Off to the Tooth Palace – Pitch Black:
"We've already said it! We're not going with you, guys!" Jenna argued as she and Snowmoon followed North, Bunny, Sandy and Marcus to the lowest level of the worship where they came to a room with two tunnels leading in and out.
"There's no way, we're goanna follow you, Guardians flying in some rickety, old…" Snowmoon began but once he and his rider saw it comin0g out, he finished with: "Sleigh,"
"Never thought I'd say this but what a nice sleigh," Jenna admitted as she saw it was made of cedar wood with a colour of cinnamon brown with red, white, black and gold linings on the long silver stands and on the brown wing features. There were six strong, steady reindeer pulling it.
"Okay, one fly following you guys but that's it," Snowmoon said before Jenna hopped onto him.
"Hop in!" North ordered to Sandy, Marcus and Bunny. He noticed that Bunny hadn't jumped in. "Bunny, what are you waiting for?"
"I think my tunnels might be faster, mate and safe," Bunny answered patting the side of the sleight with his left back foot.
"Uhh for goodness sake!" Snowmoon lifted Bunny up with his tail.
"Hey, put me down!" he ordered.
Snowmoon dumped Bunny in the sleigh. "Dumb dragon,"
"Dumb kangaroo," Snowmoon mocked back.
"Buckle up!" North ordered.
"Woah, woah…where are the bloody seatbelts?!" Bunny screeched when he couldn't find any belts.
"That was just an expression," North explained.
"And it was very funny," Marcus laughed.
"Let's go!" North commanded as with a whip on their reins, the reindeer started galloping into the ice tunnels pulling the sleight. Snowmoon followed behind it and started sliding on his paws behind it.
The ice tunnel was long and it started getting loopter loopy with ice stalactites poking out from the sides and then from top and then from the bottom.
"This is amazing!" Jenna cheered holding her hands in the air.
"This is the best fun in forever!" Snowmoon cheered as well as he felt the wind blowing in his face.
Bunny was screaming like mad than ever. He was also getting motion sickness.
"Stop being so scared and enjoy!" Marcus encouraged as he was waving in his hands in the air like a child would on a roller coaster.
As the sleigh started sliding around upside down, North called, "I hope you like the loop-de-loops!"
Bunny checks puffed as he felt sick, "I hope you like carrots," he ranted back.
Sandy lifted his heads up as well like Marcus.
"Woo hoo!" Jenna held her hands up in the air as she and Snowmoon were sledding round the loop ta loops after them.
They finally came to the end of the tunnel and the sleight rocketed up into the sky twirling about in the air.
Snowmoon spiraled around following it. They started soaring away from the Workshop far to the south.
"Let's go!" North shouted and away they went.
Snowmoon started flying alongside the sleigh.
"This is amazing right?" Marcus asked as he noticed Jenna flying besides him and the others in the sleigh on Snowmoon.
"Yep, I couldn't put it any better myself," Jenna said agreeing with him. "This is what it is to be free,"
"I know right!" Marcus agreed. He looked forward again and Jenna noticed that something was troubling him.
Meanwhile Snowmoon noticed that Bunny was petrified in fear. "Come on, Bunny. Feel the wind in your hair. Well…fur. And check out this view,"
Jenna patted his head and he suddenly fell out of sight.
"North! Marcus!" Bunny shrieked in fear. "They're…" he gathered enough courage to peer over the head with his sides. But he saw Snowmoon and Jenna right below his sight.
"Aww…" Jenna replied with a smug. "You do care,"
Bunny's eyebrows were raised and bent and he flustered. "Oh, rack off, ya bloody showpony,"
"Hold on everyone!" North commanded, "I know a shortcut!"
"Oh! Oh strewth! I knew we should have taken the tunnels!" Bunny shuddered in fear.
Marcus growled in anger and smacked him in the head. "Get a grip on yourself,"
North took out a see-through snow globe and whispering into it saying "Tooth Palace," an image of the mountain where it lay inside appeared. North threw the snow globe in front of the sleight and it created a portal
Marcus turned his head to Jenna and Snowmoon. "Jenna! Snowmoon! Follow us!"
Jenna and Snowmoon nodded.
North went "Hyah!" and the reindeer took off heading into the portal. Snowmoon and Jenna followed after them.
"What?" North so shocked and surprised at the same time.
Nightmares soared past them screeching all around the sleigh. The Guardians gasped in shock. The reindeer were flinching at the sight of the nightmares so they tried their best to dodge them. The Sandman formed an umbrella out of dream sand and used it to block some of the nightmares.
Jack: Woah! [Ducks, then turns to look at them] They're taking the tooth fairies! [He jumps up to attack a Nightmare that hasn't devoured a fairy yet, then cradles the fairy to him as he falls back into the sleigh.] Hey little Baby Tooth, you okay?
Baby Tooth chittered affirmatively. She was so grateful to Jenna.
The sleigh descended through the walls of the mountain into the Tooth Palace. The passengers hoped to be in pursuit of Pitch, a Nightmare, or Tooth, or anything, but it was empty. Until they spotted a Nightmare.
