"If there's something I'm doing wrong...can you just tell me what it is? Because, I've tried EVERYTHING!" Jack pleaded to the moon, but again he gained nothing, but silence. He had just given Jamie an awesome snowball fight, AND sled ride that would NORMALLY be impossible for everyone, and he was more focused on his tooth than anything. With a heavy sigh, he jumped onto a power line and tapped his staff against it freezing it along the way.

'Jack, look! It's Sandy!'

Jack turned around at Elaina's words and couldn't help the smile as he pulled down his hood. "Right on time, Sandman." He then ran along the power line, and jumped up to meet the sand tendril that was coming directly for him. 'Sandy must've known I was upset.'

'He always seems to know, doesn't he?'

'Yeah!' Jack shouted mentally as he jumped up and touched it, causing the same dolphin to appear. He let the dream sand dolphin slip away along with the rest of the sand not long after touching it, and he noticed a shadow.

'SHADOWS? HERE?' Elaina cried out.

Hearing Elaina's worried voice, he chased after it, ready to attack. He jumped from roofs, off of cars, and eventually he made it into a back alley. "G'day, mate." Jack swiftly turned to face the source of the voice and saw a silhouette leaning against the wall. "Been a long time. Blizzard of '68 I believe. Easter Sunday wasn't it?"

'Well at least it's just him.' He thought quickly. "Bunny! You're not still mad about that...are ya?" He asked as he leaned against his staff.

"Yes!" He answered with determined and rage filled eyes, but they quickly calmed as he looked at his boomerang. "But this is about somethin' else...Fellas?"

Suddenly, Jack is lifted up into the air by two yetis. "Hey...what the put me down! What the..." Jack then notices the giant red sack and his eyes widened briefly before all he sees is darkness, and the darkness smells of candy canes and way too much hot cocoa.

He heard one of them say something in their own language before hearing Bunny. "Me?" Bunny laughed out. "Not on your nelly. See you back at the pole."

He felt himself spin almost out of control while still inside the bag when he heard a jingling noise. "He's here! Quiet."

Jack moved the bag off him so he could get a better look at where he was at, and he honestly couldn't believe his eyes, and apparently neither could Elaina. 'Are you serious? We're at the North Pole!?'

"Hey! There he is...Jack Frost!" North opened his arms wide, and Jack's jaw dropped.

"Wow...you gotta be kidding me..." The yetis lifted him up once more. "Hey Hey...put me down." Jack told them, feeling way more than a bit uncomfortable at being at the North Pole after years of trying to bust in to see the place, and then suddenly they're trying to be nice to him as if they didn't reject him for three hundred years. Well, all except Sandy, of course.

"I hope the yetis treated you well." North stated with a smile that was starting to get on Jack's nerves.

"Oh yeah...I love being shoved in a sack and tossed through a magic portal." He snapped. Then, he felt Elaina wrap her wind around his neck in a loving hug that she could give in the form she was in now.

'Easy, try and hear what they have to say. You're here for a reason. They wouldn't have brought you here if there wasn't one.'

'You're right.'

"Oh, good...that was my idea. You know Bunny...obviously."

"Obviously..." He snapped only slightly that time. 'Otherwise you wouldn't have sent him, but that also means the others don't know about mine and Sandy's friendship.'

"And the Tooth Fairy."

"Hello, Jack. I've heard a lot about you...and your teeth!"

"My...My what?" Jack backed away not liking where this was suddenly going. She was way too close for his AND Elaina's comfort.

"Open up! Are they really as white as they say? Yes! Oh they really do sparkle like freshly fallen snow!"

'Dammit, Sandy!' Jack growled mentally, but was instantly calmed by the sounds of Elaina's laughter.

'Oh! That's hilarious!'

She watched as her fairies were fluttering around Jack squealing in their own little language. "Girls, pull yourselves together! Let's not disgrace the uniform."

"And Sandman. Sandy...Sandy? Wake up!" North tapped him and raised his voice slightly. Then, finally Sandy woke up from his short nap.

"Hey Ho! Anyone wanna tell me why I'm here?" Jack looked directly at Sandy for the answer.

"I can Jack!" Jack walked towards Sandy with a small smile. "Okay so apparently there was black sand...north called us here and then the moon...and then we had to get you here because of guardian stuff and then the globe was funny and..."

"Uh, that's not really helping, but thanks, little man."

"Well, I tried..." Sandy shrugged lightly.

