NUMBER 1: LAST CHAPTER I FORGOT TOOTH WAS WINGLESS. OMG SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION. Just pretend that Tooth kicked ass without her wings, kay?
Ok... Hello all! I know I left you on a dreadful ending but you shall see what happens in this one. Hey, don't say I didn't warn you last chapter that a Shocker was coming! Sorry it took so long! I get preoccupied with other junk and I'm super busy, not to mention school:( Fair reminder, once school begins (mine later) I won't be posting as frequently, like on weekends or something.
I looked at the reviews and they are now 41!X) Thank you all and here are your shout outs!-
EctoPhantom13: He he, you'll see what happens to Jack!:)
extremist: You'll see what happens;) And thanks, I loved writing about the spirits! I just HAD to throw them in!
MoonGirl1155: I know:'( He's my baby too!
While I was reading this, it was raining like crazy! Really hard, so that reminds me, I want to start something called "Question of the Day" aka QOTD. I'll ask these occasionally. Here's one: What is your favorite type of weather? Mine is raining and gray. Not hard rain, light.
Another thing, I had SOOO much fun writing about those spirits! Just a shout out to Aurora, the Season of Spring. I copied her appearance from a girl called Aisling in a movie called The Secret Of Kells. GREAT movie. Nice drawings. It's an Irish folktale or something. And I love the character Aisling!:)
So... with all that said and done, let's see what happens next!
Pain. Unlike he had ever felt before. This was even worse than when he was transforming into Evil Jack. It was like someone took a metal stick that had just been dipped in magma and skewered it through his heart. Searing hot, pulsing pain. His fingertips vibrated, his head pounded, his chest ached, and the world was starting to fade. Jack crumpled to the floor, trying to breath.
Jamie on instinct slid over to the boy who just saved his life. He leaned over the bleeding Jack and examined his wound with horror stricken through his entire body. The wound was so bloody, Jack could never endure the pain... No! Must think positive! Jack couldn't die! He's an immortal and he would never go! "Y-you'll be fine, Jack!" Jamie choked, nodding. "I-it's... it's gonna be okay." He tried to sound reassuring... but even he knew, this was serious and fatal business.
Tears sprung to Jack's eyes. The pain was so great. But he was an immortal... he couldn't die! But Jack knew that if an immortal was suffering from dire pain, Man in the Moon would pity on them and put the soul at rest. Meaning that they would die. It was over.
"Jack!" Tooth darted to her precious sweet tooth.
North jogged over and propped the bleeding teenager on his arm. "You'll be fine, Jack. L-like Jamie said. We'll get you home where Phil and his others can tend to your wound... you'll make it." The big man stuttered. Even he could not fight back the sad emotion that was dwelling over him.
Bunny, though, was jumping on the walls (par core style) trying to make it to Pitch. "You son of a bastard!"
Pitch shamed and 'tsked' on the Pooka. "Aren't you going to check on how your little precious and dying Winter Spirit is doing? Might wanna say a few kind words before he goes..."
This made Bunnymund furious as he wanted to throw a punch at the Nightmare King who only fell into the shadows. But Pitch was right, Bunny should be getting to Jack. He pranced over to the Winter Spirit. "H-hey, Frostbite? You doing good, mate?" Good dammit Rabbit does he look okay!? Bunny swore at himself.
Jack was going to pull of a joke when he felt a liquid substance clog his throat. He was choking on it. He had to cough it up. It turned out to be his blood. Jack gargled as a stream of crimson blood slipped out of his pale lips. His eyes dimmed and turned glassy and his eyelids flickered, threatening to close forever. This was getting bad!
The kids who were behind Jamie huddled together and dared not to look. Sandy had thought about giving the boy some dream sand but then he would never wake up. All everyone could do was wait for Jack to die. It was too late to do anything and everyone wanted their last few precious minutes with Jack.
"Don't you dare shut your eyes, Frostbite! We'll get you better!" Aster yelled. Everyone looked at the rabbit who had a tear resting on his ruffled cheek. There was no way to get Jack better.
North wanted to tell his feelings about Jack and how he was a wonderful boy. It was now or never. "Hey, Jack? I just want to say that you are a wonderful guardian and-" He was cut off.
"Don't go there! Please! Just don't..." Tooth wailed as her head bowed down to Jack's.
Silence. That was it except for Jack's unsteady breathing. Jamie felt his heart and soul sink. Tooth felt like she could shed no more tears. Sandy felt depressed for he could not say anything. North felt down, he didn't care if he didn't look intimidating for once. And Bunny, along with Jamie, felt worst of all. He regretted how he treated the poor ankle biter and called him a liar and how he left him in solitude for 300 years. What broke the silence was a pitiful moan in the distance.
Aurora
She weakly got to her knees. Her hair was still a shimmering silver but had crisped at the edges and her dress was tattered and baked. She had burns all over her gray and smooth skin. Her emerald eyes caught sight of the bleeding teenager and she started to glide towards him.
