Anything italicized is someone's thought bubble or they're singing
North's workshop was filled with blackened vines as Endora's laugh echoed through the halls. Yetis and elves were hiding in different rooms as the Guardians struggled against the vines that bound them.
Jack struggled the hardest out of all of them, as his goal was in sight. His staff laid on the ground in front of him, just out of reach. He had to get it before Endora noticed it. It was the only shot he had to save everyone.
Farah struggled with Cupid, as they were bound by vines further from Jack and the others.
"Dang these are tight!" She yelled before she gave up trying to break free. "I should have seen this coming."
"Farah, it's not your fault." Cupid began.
"But..."
"Just because you didn't see Endora in the equation doesn't make it your problem. I should know."
"What do you mean?" Farah asked as she looked over at him.
"Back before I was Cupid, I was a normal man, with a wife and kid." Cupid began. "My wife ended up dying in a freak snowstorm."
Farah's eyes widened at this knowledge. She remembered dying in a snowstorm too. "What was her name?"
Cupid looked at her for a moment and grinned as he remembered his beloved's name. "Flee...Flee Overland."
And with that, Farah let the stray tear fall down her face with a smile. "Charles?" She said, gaining his attention again. Hearing his old name from Farah's lips proves to him that his theory was right.
"Aw!" Endora's voice roared tgrough the air as she finally appeared to them all and kicked up Jack's staff into her hands, making Jack sigh in defeat. "How adorable! A married couple reunited! I could puke."
"You must be Endora." Tooth spoke up, as Sandy was making little figures with his sand above his head.
"Indeed I am, Tooth." Endora responded as she scanned the group with the black orbs that were her eyes. "Where's Pitch?"
"He's not here!" Jack yelled to her.
"Well where is, Frosty?"
"Leave them alone, Endora." A voice spoke up, making everyone look over to see Pitch walk in with Dottie behind him.
"Ah, there you are Pitchie!"
"Endora, focus!" Daniel yelled as he landed near the group. "Use the staff! Now!"
"Right." Endora winked at Pitch before swiping the staff in her hand like a baton, making black vines race towards them quickly. Pitch shrunk into his shadow while Dottie hopped into the air as she made a sword with her water ability, before freezing it in its form.
"Whoa." Jack whispered as he watched his girl land on top of the globe.
"You can't trap me, Endora!" Dottie yelled as made rose pettels and vines float around her.
"Oh dearie..." Endora began as she snapped her fingers turning Dottie's vines black and having them wrap around the young nature spirit, binding her to the globe. "...I'm more powerful."
"Dottie!" Jack yelled out of worry and anger.
"Oh don't worry, Frosty...she won't be like that for long." Endora's smile sent shivers down everyone's spine, like a snake crawling up your back.
"Oh no..." Athena said under her breath, trying to keep herself hidden so Endora didn't know she was there.
"Endora!" Pitch yelled as he appeared behind her and knocked the staff out of her hand, only to get the young demon to spin around and swipe her hand in the air, making darkened vines come out of nowhere and wrap themselves around the Nightmare King.
"NO!" Athena yelled as she ran out of her hiding spot quickly.
"Daniel, get her!" Endora yelled as Daniel flew towards the brunette girl standing there.
"No! DON'T!" Pitch yelled with anger as he fought against the vines.
"Come here, girlie!" Daniel yelled as he shot red flames towards her, only to have them blocked by black flames coming out of nowhere. "What?!"
"What is it?!" Endora yelled towards her partner as she turned around, and stood there wide eyed as black flames engulfed Athena. "What's happening?!"
"Athena!" Pitch yelled as he struggled against the vines, before a blast of black flames spread through the room and fading away, showing Athena again. But somethings (and by some, I mean a lot) were different by her appearance.
Her green dress had turned into a black dress that stopped below the knees, with off the shoulders puffy sleeves, red leather boots, two bronze chains, one small than the other, and a red chocker necklace. Her hair was even different. It was the same length as before was now midnight black and her lips were covered with black lipstick. And when she opened her eyes, they were a glowing crimson red.
"No way...HOW!?" Endora screamed with anger as Athena's hand had erupted in black flames.
"So you're Endora." Athena began as swiped her free hand at Daniel and turned him into stone. "I heard so much about you from when I was 17, and met Pitch for the first time."
"Again...HOW ARE YOU LIKE THIS!?"