"I must've done something really bad to get you four together." He tapped his staff on a small elf and froze it. "Am I on the naughty list?" He half joked, because he also genuinely wondered if he was even on their list at all, but if he was, he could already guess where he was at due to rumors and speculation.

"HA! On naughty list!? You hold record, but no matter...we over look. Now we are wiping clean the slate."

"How come?" Jack asked as he turned to mainly Sandy for the answer, but none came.

"Ah...good question." Came Bunny's snide remark instead.

"How come? I tell you how come! Because you are now guardian!" Immediately loud and boisterous music was heard from left to right, and suddenly it was surrounding him.

'WHAT!?' Elaina and Jack mentally shouted together in disbelief as they were surrounded by yeti and elves. Music, fire, crowd...and a WINTER SPIRIT!

Jack looked to Sandy for an answer but only saw him holding a strange looking cup up to him with a simple, "Congratulations."

Eventually Jack had enough of the music and fire and he slammed the bottom of his staff down, creating a floor of ice, stopping the music, and amusingly enough, sliding an elf across the floor. "What makes you think I wanna be a guardian?"

"Ha..." North bellowed out in laughter. "Of course you do! Music!"

"No music!" An elf slammed down it's trumpet and walked off. "No offense but uh...you don't want me. You're all hard work and deadlines. I'm snowballs and fun times." He sat down on one of the desks and let out a very slight sigh. "I'm not a guardian."

"Yeah! That's exactly what I said!" Bunny remarked with pure amusement and victory in his eyes.

'Let me at him, Jack!'

'No, Elaina. Not yet. You're right. We need to listen. No matter how ridiculous and arrogant they're acting right now.'

"Jack..." Tooth flew over with a determined look on her face. "I don't think you understand what it is we do." Jack practically glared at her as she flew up towards the large globe. 'I understand perfectly well! Sandy has told me a lot!' Not knowing his inner thoughts, Tooth continued. "Each of those lights, is a child."

"A child who believes, and good or bad, naughty or nice, we protect them."

Suddenly Tooth was in Jack's mouth again. "Ah! Ah!"

"Tooth...fingers out of mouth!"

"Oh sorry..." She blushed slightly, which caused a low, dangerous, and envious growl to come out of Elaina's thoughts. "They're beautiful!"

'Calm, Elaina. I don't like her that way, and you have nothing to worry about. I love you and only you.'

'FINE!'

"Okay okay...no more wishy washy. Pitch is out there doing who knows what!"

'PITCH!? MY BIOLOGICAL FATHER!?' Elaina shouted. 'What is he doing that would cause them to summon you, Jack!?'

"You mean...You mean The Boogeyman?" He chuckled out slightly. 'And hey, don't look at me Elaina, I have no idea either.'

"Yes! When Pitch threatens us he threatens them!"

Jack walked away not wanting to continue the rest of the conversation, because really, they've had those children forever. He hasn't even had ONE believer in three centuries. "All the more reason to pick someone more qualified!"

"Pick!? You think we pick? No, you were chosen like we were all chosen...by man in moon!"

"What?" Jack's angered immediately doused itself as he turned around to face all of them with a confused and curious expression.

"Last night Jack...he chose you." Tooth told him in a voice that pleaded him to believe her.

"Maybe..." Bunny added.

"The man in the moon..." Jack looked up at the moon with narrowed eyes in disbelief. "He talks to you?" He looked to Sandy for more answers, but only received a brief guilty expression.

"You see...you cannot say no. It is destiny."

"But why wouldn't he tell me that himself?" He quickly ran a hand through his snow white hair and groaned. "After three hundred years, this is his answer!? To spend eternity like you guys cooped up in some hide out, thinking of new ways to bribe kids? No, no...that's not for me!" He shouted at the moon just before looking at Bunny sarcastically. "No offense."

"How...How was that not offensive? You know what I think? I think we just dodged a bullet. I mean what's this clown know about bringing joy to children anyway?"

"More than you know, Bunny." Sandy said quietly towards Jack as he tried to peer around Bunny who was scratching his ear.

Jack rolled his eyes, and tried to hide the confident laugh that wanted to burst through. "Um have you ever heard of a snow day? I know it's no hard boiled egg, but kids like what I do."

"But none of them believe in you, do they?" Bunny stood taller as he walked towards him, and it was far different from the Blizzard of '68. Not because they were surrounded by the other Guardians, but because he started to get right up in Jack's face. "You see, you're invisible, mate. It's like you don't even exist."

"Bunny enough!" Tooth scolded, but everyone knew Bunny would ignore it.

"No, the kangaroos right."