Jamie shot up and blocked her view of Jack with his body. "Don't even think about getting near him!"
Jamie's friends stood beside Jamie, making the barrier larger between Aurora and Jack. North wrapped his arms protectively around Jack as he winced. Bunny flipped his boomerangs, he didn't get to put his hands on Pitch but the Spirit of Spring will have to do.
Tooth fluttered up and stood in front of the kids. "If you touch a hair on his head," She began slowly and sincerely, pointing to Jack. "I swear, I will end your fate with slicing you into ribbons! The same goes for that sister of yours!"
Aurora shot her hands up defensive like. "Listen! I don't want to fight! I can help him!" She pleaded.
Bunny scoffed, his anger boiling even hotter. "I don't believe it for one second!" His grip tightened, his knuckles cracked and went white. "You think your all pretty and innocent with your up-do season and face but do you think we are going to let you go near this boy when you wanted to kill him!?"
Bunny and Tooth went into attack mode while the children, North and Sandy went into the defense mode. Aurora went into the 'don't hurt me, I'm here to help, I'm innocent mode'.
"I know, I'm sorry! I wouldn't believe innocence like this if it wasn't me! But once I realized that I was meant to kill you guys, I absolutely did not want to! It was plain wrong!" The Spirit of Spring tried to reason with the guardians who only prowled at their prey. "Now if you could just... I can heal Jack! Let me do so and then I'll leave! Forever! You won't have to see my face ever!"
Bunny had enough of this child's play and so did Tooth. They both pounced on Aurora who shielded herself. Bunny started to punch the girl and Tooth did too. They did not know how agile and swift Aurora was for she had not shown them her true powers during the battle. Aurora had ducked and shimmied under the raging Bunny and Tooth and scooted her was silently towards the children. She had learned how to move fast and silent for she lived in the woods and observed the life of wild animals.
"I got her!" Bunny said proudly.
"I got her too!" Tooth said with joy and glee with a vicious grin.
"Pull the lass out on three... two... one!" Bunny announced, he had a firm grab on Aurora's leg (so he thought) and yanked on it.
Tooth had a grasp on Aurora's silky hair (once again, so she thought) yet it did seem a bit scruffy for looking so shiny and smooth. Oh well, can't judge a book by its cover! Tooth pulled on the hair.
After doing their pulling, Bunny and Tooth screeched. They twisted and squirmed before flopping over one another before realizing that they had a grip on each other and Aurora was no where to be found at the present moment. A large clump of Bunny fir was resting in Tooth's hand. Bunny's back was missing a patch of fur. Tooth's leg had claw marks on it, not deep but clawed. The two whipped their heads to see Aurora leaning over Jack with the children aside her. The two sprang up, readying their hands, using them for brute force but North and Sandy stopped them. Aurora had some glowing fluid wavering about her hands and was placing it on Jack's heart.
Bunny was still downright confused. "What the bloody hell is she doing, mates?" Bunny was about to walk up to her and disturb her work when Tooth stopped him.
She shook her head with a slight smile. "Look closer!" She couldn't tell what Aurora was doing but it seemed to be a good thing by the look on Jack's face, the stress and pain was melting away from him.
The guardians and children examined the girl with the liquid. They were still confused as to what she was doing. Only Sandy knew precisely what the girl was performing. He showed in little golden figures to the guardians what was going on. The guardians grinned warmly as they quietly watched the Spirit of Spring do her magic.
I'm dying. This is dying. Is it dying? Why is the pain going away and why do I feel energized again? And my vision is coming back into focus. Is this dying? Jack thought. He felt the strength flood through him again. His heavy eyelids opened as he saw his blood drain back into him. Jack saw Aurora standing over him with this sort of liquid thing. Whatever it was, it was healing Jack. The wound closed. Jack felt the pain go away and his body felt rejuvenated. He sat up.
"What did you do?" Jack asked the Spirit of Spring. He felt around his chest, his sweatshirt was torn and had stained blood on it but his chest was bare and smooth.
"I have healing powers." Aurora said humbly. She held up her hands and Jack's blood evaporated from them.
Jamie and the kids sighed with relief. "Jack!" Jamie cried and lunged himself at Jack with the other kids. "You saved me, thank you."
Jack returned the hug. "Just returning a favor."
The guardians cheered. Tooth went up to Jack and hugged him. The boys patted Jack the the shoulder. Everyone thanked Aurora deeply as the Spirit of Spring humbly told them that it was just the right thing to do. Aurora stood their with a slight smile on her face, she had done well and done right... for once. Since her sister abandoned her most of the time she had to discover her powers and live on her own in the woods. She had developed wild but natural instincts. Speaking of which, she had exceptional hearing and could hear a faint crawling sound and a creepy slight breeze.
Aurora whipped around and saw the King of Nightmares tower above her. The guardians and children noticed and froze on the spot.
