YES! I KNOW! IM SO SO SO SORRY! I like, left you on a cliffhanger FOREVER!:(

PLEASE HEAR ME OUT! (And I hope y'all haven't given up on this story!)

I had some computer issues and then I went on vacay but that don matter CUZ IM BACK!

But...

Re-reading this story... I have to say... it's a bit juvi and not my best work. It's not what I wanted it to be.

I have been making more stories that have some nice progress and they are crossovers with RotG. I have been reading more and think my writing has gotten better so I hope this chapter is better than the previous ones of this story.

So... yea. I made this one long for you guys. So as to not keep you waiting, AND WITHOUT FURTHER ADUE!... Read away!:) Disclaimer (do I have to say it?): I do not own RotG

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Black ice was covering room for room and there were crumbling bricks galore. Evil Jack and the guardians were in the middle of an intense duel. The children were tailing the guardians at all times. But the guardians did not have their weapons in hand. North had his swords tucked away in his scabbard, Bunny had his boomerangs stowed away into his vest belt, Tooth did not use her wings for battling (only flying), and Sandy did not make any sand weapons. They did not want to hurt Jack.

But Evil Jack on the other hand, was firing icy blasts like crazy. Scoring a few hits, but not enough to bring down the guardians. Black ice was covering each room from top to bottom. Jack was getting flustered. He could not shoot a perfect hit.

"Jack! Stop! Please listen to me!" Tooth cried desperately.

"It's us Jack! Your friends!" Bunny said hopping on the brick pillars.

"That Jack is gone forever! He can't here you! You can never bring him back! Never! Ever!" Evil Jack hissed.

Evil Jack was getting sick and tired of this. He didn't want to fight anymore, it was tiresome and boring. He craved for some real action, this wasn't fun if pain was not involved. Evil Jack snarled and started to think. All this time he was fighting the guardians... what about the children? A smirk plastered across his face. And of course he had the power of darkness and shadows, he needed to use it to his advantage.

Evil Jack stopped firing his icy blasts and sulked into the shadows. The guardians stopped running as the children clung on to the guardians for protection. They were all panting from running around and dodging ice. Especially the guardians since every once in a while they had to scoop up a kid or save them from the nick of being blasted.

With timing and skill, Evil Jack created a large shadow beneath the kid's feet which they did not notice... until they fell right into it. They all let out a quick and alarming shriek before plunging into darkness. Evil Jack did not kill them though, he spared them only to cause suffering to them for later. But he intended for the guardians to think that they were passed.

Tooth gasped as she whizzed her head around in horror as the children vanished right before her eyes. She let out a cry that echoed through the dark and rigid chambers. She had failed, she had failed to protect the children. This struck her and her fellow mates hard, very hard as if they were stabbed in the gut.

Tooth viciously wiped her glistening tears off of her feathers. "That's it! That's the last straw, Jack! I didn't want to have to do this but-" She darted up and sliced evil Jack hard with her sharp wings. She didn't hit him hard enough to permanently do damage but she wanted him to feel her anguish. She knew that it wasn't the Jack she had grown to love and she didn't want to hurt him but... the children.

But Evil Jack easily tanked the attack, but Tooth had torn his sweatshirt and gave him a small cut under his left eye.

Cursed Fairy! Evil Jack sneered.

Then he saw a little twitchy bird fly up to him and peck him on the cheek, it was a Baby Tooth. Wretched little pests. Evil Jack clutched the bird hard but she drilled her nose into his hand as Jack released a little grunt of pain as he flung Baby Tooth as far as he could. She soared through the air and crashed into a wall with a loud bash!

The guardians cried out as Tooth burst into tears. This was Evil Jack's chance! He cast his staff forward at the guardians. Shadows crawled and snaked the ground toward the guardians. When they reached the big four's feet, they sprung up in the are, and like wraps and laces, wrapped themselves around the guardians limbs, licking and weaving on their clothes, and raising them in the air.

"Let us down this instant you bloody thing!" Bunny shouted, strangling with all his might, which only made the wraps tighten, making Bunny gag.

"You don't want to do this!" North tried to reason.

"Oh, I think I do..." Jack said coldly as he then raised his staff high in the air and black ash flew past him and at the guardians.

It wasn't meant to kill, just to knock out. Like Sandy's sleeping powder. The ash swirled around the guardians like a tornado. The guardians breathed in the ash as their bodies went limp and their bodies were lowered to the icy floor. Evil Jack smiled with satisfaction at the passed out guardians and had them sent to his room where the children were kept.

