Story was watching a little bit of a battle, as Klasser and Punzt were using their daggers to slice tiny wounds into a wayward wood nymph. Story had just looked behind him to see the pair whip between him and the advancing enemy, slicing two lines into the attacking nymph, and causing it to back up. The Pixie King gave them a thumbs up, seeing the two bonded pixies coming around for another, stronger attack.

Story turned back around to face his original foe, a wayward golem of stone. Torch blasted it from behind, the boy feeling the heat from the first attack, and Story laughed.

The battle began when Torch had called on Story's help. The boy was itching for some action, as after he saw the lights, he had decided that it was time to travel. So now Story was in the Everglades battling with a few wayward nymphs, a stone golem and a bog spirit. And the malicious spirits were more then outmatched, with Story, Torch and about twenty thousand tiny pixies.

Suddenly Story noticed one of his pixies, when Twitch landed briefly on his shoulder, and then flew to infront of the boy's face. Story listened to what his pixie quickly told him.

"What's wrong?" Torch asked landing nearby.

Story created a cloak from his misty powers and hurried to put it on as he explained the issue to Torch.

"Sorry, I can't stay and play," Story said. "The Tooth Palace is under attack."

"Bummer, but your pixies are staying, right?"

"Oh yeah," Story told him with a smirk, before pulling a cloth mask over his lower face and the hood over his head. "They got to have something to do!"

Torch laughed and leapt out of the way of a stone fist.

"You be careful!" The Summer Spirit cautioned. "If it's Pitch, you get the hell out of there!"

"Yeah," Story said dismissively as he created a portal. "I'm not attacking him."

When the Sleigh finally arrived at the Tooth Palace, Jack saw dark sandy creatures flying around, passing the sleigh and a few crashing into the transport. Nyfe shot out of his hood and the boy thought that he saw that the pixie had tiny razor sharp teeth, but the Winter Spirit only caught a second of the creature, before it was missed.

Jack quickly noticed that the nightmares where taking the Tooth Fairies. He saw one trying desperately to not get ate, so Jack acted, and at the same time so did Nyfe.

At the same second, Nyfe shot between the dark horse and the fairy, and Jack gently grabbed the tiny form. Of course the pixie had gotten caught instead.

The Winter Spirit landed back into the sleigh and opened his hands.

"You okay little baby Tooth?" Jack asked.

The fairy squeaked a response and Jack smiled. He looked around for Nyfe and quickly noticed that the pixie was missing.

"Nyfe?" Jack called out, as he stood up to look for his friend.

The Winter Spirit then saw the Grand Palace, as they entered it and spotted a nightmare. He pointed it out to North, who directed the reindeer after it.

"Take the reins, Jack," North said, offering the items to the boy.

A bit surprised, the Winter Spirit grabbed them and smiled as he snapped the reins. He watched the big man leap onto the front of the sleigh and pull out two sabers. Jack saw North slice the fleeing nightmare and something came out of it, as it disintegrated into nothing. The boy heard it land into the sleigh and he turned to look.

He saw Bunny hop down to the floor and pick up a small cylinder container. The Pooka looked at it and frowned.

"They're taking the Teeth," Bunny announced.

"Jack!" North said suddenly, causing the boy to look forward again. "Watch out!"

Jack, quickly realizing that the sleigh was about to crash, pulled at the reins and roughly landed the transport. The impact threw him off of his feet, but he was glad that everyone was okay.

"Tooth!" North called out.

Jack saw her, as the others quickly got to their feet and leapt out of the sleigh.

"You okay?" Jack heard Bunny ask her.

"They took everything," Tooth told them, sounding like she was in the verge of crying."They took all of my Fairies and the teeth."

Jack saw the Guardians gathering around her and felt Baby Tooth fly off his shoulder, to her Mama.

Tooth suddenly brightened up after she saw Baby Tooth and welcomed the fairy with open arms, "Oh! At least one of you is safe!"

"Look. It's the Big Four," The Winter Spirit heard. "And together too!"

Jack saw a dark figure step from out of a shadow of one of the spires. The boy pointed his staff at the Boogeyman, as he remembered the lesson that Story had taught him.

"I'm a little Starstruck," Pitch said smugly.

The Guardians all faced the Nightmare King as he chuckled, "Liked my show on the globe, North?"

Jack noticed that the big man seemed to be angry at himself.

"Pitch!" Tooth yelled, flying towards him threateningly."You have got five seconds to give me ba-"

"Or you'll do what," Pitch mocked, appearing at another spire. "Stick a quarter under my pillow?"

"What do you want, Pitch?!" Bunny demanded.

"Maybe I want what you have," Pitch said, briefly glancing at the Winter Spirit. "To be believed in. I'm tired of creeping in shadows and hiding under beds."

"Maybe that's where you belong," Bunny told him rudely.

"Oh, go suck an egg rabbit," Pitch said, suddenly under them.

