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Emma POV
The next scene unfolded with confusion on Jamie's side of the room, but happiness on Em's side, because she knew that her father would be getting better with the help of Pippa.
INTO PITCH'S LAIR - NIGHT
The SPY NIGHTMARE flies down into a dark cavernous space.
Large STEEL CAGES hang all around and trapped inside are the
MINI TEETH.
The Nightmare heads toward Pitch, standing at his own GLOBE,
which is conspicuously covered in lights.
PITCH
The lights...why aren't they going
out?
"Maybe because the Guardians are actually helping the children." Jamie sneered. Em glared at him, and, to the boy's surprise, Pippa.
"Shut up, Jamie. You don't know what you're talking about." Pippa said, crossing her arms. Em smiled at her new friend, and felt a warmth in her chest. Her smile grew brighter, knowing that her father had gained a bit more strength, thanks to Pippa.
The Nightmare approaches from behind and lets out a soft
whiney; Pitch stiffens at the news.
PITCH
They're collecting the teeth?
The MINI TEETH perk up at this, and start twittering
excitedly, which echoes throughout the lair.
PITCH
Oh pipe down, or I'll stuff a
pillow with you!
Baby Flake shot up from her perch on Em's shoulder, and shot Pitch a fake glare, crossing her tiny arms. Pitch hid a smile, and held his hands up.
"You know I would never do that, Baby." He said, and Baby Flake nodded her head, before settling back onto Em's shoulder, who giggled at her uncle and friend.
The Mini Teeth begin to settle down. PITCH looks at the
Nightmare, frustrated, and scowls. The Nightmare winces and
disperses into tiny particles.
A strand of NIGHTMARE SAND from the Nightmare twirls in the
air, and Pitch twists it with his fingers, turning it into a
crude image of the SANDMAN.
PITCH
Fine, have your last hurrah. For
tomorrow, all you pathetic
scrambling will be for nothing.
And he crushes the image in his fist.
"See! Evil! How can you trust him after he did that?" Sophie exclaimed, pointing to the screen. Emma glared at the older girl.
"He obviously didn't know what he was doing." She said angrily. Jackson smiled with pride at his baby sister.
CUT TO:
INT. JAMIE'S BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS
A cool looking ROBOT TOY rests on Jamie's bedside table.
Jamie is sound asleep in bed. A smile across his face
reveals the recently formed gap between his teeth.
TOOTH (O.S.)
Left central incisor, knocked out
in a freak sledding accident. I
wonder how that could have
happened, Jack?
Jack laughs as he looks at JAMIE'S DRAWING of himself during
the SNOWBALL FIGHT on the wall. He's midair, blasting his
friends with snowballs. He smiles and then turns to Tooth.
JACK
(LAUGHS)
Kids, huh?
He watches as Tooth reaches under the pillow. She hovers
over Jamie as he stirs in his sleep. A dreamy smile comes
over her as she gazes down at the sleeping boy.
"Jamie, you look so cute!" Sophie cooed at her older brother, who glared at her while his friends laughed.
TOOTH
This was always the part I liked
most - seeing the kids.
(BEAT)
Why did I ever stop doing this?
A beat; Jack sees how much it means to her.
JACK
It's a little different up close,
huh?
Tooth gives him a look: he's right.
TOOTH
Thanks for being here, Jack. I
wish I had known about your memory,
I could've helped you.
JACK
Yeah, well, look let's just get you
taken care of. Then it's Pitch's
turn, huh?
Pippa leaned against Em's dangling legs, her eyes shutting with guilt. Trust Jack to care about the well-being of others. It was all her and the other's fault that Jack was in danger of dying. She felt tears in her eyes, thinking of her friend, and his family. A small hand took her own.
"It's okay, Pippa. Uncle Jack's gonna be okay." Maxine, Pippa remembered, said, smiling.
"Thanks, Maxine." She replied. Em grinned at her cousin and friend, and looked over at the other side of the room. She was surprised to see that Tooth hadn't moved from her spot. Being the most caring out of the three others, she had shown the most cruelty towards Em and her family.
A sudden COMMOTION. They both turn to the window.
NORTH
Here you are!
North, carrying a large sack over his shoulder, struggles to
climb in through the small window. Sandman and Baby Tooth
climb in after. Everybody whispers.
TOOTH
SSHHHHHHHH!
NORTH
Oh, what gives slowpokes!?
Jamie is still sound asleep.
NORTH
How you feeling, Toothy?
TOOTH
Believed in.
NORTH
(LAUGHS)
Haha! That's what I want to hear.
BUNNYMUND (O.S.)
Oh I see how it is...
Bunny comes in through a rabbit hole in the floorboards.