Elaina snorted a laugh in her mind as she held close to Jack's hoodie. 'Kangaroo...Pfft!'

"T-The what? What did you call me? I am not a kangaroo mate!"

"Oh and this whole time I thought you were. Tell me, if you're not a kangaroo, what are you!?"

"I'm a bunny. The Easter Bunny! People believe in me!"

Jack kept his glare at Bunny with tears threatening to fall, when suddenly he heard Sandy's voice. "North, please talk to Jack alone."

"Jack, walk with me." North whispered loudly.

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"It's nothing personal, North. It's just what you all do...it's not my thing."

"Man in Moon says it is your thing!" He shouted in confidence and then whispered, "We will see..."

"Hey, slow down will ya?" Jack ran after North in complete awe at the workshop. "I've been trying to bust in here for years! I want a good look!"

"What do you mean bust in?"

"Oh don't worry. I never made it past the yetis." He looked to his right at a familiar one. "Oh, hey, Phil."

'Phil! The one that would always give you hot chocolate for TRYING at least!' Elaina cheered, but continued to hold tight to Jack, nearly becoming one with him, but she was merely wrapping herself around his entire body, giving herself flushed cheeks, but she didn't want to accidentally hurt anything in the workshop.

"Keep up, Jack. Keep up!"

Jack looked around the work shop in awe when he quickly noticed that the yetis were the ones creating and testing the toys. "I always thought the elves made the toys."

"We just let them believe that." North stopped at a group of elves that were 'testing' lights when one of them seemingly got electrocuted. "Very nice! Keep up good work!" North put an arm around Jack to urge him to move forward. There was a yeti who was painting robots blue when he said, "I don't like it. Paint it red!" Once they made it into his office he saw an elf carrying a fruit cake. North took it and held it in front of him. "Fruitcake?"

"Um...no thanks." He answered as he tried to get a good look at North's office.

North tossed the cake behind him and started cracking his knuckles. "Now we get down to tacks of brass."

Jack looked at him with confusion written in his eyes. "Tacks of..."

Suddenly, he got closer to Jack with a determined expression, backing Jack up against a wall without even touching him. "Who are you, Jack Frost?" He pointed a finger in the middle of his chest. "What is your center?"

"My center?" He narrowed his eyes at the man in front of him, unsure of where exactly he was going with this.

"If Man in Moon chose you to be guardian you must have something very special inside you." His eyes shifted to one of the shelves in his office. "Hmm..." He went to grab the doll off the shelf and he started smiling. "Here, this is how you see me no? Very big, intimidating, but if you get to know me a little..." He handed it to Jack who just gave him a small questioning look. "Well, go on."

'A...A doll!?' Elaina questioned curiously with mild amusement.

'Apparently...' Jack opened the first layer of the doll and found himself grinning despite everything. "You are downright Jolly?"

"Ha! But not just Jolly!" Jack opened the next layer. "I am also mysterious..." Then, the next. "...and fearless..." Then, the one after that. "...and caring! And at my center..."

Jack opened the last one and dumped the final doll in North's large hand, and found himself slightly confused as he brought a hand to his head rubbing at his brow. "There's a tiny wooden baby." Jack had to ignore Elaina's mental laughter, and he was fairly certain if she were in her physical form she would be rolling on the floor.

'IT'S A BABY!?' She laughed out for only Jack to hear.

"Look closer, what do you see?"

"You have big eyes..." He shrugged.

"YES! Big eyes! Very big! Because they are full of wonder!"

Jack couldn't help the joyful look on his face and the thought in his head. 'Wow, he really does represent wonder, and he's actually pretty nice.'

North continued on with wondrous eyes, "...That is my center. It is what I was born with. Eyes that have seen the wonder in everything." Toys made of ice began flying as well as normal toys.

'Wow, this is amazing!'

'Yeah, no kidding! It's beautiful!' Elaina stated in awe while North continued.

"...Eyes that see the lights in the trees and magic in the air. This wonder is what I put into the world! And what I protect in children." Jack looked up to all of the toys flying above him and moving around, and found himself awestruck at the pure wonder of it all. North continued once more with a gentler and kinder voice, "It is what makes me a Guardian. It is my center. What is yours?"

"I...I don't know..."

Suddenly, Bunny hopped in and they both looked at him with concerned expressions, which only deepened when they saw Tooth fly by the window. "We have a problem, mate. Trouble at the tooth palace."

