Down in the darkest parts, where the shadows from under your bed made the doorway, a tall dark man paced around an odd looking globe that had small lights flickering around it.

Several of the lights flashed violently, threatening to go out and few did. The man smiled as they disappeared. It was slow and at this pace they wouldn't go out, but it was a start. Over hundreds of children now stopped believing and began to let their fears overcome them. Soon he would have enough power to take out the guardians and let fear and darkness rule the world.

A mare whinnied as he approached his master.

"What news do you bring my pet?" His voice able to spend shivers down your spine. Pitch walked over the black stallion and gently stroked its sandy mane.

The horse made a sound and the look plastered on Pitch's face told that what he heard was no good news to him. He pulled away his hand and sneered at the creature.

"A new guardian? I wonder who will this new challenger be?"

The mare didn't seem to have caught who he was, but did know they were close to his old foe, Jack Frost.

"Hmm...a friend of Frost's?" A dangerous smirk crept upon his face. "Now this should be interesting." And into the shadows, he disappeared from sight.

Fairies were speeding past them as they approached Tooth's Palace. Both of the two teenaged spirits were relieved that they never had to do much work and work every night of the year. It would've been exhausting, even with their strong metabolism and immortality.

Once they landed on the tiled floor, Tooth had taken a few moments to notice they were in her presence as she was giving out orders to her fairies.

"Corona, 15 Sun Street! Front Tooth." The fairy finally looked down and saw them. With a blink of an eye, she was hovering in front of them.

"You're here for the memories, right?" She said.

"No. We thought we'd visit our favorite fairy." Jack laughed sarcastically. Unfortunately for him, that was when Baby Tooth arrived, his dear companion. The tiny fairy made an offended squeal and crossed her arms.

"Don't worry Baby. You're still my favourite." Anna smiled, which made the fairy feel better and nuzzled against the girl's cheek, causing Anna to giggle.

"Kiss up." Jack rolled his eyes.

Anna frowned slightly and immaturely stuck her tongue out to him. "You're just jealous because she likes me more."

"Okay you two." Tooth said. "That's enough childishness from you." She eyed them down like the two disobedient children they were. She cared for both of them, just like her fairies and the children. But these two sometimes tend to take things a tad too far and she was very busy at the moment and they all had a very important issue to worry about. Now wouldn't be the time for a quarrel or any other sort of distraction. If she was going to keep them intact, she may have to bring her stricter side, which was very rare for the tooth fairy to do.

"So where exactly are my memories?" Anna asked after a moments silence.

"We keep them hidden away and highly protected." Tooth explained and motioned for them to follow her deep into her palace. Since Pitch's last attack on her home, she had taken extra precautions with keeping the teeth safe and doubled its protection after finding out about his return.

The group went further and further down in to the palace. It was starting to become unfamiliar to the two teenagers. They've visited Tooth many times and seen her castle countless times, but this was all new to them.

"You've gone through great lengths." Jack commented.

"Well I can't have Pitch stealing the memories again." Tooth said.

Despite them going deeper into the palace, it remained bright and sunny. Probably a precaution, as Pitch enjoyed lurking in the shadows and darkness. Without a shadow he couldn't get to it so easily. They finally stopped at a large tiled door. It's design resembled the one seen on the memory boxes.

The fairy carefully looked around and when she was sure that the only ones who were present were her and her current group, she placed a hand on the centre of the door and like Jack had once seen with his own memories, the door tore apart and revealed a neatly organized room, with shelves full of the boxes that contained the children's teeth.

"Are you even sure I'd have memories here?" Anna questioned as she looked into one particular box. All she heard was the rattling of teeth when she gently shook it to her ear.

"Everyone's is here. Yours, mine, just name them and we got it." Tooth gave her a nod and motioned to the whole room.

"So what exactly is this place?" Jack asked.

"It's the Memory Vault. I only had it installed not too long ago." Tooth told them.

"It'll seem like its going to take forever to find my memories." The summer spirit moaned.

They spent a great amount of time looking for her memories. You would've thought, Tooth would be more organized. Then again, she did collect the teeth of all the world's children, so who would bother?

Anna searched one section of a shelf and found an oddly familiar platinum blonde girl. She looked at it curiously for a moment before moving to the next one. It was empty. Nothing was there.

"Uhm...Tooth?!" Anna called. "I think one's missing." She said pointing to the empty spot.

"What?!" Tooth flew to her confused. "That's imposi..." Her eyes widened at the empty space where Anna was pointing. "But...this place is heavily protected. No one could've..." A cold shiver suddenly went down her spine. Part of the fairy prayed it was Jack just playing a little joke, but she was wrong as shadows began stretching throughout the room. Jack had caught sight of this and quickly flew over to where the two girls were and stood protectively in front of them.

How foolish were they? They led him straight to the fairy's secret vault. Sneaking through their shadows, the nightmare king had found what they were looking for. The 'soon to be' guardian's memories. Whatever was in here, was the secret to unlocking her true potential to be a guardian.

When they noticed they were gone, he made the effort to show himself and it was no surprise that Frost had decided to defend them. No matter. He was right where he wanted him.

"I wonder what is so special in here that you all need so desperately." Pitch questioned rhetorically as he examined the box from side to side.

"Pitch! You give those back right now!" ordered Tooth. She can be frightening when she was pissed. Pitch didn't care much. "And I won't have you taking the teeth again."

Pitch only laughed. "I have no need for the rest of your precious teeth...for now." He said. "But I can't very well have another challenger come to play." He glared at Anna, who only seemed annoyed by his presence.

A blast of ice shot passed the man's ear and his attention was back on Jack.

"Don't think I forgot about you." He said. "I have big plans for you." A half smirk curled onto his grey face. "All of you."

Three pairs of eyes glared at him coldly and they were full ready for an incoming attack.

A large crack was heard and a portal came flying into the area. While everyone was distracted, Pitch quickly unleashed a wave of nightmare sand and Jack who was in the way got hit full blast and was knocked into a shelve of memories, knocking several down with him.

"Jack!" Anna screamed alarmed and ran to his side. He was conscious, thankfully and he managed to push himself up to look at her. "Trust me. I had worst." He gave a small smirk. Both of them were to relieve and caught by each other's presence, that they didn't notice the small blob of nightmare sand slithering into Jack's pocket.

Love really is blind. Pitch thought. He dodged an attack from Sandy's whips, but was hit in the head by one of Bunny's boomerangs.

"You get out of here!" Tooth ordered and went flying towards him in full rage.

His work here was done. Currently, he was in no condition to fight the guardians and before the fairy could plunge at him, Pitch sank into the ground and disappeared into the darkness.