Woohoo! 35 reviews! Awesome people! And, you know What? I feel like responding to y'all comments! Shout outs! I think that's what I'm going to do from now on for each chapter each person who reviewed it...
EctoPhantom13: Don't worry, the kicking of the butt shall commence! And I LOVE cliffhangers!;) Ya, I just found out that I'm never going back to Tumblr lol!
MoonGirl1155: I know, that's what I wanted *evil grin* But you'll like the ending!
Winter Snowfury Princess: Glad you like it, it means a lot to me!:)
So, yea, let's hop right into it!
"Hey Pitch! Come out come out wherever you are!" Jamie called, his voice echoed through the empty and spooky rooms. Jamie, his friends and the guardians had just arrived at Pitch's lair.
No sooner had the guardians taken their first breath in the chamber, Pitch came out. "Guardians! Children! Welcome!" Pitch said cheerfully, arms outstretched. "I thought you would come a little later. Your wounds need healing." Pitch sneered.
"We're not here to fight!" North said.
"We're no here to fight!" Pitch mocked using his hand like a talking hand. He rolled his eyes and smirked.
"Give us Jack and we will go." Tooth said crossly even though the message was reasonable.
Pitch cocked his head. "You think it will be that easy?" He paused, "Here's another thought: what if Jack doesn't want to go with you? I mean, it's understandable! If you look at it one way, you left the poor boy in solitude for 300 years, he thinks you don't care for him! Another way is that he's afraid to show himself for all the evil things he did." A wonderful shudder ran down Pitch's spine when he said shudder.
"Just show us where the teenage is you sicko!" Cupcake raved and growled. Once again, the stocky girl with the big mouth had spoken out of turn.
"I was planning to-" Pitch said and then sulked in the shadows, reappearing before Cupcake and the others. "But only if you apologize."
Caleb shoved Cupcake out of the way and spat in Pitch's face. Claude whistled downhill and chuckled. Everyone raised their eyebrows. But Pitch only scowled and shot them a dirty look. He started to walk away, the guardians and children following.
Sandy politely tapped Jamie's shoulder and made a picture of a bomb dropping on Pitch's lair.
Jamie luckily knew what the golden man meant. "We have to wait until Pitch shows us Jack first. Then we have to rescue him and then... fire in the house!" Jamie said in a hushed voice. The plan Jamie created was only if Jack wasn't there to greet them. He was not there obviously so that meant Pitch had him somewhere. They couldn't attack and risk Pitch not showing Jack or worse but afterwords, they would fight with what they had.
It may seem like Pitch was leading them into a trap, well, no. Pitch was leading his guests straight to Jack Frost. He didn't need a trap or anything to break the hearts of his fellow people, the state Jack Frost was in right now was good enough. And Jack was in no fit position to be seen. Occasionally, Jack would scream at the top of his lungs with fear. And he never stopped shedding tears until he cried himself to sleep. He would always hug the sides of his head as if there was no tomorrow. He would sometimes wail, "Stop... stop!" in a weak voice. Jack's hair was damp with sweat and tangled. His body frail and weak and never stopped shaking. His skin a little too pale. And his eyes, shining with fear. Sometimes, Pitch would feel a pang of guilt for the boy.
One of the times when Jack was asleep, Pitch had transported him to another room. A room everyone knew too well. The room where it all started. Except this time, it was Jack who was behind the glass and the guardians (and children) in the other room.
Pitch stood aside and let the guardians wander into a hallway they knew too well. They started to jog, the children having to run to keep up, forcing themselves to tire to see who was on the other side of the glass. They all knew too well, they just didn't want to admit it.
On the other side of the glass was a scared, tired, distraught, wrecked teenager. The guardians and children barely knew what they were staring at. Was that really the happy and carefree Winter Spirit cowered and scared? What snapped the guardians and children out of their trance was a shrill of pain and sadness from Jack, who eventually looked up to see his friends on the other side. This only made him cower back even further with fear.
What had Pitch done to the little ankle biter? Bunny thought. "Let him go, now." Bunny snarled and demanded. If only he had his boomerangs right now.
"No can do." Pitch said matter of factly.
Bunny spazzed out and lunged himself forward only to be caught by Tooth and North. "Why I outta!-" Bunny began. He could not bear to see Jack in such a sad state even though he was his least favorite of the guardians.
Great. That's all Jamie could think. They had to fight Pitch asap before he did anything fancy and rescuing Jack was going to be harder than he thought. Especially the state of mind the poor boy was in. they had only one chance to fight back and that was right now.
"Now!" Jamie yelled out.
Everyone sprung into action. Jamie's plan was perfectly crafted for the injured guardians. North could summon his yetis and elves as soldiers. Bunny could bring forth his Easter eggs for battle. The twins had upgraded them to be exploding eggs. And Tooth could bring her army of dozens of fairies. They were quite ferocious. And the kids asked Sandy for help, so whenever the kids touched a fearling, it would turn into gold sand. It was going to be tough, but they had one shot.
"Jamie!" Pippa called to her friend, making her way through dozens of little walking eggs caring not to crush them. "We have to get to Jack!"
Jamie nodded. He grabbed Pippa's hand and together fanned away swarms of fairies trying to relocated his other friends. When the two finally found everyone during the ruckus, they informed Sandy that they were going to try to break Jack free.
"Sandy, hold them off! We're going to save Jack!" Jamie yelled out, going back to the glass room without waiting for instructions or protests or a response.
Sandy nodded with a small smile. He had confident in the brave children. They would save Jack, Sandy just had to do what he did best as a guardian: protect the children.
Managing through a few fearlings, defeating them with their touch, the children finally came to the room that held Jack. The room was quiet compared to what was happening and there were no guards.