Bunny went to grab the dark man, only to find that Pitch had disappeared.

"Oh," Pitch mocked. "Is that Jack Frost? When did you get all chummy with the Guardians?"

"I'm not," Jack responded, pointing his staff in front of him.

"Oh good," The boy heard from behind him. He whirled around to see the Nightmare King grinning and looking straight at him. "Then I'm going to ignore you. Oh but you must be used to that by now."

The words hit something inside Jack and he lowered the staff in a stunned disbelief.

"Pitch!" Bunny said, rushing to the boy's defense. "Get back here ya-"

Suddenly Tooth grabbed one if the Pooka's boomerangs and rushed at a new spot.

She was almost on Pitch when a nightmare abruptly appeared and frightened her back.

"Oh, don't excite her," Pitch said smugly. "Fear just riles them up."

"No one's been scared of you since the Dark Ages," Bunny told him.

"Ah, the Dark Ages," Jack heard the dark man say. "Those were the days. The fear that I caused! Oh the power I had. I ruled with an iron will."

"But then you had to tell the Pixie that it was a Guardian," Pitch said, shocking the boy. "Then he helped you spread hope, wonder and dreams, forcing me to become nothing more than a bad dream. But now that's all going to change. Oh look, it's already happening."

Jack looked around, seeing the Tooth Palace start to age rapidly. Paint was quickly dropping off in flakes, the exposed metal rusted as fast and marble eroded as if time was speeding and the boy was on for the ride.

He looked at Tooth and saw her gasp.

"What's happening?" Jack questioned.

"They're losing belief," Tooth told him in horror.

"That's what you're not told, Jack," Pitch said smugly. "It's great being a Guardian. But when children stop believing in you, then you lose your power until you fade into nothing."

"And soon there will be no hopes, dreams or wonder," Jack heard the Nightmare King say as he looked at the desolate faces of the Guardians. "Soon there will be nothing but me."

Everyone heard a crack as if something snapped in half and the Guardians saw a forming arrow flying at Pitch. Instantly Bunny leaped into action, throwing a boomerang at the dark man.

Pitch quickly dropped to the floor narrowly missing getting hit by a Light arrow and a Boomerang. He jumped up and got on his steed in a single fluid movement. Pitch kicked the nightmare into action and it dove off of the tower. The rest of the Guardians followed the man, in an attempt to catch him.

They landed and North stomped his foot in frustration, "He's gone!"

"Not for long," Story said, as he came out of a nearby cave.

"You were right," Bunny told North. "It was Pitch."

Tooth saw a group of three of her fairies returning with Nyfe in the lead and her heart leapt in joy.

"Oh, thank you Nyfe!" Tooth exclaimed as she saw the Pixie strut in the air. Her fairies fluttered around her happily.

"Why was he taking your Fairies and the teeth?" Jack asked.

"My fairies collect the teeth," Toothina told the Winter Spirit. "Because they hold the memories of children. Each tooth holds a special memory for a child."

Jack listened to her as she motioned to her fairies.

"We collected the teeth of every child," Tooth finished. "Even yours."

Jack blinked, as Story silenced Nyfe from explaining what happened with a finger.

"You mean that I had a life, before I was Jack Frost?" The Winter Spirit asked in a stunned disbelief. "But I thought that.."

Jack looked at Story as he finally realized the truth. In all of the three hundred years, Jack realized, Story always checked up, visited and talked to him. The boy saw Story in a new light then.

In the time that Jack had known the Pixie, Story never gave just any spirit the time of day. He barely acknowledged the Guardians and only helped them out because of his pixies. Jack knew that the Story only loved his pixies and would drop everything to listen to their needs or whims.

And each pixie would never remember their past life.

When Jack once asked about that, Story told him that it was not important that they remember their past life. Instead what made them who they were, came from what they learned. And Jack remembered Story teaching him to stay like a child.

And Jack knew, from what the Pixie King told him, that when a pixie was ready to hear about their past life, they would ask. And Story would always answer truthfully.

The Winter Spirit opened his mouth to ask, when Tooth gasped and he saw that she was starting to molt.

"No!" She said, in horror. "We're too late!"

"No!" North said, with a sparkle in his eyes. "We help get teeth!"

Jack smiled hopefully as Story nodded.

"It's a lot of teeth," Tooth said. "We're talking about millions of children!"

"If I can deliver gifts to all children in one night," North started to say.

"And eggs that I hide," Bunny added.

"And my pixies can help," Story pipped in.

Tooth looked at each of them, seeing Sandy give her two thumbs up, and she grinned as she finally looked at Jack.

"I'm in," He promised her with a smile.

I hope that you guys like this chapter. I know it took a bit, but I really had to think.

I'm happy with all the reviews- thanks guys! And I love that you guys read my story.

Again, I hope that you enjoy it and I'll start on the next chapter- post haste!