The scene changed to all of them going towards the area where they held the sleigh and bells could be heard clear as day. "North! North! I told you, I'm not going with you guys! There's no way I'm climbing into some rickety old..." Jack turned to see that the yetis were opening the door and having to steady the reign deer. "...Sleigh..." He watched the reign deer buck and huff out air, and he couldn't help but laugh until he actually saw the sled and his face of laughter turned into one of awe and wonder. He was suddenly filled with an incredible excitement at riding in the sleigh. "Okay. One ride, but that's it."

North had to hold himself back from laughing as a smile crossed his face while he got into his sleigh. "Everyone loves the sleigh." Meanwhile, Bunny's face is one of surprise and shock, because he didn't actually think that Jack would go along for anything, let alone the sleigh. North looked at his fellow guardian with impatient eyes. "Bunny, what are you waiting for?"

"I think my tunnels might be faster, mate, and safer."

"Ugh! Get in!" North lifted Bunny up like he was nothing and tossed him the back seat. "Buckle up!"

Bunny looked frantically around for the seat belts but quickly realized they were missing. "Whoa whoa whoa! Where are the bloody seat belts!?"

"Ha! That was just expression are we ready!?" Despite the yetis frantic attempt at warning North continued with glad determination to ride in his sleigh. "Good! Let's go! Clear!"

From behind him, Jack could hear Bunny's panicking and watched with amusement as his claws dug into the wood of the sleigh scratching the paint. He held a dark mischievous smirk as he laughed at Bunny's distress. 'Hold on tight, cottontail!' Even his thoughts were laughing. As they went down the ice, Jack couldn't help but jump in excitement and awe at riding in the sleigh and going through the lengthy tunnel that he had never seen before. Despite Bunny's panicked cries he felt he was having a blast riding in the sleigh.

North bellowed out in laughter as he changed gears on the sleigh. "I hope you like the loopty-loops!"

"I hope you like carrots." Bunny snapped back, looking ill.

"Wahoo!" Sandy was heard shouting. "I forgot how fun this was!"

Once Jack realized they were coming to the end of their track, he felt he had to get closer to see it take off, so he quickly leaned over the edge with excited anticipation clear in his ice blue eyes. Once the sled officially took off he couldn't help but look back at the north pole as it kept getting further away. "Whoa! Ha Ha!" Jack heard Bunny groan, voicing his air sickness, and then a look of mischief crossed his face. "Bunny look at this view-Whoa!" He purposely jumped off the sleigh meanwhile hearing Sandy laughing.

"Jack, don't mess with him...no matter how funny it is." Sandy laughed inwardly as he gave a side glance to where Jack just was.

"North! He's..." Bunny began panicking as he carefully leaned over the side of the sleigh to look for their supposedly newest member.

"Awe..." Jack said as he relaxed on one of the skis of the sleigh. "You do care." His smirk widened much to the irritation of Bunny.

"Oh, rack off you bloody show pony!"

"Hold on everyone! I know a shortcut!"

"Oh strewth! I knew we should've taken the tunnels!" Meanwhile, Sandy was clapping his hands and could be heard chuckling at Bunny's reaction while enjoying the sleigh ride.

"I say...tooth palace!" North whispered into the snow globe and threw it in front of them. They went through the portal but were met with a peculiar sight. Black shadows were flying past them. "What?"

As they were flying past, Jack realized they looked like horses and that they were taking the fairies. "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?"

"Yeah, I'll be alright. Thank you."

"Jack! You can understand my fairies!?"

"I guess not everyone can then huh?"

"No, not really. Usually their speech is at such a high frequency and speed that no one can quite understand them. Usually only I can."

"Well, I guess we can add Tooth language to the list of things my powers allow me to do."

"I guess we can." She grinned with surprised eyes.

"Let's continue then." He smiled at her and watched the scene unfold.

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?" 'Are you serious! Awesome!' "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.

"Ah!" Jack pulled back on the reigns and landed the sleigh ungracefully, but it surprised him that he landed it at all.

"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. Jack smiled at baby tooth who then flew up to Tooth.

"Look! I'm right here!" Baby tooth flew up to Tooth as fast as she could.

