Chapter 50

Treat

Yes, make him scream! Nightmare! Nightmare! Give him a Nightmare! Show him who is Queen!

I smiled evilly, knowing exactly what to give to Pitch. An eternal nightmare which he himself could not escape, with in the 'Nether Realm'. That was just another, and very old, term for the afterlife or whatever people prefered to call it. Since he was technically no longer of flesh and blood I could do it, but in there he would never be seen by anything. Even if Pitch managed to wake up he still could not escape from there. Eternal Purgatory for Pitch, I laughed at the thought.

I motioned for one of my wisps to come closer and one obediently did. I held out my hand and it landed on it feeling cool to the touch. My smile widened more as he stared at the small thing.

"Sweet dreams Pitchnier", as I was about to put the wisp into him, sand exploded from all around him making me fly back.

My back hit something cold and hard. I groaned as I stood and looked around. Pitch had also knocked Jack and Bunny away. I stared at them especially six armed Bunny, I'll need some therapy or something after this for sure. The two quickly stood and looked around.

"I don't think so my dear." Pitch's voice sounded through every shadow, since we were in his lair that was A LOT. I looked around me glaring at every shadow daring for him to come out.

As I continued to look for Pitch in the darkness something peculiar happened. That tune, from when I was in North's shop began to play in my head, over and over. I smiled a little, remembering something as the tune played in my mind.

"Still going to hide like you do under children's beds? I think you'd look a little scarier with some red eyes and sharp teeth. You look too sweet to scare anyone Spikey." I knew I hit a nerve, insulting him three times in a row had to be the trick to get him to come out.

Nightmares screamed and came out of the shadows. I readied myself as well as Jack and Bunny. In sync all of them ran toward us. I swung my blade cutting down two when they got close, but the others ran past me to where Bunny and Jack were. To keep them occupied, I thought.

Once the two Guardians were busily defending themselves with the Nightmares, Pitch casually walked out of the shadows. He smiled at me as if this was nothing but a simple show and he knew all the lines and queues that each character had. I wanted to knock that cocky grinning shadow sneaker into next Halloween.

"Come now Treat, you don't need to do this." He talked to me in a tone as if I were a mere child. I scrunched up my nose in disgust, how did I ever trust him? He was nothing but lies.

"Yes I do, look at what you have done to my life! It's as if you are blaming me or what my mother did!" I screamed at him.

"Revenge is a nasty thing, can make someone go crazy." He tsked a few times afterward, almost mocking me.

"It's not just revenge. As someone chosen to be a Guardian I will stop you. You almost won with me, now your going to completely lose without me." My body shook with anger that I never knew was there. I never knew I hated this man so much till I felt the white-hot anger grip my entire being. I could almost see the red in the corner of my eyes. "Besides I'm learning from the best about revenge, take your own advice Spikey."

I lunged for him swinging my scythe. In a swift movement Pitch summoned his own scythe made of his nightmare sand and blocked my advance. He grimaced at me a frown plain on his face.

"Such a waste." He said quietly, almost as if he were talking to himself than me. I screamed and reeled back and swung again at the man. Sand blocked the attack, but it fueled my anger to keep going. Again and again I swung at Pitch in almost a blind rage. The entire time his grin grew more and more, believing that this was the best I could do, but he was wrong.

While Pitch was focused on me I sent one of my wisps behind him. I pulled my scythe back once more, this time over my head and swung down. Pitch raised his scythe to block me and the moment he did I made my scythe rush into the man. He let out an almost strangled gasp as he fought the wisp inside of him.

I smiled seeing Pitch fall to his knees, his scythe disappearing. He looked at me his mouth gapped open as if stupefied. I motioned for another wisp to come towards me, my hand out stretched as I stood not even a foot away from the Nightmare King.

The Nightmare sand fell away since their master now had barely enough power to resist falling into my nightmare. Jack and Bunny's breathing were slightly laboured from defending themselves from so many Nightmares.

