NOTES: This is it guys. This is the last chapter… See more notes at the end
Chapter Twenty-Two
They were all ready to fight. They had all been all ready to fight. Things just happened to keep getting in the way was all.
Jack stood proudly as he held out his staff. Jamie could feel the arrow holder resting on his back and all he'd have to do was pull one out to have his bow return.
The other Guardians were fighting well against the boogeyman but they looked exhausted. It was time for Jamie and Jack to step in and put an end to this once and for all. If not, Pitch would only continue to reign absolute terror over the world.
Jack reached over quietly and grabbed Jamie's hand. When Jack touched him before, Jamie had always felt cold. Yet, it was different now. While still slightly cold, he could feel some warmth radiating between their two hands.
"Are you ready?" Jack asked, looking him in the eyes.
Jamie gulped, then nodded. "I'm ready."
Pitch was laughing in the distance as the others laughed as well. They were all throwing verbal jabs at Pitch, and he was doing so right back. If you didn't know they were enemies, then it looked like just some old rivals fighting. Sadly, that wasn't the case here.
Jamie could see the exhaustion in the Guardian's faces.
"Pitch is probably tired too...maybe...I don't know how he works…" Jamie began. "But if we aren't as tired, then we can keep going…"
"Good idea," Jack whispered back to him.
The brunette let go of Jack's pale hand and reached behind him to grab an arrow. Once contact with the arrow was established, the bow reappeared in his hands. Jamie had never positioned an arrow and a bow together, and he especially had never shot anything with one before either. Yet somehow, he knew exactly what he was doing.
He aimed the arrow right at the boogeyman, took a deep breath, and released. The arrow flew for what felt like forever to Jamie, but was only a few seconds. The golden arrow pierced through Pitch's shoulder and he screamed. Actually screamed.
Pitch spun around quickly and stared Jamie down. He yanked the arrow out of his shoulder and it disintegrated in his hands.
"How on Earth," he hissed.
Jamie had never seen him this angry before. He always seemed to have a sarcastic, cool vibe around him. He guessed that the only real way to truly anger a man like this, is to just shoot him in the shoulder.
Jack was snickering in the distance and that snickering became full outbursts of laughter.
"Oh man!" Jack yelled, still laughing. "Who knew you had that in you?!"
"Do you think this is funny, Mr. Frost?" Pitch questioned cooly. The way he said it made him sound like a strict, scary teacher lecturing a delinquent student.
"Well why else would I be laughing?" Jack snorted, rolling his eyes.
Pitch ignored him and went back to Jamie, approaching him slowly. "How dare you? I gave you the opportunity to be with me, and this is how you act?"
"What opportunity?" Jamie snapped back. "By kidnapping me and holding me hostage? Very smooth."
The boy rolled his eyes and went to grab another arrow. However, Pitch expected it this time and his hand moved gracefully across his chest. He snapped his fingers and the horses returned. Jamie hated those goddamn horses.
His hand moved quickly to grab another arrow and he shot off the horses, one by one. Jack soon jumped in and swiftly froze the horses. He clenched his hand and then unclenched, the frozen horses shattering to pieces.
The two of them worked well together, not letting anything get in their way. Jamie shot arrows and Jack blasted his ice powers. The other Guardians were soon jumping in, calling out jokes at the boogeyman and honestly just having fun. Pitch seemed like no threat and they hand the upperhand.
"ENOUGH!" Pitch screamed, stomping his foot down on the ground. "You think you can so easily defeat me? You're wrong!"
He cackled loudly, sending shivers down Jamie's spine. Pitch rose his arms up slowly and they were all surrounded in a black vortex of sand.
"Jamie!? Where are you?" Jack called out.
Nobody could see a thing. It was completely dark.
"Jack?"
"Follow the sound of my voice, Jamie!"
Jack kept repeating his name over and over again, and Jamie followed. It was so hard to follow a voice, not knowing if you're going in the correct direction. He wandered for a while, feeling like he was playing a game of Marco Polo, when he finally saw light.