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"Ugh..." The guardians moaned as they woke from their slumber.

When the fuzziness and blackness at the corner of their eyes had vanished, the guardians look around the room they were in. It was a small, cold and dark room. And Jamie and the others were lounged on the other side of it. Jamie and the others!

Sandy was the first to notice them, all huddled together in the corner. He started to float over but was stopped short. This felt familiar. Sandy was chained, and so where the others. Including the kids! Not this again. Sandy thought as a storm cloud emerged over his head. But this time, there were chains round his ankles, wrists, hands (so as to prevent any powers from happening), and neck. Same for everyone else except for the children who were just chained around the wrists. They were chained up like animals! Beasts! This was utterly over the top confinement.

To Sandy, this room seemed vaguely familiar. Sandy somehow remembered the feeling of this cold, dark and small room. Then, it finally occurred to him. Oh. This was the room where it all started. Where we were chained and Jack was forced to take that shot.

The other guardians seemed to catch on as well, but this dampened their already depressed emotions. They looked at the chains and the children who were now staring at them. They were all helpless and chained like animals.

"Wakey wakey everyone!" Evil Jack said, flying in the room from above. "I asked something of Pitch, you want to know what it is?"

"No." Bunny scowled and snapped.

Evil Jack rolled his eyes and spoke anyway, "I asked Pitch if I could spare you from death! That's got to be good news to you all!" Jack said in a light attitude for his dark morality.

Everyone looked at each other with confusion but with slight relief. Evil Jack spared them? Or, maybe good Jack was back!? Everyone's hopes started to rise. Evil Jack could sense this for he fed off of fear like Pitch, but the taste of hope tasted like bile. Digusting.

"However..." Jack finally said troubling the guardians once more, "I asked if I could bring him some souvenirs."

What did Jack mean by that? Everyone thought with worry.

"As such." Jack skipped over to North as he tried to back away.

Jack snatched North's two swords out of their scabbards and twirled them in his hand. Then he skimmed over to Bunny who also backed away. Jack reached over and took Bunny's boomerangs out of his belt vest. Jack placed his staff to the side and held North's and Bunny's weapons in his hands with an evil smug grin on his face.

"What fantastic weapons! Stunning! Brilliant!" Jack beamed as his golden eyes shimmered. But not with delight, oh no, with a dark hunger.

Bunny squirmed, making a loud commotion. "Give me my boomerangs this instant ya bloody creep!" Bunny snarled.

North sensed that this was not going to turn out well and Bunny was not going to make the issue any more likeable. "Bunnymund!" He declared sharply. Bunny fell into a hush instantly.

Jack clicked his tongue. "Don't overstep your boundaries, Kangaroo. You really don't know and don't want to know what I'm capable of."

Jamie was looking at Jack, horrified. This what must have been happening to Jack. That's why he must have lost control! Jamie felt guilty all of a sudden. He felt a surge of guilt, so powerful that he had to say something.

"Jack! Snap out of it! Come on! You remember me, don't you?" Jamie yelled as his friends back away with shock.

Jack's body froze. He gnawed the inside of his cheek and gave Jamie and intimidating glare. He cocked his head sharply making his neck crack. He sighed.

"What a pathetic child you are." Jack taunted with a grimace look on his face. He scoffed. Jack heard plenty of this child from his master. He is what gave hope to the guardians. Well, this little boy was just about to lose all that hope himself.

"Why did you believe in the guardians to the bitter end, Jamie?" Evil Jack asked with cold eyes.

Even though Jamie was a small ten year old boy, he had the heart, soul and bravery of a full grown warrior. This demon-like Jack was not going to interfere with him! "Because I knew they were real! I saw them!" Jamie replied.

Evil Jack laughed and shook his head. "That's it?" he questioned, "Not because you had faith? Hope?" Jack approached Jamie. "Why, I bet you would have lost belief in the guardians in a heartbeat if you had not seen them! What does it take you to believe, Jamie? Real evidence? That's not what you would call hope and faith is it?" Jack scolded.

Jamie was losing his temper. "But it was you, Jack! Who made me believe in the Easter Bunny! You were the one who stopped Pitch! You were the one who began and made everything happen... and it all turned out fine in the end." Jamie protested.

Jack grunted and flew right in the face of the ten year old Jamie. Jamie gulped hard as he saw the deadly and intense stare Jack was giving him. Jamie swore that if looks could kill, he would probably be dead right now.

