Chapter 3
"Are you very sure about this, North?" I asked, my hands tensing against the seat of his sleigh. He turned around to look at me with a slightly amused expression on his face.
"Quite sure," he said, and proceeded to adjusting the reins.
"Quite...?" I said to myself.
I was terribly afraid that the reindeer are going to run straight towards the end of the tunnel and fly straight off the cliff to our deaths.
"Alright! Ready, Jack? Buckle up and here we go! HA!" North bellowed at the top of his lungs and all of the elves and yetis moved out of the way.
I clutched the seats for dear life as the reindeer pulled us faster and faster through the tunnel. My human instincts were going crazy and for the first time, I wished North had put some actual seatbelts in his sleigh.
The reindeer didn't slow down, and my grip on the seat grew tighter, and when I saw a light at the end of the tunnel, I freaked.
WE ARE GOING TO FLY OVER THAT CLIFF AND DIE.
I tried calming myself down by thinking about what had told me during our discussion.
He said that all the planets in the solar system are in a line, so that caused a great havoc to the Earth (as well as to the other planets), like the moon turning blue and the spirits transforming into their original state.
North had pulled on a lever to call the rest of the Guardians, but we waited for hours and none of them came over.
So, we- I'm sorry- he decided we should go get them ourselves. What worried me was the fact how North was confident that the sleigh could still fly.
The sleigh went off the cliff.
I stared at the sky blankly, and looked at the big, bright, blue moon with wonder.
The, I felt the sleigh rise higher.
I looked over the edge of the sleigh, still clutching my seat. I sighed in relief and relaxed a little. Alright, we were flying.
North glanced at me. "Worried, were you, Jack?" he asked, chuckling.
I straightened up. "Well, yeah. Kinda," I said.
He let out a jolly laugh.
So the whole crazy-planet-stuff didn't really take much effect on North's magic after all. You couldn't tell how relieved I felt.
North snucked one of his enormous hands into his brown satchel and pulled out a snowglobe. He uses them for teleportation.
"Who should we see first, Jack?" he asked me.
"What about Tooth?" I said. I hadn't seen Toothiana for quite a while.
"So Tooth it is!"
He threw the globe in the air in front of us and it disappeared for a moment. Then the air shimmered and became a translucent, solid swirl.
The reindeer flew straight towards it, but then something peculiar happened. Instead of flying through it, they crashed into it. It made a horrible sound, like thousands of porcelain vases shattering to the floor all at once.
North and I were flung off our seats and I flew straight through the shattered portal.