North handed the reins to Marcus, "Here, Marcus take over!"
Marcus took the reins and commanded the reindeer whilst North pulled out one of his cutlass swords as he stood at the head of the sleigh. Once they were close enough to the nightmare, a slice of "Hyah!" with the sword made the nightmare break apart into black sand that spilled onto the sleigh.
Tooth boxes rattled on the floor beside the black sand. "They're stealing the teeth!" Bunny shrieked as he picked up one.
The Sandman seemed confused by the sand that the Nightmares are made out of as he looked at some that was spilled on his hand.
Jenna noticed that Marcus wasn't concentrated on flying the sleigh as he peered round looking at Bunny once he gave that alarm. She saw the sleigh was about to fly into a column. "Marcus, look out!" she warned.
Marcus looked forward and his eyes widened. He managed to steer the reindeer just in the nick of time and the sleigh landed roughly on a wide platform with a small pool in the center surrounded by gold crosslinking railings.
The guardians inside were a bit shaky from that landing. Snowmoon landed beside them and Jenna slipped off to check on them. "Are you guys okay?"
"If by okay, you mean 'still alive' then yes," Bunny admitted.
"Thanks for the heads up," Marcus said gratefully.
Jenna smiled in appreciation.
The six heard Tooth hovering near a high spiral platform panicking. She was gasping continuously and she was super scared.
North called up to her. "Tooth! Are you alright?"
Tooth sighed in disbelief and pain. "They- they took my fairies, and the teeth, all of them!" Everything is gone," she cried as all but Snowmoon and Jenna jumped up to her. "Everything...," Tooth kneeled down heart-broken. Marcus and Sandy each placed a hand on one of her shoulders to comfort her whilst North and Bunny stood nearby holding sympathetic faces for her.
"I'm so sorry, Tooth," Marcus conceded.
"Not everything's gone!" Jenna's calling voice assured making Tooth look at her.
Jenna revealed Baby Tooth safe in her hands and she flew into Tooth's hands. "Ah! Oh thank goodness, one of you is alright," she expressed stroking Baby Tooth's feathers. She looked down at Jenna. "Thank you, Jenna,"
"Don't just thank me, Tooth. Thank Snowmoon as well,"
"Oh, yes, thank you as well Snowmoon," Tooth didn't want to forget Snowmoon as well.
Snowmoon smiled happy to help.
"I have to say..." a voice came into their presence and spooked them as they could hear it everywhere. "This is very, very exciting. The Big Five, all in one place. I'm a little stars truck," the source of the voice was right above their heads on a higher spiral platform. It leaned over to reveal a figure with spiky black hair, grey skin with matching eyes and dark robes. It was Pitch Black. "Did you like my show on the globe, North and Marcus?" he questioned North as he leaned more forward. "Gotcha all together, didn't I?"
"Argh!" North growled back to him.
Pitch smirked and proceeded to walk away.
Tooth eyes frowned with anger. "Pitch!" she screeched as she tried to fly to hit him. "You have got 30 seconds to return my fairies—" she didn't get to finish her warning because by the time she reached Pitch, she had disappeared into the shadows.
"Or what?" Pitch's voice echoed from another spiral platform of pink not far from the one she was on. "You'll stick a quarter under my pillow?"
"Why are you doing this?" Marcus demanded.
"Maybe, I want what you and your friends have, Marcus," he pointed angrilly at him and the others. "To be believed in!"
Jenna and Snowmoon observed what was going on between everyone up above. Jenna was scared so Snowmoon ensured he was as close to her as possible.
"Maybe I'm tired of hiding under beds!" Pitch ranted continuing on with his moaning about not being believed in.
"Maybe that's where you belong!" Bunny responded.
Pitch vanished from where he was to the underside of the spire level the Guardians are standing on. "Tah!" he spooked Bunny. "Go suck an egg, rabbit."
Bunny went "Rrh!" and reached down to hit Pitch but he disappeared again.
"Wait, a minute isn't that Jenna Frost?" Pitch's eyes widened at seeing her when the Guardians, Snowmoon and her peered round to try and spot him again.
Jenna was panicking very silently as she still pointed her staff at him.
"You've grown more beautiful than the last time I saw you - daughter,"
The nick name Pitch gave to Jenna made the Guardians and Marcus freeze in shock.
"Oh, Guardians, Marcus…I take it Jenna has never told you about how I took her. Raised her as my daughter…until she betrayed me and froze me in walls,"
"I did that because you lied to me and my dragon!" Jenna shouted.
"Yes, I did lie to you," Pitch's admitting voice spooked her from behind and she turned and saw Pitch very near to her behind some of the palace's rails. "But I was protecting you, daughter,"
Snowmoon growled at him as his lower body and tail circled around Jenna. "She's not your daughter, Pitch and you will not deceive her again,"
"Oh, look at you Snowmoon. You've grown too. All strong and big," Pitch complimented. "I bet you're used to all these compliments like all the other dragons were,"
He proceeded to walk away whilst Jenna and Snowmoon's eyes widened.