"For one you fool, that Jack is gone! He is now a part of me! I am whole! I am one! And you can never bring that Jack back for he is now me! In other words, I am the Jack you knew in a way!" Jack roared as his eyes beamed down on the poor little boy who was breathing heavily.

Evil Jack could sense the fear, he wanted more. "And for two... you really think that the guardians respected you? I mean, you are just one kid out of the billions of people on this planet. Sure, you helped save the world from Pitch-" Jack exclaimed now making hand gestures, "but that was because you had faux faith and hope. Like I said before, all because you saw the guardians." Jack could see tears welling up in the boys eyes, it was beautiful. And to top it off, "You were just one lucky kid."

That comment started to make Jamie bawl. None of it was true. How could Jack say such a thing? Jamie tried to remind himself that indeed, no way that this was the real Jack but it didn't make him stop crying.

Tooth could not bear to see the child cry. She had to put an end to Jack's terrible taunting, retrieve the boys weapons back, break out of here, and most importantly... bring Jack back. "Jack Frost!" She cried out. "Please! Just stop! Let us go! Find your center!"

Jack then turned to Tooth and the guardians. Tooth regretted saying what she had just said for she saw the darkness and evil lurking in Jack's eyes. Yet at the same time... hurt and pain. It was weird to see such a dark and evil person, down in emotion.

"I'm not done yet." Jack croaked, trying to make his voice cold and clear. But it was obvious that he was fighting back tears.

While becoming Evil Jack, Evil Jack had learned Jack Frost's history and viewed every minute of his immortal and mortal life and he had to admit, it was a dark, sad and lonely one.

Pull it together! Stop this foolish emotion this instant! Jack ordered himself, finally banishing his sadness.

"You..." Jack slit his eyes at all of the guardians. "For 300 years... you left me alone... no one even knew I existed! All that time... I was by myself. None of you even gave a blink to say hello or something! Do any of you know how that felt!?" Evil Jack sniffed and his vision started to go a tad blurry. "Oh, by the way, it may look like I have total control over my powers but honestly, I don't! I've struggled for decades trying to contain and master my powers and when I couldn't any more and unleashed my strength, I ended up causing trouble! I have killed children!" Jack shouted looking at his hands that made little frost patterns on it. "A-and after Bunny said you never should have trusted me... that hurt, a lot."

Everyone's eyes including the children turned to Bunny who's eyes were shining. The stubborn Easter Bunny was on the brink and verge of crying! Bunny's nose was twitching wildly. Bunny regretted that moment more than any moment in his life. And now... hearing Jack -Evil Jack, but it didn't matter- say it in his own feelings... well... the Easter Bunny couldn't control his sadness. A tear came forth and slipped down his fur.

Jack gripped the boys weapons harder and his eyes flashed with anger. "So I fled to Antarctica where I encountered Pitch. He offered me to join him, I refused. But he had that little stupid Baby Tooth which I stupidly sacrificed my staff for! And you know what he did!?" Evil Jack asked the rhetorical question through bared teeth.

No one dared to answer.

"He broke it... right down the center! My sacrifice for that little bird was for nothing! For he flung me into a crevice with that little bird. That's where I learned my history and mended my staff and came back. Happy ending." Evil Jack declared. But a smirk was creeping across his face. "Not because of you guys. It's not like you really, truly, cared for me. Oh sure... 'We are your family'. You are not and never will be!" Jack screamed with anger and he hurled North's and Bunny's weapons into a fireplace.

At first, all everyone heard was the crackling, popping and sizzling of smoldering wooden boomerangs and scorching melting swords. And the loud heaves of breaths Evil Jack was exerting. North and Bunny's eyes were bloodshot. Their wondrous weapons were no more.

Tooth was enraged by this, what a cruel act! "NO! LET US GO!" She demanded as she tried to wriggle out of the chains but it was no use.

After Jack calmed himself a decent amount, he stormed over to Tooth who realized her mistake. A little peep escaped her trembling lips. Everyone was not prepared about what Evil Jack was about to do next.

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I'm sorry, really I am! I wasn't gonna... but I did! But... the chapter was going to be a bit long otherwise.

You: No! No! No it wasn't! Don't care! Just no more cliffhangers! *throws debris*

I understand! It's just- *Dodges a tomato* Not again!

But anyway, its GREAT to be back and- *dodges another thing* 9th chapter will be out asap!

Gtg!

Peace out!

-SkatingDJ