Chapter Two
Judging Too Early
The four Guardians had done a worldwide search; for Pitch and for any lingering danger they could find. Besides a few lone nightmares that were easily dealt with, they did not find anything in their search. The Guardians had gathered at North's Workshop; the North Pole, to discuss what they should do next. They all glanced at the globe every so often, expecting to had gone completely dark but, it shone nearly as bright asever, a few stray lights had gone out but, that was a usual sight. Children grew up, or momentarily stopped believing to a tragedy or personal trauma. North slammed shut the large book he had been skimming through for the past few hours.
"Bah, no use! Person who could help is unable!" He said, his voice strained.
"Ah mate, Manny doesn't seem to fussed now, ol' moon's got things to do." Bunny replied.
"Ah yes, Manny." North said, not looking to the Pooka.
"North? Mate, she can't help us with this. What would she do?" Bunny asked.
"She would have ideas; many good ideas that could fix it. Always have good ideas."
"She was a child North, she couldn't help with this. She- she wouldn't even be able to see him." Bunny said, ignoring the odd feeling in his stomach the words had churned up.
Toothiana seemed to catch on to the conversation and shot Bunny a nasty glare. The Pooka looked hurt from Toothiana's apparent annoyance at his words.
"Katherine believed in many wonderful things, and many horrible things. She believed in everything; she would have seen him." She said.
"Where does the kid fall in that then?" Bunny asked; unsure where to place the frosty kid.
"You really believe in that brat of a child that much?" The voice was everywhere, but had no source that the Guardians could see. It was a cold, mocking voice, that was easily recognisable.
"Pitch, get out of North Pole!" North shouted, standing from his seat.
"What a horrible host you are! So very rude to your guests. I thought you were having a little party, with you all here. Have you done a roll call?" Pitch asked, and the Guardians could feel the shadows move, as if he was looking around the room. "I see a rabbit, a fat old man, an annoying little fairy, a tiny man made of sand an- oh no, you're missing someone!" Pitch's fake shock was accompanied by a short shocked scream, as if he could scarcely believe Jack was gone.
"He isn't here, this is a Guardians meeting." Bunny said, his temper rising.
"Oooh that is harsh rabbit, he was chosen by the man in the moon, was he not?" Pitch's question had a strange tone to it, none of the guardians could pick what it was.
"Man in Moon make mistakes, is not impossible." North said, defending Manny, ready to fight. The Guardians did not expect the laughter that followed; it was a horrible laugh, and the Guardians knew what that tone of voice had been. Joy. It felt wrong, it sounded wrong, it was a twisted sense of joy that belonged to Pitch, and Pitch alone.
"That is very true. This first mistake was believing in that brat of a girl he seemed to like so much, and his next mistake was trusting the lot of you with the children! That is, what I can safely say, was his last mistake." The words seemed to slap the Guardians, and the shadows retreated back to normal, brightening the room that the Guardians hadn't noticed had grown so dark.
"I haven't got her." Pitch's words stunned Toothiana, who had opened her mouth. Finally, the cold darkness that had filled the room, was gone. Toothiana let out a pained wail and fell to her knees.
"My fairy! What has he done to- oh god where is she?" She cried soft tears, needing answers. It had been a week since the attack on the warren and she hadn't seen the little fairy since. It was a painful feeling, not knowing where one of her fairies was.
"Well he must have her, she would have come back if she could Tooth, we'll get her back." Bunny tried to assure her, but the cries came louder.
"Ah, little flying thing!" North shouted as the little blur of green and blue came into the room. Baby Tooth had felt her mother's distress and came to make sure everything was as okay as it could be, given the situation.
"Where have you been? I've been so worried!" Tooth went to grab the little fairy, to check that she was okay. Baby Tooth moved back, hovering away from her mother and the others.
"Don't be silly, I've been worried sick about you-" Tooth was interrupted by the tiny fairy, who had been nicknamed Baby Tooth, as she began to chirp loudly at Toothiana. The other Guardians could not understand what was being said, but they could understand the tone of what was being said; the little fairy was mad. Tooth held a hand over her mouth, and stared at the tiny fairy, then squeaked in shock as the fairy flew from the room.
"No, come back!" Tooth shouted after her, but the tiny fairy was gone.
North and Bunny looked at Toothiana, Sandy floated over and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"She's gone back to him." She whispered, the others were confused. It was Sandy who clued them in, making a snowflake from sandy above his head.
"Is she mad!?" Bunny half shouted the question.
"Oh my god, very, so very mad; at us." She whispered, her voice didn't seem to get any louder, despite her trying.
"It was all a trick. Pitch had Baby Tooth and asked Jack for an offer; his staff for Baby Tooth. Well, Pitch is Pitch and wasn't honest. He snapped the staff in half, and threw the staff and Jack down some crevice in the ice. Baby Tooth was thrown down too, after she pecked him." Tooth was sitting on the floor, surrounded by her fellow Guardians.
"Staff is broken? Did not think was possible." North was the one to break the silence they had fallen into.
"Well he can't fly then, he's stuck where ever he is. We can find him." Bunny said, hoping the others would agree, assure him it was a good idea. None of them did.