"Simple...that spell you put on me...made Athena Blythe disappear from the world, like she was never born." Athena began with a smirk as she walked up further to Endora. "But because of that...Athena Noir was born." And with that, she shot the flames that were on her hand at Endora, burning her in the process as the vines on everyone dispersed.
"YAY ATHENA!" Farah screamed as she grabbed Jack's staff and threw it to him, having him catch it in mid air while Dottie hopped down beside him.
"It's the end, Endora." Pitch said as Athena stopped her flames and walked up to Pitch before looking at her with glowing white eyes.
"No...no! Please!" Endora yelled as Athena swiped her hand in the air...and turned Endora into a statue of stone.
"You are bound in His name, Endora...go back to where you came from." Dottie said as the statue melted like ice, with a dark smoke dispersing into the air like a mist.
After a while, Athena's eyes went back to normal, their crimson color, as she looked up at Pitch, who just took her hand and smiled at her.
"Athena Noir? Really?" Dottie asked after the battle, which made Athena look at her and roll her eyes.
"Don't blame me for the name! It's Manny's doing!"
"Of course it is." North said with his signature 'ho ho ho' following afterwards. "Now, Dottie, Cupid...and Pitch...do you accept the duties of being Guardian?"
"I know I do." Cupid said with a smile.
Dottie smiled at Jack before looking at North and stepped forward with Cupid following suit. They looked over at Pitch who was hesitant at first. There was already the Guardian of Love, Cupid, the Guardian of Equality, Dottie Meadows...who was he the Guardian of?
"Pitch...?" He heard a voice speak, making him look down at Athena, who was smiling at him with love in her eyes. "...no mater what you choose...you'll always be my Guardian." He grinned at her before looking up at the moon, who was shining down on him, reminding him of his daughter and how he wished she was there.
"Well, Pitch?" Jack's voice spoke up, making the Nightmare King look over at him, showing confusion in his golden gray eyes. "What do you say? Be a Guardian?"
"I don't know, Pitch." Indigo said as she walked up from her spot.
"I'm not asking for your opinion, Indigo!" Pitch yelled, making the blue haired girl roll her eyes before disappearing in blue sand, with the statue of Daniel following her.
"I'd say yes, North..." Pitch began as he looked back the others. "...but I don't know what my center would be."
"Why not family?" A voice spoke up, making everyone look over to see a girl wearing a red, green, and white gown that looked like it was made from leaves, with pine green high-heels on her feet. Her long brown hair framed her face beautifully as it flowed passed her butt, with her white and silver tiara glistening in the light on her head, and her white ballroom gloves on her hands.
Pitch stared in surprise as he walked forward a little bit, to get a better look at her. Her eyes held a mature nature and a love that he hadn't seen in such a long time. "Emily?" He asked, shock clearly present in his own eyes, as he looked into her eyes of the same color as his.
"It's been too long, dad." She said as she walked up to him with sincerity in her voice and posture.
"You..."
"I'm the one who recommended it to Manny, that you become a Guardian."
"Why?!" Bunny asked in surprise.
"Because..." Emily began as grinned at her father in front of her. "...he showed me he can do the right thing and save the day, rather than cause a nightmare."
"Emily...I..."
"And it's because of his daughter, that he has been chosen to be the Guardian...of Family."
"Wow." Farah said with a grin on her face. "That's...actually a good reason to be a Guardian."
"It is." Jack said under his breath as he grinned at this whole scene.
"Emily Jane...you've become a beautiful young lady." Pitch finally said with a smile, as Emily smiled back at him, before throwing her arms around his torso in a hug, surprising him in the process, before he smiled and hugged her back, while his blackened heart turned to gold, and turning a part of his hair to a gold streak.
"So, do you, Cupid, Dottie Meadows, and Pitch Black, promise to protect the children of the world with their hopes and dreams? For they are all that we are, and all that we'll ever be." North said from the Guardian book that was in his hands now.
"I will." Cupid said with a smile as he looked over at Dottie.
"Definitely!" Dottie said with a smile of her own as Jack placed a hand on her shoulder, before everyone looked over at Pitch, who had just released his daughter from a hug, and was now looking at them. He had a genuine smile on his face as he stared at everyone there, until his eyes landed on Athena, standing there with a smile on her face. He knew what he had to say.
"I will."
Sorry for the late update. I had some writer's block with this story. But I finally got it done.
Now don't think it's over. Because an epilogue is coming your way.
God bless and have a nice day!