"I am very disappointed in you, Aurora. You could have sided with me and become the most powerful season of all! Even more powerful than your sister and Phoenix, not to mention Jack!" Aurora blinked, Jack gritted his teeth. Pitch was still trying to recruit people to the dark side. "Everyone overlooks your beautiful overwhelming power! If you join me, people would believe in you, see you and not abandon you to live on your own in scariness and soberness! I could help you harness your powers!"
Aurora looked at her hands. A faint blush came to her cheeks. Jack felt a rush of pity for the girl, he always thought he was the one who always had trouble controlling his powers. And by the sound of it, it seemed like the Spirit of Spring wasn't all happy and flowers. Her past reminded Jack of his own. It made him shudder. 300 years of not being able to communicate with anyone or be seen or noticed. And Aurora had 500 years of it and never left her woods. Jack always wondered how he kept his sanity but now he wondered how Aurora kept hers! Jack just thought she would be able to see that this was the wrong choice...
Aurora pondered about this. "Believe, in, me...?" She said slowly with a little satisfaction.
"Yes! You!" Pitch responded with a smirk. Jack felt the urge to step in but knew that wouldn't be the best move at all.
Aurora pondered some more before looking up... with a darkness upon her face. "No." She answered. "Never." She said firmly. "The kids out there, they will fear the both of us. And that's not what I want."
Jack raised his eyebrows. That was exactly what he said!
Aurora continued to protest. "I'd rather live 500 more years alone in the woods than be one day with you! I don't care about being the most powerful spirit, nor do I care that you do! And I will be able to harness my powers on my own and I will find a way for the children to believe me by myself!" Aurora stopped ranting, brushing locks of hair out of her pink face full of adrenaline. The guardians and children sighed with shock.
"Why you little-!" Pitch cast himself at the Spirit of Spring.
Aurora's eyes flashed white. She opened her mouth and blew out little bits of pollen and sprinkled it on the ground. The ground started to rumble. Everyone lost their footing including Pitch. The children clung on to the guardians as they tried to regain their balance. Then, large vines and ivy trees started to erupt out of the ground. They entwined themselves around Pitch and raised him high into the air, squeezing him tight. There was no escape for sure. To top it off, Aurora created venus fly traps. Huge ones. They snapped and snarled at Pitch who was cursing at the Spirit. Aurora then cast a wave of flowers, they seemed harmless at first but appeared to be devastatingly sharp. They shredded the venus fly traps and vines and ivy's into bits, releasing Pitch and making him fall to the ground. Aurora stomped her foot and roots shot up and pinned Pitch to the ground. Aurora whistled and creatures of the woods started to enter the chamber and beat Pitch to a pulp. Doe and deers, foxes and wolves, large birds and even little critters were doing their job.
Everyone watched Aurora's powers with awe. Aurora stormed over to Pitch and punched him. By the feel of it, hard. A wave of air blasted through the chamber where the Spirit of Spring made contact with the boogieman. Pitch moaned. Everyone expected Aurora to finish him off so they looked away for the best. But instead, Aurora simply blew what looked like pixy dust over the Nightmare King and he fell into a deep sleep. Aurora turned to the guardians and children with a sweet smile on her face.
"That was epic!" The children shouted including Jamie and bounced around.
Sandy asked the girl why she didn't finish Pitch off and she merely said that if they got rid of Pitch, the world would be unstable. The good/light can not exist without the bad/dark. Everyone thought this was very wise.
"What else can you do?" Jack said curiously.
"Oh... I'm a healer so I make potions and what not. Talk to animals and plants and other weird stuff like that. And I can make little things like make flowers and pollen and dust that do certain things." Aurora said humbly. "But you should know, I can't fly but I can move very fast."
Bunny snickered, he recalled that the little booger could move swiftly. "Oh come on, that's it?"
Aurora then smirked and chuckled. "I haven't told anyone this but since I'm the 'Fairy of Nature' I have at least one move for each season. I can make a whirlpool out of water. I control Autumn's wind and I can even create some frost!"
"Impressive!" Tooth giggled. She liked this girl!
There was a moment of silence.
"Well, it seems like we can go safely and happily home! Who wants to celebrate?" North laughed. He took at a snow globe and crashed it on the ground.
Everyone waited at the entrance and hopped in. Aurora grinned and walked the other way. Jack saw this and stopped.
"Aren't you coming?" Jack asked.
"Oh..." Aurora began, stroking a lock of her hair. "I, uh, have to check on my sister and Phoenix and make sure that I wasn't too harsh on Pitch and-"
Jack cut her off. "They'll be fine. Come with me." He said, extending a hand.
Aurora looked back then looked at the Winter Spirit in his trusty crystal blue eyes that were full of light. "Okay." She answered. She took his hand and they both leapt through the portal together.
Aw... sweet ending:3 And the Spirit of Spring comes through! Woot woot! Yes, long chapter! And I'm sorry I didn't update soon, I was busy. But school for me starts later but when it comes... oi vie. So, ya! Thank you for reading! Please review! See ya!
Peace!
-SkatingDJ