Pitch's Lair – Losing Trust in the Guardians:
The group was about to head back when they heard a voice echoing across town calling out. "Jack~!"
"Tha- that voice, I know that voice," Jack muttered.
"What voice?" Janet asked having heard his mutter.
The voice called out again saying a different name, "Janet!"
Janet's eyes widened.
Baby Tooth chittered nervously at both the twins as they listened some more.
"I hear it too," Janet said shocked. "
"Jack! Janet!" the familiar voice echoed again.
They flew off to a rounded air vent on a roof, then gasped as they heard it again.
"Jack! Janet!"
The two followed by Baby Tooth dashed off through the air towards their lake. They landed on the ground whilst Baby Tooth kept squeaking in their ears trying to get them to focus; the twins were too distracted with finding out where the voice was coming from and whose it was.
They both spotted an old rotted bedpost with no mattress and started walking towards it but Baby Tooth tried to holding them back. "Don't worry, ssh, there's still time," Janet assured Baby Tooth but she just rolled her eyes.
They walked towards the bed.
"What's a bed doing in the middle of Burgass?" Janet asked Jack.
"I have no idea but I wonder," Jack knocked some pieces away with his staff to see them falling into the hole below the bed. A few splintering noises could be heard not too far down.
"Jack? Janet?" the voice asked outload again.
Jack hopped down the hole. Then Janet followed behind him. Baby Tooth huffed in anger and flew down after them.
The Frost Twins found themselves in front of a wide, round-shaped stone tunnel. "You don't think this leads to Pitch's lair do you?" Janet asked Jack.
Jack just shrugged his shoulders not knowing the answer. They walked slowly but cautiously through the tunnel.
Baby Tooth was squeaking nervously the whole way down. She began tugging on their hoods.
"Baby Tooth, Baby Tooth, come on!" Jack said calmly. "Cut it out,"
Baby Tooth didn't obey and just continued on with what she was doing.
"Please stop it," Janet asked angrily "We have to find out what that is!" they reached the end of the tunnel and found themselves in an open-air chasm, noticing all the cages which held all the other Mini Fairies captive.
They flew to them and the other tooth fairies started chittering back.
"Ssh, keep it down!" Janet ordered quietly at a cage of fairies not wanting to Pitch to arrive and attack her and her brother.
"'We're gonna get you out of here just as soon as…" Jack started to say.
The voice echoed a fourth time calling out Jack and Janet's names. They both looked down and saw all the piles of tooth boxes.
"Jack? Janet?"
"-As we can," Jack finished his sentence.
He and Janet dropped down from the bird cages, despite Baby Tooth's flustered cries. They started digging through the piles of boxes, looking at the children's faces on the ends.
"I can't find our memories," Janet whispered to him.
"I can't either," Jack responded.
"Looking for something?" a voice spooked them.
Jack fired an ice blast at Pitch's shadow peering over them from a curved stone wall but he disappeared. He and Janet started chasing him through dark corridors, up stone stairs and underneath arches.
"Hehehe... Don't be afraid, Jack and Janet," Pitch's voice made them turn and see him on a stone bridge. "I'm not gonna' hurt either of you,"
The twins flew to the end of the bridge and followed a few metres behind him preparing to strike him if he attacked.
"Afraid? We're not afraid of you," Janet bolding said.
"Maybe no," Pitch agreed. "But you guys are afraid of something,"
"You think so, huh?" Jack asked disbelieving him.
"I know so! It's the one thing I always know…" Pitch remarked, "…people's greatest fears. Your fears is that no one will ever believe in you two," His shadow suddenly overtook Jack and Janet and they fell through the bridge into a dark corridor. "Hehehe..."
Jack and Janet screamed as they landed hard on a cobblestone floor. Jack realised he lost his staff but was able to find it before he and his sister started scrambling to get out.