"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?"

"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 with his guard up, because Pitch was phasing in and out of the shadows.

"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. "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.

"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?"

"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 begged silently.

"...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."

"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.

"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?"

"Oh, Jack...that explains so much." Sandy inwardly said to Jack, knowing he could hear his thoughts.

"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 the wind 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. "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. 'I'm really starting to like these guys more and more. More than I expected to.' North continued with his glee at his idea. "We..." He started pointing his sword at Sandy and then waved it between Sandy and Bunny as he continued, "...Will collect the teeth!"

"What!?"

"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. "It's a good idea, Jack. You should join!"

"I'm in!" Jack answered with a wide smile and hopeful eyes.

"You know, I still can't believe you all made it a race!" Tooth scolded slightly.

"Well, why not? It made it fun." Jack stated with a slight chuckle at the end. When no one said anything else, but instead nodded in agreement, Jack smiled and looked at how North was smiling. "Let's continue."

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 scene changed again and they all saw Tooth looking at...well...a tooth. "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."

'Oh, Tooth, please don't be sad...'

"Nope!" Current Jack shouted.

"What's wrong, Jack?"

"It's just...look is there any way we could skip a memory?"

"Sorry, mate. Once a memory starts the only way to leave it is to continue on until the next one. Otherwise...when you stop it, if you don't move it, then we're stuck." Bunny answered with a curious glance.

"I was afraid of that..." Jack said as a lavender blush appeared on his cheeks and then rose to his ears.

"Wait...no way..." North said as he looked at Memory Jack and memory Tooth, and then back to current Jack and quickly remembered how Jack's heart was feeling as he looked back at Tooth with his answer of 'Kids huh?' and he found himself smiling at the young embarrassed guardian. "Oh Jack...is nothing to be ashamed of..."

"North, it's not funny!" Jack stated with the blush growing deeper.

"I am not laughing. None of us will."

"Fine...but remember...you said you wouldn't laugh. North said none of you would, and that goes for you too, Sandy. They may not be able to hear your thoughts and laughter, but I sure can." Sandy held his hands up in defense as he crossed his heart with one hand. "Yeah, please don't say that either. Already been through that remember?" Sandy nodded and patted Jack on the shoulder. He let out a frustrated and embarrassed sigh as he ran a hand through his hair. "Fine...let's continue."

'...you're too beautiful for sadness.'

Current Tooth gasped as she placed a hand over her heart. "Jack..." She whispered out with her own blush appearing on her face.

"Yeah...Um..." Current Jack started with the blush deepening if that was even possible. 'Well...no use in denying it now.' He let out an embarrassed sigh and brought a hand to his face and lowered his head towards the floor, his blush still apparent. "I um...I like you Tooth...you're beautiful, smart, caring, funny, and I..have...a crush...on you..." At the last six words he just kept lowering his head until he was crouching and clutching his staff in embarrassment.

What Jack didn't see at the moment was the huge blush that Tooth was wearing. What he couldn't feel was how fast her heart was hammering in her chest. She flew down towards Jack and smiled brightly. "I like you too, Jack."

"Y-You do?"

"Yeah, how could you not have noticed...I kept blushing around you..."

"And when we found out you were a guardian she was damn near twitter-patted at the thought of you joining. Even her fairies formed a heart while she stared at the image of you." Bunny mentioned with a slight chuckle, and was pleased to see both Tooth and Jack blushing deeply.

"Bunny!" Tooth whisper-yelled. "You didn't have to mention that."

"Oh, but I did, and no worries here, mate. The way you two look at each other...well, I was beginning to wonder who would admit it first."

"Same..." North admitted.

Sandy nodded and a symbol of a clock and a heart next to it appeared. "You two, Sandy!?" Jack asked, and received an amused nod from the golden man himself.

"What did Sandy say?" North questioned curiously.

"He said, 'It's about time you told her you like her.' Well, excuse me for never experiencing a crush before and not knowing what to do. I...I am so embarrassed."

"Hey, don't worry..." Tooth placed a reassuring hand on Jack's shoulder. "Like I said, I like you too..."