"I'll tear it down!" Cupcake declared as she body slammed the glass, but the glass bounced her back and a wave rippled through the glass. Cupcake stumbled back and winced with her friends by her side.
Monty examined the glass and then shook his head. "Don't try that again!"
"Stop being a coward, Monty! Man, I'll go next!" Caleb said but Monty cut him off.
"What I said was not an act of cowardice!" Monty countered to his friends utter surprise. "The ripple! That was the glass making itself stronger!" He could see the dumbfounded look as his friend's faces. He scowled and readjusted his glasses. Smart nerd Monty was. "Every time a person tries to break the glass, it gets stronger! That ripple was the glass creating another layer of thickness. In other words, don't try to break the glass." He stated strongly.
Everyone groaned. So there was no way to break Jack free. The kids looked around but saw no other way to break Jack free. Jamie sighed and looked at the helpless teenager inside the chamber. Memories of snowball fights and snow days flooded his mind. Not one of those events would happen again if he didn't commit to free Jack.
Jamie approached the glass and delicately placed his palm on the smooth transparent surface. Maybe Jamie could communicate with the Winter Spirit, maybe that would help a tad. Truth was though, Jack could see everything that was on the other but could not hear anything, even if his head was not full of dreadful voices.
"Hey... Jack?" Jamie whispered, his voice smooth as trying to soothe the teenager who could not here his sweet innocent voice. Jamie's friends came beside him.
"If you can here me... say something?" Jamie pleaded but got no response. There just had to be a way to save Jack, there just had to! Jamie would not leave this place without Jack, he wouldn't let himself or anyone down if it was the last thing he did!
Jamie sighed with despair as he gently tapped his finger on the glass.
Much to everyone's surprise, there was a crack! A small crack had formed on the glass where Jamie's fingertips had met contact with the glass. Jamie curiously looked at the crack and tapped the glass oh so gingerly. The crack was louder this time and spread. A small light smile spread on the kids faces. After a few more gentle and focused taps, the glass shattered and a force knocked the kids down on their stomachs as they wheezed and laughed.
Jamie swiftly ran over to the crumpled Winter Spirit with the others. Jamie gave Jack a bear hug and noticed how tense Jack was and could feel every muscle in his body twitch when he shook with fear. But after Jack felt the warmth of the hug, Jamie could feel him relax.
The voices drained and the fears blacked out as light streamed through his eyes once more. At first the world was slightly blurry and a tainted blue from clamping his eyes shut for so long but his arms finally stopped scrambling for the mysterious huger and met with it, along with some others.
"Thank you." Jack mumbled as he embraced the small children. He felt the stiffness of his body leave him along with the fears and voices. He started to regain his strength and baring. He felt normal again at last.
Everyone had slightly welled up in the rejoice but it was short lived as they returned to their serious faces. There was a war to end. Jack did not have his staff at the moment but knew where to find it.
"Dude, gotta find your staff man!" Claude announced as he followed the Winter Spirit down the halls.
"Follow me and try to keep up!" Says Jack wittingly as he and the kids sped on with the search to find Jack Frost's staff
It was a funny scene. Egg bombs galore! The twins had also loaded the egg bombs with neon colored paint so when they exploded, it was a paint war. The elves had grown an appetite during their hard work fighting so instead of kicking or pounding a nightmare, they decided to much on it.
But, on the other hand, the guardians were losing. Slowly, but surely. Several of Tooth's babies were being caught or knocked out by the minute. Even though egg bombs kept pouring in, they were lowering in numbers. The yetis had grown tired. And the guardians were losing pitifully in hand to hand combat. Sandy could not keep up in any means either. And it was an hour since the children had departed.
"Where are the children?" North asked, strangling with a fearling.
"I don't know, North! They should be back with Jack by now!" Tooth said running up to the Russian worriedly. She gnawed and chewed her nails even though she always argued how that was bad for your teeth.
North finally butted the fearling in the head with his elbow, making the fearling disintegrate into ashes. North yelled with frustration. Bunny came racing over.
"Mates-" Bunny wheezed and coughed, panting. "I don't-" He coughed again, "I don't think I can do this much longer!"
Sandy floated over with a slouched and slumped form. He warily drew a drop over his head meaning he was too getting tired. The guardians muscles and bones were sore from the pounding and bashing they had to exert. Let alone that some of their wounds were gushing out fresh blood. The four guardians put their backs to each other, forming a star. Rotating around and around, fighting off the fearlings with their weaponized fairies, yetis and eggs.
An eerie cackle echoed through the chamber. Pitch. "Oh please..." He scoffed. "Jack's never going back to you!" Pitch then appeared riding on a fearling. "I finish you first... you seem to be losing steam already. Then I shall deal with the children and then Jack and I can get down to business once more."
"I don't think so!"
Dozens of sharp ice daggers dashed and flew by the Nightmare King, almost piercing him but slashing apart his fearling. Pitch fell off of his ashen horse. The fearlings that attacked the guardians froze. The guardians and their co-workers stood and stared. Jack Frost was officially back!
Ta da! That's the story for you all! There will only be three, three (or more or less but I believe three), more chapters before this story concludes! X( The story eventually has to end... so I can start some more! This story will not become a sequel. Later, I will bring back a story similar to this but first, I have an idea for my next story!
A Rise of the Guardians and Harry Potter crossover! What do you all think? I like the idea and I am excited!:) I don't know what year but some events from all stories will be mixed. And I shall shall do a self input;) (When I write it, see if you can tell who I am!) Tell me what you think and I am open minded to ideas!
The next chapter will be up tomorrow or Thursday:) As you can see, my goal is to post the net chapter in approximately 2 days time. But when school starts... XP
Peace Out!
-SkatingDJ