Two bright blue eyes stared back at him.
"Jack!" Jamie called out.
Yet when Jack stepped forward, Jamie saw that Pitch had him held up by the neck.
"I knew this was one of your fears. Losing your precious Jack Frost," Pitch chuckled.
Jamie had enough of this man. He was not losing Jack again. Not now, not ever. He went to grab an arrow but there was nothing there.
"No no no. Only I can use magic in here!"
The brunette rolled his eyes and a smirk appeared on his face.
"What are you smiling at?"
"You!" Jamie began. "You're such a stereotypical villain. No wonder kids aren't scared of you anymore! You're an absolute joke!"
Jamie approached closer and Pitch stepped back. However, there was no where to step back as he hit the wall, meeting the edge of his vortex.
"I-I beg your pardon?"
"I think you're scared of losing!" Jamie called out.
The boogeyman dropped Jack to the floor and frantically went to use his magic, but nothing was working.
"I'm not scared of you! I will never, ever be scared of you!"
Suddenly, the vortex vanished and Pitch collapsed to the ground. Jamie quickly pulled out an arrow and shot Pitch right in the chest.
The boogeyman screamed and began dissolving into the ground.
"And don't come back ever," Jamie sneered, shooting another arrow at him.
Pitch vanished into the depths of the ground, leaving not a single trace of himself behind.
Jamie took a deep breath and looked behind him to see all of the Guardians watching him in awe. Jack stood quickly and sprinted to his boyfriend, hugging him as tightly as possible.
"Are you okay?" Jack asked quickly, looking over Jamie's face and continuously pressing kisses to his cheeks, nose, and forehead.
"I think I should be asking you that," Jamie joked.
Tooth then coughed and the couple looked back at the others. Sandy was making figures of embarrassed faces and Jack laughed.
"Enough PDA. Please, I beg of you," the rabbit groaned.
"Oh what's wrong Kangaroo? You jealous?" Jack teased.
"Why I otta-" he began, but Santa held him back.
"Oh enough," the jolly man chuckled. "I believe we have a Guardian ceremony to hold. That is, if Jamie would like to join us?" He added in, learning not just to assume things after the incident with Jack all those years ago.
Jamie took a deep breath and nodded his head yes. "I'm ready. But first, I'd like to do one more thing. So, I'll meet you guys up North?"
The Guardians nodded and everyone but Jack vanished.
"What are you planning?" Jack questioned.
"I want to go back to my mom's house. To see if she's doing okay."
The white haired boy nodded his head and grabbed Jamie's hands.
"Even if this doesn't go well, I just want you to know that I will still love you."
"I love you too," Jamie replied, feeling teary eyed all of a sudden.
"Hey don't cry! You're tough! We can get through anything!"
Jamie nodded and was about to speak when Jack floated up slightly and kissed Jamie's lips. The kiss was passionate and Jamie will always remember the soft feeling of Jack's lips on his own.
They broke the kiss and soon were disappearing to get things settled once and for all.
NOTES: Wow okay. What's it been now? A year? Jesus christ I am so so so so sorry. I've just been so busy with school and my job. I also really didn't know how to end this. I was scared I'd never finish and it'd end terribly. This fic was suppose to be a warm up type thing. To get me back into writing. I've learned a lot of things from this and if I could start over completely, I definitely would. But I won't and will leave it as is. I didn't reread anything when I wrote this chapter so if something seems off, my apologies. But thank you to everyone who commented, left kudos, and stayed this entire time! I'm so sorry to keep you waiting but I appreciate everyone! I will be writing more fics in the future and I'm looking for a beta to help me edit and keep me on a schedule. This whole fic had no beta and I just kinda winged it. So if you're interested, feel free to email me at princemochaa . I have a lot of bills to pay and I can't pay anyone for being a beta, but I'm sure I'll think of something to make up for it. I'm working really hard to pay off those bills so hopefully I'll have extra cash soon. I really appreciate everything. Thanks again!