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The sleigh ride had started off amazingly for both Elaina and Jack, but then they went through a portal into Tooth's area, and they noticed strange black things flying about the air. "What?" North whispered out in confusion and concern at the same time.

'Jack! Those are Nightmares!' Elaina shouted to him desperately as the black figures raced past them.

'THOSE are Nightmares!? Wait...there's something in their bellies...and they're chasing...' Jack's eyes widened considerably as he noticed what they were after and what they were 'eating.' "THEY'RE TAKING THE TOOTH FAIRIES!" Jack looked around to see if you could save any of them. He saw one who was flying faster than the horse, so he flew out of the sleigh, caught her, and settled back in while trying to look the baby tooth over. "Hey little baby tooth. You okay?" She squeaked something he couldn't understand, but she nodded her head which was good enough for him at the moment.

North drove the sleigh moving in and out between the towers that seemed to be everywhere while he chased down another black horse that was trying to escape. Suddenly, North handed Jack the reigns. "Here take over!" He took out his swords and was ready for battle.

"Huh?" He asked as he happily took the reigns. 'Are you serious! Awesome!'

'Oh...by the stars, North! Why did you hand HIM the reigns!'

'Not now, Elaina! I'm driving!' He thought to her with a smile of pure delight on his face. "Yah! Yah!" He shouted as he slammed the reigns.

Once North struck down the black horse three canisters fell into the sleigh. "They're stealing the teeth!" Bunny exclaimed.

Sandy noticed the peculiar black substance that came off of the teeth and onto his arm. "Is this...black sand?"

"Jack look out!" North shouted, and tried to help Jack land, but he saw a landing place for the sleigh and immediately took it.

"Ah!" Jack pulled back on the reigns and landed the sleigh ungracefully, but at least they landed.

"Tooth are you alright!?"

"They...they took my fairies...and the teeth...all of them. Everything is gone...Everything..." She flew down to her knees with pure sorrow in her eyes. When Baby Tooth flew out of his hoodie, he couldn't help but smile gently at her as she flew to her 'mama'.

"Oh, thank goodness one of you is alright!"

"I have to say..." An eerie deep voice called out. "...This is very exciting. The big four, all in one place. I'm a little starstruck." Pitch peered over one of the towers and glared with a dark smile at them all. "Did you like my show at the globe, North? Got you all together, didn't I?"

'P-Pitch!?' Elaina stuttered in shock at the shadowy voice and figure.

"Pitch! You have got 30 seconds to return my fairies!" Tooth flew towards Pitch with anger in her eyes.

"Or what? You'll stick a quarter under my pillow?"

"Why are you doing this?" North asked as he pointed one of his swords up at him.

"Maybe I want what you have. To be believed in. Maybe I'm tired of hiding under beds!"

"Maybe that's where you belong!" Bunny spat back.

"Go suck an egg, rabbit. Hang on. Is that Jack Frost? Since when are you all so chummy?"

"We're not." Jack said as he turned around putting his guard up as he looked around.

"Oh, good. A neutral party. Then I'm going to ignore you. But you must be used to that by now."

"Pitch, you shadow-sneaking ratbag, come here!" Bunny shouted as he raced towards him.

Before Bunny could reach him he disappeared but Tooth saw where he was going to go and flew towards Bunny to grab his boomerang, prepared to strike Pitch with it, when suddenly one of the black horses appeared out of nowhere, ready to attack her. "Whoa! Hey! Easy, girl, easy. Look familiar, Sandman? Took me a while to perfect this little trick..."

"It IS black sand!" Sandy thought quietly in anger as he looked at his own sand in his hand.

"...Turning dreams into Nightmares. Oh, don't be nervous. It only riles them up more. They smell fear, you know."

"What fear? Of you?" Bunny shouted as he took his boomerang from Tooth. "No one's been afraid of you, since the dark ages!"

"Oh! The dark ages! Everyone frightened. Miserable. Such happy times for me. Oh, the power I wielded! But then the man in the moon chose you to replace my fear with your wonder and light. Lifting their hearts and giving them hope! Meanwhile everyone wrote me off as a bad dream. 'Oh, there's nothing to be afraid of. There's no such thing as The Boogeyman!' Well that's all about to change." Tooth's palace started crumbling and the once beautiful golden and pink paint started chipping and disintegrating away. "Oh, look, it's happening already."

"What is?" Jack questioned, growing concerned for the Tooth fairy, who now looked completely distraught.

'Her palace, Jack...it's linked to her!' Elaina gasped as she realized what was happening.

"Children are waking up and realizing the tooth fairy never came." Pitch answered darkly. "I mean, such a small thing, but to a child..."