"T-Thanks...I don't really know what to do from here..." Jack stated as he looked up at Tooth with his heart hammering in his chest.

"We'll figure that out. Let's focus on your memories for now. Okay, sweet tooth?"

"Sweet tooth huh?" Jack could feel his confidence build slightly at her words and he gave her a smirk filled with mischief.

"Well...if you don't like it..."

"N-No...I like it. It's..." He let out a soft chuckle. "It's sweet."

"Oh! You two love guardians get a room would ya?" Bunny joked with a wide smile.

"S-Sorry..." Jack said as he rubbed the back of his head with a smile. "Let's continue."

Tooth crossed her arms and hugged herself tightly as she continued to look at Jamie. "Why did I ever stop doing this?"

"Hmm..." 'Her last time out in the field was four hundred and forty years give or take.' "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."

"Oh, Mate...you got it bad." Bunny joked.

"Getting used to feeling it tenfold then huh?" Jack asked with a nervous laugh.

"Yeah...and your still blushing." Bunny teased while Tooth and Jack both blushed.

"Right...let's continue."

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

"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. "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.

"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 it at that time and no one else.

"With the dream sand ya Gumbies!"

Bunny's voice had apparently woken up the greyhound that was sleeping. It started growling at Bunny with the intent to attack if he moved wrong. "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..." Jack 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.

"It really was funny." Current Jack spoke before memory Jack could.

"That explains weird dream about having Christmas party in warren..." North said with a groan.

"Or about an Easter egg hunt at the pole..." Bunny also groaned.

Jack couldn't help but laugh as he said, "Let's continue."

"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.

Jack's eyes followed where Sandy's 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 began walking to the window. "Should I wake them up? Nah, they'll be fine." Sandy caught up to Jack who had started flying and jumping off of rooftops. "Hey, Jack! Just like old times huh!?" 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 of what almost looked like icy lightning. "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 made to disappear. "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, you've been hurting children..." Sandy thought as he glared at Pitch.

Pitch, not knowing Sandy's thoughts, 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."

"Okay...easy..." Pitch started as he backed away on the street while still on his back.

Meanwhile Sandy was glaring him down, ready to strike again. "You tried hurting my friends and you tried hurting children!" He thought angrily.

"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, and was relieved when Tooth took on the nightmare he was fighting. 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. 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.

Jack soon 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 Pitch glaring him down. "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.

"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. 'No! Sandy...he's gone!" A sonic boom was heard and there was glowing blue light coming from Jack and the nightmares. 'Sandy was the only family I had..." He jolted back from the nightmares, his body giving off pure electrical and icy energy. "...and you killed him, YOU BASTARD!' At his last words he slammed his hands together focusing all of the negative emotions into the attack along with what little hope and wonder he had left. He hadn't planned to do it, and it was sudden, but somehow his body, heart, and soul knew exactly what to do with the emotions he had left.

"Whoa..." The guardians witnessing stood collectively in shock and awe as they were practically knocked back with the emotion. Bunny was getting used to it, but Sandy seemed to feel most of the damage this time.

"Uh...you guys alright? You okay, Sandy?"

"Sandy?" Bunny questioned with a concerned look at his golden friend after his heart had stopped pounding.

Sandy looked at the scene in front of him as it was frozen in place with Jack's power knocking both him and Pitch out of the sky. Tooth hadn't caught him yet, so he was still falling from the impact it had on both of them. Sandy's jaw was dropped and his eyes were misting. He looked at the scene, then at Jack, then at the scene again, then he gave Jack a desperate and pointed look as he pointed at himself. "Uh...you sure?" Jack questioned, and Sandy nodded frantically. "Alright...Sandy Edmond Thompson." Jack watched with curious eyes as Sandy began to glow, and to Jack's surprise, grow. Sandy was getting taller and taller, until he was just a little taller than Bunny, making him six-foot-three. Jack's jaw dropped at how Sandy's human form looked. He had medium sun blonde hair that was combed back and the blonde seemed to slowly turn into a bright orange color the further back it went. His skin was a slightly golden and fair, his eyes were the same color they had always been, his nose was slightly longer but still small. Sandy wore a yellow dress shirt that held a yellow tie that went underneath a shining golden vest that held a swirling pattern of what looked to be golden sand all over the vest and it had buttons that were shaped like moons and stars, his pants were also golden but a darker shade than the vest, and his shoes match the color of his pants. Upon closer inspection, Jack noticed that Sandy was thin like him, but seemingly more built and he found it funny that their hands and fingers were almost the same size and shape. Jack also noticed that Sandy was still staring at the frozen scene. "Sandy?"