"I'd say sweet dreams, but there aren't going to be any for you. Nighty night", then I stood up and letting out the closest thing I could to a battle cry I shoved the wisp into Pitch's chest. He screamed, but only for a moment before his eyes rolled into the back of his head and succumbed into his fate. A small face of a jack-o-lantern, like the one on my locket, appeared on his chest. Now I had him where I wanted him...

Pitch

That brat! How in the name of the Moon did she manage to pull on over on me?! THE King of Nightmares against that pathetic little spirit! If it wasn't for me she would be nothing, just like she is now. NOTHING.

The girl screamed as she shoved another wisp into me. The first one had all but drained me now with two I could not fight it. I felt my body almost shut off as I fell into the not so familiar darkness.

It was quite, too quite. I could hear the beating of my heart in my chest as I looked around my surroundings. Nothing was there, only white a color which I was not particularly fond of.

"There is no such thing as bad dreams. There is no such thing as the boogeyman. There is nothing under my bed. There is nothing in my closet."

Where were those voices coming from? Children continuously saying these things till meshed together into a loud buzz.

"Enough!" I scream, but it only got louder. I could practically see them in a circle dancing around me chanting those things.

I tried to send my sand after them but none would appear. The children did not believe, they were not afraid, and there was no place for me to run. There was no sign of any shadow for me to take comfort in. I could still hear the children continuing their chant.

The things in my mind screamed from it. No fear, no power, no power, no existence. No, I can not disappear. There was fear, somewhere in this universe! I had to find it! I searched like a predator stalking its prey but felt nothing. Not even the tiniest fear could be found, only white and the voices.

Treat

I looked at Pitch's unconscious body before me. The first wisp came out from his body since it was no longer needed but the second one stayed. I do not know what had come over me but looking at him now caught in my nightmare, I felt pity. He had been alone in the darkness for so long and all I was doing was sending him further down that shadowy road.

A large furry paw was placed on my shoulder. I looked at Bunny, now taller and more armed before thanks to his chocolate. Jack came to my other side a small smirk on his face.

"It's over." he reassured me.

I shook my head and looked down at Pitch again. "No, it's not over."

"You are right my dear."

My eyes widened at the familiar voice and I looked around, Jack and Bunny doing the same obviously hearing the voice as well.

"It is rare for you to ever step in, let alone twice in one event, MiM." I say as I continue to look around.

"Be that as it may but Pitchnier is no one to play with Trick r Treat." I saw it then, the tiniest crack in the ceiling of Pitch's lair allowing a small amount of the moon's rays to shine in. It may have been tiny but it was enough for MiM.

I looked down a little ashamed of myself. Manny did have a point, but I could not of resisted.

"So what do you want us to do?" Jack asked, he nor Bunny noticed the crack yet.

"I believe it is time to take my dear old friend with me." I cocked my head to the side curious.

"How? What will happen to him?" I continued to look up at the small crack where Manny's voice came from. Bunny soon took notice and looked at well.

"Bring him into my light and away from his darkness." Was Manny's only response. I looked at the two and Bunny nodded before picking up Pitch with a set of his arms and we quickly made our way out of the dark lair.

I took in a deep breath when I came out of the tunnel, happy to be in the familiar darkness of the night. The moon shone brightly on us as Bunny laid Pitch on the ground.

For a few moments nothing happened, but then I saw it. It reminded me a little of The Wizard of OZ when the witch was melting, small black tendrils of smoke rising from Pitch's body. I stared in amazement as the smoke grew while Pitch's body slowly evaporated. The smoke moved upward, toward the moon. The moon silently flashed when we could no longer see the smoke.

Then he was gone and the darkness began to flood away to the ending of the eclipse. Pitch Black, the King of Nightmares and the Boogeyman for countless centuries, was gone.

Author's Note: Sorry for the wait... I've also had other things been going on with me.

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Hope this chapter wasn't too sucky. Next chapter should be out very soon as well as the end of this story.

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