"What's going on?" Jack asked both Tooth and Elaina, because they both knew what was going on, but at the moment, he was at a loss.

"They...they don't believe in me anymore." Jack turned his concerned yet furious gaze back at Pitch who was incredibly amused. 'What? Why?'

"Didn't they tell you, Jack? It's great to be a guardian, but there's a catch. If enough kids stop believing, everything your friends protect, wonder, hopes, and dreams, it all goes away...and little by little, so do they. No Christmas, or Easter, or little fairies that come in the night..."

"No! Stop talking to him!" Sandy spat with pure fury laced in his mind's voice. "Leave him ALONE!" Jack could hear Sandy practically growling in his mind.

"...There will be nothing but fear and darkness...and me. It's your turn not to be believed in!"

Bunny was the first to attack with his boomerang, and seeing that he couldn't evade it, Pitch got on his nightmare horse and flew down. He was then followed by North, Bunny, Tooth, and then Sandy who internally shouted to Jack, "Come on, Jack! Let's get him before he gets away!" Jack leapt from the edge and followed them. Bunny through egg-paint bombs but Pitch easily dodged those.

They chased him down to the ground of the tooth palace when he disappeared once more. "He's gone..." North stated with disappointed eyes.

"Okay, alright, I admit it, you were right about Pitch." Bunny said, agitated that Pitch got away.

Jack crouched down next to Tooth who was holding a canister of teeth with sorrowful eyes. "I'm sorry about the fairies."

"You should've seen them. They put up such a fight"

"Why would Pitch take the teeth?"

"It's not the teeth he wanted. It's the memories inside them."

"What do you mean?"

"That's why we collect the teeth, Jack. They hold the most important memories of childhood." Tooth flew towards the mural on the wall and Jack followed, walking on the water and freezing it beneath his feet. "My fairies and I watch over them, and when someone needs to remember something important, we help them. We had everyone's here. Yours too."

"M-My memories?" Jack looked at her in complete bewilderment. 'I haven't lost any teeth.'

"From when you were young...before you became Jack Frost."

Jack looked down and slightly shook his head before looking back up at Tooth. "But I wasn't anyone before I was Jack Frost." He told her as he slowly backed away, becoming concerned and confused at what she was telling him.

'Jack?' Elaina questioned, growing concerned in her own ways for him, because she knew. She saw him at the pond before he became a spirit.

"Of course you were. We were all someone before we were chosen."

"What?" Jack could hear North tease Bunny behind him, but he wasn't entirely focused nor did he want to know what they were talking about due to the startling possibilities that just presented themselves at Tooth's words. "The night at the pond...I just...I assumed I..." He felt himself becoming breathless at the mere thought of it. "Are you saying...are you saying that I had a life before that, with a home...and a family!?" He raised his voice in excitement at the actual possibility.

Tooth looked at Jack with concerned eyes. "You really don't remember?"

"All these years, the answers were right here! If I find my memories, I'll know why I'm here!" Excitement and joy rushed through him faster than Elaina had every carried him as he jumped and flew away from the mural. "You have to show me!"

"I can't, Jack...Pitch has them..."

Jack stopped flying immediately and crouched down on the rock below him, filled with a brand new type of determination he couldn't quite name yet as he pointed his staff at her. "Then we have to get them back!"

She was about to say something when she suddenly felt her feathers fall off, causing Jack to grow even more worried for her. "Oh no! The children! We're to late..."

"No!" North forced his swords down. "No! No such thing as too late! Hmm...wait wait wait wait...IDEA!" He shouted with delight as he pointed his sword at Bunny who luckily leaned back quite a ways otherwise he may have lost a nose. Jack leaned against his staff smiling softly at how North reacted. "We..." He started pointing his sword at Sandy and then waved it between Sandy and Bunny as he continued, "...Will collect the teeth!"

"What!?" Tooth squeaked out.

"We get teeth and children keep believing in you." North explained with pride.

"We're talking seven continents and millions of kids!"

"Bah! Give me break. You know how many toys I deliver in one night?" North asked with a wide grin.

"And eggs I hide in one day?" Bunny questioned as he held an equally wide and proud grin.

"And Jack...if you help us, we will get you your memories."

Tooth smiled with complete Joy, Bunny groaned in agitation, and Sandy floated slightly higher holding two thumbs up with a wide smile. However, it was Elaina's voice that was the deciding factor as she gently sighed and told only him, 'This may be the path to your answers. You would be a fool not to take it, Jack. Even if it is dangerous.'