"And worst of all, you two are afraid you'll both never know why - why you two…?" Pitch's voice spooked them so they bounded off into the dark, only to find another wall, "Why were you chosen? To be like this. Well fear not, Frost Twins…"
The Frost Twins turned to face him all feared. Jack hid Janet behind him to keep her safe.
"For the answer to that is right here," Pitch held out two Tooth boxes. They had the faces of Jack and Janet displayed on the sides but their hairs were brown instead of white.
"Do you want them, Jack and Janet?" he asked. "Your memories?"
Both of them were tempted to reach forward and take them in order to find answers. They reached their hands forward with Janet coming out from behind her brother. But they just pulled their hands back as they'd feel like betraying their friends.
Pitch laughed as he vanished again, leaving them to dart off through the bird cages.
Pitch formed his body shape out of their shadows so that when they peered round for him, they'd see him as a thin, dark figure moving on the walls. "Everything you guys wanted to know - in these little boxes," He laughed some more as they chased him further down to the bottom of Pitch's lair. "Why did you two end up like this? Unseen, unable to reach out to anyone - you want the answers so badly,"
His voice emotionally tortured them.
"You guys want to grab them and fly off with them, but you're afraid of what the Guardians will think," Pitch's shadow form multiplied as they surrounded Jack and Janet on the walls. "You're afraid of disappointing them. Well let me ease your mind about one thing: they'll never accept you, not really—"
Jack and Janet groaned as they clutched their heads. "Stop it, stop it!" they shouted.
"After all, you two aren't one of them," Pitch's voice remarked as he appeared from the shadows again, backing Jack and Janet up against his dark globe of the Earth.
"You don't know what we are, you monster!" Janet snarled whilst Jack pointed his staff at Pitch.
"'Course I do! You're the Frost Twins: Jack and Janet!" Pitch answered back. "You two make a mess wherever you both go - why you two are doing it right now," He tossed the boxes into their hands.
The two gasped feeling in their guts that something bad had happened.
"What did you do?" Jack asked bewildered.
"More to the point Jack, what did you and your sister do?" Pitch asked as he cackled stepping backwards into the darkness again.
"Come back here, you coward!" Janet shouted as she ran after trying to blast ice magic at him from her hands with Jack behind her.
They went themselves back in a tunnel and realised he had vanished.
Jack suddenly remembered someone. "Janet, we forgot Baby Tooth!"
"Oh, no," Janet feared for her life.
The two tried running back where they came from but went into a stone wall. "Baby Tooth!" Janet called for her.
They turned back the other way.
"Happy Easter, Jack and Janet," Pitch's voice welcomed them into the presence of smashed colored eggs laying out a trail down the tunnel.
"No..." Jack gasped whilst his sister placed her hands over her mouth.
It was Easter Sunday in Canterbury, England. Bunny was hiding in some bushes as he watched children finding no eggs in the park where the Easter Hunt was meant to take place.
One boy said, "There aren't any eggs... There's nothing here. I give up, come on. Let's go. He didn't come. I don't understand,"
A girl, very likely his friend, was sitting on a bench watching him, "Maybe he just hid them really well this year,"
Bunny emerged from the bushes hoping to get them to not stop believing in him, "Kids, wait—he ran up between the two kids with a basket, he had in case of emergencies.
"I checked everywhere. There's nothing," the boy said.
"Yes there is!" Bunny attempted to cut in. "There is! I mean these aren't my best-lookin' googies, but they'll do in a pinch!" He held them out to the two kids.
"I can't believe it—"the girl started looking sad standing up.
"I- I know," Bunny answered as he chuckled ruefully.
"-There's no such thing as the Easter Bunny," the girl finished sadly.
"What? No!" Bunny attempted to say to her but she walked away.
"Easter's over—"the boy remarked moaning.
"Wrong! Not- not true! I'm- I'm right in front of ya', mate!" Bunny stood in front of the boy but he passed through Bunny.
Bunny just stood there all shocked and heart-broken. He started gasping in despair. "They don't see me... They don't see me..." He crumpled over, crying softly.