BUNNYMUND (CONT'D)
All working together to make sure
the rabbit gets last place.
Em let out a giggle at the sight of Bunny sticking out of Jamie's bedroom floor. She looked over, and Bunny sent her a grin, which she returned. She ready to forgive the large Pooka, especially after what he had said during the scenes the day before.
North now holds his index fingers up to his lips.
NORTH
SSSHHHHHHHHH!
JACK
You think I need help to beat a
bunny? Check it out, Peter
Cottontail.
Jack lifts up his sack of teeth.
BUNNYMUND
You call that a bag of choppers?
(lifting larger sack)
Now that's a bag of choppers.
NORTH
Gentlemen! Gentlemen! This is
about Tooth. It's not a
competition! But if it was -
(reveals even larger sack)
I win. YEEEEEHAAAHH!
"He's asleep, you idiot! You'll wake him up." Em said, rolling her eyes.
And he strikes a Russian dancing pose as...
Suddenly a bright circle of light is cast on the Guardians.
NORTH (CONT'D)
Oh no...
JAMIE (O.C.)
(SURPRISED)
Santa Claus?
They all turn slowly to see Jamie sitting up in bed, holding
a flashlight, wide awake and beaming in disbelief.
JAMIE (CONT'D)
The Easter Bunny?...Sandman...The
Tooth Fairy! I knew you'd come!
TOOTH
Surprise!
(GIGGLING)
We came!
JACK
He can see us?
"Not everyone." Pippa commented, averting her eyes from Jamie's. Jamie looked confused at what she said.
Jamie looks around, amazed, he sees everyone but Jack.
BUNNYMUND
Most of us.
TOOTH
Shhh! You guys, he's still awake.
BUNNYMUND
Sandy! Knock him out!
They all look to him, scandalized. Jamie looks concerned.
JAMIE
Huh?
BUNNYMUND
With the Dreamsand, ya gumbies.
But then Jamie's GREYHOUND rises up into frame, fully awake,
its nostrils flaring at the scent he's picked up.
JAMIE
No, stop that's the Easter Bunny.
What are you doing, Abbey? Down!
The dog is nose to nose with Bunnymund.
BUNNYMUND
Alright, nobody panic.
"You do know what kind of dog that is, right Bunny?" Em asked, holding in her laughs, but it was obvious that she was shaking with suppressed laughter.
"Yes, I do know what kind of dog that is, Emma." Bunny replied, rolling his eyes at the young girl.
JACK
(ENJOYING THIS)
But that's a um, that's a
greyhound. Do you know what
greyhounds do to rabbits?
BUNNYMUND
I think it's a pretty safe bet he's
never met a rabbit like me -
While Sandy forms a Dreamsand baseball, Jack rolls his eyes
and notices an alarm clock on the bedside table.
BUNNYMUND (CONT'D)
Six foot one, nerves of steel,
master of tai-chi and the ancient
ART OF-
Jack can't resist: he reaches over stealthily and SETS OFF
THE ALARM CLOCK with his staff. RRRRRIIIIING!
BUNNYMUND
Crikey.
Bunny is off like a shot, the greyhound right on his tail,
running laps in the small room, the dog barking like crazy.
Em leaned against Jackson, unable to suppress her laughter any longer, and her shrieks of laughter echoed through the room, joined with Pippa's and her cousins'.
"Only Papa." Em said, wiping tears of mirth from her eyes.
JAMIE
Stop! Sit!
Sandy, amused, makes a Dreamsand baseball to stop the dog,
but bobbles it as the dog brushes past.
JAMIE
Down girl, down!
The others stand out of the way as Bunny and the dog run up
the walls and over the bed.
As Tooth tries to silence the alarm clock, Jack can barely
contain his laughter. Sandy takes aim as Bunny and the dog
run circles around him—
"How can you run that fast in such a small room?" Kristoff asked confused. Em giggled slightly at her uncle.
NORTH
Sandy, Sandy!
The dog jumps past North, knocking him back.
NORTH
Ah!
As Sandy winds up, the dog suddenly SMACKS right into him.
The Dreamsand goes flying.
TOOTH
Hey, this is not proper Tooth Fairy
behavior!
"We ain't exactly Tooth Fairies." Bunny commented to the winged woman, who huffed and rolled her eyes.
"Well, you were supposed to act like them!" she replied.
"You got your believers. You didn't exactly specify how you wanted them to act!" Em shot at Tooth, who glared at her before sitting down.
North ducks out of the way as the Dreamsand sails toward him.
The Dreamsand baseball smacks Tooth right in the face and
explodes into golden dust. Tooth and her fairy fall to the
ground as a golden tooth takes shape above their heads.
Streams of Dreamsand make their way around the room.
BUNNYMUND (O.C.)