"I'm in!" He answered with a wide smile and hopeful eyes. 'We'll look out for each other, Elaina. Don't worry.'

'Why does that make me worry even more, Jack?'

'Oh hush, you love me!'

'You're not helping me NOT worry, love.'

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North was immediately seen jumping roof tops and going in and out of chimneys shouting, "Quickly, quickly!"

Then, they could all see Jack flying as he felt Joy, amusement, wonder, and excitement all bubble beneath his chest. "Hop to it rabbit! I'm five teeth ahead!"

"Oh, yeah...right! Look, I'd tell you to stay out of my way, but what's the point, because you wouldn't be able to keep up anyway!"

Jack flew alongside Bunny as he was jumping and running across the rooftops and pointed his staff at him accusingly with a wide smile and the feeling of excitement rose even higher in his chest. "Is that a challenge, cottontail?"

"Oh, you don't wanna race a rabbit mate." Bunny smirked at Jack with joy and excitement of his own rising to the surface as he ran faster, zipping across the roof tops.

"Whoa!" Jack shouted in surprise at Bunny's speed, and couldn't help the laughter that escaped his lips as he chased down the furry guardian.

"A race?" North asked with amusement lighting up his eyes followed by anticipation. "Is it a race? This is gonna be...epic!"

They raced in and out of homes, beating each other to other teeth and eventually after already getting many teeth Bunny found another one and looked at it while he was standing on a roof when suddenly he slipped on ice that undoubtedly was caused by Jack. "Crikey!"

Jack picked the tooth from Bunny's hands and laughed at it. "Yes!" Then, Sandy came along and took it out of his hands. "No!"

"Nice try! Maybe next time, Jack." Sandy told Jack with his thoughts and waved goodbye to him with a slight silent chuckle as he flew away to find another tooth.

The race went on and on like that, but then they had to go back and leave gifts, and that was a whole other race. Jack was also super grateful that Sandy left his own gifts from Jack in a way. Dreams about snow days. Then, he, Elaina, and Tooth eventually wound up in Jamie's room. As he looked around the room, he took quick note of the crayon drawing on the wall of Jamie on his sled. "Left central incisor, knocked out in a freak sledding accident. I wonder how that could've happened, Jack." She shot Jack an amused and knowing look.

Jack was looking at the drawing that Jamie had done of him flying through the air on the sled, and he found himself laughing lightly at Tooth's words. "Kids, huh?"

Tooth twirled the coin down her fingers and carefully slid it underneath's Jamie's pillow while still holding the knowing look. "Hmm..." She flew up to look at Jamie still asleep in his bed. "This was always the part I like the most. Seeing the kids. Why did I ever stop doing this?"

"Hmm..." He hummed with a slight smile before looking back up at her. "It's a little different up close, huh?"

Tooth looked at Jack with an appreciative smile. "Thanks for being here, Jack. I wish I had known about your memory. I could've helped you."

"Yeah well...look, let's just get you taken care of, then it's Pitch's turn."

"Here you are!" North said as he pushed his way through Jamie's window, catching their attention.

"SHHHHH!" Tooth warned as she pointed to Jamie sleeping.

"Oh...what gives slow pokes? How you feeling Toothie?"

"Believed in!" She whispered as she flew up to North.

"Ha! That's what I want to hear."

"Oh, I see how it is..." Bunny started as he appeared from a magical tunnel. "All working together to make sure the rabbit gets last place."

"SHHHHHH!"

"You think I need help beating a bunny?" Jack challenged with a smirk as he held out his bag. "Check it out Peter Cottontail"

"you call that a bag of chompers?" Bunny pulled out his bag, which was indeed bigger than Jack's. "Now that's a bag of chompers."

"Gentlemen, gentlemen..." North started as he pushed through the other guardians. "This is about Tooth. Is not competition, but if it was...I win!" He slammed down his large bag. "YEE HAWW" Then, suddenly a flashlight was shined at them. North immediately regretted his decision to be loud and backed up slightly. "Oh no..."

"Santa Clause..." Jamie whispered out. "The Easter Bunny? Sandman! The Tooth Fairy! I knew you'd come!"

"Surprise..." Tooth gave a nervous laugh. "We came!"

"He can see us!?" Jack asked with hope filling up his chest.

"Most of us..." Bunny stated sadly, sensing the sudden rush of hope and knowing exactly who it was coming from.

The light shined on all of them, but then everyone, including Jack, became painfully aware that it was going straight through him as if it wasn't there. 'Oh Jack...' Elaina started.