"Oh, Jack..." Sandy gave a sad sideways glance at Jack, who's jaw only dropped further.

"Y-You're actually talking! You're not mute, and I'm not hearing it as a thought!"

Sandy gave a light chuckle along with a warm smile as he turned away from the scene to face Jack. "I wasn't always mute, Jack, and as far as this form goes..." Sandy looked down at his human form and found his own smile widening. "...It's actually pretty close to my original form." He looked back at the frozen scene and his smile faded as quickly as it came. "Hmm..." He hummed sadly as he looked at it. "Jack, you are more powerful than I had originally thought...and you were filled with so many negative feelings all at once...I'm sorry it affected you so much."

"It..." Jack started, still blown away that Sandy was actually physically talking. "It was difficult, and I felt..."

"You felt pure power rush through you...I felt it remember? You were so hurt and broken, and your only focus was on how much you were hurt, and how much you wanted him to pay for killing me. I'm willing to bet, you didn't know you could do that, huh?" Sandy gave Jack a sad smirk.

"No, I had no idea...I was just...so angry. You were the only one there for me for three hundred years...you're like a father to me, and then you were just...gone..."

"I'm sorry, Jack. I'm sorry that you had to go through something like that...however..." Sandy looked at the frozen scene and then back to Jack with a proud smile finding it's way to his lips. "We made quite the team in combat, didn't we?"

Jack's eyes lifted up from the floor, and he felt joy rise to the surface along with his saddened expression lifting itself into a glad one. "Yeah, we did!"

"I'm proud of you, Jack." Sandy placed a reassuring hand on Jack's left shoulder which only served to widen the young guardian's smile.

"But uh..." Jack's smile began to falter. "...You told me you didn't want me to experience negative emotions..."

"Sometimes, they are necessary and can't be helped. What I don't want, is for you to think you are less than anything. You are allowed to feel every emotion, but I would never wish you to ever feel self doubt, worthless, or helpless. You are remarkable, Jack."

"Well..." Jack let out a heavy sigh.

"Well what, Jack?"

Jack looked up at Sandy who was giving him the most fatherly-concern look he had ever seen. "Um...well...if you don't want me to experience those kinds of things...then I'm afraid you won't like the other memories that are going to show."

"What do you mean?" Sandy asked with a curious and worried expression.

"Well...I don't know if I'm allowed to tell you, because of all of this memory stuff...but after you died, Bunny tried to keep our hopes up with Easter and Sophie got into the warren because she found one of North's snow globes while he was still knocked out with dream sand...anyway...after all the eggs were painted and started heading out...I took Sophie home, and then I heard a voice...it was familiar...when I found where it was coming from I found out it was from my teeth and..."

"And...Pitch had them..." A look of pure worry immediately crossed Sandy's features. "Jack...what happened?"

"Well...he was actually scaring me quite a bit...he named my worst fears and got them exact almost...then...he just handed me the teeth saying I made a mess...I chased after him, but his shadow transported me into Bunny's tunnel where all of the eggs were smashed and destroyed...I went to see Bunny immediately, and when I got there...a kid walked right through him. They looked at me and asked where I was. Tooth noticed I had my tooth canister in my hand and asked where baby tooth was. I assume that she assumed I must've traded baby tooth for my teeth...North looked as if I betrayed everyone...and Bunny...he..."

"Jack, what did Bunny do?" Sandy's voice started to take on a serious tone as well as a furious one.

"He said I had to go...he looked like he was about to punch me and said that they should have never trusted me...Just..."

"Bunny said that to you!?" Sandy shouted, and received a stunned nod from Jack. Sandy's eyes were filled with anger and fury as he looked at the blurred image of Bunny just outside their small personal dome.