Jack and Janet made it out of the tunnel and found themselves in the same place. They approached the park and saw Bunny crying. They were visibly concerned for him and realised right away that children had stopped believing in him.
They saw Tooth approach him to try and comfort him. They saw no sign of North or Arya yet.
"Jack! Janet!" North's voice released them from their thoughts. "Where were you two? The Nightmares attacked the tunnels, they smashed every egg, crushed every basket - nothing made it to the surface!"
"Nothing?" Janet asked petrified with guilt.
"Nothing," North answered heartbroken.
Janet's eyes started watering up. Jack pulled her into a hug to comfort her. He too felt incredibly guilty as well.
Tooth saw them and flew over to them. "Janet! Jack!" he gasped. "Thank goodness, you two are safe,"
Janet turned to him after Jack realised her from their embrace so she could see him.
"Where were…" Tooth started to ask but he noticed the two tooth boxes in their hands. He gasped. "Where did you two get those?"
Jack and Janet were startled. They didn't know what to say. "We were- It's, uh—"Jack started to answer.
"Where's Baby Tooth?" Tooth asked when he noticed his favorite Mini-Fairy wasn't there with them.
"She-She-she…" Janet couldn't bring herself to answer.
Tooth gasped again more terrified with his hands over his mouth. "What have you two done?!"
North realised what was going on. "That is why you two weren't here?" he asked feeling incredibly betrayed, "You two were with Pitch?"
"No, listen, guys! It's not what you think!" Janet attempted but she sighed not knowing what to say.
"We're sorry!" Jack attempted to reason "We didn't mean for this to happen!"
Bunny came into their conversation, "They have to go,"
Jack and Janet turned to face Bunny. "What?" Jack asked.
"We should never have trusted you two!" Bunny heartbroken and betrayed attempted to hit them. Jack shielded his sister to take the hit but Bunny's grief made him unable to lash out at them. He shook his head. "Easter is... new beginnings, new life. Easter's about Hope," he cried out "And now it's gone - and it's because of you two," He turned and shuffled away to cry.
Jack and Janet turned back round. North turned away unable to even speak to them. "
"I can' believe you two traded my fairy," Tooth lashed out softly feeling betrayed.
"We didn't trade her," Janet attempted to reason.
"Then how is she not here?" Tooth demanded in her face.
Janet couldn't answer. She just hung her head down in shame.
Tooth just turned away crossing his arms.
Jack pulled out the wooden baby from his jacket. "I'm sorry, we're not the Guardians you all wanted," he dropped it on the grass. He took his upset sister's hand and they flew away.
A while later, Arya flew by and saw the other Guardians.
"Guys…" she alerted them of their presence. They looked up to see her.
She landed and spoke out. "I tried to stop the Nightmares but they destroyed everything,"
"We know that," Bunny spoke out heartbroken.
"Have any you seen any sign of Jack and Janet?"
"Don't you dare say their names!" Bunny lashed out.
"What are you talking about?" Arya asked with fists on her hips.
"They traded Baby Tooth to Pitch for their memories!" Tooth answered. "And because of them, Pitch was about to destroy the eggs,"
"That's ridiculous!" Arya retorted disbelieving them. "They would never do that! Pitch obviously did something to them that allowed to destroy the eggs. He must have taunted them with their greatest fears. That's what he does to people to get what he wants,"
"But it doesn't excuse what they did!" Bunny lashed out again.
Arya just growled and turned round to stalk away.
"Where are you going?" North asked joining in.
"To find Jack and Janet of course," Arya replied not turning to them. "I don't care what you three think of them. I'm going to find them" she turned round to give the boys a final thing. "If there's very important about being a Guardian besides protecting children, it's always having each other's back no matter what. And that's what Jack and Janet needs. We've already lost Sandy. We're not about to lose Jack and Janet,"
She took off leaving the boys to eye her as she disappeared into the sky.