"Shh...You guys, he's still awake."

"Sandy, knock him out."

"Yeah sure I'll just do that." Sandy thought sarcastically, but of course, Jack heard the pure sarcasm in his 'voice'.

"With the dream sand ya Gumbies!"

At Bunny's voice, they all heard a low and threatening growl. When they turned to face the source, they all found a muscular greyhound ready to defend her small human. "No! Stop it! That's the Easter Bunny. What are you doing Abbey!? Down!"

"Alright, no body panic." Bunny suggested as he set down his bag.

"But that's a um...That's a greyhound. Do you know what greyhounds DO to rabbits?" Jack asked with a slight chuckle at the end.

"I think it's a pretty safe bet he hasn't met a rabbit like me. Six-foot-one, nerves of steal..."

"You hearing this, Jack?" Sandy thought to him as he got a ball of dream sand ready.

'Yeah, I'm hearing it, Sandy.' Jack thought to himself as he rolled his eyes and looked to the nearby clock.

"...master of Tai-chi and..." He tapped the clock which was Abbey's breaking point and she immediately went after Bunny. "Crikey! Ah!"

Somewhere in the attack, Sandy lost the ball of sand he made and it began attacking the other guardians. First it hit tooth and baby tooth who both had teeth dancing above their heads. Then, it hit Bunny who had carrots above his head. After that was Abbey the greyhound who ended up with bones above her head. Next to go down was North who tapped one of the candy canes that started to appear. "Candy canes..." Then finally, Sandy caught Jamie and nodded his head, and the boy fell asleep.

"Whoops!" Jack said with amusement bubbling in his chest. Then, much to Jack's delight, one of the carrots interacted with one of the candy canes and began dancing with it like it was on a Broadway show. "Oh, I really wish I had a camera right now!"

"Jack, I hardly think that they would..." Sandy's eyes widened at the nightmare at the window.

Curious at what could get Sandy's attention like that, Jack's eyes followed where his were and just barely caught a glimpse of it before it left the window in a hurry. He immediately flew after it. "Sandy, c'mon! We can find Pitch!"

Sandy caught up to Jack who had started flying and jumping off of rooftops. "Hey, Jack! Shall we make a race of it!?" He shouted the thought at him with excitement in his eyes.

Jack laughed out loud with pure joy and excitement in his eyes. "YES!" He chased after one nightmare as Sandy chased after the other. He jumped down from a building shouting, "Wahoo!" and continued his chase of the nightmare as he flew down the street and then down an alleyway, where he used the crook of his staff to make himself do a back spin while holding on to the staff, and he propelled himself forward chasing the black horse up the wall and onto a roof where he let out a beam electrical ice. "I got it!" He shouted, once he felt his powers connect with the black horse. He laughed as he jumped further up to the second part of the roof to get a closer look at what he'd done. Once he found what he was looking for he smiled widely. "Sandy! Sandy, did you see that!?" He shouted, feeling proud that he took one of them down. He inched closer to it and touched his staff with it, which caused icy lightning to follow his staff along the black horse. "Look at this thing..."

"Frost?" Pitch questioned with a skeptical expression, making Jack immediately turn around with his heart suddenly pounding in his chest. He tried to shoot ice at him, but it missed as Pitch disappeared into the shadows. "You know, for a neutral party, you spend an awful lot of time with those weirdos. This isn't your fight, Jack."

"You made it my fight when you stole those teeth!"

"Teeth? Why should you care about the teeth?" Silently, Sandy appeared next to Pitch causing Pitch to let out a yelp and jump a couple feet away.

Pitch then chuckled darkly as he said, "Now, this is who I'm looking for."

Without warning, Sandy pulled out dream sand whips and immediately went after Pitch. "You have been hurting children! You have been hurting my friends! And you have no business talking to Jack!" Sandy used one of the whips to wrap around Pitch's wrists while Pitch was trying to swing his nightmare scythe, and began slamming him against the walls. "You. Will not. Swing that. Around Jack!" Sandy tossed him into the air and then slammed him onto the ground. "I won't let you hurt him!"

Once Pitch landed on the ground Jack chuckled lightly. "Remind me not get on your bad side."

Sandy gave Jack a sideways glance with a smile. "You can't get on my bad side, Jack."

'Right...what about when he finally knows about you, Elaina?'

'I don't think you'll have to worry about him being angry at you, but it's still a little less than a decade off before I can reveal myself.'

