Pitch Black:
"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 star 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?" 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's eyes frowned with anger. "Pitch!" he lashed unsheathing his sword as he flew up to try to hit him. "You have got 30 seconds to return my fairies—"he didn't get to finish his warning because by the time he reached Pitch, he 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?"
"No, I'll cut you to pieces," Tooth snarled.
"Well I'd like to see you try," Pitch talked back faking cowardliness.
"Why are you doing this?" Arya demanded.
"Maybe, I want what you and your friends have, Arya," he pointed angrily at him and the others. "To be believed in!"
The Frost Twins' eyes widened. Never had they before in their life met someone who like them endured to be believed in.
"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, standing upside down like a bat. "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…are those Jack and Janet Frost?" Pitch's voice echoed as he was still invisible to the others.
Both Jack and Janet were ready to attack with their powers as they peered round for him.
"So when are you're all so chumming?" his voice asked them.
"We're not," Jack answered.
"Oh good," Pitch's voice spooked the twins. They did a jolted turn and saw him leaning against railings about 5 metres away from them. "A neutral party. Then I'm goanna ignore you two," Pitch decided as he started walking away. "But you both must be used to that by now,"
He proceeded to walk away whilst the Frost twins' 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 his palace. He charged at Pitch.
But a giant black sand-horse blocked his path and screeched at him making him descend low in fright.
Baby Tooth retreated into Janet's hod.
"Whoa ho ho ho, hey! Easy girl easy," Pitch calmed down his Nightmare horse. "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. "No one's been afraid of you since the Dark Ages!" he reminded.
Pitch smiled remembering his past times. "Oh, the Dark Ages! Everyone frightened, miserable, such happy times for me - oh the power I wielded!"
"You call scaring people and making their lives a misery, fun?" Arya asked angrily.
"Well, Arya, it's what makes me happy whether you like it or not," Pitch retorted back. "But then the Man in the Moon chose you five to replace my fear with your wonder and light. Lifting their hearts and giving them hope and making their wishes come true. 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?" Jack asked confused.
Tooth's eyes widened as he felt his wings weaken and his heart stop for just a blimp second.
"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?" Janet asked.
"They…they don't believe in me anymore," Tooth answered in shock as he kneeled down with his face hung facing the floor.
Jack and Janet looked at each other with wide eyes and then back up at Pitch.
"Didn't they tell you, two?" Pitch asked Jack and Janet. "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.
Jack and Janet both felt tense as they feared this terrible outcome for their new friends.
"No Christmas or Easter or little Fairies that come in the night or stupid dreams and wishes," 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,"
Bunny threw his boomerang and him but him and his Nightmare horse ducked.
Arya jumped hovering in the air and sent out a blast of her magic at Pitch but he hopped on his horse and the horse went galloping downwards.
The Guardians trailed behind him. Jack and Janet flew after them.
Whilst in the mid-air, Bunny threw three egg bombs at Pitch and his nightmare steed. They each exploded in mid-air but not very close to them. Tooth trying throwing some of his feather daggers at him as well but only one managed to scratch a splinter across his neck side. He yelled out in pain.
They landed on their feet in a large lagoon at the bottom of the palace where there was a turquoise water pond with a blossom tree and stone walls surrounding it.
They peered round for Pitch.
"He's gone," North gasped. And he was right. He had disappeared into thin air.