into the shadows easily avoiding the blow as if it came from a mere child.
"You can not kill me Treat." His voice said all around me, multiple shadows of himself going in and out of my vision around the walls. "I am no longer of flesh and blood." Concentrate, where is he?
"Come now Treat, last offer to join me." I spun around to where he was standing. His calm composure was leaving. He was getting anxious and annoyed that I was not answering him. "Become my Fearling Princess."
"No, I will not." I jerked the necklace off my neck and brought out the locket. "Because you had a daughter, Kozmotis Pitchiner." I held the locket up to eye level glaring at Pitch, and silently hoping for something to happen now. Something did that I did not expect, Pitch screamed in terror.
Bunny
We sat in the sleigh, flying death trap if you ask me, after Treat left. A few moments later Jack left to follow after her. This plan could work, even though we usually throw it aside not even half way through it. The rest of us waited for Jack's signal, but it never came. Suddenly Jack came flying back panicked.
"What the bloody hell is wrong ice block?!" I jumped up when I saw his face, fear.
"Pitch, took Treat. Down to his lair I think and Nightmares are all around the entrance." He said. What did I tell ya?
"Bunny, you and Jack go get her. We will distract", North said while landing in the woods, far enough to where the Nightmares didn't see and neither would anyone else. "You still have chocolate?" He looked at me curiously. I knew exactly what he ment.
I smiled and held it up. North nodded. "Good get going." I gave Tooth and Sandy a grin before hopping out with Jack behind me.
"Bunny what is that?" He asked curiously. But I did not answer, he would know soon enough. I unwrapped the candy and popped the whole thing in my mouth.
"Hey Jackie, make sure you keep up!" I smiled at him before my body shuddered. Then I began to dig.
Treat
Pitch screamed like no animal or man had ever screamed before, it was as if the necklace physically hurt him to see it. He doubled over, clutching his mid section with one hand while shielding his eyes with the other.
I stood there dumbfounded that by just looking at it caused him so much pain. Something so small could cause someone so much pain.
"Where did you get that?!" He screamed, his eyes blazing.
"A friend gave it to me, thought I may need it." I took a step forward, he too two steps back. I could feel the terror it brought him and I liked it. The king of fear afraid of a little locket that I was holding. I could feel his fear around him, feeding me like it usually fed him.
"This is your daughter." I said taking another step forward. Pitch again stepped back and shook his head, agony plain on his face. "Seraphina Pitchiner."
He screamed again when I said her name, the same inhuman howl. Like a demon of some sort crawling out of the pit of hell. The hand that was once shielding his vision now held his head, his long slender fingers violently gripping his jet black hair. I suddenly felt so powerful having Pitch like this. I wanted more, I wanted more fear, more screaming!
I laughed as I watched Pitch move away. It was slow and unhinged as if he forgot how to move.
"Little wrench!" He screamed, I laughed more. Pitch then, to his best ability, flung nightmare sand at me. I did not move as the black mass came racing toward me. Before the sand got to me and the locket it dropped, as if the closer it got to the locket the weaker it got. It landed at my feet and stayed there.
"Trick r Treat aren't I neat? Give me something sweet to eat. If you don't I don't care, I'll give you one hell of a Nightmare." I sang slowly as I took another step forward like I was something off a horror movie. I loved this, fear oh how I loved this little drug. I felt high almost with it. My body tingled with excitement as adrenaline pumped through me. I need to continue the torture of him, give him his own worst nightmare!
"Then lets give him a nightmare." An Australian accent said behind Pitch. We had been so engrossed in one another that neither Pitch or myself noticed Bunny sneak up behind him. In a split second three pairs of arms grabbed Pitch. What, SIX arms?!Sure enough it was there. Bunny stepped out of the shadows a little more to show himself. He had gotten taller and more muscular. The most prominent of his change was the SIX arms. It was true, he could grow six arms! Seeing Bunny shook me from my high as I looked at the two.
The arms were wrapped around Pitch's mouth, arms and legs so he could not struggle. Still Pitch squirmed in the massive Pooka's arms. But Bunny did not move an inch. Why anyone would want to pick a fight with Bunny with him being able to do this I will never know.
Jack suddenly flew past Bunny and landed beside me. "Are you alright? We heard screaming"
I smiled at him and I could see the shudder down his back when I did. "I'm alright, it all came from our dear Nightmare King over there." I walked over to Pitch and held the locket up.
His eyes widened and his muffled screams rang through Bunny's mouth as I got closer with it. I again laughed as I felt the high of feeding off his fear, delicious. Pitch closed his eyes and struggled more in Bunny's arms with no avail.
I looked at Jack then and motioned for him to take the locket from me. He silently did as I got closer to Pitch. His eyes were still shut so he did not know of my advances. Bunny held still as I got closer. I moved my hair away from my left eye as I forcefully grabbed Pitch's face to make him look at me. Bingo. His eyes flung open and when he did his eyes looked straight into my left eye.
Time seemed to stop then and all of my surroundings disappeared as I was pulled into the mind of Pitch Black. He was not alone, his mind was not his own. There were things inside him, living at this very moment. Their sole purpose to spread fear and feed off of it. I ventured further into his mind, the creatures trying to take me over but it did not work.
Then I felt it, like I do every time when I am inside someone's mind. The part of the subconscious which I could find his fear. What I found surprised me, it felt like a living thing within the mind. This was something I had never experienced before.
The dream the flooded back into my mind. Something had attacked Pitch and possessed him and that was what turned him into the boogeyman. Those creatures I felt that wanted to harm me were what possessed him. Then what was this?
I concentrated and reached out to it, him I felt. He did not feel like he ment me harm. Could this be him? The real Pitch that was forced here after being possessed.
Seraphina. Fearlings. Death. The Nether Realm. This was what my reply was. What Pitch, and maybe the real Pitch was afraid of and I had something about one and partial power over another.
I pulled myself back, feeling like I was on a bungee cord and it was now pulling me back up. Only a few moments passed with what had happened but I felt like it was decades after encountering so many things with in Pitch. Things I never expected to be within someone and more.
Pitch screamed at me but I could not understand thanks to Bunny's large paw over it.
I had to continue, not feel pity for Pitch right now. He caused almost every event that has happened to me since I had become Trick r Treat. Pitch also needed to be stopped or moon only knows what would happen to the Guardians and the world.
Smiling at Pitch I straightened up. "And now Pitchiner, let me show you the real definition of a Nightmare!"
Author's Note: Well this was interesting wasn't it? Inside the mind of Pitch Black. But like explained in a previous chapter she cannot see memories or anything like that, the only thing she can see or hear is someone's fears. Now, what will Treat do since she knows these little fears? Stay tuned!
I know Treat's mind sounded a little scrambled in this chapter but it is suppose to be that way. She is a little lollipop triple dipped in psycho. hehehe
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