"Sandy, it's fine now."

"Oh, it's fine now, is it? So, he apologized?"

"No, but..."

"Oh, Jack...my boy..." Sandy moved to wrap his arms around Jack, enveloping him in a loving hug, and was relieved when Jack returned it just as tightly. "I was wondering what had happened to the carefree and wondrous joy that lit up your eyes...I thought at first that perhaps it was my death, but after they had built your hopes up so high and made you feel like you had more than just me even after I was gone...and then they stomped on what they built...that would do it..."

"What? What do you mean?" Jack asked as he looked up at Sandy.

Sandy leaned out of the hug slightly to get a better look at the young guardian. "Jack, we have traveled together for decades...centuries! In all that time...even with what the storm spirit said and how the others treated you back then...I had never seen that light in your eyes dim. You're still afraid aren't you? Afraid that one day they just won't trust you anymore and they'll cast you aside again..."

"Yes...if I'm to admit it...yeah."

"Jack, I don't think they will ever do that again. Especially after they find out what really happened and the extent of the damage they have done, and even if they do, I will always be there for you whenever you need me." Sandy let out a soft chuckle. "You know my route and schedule enough, you can always find me."

"Thanks Sandy." Jack tightened the hug slightly before backing out of the hug. "That means a lot."

"Always, Jack. I will always be there for you for as long as I can. Even if you no longer have believers, I will be there for you."

"Thank you!" Jack replied as a tear fell from his right eye.

Sandy wiped it away with a soft and warm smile as his hand fell onto Jack's shoulder once more. "You are most welcome. They haven't apologized to you yet, so I imagine that's where a great deal of your fear comes from. You don't know if they regret treating you like that or if they forgave you for whatever they assumed you did...but I am almost certain you will hear a plethora of apologies once they realize what they have done to you."

"I don't want apologies though. I want..."

"I know you want them to trust you and I also know that you won't admit it, but you want them to love you, and they have said they do...but trust and hope can so easily be shattered...yet so incredibly difficult to piece back together. No matter how uncomfortable the apologies may be for you, they will be necessary. Not just for you, but for them. An apology is more than regretting ones actions. It's seeking forgiveness for what ever wrong had been done. Do you understand, Jack?"

Jack nodded his head as he looked at Sandy's warm reassuring smile. "I understand, Sandy. Can I just um...ask one thing?"

"Anything." Sandy answered as he stood up straight with his arms relaxed at his sides once more.

"When you um...experience and witness the memories...don't go attacking them."

"I can't actually promise that, Jack." He replied with a guilty expression. "What I can promise you, however, is that I will be livid and they will know it."

"Why can't you promise that you won't attack them?"

"How would you feel if someone did to Jamie what they did to you?" Sandy asked with a slight smirk and a risen brow.

"Ah...I understand."

"Not quite, but it's similar. Jamie is your friend and possible relative...it's a bit different for me. I've known you for centuries, and you gave me hope. You gave me hope that I could one day open up to someone and be myself, you put wonder in my heart at how carefree, fun loving, and diligent you are, you helped my dream that someone would be able to hear me someday come true, and every memory whether they are good or bad...I wouldn't give them up for the world. I wouldn't give them up for all the belief in the world. I see you as my son, Jack. Even though I'm not your real father, I see you that way...like I adopted you as my own. So...imagine how you would feel about Jamie being put in the same situation and amplify it times a hundred."

"Oh...wow...I had no idea."

Sandy smiled at him and gave a light laugh. "Well, now that you have a bit of a better understand the position I will be put in...What do you say we continue?"

"Yes." Jack smiled up at Sandy. "Sandy Edmond Thompson" Almost immediately Sandy returned to his guardian formed and he gave Jack a gentle smirk.

The other guardians looked back and forth at Sandy and Jack and noticed that clearly something happened. "What did the two of you talk about?" Bunny asked with a stunned and curious expression.

"We talked about a few things...we talked about his death...and other things. You'll find out the other things later. I promise." Jack gave a slight smile as he glanced back at Sandy before turning his gaze back to the frozen scene. "Let's continue."