Ah, this thing's rabid! Get this
dingo off me!
Bunny gets a whiff of the golden sand. The image of a carrot
quickly takes shape in front of his face.
BUNNYMUND
Oh no.
Sophie giggled at her friend as he fell onto Jamie's bed.
THUD! Bunny falls over asleep. THUD! So does the dog.
North tries to scramble out of the way, but there's no escape
in this tiny room.
NORTH
Candy canes...
He teeters for a moment as Dreamsand candy canes appear
before him, then falls like a giant Sequoia, landing - THUD! -
on the end of Jamie's bed, which sends Jamie catapulting
through the air.
JAMIE
Whoaaaaaaaaaa!
Luckily he lands - OOF! - in Sandy's arms. He starts to
wake up AGAIN, but Sandy is there with a fistful of sand -
BOOF! - and Jamie too is out cold.
"Whoopsie!" Em said, smiling brightly. Jamie looked at her, confused at why Pippa was ignoring him, and why she and the girl seemed so close all of a sudden.
Jack and Sandy look down at the sleeping boy, relieved. Then
they look around - a heap of sleeping, snoring bodies.
JACK
Whoops...
"Like father, like daughter." Pitch said, chuckling, and Em frowned slightly.
"You say that like it's a bad thing." She shot back at him. North snorted quietly.
"It is." He whispered to Tooth, who smirked.
Bunny is snuggled up next to North. A carrot and candy
canes, made of Dreamsand, hold hands as they dance above
Bunny and North's head.
Jack comes down off the dresser and turns to Sandy, who has
put Jamie back in bed. Sandy lifts North's arm and lets go,
it's completely limp and falls flat. Sandy smiles at Jack,
who chuckles.
JACK
Oh, I really wish I had a camera
right now.
"I wish he had one, too!" Maxine squealed, laughing.
Sandy eyes suddenly widen. There's a Nightmare behind Jack.
Jack turns to see A NIGHTMARE staring through the window.
Without hesitation, Jack jumps out the window after it.
JACK (O.S.)
(SHOUTS)
Sandy, c'mon! We can find Pitch.
Sandy pauses for a moment, then follows Jack's lead.
"It's all his fault." Tooth said, scowling, and North nodded. Bunny heard her comment, and glared at the fairy, feeling protective of his seasonal younger brother.
BACK IN JAMIE'S ROOM - INTERCUT
The sleeping Guardians are where we left them. Jamie's
bedroom door opens, and Sophie toddles in. She takes in the
scene, amused. She toddles over to North, giggling.
She pokes at his rotund belly. Then she notices something.
She reaches into his pocket and pulls out a snow globe.
"Oh no." Jamie said, looking at his younger sister. Jackson glared at the "Guardians".
"You keep those things where young children can get to them? That's not very safe." He accused, and North had the decency to look sheepish.
SOPHIE
Pretty!
She looks over to see the Easter Bunny, sound asleep on the
floor.
SOPHIE
Bunny! Hop! Hop! Hop!
Suddenly the snow globe lights up. Sophie's eyes widen as
she looks at the beautiful vista inside the globe. It's
Bunny's warren.
She takes the globe and toddles off for the door, when she
trips - again - and the snow globe smashes on the floor.
SOPHIE
Ow!
BOOMF! A flash of LIGHT. She looks up to see a magical
portal open in front of her. A GUST WIND comes blowing out
of the portal. Sophie giggles, and toddles through the
portal.
"So that's how you got into the Warren." Bunny said, glancing at Sophie, who just sent him a cheeky smile, which he returned.
North's bleary EYES pop open mid-snore.
NORTH
Whuh-huh...?
As the scene faded, the room flashed with white light, not unlike the one that had brought the groups to the room, and, when it faded, Em let out a sound as if she were choking.
"This isn't possible." She whispered, and Jackson put a hand on her arm.
"You alright?" he asked, and she shook her head. The two colonial people who had appeared in the room noticed Em, and they both crossed their arms.
"Well, if it isn't the witch." The man said, and Em almost began to cry. His voice cut through her like a knife.
"Bunny." Em whimpered, looking at the Pooka. He had recognized them as well, and was tense, ready to jump to her defense if he needed to.
"Who are you to call Emma a witch?" Kristoff said angrily, jumping to Em's defense, and the two adults reeled back in surprise, but the woman recovered. She glared at Em, who shrunk back against Jackson.
"Because we are her parents." Theresa Jones said.
OHHHHHH! CLIFFIE!
Tell me what you think! Those of you who don't know, Theresa and her husband, John, are two of my OCs from The Ice Princess, so you should read that if you haven't yet.
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Stay amazing, kings, queens, and Guardians!
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Enchantress