Anything italicized is someone's thought bubble or they're singing

"How in all things that is horror did I get chosen to be a Guardian?!" Pitch yelled as he stared at the image on the crystal, with Dottie and Cupid staring in disbelief as well, but kept their expressions to a minimum since it was Pitch they were talking about.

"That is what I'd like to know, mate!" Bunny yelled in surprise as well.

"I'm sure my father has an explanation for all this." Oracle said as she walked up to the crystal and stared at it for a while. She noticed one thing different about the image of Pitch, however. He was smiling a normal smile. Not an evil grin or smirk. A normal, everyday smile. It was surprising to Oracle Moon, for she had never seen him smile before.

"Well ask him, Miss Spirit of the Moon!" Pitch yelled. "I don't belong as a Guardian!"

Oracle sighed as she looked up at the moon, before a vision of a young girl came to her brain, looking like she was out cold and in the hospital. Then she got the image of Endora laughing evilly with her late husband as they stood outside of the unconscious girl's room, no one seeing them. She backed up some as she touched her head in shock, making Pitch perk up at the sudden move.

"You okay?" He asked, sounding like he cared for once. But you could still hear the annoyance in his voice.

"Endora and Daniel...I can see them outside of a hospital room..." Oracle began, making Dottie perk up. "...that is holding a young girl...maybe a 25-year-old..." Now Pitch perked up at that age. "...she's out cold. Endora must have used the same spell that Indigo used on Dottie."

"I'm the only who knows how to use it!" Indigo yelled. "How does a rat like Endora know it!?"

"You're not the one who created it, girl!" Dottie yelled.

"She's right there, Indie." Farah added, making Cupid chuckle at her nickname for Indigo, while the blue haired spirit just rolled her eyes.

"What does the girl look like?" Pitch asked, now showing that he was worried.

"Long brown hair, icy blue eyes, white skin..." Oracle began to describe before seeing a little detail by her right eye. "...and a small scar by her right eye."

"Athena..." Pitch said under his breath as he clenched his fists. "...that witch has been wanting to do that to her ever since I met her years ago."

"Why is that, Black?" Jack asked with a hint of intrigue, which only made Dottie strike his arm with a smack. She knew he was a child at times, but this was no time to be a childish 17-year-old.

"When I met her, she was 17, and was unconscious because some idiot punched her, leaving that scar Oracle just saw." Pitch answered. "And after that day, I'd want to see her. She could see me...and she wasn't afraid."

"Wait...a teenager could see the Boogeyman!?" Tooth yelled with Sandy crossing his arms out of surprise while he listened.

"Yeah. But at the time, Endora and I were working together to try and cause an eternal darkness." Pitch continued. "Endora got pretty jealous for some crazy reason and it was in that moment that I sent her packing."

"That's why you attacked us 5 years ago." North said understanding.

"Yes! Endora and I came up with the plan, but since she was back where came from, it was my plan."

"Now she succeeded in taking Athena from you." Cupid said with sorrow.

"She used the same spell I used!" Indigo yelled as she walked in further to the Globe Room. "All she needs is the kiss of true love like Sleeping Beauty."

"And me!" Dottie yelled as she looked away from Indigo. "But she's right, Pitch."

"No...no! I refuse!"

"Why?!" Bunny yelled out of anger.

"Because...!" Pitch stopped there as he looked at the globe in the center of the room. His blackened heart may have been evil, but with Athena it was changing. He could feel his heart breaking, knowing that she might never wake up if he didn't do something. But, there was one problem... "...I forgot what love feels like."

"Pitch..." Cupid began, getting the Boogeyman's attention as he looked at the Spirit of Valentine's Day. "...no one really forgets what love feels like. You may think you have, but its always there, deep down."

Pitch was staring at him, with no emotion on his face, as he stood up straight with his normal regal posture as before. "Meaning...?"

"Meaning, you just have to take time and find it again. It's not hard."

Pitch looked away from him in that moment, before grinning a small bit. Images of his daughter popped into his head like an old song that he had forgotten. He remembered how he felt with her, how he loved her so much. And as he remembered this, he remembered how he felt when he first started hanging out with Athena when she was still a teenager. He had fallen in love with her then.

"Just like that." Cupid said under his breathe when he saw how Pitch as grinning.

After a while, the black clothed spirit looked at the rest, with his grin fading at the sight of other spirits beside him. "I have to go." He said before disappearing into the shadows behind him.

"I'll follow him." Dottie said before giving Jack a quick peck on the lips and disappearing in a swirl of red rose petals.

"Be careful, Dot." Jack said under his breath before feeling like there were vines wrapping around him, which made him look down to see black vines around his legs. Even noticed them around everyone else's legs. "Oh no." Was the one thing he got out before he felt himself get lifted up...as he dropped his staff.

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Pitch appeared in the dark shadows of Athena's hospital room with Dottie appearing in the other corner that was filled with light from her rose petal swirl. He looked at her for a moment before shaking his head and walking up to the unconscious Athena. He took her hand into his and stared at her sleeping figure, hoping by just his touch she'd wake up.

"Athena?" He spoke her name with a quiver as Dottie watched rom the corner. She was starting to feel bad for the Boogeyman, to her surprise. He had finally found someone he could share a love with, only to have an old flame, or nightmare in his opinion, come back and ruin it for him yet again. It didn't seem fair to her.

"Athena, it's Pitch." Pitch spoke up again, not expecting for her to answer him. "Please wake up." He then bent down and placed a, surprisingly, sweet kiss on her lips, letting a blast of light circle them both, with Dottie watching in surprise. She stared on as she looked around, seeing everything was turned off that Athena was hooked up to, and her clipboard was gone as well. Something wasn't right here.

As Pitch pulled away, Athena's eyes fluttered opened as she saw Pitch standing there with his golden eyes staring into her icy blue ones. "Pitch?" She questioned as she sat up and looked at him closely. She smiled at him before throwing her arms around him, catching him off guard as she hugged him. But after a while, he wrapped his arms around her torso and hugged her back with a tight embrace. She was okay.

"Pitch..." Dottie interrupted, getting the two to pull away and look at her. "...her monitors are off and her clipboard disappeared. Something's not right." She informed him, making him look around in wonder. Something was wrong here. The monitors should still be on and beeping, saying she was awake now, and her clipboard with her diagnosis on it should have still been around.

"What's going on?" Athena asked as Pitch helped her get out of the bed.

Dottie looked over at the nurses station, seeing a young pine green haired girl standing there, looking like she was trying to remember something, before shrugging it off and turned around to leave. Athena saw her too and backed away out of shock and fear. Pitch should have been happy about her being afraid, but since it was Athena, he wished she wasn't.

"She doesn't remember me? Willow Grant doesn't remember me?"

"I think...because she was a mortal and you're a spirit, she got turned into one thanks to the spell, combined with your kiss." Dottie said to Pitch, which made him sigh.

"I think you might be right." He responded as he took Athena's hand while Dottie swiped her hand in the air and turned Athena's hospital gown into a plain brown strapless dress, with little brown sandals on her feel.

Just then, Athena's eyes went white and back. She shook her head and looked at the two in front of her, like she had just seen a ghost.

"Athena, what is it?" Pitch asked, making her look at him.

"It's the others...they're in trouble."