"Okay...easy..." Pitch started as he backed away on the street while still on his back. "You can't blame me for trying, Sandy! You don't know what it's like to be weak and hated! It was stupid of me to mess with your dreams..." Pitch stood up and held up a hand. "So I tell you what...you can have them back!"

Nightmare horses started to appear one by one then ten by ten, then Jack and Sandy found themselves surrounded. "You take the ones on the left I take the ones one the right?" Jack asked nervously.

"I guess?" Sandy shrugged as he looked around.

They both heard Pitch approaching, so they turned around to face him, and Sandy got his whips out, ready to fight once more. "Boo!" Pitch said as he commanded the nightmares to attack.

As Sandy was attacking, the sled started flying overhead, which caught Pitch's attention, and made room for Sandy to attack a few more nightmare horses before grabbing Jack and flying into the air. Once they were high enough, and enough of the horses had followed them, Sandy tossed Jack into the air, mind shouting at him, "Go Jack!"

Jack started fighting off nightmares immediately after Sandy threw him into the air, allowing Elaina to guide, carry, and assist him in defeating the Nightmares. For a short time none of them were attacking him, when suddenly he saw that two were coming after him from both sides, so he simply allowed himself to drop out of the air slightly, so that the two horses could crash into each other. However, in his decent, he hit a horse and lost his staff. 'JACK!' Elaina shouted desperately, trying to push his staff to him, seeing the obvious pain he was in.

His insides ached, and his chest as well as his lungs started to feel like they would explode. He grabbed frantically for the staff in the air as his breathing grew heavier. Once he finally grabbed it, he landed on the side of the sleigh where Bunny grinned at him saying, "You might wanna duck." So, he did, and noticed the incredibly smug grin on Bunny's face that he had just barely avoided the boomerang.

Out of the corner of his eyes, and far above them, Jack noticed that Sandy was fighting by himself on a large golden cloud as he was surrounded by what seemed to be thousands of nightmares, and above that, Pitch was glaring down at him. "We gotta help Sandy!" Jack shouted, and North immediately made his way to their golden friend when suddenly, Jack saw Pitch hit Sandy with some kind of nightmare arrow and it seemed to actually hurt Sandy. "No!" Jack shouted and immediately started flying towards Sandy as fast as he could.

'FATHER! BUT...I...'

"Jack!" He heard Bunny shout, but he chose to ignore it.

"Don't fight the fear little man!" Pitch laughed out .

Tooth tried to go after Jack but nightmares swarmed her. "Hurry, Hurry, Jack!" North shouted as he pulled back on the reigns.

"I'd say sweet dreams...but there aren't any left."

As Sandy was consumed by the nightmare sand he stoop proudly and only had one thought as he died. "I'm sorry, Jack." At his last thoughts his golden light had fizzled out.

"No!" Jack stopped for only a moment as he realized what just happened. "NO!" He shouted as he flew directly towards Pitch. Pitch flung his nightmares at Jack, making Jack hesitate, but only for a moment. He felt an overwhelming anger. Pure rage, hopelessness, and heart break. He then felt Elaina wrap her invisible hands around his staff and over his hands. As soon as her hands touched his, he felt warmth, love, heartache, rage, and power. Soon, a sonic boom was heard and there was a glowing blue light coming from off of him, and he knew that it was thanks to Elaina, because she had told him once that she can only amplify his powers. She can't add to it, which meant what he was about to do, was something he was always able to do, just with twice the power. He jolted back from the nightmares, his body giving off pure electrical and icy energy. He then felt Elaina's hands leave his, but the power was still there. So, he slammed his hands together focusing all of the negative emotions and the power he felt rushing through him into the attack along with what little hope and wonder he had left.

However, the shock wave of the attack affected Jack, knocking him out of Elaina's grip, and he was unconscious, which meant he couldn't fly by himself. 'Jack!' She shouted mentally, but let out a sigh of relief as Tooth rushed forward to catch him.

"Jack...how did you do that?" She asked once she saw him begin to move.

"I-I didn't know I could." He answered honestly. 'Elaina?'

'It...it was a sonic blast. It was a combination of magic. Winter magic...and Light magic. You have both and always have.'

'Oh my...your Father...Elaina...'

'Jack...I can still feel it. He'll still know in less than a decade.'

'Which means...' He trailed off as the realization of what she was saying suddenly dawned on him.

'Somehow he survives this...but you can't let the others know.'

'Don't need to worry about that...all I can feel right now is a sore stomach and back...and pure guilt.'

'Oh...Jack...'