"Pitch! You murdering shadow-sneaking ratbag! Come 'ere!" Bunny leaped down to attack him but Pitch vanished out of his sight.
Tooth saw him appear onto a higher level of her palace. She snatched one of Bunny's boomerangs from its slot on his back and battled cried as she charged at Pitch.
But three giant black sand-horses blocked her path and screeched at her making her descend low in fright.
Baby Tooth hid in Jenna's hood in fear.
"Whoa ho ho ho, hey! Easy girls easy," Pitch calmed down his three Nightmare horses. "Hehe," he cackled as he took a few bits of black sand from each of his steeds. "Look familiar, Sandman?" he peered down at Sandy. "Took me awhile to perfect this little trick…"
Sandy was fuming in rage.
"…Turning dreams into nightmares," Pitch finished. "Don't be nervous; it only riles them up more. They smell fear, you know,"
"What fear? Of you?" Bunny asked disbelieving Pitch. He laughed as Tooth returned his boomerang. "No one's been afraid of you since the Dark Ages!" he reminded.
Pitch smiled remembering his past victorious times. "Oh, the Dark Ages! Everyone frightened, miserable, such happy times for me - oh the power I wielded!"
"You call making everyone miserable, sad and scared, a happy time for you?" Marcus asked not impressed. "It's anything but good. It's selfish,"
"Well, Marcus, it's what makes me happy whether you like it or not," Pitch retorted back. "But soon my happiness faded away when your father: The Man in the Moon chose you (his son) and your friends to replace my fear with your wonder and light. Lifting their hearts and giving them hope. Meanwhile everyone wrote me off as just 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," he warned cautiously at the Guardians.
The colours of palace mysteriously started peeling out of sight.
"Oh…" Pitch started mocking again. "It's happening already,"
"What is?" Jenna asked confused.
Tooth was inhaling and exhaling so stressfully and shocked.
"Children are waking up and realising the Tooth Fairy never came," Pitch insulted with a baby voice. "Such a little thing but to a child…"
"What's going on?" Jenna asked concerned for Tooth.
"They…they don't believe in me anymore," Tooth answered in shock.
Jenna gasped in fear for her new friend. As did Snowmoon.
"Oh, Jenna…didn't they tell you?" Pitch asked. "It's great being a Guardian. But there's a catch. If enough kids stop believing, everything your friends protect: Wonder, Hopes, Wishes and Dreams…it all goes away and little by little so do they," he explained mocking them before he gave a cackling laugh. "Unfortunately you've never gone away all because you have a dragon. Just like all the others did before they were lost,"
Jenna breathed in and out slowly with fear. Snowmoon's face felt sad as he heard Pitch say that other dragons like him were lost.
They both observed how tense the other Guardians were and the mention of '.they were lost'.
"No Christmas or Easter or little Fairies that come in the night," Pitch insulted acting as if he was already victorious. "There will be nothing but fear and darkness. And me. It's your turn not to be believed in," he directed that last sentence with a sharp, snarling tone. He turned back at Jenna. "Oh and daughter, there's a place beside me. How would you like to be my heir again?"
"Never!" Jenna shouted.
Snowmoon flapped at Pitch and was about to claw at him when a black beast came out of nowhere and strike at his face making him fall backwards in pain.
The guardians saw that it was large-sized dragon dark as night all over. Its horns, teeth and claws were sharper and larger. Its wings had claws sticking out of its muscle bents. Its eyes white with the stare of an alpha over its omegas.
"Pathetic, dragon," it sneered at Snowmoon in an unimpressed male voice.
Snowmoon snarled his teeth at the black dragon as it flapped between his rider and their new friends.
"Should have learnt better than to attack another rider,"
"Rider?" Jenna asked in shock.
"Yes, Jenna. You see once I was finally free from all that ice you and your dragon put me in for 200 years. I found these," Pitch revealed a white tooth and claw in his hand. Snowmoon's eyes widened. As did Jenna's. "Your dragon's first tooth and claw. When I knew it would finally be my time to make children believe in me, I knew I would a dragon just like yours to ensure that. So using my magic and these do-ikies, I made this beautiful creature that I bonded with,"
The Guardians eyes widened at what they heard.
"And now, I can finally accomplish my quest of revenge!"
Having heard enough, Bunny threw his boomerang but Pitch jumped on his dragon and it soared downwards whilst being followed by the Nightmare steeds.
The Guardians jumped down after him trailing behind him in the air.
Jenna hopped back on Snowmoon and he took off flying behind them.
Whilst in the mid-air, Bunny threw three egg bombs at Pitch and his dragon and nightmares. They each exploded in mid-air but not very close to them.
They landed on their feet in a large lagoon at the bottom of the palace where there was a pond all turquoise with a blossom tree and stone walls surrounding it.
They peered round for Pitch, his dragon and his minions.
"They're gone," North gasped. And he was right. They had disappeared into thin air.